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[victor-blog55]

I think my favorite moment in all of solo leveling is where when Jinwoo is fighting Igris for the first time, and realizes his dagger isn't doing anything so he puts it away and Igris is just like "Oh we doing straight hands?" Drops his buster sword and cape and just smacks Jinwoo into a wall.

[propalahramota]

Daisy is a GOAT for successfully concealing her period while wearing an ALL white uniform

[incandescentorrery]

Like yes, Aunt Lydia (who had her willful blindness burned away by what happened to Esther and Janine and every handmaid at Jezebels) is absolutely going to kill that dentist, and I understand why she would encourage the Plums/Greens to protect their futures in the meantime by not coming forward, but I do think a fatal flaw in that plan is overlooking the fact that the girls protect each other. We have seen Shunammite sneak Becka to the bathroom, Daisy not out Becka, Becka keep Agnes' crush secret, and Shunammite enlist Agnes to sneak pads to Daisy. I do not think it takes much of a leap for just one of the girls, especially now that they know they are not the only victim, to say this cannot be allowed to happen to another girl and to do something (even something completely ill-advised and guaranteed to backfire) to try to put a stop to it. I also think Lydia, having seen and suffered and contributed to all of the measures Gilead takes to separate women from each other, will not anticipate that whatever it is Daisy is planning to do.

[plushdablush]

Random thing for people to consider is that since Laika is the saint of one way trips should Felicette be known as the saint of safe landings since she did make it back to the ground safely

[somefishycat]

tu LANCES félicette ? tu lances son corps comme la fusée ? oh ! oh ! prison pour les scientifiques ! prison pour les scientifiques pendant Un Mille Ans !

[bug-yogurt]

You can understand the French perfectly fine with only context but the English translation I got still had me floored

[eekahchu]

[eros-telesse]

Bruce : How’s everyone doing?

Damian : I’m breathing.

Dick : Setting the bar pretty low, huh?

Jason : Well, in his defense, he's better than Tim.

Tim, having a panic attack : Honestly? Fuck you guys.

[msburgundy-but-worser-deactivat]

mythbusters was so good because it wasn't a killjoy show. they didn't just say "see, it doesn't work" and leave it there

whenever they find that the stunt doesn't work as portrayed in the movie, they immediately ask "what would it take to make this happen?"

[disclaymore-deactivated20230920]

“we know it takes this amount of explosives to work, but what if we doubled it anyway?”

[oldschoolvillageidiot]

Some myths I'll always remember:

* Are elephants scared of mice? (They only did that because they were in Africa and had access to elephants.)

* Will a bull run amok in a china shop?

* Is it better to run zig-zag or straight when chased by an alligator?

I love these because NONE of them turned out the way they expected. They went into all three with pre-conceived ideas of how it would go, and each time they "failed." Elephants WILL cower from mice. A bull moves very gingerly through a china shop. It doesn't matter how you run because ALLIGATORS WON'T CHASE YOU.

And each time, they reacted with just... pure glee. "Holy shit, we were wrong! Oh my god! This is great! We were so wrong!"

And that, to me, is what science is. Being excited about being wrong because either way it's information.

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

late night reminder to self: your depressive episode will not last forever. it will have an end. tonight will not be the end of you.

[burgundy-forest-deactivated2024]

Hey guess what i saw this a few days ago when i was in an absolutely scary slump and then i spoke to my counsellors and did what they told me to do and now i feel so much better. So this is true. Reblogging for more good luck

[shamwowxl]

[papayafromtv]

conversations overheard through the batkid com lines pt 18 (masterpost here)

*casual silence, occasional footsteps and traffic noises*

*rustling*

Tim: *light laughter*

Tim: alright, yeah.

Dick: huh?

Tim: oh- Red Hood and i are communicating across this rooftop with paper signs, Taylor-Swift-style.

Dick: what are you saying?

Jason: talking shit about Batman.

Dick: why through secret signs? we do it to his face all the time. he isn't even on this line tonight.

Tim: it's called being creative, jackass. we're bored.

*a beat*

Tim: *laughs*

Dick, instantly: -ok what'd he say now?

Jason: still B, you insecure little thing.

Tim: he's just listing all the objective reasons Batman sucks.

Dick: oh list them out i wanna hear this.

Tim: ok- wait Hood go back to the first one, hold them up in order. ok- one, poser.

Dick: fair.

Tim: two, peaked in his childhood therapist's office.

Tim: three. wont stop trying to live through his children. needs to get his own thing.

Dick: elaborate on that one.

Jason: he sucks compared to his kids and he knows it. won't stop copying us.

Dick: i do have to point out that he was Batman first-

Jason: ok but who decided to be a symbol of hope first, you or him? because last i remember his early days of batting weren't about providing Gotham with peace, they were just him trying to figure out how high up he needed to be for the police to let him get away with public assault.

Tim, snickering: do you think there's an actual radius...?

Dick: ...alright ok. so maybe the hope thing got thieved from little Robin 1. carry on.

Jason: he stole the meaning of his mission from you, then he gave up on it when i kicked it and Replacement over here had to tell him to grow a pair and get back in the saddle,

Tim: -also true.

Jason: -now he's weirdly jealous of how much the people of Gotham trust Red Hood to get shit done. like he makes snippy comments all the time and glares at me whenever my people yell for my help. like- he's mad they trust me more than him. and lets not forget he tried to nick Nightwing from you and then got all pouty when he failed miserably.

Dick: *hums*

Tim: wait hold on- i don't remember hearing about this. when did he try to steal Nightwing from Dick?!

Dick: so, remember that joint international mission we went on when we were both in Italy together? and i mentioned i was worried about Bludhaven not having Nightwing while i was away?

Tim: ...yeah.

Dick: ...you see where I'm going with this?

