Eagerly Awaiting TriStamp Season 2

Sideblog of @violethowler where I reblog/post extra theories and speculation about my favoritie media, plus analysis and speculation for fandoms I'm not in

[violethowler]

Me and my roommate are back with another Constructing Kingdoms KH2 livestream! Come join us as we play through Kingdom Hearts 2 and talk about the story!

[dumnslut]

[druidshollow]

happy 30th anniversary to animorphs <3

[violethowler]

Constructing Legends: Episode 09 is now live on YouTube!

In this video, i finally stop beating around the bush and address how the executive meddling of the final season affected the show's major romance arcs and what the themes, parallels, and signs of editing indicate the writers were actually intending.

[chainslobber]

Well, I certainly can't show this on the Blue T website, but you CAN find it...elsewhere~

Fantastic commission from my mutual Muepin! Thank you again!

[babushkahihi]

I need a combination of these universes From & The Summer Hikaru Died

[lakesbian]

i genuinely love that the way k.a applegate resolves the issue of needing the alien on the team to be able to drop plot crumbs without totally solving everything for the human kids is by making aximili-esgarrouth-isthill a jock who only tangentially paid attention to when his teachers were explaining, like, the andalite equivalent of how to find the cosine of a triangle, and now he's in an astronomically rare circumstance where the fate of an entire species depends on him remembering how to do that. and he's cold sweating trying to recall the answers to homework problems he didn't do. and also he's always lying.

[lakesbian]

ax is literally experiencing like if you got teleported back several hundred years and everyone was expecting you to explain the precise mechanisms of how cell phones work to them and if you don't come up with a sufficient explanation they're all going to die. And he's not enjoying it.

[lakesbian]

every day this happens to ax

[fuzzynecromancer]

There's one book where they time travel and need him to explain how time travel works, but he spent most of Time Travel Class staring at a girl's ass.

[corvidcorgi]

With three movies to compare between, I really appreciate how each Knives Out movie explores justice from a different thematic angle, not based on the murder that was committed but based on the cruelty that led to that murder.

In Knives Out, a compassionate, ethical young woman treats everyone around her with generosity, and the people around her repeatedly try to take advantage of her kindness to force her into losing the fortune that was gifted to her by a dear friend. There, justice means that she keeps the fortune and decides that actually, she doesn't have to be kind and giving to people who've proven themselves assholes.

In Glass Onion, a woman loses her sister to a gang of wealthy, successful people who've sacrificed their principles for the sake of ambition and ego. There, justice means that everyone involved will be made notorious: whatever their other accomplishments, they will forever be known for being complicit in the burning of the most famous painting in history.

In Wake Up Dead Man, the church takes advantage of a young girl's loyalty and faith to place her under a lifelong burden and fill her with guilt, shame, and hatred. Justice means helping her understand what was done to her and the women around her, and giving her compassion so she can find peace.

This is cool because it means the movies contradict each other! The compassionate justice of Wake Up Dead Man would be totally misplaced in Knives Out, and so would the toppling-monuments justice of Glass Onion. And because each movie has something different to say, they all stand on their own and feel fresh.

This is also why Benoit Blanc is the uniting figure but never the protagonist of these movies. He's an agent of legal justice in that he's the detective and it's his job to figure out whodunnit, but the protagonist -- Marta, Helen, and now Jud -- is always the character who delivers thematic justice.

[violethowler]

Back to streaming KH2 again with my roommate and her brother! Come join us as we talk about the game's storytelling as we play through it!

[midgart]

smth smth springtime and bunnies

[chainslobber]

A beast is all you are.

[spontaneousmusicalnumber]

In The Road to El Dorado there is only really one inexplicable thing within the plot. Miguel and Tulio plausibly bluff their way through or slip out of most situations. However, I’d never figured out why the volcano actually stops erupting when Tulio commands it. 

The conclusion I finally came up with is that the actual gods were watching their big entrance go down, and thought “oh, this’ll be hilarious”

[sweetvantass]

theres a lot of evidence throughout the movie to say that the armadillo (whose name is bibo) is a god.

they first find him in the jungle, where an armadillo has no business being

they find the entrance to the city, while being followed by him

he is present when the volcano starts to erupt (previous concept art also showed him in the background actually stopping the eruption)

miguel and tulio sucked ass at the ball game, so they used Bibo as a ball. He ricocheted himself all over the place and defied physics to get into the hoop every time

they come up with the flood plan to stop cortez when bibo pushed a glass over in front of them

[famouslysleepy]

YOUR TELLING ME THEY USED GOD AS A BASKETBALL?

