#that’s like. how generational cycles work

[bxriles]

I will eventually have a full rant, but this one is just off the cuff. I would like to say that I know jjk is a tragedy and I know (and love) that it doesn’t follow traditional Shonen manga. I am aware of all of this.

But Gege. My brother in christ. I really am not following the narrative decisions being made here…. And I haven’t since the start of the culling games.

Why is the story framed as the younger generation being “better” than the older generation and breaking generational cycles and changing the status quo if this is what we’re doing to the younger generation?

And yes, yes. Before people start freaking out, I do understand that this is a tragedy. I’m just not sure how we got to this level of tragedy when the story was not framed that way. (My full rant will be coming with receipts supporting that btw.)

I mean jfc, seeing those 261 leaks made me feel like I was reading Steven Erickson’s Deadhouse Gates again in terms of sheer bleakness and brutality. The only difference is that it worked in Deadhouse Gates because the story was always framed to be that tragic and brutal and I would argue that Jujutsu Kaisen has had VERY DIFFERENT framing since the beginning.

#jjk spoilers #jjk 261 #jjk leaks #jujutsu kaisen #yuta okkotsu #satoru gojo #jjk #jjk rant #jjk ramblings #gege akutami #gege when i catch you gege #jjk ch 261 #choso kamo #yuji itadori #megumi fushiguro #nobara kugisaki #this isn’t even about Gojo being dead and being brought back with kenjaku’s cursed technique #it’s about yuta and yuji and todo and choso and nobara and megumi and hakari

[cha1cedony]

Btw I haven’t stopped thinking about Link’s most recent teen fact. I know it was funny silly! Lincoln sneaks in to clean his dads’ bedroom! But also. it made me SO sad 😭💔 I’m almost always sad when we learn more about the Grant and Marco’s relationship bc wow yeah the Wilsons never change :( For all of Grant’s efforts to communicate better with his son, to do a better job at that than Darryl and Carol did, he doesn’t communicate with his husband! He outright lies to his family! And now we know that Marco also doesn’t really communicate that well lol

#I know this does for EVERY family in dndads #that’s like. how generational cycles work #but I am just very extra sad about Grant specifically okay #he’s my special boy 😔 lmaooo #ps: do NOT get me started on Lincoln cleaning his parents’ bedroom.. needing to have a way to say goodnight again just in case…. #him being obsessed with vaccines and nootropics lol #he is so much MORE ocd than Grant. and in all the same ways as Darryl. it makes me emotional #ahem anyway #this post appeals to me exclusively but whatever #chalcy stuff #dndads #dungeons and daddies #I don’t think this needs to be tagged as spoilers? #it’s been like three weeks so shrug

[mikesbasementbeets]

"if they don’t tell me explicitly that mike was never attracted to el then that means he was"

[removes hands while kissing]

[unresponsive to kiss & "i love you," eyes wide open]

[the sunglasses stay on during kiss, also get off me you're crushing the flowers i carefully placed right in between us]

[no fear]

[one fear]

"idk if they don’t make it clear to me that he doesn’t love el romantically then that means he does"

"they haven't given any indication yet that he doesn't like girls..."

"yeah, mike has definitely shown attraction to girls"

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#this is NOT in opposition to elli's post i rb'd btw it's not obvious it's not supposed to be obvious. but that's the point. if you read #between the lines and pay attention to the subtext then it becomes the only logical conclusion. it's not going to be In Your Face obvious #that's the POOOOOOOOIIIIIIINT #the idea that if it's not explicitly stated outright then it's not there is just. annoying and literally not how this show works ever #a bi m*ke reading recognizes the subtext without acknowledging the fact that the whole liking girls facade is just that. a facade. #and that mike's queerness being invisible and his generally being constantly dismissed and invalidated is a HUGE part of his character #i DO think they'll make it more explicitly clear in s5 but. it IS already there if you look closely enough and don't ignore things #that don't fit into your existing perspective #anyway this post is for marianne who said it was time for gay/bi mlke discourse again #harbinger of the discourse cycle. hi #(jk don’t make discourse out of this im kidding it’s not serious) #(i mean the 'bi m*ke totally makes sense' takes never stop it's just that whenever people refute them everyone cries discourse) #(don't do that) #mikesbasementbeets posts #mike wheeler

[skitskatdacat63]

I'm looking at 2009 vettonso pics with cofi rn and they're so AUGHHHHH 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

Seriously like, calm before the storm, they don't know what's going to happen in the following seasons, they're quite cute with each other, etc. Actually their dynamic in these is similar to what they were like in the later years but the difference of "not knowing what's gonna happen yet" vs. "they've been through so much together and have both come out on the other side."

