#there’s no nuance anywhere

[blackbatcass]

Not to get back on my soapbox but bruce & cass’s early relationship does make me want to eat drywall. any outsider could tell you bruce is obviously enabling cass’s unhealthy behaviors and yet he 100% completely believes he’s doing the right thing for her because that’s what he thinks he would have needed in that situation. and. that says some real interesting things about bruce as a person. wow, mr. wayne, are you totally sure that what you needed when you were cassandra cain’s age was someone holding you to impossibly high standards, keeping you shut up in a cave all day, training you until your lungs gave out and encouraging vigilantism to consume every aspect of your life? is that really what you think you needed? does this maybe stem from an ultimately twisted view of yourself, bruce?

#batman #bruce wayne #cassandra cain #bg 2000 was a wild ride for cass and her interpersonal relationships. #every day i thank god for kelley puckett. #like. IMAGINE anyone writing for modern bat comics telling a story anywhere NEAR this nuanced today. #it doesn’t!! happen!

[rhinexstone]

As a Pennsylvanian, I cannot put into words how important it is that Abbott Elementary and IASIP take place in the same town

#like yes Philly has a beautiful and tight and nuanced culture you can’t find anywhere else #but we are also known for The Riots #something about Pennsylvania and riots #abbott elementary #iasip #it’s always sunny in philadelphia

[lightbulb-warning]

Same person that said your art style scratches the inside of my head (I used the wrong your in the original ask smh)

I wanted to also say how much I love how you draw Shuichi <3 It's perfect, people have already complimented how you draw Kokichi (perfect, as well) so I thought how you draw Shuichi deserves some love as well

ive been looking through my drawing folders and have come to the conclusion that your definition of "perfect shuichi" equals to "stressed out of his mind", which i find hilarious /lh

i fucking love shuichi i find him to be such a compelling character. *puts this in your pocket when you're not looking*

#hate his hair too btw #i love this bitch he's so stupid #and also a really nuanced interesting character blah blah blah HES SILLY #im not that comfy with how i potray “shuchi vibes” yet! “quiet and subtle” are things im currently still learning to incorporate in my draws #which makes me honored you think its anywhere near perfect?? wowza! im glad ;u; ill only get better from here!! #*proceeds to draw ooc sassy shuichi* /j #Shuichi Saihara #saihara shuichi #drv3 #dr shuichi #i DID notice the wrong “you're” and it took a lot of effort to not fall into my “uhm actually ways” /lh #but now that YOU'VE brought it up... *points and laughs at you because you made an inconsequential and irrelevant spelling mistake* /j #jk mistakes happen mate!! plus you're on anon nobody has to knowwwww #ask maiora #maiora draws #eyestrain

[griffincastle]

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#Honestly I kinda miss when forums were a thing #This is in ref to *previously reblogged* because YEAH the other social media websites are flat out boring about CODZ #The way people interact with 'fandom' has lost all it's fun #That's only the fault of social media websites- not people #You cant modify your profile anywhere - follower numbers are public and create a fake chaste system... #and they have this weird fixation with limiting interaction of person to person??? The only interaction they want is person to Content #I mean there's nuance in this too though: like saftey concerns ofc #BUT you cant write essays on why you think Dempsey's favorite color is blue bc word counts limit you- #You can't make bad art or you'll get bullied off planet earth- #Everywhere else creates a 'who cares what you think' environment if you have fun bc you don't have followers #(Important for CODZ too bc if a YouTuber has an opinion everyone else will echo it without knowing what it even means #((Like 'Jugg is a crutch perk' omg shut uppppp. Tell me what that means. You get it to survive more hits?? DUH. IT'S A *PERK*. #...anyway. that's why I'll always see tumblr as > than any other website #Despite the flaws it's the closest thing to the forum/personal website days #And weirdly enough....twitter/tiktok/insta- the creatively limiting places- are the unhinged sites...

[no-1-rosalind-lang-apologist]

i do not interpret kaz brekker as asexual or on the asexual spectrum because he canonically experiences sexual attraction and based on my reading of six of crows this is an important aspect of his character 🤝 because of his touch repulsion and trauma, kaz brekker has a complicated relationship with sex and a lot of other experiences that many asexual spectrum people can relate to 🤝 that's literally fine. there's nothing wrong with that. none of those experiences are exclusive to one identity. 🤝 when i was younger before i even started identifying as ace, kaz was the first character i saw that represented any of these experiences, and reading six of crows was probably a huge part of why i was finally able to accept that i'm ace.

