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Those eels are enough to make any sane person question their place in the universe.

Dune Bug: Look. There's a frog.

Fire Kraken: HI there, frog! Have you seen any gears around here?

Punk Shock: The frog can't talk, Fire.

Fire Kraken: Why not? Is he stupid?

Punk Shock: He's an animal.

Fire Kraken: So what? We're animals too.

Punk Shock: We don't have time for this!

Dune Bug: No, hold on. He has a point.

Fire Kraken: Yeah! What makes us different from the frog?

Punk Shock: They're not.... like us.

Fire Kraken: What do you mean? Are you racist?

Punk Shock: What!? No! I mean they walk on all fours and live in the woods. They aren't... y'know... sapient.

Dune Bug: But what makes something truly sapient? Is the frog's simple demeanor really a proper means to judge its capacity for thought?

Punk Shock: Yes. Stop talking about this.

Dune Bug? Has God forsaken this creature?

Punk Shock: I said stop.

Dune Bug: Or has he forsaken us by cursing us with intelligence?

Punk Shock: Dune Bug! The Flashfin is currently being evilized and I really just wanna get out of this swamp. Can you please have your existential crisis later?

Dune Bug: Does this quandary not weigh on your mind?

Punk Shock: No!

Fire Kraken: Why? Because you're racist?

Punk Shock: I'm not racist! Frogs don't talk, ok!? That's just how it is!

Dune Bug: Or is that just how you perceive it? How can you know what they think?

Punk Shock: I don't care what they think.

Fire Kraken: Because you're-

Punk Shock: NOT because I'm racist! We talk, they don't. There's nothing to think about unless we come across a non-sapient eel or something.

Fire Kraken: Like that?

Punk Shock: .......Maybe God has forsaken us....

Rare confirmation? Wow.

Does anyone has a theory/analysis on why Hea is the only one(?) who's got the hands like that above her head, almost like a crown?

For reference, here's Hea, and here's some examples that don't have the hands like that

I'm making a pmv and it just hit me now that she seems to be the only one who got the hands in that weird shape

i feel like there has to be some obvious metaphor or meaning hidden but i really can't tell what rn lol

Imo it either looks like a crown, or a star. I think it's meant to be a crown? But I prefer the idea that it's meant to be a star xP Because then it might mean that she was terrified of the fire going out, unaware/afraid to see that she can shine just as bright by herself (metaphorically, we're not in the burned grey lmao), and that she never needed the flames on the walls

Or maybe it's meant to look like the Prisoner's crown? That's the very first thing that came to my mind honestly, but i do prefer the star idea >v<

Im so enchanted by how the Master is originally characterized. He's devious and power hungry and his whole gimmick is hypnotism and disguise and he's frankly a little stupid but when he isn't manipulating people or allying himself with destructive forces out of personal gain, it's always out of fear and it seems to be an expected outcome that he'll end up backed into a corner and lash out. It only takes two serials for us to learn that the master is SCARED of the doctor, tied up with complicated feelings of care and resentment. This isn't something new who lacks, per se, but their fear is always hidden under their veneer of a cackling maniac. it's very clear from Delgados performance that this pervasive fear is a feature, not a bug, and he is not just naturally reserved, careful, and meticulous because he's a machiavellian evil genius, its because he's paranoid.

Attention, rare sightings of the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork 🦩 🖤

“From the back, Vetinari looked like a carnivorous flamingo.” - Men at Arms

“Thin, pale, and clad all in dusty black, the Patrician always put Ridcully in mind of a predatory flamingo, if you could find a flamingo that was black and had the patience of a rock.” - Reaper Man

scurvy has got to have one of the biggest disease/treatment coolness gaps of all time. like yeah too much time at sea will afflict you with a curse where your body starts unraveling and old wounds come back to haunt you like vengeful ghosts. unless☝️you eat a lemon

“Everybody secretly hates me” factoid actually just statistical error. average person does not hate you. You yourself, who has a mean brain, is an outlier and should not have been counted

any computer people wanna explain how the hell this works

it wont let me do shit bc i apparently have 81 gigs of apps clogging my c drive, but my largest app is 0.4gb?????? its not system applications either because system is its own segment of storage. wadda hell are you talking about

Stuff kids on tumblr better relearn

1. You are responsible for your own media experience. 

2. There is such a thing as a healthy level of avoidance towards topics that make you feel unwell or even (in a real-life clinical definition of the term) trigger you - but you are the one to actively take care of what you view.

3. Avoiding does not mean policing others.

4. You have no right to tell artists to censor themselves - you may criticize what others do, you may dislike it, that’s fine - but actively asking for censorship when you could easily unfollow or block a person just makes you look incompetent in your use of the internet.

5. Do not give people on tumblr or /any/ website the responsibility for your emotional well-being. Because these people do not even know you so no, you have no right to ask them to take care of you.

wait a bunch of ppl ( in mexico i belive) got togheter and made a mini movie where everyone is poorly pretending to be french in retaliation for the dogshit emilia perez musical this is awesome tjhey all have little mustaches drawn on with sharpie and are spealing the worst french ever

I redownloaded Twitter.

