#even though not lying is her Thing

[puzzledemigod]

Oh I HATE what they're doing with El this season Yikes

#stranger things #stranger things spoilers #st4 #oh yeah she was the villain actually and murdered all those innocent children who loved being lab rats actually #see how much of a scary freak she is she lost control and tried to kill that bully after lying to Mike #even though not lying is her Thing #and now they paint the guys who experimented on her and kept her locked up as trying to do the right thing?? #i hope there's a twist at the end that this was implanted on her mind or something because this is unacceptable #I'm already distrustful of the villains being communist russia and the way Lucas was being such an asshole and telling the jocks #where Eddie was after he knew they were about to kill him #like?? wtf #i hope i understood that last bit wrong

[notbrucewayne48]

"aphobia doesn't exist"

bitch literally not that long ago an aroace youtuber animator was insulted by almost half of its community for being it

#i did some research about it and found out that the problem was principally that she had previous experience in the romantic area #so people just didn't take her seriously and said she was lying #even though she stated multiple times that she wasn't comfortable in those situations #now things are more calmed but damn #mind your own bussiness #i believe she knows more about herself than you #sorry if i offended you with this comment but i hate how aro/ace/aroace people are always left behind #insulted and rejected because they “dont know what they are talking about” #or because they “just have to wait for the right person” #or because they are “psychopaths and they are missing something” #i love that animator and she helped me realise a lot about myself #and now that i know the context i think i will start making a list and killing aphobes one by one #aromantic #arospec #asexual #aroace #acespec

[treasureplcnet]

inverness here they come!!!!

#ignoring canon. does everyone know that esther forces her way back into his life even in a world where they don't have to meet #and then they just ditch london and live an oddly quiet life until the end of the war in scotland. they told me that. #more than anything in the world i am always thinking of the incredible force that these two are and how determined they are to survive #please see: esther genuinely trying to shoot him (makes me laugh everytime i see it) and the way karl blends himself into every scenario #not above lying not above running away just trying to get by. 'i treat others the way they treat me'. distrustful by default #and finally the only reason these two stop kicking and clawing is the budding family they accidentally form #AND THEN THE LAST 20 MINUTES OF EP4 HAPPENS. #ep8 gives me a semblance of peace. theyre in inverness to ME. #i do also rly adore their twin rbf. at any given moment they look as though theyre chatting shit (they are) #AND the gun thing is so funny. the gun fails and instead of giving up esther just tries to shoot him again LLOOOLLLL #no thoughts towards the consequences and with no experience with guns as well. she's literally goated #jacob fortune lloyd's interview on this and his thoughts on their relationship also makes me a tiny bit sick so . #anyways. WATCH BODIES #karl weissman #esther jankovsky #bodies netflix #my art #bodies 2023

[koetjingwarrd]

You're my baby, say it to me...

