Media (General)

[keen flax]

Oh its on tubi!!

[west escarp]

Tubi has the weirdest assortment of movies ever

[keen flax]

Its so great

It has every single power rangers apparently

[sacred slate]

I blame HGTV for the god awful interior design I see on flips/renos in the area.

Like oh that accent wall with wood slats? Splinters and dust... And you can't clean it because any sort of duster/microfiber is just going to get hung on the wood.

Farmhouse doors? Privacy please

[cosmic dock]

Such a Sandersonian power

[west escarp]

I don’t see the appeal of open floor plans

They’re a big thing on hgtv and yet all I can think of is the idea of my couch smelling of the thanksgiving turkey

[frank quail]

right!?!?

bloody everywhere has open kitchens now

[frail mulch]

I only watch HGTV if I'm visiting my parents or if I'm in a hotel room for whatever reason (HGTV and Food Network are nice background buzz), and it's fascinating to watch other people's decision trees re: what they want

[sacred slate]

It works in certain designs. A small apartment can benefit from it of the kitchen otherwise would basically be a closet (like my current one) but if you have a big enough place walls allow so much better use of space and design.

I often find places around here are so subdivided so that they can have extra "rooms" that often the spaces can seem vestigial.

[steep bramble]

https://www.ezinstagram.com/p/DMapq9LRe7Q/?

[stoic falcon]

+1 for arrival. Great movie

[wet quest]

Amature photographers really think a black and white filter makes their pictures look good without any other effort smh

[turbid laurel]

Why is there a chair right in front of a microwave?

[wet quest]

Incase you get tired waiting the 30 seconds for your food

[midnight compass]

Bro where is the color

[cold sequoia]

it's called Millennial Gray

also, the kitchen in this house looks to have about 50% of the storage space that my apartment's kitchen has which is about a third of the size

[wet quest]

That kitchen would make me anxious

What's the opposite of claustrophobic?

[buoyant scroll]

Agoraphobic

Well,...sorta

Open spaces is a common trigger for agoraphobia
Not sure if there's a specific term for just open spaces

[wet quest]

Why does the fridge want me to pant?

[wet quest]

Close enough then, that's what I'd feel in that kitchen

[dusk hound]

Fixer Upper was always my favorite

[dusk hound]

This is completely fake btw, but this image makes me a believer in merging Battinson to the DCU

[topaz oyster]

Literally everyone involved in any relevant project has said the merger isn't happening

[dusk hound]

Yeah IK, but I can still believe

[sage forge]

Ancient Egyptian was completely untranslatable until they found the Rosetta Stone. The key was absolutely necessary to deciphering it.

(And we still don't actually know for sure how it was pronounced. They sort of left out most of the vowels from the written language.)

[wet quest]

Superman ||Well that's the kicker, Kryptonian left the vowels in||

[naive mica]

I could feel my soul leaving my body as I looked at these.

[sage forge]

Desperately seeking someplace with color. xD

[wet quest]

Go to a baseball game

Like, no joke. It's almost overwhelming how much color is on the field there

[inland jetty]

Bigtop Burger Cats ||I cannot stop thinking about Clowndrew Lloyd Weber. Also, I love the way everyone is just... already with Munkustrap, complete handwave. Don't even have to worry about Penny's kid! (Beautiful callback to the season 2 intro, btw)||

[runic pollen]

I am only seeing the summaries from YouTube channels but I like what Absolute Green Lantern is doing as well.

[wet quest]

Last baseball game I went to I just stared at the grass, I didn't even watch the game

[runic pollen]

I do think touching any Absolute stories for the first 5 or 6 years would not be the best move.

They should let the runs develop and grow to some conclusion before getting them as a foundation.

And Rock also got him to cameo in Black Adam

Which is funny because that can work so well with Cavill as well.

https://tenor.com/view/henry-cavill-wikipedia-gif-27020374

[cold sequoia]

I dont really mean adapting the Absolute story or universe. I just like the underlying origin of Absolute WW more than the standard origin.

[runic pollen]

Lol I didn't even realise that

[west escarp]

https://news.sky.com/story/ozzy-osbourne-dies-just-weeks-after-farewell-show-13400248

[runic pollen]

|| not to mention the hypno glasses from comics ||

[winged mountain]

oh, that's a bummer

[dawn kayak]

not necessarily music related so I'll post this one here, Austin Powers so crass humour warning ||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LdTLEmhh-Y ||

[lone canyon]

FF4 reviews look good

[winged mountain]

took me a second to figure what that was in reference to other than final fantasy 4

[inland jetty]

I mean, the reviews do say mostly good things about FF 4

[cobalt onyx]

... Fairly Fantastic 4?

[inland jetty]

Fantastic Fourty-4?

[dusk hound]

Think you mean F4 lol

[winged mountain]

it's the fantastic fantastic four

(I could imagine a studio actually using that name)

[west escarp]

Five year old at my job is listening to Golden

[tight dove]

Farvel’s Fantastic 4

[keen flax]

[redacted] fantastic 4

[wet quest]

Y'all, this is the fourth Fantastic Four movie of the 2000s that's obv what Camille meant

It's not that hard
-# /j

[ivory night]

-# I forgot about silver surfer ngl

[winged mountain]

I suppose it's as good an explanation as any but it feels like one of those retcons that fixes a harmless typo, given that I've heard literally nobody ever call it that

[dawn kayak]

fast and the furious 4

[molten jetty]

Peak movie incoming

https://tenor.com/view/the-thing-marvel-rivals-here's-the-thing-marvel-rivals-gif-10489918399175350285

[ionic lily]

Did you see the new team up?

[molten jetty]

YES

“Say ittttt”
“What time is it Ben? Say itttt?”

[ionic lily]

Hahahaha

I can’t wait for the movie

[molten jetty]

Fantastic Four teams are always the best

[wet quest]

Sorry, I meant what I said to come off as a joke. I updated the message

[velvet oriole]

Yeah, it looks like all the people are leaving the agency.

[buoyant scroll]

Kson quite live on stream in the middle of a conversation with the CEO upon learning he knew the girls werent getting paid
She hasnt been paid since last September

[velvet oriole]

It wasn't the ceo, he just had the title japan CEO, he was basically the branch manager for Japan.

[buoyant scroll]

Ah

[velvet oriole]

Thegunrun or something is the ceo.

Still, is was 😎 what she did.

[cobalt onyx]

Oh wow, I just checked the wikipedia page. This table's grown a lot since last night...

[jagged patio]

Well I was going to see Superman tonight, but all the seats are taken already unless I want to be right under the screen 😔

First I get sick, and now this. I may never get to see this film 😔

[ionic lily]

Well if you’re sick infecting a theater seems like a bad idea

[buoyant scroll]

Oof
I had a similar run of bad luck with Longlegs

[heavy anchor]

I never thought Id see a company like that explode overnight

[velvet oriole]

My girl geega must have read the tea leaves. 😎

They got more Japanese talent than English now.

[heavy anchor]

I watched a video about the legal shenanigans involved, I just hope the talents are able to get money out of the company before they manage to declare bankruptcy. Regardless, between potential tax fraud and absolute charity shenanigans there is no way this isn't going to legal hell

[cobalt onyx]

I saw some of a VoD of her post-announcement stream, and IIRC Geega was in a similar situation

[heavy anchor]

On the bright side, the community has HEAVILY rallied to raise money for IDF

[cobalt onyx]

and it kinda sounds like they'd sorta not been paying the streamers for a while

[heavy anchor]

Which is really just wholesome to see (and I'm not just biased because my favorite donated 10k for basically no reason whatsoever, gosh I love her)

[buoyant scroll]

That intitialism continues to be hilarious without context

[heavy anchor]

(it's the immunodeficiency fund, foundation? Whatever it's for immunocompromised individuals, not the Israeli military)

[jagged patio]

Oh yeah, I’d never go if I was sick. I meant that a few days ago I was going to see it but got sick and missed that showing

[jagged patio]

Well, instead of Superman, I’m watching The Thing with my sister and dad. This will be a lot of fun

[velvet oriole]

I was randomly reading comments on YouTube on Charlie's video and I think I found your YouTube account

[molten jetty]

Here’s the Thing

[burnt shale]

Rodney in Stargate is such an 🫏 I mean he is in Atlantis but not ass much

[hushed moss]

Depends on which origin story is used. I believe Gunn is using the silver age story.

In that on ||she is younger than Kal-El and lives in Argo City, which survived Krypton’s destruction, until Argo City begins to die out. A which point she is sent to Earth because Kal-El was sent there.||

[jagged patio]

The Thing 1982 ||Still just as good on a rewatch. I love how many unanswered questions and unknowns there are. So many times when the characters could have become Things. And we just don’t know. I love it||

[heavy anchor]

Uhhhh

I've been exposed

[acoustic pewter]

I've almost finished catching up on all the Person of Interest episodes I missed years ago. It hits home just how good this show is all over again.

Four episodes left.

The first of which I missed most of when my family first watched it, but I saw the last three, so I know the rest of the story from this point forward. The rewatch will stop being about catching up and finally be about closure for one of my favorite ever crime dramas with a touch of sci-fi.

I would recommend Person of Interest. It's a good show, consistently great from start to finish.

[west escarp]

https://www.tumblr.com/dr-paint/789147636756316160/cause-im-a-punkrocker-yes-i-am

CAUSE I'M A PUNKROCKER YES I AM!

-# #Superman #Superman 2025 #david corenswet #DCU #DC #a #illustraion #illustrator #digital artist #artist of tumblr #artist on tumblr #Illustrator

Tumblr · Jul 15, 2025, 2:30 PM

The Mighty Crabjoys sound like the Ramones if the Ramones didn’t suck

[cold sequoia]

The needle drops in the movie were, unsurprisingly for me at least, very good

[muted solar]

I still stand that by far the best part of Superman was || Mr Fantastic Terrific ||. By miles

[dusk hound]

Do you mean ||Mr. Terrific||

[oak ivy]

No

[muted solar]

Oh god. Sorry yeah it’s early

I’ll let all here see my shame

But yes. || Mr. Terrific || stole the movie 100%. Superman || That one fight scene was the coolest thing I’ve seen in a superhero movie in a while ||

[dusk hound]

Got the post credits scene for Fantastic Four spoiled for me

[muted solar]

I’ll bite. What is it?

