#it matters quite a lot in fact

[wolves-in-the-world]

the thing about eliot spencer as a character, right. the thing about him.

(and as always your mileage may vary on my analyses so if we disagree that's cool actually)

is that he is in fact a somewhat emotionally constipated idiot who is occasionally sensitive about his perceived masculinity and gets defensive about emotional intimacy around other men (largely hardison, who's much more comfortable expressing affection and embracing a softer kind of masculinity), but eliot displays enough emotional awareness and sensitivity and respect for women etc etc that anyone who's been subjected to that era of television will put on rose-tinted glasses without even looking twice.

(and he is, don't get me wrong, incredibly emotionally aware for a professionally punchy guy with enough trauma to sink the titanic. it still startles me to see.)

on top of which we have the layers and the accessories and the excellent hair with the secret braids and the way he barely has an ego and he's good with kids and protective of his team without taking it too far, and some of us never stood a fucking chance.

#eliot #eliot spencer #orig #further discussion in further tags #I'm being perhaps a little critical and there are other ways to read eg the fragile masculinity moments #but I Do think they were intended this way and largely come across this way #I'm quite happy playing with a fanon eliot who's better at this shit is the thing? it feels faithful enough to the original. #but this is something I'm chewing over in a rewatch and it's interesting so far #the fact that he pretty consistently respects women doesn't stop him from treating men and women differently y'know? #the fact that his bantering with hardison expresses affection and gets quite soft over time #doesn't stop him from pushing hardison away on a semi-regular basis. often physically. #the fact that the fandom unanimously decided he's an utter gentleman in matters of dating #doesn't quite negate the time he physically stopped aimee from getting away when he wanted to talk to her #though that's one I might disregard because it's so early and I think they hadn't quite figured out the characters then #and it was admittedly a brief moment followed by very consensual happenings #perhaps. honestly. eliot may be reflecting the attitudes of the show here. #which were very progressive for the time and are still startling on several fronts now but also showing definite signs of age #arguably fanon eliot (as I understand him) is eliot adjusted for inflation. as it were. #there's a lot going on here I'm having a normal amount of thoughts about it I'm. stopping now

[cynthrey]

lil tip for anyone wanting to make something about season 2 sausage or hermes saying "te amo". Cubans dont really tend to say "te amo" unless is in a strictly romantic sense (yes, not even between family members do you hear them say "te amo" to each other) so, for platonic situations/between family is best to go with the platonic alternative "te quiero"

#believe it or not this matters quite a lot #and you dont know how much my cuban ass suffers with the fact “i love you” can be taken both platonically and romantically #empires smp #empires s2 #empires season 2 #mythicalsausage #empires mythicalsausage #empires hermes

[ambreiiigns]

btw rick and morty makes me insane bc no one Gets it people who don't wanna watch it (like me! before my brother made me watch it in exchange of him watching sk8 the infinity w me!) are like ugh problematique bad #edgy dark humor adult cartoon for reddit bros 🙄 but then the reddit bros who watch it & became the main representatives for its audience are like haha pickle rick wooo you need high iq I Relate To Rick Sanchez Deeply and he's like the joker to them and he's a king and an icon of alpha males somehow???? but like. neither of those people understand that rick and morty is actually about Nobody Exists On Purpose. Nobody Belongs Anywhere. Everybody's Gonna Die. Come Watch TV?

