#i think i phrased that badly

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Los Chicos Peleandoooooo

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #song lan #xue yang #I know it makes jokes less funny if you explain them but I feel like I gotta for this one: #xue yang’s Spanish here is playing on the fact he’s a beginner (using a commonly taught phrase) #combined with the fact that he’s clearly taking what he’s heard Xiao Xingchen use. #of course XY would want to know how to cuss someone out in another language. Do you think XXC would teach him how? Nope. #XY would ask ‘How do I to someone I really hate them?’ #and XXC would say ‘You tell them ‘Te Amo Mucho’ :•)’ #As FAR as XY is concerned he knows *so* many swears. These words are just terms of endearment. #XXC would not swear or cuss anyone out but he *would* punctuate phrases with general terms of endearment. #More so directed towards A-Qing but Xue Yang has been proven to be a decent indirect learner. #That said he has also been shown to Not Quite Get The Nuances (consequences of observational learning). #Sadly he never had a good observational model for love or compassion B*( #Spanish speakers please oh god please correct me if I biffed something badly here. I can fix it.

[dragonseeds]

there’s a horrible sickness in me that makes me want to stop and replay da:i whenever i start a different game. how am i supposed to resist the story of my own unwilling apotheosis? especially as lavellan, who doesn’t believe in the maker and who has every right to hate and mistrust the chantry but chooses to use what power they have to try save people, to fix what’s broken, no matter how afraid they are or how careful they have to be. walking side by side with the great trickster god/adversary of your people without knowing, befriending him, changing his mind about this world but ultimately not his choice. he understands what’s happening to you because it happened to him once and he gives you his castle, built over the place where he sundered the world, and paints your story there in frescos that will last long after you’re gone and after the story has been retold and reshaped so many times that the truth of who you are and what you did is lost—just as he did his own story, which was lost and perverted by war and propaganda, and he shows all of this to you knowing you’ll understand because you’ve lived through something similar, grown into something larger than yourself and your true name, and it doesn’t change anything but. he wanted you to see him just for a moment, even if he can’t tell you everything (or almost anything) and you can’t save him—because he owes it to you as a someone who is a friend, almost an equal, and because there’s no one else left who knows: a direct result of what he did to your people and which he now seeks to undo at the cost of this world.

#dragon age #solas #literally i am ILL #i love religious trauma and stifling hypocrisy and walking carefully so carefully through a place i don’t belong but i’ve chosen to be #and questioning everything and losing and discovering myself over and over #and accidentally becoming friends with my work colleagues #and most importantly dating an actual god who is just a nerdy little guy who keeps fucking everything up #he’s such a liar but he wants to badly to tell the truth but he can’t he won’t #yet he only really lies through omission and speaks carefully so as not to give himself away #ok and also he very much wanted the anchor and manipulated that whole situation #but he also shows you who he is and tells you a sliver of the truth #and he didn’t have to do that! but he chose to—he wants you to see him and on some level to save him from his path i think #also i debated sooo long about the phrasing ‘almost an equal’ because i think he does consider everyone as worthy of life & choice as him! #but ultimately he is making the decisions of a god whether or not he acknowledges himself as one #he is deciding for a whole world—so i think there’s some cognitive dissonance there #and i went with almost #i’m fr stalled out in the middle of bg3 like i miss solas i miss my work friends

[fluentisonus]

Ivory Hand With Gold Bracelets Delphi, mid 6th century BC Probably belonging to a chryselephantine statue of Artemis, the head of which was found at the same site along with several other fragmentary statues, including one of Apollo. Likely damaged in a fire and subsequently buried sometime in the mid 5th century BC. Archaeological Museum of Delphi

#okay this is hastily written bc I'm in the middle of smth so sorry if it's phrased badly but I couldn't find it already posted on here so! #love this one bc it looks idk. like it looks like bone!! which it is! but it gives is a particularly intense look #esp it being only an arm #like it's weirdly more human that way somehow #thoughts #the actual faces & thinks are in that link btw #they're very neat although I have to say I'm not a huge fan of the museum website.

[pigeonliker420]

i love wyll but he does say. remarkably stupid things sometimes

#ignore my rotten food habit #anyway i mean immature as in like. the nicest use of the phrase he strikes me as not quite getting the subtext in what halsin said #actually now that i think of it his sort of childish heroic idealism is what got him in deep shit in the first place #do they have canon ages? i know astarion was 39 before turning #i wouldnt be surprised if wyll and shadowheart were the youngest #also i mean all this as a compliment i like this part of his character #i like that they all have their strengths and their flaws. some more flawed than others like uh. well #i think what i mean is i like that wyll seems so far a genuinely happy dude who is still complex and flawed and reads people badly #though i may eat these words when i progress his quest more. off to moonrise #kind of annoyed i did reithwin without halsin now though since it seems like hed have had a lot of relevant commentary on the thorms #no more reblogging.