[novel bear]

superman's in it, that's why he posted the pic

[dusk hound]

Fantastic Four post credits ||Doom shows up and kidnaps Franklin||

[muted solar]

Fantastic four post credits || Who is Franklin ||

[dusk hound]

Fantastic Four post credits ||Sue and Reeds son||

[muted solar]

Fantastic Four post credits || Ahhhhh. I see.

-# I also don’t know who Sue is ||

[inland jetty]

Fantastic 4 postcredits ||The Invisible Woman||

[muted solar]

Ahhh

Thanks all

You have passed the test. It was totally just a test

[wet quest]

Hmm
The urge to click, but I'm seeing the movie tomorrow

[muted solar]

I would recommend not clicking if you care

If you don't care, I do recommend clicking

[inland jetty]

Asd someone who doesn't watch movies, I did enjoy clicking on those myself

[muted solar]

For me the post credits scenes are kind of a "whatever" bonus little thing.

[wet quest]

What if I do care, but I also really like clicking?

[muted solar]

Flip a coin and accept the results

[keen flax]

Me who clicked it on [expletive] accident: 😭😭😭😭

[topaz oyster]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2025/07/23/fantastic-four-just-hit-a-very-funny-rotten-tomatoes-milestone/

[inland jetty]

"Highest rated F4 movie"?

[topaz oyster]

The milestone is a higher Rotten Tomatoes rating than all other F4 movies combined

[inland jetty]

Oh that is funny actually

[midnight compass]

F4 (2015) has a 9% rating

[molten jetty]

https://tenor.com/view/thing-clap-the-thing-things-that-make-you-go-hmmm-thing-okay-gif-17181618099775515719

[topaz oyster]

Miles Teller in shambles

[oak ivy]

https://tenor.com/view/say-that-again-what-did-you-say-fantastic-4-fant4stic-gif-4316185531780369995

[topaz oyster]

Miles Teller in absolute shambles

[keen flax]

A 9 is diabolical omg

[lone canyon]

This almost makes me wanna watch it

[keen flax]

Have you not seen it before?

I did, long ago on cable tv....

[muted solar]

You mean fan4stic?

[naive mica]

You are legally obligated to only pronounce that movie's name as "Fan-four-stick"

[dusk hound]

Fun fact: the most liked review of Fantastic Four 2015 on Letterboxd is the own director clowning on his movie

[hushed moss]

I remember hearing that he wanted it to be a full blown horror movie but everyone made him dial it back.

[dusk hound]

Hell yeah https://x.com/discussingfilm/status/1948035968579100979?s=46

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm)

The ‘BOOSTER GOLD’ series is progressing at HBO.

David Jenkins (‘Our Flag Means Death’) is writing the pilot. If picked up for full series, Jenkins will become the showrunner.

(Source: Deadline)

X · Jul 23, 2025, 3:02 PM

Our Flag Means Death was so good so I’m hype

[keen flax]

That one Booster Gold fan must be so hype

[heavy anchor]

BOOSTER GOLD?

Look I grew up on JLU I remember Booster Gold

[keen flax]

Welp we did it guys, we found the second Booster Gold fan

[oak ivy]

My bosses were talking about KDH

It cannot be stopped

[sage forge]

https://tenor.com/view/kpop-demon-hunters-kpop-demon-hunter-kdh-rumi-mira-gif-8613980155933953512

[keen flax]

Huntrix dont miss 😌✨️

[frail mulch]

https://tenor.com/view/running-ginu-kpop-demon-hunters-i'm-on-my-way-netflix-gif-1284628343899656204

[west escarp]

https://www.tumblr.com/garak-pussy-indulgence/789890761118334976€

[heavy anchor]

I'd hesitate to call myself a true fan of the character but that episode is one of the ones I remember best.

JLU was so peak

[keen flax]

It really really really was

Haven't seen it in years though

[heavy anchor]

I rewatched it a year or two back

It holds up very well

[west escarp]

https://youtu.be/viR-ShgapYs?feature=shared

If he is not at least this pathetic I don’t want to see him

[keen flax]

I just got a sudden and violent reminder that The Dragon Prince was having a panel tommrow

I think im excited? The last season was a spit in the face but maybe theyll learn their lesson this time around!

[cold sequoia]

speaking of booster gold

[turbid narwhal]

https://x.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1947733975285567756

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm)

First poster for ‘Breaking Bad’ creator Vince Gilligan’s next TV series.

• Described as a psychological sci-fi starring Rhea Seehorn

• Coming soon to Apple TV+

X · Jul 22, 2025, 7:02 PM

finally

the Huell spin-off

there's a countdown on the apple TV youtube for the trailer i'm assuming

[topaz oyster]

The Slippin Kimmy show

[buoyant scroll]

The tagline "Happiness is contagious" has me intrigued

[dusk hound]

Superman 2025 || not so fun fact: The newspaper at the end of the movie mentions that Ali (the guy Lex killed while interrogating Superman) did have a family, he just lied to comfort Superman by saying he didn’t have a family||

[vernal stirrup]

||that bro is goated||

[azure fern]

Haven't they been spitting in our faces since like S3?

[keen flax]

.... yeah 😭

Okay but s6 was... better!

I wish the whole back half was like s6 tbh omg

This is a hard HARD pivot but I just found out Malcom Jamal Warner passed away and I am suddenly very very sad

-# the worst part is I found out through an ai generated post

[azure fern]

I haven't watched anything since S3, that's how bad it was

[keen flax]

Every time I bring the show up, I always get hit with "wait I thought it ended at s3" 😭

[topaz oyster]

They did rebrand after 3 so not that surprising

[azure fern]

Oh, I knew new seasons were coming out (though I didn't realize how fast they were coming compared to previous waits)...but I never felt like picking it up again lol

[topaz oyster]

Can't be disappointed by DP if you recognize the whole show is comfortably mid the whole way through

[cosmic dock]

What was the problem?

[oak ivy]

||Such a banger character||

[keen flax]

With s7 or the whole thing because I do agree with kon, s7 is only as rough as it is because its had problems from the jump that the show barely addressed

[cosmic dock]

Either

[gritty sierra]

me watching: it's gonna get better... soon! they will lock in... next season!

yeah it didn't take me that long to give up

couple seasons max

[wet quest]

Just watched Maggie Mae Fish's new premier on Nebula, and it really hit every single fear I have right now

[topaz oyster]

The show makes a handful of big exciting promises it had no idea how to keep in a meaningful way and it kept punting until bills came due and it had to come up with very mid solutions

[inland jetty]

Someone on the oldschool forum I'm on just opened a thread asking for interest in a Kyoshi-era Avatar TTRPG campaign 👀

[topaz oyster]

I do think I'm decently good at catching when a story doesn't really have a plan and I think I'm usually more surprised when a story without a plan manages to cobble together something compelling than I am about just about anything else a story can do

[molten jetty]

Dragon Prince felt like it was something that would be better in S2 and then it wasn’t

[inland jetty]

Wait shoot, I meant to put this in #tabletop-games-archive, how'd I miss that far, they aren't even that close to each other on the list for me

[molten jetty]

This makes me think of Tangled the Series lol

That show completely changed gears with its S2

[topaz oyster]

Pantsed stories often feel like they will be better <next installment>

[keen flax]

Well like Kon said, the world and setting was really cool and there was some intruige with the plot and settings... and then the show made you wait. And wait. And you watched it get sidetracked for an entire season after a 3 year hiatus. And in the last season ||The villian they were supposed to kill they just... handwave away.||

That doesn't even go into how the show refuses to hold some characters accountable 😭

[dawn kayak]

I watched the first three seasons or however long it was before the big hiatus of Dragon Prince and the show was fine

pretty decent, even

[molten jetty]

This is how far I watched as well

[dawn kayak]

mid-good not mid-mid

[cosmic dock]

Dragon prince ||Is this the show where it's immmoral to take an animal's life force for healing, but presumably perfectly okay to kill it for food?||

[molten jetty]

It did definitely feel like there was this promise of getting better lol

[dawn kayak]

for me it's pretty easy

"has this show made me feel like I'm watching lost again?"

[keen flax]

OMG YES. ||Hang on because it gets worse. The elves canonically deprive the humans of resources and then get mad at them when they resort to dark magic to survive.||

[dawn kayak]

if so, that's a major red flag

[molten jetty]

TDP ||Callum should’ve used dark magic more|| ☺️

[topaz oyster]

I think I'd compare Dragon Prince more directly to Brent Weeks' Lightbringer than Lost, personally

[molten jetty]

TDP || “oh no you killed a creature to use magic!” Yeah circle of life||

[oak ivy]

||the discourse of this show must be immaculate lmao||

[topaz oyster]

https://tenor.com/view/lion-king-yeet-gif-13195565629610357612

[molten jetty]

The show can be a bit preachy in a way that doesn’t feel fully thought out

[dawn kayak]

Dragon Prince ||the most based thing they could have done is to go "yes, we know that killing other things is the only way you get to use magic. That doesn't make it any less evil."||

[wet quest]

Dragon Prince ||As a fan I Dune I really like the parts with the worm||

[cosmic dock]

Dragon Prince ||By that logic, wouldn't the humans also have to give up meat and leather working etc?||

[dawn kayak]

sure

Dragon Prince ||well, plants are life too||

[keen flax]

that was his entire arc.. TDP all ||The final season has him battle with using it or not, and you think hes going to to kill aravoss but he DOESNT!! STUPID RAYLA CONVINCES HIM NOT TO and aravoss gets away and says "in 7 years ill be back" and blows up the dragons.||

The snark isnt toward you monkey, this finale simply fuels me with unaltered rage

[molten jetty]

