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Something funny about the Scott Pilgrim adaptions I've noticed:

Ramona Flowers in the comics: "I change my hair like every 3 weeks"

Ramona Flowers in the movie: "I change my hair like every week and a half."

Ramona Flowers in the the anime: changes her hair every single day

At this rate if they make another adaption her hair will just start color shifting at all times like she got a damn invincibility star

ANDOR | 2.01 - 2.03 + TEXT POSTS

Roy's brain whenever he sees Fullmetal:

sometimes when I’m being especially self deprecating and convinced no one likes me I have to tell myself “you’re being goob. you are being goob right now”

When Edward ran into his father again at Trisha's grave, Hohenheim acts like a jerk, but think about it from his perspective:

He came back home expecting his wife and children to still be alive and in reasonably good condition. In one day, he learned his wife died not too long after he left, his sons are now eligible sacrifices for the Dwarf, his eldest son is missing two limbs, his youngest son is missing an entire body, and to top it all off, his house is gone. Everything inside is destroyed - his irreplaceable Xerxian books, the swing he installed before leaving, pictures and memories of happier days.

And rather than accept responsibility, Edward lied about why they did it, and he's lied so long that even he believes it. Because let's be real here, they didn't burn the house down so that that couldn't turn back - if that was REALLY the reason, they'd have to burn the Rockbells' down, too, and maybe the entirety of Risembool.

Could Hohenheim have been kinder about it? Yeah. But I don't think Edward would've accepted it had Hohenheim not said it bluntly.

Plus, Van had a very difficult day. I'd be a little testy, too.

(It's also important to note that we're seeing it from Ed's perspective, and we know the last clear memory we have of his father is when he left, and while we learn that the reason Hohenheim looked so mad was because he was trying not to cry, Ed didn't.)

big fan of when youtubers break out the corkboard and string. thats when you know youre in for an insanely pointless breakdown of a media you're only tangentially familiar with.

Reenactor throws a spear at a drone

I think my local library could be greatly improved by having a forbidden section where they keep tomes of dark magic

You can only reblog this today.

I apologise if you've already answered this, but I tried searching your blog and I'm unsure if you haven't or if it's another example of Tumblr's amazing search system.

I was talking with a friend recently about how much of a culture clash the Monk Class is compared to the rest of Dungeons & Dragons and was wondering if there is a coherent reason for their original inclusion. I'm aware that they're largely influenced by Shaolin monks as depicted in Hong Kong cinema in the 70's/80's as compared to the Sword and Sorcery stuff most of the rest of D&D takes influence from.

Basically, my question ultimately boils down to, "Is the Monk Class there purely because of an original player wanting to rule of cool their way into playing something wildly out of genre, or is there a stronger link between Sword and Sorcery and Hong Kong cinema that could have organically resulted in the Monk Class joining the rest of the classes?"

A lot of the link between the two was simply a matter of time and place. The kung fu craze hit North America at just about exactly the same time as the sword and sorcery revival that gave us films like Clash of the Titans and Beastmaster and The Sword and the Sorcerer and Dragonslayer and Krull – not to mention the Arnold Schwarzenegger Conan adaptation, which revived popular interest in first-wave sword and sorcery literature – so there was a lot of it going around. Analysis of early Dungeons & Dragons as a product of its media influences often overlooks that it was largely drawing on what was trendy in American popular media in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. Even the tonally incongruous Lord of the Rings references weren't a deep cut; while the books were originally published in the 1950s, they'd experienced a strong resurgence in the 1970s, putting them firmly in the popular consciousness at the time that D&D was being developed. All this being the case, it's not surprising that early D&D was also substantially influenced by Hong Kong action cinema.

That said, the reason the monk character class in particular (i.e., as opposed to kung fu media influences more generally) is there is allegedly because one specific guy in one of the game's early playtest groups really, really wanted to play as Remo Williams from Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir's The Destroyer; several of the class's signature abilities are direct references to powers Williams exhibits in the course of the novels. Remarks from folks who worked at TSR at the time have pointed the finger at Brian Blume as the Remo Williams fan in question, though accounts are conflicted whether Blume was actually an uncredited contributor to Dave Arneson's Blackmoor (1975), in which the class makes its first proper appearance, or whether Blume's interest merely prompted its inclusion.

