#doesn’t that make her so HUMAN?

[ruinofsilver]

How is it that in 2023 I am still seeing Bad Discourse about how Rey is a Mary-Sue with no flaws?

#like…. did we watch the same movies? #rey is a human who fumbles and makes mistakes and tries and tries and tries and fails more than she suceeds #she is prickly and stand-offish and has serious abandonment issues and looks at everything in black and white #often to her detriment #and yet at the same time she yearns so much for love and belonging and has so much of her broken breakable heart to give #and she tries to believe in hope even when it doesn’t get her anywhere half the time #doesn’t that make her so HUMAN? #but nooooooo because she’s good at swinging a sword and is athletic and has a pretty smile she’s apparently perfect #like her personal relatable shortcomings aren’t REAL flaws that REAL PEOPLE can relate to #anyway #I have opinions apparently #this might be the most ranty I’ve ever been on this site #rey #star wars

[gottagobackintime]

Ellie is 14 years old. And while she's, in some ways, mature for her age, she should not be asked to sacrifice herself for the whole world. "She should have been given a choice and we all know she would have been fine with dying if that meant there is a cure." Absolutely not. You do not ask a 14 year old to make a choice like that. Hell, I'd argue that it's not even a choice. The fact that it's adults that would tell her that makes it even more messed up. These cool adults who are out there trying to save people tells you that you are special, that you're the key to save humanity. Of course you're going to listen to them. Especially if you've gone through the things Ellie's been through. If she as an adult wants to make that decision, sure. But not when she's a scared, vulnerable child.

Should Joel have told her that he killed all of them to save her? Probably. Then he could have explained that she's valuable, not because she's possibly the key to a cure. But because she's a human being that has feelings, that deserves to live. And you could argue as much as you want that she's old enough or mature enough to make that choice. But I don't agree. Yes, she seems to be like that, we see her being snarky and tough but the more Joel shows that he cares about her, the more she lets that mask slip. And she acts like a child would act with their parents.

If her only goal was to reach the fireflies so that she could give herself to them to do whatever with her so that they could find a cure. She wouldn't have been so angry/upset that Joel didn't want to take her, why would it matter who took her there? Because Joel cares about her, and having him let her go hurt her. She could have left Joel to die and gone to find Tommy so that he could take her, like Joel asked her to do. But she didn't because she cares about him. The way she clings to Joel when he finds her and he calls her baby girl should tell you that she isn't ready to make a decision on whether she should sacrifice herself or not. SHE IS A CHILD. And Joel allows her to be a child.

I honestly have no problem with him killing them all to save her. "He took the choice from her!" What choice? They didn't give her a choice, they didn't tell her what would happen to her. And do you really think that they would ever give her a choice. If she'd said no, do you actually believe that they would go "Ah, well. Nothing we can do then, off you go with your new dad. Bye!" Don't make me laugh. They would have just done what they did now. Sedate her and begun to harvest her for what they needed. That's not a choice. She NEVER had a choice, Joel didn't take the choice from her because it was never there. It would have been an illusion of choice. She's also traumatised, most recently from her run in with David. And you want her to make a literal life or death choice?? I completely understand why Joel decided to go on a killing spree, he's protecting a vulnerable traumatised CHILD from people who doesn't care about her, who just wants to use her body for spare parts.

It's not about choice or not having a choice, it's about being valued as a person and not having your life taken away from you by vultures.

#the last of us spoilers #the last of us #no but the rage I feel when I see people who thinks a 14 year old is old enough to make that decision! #a TRAUMATISED child on top of that #the fireflies doesn’t give a fuck about Ellie #they saw her as an object that they could kill they looked at that child and saw nothing but body parts #Joel has seen her as a human as a child who gets excited telling bad pun #*puns #and getting excited to feed a giraffe #the fireflies didn’t ask her they didn’t tell her what would happen #so fuck them I’m glad Joel killed them all #Joel has done nothing wrong in his life ever and I stand by my man #Nicole watches stuff

[kingofmyborrowedheart]

It’s just that “Better Than Revenge” is messy and angry, but also so very human and that’s okay. It’s disappointing to me that she felt the need to rewrite her own history on an album about saying exactly what you feel and water down her very human feelings she once had as a teenager. Her anger should be allowed to exist even though the target of it was misplaced, which was purely a product of society seeing that women were led to see each other as competition when it came to romance. She’s clearly shown that she’s changed her thinking from when she originally penned the song over a decade ago with what she said about “august” during the Long Pond Sessions and all of her work since Speak Now.

