#LISTEN HE IS THE IDEAL MAN

[avoteforme]

#i like that they both v quietly know the intention #of his giving it to her and her displaying it on her shawl as she's about to take flight #one of those rare moments where they're so soft #he listens and remembers her story he cares about her and he tries to meet her needs/desires- Ideal Man material #i also even like that it's 'stolen goods' bc it's like ofc it's very Them why would they even try to do it the Correct&Proper way [facepalm #and oh her delight at seeing him on that airfield #to borrow the shakespeare- i sometimes think the mfmm movie was cloying #whereas the 308 finale scene? it Satisfies #jack x phryne #miss fisher's murder mysteries #mfmm

[aauroralightss]

happy wolfwood wednesday nicholas d wolfwood is a LOSER and i don't mean stampede wolfwood (although he is too with his tech bro ass big sunglasses and coat) but i mean trimax wolfwood. literally everything he does is so fucking funny to me. the scene where he tells vash to shoot him? did he honest to god think "oh yeah vash is gonna shoot me this will be great" ????????? like what did he truly expect to happen. and he monologues through the whole fight against grey the ninelives. he makes me sick why is he so EXTRA

#nicholas d wolfwood #nicholas d. wolfwood #trigun maximum #trigum maximum spoilers #i guess?? idk just covering my bases here #but listen there is something so seriously messed up in that man's brain #miss melanie says it best when she says he has stubborn ideals #thinks he is right ALL THE TIME and it clouds his judgement #why are you talking to vash rn. he cant hear you babygirl #hi btw. thanks for the love on my last post. i'm glad that one hit #rora rambles

[feline-evil]

Dick or no dick confirmation Pickles was always going to be trans to me anyways; if he's swingin' somethin that's phallo babes, if he's not then his t-dick fat. What's not to get.

#metalocalypse #jay talkin #I'm sorry they wrote that awful gross little man far too likeable and relatable to on a trans level #for me not to hoot and holler and cheer for the trans pickles agenda #changes nothing about his character arc or any of the show anyone is capable of being the kind of person he is #don't make the mistake of thinking thats exclusive to cis men #his transness wouldnt change that #only adds on an extra layer to him that i think works fantastically. #Listen that dude was rejected by his family driven to drink and drugs young to escape that ran away to be in a band #is called fucking Pickles of all things and refuses to tell anyone his real last name; #over the span of four seasons and two movies he slowly starts to learn to be for others what he never had #he becomes more caring more supportive #it's not a stretch to say he undoes some of the toxic masculinity he's been keeping himself shielded behind #and learns how to be a kinder man. #all of which have no contradictions with him being trans! #In fact it doesn't take much extra thought to find ways a lot of this can line up with some trans masculine experiences #i mean. Did no one else have a younger phase where they swung as far as they could into crass rude and uncaring ways #to try and assert their masculinity only to grow and realise that you can be a man and be more caring. #Did no one else have father issues. 1 800 come on now i know those are both shared experiences a lot of us have had LOL. #at the end of the day this show aired nearly 20 years ago and is finished. we're not getting more of it #so nothing is altered nor changed if pickles is canonically trans or not ok. its fine #i mean hell i dont even need canon confirmation hes trans to me and thats all i care abt #but i think if yr getting suuuuuper weird abt needing him not to be canonically trans you have some issues #and bio essentialist ideals of gender if you think only a cis man can act like he does #again. anyone can be like that. its not exclusive. him being trans would not change him in any way shape or form lol #AND ALSO GODDDUUUGH for once i love getting to see a guy pushing 50 whos depicted as trans #do you have any idea how dire and barren it is out here. we never get to see a trans guy older than 30 and whos not a pristine model #I WANT MORE OLD SHLUBBY SHITHEAD TRANS GUYS IN MEDIA

[goldensunset]

i want to study n like a bug. he’s playing both sides of being a friend and an enemy and again i still don’t even understand him yet bc we’ve never had a normal interaction even once

