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Yo....I can't get over the Izutsumi reveal, and how it's in a side comic. Like, she was never human. She's a cat with part of a human soul put into her. That's probably why she acts so cat instinctively. Just.....fjdhdhdh what...wow...
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dr-cruces · 3 months
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Close-ups under cut. ;P
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Text: Oh Son of God so powerful yet, cannot escape the gentle fanning of Hypnos' wings.
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mybeautifulpoland · 8 months
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Transfiguration of the Lord Catholic Church, Paszkówka, Poland by sopthedrone
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coockie8 · 4 months
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"You can't create fiction about X problematic thing without explicitly condemning it otherwise your readers/viewers will think it's okay to do irl!"
Okay see well I was under the impression that since I'm not creating fiction for literal 5-year-olds that my readers/viewers would already be aware of the fact it's not okay to rape, torture, and murder people in real life without me spoon-feeding that to them like they're toddlers ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If you're over the age of 10 and still don't know that it's bad to hurt people in real life without a fairy tale telling you so, then that is 100% a you problem, like I don't know what to tell you here :/
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shutterandsentence · 17 days
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How much better to get wisdom than gold, to get insight rather than silver!
--Proverbs 16:16
Photo: Cape Coral, Florida
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onesunofagun · 4 months
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This is probably a wildly unpopular thing to say, but I see chatter and takes concerning Hyrule and the Hylians and Hylia where the fandom dissects them as white European, or more often British coded. I've seen it be argued that this is because of surface level European (like Greco-Roman and Celtic) aesthetics are commonly used for them, though these are pretty shallow wrapping paper at best in game. Not that similarities can't be drawn! I'm saying this with all my Irish distaste for Britain! But it seems to be more of a symptom of ignorance or unfamiliarity with Japanese culture and history, and its own tilt at Imperialism.
Which I get! The average Western Fan's closest touchstone to Imperialism is likely Britain.
But Hyrule represents Japan. It's narrative is deeply rooted in Japanese Shinto beliefs regarding the relationship between man, nature and spirits-- including spiritual purity and impurity-- as derived from Buddhist concepts. Hylians are a fantasy race of elves who are Japanese coded, their Royal Family and Imperial structure and attitudes reflect a Japanese Nationalism that is deeply tied to Shinto. Hylia reflects aspects of the Goddess Amaterasu and her role as a progenitor of Emperors in Japanese myth.
I fully understand that many criticisms that apply also pertain to British Imperialism and their own Divine Hegemony, which is valid. But I think it's also falling short to critique and dissect the meta and intention behind this franchise without bothering to have the context of Japanese beliefs and history, and without bothering to really seek it out.
JP Imperialism formed as a response to the Western encroach and their subsequent focus on forced unification of the east in order to defend against it is deeply reflected in how Hyrule operates. The localisation of games like SkSw and TotK have wildly missed their mark in the impression that they give of certain concepts to especially the North American audience, and entire concepts and references to cultural beliefs and history (and what they might imply within game) are simply invisible to many who do not have that context to connect back to.
And I'm not trying to say that what anybody takes from the story they personally received isn't a valid impression based on their own experience with the games and media around them. There are many interpretations and themes that you can take away and play with.
But I don't think that saying Hylians are just white people coded or following Christianised themes or 'basically Britain' and calling it a day is quite good enough if you want to meaningfully and accurately discuss and dissect the narrative and intent of the Zelda franchise. Being able to critically read it with both external and Japanese context is really important in having the full conversation about what it reflects on real world history, religiosity and nuance.
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cyberdragoninfinity · 5 months
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The Primo Bee Thing is so. perplexing to me. just absolute peak Fandom Defined Personality Trait. sorry. He does say a bee dances "beautifully" in the sub in the one (1) time he ever brings it up in show but I get the impression it's coming from a place of irony and fiendish gleeful superiority moreso than a place of "bees are his favorite animal and he's obsessed with them."
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This concept of like "look at this beautiful act this insignificant creature performs, it doesnt even know it's at the mercy of predetermined events, ha!" To Primo bees are these little dancing circus animals, a novelty, a perfect example of how another strain of life so insignificant in the wake of fate (humanity) should behave.
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^ [ love that this view is also seen arguably even more clearly in the dub--where Primo called Yusei a bee that's lost its stinger, and talks about how stingerless bees will wander aimlessly until they die, helpless to the laws of nature. There's such an implied undercurrent of....hopelessness, to that <:,) ]
Just this idea that I trip over Once A Week At Least that Primo really likes bees is so funny. Like... No, Not Really. Aside from the novelty of their infinite dance he kind of DGAF about them. When Primo talks about insects in general it's clear he doesn't really think very highly of them at best, and at worst is Actively Dripping Rage and Disdain About the Sheer Concept Of Them (especially since he equates them with humans.</3)
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Literally one of his Win Duel voice lines in Duel Links is "You're nothing more than a worm crawling on the ground." 🥴 Bugs are so far beneath him in his often documented opinion!! Bees aren't even Primo's motif or symbolic animal or anything, they're a symbol of humans in all takes on this scene!! Yusei's the one gettin compared to a bee around here!!!!
tl;dr "Primo loves bees and this is one of his personality traits" is literally just straight up wrong and it drives me a little insane and I needed to talk about it. I think about it Often. No more Homogeneous Fandom Decided Personality Traits Based Off of One (1) Comment Made By a Character society has moved past Homogeneous Fandom Decided Personality Traits Based Off of One (1) Comment Made By a Character!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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absolute DEARTH of dungeon meshi fanfics on ao3. in many ways but particularly gen fics that are over 2000 words and focused on adventure, magical shenanigans, fluff/angst, or some combination of those
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tragedykery · 2 months
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you know what? to be completely fair to dr victor hoppe, if that had happened to me, I, too would develop a complicated (read: fucked up) relationship with like. Everything
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misspoetree · 1 year
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You know what I've been thinking about? How we never see Vegas sleep during the entire show, not even in the hospital scene at the end.
