#pseudoreality

[arcenciel-par-une-larme]

Cons of being a Pearlshipper: 1. We are such a small fandom that it's easier to find a Traditional Latin Mass church than Pearlshipping content 2. Occasionally getting blamed for all the evils of the Pokemon fandom

Pros of being a Pearlshipper: 1. Pearlshipping rocks 2. Enjoying our ship in perfect peace and not getting dragged into fandom drama, for us the anime finished at the end of DP 😌

#LOL over the years haters have said the darnedest things about us #Like e.g. very recently someone claiming that the backlash to happenings in the anime and to statements by the creators will be #'pRoBAbLy ThOsE DeLuSiOnAl pEaRlShIpPeRs' #and that Pokeshipping has been a dead fandom since 2015 or sth???? #SMH literal pseudoreality 😂 #pearlshipping #satohika

[mathemon]

Something that should be a law, but would likely never get passed, is that any group that determines how the budget is spent can't increase their wages if they are cutting funds for something else except for certain explicitly stated reasons (such as a department being overfunded, a program ending, or a high amount of people quit from a department), that have to have evidence be provided to back up the reason.

Unfortunately, lawmakers help determine how the government's budget is spent.

#politics #pseudorant #imho

[therapardalis]

Valentine's Application

from @pseudorealism

Name: Poe Dameron Age: 38 Do you like to cuddle?: I'd consider myself an expert in the art, yes Can we make-out?: Yes, please A night in or dinner out?: I'm biased to nights in, it's cozy and more importantly, p r i v a t e. Ice cream or chocolate covered strawberries?: There is a time and place for everything What makes you a good Valentine?: I am a good partner (in crime, in bed, you name it hahaha), respectful, generous and your #1 fan Would you cook for me?: Absolutely Would you let me cook for you?: Yes

"Hmm, 'cozy and p r i v a t e', huh? You still haven't forgiven Snap for not knocking, have you?"

#Pseudorealism #Star Wars AU #v; Come Fly With Me #;Good old times are back in town XD!

[fashionistaru]

Good morning 🌞 How are you today? #haveagoodday I’m with #goodmorningart #goodmorningpost this morning. Here’re @ilyazomb works for #morninginspiration #morningmood #pseudorealism #surrealmood #contemporaryart #artasinspiration #beautyofart https://www.instagram.com/p/CmI7L0lg5qM/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#haveagoodday #goodmorningart #goodmorningpost #morninginspiration #morningmood #pseudorealism #surrealmood #contemporaryart #artasinspiration #beautyofart

[strawberry-crocodile]

nothing makes me see Warhammer's vision like Ian Miller's old Rogue Trader art. Modern Warhammer, the pseudorealism and full color still conveys opprezzion and dystopia, yes, but it just lacks the gravitas that I think the setting is trying to convey.

THIS shit? I look at this and I go "Oh. In the grim darkness of the future, there is only war."

#40k #warhammer 40k #dalucaray

[esther-dot]

I'm the 2011/2013 Tumblr anon, and this is kind of embarrassing to admit but I'm also the original Dune anon, if that gives you any idea of my fandom background. (*/ω＼*) I've been in fandom since I was probably eleven or twelve, so fandom is basically home to me lol. I was always more of a sci-fi fan than a fantasy fan growing up, and so it wasn't until GOT I heard of the books; I'd never been a fan of the show, and I was impartial at best to the books. (At school, I knew classmates were reading them--- but for full context, I was a nerd disliked by other nerds for being too weird, so I wanted nothing to do with Tolkien/GRRM lol). I still have a bone to pick with GRRM (and this is partly what limits my participation) and in the case of my regular fandom, I'm very much used to isolation lol. (It's alt-right trolls who have a problem with me... sigh. Imagine a ship like Jonsa which redeems the books' thematic ideas and that's my situation).

