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spocksgotemotions · 1 year

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I don’t tend to think of myself as particularly femme (even though I have been leaning into the ~manic pixie dream girl~ miss frizzle vibe lately), but it has to be said. I am a slut for a good earring

#captain’s own #dumb bitch hours #personal logs #i am a cis woman in theory #but what that looks like for me is obviously much different than it looks for others #lesbianism autism being fat and being white all affect how I perceive and present myself as a woman #and it’s all to varying degrees #I could go on but this post was really just to say I love Etsy earrings #wish I could afford more of them but one day

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shweshishweh · 8 months

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I’ve had these concepts in my drafts for almost a year 💀

#life do be happening #they are all unfinished to varying degrees but I feel bad leaving them never to be seen #kh #disney #kingdom hearts #sora #wall e #kh4 #my art #apparently my art blog has been shadowbanned so for now I’ll post here rip

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hoaxghost · 9 months

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Some File Recovery demon lore! Feat a rather unfortunate example

Angels outnumbered The Fallen by a great deal so many demons resorted to splitting themselves off to boost numbers. Many also took this root to essentially end their conscious, a thing that is rarely ever allowed for immortal beings such as them.

Splits are essentially their own people, the more simpler way I could prob describe this method is 'Reverse 2048'

Also a fun lil fact but Stolforns and Sezzi are of the same Split tree, with the latter often calling the other his brother.

#my ocs #File recovery #demon oc #demon lore #body horror #also outside of pronouns split-demons will often refer to eachother with more gendered terms #Curser and Rico n Vera are all Splits with varying complex relations to their status #Even stolforn collecting halos is in cause of his interest in angels and how his root was one..only one degree of separation #but also splits are still barred from entering heaven or seeking redemption so many conflicting feelings there

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kikker-oma · 1 year

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THE CHAIN WITH A CHILD

I REPEAT- THE CHAIN WITH A CHILD

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arealtrashact · 1 year

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Were they animals, that music could move them so ?

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espighty · 21 days

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All of this could have been avoided if Narinder could just say “Morning.” like a normal person.

#I think lamb should date all of the bishops actually.#and you better believe they’re working towards it. making moves. watch out Narinder. you could be the next one on the list.#do not ask why this has varying degrees of lineart I have had a rough go of it ok #some panels looked better as sketches. emotionwise. so.#cotl #cult of the lamb #cotl narinder #cotl lamb #kallamb #ivy’s scribblings

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clown-paws · 10 months

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> obsessed with these. obsessed with them.

#theyre having a beach off #i feel like brian has to do this quite a bit with varying degrees of force.#and success #i always find a new photo of these bitches everytime i go on pinterest #why is there so many. why are they all golden #the mechanisms #the mechs #gunpowder tim #jonny d'ville #drumbot brian

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royalarchivist · 4 months

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[Immediately after Fit brutally roasted a chatter for being a filthy metagamer]

Dono: You became my comfort streamer. It has been great here.

Fit: Oh, thank you so much, thank you thank you thank you. I'm glad I can bring you comfort when I insult the sht out of some chatters, I'm glad I can comfort you. That's right!

Fit: People say I'm nice, no, I'm not nice. I'm polite. Mostly. There's a difference between being nice and being polite, I am polite. I am polite.

#FitMC #QSMP #Fit #February 11 2024 #Top 10 FitMC moments tbh #I have been extremely annoyed / easily frustrated by large parts of the community as a whole lately #(not streamer specific and no specific thing really just all chats & fans being varying degrees of insufferable / annoying and it piling up #to the point where I've considered taking a step away from the series #But Fit's been nice to watch because he doesn't let dumb stuff slide lmao #maybe I'm just getting too old for this #still love the series I just don't want to interact with the chat or fandom much anymore #anyways Fit's voice saying the ''I'm not nice I'm polite. Mostly'' line is very good

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ronnabyte · 2 days

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sog more like soggy losers

#ninjago #ninjago harumi #ninjago mr e #ninjago killow #ninjago ultra violet #sons of garmadon #my art #i love garmadon rulez book i love garmadon rulez book #to me harumi n killow r bffs who seem smart but are actually total dumbasses when left alone #whereas UV and mr e are only dumbasses when they arent on work (they are also best friends)#they're like the worst friendgroup known to mankind who are all also motorbike enthusiasts. and are also all varying degrees of mentally il

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skippersthecat · 5 months

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Kaidou throws another Halloween party, insisting everyone wears costumes. Saiki walks in and everyone is dressed up as him.

