Anonymous asked:
Some people have been reading Pale and say the most recent chapter was homophobic. I don't agree, but there has been some discussion of that one bit.
i mean i kinda see it but eh
how the hell does Blake have more votes than Avery or Verona, he’d probably trip and lose like seriously i get the those two aren’t direct combatants but neither are push overs and both are good in chaos like a huge 7 way brawl, Avery does her flanking taking out anyone at the edges not paying attention and Verona just runs around throwing potions and being a nuisance
No one reads Pale which makes me so sad cause there’s so much cool shit in there and this latest chapter has so much smart people could examine to the point that even i can but no one would listen or understand any of it
i think in terms of agony, finishing pact and then finding out that no one is extensively redrawing or animaticing fun horror bits will be fairly bad
@glowspider has stuff
one thing wildbow wont tell you about blake and rose is theyre the same height shes not even shorter than him. she is also six feet and rectangular and could punch someone hard enough to severely disorientate them. and both of their hair is like 16 inches long. the only difference is rose doesn't put it in a french braid and also she has tits and also she's not as piteous.
Rose is piteous she’s just confident enough and an asshole enough so you don’t realize
Fellow ADHDers, how do you stay adequately hydrated?
eat ice
i like the crunch so i eat a lot of it
You’re all probably wondering why I’ve gathered you all here…
It has come to my attention that I have too many apprentices (followers). The doors have been locked, all your magic has been sealed, and there is only one way out.
In order to leave, you must kill at least one other person here. You might be wondering “how? You just said we can’t use magic.” Well, fist fight. There’s also some weapons scattered around this enormous room.
Have fun!
Fortuna my beloved... she's such a compelling character I wish we had more of her. She was like 8 when she killed a god and learned the world was going to end. 8 years old when she got the power to do anything she wants, except it's never enough to solve the one problem she cares about. 8 years old when she left behind everything she knew for a battle that seemed completely hopeless, and in the end she hardly mattered despite all the parts of herself she threw away for the cause. Some (bad) fics portray her as a complete dumbass, someone who can't even walk without her power, and frankly I want to throw rocks at them because no! That's not her! She's still a person without her power, but I don't think she knows who that person is. It's something we see so often through worm, a character spends so much time with the mask on that they hardly exist when it's off, and using her power is the mask for her. She doesn't know what she would enjoy for recreation, what music she'd like, she doesn't know what it's like to have a friend that she talks to with the mask off because the mask is glued to her face by this point, and it's heartbreaking. After Scion dies, she's left to realize that she doesn't need her mask anymore, but there's barely anything left underneath. She's done so much horrible shit and stopped caring about herself or others in the name of the goal she set to save the world, and now when she tries to figure out who she is there's nothing of Fortuna left, only Contessa.
And all of this lines up with Taylor, they're so so similar in every way, which is what makes the final conversation in 30.7 so heartbreaking. Fortuna wants to know if it was worth it, if there's anything left of Taylor in there, because she's wondering the same questions about herself and desperately wants answers. Because what do you do when all your life was for nothing? When you've thrown away your humanity to be a speck in the grand scheme of things? How do you move on and find yourself without letting the guilt tear you apart once you let yourself feel something again?
its sooo particularly Augh Ouch that at the end. taylor believes there is nothing left for her and no way to live. and contessa still chooses hope for herself And taylor even though the person she's looking to for answers has none. she gives taylor a chance taylor doesn't believe she can have. like the first choice she makes without using her power after all these years is to believe that something better Is possible. even after all these years she still decides to believe in the same thing fortuna did long ago: that maybe, just maybe, they can all do the impossible and keep on living. clenches fist. Contessa.....
Now i’m not smart but i think there’s definitely also something to be said about Doctor Mother and her relationship with Fortuna
as you said an 8 year old killed god, is completely separate from her family and life has one connection whose first thought is, we need to kill god
Doctor Mother was her one guiding light her one connection and all the sudden she’s just gone, the woman who more or less instructed Fortunas every action just dead
now as i said i’m not smart but i’m sure there’s something here
Very confused by sting interlude 3; don’t really get what happened
okay here's the answers to yr questions, let me know if anything doesn't fully clarify
there’s something else that’s really interesting about Scion that’s revealed in this chapter though
and that is that Scions an asshole
now that feels obvious with him blowing up Britain but specifically because of how Jack convinces Scion to start killing he tells him to do what his ancestors did which for Entities is the exact opposite of what they’re trying to do
the whole point of Entities is to stop entropy since they realized the old way of just fighting an consuming was going to cause them to die out and yet Scion decides to revert to the old ways and kill everything and there by ruining the Simulation and stopping any progress on the entropy problem which is the exact opposite of what Entities want to do
this means to other Entities specifically Scions a huge self important asshole
I love r/parahumans so much. "let's get something straight jack slash is NOT that clever" WE KNOW. let's get something straight the sky IS blue circles ARE round. are we going to learn our ABCs next
I think powers might be some sort of metaphor for trauma and how it changes people... controversial take, I know.
