#that was kind of a tangent but well.

[katnissgirlsmakedo]

unfortunately having been in high school when love simon came out impacted me in insane ways.

#as we know i started love victor the other day #because i definitely needed another show. 😐 #anyway i’m finishing episode 1 now and i just got to the part where simon dms him back and hearing nick robinsons voice made me cry. #nicholas galitzine you will never be him. not to me. not ever. #that was kind of a tangent but well. #anyway. other thoughts on the show. it’s nice i like victor i love how he’s a hater but also kind #i like his stupid annoying best friend neighbor he’s very like. 2020s streaming show loser funny #do you know what i mean. like this character can only exist in this type of media #i like nora but god we have got to get her out of there. i don’t know what her name is in this #oh i love that they brought back ms albright i love that lady… #um. anyway. hi simon <3 my good close friend simon…. #again king i’m sorry i didn’t put u in the timeless video i should have i just forgot…. you forgive me right… #beth.txt

[general-cyno]

I recently saw someone on YT talking about Zoro's past and while I agree that his flashback feels rushed within the story (which I think can be explained by how early it happens) what always surprises me is how unsettling it is for people. It's a simple but sharp reality in a fantasy world, quite similar to what happens in Usopp's past and perhaps not so common for the rest of the OP world, who have pasts more rooted in the rules of that universe. Kuina died after falling down the stairs. "In OP's world there are people who survive worse things..." they say. "It's absurd. She was trained and very strong." Yeah, sure, but Kuina died like that. Suddenly. Anticlimatically. She was as full of dreams and ambitions, fears and insecurities as everyone else. But she died in an accident. She died too soon. Without a reason. With no one to blame. Simple, cruel and real.

Y'know, I've seen this around a lot. especially in posts (on r/ddit and twt in my case) where people argue about zoro having a "mid" backstory or complain about wanting oda to give him a proper one. and ngl I feel like this pairs up with OP fandom's bad habit of powerscaling everything - even loss, trauma and grief.

Sure, if you compare kuina's death to all the other ones throughout OP it might not seem as "tragic", but this is one of those instances in which context and individual experiences matter most. kuina was just a kid who, despite her strength and training, was led to believe by her own father that her gender would become the reason she'd never achieve her dreams. and when she finally finds someone who believes in her, who sees her as an equal and a goal to strive towards to, who's willing fight against and alongside her - she dies. as you mention: she dies without reason, with no one to blame. that is plenty tragic to me, regardless of all other sad or abhorrent things that happen in the story's universe.

This is just me speculating but I've also wondered if the fact that zoro's relatively well-adjusted despite the hardships and losses he's lived through is part of what makes people downplay both kuina's death and the role it plays in zoro's backstory/motivations. because the thing is - zoro may not carry or express his losses and grief as outwardly as other characters do, but look at how he reacts when the people he loves are in danger and the kind of sacrifices he's willing to make so that they'll be safe. how he's usually always keeping an eye on and watching out for all of them some way or the other. look at how he cries (which iirc he's done on page only three times) when he loses the duel against mihawk.

Zoro, similarly to other straw hats, had his parents die due to pirates or bc of an illness, grew up as an orphan, and the only friend he had died in a manner he couldn't do anything to foresee or prevent as well; the latter of which has impacted his life all the way to adulthood. kuina's memory is one that's at the forefront of what he does, just like his promise to luffy. draw the parallel between this, how fiercely protective he is and how much he hates the idea of dying in circumstances out of his control (I'd argue it even terrifies him a little, judging by his reaction to the reaper in wano) and it's easy to see how much his experiences, and especially kuina's death, have shaped him as a character. just bc he's not crying, having breakdowns or generally brooding about it every time he appears on screen doesn't make his life story less important, sad or tragic than anyone else's. plus, the stability he provides to luffy and the crew is crucial, so he needs less narrative reasons to leave them, not more. zoro not having, for example, a centric rescue arc doesn't make him less of a straw hat member either.