I mean I'm so vettonso-brained rn, as you know, so take this with a grain of salt, but for me it's like, Fernando looking at Seb like "hmmm who is this rookie, he reminds me of myself when I was in his position"

STOP BEING SO SOFT, YOU'RE GOING TO KILL ME 😭😭😭

#my personal thesis on vettonso is: #'two people who are very similar and have very paralleled careers but have been pitted against each other + #from the start so they cant see and appreciate those similarities because irs what they hate most about the other + #but then when they're both in the twilights of their careers they come to find they do in fact relate and like each other' #always interesting to me how their careers are slightly offset but parallel each other super well #but then the theoretical end is seb being accepting of his fate and passing the torch onto fernando so he can do what seb couldnt #but just the: baby at str/minardi youngest wdc -> ferrari failure and watchinf the new generation take over -> sent out to pasture kinda #sorry that is sooooooo depressing how i jjst wrote that LMAO #but again so so so happy that fernando is over here breaking the cycle and plotline by doing the things at Aston that seb was unable to #anf that hes onlt able to do those things because of all thw work seb put in 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺 #feeling emotional today over THEM #theres just something to me how simialr they are but how they were forced into conflict #bcs looking at all of these 2009 pics. look at the potential of softness!!!! but they were always doomed to be enemies #anyways #in the au this would be them meeting before they know about the succession drama #theyre just two young royals who are meeting for a bit 🥺🥺🥺 #and theyre like ah this guy!! pretty cool!!! and then it all falls apart #vettonso #catie.rambling.txt

[spidermanifested]

from now on i extra wont be able to take any posts seriously that go "fullmetal alchemist was actually doing something revolutionary by having sympathetic war criminals because it teaches viewers the valuable lesson that war criminals are people too" because im 4 seasons deep into a show thats actually doing that but good (hbo's barry)

#this is in part because it is a show for grownups and not for 14 year olds #but also because it goes beyond surface level 'killing people is bad' re: criticism of the military #also like generally if you want a show about cycles of abuse that REALLY knows how people work #barrys good. watch barry

[layzeal]

See thats the thing. Yes it will make him absolutely miserable to end the bloodline. But thats the thing. He can't do otherwise. The more he fails to get a wife (and to examine why), the more he interiorizes that it must come from an inherent fault of his and the worse his attempts get. Thats also why I dont think he would "adopt" either, his problem is that he can't really move on. Jin ling is different, because he's his sisters son, not his. And hes channeled all his energy into him, which is crazy politically speaking since jin ling can never be a jiang heir. I think part of him is terrified that he would do to his actual son what his father did to him (bc he will always love jin ling more on the basis of him being jiang yanlis son, the same way jiang fengmians affection for wei wuxian was a continuation of his love for cangse sanren). I think its really complex but honestly I'm compelled by the increased misery as stated above :)

i get you friend, but i really think you're giving him more credit than it's due 😭 my man has never done a bit of self-analysis in his life and i don't think failing to get a wife will get him to start

#like. he's waaaay too terrified of failing his dad's legacy to let his bloodline die #and the whole thing abt jc is how he ends up falling back into the toxic cycle :( the tragedy of his arc to me #is exactly watching how he turns into his mother despite how much he didnt want to! #he's that guy we all know irl who refuses to analyze himself and will get married and have kids and likely make all the same mistakes #because that's the cycle of generation trauma... and jc is one of the characters in which that is the most clear #but again! i dont think he'd be unhappy with that ending #he doesnt even WANT a wife. a political unpassionate marriage works perfectly well #and if the wife plays her cards right and doesnt rly care for his affection either theyre golden #and his children dont have to be miserable either. yes he fell back into the cycle and we see how much he pushed JL #but he's def not AS bad as his mom. and after the canon events he's likely to chill out #but any jc ending that relies on him doing any sort of self-analysis of his own flaws and mistakes isn't gonna happen i'm sorry dkjvhdh #modao #lace speaks

[always-a-slut-4-ghouls]

I think someone put the brain of a mouse or maybe a squirrel inside my head at some point because all winter I was like “I crave nuts and seeds” and now that it’s getting warmer and brighter out my brain keeps going “it’s fruit time”

Like, modern transportation has made it possible to move many fruits all over the world (in theory) all the time! But the primal early plesiadapiform part of my brain is like “you must eat what is available this season”