#goldie plays pokémon black #what was his goal there. to trap me somewhere to throw me off then battle me for fun? #still seems like he’s attempting ti recruit me to his ideals #which like #i’d be willing to listen to what he has to say #hit me with your pitch #but just EXPLAIN things ti me first i don’t know enough #anyway ​his in-battle sprites are awesome though #i love this dramatic man

[eggcats]

I don't care what the post-credit screen teased, the next Mario movie needs to be Luigi's Mansion - a) because the first movie didn't have enough Luigi in it, and b) so we can give King Boo and Luigi what the Mario movie gave Bowser and Luigi

#listen #LISTEN! #the ideal Luigi ship is just bowser and king boo fighting over who gets to kidnap Luigi and culminating in a tiny man #in the middle of a bed with 2 giant large monster kings on both sides of him #and he's just like how is this my life now #give the boouigi what bowuigi was given that's all i ask #bowuigi #the super mario bros movie #tsmbm #smb

[helianthus21]

he can box huh. they dont make chickenshit male-wifes like gu chansung anymore😔

#pls i want my male love interests to be either competent badasses or pathetic soft losers #dont listen to me i've had a few tinto de veranos aisdkj #but still #they make their male leads too perfect sometimes let him have more flaws #not that he's perfect i personally think parts of his personality truly suck (affectionate) #but i feel like the show wants me to see him as the ideal man y'know #heli liveblogs #queen of tears #anyway gu chansung =💯

[vaguely-concerned]

travis matagot just -- the very concept of him unlocks something deep and feral in my brain, even aside from all the changeling stuff. an angel looked upon you once as a child and, after seeing every possible thread and pathway of the man you will grow into one day, said 'I see no sin here' even as its holy flames consumed your screaming parents and the town around you. that angel, having stumbled head over heels to earth after killing god, later deliberately loses their name to you in a card game so the eyes of heaven can't find them. you and the angel have proceeded to annoy the everloving FUCK out of each other for centuries because you just keep. bumping. into each other!!!! through the power of like Narrative and also simply being two of the only people who've even been around that long. you've kept their name for them this whole time and never breathed a word of it, even though they seemingly never even explained why they wanted to lose it in the first place. you've sworn to die together or not at all.

what if you met an eldritch horror as a child and then became their best (and most irritating) friend/life partner/frenemy/perpetual thorn in their side (affectionate). I'm obsessed with this idea of being divinely judged as unworthy of damnation so early in your life and having to have that in the back of your head forever even as your self-loathing and trauma start piling up over the centuries and you have done so many shitty things along the way. like. is he trying to prove them wrong. is that part of his whole thing about trying to escape the narrative. or is it to prove that 'no actually awful things happen to me because I'm awful, you got it wrong from the start (fuck you btw)' because at least that feels like a choice, like some kind of control to hold on to? what is going on here travis. what the fuck

#skyjacks #campaign skyjacks #travis matagot #gable skyjacks #trable #like mostly in a. narrative/thematic sense?? because both the bickering everyday dynamic and the uh Cosmic scale ones... #sets my head spinning honestly. what the hell #I'm catching up with this podcast and spoiler warning: it's still excellent #just how easily travis accepted that gable was the angel that destroyed his hometown (including his parents) is so funny and so sweet to me #he was just like 'eh. more than enough water under that bridge to wash that one clean tbh #I am also a huge albino turkey for this hugely emotional conversation btw' #and he's equally blasé about finding out gable like. caused the partial end of the world. #the only time he freaks the FUCk out is when he finds out they lied about having figured out how to die so he got to leave first #skyjacks spoilers #anyway listen to campaign skyjacks it is extremely good and travis actually is Like This all the time #he's a jaded depressed old man in the body of a trickster twink. one of the ideal character archetypes tbh

[havinganfois]

Your straightforward intelligent f/o saying "I love you" for the first time. They've gone through all possible theories describing their unusual emotional and behavioral responses. It's the only explanation. They thought you should be aware.