#tp #replies #thank you for this! it's smth I've thought and wanted to talk abt as well #I kind of went on a tangent by the end sorry

[st4rstudent]

Giant cornplate post here but I'll get my thoughts out anyways. I really like how even visually Mac and Winn are contrasting yet similar. Winn's main color is yellow and Mac's is purple, which are contrasting colors. Yet, they both wear green. And then both of them having glasses but they're different shapes (circle vs square). and ouuughhoguhgh. theyre good friends. i like them.

#clemramble #sorry this is a massive cornplate post . idc. ive posted my thoughts privately and now you all get to hear them #i always wonder if the color choices were done on purpose. i mean winns is obviously. being based off the windows logo #but macs based off a dutch bunny and not the macOS logo . soi always ponder if the purple was an active choice or if it was just coincidenc #not that itd change anything if it was or wasnt . their designs are clemheaven to me anyways #but yeah . you could also write about the same thing with their personalities #mainly in the way they talk in broadcasts. from what i interpret winns a lot more nervous and more casual whereas mac is well. its mac #i also think its funny that despite being nervous and stuttery winn gets to the point faster than mac. like if you read an alarming rate of #aptitude. mac takes 15 years to get to the point which is one reason it gets cut off so easily #and then in the hires and heroes blogpost it goes to do that again and then gets interrupted by winn #but even then winn does sometimes go off tangent just a tiny bit but is much more eager to get back to the point. i presume because of bein #nervous #i just think its all so good. i think they play off of each other in a funny way but not one that would be annoying to either of them #something something. contrasting enough to be different but similar enough to be best friends #sorry this is a kind of long tag post about mac and winn. i just like them alot and i need to get that out there. i hope you all can enjoy #my thoughts #...even if they turn out to be wrong.

[francy-sketches]

Who IS your favorite character then? 👀

cersei :3

#Anonymous #asks #I don't draw her a lot just bc I can't get her design right 😭 idk something's always off #also it's bc she's a fully realized character + more people talk about her so in my head I'm like. well I have less to add #I feel like I tend get more creative inspiration from chatacters/aspects of a character that are less popular/developed #not always but often #idk if that makes sense #like sansa is another fave of mine but I dont really draw or talk about her bc well everything's kind of been said already #but with cersei it IS mostly bc I can't get her right lol #and also even tho she's popular I stay away from most of her stans bc they piss me off like stfu you don't get her!!! #they're all 'ohh twincest so smexy' bitches noo ur making it boring!! its not smexy it's CRINGE that's the whole appeal!! in my opinion :) #so I can almost pretend she's a niche character that only I and my beloved mutuals with correct opinions like #anyway. classic tangent in the tags from tumblr user francy-sketches

[autoboros]

If you played the Pokemon DLC, what's your opinion on Kieran and Carmine :0

Absolutely love the both of them, kind of wild how my opinions swapped between them

At first I loved Kieran and really disliked Carmine but by the end of the teal mask I thought Kieran was becoming a little bitch (affectionate + positive) and I absolutely loved Carmine

Still do, I'd say Carmine is probably my favourite to come from scarvio, below Arven but above Drayton

#off the topic of kieran and carmine but on the topic of characters; #i dont know if its just because its been well over a year since i completed the base game story but #i kind of feel like penny nemona and arven got really flanderised in mochi mayhem? #i dont know if im alone in thinking this but i dont think i remember them being so one dimensional #going from characters with interesting stories to Nemona wants battle! Arven clingy! Penny is a fucking geek!!!!!! #penny probably annoyed me the most tbh mochi mayhem was weird for me but otherwise i liked everything a lot #sorry about this tangent its just bugged me so much #of course these traits were always a bit strong in them. nemona especially. but i really dont remember them being this bad

