#I wish they did more

[sophsun1]

Queer As Folk | Cast Commentary | S1E1

#britin #queer as folk #qaf cast #gale harold #randy harrison #the whole commentary is so good #I wish they did more #wash your mouth out gale! #the jeep is plenty sexy okay? #does this mean he was behind the change to the corvette? #tysm kinnenvy #1x01 #qaf cast commentary

[bixels]

Learning that fans hated Applejack and called her "boring" is crazyyy to me because I genuinely, unironically believe AJ's the most complex character in the main six.

Backstory-wise, she was born into a family of famers/blue collar workers who helped found the town she lives in. She grew up a habitual liar until she had the bad habit traumatized outta her. She lost both her parents and was orphaned at a young age, having to step up as her baby sister's mother figure. She's the only person in the main gang who's experienced this level of loss and grief (A Royal Problem reveals that AJ dreams about memories of being held by her parents as a baby). She moved to Manhattan to live with her wealthy family members, only to realize she'll never fit in or be accepted, even amongst her own family. The earlier seasons imply she and her family had money problems too (In The Ticket Master, AJ wants to go to the gala to earn money to buy new farm equipment and afford hip surgery for her grandma).

Personality-wise, she's a total people-pleaser/steamroller (with an occasional savior complex) who places her self worth on her independence and usefulness for other people, causing her to become a complete workaholic. In Applebuck Season, AJ stops taking care of herself because of her obsessive responsibilities for others and becomes completely dysfunctional. In Apple Family Reunion, AJ has a tearful breakdown because in she thinks she dishonored her family and tarnished her reputation as a potential leader –– an expectation and anxiety that's directly tied to her deceased parents, as shown in the episode's ending scene. In The Last Roundup, AJ abandons her family and friends out of shame because believes she failed them by not earning 1st place in a rodeo competition. She completely spirals emotionally when she isn't able to fulfill her duties toward others. Her need to be the best manifests in intense pride and competitiveness when others challenge her. And when her pride's broken, she cowers and physically hides herself.

Moreover, it's strongly implied that AJ has a deep-seated anger. The comics explore her ranting outbursts more. EQG also obviously has AJ yelling at and insulting Rarity in a jealous fit just to hurt her feelings (with a line that I could write a whole dissection on). And I'm certain I read in a post somewhere that in a Gameloft event, AJ's negative traits are listed as anger.

Subtextually, a lot of these flaws and anxieties can be (retroactively) linked to her parents' death, forcing her to grow up too quickly to become the adult/caregiver of the family (especially after her big brother becomes semiverbal). Notice how throughout the series, she's constantly acting as the "mom friend" of the group (despite everything, she manages to be the most emotionally mature of the bunch). Notice how AJ'll switch to a quieter, calmer tone when her friends are panicking and use soothing prompts and questions to talk them through their emotions/problems; something she'd definitely pick up while raising a child. Same with her stoicism and reluctance at crying or releasing emotions (something Pinkie explicitly points out). She also had a childhood relationship with Rara (which, if you were to give a queer reading, could easy be interpreted as her first 'aha' crush), who eventually left her life. (Interestingly enough, AJ also has an angry outburst with Rara for the same exact reasons as with EQG Rarity; jealous, upset that someone else is using and changing her). It's not hard to imagine an AJ with separation anxiety stemming from her mother and childhood friend/crush leaving. I'm also not above reading into AJ's relationship with her little sister (Y'all ever think about how AB never got to know her parents, even though she shares her father's colors and her mother's curly hair?).

AJ's stubbornness is a symptom of growing up too quickly as well. Who else to play with your baby sister when your brother goes nonverbal (not to discount Big Mac's role in raising AB)? Who else to wake up in the middle of the night to care for your crying baby sister when your grandma needs her rest? When you need to be 100% all the time for your family, you tend to become hard-stuck with a sense of moral superiority. You know what's best because you have to be your best because if you're aren't your best, then everything'll inevitably fall apart and it'll be your fault. And if you don't know what's best –– if you've been wrong the whole time –– that means you haven't been your best, which means you've failed the people who rely on you, which means you can't fulfill your role in the family/society, which makes you worthless . We've seen time and time again how this compulsive need to be right for the sake of others becomes self-destructive (Apple Family Reunion, Sound of Silence, all competitions against RD). We've seen in The Last Roundup how, when no longer at her best, AJ would rather remove herself from her community than confront them because she no longer feels of use to them.

But I guess it is kinda weird that AJ has "masculine" traits and isn't interested in men at all. It's totally justified that an aggressively straight, misogynistic male fandom would characterize her as a "boring background character." /s

At the time of writing this, it's 4:46AM.

