#it's not a place for fucking children

[flamejob]

I can't believe that the shop i used to work at thought that me saying "i don't think small kids should be playing in a tattoo shop and running around barefoot in one either" was a rude statement. the ariel dejesus shit got me thinking

#i do think minors (like 16+ with parental consent obv) should be able to get tattoos and piercings #but i also understand why some shops are only 18+ i would LOVE to work in a shop that only allows adults inside #it's not a place for fucking children #let alone the artists' homeschooled horribly behaved children who broke multiple of my tools and supplies

[reiverreturns]

probably a good thing i don’t live in london because i might be inclined to hunt this man down and kill him with my bare hands xox

#i am so sick of this island lmao #PEOPLE CAN'T AFFORD TO EAT OR HEAT THEIR HOMES #CAN'T AFFORD TO PUT SHOES ON THEIR CHILDREN'S FEET #'we all have to do our bit' while our gov passes multmillion £ contracts to their rich pals #ruining our public services while someone lines their pockets #large corporations consistently dodging tax and getting away with it #this IS the bad place honestly #fuck the tories

[batcavescolony]

just saw someone say Rick Riordan making a TV show is just as bad as anything JKR has done. BFFR you're comparing Rick Riordan trying to make his world more inclusive, changing some parts because of money/time constraints, or just making changes cus he thinks they're needed, to JKR being a terrible person!

#and not to say Ricks work is perfect. ill be the firat to tell you his mistakes. his aspec rep is shit. his minorities rep has problems #he has general time line problems. im not says hes perfect but he tried from a good place #jkr named a character ChoChang. her Scottish character blow stuff up and tried to make alcohol. named a black character Shackelbolt #like damn get over yourself. #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson and the olympians #percy series #pjo series #pjo #pjo tv show #pjo tv series #pjo tv adaptation #if you wanna say shit about Rick ok. but be correct about it #how is he just as bad as jkr for not using the book he made in the early 2000s an exact script for the TV show being released in 2024? #and they yall had the audacity to be pissed when he didn't put a song about sex thats literally says `fuck her face° in the background of #LITERAL 12 YEAR OLDS in a place with memory altering properties..... thats whats you wanted. children getting high to a song about sex. #°oH bUt iN tHe mOvIe tHaT i WaTcHeD wHeN i waS tWeLvE' where the actors where like what 18? and weren't 12? that one? 🙄 #some of you are getting on my nerves. yes the show's pacing is eh really thats a reason to curisfy Rick Riordan? thats what you're deciding #this is the line? a tv show thats on its first season and is more accurate then the movies that came out? #good to know

[little-pondhead]

I have a simple fascination and joy in the thought that, for the Ghost King AU, most of the time Danny is literally so normal compared to other ghosts.

Like, he’s a kid. He looks like a kid. Going by canon appearances, he is the most human looking ghost we see (aside from Ellie). Even Plasmius is more inhuman, which is where all the vampire jokes come from. Every single one of this enemies is off even in a human disguise. They’re not human, and people don’t expect them to be.

So aside from the implications of Danny looking like a child ghost, I wonder what other characters would think if they summon the Ghost King, expecting this huge monstrosity worse than anything they’ve ever seen, and getting a totally normal human-looking kid.

I’d be terrified. Because if horror movies have taught us anything, it’s that the most innocent and normal looking people are the worst monsters you’ve ever seen.

Like, what is he hiding??

