The realization hit me like a truck
I heard it was aroace week, so I wanted to share a time when my grandma helped me realise that i might be aroace!
It helped me understand many things about me and that how i feel sometimes is okay! and I'm not just heartless
Anyways, happy aroace week to everyone! :D
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medic x anon … anything sweet ….. please …. thank you
A little literally, hope you'll forgive me x"d But this is a Medic, you know...
I hope everyone understood what the reference was to
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NPF based template
preview + code
This is an alternative to the more extensive base code I'm working on that uses the NPF variable that still uses the legacy theme blocks and variables. This is intended to keep your theme making process familiar and more comfortable for those who do not have a lot of JS experience but still want to utilize the NPF variable.
The JS is pretty minimal (especially compared to the full NPF theme), but it uses the NPF variable to keep formatting more consistent with the legacy post types. While you do not need to edit any JS to use this theme, if you want to, you can use more things from the NPF variable like getting checkmarks for users that have them!
This theme will also take into consideration if photos or other media should not move, like in the case of text separating photosets.
Here is a before and after of a post made with the beta editor:
This base code is very simple compared to my other ones (it is only the posts and pagination), so please edit it as much as you want! I didn't want this to be restricted to a specific style or layout. Given a lot of theme makers have felt limited with their post styles since switching to one post type, I'm hoping this can help bridge that gap.
Let me know if you have any questions or run into problems while using this!
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drawn for the dragonyule gift exchange on twt, so glad that i could join this year! thank you for hosting, saint starfall ♥
i hope that everyone has a wonderful dragonyule & a happy new year!
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Me: *watches Borderlands movie trailer*
Also me: *sees Mouthpiece or at least his mask in a quick shot*
Me again: *has mental breakdown wondering if this means there will ever be a live action movie version of Troy and Tyreen*
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freya freya freya hey hi hello!!!! i saw on your sideblog you were in mipha botw hell and as an older-game loz fan who's never played any of the newer games i would love to hear your thoughts on mipha and botw in general if you're willing to share!!!!! i hope you're doing well btw❤❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
KATE!!!!!!!!! hi hi hello ✨❤️💓💖💘❤️💓 Hi, Kate ❤️💘💖💘❤️♥️✨ I've actually gone on an unhinged rant about Mipha somewhere here before, but I didn't tag it so it's. Gone now. But yes, I will gladly do it again 💖
okay, so. First of all. I gotta be level with you, Kate: I've never played a single Zelda game in my life. I'm insane about Mipha in the way that I am standing outside BotW's house and staring into its windows. LoZ fans hate me because I break in occasionally and take pictures and say things and then leave (no fans have any idea I exist). THAT BEING SAID. I did watch a bunch of lore videos for all the Zelda games AND skim through a BotW playthrough several times, so I did research! This whole caveat is to say I know what I'm talking about, but also maybe perhaps I absolutely don't and you shouldn't listen to me maybe but also do. Anyway <3
I don't have many thoughts about BotW itself (I think about getting it every other day, but Nintendo will never put it on sale so it is but a pipe dream), except what is evident/always covered: it's so? Profoundly sad? Like, they put Link to sleep for several years in OoT, only to decide that that was too messed up and reverse it. AND THEN THEY DO IT AGAIN HERE? FOR 100 YEARS?? AND HE DOESN'T REMEMBER ANYTHING??? AND THEN WHEN HE DOES REMEMBER, EVERYTHING TELLS HIM HIS LIFE FROM BEFORE JUST KIND OF SUCKED???? MESSED UP. FREE HIM. What happens to Link is just SO MUCH, and I think BotW does a really good job of driving home that idea of how inescapable his, Zelda's, and Ganondorf's fates are. But everything I find sad about BotW as a whole gets amplified when I think about Mipha, so let's talk about her.
I'll be the first to admit that I have a type when it comes to female characters, and the reason I'm obsessed with Mipha is pretty much the same reason I'm obsessed with Iris and Susato: she's a profoundly kind and gentle woman with something deeply wrong/tragic about her way down inside. That might sound strange because, at first glance, Mipha's tragedy seems obvious. It's the same as the other Champions: she's dead. But I feel like the real tragedy lies in the preservation of her memory -- or lack thereof.
