#given how people were upset

[grapecaseschoices]

so i didnt hate n’s route for book 3

#to each their own #but i was expecting a lot worse #given how people were upset #that's all ima say #i mean barring the entire plot -- #maybe i read through it too fast bc im trying to get to valdam lmao #but i really enjoyed THEM. lmao. #disappointed i didnt get more mason and kai moments tho #i WILL SAY i get why people were annooyed re: the fight (even tho i had kai get over it) #but i feel it was less a fight (tho maybe it will feel more stark on kendis who will remain Big Mad vs Kai who is unbothered) #and more a difference of views made intense bc of the moment #i also feel like resolution is to come? #more than f and m i felt n's route will be a two parter -- like each romance ofc flows and grows between the books (with improvement in appr #oach as they go) but i feel fs came to a conclusion #and even m's in a sense #while there's more of a question for n's that will probably be sequaled and addressed in book two #i mean part twoo which is book four #but idk #twc book 3 #twc book 3 spoilers #n x detective #kai x nat #kai x nat pt #twc meta #... i suppose #ish

[hanadoesstuffwrong]

Thinking abt the air nomads:

What if, after the war, once the dust has settled a little, Aang goes back to travelling, hoping that maybe he can find at least some trace of surviving airbenders. As an added bonus, he gets to do more of the exploring and wandering that he had to put on hold.

Toph goes with him ofc. She only just got a taste of real freedom and it was overshadowed by ever-present impending doom. While she's on speaking terms with her parents, she isnt quite ready to be back under their roof on a permanent basis. The rest of the gaang have their individual homes and responsibilities that they get back to, though they join for the odd field trip or adventure when they can.

So anyway, they're touring all over the world and over the years they notice just how displaced so many people have become. EK citizens who barely escaped the blaze but lost everything; FN military now decommissioned with no idea how to carry on; people looking for a new start in the hard-won peace. Maybe it starts with Toph heading back to Earth Rumble, where a group of young runaways scrounge for cheap fights to make a little money.

At each turn they find more and more people with no homes to return to and no family to protect them; runaways escaping the roles the war forced them into. Gradually, Aang and Toph start to see that they aren't so different from themselves. They just want a new start.

So they decide to give them one. They clean up the temples and set up villages in the surrounding areas (helps to be master earthbenders), where people can arrive and stay as long as they need. Travellers and refugees pass through in droves, sometimes choosing to stay and rebuild their lives there, sometimes continuing in their wandering with a guarantee that they'll always have a place to return to should they have the need.

Over time, the lemurs grow in number and even some flying bison calfs (hybrids with a relative species maybe?), can be seen in the skies. Whenever the founders visit, it isn't the same but Aang feels a little more at home.

The first time someone asks Aang to teach him his philosophies, and expresses his desire to become a monk, how can he refuse? Maybe it's a former soldier, somebody who's done terrible things, looking for a path to redemption. So Aang teaches him, and then he teaches others. And though they may not be airbenders, they are as earnest and faithful as any nun or monk Aang knew before. The temples become filled with new faces: Firebenders, Earthbenders, Waterbenders and non-benders all wearing Air nomad orange and yellow.

Aang always feared that it would be his responsibility to have airbender children, and the idea of forcing that on someone he loved terrified him. Maybe that's why he waited so long before acting on his feelings for his best friend, his travelling companion, his fellow-village builder and temple-restorer. How could they have a truly happy relationship with this pressure hanging over them? He wishes he could be content with the new way of things that he and his friends have created. But he knows that he can't be the last airbender forever...

Nobody knows why some children can bend the elements and others can't. Is it blood? Is it blessing? Is it the land in which you're born? Or is it the simple allocation of fates decided by the values and norms you're raised believing in? Is it enough to be surrounded by the culture and beliefs of the Air Nomads? Nobody knows...

All they know is that nobody sees it coming when the six-year-old daughter of two non-bender villagers from the Earth Kingdom and Northern Water Tribe sends herself flying twelve feet into the air with a sneeze.