#f/o imagines #Romantic f/o imagines #I'm having a sheldon moment I think #obviously I don't self ship with him #I shan't #I just think he's the ideal man #The feels are complected #complicated #because he's also the ideal ME #kin? No #idolize #anyway #ignore my rambling in the tags #I'm just gushing about sheldon to whoever would listen lol #intelligent f/o imagines #smart f/o imagines

[estrangedfiance]

it’s not my fault it’s more fun to listen to john lennon’s songs and interpret them as love poems

#‘oh it’s just nonsense words it doesn’t mean anything’ #this was one of the most fucked up men of the last century . and he wrote poetry for a living. like let’s take a listen #my deep conspiracy theory is that Girl was about paul #a song about an ideal woman that he hasn’t found yet…a song to match Paul’s michelle on the same album… #one that promises the earth to him and he believes her? #one that when you say she’s looking good she acts as if it’s understood? #did she understand it when they said a man must break his back to earn his day of leisure…do I even have to say it #when he’s the one who convinced paul to choose between him and his dad #anyways. it’s all delusion maybe #but happy mclennon saturday

[rithmeres]

david & goliath part vii: mikasa as pietro novelli’s “david with the head of goliath” (1630s)

#mikasa ackerman #shingeki no kyojin #attack on titan #aot #snk #BEFORE ANYONE SAYS ANYTHING I AM AN ANIME ONLY. BTW. #the more i think about my ideal ending the more i set myself up for disappointment but my massive analytical brain cant be wrong #this has been building for a while. the implications are there. #i was listening to my boy by billie eilish (MY BOY DONT LOVE ME LIKE HE PROMISED HE AINT A MAN AND SURE AS HELL AINT HONEST) #and this is love by the hunt (THIS IS LOVE. THIS IS WAR. THIS IS NOT ABOUT REVENGE OR WHAT I FELT BEFORE) #and also me and the devil by soap&skin (HELLO SATAN I BELIEVE IT'S TIME TO GO) #girl i hope u execute him with extreme prejudice. i hope you and your cousin kill him and his brother in the best ways possible #wherefore art thou #snk spoilers #blood tw #snkdavids #gore

[starsandthorn]

my god okay when jing yuan gave us the abacus i thought that would see use in like an endgame sort of nanook fight situation not THE NEXT ARC. are you kidding me. okay post canceled i finished penacony

#personal stuff #seraph plays star rail #star rail spoilers #i saw it in the trailer and i said no. now come on. #it gets a pass though because i'm a sappy bitch. #''my friends are also once in a lifetime treasures'' COME ONN [said through tears] #listen LISTEN when reserved characters in no uncertain terms say how much they love their friends.... waa.. #also. like i think i saw misha as the watchmaker coming. #misha is a diminutive of mikhail it's not that surprising #what i did not see coming was MISHA FUCKING DIES. #and gallagher too. potentially. idk i haven't gotten there yet but he's saying ominous shit. come on man #anyway REALLY fun stuff going on in penacony i am eating it voraciously #the twist with sunday... the trailblaze stuff... DAN HENG... #my man cannot catch a break #but YEAH i am really really loving how they're diving more into aeon stuff as well as relic lore #with mikhail and firefly and acheron #and just auuugh. the ideals of order vs harmony. they are going HARD on the catholicism with sunday my god #BUT THE FACT THAT ALL THROUGH IT HE LOVES HIS SISTER. PUNCHES GROUND #post canceled [abacus-wise] i finished penacony! it was all a dream!!

[outoftimewriting]

i have Opinions™ on barristan defending rhaegar's love of "his lady lyanna", based on the fact he was attracted to an 25 to 30 years younger woman-

#asoiaf #i do think he is an amazing knight #and that he is maybe one of the last true knights of westeros #and that he is chivalrous and good and etcetcetc #i also think he has very Old™ ideals #because he is old #he also idolized rhaegar because rhaegar was a hope for better days #in comparison to aerys #and afterwards robert #is difficult to admit that rhaegar was (probably) Not a Very Nice Man #do you think rhaegar reminded him of aegon (the unlikely?) #like before it all went to shit with jaehaerys listening to a woods-witch? #barristan selmy #anti rhaegar targaryen #ashara dayne

