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Homestuck is weird bc if you just read the plot synopsis on Wikipedia, it’s overly complicated and makes no sense. But if you read Homestuck from the beginning, it boils you like a frog. You don't even really notice how increasingly convoluted the plot is getting. Several Acts in and youre saying shit like “The doomed-timeline Dave that post-retcon Jade dated is a different version of the Dave that fused with an alien catgirl” like it's the most reasonable thing in the world

things i am learning now that i’m finally actually watching avatar the last air bender part one:

1) not everyone is a bender 2) it does appear to be inherent to some extent, because katara seems to be partially self-taught 3) however, there is a learning element, because you can improve on your skills and the avatar has to learn how to master all four elements where i thought aang just had inherent skill 4) the element of the bender seems to always match the element of the tribe they’re in, which makes sense if they are taught by their tribe but raises some questions if it’s inherent. is bending ability passed genetically? what happens if two benders of different elements have a kid? i can’t google this because i don’t want anymore spoilers than i already have 5) uncle iroh is prince zuko’s uncle?????????? i thought he was like an earth bender who owned a tea shop this entire fucking time how did i go into this series knowing almost everything but THAT

i honestly thought it was an honorary title like he’s a nice old man who helps out all the kids so he just has them call him uncle

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Anonymous asked:

there's 91 Washingtons in the United States

That more than there are Springfields, it's an epidemic

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he's our special little guy. we love to name things for our special little guy

Are you implying that the pioneers were autistic about George Washington and he was their Blorbo?

Excuse you?! Implying?! Trainboy I'm outright stating it as fact.

And how would you know, you weren't a Pioneer

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How we know: there are 91 towns or cities named Washington in this country with 50 states. That's an average of 1.82 Washingtons per state.

And we're not even talking about the streets, parks, mountains, lakes, neighborhoods, forests etc!

Verdict: Blorbo

Okay but like nobody is naming town's after castiel supernatural and he is a blorbo for modern autistics

Do you truly believe anyone on Tumblr holds a high enough position in local office

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codywan au where sith!obi-wan gets sucked into the canonverse through some extra-dimensional force bullshit

cody and obi-wan are stuck in a desperate, barely-restrained "we must put duty first, we must wait until after the war" cycle of mutual pining— but cody is the one who first finds sithywan and sithywan is immediately an absolute menace of a flirt, who lets himself get “captured” by the gorgeous commander he’d like to get to know better

cody has no idea how to deal with this. meanwhile obi-wan, mr “flirting with the enemy is a perfectly valid battle strategy” now has to watch that exact scenario play out but from an outsider’s perspective, specifically with an evil alternate-reality version of himself, and he thinks he’s going to lose his fucking mind

STAR WARS APPRECIATION WEEK 2023 MAY 25: FAVOURITE MOVIE ▸ EPISODE III - REVENGE OF THE SITH (2005) + trivia

In the original screenplay, when Anakin joins the Dark Side, he is no longer referred to as “Anakin”, only as “Vader”.

i let the furby skins soak in fabric softener after i washed them and my sis found them and sent me:

and i have never laughed so hard x’D

never do i ever want to hear the words “furby skins” uttered ever again

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You never peeled a furby?

WAIT I just realized the entire demon world probably thinks Liu Qingge is courting Luo Binghe,,,,,, he shows up at his front door Every Day for like 5 years to have huge epic battles and then at the end of every fight LBH carefully deposits him back on his little mountain to get healed up for the next one lmao

I want Mobei Jun to be so confused about why Binghe married Shen Qingqiu and NOT Liu Qingge

Because he can respect the history with Shen Qingqiu and can get on board with Binghe marrying him even if he doesn't get it but there is a perfectly good second husband right there! You've been courting for YEARS!

I don't understand! You don't court so publicly like that if he's just a casual fuck!

Ohhh wait

Mobei Jun getting mad about it! Because he's thinking of how Shang Qinghua toyed with his feelings

Like he sees them trading barbs at some point and he's like "I've had enough! With all due respect Junshang, stop toying with the man and wed him properly! You shouldn't get his hopes up and then not properly accept his hand! You shame him and yourself!"

And Binghe and Liu Qingge and are just:

Shen Qingqiu's internal identity is making me feral

He's caught in Luo Binghe's dream and I'm assuming that reverts him into his true self or how he sees himself internally which is why he appears as Shen Qingqiu

Every fanfic that has Shen Yuan being revealed in his dreams is wrong

Shen Qingqiu is Shen Qingqiu first and foremost

The wholesale rejection of his past self is so deep and ingrained that if someone went searching for his "real" identity the most they'd get is his web ID

Like that is ...familiar and like honestly same hat in a lot of respects but also! People who are mentally stable don't do that!

I know you said your last life was idyllic and trouble free Shen Qingqiu but forgive me for not believing a damn thing your lying ass has to say!

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The fact that Shen Yuan felt so alienated in his previous life that he doesn't even identify with it anymore isn't all that surprising!

There were all these studies made about what amount of money actually makes people happy, and the conclusion was that people are generally happy if they have enough money for financial security, but still have goals and things to strive and work towards. People who have so much money that all their conceivable needs and desires are automatically met were, paradoxically, much more miserable.

So the fact that Shen Yuan was a fuerdai who had no ambitions, no goals, and no real struggles other than spewing the occasional vitriolic rant against poor writing paints a fairly bleak image of his previous life. Maybe he was physically comfortable, but man, what a barren existence that must have been.

The fact that he was thrust into a situation where he 1. had to work and struggle against a threat to his life and 2. was given responsibilities and work that he had to keep up with on a daily basis were both things that likely provided more enrichment than anything from his previous life. He really came alive as Shen Qingqiu.

@azzandra you've touched on something here that very few people speak about and it's the fact that, surprisingly, svsss is a self-fulfilling isekai/transmigration story but not for the reasons most people think. it's not because the cool cultivation stuff or the monsters or the romance, though that matters too; it's because as you said, he came alive as sqq. he gained a purpose, he became someone that fought for his family and his loved ones, a teacher loved by all his disciples, etc etc and that was something he couldn't have in his first life. He was even able to get out of the closet and have a happily gay ever after.

You're both so right Whenever he talks about his old life he only describes himself as a "worthless pretty boy" and I find that so telling

But when he's first asked his name as Plant Shen he almost says:

"Ha, ha, this humble one is the untalented Qing Jing Peak Lord of Cang Qiong Mountain, the Xiu Ya Sword, Shen Qingqiu of the Central Plains"

SVSSS Vol 2 p 178

He takes such joy and pride in being Shen Qingqiu and it's such a contrast

Like he enjoys being Plant Shen but he also doesn't want to be him. Not really

God hes so very character isn't he?