[bugsbenefit]

scary that there's still Will bowlcut haters around. like... that's his core character design, it looks nice too. sorry to all the different hairstyle enjoyers out there but Will without a bowlcut simply wouldn't be Will to me. that's the side effect of them doubling down on that one single hairstyle for 8 years. they can style it different or make it messier sure, but he needs Some version of a bowlcut otherwise who is that

#Duffers did it to themselves #if they'd change the haircut Now i'll call the s5 hair department a flop no hesitation #not because it would look bad but simply because That's Not My Will that's just noah schnapp with a wig #also unrelated side tangent ik this is just about silly hcs but anytime i talk about Will's hair i get annoyed about how the #bowlcut became the minion meme equivalent of the fandom #i simply refuse to believe people actually hate bowlcuts that much that has to be some kind of moist phenomenon #i've never in my life seen someone irl make fun of bowlcuts or personally even noticed one as 'strange' #but go online and there's apparently consensus that bowlcuts are cringe or something? lmao? #you can probably imagine how surprised i was when i found the st fandom for the first time and everyone just kept talking about Will's hair #when it's literally a normal ass haircut #and meanwhile no one realized that Mike also had a bowlcut for 3 seasons. i swear 'Will bowlcut lmaoo' just became a meme #i'm convinced half of these people don't even know what a bowlcut looks like since they apparently can't recognize one #side tangent over this had nothing to do with what people are talking about actually 😭 #my furstration about the way a fucking haircut out of all things became the funny stinger of the show apparently never goes away #and comes back out any time i type the word hair.... oh well #ignore the tags i was having a moment (flashback having nothing to say after a show besides 'the hairrr 😭')

[ljesaw]

can’t stop thinking about somebody saying that zuko is constantly going against his very nature in order to be evil and i will be crying about it forever frankly

#do you ever think about little baby zuko loving and adoring his mother #like that mama’s boy is gentle…..underneath…….All That #the complex relationship between zuko and literally every member of his family makes me actually lose my shit #zuko and ozai make me foam at the mouth ozai should rot but i also just love complex crunchy family dynamics #but i also think about at the end of book 1 #and jeong jeong talking about how fire is dangerous because it’s so unpredictable #which also speaks to the way firebenders wield their fire #the typical form that’s used in that they exert a lot of force and power on their opponent #probably largely because there’s truly only so much they can control with their own element #and only really gifted firebenders can master such a fickle element well enough to exert that kind of effort and focus #do you ever think about zuko learning and understanding all 4 elements to better his own mastery and form(s) #this post was supposed to be about zuko’s complexity and the fact that i went on an entirely unrelated tangent #that’s actually somewhat related too #just speaks for itself. one day ill make sense i swear #anyway if this doesn’t make sense. i’ll fix it later. maybe

[candies-and-eyeliner]

I think it's very punk rock of me to not get lip filler

#me? an anticapitalist queen? yes #well #a cheapskate afraid of everything but same difference #beauty industry you might have successfully made me insecure about my appearance #but you'll never get my moneyyyyyyyy #beauty industry but also that bitch [redacted] at work that keeps complaining about having thin lips but like her lips are bigger than mine #oh she doesnt have tumblr yolo fuck you sandra #oh while we're going on a tangent #thats the reason why i dont talk a lot about my physical insecurities #cause if you say something negative abt your appearance and someone else with that same trait hears you it's kind of like insulting them #no matter if you say like 'well i dont like that ON ME but on others it's fine yada yada yada' #guess what too late! the seed is planted the damage is done

[fakemagicjaye]

I HAVE FIVE PAGES. LEFT. TO DRAW.

