#but then explicitly saying no later

[ruporas]

special operatives (silly interaction beneath read more)

[ID: Digital Art in color of Trigun Maximum, characters included are Wolfwood, Elendira, and Legato in a casual meeting situation. The piece consists of orangey yellow lighting and purple shadows. Wolfwood sits on the left side, facing Elendira who’s on the right. He’s seated on a plain wooden chair with one knee up and he’s holding the strap to his Punisher in his left hand while his right sits against his thigh, He has an irritated expression as he speaks to Elendira. Elendira is sitting in a fancier seat, her right arm rests against Wolfwood’s propped up knee, her left hand holds her suitcase. She’s sitting cross legged with an amused expression. Legato can be seen in the back at the center of the image in his mobile body case, one of his eyes shown to be glaring at Wolfwood. End ID]

[ID: Sketch, uncolored comic. Elendira says to Wolfwood, “I’m not telling you to dedicate yourself to him, but just accept the situation at hand. We could get along better if we were on the same page.” Wolfwood responds, “Don’t peg me me for an optimist. I’m not dumb. But, I’m also not going to just live in resignation. Plus, I don’t have any interest in getting along with ya.” Elendira coos, “Aw, you sure? I have a wonderful shoulder to cry on when the weak people you’re trying to protect eventually dies in the coming months. Though, I guess it’s fine. Someone like you might just die before then anyway...” She snickers in her hand while Wolfwood is speechless and just glares. Legato is faintly drawn in the back, glaring at Wolfwood, muttering “worthless” repetitively. End ID]

#trigun #trigun maximum #nicholas d wolfwood #elendira the crimsonnail #legato bluesummers #YES they were together in scene canonically for only 1 Measly chapter. Yes legato dipped like 2 seconds later but listen #trigun has such a fun cast and such a vague sense of time that i love to just throw in whatever Chances of the gung hos meeting outside of #canonic time... i mentioned before but i do think ww just runs into them on occasion from town to town #this illust would have to take place after the remembrance of july though ofc since that was when ww first saw elendira... which is still #the funniest ww ever bc he was so Shocked. LIKE AGHAST... BC IT WAS ELENDIRA THE CRIMSONAIL. he was starstruckk it was so cute #elendira of all people deserve that kind of reaction though im glad that they hyped it up with ww of all people. bc its like wow even ww is #kind of intimidated! even though he gained his grips like 5 seconds later to talk back to her. which is why i think theyd have a funny #dynamic. and legato is just there. he does not care about them but he also hates them and it's fun to think about how that'd extend to #wolfwood after knives specifically left the gung hos up to him and then explicitly didnt say shit after giving ww a special little mission #it also is just like. legato is pretty passive in trimax until someone is actively betraying knives or when its vash #and ww also does not give a shit about legato bc he also is like. vaguely aware he'd lose in a fight. so all i make them do is stare at each #other passive aggressively. TRISTAMP on the otherhand is ridiculously insane for making legato genuinely hold enough aggression towards ww #to literally activate his character arc in the season sgmkdsgm cannot wait for final phase where legato not only deeply detest vash but also #bears a similar aggression towards ww. actually im not sure whether i should be Excited for that or not but it would be an interesting #ruporas art

[deoidesign]

A frustrating development with the growing lack of reading comprehension I've personally noticed is an emerging fervor of insisting things aren't canon unless they are explicitly stated beyond all reasonable doubt.

I can not emphasize enough how harmful a mindset this is to have. Yes, it's wonderful to have characters outright say "I'm trans," but to deny a character's identity for not saying that is dangerous.

Plenty of real people prefer not to use specific labels. Historically, people didn't have our modern terms or modes of expression. Many modern cultures don't use these terms, either, and plenty of people within those that do can't safely openly identify.

If the only representation you accept as canon is within modern (and let's be honest, wealthy white able-bodied American) standards, then you are denying yourself and others a huge amount of representation and seriously limiting the media around you.