#oops it became a taang au how did that happen #i just think it wld be neat if the air nomads worked more like irl monks/nuns #not necessarily celibate but still made up of people who choose to follow the way of life #instead of the iffy implications of all monks/nuns having no choice because they were born airbenders #i dunno it's iffy to me #taang #my posts #atla #atla headcanon #do we need to rewatch Ice Age 2 ppl?? #repopulation is not a good reason for two people to be together! #avatar: the last airbender #i do also think that given them being nomads the fire nation probably want able to wipe the air nomads out completely #bu they just had to survive in hiding/ in a very diluted form #maybe like the sun warriors do #airbender!Ty Lee my beloved #also wld reflect the themes of unity vs division well if there were more than just airbenders among the air nomads #like how a waterbender can be a ruler of the Fire Nation or a Firebender can run a tea shop in the Earth Kingdom #toph x aang #edited cos someone got upset at my introduction and while i reckon they were willfully misreading i didnt want anyone to misconstrue #to clarify -> any child of aang's wld be an air nomad but there's no guarantee they wld be an airbender #esp if he had a child with an earth or waterbender #and we see how this had a negative effect in canon #hope that clears things up xx

[dennistakesamentalhealthday]

dennis is an angry character btw im sorry but he is full of rage but that rage is not exclusive his anger does not negate sadness and fragility and insecurities in fact they work together and dtamhd was one of the first times where his anger was not used as a joke via a surface level rage explosion from him but instead explored the fragility of his anger. the way he keeps reassuring the workers he encounters (and himself) that he's not mad. when he tells daisy he's not mad but he is a little bit upset. dennis is angry and that anger is what makes him so fragile. he was upset and it manifested as rage bc he doesnt know what to do with his own sadness

#disclaimer tags yes i would like to see his emotions explored more but i disagree that we ONLY saw anger in dtamhd #and EVEN IF IT WAS ONLY ANGER... anger is just as VALID and fragile and vulnerable as sadness. they are family #we saw how his anger makes him fragile how it exhausts him #how it works with his stress and fears and insecurities and sadness #he was UPSET!!!! #angry dennis in dtamhd WAS big feelings dennis in tends bar. that was the same #he expressed anger in tends bar bc he was upset he expressed anger in dtamhd bc he was upset etc etc #and i think the sadness people were expecting was present. the sadness and fragility we would have seen if he cried on the beach like most #of us anticipated (btw he did cry at the beach <3 technically <3) was THERE. it was just in his anger #sewerkingcharlie talked about this already and worded it very well but im honestly kinda bothered by how some people have treated #the portrayal of anger and emotions in this ep #you dont have to like the ep or how they portrayed dennis but some posts have really given the vibe of #his anger and his emotional outburst not being as valid because it wasnt portrayed in the way you expected #or that it wasnt palatable enough #and honestly if you dont like it thats okay! but can we please be careful with how we talk about mental illness and anger outbursts! #yes it is frustrating when people ONLY see dennis' anger or see dennis' anger in a very shallow way #which a lot of the audience unfortunately does because its been treated like a joke #but it wasnt a just a joke here #and maybe this will all go past dudebros heads frankly i dont give a shit lol but thats for another post

[hogoflight]

decided I’m still in love with my TOA cat au. Eventually his kids agree to bring him home and take care of him on a schedule and his youngest (who got mysteriously claimed whilst Apollo was a cat) begged and begged to take him home. So the other kids eventually relented and he (loves Warrior cats so much) gave Apollo an honorary Warrior cats name. (Placeholder will be Rufflepaw / Ruffletail bc he’s a teenager cat! Actually no I feel like the teen awkwardness, self-awareness etc. given to Apollo as Lester when he got turned into a teen could correlate to Being A Scared Kitty.) WORSE THOUGHT: what if Apollo had the same identity crisis he did during the series but instead of “Lester” it was “Ruffletail”. How would that make you (me) feel (very upset). OK ACTUALLY INSTEAD, when Apollo completes his trials (?? WAIT. HOW WOULD HE DO THAT HE’S A CAT HANG ON.) and he publishes his book series about his trials he gently reads them to his (very excited) kids as a bedtime story. They all huddle around him (he is the nightlight and the radiator) as he reads and whenever Apollo reads out his identity crisis sections, every time he says his agreed-upon cat name his youngest yells “RUFFLETAIL!!” after it.