#like yea the universe is huge and there's so many versions of everything that everything becomes replaceable and therefore worthless #and you can find joy in that or not. you can find a way to be happy despite it all or not #yes the core is nihilism. but then like. why are we ignoring the opposite approaches to nihilism shown by the titular characters #people will talk too much abt rick and not enough abt morty if u ask me but whatever. let's talk abt rick #why will people forget that what makes our rick the ''rickest rick'' (arguable ????) is not that he's the Toughest Smartest Whatever rick #but that he's the most human rick ? like. the fact that he was attached to his humanity and to the worth he found within it is what #kickstarts the entire show. bc he tries quitting science. and when another rick offers him the portal gun so he can live out that #nihilistic reckless life we see he refuses it bc it sounds Lonely???????? which it IS #so then the other rick takes away what matters to our rick. and that's what makes him the Alpha Male Genius that the reddit bros like #not his toughness his brains his big dick or whatever. it was all about loooove baybayyy and revenge i do love revenge #it was his heart that made him into what we see in the show <3 and what we see in the show is a pathetic weak miserable old bastard #but the reddit bros aren't brave enough to accept it #but whatever. next time we will be talking abt how much he loves morty and how he hates it so much bc it makes him weak #(as evil rick points out when they're looking over rick's memories and he tears up when he sees morty. which kills me btw) #(so much so that when rick can take out everything he considers toxic from inside of him he gets rid of his love for morty too) #and yet he loves his little buddy sooooo much it's what fuels him now. kinda. lol #is he still shitty. does he fall back in his own shit a lot. does he keep treating morty like shit. yea #there's no buts. the statements coexist #yes he will drunk call jessica to cry abt missing morty. yes he will dump morty for two crows #and also he's in love w birdperson. next time too #oh nay

[sysig]

It always seems like such a good idea in the moment (Patreon)

The first four are in reference to a great idea I had of - since I’ve finished my lower-limit page number testing for making books; shorter fics take up less page space, and just increasing the font size isn’t as handsome! - simply making a mini book! All it would take would be to halve the pages again, right? Just cut them right down the middle! Easy peasy!

As I’m sure you can tell by the second, no. Not easy peasy. Difficult painful un-fun >:(

Obviously I still did it tho! What do you take me for, someone who could have the idea of an even tinier book and then not do something about it?? No It’s also the only one so far to have a paper bookmark rather than a ribbon!

All told it’s a bit smaller than your average manga (I love the monochrome covers on these under their dust jackets haha <3) - you can see even with effectively doubling up the pages by halving their size, it was still very small-spined!

A quick shot while it was still being made hehe ♪ It’s Out! Paired here - and the earlier one, just without its dust jacket haha - with my Zarla SC2 collection (ft. Family, Negotiations are Going...Well, and With No Obligation) - I absolutely kicked myself after the fact for not including Out as the run-up to everything, I was really trying to make a full collection in probably-chronological order! Out would’ve been a perfect start! And it only would’ve taken like four pages!!

Ah well, it was still quite a learning experience - I probably wouldn’t make another standalone of under 4k-ish just for formatting reasons but I did get some good ideas of how to do so if I wanted to! Although, my next project is going to be even more of a formatting nightmare........I’ll get there when I get there! Lol

#Doodles #The impulsive thoughts are always the funnest! But then it's all a matter of actually putting them into reality... #Ahh well like I said under the cut it was a learning experience! And I really wanted a physical copy of Out haha ♪ #I don't think I've ever mentioned it - not even in my pre-fic notes :0 - but Out was another one of my inspirations for Drinking Game #I mean - the drinking lol obviously but I hadn't considered what VUX drinking would be like before reading it :) #I wanted to pair it with both physical copies hehe ♫ I'm happy I attempted it! And I have a better foundation to build on in the future! #I ended up using the scrap leftover from making such a small cover as the bookmark haha - and I picked the covers so they'd almost-match :) #They go together! But not quite! Just enough! #The sting of creation has worn off - it's actually been a while since I've made a quick book! - so the itch is starting to come back haha #Well - almost lol - the formatting is still........but I do want to do it! Especially now that I've got a hand-in-hand hobby to go with it #All that later ♪ For now snakes! #And also spiders I am also the same when spiders #I've been escorting a lot of spiders outside lately and pretty much all of them fall under the moniker of ''darling'' to me lol #Still no luck on finding a jumping spider :( But I also haven't got an enclosure set up yet either #There's this one booth that always has such adorable and pretty jumping spider enclosures ahhh I might have to break and get one someday #Same place where I got to hold the snake in fact! :D She was a love <3 Beautiful full-grown female cornsnake if memory serves #She was rather wiggly - she was tired and fussy and didn't feel like being handled by a stranger but she was so polite about it #A real delight to handle <3 And I got to see her babies! So cute and tiny! #The rest is more SCII fic stuff haha ♪ Rereading the Pirate fic was a lot of fun :) Intentionally avoiding Vargas fic(s) does make me a bit #Well I really like Vargas still lol it is candy to my brain so any gesture even remotely in that direction is very exciting haha #I'm perfectly happy with the rest for now tho! I have plenty of things to read and make! >:3c #Heck there's still a SCII fic I haven't read yet that I want to!! I just have to get all my previous SCII thoughts out of my head first haha #I will tho >:3c Always always ♪♫ #SCII

