#this has been riveting

[secretagentsagainstwhatever]

OMFG Madame de Pompadour from doctor who is Lady Penelope from Thunderbirds?!!!

#why did no one tell me #everyone probably knew this #but in my defense #i was 3 when thunderbirds came out #and 5 when girl in the fireplace aired #thunderbirds movie #thunderbirds 2004 #doctor who #tenth doctor #the girl in the fireplace #doctor who 2006 #i mean fwiw #she’s an absolutey terrible person irl #like a complete dick #i just couldn’t believe i’d never noticed #i’m dumb #bloody love thunderbirds though #listen to thunderbirds by busted #that’ll do #ok bye #lmao #WAIT #i googled just to make sure this was 100% true #why did she date #CHARLES FUCKING DANCE #he’s SO OLD #that’s insane #this has been riveting #now i’m actually done

[especdreamy]

Not much to say about this

#splatoon #splatoon oc #inkling #octoling #oc: Niki #oc: Emilio #oc: Dani #oc: Rivet #dreamy does art #this audio has been in my mind for months I needed to draw this sooner or later #also lets pretend chickens are not extinct <3

[theramblingsofadork]

Have a stupid Rivetline joke comic that I thought of a few days ago and put way too much effort into, lololol—

Bonus doodle under the cut!

#the joke is that Rivet used to have a bit of a temper too #sdhjdshfsjfhsj this stupid idea has been driving me nuts #crack post #i worked way too long on this lmboo #theres another stupid idea that I need to draw after this too fdjhffhfdjbf #reconciled misfit family #sonic #sonic the hedgehog fanart #doctor starline #dr starline #rivetline #rivet the cat #oc x canon #unnamed AU #surge the tenrec #kitsunami #kit the fennec #sth #sonic au

[kazumahashimoto]

um. they have the same name

#i had this idea a while ago. i thought it was. funnie #zac dies and he tries to give the bustersword to xander but he can't pick it up so it's really awkward #shinra idol au has probably been done but shinra BEYBLADE idol? now we're talking #zack's bitbeast would definitely be a wolf btw. like no doubt. #imagine angeal and zack still die but it's because shinra is acting as the snake pit and they forced them into possession #and angeal dies from power corruption after zack battles him to death and zack dies from the 100 blader challenge #i think zack would have a switchable stamina and attack type. angeal is defense #but the. the buster bey as it were is still the same. so cloud gets the stamina attack type when zack dies #he would only use it in attack mode though. i imagine #<- riveting discussion #anyway #hh art #zack fair #zack #zac the sunrise #zac the sunshine #beyblade #beyblade burst #ff #ff7 #ffvii #samson and xander are there too but shrug #zacander

[yuelun]

.... I just really want her to be real. I want it more today than I did yesterday, and I'll want it even more tomorrow. And I worry about it, but I also have such a strong gut feeling. I just, I really want her to be real.

#[ ooc. ] wherever her spirit may be among the countless grains of sand and specks of dust between the harbor and the mountains… #[ /makes all of the dramatic hand gestures. ] #[ i've been going crazy and i'm losing my mind. i feel like monica geller walking into a messy house. ] #[ and the messy house is genshin's lore scattered all over the place. ] #[ it's terrifying to look at because it's so much and it's everywhere; but it's also so very riveting to unravel in every possible way. ] #[ and i'm losing my mind but i'm also having the best time and i just really adore her to the moon (haha) and back. ] #[ i'm also getting really tired of so much (all) of the fanart making her out to look so very young. stop it. look at her /here/. ] #[ does she look /young/? ] #[ ok but back to me losing my mind: /LOSING/ my mind. help me. i need to just-- dive into a hole where i write her. ] #[ instead of diving into the mariana trench of endless lore pits that has sea creatures in it that we've never seen before. ] #[ but also guys. GUYS. ALCHEMY!!! /ALCHEMY/ FINALLY. ] #[ and natlan is coming. and the resurrection arc/plot. and and and and. /shakes the air around her manically. ]

[clonehub]

was talking in a discord server about this but imagine if a) one of the many star wars revolutionaries was actually revolutionary and said "maybe we don't need a giant centralized government to unite as many planets as possible in the galaxy" and the galaxy turned toward a decentralized or planetary-system based system of government to manage things like space lines and the like. otherwise there'd be no Supreme Chancellor or Senate, really.