I actually was familiar with the Sansa/Sandor ship long before I was interested in either media, because of the shipping circles I run in. Going from that lack of context to the context revealed in the actual books was very weird, because they seem like extremely disparate concepts. If you take Sansa/Sandor scenes and rearrange things, including the numbers in Sansa's age, it does feel like a powerfully violent BatB rendering with a dash of medieval pseudorealism; he's no prince and the romance is impossible, but perhaps he could be her knight or guardian in an unconsummated chaste romance or secret affair etc. It made me really rethink some of the ships I was interested in, and why, and where my tastes diverged from people I usually trusted. I am much less interested in ship archetypes by themselves than how those are enshrined in the narrative/themes at stake. It's also just interesting to me that Jonsa is an arguably truer, redeeming rendering of BatB, or a revisitation of that theme--- which GRRM is interested in, Sansa/Sandor fans are correct about that, but I think it's foreshadowing a future arc for her. Surely all the BatB exploration is being set up for something big?

So how did I find Jonsa.... well, it was a consequence of reading the books lol, though I imagine many people would say the show was illuminating (which is no condemnation that antis think it is). My interest in the books was primarily piqued through the show's ending--- I came to things rather late, but I'm thankful for that, considering that it seems like some of the best fandom discourse has taken place since then. I was mostly interested in it for the purposes of comparison of adaptation, which I find very interesting, and because I find predicting endgames in general very fun albeit painful. I watch a lot of things just to see what my instinctual feeling is because I like practising my narrative divination. I like engaging with storytelling! But I do have a mechanical fascination with it as well. I think this motivated my sending an ask about Dune to both you and transdimensional-void, mostly because the thing that often leads me in the right direction is getting a 'feeling' for the tone of something--- sometimes even beyond pure narrative reasoning. Lol

You'd ordinarily think the show would be offputting to a Jonsa theory (and this is a major spanner in the works, although I do kind of only semi-ironically believe they paired Jon with D/aenerys because E/milia Clarke is shorter than Kit H/arrington, where S/ophie is too tall, which they couldn't have predicted before being informed about a potential Jonsa resolution--- when in doubt, assume stupidity) but Jonsa is also deliciously ironic and tragic even if redeemed through an actual marriage (and we have so many weddings, over and over, that a symbolic redemption of Rhaegar/Lyanna's wound is basically being begged for--- Lyanna is realised in many ways in the story, through both Arya and Sansa... but it makes sense they'd redeem two sides to Lyanna, the wild wolfgirl and the girl married to a dragon. The wound inflicted through Rhaegar's absconding with Lyanna has to be redeemed, whether that is positively or shirking the possibility of a Lyanna/Rhaegar union altogether, so the door is open for tragic Jonsa in my eyes. These types of narrative questions are what I look out for when predicting narrative resolutions and is what led to me to seriously consider Jonsa). I was meditating on this recently because people were asking whether Cat and Ned would approve, and the marriage is only possible because they're dead. A Jon/Sansa arrangement is only possible because they have lost the people they loved most, and perhaps--- like I've seen suggested!--- it might even drive Arya away. As a writer, that, to me, is how you make Ned and Catelyn's deaths in the story echo in a bittersweet way. It's good storytelling. It goes beyond 'and we re-enact the lessons of parents' which is the normal way you'd realise parental remembrance and legacy. And something tells me GRRM isn't interested in predictability. Unless you've read Gothic literature.

So, beyond Jonsa I'm very interested in the reasoning underpinning the show's derivations, and in my case I'm much more interested in Jonsa in the books than the show (that wasn't really what did it), though in the case of the show, I'm interested in where you can potentially see reflections of a book dynamic. But so much of the adaptation is muddied that it's hard to parse, and I'm really not sure how much of GRRM's suggestions they truly had versus what they stuck to. If they knew they needed 'a Jon romance', in the same way as they needed Robb to break his wedding pact with the Freys, but supplemented Talisa, what was motivating their decisionmaking? D/aenerys was the selling star of the show and basically the face of it, and the face of the merchandise and the cultural conversation etc. (which is why they made her death punishing--- the storytelling is so spiteful, and normally I'm a villain apologist through and through, but this case was particularly egregious) and it would seem silly not to give her a romance, because how can you write important female characters without romance? Now, I'm a perennial romance apologist, but the thinking here, to me, seems rather suspicious. So, I think what's special about ASOIAF right now is we've got a theoretical ending through the show, but where does that translate to the books? And where does the fandom get it wrong, and where do they get it right? The historic ubiquity of Sansa/Sandor, and many other fandom trends (e.g. D/aenerys is the rightful ruler, or tragic heroine, and so on) is kind of like honey to me, because all of those theories were completely blown out of the water by the show, but critically--- critically--- there's still room for expansion in the book for other directions. I was put off by simplistic interpretations of the books that floated around and when I read them the fandom characterisation, crossplatform, was actually shocking to me.