#remembering how people were like hmm its not actually canon that Steve is trans and adam is nonbinary... #steve doesnt fucking know what 'trans' is hes an unhoused time traveling cowboy like!!! #after an arc. about werewolves. and how people become werewolves because theyre unhappy with their lives. #especially specifically regarding their body/gender #and how adam explicitly says 'your family never saw you as a man' #AND THEN FOLLOWS IT UP. with referring to Steve as 'the man who chose' #like for fucks sake #you are being deliberately and willfully ignorant if you say its not canon. #your ideas of transness are extremely extremely limited if it doesnt include people who dont use the word. #god. ugh. ive been annoyed by this since that episode came out #dont even get me started on how people barely noticed adam is nonbinary.mm #they said they dont wanna be called a boyfriend. come on!!! come on!!!! #how can i make it clearer without them saying shit they woildnt say and have no context for!!!! #scream. #anyways. #delete later lol im just frustrated again. #im not even sure i worded this how i wanted to

[yusuke-of-valla]

The thing about mean rivals is that like there's kinda a reason we stop having them the second the plots started getting world-ending in scope and that's because you do not have time to deal with some whiny asshole who you've beaten over and over again's shit when a space chinchilla is about to suffocate everyone in the region

Like if they're a dick to you the entire way through they quickly become all bark and no bite because narratively they're going to keep losing to you, and again progressively destroying the ego of a small child is second to whatever this year's eldritch abomination is (and if they went so far as to help the eldritch abomination it raises questions about why they're friendly enough to battle you in the post game).

So like. It's simpler if they're just nice? And have arcs where the fact that they keep losing to you is the point? Your rival isn't the final boss anymore you don't have to build up to finally being able to defeat them for good (except not really) (I guess Hau in USUM arguably but LBR the final boss is Ultra Necrozma)

Like I guess I get annoyed when people don't acknowledge there's a point to how the rivals have been handled since gen 3. You don't have to like it per se but there's a reason the rivals are like this and it's not just the devs don't want to upset little kids.

The fact that the adults care about your safety on the other hand...

#I'd have to go play through it properly but like. the plot of Gen I is really weak and for narrative sake I think we should not be holding #ourselves to its tropes #(i don't say this to be disparaging to Gen I I respect those games so much #I mostly say it to like make a point) #also like the rivals didn't start exclusively choosing the Pokémon weaker than you until the one stronger than you showed up elsewhere #what's more intimidating Kukui and Leon having the stronger starter or the weaker one? #meanwhile Hop and Nemona are like. explicitly going easy on you. Nemona was about to waste you with her champion level team like a Pokémon #player stumbling across a bug catcher they missed while having god in their party #yeah of course when clavell points that out she chooses the weaker starter #Hop also has two Pokémon on you and is not ready for you to be as good as you are that's why he takes losing so hard later #he's being cocky #ANYWAY THIS HAS BEEN YOUR SEMI MONTHLY ALTO RANT ABOUT CERTAIN POKÉMON FANS #Pokemon

[johnskleats]

can y'all IMAGINE zuko's reaction if he were a@ng's teacher during the katara burn incident

can you imagine

*if zuko had been there, it wouldn't have happened because he's very visible proof of what fire can do, BUT

IMAGINE.

#he'd lose his damn mind #zutara #zuko validating katara having justified frustration? #zuko acknowledging katara's fear and pain? #this is also in the beautiful world where katara healed her burns but they scarred over #so interesting for the narrative #zuko with intentional burns from malice and katara with accidental burns from negiligence #different abuse with the same outcome #fascinating #i am not saying a@ng burning katara was explicitly abusive however he does go on to manipulate and gaslight her later in the narrative #and the parallels and contrasts between zuko's feelings of fear obligation and respect towards ozai are soooo tasty when paired against #katara's fear obligation respect for a@ng #fear as in acknowledgement of power #delicious

[time-is-restored]

btw not to make everything about My Fucking Guy but i honestly think one of the things that seperates q!phil out from the other islanders is the approach he takes to dealing with the lack of agency + control all the islanders have over whatever the fuck the federation's doing.

it shows up most prominently whenever tubbo is excitedly telling him about the 'progress' he's made with cucurucho or various investigations (ie: trapping him into a corner with the 'do you have free will' questions), and phil always shoots it down w an immediate 'that doesn't mean anything. curucuho will say anything to mess with you. you can't take anything he says as true.'