#taylor swift #better than revenge #I talked about/thought a lot about this when writing my podcast #and it’s not just that one line that targets the other woman it’s the whole song so changing it doesn’t really do much #women’s anger is always seen as wrong and unacceptable as if it’s being expressed in the wrong way #and her making this edit for whatever reason whether it be fear of being ‘canceled’ or not resonating with it anymore reinforces that #like the song is important to her discography because it marks a turning point in her discussion of other women and she’s grown from it #Being human is accepting ​and acknowledging that we make mistakes and are messy at times #and learning from our past missteps and growing from them not erasing them.

[solargeist]

i love Her and think She should get to keep Her baby forever. like i think he should just never grow up. it's very rude of him to be anything other than Her baby when She is such a loving mother

SKSNSKSK right like 🙄🙄🙄how dare he break his mothers heart loLL

#ask #i love her sm she’s an architect she has a little book that she carries around. doodling buildings #she was a big fan of the death games when she was younger tho. a nun and her knives.. funny stories abt her traps! #evoau #she has feathers under that veil. she doesn’t know how long humans should sleep so sometimes grian makes her nervous #when she teleports with him she squeezed his shoulder like a half hug #she could just touch his should but she wants to make sure he lands steady #I’m so sad rn wtf that her son 😤 #she lets him go

[avirxy]

beauty and beast au but Claire’s the one cursed because she’s the only one I can see literally pissing a sorceress off enough to get cursed. (If we’re going off the original movie Jim would probably offer them a hot meal and a room for the night, knowing him he’d make everything super accommodating)

#are we seeing the vision or have I lost my mind #Jim would literally drop everything to help this literal hag who waltzed through the door #Claire would..not be doing that #bonus points if the witch is Morgana then they’re throwing hands #I could see her trying to offer a deal like say she’s after Claire’s magic and sevitude or something and when she refuses boom Morgana #curses her and everyone else that’s in the ballroom at the time #And because it’s Morgana she’d probably make the curse super difficult to break #so like by the time she’s 18 if she doesn’t agree to serve Morgana when the last petal on the rose falls she dies with the rose #so Claire’s kinda given up on hope cuz she’d rather die than give Morgana her magic #Barbara’s a traveling doctor so her and Strickler set off to another town for a trip and get caught in the snow storm #and they get locked up for entering the castle and trespassing #Jim goes after them because they don’t come back the day after #instead of Claire keeping them there though I think she’d just give all three the chance to leave with some pressing from her friends #Jim ends up rethinking his decision due to the fact that Toby even as a cursed object can’t for the life of him keep a secret #when he hears the castle is under a curse he’s immediately interested in helping #even if Claire really just wants this nosy human boy and his parents to be on their way #oh shit I think I just wrote another au #trollhunters #tales of arcadia #jim lake jr #claire nuñez #toa #jlaire #this was just chillin in my drafts for awhile

[alexiethymia]

I love “I heard your voice too”, but I also love the translation, “Thank you Meryl. It reached me. Your voice”.

It cements the parallel between them as foolhardy, reckless idiots who never give up, as well as makes a neat little call back to the first episode where Meryl ropes him in. Meryl’s voice reached him in time to save him, and Vash’s wire reached her in time to save her from Knives.

#trigun #trigun stampede #vashmeryl #tristamp #vash the stampede #meryl stryfe #it’s about how what vash longs for the most is human connection #but he doesn’t usually make himself available for it #as nai points out because of his guilt #but also because simply put most people don’t ever bother to try #but meryl tries so many times at the risk of her own life #despite vash’s power and self sacrificial tendency she sees him as someone who simply needs a helping hand #and as she’s said before #she doesn’t want to regret anymore and miss the opportunity to protect those dear to her #she’s human but she puts himself out there to help and protect vash #not because vash can’t protect himself but because he won’t #and that’s a theme that rings true for the both of them no matter the timeline manga ‘98 anime and tristamp #and I think that’s just neat #I really love subtle dynamics like that #ships

[aardvaark]

every time brennan says psychology is a "soft science" i’m like. bestie. beloved. i’m so sorry but i have to tell you something about anthropology

#bones tv #temperance brennan #to be clear i think the hard/soft science divide is unhelpful and just vaguely dismissive of social sciences n stuff #but it’s ironic that she cares about this divide #it’s SO funny cause like 90% of the insults she directs at psychology are also applicable to anthropology #forensic anthrology is more towards the ‘hard science’ end of the spectrum but only bc it involves other sciences - human biology for eg #and most of the ‘hard science’ on the show is actually hodgins’ doing w/his biology & chemistry & physics #he has doctorates in entomology + botany + geology after all #and it’s cam who does most of the medical stuff. and unseen ppl who do particulate analysis #but i could never tell her that her argument doesn’t make sense bc i love her too much <3333

[regallibellbright]

… It just occurred to me.