TDP ||characters should get to engage in a little murder for funsies more ||

[gritty sierra]

i enjoyed the aesthetics of the show a lot but aesthetics can't carry anything if the only thing i like IS the aesthetics

[azure fern]

to me s1 was pretty good, s2 was ok and s3 was pretty bad

[west escarp]

Aravos is aura farming like no tomorrow

[keen flax]

Its like watching a show that wants to be bold and you are actively watching it strangle itself

[azure fern]

i.e. it just kept getting progressively worse so I had no reason to continue beyond s3, even though the world/vibes/etc interest me

[molten jetty]

But also (TDP) ||it drives me crazy when nameless grunts and side characters can die or be killed but the time comes to kill the mass murdering psycho and oh no if you kill them you are just as bad as them||

[west escarp]

It’s really hard to watch this and remember that it’s by many of the same people who made Avatar

[dawn kayak]

I mean

[molten jetty]

One person who worked on Avatar

[west escarp]

One would assume a show they made later on would be better. And yet

[molten jetty]

Not even the like head guys from ATLA

[dawn kayak]

many of the successes and failures of Avatar are in the show

[cosmic dock]

Oh this is made by Avatar people? Ah, okay okay that makes sense

[keen flax]

TDP s7 ||I still think about Rayla gaslighting the 12 year old into forgiving the man that murked his dad||

[oak ivy]

Avatar really was a flash in the pan

[molten jetty]

Just like (ATLA S3) ||Aang gaslighting Katara into forgiving the guy who killed her mom||

[west escarp]

It was advertised as being created by them anyway. Not my fault if they’re lying about it or over repressing it

[molten jetty]

||another reason Zuko is better||

[oak ivy]

||he failed lmao||

[molten jetty]

I mean yeah

But (ATLA) ||he has the audacity to say “thank goodness you didn’t kill him and forgave him!” And like???? Aang buzz off. Get off your high horse. ||

[oak ivy]

||aang being preachy is good characterization||

[molten jetty]

Yes

ATLA ||if only his preachiness was confronted in the plot and not justified by Deus Ex Lion Turtle ||

[oak ivy]

TDP ||my guess is the equivalent in dragon prince is not||

ATLA ||just like sokka’s sexism, every time people slander the turtle i like it more||

[molten jetty]

ATLA ||I like Sokka’s sexism. He is forced to confront it and reevaluate. ||

[keen flax]

TDP made me realize that Mike, Bryan and Aaron all have to work together to make a thing and if they don't it will be a mess and a half

[azure fern]

lmao

was about to say

[novel bear]

you're so based please elaborate on this

[azure fern]

TDP has Avatar's head writer, you'd think TDP's writing would be better, but not it's a mess

[molten jetty]

ATLA || I don’t like Aang’s pacifism because it’s very simple and he isn’t forced to confront it or deal with the consequences of what that choice might actually mean. The problem isn’t the pacifism, but the lack of depth to it. ||

[azure fern]

I really think the genius behind avatars writing werent either Bryke or Aaron, it was Elizabeth

she wrote the best episodes, she was probably on Aaron's ass providing all the insight he needed

[oak ivy]

ATLA ||sokka’s sexism is an obvious good. For the turtle, i like the idea that the solution comes from outside any secular reasoning. The world is out of balance spiritually, and so it gives * the tools to correct it||

[keen flax]

Liz did cook on ATLA I agree

[oak ivy]

||the korra blows all of that nuance up and it sucks||

[azure fern]

but I think they divorced so she can't be there to carry Aaron in TDP ?

(my info might be wrong, idk if they did divorce)

[keen flax]

Ducky has anyone ever told you you were based and awesome

[oak ivy]

As is a historical constant, it is the ex wife’s fault

[keen flax]

-# I have been around korra vindicators for too long

[azure fern]

i gtg watch some Friends with the wife, I shall be back to slander some more later if ya'll are still here

[buoyant scroll]

AtLA ||Aang isn't a pacifist and I find that very important for actually understanding the point of his arc, character, and the greater story.||

[oak ivy]

Korra feels like it was written by ATLA superfans who didnt get what made the original work.

[molten jetty]

On this note though, what do you all think is the best media approach to violence / pacifism and the dynamic between them?

[keen flax]

Its hard to do in a kids show tbf

[oak ivy]

You argue consequences, not philosophies

[keen flax]

You have to toe a lot of lines and- oh yeah that works

[oak ivy]

Write characters with worldviews and let them play it out

[molten jetty]

I think that is very true

It works best when you see consequences for action or inaction

[oak ivy]

And similarly the legacy of violence

It why the “just kill the evil overlord” is the single dumbest media take ever

[molten jetty]

I like how Robert Jordan approaches it, but I feel like he has some serious insight into violence

[dawn kayak]

https://tenor.com/view/bait-thats-bait-tom-hardy-mad-max-gif-5055384

[keen flax]

If you think aang is bad, (TDP) ||Ezran is a trillion times worse with the preaching omg... he gets mad at the gang for not wanting to save mini baby lizards that look like his pet, thus resulting in his brother getting blood bended 🥰||

[molten jetty]

…?

[oak ivy]

Yeah but wot gen ||THEN RAND KILLED ONE MILLION TROLLOCS ZOMG POG||

[cosmic dock]

Atla ||You like sexism?????||
||/s||

[oak ivy]

These are some first draft names fr fr

[oak ivy]

More characters should be sexist - duck 2025

[oak ivy]

And we wonder where brandon got it from…

[keen flax]

TDP ||what you dont like Ezran, Calum and Rayla? And the pet frog Bait?? :3||

[molten jetty]

My favorite approach is probably New Jedi Order because we see consequences. ||Jacen’s failures result in deaths of thousands and his inaction results in hundreds of deaths he could have prevented, so like there are real issues stemming from his choices and desires for peace. And while he fails so tremendously, he does eventually find the peaceful solution he was seeking after dealing with the consequences of his previous failures to act. ||

[oak ivy]

||those are all powders used to treat an inflamed rectal cavity, not characters||

[cosmic dock]

I know a Calum, not spelled like that though

[dawn kayak]

my take on pacifism and comeuppance and all that is that Sir Terry Pratchett did it best

[ionic lily]

My take on pacifism is that it is pacifism

[cosmic dock]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callum

[keen flax]

It might be with 2 Ls

[molten jetty]

(It is)

[keen flax]

I was speed texting + this show gives me brain worms (derogatory)

[dawn kayak]

Small Gods all (quite literally the last phrase in the book or well close to, like last page) ||“Yes. I know. He’s Vorbis,” said Brutha. "Vorbis changed people. Sometimes he changed them into dead people. But he always changed them. That was his triumph." He sighed. “But I’m me,” he said.||

just chef's kiss

[dusk hound]

Would you guys believe that I had to debate against 2 TASM 2 defenders yesterday

One of them ranked TASM 2 above all the Tobey movies

[dawn kayak]

why

[dusk hound]

I don’t know

[oak ivy]

gonna be real, the tobey movies are not good

but they are way better than asm2

[keen flax]

Is that the one with Jamie Foxx

[dawn kayak]

https://tenor.com/view/hombrearaña-spiderman-dance-moves-funny-dance-gif-16485757

best spiderman movie bar none

[keen flax]

Idk i dont care about spider man unless hes in a peak animated movie

[dusk hound]

And I quote “Yea the cinematography, music, action, may and Peter, swinging, themes, humor all bad right?”

[dawn kayak]

but legit though the tobey movies are great

they are very memeable

[dusk hound]

Declined to specify any of those points btw

[dawn kayak]

and that's a positive

Dragon Prince gave us some elf designs and for that I am glad it exists

also it has racism which is pog

more fantasy shows should have fantasy racism

[dusk hound]

Racism and pog in the same sentence

[keen flax]

See it does! I like that and theres a reason I dragged my black self through it but good GRAVY on rice I have never seen a racism allegory more bungled 😭

[dawn kayak]

lmao yeah

[inland jetty]

While I can't speak to TASM at all (the most I've interacted with it is some youtube ads for the bluray release that showed up a lot for me for some reason), one thing I've been noticing with games is that all best games are actually a little bit awful. Sometimes something is bad in an interesting and engaging way that just makes you like it

[dawn kayak]

they don't even call elves knife ears 😔

[dusk hound]

Allow me to introduce you to RWBY

[inland jetty]

(See: my obsession with the Xeno games and my position that the best one is Xenosaga 2, aka the one that was meant to be disc 2 of the first game and had to be padded out to 40 hours)

[keen flax]

I have heard the horror stories of that one and I would personally rather eat real gravel than attempt to get into it 🥰

[lone canyon]

Isn’t rwby the one with the oppressed furries

[frank quail]

but what if I told you the animal people have animal traits Cosmic?

[keen flax]

😔

[frank quail]

so you do have limits

[keen flax]

Thankfully, the limit is racism 🥰

[dawn kayak]

why do you hate cosmic so much

[dusk hound]

The show died with Monty Oum

[dusk hound]

No I don’t, I like Cosmic, I just want her to experience mid

To know peak you must experience mid

[frank quail]

she watched TDP

[keen flax]

Awww I like you too ryan! I experience mid all the time though gestures to the 40-minute TDP rant i just went on

[frank quail]

-# /s I've never watched TDP, I'm sorry

[dawn kayak]

https://tenor.com/view/rwby-rwby-velvet-velvet-taking-picture-velvet-scarlatina-gif-13879537

[keen flax]

No you were right on the money 😂

[dawn kayak]

oh I can feel the anger at RWBY and its wasted characters and potential for the most mid they could have done again

I am beyond that, I've left that in the past

[dusk hound]

You go on a TDP rant every week I think

[molten jetty]

To be so back you must first have it be over

[dawn kayak]

https://tenor.com/view/kung-fu-panda-4-po-inner-peace-meditation-meditating-gif-916042036749001501

[inland jetty]

I have so many thoughts on rwby, but they can be best summarized as "I still rewatch the hbomberguy video on it after realizing I don't actually like his videos as much as I thought"

[keen flax]

Nahhh, thats korra~ I only get feral about TDP when im provoked 🥰

[dawn kayak]

SAME

[molten jetty]

I never watched RWBY and I think I’m good

[dawn kayak]

I should rewatch it again

what pisses me off the most is that like

there is a good school setting arc just staring at you the whole time

it is never explored or expanded on in exchange for the most mid possible

which to be fair was partly Monty's fault

[frank quail]

my feelings on RWBY https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1110447620838666330/1389766053201969192/image.png?ex=6882d0ff&is=68817f7f&hm=74fd28ce1fd409ab14d5354c0f5ad0b467e98d1c04651ad500f870ccff61d3e8&

[burnt shale]

Rwby discourse is the worst and most entertaining thing

[dawn kayak]

I don't like the "I can fix this media" mentality but RWBY is like the one where like

I CAN FIX THIS MEDIA

[novel bear]

at a certain point can you really call it wasted potential

[frank quail]

New essay question:
Did the rwby trailers bait harder than the CP2077 announcement? discuss:

[dawn kayak]

nah not for me

[novel bear]

if i have a great recipe but don't actually buy any of the ingredients or cook anything, is that wasted potential?

or did i just not make anything good?

