karkat and sollux were basically best fucking friends with huge messy humiliating crushes on each other and i feel like somehow not enough people ever really got around to exploring the potential there even though it was one of the earliest and most obvious ships amongst the trolls
like. karkat, who already can’t separate his feelings for others into quadrants, is simultaneously envious of, worried about, and comfortable with sollux. he wants his friend to take better care of himself and wishes he would move closer so they could see each other more, but is also petty and rude and insulting in that way teenage boys so often are. he’s bitter that sollux is better at coding than he is, but also admires him for this fact, but also resents that such skill is wasted on a hot mess like sollux, but also wants the best for his good pal. meanwhile sollux teases the hell out of karkat because (1) he’s an insecure asshole to basically everyone and (2) he wants to push karkat to be better, which sollux knows he can be.
they know each other well enough that they are able to be at least kind of open with their genuine feelings, even if in a fairly roundabout way mixed with dark humor and deprecation of both themselves and one another. they’re basically always black flirting – sometimes as a joke, sometimes because they’re actually pissed at each other, and sometimes to cover the legitimate concern and affection they share. and no matter how vitriolic they get, they’re always reassured of their friendship because they’re just a couple of miserable, dorky 13-year-olds clinging to each other in the face of their uncertain but surely unpleasant fates at the hands of the harrowing world in which they live.
So I’ve watched a bunch of Very Good Videos today.
Lindsay Ellis has been doing an examination/critique of The Hobbit films and her team’s finally finished the last one:
They are Excellent(u_u), Perfec(u_u u_u), and Majestic(u_u u_u u_u).
Lastly, through a VERY Circuitous route which began with searching for obituaries for the late lamented Harry Anderson(Here is Markie Post. Here is John Larroquette. Here is an Obit By David Hill at The Ringer which I very much liked), is this talk on Consciousness by Dan Dennett(TED 2003; somewhat dated; don’t want to bother trying to embed it) that, incidentally, has some pretty fun perception games in it :>
god ok not to get all sappy and stuff but seriously, shiro values keith on a personal level that we don’t see with anyone else or between any other two characters (except zarkon and haggar lbr). like ulaz is the one who saved shiro’s life twice and i think shiro takes that kind of sacrifice really seriously. he guns for that alliance with the blade of marmora for the entire second season. he goes against allura and the rest of the team to fight for it.
…and then keith wants to keep his knife. that’s literally all it takes. anyone who says there’s a power imbalance between keith and shiro or that they don’t explicitly and unconditionally trust and love each other needs to rewatch this episode. shiro could easily order keith to give it up, downplay the knife’s importance, or at least argue that an alliance is more important than the knife, but he doesn’t. he literally takes one look at keith and calls it off entirely.
this is so funny omg, keith stans back at it again.
its just like, so funny when you ignore keith picking up fights with lance as well when he wasn’t even addressing him. like yes lance may have started it, but keith is just as guilty for continuing it (and again, even starting some fights himself). if keith was the “better person” or “the poor poor victim” he wouldn’t be reacting the way he does, so stop painting keith as some delicate flower, yall are disrespecting him.
Also I don’t even….. see the problem with half of these gifs like, in some of them lance is saying the hard truth and if keith stans cant handle it then too bad.
and all of these gifs are from like, s1 and s2 (except lance doubting keith being the BP). its not like we’re 5 seasons in with s6 about to drop out that had nothing of a development, not at all :O character growth? never heard of her
It’s 2018 and here we are, trying to put Keith’s behavior on
the same level as Lance’s.
You already derailed yourself when you said, “Lance may have
started it,” and there really is no way to come back from that. You cannot
compare someone’s defensive retorts to someone who genuinely means to attack
your character, you can’t expect Keith to have to put up with any of that and
not turn away from it and brush it off. Why are you expecting Keith to be the
better person when it’s Lance you should be telling this to? Be the better
person, you say? How about telling that to the person who has a serious issue
with you based on their own self-created notions toward someone they’ve never
met, have never talked to in their life, and is constantly using that as an excuse
to justify some of their harsh comments and unnecessary taunts to someone who
genuinely had no knowledge of that person existing? Expecting Keith to take all
of that and shrug it off when some of those comments are at a personal
level—calling someone a dropout, telling them that you’re in a better class
thanks to that person failing out? Telling someone that they’re power hungry
enough to use their dead best friend’s image when they’re obviously grieving
and hurting from it?
You’re gonna sit there and tell me that this is something
Keith fans need to hear? Reminding them that you’re constantly trying to
denigrate someone’s character in an effort to prove yourself better than them?
Trying to influence others to make them believe that Keith is an untrustworthy
and terrible person? You’re really defending someone who only has their own
best self-interest in mind and is trying to pin all the world’s wrongdoings on
another person because of their own need for glory, in Allura’s own words?