#apollo #toa #cat #toa cat au #dadpollo #HYPOTHETICALLY if I were to mirror the character arcs (as much as I could given. CAT) of the og TOA series AND TAKE THIS VERY SERIOUSLY #I would make the parts where Apollo is being cringe and obnoxious to try his hardest to make sure everyone “knows” he’s super selfish #Instead be him pretending to be over dramatic about being a cat. Generally being a nuisance and not cooperating (shitting in the sink). #but when he drops the 50 layers of denial he’s got going on he admits to himself how ABSOLUTELY TERRIFYING it is to be an Actual God #who is now a Cat. and how helpless he feels. I think people around him would realise this when he doesn’t manage to #fake being over dramatic well enough people recognise he’s actually very upset and possibly in pain. And are very gentle and quiet with him #(bc he’s literally just a scared shaking cat :((( bless him) #Him realising the consequences of his actions would come from him being much weaker -> knowing what feeling utterly helpless feels like. #Much of the tragedy would come from being unable to communicate or apollogise with people he’s hurt currently (more intense motivation to #Apologise and communicate when he’s a god) #BUT then again this is if you were to take this seriously I like it silly 💃🕺 #I also like that he’s just being rotated around various people’s houses over the summer and Suffering. #Poor baby but also he absolutely deserves it <33 he’s learning!!

[mastersoftheair]

Sorry but am I the only one that thought that episode…sucked? Like it was straight up bad. Horrible pacing, no wrap up of all the random characters and plot lines they’ve thrown around all season (the tuskegee airmen, Westgates spying, literally all the guys beside like the main 4). (Seriously it makes me so mad that the three redtails got all of 5 seconds of screen time, almost no lines. Literally what was the point of introducing them other than to pretend the show was iNcLuSiVe) Even at the end of BoB and the Pacific you get a much better idea of what happened to all the remaining guys. In this they’re like what happened to DeMarco or Hambone or Brady or (insert character here) we don’t know! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ The concentration camp scene felt shoehorned in compared to how it was done in BoB. Unless that actually happened to Rosie (which i haven’t heard anything about) but it was just like.. ok? It all felt so rushed and emotionless to me. Maybe I’ve just fallen out of love with MoTA but it’s been downhill for me since episode 6 or so.

i already made a little (read: long) post-finale write-up here, where i talk about the use of the tuskegee airmen, l'sandra, and overall editing/pacing issues i felt the show had. but i don't agree with the notion that adding the redtails was in any way insincere or trying to halfass being "iNcLuSiVe", i just think they suffer from this show's obvious time constraints. and to summarize what i wrote in my linked post, there's a limit to what white writers/directors/producers can do when creating a story about black people. there are some stories i'd feel uncomfortable with them telling on their own, truth be told. dee rees wasn't the sole nonwhite director, but she Was the only black one. i think she did her job well given the limitations and i appreciate that they let her direct those episodes, rather than leaving it up to a team of white people trying their best to tell a black story.

the worst i can say about the finale is that it didn't feel like That strong of finale, tho i wouldn't go as far to say it "sucked" or call it "straight up bad". i liked it plenty, it's just the weakest of the hbo war finales imo.

as for the concentration camp scene, artistic license was taken with both shows. unlike what's seen in the BoB, easy company wasn't the first to arrive at kaufering, and there's 0 mention of the all-japanese american 552nd who helped them liberate it). similarly, rosie rosenthal did assist in liberating those camps, though it would've been after the events shown this episode. idk if he saw one in that up-close way seen in this episode, but he could've (i should research this when i have time). plus, it would've felt weird Not having him acknowledge them at all. "shoe-horned" is an odd term to use here imo, as both scenes more-or-less center a jewish character (BoB's liebgott and MotA's rosie). the former show has survivors the characters can help, the latter shows no one left to help. the former has all of easy company there, the latter has rosie there all alone. rosie's scene felt deeply personal in that way. at the end of the day, both scenes are communicating different things. that doesn't make one better than the other when they aren't trying to be identical. (disclaimer, i'm not jewish, so i'd be interesting hearing from the perspective of someone who wrt whether or not they felt it was "shoe-horned")

i can understand if you've disliked the show post-episode 6 (and episode 6 was a very strong episode i'm ngl). eps 7 and 8 were weaker in many ways, even to me, so i get it. everyone's entitled to their own opinion (i'd be a hypocrite saying otherwise). just understand that this blog is run by someone who overall enjoys this show despite its flaws! basically, i encourage you to take this energy and make your own posts.