I'm not sure how familiar you are with BotW's lore and characters, but Mipha essentially occupies the same role Marin/Malon/Midna kind of did in the older games. She's the woman (with a name that starts with 'M' and has red hair/scales for some reason) who's known Link for a significant amount of time, and (for the others, may have been; for Mipha, definitely was) in love with him, though this love usually doesn't end well. To my understanding, it's never made clear in BotW how much the prev games and their lore is known/canon to the game, but there are references to them. Mipha in her diary, for example, makes reference to Ruto. I bring this up because I feel like, to an extent, Mipha knew of her place in Hyrule's history. I think she was ready to die.
There's this thing about Mipha's lines that sometimes comes across as almost... wilfully ignorant? to me? That's not to say that she's oblivious or naive about her position -- I'd argue it's the exact opposite. She sees the danger, she sees the near-futility of their cause, and she chooses to push through anyway. I'm not sure it's optimism, I don't even know if it's duty. She just seems... ready to die. To sacrifice herself for her people and, not insignificantly, Link. There's a cutscene that shows the point when she agreed to directly involve herself in the fight against Ganon, and I've always found it rather telling. For one, she only really seems to mentally commit herself to being a Champion after Zelda says Link is to be one himself, but also she says this line when she agrees to it:
"One day, Princess, I must leave him (referring to her little brother, Sidon). To face my fate with Ruta."
And it's so!!! It's so. Fatalistic, almost? To my memory, none of the other Champions really ever say anything to that final an effect. They all acknowledge the danger of the fight, of course, and the possibility of death lingers at the edges, but Mipha's is direct. She says, "I must leave him to face my fate". You could argue she just means to go to war, and that she doesn't mean she'll have to leave him until much later, but that doesn't add up with the "with Ruta" part. It very much comes across like she means she is going to die in the fight against the Calamity. Like she knows it. And she smiles afterwards. It's insane!!!! I think about that line all the time. Why I say 'wilfully ignorant' is because, despite the fact that she seems pretty sure she's going to die, she simultaneously talks about having a future with Link. She writes about telling him she loves him, and makes him engagement armour (BotW Zora thing. Functions like a ring would) and, in one of her final moments with him, talks about how "once things are over... perhaps (they) can spend some time together". It's this complicated state of double-think that appears to exist in her, and I don't know which she even truly believes!! Does she believe both somehow?? I don't know! And you know why I don't know? Because no one seems to remember she was even like that!!!!!
I am. Taking a breath. The thing about Mipha's character, story, and memory is that they exist nearly as foils to Link's own. Link was chosen by Fate to fight the Calamity, he survives, his memory exists in Hyrule as a vague, hazy compilation of stories, and he is defined by everything that comes after the Calamity. Mipha saw the end of her journey in a tomb and she lay in it of her own free will, she does not rise again, her memory is a fresh wound that her kingdom and family carry with them every day, and she is defined by her death. Arguably, all the Champions share this relationship with Link, but it's that point about living memory that I think makes her stick out.
None of the other Champions have people who knew them personally still alive by the time Link wakes (barring the Sheikah, but. They're not important right now). Mipha, however, does. Her father still reigns, her brother has grown, her teachers and friends walk the grounds of her kingdom. You would think that would make her the most defined Champion, but that's the thing. She isn't. Everyone in Zora's Domain talks about Mipha. They mention how kind she was, how gentle and dutiful and brave, but no one really talks about who she was. It isn't just the fact that they don't mention how strangely ready she was to be brave, either. In AoC, we see a lot more of her, and you can tell that she's quick to laugh, she gets flustered fairly easily, and she tends to wear her emotions on her sleeve. In BotW, no one tells you that. They only talk about her as the perfect, poised princess who sacrificed herself for the sake of her kingdom, and you kind of get the impression that the Mipha they knew and the Mipha who stands as a statue in the middle of their kingdom are one and the same. She's always going to be that flawless princess who gave her kingdom everything because that's who she was to them. Zora's Domain didn't make a martyr of her; Mipha did that to herself. She lived for other people, and then she died for them. The one person who should have known her for who she was, the one she knew from when he was a child, whom she loved to the point of dying for, doesn't even remember her. You know what makes it worse, though? It's that what causes Link to remember her is the statue. And then you realise oh. He never really knew her either, did he?
