#because that is meaningless

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Call that a Cave Story.

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wen chao #wang lingjiao #mianmian #wei wuxian #jiang cheng #I had to cut the comic with JC 'holding WWX back from fighting the Wen Assholes' but it is with me in spirit. #It reads (to me) a little bit like JC is scared of Core Melting Hand and wants to have an excuse to hold on to WWX for comfort. #As far as I can recall they are around 15-17 in this arc. #And a guy who can rip out your golden core? The thing we know JC truly puts so much weight upon that he feels meaningless without it? #Yeah that's pretty terrifying. I hope WWX hugs back (he will not) #I have a lot more thoughts on Wang Lingjiao and Mianmian but I will keep them for later. #WLJ is a character I feel got done a little dirty because she has a ton of interesting potential that gets pushed aside for Mean Villainess #Let's be fully honest. Wen Chao and Wang Lingjiao are *THE* characters the Protag of one of those 'Reincarnated as the villain!' stories #Set up to be assholes to the main character and meeting a horrible end in retribution. #Do you think MXTX thought about that? How Wen Chao is basically the original Shen QiugQiu? #Who's going to be the brave soul who writes A transmigrator in wen chao's body (accidently makes wwx fall in love with him) story? #Though If we are going with “any mxtx character sho dies transmigrates to another book” WHO is the transmigrator? #Hear me out. I think it should be Original Liu Qingge. I think he and wwx would make a funny duo and I want to see it so bad. #AND the contrast of womanizer Wen Chao VS 'What is a woman' LQG.

[1071png]

terra vs mysterious figure young xehanort

#kh #kingdom hearts #terra kh #young xehanort #fanart #finding every timeline to torment him <3 #i didnt do his half armor because it got too cluttered...sorry.. #keeping true to bbs style with the meaningless ass shots

[sunshinetrinket]

17 and other meaningless things

Editor's Letter, Tavi Gevinson / unknown / Lie With Me, Philippe Besson / art, @fanny-hs / Tuesday, Alex Dimitrov / unknown / simone de beauvoir, memoirs of a dutiful daughter / unknown / Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami / One Tree Hill / august to do list, @thegirlhoodtheory

#sorry theres a few i couldn't find sources for. finding sources for pictures of quotes is insanely hard #webweave #web weave #web weaving #webweaving #on being 17 #trinket reflects #waitt i'm nervous abt this one :(( #okay being brave because i'm brave and cool and like stepping out of my comfort zone #title bc its technically meaningless but i just cannot get over it

[aegagrusscholarship]

this one post from @poryphoria has been living rentfree in my head for months. it’s so true. i am so normal about this concept and this theme and this fandom.

alt ending below the cut, based off the project nexus ending. while it’s cool as fuck, i am not sure if it conveys what i wanna convey!! so it’s just here as bonus content

#madness combat #madness project nexus #hank j wimbleton #mc deimos #mc sanford #2bdamned #jebediah christoff #tricky the clown #actual art #i am but a sappy little bitch who just wants all my favourite characters to be happy #but genuinely just. smth smth what it means to be human #i think #because like #yeaj life is meaningless whatever #but not in a bad way #just in the way that there’s no inherent… anything to it #but that doesn’t make it any less worth living! doesn’t make it any less importang or special #that people are here and living #so for this fuckin series to also say much the same thing. because nevada’s all mean and terrible and morally grey yeah #but nevada’s a place full of people being people and making mistakes and living #idk man the original post says it better than i can. it’s just so important to me #is the (original) final segment SAPPY AS FUCK. Yes. #do i care. No.