[curufiin]

Sorry i am silly stupid about elves in a way that people dislike (i have nothing smart and new to say 😊) but something something curufin and internalized guilt

#archi screaming #tag rant time cuz ofc ny thoughts are more coherent here where nobody will look #anyway i like a very specific flavor of curufin. and severely dislike the ‘curvo is not a bad person’ takes. Yes he is #but that does Not mean he doesn’t feel guilt! in fact it is quite the other way around #bc i feel like it would be so funny if every move he makes is quite literally out of the guilt he feels #and you can interpret that as either he actually tries to be a better person. or he just uses his guilt to justify his horrible decisions #because nargothrond was not out of ‘i want to save finrod’s people’ of course not. he wants the silmarils #but like. curufin telling himself ‘it’s because i want to save finrod’s people’ over and over so much that he ends up believing it #because in the end i think curufin needs to be right. it doesn’t matter what he does he just needs it to be justified or currect #correct^ because if he sees himself as the villain then there is really not a lot he won’t do to get the silmarils back #tldr i think ‘curufin is a person who does bad things but tries so hard to minimize or excuse the bad thing’ is way more interesting than #‘he did not hit her it’s not true’. idk i just enjoy moral ambivalence

[sapphicdib]

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#i think this is just my irritability from my meds #so i’m putting my rant down in the tags #im going to delete this later but i just needed to get this out bc i’ve seen it quite a few times now #but if i see one more fuckin person say something along the lines of ‘stop drawing the iterators/slugcats in this way because it’s boring #or wrong or doesn’t match up with MY HEADCANON’ #im gonna fucking lose it. if you want to see slugcats or iterators drawn how YOU like them. why don’t YOU draw them. or YOU pay other #artists you draw them for you? #the fact that some people are so god damn entitled to fanworks that passionate people are making FOR FREE #this isn’t about any of my followers or anything and i block people who say shit like that on sight but for real. #your interpretations of characters and designs are not the end all be all. i interpret sigs shape language as pointy! a lot of the fandom #sees her as square! you know what i DONT do? make posts about how artists should stop drawing him square #you know what i DO do? draw her pointy MYSELF! #i’ll delete this later bc it really doesn’t matter and it’s NOT directed at any of my followers or moots it’s just a general thing ive seen #you do realize that most of what we have to go off of are 10 pixel tall muppets right. #going crazy stupid with designs is FUN! im beginning to think some of y’all take this shit WAY too seriously lmao #anyways.

[daz4i]

while I'm not one for romantic relationships or long term stuff i really do hope i meet someone who makes me feel big emotions again (spongebob getting a piano dropped on him meme. of the positive sort) somewhere. somehow. it's been so long. bc of shitty therapy i conditioned myself into stepping back and never letting myself feel and i just want to know someone who'd be able to make me break this conditioning and return that same amount of emotions too. one more time