[unproduciblesmackdown]

billions could only have a gay man, who was married, and died by the end of that season; only deal with taylor's upending of presumed cishettery by having everyone who's not terrible be automatically down without putting some crisis about it on them, as the better approach to trying to have people talk about it (true, certainly in this case); extent of its room for rian's latent nonbinariness being "never wearing skirts/dresses, always wearing makeup though"....all that is to say, even with neither of them allowed to be "truly" cishet, b/c that's the rewarded realm for superior people, billions could never do winstuk. but they could be kissing right now

#winston & tuk: cannot be cishet in a way that matters (billions means this as an insult. i mean it as a testimonial) #sure convincing that winston's own ideals are like ''wow im the straightest in the world'' after One alleged official dating experience #and Two crushes on nonbinary people. and being the One person who's a) supported tuk b) without telling him to Stop Being A Loser #the one way other characters can Elevate(tm) tuk more than winston: not Really support him; just tell him to Become worthier #while winston: does not do this #anyway nobody at all gets to be ''truly'' ''ideally'' cishet; just like other inventions re the Correctest body/mind's look & behavior #tbt yrs & yrs ago some random lady talking abt ''queering'' her marriage by having a cellphone or smthing like ma'am i agree nowadays fr #winston Cannot have a ''correct'' sexuality even if he's supposedly ''at least'' cishet with it #neither can tuk; next most loserest dumped no gf nerd! neither Unglasses'd; neither Thin; winston's autistic; tuk isn't white.... #show goes ''well just look at & listen to him XD'' towards winston on occasion; usually doesn't ''overtly'' do this; doesn't re: tuk.... #meanwhile the idea that well Non Hot(tm) people who have no place in ideals & fantasy of Correctness & what's most desired? #they can get with Each Other :) that doesn't threaten things haha don't know how wrong they are. or have accepted All They Deserve (less) #billions is so proximately capable of letting these two be Involved in this way lmao. but it also Isn't #can barely handle taylor & just avoids addressing as much outright as often; again: one gay man; neatly married; neatly deceased.... #iconic total hc's: supplementary dynamics the ladies who are also friends they hooked up w/in 6x11 having a fourway abt it #no anxious negotiating of what must be done & must not be done to keep it all cishet ''enough'' lol. congrats to them all #winston billions #winstuk #was already thinking winston could be dating someone we don't know abt till billions tried to reassure us oh he hasn't Of Course lol right #same is true for tuk ofc but he gets the same treatment (ft. ben's utter mysteriousness re: Any mention of past dating history....) #riawin could've been great & was completely welcome; issue became how the abusiveness there would just also manifest re: sex / romance #totally won't find resonance / overlap b/w ableism & homophobia in how winston's sexuality is seen as mere sex drive that's also gross btw #tuk's really also framed the same way like Of Course You'd Be Rejected; and Any desires would become repulsively Too Much #b/c the superior parties have to want it for it to be correct! & they'd never want You! you're just completely wrong & outside of it all #winston talking at all? Too Much. he must be talked To; & that is so usually begrudging & nonideal #other ppl being horney like well of course. pretty epic really #like w/e winston's sucking & fucking & [Saluting] if he isn't dating at all. like good for him. he can make out w/tuk one way or another #''winston can go fuck himself'' (like one bg dialogue person straightup says) Okay. He Is. party for one? this too can be Sex

[i-spilled-my-soup]

things you liked+didn't like about tsats?

haven't read it in a hot minute but my recollections follow thus

liked

that scene with bianca in the lotus hotel.... augugahug. i miss bianca. i wanna see more of her. please

dionysus being a chill guy. and he's eating popcorn. he deserves it

disliked

its so romance-focused.. which i guess is The Point of that book but. not what i was hoping for, not what i was looking for..