#i've wanted to make a really long post about this for months but i still don't have the brain to do it so i'm just posting this for now #but uggh h i really really hate 99% of the takes i've seen about kaz and asexuality #there is no reading comprehension or nuance anywhere apparently #leigh bardugo #grishaverse #six of crows #soc #kaz brekker

[sirenofthetimes]

anti tradwife backlash quickly turning into "you should never financially depend on a romantic partner unless it's a last resort" and i simply don't agree

there are plenty of reasons that people lean on their partners financially and they can't neatly be sorted into the "good and virtuous disability situation" and the "bad and evil religious situation"

also some of your takes are giving protestant work ethic, pull yourself by your bootstraps and never rely on anyone. and i don't love it!!

#originals #i don't want to go into the details of my life #because i don't want to get anywhere near begging for the internet's approval #but i'm living in some Nuance and i just want people to Think for a second

[duncanor]

Not gonna lie but the way I went from being a Trigun Stampede hater™ that would deadass pause the ep not even 27 SECONDS into the episode to complain about the way it portrayed a character wrong

.. To being completely insane and extremely hopeful about what it could be is kinda funny.

Controversial Opinion but I genuinely believe that, if they do this right, they could make a better ending than Trimax's.

That's how hopeful I am rn.

#Trigun #Tristamp #Trigun stampede #I am really loving the insistence of Stampede to shine a light not just on the plants but the worms #It was there in Trimax too but it didn't really go anywhere in the end #Nothing changed for them #Only for the humans #I want stampede to go buck wild and take a whole new direction #I want them to force Vash to genuinely care about living things #Not just humans out of guilt or out of loyalty to Rem #Show us if peace between those species can be found #Open endings are for cowards #THO I WILL SAY #They better up their writing a bit bc some of the characters are really TOO EMO #They lack the swag and nuance #But season 2 #I believe #ALSO #Dont get me wrong #I don't believe it will be better than Trimax #The characters are just not good enough #But the ending

[musical-chick-13]

"This show is SO good, you should watch it!!"

I gotta be honest. If I look at a character list on Wikipedia and get five characters down without seeing a single woman, it's probably not for me.

#I have no patience for 'there is exactly one woman in the main/supporting cast' anymore #unless the writing is INCREDIBLE and the themes are explored with a type of depth and nuance I can't get anywhere else (like shiki) #(daily media plug for shiki) #then I just. probably will not vibe with it. if there are no women. (also shiki DOES have interesting female characters in it) #and this isn't to say that like. things involving men or talking about men or that have a male protagonist are Not Worth #My Time that is NOT what I'm saying at all. I just want like. several women. who show up and affect the story. like LITERALLY that is all I #am asking for. I feel like that's just. the bare minimum. but alas. #mel screams about fictional ladies again #there are plenty of things that are male-character-focused that I enjoy and even genuinely think are good! but I do want people to #ask themselves why they aren't willing to go to bat for media that DOES have more women in the cast than men. #(I mean. the answer is misogyny. but I want people to be. aware of that. and evaluate accordingly) #(evaluate meaning 'acknowledge I have some biases I need to continue deconstructing' not 'drop interest in everything tumblr #user musical-chick-13 personally doesn't like') #I feel like so many times we get trapped in this space between overcorrection via 'don't like ANYTHING that's pRoBLeMaTiC in ANY way' #and people taking the 'it's fiction it's not that deep' to the conclusion of 'because I cannot actually hurt fictional characters because #they're not real that means I am incapable of hurting irl people when they talk about those characters' #like there is. nuance here. there is a middle ground. and most people have NO interest in finding it lmao #and like...if you carry your biases from irl (which EVERYONE HAS. INCLUDING ME. COURTESY OF LIVING IN A PREJUDICED SOCIETY.) into a #direct and one-to-one evaluation of stories or characters that allow you to exercise those biased ideas. then that reinforces those biases #like. no hating...for example every anime lady isn't the same as structural misogyny like the pay gap or anti-women violence #but if you automatically associate the idea of 'female character' with 'lesser-than' it strengthens the already-present societal idea that #women are not as important or dynamic or worthy of support and attention as their male peers. if you are willing to see every (white) #fictional man as having interiority and depth but struggle to see that in any fictional woman then it adds to the things society is already #telling us about women. it creates an association of 'women' with 'inferiority' and uh. that's what misogyny is. #it is not the same as misogynistic crimes against irl women but it IS a reflection of the rhetoric and societal impulses that lead to them #and even if it's a reflection and not the actual thing. it's still important to break down and examine and reevaluate because #if we don't examine our OWN biases. then even if we tear down the greater oppressive structure we'll just end up building it back up again #no your thousands of words of m/m fanfiction or liking late 2000s shonen anime isn't responsible for misogyny nor are these things #inherently misogynistic. I just want like. some acknowledgement that something being 'for fun' doesn't automatically mean that bias/ #prejudice is nowhere to be found

