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wylanslcve · 11 months

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The piano scene in S2E3 is somehow talked about SO MUCH but also not enough, and I know that doesn't make sense but hear me out. Wylan has been in the Barrel for how long with nothing from his life before, only the decency he stubbornly clings to (hence why he initially refused to make bombs for Kaz, but his desperation got the better of him) and, if we use the information from the books, his flute. And we know the significance of music in Wylan's identity: he used it to hide his disability by setting whatever was read aloud to him to a melody in his head; the music room was the only place in his father's house he was ever happy in; and, in Crooked Kingdom, he recalls sitting at the piano bench with his mother, and it's one of the few memories he has of her because she "died" when he was young, so of course his memory of her is going to be a bit foggy.

Music wasn't something he got so good at to win his father's approval the way science and maths were - music was always his. It's what makes him Wylan and not Jan Van Eck's son, and being in the Barrel has tried to separate him from that part of his identity. Yes, he plays his flute in S2E1, but he plays it out of desperation. How long has it been since he's played music because of how connected he is to it, not because he needs money? It's something he yearns to do, and so when he and Jesper break into Pekka's country estate, Wylan doesn't take his eyes off the piano when he notices it - not even while Jesper is talking to him. He yearns to feel the press of the piano keys beneath his fingers, for the comfort playing music always gave him, and I think this is beautifully signified in that frame where presses the broken piano key: he so desperately wants that comfort and security, but can't have it.

Even though it looks like he sits at the piano to encourage Alby to keep playing, it's more so because he couldn't pass up the opportunity to do what he's yearned to do for so long. It's only 30ish seconds, but he loses himself in the music he plays, in that security he's sought since he first arrived in the Barrel. He's reliving sitting at the piano bench with his mother, and a show headcanon I have is that this little piece of music was something Marya taught him or wrote for him or something he wrote for her. Either way, it's made him lose himself in those happy childhood memories of him playing the piano with her.

Then that momentary peace and comfort is snatched away from him as he snaps back to reality. He's not at his father's house playing piano with his mother: he's in the Barrel, wrapped up in the company of literal criminals, and his mother's been dead since he was eight (well, we know she isn't dead, but he doesn't). His guard goes back up, and he goes back to being Wylan Hendriks, the demolitions expert keeping a privileged past and childhood traumas close to his chest, the boy who was desperate enough to start playing criminal with a band of thugs and thieves.

(gif by me, scene credits go to @/autumnspacks on ig)

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k-martins · 3 months

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Can I vent????

Defending Megumi from Twitter's accusations of being useless and a "potentialman" is taking five years off my life.

I avoid arguing with people on twt because I want peace in my life, but I get so angry when they spout unrealistic facts about Megumi, saying that he is uninteresting and useless and has no personality.

And I just feel like crying in frustration.

Because Megumi is constantly being played for shit and having his victories diminished. As if people are saying he's better off staying dead, but not in the sense of "because it would be worse for him to live with the guilt" but rather in the sense of "he's boring and a horrible character".

I hate when they say that about my child who just wanted to save the people he loves. And I hate that they all need to diminish Megs' importance just to praise their favorites. Like, I know Yuta is amazing and Choso had a great development, but why do you have to state in any post I make about Megumi about how "horrible her character is"???? I don't need to hear Mahoraga's joke for the fiftieth time or be bombarded by Megumi's panel into the abyss when I just want to comment on how much I like your sea urchin hair. T-T

I accept these things harmlessly because most of my moots don't like Megumi, and I can even joke with them a little about it, but it's getting unbearable.

I'm not one to break friends because of ships or fictional characters, but it's annoying that I can't comment/reblog anything about my favorite ship without some moot coming up to comment on how I'm "sick for shipping this" or "I have bad taste in characters".

One of my moots just started telling everyone that I ship sanegiyuu after I started following a girl who talks about them.

This made me uncomfortable.

