Nintendo: In Mario Odyssey, Mario can ‘capture’ enemies! But don’t worry, they only get a little dazed afterwards and aren’t hurt! Also you usually can’t capture anyone wearing a hat, so your powers are limited to certain things.

The fucking internet, frothing at the mouth: hes a demon, a body snatcher… gonna take over everything!11! hes gonna possess (X character that wears a hat and thus can’t be captured)!!! theyre all gonna die!!! we have never actually seen gameplay footage of this game and thus have no real understanding of this joke

Me, an intellectual: aha so clearly Mario is a heart player in this game

Look guys, I don’t want to name names or cause any unnecessary drama, but you know when you see some fanart and you can tell the artist really loves the characters and some deep part of them connects emotionally with their story and it shows in their treatment of the material? I love that.

stormsbourne:

jake english is such a fascinating character. he’s a shrinking coward who refuses to deal with any level of confrontation, even if that level of confrontation is as little as a disagreement or “I’m not comfortable right now” because he’s terrified of upsetting people. but he also has a deeply selfish side of him, which is part and parcel with being a coward. jake “doesn’t want to upset anybody,” but it’s only partially out of concern for their feelings. part of it is because he doesn’t want to have to deal with it. he doesn’t want to own up to his own flaws. he doesn’t want to have to admit to wrongdoing or cowardice.

jake doesn’t know how to reconcile his selfishness – which isn’t exactly the core of his character, but it’s a factor – with his desire to help people, his desire to be liked and have friends. he doesn’t know how to get what he wants and also not upset people, so he takes the path of less resistance in quiet hopes that he’ll get what he wants anyway. he hopes jane quietly lets her crush on him drop, because he doesn’t want to be with her. he hopes roxy has let her feelings for him (which he also knows about) go, because he’s scared of how they complicate things between them. he hopes accepting dirk’s advances will lead to a relationship that’s best for both of them without much work on his part.

selfishness has a lot of forms. not every kind of selfishness is outright manipulation and abusiveness, but plenty of people are selfish in some way. they prioritize themselves over others, or refuse to listen to truths that might inconvenience them, like jane. they expect their assistance and advice to be honored and repaid and to earn them easy respect and validation, or aggressively do things their friends have asked them to quit, like roxy. they think their opinions and outlooks are the most reliable and they shouldn’t have to explain themselves to other people, like dirk.

they refuse to own up to their mistakes or to say the things they really want because they don’t want to be a disappointment. or they quietly hope things will work out despite them never saying their feelings, expecting everyone else to just put what they want aside and let his own dreams take the lead. like jake english.

I love the alphas BECAUSE they’re such flawed, confusing, frustrating, selfish people. all of them. even jake. even jake’s tricksterdom bow-to-everyone instinct is a form of selfishness, because it’s about making people happy for his own convenience. it’s about making people like him, not about really giving them what they want. jake wants to be loved in a selfish way. and that’s great. that’s part of why he’s so fascinating.

(1/2) Re: your “Jake isn’t an idiot” response, I want to comment on one detail, when you say Jake expresses interest in all his friends. Jake said he’d consider things in a conversation with Jane deep in his persona, but when talking to Roxy, he slips and admits, “Wait would this be about certain unrequited pinings you may have alluded to earlier?” The key word, of course, is calling Jane’s feelings ‘unrequited.’

(2/2) He also is uncomfortable when Roxy seems to flirt with him (TG: eeaauuuuurghh you are so fuckin adorable / GT: Um… wrings at kerchief with perspiring mittsNEW //// and then again with TG: im totals your bee eff effsy jake / TG: i am like / TG: AT PEACE with that reality fromerly known as a raw fuckin deal for what avenues it closes betewen u and i that bein your bffsy has got to mean but yeah / GT: Wait what?) He definitely isn’t attracted to Jane, and probably doesn’t want Roxy either.

When I say Jake wants all his friends, I don’t mean to suggest he wants them all equally. In his right mind, understanding the nuances and demands of intense emotional relationships, Jake consistently, constantly prioritizes the idea of being with Dirk over Jane or Roxy. Dirk is who Jake wants to be dating when he’s in control.

But Jake does say himself he’s fancied the idea of relationships with all of them, and I don’t really think that’s very unlikely. There’s a difference between fancying someone/finding them attractive and reciprocating their intense emotional feelings. Jake feels the former for all his friends, and that shines through in a situation where all of their sexual instincts are put into overdrive (and where it gives him an easy peasy way to make everyone “happy”, conflict free!).