#i don't want to jinx it AGAIN but tomorrow........ i might have adhd meds #should the fucking stars align #vacillating wildly between #okay tangent but that “draft saved!” thingy that shows up ON TOP OF THE TAGS I AM CURRENTLY TYPING #DO YOU FUCKING MIND #anyway #vacillating wildly betweennn #there's no way you really have adhd you're using other peoples' struggles to justify being a shitty person #and okay time to draw i just need to look up every person i remember from elementary school on facebook #oh yeah name redacted has a beard that suits him so time to draw oh and name redacted IS cool even tho my shitty brother said he was like #a huuuuuge stoner well i didn't believe him anyway #time to draw i just need to find out if mika is on tour and if he's coming to canada and read his entire wikipedia page and time to draw #i just need to listen to his new song but the song youtube is playing next is not the vibe but i DO need to see a giant spruce beetle #not a cool giant beetle the kind that make a clicking noise and pinch you and strike a visceral fear into my heart #and i need to rewrite this later scene because i was thinking about it and thought of something better #and time to draw but first i need to write this tumblr post #this is because netflix doesn't have himym on there anymore #the concept of talking about himym ends all rambling bc i could talk about it for so long i don't even know where to start #thanks for coming to my ted talk

[dayurno]

you are also my morning newspaper!! so glad you have so many fans we all love your kevposting <3

fans what fans pah!!!!!! how many people am i blasting with insanely specific and psychosexually deviant content in the morning. take care of yourself cuties no phones in bed if you can help it

#ive been blessed in my aftg fandom experience because i havent #been through the horror stories some of my friends and fellow fan creators have to share #which is very very very good for me because it tells me i’m in a highly specific bracket of people #but i do fear my bits breaching containment. i’m not built for online harassment this blog would be down in seconds #well anyway at least i never got any direct hate mail #the worst ive gotten is people beefing with aaron or jean in the comments of tnotg #something to be grateful for considering what ive heard from others #well oh. unrelated tangent i fear. thank you anon youre so kind #asks

[ultimategirldad]

[ID: screenshot from the spamton sweepstakes page, featuring a caption from the engraved wristwatch prize. It says "NEED PROOF? THERE LIES THE NAME OF THE [angel with the tattered wings]!". End ID]

So I think regarding this page. It's interesting to contextualise it with the text preceding it - especially the angel with the tattered wings part. 

I don’t think we’ve ever seen Noelle Holiday described like this before and it’s absolutely fascinating to me.

#deltarune #noelle #spamton sweepstakes #Edit: really long tags!! fyi #there is a lot I want to say but i'm too tired lol. anyways noelle holiday is a character with well documented flaws and-- #--the text in that page doesn't feel ooc for me at all. like. yes she's indecisive. yes she's literally frozen in fear. yes she'll literally #inconvenience herself so she doesn't step on others toes. and yes she's not gonna do anything about the bullying because... #what CAN she do? talk to kris? something that's established as a Hard and Rare thing to do. tell a teacher? literally which teacher?? #alphys the one who sees this happen day in and out and with the authority to make a difference... but doesn't. or toriel. which I'm #not even gonna explain why that would go terribly. So that leaves us with... noelle standing up to susie herself. which i'd like to #point out that noelle learns to stand up for herself and others by the *end* of chapter 2. so I think there's most definitely a #precedent here for noelle to act the way she does. she's deeply flawed and has many weaknesses to exploit (as we've seen in -- #snowgrave) BUT she's deeply wonderful and kind and all of that coexists together. #WHOOPS I didn't mean for this to get so long sdfghjkl and rant-y uhm I'm really not that fussed I just think people are seeing-- #a character act in a non-ideal way and immediately assuming that it has to be Not Canon or OOC or Wrong. #I agree the topic and text is uncomfortable but. not anything unexpected?? yeah that's my 2 cents #this was all typed in one go by a sleep deprived me so if I got anything incorrect please don't pick me apart thank u #cryptic capri #discourse #<-- just in case bc I went OFF on a tangent with this lol

[miniaturecreature18]

Yeah why were people shitting on Camilla's cinderella?!?! She is amazing and the musical is entertaining

I lived under a rock and just found out, thanks to rwrb, i am on a cast that includes nicholas movie watching spree

