This Does Help Explain Why People Keep Getting Away With Impersonating Him, Though

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In other news, detective novels occasionally contain mysteries. I wonder where the Publishing Company found all those writers so familiar with the source material. It's a real puzzler.

Every single Star Trek novel makes Spirk canon.

Every. Single. One

From Planet of Judgement

I love a sketch that does this; at first it's funny, you immediately get the bit. Then it keeps going and it's REALLY funny. Then they bring THAT ONE PHRASE where you lose it. Then we see it double down, the coworkers, and you think 'well, that's it, that's peak comedy right there,' and then, if you're really lucky, you're wrong. The ending somehow, someway, spins it sideways, takes it up to 11, and tops itself all over again.

The trick is to specifically cultivate this cycle such that the interest-fields of one fandom rest and lie fallow just when another comes ready for harvest >:D

i feel like being in a fandom long-term has a very specific repetitive cycle that kind of looks like this

Reblogging for that tag; I, too, aspire to use media for nefarious homosexual purposes XD

THE FINAL PROBLEM - part 3 of many - part 1 - part 2 - "It was with some surprise, therefore, that I saw him walk into my consulting-room upon the evening of April 24th. It struck me that he was looking even paler and thinner than usual."

This is in the Watson's Sketchbook series!

I feel it must depend on your definition of salad, which at its broadest (a dish made of ingredients tossed together and/or suspended in jello) can be stretched to cover literally any food.

if you could only ever eat soup or salad for the rest of your life, which would you pick?

-@the-best-of-waynes

Soup, there's a variety of soups and if i had to choose one it would be tomato soup my Dad's recipe

@lieutenant-gordon

A fantastic poem on an infuriating phenomenon; arguing in good faith does not guarantee a correct consensus

just because someone can articulate their point better doesn’t make them right, it makes them articulated. 

Folks, backup your Tumblrs, for real this time

I'll always maintain that this is the best duel in the series (manga or anime). Why? TLDR: narrative/trope subversion (and he is a MASSIVE bitch)

In a format where conclusions tend to be forgone it managed actual suspense. Practically no one, in-universe or out, expected Joey/Jou to win. Sure, his True Friends TM are rooting for him, but this is clearly a mismatch. Marik(extra spicy edition) is at this point undefeated and Joey won his last two tournament duels on technicalities, punching above his weight class via sheer grit.

As the audience, we KNOW he can't win. Joey is the Lancer; narratively it would make no sense for him to beat what is clearly a final arc boss. The Lancer is here to put up enough of a fight to make the Hero, Yugi, look extra cool when he beats Marik later.

We all know it's just supposed to be Joey putting up a good fight, but damn, what a fight! Stakes much more visceral than usual, turnabout after turnabout as the tides shift and we wonder if this is the one that ends the duel. All the while we get to see the snark on full and glorious display against an opponent outraged to even have to dirty his hands against someone other than the protagonist.

The big, properly climactic finishing shot…and then the reveal that Joey’s still standing. He’s won. Against all odds, and with strategy instead of luck. Everyone can see it. Even the thus-far unflappable Marik is reeling, because that was not supposed to happen. This narratively-doomed punching bag that spent the whole duel irreverently heckling was not supposed to be able to back it up.

And THEN Joey falls. He gets to have his victory and fill his role in the plot, all without undermining Marik’s threat. If anything, it makes the Bad Guy even more despicable and intimidating, since he’s clearly willing to cheat with magic murder powers if the cards don’t fall his way. Joey has all the best personal motivation, and free rein to be much more of a bitch than either protagonist (stoic and sweetheart as they are). We want him to win, we know that’s not what’s best for the story, and we get to have our cake and eat it too. With a LARGE side of ham

big fan of how much of a bitch he is

A bummer of a concept, a banger of a term

Totally stealing "neofeudalism"

How do they keep making later and later stages of late-capitalism