[shatterstar]

marvel.com slash contact

#hello I am some weird guy I want to tell you about my beautiful daydream world so you can put it on your tv show #this is genuinely probably how I would phrase it #I'd get a little freaky with it and pull like horror visuals from the inferno episode and mix that with the cyberpunk #I think longshot era mojoworld had rules and a lot of structure and everything was very tightly controlled by mojo #if longshot is not very far out from the. moment when mojo & the spineless ones became crazy (when arize transmitted the #TV broadcasts from earth) #then mojoworld hasn't really seen much evolution in the way the world works by the time we meet longshot #I think the physics are different there and 'magic' exists (really just magic to us because it's different physical laws) #and the universe is kinda duct taped together with magic and Spiral's will or whatever and outside the universe is the wildways #which are all cosmic horror whatever #and over time that starts to bleed in. you know. by the time 'star comes around #I just want. time horror. infinite chaos horror. probability horror. and of course The Doppelgänger #I also just want someone to animate his hair soooooooo badly please please please I saw it in my dreams. literally #Do I sound insane be honest

[onlyallytothesun]

"Get on your knees"

-Said Harrow, as he laid down the sword he was stroking moments before.

#Kneel #Its time I remind you of your place #why was that scene written like that #Get on your knees??? Somebody in the writers room was giggling #But i also dont think theres a way you can phrase that does not sound wrong #? maybe #I think what makes it worse is the line before #what is this? A badly written Avatar fic or a porno?? #and Viren just cant catch a break with this homoerotic moments #Next thing he knows he's letting his magical buddy's worm enter him #I do have to say for as much as I criticize TDP #The trope of having older uptight men be manhandled is glorious #tdp #tdp viren #tdp harrow #viravos #viren x aaravos #viren x harrow #the dragon prince #virrow

[faebriel]

what's it called when your wips are eating you alive again

#i have like 1.5 chapters left to write and then i can work on rousseau's man. now stop staring at me from the corner #can't stop thinking abt the phrase she hopes im cursed forever to sleep on a twin sized mattress #can't stop thinking abt stand a little too tall say a little too much gonna bite that know it all tongue tried a little too hard now im cal #<- i Cannot be allowed to put all time low on the rousseau's man playlist. especially not nothing personal. i will Explode #there are two scenes in act two that i so badly want to get to. ill get there! but we gotta set it up first 😭

[nostalgia-tblr]

everyone has these thoughtful reasons and careful media analysis to make their point about why sylki will/won't "be endgame" and thus it's okay (or not) if they argue a bit first and i am slightly ashamed to admit that my entire thought process thus far has just been "well there's six episodes to fill, of course they'll drag the romance plot out as long as possible." :'(

#sylki #loki season 2 #i regret to inform the curious that i assume the dramatic tension will heighten before it is resolved at the end of the season #for what it's worth i think the easist 'get rid of the romance!' approach would have been to just ignore it completely which is obviously #not what's happening. this already seems like a lot of effort to split people up and (outside of a soap opera) who'd even bother? #i'd say i'm being cynical but i'm watching a show where the McDonalds (TM) tie-in is a plot point so... #btw: i feel like 'endgame ship' is a phrase that makes Star Trek: Voyager fans convulse in silent horror - am i right about that? #(to the shock of many the 'endgame ship' of voyager was not in fact 'endgame' in the final episode - which was called 'endgame') #to be clear i am enjoying all these analysis posts they are great! i've just failed to do such thoughtful thinkings myself (yet?) #i reckon there's like a 15% chance that this post will 'age badly' so feel free to screenshot it to use against me at a later date :) #'ha ha nos they fucked on-screen in epsiode three you stupid cow!!! now everyone is laughing at your foolish cynical nonsense!! ELL OH ELL!

[senso1954]

i have now seen it more than once and really don't understand this thing where people say well [recent piece of media] didn't set out to be feminist and that's okay! like no... i don't think it is.