[dawn kayak]

2077 first E3 trailer legitimately ruined that game for me

part of my spite towards 2077 even today is still due to what that trailer promised and the game failed to deliver

[burnt shale]

Rwby is kinda different since we always expected flaws but wanted to watch it get better and they just didn’t realize. It definitely had potential but not in a conventional way

[dawn kayak]

the ingredients are right there just staring at you from the cupboard though 😭

[frank quail]

I'm talking about the one that was just a maxtac deployment, no "in engine" footage

[dawn kayak]

o lmao

[burnt shale]

Rwby is similar to abridged material in that it’s done by mostly amateurs and part of the enjoyment is watching the creator grow with the material

[turbid narwhal]

They should’ve kept the shadow background characters

[burnt shale]

But 1. They got distracted 2. The writers sucked and picked off more than they can chew 3. Didn’t have a great direction

I mean if you are literally just writing around a series of fight scenes it does limit writing a little

[novel bear]

you gotta learn how to cook before that matters

[dawn kayak]

that's true yeah 😔

[keen flax]

-# they didnt even know how to hold utensils

[topaz oyster]

My understanding is that it gets more aimless and confused as time goes on, so can you call it growth?

[dawn kayak]

you can see the shape of a better story rattling the bars of its cage, trying to get out

and instead 😔

[lone canyon]

Me with Naruto

[oak ivy]

but it activated my nuerons once in 2015...

[lone canyon]

Also @keen flax if you want to experience mid read forgetting moon

[molten jetty]

So true

[oak ivy]

that isnt mid

[molten jetty]

Me with Arcane

Imagine if ||Viktor || was the main character

[burnt shale]

Hence the discourse

[lone canyon]

Forgetting moon made me realize that sometimes fantasy actually is racist and sexist

[novel bear]

this is why children can't be given unfiltered access to the internet

[lone canyon]

I read Naruto in paper back form

[frank quail]

man, that moment in S1 when Ruby did anything with her Sycthe

[lone canyon]

Still remember getting to the ||itachi reveal|| and sobbing when I was ten or something

[dawn kayak]

imagine if they kept the good Viktor backstory 😔

[burnt shale]

Rwby has a good soundtrack

[novel bear]

i know people use "mid" to mean bad, but you really just used it for the single worst book i have ever read

[dawn kayak]

and the good Ekko backstory

[molten jetty]

Fr

S1 set us up well

[keen flax]

Camille my friend what have I done to you for you to reccomend me this 😭

[lone canyon]

Well it makes every other book better in comparison!

[lone canyon]

It improves your outlook on life and your general positivity by letting you realize what bad truly is

[novel bear]

Also I'm gonna watch the last three episodes of Murderbot with my parents now

I'm glad they've been liking it

[keen flax]

thinks of the bit 🤔 it would be funny....

[lone canyon]

We can say “wind and truth is bad” but wat still doesn’t feature lines like “I yearn to ravish the fetching unwashed peasantry”

[lone canyon]

The show is so good it made me continue reading the books lol

[cosmic dock]

Okay but what about that line in Yumi?

[lone canyon]

This is worse because ||its part of a completely unironic villain monologue before a character is raped||

[dawn kayak]

wait what line?

[lone canyon]

||like the villain has a seventeen year old girl tied to a bed, talks in that vein for six pages, and then rapes her||

Reading it was truly an experience

[cosmic dock]

I'm trying not to ccream

[novel bear]

||he also drugs her and says the truth serum will make her answer all his questions and then doesn't ask her any questions||

[oak ivy]

||i think he does she just doesnt asnwer them||

[midnight compass]

What book is this?

[west escarp]

What the hell book is this Camille

[oak ivy]

||it is clear why that didnt work||

[dawn kayak]

I don't remember the context for that at all lmao

[lone canyon]

Forgetting Moon

[oak ivy]

these are the good parts

[dawn kayak]

wait what

how the hell does it get worse than this

[oak ivy]

the book keeps going

[novel bear]

you should read it naru

[keen flax]

why

Omg if naru does ill read it with them

No one deserves to suffer alone

[dawn kayak]

that is tempting

[west escarp]

It has four stars on goodreads!??

[oak ivy]

do not read this book

[dawn kayak]

okay to be fair

a lot of garbage has four stars on goodreads

[oak ivy]

its actually terrible

[lone canyon]

There’s a scene in the book where ||the bad guys make the Mc’s romantic rival cut off all of his dads limbs and then all the other prisoners make fun of the rival for some reason, and then they put the (still alive) dad in a coffin to mail him to the capital and some lady makes a fat girl ram knives in the stumps of the dads arms so now he has knife arms. Also while she’s doing this the narration is repeatedly reminding the audience the girl is fat||

[west escarp]

https://tenor.com/view/fml-sylvester-cat-annoyed-head-bang-gif-13045781

[lone canyon]

I’m not even kidding btw this is just a description of what happens

[ivory night]

What the

[dusk hound]

TIL that the 17th Shard Discord doesn’t like Brandon

[lone canyon]

Row is like 100x better than Forgetting Moon

Like even mentioning them in the same scale is

An insult to row

[oak ivy]

this is more me than anything

[oak ivy]

this is true

[lone canyon]

Row was weird in terms of the tone and worldbuilding but it was a perfectly enjoyable book to read

[oak ivy]

ok lets not get crazy

[ivory night]

Duck it’s || stormlight die hard||

[gritty sierra]

hey it has 4.39 now

[ivory night]

The floor is only so low

[west escarp]

Have you been reading the YouTube comments on ahardcast videos?

[small quarry]

Oh god yeah I'd love if naru reads forgetting moon they sre gonna hate it so much

[keen flax]

Omg I knew someone here had read it and DNFd it... which one of you was it

Was it you mia? If so I am so sorry

[small quarry]

A bunch of us read it for a reading thingy we have and it was so bad

[oak ivy]

just active self harm tbh

[small quarry]

Okay but forgetting moon ||I wanna see what naru thinks about the fat girl soloing a elite guard squad with her fatness or the smartest prettiest woman in the world||

[lone canyon]

Naru would say that Forgetting Moon is racist and sexist and would be 100% correct

[oak ivy]

we all know naru is blorboing jondralyn lets be real

[small quarry]

There is also that time ||when we get two chapters of buildup of the character needing to pee only for him to pee in the sacred book of their religion cuz they are mean for no reason||

[keen flax]

These are words I am choosing to read

And yet somehow it is against my will

[lone canyon]

Okay but that was actually funny

[dawn kayak]

nah I'll join you

I don't like brandon either

[keen flax]

Naru 😭😂

[west escarp]

Speaking of, I read all of Terry Goodkind’s Swordof Truth books

Don’t recommend this

[oak ivy]

why

yall need to start reading good books

[novel bear]

all?

[oak ivy]

ALL

[thin ridge]

Do you though

[west escarp]

Because I thought “they can’t possibly be that bad” and then I started hate blogging them and felt compelled to finish them

The spinoffs were too awful to keep reading. Obviously unedited

[thin ridge]

My bad I misread your message

[cold sequoia]

I am seeing parallel conversations from about 3 people here in two channels right now
I am not mad or anything, just impressed

[lone canyon]

What the sigma

[small quarry]

very skibidi of you

[thin ridge]

I thought you wanted to do it and was trying to save you from it

[oak ivy]

it is called range, aaks

[small quarry]

you have to be wide

[ivory night]

Legit dnf’d the first book as soon as he had a character ranting about stuff that was clearly just the authors awful worldview bleeding im

[cold sequoia]

https://tenor.com/view/reggie-reggie-vs-iwata-reggie-fils-aime-satoru-fight-gif-24920256

Spaceduck and Codenames in #books-archive and #1364954411582885899

[west escarp]

https://tenor.com/view/droopy-90s-looney-toons-juggling-gif-14042068

[lone canyon]

Like the fat girl from forgetting moon

[keen flax]

tentatively adds Terry Goodkind to the TBR

[lone canyon]

Cosmic brain damage project lets goooo

[west escarp]

Do so at own risk

[ivory night]

Hell no

Why

[keen flax]

Thats fine! I am already Unwell 🥰

Also idk it might be funny

[ivory night]

The book isn’t like good or interesting

It’s just bad

[small quarry]

she is far too early in the timeline to want as many lobotomies as you do smh

[west escarp]

The first one is deeply ok as you as you ignore the very long sex slavery bdsm interlude. They only get worse after that

[ivory night]

No like it’s not funny bad like the Room

It’s just bad

[keen flax]

Oh....