#masters of the air #hbo war #e9 #asks #long post #masters of the air spoilers #mota spoilers #all the hbo war finales are different. i don't think MotA's is as strong but like #my fav hbo war show is still BoB and even Then i don't think it has a better finale than TP. and i dislike a lot of TP! like A Lot! #and Even Then we don't get a good idea about what happens to a lot of the minor-er characters in TP once they leave #anyone who isn't sledge or leckie (rip basilone) is hand-waved-'they went home'-away #not every show needs a sandlot ending w/ a voiceover going: #'[NAME] got really into the [INSERT DECADE] and no one ever saw him again' like they did to webster (rip webster) #and again! i'm mixed about the redtails. but i can Very Clearly See this show getting released without including them #which wouldve left many people (justifiably!) upset that they weren't shown when they were Literally there in the same pow camp #i'll give the hbo war team a lot of shit about a lot of things (despite the enduringly positive energy i try to keep up here) #but i Have to give MotA props for Trying. i don't see faux inclusion i just see it as not quite hitting the mark but an attempt was made #and i think that's worth Something given neither BoB or TP bothered trying #(like i think there was a missed opportunity in TP not mentioning what's happening to japanese americans on the home front) #this got away from me (i'm also opinionated) but while i can agree with you about how the show feels rushed #i do take issue with the idea that they were pretending to be inclusive. i'll blame money time and covid19 before i blame bad intention #maybe that's controversial here but it Is my blog. so.

[obstinatecondolement]

My sister was saying "You should write that idea for a novel about [REDACTED] that you had a while ago for NaNo. I think that could be really fun" and I was like oh yeah! I remember we got a kick out of that one. And then, after a pause, had be like... could you remind me what the plot was again? Because litearlly all I could remember was that it had been funny At The Time and involved [REDACTED].

It was like when my mum reads a book and strongly recommends it to me the day after she finishes it, but can't remember any of the characters names or what happened, but it was definitely very good and I should read it so we can talk about it!

Except this was a story I made up myself and devoted not an insignificant amount of thought to, and then never committed any of what I came up with to the page because it was still early stages and I would "remember" what my initial ideas were 🙄

#fortunately my sister did remember enough that it kickstarted my brain and I remembered #but jesus christ... #how many perfectly good ideas have I squandered because I didn't think I would forget about them? #it's one thing not ever writing stuff I had ideas for because of y'know *gestures towards my general inability to follow through on things* #but actually forgetting ideas entirely feels much worse #I miss having an eidetic memory :( #but also I kind of wish I'd never had it because I never developed the habit of writing things down to remember them #until WELL into adulthood #because I'd ever needed to for most of my life #I just remembered every single word I had ever read or heard and almost every idea I'd given more than passing thought to in perfect detail #as a child I'd get so angry about people getting single words of quotations wrong or misremembering minute details of conversations we'd ha #because I *did not understand* that they weren't just being sloppy and inexact #and that they really couldn't remember things the same way I could #I really did not understand that other people experienced the world differently to me at that age #when they contradicted what I believed to be universal truths I thought they were trying to upset me or make me feel bad about myself #like when my friend agreed with my parents that apple juice was nicer than orange juice (when no one could *really* believe that) #I fully felt that as a betrayal #and thought she was implicitly co-signing my parents to hurt me #and that the subtext of the criticism was that I was evil and self indulgent for not resisting the wicked temptations of orange juice #and never even trying to be virtuous and subject myself to apple juice #which was obviously not as nice but was the more moral and 'healthy' (which was the same things as moral) choice #oh christ this has gotten away from me... #I hate being triggered by dumb bullshit that brings me back to weird esoteric traumas from my youth #can I please stop being triggered by such embarrassingly trivial bullshit for five minutes???

[kelpiemomma]

Ingo held Khan's scaled wrist gently as he examined the claws his friend now sported. Five fingers had been turned into four deadly talons, new to Ingo but already put to gruesome work by the hybrid.

"I'm sorry about your hands..." he said softly. Khan shrugged as he examined his other claws.

"Eh, don't sweat it. It's hardly the worst thing they've done to me." He responded mildly. As though his body being changed against his will to a weapon was the norm. Ingo glanced at his eyes, his fangs, the remnants of his horns- and remembered this wasn't the first time his friend had been altered against his will. His grip on Khan's hand tightened.

"Still," he insisted, "if we'd found you guys sooner..."

If they'd found Khan and Nana sooner, Khan would still have his hands and Nana would still have both eyes. If they'd been just a little faster to realize the hybrids were missing, to remember where they had come from, if they had pushed their pokemon a little harder to fly and fight-

"I'm glad you found us at all, honestly." Khan said it off the cuff, without thinking, but must have felt how Ingo's grip tightened again. He turned his head to look at his friend and Ingo felt mild dread at the look in his eyes. As Khan leaned forward he cringed back just slightly.

"Hey, look on the bright side!" Khan accentuated his words with a point from his claws. He must have seen Ingo's confused upset because he smiled wider.

"The bright side?" Ingo repeated. There was a bright side to this?