Let's get this straight: Taylor is an unreliable narrator and not everything she says about people is true one hundred percent of the time. Let's get this straight: Sometimes she's wrong or lacks relevant information. Let's get this straight: Sometimes she lets her biases lead her.
these rbs made me feel such unending despair because i have literally seen r/parahumans posts being like "HOT TAKE: [insert the above here]" completely unironically before. you cant even satirize it its really that bad. "powers represent trauma" is genuinely a stance they rediscover once a year over there
to be fair a lot of it is new user who just finished Worm wanting to express their thoughts or having just made a realization and wanting to say it which I’d say is actually nice if a bit stupid
Most people ask me: “How the fuck did you graduate from Wizard School?”
I didn’t. I got kicked out 2 weeks in for permanently petrifying a classroom with an arcane machine I made.
Artificer school would have loved you
I never believed in artificer school. I learned all my artificing from experience and experiments.
Artificer school would have loved you
I know it’s not hard to point out reactionaries hypocrisy when it comes to like safe spaces or hug boxes or whatever but genuinely how much of an echo chamber do you have to exist in for you to think this is a reasonable thing to say
mormonfries
reblog if attacking fascism is really the hill you want to die on
this is literally like one of the most justified and honorable hills you could die on??? lol??
Quick someone reply with the gif™️
Always reblog this if you are cool
“Is attacking fascism really the hill you want to die on?”
is yes, absolutely, a statement that should be mocked
but in case it wasn’t absolutely fucking clear to you, person reading this:
If I don’t stand on the hill against Nazi’s, if I don’t try to fucking stop them in the ways I can, little and big, and yes, possibly die in the process: They will kill me anyway. Their philosophy does not allow for my survival.
So yes, I will fucking stand on this hill, and if you think it’s not worth it - congrats, anon, you too are a Nazi.
In another universe, Emma is saved by Glory Girl instead of Shadow Stalker…
Discuss.
I mean in some of fan fictions due to both their parents being rich lawyers they’re already friends or in contact which i think is a fair interpretation so i could totally see it making them closer friends or bridging the gap to make them become friends or something along those lines
I could see it going two ways depending on how earlier it is in Victorias career if it’s earlier she might really care and get really close in which case Emma could be a good support and someone who actually will argue back and might help keep Victoria from doing the same violence she did in the original timeline
or two if it happens it’s not very special for Vic and she moves on and Emma stays terrified before maybe binding and becoming even closer with Taylor
also in either case Sophia might be punished a bit more without the really good lawyer of Emma’s dad and probably would be a bit more of a loner
The real reason you couldn’t make Airplane! today is that it’s a parody of a type of movie that doesn’t exist anymore in part because Airplane! made fun of it so hard
The 70s-style disaster film was already dying but Airplane becoming, by far, more known, more watched, and more liked than any real example of the genre even though it was the most popular type of movie right up until Star Wars is one of the most magnificent examples of Weird Al-ing something
The jester mocking the court advisor so deftly, the curse on the king breaks because His Majesty realizes that guy does suck.
To quote Daniel Craig: “We had to destroy the myth because Mike Myers fucked us.”
One unbelievable fact I learned looking for that quote: the Austin Powers sequels outgrossed both of the last two Pierce Brosnan James Bond movies.
Man those Brosnan Bond movies are such a weird transitional moment in pop culture. People tend to analyze that by going “well the Brosnan Bond films were Bond trying to figure things out after the Cold War ended, Craig is post-9/11 Bond” when the actual dividing line is the start of the Austin Powers Era of History
The best satire self destructs.
Satire that lasts 50 years and still elicits “OMG so true"s ain’t worth SHIT to me. If it’s still true after that long, it’s just snark with no bite. Real satire is a knife (or sometimes a scalpel) that dispatches the target of its criticism and in so doing makes itself irrelevant (if not incomprehensible). It’s Jon Stewart getting Crossfire cancelled, it’s Tina Fey impersonating Sarah Palin so seamlessly that her ticket was unelectable, it’s Duchamp mocking the art scene so hard he irrevocably changed its course.
