#glompcat

[isagrimorie]

re: Giles and Anya, amusingly in the Boom comics they really pushed that pairing, and iirc heavily implied they had history together? (It has been a bit since my last read of those comics so I could be remembering wrong) In The Universe Without Shrimp (aka the 2019 Boom! comicsverse) Anya had a past stint as a Watcher so Giles was constantly coming to her for advice etc, and he was her main connection to the Scoobies (well that and Anyanka was determined to destroy the council in revenge for all the girls they hurt - especially her own slayer who the council killed centuries ago for being "too old" when she was 22)

Wow. It's like Boom comics are slowly making their way to my low-key ships. First Buffy/Cordy and now Giles/Anya???

The biggest question now is... Buffy/Faith gonna happen? I'll be on the look out for that!

[missywhomst]

glompcat replied to your post “y’all out here writing the doctor having all kinds of kinky sex when...”

I wouldn't be suprised if they considered holding hands to be super racy on Gallifrey, so from a certain point of view the Doctor would be quite the kinkster. I they even HUG people! That's some super scandalous Renegade behavior right there!

this would make everything so much funnier and more interesting lmaoo. i’m just imagining all those times ten got kissed and him doing a smug victory wave to all his previous faces as they pat him on the back like yes live up to your renegade status, matchstick man! this is what we left gallifrey for (basic intimacy)! or eleven when river kisses him at stormcage being so caught off guard and overstimulated like yes this is what i signed up for but at what cost. i mean really any time eleven has a vaguely intimate moment with river it’s like get this man some aftercare

[whifferdills]

( @glompcat​ bc idk if tagging someone even works lmao tumblr. had to turn off the beta just to get the screencaps to upload bc it kept asking me to ‘tap to retry’ on desktop. a website! )

fair point? but my main take is still that the logo is shown too prominently and too often for any of the narrative to be damning. and, frankly, the implication that Amazon is bad because it doesn’t provide a company town is deeply unsettling considering how invested they are in creating self-sufficient satellite headquarters and the whole Swag Bucks thing. the way Nomadland interacted with Empire as a place and concept, that like Pompeii hush in the final scene...idk maybe the soundtrack had finally gotten too much to me lol but it made me roll my eyes.

like...not engaging with whether subscribing to a service or paying for a one-time ticket is a more ethical form of consumption, but i do feel like a lot of what let Minari get away with being a little rougher around the edges, given the similar level of cushioning sentimentality as Nomadland, is that it’s a period piece. creators do what they have to in order to secure funding and distrobution and Zhao does a lot more than most, it just lands in an imo uneasy Easy Rider sort of space, where it wants to be about America Land Of The Free, Home Of The Weirdo Loner more than it wants to pass judgment. which is fine! except it tries to like half-ass it and that’s where i’m *sad trombone noise*

[zareleonis]

@glompcat replied to your post “just remembered that banter in trespasser if the inquisitor married sera”

Very very glad I did not already know this, mainly because in my worldstate Leliana is Devine and she explicitly changed every single rule just so she could marry f!Warden. The things I was protected from.

yeah it really sucks :( this is the banter in question if you really want to know. i was looking at people’s opinions on it and i saw some people thinking it was maybe a class thing but i can’t see any other interpretation, especially since she only says it if she’s in charge of the chantry. dragon age is kinda all over the place with whether gay relationships are accepted, but thankfully never really had religiously motivated homophobia that’s so prevalent in the real world. so it sucks to see something imply otherwise. especially since divine justinia was heavily implied to be gay or bi in leliana’s song long before leliana herself was getting gay married as the pope LOL

and it’s weird coming from vivienne too! yeah, she can sometimes be overly mean and doesn’t like sera much, but she’s also vocally supportive of dorian’s relationship with the inquisitor despite their substantial personal differences. so why? what’s the point?? of all the jabs she could direct at sera why that?

[jod13whittaker]

9, 14, 25, 36, 45, 60, 61, 76, 84, 94 However many you are comfy doing, please don't feel pressure to do them all unless you want to!

Quiz here

9: Who introduced you to DW? Nobody in particular. I grew up watching it on public television, both Maryland & DC aired it for a long time. I actually checked BroaDWCast once, because I have an extremely clear memory of seeing some curly haired dude fall from a height & turn into a blond guy, so I even know what story, time & year (Logopolis, on I think a Sunday afternoon in 1986). Completely random & then I just kept watching it when it was on late Saturday nights.