#danny phantom #pondhead rambles #just a thought #if I tried summoning the ghost king I’d be ready to face an eldritch god not a teenager #and let’s just imagine he’s doesn’t have a creepy form at all #literally just looks the same as canon all the time #if a kid showed up in place of a monster? hell no #I’m outta there #something is wrong and I’m not dealing with it #Danny doesn’t set off the uncanny valley feeling at all but because people THINK that the feeling should be there #the lack of it is making people’s nerves worse #no ‘oh shit we fucked up why is there a kid he can’t possibly be the ghost king’ #more like ‘oh shit we fucked up what kind of ghost king looks like a human teen we are way out of our depths’ #these thoughts come from me playing video games and immediately being on guard when a lone child is in a place they should not be #like I’m ready to fight monsters and bad guys #children? fuck that they’re obviously going to kill me in the worst way possible

[gay-jesus-probably]

Okay so I have a lot of thoughts about the whole thing of the Gerudo being a race of entirely women, with the only exception being one man born every hundred years, and that man automatically being their king. Now this worldbuilding comes from Ocarina of Time, and there's obviously a metric fuckton of unfortunate implications there, because it was 1998. And it seems that Tears of the Kingdom is sticking with the lore of Gerudo men being extremely rare and becoming the King of their people, which once again has a metric fuckton of unfortunate implications because it's 2023 and Nintendo has somehow gotten even worse about this shit.

But let's set aside the whole... everything, and look at this from just the in-universe perspective. How does it work? I mean, it's pretty clear that there is no overlap between the kings; the old ones are normally long gone by the time a new one is born, but the Gerudo manage to take care of themselves during the hangtime. So they must have an established system of government and leadership that doesn't involve a king, and somehow that system is set up in a way that does a smooth transfer of power once a new king is born and old enough to take the throne. But why bother always declaring a random guy to be your King when you already have a perfectly functional system in place?

I mean again, the whole thing has a lot of sexist implications, but we're not looking at this from a real world context, we're examining it in-universe. And we could just go the lazy route and say that their king is in charge just because he's the only man, but I don't like that. I mean come on, the Gerudo are a race of entirely women, and most of their outside problems come from Hylian men being creepy about it. They are entirely a matriarchy; there is literally no reason for their culture to have an inherent respect for men, even if the man in question is one of them. And they're desert people; they live in an extremely harsh and dangerous landscape, if they don't have their shit together, they will die. By sheer necessity, their culture needs to put a lot of value in being practical, because if they're stupid about things, people die. They really can't afford to have a shitty leader take over, and just letting some guy take the wheel doesn't really fit with the way their culture must otherwise work.

So again, why the fuck do they bother having a King?

I think it's mainly just a ceremonial position. Yes, if the guy is a good leader he'll be in charge, but if he isn't good at being a King or isn't interested in the job... fuck it, they've already got a functional government system that's been leading their people the whole time, why fix what isn't broken? The title of Gerudo King isn't about leadership or power. I think it's more about belonging. Because the Gerudo are a culture where every single one of them can be defined in the same way... and there is exactly one exception once a century. Men are considered to be inherently outsiders at the best of times, and more often they're enemies. A man born into this culture is a natural outsider; he is completely unique, and that means he doesn't really fit into his community. And well... when someone is fundamentally different from the rest of their community, they tend to be ostracized.

So I think that's why the position of Gerudo King exists. It isn't about them needing or even wanting a man to lead them. The title of King doesn't need to involve any leadership at all. It's about giving the man born every century a place in their society. It's a way of saying yes, you are one of us, you are a Gerudo, you belong here, you are wanted and you are loved.

The Gerudo know that every hundred years, one of their children will be fundamentally different from all of his peers. And so their society is built to ensure that a child who is completely different from them will still be loved and accepted. He will always have a place in their society. He doesn't need to earn their love, he has it just for existing. These are his people.

The title of Gerudo King isn't an inherent position of authority. It's a promise of acceptance.

