Eryn

Come on in, lots of nerdy fandoms in here.

[omegaversereloaded]

i cant believe that there's still gamergate STANK on games that women enjoy. NASTY misogyny residue. stardew valley is in fact a video game. animal crossing is also a video game. so are otome games and dating sims and twee little cozy games. sometimes a bitch doesnt wanna play bloodborne that shit's hard

[omegaversereloaded]

guys who mainly play 2k and fortnite will still be like oh youre not a real gamer for having 1000 hours in stardew. mother fucker you're larping as a basketball player

[fluorescentnova]

[kittydealer]

u/Sonnylevrai

[cacodaemonia]

biblically accurate cat

[blumineck]

This tickled me!

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[notherpuppet]

I wrote this ‘Losin’ Streak’ parody back in November and never posted it

Alastor tries to convince the King to lend him realm-destroying power (again) 🎹🎶

[discoursedrome]

The opposite of “the elephant in the room” is “the centipede in the room”: something that’s not actually an issue but everyone is freaking out about

[bolaneno]

the color signatures of various elements when ignited

FB image credit: Ceres Science

[trashgnomesanonymous]

Do you love the colors of the combustion

[bcncwcary]

They only showed up to shit talk the lack of class.

[bcncwcary]

Frank Sinatra - The Tender Trap From tonight’s stream.

Listen, he loses a bet, he keeps his fuckin’ word. And you bet your ass he rocks it when he does.

[bcncwcary]

radiohusk week day 1: First Time

The first time Alastor ever sees Husk grin, and it’s to be a bastard. (Also he’s looking forward to fucking up someone’s day.)

[dykethang]

big if true tbh

[paradoxgavel]

looking it up, apparently this was an artist who made signs like this to parody the actual city council's signage, just told apart by his logo in the corner, "christchurch city confusion", and they had locals rly confused for a bit. my favorite is this one!

[aquilacalvitium]

@ominous-signs

[canadianwheatpirates]

I liked the Walking Speed Limit

[trasenaar]

Bare beskar

On the eve of marching to war, Obi-Wan makes plans and digs out his old armour. Musings on Mandalorian armour and culture, the ethics of commanding slave soldiers and how that affects one’s self-image.

Could be the same AU as “Not Obi-Wan’s first slave uprising” and “What makes a military genius” (where Obi-Wan is presented with a battalion of slave soldiers, says please and thank you, and starts plotting how to take down the slavers).

Obi-Wan has Mandalorian armour, courtesy of the Kyr’tsad who failed to kill him when he was seventeen and running for his life on Mandalore. The Jedi frown on such soldierly things, so the armour has mostly gathered dust in his closet for the past decade and some. But Obi-Wan has fought in a war before and recognises that no matter how good one is, sometimes armour is all that stands between bleeding out in a ditch and living to fight another day.

So on the eve of marching to war, Obi-Wan digs out his armour to clean and repair and condition every piece. He looks at its light green for peace and green for duty, the order’s wings on one pauldron/over his heart. He strips it all off. He has no right to wear any of it now, and the bare beskar is a statement of its own.

Plus

- Feels about how bare unpainted beskar could be silver for seeking redemption, disavowing all ties (in that there’s no one and nothing to paint his armour for), for being an outcast (which in his heart, he has already decided to become), or all of them. Leading a slave army to war is really really not in the Jedi mission statement. Obi-Wan, having experienced his own stints as a slave, having brought up a padawan who was born a slave, and having already left the order once for an army of child soldiers—well, he has some feels about it.

- Obi-Wan’s closet doesn’t just have armour, it also has a veritable armoury of, ah, useful souvenirs from his various missions. Maybe it makes him a bad Jedi, but Obi-Wan has some difficulty with letting go of possessions that have saved his life. Such as the sniper rifle from Melidaan, a blaster from here, and a vibroblade from there…

- Cody’s/The 212th’s reactions to their Jedi whose luggage apparently includes a full set of arms and armour and little else.

- There’s a story that armour tells for anyone who can read it and I wonder if the clones could. There are only a few things that a completely unpainted beskar’gam could mean. Either it’s completely new and the owner hasn’t had time yet to paint it. But Kenobi’s beskar’gam isn’t new: the metal has scrapes all over it and some fittings are clearly newer than others. It could be second hand, but as the weeks pass, the metal stays bare. And even though some shinies joke about their shiny, very visible general, Kenobi won’t even put on a matte base coat, just thanks the men politely and keeps on shining. It has to be intentional.

- When Obi-Wan eventually repaints his armour, it’s in gold for the 212th and black for justice for the vode.