[lone canyon]

Do you think that if we subject Cosmic to enough bad literature she can become the new Ozzy Osborne but with books instead of drugs

[novel bear]

Murderbot 8 ||the throuple is killing me||

[lone canyon]

||THEYRE SO CRINGE||

[west escarp]

I’ve heard the tv show is better. Mostly because they couldve really be worse and still air on network tv & also the people who did Xena made it

[lone canyon]

||the throuple makes me sympathize with Murderbot so hard||

[ivory night]

-# I feel like she’s read a lot bad fanfics already

[lone canyon]

Also Murderbot 7 ||if I had to play that sweet/bitter game I’d straight up start doing drugs and then kill myself. And in a public restaurant too 🥲||

[west escarp]

Good kind was clearly “inspired” by Robert Jordan but never owned up to it. He loved to talk about his other biggest influence tho: Ayn Rand

[thin ridge]

My sixteen year old self was not prepared
I stumbled across it on accident

[ivory night]

Also Robert Jordan hated his guts

[west escarp]

He also didn’t talk about the femdom porn which obviously influenced those books

(To be fair neither did RJ)

[cosmic dock]

You already mentioned WoT, you don't need to bring it up again

[west escarp]

I am now imagining the person for whom that book was a sexual awakening.

[keen flax]

hey the fanfics ive both read and written were very well regarded thank you very much 😌

[dawn kayak]

wait hold on I'm listening

[keen flax]

Naru the offer of reading things with you extends to any and all books

[ivory night]

Cosmic… once again I am asking if this is an intentional alley oop for you to be dunked on with

[west escarp]

How do you feel about literal sex slave torture porn with rape of the main male character because if you’re into it you may very well be the only person who I can recommend the book to

[dawn kayak]

do not give me this power

[keen flax]

You already have it my friend 😌✨️

[keen flax]

😉✨️

[dawn kayak]

... I'm listening

[frank quail]

Don't forget ||the forced cheating with a side of sense sharing||

[dawn kayak]

alright so this week we'll be starting Brothers Karamazov

[lone canyon]

I’m really seeing the wheel of time influences

[dawn kayak]

next week it's going to be Norwegian Wood

[keen flax]

Ooooo~

[ivory night]

Well now I feel bad about it

[ivory night]

The Beatles song?

[west escarp]

Well if this isn’t dissuading you, go ahead just skim the first 1/3 of the novel and tune Goodkind out when he starts talking about the Honor of Hard Work and the Evil of Communism

[dawn kayak]

this book is starting to sound interesting ngl

[keen flax]

Good! This is proof that you should be nice to me all the time always 😌✨️

[frank quail]

Oh thats like, book 7 or something

[dawn kayak]

it's really funny to see Honor of Hard Work and Evil of Communism in the same phrase like that

oh that's far away 😔

[west escarp]

I promise you it is not well written but you may find out for yourself

[ivory night]

This is where I checked out because he sounded like the most annoying 18 y/o troll who doesn’t know anything about anything

[frank quail]

I don't know how I read so much objectivism played straight

[west escarp]

He is. In the climax of book 5(?), Richard saves the day by ||unveiling an epic statue of people standing tall and proud and it inspires the people of the Evil Communist Empire to spontaneously realize their lives are meaningless and they are being exploited by the evil state and to start a rebellion they win||

[lone canyon]

All I know about terry goodkind is he tries to rip off Ayn Rand at one point

[west escarp]

This is played utterly straight and completely sincerely

[ivory night]

What a dumbass

[lone canyon]

I would like to unironically read Ayn Rand at some point, everyone makes fun of her so much I want to know if it’s legitimately deserved

[dusk hound]

Cosmic I’m scared to know what fanfics you’ve written

[ivory night]

I legit got to whatever the first spiel he did in book one and was out

[west escarp]

Richard also spontaneously gains new abilities whenever the plot needs them

It’s plot relevant too for some reason I’ve forgotten. His magic combo?

[ivory night]

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2010/10/01/what-i-think-about-atlas-shrugged/

[keen flax]

Mostly kpop ones, and a zodiac one where theyre all people and they have to kill Zeus or he resets the timeline they live in! None are explicit, I was a tame girl 😌

[novel bear]

@lone canyon Read Anthem, you'll love it

[keen flax]

I really liked to go in with the violence though, that was my jam

[lone canyon]

I’ve heard anthem is unironically alright

[novel bear]

No it's not

[ivory night]

He actually turned a throw away joke from this into a short story that was adapted by love death and robots

[turbid narwhal]

Wait this is what Aaron Rodgers was reading when he injected himself with horse paste

[ivory night]

Yeah probably

[frank quail]

🇽 doubt

[keen flax]

But its true! 😔 do you want proof

I need to get my amino log in...

[ivory night]

Well not Scalzi’s review of it because scalzi has a brain and Aaron Rodgers cooked his on hallucinogenics

[frank quail]

No no, no need for proof

I suppose you did use the past tense

[keen flax]

Oh yeah im out of my fanfic era unfortunately

[dawn kayak]

you know, after reading the Scalzi reviews I kinda realise that some of my problems with isekai and progression fantasy in general is that it's like

this entire genre kinda is a big, roundabout way to do revenge porn

[novel bear]

Murderbot 9 ||The small talk is far more painful to watch than the throuple||

[dawn kayak]

and I ain't a fan of that

[novel bear]

why do they hate the shield hero

@oak ivy tell me why

[turbid narwhal]

I’ll read redo of healer and get back to you on that

[oak ivy]

many philsophers have debated this question

there is no consensus

it must be a primal, universal constant

[dawn kayak]

it's too explicit about it

[gritty sierra]

well, it's a heartache, isn't it?

[dawn kayak]

that makes it feel more uncomfortable

says the quiet part out loud, stuff like that

[lone canyon]

||okay but that was funny as hell 😭 ||

||it was so painful to watch ||

[velvet oriole]

🥺
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eSUuW--YSc4

[thin ridge]

So uh
Horrible story
[WFR] ||I read this like... Weeks after I finally acknowledged that I was gay, and at that point in my life I was still very self-hating and didn't have any good role models and didn't really have any sort of accurate idea of what being gay meant...
And then there was the pedophile.
So like... That didn't land very healthily. And I internalized it slightly. And I think it contributed to the worst mental health crisis I've ever had.
So I hate that book's guts with a burning passion.||

[keen flax]

scratches the book right off the list

I am so sorry it gave you those feelings :((

[heavy anchor]

It's mid with some very peak moments

I'll never quite forgive the universe for taking Monty away before his full vision got to be seen

[thin ridge]

Yeahhhhh
It's just not worth reading imo. Even to see if it's as bad as everyone says

I'm doing much better now though

[heavy anchor]

What book?

[thin ridge]

Wizard's First Rule

[keen flax]

OHHH it was that book??? Good gravy i should have known

[thin ridge]

Oh yeah

[keen flax]

Atrus they were trying to poison me 😔 (I didnt know who Terry goodkind was)

[ivory night]

WE ALL SAID DO NOT READ IT

[thin ridge]

Slightly more context on the [TW: CSA] ||pedophile.|| ||On-screen lusted after an eight year old boy. Admitted to raping and murdering somewhere between eighty and a hundred and twenty boys under the age of ten.
😐||

[lone canyon]

@keen flax read Ayn Rand with me

[ivory night]

lol

[lone canyon]

We need to make a bad books list for cosmic

[thin ridge]

I don't see people talking about it that often but that's the part of the book I can't get out of my head

[keen flax]

Oh okay! 🤩

[ionic lily]

Dont do it!

Its a trap!

[keen flax]

Before that! There were multiple attempts at poisoning 😌

I do enjoy being the server lab mouse though (I would never be a rat) 🥰

[ivory night]

I swear if you become an objectivist

I’m going to laugh so much

[heavy anchor]

Hm would you consider being a ferret
They're cuter and not used for science tests

[keen flax]

gasp yes

[keen flax]

Jokes on you, I dont know what that means anyway 😎✨️

[ionic lily]

rats are cute

[keen flax]

Mmm

They can be, I can accept that

[inland jetty]

I have no strong opinions on rats but I will say that the highlight of my time at walgreens was the kid who would had a rat on her shoulder every time she showed up

[ionic lily]

awww

[ivory night]

Wait y’all let them in the store????

[ionic lily]

Rats can shop too!

[inland jetty]

She was in and out fast, didn't show up often, and it never left her shoulder

[molten jetty]

🤢

[molten jetty]

Anthem is one of the worst books I’ve ever read

[ionic lily]

You actually read Rand??

[minor ledge]

Why

why are you reading ayn rand????

[novel bear]

lobotomy

[molten jetty]

For class in high school. My teacher said “research her before you read it”, the goal was to see how crazy she was, not to approve of the message

[minor ledge]

Ayn rand is one of the worst philosophers/ political theorists in history

[inland jetty]

I had to read Anthem gor high school and I was SO excited to finally see what the hubbub about her was, and develop my own opinion on.her work, and I was SO angry once I realized what the book was about and trying to say, and that people really stoof by it

[molten jetty]

Reject books about individualism, embrace books about the love we should all have for all life

[molten jetty]

Legitimately, what the book is arguing is insane

[lone canyon]

I want to see if it’s actually bad

[minor ledge]

Im big on the fact you should read a bit of theory in ideoligies that you disagree with even but you should really not read ayn rand lmao

[minor ledge]

It definetly is

[keen flax]

I feel like 3 different people saying so is convincing me 😂

[molten jetty]

People in my class read it and thought it was okay, then they discovered what the philosophy of the book actually was and hated it

I hated it from the start, having listened to my teacher and researched Rand first

Camille let’s read Dostoyevksy together instead

[lone canyon]

I want to be able to critique the theory of it independently

[lone canyon]

read war and peace with me

I keep trying and falling off

[molten jetty]

I actually started it recently

So that’s not unreasonable

[inland jetty]

Probably a conversation for #books-archive at this point

[sage forge]

So, fun fact, the year I co-Chaired World Fantasy, the Atlas Society (Rand's near-evangelical fan club) contacted us offering to donate to the book bags. That was the politest, most professional, "Oh, HECK to the no!" I think I've ever written.

It wasn't even a fantasy book they wanted to donate. Some...mystery thriller thing? I don't even know.