#also growing up #i really loved cinderella #like cinderella is probably the first girl character i fell in love with #just her grit and determination to be kind #always in love with her since my childhood #every version of cinderella is lovable #6 year old was filled with love and empathy for cinderella #and when she was “saved” by the prince #kiddo me really wanted to have my own getting saved moment #hah #well older me ain't meeting any cinderella or the prince or a godmother #sigh #went on a tangent there #cinderella #disney princess #nicholas galitzine #camilla cabello

[funforahermit]

are you kidding me, there's no sign of life from jonno for MONTHS and then a few hours after i get freshly obsessed with his acting and chemistry with rhys again his wife casually drops this:

how's that for synchronicity

#thank you georgia 🙏 #jonno roberts #georgia roberts #rhys darby #(well rhys darby adjacent) #i still picture them living in a sort of guest house on rhys' property looking after his stuff #which i think was kind of true at some point but very probably isn't any more #but you know me i like to imagine this kind of stuff #the whole world in service of king darby 🧎‍♀️ #captain darby? #whatever #sorry for the tangent #it's sunday though let me daydream

[bmpmp3]

dysgraphic artiƨts risɘ UP!!!!!

#raise your pencils!!!! and erasers. to fix the backwards letters 😔 #sorry still thinking about my weirdness with my art professors. yknow a lot of em have been really pushing us as #students to make our personal identities a major part of like our 'brand' as artists #which. well from an art history major perspective thats a very contentious and nuanced topic. i love a lot of artists who live this way #and i think its great seeing my peers who focus on identity thrive. but also as an fine arts major (double major fool LOL) #i keep getting pushed by teachers into like. specific '____ artist' identities??? #specificaly woman artist. which is a little bizarre because im a bit fat and a bit gnc so im generally like. ungendered? in day-to-day life #(which doesnt actually matter to me directly that much honestly LOL people tend to view me as like. buddy? buddy or pal.) #(not man. not woman. not anything human. sometimes i remind people of a beloved dog. which. hkdsahjk thats its own can of worms) #(a can of worms that also doesnt matter much to me directly because im a wannabe furry who chose to be the dog when playing house as a kid) #(LOL so um. well. theres that) but yeah i dunno i dont really consider myself a woman artist. its been. shockingly (and sometimes luckily?) #irrelevant to most of my life and experiences and art (although dont get me wrong misogyny is very real and very present) so i dont #have a whole lot to say about it from an art perspective. you could also call me all kinds of things. a queer artist. a mixed race artist #again technically correct. some aspects more visible in my work than others. but also very technical. i focus on race a lot in in my #art historical work but i dunno how much my drawings have to say. except that i keep making too many mixed ocs LOL #i dunno i just think my professors gotta focus that energy away from tokenizing me and over to supporting like actual #capital W Woman artists capital Q Queer artists capital A Artists of Colour who are doing far more interesting things than I #far more thought out and engaged in these topics directly. i just kind of stumble into my art blindly and confused <3 #sorry that was a long tangent WHAT IM SAYING Is despite all that: i do consider myself a capital D Dysgraphic artist #i think its an unmovable constant of my art and the way i draw and the way my hands move. the untrained eye doesnt seem to be as aware #of it directly. but those who are familiar can probably see it. the dysgraphia LOL if not just from whenever i write a letter or number #half of them are busted and frantically fixed HDKJSDJDS but its in all my art. if u can see it <3 ive been trying to embrace it #dygraphic artists raise your pencils indeed!! and throw away the eraser!!! make the legibility of your words everyone elses problem!!! #what does that say? what is that sketch? none of my business! none of your business!! its the business of my hand and the pencil alone #motor skill and spatial issues take the wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeel

[hecatesbroom]

I hope you don't mind the influx of GG/Dorothy asks you've gotten because I really love your takes and your fics really touch upon a more vulnerable part of Dorothy that I feel was rarely fully explored but was very much present. I was watching recently an ep where Dorothy says she thought her father didn't like her or love her and Sophia cracked that he always talked her up ... to try and sell her to gypsies. Dorothy says "do you know how much that hurts me when you say things like that?". It's one of those lines that's never really followed up on or given a big moment but it stays with me.