#this is why I'm so hung up on it even months later ig. big emotions. MUTUAL big emotions. that felt good #while for me it was mildly euphoric bc it's rare i even *want* to feel this way #it was stressing them out to have those same emotions. so they cut it. but this made me deflate all at once #they made me want to at least try to live 😐 which. you probably already know is a tough thing to do #soooooo crashing this feeling all at once..... well...... didn't end up so well as you can guess #ig the fact i want to feel that way again is a good sign tho lol :/ just. not quite there yet #(wanting to find someone who will make me want to try finding a reason to want to live. that's. a lot of steps) #but it did confirm me one thing and that's that i need to be obsessed with someone to feel good akdkglg #not a good sign either!!!! but!!!! if it's the only way i may as well try it!!!!! #the problem is!!!! i am very bad at getting deeply attached enough to make it last more than like. a week. if i even can at all #i am very bad at love and i am very bad at getting attached or opening up etc etc #and it's hard for me to develop this steadily without an initial spark either which is probably the biggest problem :/ #I'm not good at slow burns. not even a matter of impatience i think i just never reach the result that way #man I'm just rambling now!!!! idk!!!! I'm letting out thoughts!!!!!!!! #do i need to tag this as #vent #???? is it??? idk it's not that depressing compared to my other shit

[mid-nightowl]

So, the Batman in Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League may or may not have killed Robin

#suicide squad: kill the justice league spoilers #which got me wondering if there's every been a fic where Bruce in a fit of possession or brainwashing did kill one of his kids?? #and actually handled it well (aka it didn't go straight to bruce bashing)?? i need to read if so cause this topic is juicy #i think it's heavily implied to be tim drake robin so uh yeah #there was also mention of Oracle Nightwing and Jason #(not red hood; bruce just states jason) but I don't think they appear nor is it implied if they got murked either #and if this is post-arkhamverse.....major yikes #another L for arkhamverse Tim #bald and dead smh #poor guy #i probably won't get the game until it's on sale (i don't care for the storyline that much) BUT the fic ideas????? #like after the fact what would bruce do?? would he just keep going bc he doesn't know how to handle it other than being batman??? #would he actually quit?? #(and this is if he doesn't kill himself or let someone else kill him at the end of this) #also the reactions from the other bats? how would they react to who bruce killed? and then who exactly do you pick to be killed? #because who matters i think #my gut always wants to lean towards jason-and-bruce-angst but i think bruce accidentally killing dami or tim would be.... #well it would be catastrophic i think #killing jason (post-red hood or as robin) would also be awful but a RH!jason falls in line with abuse he's already getting in canon #bruce killing barbara or dick also has a lot of angsty fallout potential #hmmmmm i will be contemplating this i think for a good while #i have ideas

[variousqueerthings]

the fact that hawkeye twice deals with severely damaging experiences by just suppressing the memories of them until he’s forgotten (up until the point when they start manifesting in his body) 

#MASH #hawkeye pierce #the fact that one of them is a memory of long ago and the other is fairly recent #something about how you can play with this coping mechanism in writing him as a character #it's also a fascinating juxtaposition to the fact that he's quite sensitive to whats happening around him #drinking and sleeping around and heroic antics (as futile as they may eventually feel) sure but #a lot of his arc is absorbing the war (and occasionally trying to find ways for it to Matter ex. kyung soon) #repression as coping mechanism -- when does he do it? how bad does something have to be for it to happen? how often has he done it? #he seems relatively clear-eyed about for example his mother dying but also he was experiencing that With his dad so... #ramblerambleramble

[sanstropfremir]

So you have mentioned long ago that btses and strays are similar and I was curious how? I see it in their um interesting fandoms. But I can also see similarities with blokb kinda.

well.

rapper leader that supposedly had a hand in choosing members

three rapper unit

marketed as a 'self produced' group

self love + positive reinforcement branding

weekly recurring lives/shows on vlive

huge emphasis on intl audiences to the point where there's not a lot of domestic regard

extremely poorly behaved fanbase of mostly intl fans

vocalists that can't pass muster

overrated dancer

underrated dancer that gets shafted constantly

steep increase in production budget that does nothing visually other than show off how much money the company has