14: Best regeneration: the salty answer is 10 into 11 & 12 into 13 because I was so fucking tired of these dudes after their last few stories. The actual answer is probably 2 into 3: extremely dramatic and fucked up. 11′s into 12′s was actually really nice too, for both actors--I liked Smith’s final moments, and then 12′s loneliness in that first episode was kind of exquisite.

25: Underrated companion: apparently people didn’t like Bill as much? Or they liked N*rdole more, which...ok sure. Turlough is also kind of criminally underrated, as is Martha. Bill suffered from the fact that they completely shoved her aside in the second half of s10 & really brutalized her without giving her much room to react so she was underused by the show, imo, which doesn’t help things. Edit: Ryan is also extremely underrated. When people say he has no plot or arc, I wonder what show they’re watching.

36: Episodes that will always make me smile: Two Doctors, Knock Knock, Time Heist, City of Death (the whole story is so much fun).

76: the monster with the best design is the Special Weapons Dalek. It looks like it shoves the other daleks into lockers & steals their lunch money

84: Companion I’d most like to travel with is probably Martha, because she’s a doctor & also like, hypercompetent & generally a very good person?

94: One unanswered DW question: How long is Kate’s prison sentence for trying to do a mass murder? I’m not sure I have any questions about the supposed canon, maybe I’d like to know how Romana & some of the others escaped but that’s it (and tbh I’m sure that’s even in some extended material but I don’t really do BF).

[jedi-order-apologist]

@glompcat replied to your post “@yiliy replied to your post “I think people often misunderstand the...”

Snap Wexley was a sixteen year old who through the kinds of wacky happenstances that happen when you are a protagonist in a Star Wars book wound up piloting a X-Wing during the battle of Jakku, and technically he was part of a group officially employed by the New Republic to carry out missions (his mom was the leader of the group and was basically that trilogy's main character). In that series there was also a group made up of the children of Coruscant who took to the streets and assisted the New Republic when liberating the planet. They were known as the The Anklebiter Brigade. It was very much a ‘war has come to people’s homes and they are taking to the streets and making a stand’ type thing, but I suppose people can argue that those children were treated as combatants during that phase of the Galactic Civil War?                            Oh gosh and I almost forgot, Ezra Bridger was fourteen and Sabine Wren was sixteen when Rebels began and Leia was sixteen when she joined the Rebellion and Amilyn was at most a year younger than Leia at the time and they basically joined it together. Those are really the youngest examples that come to mind for me? Of course I am not fully up to date on the canon eu so I may be missing more examples of children joining the Rebel Alliance to Restore the Republic                            

Is 16 even considered a child within the Star Wars universe?

And Ezra’s definitely another case of “let’s give kids someone to follow along on the adventure with”, just as Ahsoka was. Which is not a bad thing! There’s a reason this concept is so prevalent, it’s good that kids have someone to connect to the story through.

I could see that Anklebiter thing maybe being what anon was referring to, though from the sounds of it they couldn’t really be called soldiers.

[elle-lavender]

Twelve Kingdoms

The first character I first fell in love with: Youko

 The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: Again, Youko had such amazing development! Please watch/read The Twelve Kingdoms!

 The character everyone else loves that I don’t: I don’t know. 

 The character I love that everyone else hates: I loved Youko from the start, even though some found her annoying. Also Sugimoto. 

 The character I used to love but don’t any longer: No one. 

The character I would totally smooch: Risai

 The character I’d want to be like: Youko

 The character I’d slap: The corrupt officials in Kei

 A pairing that I love: Youko/Rakushun 

A pairing that I despise: Youko/Keiki

[lemedy]

glompcat replied to your post: Part of me is a little wary of talking The Good...

On one hand, I know you are probably right here, but on the other I would really like to read your thoughts on The Good Place as you watch it.

I'm happy to share that I'm two episodes in and very much enjoying it so far. Kristen Bell and Ted Danson are always good times and spot-on perfect casting and I'm in love with both Chidi and Tahani.

Those two eps in and I'm ????? as the story's going to go. Like, clearly the main plot is 'will Eleanor be discovered and sent to The Bad Place', but also it's already pretty apparent that The Good Place isn't quite right. Not just because Eleanor's flawed ass showed up and started accidentally burning it to the ground, but also like the 'soulmate matches' are clearly actually terrible (someone please help Tahani's soulmate HE IS CLEARLY SUFFERING), and Michael is obviously fucking terrible at his job.

THERE ARE CRACKS, I AM SAYING, and I'm hooked to see where it all falls apart.