#Ama speaks;

[ama-ships]

If you see this... No, you don't...

I just need this on my blog, that's all. It has nothing to do with creating thoughts between Hux and I. Nope. Don't listen to it and/or do not read the lyrics.

#Ama speaks; #Ama's personal playlist; #Now I must flee~ kind of!~

[genericpuff]

Hold up, I'm curious now about when you said "Perse is a menace to lower nymphs" I thought at best she was neutral to some but I don't remember her ever just being outright horrible. Though that can very well just be my rose-colored glasses activating in the earlier parts of the story.

Oh geez let's see...

There was the time Persephone left Alex alone in the hospital room with the guy who had assaulted him and beat him half to death because he was "rude" (i.e. reasonably reacting to these two showing their faces around him):

And that time Persephone blackmailed Minthe to teach her how to do the job she was underqualified for two days after Hades had broken up with her and Persephone claimed to feel guilty:

Also that time she turned Minthe into a plant and then proceeded to not give a shit about her moments afterwards so she could flirt with the guy who she unapologetically had an affair with (in front of the plantified Minthe who she knew could hear them):

And then when she finally did turn Minthe back to normal, she immediately victimized herself over Minthe justifiably being angry:

And then there was that time she cornered Tori (former roommate of Alex) at his job to essentially berate him, all because of "gossip" that Tori had said ten fucking years ago (as if the gossip wasn't entirely true, it was Tori reacting to Alex getting mutilated by her boyfriend who she never really held accountable):

And all those times Persephone tried to claim she was being stifled by the nymphs in the Mortal Realm but then had the balls to claim she was "lonely" even though she literally had friends and sisters surrounding her who she wanted to get away from:

And then the icing on the cake, far more recently, that time she broke into the home of a nymph woman who had already embarrassed herself, just to threaten her, something that she was rewarded for by her husband:

She said ALL of that while failing to acknowledge the fact that she did the exact same thing to Minthe when she was with Hades. And she's not sorry for it, but she hypocritically tries to take the moral high ground as if she's never done the same thing.

Gee, I wonder how she could have turned out this way?

Persephone never really felt guilty for the things she did throughout the series, and she never took responsibility for her actions that affected others, in some cases she was flat out rewarded for her vitriol. And though this may not be intentional on Rachel's part, she comes across as someone who claims she was "lonely", when really she meant she just didn't have the company she specifically wanted - the company of gods, specifically male gods such as Hades.

Yes, the narrative tries to justify Persephone's actions towards these characters specifically - Alex, Minthe, Tori, Leuce, etc. - but fails to highlight the power imbalance where Persephone comes out on top just for being a goddess. Minthe reported her to Zeus for the wrong reasons, but she still deserved to go to trial for committing and hiding an Act of Wrath. Alex had no idea Persephone was a goddess and she never really did anything to take accountability for what Hades did to him. Tori's only crime was calling her a "dark concubine" a couple times ten years ago, something she absolutely should have let go of by now. Leuce had already embarrassed herself by trying to make the moves on Hades, so breaking into her home and filling it with farm animals and threatening her accomplished nothing beyond stroking Persephone's ego trip.

And that's not getting into how the narrative as a whole promotes mistreatment towards nymphs and satyrs (i.e. lower class people) so Persephone and Hades being in the upper class is similar to billionaires in the real world - they only achieved that wealth on the backs of the lower class, so they're part of the problem, not the exception to it. And these are the characters we're supposed to be rooting for.

I rest my case.

#also i didn't get to mention how hades has to tell the audience that she's compassionate for others but we rarely see it #so it feels so forced and fake #esp when her actions speak otherwise #lore olympus critical #lo critical #anti lore olympus #ama #ask me anything #anon ama #anon ask me anything

[cookie-crumblr]

Can I ask for a succubus darling AU?

OFC!!!!! omg yus! i’m assuming for Jasper, if not anny send me another!

MINORS DNI!!!!

CW: NSFW, SUCCUBUS G/N READER (HE STILL CALLS US PRETTY, but in a GN WAY, he thinks you’re beautiful no matter what gender and equipment, so take it 😤✨🥰 /lovingly 😘)

“shiiiiit, Y/N” Jasper groans, one hand tightly gripping one of the beautiful horns that crown you.

Your cheeks are hollow as you bob your head up and down, lips wrapped around his deliciously veiny member.

You moan out around his length, eliciting a sigh from him that sounds like music to your ears.

His other hand fingers your lower half, he loves your mouth, but he really wants to feed you properly.

