Most of the dialogue in this show is even shittier than I remember it being, but occasionally there’s a gem like this line
Gentrified food snacks
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ALTrecently watched this fresh hot new anime called fullmetal alchemist: brotherhood for the first time and i absolutely loved it! also these two made me deeply unwell (positive)
What the fuck are these fucking badges, I was only gone for like five months
Anonymous asked:
yeah your a wizard femboy but are you normal about people with npd or do you unironically use narc as an insult. like come on are you serious rn
sev-wildfang answered:
ALThope this helps.
I leave tumblr, get nostalgic, and come back to this. Jesus Christ what
I started rewatching the sleepy hollow show on a whim last night and had a knee jerk “oh no poor horsie” reaction when I saw the horseman had somehow turned a horse into a spooky demon horse with red eyes. Seemed like the horse had no choice in the matter, of course
But then I remembered
It’s a horse.
My horse, if given the chance to be an unholy creature of evil, would be delighted
Went and saw welcome to night vale live yesterday! I don’t listen to the podcast anymore really, but I bought a ticket on a whim for nostalgia a couple months back, and I’m glad I did. I kept thinking about how cool this would’ve been for twenty-one year old me, I would’ve died to do that back in the day. It was a really fun throwback (and it hits different now that I live in Weirdass Desertville™)
I think the theme for the rest of 2023 should be “do shit/appreciate shit in 2023 that 2013 me would’ve died over having the privilege to do”
I know it’s been ages since I’ve posted, but I had to come back on here and acknowledge…
for the first time in 20 years
Force ghost anakin skywalker appeared on screen
In a real star war
and somehow I was not expecting it at all and it was like I was suddenly emotionally body-checked by a Feelings Linebacker
Yes, yes I cried during the 5th so and haven’t been able to watch it again, it was so good… but this… this fucking avatar of mine became so core to my online personality for so many goddamn years. It’s been my phone background, my desktop background, my pop socket had one on there for a while… sometimes I forget that there are people out there on twitter and other apps that don’t know me with that avatar as an identity
And I haven’t been very Star Wars-y this year, I’ve been so stressed about my horse and her illness and other dumb stuff happening in my life… and for a minute there, when he popped up in the corner of my eye at the bottom of the screen, I didn’t understand why I felt like I’d been hit by a small train. It took a moment for my brain to catch up.
So I thought I’d celebrate this little milestone with y’all, because you’re the only ones who’d really understand. It feels like a wholeass goddamn stone door just closed on a chapter of my life. Fucking wild. It all comes back around.
STARTED FROM THE BOTTOM NOW WE’RE HERE
I know it’s been ages since I’ve posted, but I had to come back on here and acknowledge…
for the first time in 20 years
Force ghost anakin skywalker appeared on screen
In a real star war
and somehow I was not expecting it at all and it was like I was suddenly emotionally body-checked by a Feelings Linebacker
Yes, yes I cried during the 5th so and haven’t been able to watch it again, it was so good… but this… this fucking avatar of mine became so core to my online personality for so many goddamn years. It’s been my phone background, my desktop background, my pop socket had one on there for a while… sometimes I forget that there are people out there on twitter and other apps that don’t know me with that avatar as an identity
And I haven’t been very Star Wars-y this year, I’ve been so stressed about my horse and her illness and other dumb stuff happening in my life… and for a minute there, when he popped up in the corner of my eye at the bottom of the screen, I didn’t understand why I felt like I’d been hit by a small train. It took a moment for my brain to catch up.
So I thought I’d celebrate this little milestone with y’all, because you’re the only ones who’d really understand. It feels like a wholeass goddamn stone door just closed on a chapter of my life. Fucking wild. It all comes back around.
the genius of megamind (beyond the obvious genius ofc) is that it's superman parody actually presents a genuinely unsettling depiction of the "hero" that I like wayyy better than "what if superman was evil" or "what if superman was wrong"... it's "what if superman didn't care"
I wouldn’t say he “didn’t care” more like he was burnt out
He played the role since he was a child and now is in his what 30s? 40s?
He knew there was never any real danger with Megamind in charge so decided to pursue something that’s a passion and doesn’t come naturally easy to him
but it was still a dick move
One of the things that always jumped out to me about this reveal is that it implies that Metro Man was also the very first person to recognize that MegaMind wasn’t really evil. He knew his nemesis wouldn’t actually hurt anyone if he won, he knew that this universally reviled pariah never really had any more choice than he did.
The rest of Metro City treats MegaMind like a real, sincere, serious threat once he’s unopposed, and it takes them a while to learn otherwise. But Metro Man? He’s not surprised to see him and Roxanne working together, he doesn’t act like there’s any kind of threat beyond his cover being blown. He wastes no time in coming clean once the cat’s out of the bag. He’s been working with this guy all his life. Besides his own mental health, I get the impression that he also recognized that this would be good for MegaMind too.
I just really love how in a superhero pastiche that asks “Is the villain really so bad, and the hero really so good?” the answer is “no, but that’s okay”. It’s okay that Metro Man isn’t a paragon. It’s okay that he has to take care of himself. It’s okay for him to step down and live his own life. It wouldn’t be okay for him to leave people in danger, but it’s pretty clear he knew he wasn’t doing that.
And it carries to the end. MegaMind becomes the city’s new protector, but it’s clear that he’s still got some issues to work through, and he’s getting help working through them. He’s got a support network, he’s willing to put in the effort, but he’s not the shining paragon Metro Man was believed to be. And he doesn’t NEED to be that paragon. He’s still good. He’s still protecting people. And he’s not alone in it.
God, there’s just so many shitty “Superheroes would have character flaws too, and that’s why they’d actually suck” deconstructions floating around, it’s nice to see a story that acknowledges that no one can live up to that kind of role, but that’s okay!