Beckett is an overextending little nob.

Imagine being part of the West India Co. and this smug tyke shows up with more naval power than any governor in the area, taking not only control of the government but also the economy.

East the long way around my backside.

pirates of the caribbean really introduced an eldritch octopus man who kills indiscriminately and torments the dead as their poster villain and then you watch the movies and it's like, "oh no, actually the worst villain in this series is a small white british man who functions as the herald of capitalism" and that was very very brave of them

i hate seeing people drink the openai/chatgpt koolaid 😭😭😭 genuinely feels like watching someone get seduced by scientology or qanon or something. like girl help it's not intelligent it's Big Autocomplete it's crunching numbers it's not understanding things i fuckign promise you. like ohhh my god the marketing hype fuckign GOT you

found this crusty old comic does anyone know who this guy is

(been wanting to try cmyk dot styled colouring for a while now. it's pretty fun.)

I see Curse Elaine and Guybrush, Revenge (or start of Curse) LeChuck and I can't identify the version of Stan.

It's not Stan from Revenge but besides that, it's hard to say. Feels like his first appearance just because the proportions were more normal in the first two.

Great job all around.

I got into Monkey Island recently

Once again losing my shit over the body swap. What do you mean Crowley sees Aziraphale as brave and kind and forgiving to the end. What do you mean Aziraphale sees Crowley as suave and silly and confident. They make me sick.

Ironically, the Sea of Thieves tall tale is the worst offender, though made by fans.

It's great as a way to lure SoT players into Monkey Island, but they botched it in a few ways; mischaracterisation of Cate Capsize, relying on one of the limited time Adventures for build-up, taking place immediately after Curse but not referencing Demon LeChuck in favour of the most toned down version of his zombie form yet, incredibly tedious movement and not playing around enough with the inherently weird in-universe explanation; it doesn't take place on the real Meleé or Monkey islands and instead in the delusional realm of Guybrush's memories, distorted by his nemesis.

Rare had the chance to give us a world of Guybrush's own desires turned against him by LeChuck and it's just Meleé island but he's a popular has-been, and not a hated has been? Maybe it's so lukewarm because of the demographic of SoT, but come on. We could have had the nightmare pirate LeChuck positioning Guybrush in a much wackier torment nexus.

Sorry for the rant, and don't get me started on the questionable ending of Guybrush apologising to the fake townsfolk.

It's really funny that MI2 predicted Guybrush as obnoxiously stuck in the past, clinging to iconic moments and places that made him famous until everyone got bored with him completely, only for the franchise to become exactly that after Tales. We got the beautifully and artfully made Sea of Thieves DLC, which really does capture the FEEL of the original SoMI but in 3D, but there's nothing original about it, it's literally made TO be a retread, even narratively. Then Return came, and while we have a lot more original content, characters, and places, the entire story still REVOLVES around LeChuck and the Secret. Playing it with my brother was frustrating because while we both grew up with MI3 and MI4 (and the first half of Tales), he only got to briefly play the other games Return puts a LOT of faith in the idea that you will recognize places and events that shouldn't necessarily define Guybrush as a character. This fandom has been full of mi1+mi2 elitists for forever but now it feels like they've snuck into the dev team, too.

Going to try and isopod while running. No idea how, but I'll give the guy a shot.

Had a dream that I saw this ad in a paper

If you pigeon fanciers like Columbo, then can they help find a murder? There's these crows, you see and - well, I don't know where they are.

𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐦𝐛𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞

A pigeon-fancier.

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As you surely know by now...

Havelock Vetinari is literature's most dangerous tyrant.

Astute, learned, and wickedly clever, there are no ends the man will not go to in achieving his goals. There is no one he will not manipulate, no one too important to remove by a variety of means, and no one so powerful as to threaten his position.

And this applies, most importantly of all, to himself. Who watches the Watch, after all?

But Vetinari is literature's most dangerous tyrant because he is at once, yes, a tyrant, but ALSO literature's most dedicated civil servant.

He cares for the city. And ONLY for the city. It is from this position of being the man who truly only cares for Ahnk Morpork that he derives his authority. After all, who cares as much as he does?

Vimes? Perhaps, but he's a married man and a father with private concerns that should take his attention as well (even if Vetinari has to constantly remind him of that fact). He has other things to worry about, but good job that man for sticking to his lane: a sledgehammer sized scalpel for repelling threats and keeping the peace.

Carrot? Certainly, but Carrot cares more for the PEOPLE than the CITY. His mind is on the present, keeping the ones who are alive upright and breathing and getting justice for those tragically cut short. He is not concerned with the welfare of the CITY, as such. Not with the future the next generation shall inherit.

The guilds? Self-interested fools who were happy to take what Havelock gave them: stability and a piece of the pie no sane person would eat. They are content to squabble over portions of nebulous power, and all of them recognize that if Vetinari were gone... well, it doesn't much bear thinking about, really.