Dogs can’t distinguish the color red.

Is Komugi aware she is pink?

And if she is, how disorienting is it to be able to change species and suddenly see a new range of colors?

While we’re at it if she does have human color vision she’s also not going to see as much of the ultraviolet spectrum as she can before and.

Like I don’t expect this show to go even as far as your average Animorphs book in terms of the Differing Primary Sensations of different species and how strange it would be to suddenly adapt to having a weaker sense of smell and different vision priorities and different audible range in, you know, the middle of battle, much less making a statement about the natural variation in human abilities but like.

I do have questions here.

#precure spoilers #wonderful precure #komugi inukai #cure wonderful #look it doesn’t bother me when it’s Ellen because she’s a magical fairy cat. maybe they have human senses by default. #Ciel Rio Pekorin all likewise fairies who knows what their senses are like. #Yukari only turns into a cat once and there is magic involved and I think it’s her crystal animal so again. makes sense that there’s magic. #Tsubasa has always been a bird-human shapeshifter. Yuni’s always been a Rainbownian shapeshifter. #they are used to such things. #BUT THIS IS A NORMAL FUCKING DOG CAT AND PROBABLY BUNNY #and as such the questions arise and real world frames of reference can be drawn. #… oh also the hamsters. I never watched Hugtto I have no idea what’s going on with the hamsters. that’s just weird like. fundamentally.

[kinos-fortress-2]

miss pauling WOULD NOT SMELL FINE.

#me disagreeing at everything about miss pauling that people paints her as something good sweet or cool #WHEN SHES NOT COOL OR AWESOME OR SMELLS GOOD AT ALL SHAKES YOU AROUND LIKE A BOTTLE #she smells LIKE HUMAN SWEAT and old clothes from a humid closet she barely cleans. like a grandma. #well grandmas do smell nice. BUT THATS NOT THE FACT #ok well she does smell fine and bearable maybe he hair smells like bed sheets no changed at all #because she wakes up so early she doesn’t have time to clean her room or make her bed #she just instantly runs not even eating breakfast and dying of hunger until either scout or soldier gives her a cookie #or a half eaten pork beans in soldiers courtesy #and gets home late EXHAUSTED and throws herself in the bed to later wake up in 5 minutes #me wanting to expose her every single damn time i am evil like that to my ult #oh yeah her hair doesn’t smell that good at all. full of lice. and greasy. girl wash YOUR HAIR that’s what demo always says to her #prob demo often times calls her out or secretly spy will come and said damn my mask doesn’t even smell that bad than that hair of yours #but is either of those two. wait what i was talking about #her teeth are so yellow because she forgets to clean them #crusty eyes too. can’t put makeup stupidass just only puts her fav purple lipstick to hide her crusty lips #takes a deep breath… fuck. woman failure

[ozcarma]

Does anyone else feel like the incinerator gun chair room from Zero Time Dilemma would have better fit C Team instead of D Team

#elaboration in the tags #zero time dilemma #zero escape #ztd #I think of this every time I watch a playthrough and get to that room #carlos ztd #akane kurashiki #junpei tenmyouji #c team #like just about any combination fits with the potential character growth both Akane and Junpei would have from it #I understand the main character is Carlos so if we were to keep it as him making the decision then I would have Akane in the incinerator #and Junpei in the chair #but if we’re going to throw ‘main character chooses’ then you could truly have either Akane or Junpei at the gun with Carlos in the chair #I say all this cuz there’s the obvious Akane incinerator parallels and I imagine it could trigger a breakdown for her #if Junpei is behind the gun would she beg Junpei to shoot Carlos to save her? #would Junpei see that Akane sees other players as pawns to save her own life? and if she doesn’t beg does it help Junpei #see the humanity in her? where he previously thought she was uncaring but here she clearly is to save Carlos at the cost of her own life #but my fave configuration is Junpei in the incinerator and Akane at the gun #it helps them see from each other’s point of view. how scared would Junpei be being in the incinerator and there’s nothing he can do #but rely on someone else? Junpei in characterized as pretty selfish in ZTD so this experience could have him empathize with Akane’s #‘selfishness’ in the previous games. realizing you’d do it too if your life was on the line #and Akane can see just how difficult it is being the one to directly have a hand in how people die or at least see their bodies. #and is it worth it to just save one person? #yes Akane’s games have a way for everyone to survive and win at the end. but in the moment the players don’t know that. #I think that configuration would do SO much for akane and Junpei to better empathize with one another during ZTD #this could’ve been a whole post but I wasn’t confident enough in my coherence to properly format it. so tags you get