this isn't without its own risks. multiple united planetary systems can easily lead to an allegiance/arms race of people allying and panicking when others ally and panic. one planetary system/allegiance could be facing an internal conflict that others may either ignore or try to exploit. these systems won't be obligated to care if something is happening in another system (not that senators in the republic really cared about other senators' planets, but you know).

but considering the role the jedi played in the republic, imagine if the jedi Order had multiple representative temples around the galaxy. imagine the internal conflicts in the Jedi Order if two or more systems had competing interests, but the Representative Jedi were still obligated to help their own systems.

#ch posts #star wars #thanks antonia and gale #for a riveting convo #i started asking these questions mostly bc #okay way interrupting myself hte rep jedi was from antonia #oay back on track: i asked these questions mostly bc ive seen a repetition? #in issues from the PT to the ST #which is like. Big ''Good''/corrupt gov #gets too big and slow and complacent #gives rise to fascism #so from republic to empire to NR to FO #so the underlying problems mirror each other and I understand thats the point #but I think id like to see star wars stretch in a different direction #esp bc on a meta level the commentary on fascism for both the Empire and the FO has been frankly weak in a lot of areas #and really sympathetic in others #like. worryingly sympathetic #even if on its face it seems to be condemning it

[ixar-of-the-bargains]

Right so the Commonwealth's in the shitter and has yet to develop an organised government because the Institute actively stopped them once and has been tacitly sabotaging every attempt ever since. New California had a government but it's in the shitter now and has yet to redevelop an organised government because Hank (arguably, Vault-Tec doctrine) fucked them up by nuking the capital, decapitating the government, and putting all of Boneyard in total blackout.

But why the fuck is the Pitt the closest thing to centralised government there is in the Capital Wasteland? The Enclave only relocated there relatively-ish recently, and yet they're even more fucked than Boston!

#fallout #bethesda fallout I mean #I heavily dislike NCR as a concept becuase I hate how much FO2 is out of tune with every other fallout game pre and post it but like #the one thing they do right is that a “New California Republic” exists by the time a century has passed since the Great War #it's been 200 years you mean to tell me all that the Capital has going for it is a shanty town built around a bomb and Rivet City?

[fuzzyhairedfreak]

Siri google does the dog die dot com a stitch in time by Andrew j Robinson I need to know if the lizard is okay-

#asit #this has been an post #chapter 10 has me riveted I loved shit like this as a kid

[old-skulls]

see i love the themes and aesthetics of fallout and in general enjoy the games i’ve played but as a native elder scrollser it’s so weird adjusting from like 9 major cities to like. two large towns and a handful of other settlements

#i mean i wouldn’t describe all of skyrims hold capitals as Major Cities exactly but u get what i’m saying #fnv is better it has quite a few towns + new vegas is big enuf to make up for it all anyway #but like fallout 3 has megaton and rivet city and then like. two other towns with any merchants #not counting tenpenny towers. i have gone there to trade but i hate that place so i have to climb the walls #i’ve played hours upon hours of fallout 4 (according to steam) but the only towns i’ve actually been to r diamond city n goodneighbor #since i always just kinda. make a character do the first few quests give up and make a new one

[possum-tooth]

since when does yt censor in auto captions?

#watching monster factory and eating chips while my rmt has her light off in her room. riveting stuff here #also hi sorry ive been mia for like 3 weeks ive been working like 30-40 hrs manual labor so im. very tired. just all the time #and dont have the energy for anything other than a couple likes/reblogs here and there but! i hope to be back this weekend or so idk #in the meantime my queue might run out but thats a problem i do not have the energy to care about right now so :) #anyway! happy holidays happy chewsday i love you and i hope youre doing well <3 #talk tag

[deepwoundsandfadedscars]

my brain is leaking out of my ears fam, these last two and a half weeks of school are going to be ROUGH