#i can't tell if it's a misunderstanding where they think feminist = empowering women #or just ????? #media can hold up to feminist ideas of um for example women having interiority without empowering them... much feminist art is about #the oppression and struggles of women... #there's a lot of art about men i would say is using a feminist framework too... or can be approached that way and not cause dissonance... #idgi #have phrased some of these tags badly but i dont want to go back and fix them. i have to get dressed

[squipdop]

sorry im a god gale truther btw i DO think he should get to usurp mystra and ascend to godhood and i do think that should be an absolutely awful thing to happen to him but also literally everyone else. sorry

#bg3 #not main tagging this further bc its. mad man 1:30am rambles #but listen. mh. #ok so. heres the thing. #while i do think. their relationship was absolutely fucked. and yeah we can argue for grooming and or abuse. #i also dont QUITE enjoy how ppl make gale like. the poor poor totally blameless victim. like. mh #how to phrase this so it DOESNT sound victim blame-y. but like. #from how i interpret the things he told & what the game shows. #my mans REALLY struggles with No's and rejection. and i wouldn't just put that as a Mystra Aftermath Thing #he WAS forbidden from trying to ascend/was told by her she wouldnt make him an equal. and his response basically was. #'but let me prove i am worthy of this' #which yeah. plays into the fucked up self worth. ill get back to that. #plus the uh. touch the orb scene? he just. grabs your hand and pulls it towards him because he WANTS to show you this. Now. #any rejection within the relationship? I Should Blow Myself Up #he got that gifted kid energy of everything always came easily to him and yet it wasnt ever enough and the relationship w a literal goddess. #certainly didnt help that. #so hes constantly reaching for more. and thats a fault of his because he will do that even if told not to because #at the same time he thinks of himself as smart enough to actually Get to that More. #and yknow w the orb? he literally. got So Badly Burned. is it deterring him? nnnnnnot really. #and i think. godhood would. idk i think he could do it. and i think it still wouldn't be enough. #and having an all powerful deity who ALSO a) still never is satisfied with his amount of power and control and b) thinks he know better than #anyone and could do better than anyone #sounds like its gonna fucking suck #anyways im rotating this all in my brain + ofc the delicious bloodweave combo of ascended astarion + new god gale bc thats just. ough #the mess. of this combo.

[iphijaania]

while i’m here something that’s annoyed me recently in the tma fandom is this ‘[character] can’t be [bad thing] because they’re from an oppressed group!’ mentality

like with basira— ‘stop drawing her in a hijab/portraying her as muslim cos she’s a policewoman and policewomen are bad to women of colour!’ completely ignoring the fact that many, many, many hijabi women are members of the met police, with many more muslim women and muslims being part of the wider uk police force. it isn’t an rare phenomena, and you can see multiple stories about muslim policewomen in the uk.

are they shitty? yeah.

do they still join? YEAH.

and, believe it or not, people from minority communities can be shitty people! like, see the recent bidders for the leader of the tory party in the uk— currently, the two lead candidates are a woman and an indian man. the top four candidates were a black woman, two white women, and an indian man. and the black woman was the one who got the backing of britain first, who are literal fascists and by far the most racist group in the uk. because guess what? she was racist!

kemi badenoch’s a black woman, yeah, but she’s also upper-class, rascist, misogynistic and homophobic. because those views are not mutually exclusive with her race.

i’m a pakistani muslim immigrant in the uk. almost the entire pakistani community where i live are tories. my flatmates at uni consisted of a nigerian immigrant, a singaporean and a malaysian— all with tory parents. idk about the usa but here, class plays a much bigger role in political view in the uk than race does, and there are a lot of rich people of colour looking to keep themselves rich. and yes there’s obviously a link between class and race, but at the same time literally the most ‘diverse’ cabinet of ministers came under boris johnson— multiple important government roles went to women, to people of colour, to women of colour, all of whom were also awful people looking to secure their own position and power.

why am i saying this? because helen being black and being a tory aren’t mutually exclusive. basira being a muslim/ a hijabi and being a police officer aren’t mutually exclusive. jude perry being asian (probably meaning south asian) and being a stock broker aren’t mutually exclusive. hell, elias being a person of colour (as some people choose to portray him as and get bashed for) and a rich classist dickhead aren’t mutually exclusive. because they, objectively, are bad people, and people of colour can be bad people!

i get it, tma has a problem with how it portrays race— almost all the characters are aracial sans the antagonists (and, arguably, basira). and said antagonists of colour never have their experiences explored in context of their race— see annabelle and her medical abuse, and oliver and his experience with homelessness and mental illness. but at the same time bashing fans for how they choose to portray characters is not it, especially because it tends to be white people with a very us-centric/ one-sided view on race and class.

this is very rambly and it comes as a result of several posts that’ve irked me because the race discourse is, in itself, very annoying. i might write more on this, but please stop shaming people for how they portray characters and saying that one portrayal of a character is ‘incorrect’ based on race grounds (‘helen can’t be black! she’s a tory!’).