Since you asked--- and I'm terribly sorry--- I have a lot of feelings about when TWOW may or may not come out, not just because of anticipation, but because GRRM's authorial struggle is hard to watch through the eyes of fandom. The condemnation of his procrastination, his apparent carelessness--- that he 'took the money and ran'--- the hopelessness--- it's very hard to watch, and what I wonder is how he feels as a writer. Releasing TWOW will lead him into the final endgame, and he'll have to say goodbye to his magnum opus. That is very hard, beyond the show sailing ahead, and beyond anything else. It also gets to me in a personal way (which no one else can help!) because I am a writer trying to finish a long work, and I'm literally at the equivalent point GRRM is, and--- although he's a celebrated published author, and I'm writing for the sole joy of it--- I think that there is probably something fundamentally similar there, which is that holy fuck it's hard. It doesn't matter how much you know what you need to do, doing it is hard, and writing itself is actually an extremely difficult task. And by writing that means formulating ideas, as well as actual finger to DOS machine.

Writing sometimes is kind of like trying to paint a person, except you've never seen a human being before.

But I think that if GRRM is really committed to his bittersweet romanticism, he can pull off a goodbye, lol. And as much as I quibble with his narrative ethos and sometimes he makes me tear my hair out, I want to see him complete his work, because I think every single author deserves that. And because I think that at a minimum, for something like ASOIAF, the legacy of its ending ought to be his final say. I can't speak to his actual psyche but I do fully believe if he can publish TWOW, he can do ADOS. My observation is that TWOW is structurally much more difficult than ADOS, and I think that's one of many reasons he's been dragging his heels, long before the show caught up. Once he gets to the victory lap of ADOS, he will probably have both a professionally and emotionally easier time in terms of having to finish it. TWOW merges the split threads of AFFC and ADWD, whereas ADOS will only have to follow through (touch wood) on the one book, where many perspectives and their storylines will have converged--- at some point, we may have Sansa, Jon, and Brienne all unified! Which resolves character goals as well as being more economic with POV distribution. This is the angle I find very interesting because I think the way he uses character chapters to establish context and meaning beyond pure character is actually genius and rarely done so well in genre fiction, and I'm completely envious of it. (This is also why Jon/Sansa makes so much sense).

This is a terribly long ask so please don't feel the need to respond line by line, lol. I think I got a little excited! Having a positive fandom interaction is so nice. It's really weird that fandom has become such a polarised place (I mean, we had ship wars, but people kept to themselves more), and you're lucky Jonsa is your first fandom--- well, outside of the anti-Jonsas--- because I think it's a lovely place.

This goes for any Jonsa reading it: thank you all for literally keeping me sane. 🥰🥰🥰🥰 If I may ask, Esther, I think you've said that you came to Jonsa through the show then the books--- what drew you to Tumblr fandom? I'm always interested in how people find fandom!

Dune, anon! I'll tag @transdimensional-void because your convo about it did make me finally watch Dune (although I still don't think I'll read the book, sorry!), but the film was gorgeous. I didn't realize the director was Villeneuve. He always has very interesting projects and arresting visuals. Arrival was such a surprising take on an alien movie and it has really stayed with me. I think he has exquisite pacing, too.

Well now I’m even more concerned about the attempted doxing! Horrifying. The internet can be a wonderful thing, but I swear, it brings out the absolute worst in people.

I totally get what you mean about S*nsan seemingly being a BatB thing, but I’ve suggested before that it’s more in line with one of the old monster movies or even King Kong which love to pair something terrifying with a beautiful woman or little girl. It doesn’t mean romance, it’s the juxtaposition of extremes, raw power being stopped by beauty, violence being calmed by gentleness. There’s that line at the end of King Kong, “It was beauty killed the beast.” IMO, the beast and beauty idea is certainly there for the Hound and Sansa, I just don't think it's Disney's Beauty and the Beast. It's a highly romanticized idea, but not a romance in the way we use the term now.

