#besides it's not even true

[rockman-x]

alphys if you say you're trash one more time i'm gonna cry. do you wanna see me cry alphys. do you wanna see a cute human cry.

#KZ reads Inverted Fate #girrrllll saying you're trash doesn't change shit!!!! #besides it's not even true #you've got amazing traits!!! #you're intelligent #you're cute #you're braver than you think #you're passionate. you're genuine!!! #sure it may not sound like much #but whatever!! who cares!!!! you're awesome just the way you are #this goes out to any other insecure bitches who might be reading this by the way #even if you don't think you've got anything good to offer #that's not true #everybody has something to offer #and if that's not enough for you #just know someone out there believes in your potential

[joseigamer]

Patalliro! is fascinating to me because of stuff like this. It's unapologetically gay - even within its anime which aired during primetime hours in 1982 - in a way that many later BL manga would never be, like the ones from the early 2000s which would never dare to call their characters actual homosexuals. Patalliro has actually aged quite well in this regard, there's something comforting about how campy it is.

#i still dont really understand how they got away with this kind of thing honestly #female VAs i get that - but first m/m kiss in an anime in episode THREE????? #theres also the maraich/thomas episode where they are *Both* voiced by women....advanced yuri #patalliro #i love how bancorans gender expression is pretty much explicitly to attract only bishounen #you blushed - so you must not be a girl #etc #i also love how joyful it all is #theres never anything sad or tragic about being gay - only that bancoran is forced to kill the bishounen spies/assassins/etc #when bancoran finds out that gay sex feels good after demian; in the manga he is elated. its basically a positive thing #he awakens to his true power...lol #also notable is that while bishounen youth is glorified maraich is still 18. #besides making the show more palatable; this means it portrays being gay as an adult as normal #according to the NYT japan's psychiatric body called homosexuality a mental illness until 1995 #im not going to say patalliro changed that or anything lmao but its just significant to me that banmara get to live their lives happily #especially contrasting that with kaze to ki no uta and other manga of the time (no shade intended) #yaoi #<- for tagging purposes #obviously it also got away with a lot by being a gag manga. but still! #months later edit: want to say im not intending to moralize BL manga from the 2000s either. like gen. no hate on them. #as a gay person i just appreciate when characters who act gay are considered gay textually #and its kind of disheartening how gay-as-identity was treated as something incredulous in those manga a lot of the time #even the mere suggestion of attraction to men as a whole and not just the other male lead...yknow

[kyouka-supremacy]

Honestly don't make Ryuunosuke choose between Gin and Atsushi in your sskk fics because he's always going to choose Gin

#Like. even in the unrealistic occurrence he would want to prioritize Atsushi for whatever reason‚ #he still wouldn't because that would be second guessing literally every choice he's ever made his entire life #and Akutagawa isn't really one to second guess #But the problem doesn't exist because again he would NEVER pick Atsushi over Gin #Also like... Besides‚ part of him is probably going to reason Atsushi knows how to take care of himself #while Gin must be protected at all costs (no matter how true that statement is‚ that's how he sees it) #ryūnosuke akutagawa #gin akutagawa #bsd #bungou stray dogs #mine #q. #23/11/22

[atthebell-moved]

been watching a ton of early days vods of the brazilians and man the way insaneduo clicked IMMEDIATELY and the way theyre now falling to pieces without each other

#bell.txt #qsmp #insaneduo #'you cant abandon me now youre the only person on this island i trust' man #like thats. thats true. it just is true #and besides even that the stuff theyve dealt with when it comes to richas together #like investigating romero richas together #it hits so much harder to watch cellbit say THAT ISNT OUR SON come with me to look for him i cant give up on you #FUCK

[lord-squiggletits]

In the last salty asks post I unintentionally went on a tangent in the notes about how JRO wrote religious characters which is like actually something I want to bring up on its own so like

Is it just me or does JRO have some real misses when it comes to writing religious characters? Not like every religious character is badly written or evil, but like... several of the ones that are fall into really bad or unflattering/shallow stereotypes? It's hard to put my finger exactly on why I feel that way bc he does write some actually good religious characters (aka Cyclonus).

For example, characters like the Functionist Council and Star Saber are fine to me because I'm like. Well Functionism being religious in origin makes sense, it's an interesting interplay of how religion influences the state/how the state leverages religion to bend the populace to its own whims. Religious bad guys =/= all religious people bad. Star Saber is just some random zealot that wasn't meant to be that deep at all, and eh the Inquisition-type religious zealot can be cool even if it's just the vibes of it.