#they all have varying degrees of quality for their saiki costumes #kuboyasu just taped lollipops to his head #while kaidou spent hours building model limiters to be 100% accurate #saiki k #tdlosk #the disastrous life of saiki k.

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thebridgetonarnia · 1 year

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I wanna talk about Hard of Hearing Steve Harrington! I posted a version of this on twitter but wanted to edit and expand it slightly here. so please enjoy some HoH!Steve finding community through his and Eddie's deaf daughter.

Steve and Eddie weirdly have Richard Harrington to thank for their daughter. One of his mistress's had a child who was born deaf.

Richard wanted nothing to do with this child, or the girl's mother. He scoffed at the woman who just wanted some help, and told her "It looks like all his children are broken, and Harrington's demand perfection."

So this young woman - younger than Steve is at the time - who is alone in the world puts the child up for adoption, and as next of kin, Steve gets a call, asking about a child.

He and Eddie immediately say yes, of course they'll take the child. They'd been thinking about children for a long time, but they hadn't been so lucky in that department. Steve's half sister, as it happens, needs a home, because their good for nothing sperm donor of a father abandoned them both. So they will raise her, as their own, and she will never be made to feel othered, or lesser than. They name her Hope.

Steve has been wearing hearing aides for years now, he and Eddie had thought idly about learning sign language over the years, but they've never been able to commit. It always gets pushed to the side for other things, and Steve hears well enough anyway with his aides.

But with Hope? They buy all the books, and take lessons with Robin at the community college, because she's going to need it to communicate with the world.

Steve picks it up quickly, and he and Eddie watch as their infant toddler picks up language and can communicate with them. It's really a sight to see.

The guy who teaches the class is a CODA, child of deaf adults, and he puts them on to the Deaf community in the city, urges them to make sure their kid grows up with people like her.

So once again, they dive head first into the community, because Steve and Eddie would rather die than make Hope feel isolated. They take Hope to kid friendly Deaf events, they meet Deaf adults, and slowly as Steve talks to other Deaf people, he realizes that something just clicks for him.

Something had slotted out of place inside of him the second his hearing started to go, when he started to feel like he wasn't built for the world around him anymore, and people started to treat him differently for wearing hearing aides so young.

Eddie and the Party have always made him feel comfortable, they always make sure they look at him when they speak to him, never tell him never mind, or I'll tell you late when he misses anything. But even with all that support, he sometimes still feels like an outsider. But that off-balanced thing slides right back into place when he's at Deaf events with Hope because these people understand him so fundamentally.

Steve makes friends - outside of their little found family - actual friends who see him for who he is, not for what he lacks.

He wears his hearing aides less and less, and sign gets used in their home more and more, even when Hope isn't around. He starts to identify as Deaf. It feels like when he started dating Eddie, like the world opened up to him.

He's so so grateful to his father for the first time in his life because his affair brought Hope into their lives, and she is the best thing that ever happened to him and Eddie, and she gave Steve a community of people that made him feel comfortable in the world again.

And when Steve finds the Deaf Queer community? Well that just feels like coming home.

#also the party obviously learns asl too #varying degrees of skill #but they all learn because they all love steve and hope and want her to feel part of the family #steve harrington #eddie munson #steddie #hoh steve harrington #deaf steve harrington #stranger things #steddie dads #sab writes

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spockandawe · 24 days

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I've been very quiet! I've been... very overwhelmed by a combination of work and personal life pressures. I haven't yet finished dealing with all of those, but I coped (as you do) largely by shutting down contact with the external world and picking up a new hobby!