My parents are both huge readers, not really into novels. My dad liked The Hobbit and LOTR tho, and got really into doing dramatic readings of those at bedtime for us kids. I remember The Hobbit the best because he’d make up tunes for all the songs and sing them. They’re very nostalgic for me, that love extends to the LOTR movies, but made it impossible for me to sit through the Hobbit adaptation. Anyway, I read a few sci fi and fantasy books, but I never really got into it. My little sister on the other hand luuuuurrrvs fantasy and she was the one who got me to watch GoT (I’d heard of the books, hadn’t read them) together, but then we ended up living in different states and she decided that it should be our thing to avoid spoilers and only watch the show when we got together. So, we were always running behind from that point on, but we made it through s5 that way. Eventually we just didn’t have the time to do that, and she was so disgusted with s5 she was happy to drop it completely--never watched another episode. I was too invested to stop, so I watched s6-7 myself and was simply appalled by the characterization of Jon. It made me get online for GoT content for the first time. This was in 2018. I saw that Martin gave interviews saying the show’s ending would be his ending, so I a) sped read the books, b) started listening to some of his interviews, c) saw the term “Jonsa” for the first time in the comments of one.

It took nothing to get me onboard because Jon and Sansa were my favorites, I really loved their scenes together, I hated everything after they separated in s7, and I read a lot of 19th century lit as a teenager, so cousin marriage didn't even strike me as weird in the historical context. I can't remember which meta it was I read first, one of Fedon's or blindestspot's prediction of a Jonsa reunion and marriage from 2013, but I got on tumblr and was totally sucked into the fandom.

“I do kind of only semi-ironically believe they paired Jon with D/aenerys because E/milia Clarke is shorter than Kit H/arrington, where S/ophie is too tall”  — I’m screaming. D&D @ Kit: "Sorry buddy, if you didn’t want your character to fall in love with a mass murdering tyrant you should have kept growing." lmaooooo.

“Jonsa is also deliciously ironic and tragic even if redeemed through an actual marriage (and we have so many weddings, over and over, that a symbolic redemption of Rhaegar/Lyanna's wound is basically being begged for--- Lyanna is realised in many ways in the story, through both Arya and Sansa... but it makes sense they'd redeem two sides to Lyanna, the wild wolfgirl and the girl married to a dragon. The wound inflicted through Rhaegar's absconding with Lyanna has to be redeemed, whether that is positively or shirking the possibility of a Lyanna/Rhaegar union altogether, so the door is open for tragic Jonsa in my eyes.” --You put this so beautifully. I wish you'd get a side blog and post that in the Jonsa tag, I love it!

One of the major puzzles to me is how the fandom all know just how much the text talks to itself, it's notably self-referential, so the way they dismiss the idea of Rhaegar's son and a Stark girl romance...I have a really hard time believing they don't see the logic there, how it would bring things full circle. The way they treat S*nsan as "practically canon" while calling Jonsa a crack ship when we have that hanging over our heads is a little incomprehensible.

“I was meditating on this recently because people were asking whether Cat and Ned would approve, and the marriage is only possible because they're dead. A Jon/Sansa arrangement is only possible because they have lost the people they loved most, and perhaps--- like I've seen suggested!--- it might even drive Arya away.” --I agree with this too. I am very struck by how NedCat, some of the best people and one of the best relationships Martin offers, has this pain and tragedy written into their love. That's a big reason why I can't quite get on board with an easy resolution to Jonsa, because Martin is just drawn to conflict which is why his characters and story is so compelling, but also makes me think, there will be layers to Jonsa, some real pain there.

“And something tells me GRRM isn't interested in predictability. Unless you've read Gothic literature.” — I once posted a list of gothic lit tropes and he’s included all of them. But Gothic heavily influenced horror, and ASOIAF has horror elements, so that isn't totally surprising when you think about it. It still amuses me though!

It’s definitely a real struggle to see the sense behind D&D’s choices but when I was reading an interview looking for a specific quote, I did see that even in 2011 Martin was saying he knew the endgames, which is a) comforting for Sansa ending up safely in Winterfell purposes, b) reassuring for Dark Dany believers, c) hilarious when you think about how many people are still pissed about Arya and Bran’s fates. And Jon? Well, I’ve made my peace with a tragic ending (although I’ve mocked it a great deal too because I can't see how it works), but we all know they fucked him over the most in s7-8, so I could also see D&D trashing what his ending was meant to be in favor of catering to Targ fans. Apparently Emilia has recently reiterated her frustration that Jon “got away” with killing Dany, so like…imagine the rage if he’d killed Dany and then got a HEA in Winterfell. 