#which group am i talking about? :) #kpop questions #875 #skz w #i was wondering if anyone was gonna pick up on that bc this is gonna be a veryyyyyyyyyy unpopular opinion lmao #but jype and skz are quite literally using the exact same playbook and blueprint...................sorry #a lot of kpoppies and armies specifically have beef with atz and think theyre trying to be the next bts for some fucking reason #that ive never understood bc atz has NEVER been billed as a self produced group. nor are they a hiphop led group either #but they say that anyways while ignoring the fact that aside from some genre bits skz is following the EXACT same steps. #the only way they would have one upped bts is if they had actually kept all nine members bc then they would have an actually good vocalist #this isnt about music btw this is specifically about the formation and function of the groups and their branding #the music is obvs very different that's not where this angle is. music doesnt matter to kpoppies anyways #text #answers #idk. it could be a very specific coincidence like the got7/superm thing #but jype is always a little behind on trends and they're always copying so i'm leaning towards intentional #anyways. i'm ready for the unfollows and my cancellation era slkdfjsldkfj #this is maybe one of the few opinions that i do think ppl might get mad at me for real for

[orcelito]

Ykno the common critique I've seen around is that trimax fights r hard to follow & such. And I've always had the kind of thought of like "I mean sometimes it can be confusing, but if u stop to study it it's really not that bad"

Having a fight analysis post kinda blow up tho I'm seeing ppl comment over and over in the tags about how hard it is to keep up with the fights... and I'm just like. Is it really that confusing? Like genuinely. I thought it was one of those overblown fan critiques but it seems like a Lot of people agree with it.

#speculation nation #in the original manga Yea fights were pretty hard. took me a Lot of squinting to figure out what actually happened with the Nebraskas #but idk most of the fights r just vibes. u follow along and feel what the characters r feeling and the fine details dont matter. #a lot of times i do end up flipping back and forth between pages bc there r details revealed later on that make earlier things make sense #or just looking for clarification. that kind of thing. #so yeah it kinda does take some work to fully understand it but i kinda figured that's like... how manga fights go... #i much prefer this over the common shounen trope of stopping the fight to explain every single move that's done #so im just like 'come ON i already understood it!!! can we keep going already????' #is it the fact that nightow doesnt do this that makes it so confusing??? so ppl dont get the play by play as it happens??? #this all probably sounds obnoxious but im just genuinely trying to make sense of it. #i guess im also just a perceptive person when im paying attention to smth. maybe that's what it ultimately boils down to. #one person commented saying theyd kill if i did play by plays for all the trimax fights lol #i probably wont for All of them bc that sounds like quite a project #but if another catches my attention in this same sorta way... then maybe. #i guess understanding nightow's fights is a skill. probably at least partially assisted by being able to read the sound effects. #oh yeah. that's another thing lol. i can read the sound effects. and that especially helps with knowing how many shots there are #stuff like that. 🤔 yea i dunno. i wasnt expecting that post to get so many notes. #but it's well over 400 now and still counting. waking up to 99+ notifications is... an experience lmao

[mirrortouchedsea]

getting motivated to work on that kaokana fic finally and i have added like 1k this week.... so much progress for me i'm so happy

#not writing #shay speaks #not guaranteeing the next chapter will be soon i'm still unsure #of when i want to end this one and start the next #but this one is only like.... 2k words right now? #okay google docs says its 1.4k words rn so yeah #we are making progress i'm hoping to get 4k or so at least before i decide to start ch4 #and then i have to edit it and all that jazz obviously.... but augh i'm just happy to be working on this again #and i edited my bb fic a lot today since my beta has given feedback on like 7 pages of that #AND i quit my job at joanns so i should go back to working only 5 days a week instead of 6 #and maybe i can get more motivation to write. i think part of why i'm writing more is the fact that i qui t aamfpdiosd #i am already feeling better knowing there is an end in sight to these 6 day weeks #my boss was chill about it she understands and i'm not going to like #slack off just bc i put in my 2 weeks #but yeah. thats my life update ig mapsdfiomsdpifodjs #big bang fic is looking very nice so far after edits and i'm excited to get that out #again its probably going to be split in two idk if i want to try and finish it before whenever i end up getting to post #mostly cuz like. idk i'm probably still like 4k out from finishing it and noooooo thank u. maybe another day #it's at the word count minimum though thats what matters