We see him wear various outfits themed around ✨sleep✨ - from the obligatory sexy silky Theerapanyakul robe*TM over comfy shirt and pajama pants combinations to the good old birthday suit. We see him sitting on beds, fu...kneeling on beds, lying in beds, we see him knocked out cold on the floor, bleeding out next to the swimming pool. But never actually just...sleep.
And I keep coming back to this observation because it seems to me that that's another brilliant detail of the show, another brilliant show-don't-tell-way to characterise Vegas.
I mean look at Kinn: he feels like he's carrying his father's expectations, the family business, the whole world on his shoulders. He is paranoid and has massive trust issues and yet...he's still able to sleep. Okay, he's sleeping with a gun at first and with his literal bodyguard later (double meaning intended) - but that's beside the point.
We even see Kim sleep. Hell, if we didn't have the scene of him and Porchay dozing on the couch, I would have wholeheartedly believed that he's running on spite, barely contained violence and aesthetics alone. Plotting and sleuthing 24/7, writing music in between. And yet, and yet.
They show us Kinn and Kim and so many of the other characters (Porsche...mostly Porsche 😂) sleep. But not Vegas. Never Vegas.
And I feel like this is a perfectly subtle way to underline how restless Vegas actually is. How he's always trying to catch up with his father's expectations, with Kinn. Always scheming, conniving, conspiring, always trying to proof his worth, to make his father proud. Running desperately after things that remain unreachable. Feeling stuck in his position, failing again and again, feeling useless. Trying even harder. Restless, restless, restless.
A bit like a tiger in a safe house cage, a bit like a dog racing after a fake lure.
So...how could Vegas ever just sleep like a normal person?
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aye-of-newt · 7 months
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despite seeing it flood my dash for years I really only knew about two plot points of good omens but have nevertheless been convinced to pick up a copy of the book and damn these homos really are just raising a kid together full adversaries to partners to lovers style huh
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danny-chase · 2 years
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dc has so much wasted potential it kills me
#sorry for the negativity it's just like. i just talked about kory#but also look at the storys they choose to tell with Joey Wilson#and Barbara Gordon#and Victor Stone#and how they just squander all of that for the sake of making everything into this manufactured version of normalcy in order to maximize#profits because the bible of capitalism says that generic-ness equals marketability#it's just so frustrating that they're never willing to take risks or explore anything more than such a narrow view of the world#think about the stories they could tell with Tara Markov if they weren't busy focusing on Slade Wilson#or the stories they could tell about Grace and Anissa#everything just feels so shallow at dc right now#they're so willing to discard characters of color while writing the same batman comic 17 times over at once#tom taylor throws in one poorly written line referencing Dick's Romani heritage and thinks he's a hero??? like really?? this is the bar???#why can't you get a romani creator to write him???#why can't you give Duke anything ongoing when there are how many batbooks running????#you really can't find any disabled woman willing to write Barbara Gordon as orcale? you really think fans prefer babsgirl to her?#idk if it's a problem with dc or the fandom or both and maybe i'm just out of touch because i only talk to specific people about comics#but if one of your writers is constantly critiqued and called out about abelism maybe you should actually do something instead of just#ignoring the issues...#idk i've been reading old comics with Mal Duncan and it just makes me ask: dc where is he?#and then i look at so many characters of color who just get discarded completely#like the fox family bea mal and karen and onyx and orpheus#the batfam post about black characters getting discarded so quickly makes me question if this happens in other fams as well at dc i just#have little experience with anyone outside the batfam and titans#like hello where's anita from young justice??? she just dropped off the face of the earth when teen titans 2003 changed the lineup#it's especially frustrating when the og creator cares about them and gives them personality and depth (or at least makes them interesting#or likeable or compelling because let's be real a lot of the og creators are also racist) and then immediately after they leave the#vision for the character is completely lost#negativity#vent post#dc you made me attached to these characters just to suffer i swear
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daveandmia · 2 months
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"Iron sharpens iron, and one person sharpens another." Proverbs 27:17 ESV 🔥♥💪🍎
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bledyshka · 9 months
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isn't yelena asexual or is that just a fandom hc
hello! yelena’s sexuality is never explicitly stated in the comics, and while i definitely understand where the notion of her being asexual comes from, i personally interpret it as a conglomeration of identity that she doesn’t even quite understand. in my opinion, yelena is not interested in sex enough to fully partake in it in occasion— but that doesn’t mean she isn’t curious & sometimes driven by lust (especially when it comes to natasha). if i had to state a label for her i suppose demisexuality fits best; but it still doesn’t cover her own struggles with intimacy. she is not comfortable with it, but neither appalled or disgusted. she’s a work in progress & doesn’t even care if she finds closure or not.
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shutterandsentence · 5 days
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"Blessed are those who have not seen and yet still believed."
--John 20:29
Photo: Asheville, North Carolina
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