But then there's stuff like... Tyrest being a normal, rational, not particularly religious guy until he gets shot with a bullet that gives him brain damage, causing him to start ranting about Cyberutopia and thinking God is personally talking to him in his brain...? Like, idk, was it really the best idea for an antagonist to go "he is evil because he got brain damaged against his will w/o even knowing what really happened to him and also because he's brain damaged he's now literally delusional and became a religious (and genocidal) maniac." It comes off as really bad taste/not thinking the implications through as far as how it reflects on religious people (bc the whole "religious people are literally delusional and stupid to think that their gods could possibly exist" thing is tired and offensive). Not to mention kind of ableist w/ the whole "oh he became evil bc he got shot in the brain and now there's literally something wrong with his mind."

(Doesn't help that the MTMTE logbooks revealed that the original idea for Tyrest was to have his killswitch be about trying to identify and execute all of the criminals/"guilty people" on Cybertron, basically an extension of his role as Chief Justice which makes so much more sense and is way more interesting and compelling???? Certainly better than (gets brain damaged) "Ah I'm now going to genocide all cold constructs because God told me to")

And then Drift with spectralism which...which... basically the extent of that whole religion is the name of a single festival (the Lost Light festival the eponymous ship was named after), and some stuff about face/body paint and colors having spiritual symbolism, then the Guiding Hand/Primus stuff that's also shared with Primalism. But then you have Drift who's the main representative of this religion basically being written as a phony who doesn't even believe in the shit coming out of his mouth. Or if his beliefs are sincere, the way he acts is basically just "oooooh, I sense unclean vibes and read into the energy of the universe" which is played for laughs or mocked by the other characters most of the time. And Drift's character is written so inconsistently (and the general religious worldbuilding so one-dimensional) that it's hard to tell if Drift is supposed to be read as some kooky fake hippie type or if he's genuinely a representation of Spectralism in general. Like, idk, the best JRO could come up for for building a religion was "they wear certain colors and patterns on them and vaguely talk about sensing energy from the universe?" It literally feels like baby's first fictional religion or like, religion as understood by a non-religious/atheist person who sees religion as nothing more than an aesthetic or some quirky rituals.

I'm not saying the story had to be about religion or have religion be brought up in every conversation, it's just...... the way he wrote/did worldbuilding for it comes off as as very "non-religious person who doesn't have any particular understanding of religion/why people are religious tries to write what they think religion is about" and most of the time it's kinda cringe.

#squiggposting #negativity #discourse #again i'm reiterating that my critique isn't 'all the religious characters are evil/all the evil ppl are religious' bc that's not true #it's more just that the religious characters are in general written as mediocre at best or offensively at worst #also in the case of drift who's (for better or worse) asian coded #his religion doesn't even have a strong resemblance to any traditional japanese beliefs either #like. all religions have spiritually significant colors or garments or symbols #the whole 'energy of the universe' could be similar to daoism maybe but it's never elaborated on besides that #just. mediocre mediocre mediocre religious worldbuilding/character writing

[waxdroid]

i feel like in the early seasons rimmer and lister's animosity towards each other is more pronounced because the reality that they're never going back to earth hadn't set in yet. they were still holding on to the hope that they'd get out of the whole "stranded in deep space" situation Somehow and would never have to see their annoying colleague again, instead of acknowledging it as the huge & permanent change to their lives that it actually was. maturing + mellowing with age and having no one else to hang out with (besides kryten and cat) for decades definitely helped to turn the hatred into a genuine if reluctant friendship but im still convinced that them accepting the hand they were dealt in regard to the big picture played a huge part in solidifying their relationship

#it went from 'i don't care if im acting like a dick because we'll soon solve this problem and part ways' #to 'we're stuck together till death do us part so we might as well make the most of it' #i love that eventually they stay together by choice even though both of them had multiple opportunities to leave #besides rimmer leaving as ace but its ok he came back after nano!rimmer ate shit (← 100% real and true . doug told me in a dream dw abt it) #red dwarf #☆ #this edible is kicking my ass

[dawnleaf37]

swap au phighting regretevator except we don’t swap them with each other normally and we literally just drop spud in phighting and see what happens