[stinkythehutt]

also. something about palpatine being so adept at seeing into the future that all of his successes feel completely joyless by the time he achieves them because he’s just going through the motions… how fucked up and nihilistic and brutal that would make you…

#teddy talks #anakin is like the opposite of this bc he’s tortured by his future failures #so he lives in constant terror and denial #whereas palpatine is lowkey tortured in a different way though he’d never ever label it as such #but the boredom of it all. the inescapability… #in a sense of course you would long for ultimate power over the force. because you would feel so much just like a meaningless vehicle #of its will otherwise #and anakin would be a PERFECT toy for someone like that. because he is so bewildered. he’s easy to tangle up in knots #i’m just doing some character Thinking #but yeah. of course one in palpatines position might hate the force and feel a need to lash out and dominate it #and he manages his own repressed bewilderment by manufacturing it in anakin to an extreme degree #but. importantly. while also having complete control over the machinations of anakin’s experience #and by crushing the force and all knowledge of it #CHRIST i’m back sorry but all the stuff he does to extend his life. he obviously is terrified of death #and rather than face it he just creates My Apprentice: The Guy Super Fucked Up About People Dying #to punish somebody else for his own horror…. it’s giving projective identification. not to bring freud into this

[nicollekidman]

why did shiv stay with tom i don’t understand this decision at all!!!

why did shiv marry tom in the first place, why did shiv want to be loved by a man that couldn't hold all of her in his head, why did she come back to waystar when she was independently successful, why did she go back to tom all season no matter what he did or said, why did she get pregnant and keep the baby, why did she align herself with mattson who she knew was unstable and a liar....... it's not about what Makes The Most Sense Objectively... she is an only daughter in a family of violent bloodthirsty desperate men with a mother who said You Don't Like Me and went away to leave her in the unhospitable playground of her father's company... shiv makes decisions that on the surface feel like she's smarter than everyone and Knows Something They Don't but are really engineered for her to fail so that the bitter and neverending sting of misogyny doesn't feel like her fault. shiv could NEVER have endured kendall lording it over her in perpetuity but at least this way she can pretend like she was the kingmaker, like there's a future where tom takes her hand and bestows upon her the crown of a partner....

#shiv SHOULD HAVE stayed out or gotten out but she didn't because she was his pinky and if she was gonna be In it couldn't be on kendall's #terms. it had to be hers #even though thats functionally meaningless since she's still trapped and powerless surrounded by people who don't respect her #succession #she is literally the totem of the patriarchy there was never a future where she didn't chose tom

[stargirlfeyre]

“In Acowar when Rhys died why didn’t his power immediately pass onto the next HighLord” maybe because Feyre was still alive and no matter how much y’all hate to acknowledge this, she is a legitimate ruler of the NC and the power won’t pass on and choose another HighLord/HighLady until both of its rulers are dead.

#feyre archeron #Rhysand #Feysand #just because she didn’t get her title the traditional way that doesn’t mean it’s meaningless. #she was literally magically bound to the NC as it’s HL and y’all are still asking dumb questions

[thatlittleegyptologist]

I'm about to lose my fucking mind

#without understanding something in the correct historical context your point is just meaningless #mostly because if you did understand it in the correct context YOU WOULDN'T BE MAKING THIS POINT #the TSP is more like a white suburban woman going nuts at the HOA for a non native grass in her garden #rather than a retail worker trying to get a living wage from a company that could definitely afford to pay more but have capitalist greed #the egyptians didn't even have capitalism so you're comparing two different economic situations that don't match up

[uncanny-tranny]

Your life isn't a to-do list. You're allowed to exist, to take life as slow as you'd like. The dreams you have won't suddenly disappear. It's okay to stop and smell the roses, or to engage with "childish" things, or to recover, or do what you need to.

#positivity #encouraging words #life doesn't need to be a speedrun or a 100% run #sometimes it feels like i'm wasting my life but... who gets to tell me what is wasteful? i'm surviving out here and that's okay #and it's okay if you're also somebody who people think is 'wasting your life' #that's such a meaningless and frankly a very cruel thing to say to a person #because you'll see people call somebody's life wasteful because they're simply coping with disability/mental illness/grief/ect #it's a meaningless saying to tell somebody how YOU think they're wasting life. your life isn't a waste point-blank #we ought to be kinder to ourselves for choosing what we want/need out of our lives rather than placating to what is imposed on us... #...or the expectations we impose on ourselves #be kinder to yourself whenever you can. it's hard as hell but please choose kindness toward yourself #just something i thought about and felt like it was impirtant to me #i couldn't complete high school 'on time' because of covid and because i was in crisis. i felt so much shame about that. i felt stupid... #...i felt unworthy. but who decided that i am those things? the crisis i was in could have killed me. i couldn't deal with school then... #...it humbled me because i had to learn that i am not immune to needing to be kind to myself. i am human - i'm not a mindless drone... #...you aren't a mindless drone either. you are an individual. you deserve to feel safe. you deserve understanding and compassion... #...but not ONLY from others. you deserve it from yourself as well