Link and Mipha's relationship is... painful. HAHAH It's the core of her character; it pushes her to become a Champion and it's what keeps her spirit hoping after she dies. He is a part of what makes her Mipha, that's just how it is. So when you think about how her memory has faded from him till all that's left is the image of the girl with the perfect smile whose last words to him included the oath, "I will always protect you" -- giving herself to other people, never asking anything for herself just as her kingdom remembers her -- it hurts! But... it was also kind of inevitable. How Mipha loves Link is tied, at least imo, again to her willful ignorance thing. Despite all of her plans, she never actually tells Link how she feels. Now, whether Link would have reciprocated or not is up for debate and irrelevant. What matters is that I think Mipha thought he wouldn't and that her love was doomed for failure (fun fact: she actually uses that phrasing in her diary. 'My heart is drawn to his. I am doomed.' Very dramatic, utterly adorable. I love her sm). In her diary, she implies she's worried about Link's closeness to Zelda when he first becomes her knight, despite the fact that Zelda clearly doesn't like him at that point. Tying that back to how I think she has some understanding of her role in the story, and you start to see why she might avoid that. It stops her from really understanding him, too. She never pushes enough to see past his armour. You know how Feenris is all about how they both saw each other at their truest despite everything that happened, and how they always knew each other at their core? MiphLink is like. The inverse of that to me. They both love each other dearly (in whatever form that is), but they've never quite understood who the other person is. It's two people who deeply want to be understood but don't know how to be. And then it just ends.
As usual, I don't know how to end this post. I think, just like, as a summary on why I'm obsessed with Mipha, it comes down to that idea that she was alive, yet everyone only seems to remember her like she was dead from the start. And it's so. Sad. And connected to that idea that you can't just be that perfect person all the time if you want to be loved, and known, and understood for who you really are. The game makes it a point of stating how independent of a person she was. Her final words to her father, as a spirit, are, "I want you to know I have always followed my heart", but when that heart is so attuned to other people, can you really say it's still yours? It's just so tied to that notion that love is inconvenience. It is being a burden, it is showing another person with the parts of you that aren't easy and trusting them to accept you anyway. You can't always be the ideal person and hope you are known regardless. It's just. The tragedy of her giving away so much of herself for all her life, and having so little to be remembered for at the end of it. It gets to me.
In essence, me when I think about Mipha:
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Round 2 results!!!
The green ones are moving forward!
Group 1
Coco Grimalkin (Purrfect Apawcalypse) vs Miyuki (Avatar the Last Airbender)
Slugcat (Rain World) vs Catbus (My Neighbor Totoro)
Behemoth (Master and Margarita) vs Amp / Anp / Anpu (The Disastrous Life of Saiki K)
Kitty Softpaws (Puss in Boots) vs Pixie (Pixie and Brutus)
Chi Yamada (Chi's sweet home) vs Rum Tum Tugger (Cats the musical)
Tabby Slime (Slime Rancher) vs Tangy (Animal Crossing)
Cringer / Battlecat (He-man) vs Cinderpelt (Warrior cats)
Blaze the Cat (Sonic the Hedgehog) vs Scourge (Warrior cats)
Group 2
Mae Borowski (Night in the Woods) vs Natsume Soseki (Bungou Stray Dogs)
Domino (Amphibia) vs Shoe + Wagahai (Ace Attorney)
808 (Hi-Fi Rush) vs Niko (Oneshot)
Squirrelflight (Warrior cats) vs T'Ana (Star Trek: Lower Decks)
Hong + On (Trash of the Count's Family) vs Alpine (Marvel comics)
Jaspers (Homestuck) vs Mao Mao Mao (Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart)
Thomas Kincade Brannigan (Doctor Who) vs Caroline Coughs (Sparklecare hospital)
Mewo (Omori) vs Baron Humbert von Gikkingen (The Cat Returns)
Group 3
Greebo (Discworld) vs Aldwyn (The Familiars)
Simba (The Lion King) vs Leona Kingscholar (Twisted Wonderland)
Jenny Linsky (Jenny Linsky, Esther Averill) vs Findus (Pettson and Findus)
Cheshire Cat (Alice in Wonderland) vs Mad Mew Mew (Undertale)
Felix the cat (Paramount) vs Burgerpants (Undertale)
Kyo Sohma (Fruits Basket) vs Ghost (The Owl House)
Rosie (Animal Crossing) vs Talking Cat (Rick and Morty)
Hiili (Fox Fires) vs Mew (Marvel comics)
Group 4
Hobbes (Calvin and Hobbes) vs Tom Kitten (The Tale of Tom Kitten)
Meowthra (Lego Ninjago Movie) vs Jonesy (Alien)
Vodka Mutini / Dr.Meowgon Spangler (Homestuck) vs Lucifer (Cinderella)
Charmmy Kitty (Sanrio) vs Puppycat (Bee and Puppycat)
Nermal (Garfield) vs Lion (Steven Universe)
Spot (Star Trek: The Next Generation) vs Diana (Sailor Moon)
Midnight (Castle in the Air, Diana Wynne Jones) vs Scout (Cattails)
Sakamoto (Nichijou) vs Ankha (Animal Crossing)
Group 5
Periwinkle (Blue's clues) vs Fluffal Cat (Yu-Gi-Oh!)