people of colour can be bad people. get over it. stop policing everything for your own sense of self-righteousness.

sincerely, a brown uk-based tma fan

#goddd this is probably very badly phrased but i’m jetlagged and frustrated #white people seeing morally complex characters and thinking that unless a character is unconditionally good they must be white #literally get over urselves #people of colour can be just as shitty as u lot #stop woobifying us as a result of ur guilt complex #i love desi jon! i love hijabi basira! i love exploring their issues in context of race! #and it rlly isnt difficult or a stretch to do- a lot of their experiences ring true to desi brits and so on #anyway. #lettos says #tma

[yeonban]

★ - for Aha & Akivili!

Send me a ★ and I’ll bold what applies to your muse.

I like you / I hate you / I dislike you/ I love you / You are family / I would take a bullet for you / I would shoot you / I would lie to your face / I would say something cruel to you on purpose / I would say something cruel to you accidentally / I would cheat on you / I would physically hurt you / You annoy me / You amuse me / I’d laugh at you / I’d laugh with you / I’d manipulate you / You scare me / You confuse me / I wish I knew you better / I trust you / I don’t trust you / You inspire me / I consider you an equal / You are beneath me / You’re better than me / I would trust you with my life / I think you’re mean / I think you’re petty / I think you’re childish / I think you’re smart / I think you’re stupid / I think you’re a bad person / I think you’re a good person / I’m not sure what kind of person you are / I wish you would listen to me / I want to make you proud / I wish you would notice me / I want to impress you / I would hurt other people for you / I’m not sure how to make you happy / I’m a bad GREAT! influence on you / You deserve better than me / We make a great team / I’d have a one night stand with you / I’d have a relationship with you / I would marry you / I fantasize about our life together / I would trust you with my most treasured belonging / I would tell you my darkest secrets / You disgust me / You intimidate me / I hope I intimidate you / I’d hug you / I’d let you hug me / I’m scared of losing you The world wouldn't be as fun without you in it / I don’t think you like me / I want to be better for you / I respect you / I don’t respect you / You’re my mentor / You’re my friend / You’re my best friend / I have a crush on you / I could easily watch you die / I’d get drunk drink with you / I’d party with you / I’d comfort you / I’d prank you / I’d spike your drink / I’d act behind your back / I’d abandon you / I’d hurt you to get what I want / I would choose my happiness over yours / I would choose your happiness over mine / I despise how much I care for you / I need you / I’m dependent on you / I don’t know what I’d do without you / I’m scared of you leaving me / I’d give my life for you / You frustrate me / I’d call for you in a time of need / I would protect you / I’d visit you in the hospital if you were weakened / I’d carry you if you were hurt / I’d feel guilty if I hurt you / I’d let you be near me when I am vulnerable / I’d ignore a phone call from you / I’d call you at 3am / I’d break you out of jail / I’d get angry at you / I would shout at you / You’re too loud / You’re too quiet / You’re too sensitive / You can’t take a joke / You embarrass me / I feel nothing for you / You’re reckless / You’re bossy / You bore me / I would ask your advice / I would blame you for something I did / I would cry in your arms / You have the power to hurt affect me more than anyone else /

#muse: aha. #ascendedstar #...They are down more horrendously for Akivili than I previously thought I fear. and it's terminal too. #like some of these I did NOT expect to be bolded but their gay ass proved me wrong... to live is to learn I guess </3 #also... 'the world wouldn't be as fun without you in it' absolutely obliterated me. Aha just decided that no phrase from this template #fits what they're feeling well enough so they went ahead and CREATED one that'll fit better. an Akivili special if you will #It's so odd to look at Aha's dynamic w Akivili bc they're SO incredibly fond of Akivili. words can't even begin to describe it #but at the same time being an aeon is such a tragic thing? bc you're forever bound to the concept you ascended with #and in Aha's case that's elation... which limits their emotions to happiness & theatrics. which is TERRIBLE for bonding w others #I think on this front Aha is one of the more limited aeons... bc others /are/ free to feel whatever emotions they want to if they so wish #(I think the only one that's also limited in this sense might be Yaoshi? bc they wouldn't exactly be allowed to feel or act on hatred) #BUT YEAH Aha is very attached to Akivili but in such a fucked up twisted sense of the word. and it really Shows in their interactions #They're glued to Akivili's side and talking w hearts and saying they want to hug Akivili and giving them their entire attention for a year #...only for them to next blow up the thing Akivili treasures most (the Express and its Nameless) not long after to grab Akivili's attention #The INSANE duality drives me wild... Aha can be so sweet to them one moment and then so ??? the very next #and I feel bad for Akivili for having somehow piqued Aha's... affections; but it's SOOO interesting to watch them unfold #bc as confusing as their actions might be; Aha's fondness for Akivili really IS the genuine thing. They miss Akivili soso badly