But me and my co- had a nice collective shudder over the whole thing.

[heavy anchor]

Ironmouse tiltify has raised over a million dollars

Absolutely incredible

[distant birch]

I hope I can find time to rewatch superman soon

[craggy birch]

Unlike my high school teacher who unironically said Atlas Shrugged was one of the best books ever written, and as young up-and-coming adults we should all read it (which I never did). I didn't learn what Ayn Rand was really all about until college, then realized how cringe it was that I had been going around thinking she was some great author for 4 years

[west escarp]

There’s an Ayn Rand group who offers college students scholarships if they read her books and write an essay

[craggy birch]

Because they know otherwise no one ever will?

[west escarp]

I’ve never figured out if she would approve or not. Free money to poor people v sales of her novels + working with an uncertain reward

[wet quest]

I tried reading Atlas Shrugged, but the only books I've read that are that long are fantasy, so I kept subconsciously waiting for the magic to start happening. It made me really uneasy, like when a theme song goes on a little too long

[buoyant scroll]

Amazing
https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1948349965148799200?t=r8uea9mJHdWJltM_afVaOw&s=19

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm)

Skeet Ulrich has been officially cast in ‘FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDYS 2’, reuniting with Matthew Lillard.

X · Jul 24, 2025, 11:50 AM

[thin ridge]

Young Royals 1.3 ||I've been reading sheet music effortlessly for so long that anytime someone my age says they can't I have a small moment of 'huh? But it's not that hard'
No it is reasonably hard to learn, I'm just really good at it.
It's even worse when an adult says it though ||
-# @steep bramble does jazz hands. We're back. Or something.

[steep bramble]

Yessss

[thin ridge]

||No, you should not forget about it.
Whatever "it" is exactly.
It's been a while since the last episode ||

Oh it's only been a month

That's not that bad

||shudders. Communal changing/shower rooms. My personalized version of hell. I know that I said that about the party but I think changing rooms are worse.||

||My guy you are down bad for him.
Wow||

YR 1.3 ||He is cute.
I don't think Wilhem is very attractive though personally.
The way he does his hair doesn't do him any favors.||

||I have ✨no idea✨ how much money that is.||

||FIVE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY SEVEN DOLLARS?
FOR AN HOUR OF MATH TUTORING?!??!??!????
WHAT||

Also there are four ad breaks in this what, fifty minute long episode?
Thank you Amazon Prime

[thin ridge]

Young Royals 1.3 ||Oh hang on I read it wrong
It's five hours for $577
That's still a lot, but it's less sadistic.||

||JUST GIVE HIM THE STARSFORSAKEN MONEY YOU ASSHOLE||

||"Never spend money you don't have"
I sense projecting O.o||

||I miss being in a choir 😭||

||"Y'know, glances and stuff"
And I wonder why I overthink every single gesture I ever make.||

||narrows eyes suspiciously
I don't like where this luncheon thing is going||

[steep bramble]

Yeah I’ve never understood the concept. Fortunately havent had to come across them irl

[steep bramble]

It gets better

I’m enjoying this commentary

[thin ridge]

I'm glad :P

||Oh dear. The Asperger's strikes.||

really I should be reading the Stormlight RPG stuff to prepare for tonight, but oh well

||GURL. THAT WAS VERY FORWARD.||

[steep bramble]

I need to rewatch this

[thin ridge]

YR 1.3 ||She just.
Walked into his room.
Just like
"Hey, wanna bang?
Girl.||

||Excuse me? Erik is DEAD?!?!??
DOES THAT MAKE WILHEM THE CROWN PRINCE?!?
WHAAAAAAAAAT||

🤯

AND THEN IT JUST ENDS??
I HAVE THINGS TO DO

I can't just keep watching 😭

[winged mountain]

just a note, it's generally best to include some reference to what your spoiler tags are about a little more often, people ideally shouldn't have to scroll up quite that far to know what the conversation is about

[thin ridge]

Point

[steep bramble]

Yeppppppp

I told you this show has a habit of ending episodes like that.

[steep bramble]

Right.

[thin ridge]

Yes but I forgot

[steep bramble]

Hahaha

Priceless reaction. Exactly what I wanted.

[minor ledge]

will this one be able to stand on its own

[thin ridge]

I struggle with shows like this and WoT mainly because I hate splitting episodes and only watching part of one, but these are long enough that I have to squeeze to get one in before work and after work I'm typically tired enough to not want to watch anything with an actual plot.
So we'll see if I can keep consistently going, because I really do enjoy it.

[turbid narwhal]

Twin peaks s2e1 ||Ben and Jerry dancing with Leland is the best scene in the show so far||

[steep bramble]

Yeah the show is great so I’d love to see you finish it

[west escarp]

Twin Peaks!!!!

https://tenor.com/view/twin-peaks-twin-peaks-time-dale-cooper-gif-27364720

[thin ridge]

Young Royals 1.4 ||SIMON'S VOICE IS SO GOOD||

||And also I feel awful for Wilhem. He just looks miserable.||

||"How are you?
"I'm ok."
No, you're not. Stop pretending.||

[steep bramble]

I mean, ||Omar is a pro singer||

[thin ridge]

||"I can't do this anymore"
Maybe, just maybe, what you need right now is one of your few actual, genuine friends. Instead of cutting him off.||

[steep bramble]

YEP

[thin ridge]

YR 1.4 ||Seriously? YOU GAVE HIM A BIGGER ROOM? ARE YOU AN IDIOT?
Oh, his brother just died and a massive responsibility he never asked for has been dumped on his head. How about you give him a CONSTANT REMINDER OF EVERYTHING THAT HAS CHANGED IN HIS LIFE?||

[steep bramble]

||Yeah. This whole situation is incredibly messed up, and poor Wille doesn't have a good support network whatsoever. His support network was Erik, and August thinks he's helping, but he's doing the exact opposite.||

[thin ridge]

||wrinkles nose
First off, straight sex. Ew. (I'm being somewhat facetious)
Second off, that did... not look very fun for Felice I gotta be honest.
Not suuuper surprised August doesn't seem very... considerate to his partner.||

||I like Sara quite a bit||

||AUGUST WHAT THE ACTUAL [REDACTED] HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU||

[steep bramble]

OH boy I have opinions about some of those statements

[steep bramble]

||That's the eternal question with this show||

[thin ridge]

||I am being hampered so hard by the swear filter right now because the things I want to say about him.||

[steep bramble]

DM me if you wahnt

[thin ridge]

Very curious about these thoughts still for the record

[steep bramble]

They're spoilery

Unfortunately

But I'll let you know when you get there

[cold sequoia]

https://x.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1948447022584922295

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm)

First look at the new ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ sequel series ‘AVATAR: SEVEN HAVENS’

• Will consist of 26 half-hour episodes over 2 seasons

• Follows Earthbending twins after a world-shattering disaster where one discovers she’s the new Avatar after Korra

X · Jul 24, 2025, 6:15 PM

[steep bramble]

Ooooo

[keen flax]

She looks so

Yeah im hyped

[frank quail]

but they could have done something really funny and made both of them the avatar

[cosmic dock]

That brooch, isn't that Aragon's

[sage forge]

Kitty!

[molten jetty]

50 percent chance this is the case

The other 50 percent is that (Korra) ||the mc or her sister is the anti-avatar from that other spirit and they hold the two spirits||

[keen flax]

That would be so funny

[small quarry]

aw dang it no modern day avatar 😔

[molten jetty]

Can’t wait to hear all the complaining that (Korra) ||Korra destroyed the world||

[keen flax]

Korra + Seven Havens speculation ||I wonder how theyre gonna make the lil baby learn the elements? Korra was basically born with 3, so how is she gonna work? 🤔||

[keen flax]

Meanwhile me: sweet vindication 🤩

I have accepted korra, really I have! This direction is still a super cool idea and I cant wait to see it (please... please dont fumble again)

[frank quail]

||Korra was weird, Aang had to learn them all one by one||

[keen flax]

||she was, I do hope there at least a LITTLE return to form, for my own sanity||

Korra ||there is a lot of mechanics that just... change in korra and now I dont know where 7havens is gonna go with theirs, if they even follow it||

||which, at this point, do whatever you want! Just make it fun, it was my fault for caring about the bending system, I know 🥰||

[heavy anchor]

||oh my fault for caring about training and the history of the avatar, never mind calling on the wisdom of your past selves ||

[keen flax]

https://tenor.com/view/br4uh-gif-24710037

[buoyant scroll]

||She still had to learn proper form and technique in the proper order (she's finishing her Firebending training at the start of the show), she was just a prodigy in how easy the act of bending those three were||

[cold sequoia]

Korra ||and notably she has trouble with air bending||

[tight dove]

https://youtu.be/dSDpoobO6yM?si=O_UBSy72XGcTDyPW

[dusk hound]

Does this server hate sequel series

I’m sick of the Korra hate 😤

[oak ivy]

||sounds like something she would do||

[oak ivy]

||the way this was resolved really didn’t work well||

[heavy anchor]

I don't hate all of it, I just have severe problems with parts of it

On the other hand I will defend season 3 until the day I die, that was fantastic

[vernal stirrup]

that looks amazing

[frail mulch]

the character in the background has airbender colors, but it's like a futuristic kind of outfit? (maybe it's the belt that gives me tha vibe) exciting.

[dusk hound]

I have some problems with Avatar tbh

But it’s still a 9/10 for me

While Korra is like a 8/10

I’ve talked before about how I didn’t like the ending much

Or at least some parts of the ending

[buoyant scroll]

The city is called Aurora, Avatar is named Pavi and their guardian is Jae

[keen flax]

Same! I will admit it has incredible bones but oooooooof the execution has a lot left to be desired imo. And the fights are pristine! thats uhh thats all I can say tbh 😂

[placid river]

This isn’t what happened. Korra general ||she could use the elements as a child but couldn’t control them. They very clearly show that she was actually trained in each element one at a time before she turned 16||

There are many valid reasons to dislike Korra, but most of the complaints about how it “changed the lore” are completely wrong if you’re actually paying attention

[sharp eagle]

I’ve always said AtLA and Korra each had different strengths. Story telling in Korra was more mature and nuanced, but the series arcs were more uneven because they took it season by season. AtLA was a tighter and more focused story but a little more simple.