Why is it so hard for y’all to recognize that Lance and
Keith are not friends, and are, at the most, uneasy allies? Why is it so hard
for y’all to recognize that you don’t talk to someone like this, you don’t
remind your friends of their previous failings and shortcomings, you don’t tell
them that they’re untrustworthy and will make a mess of everything the moment
someone is thinking of choosing them over you? It’s not “hard truth,” it’s you
being a goddamn jealous bitter asshole who had no real investment on that
relationship. Lance’s grudging acceptance of Keith’s position because
circumstances have forced him to make this choice is not him wanting to support
Keith as the black paladin and leader, when Lance had been sitting in the black
lion for half an hour, hyping himself up to take the black lion, saying it was
his moments, it’s his ticket to fame and fortune?
Keith having egged Lance on pales to the amount of times
that Lance has deliberately tried to pick a fight with Keith, trying every
opportunity to inject how he’s better than Keith into moments that don’t call
for it. It’s Lance’s own insecurity and jealousy over the things that he wants
but sees Keith having that he’s upset about.
Yes, a lot of this is from S1 – S3, and there were scenes I
could have chosen from S4, still some from S1, but it seems as though so many
of these scenes have flown over your head cause all you’re seeing is someone
pointing out vicious and toxic behavior as someone trying to lander your fave.
The amount of people crying about this gifset are all trying to bring up
Keith’s behavior, are trying to derail and act as though Keith is the one at
fault for Lance’s constant attacks, for him existing is the reason why Lance is
that way and it’s not Lance’s fault. It’s also funny how Lance claims Keith to
be the hothead when it’s Lance who has the most emotional POV and reaction in
the show. Is that a bad thing? No, it gives insight about how Lance is feeling
and what he’s thinking. He’s the one who blows up at Keith, he’s the one who
tries to get into Shiro’s face and yell at Shiro about him choosing Keith, it’s
Lance who demands that he’s gonna save Shiro, it’s Lance who’s reacting to everything
with emotion.
Also, you can’t call Lance and Keith not interacting for two
whole seasons as character development. What’s the character development for if
there’s nothing happening for it to take place? Grudging acceptance is not the
same as accepting something out of freewill if the circumstance didn’t call for
it by force.
Again, I still keep coming back to you saying it’s Keith’s
fault for responding to someone who is trying to slander his character, someone
who spends their time together trying to make you look like an idiot and a
fool. It’s Lance who should have swallowed his pride, Keith shouldn’t be blamed
for trying to defend himself or getting upset because of Lance’s words.
Nice try to put the blame on Keith and not acknowledging
where the blame truly lies.
There’s only one Light of Creation, even if it’s collected multiple times. It’s called “the” Light of Creation, and the IPRE doesn’t end up with a cargo hold filled with incredibly powerful orbs of light. It’s always the same single piece of creation that slipped out of the creator’s hands fell out of place.
So what removes the Light from the IPRE or the Hunger when they get to a new world? Why is it always falling at the beginning of the year?
The story is linear. The IPRE’s perspective is linear. From the outside, it seems like one year in each world, happening one after the other and resetting the physical forms of the crew each time. But since each of these years happens in a separate dimension, consider: they’re happening simultaneously, in the same year.
The “reset” at the beginning of each year is not really a reset – the IPRE is returning to the beginning of the same year, at a different physical location. The Light always falls at the beginning of the year because it’s only just been misplaced; it’s gone when they reach a new location because it has to fall again, because the year is at the beginning again. The “one after the other” perspective of the crew isn’t wrong, it’s just a different way of ordering the experiences that is easier for the mind to understand. Seeing all of that happening at once would be devastating – it was devastating for Maureen, who saw all of those worlds at once and the one consistency between them.
There is still a century of experiences, but in a layered whole that’s only broken when the IPRE moves past that one year. They only had to restore the Light and defeat the Hunger on a single world to save them all, because all of these dimensions are connected: if there’s only one Light and only one Hunger, only one victory is needed.
That is basically exactly what happened, anon. I’m guessing that people who were crazy about Iwaoi, learned about those other two third years that tease Iwaoi occasionally, and said “oh look, the team pranksters!” and left it at that. Those people probably don’t know or care that Matsukawa suffers from self esteem issues because some dumb fuck told him he doesn’t look good in his uniform (they’re wrong, btw). They probably don’t care that Hanamaki is, aside from Iwaizumi, usually the first senior to reassure and boost his kouhai during a match.
There is also so much we can use to flesh out characters for Matsuhana. Matsukawa is super observant of the littlest things on the court, and is able to adjust his strategy to combat that, but the tall child is in the lowest class in his grade; the silly boy is probably lazy with his academics, oh my god, Mattsun. His favorite food is cheese-filled hamburger steak, and if I’m correct, that’s a food more commonly enjoyed by younger children; this boy is still childish at heart, oh god I’m crying.