[lovelycureaestetic]

I beg my fellow sebaciel shippers to not engage with antis in discourse. It's pointless, they don't care, they won't listen, they're high on that moral superiority drug. Just go on with your lives and block them upon encountering one.

Trust a veteran, don't give em the time of day.

#sebaciel #please I'm tired of seeing meaningless discourse around #i say meaningless because it doesn't matter how sound of an argument they just won't care #fandom discourse

[rottenraccoons]

Do the boys prefer a quiet or louder partner during sex?

Quiet: Oleander

Loud: Francesco, Cirrus, Keir, Oleander

#obscura vn #rotten raccoons #asks #cirrus #keir #francesco #oleander #no there is no mistake Oleander is in there twice because what he wants is incoherence #whether that comes in the form of meaningless moaning or just completely not being able to speak

[dapg-otmebytheballs]

Phil genuinely being so offended about Dan walking fast though like "excuse me why do you have a selfish mindset where I am being left behind" he didn't even say that Dan walks off too far he just said Dan walks "in front of him" but even that is unacceptable Phil wants them walking side by side hand in hand

#i relate with Dan tho when I'm out I don't like holding hands or walking side by side unless roads are being crossed #because like walking one behind the other allows for better agility in navigating the crowd #and when you're crossing the road people cross at different paces (i live somewhere where lights and crossings are meaningless) #so it's safer for one person to decide and everyone else to hold hands and walk at the same pace #anyway give me your thoughts on walking outdoors with another person how do you guys do it? #dnp #dan and phil #dnpgames #dan and phil games

[fuckspn]

hey why the FUCK did all along the watchtower cut to cas looking at dean immediately after this line directed at SAM

#since reading too much into meaningless choices is what we do here on supernatural dot tumblr dot edu: #the way 'we can't god is watching' is what ultimately defined dean and cas' whole relationship #the way they couldn't be together because they were trapped under the inescapable eye of god (both in the chuck sense and in the cw sense) #the way i'm biting electrical cables as we speak #the greatest hits

[wolfpoets]

the scene where izzy tells ed the crew is refusing to throw the treasure overboard is still so sickening. ed's playing with his dagger the whole time, making his threat clear: and yet izzy decides to snarl at him anyway, sealing his fate. on first watch, i thought this was just pain and exhaustion overriding whatever is left of izzy's self preservation, but then i think about jim yelling at ed: "you were going to do it anyway!" and ed laughing and saying "i was." fucking chilling.

#made worse by me thinking about izzy making one last effort to get through to ed. to talk it through. #because the punishments are inescapable now. they're meaningless. ed is just chopping away at izzy for the sake of it. #& that's what broke izzy. he can take punishments that are earned. but once he realizes his existence on that ship is just to suffer? #jesus. #izzy hands #ofmd s2 spoilers

[shorthaltsjester]

honestly as someone who has been in various fandoms for a long time now and who also watched campaigns 1 and 2 without really getting into cr fandom it isn’t Shocking but it is annoying how often people will look at the stories that cr tells and make absolute claims about the goodness of characters (goodness here meaning Moral goodness, not I Like This character and think it’s well made goodness, which is a separate post entirely). particularly regarding the gods and pc parents. and honestly like, typically in fandom i get annoyed by people bending over backwards to woobify characters who are active in their choice to be unkind and generally horrible but in the cr fandom it’s tended to be the opposite where like. a character is just. a human being (in the sense of being Average not in the sense of Fantasy Races) and huge swaths of the fandom act like that’s the most unforgivable thing someone can be. and maybe it is, but one of the most powerful things about fiction is that it tends to encourage people to expand their empathy and exercise their ability to forgive. because fictional characters, no matter how much people like to project onto them, tend not to cause anyone harm, so it’s easier to learn how to forgive and accept things you don’t understand without also villainizing them.

