casual-swearing:

hollyfhtagn:

hollyfhtagn:

rudeham:

the amount of brotherly contempt in “the same blastoise” is very relatable 

PLEASE listen to this

I have never understood the phrase “dripping with malice” until I heard griffin say “the same blastoise”

I know I’ve reblogged this before but if you haven’t heard it, *please* listen to it. This is one of my favorite MBMBAM clips and I reference it on the regular

potatofantiger:

For scientific purposes, who was your FIRST romance in each DA game.

academicgangster:

mobius-m-mobius:

A lot of people have talked about Benoit Blanc’s accent. Was he always going to sound like that, was that in the original script?

7aceofdiamonds7:

theboredvoid-deactivated20260102:

there’s always some bullshit happening on reddit

thegreatyin:

happy 6th birthday to the best final fantasy 14 tweet of all time

estrogenesis-eeveeangelion:

estrogenesis-eeveeangelion:

estrogenesis-eeveeangelion:

i can never stop myself from swearing “jesus christ” in character when playing ttrpgs so my workaround for this has been that in every setting i run there is a different historical catastrophe that’s always caused by a different guy but in each case, coincidentally, his name was jesus christ, so there’s always a diegetic reason why people use that exclamation like a curse.

in my old spelljammer campaign jesus christ was a gnome who fucked up during the construction of a space elevator between two orbit-locked planets, causing them to collide and costing the space bridge company 51 quintillion gold in resurrection costs and restitutive damages, which i think merits people 90 years later still using your name like it means “fuck me, this sure is a pickle”

sometimes in a new game or even a one-shot, a canny player who’s been at my table before will pre-emptively ask me “so who’s jesus christ?”

moonsheen:

tuulikki:

ruffboijuliaburnsides:

tokidokifish:

starlitskvader:

atalana:

gae-bolg-alternative-dot-exe:

bigfrozensix:

“Ariel sold her voice for legs just because of a guy“

Meanwhile Ariel with legs;

Ariel already loved the human world long before meeting Eric (you don’t get a collection like hers overnight) and when she finally got a chance to explore it, she took it.

Ursula made it more about Eric than Ariel ever did.

and i mean hell this has been talked about before in more depth than i can, but when people complain about how the ending was changed (the original fairytale does not give ariel a happy ending, she dies trying to protect the prince), i think about the fact that this was written by a gay man in the 1980s

and i think it’s entirely valid (and gives her an extremely strong connection to the queer community) to change the story so she doesn’t die because of who she loves

Triton made escape a necessity. Once someone goes to the point of destroying your possessions in a violent rampage, there is no staying and sticking it out, there’s no safety. (And Ariel, even in Ursula’s lair, gave Triton more thought than he deserved at the time.) Nowhere in the ocean she could go and be safe. Everyone’s always ‘why don’t they just leave :|’ in abusive situations until the leaving is not something they find 100% worthy of approval.

Ursula made it about Eric. She didn’t have to. Ariel had to get out from under Triton’s thumb, it could have been literally anything. Ursula took advantage of a desperate victim for her own agenda. Realistic predatory behavior toward a vulnerable person.

And also

1. There’s always the ‘Eric didn’t want her until she was silent and meek’ criticism - FIRST OF ALL he started out looking for a woman who wasn’t silent, and second of all what part of the carriage driving bit (or any of her other actions on land) is meek, exactly?
2. People above have noted the queer subtext. Now, on the subject of Ariel being willing to leave her family, aside from the baseline ‘this is an abusive environment and she was not safe there’ angle I already mentioned, consider: Ariel’s father made it clear he would stop at nothing to crush and tear down who she was and replace it with what he wanted her to be. Now - what demographic might that resonate with? And given Ashman’s involvement, do you think that was a coincidence?

there has been scholarly discussion about the idea that the og little mermaid story, where she dies at the end, was written as a queer allegory.

so taking that into account… there is something very touching about taking this story from hans christian andersen from beyond the grave and being like “things are different now. they get to be happy. she gets to live.”

also in re: “Eric didn’t want her until she was silent and meek” the meek part’s been discussed but can we please talk about how when he first met her he thought she wasn’t the girl with the voice that he was trying to find and was disappointed, but that he slowly fell for her anyway? He’d explicitly wanted Ariel WITH her voice, but came to love her without it.

The bit about Howard Ashman being queer is finally giving me some glimmer of understanding of why the teenaged girl mermaid is named “Ariel.” Because, although the Disney movie single-handedly changed popular perception thereafter, Ariel is a boy’s name. Howard Ashman absolutely knew that.

(Ariel in Shakespeare’s The Tempest also has male pronouns, in case anyone was struggling to remember.)

Another thing I appreciate rewatching The Little Mermaid as an adult is although he does ultimately grant her wish and say goodbye to her at her wedding, King Triton destroying Ariel’s collection effectively ends their relationship. Like no. You dont go on a violent rampage on your daughter’s most beloved possessions and expect that relationship to ever be restored. He makes good to her by essentially letting her go and live the life he tried to deny her. And I kind of appreciate that.

jesse-is-spiralling:

lainttl:

lainttl:

lainttl:

lainttl:

lainttl:

pansyfemme:

“never kill yourself” is such a funny phrase to me that i think it’s accidently started working. its like an affrimation. say ‘never kill yourself’ enough times as a joke and maybe you won’t try to kill yourself over minor inconviences anymore

feyosha:

rumplefuckingstiltzkin:

cafffine:

woke up this morning, rolled over, and very confidently tried to blow out my alarm clock like a candle. absolutely no precedent for that.

Ebeneezer in 1742 wakes with a start as for some reason he has put out his guttering candle by slapping atop it ith the palm of his hand. His hand is burned and his nightgown and cap are spattered with hot wax.

Fascinated by the perceived necessity of an Equivalent Exchange

hotvampireadjacent: