#crim-bat

[dangerousbride]

Rukia a pixar mom? Cuz damn

LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO well, she truly puts us in the mood for peaches 😏

[secretlystephaniebrown]

You eat the cake batter even tho the instructions on the back say not to

listen, licking the spoon is mandatory

Leave assumptions you have about me based on my blog content in my inbox and I’ll tell you if you’re right or not!  

[seriousfic]

Hey! 27 year old guy here! I read on that post that the Twilight books sucked. Never bothered with them so i don't understand. Can you explain?

Nothing much to it. Poor technical writing/plotting coupled with a lackluster concept and worldbuilding (What if vampires... but they sparkled?). Also some pearl-clutching over the books’ feminist message or lack thereof, and its depiction of a healthy relationship--though since everything these days from She-Hulk not looking like a freakish monster on down gets called problematic, your mileage may vary. 

It hit enough of a chord with young readers who were happy to see any book that wasn’t the thousand-year-old literature they get in English class that it became a hit, then through sheer luck managed to have the good timing to be swept into national prominence. Probably helping somewhat was that it had messaging against premarital sex and was aimed at teen readers, so you can imagine how happy certain parties were to promote it in our then relatively nascent culture wars.

Greedy movie producers proceeded to make not only a movie, but a whole series quickly and cheaply enough to take advantage of its moment in the spotlight (even splitting the last book into two movies in a transparent cash-grab), wasting the time of genuinely talented people both in front of and behind the camera. Resentment over its insipidness and prominence over more deserving works resulted in a cottage industry of people making fun of it, including not one but two ‘Epic Movie’ type parodies--and, admittedly, featuring some men decrying the books’ misogyny who wouldn’t care a whit about sexism under other circumstances but wanted to score points--basically being so obnoxious about it that there was something of a backlash to the backlash, and now in some quarters Twilight is remembered more or less fondly as a guilty pleasure and/or teen friend group bonding experience, if not an unjustly maligned feminist treasure. (I worked in a movie theater when the movie came out. You had girls showing up for midnight showings in pajamas like it was a sleepover. Wild.) 

Nowadays, it’s fading into obscurity, but it’s good to remember as proof that women don’t naturally have more discerning taste or innate talent than guys. In a stab at relevance, I think the writer did a new book that swapped the genders, resulting in some legitimate femslash shipping with debatable levels of self-awareness, so that’s where we are now. It’s a joke, but one that people are capable of at least ironically enjoying.

It also arguably took shipping mainstream, with Taco Bell commercials about being Team Edward or Team Jacob, and fiction has been ruined ever since (c.f. 50 Shades of Grey).

Tl;dr a series of trashy romance novels somehow ended up as a legit cultural phenomenon and no one knows why.

[filibusterfrog]

Do you have a name for your Tiefimar babes? Nephilim or something?

i mean i would but tiefsimar is so stupid i have to keep it

[copyplays]

Theory: Bastila was Atris's padawan. Reason: similar hair styles, personalities, especially bad issues w attachment

HahaI think at one point the Exile points out she never had a padawanBut also the concept is cute so here

[goodluckdetective]

favorite stupid comic retcon. Like that aren't so much offensive as they just didn't need to be there. Like what was the point of this? WHY

oH MY GOD THERE’S SO MANY

But like giving robin pants. I don’t know. It makes sense but also HOW CAN WE TELL WHO IS WHO NOW IN FLASHBACKS. 

[incorrect-kotor-quotes]

Question: Bastilla Shan. Is she more FF7 machinabridged Barret, Tifa, or Aerith do you think?

Bastila is just regular Tifa because she knew damn well what was going on with the protagonist’s memory issues and didn’t say a damn thing until the situation forced her to.

[justshepardthings]

Half Life 3?

never played | want to play | terrible | boring | okay | good | great | a favorite

My future self is writing this, from the year 2084. I’m close to death but this game was finally released by the AI consciousness N.E.W.E.L.L.