#I was going to go with euarchonta or plesiadapiform brain but I think the early members of both of those groups were from a tropical #ecosystem. if I’m wrong though and either are from more seasonal environments I could change what I used #actually. wait. plesiadapis is from the late Paleocene. yes. but tropical plants have reproductive cycles too #do they generally vary by season or are they just doing it all at their own pace by species #I am from a very cold seasonal climate that gets hot af in summer but is pretty cold for a good five-ish months #not all equally cold #it’s bad for our environment if it doesn’t get cold as balls for a bit every winter #and we didn’t really get that this winter. but that’s not my point! #I mean to say I can’t remember how it works in tropical environments #if the plants just time their reproduction whenever in the year or if there are seasons for most plants at the same time #does that make sense? I’m using the primate-like-mammal. if it’s wrong then whatever #fuck it we ball #maybe I should have gone with a group further back in time but I couldn’t find climate info easily about things that far back and fuzzier #i am not the most familiar with primate evolution. especially early evolution of the group. I’m open to learning more #i just tend to fixate on certain other things like early mammals and horse and cat evolution #paleontology #emma posts #I like juice all year though #one day I want to try many varieties of fruits that I cannot access easily where I live because they can’t be shipped here #or they just aren’t as popular a variety on an industrial scale #maybe one day i will have a big greenhouse and i will be able to grow the banana varieties I want to try #I can see why some plant varieties aren’t grown on a large scale. some of these bitches are SUPPOSED to be able to grow in zone four but #they refuse to work with me! blueberries make sense. the soil here is nowhere near acidic enough and they would need to be in a pot or #whatever. ya know? but some plants just won’t! or I get them and then the weather here which would NORMALLY work is different that season

[pxrplepolkadots]

🤗

#y'all i'm so excited!! #I have my first therapy appointment in a week!! #i finally found one that was covered for me #i can't wait to trauma dump and I hope they can show me how to overcome my social anxiety #i need cbt to work so bad because idk what else will lmao #but I'm so happy to break the generational cycle of people that have negative perceptions of ppl who go to therapy #like i'm genuinely so happy and excited and proud of myself for taking the first step #personal

[inf1nyxw0rlds]

i love complexity. except of course if it's about me . hope that helps

#transmission #what i mean is i love acknowleging nuance and intricacies but i hate when i cant neatly compartmentalise myself #i want to know WHY im xyz! a distinct reason! and etc #i was thinking deeply the past few days on why i suddenly got so mad bc i do Not usually talk that way publicly #bc i dont want to be hypocritical in that. i purposefully usually speak in a way where i make myself overly clear and #try to avoid making people feel ashamed in any way. because i KNOW how it feels right #but digging further i think its like. its a rage inducing cycle of mockery in the infinite fandom. the normies make fun of the weirdos #and the weirdos make fun of the normies because hey fuck you too. and ppl who enjoy infinite casually arent inherently wrong #but when they fill the tags with complsints and criticisms on a source material they havent delved into much #it irritates a lot of the people who HAVE because while an opinion is fine critiquing something seriously does mean understanding it #on a bit deeper of a level i think? #and thats what always got me personally #but we just have this system of you suck youre wrong and i think its also because infinite has taken so much shit that #we are VERY protective and defensive. like yeah if people spend years ripping into the thing that you like that happens #idk in just pondering. the ponderer... #i like to analyse not just fiction but how ppls brains work in general and irl stuff #mostly personal dissection bc im obsessive about myself. not in a fun way but more an endless interrogation and rumination way #the disorder fr #not wanting to hurt ppl and make them feel judged bc you know what its like vs carthasis of dunking on ppl who dunk on you #thats what i think it is for me #one of the reasons i wasnt posting for a long time was caring too much abt other people so if im getting the itch again #im gonna keep an eye on it #anyway

[happy10thousandyears]

I love freaky non romantic dynamics it’s crazy !!!!! When one party is a freak and the other party is normal but tolerants the first guys freakishness