[caffeinatedopossum]

I just accidentally brought back a bunch of memories of stuff my mom used to say to me :')

#she said she wished id never been born. like girl that was on you not me #along with 'i could just get rid of you' as a threat multiple times #i thought she meant sending me to foster care but now... im not entirely sure she didnt mean unaliving me #she also used to threaten to cut off my thumb #i would say it was an empty threat but shed pull out the knives or scissors sooo maybe not #she would frequently ask what was wrong with me #call me ungrateful or a brat #remind me of all the things that she did for me and how much worse it could be #its hard to remember the stuff she said #idk it probably doesn't sound that bad but it seriously messed me up #she used to scream at me until i cried #shed call me a liar or satanic because i self harmed #god and im still not sure what rumors she spread about it but she definitely told people something #i would say she said something untrue but honestly idk. it could have been something i did actually do but phrased badly idk #i never got to find out #once the first person confronted me about it i had a mental breakdown because i didnt know what was going on and no one would explain #but clearly it was something bad because of how confrontational they were being #actually that wasnt even the first person kind to think of it #god im like shakinv just recalling it #she also called me selfish a lot #oh yeah she said she didnt care if i starved to death one time #which i mean. she clearly didnt care if i died but whatever #neither did I really #i want to remember everything but i can't :(

[supercantaloupe]

i think i'll just personally never vibe as much with productions of don giovanni that characterize him as being particularly and intentionally cruel and calculating. ultimately i don't think that guy thinks about the potential consequences of his actions before he acts, like, ever. nor does he ever stop to think much how something will affect another person, for better or worse, beyond seducing them. i don't think it's an invalid way to perform the character of course but it's not how i interpret him

#sasha speaks #that he Is so cruel and Is so bothersome is a product of him not caring about anyone but himself #but i don't think he actually like. contemplates that. y'know. #i've definitely seen productions at this point (even ones where i otherwise like them and their characterization quite a bit) #where it felt like they portrayed the don. not quite as like a genius supervillain but definitely as someone who Knows What He's Doing #and honestly i just don't vibe with that. i don't think he's that self aware #i'm phrasing this badly but. hopefully you get what i mean maybe

[lighthouselesbian]

honestly i love Elora sm and i think she's like a shining example of how to write a ditzy female character without it coming off as like, super sexist. like she starts off as this totally unimportant character who u are 100% sure will be throwaway. and then she's ELORA DANAN. and still kind of an idiot? but she ends up being so 3D. she's got one braincell but it's treated like any other character flaw and she is a deeply complex character underneath the hood. which, idk, is neat, because male characters get to be idiots constantly, so kind of cool to see someone do a ditzy girl who is still treated like a full person with room to grow and be explored

#cynda post #this is like weirdly specific may have phrased it badly. #i just think its important for shows to have hashtag Girl Failures #without it being like really sexist #willow #willow 2022

[august--and-everything-after]

Half baked hot take:

The common sentiments you see regarding characters/celebrities/etc of "I'd fuck them" "I can't not fuck him" "I'd let them do [acts of varying degrees of description and specificity]" "step on me" is a shorthand that alludes to more complicated feelings that we don't want to address (either in present company or to ourselves)

There's still a bit of shock factor to the statement but it's considered detached enough to not reveal /too/ much about the person saying in with regards to complex thoughts and feelings. We could dig deeper into why declaring that you want to fuck someone (someone unreachable, spexifically, a celebrity or fictional character) is more acceptable and blasé than expressing any kind of deeper interrogation into how you feel about said person/character. That we've mentally and culturally separated sex and emotional intimacy to such a degree that you can feel comfortable making these claims without worrying that you're showing your cards. No, there's no emotional attachment or /weakness/ here, it's practically transactional. It's about what the act represents on the page, not what physically happens between people.

This is unpolished and probably badly worded, but I wanted to write it out. I think this is yet another symptom of our online world.

#gods i wish we could collectively figure out in-person socializing again #it was already trending badly and then with covid i think we all took such a hit in that department and i dont know what it will take to fix #actually i do. it will take people being willing to be vulnerable with one another. which can be so difficult and is only made worse the #less we connect with one another outside of our screens #i think you can probably see what im getting at despite my clumsy phrasing #august talking