where's your bulb now?

if I can be so fr with you guys one of my biggest peeves on here is when a blogger gets big for having Good Takes(TM) about a particular topic and then feels the need to start addressing every question that gets lobbed at them with the same amount of authority even when it's quite obviously wildly out of their range of knowledge, which is why I try to curve anons who think I know things I could not possible have and also why I'm always reminding you guys that I am dumb as rocks just generally. and this is a communal effort so if you ever see me running my mouth acting like I know shit about fuck, you have my permission to get my ass.

seeing mutuals in my notes like yes...i'm entertaining the besties

They’ve gotta fall in love by the end of the series right?

I am already LOVING titan takedown just from the first episode. The fact that Austin used his in ring knowledge of the ropes and knew that snapping them on one side would also snap the other side and cause Helen to fly into the crowd? Showstopping. Spectacular. Despite their lack of dnd knowledge these pro wrestlers are really giving it their all in this game to take down big z. The collision of two of my favorite things and I couldn't not be more excited for the next episode.

They're gonna have to pull some hunger games magic to make josh look taller than Abby if she keeps growing bro 😭😭

Fnaf 1

Fnaf 2

Every time someone mentions H.G. Wells I have to readjust to his pronouns because I accidentally internalised the canon of a 00s Syfy show where he's secretly a woman.

He doesn't come up often enough that it stops happening, and I fear one day I'll need to discuss him and slip up. I'll pull my classic did you know move but it'll be "facts" from a long dead TV show about cursed objects.

It is not enough to get into a comfy sleeping position- one must go through several and spin like a rotisserie chicken to arrive at the position you started with.

"it's all in your head" correct! unfortunately I am also in there

brennan playing heel is so fucking funny to me

Who's ready for the PARTY ANIMALS!!

The big man, lord of lightning, the Zeus is loose!

rip to xavier who's got the murph curse (most experienced at the table and rolling like absolute shit)

Dimension 20: Titan Takedown👊

were I to create an original piece of media I would create bait so queer in order to create a fanfic environment I like. I find you guys do your best work under duress.

I’d say “jeez can two people not be friends anymore?” and then I’d give one of them amnesia in which they only recognize the other above anyone else

say what you want about the switch 2 but leave my beautiful wife 3.5mm headphone jack out of it i’m so happy for her she deserves this moment <3

the funniest thing in the entire pirates of the caribbean series is definitely that one scene in At World’s End where they have parlay but davy jones is part of it, and rather than have him stand in the shallows or something they get a big bucket of water and have in stand on it on shore

who thought of that idea? who thought “put davy jones in a bucket of water” and had the guts to suggest it aloud? and then who went “hey that sounds like a great idea!”

at some point someone told davy jones their idea was for him to stand in a bucket of water and he agreed to it

*stands majestically in a bucket*

ok but notice the trail of buckets behind him meaning he walked from the ocean through three other buckets of water before he got into the one hes standing in

It’s even funnier when you consider how he must have figured all this out in the first place.

Some folks are asking “well, if he can avoid the no-dry-land curse simply by standing in a bucket, doesn’t that ruin his whole motivation?”, but he’s not on dry land here.

The parley takes place on a sandbar - which, for the unfamiliar, is a temporary “island” of sand deposited by breaking waves, unconnected with the shore, that spends most of its time submerged, being exposed only at low tide.

What Jones is doing here is rules-lawyering his curse. Can you imagine the trial and error he must have gone through in order to determine that this would actually work?

“Okay, do islands count as dry land? How about parts of the shore below the high tide mark? Reefs? Shoals? What if I stand in a pool of water on a shoal? Does it have to be seawater, or will any water do? Does it have to be a natural tidepool, or can it be something artificial, like a bucket?”

What I am saying is that there must have been a process.

Pretty sure that this implies that the reverse - a bucket of sand, floating on the water (big bucket with just a bit of sand), would qualify as dry land. That’s absurd, so I’m pretty sure that his lawyer pulled a fast one over the curse governor.

It may be absurd, but the text of the film bears it out. Davy Jones can sense the presence of his heart while it’s at sea, but not while it’s on land (indeed, that’s why he buried it on land in the first place: to break his connection with it) - yet placing the heart in a simple jar of dirt conceals it from Jones’ awareness just as surely as burial on land does, even if the jar is on a boat at the time. Suitably prepared vessels filled with dirt absolutely count as dry land for the purpose of Jones’ curse.

Then the reverse should also be true. If he buried it in a jar of water, no matter how far inland it is, he would be able to sense it. So by this logic, any container of seawater counts as not dry land, ergo, the bucket is a perfectly viable loophole.

Not necessarily. It’s traditionally a lot easier to accidentally get whammied by a curse than it is to weasel around it - I figure that’s why he’s using multiple layers of indirection here. He’s forbidden to set foot on dry land, but it’s technically not dry land (it’s a sandbar, a non-permanent landform exposed only at low tide) and he technically didn’t set foot on it (he’s standing in a bucket of water). It’s entirely possible that either one of those things alone wouldn’t make the grade.

okay but this all raises one further, very important question: if it’s specifically “dry land” he’s forbidden from, what about wetlands. can Davy Jones fight you in salt marshes? can he throw down in a peat bog?Swamp Battle?

This is the quality content I come to Tumblr for.

could he step on land if his shoes are wet?

No matter how ridiculous PotC gets I will love it. Especially when it results in conversations like this

What if he crawls around on his hands and knees, with his feet raised slightly into the air? Can he walk on his hands? Can he ride around in a litter or a wheelchair?

can he be in a wheelbarrow?

What if he flies over dry land? Like in a hot air balloon, or in the claws of a giant bird?

What if he’s carried by two swallows using a strand of creeper?

European swallows or African swallows?

this whole thread reads like a conversation between these two:

In fact im not entirely sure that it wasn’t their idea in the first place