Not A Mawmouth

Any screaming you hear is a complete coincidence.

[automatisma]

Looking back to the many things that G-Witch did right, I actually think all sci-fi would be improved by the presence of an evil capitalistic council of old women who all look the same with slight variation.

[bucketsofgiggles]

you cannot convince me that, within 15 minutes of the press release from the Hail Mary Project that, while unfortunately a lab accident did kill the primary and back up science officers for the mission, Dr. Ryland Grace was kidnapped and drugged bravely volunteered to step into the role of science officer to ensure the project still met its launch date, the project's public-facing email address was not flooded with emails from Dr. Grace's former students. and more kept coming. some to accounts that should've been private. and then come messages from his former colleagues. and Stratt, ever pragmatic, prints out as many as the team can verify are legit, puts them in a box, and places that box within Grace's things. because while maybe she couldn't convince him that he was the right man for the role, the kids he tried to cite as being why he wasn't could.

but, due to the fog of the amnesia, then the urgency of the mission plus Rocky's appearance, Grace doesn't fully look through every box until they're on their way to Erid. and that's when Rocky wakes up from sleep to see Grace sobbing over a bunch of letters. students telling him how much they enjoyed his class, actually made learning fun and interesting. got them through tough days. made them feel seen and appreciated. quite a few cite his class as being the spark that got them interested in science as a career. and even those that didn't still consider him the best teacher they ever had. fellow teachers admiring his classroom management and lesson planning, and even so his kindness to every student who walked into his room.

one letter is from the principal. when Dr. Grace's involvement in the Hail Mary Project became public knowledge, there was a push from the community to rename the school after him. after discussions with the school board, there had been a secret agreement to do so, even had a new sign made. they were just waiting for him to be released from the project and return to San Fransisco to surprise him. but, with the recent news of his "noble sacrifice", they'd gone ahead and done it. attached the press release with a picture of the new sign, a bunch of his former students standing around it, beaming. a local artist has been commissioned to add a mural to the front entrance over the summer break. and a final note: "Do your work knowing that it will allow the Dr. Ryland Grace Middle School to continue to educate and inspire students for generations."

after he managed to stop leaking, Grace reads Rocky some of the letters. and its in that moment that Rocky swears that, should they find a way to keep Grace alive on Erid, he will teach there.

[sillylotrpolls]

Before voting, spin the wheel and get a Lord of the Rings character.

Would you fuck, marry, or kill this character?

Fuck

Marry

Kill

I realize the point of the game is to only have three options, BUT...

Voting ended onJun 11, 2024

Not sure who your character is? You can look them up on this Tolkien Gateway character list, or just vote based on vibes.

For the purposes of the game, assume your vote is not "LaCE compliant." (That is, fucking an elf does not instantly mean marriage or death for that elf.)

Poll concept from @pollsnatural.

[curufiin]

Spin this wheel first to get a Silmarillion character. Yes there are a lot of options.

Would you FMK the character you got above?

Fuck

Marry

Kill

Voting ended onJun 11, 2024

You don’t get any other choices sorry. No nuance no nothing. Pick one or die (but feel free to elaborate on your choice)

Don’t know who they are? Find them on this list

(Assume there will be no canon consequences, you do not necessarily have to LaCE marry the elf you fuck, and there are no dubious circumstances regarding your choice. inspired by this poll <3)

[shiftycryptid]

Ryoko Kui is so fucking real for showing us the complete backstories of rando side characters and introducing us to their loved ones through supplemental material but also being so vague about the actual married spouse of a main character that people online argue about what colour her hair is. Absolute fucking queen

[couldtheydestroythering]

Could Frieren destroy the One Ring?