SO. PAINTING! Oh man. I still barely know what I'm doing, and anything representational I've done is the result of opening a youtube video and trying desperately to keep up, but I'm learning! I'm getting more comfortable with the tools and the process and the way the material handles, and I'm having an incredible time. This isn't everything yet, the abstract pieces are going to get their own post, but my parents have a new house with so many blank walls, and baby, you KNOW that having a way to offload my earliest efforts with a new hobby is the fastest way to my heart

#crafts #painting #in approximate chronological order #but mixed with abstract pieces for when i just wanted to self-soothe with palette knives #all of these are from joni young videos i believe #degree of beginner-friendliness varies but I'm getting better at identifying the moments #where I'm like 'mmmmm no I'm not actually going to do it that way'

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fjordfolk · 1 month

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Grooming day (heaven help us)

#we're doing all 4 but varying degrees of effort

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shivroy · 8 months

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HIBERNIAN ROY-WAMBSGANS!!!!! literally why have a succession oc if im not gonna make a season 4 promo pic of him. this is how hibs can still become canon

bonus: given the slightest opportunity hibs will steal tom's clothes, especially ones that have a nostalgia factor from his dad's college days & how tom dressed when hibernian was naught but a tiny pink fetus. check out the tomshiv nightmare interaction white sneakers

#His Nonexistent Drip <3 #i literally just adore his face its not reasonable how much i like his shiv mouf and tom chin #he has many more freckles than shiv because he goes outside a lot #or at least plenty more than shiv #hes such a blonde. hes blonde to his core #HIBS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#i hope you enjoy him but nothing in this world will stop ME from enjoying him #he truly just makes me smile. TOMSHIV BABY #tomshiv baby #art #succession #succession oc #succession fanart #hibernian #the nation #i love his pink pink hands #thank u all for being varying degrees of nice about hibs #(you do not have to be nice to him. but some of you have chosen that & it is your decision)

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tuesdaygray · 8 days

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it's the art, tashi, patrick and the king arthur, guinevere, lancelot of it all, i'm afraid

#challengers #art donaldson #tashi duncan #patrick zweig #and when i say they can all fit all three archetypes at different times to varying degrees..... then what??#txt.t

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kaladinkholins · 5 months

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Blue Eye Samurai & Themes of Breaking Free from Binaries and Boxes

Mizu must choose between being a woman or a man, between feminine and masculine.

Mizu must choose between being Japanese or white.

Mizu must choose between being human (loving) or demon (hateful).

Mizu has struggled against the chains placed upon her since birth, but no matter how much she writhes and pushes against them, the chains remain. And they will continue to, until she learns to accept all of those facets of herself and suppress none of it.

Mizu must realise that she is both feminine and masculine; Japanese and white; human and demon. Mizu is all of these things and everything in between and at the same time she is none of them. She is simply Mizu. Only upon accepting this can she slice through the chains and find freedom.

But Mizu isn't the only one faced with these stifling binaries and predetermined paths. Each of the main four characters represent this theme as well.

"This is the world. It grants women a fixed number of paths. Proper wife or improper whore." -Seki, to Akemi

Akemi, as a woman, must choose between being a wife (modest, meek, but rich) or whore (sexually liberated, willful, but exploited). Both of these would amount to defeat, both of these are cages. So what does she do? With the cards she's been dealt and the rules outlined for her, she decides to change the game so she can win, manipulating her husband (and father, who is now under her care) to give herself the advantage. This way, she blazes her own path ahead to achieve power for herself.