#‘wtf elevator’just cram all. How many are there . Like 12 guys in one elevator idont think it’s 12 it might be 14 or whatever #JustWAIT BETTER IDEA #the elevator lands in the crossroads and some of them they’re like ‘what the FUCK is this’ *gets in* *disappears* #*the rest of the phighters phreak the phuck out* #church of the true eye vs whatever the fuck is happening with MR #SCYTHE VS POOB . SERIAL KILLER VS SCP 173 WHO WINSprohbaly woman but I woulg like to see subspace get his neck snapped by the :3beast #meanwhile putting a bunch of miscellaneous Guys in the phightingverse #no it’s called like . Inpherno or something o #infected is like skateboard but worse #no one does anyone in this game killPEST #he doesn’t want to but he would HE EVEN HAS MANDIBLES (LIKE HORNS #hey if the guy who ships pest and medkit sees this . Im not big on ships but ur real for that #pest is the most phighting character out of everything in regretevator #maybe besides Mach but I only mention her because wrowwwwww….. woman #she’s like Tall Banhammer Woman Sort Of. like scythe banhammer and whoever is the most ‘would host a gameshow’ guy. dom perhaps #canonically she’s. Wait *looks at the wiki* #‘an evolved species descended from a bloodline of manmade deities’ ok awesome #so do this . Make this occur

[bad-traffic-smp-ideas]

imagine the iceberg meme for this blog

Anon, you bring up a very interesting concept here… Honestly, I would LOVE to see the iceberg meme for this blog. Like just imagine it.

#I don’t have the brainpower for this rn hsdjfdsfs- but if someone makes a good iceberg I’ll love you forever /silly #there’s so much there… all watcher lore… watcher marriage… ethogirl watchers… #recently I remembered that oli theorionsound liked one of my posts… and a lot more i'm definitely missing #i don't THINK i've ever had a true cc notice (besides oli) but if i have someone please do let me know #anyways. cheers this is a hilarious idea i never even thought about that #not a bad idea #ask

[amarisrosalette]

just for your reminder, mondstadt literally means "moon city". moon being "mond" and city as "stadt". fyi on why i'm talking about this is because i am a literal moon enthusiast and whenever i come across this thought in my head i think "wow. my favoritest city in my favoritest game is really named after my most favoritest thing to look at." and then it just ends up strengthening my love for mondstadt even more

just wondering if there are any mondstadt enthusiasts who are also fellow moon enjoyers? plus points if you're a lore enthusiast because i REALLY wanna know the lore and origin behind mondstadt's name.

#genshin impact #mondstadt #mondstadt genshin #genshin lore #and not to mention my online name is literally amaris #which means child of the moon #that is how obssessed with the moon i am #like can venti just drop some lore to us because i'm really starting to get the vibes that mondstadt is related to the moon/lunar palace #like. mondstadt and lunar palace lore when #once again mihoyo is gatekeeping us some precious lore of them places #i also think its because either mondstadts earliest founders has a relation with one of the moon sisters? #maybe one of the moon sisters named it or its true founder named it after them #could this hint to the fact that mondstadt is much older than we think it is? #despite how isolated it was during the reign of decarabian? #like we only ever get to have mondstadt's lore form until decarabians reign until the aristocracy #not just from what we're first introduced in the cutscenes but in the books and lore pieces that we get from the game #i wonder if there is a deeper history that extends from even far beyond decarabians reign #like besides #what was decarabian doing even before he reigned mondstadt? how did he even get that position? #and once again my ramblings all circle back to venti #i hope carmen dei act II will give us some huge lore bomb about mondstadt's origins and it's name #plus the moon sisters #and pleaspleapselpaase decarabian lore i'm so fascinated with this god #like yeah ik he's a tyrannical ruler but please #ok im done

[carefulfears]

thinking about my post on fire and the levels of mistreatment that mulder accepts and how 1,000% on purpose it is as a result of being blamed for samantha’s abduction since childhood. and how that was the point of making him feel responsible for her disappearance in the first place.

when CSM said “i created mulder” it rings true in many ways, but perhaps the most sinister is the joint effort to break down someone he watched play outside the summer house as a child, someone who was once the 1-year-old whose first words they laughed over, into someone who could be the kind of hero and foil that he craves for his own story.

it’s why CSM gave him scully, took her away, gave her back again. gave her a terminal illness, let it kill almost all of her, then healed her for no reason other than to beg belief in his miracles.

it’s the reason why mulder was left home alone “in charge” that night and the reason why 20 years later his father said “do you realize what this will do to your mother?” and watched him sob apologies.

it’s the reason why he doesn’t flinch when his mother hits him and he doesn’t flinch away from the empty relationships with women who are just like her and he doesn’t own a bed. it’s the reason why he runs in front of cars and into suicide missions on military facilities and jumps onto trains with bombs on them. it’s the reason why he can’t do anything more with scully than kiss her cheek on her deathbed.

because you might not be able to kill one man’s religion without turning it into a crusade, but you can make sure he never belongs anywhere further than at your feet.