Salem Saberhagen (Sabrina the Teenage Witch) vs Frumpkin (Critical Role)
Ember (Cattails) vs Nyanky (Taiko no Tatsujin)
Heinkel (Fullmetal Alchemist) vs Amanojaku (Ghost Stories)
Khoshekh (Welcome to Night Vale) vs Catty (Undertale)
Kuro (Blue Exorcist) vs Catra (She-Ra)
Juan The Small Magical Latino Cat (Monster Prom) vs Tigger Sugden (Purrfect Apawcalypse)
Bungle the glass cat (Oz) vs Potato (Cat loaf adventures)
Group 6
Chairman Meow (The Shadowhunter Chronicles) vs Finley / Jelly Donut (Hustle Cat)
Cattail (Plants vs Zombies) vs Nameless evil white cat (James Bond)
Thomas O'Malley + Aristocats (Aristocats) vs Panther Lily (Fairy Tail)
Yoruichi Shihoin (Bleach) vs Jellie (Double Life SMP)
Blake Belladonna (RWBY) vs Tigress (Kung Fu Panda)
Invisible cat (The Invisible Man, H.G.Wells) vs Haru (My Roommate is a Cat)
Pusheen (Pusheen) vs Yellowfang (Warrior cats)
Kirjava (His Dark Materials) vs Kuroneko-sama (Trigun)
Group 7
Gary the Snail (Spongebob Squarepants) vs Skitty (Pokémon)
Bob (Animal Crossing) vs The Kitty (The Bad Guys)
Garfield the Deals Warlock (The Adventure Zone) vs Capper (My Little Pony)
Jiji (Kiki's Delivery Service) vs Izutsumi (Dungeon Meshi)
The Black Cat (The Black Cat, E.A.Poe) vs Nyako / Meowy (Chainsaw Man)
Tabby Von Meow (Webkinz) vs Tom (Tom and Jerry)
Solembum (Inheritance Cycle) vs Lil' Judd (Splatoon)
Bagheera (The Jungle Book) vs Gatomon (Digimon)
Group 8
Plagg (Miraculous) vs Luxor (Tutenstein)
Meowth (Pokémon) vs Remlit (Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword)
Leafpool (Warrior cats) vs The Cat in the Hat (The Cat in the Hat)
Maurice (Discworld) vs Jemima (Cats the musical)
Xiaohei (The Legend of Hei) vs Artemis (Sailor Moon)
Puss in Boots (Puss in Boots) vs Ichigo Momomiya (Tokyo Mew Mew)
Shrödinger's cat (you know the one) vs The Cat (Coraline)
Pasty (Neko Atsume) vs Pangur Bán (Irish poem)
Match-ups coming soon!
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i'm seeing shinee today !!!!
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so on the one hand this banana bread i made turned out really good. on the other, i'm having a wee little anxiety today and i have to go play d&d through it.
pray for me.
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One more final and freedom shall be mine. Today's final was a rollercoaster, but I'm confident that I passed nonetheless! I'm very happy with my work this week and gladly, I'll have time to rest today and tomorrow either playing or getting slowly back to writing, as the last final is the predictable kind and the content load to study isn't as dramatic as it was the one of yesterday! Hope you peeps have been doing well ♥︎
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Hiiiii! So, a few days ago you were talking about the whole thing with Amy, Rory, and River. And when I saw those posts a thought arose in my head and I wish to share it with you.
Since River grew up with Amy and Rory as Mels. And Mels was Amy's best friend do you think that they ever talked about children? Since I know that it can come up when talking with friends, and like... do you think that Amy might've ever expressed whether or not she wanted children?