#legend of zelda #ganondorf #tears of the kingdom #gerudo #look i have so many thoughts about how their society works #and for the record i really hate the implied bioessentialist gender stuff #but this is my headcanon on the whole gerudo king thing #if their king wants authority he still needs to earn it like everyone else #but they make sure he always has a place among his people #look growing up Different from your peers is a fucking nightmare #as any neurodivergent/disabled/queer kid can attest #i like the idea of gerudo society being structured around ensuring all their children felt like they belonged there #and having a system ready to go for the one kid they KNOW will be the most different

[secretcherimaybe]

#Punching the wall #YES YES YES #BRENNAN UNDERSTANDS #HE GETS IT #As an adult #I do not simply do not trust other adults at a base level #You gotta earn that trust motherfucker #And never trust the systems set I. Place #Magic and misfits #Brennan Lee Mulligan #D20 #And in a more specific example #They are playing a Harry Potter spinoff #And it's so deeply fucked up that children died for there dumbass school #The School needs to die for you not the other way around

[himejoshiangels]

they make me sick!!

#signal interlude #duke thomas #bruce wayne #batman #the signal #THE GRIP THEY HAVE ON ME RN #me when my dadnotdad larger than life bossslashpartner in vigilantism is so so bad at comforting me and my insecurity abt not being able to #figure out my place in all this and i realize why all his children turned out so fucked up #batfamily #batfam #tim drake #dick grayson #jason todd #dc comics

[its-your-mind]

JUST FOR THE RECORD.

the way Madam E talks is in fact Incredibly Extra (alex said somewhere that yeah duh that was the point) but also.

as a person who sits in a pretty diverse classroom of 12-14 year olds all day.

some of the Kids These Days do in fact talk like that. All the time. To everyone. No matter what. Front-facing camera not required.

The other day one of the individual-units-of-chaos-for-whom-I-am-responsible-for-8-hours-each-weekday asked if I had done anything fun over the weekend and I said "oh I just went for a short hike in the national park" and he straight up did this:

like. LIKE. madam E's tone. her inflection. her little trill on the end of words... some of the slang was a tad dated (though that does sort of make sense, if Madam E is ~5-10 years older than my gremlins-disguised-as-preteens) but I literally got whiplash every three minutes because all I could visualize for Madam E was a rotating cast of the like. Seven of my kiddos who talk EXACTLY like that.

which I WILL SAY. did make the horror hit home Just A Bit More Than Usual.

#tmagp #the magnus protocol #tmagp spoilers #madam e #magp 16 #like listen like madam e i too am an ink5oul stan #but NOT if they are gonna mess with one of my KIDS #idk if this is just because I am a teacher in the US #and so day 1 I had to accept the fact that I might have to put my own life in danger to protect my kiddos #and that coming into work every day was always a risk factor #and like. every time we have a lock down or an evacuation drill #(or a real lock down or shelter in place - I’ve never been part of a real evac thank god) #I am always in the back of my head thinking #‘I am absolutely 100% ready to flying tackle a shooter and/or lead my children in a stanley-water-bottle-projectile assault’ #anyway ty jonny and alex for triggering my inner mama bear tendencies and then ripping out my heart with them #also Ink5oul can continue to go off as long as they do Not fuck with anyone who is like my kiddos ty for coming to my Ted talk

[pisshandkerchief]

why do you mean you have trouble discovering new music. back in my day we got our obscure music recs from the welcome to night vale weather and we fucking liked it

#welcome to night vale was the first place I ever heard songs with swearing and references to sex. it was literally life changing #especially for a queer kid like me #incidentally welcome to night vale was some of the first media I ever consumed #(aside from educational children's books) #that had out queer characters #Welcome to night vale is fucking magical. #The main character is a gay Jewish dude with aids who is just. Peak queer joy. #He loves his husband so much it literally drives the story sometimes. also he's probably nonbinary #This generation is missing out #welcome to night vale

[cheesebearger]

a lot of people will play dragon age 2 and they'll be like... whoa.... anders is truly a grey character who does both good and evil......

when in actuality anders blowing up the chantry was not only good but based, sexy, and inspirational and he has never done wrong a day in his life