"As it says, there are four paths through the world. The way of the farmer, the artisan, the merchant, and the warrior. Each of these can lead to greatness. I never even cared which path, so long as I found mine." [...] "I know I can't touch greatness any more than I can swallow the sun. But, I can help. I can help greatness." -Ringo

Ringo, partially due to his disability, faces barriers succeeding any of the predetermined paths set out for him, but freely moves between each one in search of one that can lead him to greatness. However, upon meeting Mizu, his horizons expand. Now, he forges his own path, deciding to rise beyond a quest for his own greatness, choosing to instead to help greatness. This is similar to the role teachers take. Teachers do not get to be rich or successful or written into history books, but they help, teach, and inspire others so that they can rise up to their fullest potentials.

"Eighty-four thousand Dharma doors. For me, there were only two. The net or the sword. I could become my father, or I could cut my way free of the net." -Taigen

Taigen, born and raised impoverished, had only two options to survive. He could either be a fisherman and remain poor, or he could strive to work hard as a swordsman in the hopes to one day escape poverty. To him, it was a choice between a life of suffering or a chance at glory. Either way, the chances of dying (from either starvation or getting killed) were present, so obviously he'd taken the chance to run away and try his hand at greatness. But then, he lost his honour, and thus lost everything. Now his only choices are to regain his honour or simply kill himself. He tries the former, but upon bonding with Mizu and Ringo, he finds out there is more to life, that there is a third option open for him he'd never realised before: happiness. Rather than just mere survival, or toiling for material gain, he realises that life is about living.

Overall, the story is very multifaceted through its exploration of societal expectations and norms, and how people are forced to conform, but also the ways they can break free from those boxes.

And in my opinion each of the characters represent differing aspects of marginality, and can be analysed from differing perspectives.

Akemi's story is a predominantly feminist narrative about the marginalisation of women.

Ringo's story is a predominantly disabled narrative about the marginalisation of disabled folks.

Taigen's backstory is a Marxist narrative about the marginalisation of the poor and working class.

Mizu's story is most prominently a postcolonial narrative about the marginalisation of racial Others, ethnic minorities, and hybridised identities. However, as the protagonist, Mizu's story is the most multilayered and thus also heavily features feminist, queer, and Marxist themes due to her complex relationship with gender as well as her background as an orphan living on the streets.

I just found it very interesting that, altogether, the four main protagonists each represent groups that are fighting against an unjust system.

Even Takayoshi, son of the shogun, who should thus be one of Japan's most powerful men himself, is instead seemingly powerless as he is silenced and manipulated by his own mother due to his disability—his stutter.

I also find that these themes of breaking free from conformity and expectations are very interestingly displayed in Taigen, who had thought he'd found a way to join those unjust systems and play by all its rules, and by doing so he had played the role of antagonist. Because one of the central conflicts of the show is Man Vs Society, in which society is the antagonist and the man is Mizu, among others. So by becoming one with that cruel society, Taigen in turn also becomes Mizu's antagonist. Only when he is stripped of everything, all his years of struggle immediately stomped into the dirt as soon as he loses a single duel, only then does he shift away from his antagonistic role. Disgraced and dishonoured, he, too, now rejoins the margins of society, becoming an outcast alongside Mizu and Ringo.

So, TL;DR the society and world portrayed in Blue Eye Samurai is shitty for pretty much everyone unless you're a rich, corrupt, able-bodied cis man. Thus, essentially no one is free and everyone is restricted into neat little boxes where they play their roles and stay in line while the rich and powerful benefit. But Mizu, Akemi, Ringo and Taigen challenge this, and slowly they will rip the boxes go shreds—choosing what they want, and what they want to be, for themselves.

#blue eye samurai #mizu blue eye samurai #taigen blue eye samurai #blue eye samurai meta #akemi blue eye samurai #ringo blue eye samurai #also all of four of them are mistreated by a parent to varying degrees. for ringo taigen & akemi it's their dads. for mizu it was her mama.#plus mizu's dad is believed to have assaulted her mom so.#they all have parental trauma lmao.....#the more i think about this show i go crazy #scheduling this post #shut up haydar #meta dissertations.pdf #mizu is non binary in every way !!!!#she just like me fr !!!!#fandom.rtf

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