“Y-Y/N, lemme take care of you, pretty,”

You almost cant stop, mana starved and feral. Usually he keeps you perfectly well fed, but he had just returned from a long trip with Dev, and Issac to “take care” of your previous master.

You need his cum, no matter where. Your body feels like a drug addict’s when they are going through withdrawls.

Violent shaking, with cold sweats, fatigue and dizziness plague you.

Your body is telling you to suck harder. You NEED to suck harder.

*pop* “haaa haaa” you gasp, your face covered in a glistening sheen of sweat and drool, “P-please Jasperr, hu-hurry, I need you s’bad!”

You grab the arm of the sofa and present yourself like a bitch in heat. Your spade tipped tail wraps around his arm and pulls weakly in attempt to bring him closer.

Your little wings flap in solid frustration. You’re so close, but it feels so far.

He doesn’t make you wait.

Pushing himself into your sopping hole, you wail out in ecstasy.

He’s holding your ass up by your tail, and keeps your head down by pushing on your horn.

Your nails rip the fabric under you as squelching slaps bounce off the walls and fill the room.

“F-Fuck Ja-s-perrr hah!”

“You take me s’well, pretty,” His voice is so filled with love and adoration even while he’s using his full strength to ruthlessly fuck you.

You squeeze his dick with everything you’ve got as he pumps in and out of you.

With a few twitches he dumps his thick load into you, and your body practically glows.

Your strength returns in an instant and you slip his grasp, and flip you both over.

You’re on top now, and you feel yourself up while continuing to bounce on his dick and milk him.

He’s always a little sleepy after you sap some of his energy for the first time in a while.

His smile is dreamy and practically fucked out, but his cock remains hard.

“Please! More! Jasper, moreee!!” You whine and twirl your hips while grinding down into his lap.

“Of course, pretty~ take as much as you need fro’me~”

#cookie speaks #my oc #yandere #oc x reader #oc x you #yandere x reader #yandere x you #dead dove do not eat #yandere oc #yandere male #oc jasper #succubus reader #streamer oc #ama #my writing #yandere smut

[storybookprincess]

shoutout to the mountain goats for writing lyrics that i can actually relate to ✌️

#the mountain goats #liv speaks #also shoutout to ‘signed out ama / no one really cared’ #from a different song off the same album #wow finally music that speaks to my fun & exciting lifestyle

[namelessbutters-doodles]

GHOST HAS WON!

I REPEAT GHOST HAS WON!

SCREAMING CRYING THROWING UP!

#the band ghost #ghost #ghost band #ghost bc #yes i do have a twitter #ama #the ama #papa emeritus 4 #copia #FROTHING AT THE MIUTH #HFDJJFCNXJDSKCHFNXK #butters speaking #BUTTER LOOSING THERE SHT! #nameless ghouls #IF THERE'S A MISTAKE I'LL DELETE THIS! #OKAY TO REBLOG #ghost community

[mesperyiandevotee]

I forgot about this one XD

#he speaks from experience too #ooh wait #im about to go to sleep so i'll probably forget #but i kinda want to make another fake dashboard thing #maybe with some AMA type posts or screenshots #authors asking the nation people questjons for research for their writing #ifk im tired so maybe awake me (if xe remembers) will say its a shite idea lmao) #hetalia #aph france #hws france

[askaerialstem]

OOC: He's a big change from the pony that i made specifically for this blog, but his background is the same! His name is now Aerial Stem, send in those asks! I'm about to answer a couple we got! ^_^

#my little pony #ask me anything #mlp:fim oc #mlp oc #my little pony oc #ama #oc #mod speaks #oc introduction #my art

[avalordream]

Cove: I love you so much I'd fight a bear for you.

Cove: Well - not a grizzly bear because they have claws, and not a panda bear because they know Kung Fu.

Cove: But a care bear.

Cove: I'd definitely fight a care bear for you. :D

MC: QwQ

#our life beginning and always #our life #olba #olba cove james holden #olba cove holden #olba cove #olba mc #cove holden #mc #cove holden x mc #cove x mc #our life fake quotes #our life incorrect quotes #ama thoughts #don't worry cove #i'll fight a care bear for you too #speaking of care bears #who would they be? #i don't remember much #but i think Cove would be the closest to Tenderheart #maybe? #idk

[taylorliveperformances]

Taylor Swift performing a mashup of Back To December and Apologize by Timbaland at the AMA Awards on November 21, 2010.

#taylor swift #back to december #speak now #apologize #timbaland #ama awards

[illuteridae]

out of pure curiosity because i’m frying chicken for dinner and using one of the many jars of fry oil my mom has saved

#she has like five jars of various varieties of Fry Oil saved from different foods AMA #adds flavor #rogar speaks

[kagami--uchiha]

*Creeps in quietly*

So uhm-.. Hello? :) Is there still old Roleplay friends around?

