Stuff and also things

I need to literally study Star Trek lower decks to figure out how they made Mariner so likable. Like she is so insane but also has literally never done anything wrong ever. She makes so many mistakes but they are all so true to her character AND she’s pretty self aware about them so it’s not frustrating. Every action she has is so believable and reasonable, but she’s still insanely entertaining and interesting when those actions could make her boring. Like lower decks in general is a master class in creating great characters, but Mariner is particularly insane

in retrospect it kind of made sense the husband in the bee movie was acting like that because his wife DID have sexual feelings for a bee

Do you ever think about the fact that, in spite of Quark's misogyny, he only actually seems to be attracted to women who are basically the complete opposite of what a Ferengi female is supposed to be?

And then, of course, you notice that his mom is also the complete opposite of what a Ferengi female is supposed to be, and it occurs to you that maybe he has some fucked up oedipal shit going on?

#I think he has a lot of cognitive dissonance in his life#He's a Bad Ferengi just like his brother#But Rom embraces not being Ferengi most of the time and Quark clings to it because on some level he knows he's really bad at it#He doesn't have another identity though#It's possible all Ferengi fail at being perfect Ferengi and feel like they're just pretending for the sake of others#You know#Like men and the patriarchy

I've made this point before, about how people like Troi, Spock, and Worf, gravitate towards humans because being around humans makes them feel like a normal member of their own species instead of the social misfits they are, but now I'm realizing it applies to Quark too. Everyone on ds9 considers him to be the poster boy for the ferengi nation, and I bet that's WHY he likes living with aliens

I saw the skirt, got super excited, and was not disappointed

Encounter: “hi, I’m Guy Faerie, welcome to the Flavor Forest on Dungeons Dragons & Drive-Ins”

Me, passing a car covered in horny thirst-trap anime girl stickers: while I personally find this to be cringe, given the national push for censorship, I must concede that this is technically Praxis.

something something, protecting annoying people from dangerous policies

the thing is sometimes black sails plays its tropes and parallels to famous literary works completely straight and sometimes it subverts them and sometimes it does a secret third thing. so it's impossible to say what happened

like the case study for this i think is when it was playing a montage of flint beating silver in practice sword fights before they were going to fight for realsies and i was thinking okay. i know this trope. it's going to be a montage of him getting better but not quite winning and then he wins this real fight because of what he's learned. and then i started second-guessing myself like yeah but this show is savvy about its tropes. it might be trying to lead me to think that silver is going to win but actually flint does because Stories Aren't Real Life Stupid -- the blacksails writers. and i went back and forth on this torturously until the duel never happened because both of them got distracted because the walrus blowed up which of course i did not predict at all

like the thing is. if you don't see the body it's a fakeout death. black sails does this multiple times and it's infallible except when maybe it's not. billy wasn't dead madi wasn't dead so thomas hamilton isn't dead. except maybe they were doing it to create the false impression that thomas hamilton wasn't dead by creating a predictable formula and making you fill in the gaps yourself with what you think should be there. but maybe it's baiting you into expecting a subversion. maybe something else happened. what do you want to have happened. what do you think is a Good Story. what do you think is in line with the Themes and Characters. what do you think is More Realistic. no matter what you choose they got your ass

i guess what i mean is that the second you think anything happened you're weighing in based on what you think a story should have in it and you've already lost

the problem with that being of course that it Is in fact a story. consciously so

superman canonically hates genshin impact

ppl who celebrate fictional character birthdays are annoying pass it on

FUCK this post and happy birthday sonic

“This collapse is a telltale sign of a problem known as publication bias. Small, early studies which found a significant sex difference were likelier to get published than research finding no male-female brain difference.”