Me After Listeningto TMAGP 20: Hah! Who Would Be That Obsessed With Views And Likes? How Shallow Of Ink5oul!

Me after listeningto TMAGP 20: hah! Who would be that obsessed with views and likes? How shallow of Ink5oul!

Tumblr: Here's a timeline and graph of how little attention you got over the past week. Loser.

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I feel like Jonny Sims just said ‘Oh? You liked the two Darrens? You miss the Michaels? Here’s two Roberts talking to each other and neither of them are Robert Smirk

The background detail about how the absurd jockeying, politicking, and posthumous stunts at the post-endbringer funeral services forced the cape community to come up with the most non-denominational, non-specific memorial monument possible in order to avoid a media clownshow every three months, and that they’ve now got a warehouse full of these obelisks ready to get inscribed with the names of the fallen and deployed at the attack sites before the fires are completely out- this is, not exactly parody, but it is, like. Deeply deeply deeply fucking funny. 

Tragic! And an excellent synedoche for the larger co-ordination problems and ingrained cynical fatalism facing the setting. But also darkly funny, and in a way enabled by the logic of the superhero tropes in play even though it’s hard to read it as an attack on any specific trope.

“I’m not getting enough details here to paint a picture.  I trust the hell out of you, but I’m not sure this is you, Taylor.”

I pocketed my phone, then reached into my belt.  I hesitated for an instant, then pressed my hand to my chest for long seconds.  I knew I didn’t have time to spare, but…  no.  I didn’t have time to spare.

I opened a portal twenty feet above Tattletale, then opened my hand.  The little tube of pepper spray dropped through the portal.  Tattletale caught it.

“You couldn’t have made it easy?”  Tattletale asked, looking down at it. 

No costume required just T Pose like a boss.

Byron and Tristan got real lucky in the Fallen Raid, because both of their costumes could be mistaken for Fallen Aesthetics (Leviathan and Behemoth)

“I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.”

— Henry James, after a request by the Times Literary Supplement to cut three lines from a 5,000 word article (via annadevries)