#✧.*I took a chance to build a world of mine‒ A one-way ticket for another life* ˚ ▓✦ Ama Speaks #✧.*Unrip the flesh and let the damage grow‒ Like a blade in the chestbone✧.*▓ Kagami talks

[arklayraven]

Relevant mood lol

#;little raven speaks #obey me #obey me asmodeus #obey me leviathan #obey me beelzebub #especially after some of the answered questions from OM! AMA yesterday lol

[comeontaylorspeaknow]

Hmm I think I understood why this looked so familiar! It's literally the same hair style!

#taylor swift #tswiftedit #taylor #taylorswift #taylornation #swift #speak now #speak now era #speaknowedit #cmas 2011 #amas 2022 #tswiftnation #tswift #tswiftdaily #t swift #midnights #midnights era

[chokingonpoppies]

ㅤㅤㅤㅤ ㅤㅤ ㅤ‿︵˓ ʚ♡ɞ ˓ ︵‿

.𖥔 🍂 ݁ ˖ 𓈒 𝗍ᥲᥣᥣυᥣᥲɦ / 𝗂𐓣ᥲ 𝅄 ۪ ݁ 𓈒

𓂃 ࣪˖ ִֶָ𐀔 she.her , ama.pola , mu.muse┊tallulah irl

devotee of Wilbur┊problematic basedq 𓏲 ๋࣭ ݁᪥ ࣪ ˖

ִ ࣪˖ ˗ˏˋ happily taken .ᐟ.ᐟ┊< T + W + S 3 ˎˊ˗ ࣪ ˖ ⚝

i block freely┊transid hoarder┊doubles dni 𓇢𓆸

🎼 ₊˚ qsmp + mcyt pls int┊asks + dms always open

۪ 𝅄 ꒰ 𓇗 ꒱ ۪ ݁ 𝖼ω𝗌 𐓣 𝗍ᥲ𝗀𝗌 ᑲ𝖾ᥣⱺω 𝗍ɦ𝖾 𝖼υ𝗍 ۪

ㅤ ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ︶ ͡ ۫ ˓ ʚ 𖤣.𖥧.𖡼.⚘ 𖧧 ɞ ˒ ۫ ͡ ︶

. ˚ 🦋༘ 𝖼ω 𝖿ⱺ𝗋 ,, ࿐ ₊ ˚ ⊹

⤷ mention of and encouragement of ;; eds , sh , all types of abuse , a lot of substance usage , repetition , and probably more stuff im forgetting !! ( and probably nsft stuff at some point ... ? )

⤷ a lot of unsavory beliefs and activities lie here , if you interact you are consenting to seeing that . block don ' t report <3333

⊹ ࣪ 🥀 ˖ 𝗍ᥲ𝗀𝗌 !! ೀ ₊ ˚ ⊹

⤷ tw tags / nsft tag for previously mentioned cws

⤷ ama speaks !! is for regular posts from me

⤷ me !! is for posts i id with / relate to

⤷ reblogs !! is for reblogs ( shocking , i know / sar )

⤷ art !! is for artistic stuff i do

⤷ purified !! is for religious posts

⤷ discourse !! is for discourse i rb / int with

⤷ rants !! is for ranting / venting

⤷ hello , world !! is for answering asks

⤷ moodboards !! is for moodboards ive made

⤷ friend of the stream ;; ( name ) !! is how i organize my anons !!

⤷ ill be going thru and fixing old tags on posts before this retheme but it may take some time ,, have patience !! if a tag or tw needs to be added lmk <333

ᯓ ♬ . ˚ 𝗑𝗍𝗋ᥲ 𝗂𐓣𝖿ⱺ !! . ☘︎ ݁˖

⤷ i support wilbur soot !! i am extremely parasocial and delusional ( and very happy with it ) and i address mcyt ccs as they were related to me in my past life ( for example ,, irl wilbur :: papa automatically )

⤷ i have a fluctuating typing quirk, a lot of cis mental illness / cistrauma , etc . dont assume that just because im an edgelord that i dont have any problems in my life lulz ! !

⤷ qsmp is my home and my past and i am genuinely tallulah soot in " real life " . treat me and that subject matter accordingly .