[corcracrow]

i’m so tired of seeing absolutely rancid takes on susan pevensie.

#where is the nuance? where are the facts? where is the basic understanding and respect? nope #susan pevensie #cant go anywhere here

[oceandiagonale]

As I understand it, Guzma is the SURVIVOR of the original Team Skull. Basically an old Kahuna pulled some shit, the original group got smited, and Guzma rebuilt the team but as a haven for kids that had nowhere else to go that he had wished for in his own childhood (those golf clubs wtf Gamefreak).

that's what it totally feels like it's implying, but some of the wording is so ambiguous, I wish we had a clearer picture of everything 😭😭😭

#oceandi answers #kriss-watches-stuff #team skull #the way they say that it came from one of the old kahunas -- when nanu seems to have been kahuna for a while -- really makes it confusing #though I guess that also depends on how old we think nanu is???? his age is pretty unclear he could be anywhere from 35-60 skjdfksjdf #considering how long ago the first UB incident was and looker seeming to be younger than he is and LOOKER looks like.... maybe 30-40?? nanu #is probably solidly 45-50????? maybe????? and from hapu and olivia we know people can become kahunas at a young-to-young-adult age #but on the other hand if he was in interpol back when he was younger and then the UB incident happened and THEN he became kahuna -- or he #was both at the same time/? interpol and kahuna?????? anyways if guz took over directly after the previous kahuna did some shit then nanu #would have become kahuna shortly after and we'd have to base everything around nanu's timeline #man but the wording -- ONE of the old kahunas #it could mean so many things. anyone know what the original japanese lines are?? sometimes the translations add or subtract nuance skdjhfkj

[furby-organist]

// Alright, throwing this out there before I sleep: now that I've done with my exam and I may have access to my laptop soon, I'd like to get back into the swing of things and write with more people! Like this post (or reply) if you want me to make a mental note to check out your blog / reach out to you about RPing!

Also, for reference, since this seems to be a Hot Fandom Topic: I consider myself neither proship nor anti. My rules page is pretty up-to-date with who I will/won't interact with.

#mun post. #// I'll probably reblog later. #I'm not 'proship' or 'anti' I'm 'write/ship whatever as long as you address it tastefully & with the respect/gravity it deserves' #if you want to explore toxic dynamics then go for it. if you want to ship sto/via bc you think 'its hot' then god bless you but I don't wan #any of that near me. I also don't think that tumblr users are viable largescale platforms for promoting agitprop but #I am also not white enough to think that media/fiction has no influence on public perceptions of stuff. I have a nuanced take you see #I'm not going to harass people who ship weird shit (especially if they tag it/warn properly) and I don't think they should like go to jail #over it but I do think it's weird as fuck and the vibes are fucked and I don't want it anywhere near me. And it's my God given right as a m #American to feel that way! Ya feel. Anyway. #(This is not an invitation to argue with me! Any arguing with me requires a $50 donation to the Lebanese Red Cross.)

[james-stark-the-writer]

5 episodes into Deadloch and this show is so much more fun when it isn't trying to pretend like it's not copaganda like genuinely a really fun mystery and executed super well and then the lib-ish politics of the show keep popping in like "hey fuck the gender binary" and "hey queer people don't murder, we get murdered" and "hey our lead is a lesbian cop" and it's like shut the fuck up already my god. like you're bringing up all these issues you're clearly not gonna fucking reckon with because you can't by the nature of the show unless this ends with cops getting abolished in australia so like what are you doing here, you know? like in the first few minutes of episode 1, the lead lesbian cop finds ACAB spray painted on her neighbor's garbage cans and we just haven't gone anywhere with that, it's not like used to critique the system or anything, and her response is just to get it cleaned up. so like. it's just kinda infuriating.