If satire is still relevant long after its creation, it has failed at its mission. It might be funny, it might be good comedy, but it’s not good satire.
A lot of satire is of its time and one of the better signs of that is how many satirical works just. Outlast what they were parodying and no one knows they’re a parody anymore
Obviously that describes 90% of Weird Al’s songs, but like, Lord of the Flies is a parody of a specific type of British adventure novel (and a specific novel, even) and it’s outlasted it so long that people bring up the satirical aspects of Lord of the Flies to criticize Lord of the Flies.
Don Quixote obliterated a film genre
Didn’t want to derail on a post about Sundancer, but this quote:
is also pretty notable from a Tattletale perspective. Despite the fact Sundancer hasn’t exactly gone out of her way to be empathetic to the Undersiders and that she stood by even when she found out about Dinah and might very well have stood by if the same thing happened to Tattletale herself, Tattletale is choosing to be kind and reassure her. It’s not entirely selfless— things are easier in Brockton Bay if all the Travelers leave — but there are crueler ways to get her to go.
There’s some parallels there, Sundancer going so far to save someone who’s already dead. A best friend she loves past the point of sense.
Also interesting to me— Sundancer is incredibly hypocritical about Taylor, being disgusted by her brutality in carving out eyes when Sundancer has definitely already killed people by that point and has stood by while worse things have happened. Sundancer ~doesn’t~ turn against Coil (from what I remember, though it’s been a while), even though she feels bad about Dinah. She’s willing to use Dinah and Tattletale’s knowledge if it means fixing Noelle. I almost want to draw comparisons to how Taylor is disgusted by Alec despite/because of their similarities. The biggest difference being that Alec is more upfront about being a bit of a bastard than Taylor is, and Taylor is more upfront about it than Marissa is.
I need to reread some more Traveler-Undersider scenes, but Coil is in most of them. Ugh.
Also, notably, Tattletale doesn’t contradict Sundancer when she says she’s different and it’s not home anymore. She just says they don’t need to know, implicitly with the authority of her power — whether or not she’s using it or not.
It’s okay that it’s not home. It’s okay you’re different. They don’t need to know. Nobody needs to know.
i think about this scene soooo much easily one of the most memorable worm moments to me. something abt sundancer just taking her costume and shoes off and walking barefoot across the smoldering ground where her power was used to the portal is. Soooo. so very. i don't even have any good analysis 2 add i'm just perpetually mentally struck by the image of the remaining travelers being these sad little teenagers permanently altered by the tragedy they've been hurtling into, the tragedy everyone else just watched unfold, and then just sort of quietly sadly leaving the ruins behind (the ruins tattletale saw coming but could never have stopped) & going back to what isn't home anymore while tattletale stands by and goes yeah. it's over. it's okay, you can leave it behind, go home. one of the more visceral "powers as a metaphor 4 shit sucking" moments to me almost? i think that's why it sticks in my head so much. like no one but sundancer could be standing on the sun-hot melted ground, but she walks across it barefoot. sort of like a quiet moment of settling into and accepting the wreckage of her life before finally being allowed to walk away from it. sundancer my girl. ah fuck lads i've derailed your tattletale post trying not to derail from sundancer to be about sundancer again
No, no, I got derailed about Tattletale posting to Sundancerposting again. She’s a really interesting character, like, she’s such a hypocrite but who could fucking blame her?
honestly this whole idea of home not home sounds like descriptions of veterans returning from World War 1
people who were way to young to reasonably do everything they were forced to shoved into a strange alien hellscape before just going home having to act like nothing happened
"i'd be a scythe" "i'd be a tonist" "i'd be a nimbus agent" well I'D like to point out that most of us are lying to ourselves. most of us would be ordinary people. i probably would be, but i don't want to imagine living forever like that because that's boring and tiring and it's hard to imagine the nanite-filled version of myself who lives that life contented by it. i want to be a scythe, but that disqualifies me from the job. but even if it didn't, i'd never want to be a scythe if that were an actual possibility because i would be a different person without the layers of fucked up that are happening in my brain chemistry. i can't even say i'd be a tonist and take my nanites out because nanite-d me wouldn't be thinking as hard as real me about who i am and whether the nanites are changing me fundamentally. so yeah. i'd be boring in the aoas universe. calling it now.
I mea. i totally agree that just about everyone would actually be normal but i’m pretty fine with that
I mean if you do get bored even with the nano tea while there isn’t a ton to do you can still do shit to spice up your life and make new entertainment
Long story short, I'm not allowed In the Supermarket anymore.
mario
why does this exist
what the fuck
just fucked an abstract concept
chuck tingle