#gundam witch from mercury #gwitch #wfm #sulemio #suletta mercury #miorine rembran #i bet on losing dogs as per gwitch current story progression aka ep17 do you see my vision... #i have particular mixed feelings on ep 17 most of which i feel that the story is done a bit sloppy i think it started around ep 16 or 15 #i really need to get this out so i could study damn it !! #first of all with miorine with the one who's losing a lot by being complicit with prospera's quiet zero significantly trapping herself furt #er in the cycle of revenge and also losing the friends she has come to cherish and also... at the same time knowing hal truths of what real #ly happened prospera true plan. vanadis. aerial and suletta true nature. earth as a spacian battleground. and the whole lot #i feel like she's rushing thru her birthday to eject sul asap from prosperas plan and now whats done is done i feel like she underestimate #what conviction on how suletta values what family means to her. prospera lines where she wonders whether sul will give aerial up #easily is giving vibes that its possible for suletta to take drastic measures to get her family back. miorine grows up on a world that #is defined by strict rules but suletta does not... that is after she's starting to get over her heartbreak i think... #whats interesting about gwitch is that although it considered utena as one of its base material it mixes said materials with how gundam sto #ryline works while simultaneously keeping up with today's themes. so honestly... when this happened today im a bit pissed #another thing that even though on a surface level suletta plays the role of utena with miorine as anthy they are also anthy and utena #respectively. suletta and utena with their kind hearted and naive self with a sense of justice left behind the insidious plot of the school #anthy and miorine titled the bride who adored their respective partner up to the point of deception and betrayal for their own good #SULETTA AND ANTHY GOD THE WITCh. red motifs. i find it funny they both have siblings okay this is messed up. the character shrouded in myst #ery. SCREAMS AT THE TOP OF MY LUNGS THE CHICK WHO IS YET TO HATCHH !!!! RAHHH #insert utena student council theme somewhere around here #and lastly utena and miorine. the “princess”that is ready to take on a world that is threatening her loved one. both are only child god no. #this is my personal feelings but i will find it heartbreaking that despite everthing suletta will runs to miorine no matter how much she #push her away... but i also want and find it interesting where despite loving and believing in her suletta will slowly will ALSO despise #her for letting them drift apart kind of like anthy and utena on the akio apocalypse arc....... do i want this to happen...? do i....? >yes #regardless augh what a heartwrenching lovely episode despite me knowing it will happen at some point during the show #im like the surprised pikachu meme with tears in my eyes

[novelconcepts]

Do you ever just lay awake at night, turning over in your head the stark difference in delivery between Hewson's Van saying--steadily, unshakably--"it's just something that's happening to you...happening to us" and Cypress' Taissa saying--imploringly, whiningly--"this was not just my dream, this was our dream"?

Do you ever just turn it over and over, how often Tai tried to scare Van away, and how it only made Van set her feet more firmly? How Taissa's first love was this person who saw a problem fall into Taissa's lap, a problem that was quite literally trapped inside Taissa's body, and decided unflinchingly: No, that's an us problem now? How she refused point-blank to walk away even with blood in her mouth, how she flatly informed Tai "I'm never gonna be scared of you", and promptly turned a moment of pain into a declaration of love? And how this would etch itself into Taissa for the rest of her life? How she'd take these things that worked with Van--with the person Van was, with the bond they shared--and try so hard to run through an identical script with Simone?

Except Simone is her own person. A completely different kind of person. A person who hasn't been offered any of the context, any of the realities going on inside Taissa. So: naturally she doesn't respond the way Van did at eighteen--and will go on to do all over again in her forties. Naturally, she hears our dream as the excuse it is, not as a plea for connection. Naturally, she is scared away when Taissa pushes, and shouts, and begs. Because there isn't blood in her mouth, not yet, but there will be. And they have a son to worry about. And she isn't eighteen and a special kind of immortal, a special kind of romanticized. She's a grown woman with responsibilities, with priorities, with an understanding that you can't fix someone just because you love them. And Tai can't just perform a revival of the play she and Van had memorized twenty-five years later with a whole new performer in the works, and expect it to shake out the same.

Of course it doesn't work. But look at Taissa trying it. Look at Taissa trying to reframe her first love through a new lens. Trying to recast it. Trying to play it through again. Van taught her love was sticking out the blood, shaking off the pain, making a you problem into an us problem. Does it ever just eat at you, how tragic it is, watching Taissa try to shape her marriage around a woman who isn't even wearing a ring?