Khan shut his eyes as if he was a teacher explaining something incredibly simple.

"Oh, my sweet summer train man, of course there is!"

He stuck out his claws like Elesa and Skylar did when they were showing off freshly done nails. The scales gleamed in the light, dimly iridescent.

"I match your color scheme now!"

Ingo's gaze remained on the claws for a moment. Was this really a good thing? Khan had lost another important part of himself because he and Emmet had been too slow. Was the simple black nature of his scales that important? Could it make up for everything else?

He looked up with tired eyes, meeting Khan's gaze again, and realized that Khan was not as unaffected as he thought. He was giving Ingo the softest smile he'd ever witnessed on the other man's scarred face, his eyes half shut and gentle. Khan had been there when it happened, had suffered the consequences, just as he had the last time he'd been abducted. He would figure out how to deal with his new appendages just as he always had before. It was not quite old hat, but it was also nothing new, and something would have been changed no matter how quickly he and Emmet had arrived.

For the first time in the years he'd known Khan, the hybrid was being sympathetic and offering Ingo a comfort over something he had no control of. Yes, he now had claws and scales, but they were the color that Ingo most frequently found himself in. The color of one of his closest family members. Ingo wondered if Khan had used that as a way to comfort himself after it happened, but didn't dare ask. Instead he tried smiling. Surely it was weak, but the worried look in Khan's eyes lessened.

"Yes, you're quite right." Ingo grasped Khan's claws as if they were still his hands, holding them tightly. He would get used to them, just as Khan had. It would be alright. "Another color would have been quite unfortunate."

#Khan a. #I have no name for this au #TLDR Emmet and Nana met up in the future-present. Nana developed beyond Khan and they managed to track them down in Hisui #And get them home. Akari comes with ofc. Ingo and Akari go back to visit their friends in Hisui regularly. They return after a visit #To find Emmet in distress. While they were gone Khan and Nana were abducted by the organization that originally made them what they are. #Secret labs are not as easy to find as people think and it takes some time for them to track down where Khan and Nana ended up. When they D #They find nana missing an eye. Khan missing his hands. And (to their surprise and horror) Rei. From Hisui. #Who is now a (hisuian) Growlithe hybrid in a similar manner nana and Khan are also hybrids. #Everyone gets saved but not without some losses. Given ow hpeaceful everything has otherwise been... this is upsetting to the train men. #Akari copes by making a pros and cons list of their new abilities and helping Rei adjust to the future #(he can't go back to Hisui because he still exists there... nobody knows why or how he came to be in the organizaion's clutches) #Emmet and Ingo are determined to track down and eradicate the rest of the offshoot branches of the organization but each feel guilty #If they'd been faster. If they'd been smarter. If they'd found a clue a little earlier. #If if if if if. Khan and Nana are no strangers to undesired body modification and are already getting used to them. #(primarily by mocking each other. They're allowed to. They've seen the worst of each other in the first hybridizations and now this.) #For Khan it's very much a 'well. This wasn't planned. Time to adapt.' #At least they didn't give him soft mittens he couldn't inflict damage in #but now he has to be careful lest he unintentionally inflict damage (he cut Akari by accident once already. It gutted him.) #Anyway that guilt manifests into ingo apologizing (more than once) #And Khan trying to convince him it's fine. It sucks but it's fine. It's not ingo or Emmet's fault. #Ingo better appreciate gentle and sympathetic Khan while he's got him cause once the guilt is over Khan is going back to being a bastard #Also I apologize for the beanie but I haven't figured out hair for ANY info #And I was not about to draw his bitch ass hat

[faetreides]

scared to talk about my pjo show thoughts

#like was it okay? yes but i’m not going to be one of those people on tiktok who thinks rick riordan can do no wrong lmao #the casting was good but the script they were given……… 🥴 #the vibe is like 70% there idk how to explain it #soemthing just feels like it’s missing from the soul of the series idk #it was fine but i just don’t agree with the people who think it’s everything we’ve all ever wanted and that we should 1000% happy with- #-every detail #i understand not liking when someone says they didn’t really like it on your positive post #but i’ve seen people get mad at the less positive posts saying their own opinion on their own page #and i’m not talking about the people who are jerks about hating it that’s different #i’m talking about the people who say their honest opinion as respectfully as possible but diehard rick riordan stans still get upset #if it’s ‘just an adaption’ then i and others are allowed to feel like some aspects of it fall short regardless #📜.scrolls

[drusill-a]

This Christmas my only real family are my two mongrels, my yorkie, my cat and an almost empty bottle of wine stolen from my brother's wedding gifts hidden behind my bed.