#THE B&B YAYYYYY #dubcon but it’s dubcon hugging. dubcon existing within intimate distance . like there is that thing of being inherently different bc one is #a monster (she didn’t want to exist that way) and one is a hero(who want to be able to become a mother through magic. tgirl swag) #seeking a transformation #bs is trans in all of my headcanons tbh but in canon 🪞got her surgery as fuck #🪞 became a demon lord through the last demon lord 🚬 #basically how it works is when the hero slays the demon lord the hero’s consciousness gets transferred into a random person near by (a #sacrifice) along with the demon powers and curses #so when 🔥 eventually killed 🚬 #🔥’s consciousness gets fuzed into the body of an unfortunate nearby 🪞(who was .normal) along with 🚬’s demon powers #and 🔥/🪞 becomes the new demon lord and 🚬gets to finally rest in peace #perks of ​a demon lord include being able to transform your body at will to appear alluring to others and getting to be immortal/unkillable #which is . not great. if you have a guilty conscience or you got tired of feeding off other people’s life energy forcibly #with that being the only thing that can sustain you as the course of your life reshaped itself around this goal alone #and of course heros vs demon lords are a ploy of the kings/lords to distract the people from internal affairs #by having the demon lords become the symbol of all civil discontent and fear #basically genetically engineered scapegoats #🚬and 🔥 are the last generation of demon lord and hero #while 🪞and bs are this generation’s #and they are gonna break the cycle !! #wow everyone are trans/nonbinary in this except 🚬. hm! #🪞kinda agender #I have like a fuckton of thoughts on this au I’m gonna properly write posts one day #😈au #also bs is bi she have a husband but is infertile in this au #I like themes of motherhood and fertility and weird relationships with the ‘female’ gender what it means to be a girl/woman/mother etc

[gothmods]

Something i like about peele's approach is that, his protagonists are sensible. They observe, they think, they arent there to be the cliche character unaware of the tropes they play into. And they all survive. But regardless they all witness the horrors and come out the other end changed by it.

Which i feel is all fittingly parallel to being the viewer.

#nope just skyrocketed up to being my favourite #i really liked how understated the commentary and symbolism was like it was so simple but so full #and i liked the horror of the alien as a wild animal #and i thought oj was just great as a mc like i think his demeanor was exactly what the movie needed #and theres a lot to read into i think with how he personally responds to things in terms of the ongoing pattern of trauma and spectacle #being a cycle like how he is evidently distraught about the past 6 months and is in need of money #and yet still when we see him work its clear he does it for the horses and the way he generally treats everyone #versus the uncomfortable almost acted out dialogue of jupe when he recounts the gordy incident to em the way he packages and sells his own #experiences and the way he treats the horses and jeanjacket #like part of why oj works so well as the protag is his quiet refusal to play into the spectacles other characters are so wrapped up with #hes very honest in his actions

[coldvampire]

trying soo hard to be normal and Good At Conversation this time

#i will make at lease One irl friend to hang out with regularly !!! #dont get me wrong taking time off work to do school was a great decision but like. i dont rly talk to anyone anymore #save for the two days per week i have class :/ #and it sucks idk. #i havent had a Best Friend TM that i actually get to see more than once every 12 months in years #& im also struggling to control how i usually put more importance onto other people than they do me #like this week in particular im rly feeling the whole experience of labelling someone as a really good friend only to find out that i am #at Best just a pleasant acquaintance #which is fine yk not every relationship has to be something super deep #but still. sucks when it keeps happening. #like id rather the reaction to me almost just be actual disgust bc then thats pretty unambiguous #no room to get hopes up or create a narrative. #anyway i usually go with the strategy of just talking to someone like we're already friends bc ive heard thats the most effective #/least awkward way to get to know people. & im also only focusing on a couple people at a time so i dont get overwhelmed #bc last time I just. yeah it wasn’t the best moment #struggling in general with people and just pacing out of much of Myself is a tolerable dosage #recently I just feel like I’ve green falling onto the ‘over eager and annoying’ cycle :/ #been* #I don’t want to be a Chore I guess. #I keep thinking about how nice it would be to not feel that way #like maybe I’m not the most exciting person ever and it takes me a minute to get used to someone but :/ idk I think I’m good company #(god knows I spend enough time around just myself lmao) #usually I can tell when I’m feeling like this again bc I start spending more money on hobbies and Stuff #just to fill time/give myself something to look forward to #but I can’t really do that rn lmao/don’t want to #I’m not rich I can’t just have retail therapy every time I start to feel lonely :/ #it’d be nice lmao but no not practical #man I just want to talk to people. have conversations. feel like people are actually Happy that I’m talking to them. #that’s it that’s all #they say never trust your brain after 9pm but what if you’ve been sitting with it for weeks?