He does not feel the latter for all of them, though–on that front, he specifically wants Dirk.

not-lame-maya:

I think I relate to Shoot more than any character in this show bc this is what I think on a daily basis

hatsunexyz:

illogical-bullshit:

hummingbird-hooligan:

urbancatfitters:

hummingbird-hooligan:

urbancatfitters:

slytherin-starkid-of-tardis:

urbancatfitters:

everyone is embarrassed of their fourteen year old self trust me if you’re fourteen right now you will regret whatever it is that you are doing at this moment

What, being a SuperWhoLockian, Tumblrian, and just being generally pretty good? I don’t think so.

screenshot this and look at it in 3 years

Wow holy shit guys, it’s been approximately 5 years and I’m drunk enough to not regret finally acknowledging this
Surprise surprise, I was that kid
I know the above is the most cringy 14 year old thing to say, but hot damn y’all I was a child and I had just found an online community of people where being a fucking nerd was “hella cool” and oh my god I was having a blast, and with my new fragile self confidence I decided to say “no I don’t regret what I’m doing/what I like right now at this moment because I don’t hate myself and that’s pretty neat!” And y’all remember 2012-2013 tumblr that shit was absolutely cringy, I was just repeating phrases I’d heard. But then, it got turned into a “laugh at the child” and then I got dozens upon dozens of hate messages and my confidence about literally everything got shattered
I had messages telling me to kill myself and messages calling me a snowflake and an idiot and a c*nt and all those other words that are meant to hurt you. Even years after I changed my URL, I’d get a sinking pit in my stomach whenever I’d see this post go around again because I knew I’d get those three or four snide anons asking “so do you regret it?”
And yes I absolutely do, fuck off
So yeah, I was a stupid tumblr kid and probably shouldn’t have commented
But I didn’t deserve the onslaught of hateful messages
So now y’all know, it’s me
Surprise, or whatever

hello! I’m sorry for dragging you through the mud in the first place. seventeen-year-old me was not as evolved as she thought, which I’m sure is a surprise to no one. there were absolutely tons of comments exactly like yours, but it got singled out just because I was going through a sarcastically-responds-to-comments phase and I happened to see it. I’ve heard people use this post as an example of how young teens are stupid & don’t know anything, and I’m sorry that you became the poster child of that patronizing and invalidating idea.

sidenote, who the FUCK calls a 14 yr old a c*nt & tells them to kill themselves??

Thank you for commenting, op ❤ I really don’t blame you at all for what you said, I want to call out my 14 year old self just as badly lmao
But I really appreciate the overwhelming positive response to this
I’d hope we can sort of grow as a community from this, but I won’t get my hopes up lol

Holy shit this went so much better than I expected.

We’ve waited five years for this!

hilarious-war:

yaoibutts:

Anonymous Asked:

Real life adventurer jake english with his trusty camera man and producer dirk strider

i kind of accidentally interpreted “adventurer” as “wildlife expert”… so this is like some sort of steve irwin type shit????? idk mang

“Have a gander at this little bugger!!! Let me tell you a tad about the sloth…”

oiufdoiguposdf

landofsomethingsomething:

the cool thing about reading and analyzing a body of text is that there are multiple ways to interpret it and not everyone has to agree. entire diverging philosophies and schools of thought can be applied to every text under the sun and you’ll get a different result. esp if you believe in death of the author. I find it useful and enlightening when reading fandom meta to pay close attention to whether the person discoursing seems like they are more interested in explaining why they feel the way they do about something, or in tearing down people who disagree with them. When you start paying attention to who is saying “I find this interesting and for whatever reason it inspires me to create content” vs those who are saying “the people espousing opinions that differ from mine are bad and wrong and bad” it can be a p interesting exercise.

I personally prefer my experience within fandom to be a positive one that encourages content creators b/c it’s actually very easy and simple to curate my experience to include things I like and exclude things that upset me without feeling the need to attack ppl who identify with things differently than I do, interpret things differently, or have opposing interests. idk. food for thought

offscreen dialogue i made for that update with the strider boys that literally wouldve been the best thing since canned bread

weirdmageddon:

(please dont tag as st/ri/derc//est or anything of the like you absolute Barbarians. these bros are just letting shit thats been internalized for years go and just got finished spilling pent up frustrations. if you do i will hunt you down amigo.

cause i know. i Know if i dont put this here im gonna get some weirdos tagging this with shit this isnt supposed to be. let these two comfort each other without it having to turn into a Whole Thing.

the gravity falls fandom has left me paranoid.

i cant believe i actually have to put this notice here ffs. fuck im rambling again. sorry. anyway)

listen just two pages of an awkward hug werent enough. dave goddamn needed this shit so badly
(after this string of pages from that upd8)