#i cried for several hours last night to the extent that my head still ached for half a day afterward #there were a few mini-crying sessions during the day also #yesterday i laid out to my mother what i think #more openly than i have in many years #it started with her asking why i was upset and i replied something that she shouldnt bother #and should return to spending the holidays with the people she loves the most #aka Jarosław Kaczyński his crew and those protesting in defense of /free media/ #it would have been nice if i hadn't burst into tears immediately but you can't have it all #(all while my brother and sister-in-law tried to clean the room next door and pretended not to hear) #overall i'm shocked at how strongly the realization hit me #that nothing will ever change when it comes to my parents #and it will only get worse #they will become more hateful #more narrow-minded #more hating imagined enemies of poland constantly finding new ones #as apparently i still had some hope! #given that i cried for about two hours after i stopped yelling at my mother #(also on the verge of tears) #but i had hoped that when tvp will be turned off #a detox from that trash would bring some truth to them at least in some matters #instead they simply switched to tv republika :))) my mom promised to cut down on watching politics said on holidays #said we simply won't discuss it and watch sth else #and she and my father will be more careful not to subject me to watching rightist propaganda #and today no change they've been glued to the same channel for half the day :)))) #it hurts so damn much because they are good people #just with zero critical thinking skills so susceptible to manipulation #i was numb for years #and suddenly such a reaction is a surprise for me #i didn't know i had hope that something would ever change so it's an interesting revelation in terms of introspection #// negative // no point in this rant i'm just processing!

[grimmjowjaegerjaquez]

remembering ggio and that i do like him even if we only had him for a short time

#bleachposting #listen......... its maybe because hes another cat..... #mila rose is also a cat. #i remember this one art where people drew them and grimmjow together and it made me laugh. #i loved it so much. where is it. #i just think its funny that he also has a second form for his release just like ulq does. #but his second form just makes him fucking huge and jacked. its so fucking funny to me idk why. #gonna pop him like a balloon and watch him fly around and deflate #i think im just constantly upset about how many of the arrancar are just fucking dead. #like next to none of them ever come back bc they all fucking DIED. #not given the same treatment as shinigami at ALL #i want them to be not dead bc i want to see them in new little outfits. #and also i think itd be funny to have them interact with the people they lost super hard against again U_U #like yeah ok they were the antagonists whatever but listen. im right. they shouldnt have ALL died.

[arklay]

going to bed but i just wanted to say thank you moots again 🥺 i was like really overwhelmed by the amount of like nice messages and just support today and i’m so incredibly grateful like you wouldn’t believe 💖💖

#leah.txt #i’ve never had people in my life that check up on me or are willing to defend me and just idk it was so wild to me how many of you checked #(until recently) #in > #i’m on me 😭 i’m sorry too if my responses at the time weren’t the most enthusiastic and were dry and such i mean you all saw how just #exhausted and angry and upset i was but it just means so much to me that i’ve met you guys on here and ily guys lots i’m very grateful for #you all and yeah i’ve just never had people before that have actually given a shit about me so it’s wild and i was v like oughggh by just #seeing you guys rb my old edits and say nice lil things and i’m just aaaaaaaaaaaa i’ll stop talking i’m going zzzz

[ff2-soda-pop]

i feel like the stuff with lloyd and garmadon is really complicated and i looked in the tags for a couple minutes and i keep seeing people being like. making it like one extreme end of a situation or the other and tbh i dont like or get it-