Hanamaki is shown to be quite proficient at setting, which he does multiple times during the second match against Karasuno, along with being a very skilled receiver. This reveals that he’s a very well rounded player, but it also brings forward more questions about his character; Did he train extensively to learn how to set, or was he a setter before high school who got pushed aside in favor of Oikawa? Does this mean Hanamaki held a bit of resentment toward Oikawa in their first year? Not to mention, Hanamaki is shown to be a good senpai, he praises Kunimi on a nice hit, and if I’m not mistaken, is the only 3rd year to be shown praising Kunimi? (I may be wrong, I haven’t read the manga in a while, so the finer points are a bit fuzzy). And also, this boy’s favorite food is creampuffs, he’s crazy about them! In Let’s Haikyuu! Hanamakibecomes completely distracted during a match because Sugawara is holding a creampuff in his hand. He probably has aspirations to open his own bakery after college, considering the size of his sweet tooth.
As a matter of fact, Hanamaki and Matsukawa’s first lines in the anime are to calmly berate Iwaizumi and Oikawa for goofing off, in such a way that basically says “yep, same shit as always,” and for the remainder of the first season, they are both shown with neutral, slightly frowny faces. It’s not even until halfway through the second season that Hanamaki and Matsukawa show any sign of being jokesters.
And just as a reminder, these boys are 17, of course they’re going to goof off and be idiots occasionally. But the main thing to take away from this is that before the silliness, they are naturally quiet kids, who just happen to have two really good friends that make them feel comfortable enough to open up around.
Luke Skywalker was despairing for longer than we may admit
it starts with Owen and Beru’s deaths, then Obi-Wan’s, then Biggs’s death. he’s nineteen when he signs up for a suicide mission readily, instinctively, without thinking twice. it just feels like what he’s meant to do.
in Empire Luke nearly gets himself killed and needs Han to risk his own life to save him. and then he manages to slow the Empire but can’t keep them from overrunning the Hoth base.
he tries to train his skills and his patience but neither progress very far. he has visions of becoming his most dreadful, most evil enemy. then he finds out his friends are in danger and runs off to save them, but it turns out to be a trap and he ends up maimed and confronted with a horrible, unbelievable truth
and he literally tries to kill himself. lets go and falls.
in RotJ he turns himself over to Vader and the Emperor out of fear that his friends will be in danger otherwise
he starts the movie watching Leia get captured and debased; Palp and Vader catch on that he’s got a sister and threaten to corrupt Leia as well and he absolutely loses it and nearly goes Dark before he realizes he’s trying to hack his own father to pieces with a saber.
once again, all Luke can do is make peace with his own end, and try not to lose his soul. he is helpless. the war is won as he’s screaming and twitching on the floor in horrendous agony. when he recovers, he finds his father – the father he thought he lost before he ever knew – back from some kind of death, and already dying a second time. there’s so much fatigue and pain layered into the victory. the movie doesn’t even end with the heroes returning to be honored by the galaxy. it’s just a celebration with a little group of allies on a remote planet, watched over by ghosts.
Luke was always going to need to face the fear that his very existence brought suffering and harm and death to everyone he loved. he was never a triumphant, confident champion. he was a young man growing up too fast from relentless loss. when it looked like his worst fears were coming true, he panicked. when his moment of panic brought those fears to fruition, and he crawled out of the wreckage surrounded by dead children he must have loved as if they were his own, he chose, as he did over and over, to surrender his will to live
it takes meeting a strange girl who believes in Luke the way Luke believed in Anakin — a myth, a source of strength and bravery — to tip the scales. he thinks, I’ll lose her the way I lost everyone else. I’m too dangerous. I hurt people I love. just like my father did. and this girl tells him, I believe in what you did for your father. I believe you brought him back, I believe he was saved, I believe anyone can be saved, or deserved to be given a chance.
even the man who hurts the people he loves
I love these metas and analyses that take young, pre-RotJ Luke way more seriously than fandom usually take him.
yknow the more jk rowlings world falls apart in america (race relations, international history, population, etc) the more i like to think that america just straight up doesnt have the statute of secrecy. european countries are falling over themselves hiding magic but come to georgia and theres a drunk redneck wizard wingardium leviosa-ing the shit out of a tractor to the delight of his drunk redneck muggle buddies in a walmart parking lot.
wizard on muggle violence is prevented by virtue of there being like a 50/50 chance that muggle is packing heat. muggle on wizard violence is prevented by knowing that wizard can give you boils spelling LIL BITCH on your forehead if you try to start something.
america is the weird redheaded stepchild of the magic world.
im not gonna stop reblogging this until this is the next Hot Fanon
english muggles come back to england and suspicious wizards meet them at the airport.