These people are my friends, I want to talk about the things I like with them. Why can't I follow and comment on the things I like on my profile??? It would be like stopping writing about itafushi here on tumblr just because some idiots told me it's horrible!

I've never forced ships on anyone or used them to judge my knowledge about jjk, I've always tried to be polite when I try to correct someone about something (some people argued with me about stsg just because I defended a girl's thread about them), so I would like to have the same respect.

Am I going to be such an asshole to block this moot???

I don't want them to think I'm arrogant.

Or maybe I should just create a new account focused on just my ships and forget about it for a while????

I think this would be the best solution.

#Sorry for the long text #I just needed to get this out there #I'm still thinking about what I should do #because I have a lot of people I like on this account #but it's tiring having to read people criticizing me for thinking Megumi will come back or for shipping itafushi #Seriously #it took almost two hours to discuss this and at the end two of them were talking in a sexist way about Nobara and Shoko T-T #jjk #jujutsu kaisen #megumi fushiguro #jjk spoilers #itafushi #fushiguro megumi #TWT is making me sad

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indigolily117 · 3 months

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okay so i was going through some drafts of old fics from like two years ago and i thought that this dialogue was so funny that i had to share it

and no i will not elaborate further

#i just needed to get this out there #it has potential #also i will not be posting any of these fics because my writing ability sucks #i wish i was better at writing so that i can share this fic #initial d

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edathetublady · 4 months

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SCOTLAND FOREVER

#david tennant #i just needed to get this out there #genuinely filling my #tiktok fyp #not complaining #scotland #good omens #crowley #dr who #10th doctor

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thedogwhoisachair · 1 year

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sagan u are. the best kitty

best cat

#i just needed to get this out there #She is unbelievably adorable

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lesbianlovelanguage · 2 years

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If you’ve followed my blog for a while, you know I try to remain as positive as I can on here. I try to send as much positivity into this world as I can. I can’t be that person right now and I’m sorry. However, I can be a safe space. My DMs and my Messages are always open to anyone, any time.

I post this just as a heads up. If you need to for yourself, unfollow. I tag everything I post/reblog and I continue to do so, as #politics, #reproductive rights, etc. I post this to let you know because I also want you to put yourselves first, if you need tumblr as an escape from the outside world.

Please. Keep yourselves safe, and if you can, now is the time to make noise and to boost voices that may otherwise be lost.

#politics #reproductive rights #tay rambles #again #im sorry #i just needed to get this out there

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potatoeofwisdom · 2 years

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Not to attack anyone who likes the newer Pokémon games, I don’t wanna be rude, but holy shit what the fuck

#potatoe rambles #don’t get me wrong I love Pokemon soul silver and all those before it #but uh #the newer games have just been getting worse and worse #the 3D-ification has just ruined a lot of things #it could have been done well but it hasn’t #they would have been so much better off focusing on their 2D skills and trying to perfect a 2D game #or idk #anything but what they’re doing #it feels so soulless #there’s literally no soul in these games anymore #the newer Pokémon don’t even feel like Pokémon #of course there are a few I personally love #but it might as well be a different game franchise at this point #it’s just so wrong #i could go on and on but I’ll stop #i just needed to get this out there

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jakeperalta · 2 months

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I'm curious. what job would you do if money was no object (you just automatically had an income you could live comfortably on)? including work like volunteering, studying etc. please share in the tags :)

#under this premise part time work is valid too!#personally i think i'd probably study. maybe do another masters maybe part time across two years this time #if i were to do a job job i think i'd try out working in a library (ideally an academic library). which would technically be more studying #since i'd need to get a library qualification first #i'm just very curious what people would choose if it was purely a choice of what appeals to you over the practicality/necessity #talking

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blinkpen · 22 days

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(i Will go back to everlasting haitus if that GFM slows down too much btw, seeing it to its goal ASAP is my primary focus right now)