[starmagnets]

wip susie design. her species is typically more sea serpent-like but the haltmanns are Weird for a variety of reasons

#my art #kirby series #susie haltmann #needed to make her more than just human lite so. fish. #‘if they’re sea serpents why does haltmann have feet?’ i hear you ask. he doesn’t! hope this helps #in all seriousness if i ever finish a design for him ill elaborate on that i promise :3

[pesteringchum]

i think a lot about if jade would ever have been able to live a normal life.

had the kids never played sburb, what would’ve happened to jade? does she have citizenship anywhere? does she have a passport? does she have a birth certificate? if she ever got off the island, does she have any proof at all that she exists?

if she doesn’t and can’t get any, would she just stay on her island? would she die there, without ever being near a human other than her grandfather? would she die there, a distant memory of her childhood friends, who’ve long since grown up and joined society and no longer had time for her? would it be as if she’d never existed at all?

if she does get off the island and is able to join human society, would she even like it?

she grew up alone, aside from bec. she’s smart and curious, so she probably would want to go to university so she could do research. would she be able to live in a city packed with people people people and bricks and concrete and air pollution? would she learn that her social battery is a lot shorter than she thought, that the concrete and brick is colder than she thought, that even the air is more foreign to her lungs than she thought it would be? would she feel suffocated?

she grew up with bec constantly by her side, but many places dont allow dogs. would she feel separation anxiety? would she feel more alone than she ever thought possible, amidst more people she ever experienced in all years of her life combined?

would she return to her island? would she die there, lonely again but content but hungry for something she can’t stand? would she be remembered by her peers and professors? or would they, too, with time, forget her? would it be like she’d never left the island at all? would it be as if she’d never existed at all?

#idk if any of this makes sense #this is mostly projection bc i grew up chronically online but. #jade never stood a chance without sburb i think #she never rlly had irl human connection with anyone other than her grandpa #and you can only learn so much from tv and chatting to ppl online #physically being around people can be exhausting—let alone talking AND listening AND interpreting your interlocutor’s body language #does she have the tools to not only perform social existence but to also cope with how tiring it is? #if she chose to stay among society how long would it take her to learn body language and learn what her social limits are? #would she ever learn her limits or would she exist in a cycle of party party party -> burn out -> isolate self -> repeat? #without sburb i think she would have really struggled to Exist in an observable way #blipping in and out of existence; on and off the radar #which doesn’t make for stable relationships #sorry for all my jade angst hc’s she’s just my favourite blorbo to project onto <//3 #jade harley #homestuck #chum pesters

[ssaalexblake]

The Ensoul angel or kill him thing is one hell of an argument that manages to skirt that a big ethical question here is ‘is it okay to force this 17 year old into killing somebody she does/did love if it can be avoided’ and I mean, there are many other ethical questions that are if not spoken at least alluded to, but IS is right to expect a kid to do that? The question of angel deserving to live aside ( I do Not miss that every other person he’s killed here apparently doesn’t matter except for the one they knew the best), does Buffy deserve having to live with that trauma if she doesn’t have to?

I mean, before they know about acathla, when this is academic. What about her?

#danni watches buffy #not so much does angel deserve to die and more can we expect buffy to do it when it’s not necessary and Not be crappy people #ofc she doesn’t want to do it ofc she wants to avoid it bc he was her bf that… doesn’t make her awful it makes her human

[moothecowgirl]

Most of my friends, even ones that I am not as close with, call my mom “ammi-ji” or sometimes “mama-ji” regardless of if they are desi or not and it’s so so so sweet. My mother is a very motherly person, and I mean that in the sense that she like literally emotionally adopts every “child” she meets even if they’re married in their late 20’s heh. And tonight I was on the phone with Neddy who heard my mom in the background and shouted “OMG AMMI-JI ASSALAAMU-ALAYKUM” and they talked for a little bit, great conversation and when I hung up my mom said so shyly “I don’t understand why your friends like me so much. They are very nice” and that broke my heart I don’t know why. It’s like ammi what. No I understand. They understand. We all understand. You should understand too. And they don’t just like you, they all LOVE you.