and it's not that phil is... a paticularly pessimistic character? he's just EXTREMELY practical. like, he's yet to give up on anyone EVER finding ANY answers (he was the one who initially gave the federation that one week ultimatum w the cage for a cage stream), he just doesn't trust the idea that curucuho is ever going to voluntarily give them. they're uncontrollable + senseless - you might as well argue with the weather.

and like, if that's how he sees the one (1) and only point of contact the islanders HAD with the federation for months, it explains a lot abt his characters lifestyle! ofc he sits on the wall all day, talking to his kids, and keeping his head down. he believes that the federation wants nothing more than to drag the islanders into sick games + tasks just so they can fuck with their head (ie: curucuho revealing he was the one cellbit gathered all that information for). and while he can't totally PREVENT any of that from ever impacting him, he can make sure his kids are well fed, well protected, and as happy + comfortable as he can manage. this is objectively not a perfect situation, there is a guaranteed amount of suffering + fear that he can't mitigate, but he can at least account for it.

like, he REFUSES to engage. whenever curucho shows up, he treats them with total ambivalence. he's not going to get riled up by anything they do, he's not going to get super attached to the guy, he's just gonna laugh it off and irish goodbye it when things drag on. the ONLY time he's strayed from that general guiding principle has been since he's lost his eggs, and can no longer afford to let the federation's fuckery go: those are his fucking kids.

hence the completely unprecedented levels of outward rage and sadness and terror he shows throughout the birdcage streams - almost all directed directly to cucurucho. it's all a completely fair + proportional response to the horror the islanders are being subjected to, but it feels so different bc until now, q!phil has been so dedicated to not reacting, and not giving the federation any sign that they're actually getting to him.

#qsmp #q!phil #LIKE. does anyone else think this! i genuinely believe its like one of the major #traits of his character i feel like u can trace it through Everything. #the man lives with the constant knowledge that sometimes all it takes is a tempting ravine and a badly timed creeper to end a life #whether that life belongs to a stranger or someone you love more than anything else in the world #you COULD rage against that. you could scream and shout and tear your hair out and grieve for the futility of it all #but what does that change? the days march on. death waits either way #and that's not to say he's a laizesfair kind of guy. anyone who's seen him stress out abt chayanne's risk taking + freak out #whenever his kids don't have enough autofeed grist can see that he cares DEEPLY. which resolves into his very distinctive #defensive + protective playstyle. the goal is not to win the fight the goal is to *survive* the fight etc #but the only way that mindset doesn't spill out into unchecked paranoia + complete agoraphobia is with acceptance #'shit happens: the philza minecraft story' #i also think it even manifests in the nightmare sequence w his last words to chayanne? 'they didn't want us to live. we were never supposed #to survive' or whatever the exact wording was #he is FURIOUS and deeply hurt and sad abt the deaths he says so explicitly later #but at the time the first thing he reaches for is. exhausted acceptance. it wasn't their fault. it wasn't his fault. they did their best. #they could only do so much in the face of the federation's Overwhelming Hostility. y'know? #mine

[altruistic-meme]

why am i sad!!!!!!! where did it come from!!!!!!!!

#ok i know WHY im sad but like bitch we were just vibing hello???? #depression go away im just chilling leave me be #i don't wanna be sad rn!!!!!! #fuck being sad!!!!!!!!!! #i know like i need to feel it but UGH #i also need to send a message i really don't wanna send to my family :')))) #nothing like bad or life altering but i know they're gonna wanna talk to me about it and i Don't Wanna Talk About It With Them rn #so #hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhggghhhhhhhh #especially 2 of my sisters cus one is the one who is closest to me #and she or her gf are likely going to bring it up after i say it bc they. idk. #they CARE and ik they do but especially her gf can be very prying about things i don't wanna talk about until she gets answers #and my other sister is the only one who has any hint about what im talking about bc i told her not to ask a while ago #but the thing is she DID ask like a month later despite me explicitly asking her not to bring it up 🙃 #so i can't imagine she will respect it this time either #which is largely why i waited until i saw her for the month before sending it #SIGHHHHH i really should just get it over with #alas. i am just here to rant. #this is fine #i don't have any ice cream that SUCKS i should order some #this is an ice cream occasion #shh ac