#i don't want to move the goalposts but i don't want donations to slow to a crawl just bc they are Halfway there #they obviously do still need to get ALL the way there to get the whole family out + get medical care they need #and they need it -quickly- and i -know- we -can- but it requires people besides me!#please help me help them

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bigweldindustries · 9 days

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going through the hades 2 stuff and im sorry but i just have to ramble a second because look at Hephaestus

he's not just a wheelchair user but also an amputee. an above knee amputee. wheelchair users are already next to nonexistant in video games but amputees exist in this really...disheartening? spot where they're pretty much just reduced to "person with a cybernetic limb" - it's always just somewhere from "just a cool visual design" to flat out "superpower". I can't think of a video game amputee that is actually disabled by their limb differences - I'm all for futuristic worlds where prosthetics and other disability aids are far advanced from what they are now, but that's not really what's implied by these designs. They're just... Cool designs that in no way reflect on the real-world experience of being an amputee.

Look at Hephaestus, though. Look at that prosthetic. Whilst stylised it very much looks like it functions like common mechanical knees - knee bends when thigh is lifted, knee straightens when thigh is lowered. He's a wheelchair user as well as a prosthetic user - every prosthetic user I know is also a wheelchair user as a prosthetic is not usable in every occasion and also cause exhaustion and pain if used constantly.

Whilst we can't see much of his wheelchair the position he's sat in and the wheels very much evoke active wheelchair to me - this carries on to very specifically the thickness of his arms. Whilst a lot of Hades designs are muscular Hephaestus has very noticeably thick arms - which makes sense, as active wheelchairs require a lot of arm strength.

Just overall this design is making me want to cry - he's not just an actual wheelchair user in a video game, he's a realistic depiction of an amputee, a disability usually brushed over in order to give a character a fun design quirk and nothing else. He's fat and he's hot and he's a realistic depiction of an above knee amputee. Oh my god. Oh my god?

#axel grinds on #hades 2 #hephaestus hades #sorry i need to get this out of my system im going to eat my ELBOWS #i am not an amputee myself #but my dad is an above knee amputee and i know many amputees through him #and i just need to point out. this design. this DESIGN

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panthermouthh · 4 months

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“Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?”

#Frankenstein #gothic literature #gothic lit art #victor frankenstein #happy new year lads #ive been thinking about nothing else but them for the past 3 days #been trying to figure out a decent design for victor and i think im getting closer #he needs to have a cruelness to him #and he needs to be kind of pathetic #someone who the creature could snap in half yknow #and i need to make the creature more Mean looking but it just feels right to draw him sad and despairing #THAT BEING SAID i think i did a good job here hehe #henry is next :)))#my art #illustration

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snarkspawn · 4 months

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the devil you know

#baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #bg3 fanart #bg3 raphael #stuff and things #userpharawee #yeah I know everyone and their mum has already done something like this #with the shadow and the exact caption and all lmao I *know* ok #I just. wanted to do it too #and I've had it in my head for months it needed to get out #anyway. moving on!

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adriles · 6 months

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when we’re done with our overwhelming grief we’ll eat i guess

#book 22 #im verh drunk #hi #greatest hits #not really sure why this one resonated. are u all ok #is everyone just at the shiva #yall need to stop saying you arent gonna eat then in the tags #i love that a lot of you are getting beautiful things out of this #but some of yall need to know i wrote this while incredibly drunk #this isnt meant to be all that deep this is just shitty iliad posting #more comments like this is just judaism. surprise surprise im jewish #but again this isnt about sitting shiva #this is me drunk talking about the last 3 books of the iliad #idk what to tell u man

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stromblessed · 5 months

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Mizu, femininity, and fallen sparrows

In my last post about Mizu and Akemi, I feel like I came across as overly critical of Mizu given that Mizu is a woman who - in her own words - has to live as a man in order to go down the path of revenge.

If she is ever discovered to be female by the wrong person, she will not only be unable to complete her quest, but there's a good chance that she'll be arrested or killed.