#kee speaks #there are too many acronyms and number combinations in this trade #this past week has just been codes and the absolutely RIVETING topic of metallurgy #sarcasm cause half the class fell asleep during the metallurgy module today #and I'm not convinced the teacher that does that class actually knows what he's talking about #thank fuck we only have him once a week cause he just. reads the power point slides and can't hear for shit and if someone asks a question #it's usually another classmate who is able to answer the question better #and then fucking CODES. Cause Canada can't make anything easy and has got to make their own designations for codes #But instead of making their own they just adopt the industry standard made by the american based organizations and slap their own onto it #So this entire book is a word search of trying to find the associating codes between the American system and Canadian system #so like the Americans made ASME section IX for pressure vessels and all that shit but then Canada had to make the CSA #and just like. swiped some of the specifications of the code and slapped their own label on it as CSA B51 and it's all the same #but we have to know both the ASME and CSA designations of all this stuff #so I'm like trying to go through and find ok this particular thing is labelled as CSA W59 and this is CWB W47.1 and #then gotta find the associated ASME code that goes along with it because of course they gotta jumble it up and not put it together #This is all driving me up the WALL there is so much information #Thsi page I have open in front of me has like API SPec 12F and then B31.1 and CSA W47.1 and CSA W117.2 and Z662 and TC 44 #I don't even know what the fuck TC stands for I have yet to delve into that #And I think most of those are CWB designations so that's not even including the bazillion ASME specifications which half of them #are broken down even further into divisions so it'll be like ASME section IX div V or some shit like that #😵😵😵😵 #I was quite proud of myself yesterday because the teacher just did a quick review verbal test where he threw us questions and anyone could #pipe in with the answer and he asked what the specific associated CSA code for an ASME sect was and usually there's like four guys #that immediately answer and nobody did and I knew what it was and was able to chime in #that's the first time I've been able to chime in without several other people also answering so that felt good #but now I'm just sitting here like someone please just take me out there is no way I can make this all stick in my head #i find it helps to rewrite stuff into my notebook to help the information stick in my head but it took me five minutes to realize #that the acronym and the spelling out of the organization name of said acronym did not match at all #like the acronym was AISI and I wrote 'American National Standards Institute' next to it which does not match at all #well tbf the first and last letters match but the I and S should've been 'Iron & Steel'

[dollsome-does-tumblr]

i can’t shake the feeling that the characters on GoT were waaaaaay more engaging than the ones on HOTD right from the get-go

(i had read the books and was eagerly awaiting the show, so maybe i was biased, but also maybe not?? maybe the GOT characters were just a zillion times better??)

#like … I don’t care about any of these people! #except the girls on principle #but I don’t think they’ve been like riveting either #this show is making me really miss GOT and i am not comfortable with that feeling!!!! #dollsome's deep thoughts #this has become my fantasy tv complaint blog 😂 #this show is making me want to rewatch GOT so i can see all my faves again and i am NOT at peace with that feeling #the sound of the theme song each week is messing with me greatly

[mossdeep]

ok i finished rift apart, i'm on mobile so i can't do a read more but i will be rambling in the tags to save you all from a category 5 autism moment

#OK SO #i still have my grievances with the new direction the series is going #i hate how much they've watered down ratchets character #like i get he's grown but theres no more snark... he's almost socially awkward and that's really jarring #i like rivet and i like kit and the fact that they are parallels to ratchet and clank is really cool #i like how they leaned into the fact kit is a warbot bc with clank they kinda... forgot about it #like he is also a weapon he just escaped while kit didn't escape until after she hurt someone #i'm so frustrated that every new game its like 'next time we'll see the lombaxes!' #and it just. keeps getting put off #serious pacing issues it feels like the devs want to tell more stories so they make an excuse like #'whoops! the dimensionator is stolen! whoops now its broken! yay its fixed! whoops its stolen again now! #like get ON WITH IT #they keep doing side quests and the main quest has been forgotten except at the end they remind you that that is the end goal still! #nefarious is fun as always but i feel like they haven't done him justice since acit #his cartoon villian swag is gone the slap stick is gone WHERE THE FUCK IS LAWRENCE #seriously i havent played some of the games inbetween but. what happened to him. wheres his butler whos this little robot shit #bringlawrenceback2k23 #the puzzles were just worse acit puzzles. made me sad #not enough gladiator tournaments i want more violence! #and no racing??? fuck off #the beetles don't count #also WHAT HAPPENED TO SPACE TRAVEL #IN ACIT THERE WAS A WHOLE GALAXY WITH PLANETS AND MOONS TO EXPLORE AND SIDE QUESTS #NOW ITS JUST A PLANET MENU SELECT SCREEN??? FUCK OFF #ALSO WHERE IS RATCHETS SHIP. WHERES APHELION #i wanna just fly around and change radio stations again and occasionally stop at a moon and do a little side quest #i think i just want to play acit again #anyways i'm going to replay all of the games! even the yucky ones! #only ones i won't touch are the weird spin-offs and whatever the fuck all 4 one was #I'M RUNNING OUT OF TAGS BUT I JUST GOTTA SAY GAMEPLAY WAS VERY FUN I LIKED THE FINAL BOSS FIGHT AND THE CHARACTERS OK BYE