#mlp #yeah i wrote this last night during insomnia. #yeah i know an embarrassing amount of crap about this kids show #but whatever it's my hyperfixation i'll store as much useless information as i want!!! #i'm gay and neurodivergent i have an excuse #in case you needed more proof that aj's my favorite character #personal #delete later #unless you like this analysis stuff #i get why they didn't reveal aj's parent's death until way later and why they didn't do much with it but i wish they did #cuz narratively there could've been so much material with aj's grief. like. i feel like we gloss over the fact that she lost her #mother and father as a teenager #i tried keeping my personal hcs out of this to keep it unbiased #but i'll put some in the tags #involving rarijack –– i think aj can be (but not always) very self-conscious about her relationship with rarity #anxieties that she's not the right fit or that rarity will move away and leave her some day or that another woman will take her attention #(like in rollercoaster of friendship?? nudge nudge??). basic seperation anxiety stuff #long post #regarding applebloom whenever i think about her and her parents i think about that scene in steven universe where steven looks up at #a portrait of his mother and openly wonders what kind of sack lunches she would've made for him. that episode still fucks me up

[yrsonpurpose]

we won't know. but there will be signs. bonus ±

#red white and royal blue #rwrbedit #rwrb #nicholas galitzine #taylor zakhar perez #casey mcquiston #matthew lopez #userninz #chrissiewatts #userveronika #usersteen #usernuria #userclara #userlang #mine* #WE ARE SO BACK. ASTRONOMICAL LEVELS #that whole run of events tzp did ....... he was fighting for his life frrrrr #the third one takes me out every time #nick when he said there were conversations. oh boy the pr team was truly on his ass after that dkjgdk #we finally made it!!!!!!!! #'i can only dream' YOU GOT YOUR WISH BABYYYY #there are probably some more examples especially during tioy press but im not going back through those again :) #also lets hear tzp's ideas pls

[puropoly]

me and my biblical buddy that i kiss on the mouth

#good omens #aziraphale #crowley #aziracrow #did i get the ship name correctly #man i wish..................i could do more than sketches in this life #my art

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Good Morning, World.

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #jiang yanli #jiang cheng #'Good Morning World' because to wwx the jiang household is what grounds him. It is his burrow and blanket. #The familiar soup and banter is his home. The familiar arguments and tension are also his home. #Notice how quickly he throws LWJ to the side once he has JC back in reach! 'He was so boring; I wish *you* were there!' #WWX is very quick to constantly remind himself that he fits within a very specific power structure and role. #He pushes boundaries but almost always only the boundaries that he knows he can push against. #Sitting here now and realizing that if WWX did take life more seriously and act more diligent he would totally usurp JC. #Because the contrast with Them (tm) is wwx is the one that gets in trouble and JC is the one that sticks to the rules. #That responsible appearance especially in contrast is the thin line that holds JC's self-esteem together. #And lets be fully honest. From JC's perspective the last week was also extremely intense and stressful. #It truly was a feat to travel so far so fast despite also being exhausted. Never knowing if it is all in vain. #JC said with his actions 'I would move mountains for you and dig through stone with my bare hands if it meant reaching you.' #and WWX said '[read]' #It's about wwx chronically asking 'why would someone care for me? I'm always tool to be used' than accepting that people love him.

[redhotarsenic]

@nowfallc Pictures pictures for youuuu sliding these under your door <3

#when did I start this? let’s see… #THE 24th OF LAST MONTH!! ACK!!! #I’m SORRYYYYYY #I did NOT wish for it to take this long but you see. this was so so hard!! #I probably could’ve pushed this further but. I was turning into a flaming ghoul towards the end! so I quit! #you see my friend. one thing about me. is that I ❤️ quitting!! #but I’m FREE I’M FREE I’M FINALLY FREE MOTHERFUCKERS AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA #NO MORE TRIALS OR TRIBULATIONS YEAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! #also I think I am actually just a skeleton now. I’m just bones. that’s how dead I am #trigun #nicholas d. wolfwood #trigun fanart #trigun stampede #so tireeed

[gayestcowboy]

the male body (linocut)

#i did this for my gender studies final lmao #i love doing linocut so much i can’t believe i don’t share my linocut more. i’m so good at it too #my art #linocut #printmaking #trans #transmasc #i do wish i had taken a better picture of the block before printing it 20+ times bc there’s a lot of excess ink on it now #and i’m too lazy to wash it

[anneapocalypse]

I really just wish they would consistently allow Y'shtola to actually be blind. I loved the moment in Shadowbringers where she asked Urianger to describe the night sky to her. I loved her mistaking the Warrior of Light for a Lightwarden because she can't actually see their physical appearance, just the quality of their aether. But by default the writing assumes that her ability to see aether completely cancels out her loss of vision. She goes to the library and she can just... read print books. You could come up with really interesting and creative technological and magical accommodations for her disability, like mammets or familiars that read text to you! but instead she's just written 98% of the time like she isn't disabled and it's frustrating.