#like. idk how to make this make sense but like... i feel like given how the show has gone there isnt a way to make this either 'garmadon is #terrible and stuff' or 'lloyd is terrible and stuff'?? like theres just so much to like everything that happens #and i keep seeing people trying to go Entirely one way or the other and i just dont think it works well here?? #like garmadon fucked up with being not there a lot in lloyds life and then. whatever the fuck s8-10 was. but at the same time theres stuff #like the snake (forgot the name) venom and harumi bringing back Just the evil parts to take into account for too? which like it doesnt make #it less Bad but also i think when we have stuff like how he was in s3-4 and like how much he was trying to keep lloyd out of harms way in #like s1-2 i cant agree with the idea that hes like Entirely bad or a terrible parent?? like theres a lot going on here #and then with lloyd hes like. a traumatized kid with abandonment issues. i dont blame him At All for how he reacted in crystalized and #stuff. like again traumatized kid with abandonment issues and also tbh it really feels in this show like every damn time he starts to work #through an issue or something bad that happened the show throws a New thing at him or just brings up the Old stuff again so hes like #constantly never getting a break. and so OF COURSE he reacts negatively to garmadon showing up when last several interactions were well.... #yknow. s8-10. and then plus theres stuff like 'his dad literally died and then got revived and that whole situation was upsetting in #general for lloyd' (which like. it was like 2ish seasons between 5&8 im not sure if he even would've fully dealt with what happened in #that time frame? could be wrong but still) and just tldr hes not react well to this #(also i have a lot of thoughts on lloyd i could go on about him forever) #but also like i dont think he like.... doesnt care about garmadon?? like i dont think he like Hates Him or anything?? like he clearly doesn #feel as positively as he did Before but like i dont think he Hates him?? if any of that made sense #and then theres shit like the green ninja prophecy and the way its like destiny itself wants lloyd and his family members to just #Fucking Suffer all the time and just- idk i just think its really complicated and trying to simplify it down to like. 'garmadon is terrible #or 'lloyd hates him' or 'garmadon didnt do anything wrong here' or 'lloyd is being too mean' just. doesnt work well here?? #though also i do like to think that after the show they're able to work on things and maybe be on good terms again?? idk the show ended on #a positive note and i just want them to be okay again - im very invested in these two if you cant tell - and i just feel like theres #potential for that there yknow?? but like it'd take work and i cant say that there isnt Issues Going On that HAVE to be worked through #because there ARE #.....ok i went on much longer of a tag rant than i expected i need to shut up now #ninjago spoilers

[luigis-mogai-mansion]

So the people have spoken and you want me to coin more genders and do more lazy flag combos. (And some pronoun flags. I'll probably leave those to sunnydrop). However I have many avenues I'm interested in taking coining that I really can't decide on so here's my proposition.

Here's the things I can/want to do as of right now:

1. I have a shit ton of drafts of other people's coining posts that I want to add flags to. Usually from creators that aren't on here anymore and I wanted to add them to my board but I need a flag for that.

2 I have random coining ideas for genders/orientations that don't exist yet but are very scattered. Like literally my notes app has genders I've written down in the moment to coin at a later date and it's... Extensive.

3 I have an organized list of genders all themed around rain that's miles long because I heavily relate to it.

4. I also wanna make some flags for specific things (like a homoromantic flag that isn't just the gay flag tweaked or the rainbow flag with a heart.). These are also slightly scattered but I can't find some flags I'd like to find.

5. Make independent(aka dosent look like a mash up of both flags or just laying one flag over another) identity combo flags(like a demigirl lesbian flag that doesn't look like the demigirl or lesbian flag.)

6. I can also reopen requests for any kind of gender. Though I'd need a lot more interaction, I'd love to work on some -lexic, aldernic, -scentic and religiogenders.

7. Mass character/fandom coining stuff or genders related to characters and fandoms. Some would fit in the above categories but I'd love to methodically go through my fandoms and make extensive collections of charactegenders.

So I'll ask y'all to vote on one more poll-

(tags are generally unimportant but some people have asked about neopronoun-flag-archives, Millie, neo, sunny, etc. And I wanna clear up some information. That's all the tags are so if you'd like an update, here it is.)

#clover speaks #i want to clarify since some people are worried about millie and neo so ill give an update in these tags #dont read them if you dont really care cause thats all the tags will be. #millie and neo are the 2 tbat are primarily responsible for shutting down neopronoun-flags #all the other members like komine emma sunnydrop error etc all enjoyed the blog but didnt own it #i was also present but only on technicality to do blog maintenance like change backgrounds or sometimes write tags #i never contributed a single flag to that blog or anything beyond small work like that #millie and neo were given kinda offical and kinda unoffical ownership as those two were the most active #that was bascially their blog #which is fine thats why i made it for them #they shouldnt have to use my blog to mske their own content #but i kkow they upset alot of people with their attitude at the end and their takes on certain topics in this communtiy #although i generally agree with the topic of system responsibility im not going to tell my alters what to think or do #with their own blog #millie chose to shut it down and neo agreed #sunnydrop was upset but ive allowed him to post here and take on the flags and lists he enjoys #emma has always been mostly here and captin has pretty much lost interest so please dont think any alters were #truely hurt and dismayed by that blog shutting down #millie and neo are currently dormant to deal with the stress and i wont be coaxing them out any time soon #regardless of how i feel about them or their actions they are still some of my first alters and friends and i want them to heal #and come back on their terms #with their own beliefs in a way they feel is best for them #i appreciate the people who showed them support and were worried for them after they abruptly shut the blog down #but jsyk they are ok they are just healing and they will come back on their own terms #however they will be forced to make a new blog neopronoun flags will remain an archive indefinitely and im sorry if you miss them #but i just wanted to tell yall that they are ok and im sorry for the craziness that may of stirred