[shatterstar]

I think there’s a ton of extremely valid and true criticisms of dune both the books and the movies but it’s kind of funny to me honestly when people say it’s a white savior narrative like sure but paul was very much not a savior to the fremen. That’s a pretty significant thing that happened. sure he defeated the harkonnens but he also like led them into a bloody and oppressive holy war that forced all the planets in the imperium into subjugation using the power afforded to him by being the product of a multigenerational breeding program and subject of religious propaganda and manipulation I would say that’s kind of the opposite of being a savior. I don’t really fault people for this take though because if your only interaction with dune is via the large contingent of dune fans with poor reading comprehension who think dune is a epic sci-fi adventure about a chosen one-type character who leads an oppressed people to freedom and think paul is a hero I could see how you could come to the conclusion but like it is very much in the text of the story that he does not lead the fremen to any kind of freedom from oppression he kind of does the opposite

#I was worried they’d play down the things about paul that show he’s an oppressor in the movies but I would almost say they played them up #they literally have him say explicitly in dune 2 I’m gonna be harkonnen now #also to be fully transparent I have only read dune & messiah so there could be stuff in later books that refutes this take #dune

[stabbingandorbeingstabbed]

the problem with being a leo is that im attracted to people who look and act like me but im not a top and most times neither are they. like its just this every time

#saying this bc i just saw someone on tinder that like #if u met me once at a party and met this person later u would assume she was me probably like very uncanny #but she explicitly said she wasnt a top on her profile so now im just hoping we match so we can become insane codependent friends <3

[ihamtmus]

the majority of the people who were upset with aziraphale for lying to crowley at the bandstand in season 1 did not understand his character or his situation. and many of them are upset with him again after season 2. because they still don't understand his character or his situation. btw.

#good omens #i have so many thoughts like you wouldn't believe #i don't share them on here much but that post about working in aziraphale apologism mines got to me #like yeah i'm an aziraphale apologism miner and i should dig a little #i might start with season 1 bandstand scene because so many people fundamentally misunderstand what happened there #there's lots of people who relate to crowley out there but you guys should maybe try to relate to aziraphale a little idk #and see things from his perspective #i have never ever seen a character more relatable than aziraphale tbh and it's a bit funny to see how many people just don't get him #my post #i might have to elaborate later because i have a lot to say #but the point is no he did NOT ''betray'' crowley at the bandstand #because at no point was he working with him for their own side until he explicitly defied orders in heaven send post

[ratboysims]

daily Christianity fact: if anyone but especially a trans person says “hey use (insert he or she pronouns)” and you keep using “they” then that’s still misgendering and you’re going to hell

#really having some feelings about it on this fine evening #i get using it before you know because its like.non gendered #but once you know its so invalidating to be called they if i explicitly say i go by he #WILL delete this later.

[libras-interactives]

Hi, Libra! Roughly what would you say the age rating is for Devil’s Moon? 13+ like Lackadaisy, or around 16+ because of the more implicit focus on things like sex work and violence?

hmm i dunno? i dont really want to tack an exact age on ...

I guess the "on screen" stuff is alcohol+drug abuse and violence, while the stuff discussed but not "shown" directly is assault, sex, sex work and child abuse. tho the sex hasnt been discussed openly yet, it's just alluded to. cause yanno, yall are living in a brothel and the MC can potentially be a former or current sporting girl.

#i guess the main diff from lackadaisy is UtDM is more open abt sex #and later drug use (cocaine & laudanum & valium) #not that the former will ever be 'shown' explicitly bc im not super interested in writing smut #libra says #anons !!

[rukafais]

sometimes i think about how, when salvatore was in the middle of writing the cleric quintet, TSR was like “hey good news we want a drow book! bad news we need it in six weeks lol” and then he wrote The Legacy in six goddamn weeks and that was the worst deadline they ever gave him

(the second worst was crystal shard where they gave him ten weeks)

#dude never says anything explicitly Bad about the folks who hired him but like sometimes when he talks abt the conditions...whoof #also they asked him to quit his job to write for them iirc and later they tried to straight up give drizzt to someone else as punishment #bad.