[astranauticus]

new years resolution for this blog: beat my fuckin. umbrella academy incorrect quotes era in notes

#asto speaks #im usually quite like against stats chasing but it bothers me SO MUCH that my dumbass incorrect quotes era manages to beat out like #the art that i spend upwards of days/weeks making by SO MUCH #like hot damn thats. i mean demoralising yes but frankly just ridiculous #like ok in my original posts notes ranking my art only shows up at number 14. before that is all tua shitposts and 1 jjk meta of all things #oh right and how could i forget. my top post currently is that joke i stole from a bilibili video roasting mlynar arknights #like i would really be a lot prouder of that if not for the fact that IT ISNT EVEN MY JOKE #like ok for the record i really dont particularly care about becoming internet famous or whatever i have a real job #this is 100% just a matter of personal pride

[chenpire]

Lisa Ambjörn I hope you get your 3rd act because that was a master class in a 2nd

#young royals #shows #the way I was promised class conflict and that's exactly what I got at every turn #the way felice and wilhelm made each other /worse/ #marcus being able to clock simon's issue's 100 miles off and the agony of him saying he's not his dad #felice not understanding sara in the slightest #alexander actually having been fine (which simon would not be) 'it's okay for you guys to cheat' #the way Sara breaks augusts heart fucking! called it! #literally would have written her arc almost identically #the gun was a surprise but go off I guess (or maybe not it would make quite a mess) #like sure there's stuff you can't fit in but they've got limited time so fair it was tight it was tight #god I have so much to say #what a house of cards I am thrilled #the inherent tragedy of the fact that we're all products of our environment no matter how hard we try not to be #the fact that Wilhelm is so childish a lot of the time was so well played like /exactly/ #honestly stunning performances all round

[4arconinoma]

oh goddddd i need to essay about diamond is unbreakable so bad of all things that is the one idea i should really actually realize oh my god

#sooo much to say #i guess the only thing holding me back is the fact that i think people dont really have the patience to just read essays anymore #or maybe i should have more faith? i dont know. if anyone would read that #i mean i guess it shouldnt matter because if anything i should just make it for myself ? #but #ideally id make it into a video essay i'd love to make a video essay but i can't make those for quite a few reasons #i would have to stick with a written one #i really hope i can at least try some day though i have a lot to say. about this part. i have so much to say and so much to break down #it makes me think of so many things #it could at least be some sort of practice for me? i don't know #sigh #so much good about it. #jjba #txt

[spite-and-waffles]

"But it's not like that in canon at all!" ok but have you considered I. Don't. Care

#it's necessary to have people who can check things against canon and to call out flanderized and one-dimensional fanon portrayals #but sometimes fanon interpretations are more fun for people and their quality entirely subjective #also it's COMICS. It's all fanfiction! Just licensed to a company who pay some mediocre white men to write it #people who haven't picked up a back issue about the character they're writing even if they're literally paid to do it #Sometimes this accidentally ends up making the story and character multi-faceted. Other times it's just a constant butchering #We all have the same right to do whatever we want with our characters #there's no 'right way' to portray anyone. There's just good storytelling and bad storytelling #canon matters when you're doing META #That's where fanon is annoying as all fuck because you need to show your work #And even then bad faith readings exist. Which is different from simply interpreting things differently #meta discourse is supposed to be fun too #Not a game of one-upping each other and behaving like this is a PhD program #where you don't get to have an opinion if you haven't read everything ever #that one popular fandom blog got in my teeth so much because she was not just checking fanon against canon #but imposing her interpretation on everyone like it was fact too #I really think too much canon just makes you lose perspective about yourself #We aren't all here for the same things and that's quite alright #Also those with white queer brainrot seem to think that stanning the correct blorbo is activism #anyway if your main aim in reading comics is to dunk on other people's headcanons I suggest you get a life #It's high-key hilarious if antis reblog this. Absolutely no sense of irony in that lot #DCU #DC comics #Batfamily #Bat meta #DC meta #canon #fanon #fandom discourse #spite waffle