#i mean hell

[squalchinglobotomy]

Doodle I very much like heheh

Carmen protects her man until the day they die

[etz-ashashiyot]

And by the way, if I sound exceptionally harsh about leftists, it's because I am leftist or at least left-leaning. I hate labeling my politics because I'd rather just explain what I mean than get mired in defending any particular label, but for all intents and purposes I am on the left and I rail against leftist antisemitism because I'm a progressive Jew who refuses to let progressive politics cut us out of movements that we are part of and should be protected by.

[marimeeko]

No but for real, I'm gonna put out there that as a BKDK I DO love the first couple of seasons of MHA and all the stupid shit they go through, and all the petty misunderstandings they have.

Like a majority of it is obviously from Izuku's pov and he's slowly learning why Kacchan has such a stick up his ass about him and then responding to that like

I can apply to UA if I want, and you can't stop me.

What do you mean you'd rather lose than win with me, you're being STUPID Kacchan, this is not you!! (and punches him in the face)

What do you mean I look down on you, Kacchan, you IDIOT you're my image of victory!! (and also punches him in the face)

Like I love post-understanding, soft BKDK hours as much as everyone but the fact that they came from all that misunderstanding and emotional constipation and how fucking confused it made Izuku to hear Kacchan rejecting him, rejecting VICTORY itself just because he had to team up with Izuku and how Izuku called him out like "STOP THAT, KACCHAN," every time, is hilarious.

Their early relationship at UA was so interesting to me bc yeah Izuku's shy and has been bullied but he's not about to continue taking that shit, and knows that Kacchan is better than this.

[jstodd]

i havent shared my thoughts on this yet, this being what appears to be the conclusion to the gotham arc, but the issue with inconsistent writing is inconsistent characterization.

jason just got mind fucked by bruce, actively murdered, and revived and he is choosing to let it go. now, if we ever explored jason's bone deep desire for love, connection, and family this decision wouldn't be unexpected, but we dont, so it's an empty display of family. another time bruce does some egregious shit, attached to a non applogy, and everyone just moves on.

dick spent a good chunk of gotham war angry on his siblings behalf, fully expecting jason to be angry not just with him, but for himself. and, again, it would make perfect sense if they acted like legitimate siblings, of jason was REALLY dick's little brother, but they're not. when jason first came back with nothing but anger and revenge on his mind dick believed his anger was unjustifiable, if dick were asked if jason had a point, he would say no. so we've got dick whose in a position to argue with bruce and wont cuz....reasons??? but also wouldn't make sense if he did argue with bruce so, again, tf was the point.

so we've got dick angry on jason's behalf when he has never been characterized to empathize with and for jason. and we've got jason agreeing to let bygones be bygones without any kind of acknowledgment of bruce's abuse.

gotham war has been terrible from beginning to end because EVERYONE was sacrificed for bruce, not an ounce of development for a character who wasnt him, which would be fine it is a BATMAN comic, but then there was no development for bruce whatsoever, so i have to know, what was the point, the purpose, the reason to read any of this shit?

[crossdressingdeath]

Sometimes I remember that if you play Surana or Amell in Origins the origin (hehe) of the conflict that ultimately leads to the death of the Archdemon is... the First Enchanter of one of the most "liberally run" Circles in southern Thedas leaving out a bunch of books on blood magic with the explicit hope that young apprentices will pick them up and become blood mages so that they can be handed over to the Templars as maleficars. With your best friend falling for this trick explicitly because he's terrified that the Circle is going to magically lobotomize him against his will just because he's not particularly good at magic so he feels his only hope is to run away whatever the cost. That's the starting point for your character. And again, Kinloch Hold is supposed to be one of the most liberally run Circles. This is one of the good Circles. And then in Awakening we learn that Anders was kept in solitary confinement for a year just because he wanted to live outside the Circle, and you can comment that he's lucky they didn't just kill him outright. And I know I've said this twice already this post, but this is supposed to be a good Circle. This is nice. The mages at places like the Gallows would probably kill to be at Kinloch Hold. And your introduction to it is first you, a young adult (or possibly in your late teens; you are mentioned to be young for a Harrowing, and Harrowings generally seem to be done when the mage is quite young to begin with), being thrown to demons without warning as a standard test, and then when you wake up you learn that your best and possibly only friend is likely to be magically lobotomized for not being great at magic unless you help him escape. And between those things and during the latter you'll hear about fun things like apprentices disappearing into thin air (with no one questioning it because it's that normal) and the Templars watching the female apprentices bathe! And when you return it's to find out that when things went tits up the Templars, who are supposedly there for your protection, locked every surviving mage in Kinloch Hold in the demon infested part of the tower and are waiting for permission to murder everyone inside down to the youngest child. Ten bucks says that the Templars also in there would've been allowed to live.

I think it hits a lot harder just because you don't learn that Kinloch Hold is considered a liberal Circle until after it leaves the series, apparently for good, with the Templars planning to hang out outside the door until they get legal cover for murdering everyone inside. Like, you see all that and then after that you learn that that? That was the best a Circle mage could hope for. Just a few life-threatening tests you're not allowed to prepare for. Just a bit of entrapment by the person who's supposed to stand between you and the Templars. Only rumours that the Templars will watch you while you bathe rather than confirmed fact. And only a small chance that they'll murder you the moment they're given the opportunity. That's a good life for a Circle mage.

And then in DAI they genuinely expected us to buy that actually the Circles weren't that bad and the Circle mages are just so whiny for not knowing how to survive outside the cage they've been trapped in their whole lives and also wanting to kill a lot of their jailors. It's like the writers forgot that we've seen that even the best the Circles offered was still absolutely fucking horrific. And that that was a lot of players' first introduction to the series.

[askmoriarty]

Hey, Moriarty. I know your affinity for animals but what about non-fur babies? I assume you have a big family in Ireland.

Big? No. After me, they stopped. I was a bit of a handful~ But I do have two brothers. One is a Colonel and one is a stationmaster. Horribly BORING!

[ellynneversweet]

Speaking of the Clayr in the era before the breaking of the Great Stones, I desperately want to know what, if anything, they saw.

Because they must have seen something but the future was obscured enough that they didn’t see exactly what it was, and Torrigan/Touchstone and Rogir/Kerrigor look so alike, and one is a berserk and one has an affinity for free magic (which quite likely means he is also a berserk) so…which one. One might go bad.

[theliterarywolf]

On a positive note, though...

While it is currently being debated on whether or not Nimona the film is a good adaptation of Nimona the comic, the fact that Amazon officially sold out of physical copies of the comic after the movie came out shows that the movie excelled at one of the core duties of any decent film/TV adaptation:

Encouraging people to look into the original media the adaptation is based off of.

Edit: I have been informed that a similar phenom happened when the first season of Heartstopper premiered.

So we have two adaptation examples for 'understanding the assignment'.