My feeling is that Martin told them Jon would kill Dany and they chose to do "the romance" (which imo, they didn't like because the way they wrote and filmed it and permitted Kit to act it just...sabotaged it in every way imaginable) to make it more palatable to her fans who ate it up. They actually are comforted that Jon "loved" Dany and after s8 dropped pics/gifs of him cradling her dead body into our tag bragging that he loved her. Like, D&D made really crappy choices, but I think it was about manhandling their audience while hitting Martin's plot points they knew the Targ fans would hate, not a result of them throwing out the endgames.

“ The condemnation of his procrastination, his apparent carelessness--- that he 'took the money and ran' --I’m not a Martin defender, I have real reservations with some of his choices, but I have family his age and do try to think of him as a person. I find a lot of how people speak of him...well, I have no issue with people being frustrated we don't have TWOW considering how long ago he said he'd finish it (like, back in 2016) and how often since then he's indicated getting close to the end only for it to then sound like he's quite a ways away. As long as people don't harass him, I don't think it's an issue to talk about this in fandom spaces. However, they often sound ignorant of what it takes to write something like ASOIAF, with all the levels he's trying to work on. Also, his writing style sounds like a total nightmare? The idea of tearing things up to fix them seems hopeless to me, and he’s talked about doing this repeatedly—it would be so hard to finish a chapter or several and then realize, nope, gotta rework all of it.

“because I am a writer trying to finish a long work, and I'm literally at the equivalent point GRRM is, and--- although he's a celebrated published author, and I'm writing for the sole joy of it--- I think that there is probably something fundamentally similar there, which is that holy fuck it's hard.” --Oh ho ho! Well, you know that’s gonna make me have all sorts of questions, so if you want to tell me about your work (genre, tome or series, influences, themes etc) I am all ears, but I also know some writers have to keep all that to themselves until they’re done so I won’t pry. Although, because of our exchanges, I would be interested in how you use romance in your own writing.

“writing itself is actually an extremely difficult task” // “Writing sometimes is kind of like trying to paint a person, except you've never seen a human being before.” —dead! I think the issue is, many people don’t distinguish between types of writing? So someone doesn’t distinguish between the goal and what say, a modern romance is attempting to accomplish versus a Jane Austen novel. They might end the evaluation at "like or didn't" and not grasp what all goes into different types of novels, their individual successes or failures, and why some novelists can complete multiple novels in a year, another might spend a few years on one. I think about this a lot when I see people suggest Martin get some ghost writers, and like, this man isn’t churning out genre fiction (which I love, I was a snob as a teen and cured myself, but it is an entirely different kind of writing!), so it's just...a lot of fans totally misjudge the effort required and how easily replicated the work would be.

“I think that at a minimum, for something like ASOIAF, the legacy of its ending ought to be his final say” --I find it incredibly sad every year that goes by and the chance of him completing his series dwindles. People forget that what holds sway over a culture doesn’t always have staying power and a) I think his work is doomed to being forever misinterpreted unless he finishes and b) I don’t think he’ll have accomplished what he wanted to regarding elevating fantasy / getting it the respect he believes it deserves unless he gets to that ending. It's a shame.

I enjoyed reading all your thoughts on Jonsa, the ideas it touches on and how GoT/ASOIAF might differ. Thank you!

#long post #dot chat

[spockandawe]

.....okay, I'm not stoked about this. Why do i suddenly have a ton of new notes on the months-old post about the repost of raksura short stories that got the patreon nuked? Reblogs have been off for months.

And while I'm here, any insights on why new followers when i haven't done anything but whine about how creatively dead in the water I've been? These aren't the definitely-spam followers who get elided on the notifications, i got an email for each of these. Or the like on my old old post about the jones trial? Any insights on why all this?