It was like one of those moments where I wanted to put my ammi’s head in my lap and sooth her hair and sing her the sweet songs her mother sang her rather than the typical other way around.

#it makes me so sad that my mom doesn’t see herself the way the people who love her too #and it’s like a reminder my mom is a human too #idk if this is making any sense but like yeah #m’s mind #biography blogging

[itspileofgoodthings]

like. Nina listens to Taylor, moderately keeps up with the front-facing aspects of her life, enjoys her quality, has her minor critiques, recognizes her place in the current culture, can set her down and do other things when she wants to, and most importantly knows who Taylor is through her art.

#you cannot engage with Taylor completely casually it doesn’t work #you won’t get to know her #you have to let her in. go on a sunset walk with your headphones in and open your heart to her and just HEAR her #and then once you know who she is you can go from there #but there absolutely is this level of refusing to get to know her #and I am truly (once again) not addressing people who have that door simply closed (my mom! my older sister!) #people whose opinions matter so much to me #but I am talking to the people who wrestle and want to love her but actually hate her and idk. I feel that it is something where—- #well it’s like people isn’t it. you have to get to know her without judgment #and without bias #you have to know her FROM her #(which does not involve Easter eggs OR celebrity headlines if you hate both of those things #and then if you don’t like her you do in fact have to leave without making that other people’s problem #especially Taylor’s! #I am thinking of this girlboss journalist who wrote a piece on Taylor the other day #that was LIVID with Taylor for sharing only positive reviews on her insta story #(as is not only Taylor’s right but literally normal behavior??????????) #and was practically foaming at the mouth about how Taylor’s level of power was getting scary #and it’s like. I’m so sorry for swearing but BITCH #a lot of the numbers are out of Taylor’s control and also NOT REAL. Taylor also DESERVES her success and is simply doing her job very well #and riding the waves of virality she knows how to create in ADDITION to that #also stop worshipping power and money!!!! the way you clearly do!!!!!!! #Taylor is not doing anything with it except her job!!!!!!!!!!!!! #she is also CLEARLY a human being who suffers #SEE HER AS SUCH #and end it THERE #INSANE #turning off reblogs for this one #because I have gotten carried away but wow

[makotonaegiunderstander]

do you ever go do autism crazy for something you can feel it in ur chest. like it’s hard to breathe almost it’s making you gasp for breath and jump around physically. got an adrenaline rush thinking abt Kirigiri.

#GODDDDD. I LOVE HER SM AUTISM WOMAN. #I go insane thinking abt her and her life and how she develops in THH and past it #and how Makoto and her literally bring out the best AND worst in each other #and her narrative parallels w Byakuya. the way they’re so similar that they’re hypocrites for disliking each other #at first and then the way they’re indispensable in that they’re they only other one that Understands why they’re like that #I cannot word my thoughts for her nearly as coherently unfortunately so no paragraphs tonight. I’m just going to start growling like a dog #the way she fucking commands so much respect and control and how strong she is #and the fact that she is constantly reinforcing that strength by shoring up any weakness or vulnerability with terrifying effectiveness #that leaves her invulnerable but completely alone. and for a long time that seemed like a good thing #and she may even believe it is #but you hear the way she talks about her father and you realize she’s HUMAN. she doesn’t want to be an island all the time. #she has emotions just like anyone else and being viewed as though she doesn’t is incredibly alienating and reinforces her isolation #if she really didn’t care she wouldn’t still be mad that her father left her alone. it wouldn’t still pick at her the way it does #it wouldn’t drive her to abandon the entire purpose of her family by revealing herself as the Ultimate Detective in order to get to him #and then there’s Makoto and Byakuya challenging those aspects of her all over again #Byakuya sees the worst of her. he believes what she puts forth as herself and sees that ruthless cold efficiency #and he isn’t wrong to believe those things. as much as she wears a mask it isn’t fake that she has those qualities #but then comes Makoto who doesn’t see through her mask either but chooses to believe she must be human somewhere even if he’s not sure #he continues to trust her with absolutely no reason to and it feeds into her own ruthless efficiency by making him her Guinea out of sorts #but it also means there’s someone on the shoreline of her island. they want to come in. Will she let them? #that island is painful but not more painful than being vulnerable. #hhhh #I’m crazy