Batman x EPIC:tM

Jason as Ody, B as Athena, Warrior of the Mind shows Jason stealing the wheels off the batmobile

My Goodbye is Jason and B fighting during his last days as Robin II

Ruthlessness is Ethiopia starring Poseidon as Joker

Circe saga is the League of Shadows with Circe as Talia

Monster is Jason fully committing to his “ruin Bruce’s life and then murder him” plan

600 Strike is Jason beating joker to near-death with a crowbar and setting up the final confrontation with B

I think the idea’s starting to push to its limits here, and the logical conclusion is “Telemachus plays Tim, and Ody beats him to a pulp at the end of Odysseus”, but maybe we can sqeeze in Jason and B reconciling in I Can’t Help but Wonder, with B accepting that Jason can no longer believe in a non-lethal philosophy.

Penelope as Alfred, substituting “wife” for “grandfather”, and Would You Fall in Love With Me Again replacing the romance with “Would You Still Accept me as your Grandson?”, maybe?

Okay I hear you, but consider this: „Get in the Water“, Jason as Poseidon and B as Ody. But instead of Poseidon telling Ody to kll himself, it’s Jason telling B to kll the Joker.  „I’ll take your son and gauge his eyes“ - direct threat to Tim.

„All of Ithaca will die“ - Jay threatening all of Gothams safety. 

And, most importantly: „Aren’t you tired, Poseidon (…) so why not leave this here and just go home“ but instead it’s „come home“, it’s a plea of a father for his son to come home with him. in the end, the flashbacks to Polites and Eurylochus are actually throwbacks to B and Jays time as Batman and Robin, specifically B being soft with Jay as a young vigilante, telling him to „relax my friend“ and that they’ll be fine no matter what life throws at them. (which turned out to be a lie but let’s not go there) 

Batman x EPIC:tM

Jason as Ody, B as Athena, Warrior of the Mind shows Jason stealing the wheels off the batmobile

My Goodbye is Jason and B fighting during his last days as Robin II

Ruthlessness is Ethiopia starring Poseidon as Joker

Circe saga is the League of Shadows with Circe as Talia

Monster is Jason fully committing to his “ruin Bruce’s life and then murder him” plan

600 Strike is Jason beating joker to near-death with a crowbar and setting up the final confrontation with B

I think the idea’s starting to push to its limits here, and the logical conclusion is “Telemachus plays Tim, and Ody beats him to a pulp at the end of Odysseus”, but maybe we can sqeeze in Jason and B reconciling in I Can’t Help but Wonder, with B accepting that Jason can no longer believe in a non-lethal philosophy.

Penelope as Alfred, substituting “wife” for “grandfather”, and Would You Fall in Love With Me Again replacing the romance with “Would You Still Accept me as your Grandson?”, maybe?

So I'm debating if I'm going to start the Magnus Protocol. Anyone what to tell me what it's generally about and if as a fan of the Magnus Archives the general consensus about y'all liking it and stuff? Please?

oops okay this got longer than intended.

Can’t speak for the whole community ofc, but I’m pretty sure the general consensus is that it’s really fucking good. I really enjoy it, even tho it’s pretty different from tma. The production quality has definitely improved I’d say, with a lot of fun new ways to portray the story that isnt, yk, tape recorders. It doesn’t play in the same universe as tma and has a whole own fear-paranormal-power system. Not quite sure if I like it better than the tma entity’s, but they do have some pretty good new monsters and „avatars“ (or what the tmagp equivalent to avatars is ig). Also, some tma character cameos which were really fun to listen to, and the story does have some connection to tma (not gonna spoiler that part tho lol).

I saw another person say the conversations are a bit harder to follow, which id say is true. Took some time for me getting used to the new editing style, since most of tma has always been rather straight forward with the whole „what is happening where is it happening and why“ thing, there’s definitely more puzzling needed in tmagp, but not impossibly hard. You get used to it lmao

also, in the last like ten episodes, they’ve featured a german speaking character (who’s voice actor isnt german) and those parts really reminded me of Jared WhatWasHisLastName. Just…really hard to understand at times, but hey that’s what the transcripts for lol.

There’s a nice touch of mystery and plot added right at the beginning, btw, which really had me hooked from the first episode on. and there’s a lot more plot than in tma, in a way shorter amount of time. Like, every episode has plot relevant context in it now, unlike in tma where they only started adding actual plot at like 30 episodes in.

so, all in all, definitely worth a listen. A lot different from tma, but also very much enjoyable as tma fan, especially since we are being fed tma crumbs every now and then lmao. Takes some time getting used to, but like in a good way

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Beholding (s2 John when he starts to go silly)

They way I went „waitttt………WAIT“ when I realized lmfao this is awesome

I figured I'd draw this scene from this fic of mine

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A Star Trek idea: A comedy sitcom where instead of a Vulcan on a mostly human ship it is a human on a mostly Vulcan ship

All the Vulcans are fiercely protective of the ‘fragile, illogical, prone-to-danger, smart, reckless little human’.

To make the human feel more accepted (as it is only logical) the Vulcans try to include aspects of terran culture in the ship’s day-to-day life, failing spectacularly at it.

The human loves them even more for it.

They’ll get better at celebrating the human’s birthday next year. It’s the thought that counts.