And if she didn't, that Mels would've had to listen to her mother say that she doesn't want children? The idea is so heartbreaking and sooo interesting.
What do you think about it?
no, no, see, you're so right and this drives me wild.
because, the way i see it, i don't think amy wanted children. she's somewhere on the 'hasn't thought about it' to 'vaguely negative feelings about it happening' range to me, which falls sharply into 'Not Happening Ever Again' post-s6. (specifically, in terms of having a kid herself, even if she could, i really don't think she would. i do love that she and rory end up adopting a kid later, because that does make sense, for amy pond who grew up alone in one universe with her family swallowed by cracks in time before the doctor helped her set it right again, for her to want to make sure another child won't be alone in the world like she was. getting off-track here.)
and that's so. because the first real memory river/mels has of amy is of amy shooting at her. and depending on how well the silence fucked up the rest of her memory, it might be one of the very first memories she has at all. that's how she met her mother, crying for help and getting a bullet instead. her mother tried to kill her, so of course, you have to think. she must have needed to hear that she was wanted, right? even if she was taken away, even if amy shot her, at some point, melody must have been wanted?
river is good at getting people to do what she wants, but she is very, very bad at subtlety. and mels is younger, has less practice, so when she wants to know this, she's just going to ask. blunt and quick, easy enough because amy's used to the way mels will open her mouth and you just have to be ready to roll with what comes out if you want to keep up. it's why they're such good friends (like mother, like daughter.)
they're nine, and mels asks if amy wants kids, and amy wrinkles up her nose and says she won't have time for children, obviously, once her raggedy doctor finally comes back. they're fifteen, and amy and rory dance will they-won't they in a way that makes mels twitchy to watch, and taunting amy about wanting to have rory's babies is a good way to get on her nerves. but amy calls her gross, tells her she's got more life planned than children would leave room for, and besides, imagine her, a mom? it'd be a disaster.
mels does. a lot. she looks at her mother and just sees her best friend instead. she's not even sure what she wishes was there, but. maybe amy's right. and besides. imagine her, a daughter, instead of the ticking time bomb she really is? it'd be a disaster.
they're sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, and on. mels stands on the outside of a love story that births a universe. and her. how do you compete with that? not that she would know, not yet, she hasn't been there. but it doesn't make her feel any less alienated when amy and rory talk in whispers about a half-remembered world that's bled through to this life, about roman soldiers and boxes and the big bang of belief.
all these memories, they never mention children. on amy's wedding day, she's different, not like someone remembering a dream but someone who lived it. rory stands straighter, won't leave her side, and they're both so much older than they were yesterday. maybe now, right? a wedding's as good a time as any to decide you want kids.
mels not being at amy & rory's wedding is such an obvious lazy way of them trying to explain why they totally didn't just throw this plot twist together at the last minute that i'm not even going to acknowledge it. of course she was at their wedding. she's their best friend. there's too many people around the doctor, and she wasn't ready today of all days, so despite this horrible burning need under her skin to strike, she stays her hand. doesn't let him dance with her because she might just tear his throat out if he gets too close. stays with amy and rory as the maid of honor should. she must have been there for the awkward questions that always gets asked, 'so, any plans for a baby?' 'when am i getting grandkids?' 'oh, you two are going to have gorgeous children together.' standing a few feet from amy in her wedding dress and watching her mother tense and grit her teeth and brush off the questions. watching her look nervously at rory but never ask if he means it when his mom asks him if he'd prefer a son or a daughter, and rory answers 'either one, some day, not anytime soon.'
god i'm just going on and on, aren't i. but really, what's it like to know that amy never changed her mind. the next time she sees them, she's already been born and stolen. i don't like let's kill hitler for. so many reasons. but there is something compelling about how recklessly river lashes out at the world, at the doctor. even her sacrifice at the end is almost suicidal, throwing all her regenerations into this man without knowing if that will even work or if it might kill her to do it. but it makes more sense in the context of someone who has reached the end of a long, long wait for some kind of indication, any kind, that her mother wanted to have her. and finally been told, no. she didn't choose melody.
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Tumblr removed half the people I was following wtf????
Moots if I follow you again now that's why smh
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"jesus" by luna sea, as performed by hatsune miku... because fuck you
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so
I'm going to ignore ch. 6 of DRv3 ever happened I think
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