[hua-fei-hua]

also i love unreliable narrators a normal amount

#been reading 'the basic eight' which is the debut novel of the guy who wrote asoue and is smth i've been wanting to read #for a while now for 1. being an epistolary novel 2. a satire 3. set in high school and 4. having an unreliable narrator #and it's sooooo fun trying to figure out where the cracks in flannery's story are and what she's trying to make look like the truth #and also the parallels btwn certain characters' relationships is fucking riveting #the book was published in 1999 so the story takes place in the 90s so every so often i'm taken out of the narrative by that #at least twice-- once when they didn't mention 9/11 when having a dinner party on sept 11th (and then i was like 'OHHHHHH. RIGHT.') #(lol consequence of being born in 2001) #and another time when flannery mentioned being able to figure out the time by looking in an almanac for that day's dawn time #and for a moment i was like 'huh? but you could just google--RIGHT.' and never have i ever been more acutely aware #of my own blind spots and assumptions and the tech i take for granted bc i grew up with it and it's kinda awesome actually #and you can get the sense that the writing is dense w/meaning in the same way asoue was also dense with meaning #packed with classical references and lines that seem throwaway and then come back again later like AAAA #i love the way flannery's obvious unreliability makes you actively think abt everything presented in the novel as you're reading it #i love how you can never quite tell what's being presented as unedited journal and what's being rewritten in the future #and perhaps i'm easier to fool about this bc i write in my diary in a similar manner where it feels like it has narrative structure #but i also try to be completely honest about who said what and when and so when flan the narrator does deliberately remind us #that she's editing this in post and ofc that couldn't have happened in the moment i'm like 'oh! right!' #anyway yeah just love it bc it feels like an extremely engaging read; it's like a pumpkin full of meat for my enrichment #花話

[chocolate-cream-soldier]

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#just read about the take of Sally wainwright and why s2 is the way it is #lol@ people saying we shouldn't expect or are entitled to a love story #like mate what do you think I tuned in for during s1 to watch the enticing tale of patricide and feeding them to the pigs #or wait for the 1800's riveting coal drama #ahaaaa #wow sometimes the stupidity seriously astounds me #s1 was essentially a self contained story at the heart of which was the romantic relationship between al and aw #that is the show I signed up for #so idk man #if AL and ML is the greatest love story ever then fine they already made a film about that #I didn't care a hoot for it #and if GJ now wants to change track and tell that story when and if s3 comes along #I wouldn't care much about that either #also whatever might have been the faults of s2 and I don't even know if the intention was to show AL and ML as the perfect pair or not #ann walker as a character had a superior arc #and personally i think she has kind of become the co-protagonist in her own right #and not merely a LI anymore #the rest is just random noise to me #I am glad SJ and SR portrayed these roles with a genuine care and respect #should I hold out hope for it #if real life is informing the writing still then maybe? #but then again if the writer chose to pursue a different take i don't begrudge them #however I don't care for it either so I will stay in my bubble #and you do you #lol after SQ and AC and I am kinda numb and immuned to the drama of it #I will drop a show if and when it becomes unrecognizable and stops to interest me so yeah #and that's that #raee rambles about gj #i be talking to the void #blogtalk

[binch-i-might-be]

not convinced about this chapter but it's not getting better from here on so. it's dropping!

#i just have to edit again #it's not like reception for this fic has been riveting so far anyway lmao this is fine #rayrambles