#dragon age #anders #i refuse to believe the non-game added lore by dave gaider - via his tumblr blog - placing several hundred orphans in the chantry #there are no fucking kids in that building in the game. if we were meant to care about a bunch of fucking exploded orphans they'd be there #if we go just by who we the player see in the church a bunch of fucking shitty pastors got blown up #and given the chantry is the nonviolent part of a military org #theyre not like blameless or innocent bystanders lol #any attempt to put children in the chantry is simply an attempt to justify the violent oppressive theocracy they represent #by adding 'innocent bystanders' for anders to additionally kill #thus making him look more violent compared 2 the banality of the true horror enacted by this military theocracy's oppressive violence

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 75

Jason wakes up from his pit-rage cranky, hungry, and exhausted. He’s really craving some churros or chili dogs or even some of that hot cocoa Bruce had always made for them after a nightmare. He’s in one of his bigger safehouses, his head is pounding still, and his domino mask is still on but he’s too grumpy to take it off. He’s not expecting Talia’s kid to be sitting at his table alongside Talia herself, who is casually sipping at some tea. His good tea. Blugh. He does not want to deal with this after a pit episode…

#batman au #batman #dcu #dc #prompts #Jason: What do you mean you need me to take care of the kid #Jason: Why are you leaving him with me #Jason: What do you mean the Pit has latched onto him #Jason: What do you Mean- Talia don't just leave I have questions- #Jason imprinted and the pit is throwing a fit that he's so far away from the Baby pit child #seeing as Damian was grown in an artificial pit womb #The pits: Um where the FUCK is Our Baby #The pits: Oh this place is so dangerous for the baby- we fix :) #Jason having a breakdown: #Potential crossover with DP: #There are two children #It's demon twins #congrats you have two 8 year olds #dcxdp #dpxdc #danyal al ghul #damian al ghul #talia al ghul #jason todd #liminal jason todd

[saphflare]

If I had a nickel for every time a SMP server was ending due to unprompted circumstances and the characters were all being doomed by the narrative to tragedy, but Philza Minecraft the man he is, somehow scourged up enough to give his cubito a happy ending despite the circumstances, I would have two and thank god the streamer decided to give something hopeful considering how miserable everyone else is

#dsmp #qsmp #philza #i honestly am so glad because everyone else is having their characters get raked in muck and shit rn #and emotionally I don't think I could have handled everything if my favorite cubito was also being fucked over as well #was everything perfect no but look at least crow man is eeping with his children (and hopefully Missa) and they are together #in a safe place being taken care of by a powerful goddess and away from the Feds that have tormented them for the last year #honestly the best ending we could have hoped for with the circumstances so I will take it as it is really #i am being positive here alright #especially with fit's bittersweet sad hopeful narrative right over yonder today #saph rambles

[tomato-ace]

something something Madoka as the ever benevolent God has at least two secretaries something something Homura as "The Evil Devil" (as she likes to put it) is ALL ALONE something something Madoka as a GOD has help something something HOMURA FOR FUCKS SAKE LET YOURSELF LOVE AND BE LOVED ACCEPT YOUR LOVED ONES HANDS AND LET THEM PULL YOU UP LET YOURSELF BE HELPED YOU DON'T HAVE TO SHOULDER THE BURDEN OF THE UNIVERSE ALL BY YOURSELF PLEASE GET THERAPY PLEASE DON'T DEMONIZE YOURSELF AND YOUR LOVE YOU'RE 14 YEARS OLD PLEASE MADOKA LOVES YOU YOUR FRIENDS LOVE YOU FUCK KYUBEY FUCK THE INCUBATORS STOP PUNISHING YOURSELF FOR EXISTING AS AN IMPERFECT PERSON LEARN TO ACCEPT YOURSELF AS YOU ARE AND LEARN TO GROW YOU'RE NOT A MONSTER FOR LOVING SOMEONE AND BEING SELFISH ABOUT IT OR ABOUT ANYTHING HOMURA LISTEN TO ME-