None of these LOOK like spam blogs, and i was curious enough that i went and searched raksura and/or my name on here, reddit, and twitter to see if there was anything likely to have done this. But tbh I'm on the verge of deciding this is the latest shitty iteration of spam bots, now with an extra veneer of pseudoreality and reporting everyone involved for spam and blocking from sheer irritation

#(the transformers interaction.... innocent. my boring old text posts freed from all relevance or context? suspicious as fuck t b h) #im not usually a stickler about this but im in the mood to try sweeping the beach clean tonight!! #all of these posts are old and boring. my latest books are no longer fresh news. and my blog is quiet and boring. #is this important? no. am i irritable enough today to try fighting the heavens? I SURE AM

[arcane-star]

So I posted a wip a couple days ago regarding my art of Gekigami in the style of those fucking comfy ass tiger blankets and it's finally finished! I'm honestly super proud of this, especially the colours.

And I knew it would be an absolute CRIME to make a fake Gekigami blanket design and not also try and make a fake wolf blanket design for Ammy as well, so here she is!

Anyways I actually ended up loosely basing these off of actual wolf and tiger blankets I own which I can show pictures of in the notes if y'all would like

Also I hate pseudorealism I'm gonna go back to drawing stylized animals now

#ōkami #okami #okami hd #okami game #okami fanart #okami amaterasu #gekigami #tiger blanket #wolf blanket

[juicesnatcher]

…I’ve been pronouncing it “pseudo-gorilla” since you’ve started doing art of the silly goat game. I only now realize that is the very wrong pronounciation.

LMAO you poor soul Dw I was mispronouncing the "regalia" part for a good while at first too (Saying it like "Pseudore-gauh-lia" using ah instead of the proper ay)

#juice rambles #ask

[gunpowdercarousel]

I was wondering if you had any other f/f ships or fandoms you were interested in?

I love your Shadowzel fiucs, your writing style even though the ship isn't really for me. I think I've left a kudos on every fic, I wish we could leave more than one

Uh tdlr I love your writing and was wondering if you had any other fandoms you enjoyed?

I was into Star Wars: The Old Republic for a little while. Oddly enough my fic-writing phase came AFTER my game-playing phase. I really liked a lot of the companions and characters, and I remember kind of WANTING to write fanfic about it while playing it but I just wasn't part of that world yet. I eventually just kind of lost steam with it once I reached later game content. Still a fun game and definitely worth checking out since so much of it is free ;) if you have the time!

I definitely enjoy a lot of fandoms, though not anything I'm super compelled to write fics about xD Just for a quick list I love One Piece, the Office (basic I know), Cyberpunk, Pokemon, AEW, Marvel, Fallout, VtM, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Naruto, DBZ, and LotR. That's without going into super, super niche stuff obviously. And yeah, none of them really get that fanfic itch going quite like BG3 has. Stuff like One Piece is just a bit too goofy, stuff like Fallout doesn't really have the romance I like, and VtM has an intimidating amount of lore to learn. Then there's stuff like Marvel, where I just don't really have any relationship I'm terribly attached to xD

I guess if I were doing something there it'd involve Nebula, which probably isn't a surprise given my love of Lae'zel.

I HAVE shipped people a bit in AEW but I would also just feel sort of weird writing about essentially 'real' people, given the pseudoreality of pro wrestling. Obviously real person fics are a THING, but they're not for me.

Anyway, hope that was elucidating :D Thank you for the ask!

#ask

[our-lady-of-haymakers]

Watched the pilot of SHY and really liked it? Mixing magical girls (the Best Character Archetype) with superheroes is such a fun idea, and especially relevant in the contemporary zeitgeist around capes. I think that in an age where the power of superhero stories to offer images of empathy and compassion in the face of the the apathy and alienation spread by late-stage capitalism often clashes with the hyper-commodified and endlessly regurgitated means by which so much popular superhero content is produced (to say nothing to the genre's intersections with discourses of policing, the military and protectionism), SHY's focus on the "heart" and an age where people truly desire harmony and peace after long decades of trauma really hits home. Taking a more centrally emotional, mahou-shoujo-inspired approach to the powers and organization of the heroes (as opposed to, say, the brand of vaguely sci-fi pseudorealism that comes and goes as people periodically try to make heroes "serious" or "realistic") also lets the series focus on the role of heroes as beacons of hope and ideals to look up to, as people who mend hearts and keep the torches burning, and on heroism as an act of profound honesty, trust and connection between people who are often strangers and yet yearn equally in one moment to live and love. Accordingly, SHY as a hero also has to learn to open herself up, to reach out and connect, to move beyond her confinement in a mindset that focuses constantly on the worst outcomes and walls her off from seeing how much she has to live for, and so putting on the mask for her serves as an act of recognition and not anonymity, an ignition that converts her shyness into fire and heat (the use of a magical girl transformation sequence also serves brilliantly to highlight the more symbolic aspects of a superhero's costuming). All in all, as the rare superhero story that's gotten me genuinely invested in its ideas and world, I'm looking forward to our gay little disaster's high-flying adventures.