So it makes complete sense for Mizu to distance herself as much as possible from any behavior that she feels like would make someone question her sex.

I felt so indignant toward Mizu on my first couple watchthroughs for this moment. Why couldn't Mizu bribe the woman and her child's way into the city too? If Mizu is presenting as a man, couldn't she claim to be the woman's escort?

However, this moment makes things pretty clear. Mizu knows all too well the plight of women in her society. She knows it so well that she cannot risk ever finding herself back in their position again. She helps in what little way she can - without drawing attention to herself.

Mizu is not a hero and she is not one to make of herself a martyr - she will not set herself on fire to keep others warm. There's room to argue that Mizu shouldn't prioritize her quest over people's lives, but given the collateral damage Mizu can live with in almost every episode of season 1, Mizu is simply not operating under that kind of morality at this point. ("You don't know what I've done to reach you," Mizu tells Fowler.)

And while I still feel like Mizu has an obvious and established blind spot when it comes to Akemi because of their differences in station, such that Mizu's judgment of Akemi and actions in episode 5 are the result of prejudice rather than the result of Mizu's caution, I also want to establish that Mizu is just as caged as Akemi is, despite her technically having more freedom while living as a man.

Mizu can hide her mixed race identity some of the time, and she can hide her sex almost all of the time, but being able to operate outside of her society's strict rules for women does not mean she cannot see their plight.

It does not mean she doesn't hurt for them.

Back to Mizu and collateral damage, remember that sparrow?

While Mizu is breaking into Boss Hamata's manse, she gets startled by a bird and kills it on reflex. She then cradles it in her hands - much more tenderly than we've seen Mizu treat almost anything up to this point in the season:

She then puts it in its nest, with its unhatched eggs. Almost like she's trying to make the death look natural. Or like an accident.

You see where I'm going with this.

When Mizu kills Kinuyo, Mizu lingers in the moment, holding the body tenderly:

And btw a lot of stuff about this show hit me hard, but this remains the biggest gut punch of them all for me, Mizu holding that poor girl's body close, GOD

When Mizu arranges the "scene of the crime," Kinuyo's body is delicate, birdlike. And Mizu is so shaken afterward that she gets sloppy. She's horrified at this kill to the point that she can't bring herself to take another innocent life - the boy who rats her out.

MIZU'S ONE MOMENT OF SOFTNESS AND MERCY, COMING ON THE HEELS OF HER NEEDING TO KILL A GIRL TO SPARE HER THE WORST FATE THAT THIS RIGID SOCIETY HAS TO OFFER WOMEN, AND TO SPARE A BROTHEL FULL OF INNOCENT WOMEN WHO ARE THE CASTOFFS OF SOCIETY, NEARLY RESULTS IN ALL OF THEIR DEATHS

No wonder Mizu is as stoic and cold as she is.

And no wonder Mizu has no patience for Akemi whatsoever right before the terrible reveal and the fight breaks out:

Speaking of Akemi - guess who else is compared to a bird!

The plumage is more colorful, a bit flashier. But a bird is a bird.

And, uh

Yeah.

I like to think that Mizu killing the sparrow is not only foreshadowing for what she must do to Kinuyo, but is also a representation of the choice she makes on Akemi's behalf. She decides to cage the bird because she believes the bird is "better off." Better off caged than... dead.

But because Mizu doesn't know Akemi or her situation, she of course doesn't realize that the bird is fated to die if it is caged and sent back home.

Mizu is clearly not happy, or pleased, or satisfied by allowing Akemi to be dragged back to her father:

But softness and mercy haven't gotten Mizu anywhere good, recently.

There is so much tragedy layered into Mizu's character, and it includes the things she has to witness and the choices she makes - or believes she has to make - involving women, when she herself can skirt around a lot of what her society throws at women. Although, I do believe that it comes at the cost of a part of Mizu's soul.

After all, I'm gonna be haunted for the rest of this show by Mizu's very first prayer in episode 1: