#along with a couple other characters

[wingsofhcpe]

the ATLA live action series is... actually very good??? I really didn't expect that.

(spoilers in the tags- beware!)

#i didnt like that they changed the sequence & reasoning behind the air nomad temple scene where aang finds dead gyatso #and i think they should have used a bit more 'show dont tell' a couple times. but other than that? IT'S GREAT. #avatar the last airbender #atla #netflix atla #my bestie (aka biggest atla fan in greece) and i watched eps 1-3 together and we are very pleasantly surprised #bc we expected it to be really bad but. it's actually very good!!! #i know we were all pissin our pants abt how they 'removed sokka's sexism' but they actually compensated for his character development- #-in other ways and the end result feels very close to og sokka. not weak or half assed at all #and i cant believe I'm saying that but actually i prefer this version of how he and suki interact than the og one? #also Suki is probably my fave casting choice so far. along with azula! #speaking of... *squishes azula*. that is A Baby.

[rotzaprachim]

digging my teeth into the really dark fascinating fucked-upness of helnik. they’re fascinating in being a wartime love story about an intentional victim of genocidal violence and an unintentional fuck-around-and-find-out victim of “collateral damage,” both of which are different forms of wartime violence. 

nina is targeted as a grisha, she’s almost killed by the druskelle and fjerda in the books not for being a ravkan spy or agent but simply for being grisha. they will kill her for being grisha. and how will they kill her? they will burn her. and it’s fascinating when she tells matthias in a very justified moment of rage (i mean. they’re looking at the dying burned corpses of her people whom jesper, also a grisha, had to physically shoot) and says i want your family to burn i want them all to be burnt in the way my people were. and matthias says, they already have been. they already burned. and how that changes the entire dynamic between them, everything leading up to that, becuase FUCK. yeah. his whole family has already been burnt. he’s a lone survivor of something in much the same way she is, and his family was burnt not on purpose for being grisha but as a “justified accident,” the casual civilian side-damage of war. and it was her people. unlike the intentional, systemic violence that destroyed her people and left nina a shaken, traumatised survivor of a purposeful genocide, we have matthias as this destroyed survivor of one of those little sorts of accidents that’s swallowed and justified by the shape of the war and what Must Be Done to succeed. (also he serves as like, one of the only times i think it’s really faced that the first army is, you known, a national army that does national-army-during-a-war things.) one does not cancel out the other. 

their relationship is difficult and fucked and that’s why it’s fascinating and has so much potential to explore. it’s so much more complicated than the tiktok “enemies to lovers” trope because they dig right at the base of what it is to be an enemy to someone else. from the ship nina is an almost-lone survivor of the damage his people did. from his village being burnt by inferni matthias is a lone survivor of the damage her people did. from the consequences of war on his people and violent prejudice against her own, nina is raised a child soldier and in many ways reduced to weaponry, something that absolutely is a form of child abuse. from the consequences of war on her people matthias is inducted into a cult and subjected to spiritual abuse. they’ve been hurt by each other’s nations, but also by their own. there’s something so brutal but also tender in the way they knock each other off the orbits they’ve been living in and force them out of the home that is burning. love may make you free, but not without drowning first. 

#nina zenik #matthias helvar #helnik #they're so. they're SO. look i will gilroyfy this there's almost unlimited material #six of crows #symmetry and mirrors and the mirror hurts #but yeah the fact they're both absolutely victims not only of each other country's war crimes BUT THEIR OWN COUNTRIES WAR CRIMES IS LIKE #well that's a lot to unpack. the violence that comes inside and outside the house #they cannot go home! as a consequence of meeting each other they cannot go home #tw genocide #obviously none of this is to let matty off the hook but i think he is a FAR more complex character and his deradicalisation from military #violence is far far more complicated than often given credit too #his backstory especially is. damn. look have your entire family killed by a military apparatus and say that wouldnt' radicalise you too? #i love them for being a fantasy and (sighssss to use this phrase) enemies-to-lovers couple that ISN'T royalty #and that #for all their induction into nationalism hates each other not only along national lines but the violence of lived experiences like #nina may filter her hatred of him and his people through Ravka Good Fjerda Bad but it's also the fact they very much did kill her people #she very much /is/ a survivor of a whole shipload of drowned people #meanwhile matthias may filter his code through Fjerda Good Drusje Very Very Very Bad but like... also they very much did kill his people #it makes their relationship so much messier #but yeah they aren't royalty (matthias even in the one time he describes his background calls his family paupers) #they're ordinary people who have by structures of war been pulled into semi-priviledged positions of elite soldierdom and servitude #and that is fascinating. two kings set their fighting dogs against each other and they fall in love #that love can be liberatory it can be radical it can be real it can also just be. not enough to break the cycle of violence #ANYWAY!!! i love them forever. i have thoughts

[kyouka-supremacy]

Honestly i see canon akutagawa x beast atsushi as 2 emos who have gone through nothing but pain in their lives trying to heal themselves through loving each other (with a dab of toxicity)

Yeaahhhhhhh............ Yeah. I really like the concept of this ship to be honest. I think they would get along very well, because honestly sskk do get along very well the second Atsushi gets down his moral pedestal and understands he's not any better than Akutagawa; which happens automatically if Atsushi works for the mafia too. And I feel like it would help Akutagawa a lot to have someone he feels he can relate to, someone who truly understands him. It'd make him feel more human. Yeah, I sincerely think they'd work amazing together– keeping the little sad because of all the traumatic experiences they still had to go through, but still finding comfort in walking through the darkness side by side. It's a sad soft little ship.

#I think it's also the least toxic sskk can be by conventional standards #Again it's just chuu/aku but sadder tbh #Because Beast Atsushi is a tragic character by default lmao #ryūnosuke akutagawa #atsushi nakajima #sskk #bsd #bsd beast #people asks me stuff #... That's not taking into account Dazai. I'm not sure how things would play out then #But they probably wouldn't get along as well. Because for sure Dazai would put them against each other #And even if he didn't Akutagawa would feel threatened by the possibility of someone else replacing him #Btw in my mind it's also. Couple where neither talks. Absolute silence in their house 24/7

[findergirls]

today on: little xc3 moments i think about way too much

the scene in maktha where the gang is informed about the annihilator and the shit going on at the castle so they decide to take a detour from their route to the city to take it down. and eunie is the most reluctant to agree to this plan because she just had that conversation with mio about her lifespan and doesn’t want her to lose any more time because she finally understands her and her situation better now but she relents upon seeing how determined mio is to take action, despite being entirely aware of how long it could take.

it’s SO good. it’s reminiscent of the scene in fornis where taion and sena try to convince everyone to take the quicker but more dangerous route because they don’t want mio to waste time, putting what they think she needs over what she actually wants. which isn’t necessarily a bad thing as they want to do what they believe would be best for mio. but at the same time eunie/lanz decide on the slower, safer option without a second thought because this is so early in the story and they haven’t fully become friends with the agnus half at this point.

yet later, in maktha, focus is put on eunie’s hesitation Because she’s become friends with mio, realising the full gravity of the situation, and being confided in that mio is actually more afraid than she lets on (and eunie, too, is more than intimate with fear in the face of death). but eunie agrees to go along, anyway, because she understands that it’s what her friend wants, and that matters more than anything else

#it’s just. i love how this isn’t a game where the party goes along with stuff because they’re the party and it’s what they do #they don’t just do stuff because they’re the protagonist’s yes-men #but they all have their own unique takes and feelings on situations like mio’s #and the scenes between them where we watch the group get closer with each other is what makes stuff like chapter 5 hit even harder #the other five party members have all built up their friendships with mio. even lanz. when in most games #characters like them would probably barely exchange a couple words with each other. #and the whole group is so down and devastated during the whole ch5 sequence BECAUSE they care about mio #not because ‘well the jrpg party has to be sad’. no. actual work is put into building up these relationships and dynamics #anyway. tags could be a whole post on their own and i might do that someday. but today is not that day #xenoblade chronicles 3

[magisterhego]

What did you think about Behlül’s relationships with Bihter and Nihal? Did he love either of them? Did either of them love him?

I think he did actually love both of them, but in his own way. He seems to have a tendency to have a great big romance that he quickly burns out and rinse and repeat with the next person he fancies.

As to whether he was loved, I'd say yes by both, but also in a limited way. I think he's kind of like the high school crush of a girl from a very small town, where the girl wants to date someone mostly because she thinks it's exciting at that age. And so her crush toward the guy develops more out of her daily life having a very limited pool of potential boyfriends, than out of any wow moment of attraction to that guy in particular.

For Bihter, I think she would have equally fallen for a different person who was young, handsome and charming, and consistently close at hand to observe.

But I don't know if she'd have slept with anyone who was not so casual as Behlül. His cheerful lack of morals and friendly persistence surely helped a bit to remove some mental barriers in her mind. With someone less happy-go-lucky, she'd maybe just have had lovesickness and stayed at that as a 'noble' kind of compromise between cheating and withering without experiencing real love.

There is a word I can't quite translate, 'prepustiti se' (to let yourself go, to abandon yourself to a feeling/situation, can be have positive or negative connotations), which I feel works for both Bihter and Nihal's feelings to Behlül.

They were first pursued by him and they seem to have almost purposefully convinced themselves into loving him. Both were lonely and desperate in different ways.

Bihter was in an unhappy marriage, I don't think I need to elaborate too much as she herself describes it all in a self-aware way in the novel.

As to Nihal, she was frankly somewhat neglected by her family. Yes, she's otherwise "spoiled", but they made huge decisions to remove her brother, and her governess, and her kitchen buddies, and didn't even tell her until the very moment it had already happened! Extremely frustrating and scary for such an already isolated girl. She lived from day to day not knowing who she could lose next, no wonder she got all emo.

So when the situation came that everyone was suddenly eager to marry her to a guy - one she already knew and trusted and casually bantered with - I think half of the appeal would be a young girl's physical attraction to Behlül as a man, but the other half would be the idea of finally keeping someone for herself (because her family couldn't very well decide to whoosh away her husband on a whim, lol). I can see why she'd accept the situation.

#also a thought that is quite creepy and that I don't even quite agree with myself #but IF there wasn't such an age difference between her and Behlül #and IF he wasn't the kind of guy who'd openly find himself mistresses as soon as the honeymoon phase of love wore off #I can actually see that they'd be somewhat well-matched #as he seems to know how to make her see reason without being condescending when she's snappish and neurotic #and they both have a jokey and musical side and Nihal has a naturally bossy side that might rein in his flightiness #but the book relationship is manipulative and creepy since she's isolated + barely out of childhood + naive and he's so close to her family #aşk ı memnu #ask i memnu #on the other hand if Bihter wasn't already married #I can also see her and Behlül getting along well in a 'let's spend money together in fun and fancy ways' #and being the kind of couple who do grand love drama but in a recreative way lol #but again that's if he wasn't the kind of guy who'd cheat on her a lot #sorry I am just shitting all over Behlül in this post #but I think he's a funny and interesting twist on the dandy character type #just... not one suited for being 'saved' from his womanising way by either of the girls in the novel - or by anyone really

[sonknuxadow]

sorry for being a little hater about shipping again but people thinking that silvaze is canon is like peak cishets being unable to see a boy and a girl have any sort of positive interaction without automatically assuming theyre in love

#the amount of times ive seen people say its canon or put it on lists of ''canon'' sonic ships is wild #canon in quotes because most of the other ships between game characters that get labelled as canon arent canon either #si/lvaze is just one of the most confusing ones #because we're never given any reason to believe that they canonically have any romantic feelings for eachother? #they just act like normal friends #i cant think of a single interaction between them that felt like an intentional hint at a crush on either end #there are so many other ships that you could more easily make a case for that people dont go around saying are canon #people literally just assume that theyre dating because they see a guy and a girl stand near eachother and go ''oh so theyre a couple'' #also didnt silver and blaze's character profiles for sonic 06 literally say that theyre best friends who view eachother as siblings #or something along those lines. Like the fuck do you mean theyre dating

[candyredterezii]

The defense/reason Utena is lesbian because of her having heavy trauma related with various men is a biphobic statement and completely ignores that bi women can and do face abuse from various men in their lives as well but we aren't ready to talk bout that yet I think!

#candyredtext #been stewing on this forever but last night w girls talking bout utena discourse #n how like no one seems 2 fucking understand the show and its characters n themes #abysmal #anyway anthy n utena are the bi/lesbian couple for the toxic yuri square. #right along with bubblegum/marceline #anyway tho let me also say cus ik the reading on this site is piss poor #but u can hc utena as a lesbian thats fine #but trying to say she is canonically / heavily coded to be lesbian due to her trauma around men is #ignoring the bi women who also have trauma with men as well #like hell im a bi woman with trauma related to men - some similar to Utena. #my two bi friends with similar issues also v much see themselves in Utena and her experiences #utena can be lesbian. she could be bi. but her trauma w men doesn't define one or the other solidly #does that make sense? i hope so. #anyway

[mintjeru]

i have extremely predictable taste in characters actually

open for better quality | no reposts | ID under the cut

[Image description: A rough pencil and paper bust sketch of Líf. He is facing to the left and looking up. Gas emits from his mask.]

#lif #fe heroes #feh #fire emblem #fanart #myart #doodle #this is really rushed bc i've been running around all week and still am #but i wanted to draw him at least once #smth smth characters that see themselves as tools and undeserving of kindness after losing the people closest to them- #and despite caring for others to the point of self-sacrifice they push others away in fear of losing them #sound familiar? #anyway hi i've been playing feh for 3 years though idt i've mentioned it here before #might finish this later? we'll see #i snagged hilda at 5 pity and paid for it by going up to hard pity for lif #literally got pitybroken by shez twice and a couple of others along the way #also. yes i am reeling after today's gi stream do not talk to me about a.lejandro saab voicing c.yno i Will cry #ok i have to go now [drops this here and runs]

[cak31ssuperi04]

Throwing my hat in the relationship chart ring. 1bit/beat charts credit to @//likesaly and @///silvercrane14, if this bothers either of you please let me know so I can delete it!

1bit relationship spaghetti breakdown:

Platonic

Romantic

Familial

Negative

#Also feel free to ask for elaboration on anything #pieceofcake.txt #Saying Koza is related to the cats is weird but I didn't want to put “pseudo-familial” for Merue and Shitsuna so whatever #adoptive family is family(cats count) #Replaced the close friends line with respect but in hindsight 'friends' could range anywhere from besties to #spoke a couple of times and got along pretty well. Oh well #the 1bit one in particular's timeline is wonky because I don't think a lot of these characters would know each other /during/ 1bit but that #it also leaves out a lot of relationships that would have formed by the timeskip/relationships that would've developed and changed by then #Was tempted to add the main characters to the 1beat chart but(if my 1bit chart wasn't apparent enough) I'm very flippant about how #I want the main character relationships to go #There wouldn't be much change tbh. More of them would be friends maybe. #I did say Izuchi was familiar with the Blue Sun trio to an extent but I lied #which is to say I forgot that they said Blue Sun College of Music and not just a general college #Going to run with it having other branches in the area so maybe he's /heard/ of them or has even watched them perform before #But they're not like schoolmates or anything #I kind of want Sora to be friends with the cats because he shares a va with one of them but I have no idea what circumstances #would lead to them meeting #Also intrapersonal relationships between the fatcats but I haven't decided on those #Got a little too silly with the ''dislike'' lines for Sora and just ended up opting to remove them entirely #they're there in spirit though

[beeapocalypse]

orphanage party talk. a single contained shriek over this

#abellas intro says she had a couple siblings. her trying to talk levi thru his emotions b4 he shuts down on her is rlly sweet #meanwhile karins putting her foot DIRECTLY in her mouth. GIRL !!!!!! #her drive + strong sense of morality at odds with her need to get combative w daan is rlly interesting. maybe she takes his typically-- #--mellow nature as a sign of complacency (which it sort of it. blank soul following along w authority etc etc) and a lack of compassion ? #there is the party talk in the shed where u can first recruit him where he goes 'well... you cant save everyone' and karin goes '...' that- #--got to me. no clever bite back and no jab. just sitting in the quiet acceptance that they cannot help these people #rlly rlly love just how much party talk dialogue there is it adds a ton to the mood while travelling around. wish it was all put down on-- #--the wiki but Alas #had originally been planning to ditch abella when i finally found marina again but Man . shes such an interesting character. im a-- #--beller head now shes a revolutionary shes a woman constantly belittled for her field of work shes sometimes an elephant that can make ur- #--brain pop like a grape in multiple ways (CHAUGNAR AS HER INTERNALIZED SENSE OF OTHERNESS AS A WOMAN-- #--WHO STEPPED INTO THE TECHNICAL FIELD DUE TO THE LACK OF MEN IN THE WORK FORCE DURING THE WAR? MAYBE) #funger screenshots

[stop-breaking-my-heart-telltale]

If you could turn back time, would you wanna play TWDG series for the first time again? Your blog and posts would still exist but your memory would have no prior knowledge of the game

Hell yeah, I would. This blog has 5+ years of twdg content on it and if my memory of just that was erased, it would be a lot of fun to replay the games now, then read the stuff that past CJ thought and wrote. I'm a different person than I was five years ago because that's how time works, funny enough, so I wonder how differently I would think, y'know?

Plus, on top of cringing at my very old posts, me and past CJ would disagree on some things. I mean, I have changed my mind on quite a bit but you get me.

and I dunno, I haven't posted a lot on this blog lately but outside of it and in all my fandoms, I'm very much in my "oh no I've lost most of my fucks" era where I like what I like, I dislike what I dislike, who gives a shit? So I feel like if I were to get into twdg for the first time now, I would be a lot more open with my opinions and interpretations of the series and a lot less worried about conflict in the fandom.

I would also get to experience Lee dying for the first time again, and I would get to experience tfs all over again, THAT I would especially love.

#asks #i've been quiet but i'm planning #i got the notification that my copy of clementine book two shipped which means its almost time for me to read and write an in depth review #i've also got a couple of posts in the drafts #including a character analysis for a certain someone #don't know when that'll be out since i have other things i'm working on like my da2 multichapter fic #and i'm sewing together a personal cook book for myself #and i've been trying to branch out and play some other games and that's been.... a whole thing :/ #aaaaaand i have my full time job on top of it all.... busy busy ugh #but it'll be posted eventually along with anything else that happens across my mind

[penwrythe]

After seeing the recent II episode, I've seen ND fans discussing how Cabby is treated in the episode. I also saw Justin comment his thoughts on the discussion as well.

Part of me want to share some insight into how I rewrote a scene in my script for Rise of Relics to remove an ableist implication of Nicodemus' behavior towards Nikey (see this post here about it). There's also another scene I plan to rewrite as well that has a few ableist implications and I want to show how to improve it with research and listening to those with physical disabilities.

I'm not sure if it's alright for me to share this, as some of the II fans have similar symptoms to Cabby's memory issues, I do not want to speak over them as I do not have any memory symptoms as they do. What I do have, in reference to the scene in Rise of Relics, is anxiety and (possible) undiagnosed OCD, and Nikey is written with the implication of having both of these. The other scene I want to later rewrite is also in reference to how Nikey finds comfort in others, sometimes invasively due to having poor coping skills, and Nicodemus is often the person who helps ground her.

I think it's best for me to listen to those who are most affected by the episode before I say anything. But, one thing I say is that condemning a character's aids and accommodations they use to cope with their symptoms is wrong. Showing unhealthy coping mechanisms is okay (carefully saying this while keeping in mind my own experience coping with anxiety), but I do think this episode should have been written with more care.

To Justin and the Inanimate Insanity team, please consult sensitivity readers for your scripts in the future, please.

#just reminded myself to also consult sensitivity readers as well #couldn't afford them a couple of months ago though; but still an important task before finally working on the actual pages for RFR #Back to Cabby when I first saw her in the first few episodes I just thought she was into writing or record-keeping because she uses folders #to keep a record of everyone she meets; either just in general or for the purpose of the game #But after the episode of her disability reveal when her record keeping was an aid for her to keep memories otherwise they fade away #It just feels like a throwaway gag #Admittedly I did not catch how odd that was until I started reading fan analyses of Cabby by disabled II fans and their concerns #of her representation as a disabled character in the series; along with her record keeping aid being presented as a negative trait #rather than something that helps her keep memories #Now the recent episode is even weirder of her throwing away her folders like it was holding her back which is eeeeeeh not great tbh #would it be better for Bot to work on a new folder with Cabby? #a mutual collaboration to understand each other with Bot respecting Cabby's aids and Bot allowing her to understand them? #it's rare I comment on things like this #but considering what I'm also writing I think it's important to learn how not to write representation #because bad representation with no research nor input can result in possible harm and alienating your audience #as well as perpetuating harmful stereotypes #inanimate insanity #critique #ii neg #ii negativity #tw discourse #objectshows #textposty

[stitchwraith-stingers]

this is irusouda to me... if you even care btw

#calico.exe #danganronpa #<- tagged cuz its mentioned #to me irusouda get along but also get into fights like 5 times a week #theyre the type of couple to be married for 10 years and then divorce for no reason other then “wed be better off friends” #i know its probably OOC but i find it funnier then whatever kodaka could make up #listen kazu.ichi isnt my fave character but i perfer the version i made in my head lmao #in short i support irusouda divorce #why is it so hard to find these types of images good god what r they called so i can look them up on googled

[angiesdoodle]

No matter how sad the question sounds, I think we need to mentally prepare for this. What will you do when the Owl House is over? Will there be an emptiness in your heart? Or will you be able to safely let these characters go?

#toh #the owl house #i don't know #I think that the relationship between the characters my favorite couples the relationship of Darius and the Hunter will forever remain in my #I know how to depend on something too much but I don't know how to get rid of it #I'm really afraid that the end of this show will break me #I remember how much I liked the Hollow Knight. I literally depended on him the same way #Well I will keep only the most important thing for me - Dadrius #These relationships will be in my heart along with Asuka Zot and other characters that I will remember

[regallibellbright]

How can I connect to you? Share your love even if it isn't true

Deep inside your desire's calling me, dive in and then set it free!

I want to connect, but...

Sometimes you get stuck in a surreal otherworld where you're forced to bare your soul to other people in a deep psychic connection because you're dead, and sometimes, it's because you've been turned into a kappa.

Sometimes there's singing involved.

(I love Sarazanmai so much.)

#my art #twewys as ikuharas #yeah anyway I had this idea a couple days ago along with a couple other ones I intend to draw once I get the hang of human proportions #Cartoon kappas are easy to simplify so they went first. #sidenote: I decided to do Another Day scarves because if I tried comparing the characters to each other #Beat and Kazuki would bond over being goodhearted older siblings whose relationship to their younger sibling is strained and complicated #due to drama imposed by other family members leading to them internalizing low self-worth and the younger sibling trying to help #culminating in a tragic car accident. Like obviously it's not 1:1 but yeah they'd have a LOT to talk about #so yeah anyway I overthought the character dynamics from that so everyone got Another Day scarves instead #because making Beat the main protagonist in the Golden Trio changes the dynamics A LOT. Also I wanted to include Shiki.

[tadbitfooled]

friend got done with the fight and I was talking about the romance scene...But like. Soft faces?? love them. I just love the expressions in this game in general.

#Img: Talilah Bluethorn #Character: Talilah Bluethorn #I just really like how soft their expressions can be #but also how raw they can be too?? #I'm just obsessed with the faces in this game ok #I got this game bc it was pretty #so that's why we're here #also I am rambling in tags to try to push tags back #in order to keep people from interacting with this due to my image tags #so like. SOFT FACES AMIRITE #gdi I need like. ten more tags #you guys know I wrote a fic where she helps him get cleaned up afterwards #bc I wanted her to wash his hair #but there's also sass of course #this couple doesn't exist without sass #omg five more tags I feel like I'm filling dead space #I really need to write some more fics. that'll be my thing tomorrow along with replies #I just enjoy them picking on each other that's how it rolls #why did they give him such a unique name #I am suffering here #Others: Astarion