Could not make it to Mordor

Could make it to Mordor but could not destroy the Ring

Could destroy the Ring

Don't know this character well enough to say

Voting ended onMar 30, 2024

[icesigil]

If a Steel Inquisitor sees someone hot do you think their eye spikes stick out like AWOOGA

[not-a-mawmouth]

Their eye spikes pop out and they just fall over dead

[polygonal-trees]

ngl I'm a little uneasy about the prospect of Lulu piloting Superbia because piloting a Deathdrive is such a strong sex metaphor. while Lulu may technically be an adult she's only been a conscious, functional person for like a week and so far the show has depicted her as very childlike, and I wouldn't be comfortable if the same "I felt Isami come inside me" style dialog was applied to her.

that being said the show has also been very respectful in its depiction of Lulu, so I'm reasonably confident they'll skip the uncomfortable innuendo. but still, like I said. I'm uneasy.

[polygonal-trees]

womp womp

[chibiveneficus]

when you offer to pilot the super cool robot because your crush doesn't want to but the super cool robot refuses because it's actually you from the future and he only wants his crush to pilot him so your crush comforts you for being rejected by yourself

[utane]

Lewis is haunted by that rejection

[wobblyjellyfish]

-nge voice- GET IN THE BOYFRIEND ISAMI

[ex-shark-virtue-005]

Patrick Collasour is the epitome of "no thoughts, head empty."

Graham Aker has one brain cell and it permanently belongs to Billy Katagiri.

Soma Peries is the only enemy ace in Gundam 00 who has any semblance of a functioning brain.

[genekidesu]

[lectraart]

The chit-chat that they didn't give us on screen

They deserve to be happy and have communication too, love both of them, they're my fav characters in g-witch!

[stealingpotatoes]

Ezra would be the type of person to call Grogu "Baby Yoda".

luke's been singlehandedly fixing the old Jedi-Mandalorian feud, and Ezra's been singlehandedly reigniting it

[cerebrobullet]

anyway its 12 am but i had to make this before being allowed to sleep

[notwhelmedyet]

having spoilery thoughts about The Archive Undying in the context of that post that someday the queer couple that says "let's fuck it all and run away together!" should actually do it:

Sunai and Veyadi don't actually run away but I do think that's what emotionally/ethically happened in the last quarter or so of the book?

Sunai's initial motivation was to prevent the totalitarian state from getting to keep an enforcer mecha to oppress his home city. Made perfect sense. Despite the emotional upheavals and betrayals and murders, that kept being true pretty much up until the Maw eats him. We learn that the Passenger trying to help him do this is the same entity that has caused Corruption aka the deaths of AIs who became tyrants.

And there's a whole ethical quandary there bc the AIs who died were tyrants and Iterate Fractal ate people and there should be some force that can stop even gods. But also the Passenger killed these AI in ways that led to the deaths of millions of people and left their corpses as weapons that could be used by the Harbor and left their remnants as hungry scavengers who kill people.

And so as various characters align with/against the Passenger I am just lost on how I should feel. It's cause is noble in abstract! It's methods cause great suffering! It's unclear why the Passenger cares about killing the Maw at this point given that it is no longer controlling a large group of people. Perhaps it is just that Sunai asks and Veyadi asks and Ruhi asks and the Passenger always answers when people ask because that is it's purpose.

And then Sunai is one with the Maw, who is a remnant of Iterate Fractal and that larger plot goes out the window. His friends want to separate them or mercy kill him or kill the Maw with him as collateral damage. He can't be separated from the Maw, who had always wanted him as their conscience and thus horribly abused him his whole life. Veyadi, on realizing that they can't be separated decides he wants to protect Sunai more than he wants to kill the Maw. They fight the Passenger and Ruhi, who remains laser fixated on the larger cause.

And that's the point where the pair of them decide to leave and they leave. Sure, the Passenger might be the only force capable of protecting humans from tyrant AIs. But they no longer care about that compared to the fight to live and get to be together. They imprison it and Ruhi (and, if I understand correctly, entomb Ruhi alive in eternal torment??) to prevent it from ever trying to kill them again. They survive together. The End.

And, well. The gays sure did run away from their problems together for once! but boy howdy was I unsure of how to feel about that final arc.