This is the case for the character archetypes in a lot tabletop RPGs of that era; instead of trying to work out what classes "ought" be be present, authors would simply start with the types of characters their playtesters actually wanted to play, often based on specific popular media characters, then work backwards to derive an IC rationale for why those were the setting's standard adventuring professions. Other examples from D&D in particular most obviously include the Ranger (based on Tolkien's Aragon, naturally), but also the Paladin (principally inspired by Holger Carlsen from Poul Anderson's 1961 isekai novel Three Hearts and Three Lions, also the source of D&D's goofy regenerating trolls), the Assassin, back when it was still a separate character class (probably mainly based on the Assassin Caste from John Norman's Gor), and even the Wizard to a large extent (less Gandalf than you'd think: a large portion of D&D's iconic wizard spell list is lifted directly from the 1963 Vincent Price film The Raven).

(I often think that modern indie RPGs could benefit from reviving this approach. Like, fuck textual consistency – just pick half a dozen of your favourite popular media characters without regard for the compatibility of the source material and work backwards to explain why these six random assholes are your game's playable archetypes!)

ive been quoting 1.22.37 to myself every morning when i need to get out of bed so i figured why not go one step further. so now falst is on the wall right by my bed peer pressuring me

mentally ill (depression) problems require mentally ill (autism) solutions. or something

i’m kinda obsessed with ben stillers bluesky

why is france called the hexagon when its abundantly clear that it’s a pentagon

It obviously stands for Theoretical and Applied Mathematics

Obligatory question "is it short for Tamophania?"

no keep guessing

let me relax……………will comment later…………………..

annual rewatching of FMAB means it’s time to actually make the poster i’ve been wanting to draw for the past 5 years 🤪

“So let me get this straight. We’re here to rescue a princess.”

“That’s right.”

“At the request of a princess.”

“Right again.”

“And you, who will be leading the expedition, are also a princess.”

“You’re very perceptive.”

“How big is your royal family, again?“

“We don’t have one.”

“But–“

“We overthrew our monarchy centuries ago, but we kept most of the titles around. The rank of ‘princess’ is held by the directors in charge of various civil service branches.“

“Huh. And the princess we’re rescuing today is in charge of…?”

“Public sanitation.”

“The Lord of Death’s Dominion kidnapped your public sanitation director?”

“We think he’s a little confused.”

So, roughly 20 years ago, I got really into FMA bc of my older sibling, and we watched the original anime on adult swim together and I always liked it but I never read the entire manga series so I never knew how the actual story was meant to progress, let alone end.

All this is just to say that after 15 years, I finally sat down and watched the entirety of Brotherhood and I just… I want to scream at the top of my lungs bc I don’t know how else to express all of this emotion lmao. Like I’m going insane does anyone need anything!!!!

Could be worse. One of my friends didn’t know Alphonse was a name, so he called him Alphonso.

Edward is kinda hot…I’m like twenty years too late lol

Alphonse is so fucking cute my sunshine child love him.

Also no shade no hate what kind of name is Alphonse does match Edward at all.

okay so i finished checking if we were friends in every universe and, uh, it turns out we're only friends in 6 of them. but look, i need you to understand these universes vary like crazy, okay? like 6 is actually insanely high, like way higher than most. and one of those is the universe where i accidentally killed the actor who played Dipsy from Teletubbies when i was 7 and my life went completely differently as a result. and we still ended up friends! also you were a girl in that universe for some reason. what? oh, uh, yeah, you were cute as hell. like really cute. did you just fucking giggle

NO, YOU AREN'T "EEPY"

A MAN CANNOT BE "EEPY."

HE CAN BE FATIGUED.

HE CAN BE SLUMBEROUS.

HE CAN BE BATTLEWORN FROM THE DAY'S ORDEALS.

BUT NEVER, AND I MEAN NEVER, MUST YOU EVER UTTER THAT WORD.

AND THE BED AND PILLOW WHICH YOU REST YOUR BODY ON?

MUST NEVER BE SO LARGE AS TO MAKE YOUR OWN FORM SEEM DIMINUTIVE IN COMPARISON. IT MUST BE ONLY LARGE ENOUGH TO FIT YOUR OWN BODY, LIKE A COFFIN.

AND YOU ARE ALLOWED BUT 1 PLUSH UPON IT.

AND IT HAS TO BE OF YOUR GREATEST ENEMY.

i hauve a cold

Trisha Elric told her son that he was the man of the house and that he needed to look out for his younger brother and this boy really took her words and internalized them so hard that he sacrificed a couple of limbs, made himself the government's bitch and threw away what was left of his already shattered childhood about it

When I return a library book, I make sure to walk there holding it in my hands instead of in my bag. This is enrichment before it gets returned to the cold limbo of the stacks

every time i listen to “you’re a mean one mr. grinch” i can’t help but sit there and think “what did the grinch do to hurt you?” because dude just stands there for 2 minutes and 58 seconds and drags the grinch into the dirt