#yellowjackets #yj meta #taivan #sorry i'm just fucking obsessed with cypress' delivery choice in that scene #it is the most immature we EVER hear tai sound #and it's not teenage taissa. it's adult wife-mother-almost senator tai flat out whining in desperation #it is SUCH a choice #and then after the S2 opener to hear van sound so adult offering a glimpse as to WHY tai would #so pleadingly seek turning a Tai Thing into an Us Thing #yeah. yeah of course she would. because van shared the worst of her #van shared it without allowing tai to dissaude her. van quite literally tethered herself to tai's problems #and tai learned: that is what love is #and tai thought: this is what love is #it's sharing. and giving up on sharing is surrendering the whole thing #and she's lying! is the thing! she's lying to simone and to herself #she's making excuses for doing what she wants to do even though she shouldn't be doing it #but the core of it is Team. the core of it is Us. the core of it is #'if you love me you will be on my side. for better or worse.' #because that's what van did. for better. and for so much worse. #which isn't true. isn't actually how love works. love is sometimes putting your foot down and saying 'nah dude that ain't it.' #love is communication. but that was never taivan's game and it isn't tai's now and so she's just trying old plays #and it is NOT a play that can ever work the same with simone in the leading role. nor should it. #but god everything about them makes me so sad because simone deserves better and taissa needs what she won't admit to #anyway. will be absolutely gnawing at the walls until S3.

[impossibledial]

i’m so intrigued by dannyclara despite not shipping them. i think that relationship is an interesting addition to clara’s character arc and i’m still trying to to figure out it’s purpose.

#read tags #doctor who #doctor who meta #clara oswald #clara oswald meta #danny pink #twelfth doctor #discussion #tagging pinkswald but let it be known i don’t ship them. #i think they were cute for what they were though. #it’s hard for me to view their relationship without being blinded by twelveclara but i’m trying. #my reason for not shipping them is due to clara’s treatment of him which i feel people don’t bring up often enough. #the only thing danny ever asked of clara was to stop lying. #twelveclaras tend to act as if he was possessive or territorial or demanding but he wasn’t. #he wasn’t insanely jealous in the caretaker. twelve was. he just wanted to know what was going on. #even in motoe he checked in to ask clara if she’s really sure she wants to stop travelling. she had no need to lie. #in the flatline script he says ‘if you’re back with the doctor it’s okay. you don’t have to lie to me.’ #yet time and time again clara does. #clara may have loved danny but there was no trust. #she continually broke his trust. she never felt like she could confide him. #despite this i still view clara as a fundamentally selfless character. #i now think this is why she was willing to die to be with him dark water. she felt that was the least she could to make up for her lies. #i hesitate referring to it as a punishment because being with danny could never be that for her but i do think it was because of guilt. #it’s that lack of trust that makes her hang up in a sense.

[eugeniedanglars]

with the hiatus and the discourse and the annoying fans it becomes so easy to lose sight of the simple fact that buck and tommy are incredibly fun to watch onscreen together

#like they're so cute! they have great chemistry! i'm not lying when i say i like bucktommy even though i find a lot of their fans annoying! #i think what i'm realizing is i like bucktommy in canon but i don't like them in fandom? #like they are such a fun relationship to watch on tv but i don't want to read fic or hcs about them the way i do with buck and eddie #i'm having fun with them where they are but i'm not *rooting* for them. and that doesn't have to be a bad thing! #i've said it before but the number one problem with most of buck and eddie's past love interests was that they were boring #(except abby and taylor my beloveds. and shannon but i don't count her bc she and eddie weren't really a love story they were a tragedy) #'fun and enjoyable to watch' is really a decent bar to clear considering this show's track record with love interests #911 abc #911 lb

[willel]

Anyway, El is Will's favorite person

#stranger things #will byers #el hopper #willel #my content #he always seems to have the upmost confidence in her with pretty much anything #but he's also not afraid to be like 'oi stop lying' #doesn't matter what happens he's gonna take El's side #even against Mike he's like 'Nah El is right' #don't get me wrong though Jonathan is probably also number 1 #El is just a new stable on his favorites list #she beats out everyone that isn't his family lol

[rainybraindays]

Okay, apparently shutting the fuck up was never an option but the way no one likes to look at the marina situation and go "wow what the fuck is wrong with portia"? Crazy.

Like she immediately didn't like her, not because of anything she'd done, but because she took attention from her daughters no matter how bright she dressed them.