[azure fern]

Korra || null didn't say she had them mastered at birth. What null said is still correct. Aang had to learn each, then he had to master them. He didn't spontaneously learn any of the elements. Heck, he didn't even know he was the avatar until he was told, same for Roku (I didn't read the novels so idk about Kyoshi or Yangchen) ||

[gritty sierra]

i hear all the criticism and yet, nothing can touch the way it felt to watch the finale. i still sometimes go and watch compilation videos of the|| korrasami "reveal"||

[sharp eagle]

If you look at them both individually instead of comparing them I think they are both excellent despite their individual flaws

Korra Finale || the korrasami reveal was INSANE to watch when it came out. No one thought they were actually going to do it. ||

[gritty sierra]

2014 was... a lifetime ago, in some ways

[sharp eagle]

10 years. A different world

[placid river]

Korra ||I think it fits her personality though, and realistically there isn’t any reason that an Avatar shouldn’t be able to access all their elements on instinct imo||

[oak ivy]

Korra all ||i think the intention was for korra to be good at the physical aspect of bending and not the spiritual, so earthbending vs being an eartbender. So i think her competency makes sense, it is just her arc does not properly follow this up||

[burnt shale]

||Korra knowing them from a young age kinda fits her personality brute force but lacking finesse || korra all

[sharp eagle]

Korra bending || they do also specify she’s a prodigy at the physical aspect of bending. I don’t think the rules are changed, she’s just an exception.

Aang learns to start with water and fire with minimal training, I do think he probably could have figured those out on his own if he wanted tbh ||

[azure fern]

I just think it's lame. No in a "it breaks canon" kind of way. It's just lame

[oak ivy]

Korra ||korra also had 10 years or targeted training and is 6 years older than aang so||

[sharp eagle]

Also I just need to say Seven Havens || I absolutely have a fanfic folder somewhere with an outline regarding earth bending twins where one is the avatar from around when Korra finished so I’m feeling a little psychic ||

[azure fern]

I don't think it's that deep, either. I just think Korra || they wanted to make the "im the avatar, deal with it" bit, and that's that ||

[sharp eagle]

Agree to disagree on that 😅

[azure fern]

Korra || I think this is irrelevant to the "she knew 3 elements at age 4" argument, no? ||

[sharp eagle]

It is relevant though to || how easily bending came to her / how hard she had to work for it, which I think is where part of this critique comes from. Even if the initial ability for 3 elements unlocked easily for her, she still put a lot of work into honing and developing the skills. ||

[dusk hound]

Avatar fight choreography is always top tier

I love it

[azure fern]

Well, maybe in overall discourse, but this conversation in this chat started with Cosmic || saying Korra was basically born with 3 and null saying Korra was weird, and that Aang had to learn all one by one, || which are both true but there's been arguments against that

[buoyant scroll]

Korra ||Thought hit me so I went to check. Meelo was 5 in season one.||

||Just an interesting data point regarding age||

||And Toph was 5 when she started. Huh.||

[keen flax]

Korra ||tbf I will admit a solid 65% of my disdain with korra's bending does come from the "im the avatar and you gotta deal with it" line 😭||

[azure fern]

I have many problems with Korra as a series, but that bit is so minor I don't even think about it

[sharp eagle]

This may be semantic so feel free to ignore but || I’m not sure the fact that Aang did learn the elements “one by one” (in that he started one at a time) means he had to do it that way. His use of firebending for example while he’s still learning water and out of sequence (before he starts earth) I think shows that the “rules” aren’t hard and fast IMO. ||

Not trying to get into a big back and forth argument. I just think it’s not as simple a position as it is sometimes phrased.

[azure fern]

I dont want to speak for nullvoid, but I read what they said to mean || Aang had to learn to use each element, he didn't know them spontaneously ||

[buoyant scroll]

||Far as I understood the sequence was about mental state and philosophy, not a magical unlocking||

[azure fern]

but if they meant something else then I agree with you

[gritty sierra]

atla/korra ||i don't have the idea in my head at all that korra just knew the elements, i believe she was taught them, just taught young||

[sharp eagle]

And I think my counterpoint to that is || he was able to start using water and fire with minimal effort and training, so I’m not sure he would have been incapable of doing so without. ||

Both are fair perspectives though, and like I said we might be getting semantic.

[azure fern]

and again, by || learn to use, I don't mean master, I mean know how to even summon the power in the first place ||

[gritty sierra]

atla ||yeah it felt easy for aang to just. do it. in that sense, i would think all avatars are the same||

[azure fern]

I agree he had an easy time, but I liked how || bending had certain specific movements, etc that need to be made, and he had to learn those before rapidly evolving ||. But yeah, this is the most nit picky complaint I can think of in terms of complaining about Korra lmao

[buoyant scroll]

||Aang isnt like, taught how to firebend. Jeong Jeong tries to teach him proper technique, but the only time he has Aang do any firebending he just hands him a burning leaf and tells him to stop the fire from spreading. Aang just makes it turn into a flame without being taught how either.||

[sharp eagle]

Like || did katara showing him her half trained moves in s1 really “unlock” his water bending, or was he always capable and just never bothered (on screen at least) to try. Which would make sense considering how he kinda runs from his identity and role as avatar. ||

[verbal lintel]

Small thing, but hey wait a minute, why she got a peg leg when Avatar is a world with established fully functional prosthetics?

Spark sparky boom man and then mass production to people Korra’s time for example

Perhaps she just too small I suppose

[buoyant scroll]

Post apocalypse

[verbal lintel]

Mmmm good point

[sharp eagle]

Seven havens || is this where I mention my OC earth avatar twin in my 2014 fanfic was also disabled 😭.

Couldn’t find my notes but did find a family tree I made for it (which doesn’t have the new avatar character on it) from 2014. ||

The amount it feels like I dreamed this has me so hyped.

[azure fern]

All good considerations, but one would beg the question of Korra || why would a 4 year old from the south pole "try" to bend fire and earth spontaneously . For Mori's point, I'd also say for Aang's firebending, he knew he had the power to do it, and had seen a lot of firebending done against him throughout S1, so that is way more palatable to me than him just 'knowing' it, even if he is the avatar ||

[keen flax]

I do agree with this! But this was my perspective with it is (atla/korra) ||being the avatar, you learn the cycle of the elements in order to better understand the balance of the world? And thats why aang screwed up with fire because he didnt go through the other steps to get it yet. Where as korra "you gotta deal with it" doesnt do that. Which, does make sense for her set up! I like that it tried to be different at the very least!||

[azure fern]

anyway, massive nit pick, Cosmic seems more passionate about this specific 'issue'

Ill give her the stage

[buoyant scroll]

||She does still actually get made to do the training in sequence||

[sharp eagle]

Right for sure. But I think Korra || does then course correct by taking 10 years to train each in order. ||

(Anyways gotta get back to work but have fun discussing fam ❤️)

[gritty sierra]

atla/korra ||i also think that i don't NEED to see the process of learning the elements to believe that they were learned? i'm totally fine picking up an avatar series with an avatar who's already been through the training and knows the elements. aang was trained in the elements by 12, korra was trained by 17 or whatever. there are avatar stories to be told after those trainings||

[keen flax]

Mmm fair! ||I wish we saw it happen at the very least instead of a time cut, I liked watching aang work with each person to learn them in his own way (especially fire bending, man that episode is fantastic)||

Ahhh and thats where we differ, and thats okay!

[gritty sierra]

atla/korra ||and in fact the more avatar series we get, the LESS i want to continually see a story of repeat training the cycle||

||i saw aang do it, i get it, i'm good. what else can a story about an avatar be||

[azure fern]

|| I definitely didn't care about not seeing the training, I also thought it would've been uneeded screen time, specially considering the serie's length ||

[sharp eagle]

Kinda like with mistborn || we see Vin go on her “learning the metals” arc so it feels like progress for Wax to start fully trained ||

[wet quest]

Avatar Three just got it's name
Fire and Ash

[azure fern]

the only thing I care a very tiny bit about was the || spontaneous knowing of her avatardom ||

emphasis on tiny bit

[buoyant scroll]

Seven Havens ||I definitely expect the whole, being blamed for the apocalypse thing is gonna throw a wrench in stuff||

[sharp eagle]

I always assumed that was inferred from the || instinctually bending the elements thing ||.

But emphasis noted!

[cold sequoia]

Korra ||I think the show runners made the right choice in making Air the only element we saw much training of since we missed getting to see Aang do that ||

[azure fern]

agree

I was so hyped Book 1 was || Air back when this was coming out ||. Felt like the perfect continuation and I was perfectly aligned with || We've seen the training of all the other 3 elements, so now it's air time! ||

[thin ridge]

Young Royals 1.5 ||I really, really like the friendship that Felice and Sara are developing. I'm desperately hoping it doesn't go sideways horribly because it's so wholesome 😭||

[dusk hound]

BASED

The Rock trying to become the main character of DC was the weirdest thing ever

[topaz oyster]

Poor Shazam though

Shazam is fun

Sucks that somehow they're getting lumped together

[keen flax]

Is his "i cant lose" clause like... a real thing in his contracts?? 😂

[midnight compass]

https://tenor.com/view/monty-python-and-now-for-gif-5780059

[dusk hound]

I’m pretty sure

[midnight compass]

Ah dangit the conversation already moved onto something different

Anyway have this
Language warning
https://youtu.be/G7OCKYZjOcY?si=2RxWObjIx9afRZXE

[dusk hound]

First Shazam movie was actually really good I thought

[midnight compass]

I gotta watch Legend of Vox Machina before this comes out...

