you better you better you bet

Writer/actor/director/creative type. The astoundingly lucky boyfriend of miss-nerdstiles. This is the only social media I use with any regularity at all, and it's a big random assortment of stuff.

[shitpostingkats]

Imagine you're Xigbar. You've joined a supervillain death cult, mostly because you are a centuries old bodysnatcher with little else to do, and this one seems like it might pan out and be the thing worldending doomsday event you've been waiting for. And your boss, who you met by helping him brutally disassemble a small family a couple years back, says he's got a new member for your little group. And he brings the new kid in. And they look exactly like that one kid you helped your boss send into a coma ten years ago. But no, different kid. Just happens to look identical, for reasons you don't know. But you're cool, you're centuries old, this kinda thing happens sometimes. You're chill.

And then a week passes. And your boss yet again goes "oh we're getting another member." Oh worm? What poor soul has been recruited this ti-

And they take off their hood. And they have. The same. Goddamn. Face.

[ninewheels]

Aerith wears bike shorts with pockets underneath her dress and you will never convince me otherwise.

[noknowshame]

Know No Shame - Black Sails and Coming Out

I think it’s important for me to talk about how much of an impact Black Sails has had on me personally. I can honestly say that as a queer person, it has helped me understand myself better than anything else- either in fiction or real life.

I have known I was gay since I was 14, and always felt fairly neutral about it. My family is all very liberal, and the only reason I never came out was because it was just a conversation I didn’t feel like having. At least I told myself that.

When I finished watching the last episode of Black Sails, I went immediately to bed. Whether I wanted to admit it or not, it was because I didn’t want my parents to see how much I cried after seeing James and Thomas’ reunion- I thought it would show too much.

I was shocked at myself for this response. I had no reason whatsoever to feel that way, so why did I? As my Black Sails obsession took off over the next few weeks, my thoughts kept coming back to episode 2.05. The inscription in Meditations, and what Miranda said to Flint about the voice in his head- those words resonated with me, and disturbed me. They made me question myself. Was there internalized shame that I too had been unconscious of all this time?

The more I thought about it, the more I realized that there was. I got way too attached to the narrative way too fast to deny it any longer. As I faced that, it made me angry. It made me angry at society for still making me feel like I had to hide, but more importantly, it made me angry at myself. I realized how incredibly privileged I am for being born in a time and place where I can truly be open without fear, and yet all this time I’ve chosen to be silent anyway. It sounds silly that a fictional pirate did this, but Flint’s story awoke something in me. It made me feel like I owed it to history to come out- to be in the light on behalf of centuries of people forced into the shadows.

When I came out to my parents, my heart was pounding- I was absolutely terrified. In the end, the only reason I was able to go through with it was because of the three words I repeated to myself.

Know No Shame.

Thank you James, and thank you Thomas. For all you have done for me.

[nonjaccuse]

Seth Bullock: Problem Child

[snottyshawty]

Better Call Saul main storyline:

The Mike Ehrmantraut subplot:

[productofaritual]

Love character relationships that can only be described as "whatever the fuck these two have going on"

[spidrvrseframes]

Across the Spider-Verse, 1:55:01, Frame 165482

[cerastes]

People don’t even say w00t anymore.

[cerastes]

This sux00rz…

[xanaxfarts]

‘Crystal Tower’ Final Fantasy III concept art for the Nintendo DS Remake (2006) art: Akihiko Yoshida

[lustcannibalism]

going into the fandom tags can be a form of self harm

[rona-is-reading]

Things I love in a character:

- crashing out

- hypercompetence

You may not think these two things are compatible in one character but let me introduce you to my friend SecUnit

[spidrvrseframes]

Across the Spider-Verse, 0:08:15, Frame 11869

[still-sunlit]

I’m afraid of  a lot of things,  but mostly,  most sincerely,  I am afraid of  being completely unraveled by you,  and you finding nothing  you want in here.

[ninewheels]

-L M Dorsey, She is Made of Chalk

[sot-358]

"𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘶𝘴... 𝘸𝘦'𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦."

[emeraldmew]

Imagine playing Days like you're doing Dracula Daily. Play for roughly a month and then take the next month off because Roxas is in a coma.

[mud4sludge-deactivated20230205]

what should i get at ihop

[mud4sludge-deactivated20230205]

alright.

[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