⤷ my family and religion come first and i am very passionate about both . dont come here thinking you ' re special or try to ' fix ' or ' save ' me . oh , and if you send me smth , bet on the fact i wont be the only one reading it ,,

﹏⭒๋࣭ 𓂅 𝗂𝖿 𝗒ⱺυ ' 𝗏𝖾 ꭑᥲᑯ𝖾 𝗂𝗍 𝗍ɦ𝗂𝗌 𝖿ᥲ𝗋 . . . ꒰ ᰔᩚ ꒱₊˚⊹

⤷ . . . without wanting to block me ( or send an anon threatening to kill me for being an evil basedqueer ,, ) then this is probably the account for you !! stick around , grab an anon tag ( or lurk if you 'd prefer ,, ) ' n have fun ! ! it ' s lovely to have you :3

#ama speaks !! #me !! #reblogs !! #art !! #purified !! #rants !! #hello world !! #tw ;; ab #tw ;; sa #tw ;; vent #tw ;; rep #tw ;; nsft #tw ;; ed #tw ;; sh #tw ;; general tw #discourse !! #tw ;; cig #moodboards !! #tw ;; grooming

[pynkhues]

I don’t know if you’ve seen the cut lines from the S4 script yet (where Stewy references some semi-ominous sounding games he remembers from when he and Kendall were growing up like Punch-Chess and Dinners for Winners) but this kind of made me think back on the games throughline (motif?) with Logan. We get to see how insane Boar on the Floor was in real time and we’ve gotten a pretty good sense throughout the series that Logan has a penchant for framing violence through the lens of games (not dishonestly might I add – I think there’s a reasonable read of Logan whereby he himself doesn’t view his games as a means for violence at all but just as tools or in some cases, truly just games).  

Recently I’ve seen some discussion that kind of lumps together games the kids played (Bitey, Dog Pound) with Logan’s games (Boar on the Floor, Dinners for Winners) and that struck me as kind of odd. Rightly or wrongly, I’ve been mentally distinguishing between the games the siblings play with each other as different from the games Logan concocts. It might just be me, but Bitey and Dog Pound read to me as within the realm of reasonable kids games (noting that a ton of kids play kind of insane games lol). I also just feel like the power structure is…different when it’s just the siblings? Does that make sense? Whereas when Logan invests games for his kids, there’s something more…uneven and off-kilter about it to me. Idk – do you think they’re all part of the same motif or that there’s some level of distinction?  Maybe I just to think about it more haha – I guess this is a super long round-about way of asking: how do you view the use of games (“games”?) within the context of the show?

Oh, yeah, I totally agree that the games the kids play with each other are very different from the games that Logan concocts, anon, but I’m not surprised to hear that people consider them in the same sort of discourse. After all, the games that the kids play with each other, now that they’re all adults, are viewed through the prism of the power dynamics in the current family unit.

In other words, even games that are on paper the sort that any kid plays (Dog Pound being a good example – my five and seven year old nephews actually play a pretty similar game at the moment called Puppy and Person, although I think their game involves more patting and cuddling than Roman and Kendall’s probably did, haha), because we’re encountering it with Kendall and Roman in their late-thirties and through the lens of undealt with sibling resentments and adult competition, they can be mistaken for the same sorts of games that Logan played / still plays with the kids.

In that sense, I think the clearest point of distinction is the fact that Logan is never really a player in the games, he’s the overseer of them – the judge, jury and executioner – and we’ve seen that twice. The first time with the baseball game in the pilot, and the second, of course, with Boar on the Floor. Interestingly, the only time we’ve actually seen him participate in a game as a player was in I Went Shopping in the Thanksgiving episode back in S1, and well, we all know how that ended.

Games are integral to the show, and it’s interesting because I don’t think they have any one particular meaning. I think the writers like them as a shorthand to convey certain themes and relationship dynamics, I think they’re an efficient and compelling way to move plot forwards, and I think the writers like to use them to trojan horse the history of abuse within the Roy family, which is exactly what that new excerpt from the script of 4.04 demonstrates.

Critically though, I also think they’re significant thematically in depicting both childhood and masculinity, and I think that’s really where the distinction comes in when it comes to the games the kids play together (yes, even Dog Pound, as much as that game [and Kendall] wants to pretend to be about masculinity, I personally don't think it is at all), and the ones Logan does.

So, let’s talk about childhood.

Games are integral to childhood, there’s no getting around that. Games are what teach children social skills and curiosity, strategy and the ability to both win and to lose, which is, of course, also the skill to enjoy success and sometimes embrace failure too. One of my current jobs is in a company that does play-based theatre for children, with a special focus on traumatised children, so I could talk a lot about this and the evidence behind it, and how crucial games are in empowering children and helping them develop agency away from the family unit, but that’s kind of where this story stops, because while games should help children to grow into playful, empathetic and inquisitive adults, the Roy children do not play games with outsiders.