[reginaldqueribundus]

I think the reason Spock & McCoy’s relationship worked but Pulaski’s treatment of Data set off so many fans is the latter was completely one-sided. Spock was perfectly capable of defending himself; he had a rapier wit, gave as good as he got and sometimes was the one sassing Bones before the doctor even started anything. Whereas Data has trouble with social cues, nuance and humour. Without the witty repartée McCoy & Spock enjoyed, all you had left was a soft-spoken, almost childlike at times android politely correcting the mean lady who kept calling him a machine. It wasn’t a fair fight. And when you throw into the mix many people reading Data as an allegory for folks on the autism spectrum, well that just makes her look even worse. If the writers had done a better job, given Data some subtle zingers to throw her way, maybe it would’ve worked, but they didn’t. So instead of them bickering like an old married couple, Pulaski just looked like an asshole picking on the guy who couldn’t use sarcasm.

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

That, and the dynamic is slightly different.

While Spock’s status as a half human does make him part of an oppressed minority on his home planet, that’s not something that a human from outside the culture would necessarily be able to grasp the full implications of.

Instead, McCoy’s jokes are typically about Spock being a Vulcan, and Spock is able to shoot back with snarky comments about humanity.

It works because both species have roughly equal political power. Though Spock’s status as the only Vulcan onboard might tip the scales a little in that regard, fundamentally McCoy’s cracks about his ears don’t pose any threat to him, any more than his comments about “illogical minds” pose any threat to his human crew mates.

By comparison, Data’s position is much more precarious.

Though the Enterprise crew seem to mostly accept him, he still faces regular challenges to his personhood. He has to ask Captain Picard not to refer to Lore (the closest thing to another member of his ‘species’) as an “it”; he is challenged over his right to procreate; he is made to defend his ownership rights over his own body in a court of law on pain of being fucking dismantled.

And it’s the Federation— aka ‘the good guys'— who do this to him. Data’s rights and personhood are always considered conditional, even by his fellow crew members.

He can’t defend himself against Pulaski, not only because of his problems with communication and social cues, but also because— unlike Spock— he can’t really afford to make witty remarks about his own perceived areas of superiority.

His continued right to work on the ship and be treated as a person is basically dependent on the support of human advocates like Picard. Even if he didn’t genuinely seem to consider human nature to be superior to his own, going on about how great androids are was what got Lore taken to bits and stuffed in cupboard.

I’m not saying that Data necessarily has to worry about that happening to him on the Enterprise, but the fact that Starfleet probably wouldn’t care too much if it did happen (so long as Data wasn’t actually damaged) creates a bigger power imbalance between him and Pulaski than existed between Spock and McCoy, and so their interactions hit differently.

[reginaldqueribundus]

sorry but this is such brilliant commentary I have to reblog it

[chimaerakitten]

#yeah it’s important that Vulcans are not only social and political equals to humans - they seem to be regarded as#intellectual and cultural superiors in some ways#in the Federation broadly#McCoy mocking Spock’s Vulcan-ness and Spock firing back about humans feel more like Brits and Yanks making fun of each other#and yeah he definitely doesn’t seem to get that Spock is touchy about his mixed-heritage identity#(though that is partially because Spock refuses to talk about his feelings or his family ever)#But there is definitely an equal playing field nature to it#that is just not there between Data and Pulaski

preserving @specialagentartemis’s tags for posterity because yeah this—Brits and Yanks feels like such a relevant comparison

[chainslobber]

Spicy Lei Heng dropped, HQ on Patreon and Poipiku

[chainslobber]

I didn't forget about Mermay.

[violethowler]

My roommate, her brother, and I are back with another Constructing Kingdoms KH2 livestream! Come join us as we yap about Kingdom Hearts 2's story while we play through the game! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzp_LAkInJM

[ruuari]

I wrote a new sexy wranduin fic!!

a window of opportunity

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