Tim: ...you're kidding.

Jason, snickers gradually becoming audible: no- no he's completely serious. i remember i stopped by the city to do a quick run through patrol as a favour to Dick and fucking- Bruce was in his apartment. just digging through his closet for a spare suit.

Tim: ...no fucking way. did you make him put it back?

Jason: are you shitting me? i brought out my camera and told him to go right ahead! i knew how that shit was gonna turn out!

Dick: yeah... i don't- i don't really know what he thought would happen...

Tim: what did happen?

Jason: he- *laughter, tone high pitched* ok so he puts on the suit, right? and like- you saw when i tried it on- so it fucking barely fits him,

Tim: he didn't even fucking adjust it?!

Jason: *wheeze* NO! and then he walks out, right? like, like he's about to pop-

Dick, fondly: how long did he last again?

Jason: from what i remember, he made it half way down the first street before a group of local children rushed out and started trying to kick his ankles in for 'pretending to be their Nightwing'.

Tim: *bursts out laughing*

Dick: god, i love my local kids...

Jason: it made it so much worse because- obviously they all know me since we work together so much, so they see me on a roof nearby and start asking Red Hood to 'beat up the imposter for them', and Bruce is just fucking staring at me like he wants to die,

Tim: *still wheezing*

Dick: man... maybe Batman does suck.

Tim: YOU ONLY JUST REALISED?!

Dick: WELL I KNEW IN MY HEART, THERE'S JUST A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN KNOWING AND ADMITTING IT AUDIBLY-

*a ping*

*abrupt silence*

Bruce: who is on this line tonight that's available for a meeting at the docks? i may require backup.

*silence*

Bruce: Nightwing? Red Hood? Red Robin? i can see you're online.

Jason: *softly* ...Batman?

Bruce: *confused* ...yes?

Jason: remember when you got beaten up by a bunch of kids for pretending to be Dick?

*silence*

Bruce: goodnight.

*disconnecting ping*

Dick: incredible.

Tim: truly, a man who knows when he's beat.

Jason: a man who knows i still have that fuckin' video is what that is-

[robs-your-robins]

There used to be a long standing pool at the Justice League on whether Batman could defeat the League single handedly and the common answer is yes, with time, he probably could but they think that surely he couldnt not all of them at once?

But then Tim gets injured on a mission with the Titans and the rest of the Justice League call Bats because he should know. Cue Batman showing up, frantic, more on edge than a batarang at a YungBlud concert and the League assures him that Tim is fine, not to worry but the Bat needs to see his son, right now, they have to let him through but Tim is in surgery and he can't -

The pool gets paid out that very day because the Bat fights off the League with brute force, violence and desperation. Barry is knocked on his ass by a head butt, Oliver gets a broken nose, Cyborg has to get rewired in the med bay, Hal needs a dentist for his cracked teeth, and Arthur wakes up in the ruins of a table with zero idea what the fuck happened. Batman is at Tim's side when he wakes up and won't be moved until he's 100% satisfied that Tim won't die. Clark and Diana win the pool because they know that if Bruce’s life depended on it, they might have had a chance but one of the kids in peril? No chance.

[brenshor]

They're both dangerous

[quiverly]

jinx: *makes an ableist joke towards viktor*

viktor: *immediately deadnames her*

they deserved more time together lmfao

[gophersdomain]

something something despite the all horrors and tragedies of the world, love was there and that's all that matters

[coatsinkleaf]

[seadeepspaceontheside]

Menaces. Me and @linddzz talking about the terrible habits of our favourite twig boys let to this.

[soyboywenzie]

the porch scene is sooo interesting in the show simply due to two lines.

“because you’re selfish.”

“because i love you.”

it shows both of their mindsets, two mindsets that have riddled the fandom for 12 years. they are both valid and yet so contradictory that one side is pulling up real world doctors to talk about a fictional world’s science and it’s so funny.

joel saved ellie because he loved her, and ellie thinks it’s selfish because she wanted to save the world, or die trying and he took that from her. it’s beautiful. joel is a selfish man and ellie has to know how much she is loved and that’s the center of these two. joel has so much love to give her that he couldn’t give his first and ellie has so much to give away and yet can’t.

[vamprozy]

I think there’s something so deeply and intimately and morbidly true about The Last of Us’s primary thesis which is that humanity’s fatal flaw, in that very Shakespearian way, is that we are destined to care too much about one another so much so that we discard the collective entirely. like we have such a capacity to love the human race and humanity as a whole, to grow our communities and govern cities how we know best and foster such connection with the masses which we are part of, but it’s overtaken by our capacity to love even just a single other person. like one human can come into your life that creates such an intrinsic and passionate love in you— or maybe two people or a family’s worth or any small number— and you suddenly would burn entire villages down just to keep them safe.

joel doesn’t blink twice murdering to find ellie. he doesn’t look back when he decides to do what he does at the hospital later on. he has no remorse about any of it it, because this one girl has grown to mean more to him than any possible greater good could ever mean. and it’s reciprocal. ellie would— and does— do anything she can to help him, save him, protect him, and, eventually, to avenge him. because that’s what you do when you love someone. not when you love people. when you love someone.

and it’s selfish, in a way??? because we love these people and would do so much for them because they mean more to us than other strangers do. it’s exactly like an iteration of the trolley problem, actually. one track has your daughter on it and one track has fifty people. don’t even try telling me you wouldn’t go onto track B if it meant saving your daughter and her puppy dog eyes from the whimpering and pain and fear. The Last of Us says yes, you would. I would. we all would. and like yeah that is our greatest weakness, that we have such a unique ability to love a handful of people so deeply that our compassion towards community and strangers and the bigger collective starts to slip from view. but goddamn what a fucking great fatal flaw it is to have. we are all going to die and the world will burn because we loved another person too much.