[datastate]

oh also i haven’t mentioned this yet bc a lot of my liveblogging/thoughts has just been kept between my siblings and i lately but it’s both funny and hurts my heart to see sirius act like this :’]

he does keep associating the event with lady dorothy, and that is in part why he’s so visibly panicked, but it’s also because he still. cares about claire... even if he doesn’t want to admit it, or doesn’t fully recognize it. he is going out of his way trying to keep her safe even though noel didn’t tell him to do any of this and didn’t even expect sirius would believe him. sirius in these attempts has gone so far that he doesn’t even consider that he would be killed with claire should it come down to it.

#it hurts me very much... #he's so. terrible at expressing himself. and i think the doodling scene really emphasizes that too #like yeah i can point at it and be like lmao the autism in this guy (bad with facial expressions) but it's also just... #it indicates so much about how he perceives himself versus how it always comes across #he's someone who's been living in isolation/in the past and he hates obvious changes to his schedule #the abruptness of these people being obligated to stay the night (something larger) but also seeing claire frown/get upset. it unnerves him #as ''annoying'' as he may think claire is; he still finds her familiarity comforting & she is one of the ONLY people that he #ever had a chance at forming a bond with as he grew up. if it weren't for noel's disappearance & nicholas' attempts for the heart; #he would slowly begin to lose that codependence (dorothy) & find a balance - being able to connect w normal people again #or not even just that but... someone who experienced something similar to him. and is trying to move forward #what wilardo says during the drawings holds true. their preconceptions are what makes up who they are but it also holds them back #they need to both learn from each other and if they were given time earlier they could've done it #but they still have *time* now within the mansion... auugh #or if they can escape... hopefully... #bah. hard to articulate things right now but altho it's complicated These two wound me severely #jestersvaguely #whlb

[faerociousbeast]

its so so SO much more fucked up in the manga too. kaiza gets like. tied up to this post right. jesus style(?? well his arms are sticking out anyways idk ive never met jesus). in the anime, his arms are super bruised from being tortured and hit and stuff which is still 1000% traumatic and painful for a kid to have to witness, BUT IN FHE MANGA THEY RIP HIS ENTIRE FYCKING ARMS OFF

#sometimes naruto really does get mad at people without knowing thr full story i think it was INCREDIBLY #understandable for inari who was like. what. 6? at the time to be upset and not believe in heroesbvjdjgjdkfjd #its similar to what happened with tsunade too yeah? to him she was just insulting his goal #to her she was being remjnfed of how those with the same dream were fucking killed and llst thlse dreams #BC of that same village they wanted to protect #or hell even neji. wow neji youre being so mean to h*nata!!!!! #*he is being owned as a slave. by her. and is understandably lashing out given all hes had to deal with.* #i love naruto but soemtimes he is SERIOUSLY........... #he was the prime candidate to either actually change things #but also if molded right. prime guy to continue oppressing #and then hr went with j*raiya for three years and exactly that happened . #its so sad he was learning so much in the first part!!! #and in the second he comes back and just!!!!!!!! #the knly.thjng you should be stubborn about is sasuke‚ naruto!!!!!!! #you dont know ANYONES story and being stubborn about what you believe is hurting so many people

[comradecowplant]

fuck it, being a "good person" is not worth being treated like this.

#maybe the ideological differences were a cause because she is being so mean to me now even when i tried capitulating... #it may be the principled thing to care for elders but i'm not going to be insulted every day. nope nah i'll take the going hell instead #the likely conclusion to my tumblr venting about this strange sad neighbor lady #'actions matter more than words' AGREE WHICH IS WHY I KEPT SHOWING UP & HELPING but the action of missing 1 alarm is the only action #that matters i guess! now im just unreliable lazy uneducated etc etc #well fine i'll be dumb & unreliable then! #OOFDA i dont have rant sagas like this very often anymore bc most people im interacting with are too boring to be upsetting lol #but ole M took me through it & idc anymore. im sure she'll tell my mom how evil i am 🙄 #this is why i work with pets. this is why i work AWAY from the island #whatever. she talks about moving if trump is elected & given that he will almost assuredly win she'll be gone by next year