Little lad

It’s lightning bitch, if you still in doubt & if the clown shoe fits, lace it up

[guccilongboard]

Boq being unrecognizable while Fiyero is completely recognizable is so funny to me, because I know Boq spent the entire journey staring at Fiyero mad as hell

[ratbastarddotfuck]

you have to forgive the printer because it's one of the most machine-ass machines we interact with on a day to day basis. that thing says kerchunk. hardly anything says kerchunk these days. you can't get mad at her when she kerchunks up a little.

[digitalsymbiote]

Crazy that tech has gotten so bad that we're doing printer forgiveness now

[slashermask]

by glass_museum on tiktok

pdf of the quoted essay by jeremy waldron

[guccilongboard]

Soldier Boy coming back from Russia only to discover ‘Soulja Boy’ has been charting since the 2000s and Vought Legal did NOTHING

[fangorn-forest]

not enough secret gardens and hidden passageways and bookshelves that open to a mysterious library these days. get working on that girls.

[paperjoshi]

on it boss

[paperjoshi]

trapped in the catacombs boss

[a-cuntof-cuntblr]

[theotheristhedoctor]

Ok minor detail but ...

So I noticed in A:TLA, and it’s carried over in LoK, that Airbenders always seem to have an advantage in a fight. And at first, it felt like plot armour, particularly in A:TLA.

But when Aang fought Bumi, he lost most of that advantage. And I realised that this wasn’t just plot armour. Someone had sat and worked it out: nobody has had to fight Airbenders for generations. 

None of the other nations have had to train to face them, or practised sparring with them, or anything. Apart from Bumi, no bender in the show has ever even met an airbender before Aang comes along. And in LoK, for the most part people still haven’t. We never see fights between those who have (for e.g. we never see Tenzin and Lin fight); when Korra and Tenzin use airbending, its a unique fighting style that people aren’t trained to manage.

It’s a really small detail, and it fundamentally works to give the heroes an advantage (and make up for Aang’s young age and lack of combat experience), but I love how it’s an advantage in combat for completely logical reasons.

The detail in these shows is amazing. 

[sindri42]

You can see the same principle in play whenever somebody fights somebody who uses a completely unfamiliar style. Combustion benders and lavabenders aren’t straight up more powerful, but they’re pretty much always something you haven’t dealt with which presents unique challenges. That red lotus lady with no arms is just a perfectly ordinary waterbender, but using forms and styles nobody else has seen before. Jet routinely smacks around benders and soldiers, but loses hard to the first person he met who had actually studied diverse styles of swordplay. When Toph invents metalbending, nobody can deal with that, but seventy years later the counters are pretty well known among people who might have to fight the cops.

And it’s why Azula, a genius prodigy who has thought long and hard about how to counter every kind of magic and martial arts out there, keeps getting messed up by a kid with a boomerang.

[eymurn]

In your 20s, you'll feel like you're losing the race. It's important to understand that there is no race.

[demigods-posts]

tyson claiming they need someone strong and wise to help them complete the quest to save camp. and then it cutting to sally in a grocery store. is the only logical conclusion.

[saucefunk]

THAT’S WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT

[slashergirlnancy]

Steve Harrington // Lucas Sinclair STRANGER THINGS

[emblazons]

someone just said the reason Karen got out of that bed despite not being in any position to do so was because she needed to save Lucas and now I’m sobbing on main like those are ALL her children playing dnd in the basement fr

[lingi-15]

Can’t stop thinking about this 🥹

[howtobecomeadragon]

lucas sinclair's preferred mode of transportation: jumping

[bylerworld]

priah ferguson deserved better too what they did to erica was so unfair bro

[queeleronwheels]

This is what the Duffers had to say about Erica by the way:

They’re not even pretending to give a shit about her. “No one’s concerned about her” and she can “go where she wants to go.” And of course, she’s just sooo tough, because that’s not a tired stereotype for a Black girl at all.

I’m willing to bet they never put a single thought into an ending for her and only remembered she existed during this interview.

[afrofairysblog]

The adultification and internalized misogynoir in this is ASTRONOMICAL

[thewisestsorcerer]

Why didn't Patrick get the same attention as Chrissy and Fred?

Why doesn't Lucas get character development outside of his love for Max?

Why did they bring Kali back just to torture her more, villanize her, and kill her off?

Why do Lucas and Erica's parents have two scenes in the show and no real hints as to who they are, even though the other party members parents do?

Why is Erica hardly in the epilogue with no lines?

I think we all know why

[holleighgolightly]

SAY IT LOUDER PLS.

The Duffers don't care about their "token diversity" characters

[queeleronwheels]

If the writers weren't glaringly racist, I’m just thinking about how it would’ve made so much more sense for Erica to have Holly’s plot.

We've known her since season 2 and would have been far more invested in her than in Holly, who we knew nothing about going into season 5. They wouldn't have had to retcon her age *cough*, as she would have been around 12 years old in '87, same as Will when he was taken. She would have had a future-sister-in-law dynamic with Max in Camazotz. She could have relayed so much information to Max about what's been going on while she was gone. We could have seen her nerd out about A Wrinkle in Time and science (which is canonically her favourite subject). We could have seen actual depth added to her character and given an active, emotional storyline to Lucas, who would have been hellbent on finding her. It would have been so satisfying to see that dynamic since we're used to them bickering all the time; a real true-to-life example of the complexities of sibling love. It could have been so, so good.