#except he’s still SO FUCKING NICE!!!! #like he’s so unbelievably kind to everyone #which the project didn’t expect or account for #the battle between the conditioning of the world you were raised in and the person you actually are/want to be #this show transcended occasionally #this is why y’all are nasty calling him dumb for sticking beside phoebe and diana btw #and that’s not even just me being a defensive apologist #it’s just true #because what else is he meant to do??? when he’s been intentionally made to feel that he deserves it #txf #kae meta

[youareheaven]

Foggy and Karen

#this has probably already been done #but like #it’s true #I cannot believe they tried to kill then off #especially foggy like what #who would’ve even been in the show besides Matt and Fisk #marvel #daredevil #daredevil: born again #foggy nelson #karen page #nelson and murdock #nelson murdock and page

[lupismaris]

Sometimes self care is having a very stern talking to with the wounded scared parts of yourself that don't want to do the hard and difficult things and reminding them that nothing will get better if the hard and difficult things aren't even attempted

And then as a reward you promise to buy those wounded parts of yourself an entirely hot pink/pastel pink practice set if they agree to do the work required, as a little treat

#my doctor hasnt cleared me for the pitch yet so I haven't been practicing or playing yet this season and it sucks #i went to nola to support the team and did so! but i still felt out of place and forgotten about because i wasnt playing #i was rooming with players and the majority of them were very self involved (semi derogatory) which i wouldn't fault them for #if it hadnt been so deeply exhausting and so constant even after the tourney. but it is what it is i was there for them #im just tired of always feeling like the forgotten 'oh right and the other james' and feeling unwanted which isnt true #i have a place with the ferals even with my illness its my wounded ego causing issue. just cause the rfc coach was passively a dick #doesnt mean i need to pass up a wonderful opportunity for play time and friendship. ill have a chance to play with the guys #in time and ill have time to socialize with them as well in time #but i shouldn't squander an opportunity just because im wounded and bitter because of old traumas #besides more time to get fundamentals ironed out #so im ignoring my doctor somewhat and km gonna start practicing this week #lightly. just light stuff you know. cardio and working with the ball maybe since i shouldn't be on the heavy bag yet #and then next week ill buy my practice set and customize it as a Bribe to myself

[deva-arts]

nate being the only doctor makes me wonder what he's had to do for the others before

Nate does a lot for the crew. (Also woo look at his human disguise!)

When he's not actively treating or checking on them, he's constantly working to compare studies and test data to understand how to treat his friends, seeing as they have widely different genetic makeups and could react in ways that are *catastrophically* unexpected.

He can't use human rules when working on them, which greatly complicates things when he's educated in treating humans. Sera and Vince naturally have nucleated blood cells for greater oxygen input since they're always in rigorous activity, but this is a sign of leukemia or other major deficiency in humans. How do drugs interact with their bodies? what reaction will their immune systems have? do they have an intolerance to certain chemical developments?

This is partly why Vincent underwent so much testing and experimentation- to catalogue and document an atlas for the reproduction and understanding of this hybrid Variant species, and how every facet of its anatomy works in that respect. Like a rough draft you don't care about messing up, and use only to learn from.

Sorry Vince.

It's a wonder how Nathaniel was able to successfully recompile enough information to save his friends at all. It's a lot of stress on one guy with no nurses! That goes without saying for Amon (who is a beastshifter) Sonia... (Who is a living chemical synthesis lab) The various other people who end up joining... (Who shall remain incognito)

...Yikes.

He has likely seen all of them naked at least once, due to emergencies. He's extremely professional, so it's like it never happened... But it's still never fun to have to use that kind of ER protocol on your injured friends and associates.

Everyone except for Vincent, since V never lets Nathaniel treat him for anything, even when he needs it.

Instead, everyone caught a harrowing and unwanted glimpse of Vincent when he landed back home after streaking in the rain. He now flies with his pants duct-taped on. And goggles. For the glare and the overwhelming surplus of bugs he slams into at twice the speed of a f1 car.

#devarambles #nathanieltag #one of the awkward facts about their situation as rogues is they have zero medical support besides Nathaniel. #and he has to constantly inform himself on their respective anatomy because theres so much undocumented info on variant medicine #Despite all of the extensive testing and processing reports done on variants #which is done in reference to improving human medicine. not necessarily variant healthcare. useful data regarding treating people is... #few and far between. Private research and study is usually done for variations that prove useful to government positions. #So variant healthcare is usually employed towards certain government divisions or certain levels of corporate practices. otherwise they #simply don't bother. “it costs less money to replace you than it does to keep you alive.” #Lol nate chose a shorter and thinner appearance when masking as a human. It makes him look a lot more approachable and his knees don't hurt #Sera... feels somewhat unnerved by his human form. It feels like she's cheating on him somehow. She has him change back when he's home. #He's perfectly happy with that since he doesn't like being disguised much either. He's pleasantly surprised to see that she prefers him #to be true blue. Most previous partners would request him to change into other forms. Sometimes he was even asked to turn into celebrities. #Not fun. Really not fun. He'd eventually associate his true self with something undesirable enough to be rejected over.

