Listening to women right now is very important. We are witnessing other women step forward and speak about their experiences with Wilbur. As men, we need to be listening, because it's never just one woman.
However, we also must not forget the value of our voices. We as men need to step up and say that this behavior is unacceptable. We need to talk about it. We need to call out our friends and our brothers for this behavior.
Men that hurt women will not listen to women, but they will listen to men. If we truly want to support women right now, we need to be vocal about our support. We need to show up and acknowledge the reality—Shubble is not the only woman that has experienced this kind of abuse.
There are many women in our personal lives that experience this abuse. Abusers could be our closest friends, family, mentors, and leaders. We cannot let our guard down. We cannot sacrifice our morals to keep the peace. We must remain vocal. This behavior cannot be socially acceptable.
We say that we support women. We say that we will support domestic violence survivors. But when the abuse is staring you in the eyes, we remain complacent. This is not acceptable.
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Anyway this panel alone made me decide Shuro is actually really funny
Practically everyone in this panel is ready to square up, including +200yo Grandpa Tansu, meanwhile Shuro is standing in the back dramatically holding himself while clearly wishing he was off this godforsaken hell island
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A teacher threw a book at you??? Justified in throwing it back - I would have aimed for the head
the thing about me is that i do not think twice when provoked. i just go into a fugue state of shock and bite back.
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i keep thinking about how much blame i see being put on diluc about attacking kaeya and it drives me absolutely nuts that he’s painted unequivocally as the bad guy. i absolutely don’t think that is the purpose of that story at all. it’s about two kids, agonized by guilt and grief and horribly misplacing those emotions. kaeya went to diluc knowing it wouldn’t end well. diluc had just killed his own father. i feel like it’s wild to expect any sort of normal reaction beyond blinding anger. the point is, this is not meant to be a “who is in the wrong” backstory. it’s about two young men who, faced with a series of terrible circumstances, lost their last remaining familial connection. and in the current story, we’re seeing the clumsy, stilted journey the two make towards reconciliation.
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Whew sorry for dyin, school been up my ass and rowing practice/races.
Have a doodle of my babies while I work on something bigger :3 I’m almost on my fall break I’ll get some shit pumped out then too.
Tala got a bit beat up in a fight so papa gonna take care of her. She also gonna meet Peni soon, I gotta draw them together 🦅
They have taken over my brain.
I cant believe how much I’ve improved in drawing Noir since my first drawing of him omfg-
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I haven’t watched the latest episode yet but this clip really has my head spinning because this!! This is the type of conflict I've been hoping for between Imogen and Laudna! I'm not the only one to talk about how their dynamic largely is an unchallenging one that relies on affirmations over conflict (because they’re both outsiders who have never had true support before so it ended up being the foundation of their entire relationship), but this shakes things up!
Usually when broaching darker topics with Imogen, it tends to boil down to 'I feel like a horrible person :(' and 'you’re not! you're so cool and powerful!' but here Imogen actually pushes. You can see how Laudna doesn’t really want to talk about it, that she tries to joke it away, and how her facade falls as she finally gives in and admits to the risk of Delilah taking over if she doesn’t do something, and how she still isn’t actually set on doing so because they need the power. And instead of the earlier response along the lines of 'if we go dark we do so together' Imogen continues to push.
Because here’s the thing about Laudna: she isn’t very active in her choices. As far as we know she's never tried to get rid of Delilah, or find out more about either her warlock or sorcerer abilities, and she compartmentalizes her feelings of trauma rather than seriously talk about them. She is a character who’s had little control of her life and she’s dealt with that by just sort of accepting it, going along without much active agency. She needs to be pushed to really engage with any of it, and without that challenge, that conflict, she likely never will.
And this is what confuses me so when people respond negatively to hopes for conflict in the imodna dynamic. Conflict isn't just screaming fights or physical altercations, and a relationship that relies entirely on support and avoiding conflict is in fact not a healthy one. You need challenge to grow as a person. We see that so very clearly with Laudna, who has puttered about as an undead for three decades of arrested development. Now, with loved ones pushing her to actually look at those ugly feelings and promising to be there for her if/when she chooses to face them, maybe she’ll finally be ready to actually make that choice.
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Man I haven't even checked the tag yet but I'm just gonna leave this one here for the people that are dead set on the idea that Lestat would never physically hurt Louis. First book, not even a hundred pages in, they fight like they want to kill each other.
And for vampires, who are supernaturally strong and can heal from most things? Yeah, that's fucking brutal played on screen rather than a few lines of text.
Lestat seems a lot nastier in the show at this point because we're all kind of remembering it through like 14 books of author woobification but honestly I would believe book 1 Lestat was that cruel, and even if he wasn't they've already made huge changes to Louis and Claudia so sure let's see where it goes.
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I hated the scene where he slapped the food out of his hand, only to admonish him to clean it up as if he himself wasn't responsible for the mess in the first place. Same with Roy throwing the bike at him in amsterdam, it was meant to be funny, but Roy just comes across as a huge asshole to me in those scenes. I inevitably had to think of his dad throwing the shoes at Jamie while watching that, even though it isn't the same (but similar enough for me)
See personally I didn't have an issue with the bike thing, because it was part of a physical comedy bit, so Roy's physical reactivity being played for a joke didn't feel out of place to me. It fit the tone of the scene imo. I think part of what made the hand slapping a little jarring was that it came out of nowhere after Roy and Jamie had a fairly genuine conversation
But I think the main reason that scene stood out to me as different than the usual Royjamie tussle was the way Phil played Jamie's reaction. Usually when Roy lunges at Jamie, Jamie just seems irritated or angry, and seeing him cover/hug himself and duck away was kind of startling
In s1e3, Roy shoves Jamie on the pitch, and he hardly reacts at all (doesn't hit back, but doesn't flinch or anything)
In s1e4, Roy gets in his face in the locker room, and he thinks it's funny and goads him into a fight
s2e6, Roy shoves him again, and he immediately gets mad and starts yelling/coming back at him (Ted has to step in to keep them from fighting)
When Roy throws the bike at him in s3e6, he just gets annoyed
But in the scene at Ola's he doesn't yell or hit back or even say anything, he just covers his body and makes himself small, and even holds the defensive posture for a minute after the fact
When I say that I don't think Jamie is generally scared of Roy but is occasionally triggered by his behavior this scene is what I have in mind. Definitely a different reaction
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