#ffxiv critical #anne plays ffxiv #she is fast becoming a fave and i wish they did more with this #shb spoilers #ew spoilers

[nedeii]

#early post for once ayy! #and for a reason - wanted to wish y'all happy halloween in time 😤 #and a lovely night to those who don't celebrate! #ALSO LAST DAY #WE DID IT #thanks to everybody following my skytober #it was way more fun than i expected! #i hope you had fun too 🤍 #skytober2023 #days of mischief #sky children of the light #sky cotl #sky fanart #sky 星を紡ぐ子どもたち #cotl fanart #fanart #nedeii sky #thatskygame #skyblr #ファンアート #skytober #inktober #thatgamecompany #scotl #fin~

[fiepige]

Compilation of EVERY single time they changed Hobie's filter in the digital version:

Left: Theatrical release Right: Digital release

You might have to click on some of them to get a better look at Hobie, sadly I don't have a video editor that allows me to make better edits than these :')

#This took so long to make lol #cause I had to edit every scene with Hobie from both versions so I could watch them right after one another to compare them #I did this with ALL the scenes he's in also the ones where he's on screen as spider-punk #but they only changed his filters in these scenes so it was a waste of time :') #sidenote: no it wasn't it's never a waste of time to look at hobie I just couldn't use it for my GIFset lol #I also made a bouns one but I'm not allowed to post more than 30 GIFs in one post apparently so I guess I just won't add it then... #but Hobie was basically filterless during all these scenes in the theatrical version #I like that they gave him more different filters in the digital version #the only change I don't like is in the first GIFs #cause like that one post pointed out it looks like they removed his lipstick for some reason #also really wish I had a better video editor so we could get a closer look at Hobie but I did my best with what I had #also slowed some of them down to get a better look at them #been having this idea for a while and now I finally finished it! #which means I can go back to working on my fics now #hopefully lol #also lemme know if there are some other scens you guys want me to make comparisons of #cause I have both versions #the theatrical release isn't the highest quality though so if you know where I can get my hands on a better version lemme know ;) #hobie brown #spider punk #miles morales #spider man #peter b parker #jess drew #miguel o'hara #spider man across the spider verse #across the spider verse #across the spiderverse #atsv #theatrical version

[accirax]

a collection of DCAS memes so far

#disventure camp #dcas #disventure camp spoilers #alec disventure camp #fiore disventure camp #hunter disventure camp #ally disventure camp #tess disventure camp #ellie disventure camp #jake disventure camp #gabby disventure camp #james disventure camp #lake disventure camp #ashley disventure camp #the james one was inspired by a doodle by sadlyglad_ on instagram so please support his work as well! #it's really good especially if you like james x aiden #also all of the forest backgrounds were assets taken from the show i did not draw those myself #why the hell did jake appear three times #he's just the man of the hour i suppose #i started drawing these before episode 6 and thankfully nothing happened to make any of these no longer relevant/true #hopefully i'll have more meme redraw ideas in the future but for now this is all. hehe disventure camp >:) #my art #fanart #comic #also i finally learned how to use the text tool in procreate! wish there was a better way to add outlines though #huntessally

[pippuns]

or: the one where shen qingqiu stumbles on a bunch of compiled evidence from qi qingqi that he is Not The Same Person as shen jiu

#scum villains self saving system #svsss #shen qingqiu #shen yuan #shen jiu #luo binghe #mu qingfang #liu qingge #yue qingyuan #ning yingying #ming fan #wei qingwei #shang qinghua #pippart #as far as i know #there's nothing in canon to indicate that qqq hated sj before lqg died #so it's my firm belief that the two of them were the mean girls of cqq and qqq thought sj was hilarious. #like they weren't friends but they did love being judgmental together #qqq thinks sy is fine but she just wishes he was openly mean more often. its very fun to watch him interact with sqh #i meant to make sj transparent but i forgot. anyways that's his ghost judging sy

[ohno-the-sun]

Vibrating with happiness I got them signed aaaaa

#wish I could have talked to kellen more #I was super awkward and nervous about saying hi #he did a very fun and cute moon and sun impression for me it was very sweet #he seems like a really nice man #also his panel was super interesting #he talked a bit about how it was voicing sun moon and eclipse #also he has a malleable epiglottis #which is how he gets really good monster sounds #and how sun and moon sound so different #super interesting stuff #sundrop #fnaf daycare attendant #moondrop #fnaf eclipse #fnaf #fnaf ruin dlc

[leupagus]

Ted Lasso, the character, is one of the only representations of 'sometimes getting better with your mental health issues means that you are less visibly happy, and that is okay, because you are not required to be happy in order to be loved' out there and I am really discouraged that so much of the audience is angry at that.

#ted lasso #the guy we meet in season one is so so so much sadder and is suffering so much more #than the guy we say goodbye to in season three #but the guy in season three doesn't crack as many jokes and doesn't grin and laugh at every opportunity #I really didn't expect the fandom to interpret that as 'he's even worse off than before!' #when the fact is that when you're able to have an inherent sense of self-worth rather than relying on Doing Everything Right #that you become less manic about making sure everyone likes you all the time #which is what ted did for the first two seasons #I dunno I just wish there was more room for this kind of character #and... for this kind of person #believe mothereffers #theodore lasso

[hollowbeads]

I believe these two would get along just swell over a cup of tea

#my art #digital art #roblox free draw #the scarab #scarab the god auditor #scarab #Wallter #regretevator wallter #wallmark #prohibitedwish #the ships are heavily implied #prismo #mannequin mark #once again implied #my cringe crossover content #I wish I could say i did more in the time I was gone but school is a bitch #regretevator

[psipudding]

gamecube looking....

#bocchi the rock #nijika ijichi #I love when her eyes do this #wish she did it more but I'm glad it's not overdone either