[whatudottu]

This just in, local bisexual disaster finds his taste in women in need of a rain check- is the imagined kabedon suggestive enough to need a tag?

Hey what if Tranformers Prime really emphasised that Airachnid was very much a poacher and that her schtic as an (albeit temporary on her part) interrogator of the Decepticons were skills she had taken from poaching endangered game and mounting them on her walls?

#airachnid #tfp airachnid #breakdown #tfp breakdown #transformers #tfp #humanformers #maccadam #fanart #do i ship these two together? no. but do i stare intently as breakdown is 'intrigued' by airachnid? yeah sure #breakdown is married to his husband but he is not immune to m/f thoughts #as a breakdown fan you may think that i am far too fond of airachnid to make that statement true but like problematic women 😌 #gave airachnid that full safari hunter look because i'm not the best at sci-fi clothes outside of like- cloaks but like my girl poaches ya? #gaston behaving ass- uses antlers in all of her decorating ass #takes photos of her standing over rhinos she's shot- doesn't even do it for the money does it for the fun and trophy of it #literally villainous and probably something that could have been more compelling than 'oh i have a torture rivalry for arcee' #let's just say that arcee knows after her experience with airachnid that apparently human skin is too thin to taxidermy #a fact (among her personal experience under airachnid's tools) that haunts her very much #besides in a more human-based setting it's not as if airachnid can come equipped with organic webbing #she loves her nets and probably drop any form of humanisation at the tip of a hat #a safari hat #we stan a problematic queen #or maybe i do- she is imagining pinning breakdown like one would a butterfly (at the least graphic) #ask to tag #for the kabedon part of the whole bi breakdown section #who's brain just immediately shortcutted and went 'kabedon' instead of probably a more literal butterfly pinning #because 'hot lady'

[muirneach]

idk how annoying ass ppl on here can be “All Old Country Is Good And Leftist” and also “All Westerns Are Racist” and also “All Cowboys Ever Were Latino/Black” and also “All People In The Country Are Conservative” simultaneously like this shit doesnt add up

#like to be clear. theres a LOT of nuance needed in discussions about westerns and country music #its an inherently colonial genre its true. but. to generalize is bad and also clearly none of those ppl are there for the nuance #and also i don’t think anyone has actually seen a western. besides maybe a silver dollars one idk #the only point here that has some weight to it is yes. most ‘cowboys’ wouldve been latino #but even thats like. vague af because no one agrees on what a cowboy even is. past or present lol #but also. a lot of white cowboys. you know due to the aforementioned colonialism. like come on guys two and two together here

[youremyonlyhope]

Hey. RTD2. If you're playing some sort of long game with this whole not even mentioning the existence of Martha Jones thing as a way to throw us off the scent of a possible appearance from her later in season "1" or "2" of this era...

Nah. I can't even begin to let myself hope it will happen.

#dw spoilers #doctor who spoilers #doctor who #martha jones #i was gonna say he's on thin ice but nah boy is underwater with me #i'll still be tuning in. for Ncuti Gatwa. i've currently lost the bit of hope i had in RTD2's era though. #because so much of what i predicted would happen in the handling of Fifteen came true. and then top it off with Martha. #but i let some hope grow during Wild Blue Yonder. because i was enjoying it. a lot. #but we've really gotten off on the wrong foot. making Fifteen really have to share being the Doctor. #and Fourteen's face as Ten traveled with 3 companions. 4 if you count Sarah Jane. 5 if you count River. #and you mention all of them. besides Martha. #not even a joke of 'hey well Martha got out.' to the Toymaster in retaliation for all the dead companions #the Fam and Dan were left out too. but they all survived relatively unscathed. and none of them traveled with Ten. #you have Tennant's face. you mention all of Ten's other companions. you leave out. Martha Jones. #will he gain it back? hopefully. but dude. you do a 6oth anniversary special. you bring back Tennant for the THIRD time. #you leave out Martha Jones. almost purposefully. not even Mel or Kate saying 'lots of companions worked for us. like Martha.' #SIMPLE. JUST NAME DROP HER. SOMEWHERE. ANYWHERE. AT ANYTIME. JUST ACKNOWLEDGE SHE EXISTED. #all those 'ah your old face' 'look same face' 'i got this face back' comments. no mention of someone the face traveled with. #i'm upset