Not at all!! I love hearing from you! <3 (and if you ever feel up to it, feel free to send me a dm as well! I'd love to hear more of your thoughts!)

Thank you so much :') I started writing Golden Girls fics precisely for that reason: Dorothy's vulnerability is left so underexplored in the show, even in the moments that (in my opinion, anyway!) presented the perfect opportunity to delve a little deeper into her feelings. I had to give her a moment to shine haha.

That line is the perfect example of what I'm talking about, actually! They throw in those really poignant lines or moments (or even just looks, at times) that hint at so much going on beneath the surface, but it's never expanded on. The only emotional moments she does get, that are fully followed up on, are those relating to Stan -- and even there I feel like a lot is glossed over (often by Dorothy herself, first and foremost).

I could probably write an essay on this but I'll spare you, but I think Sophia's often treated much the same -- if slightly differently -- in the show! And I mean, considering she raised Dorothy, I'm pretty sure she inadvertently ended up teaching Dorothy that covering up your vulnerability is the only way to deal with it. Sophia covers her feelings with quips and jokes, Dorothy does it through dismissal.

And because both of their methods for covering up are very convenient for a sitcom (I can drag Blanche into this as well, by the way. But I promised not to write an essay) it's *so easy* for the narrative to just. go along with their own dismissal of their feelings. Have Sophia distract from her feelings with a funny joke, and the audience is on the floor. Have Dorothy dismiss her feelings with a Look, and there's another opening for someone else to keep up the pace and move the scene along into lighter territory.

#they did only have 24 minutes to tell a story after all! #so if you have characters who will conveniently cover up their vulnerabilities then you won't have to take up all that time to explore that #and you can move on to the driving factor of every sitcom: the plot #they fit *so much* story into that short runtime it honestly kind of makes sense #i feel like all the girls have those moments where there's clearly something else going on but it's never explored bc the plot moves on #but it's easier to put blanche or rose in an emotionally heavy plot than it is for dorothy #i think #because blanche does keep up a facade as well but she *cannot* let go of it #she puts up a performance but she's *putting on a performance* (constantly). so there's enough of a base for the narrative to focus on #rose even actively looks for support. i'd argue she handles vulnerability very well! so again: easier to centre a plot on #dorothy though?? dorothy will probably go on like nothing's wrong #and *that* doesn't make a compelling central plot in a sitcom #(which is part of why i love 'sick & tired' so much! dorothy has to be vulnerable there because she *cannot* run this time) #oh no i'm so sorry. i went on a tangent in the tags #anyway THANKS for this ask anon! you made me very happy with the opportunity to talk about this haha #the golden girls #ask #anon #dorothy zbornak

[tsubasagirl]

My tenth photo featuring two look-alike blonds

(Siebold looks like a grown-up Gladion ‘3’)

#gladion #elite four siebold #pokemon sun and moon #pokemon ultra sun and moon #pokemon xy #my screen recording #this one is kind of my most boring one yet but an interesting idea nonetheless #the main reason I find Siebold memorable is cuz he looks like what Gladion could look like as an adult #I also saw some posts about the upcoming legends game that Gladion could get thrown into an Ingo situation #which be getting me scared but also I wanna see him again #in mainline games I mean #I also remember it was mentioned somewhere that the Aether family comes from a far away country #meaning that they’re not local/native to alola #I wish that lore could be revealed #perhaps they’re from Kalos or another region that’s yet to be released/well-known #makes me think of Gladion as a mysterious prince from a faraway land heehee <3 #but back to this picture #I don’t mean to make it look like they have beef #it’s more like ‘why do you look like me…?’ #there’s also one fan art out there where they’re in this situation #oh yea another tangent #it would be REALLY cool if the upcoming legends game introduces an ancestor related to Gladion :3