it doesn't fit my taste which is not a fair standard for anything Remotely unbiased but this post is biased so i shall continue. there were a number of tropes that i've seen before and poignantly dislike. the cutesy romancey bits felt a little dull to me

that one bit about jasons arms

#tsats spoilers #im sorry guys i dont understand well... #book in all may just not be for me #will and nico parts especially #i jsut. dont like the feeling of. auaug. and the. and the aftermath of nightmare augahaag. and . the whole premise of some lady saying #''oh look at you you are cute and homosexual u should tell me ur relationship drama in excruciating detail!'' i don't really. enjoy that. #my ideal romance is just really good friends and i didnt feel that #like none of that patroclus book 13 ish when everyone is dying and hes at nestors tent saying ''dude. you think i havent tried #convincing achilles. really. you think hes bad try being at his side for years he is the worst guy i know in the guy department'' #and its like. uninteresting #not even alcibiades and socrates at the end of plato's symposium #where alcibiades on the fourth rizzing attempt says #''listen man. i want you more than i want anyone else. cause i believe you're my only chance of becoming a good person" #and socrates roasts his ass and then they cuddle and alcibiades wakes up completely lain with but not ''lain with'' and mopes #or like lucius apuleius madaurensis in his autobiography/self insert novel using kitchen-themed pickup lines on photis #i. i dunno. some dude in camo shorts joking that his bf will never be happy doesn't spark much besides annoyance #and i do not want i do not want a homosexual love triangle please i just want . friends. please. #i always enjoyed the subtle diversion of heteronormativity or like comphet but now its homonormativity and it just feels like comphet #but more fetishized #?

[nicosraf]

Uriel’s ideal date? 👀

Why would he go on a date !!! He's married !!!!!!

#his ideal date is listening to you talk about all the things youre passionate about #he wants to watch a movie and hear you explain it to him #he wants to sip coffee on the patio while you tell him about the book you read #his love language is seeing you in love #(or that's what it was) #angels before man #mine #ask

[trans-li-ling]

I think we should give Zora a gun and whatever happens to the Shadow Decree happens

#dislyte #Listen I'm going to be honest. I like a lot of shadow Decree characters. But also. #Given the chance I would kill them off in story because of how much I hate them. #Mainly the fact a good chunk of them are like. Okay with child murder? Like hello #The union 100% deserves criticism (hi Luo Yan the cop who got fired bc he thought the law was beneath him what's up w u being here) and #Tiye's story is. Whoooo boy. The union definitely has An Interest In Branding #But again. Orphanage burning was A Thing That Happened #And ofc there's the meta view of like... What are the bad guys ideals? Are they only evil bc they're extreme? And I try 2 keep that in mind #But like the Shadow Decree is kinda... Just full of selfish people. Ofc some ppl are more sympathetic but all of them Are Selfish #Honestly Bonnie is like the only one who stands out to me as like... Yeah the union failed her community and she's rightfully mad #Most of the others lost like. One person either to the union or just thought the shadow Decree would let them get revenge and #It's a case by case thing like some of them probably feel like they have nowhere else to go and that's understandable but the initial #Actions they took were selfish and I feel like dislyte puts too much into making the characters surface level sympathetic (Ophelia) rather #Than grappling with if they view themselves as good people or if they're disappointed in themselves or if they don't care #(forgot to say earlier Jiang Jiuli n Jiang Man r valid in hatred though like the union directly fucked them over and it's understandable #That they fucking hate them so like it's more grey) #(also this is why like... Nicole n Cecilia r some of my faves they don't give a shit they just wanna fuck stuff up and I can respect that) #And Catherine is actually well done because she's full of hatred and even if she has soft moments shes just. Mean as hell! #LYNN I love Lynn but girl you know about the orphanage burning right???? Right??????? #Anyway how well known is the burning of the union? Iirc it was both the HQ and the Orphanage so do ppl only know abt the HQ or both or???? #Anyway the union is flawed but trying unaffiliated espers are similar and the shadow Decree is 90% people who are selfish and toxic and #Really fucking annoying. I fucking hate Ophelia so much you have no idea I want to throw bricks at her. #Anyways Zora is the best character and deserves free therapy and a lifetime supply or tiramisu and a gun #JASPER TRIED TO FUCK W THE UNION WITHOUT JOINING YHE CHILD MURDER ORGINIZATION