‘did you witness any strange or inexplicable acts while you were in america?’ they demand.
the english muggles just laugh in their dumb fucking faces. mate, it’s america.
what’s the difference between a werewolf and an animagus?
english wizard: *two hour lecture on legal history*
american wizard: six beers
@jumpingjacktrash congrats ive read hundreds of comments on this dumpster fire of a headcanon and yours is the best
thank you my patronus is a monster truck
I have reblogged this I don’t even fucking know how many times but I still completely lose it every time I see the words “My Patronus is a monster truck” because that is the most AMERICAN thing I’ve ever seen in 29 years of being ‘merican.
Variant: What with the International Statute of Secrecy being an international law, the American magical community suffered quite a bit at the hands of forcible attempts to make everyone conform to it, until anti-seclusionist magical forces got their hands on the sort of magics being used to hide the wizarding world from nonmagical society, and hid themselves and their communities from the magical government and its institutions.
That’s why Ilvermorny is “the only American wizarding school.” That’s why the American magical population feels like something the size of the British one pasted on something a couple orders of magnitude bigger. That’s why Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them is so white. That’s why nonmagical people have a persistent quiet willingness to believe in magic just enough to allow for the possibility of its existence, and fill their stories with it, and readily interact with the idea of it. It’s an elaborate homegrown smokescreen to hide hundreds of integrated magical communities from the magical community that demands magical communities keep themselves secret.
The forces behind the International Statute of Secrecy made themselves such an absolute nuisance that some 95% of the magical population of America stole their hide-from-the-muggles spells and locked them out of knowledge of their existence.
The International Wizarding Community: “You are now forbidden to let any nonmagical people know you exist.”
Six Gazillion American Wizarding Communities: *Jedi mind trick hand motions* “Fuck you, we don’t exist. Nothing to see here.”
The International Wizarding Community: “Looks like the problem’s been solved, I guess. Pip pip cheerio.”
Six Gazillion American Wizarding Communities And Their Muggle Friends: “OK I’mma cast Engorgio on my tires and invent Monster Trucking, hold my beer.”
Okay, so let me just type for like an hour straight about this.
Rose Quartz is Pink Diamond. Or rather, Pink Diamond is Rose Quartz. Steven is Pink Diamond. All this time. The entire time.
She faked her death, alright, but I never even… I mean, I’d heard the theory, once before. I heard there was a theory out there that Rose was Pink Diamond. You know what I thought? I thought it was pretty stupid. Yet here we are.
Pink Diamond is still alive, and whole, and she’s been Steven the whole time.
This truly does change everything. Everything. Absolutely everything. I am dead freaking certain I can rewatch this show for the umpteenth time and it’ll all feel wildly different and brand new and absolutely insane now.
I have a lot to say about this. So let’s start at the beginning.
It’s no secret that Pink held some level of love for Humans. If she didn’t, the Zoo wouldn’t exist– and even if it did, it wouldn’t be a paradise. I suppose… It really couldn’t come down to Pink just stopping her colony being made. She may have been a Diamond, but to just put a complete hold on the plans for the super-hub would have tarnished the authority that is so important to the Diamonds. A change in plans means the Diamonds are fallible. Flawed. Yellow, Blue, and White wouldn’t stand for it– heck, they probably wouldn’t even understand.
So it appears that Pink invented Rose Quartz. Our Rose. She disguised herself as one of them, staged a rebellion, and then fought a faux war between herself and herself. Her intention was to give an excuse to stop the invasion and save Earth, but as we saw last episode, Blue and Yellow wouldn’t, couldn’t let her.
“Blue and Yellow don’t care. They never have. This is Pink Diamond’s colony. We can end it here, right now.”
That’s where Pink was wrong. So very, very wrong. Blue and Yellow cared quite a freaking lot. I… I think Pink was expecting to fade from history, and Earth would be untouched, and her fellow diamonds wouldn’t bat an eye at her death.
Instead, the Diamonds came together and wreaked their horrible vengeance upon the Earth. Her Earth. They broke the minds of countless Gems, and they tortured the bodies of countless more in the fusion experiments and the Cluster. So much was the Diamond’s love for Pink that they wrought every horrible torture they could on the Gems complicit in her apparent death.
Pink Diamond could never have wanted that, and I don’t think she saw it coming, either. How could she know the Diamonds loved her? They denied her requests, they spoke down to her, they were cold to her. She saw no love from them, and knew no love from them. She just… didn’t know.
Which makes Rose’s various speeches throughout the series so painful. It’s no wonder she knows the value of love, and recognizing love. She didn’t, and it brought down hell upon everyone around her.
just moving along like everyone else 