[pochapal]

shannon. bestie. isn't it so funny and quirky how you're the first person to explicitly state that people will die as a result of the epitaph?? what a crazy goofy coincidence!

#umineko liveblog #ep1 reread #the epitaph never indicates death as a necessity #the only other person to outright introduce this idea to people who otherwise aren't thinking it is 'beatrice' (kanon) #so the fact that shannon explicitly says 'everyone dies in the end' sure is weird and suspicious! #like even kinzo in his rambling marks a distinction between beatrice's revival and solving the epitaph #in that either beatrice revives and his family dies #or someone solves the epitaph and none of that happens #so if we don't get the solving the epitaph = murder correlation from the horse's mouth #then why exactly would shannon come to believe this? #at the same time that someone is intending to use this exact line of reasoning to push a bunch of people into killing each other??? #again. does she just Know or is she actively involved somehow #but this creates a contradiction because shannon knowing Anything makes her actions later on not make sense #unless this whole thing is a case of pushing her knowledge of what might come so deep she deliberately acts out of ignorance #could the inherent contradiction of sayo explain it all away???? i really do not know #past me was right there really is Something Up With Shannon and i cannot figure out what!!!

[upwalkers]

I think it's funny how Graystripe's Vow sometimes describes Fang like he's this relatively young cat but when you think about the timeline for more than two seconds it's like... this is a middle aged man at the absolute youngest

#he's like. what. a month younger than whitewing? #gremlin's already pretty visibly pregnant by the prologue iirc and whitewing is born around that time in the book #like graystripe is narrating this and he's an old old man at this point but #sometimes the book called fang young iirc and i had to be like. this man is older than squilf right #it's not even like he's from another litter Gremlin had later like they explicitly say he's from the one #she's pregante with in the gv flashback chapters

[a9saga]

I think it's pretty reliable that, no matter where you go to eat, you can almost always order a caesar salad

#people say that about chicken fingers or whatever but it's true about caesar salad too #not all salads are equal #but if you want a caesar salad you can usually expect that at a frickin pizzeria even #someone at work is breathing down my partner's neck about hanging out when they never indicated that they want to #because it's the same damn ex friend who tried to get me fired and then for like a month straight #tried to get my partner to hear him out *because they are close to me* #and after they asserted explicitly that they are closer to me than to him and will not become as close to him as they are to me #(which I did not tell them to say i never told them what to do about any of this for the record) #this motherfucker is hounding them every week about hey when are we hanging out next week? #and they're just like 'i dunno' and then dip aaAAGHHh #maybe ill get a caesar salad later today about this #shut up kaily

[llondonfog]

hanahaki disease!

Give me a fanfiction trope and I’ll grade it

A: Love it.

I LOVE THIS TROPE SO MUCH OK, HEAR ME OUT— it can be both romantic or platonic and i eat this shit up each and every time!!! the concept of love taking the shape of something so deadly and beautiful, the idea of love made visible into such an innocent token that's slowly choking the life out of you from the inside!!! that you believe yourself unlovable, that the object of your affection could never care for you in the same, devoted way aaaaaaaa and don't get me started on the option of removing the flowers, of cutting away a love so tangled and deeply rooted in your soul, ONLY TO NEVER LOVE THAT PERSON THE SAME WAY EVER AGAIN??????? MY GOD.

my favorite sub-tropes of this are fics where authors do their research and deliberately pick flowers that carry a specific meaning to the characters or relationship that the other party uses to slowly put the pieces together once they find the petals, i go so feral!!!

(i. i would really like to do a diasomnia fic like this one day,,,,,,,,,,,)

#lettie's asks #listen............lilia getting his feelings removed towards silver in the beginning when he found the child #horrified that he was caring so deeply for a human; the enemy. #silver finding that out only later in life; this being why lilia never explicitly calls him his 'son'; never says the words 'i love you' #me clawing at the walls—