[thin ridge]

YR 1.5 ||This is significantly more sexual than I would be at all comfortable with this early in a relationship, but hey whatever feels right for them.
Does feel a little weird though. Especially after Heartstopper.||

||YES. GOOD JOB SARA.
Telling her was a good move.||

[steep bramble]

Did I miss any comments in all this other discussion?

[steep bramble]

Yeah its a very different vibe

[thin ridge]

Nope that was it

[steep bramble]

ok good

[thin ridge]

Young Royals 1.5 ||DON'T DO DRUGS, KIDS.
No like seriously this is a terrible situation.||

[steep bramble]

It really is

||They're silly teenagers with too much social pressure.||

[azure fern]

There's also a LoVM S4 sneak peak 🤤

And yes, you should really watch it. I'm suspect to say but it's so good

[thin ridge]

Yeah
||I have to be on four separate medications to function as a human being. It sucks.
I have no desire to add anything more to that.||

[azure fern]

I really need to run from these meetings so I can watch these teasers

[steep bramble]

https://youtu.be/82xS4goDWZY?si=LqEEZNvGiE1rW-f7

[placid river]

Don’t quote me on this but I’ve heard that a lot of action stars have contracts like this (or used to), since being “badass” is part of their brand

[keen flax]

Ohhhh okay! That makes it a lil less silly tbf

[frail mulch]

wasn't that part of his beef with Vin Diesel and how the Fast and Furious films with them had to have a certain number of punches/fight scenes they win etc.

aha. https://www.looper.com/1508941/fast-and-furious-stars-fight-scenes-contract-clause/

[lone canyon]

It tried to be something avatar wasn’t good at (political commentary) and failed at embracing what actually made avatar good (the found family dynamics)

I’ve realized half of what I like about shows is a tight knit cast with interesting dynamics

[keen flax]

I do wish we got to spend more time with korras group of buddies (they had a name what were they called?? Krew???)

[azure fern]

yes

even the fan group name is worse

[tight dove]

the Korang :clueless:

[buoyant scroll]

I think they're just Team Avatar in the actual show

[azure fern]

The Krew vs The Fearsome Foursome

Come on now

wait

wrong name

[keen flax]

The what soia?? 😂

[azure fern]

I mixed things up

[keen flax]

Who are the fearsome foursome, I wanna know now

[azure fern]

Used Korra's fan name with Aang's in-universe name

and you call your self an atla fan

Im disappointed, Cosmic

severely disappointed

[keen flax]

Thats what they called them??? I had only heard gaang this is so funny 🤣

[azure fern]

Gaang is the fan name

Gaang vs Krew

official name is still tbd, but there are some options

Team Avatar is one of them, Fearsome Foursome is another

and my favorite: The BoomerAang Squad

[keen flax]

Today I learned 🤔

[azure fern]

Cosmic ...

pls

S2E13

[keen flax]

....its been a minute 😂

[azure fern]

wanna do a watchalong together ?

it's about that time of the year for me

[keen flax]

👀👀👀👀👀

Say [REDACTED] less

[azure fern]

its also been some time since my last watch

[keen flax]

I havent seen it since it came on Netflix 🤔

[azure fern]

yeah, I think about the same for me

but Im still disappointed you don't know the things Im referencing above

tsk tsk

[keen flax]

😔

Ill make up for it dont worry

[azure fern]

I think I've watched it end to end ... 4 times? Then an ungodly amount of reactions

and OA of course

and other video essays

[lone canyon]

Even the show basically forgot about them

[frank quail]

sorry, my mother came round for dinner
I've read back and I think I agree (Korra) ||it's really to combination of "you've gotta deal with it" and the time skip that rubs me the wrong way. If they'd just jumped straight to "Korra goes to the City", I'd probably have a better impression||

[lone canyon]

Korra is also just a very… difficult protagonist and she never really grows enough

[cosmic dock]

https://x.com/updatespercy/status/1948458681261060100?s=46

Percy Jackson News (@updatespercy)

#PercyJackson & The Olympians Season 2 trailer has been released!

X · Jul 24, 2025, 7:02 PM

[azure fern]

this still is so funny

just a casual viking in the background looking menacing

[cosmic dock]

I don't quite care enough about PJO to get the twitter embed working

[keen flax]

Korra ||Mako and Bolin had such potential to be interesting and almost nothing is ever done with it, its so sad 😔 I loved their set up and them being poor and not knowing their roots well but mako is the biggest sack of wasted potential i have ever seen||

[lone canyon]

||they were kinda discarded after s1||

[burnt shale]

oh the korra discourse is still going

[keen flax]

Someone keeps adding on another thing 😂

-# its me im someone

[cosmic dock]

Korra ||It is as unending as the cycle of avatars. Wait...||

[inland jetty]

Korra ||My thoughts on Korra are that I haven't seen it yet and wanted to make a joke. Something sometihng popping bottles||

Between this huge convo and the avatar pbta game I might get to play in though, i think my odds of finally watching Avatar are going up

[azure fern]

Wait...

[keen flax]

Have you not seen the original, heat?? 👀

[burnt shale]

HEAT!!!!

Someone get some rope and a chair

[azure fern]

you said you haven't seen Korra...but are you saying you haven't seen Atla either?

[steep bramble]

#1364954411582885899 message

In YouTube.

[inland jetty]

I watched the original a bit as a kid, but like many I just sorta stopped after the time slot change for book 2 onwards

[azure fern]

are you like me and your recollection of it is just "there were the 4 elements and some cool fighting" ?

[cosmic dock]

Ah nice, thanks

[inland jetty]

I got to see a few episodes here and there (Ember island players, sparky sparky boom boom boom man, some Toph stuff, the first half of the finale, "there is no war in ba sing se"), but I only, like, know book 1

[azure fern]

cause what you described is exactly my experience until I actually sat down to watch it when I was around 21

[cosmic dock]

There is no war in Ba Sing Se

[azure fern]

ok, you certainly watched more than I did

I didn't watch any S3 stuff when I was a kid

[keen flax]

This is so funny because when I was 9 I had the show memorized basically 😂

[azure fern]

I didn't even watch the eps in order when I was a kid

[keen flax]

I remember when it came on nicktoons, it had like fun facts airing during the episodes...

[naive mica]

God they're already so much older

[azure fern]

wait

I wasn't a "kid" lmao

[inland jetty]

I've got it on bluray! By which I mean one of the previous roommates left it behind because she had to get out of town fast because the bad roommate in the house has always been bad

[cold sequoia]

one thing about the new Avatar show, it's funny that it looks kind of like Roshar given the Korra world was kind of like Era 2 Mistborn

[azure fern]

I thought I was much younger the first time I watched this on tv, but I was 15

[thin ridge]

Young Royals 1.5 ||Welp. August just got ✨ worse ✨
Thanks for outing them after Wilhem fixed your tuition problem for you...||

[azure fern]

it does feel like a more distant memory though, maybe cause I only watched it sporadically

[inland jetty]

I remember watching the season 1 finale when I was still living in michigan, which tells me I was no older than 10

[azure fern]

It'd be physically impossible for me to be younger than 15 lol

[thin ridge]

||I think Sara is my favorite character. She's got so much personality and is more genuine than anyone else in the show.||

[inland jetty]

Okay you know what, screw it. Shower, pop some popcorn, lets do Avatar

[keen flax]

YESS!! XD

Get ready to experience peak

[steep bramble]

Yeah they released a promo months ago and the shock from Walker’s
voice changing killed me.

[steep bramble]

I told you so

[azure fern]

I was gonna invite heat to our watchalong, but I don't want to disrupt the efficiency with which they've decided to start this

[steep bramble]

https://www.instagramez.com/p/DMgJe-LyX4c/?

ummmm guys, they cast the DiAngelos. I’m going to die.

Percy Jackson (@percyseries)

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Meet the di Angelo siblings.

🏹 Levi Chrisopulos is Nico di Angelo
🏹 Olive Abercrombie is Bianca di Angelo

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[keen flax]

Nico looks like a sweetie pie omg Bianca does too but oh hes a lil baby

[burnt shale]

Levi looks to full of joy to be nico but olive looks about right

[steep bramble]

I think it’s perfect for early Nico, and there’s no way they weren’t doing this without knowing he’d be able to act thw hell out of what’s coming.

[naive mica]

Oh my heart

[steep bramble]

I know I’m crying

[naive mica]

My

My childhood

[steep bramble]

Yes

[naive mica]

[steep bramble]

[cosmic dock]

Oh I forgot LMM is in this

[azure fern]

Lovm S4 teaser + CR1 || They are actually doing Tary? I honestly didn't think they would ||

[inland jetty]

Oh, is there something a bit more structures planned? I could do that instead

[azure fern]

there isn't, I just off-handedly invited Cosmic to do a watch along cause she clearly doesn't have the show memorized like she claimed

but this was like an hour ago, there's no plan

don't wait on us, go watch peak pls

[inland jetty]

Okay, but if this doesn't match the intensity and payoff of the Duct Tape Death Match I'm holding it against both of you

[keen flax]

Tbf I said I had it memorized when I was 9 😂

[inland jetty]

I'm also not gonna like, hardcore binge it, I'm doing two episodes tonight and I'll try to do two more every week or so

[keen flax]

Thats honeslty not a bad pace

[frail mulch]

immediately took me out of the scene in s1, because instead of seeing ||Hermes|| he's just... LMM, sitting there to talk to Percy

[steep bramble]

Yeah

[dusk hound]

Well I have free time

Now watching:

[keen flax]

YESS 🤩

[wet quest]

I've heard it's mid

[keen flax]

Sweet and utter vindication- oh 🫢

[azure fern]

Agreed, agreed, my last watch through I definitely didn't watch all of S3 in the same day. What?

HOLD ON

MN IS COMING NOV 19TH??

https://tenor.com/view/dies-cat-dead-died-gif-13827091

[thin ridge]

Young Royals 1.6 ||wrinkes nose
Sara why
I maybe don't like where her arc is going||

[keen flax]

WAIT. MN AS IN MOON KNIGHT?????

[steep bramble]

I was wondering what you'd think

[azure fern]

no... lmao