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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#god. ok. so i should really b reading papers rn but my lab mate called me needy today and it just keeps cycling in my head #like ive spent way too much time around him bc of field work and the thing abt me is that i just say whatever tf is in my brain so hes #basically been exposed to a scattershot of anxious thoughts in my head idk wtf he must think of me but today he said #the more i learn abt u the more i realize ur needy in these v specific ways #and i think it bothers me a lot bc needy isnt the right word. im not needy. i dont plead for help. im just a semi non functional person. #i just lay here not dealing with all these problems i have. but i generally try just make it my own problem. im just a bit pathetic like #that. do i need help? maybe but im not like needy. im just semi nonfunctional and rather compulsive and controling over myself. i live in a #world full of invisible walls as dictated by my stupid brain. but its all internal control i can put up with a lot as long as i have ctrl #over myself. its not especially healthy but it makes me pretty easy going i suppose. ugh! needy! he obviously hit a nerve how annoying #whatever im exhausted bc i had to b a scribe all day and i had a phd meeting this morning. the project sounds v cool and apparently im the #most qualified person to approach them so far but idk itll be v competitive and do i really want a uk phd? idk idk #at least this guy conducted it like an actual interview. i was like fuck finally some structure! and he said i talk well lol thanks dude #so he thinks id do ok getting grilled by a pannel. idk i kinda wanna apply just to see how far id get into the process #unrelated #i was also having harrowing nightmares last night abt climbing mt everest. at least i got 8hrs sleep lol fml i leave for sampling again #tomorrow afternoon. this is what i get for trying to have even a tiny bit of a social life rip

[sovaharbor]

tbh all i want to write is a fic where all the x-men student classes sit in a circle and talk about their traumas

#it really is soooo insane to me that the narrative like. neglects to focus as much as they could on how Fucked Up they all must be. #you cant be fighting for your life repeatedly starting at 13-16 and be normal. like you cannot be. and you ESPECIALLY cannot be normal when #you then go on to bring more kids into this fucked up fold yourself. teaching them the way you were taught. #putting them through the same cycle because of necessity and 'im still alive so it worked' when in reality nobody acknowledges that if #it never happened then their lives would be. so much more different. #and i know for a lot of students it WAS a necessity to get them out of a dangerous living situation but it was NOT necessary to teach #children to fight. to throw them into dangerous life-threatening situation after dangerous life-threatening situation. #and ik it's one of those 'dont think about it' things u have to do with comics BUT IT'D BE SO MUCH BETTER AND REALER IF WE DID?? #ive said it once i'll say it again if u start at the o5 and work your way down through the generations. it's a hot mess express baby #and it's a one-stop trip to trauma city!!! #summer's text tag #srry someone rb'd one of my commentary posts from when i was reading gen x AND NOW IM JUST TNKING ABOUT IT AGAIN #thank u to that person for unlocking this part of my brainrot

[simonstamenovic]

hmm

#adolin brain stuck once again... kind of desperately in love with kaladin and really too unstable #to be doing everything i was doing. mostly a specific like big burnout #and maya/syl collaborating to get kal #not for the first time i think but one of the more important ones and i had naybe thought the others #were just him being nice because our spren were bugging him but he said that he #was going to check on me before but did not want to push or know how or something similar #and i just like. i want to kiss you right now. but cannot. #adolin post #outgoing transmission #burnout is. an understatement but stress/pressure was a catalyst for sure #adolin cycles feel like. less sleep/eating/etc more working/trying to work #and then when that inevitably starts teetering. more maya helping me around and #telling me what people said that i missed and pointing out things in general #then the more extreme version of that which is hard to remember because it feels like being in #a haze. simply nearly losing hours at a time. and then the big crash #i feel it did not happen That much but. a handful of times at least for sure. #and sometimes it would not reach the last stage but i had a habit of not stopping once a ball was rolling. #even if the ball was barrelling into me at top speed

[madmadmilk]

feeling an unsettling bout of despair and jarringly out of sync this evening, all while the sun shines and clouds pour rain outside my window. at least the sky is pink.

#i'm like happy with life in general but when i start to think too far ahead i'm like frustrated and stressed hahahahha #i'm whispering this so don't tell anyone ok??? #but my bf is job hunting and he's gotten so many interviews and he's doing so well but these damn places keep looking past him #and our apartment lease is ending soon so i'm like what if we bought a house ha ha #but also what if we got married and had a wedding #but wait i want him to propose to me #but also wait we don't have money saved up how do people save up money #and it's just a cycle that i know will come in time because we work hard and love each other and want this together but i'm also just stres #that it's not happening like tomorrow lol #so anyway i'm just spiralling but nothing is dire #but also we need to find someone to dogsit for us for like 5 days next weekend and htne like 2 days the next #i'm tired lol but at least my covid symptoms are gone #cheers lol good luck to everyone and i hope all your dreams come true #personal #madmadmilk #in the tags #poetry