It didn’t matter that the main reason is that, honestly all 3 of her daughters are painfully awkward, and in ones case literally 17. It didn’t matter that Marina was only there at her fathers instance, or that theoretically through having someone thats clearly popular in her home she could have used it as a jump off mark to match her daughters, she was seen as her big hurdle to marrying them off. Marinas immediately othered, to the point that when shes being dressed the maids helping put on her shoes is enough to piss Portia off. She immediately puts Marina in the same ring as her daughters, fight for my attention and maybe maybe it'll be positive. But Marina doesn't do that because she doesn't want to even be there.

And then they find out she's pregnant and shes othered even more. She immediately tries to send her back, and when she's not allowed to do that shes locked away and the other girls aren't even allowed to talk to her. She literally tries to freeze her out, like Marina has any say in being there in the first place, before lying to her about her being abandoned by George.

She makes no attempt to find out if George has family, she doesn't care enough to try even though that would have been a way to get rid of her "problem". She tries to push Marina onto a man old enough to be her grandfather and slaps her across the fucking face when she tries to stand up for herself.

Theres no concern for her safety, for the babys safety, just getting her out of her house as fast as fucking possible, and I'm meant to be surprised that when Colin saves Marina from her elderly suitor she turns her attention to him?

Like the nicest guy, who everyone likes, who's attractive, who isn't multiple decades older than her and most importantly not going to literally assault her? Yeah not a big shocker. Should she have lied to him? No, but she wouldn't have had to or felt the need to if she wasn't in the most hostile fucking house. Even Penelope, who she likes, why does everyone forget that she fucking likes Penelope and viewed her as a friend, becomes aggressive towards her. Shes cornered, shes scared, and all of this could have been avoided if Portia was a slightly better person and said "hey soilder boys not written back, you're gonna have this kid, does he have any family?" instead of setting this entire mess in motion.

#rainy talks #firm believer that Portia is a shit person who set this whole mess in motion #for all the “marinas still a bad person!! look at how she lashed out at pen! at how easily she manipulated colin” girlies #shut up maybe?? pen lashedout first and longer #and i genuinely believe if Penelope had said she had feelings for colin or marina had noticed earlier she wouldn't have pursued him #because she saw pen as a /friend/ but pen doesn't tell her and she doesn't find out until its too late to turn back #and i already said how lying to colin wasn't great but if you saw things in shades of grey you'd understand why shes doing it #its not a black and white situation #“marina shows no remorse though! she doesn't feel guilty ” #man she almost died trying to abort her kids just t still have them she has other stuff going on #how about we talk about her seeing this sad guy and going “dude you've gotta move on so many people love you” #and then hinting at pens feelings for him #clearly trying to still be a friend to pen by nudging him towards her even after everything #apparently I'm in my hating portia Featherington era between this and my rant in the tags of the last one #bridgerton #marina thompson #portia featherington

[transsexualjoanofarc]

sometimes people have the tendency to conflate ‘this portrays bigotry’ & ‘this condones bigotry/is itself bigoted’

#me.txt #📔 #specifically ☝️ im thinking about an article i read that argued cruising 1980 was homophobic because (cw) one of the opening scenes involve #a cop sexually assaulting a trans sex worker & later when the woman reports it the cop she talks to ignores her & claims shes lying #(later in the film he sees that she wasnt & he had been wrong all along by the way) #& the argument was because it showed how the police hurt queer people it *checks notes* supports the cops hurting queer people? #which isnt remotely the case? #because rhe fucking Point of the scene was to establish how the police are the true villain even though the protagonist is one? #my point is. people act like protagonists doing a thing is equivalent to the story that theyre in supporting the thing #or protagonists being bigoted is equivalent to the story itself being bigoted #like have you considered that the actions that you consider problematic or story that you consider problematic maybe i dont know says somet #ing about what the story is trying to SAY & the POINT the author is trying to make instead of crying about someone PORTRAYING OPPRESSION

[httpiastri]

ngl estelle is kelly piquet 2.0

you're kinda right 😭 though i hope it doesn't turn out that estelle has a kid with another driver-

#her and franco……….. 👀 #okay no ​sorry for even making that joke #but yes she does have kelly vibes #like i kinda like kelly and im more okay with her and max since they're both much older now #but also their gap is even bigger….. and max was very very young when they got together #but max seems happy and i support him in his choices #estelle is…. idk #though rn i just get nauseous at the mere thought of the whole thing with her because of the way those fanpages act #her dming one and being like ‘please stop this… dont contact my friends and family…’ #and them just answering ‘you deserve it for lying’ #come on guysssss what is this #sigh #asks! #anon!