In the days between accepting his marching orders and shipping out to meet his battalion, Obi-Wan researches, plans, and packs. He sleeps fitfully and dreams of Melida-Daan, of Bandomeer, of Mandalore. He tears through the archives and with echoes of the Young in his ears, downloads anything that might help keep his men alive. With a growing cold like deep sea mines, he reads the clones spec sheets, reviews galactic law, and speed reads his way through the last few years of the senate’s bills.

He pulls out of his closet possessions unbecoming of Jedi—things he has kept because he has been unable to let go of the fear of . There’s his old XX sniper rifle from Melida-Daan. A blaster from here. A vibroblade from there.

And there’s the armour he got from Mandalore. It’s painted in green for duty and erin for peace, the order’s sigil on the pauldron. He can hardly stand to look at it. Standing here, at the eve of marching to war that is to be fought with slave soldiers, he has no right to wear any of it. Not the green of duty, for he has forsaken his duty to protect all sentient life in accepting command of an army of slaves. Not the erin of peace, for he is marching off to fight a war to force worlds to stay in a republic they don’t wish to be a part of. Not the sigil of the Jedi order, for he has already forsaken his vows in these actions—and has already decided to forsake his duty to the republic.

Obi-Wan strips the beskar bare. Before refitting the armour, going through the straps, buckles, replacing worn parts and reconditioning the rest. He spends sleepless nights in the salles relearning to fight in armour.

“Paint? I painted it when I was seventeen. I, ah, stripped it when I accepted the draft.” Kenobi grimaces, but sets his jaw and continues. “I couldn’t keep the paint I had after that.” There’s an odd, bitter clang to his words.

[queermachmir]

“What is it that the child has to teach?

The child naively believes that everything should be fair and everyone should be honest, that only good should prevail, that everybody should have what they want and there should be no pain or sadness. The child believes the world should be perfect and is outraged to discover it is not.

And the child is right.”

— Rabbi Tzvi Freeman

[spaceraptor]

“Westerners are fond of the saying ‘Life isn’t fair.’ Then, they end in snide triumphant: ‘So get used to it!’ What a cruel, sadistic notion to revel in! What a terrible, patriarchal response to a child’s budding sense of ethics. Announce to an Iroquois, ‘Life isn’t fair,’ and her response will be: ‘Then make it fair!’” –Barbara Alice Mann

[chilewithcarnage]

[closet-keys]

[ID: panel from Calvin and Hobbes in which Calvin’s mom says, “Life could be worse, Calvin” and Calvin responds, “Life could be a lot better, too!”]

[yorgen-sh]

[bmorebrstobss]

Damn, that's some slick live animation. Especially the last one in the ocean.

[wortha1000words]

Creativity extraordinare!

[lilivae]

Now that preorders are closed I can show the two cards I worked on in the Hellaverse Tarot card fan project! Ace of Wands for Charlie and The Fool for Fizz! I had so much fun drawing these two and I cant wait till everyone gets their decks!

[titsay]

guardian of the forest

[liberalsarecool]

Stay engaged.

[avelera]

I keep thinking about Nicky being the most chill Catholic in the world because the Crusaders were promised total cleansing of ALL their sins, even those in the future, if they joined the Crusades and I’m thinking of Nicky still being smug about this in the face of homophobes a thousand years later because his soul is Teflon thanks to a Papal loophole, nope, thank you very much but I literally can’t go to Hell for loving my beautiful Muslim boyfriend, the Pope said so

[with-my-murder-flute]

IMAGINE HAVING A PLENARY INDULGENCE AND ALL OF TIME TO USE IT

[asoniccatapult]

[thequantumqueer]

pope francis: i most certainly did not, and i would appreciate it if people stopped deliberately misinterpreting my words to suit their sinful agendas nicky: no, not you, i’m talking about… *stars counting on his fingers* pope francis: pope francis: what are you doing? nicky: god damn it, now i have to start over! *starts counting on his fingers again, more exaggeratedly this time* pope francis: i definitely didn’t say blasphemy was acceptable! joe: *makes a half-assed attempt not to laugh* nicky: carry the seven… pope francis: are you quite finished? nicky: pope urban ii

[noandpickles]

The most amazing detail that I never see included in posts about this is that no one was supposed to be able to take advantage of that sweet crusader signing bonus. You didn’t get a free pass to heaven for joining the crusade. You got a free pass for dying in the crusade.

Nicky is the one person on the planet who could meet that requirement and live to enjoy the reward.

[swimmingblue]

The Catholic church totally closed this loophole on purpose, btw.

Going on the Crusades gave you a big bonus in the “getting to Heaven” thing, but it’s not a get-out-of-hell-free card. You still have to behave yourself and avoid the big bads like excessive murder, blasphemy, etc.

You only get the special free pass for dying in the crusades. Which obviously means that you won’t be able to enjoy it afterwards.