@jvlianbashir​ THAT’S A GOOD END TO THAT EPISODE THOUGH… the vulcans put together awful, bland decorations. they make a cake because it’s of “significant importance”. they go through the process of putting together this party and Studying this Human Ritual and the entire episode is setting up to what you KNOW will be a horrible result. they do a bad job!! then when the human’s birthday comes, and they reveal the off-the-mark, underwhelming looking birthday bash, the human just. starts crying. because they had no idea their crew would go through all this trouble to celebrate their birthday, and even put up DECORATIONS, or make a CAKE, and there’s a birthday card with extremely polite impersonal messages written and a hundred perfectly tidy signatures. and the vulcans are just standing around like “you appear upset. the Birthday Party was unsatisfactory”.

I would watch the fuck out of that

“Humans require regular physical contact to remain healthy. We have a weekly rotation for The Daily Shoulder Pat. Please inform us if this is insufficient contact, either in frequency, magnitude, or duration.”

Okay, I reblogged this because of how adorable it is, but then I started picturing McCoy as the sole human.

I would like to offer a counter argument.

Bones grumbled as he fumbled for the manual override for the cargo bay lights. 

“Surprise!” 

The word was not yelled so much as chanted as soon as the lights flickered on. Only Vulcans could breath so quietly that he wouldn’t hear three dozen of them laying in wait. 

This had to be Jim’s fault. The cargo bay had been draped in black bunting and hung with “Happy 50th Birthday” and “Over the Hill” signs. Someone had replicated black balloons. Someone had sent pictures to the Vulcans. Jim. 

Bones stood in amazement as the ship’s choral group sang an old 20th earth Happy Birthday song followed by a Vulcan chant of blessings as 50 ritual flames were kindled in his honor. They’d baked a cake. Baked, not replicated. Trimmed it in black icing with “Happy Birthday Bones” written on it and a couple of icing bones underneath. 

A ritual dagger was pressed into his hands “you must cut the first piece.”

They were watching with that quiet tension that he’d learned to recognize as Vulcan anticipation. A handful of the younger crew members had managed to find spots at the front of the group and looked almost eager. It couldn’t be for the cake. Vulcans weren’t overly fond of sugary desserts. 

Then he realized. Vulcans struggled to understand human frivolity but no one had a more highly tuned sense of ritual. Most of the crew had little experience with humans and were thrilled, in a quiet Vulcan way, the be able to participate in a human birthday ritual. 

He cut the cake. No one turned down a slice. He watched as they took careful bites using their forks and contemplated the sugary sweetness. Then catching the eyes of one of the younger crew members, he picked up his slice with his fingers and bit into. The young Vulcan barely hesitated. He picked up his cake and bit it. Others saw and did the same. A group of young faces, smeared with black icing waited to see what he’d do next and he let out the first real laugh he’d managed since boarding the ship. A sigh of satisfaction ran through the crowd. 

He was presented with a bottle of very excellent bourbon as a gift. Then instead of a birthday card, the ship’s captain unrolled a ceremonial scroll. Precise Vulcan calligraphy wished him a Happy 50th Birthday and the formal house stamps and signatures of the crew attested to their agreement to the statement. “Damn thing belongs in a museum” he muttered. 

…In the fullness of time, the scroll found its way to the Space Museum on Earth as one of the few example of Vulcan ritual scrolls outside of Vulcan itself. The museum director on hearing a senior Vulcan ambassador describe his experience in the birthday ritual as a young crew member once asked why McCoy had been honored in this fashion. The ambassador had explained that only Kirk, one of the few humans to have heard about the Pon Farr ceremony (much less having participated in it) could have understood the importance of ritual to Vulcans how honored the Vulcans were to be asked to host such an important ritual for his friend McCoy as the “Over the Hill” Birthday celebration.*

*Scholars of the era debate whether James Kirk arranged the ceremony with this understanding of Vulcan ritual or whether he thought he was playing an enormous joke on his friend McCoy. Kirk never answered the question with anything more than a smile and a twinkle of his eye. Even after Kirk’s death, his husband Spock refused to bring any clarity to the matter. 

When pranking your buddy goes so well it becomes a significant point in history and diplomacy

shame be on me I still haven’t listened to the new tmagp episode BUT I WILL TODAY TRUST

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being anti ai is making me feel like in going insane. "you asked for thoughts about your characters backstory and i put it into chat gpt for ideas". studies have proven its making people dumber. "i asked ai to generate this meal plan". its causing water shortages where its data centers are built. "ill generate some pictures for the dnd campaign". its spreading misinformation. "meta, generate an image of this guy doing something stupid". its trained off stolen images, writing, video, audio. "i was talking with my snapchat ai-" theres no way to verify what its doing with the information it collects. "youtube is impletmenting ai based age verification". my work has an entire graphics media department and has still put ai generated motivational posters up everywhere. ai playlists. ai facial verification. google ai microsoft ai meta ai snapchat ai. everyone treats it as a novelty. every treats it as a mandatory part of life. am i the only one who sees it? am i paranoid? am i going insane? jesus fucking christ. if i have to hear one more "well at least-" "but it does-" "but you can-" im about to lose it. i shouldnt have to jump through hoops to avoid the evil machine. have you no principles? no goddamn spine? am i the weird one here?