“Last time I helped you, you brought me into a suicide mission… I can’t just sneak into a Reaper party and steal an I Win bomb!”
On the contrary Katsumi…
And then the Reaper Party heist was the true ME3 ending and it was amazing. You have to seduce the king of the Reapers and it’s super intense.
MS Paint because screw it, it looks funnier this way.
(I regret nothing)
Is it just me or does every bender in the Legend of Korra seem a lot weaker than the benders in The Last Air bender…it makes me sad.
I think that’s a part of the show. Like the idea that the widespread industrialization of bending and the loss of the spirit/soul of bending in this world has kinda lead to a decrease in overall power. The world feels more powerful, but the individual people lack the mental power and discipline necessary to really be excellent benders.
They feel sloppy and weaker for sure, but again, I think that’s intentional.
Hopefully, we’ll see our crew get into the more spiritual elements of bending, which will make them more powerful.
Fan Fiction I’m working on that acts as a behind-the-scenes / parallel to the Homestuck canon. The most recent Homestuck updates paint the Troll Empress as rather immature and incompetent, at least when it comes to the small things. Since Lord English has been named as her “Boss”, it felt fair to assume that the bigger stuff was thanks for the Demon himself.
If you want to read about the Ancestors, the Empress as a teen/young adult, or any of the above sounds interesting, please read!
(and share with your friends maybe???)
So obviously the reason that Toph could bend metal is that she had the power necessary to locate the impurities and “earth” inside the metal. Probably the reason that earthbenders before her hadn’t thought to do that was that they didn’t have the pure power she had necessary to cause changes in the metal with such small impurities, and they didn’t have the power necessary to feel the earth.
So what makes the metalbenders in LoK able to reliably metalbend?
Obviously Toph’s teachings made it easier for them to sense the impurities in the metal and metalbend reliably, but I’m not convinced that any of the Republic City Metalbenders could do the crazy stuff that Toph did in the later part of TLA.
This is where the headcanon comes in. I’m pretty sure that the metal that the metalbenders use (chains, department doors) are made with a certain amount of increased and concentrated impurity that makes it easier for them to manipulate. This explains why it’s so easy for them to move around the metal chains that Toph originally had to concentrate on to find the earth inside.
I’m mostly just saying this because I want Toph to continue to be the greatest Earthbender in the World, and this is the only way I’m comfortable with there being other metalbenders.
Guys guys. I made some Pages of Hope.
Someone please stop me.
Community has always been about dancing around genre conventions and being super meta, but this has gone farther than I’d ever dream of a prime-time NBC comedy going. It’s complex and intelligent, and while it’s not perfect, especially when it comes to pacing, I’m still really really impressed.
Awww…and then I got surprised when the episode ended.
This long-plot thing is really risky, even for Community, and while it’s making something really good, it regrettably means that the episodes drop a little in quality…
mpreg-isnt-an-emotion-manichu:
bluh making up these job-class-name-things is hard
Chivalriders, Palajousters, Paladamners, Cavannhiliators, Cavalreapers (this one is from the comic), Chasseuradicators, Dragoobliterators.
(Source: butts-isnt-an-emotion-asshat)
Megan Gantz, one of the writers of Community, posted this picture on Twitter and I’m obsessed with it. It’s a dry erase board and notecards used to chart out the story for last week’s episode of Community. I want to learn from this.
The circle on the right is Dan’s common structure for every episode. I don’t know if you saw it, but he did an interview for Wired back in September, where he talked about the steps he goes through to write.
Here’s that circle, labeled:
Me: Do you want to go talk to the Convict we picked up last time? That girl who hates Miranda?
Mom: The bitch? Definitely.
Me: Alright, let’s get her upgrade first. Looks like her suggestion is to build a brain implant that will make her a stronger fighter.
Mom: That doesn’t sound like a…
I love that your mom gave basically the exact same responses to you that Jack gave me later in the game when I kept trying to talk to her as Fem!Shep (I don’t need friends, stop talking to me I’m not a lesbian).
have you guys ever realized that rose will imitate the puns the trolls make. like she made a cat pun to nepeta and she started to use fish puns while she was talking to eridan
i just think it’s kind of cute and funny
She does similar stuff with Dave, referencing his comics (though all the character do that), and playing wordgames with him, especially in their dreambubble conversation when Rose is flying to the Green Sun.
I think part of it is a secret love that Rose has of wordplay, and writing in particular (her wizard writing being a manifestation of that), as well as her tendency to psychoanalyze everyone (what better way to make your patients comfortable and get into their heads than to emulate their speaking style?).