[dinitride-art]

“Now I just want you to watch.”

El saw what Henry did to everyone in the lab. She didn’t die, but she had to watch it happen.

Max saw Billy die in front of her. She wasn’t the one in danger, but El was. And she watched her abusive stepbrother die in front of her.

Dustin saw Eddie die. He didn’t go back towards the bats. The bats didn’t hurt him. But he watched Eddie die in his arms.

Hopper didn’t die because of his exposure to the chemicals he was mixing. He watched his daughter die in a hospital bed.

Lucas wasn’t being targeted by Vecna. He wasn’t the one floating in the air, his bones weren’t snapping. But Max’s were. And he watched it happen.

Nancy wasn’t the one who died in the Upside Down, alone in Steve Harrington’s pool. That was her best friend, and Nancy had to watch it all go down. Had to see everyone unfold.

Mike didn’t get possessed. Or kidnapped. Or burst into particles. Mike didn’t die. Or almost die. He watched Will screaming like he was being burned alive. He watched his best friend nearly die and he watched as every adult around him was unable to help him. He watched Will bike away from his house before he disappeared. He heard his mom talking to Joyce the next day. He heard Will on the radio. He saw Will’s body in the water. He heard Bob die. He saw El die. He saw Will dead. He watched a man get shot trying to protect him, Will and Jonathan. He watched him die while putting pressure on the wound.

Mike was shot at.

He was told that he was wrong for trusting El. That Will wasn’t alive.

He had to run for his life because his friend’s body was taken by a being from another dimension that sent creatures to kill him and everyone around him.

He was knocked out by Max’s possessed brother.

He was shot at again in the desert, trying to rescue El who was taken by the government.

He’s been bullied his entire life.

And he did almost die.

Mike jumped off a cliff.

Dustin and El had to watch.

#mike wheeler #byler #I definitely could go more in depth with every other character here #and even some that aren’t here #but my point is #is that Mike has been going through it since season one #and that watching something terrible happen to someone you know and care for #is a thing #and having El watch max die was one of the worst things Henry could do to her #but then mikes also been through a lot of stuff that’s just him #jumping off a cliff for starters #being shot at multiple times #running from the government #being knocked out by billy and generally being in his path in season three #El has to save mike in the sauna #and Will screaming that he’s lying in season two #even though it wasn’t Will it was still his voice and his body #mikes been through a lot #but unlike Will and El he doesn’t have people to talk to about it #or anyone who looks at him and notices he isn’t okay #even though he commonly parallels what they think is happening with Will #like jumping off a cliff or ptsd #everyone’s quick to call Mike an asshole rather than asking him if somethings wrong

[oatmealcrisp-freak]

Kills me that Miri thinks the guy who shot her bio dad is cool because he shoots guns good

#buddy daddies #i think she's going to be okay growing up tbh. she knew she was in danger in that situation!! that's why her papas are her papas - cus they #SAVED her. she's already got that figured out and remains pretty steadfast of that opinion. even though she's only 5! #i can see her being a lot like karin when she grows up - understanding of what happened but at peace with it. there will probably be more #layers to come to terms with as she gets older - and kazuki has a bad habit of lying to her about important things which might confuse #things but she's not afraid to tell kazuki when he screws up and i think that means a lot. so i think she'll be okay. #hell she might even be proud of her killer backstory - puns and all =u= LOL

[stargirlfeyre]

“Mor is lying about what Eris did to her” we literally got her pov of him leaving her to die in the woods. Read Acofas.