The nobles? Self-interested fools who are UNhappy with what Vetinari has given them: a slow walk to total obscurity and an eternal life in the back catalogues of Twerp's Peerage. Besides, they tend to only be effective when they can convince others to foolishly do their bidding, and the market for such men has seen a suspicious dearth in supply as late.

The wizards? Certainly not. Tried that before, thank you, and everyone seems much happier when gravity remains consistent and no one randomly becomes newts. Let them remain in their university, fat, happy, and most definitely NOT doing any bloody magic.

Lipwig? Maybe. In time. If he is convinced that it is in his own self-interest and things remain... interesting. But he also has Spike and the Bank and the Post Office, and a man can only juggle so much before suddenly there's a chainsaw in the front row and an awful lot of screaming. Best to keep him in practice of course, but... no. Not yet.

Vetinari uses all of them. They are tools in his box as he tunes and fixes and cares for the Disc's greatest city. The Turtle moves, but so does the Patrician, and it is a close contest on who shifts greater mountains. It is easy to imagine more than a few of the gods on Cori Celeste are keeping an eye on him and wondering what he's up to.

Except for the smart ones. They are doubtlessly taking notes.

They both work Overtime, even if they appear to be lazy.

they would be good friends and nobody can change my mind

i have to admit that i used to be one of those people who hated frodo because he was 'weak'. but then as i got older, i started struggling with my mental health. i started to feel tired all the time and even tiny little problems felt huge and insurmountable. frodo wasn't weak for needing sam's help or for pushing sam away. he wasn't even weak for being unable to throw the ring into mount doom. frodo had been pushed to his limits. he tried so hard, but in the end, he wasn't good enough. but that's the point. nobody could have been good enough. nobody would have had the strength to throw the ring into the fire intentionally. frodo probably couldn't have done it even if he hadn't been pushed to his limits. and neither could i. the quest to destroy the ring was cruel, because it required frodo to sacrifice everything, including himself. and he pushed himself so hard, even as the ring ate away at him, even as gollum tricked him into distrusting sam. frodo was brave even as the ring clouded away everything that was good and beautiful - he didn't even remember the taste of strawberries. but he still kept trying until he couldn't anymore. i think that frodo's story terrifies me a little, because what if i am also not strong enough to keep going? what happens if nobody is there to save me? and even though frodo lived, he could never be the same again. all i want is to be the person that i used to be. i know that i never will be that person again.

anyway, frodo - i'm so sorry for ever thinking that you were weak when that was a thing you never were. and thank you tolkien for this character who is so strong in a way that our heroes are rarely portrayed as.

Why must you mention those words? AAAAAAAAAAAAA

Oh my god.

pleasd tell me someone else remembers Skylanders

It wasn't just a fever dream, right? They were real, right?

I've had one of persephone's voicelines stuck in my head for so long

Welcome back! Are you ready for another magical upgrade?

I think he could be afraid of not being able to fight anyone.

that skeptunist fic i reblogged earlier got me thinking about potential fears and phobias for the voices, and while a lot of them are pretty obvious to me, i can't figure out stubborn? there has to be something, right? does anyone have any thoughts?

But would they be sworn to carry my burdens?

New H3 idea:

When you go to the base (or whatever it is called in the future), you can choose one of the other characters there to come with you as you travel the overworld, like a partner in crime (or a meat shield)

We're supposed to be unfeeling. How many times do I have to tell you to snuff out your heart?

Beak is less obvious with this one, but it does take the upper part of his skull.

Ha! I knew it! Your words are no match for the pure strength of our hearts, bound together as one.

So you know the rumour about a Margot Robbie PotC film...p

she's everything

This is peak 2005 Dr Who.

finally watching this stupid show

while working on some other project I made this thing which could probably function as a pretty neat divider

like so

the shifting mound has swarmed my post

I have no vessels to give you

no I meant I have no vessels. get out please this is my blog

I'm a little late but I've been thinking about the Ides of March and how it could be commemorated IRL, in a "remember that politicians are just humans" way. I was wondering if anyone had similar ideas.

Personally, I'd commemorate with a sort of game. You gather a bunch of people and one of them, typically one with the most authority, is elected as Caesar. You can have props like the laurel crown, or just a random crown and staff or something.

Caesar then gets to give each other player a dare to do, and if the players can't or refuse to do it, they get a slap or a spank. But then, once everyone was dared, Caesar receives a dare from each other player.

Tally up how many times Caesar refused or failed a dare, then add the number of times someone else did and got slapped. That's how many times Caesar gets slapped or spanked by the players.

Of course, this is supposed to be in good fun so there should be no dangerous dares and no slapping too hard. Instead of slapping you could also bonk the person with something like a foam noodle or a cardboard tube, or stab them with one of those prop knives that retract into the blade.

I guess one could also make a kinky version, I won't judge.

Anyway, that's how I would celebrate the Ides of March! I was wondering if anyone else had ideas!