#also #stop idolising madoka #it's not good for you or her #JESUS #this girl #Madoka isn't much better than her #“oh yeah let me just be the savior of the universe at the price of my own humanity tee hee” #“I'm not special or anything this isn't a big deal” #SHUT UP YOU'RE 14 #IT SHOULDN'T BE YOUR JOB TO SAVE THE UNIVERSE IN THE FIRST PLACE #WHY ARE CHILDREN RESPONSIBLE FOR THE FATE OF THE UNIVERSE #FUCK THE INCUBATORS #I WANT THOSE BITCHES GONE #pmmm #madoka magica #homura akemi #madoka kaname #? #puella magi madoka magica #apologies for the nonsensical rant

[dearlyfetching]

gotta say...it'd be a lot more satisfying if the writers would let olivia cooke bring the same energy to alicent that rebecca ferguson brought to jessica in dune: part 2.

#house of the dragon #hotd #alicent hightower #team green #pro team green #as much as i enjoy the idea of rhaenicent and girlhood gone wrong #i cannot understand the impulse to hamstring a character's natural development #from longing for the nostalgia of an adolescent relationship with a close friend #to righteous indignation and justified mistrust after years of intentional or unintentional indignity #especially after the mutilation and disabling of her own child by that of her former friend's child #and the ultimate rejection of her concerns as well as the safety of her children by the person who forcefully bred her in the first place #how is she meant to remain idle and complacent in the face of a potential future where the lives of her children are at risk #all because an inept king and his reckless heir wouldn't properly codify the line of succession to prevent the situation they're all facing #neither alicent nor rhaenyra should hold the other in such staggeringly close regard after harm is perpetuated onto their families #lady jessica would not give a solid fuck about rhaenyra's feelings if paul was endangered by her carelessness

[imthursdaysyme]

Seeing Ghosts

#stranger things #drawing #art #digital art #nancy wheeler fanart #nancy wheeler #barb holland #nancy and barb #fanart #I this this entire arc with barb is the sadest thing #and people go and turn it into some horrible thing Nancy did or Steve did #to like chose a side but I love Nancy and Steve and it is cruel to try and place the blame of her fucking death in one or both of them #like I’m sorry hoW WERE THEY SUPPOSED TO KNOW SHED GET FUCKING TAKEN BY A DEMOGORGKN #JFC #anyway #let it be sad #let the be children who made mistakes without villinizing them #bc that’s you refusing to understand multidimensional characters as well as not understanding children and mistakes and morality #anyway I have such a rant on that but I’ll leave it there #I’m in my sad Nancy era

[vigilskeep]

i need to wynnepost. somebody has to

#its crazy how people will assume she is all the tropes she subverts and then ignore her #also how sympathy for circle mages’ indoctrination only lasts until they get old i guess and then fuck them #because its not as if they were ever a terrified child who’d never had anything better than a single templar’s mildest kindness and any kind #of home even if it was the tower #so an orphan kid who had no memory of anything but scurrying between farmsteads and hiding in barns #didnt want to leave. what a shock. you guys dont get the place comfort has in keeping circle mages complicit #so it’s violent and terrible and you never have privacy and your children get murdered and you’re always watched and hated #its also a warm bed and community and a chance to succeed #do you honestly think every kid from fucking THEDAS knows theres anything better out there #that doesnt make the circle good. it makes it horrific that they prey on vulnerable kids to teach them the world hates them #and only the circle is ‘safe’ #i just think there should be some sympathy for those kids and what they grow up into #its easy for the player to walk in and say their character would hate the circle and never have listened to the templars #its easy for say an amell or even a surana with a family back home to not fear what they left behind #wynne genuinely thinks without the circle mages would all be murdered and she’ll fight and die protecting her fellow mages #from the right of annulment #yes its a flaw that she goes on to teach others the circle must be tolerated and that is precisely how the circle is perpetuated ove #over generations #but its amazing to me to just act like its her fault #well. this is more tags than i expected it to be