No one cares if you like problematic characters. The problem lies in when y’all start trying to vilify their victims to justify why you like them. Liking Eris is one thing. Denying how much of a misogynistic bigoted asshole he is is another thing entirely. Hardcore Eris stans perfectly embody those women in society who make excuses for disgusting men and who push the blame onto the women those men hurt.

#eris vanserra #morrigan #autumn court #one thing that baffles me is how y’all justify liking Eris over Rhys because ‘Eris owns that he is a bad person’ but here y’all are #vilifying the woman he hurt and even saying she’s lying even though we literally got the scene of him leaving her in the woods. y’all act #how you say Rhys stans act.

[donutcats]

I think having an incredibly complicated and layered relationship with Rebecca that only lives inside of my head since canon doesn’t allow for extremely specific reactions to some of the things she does can be something SO PERSONAL.

#the wayhaven chronicles #i really wish there was an option to Lie to rebecca #like in the way of lying just to keep the peace #being mad as hell at her but also smiling and acting like things are ok #because when your mom is disappointed in you or she feels hurt by an interaction #it makes YOU want to overcompensate even though you're the one that was initially hurt #THE LAYERS!!! #twc is like 'the rebecca dynamic has two routes' #either you love her. are neutral. or hate her #thats your first choice #secondly you're either trying to be better or not #thats it thats what you can choose from have fun #ACTUALLY I HAVE VERY EXTENSIVE LORE IN MY HEAD THANK YOU MISHKA

[randomnameless]

Thinking about Supreme Bullshit and how convoluted was Supreme Leader's reason for declaring War on the CoS, by appointing Grégoire as a sham and puppet Bishop no one gives a fig about -

I was thinking at first more in lines of Supreme Leader herself, claiming - as House Hresvelg does - lineage from Saint Seiros herself (she knows it's a lie!!!!! but that beast made up that lie and stupid people believe it!) - so Supreme Leader claims higher "authority" on the Church than "Rhea", the Archbishop, and wants her seat to unify Adrestia and the Central Church under one banner.

If the Archbishop refuses, then Supreme Leader, claiming descent from the Goddess (iirc in one prayer it is mentionned Seiros is one of the Goddess's children!) herself is denied authority over Her Church, and has a (completely made up) legitimate claim and reason to get rid of the CoS, without needing to pretend Varley is a the new Southern Bishop.

But then I thought about something else...

Still using the lie that House Hresvelg descends from Seiros herself...

What if Supreme Leader, now besties with the CoS who helped her get rid of evil people who manipulated Adrestia (at least that's the official version) makes an official statement about wanting to claim Saint Seiros's remains, to put them in, idk, the Imperial mausoleum with all former Emperors and important people to Adrestia - under the guise of Seiros being one of the founders of Adrestia (as she supported Willy?) and the (supposed!!!) matriarch of the Imperial line?

Of course, the CoS can't "return" Seiros's remains to Adrestia, and thus a new casus belli is born.

Granted, in those two situations, it puts Supreme Leader in a difficult position - because if the CoS/Rhea/Seiros are outed as inhuman creatures who should not rule over the people, if Supreme Leader pushes her claim that she descends from those creatures, then maybe someone will tell her she's part beast, thus should not rule over the people too?

(she still could have Hubert silence any opposition, but at this point, why needing to make plans and create a real cause of war, if Hubert can do his thing on his own?).

#fodlan nonsense #adrestia stuff #i still find it hilarious how #Supreme Leader's family is supposed to descend from Jesus and no one ever says a thing about this in her war against the Church #TFW Rhea's Willy favoritism has much more consequences in the long term #like she managed to kept neutral information about the Elites and their crests and the 4 saint's crests #but Willy was a special case and what was done at first without any ill intent to celebrate her friendship #becomes the key to her downfall #it'd be even more depressing though... #FE16 #3 Nopes #sort of #but those situation would only work if Supreme Leader can accept lying about her being a non-human #given her mindset in FE16 about Nabateans I'd say that's the main issue against those plans