this is mostly prompted by the recent 4sd and the fact that matt’s response to what’s up with the dawnfather was a very insistent “He’s not bad!” and also seeing the online reaction to the mention that the matron would punish vax for saving keyleth that has taken the as usual completely bonkers tune that the raven queen (Who When Met With A Brother Asking A God To Kill Him In Favour Of His Sister, Gave Him A Job, and Later Extended His Natural Life To Help Protect The World And Have More Time With His Family And Allowed Him To Visit His Sister On Her Wedding Day) is a horrible evil abusive bitch of a god. like. can we grow up? can we understand the world and fiction that represents the multitudes of experiences found in it in shades of grey? is that too much to ask (i know it is).

but also specifically the like Extremely Adamant way that both matt and laura were like no no no no relvin isn’t Horirble he’s average. he’s not good he’s just. he’s A father, not a good or bad one. and on the surface it’s hilarious that they’re both so like. enthused to point out that he’s Average because typically when people respond to a claim of a characters badness with the level of immediacy they both did it’s a rebuttal of “no, this character is good actually.” but it was just to affirm that relvin did harm imogen, but not because there’s some aspect of his character that is inherently cruel or especially Bad. and like. yeah actually. yeah you should react like that to a claim that this average person who Has hurt someone, the way that nearly every single person has hurt someone in a way they cannot repair, with immediacy to say this person is a Person and thus imperfect and capable of great harm, but that isn’t some all encompassing judgment on their morality or capability to also do good or be fine.

anyway this is kinda just a rant post but also is just me saying i’m very grateful that when surrounded by a fandom that tends to paint characters as Good or Bad and even while using a game that can encourage that with its alignment system, cr has always told stories that see goodness as a persistent choice that might sometimes falter and that can be chosen even after a lifetime of Badness. i can’t remember exactly what the quote was so forgive me if it’s incorrect but when jester is talking to caleb after he claims he’s not a very good person and she says “good people do bad things sometimes. even bad people do good things.” that’s it! that’s one of the most consistent themes across campaigns. and yet.

#on fandom #cr tag #i just. maybe it’s the philosophy major in me but. good grief the shit some of y’all say about morality and then turn around and ignore #what you’ve just said. good grief #lately it’s specifically been the people who support liliana (i too love evil women) and act like she tripped and fell into her current #position. and then turn around and call relvin an abusive devil #like. sorry which one has been manipulating imogen. which one abonded her? #that’s besides the point. my point is. the words good and bad are meaningless. #the good placeism. is this character trying to be better today than they were yesterday #this is the imogen temult problem actually. like yes she Chooses to be good. but that is only a choice because we have Seen her be selfish #and cruel and manipulative. if i had to choose to call imogen good or bad i’d of course choose good. but that undermines so much of #what makes her ‘goodness’ actually compelling. #honestly same with fjord. like his character as a charismatic paladin who fights for Good™ is comtextualised by having seen his journey #like. otherwise he’d be boring. #like. if any cr main character was just Good or just Bad. i promise it would not be as popular as it is #critical role

[mixelation]

maybe i should just lean into the shinigami thing wholesale for reborn au

orochimaru @ smol tori: if you keep playing with the marked kunai, one day the yellow flash will come investigate. and he's a killer who would not make an exception even for little oto girls : )

tori: he'd kill me.....?

tori: i mean. he can try :)

#conversations that become hilarious in hindsight #oh btw i decided in plasticity/reborn au #that orochimaru is obsessed with cheating death because he saw the shinigami #he summoned him for something and upon seeing it knew #with absolute certainty #that one day he would die and ultimately become a meaningless memory #and becoming so acutely aware of his own mortality freaked him tf out #reborn au