#SHY

[pochapal-pokespe]

entity denied its own externally-imposed godhood that lives not in media but in the noise that Media emerges from, a primordial posterchild of pseudoreality and hauntological existence everybody give it up for rotom baybe!!!!

#pokespe liveblog #haunted lightning bolt that lives in a tv and calls you a bitch my beloved <3

[giomagnetism]

"tag the ocs that would kill you if they found out what you, as the author, had done to them" trick question. marlo, who has both had everything in the universe done to them and quite a lot of practice killing, would just sit down and be forced to reckon with the knowledge that fate takes the form of a 5'2" slightly fat pseudoreal extrauniversal non-entity with a penchant for nice button-ups and peach tea

#nonsense tag

[rustedskyprisms]

What is pseudorealism I don’t get it

[cetaceanhandiwork]

the tragedy of Goncharov (1973) (2022) is that crowdsourced pseudoreality quickly becomes overcrowded pseudoreality

we saw it with SCP stuff years ago, right? you play in the blank spaces, because it’s fun to fill stuff in there. but that means there’s fewer blank spaces for others to play in; sooner or later the choices become “paint over someone else’s work” or "content yourself to visiting an increasingly homogeneous landscape that your peers already filled in”

that might be why I haven’t sought out content about this, beyond the occasional morsel that finds its way onto my dashboard, even if pseudoreality is fun for me in general and the little I’ve seen has been really funny

[magicmoonlightwitch]

Astrological Planets

personal planets

sun leo

inner self, vitality/strength, ability to stand out, basic identity, willpower, goals, the fatherly

house: area we have to work on to stand out

planets: influences the person individualy and when they're born

moon cancer

feelings and emotions, reactions, imagination, feminity, the maternal, movement, versatility, family, home, our childish side

sign: instintive reactions, way to express feelings, estability and image of the mother

house: where we're the most sensitive and where we feel most secure

planets: way to express feelings

mercury gemini/virgo

logic, word, learning, communication, tech, intellect, ideas

sign: thought process, how we learn, communicate and exchange ideas

house: topics that interests us and areas which we can take benefit from

planets: affect thought process and one's interests

venus taurus/libra

beauty, pleasure, aesthetic, harmony, sociability, erotism, relationships, love, art, loving needs, ability to attract

sign: way of communicate, how we love and wanna be loved, what we like and value/not

house: where we find satisfaction, balance and harmony

planets: generosity to others and the kind of person we get along with

mars aries

energy, instinct, courage, determination, impulse, action, aggressiveness, sexuality, the masculine, competitiveness

sign: how we look for what we want, way of fighting for what we want and capacity to self-assert

transpersonal planets

social planets

jupiter sagittarius

search for purpose and individual meaning, faith and beliefs, philosophies, optimism and hope, justice, sociability, ideals, expansion, comprehension, trips

sign: way to comprehend life and how we share our thoughts

house: area that wants to expand their limits

around a year change

saturn capricorn

reality, life, where we find resistence, limitations, morality, laws, rules, tolerance, concentration, honesty, reserve. related with willpower and responsibilities. growth, perfectionism, self-criticism; a material planet

sign: not-developed qualities

house: where we have more difficulties to express ourselves and more responsibilities

2.5 years in each sign

spiritual planets

uranus aquarius

intuition, what's new and unknown, rebellion, originality, revolution, independence, freedom, tech advances, processes

house: where we feel original, independent, revolutionary

84 years zodiac travel

neptune pisces

suprasensory, mystic, disappointment, illusion, fake appearances. drugs, pseudoreality. dreams. empathy, compassion. addictions

house: where one does more for others than oneself, where something's missing. illusions and disillusion.

14/5 years change

pluto scorpio

transformation. metamorphosis. regeneration after destruction. when we're willing to change if we're able to. related to death and sexuality, psychic. hidden things and emotional control. power

house: our deep self that we should transform into something positive

12/32 years change

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