The Roy children have lived in a completely insular world – a playground their father has built them, as Marcia so aptly put it – and so these games don’t evolve. Instead, these games like Bitey and Dog Pound and even Kendall’s LEGO become manifestations of current anxieties, insecurities and resentments, and an encapsulation of Shiv, Roman and Kendall’s arrested development.

(Maybe interestingly, I consider Connor slightly less arrested than his little siblings, and I do think a part of that is from his parentification, but also a proxy result of effectively having been raised in those formative childhood years as an only child, especially if he was, as Alan Ruck has said, about fifteen when Kendall was born).

Of course, Logan encourages this.

Logan’s inability to face his own mortality or seal off his own legacy requires him to keep his children, well, children. He needs them under his thumb, sure, but he also, I think, needs to keep them young so that he can feel young. Needs the promise of his own future reflected in the length of their own, and his frequent infantilisation of all four of them is a part of what keeps them regressed and reading meaning into games they played and places they lived when they were too young to know any better.

Let’s talk about masculinity.

Funnily enough, I actually talked a little about this in the context of Tom and Greg back when s3 was airing here, but a few years ago, I read Anna Krien’s Night Games which is one of my favourite non-fiction books of the last decade.

The book itself is about masculinity, sport and sexual assault, in particular patterns of gang rape by teams in Australian football and cricket, but she goes a lot broader in terms of games and male intimacy, and in particular how team sports give men a sense of community which, as a result of toxic masculinity, is generally reinforced by ‘othering’ outsiders of the team / environment, whether that be players on the opposite team, perceived interlopers, women, or even members of their own team who don’t participate in the right way with the group.

I don’t know if any of the writers would’ve read Night Games (it’s an Australian sports journalism book after all, haha), but I think they do understand deeply the way masculinity operates in these circles and the ways games of any sort can be utilised as a shorthand to exert power and solidify connection. Boar on the Floor is, of course, the clearest example of this, where Logan utilises the context of the game to dig out his betrayers, and while the first round has everyone as an unwilling participant, once a smaller group of 'others' are picked in Tom, Greg and Karl, the safety of being on the right team makes everyone becomes complicit in the second round.

This is something Logan’s a master of and what he does routinely with his children in general, but also in the rules of the games Stewy talks about in the 4.04 script. Those games are about the othering of a person and the increased intimacy of the rest of the team. If Dinners for Winners has the loser acting like the help, the winners are the rest of the family celebrating their renewed bond as, well, winners.

I don’t think the kids are immune from this in their own behaviour. In fact, I think the biggest examples we see of the kids engaging in this particular type of game play is in Roman’s treatment of the child during the baseball game in the pilot (and I actually am reading the scripts [albeit very slowly, haha] at the moment and read 2.01 last night and was pretty fascinated to discover that the boy’s father is one of the landscapers at The Summer Palace), and in the sequence throwing back to Kendall’s bachelor party with the tattooing of the homeless man’s head with Kendall’s initials.

These aren’t complete games, and interestingly they don’t create the same sense of shared compliance and group intimacy in the way Logan’s games do – no one’s fully on board with Roman’s behaviour, and Roman betrays the group bond in terms of Kendall’s bachelor party by telling Gerri and trying to use it against Kendall – but I view that as more a reflection of Roman and Kendall’s failures in masculinity and authority than in anything else.

It’s that failure there though which, in many ways, further separates the games Logan plays with them to the games they play together. Roman and Kendall continue to fail to imitate their father in his particular brand of games, because Logan knows how to divide and conquer, which they simply don't.

That also though is a direct contrast to the games the kids play together, because those games, whether they be Bitey or Monopoly or even Dog Pound, those games are about shared connection. After all, Kendall wasn't the one who sent Roman away, Kendall was just playing a game with his brother, no matter what they both have inferred in it over time.

#i can't speak to the nanny game shiv and roman played either yet because i'm not up to that in the scripts #but i would say that's potentially another example of the kids playing at logan's types of games #because it involves the othering of a person i.e. the nannies #but then again it also could be a reflection of the insularity of the children? #idk! #i'll have to read it in context #thanks for the ask sorry this took a minute #hbo succession #succession meta #kendall roy #roman roy #shiv roy #logan roy #welcome to my ama

[caldrecarnage]

hellooo! i dont really post here, but i did wanna let you guys know i have a big caldre playlist in the works on my spotify! if you send me suggestions i will love you foreva and eva!!1! you can suggest here or on an anon, either way works^^

(bonus points if you follow me on spotify, ill follow you back if you have playlists!)

#ama speaks #zero day #caldre #cal gabriel #andre kriegman #Spotify