#james talks #deadloch #Michael Schur did this. B99 is a fun show but jesus lord it has done such irrevocable and incomprehensible damage to shows like this. #like i'm not even saying that shows shouldn't reckon with issues like this. it would be irresponsible NOT to but like oh my god guys. #what is the end goal here? #like truly genuinely what are you planning on achieving with these remarks if not to constantly remind the audience— #that the protags are complicit in the oppression of the people who they've been hired to defend and in reality are ineffective & unnecessary #like they're doing a pretty decent job of showing just how bad & broken the system is and that's like kinda cool but at the end of the day— #it's kinda inherent to the genre to be copaganda and your attempts aren't mitigating it. #they're making it worse bc you keep reminding us how woke you are. #i will say though as far as i am aware (my knowledge extends as far as tertiary facts and Jennifer Kent's The Nightingale)— #the representation of First Nations People/First Australian People and the colonizing Australians is actually pretty well done. #like the racial stuff here IS nuanced and interesting. the rest is... distracting at best. #anyway it's a fun show so far and there's a lot of lesbians in here and it doesn't feel particularly TERFy so far so feel free to watch it #the mystery is genuinely fun. i just don't love the constant 'hey we're so woke guys' reminders #anyway cool that it's a show by women with 3 women leads and a majority queer cast of characters that's talking about land back and stuff #like there is fun to be had here but i know by the nature of it that the buildup can't go anywhere or lead to anything so it's just annoying

[dirt-grub]

If you’re currently ONLY posting about the Israelis that are doing good things for Palestine/are against what their country is doing and pointing out when certain protestors that are not affiliated with the whole of the free Palestine movement are being antisemitic know I can fucking see you. Obviously these are important things to talk about as Israel does not equal all Jews and antisemitism should be called out every time because it’s fucking serious and disgusting that another entire group of people is being blamed for this genocide other than the colonists in charge and Zionists supporting it but you’re telling on yourself as only interested in covering your own ass and it’s embarrassing. I don’t know how you can see hundreds if not thousands of entire bloodlines being wiped from this earth and instantly think well um hashtag not all Israelis and that’s it. Again. I don’t blame the majority of the Israeli people for what’s happening I blame the governments tied up in this and those in the military who happily post bragging about the shit they stole and destroyed on tiktok. You may not have technically done anything pro Israel but like I said you’re obviously only interested in covering your ass and continuing to be seen as a good person without engaging with the absolute horror the apartheid state of Israel is carrying out and checking your pre existing beliefs.

#charlie talks #again. please READ this post #I’m talking specifically about people I’ve seen and unfollowed for only posting about the good Israelis who are helping and protesting #obviously a government does not define its people #I’m American I’d hate if anyone judged me for what my country does because I stand for none of it and contribute only by taxes #which is literally illegal for me to not do #it’s just very very obvious when you have a specific agenda towards protecting yourself and your image first #it’s like. embarrassing #also. I am Austrian. I grew up in America #every single piece of Shit nazi has been brainwashed that it’s us or them #like OG nazis. neo nazis are a different story #you think you’re being smart by saying well Israel has a right to exist because of the holocaust #poor Austrians thought the holocaust was great because ‘foreigners’ many of which had lived there for generations #if not most of them #we’re supposedly to blame #because they were starving. they were very obviously horrifically wrong. but it is factual they were starving #it is factual that the holocaust displaced and murdered millions of Jews #but colonizing displacing and murdering Palestinians is not anywhere close to an answer that will solve anything and pretending it’s valid #is insane. theres nuances to both situations that make comparing them a bit reductive but both were genocides #and genocide is always justified by the perpetrators in the ways some of y’all are claiming to be an exception this time #stop falling for it. this is game of money and power not Jewish liberation #when my grandparents cheered as hitler killed the baron who’d been keeping them poor guess what? their neighbors started going missing #and they new government kept them just as fucking poor #you’re being used #free Palestine

[littlesparklight]

Every time (and it's not an insignificant amount of times) I see someone use Helen's reactions towards/about Paris in the Iliad to extrapolate for the whole of the relationship in general, or, especially so, back into the beginning of it, I just roll my eyes.

(Especially as the fact that she's still attracted to him gets completely disappeared.)

We're going to take her complex and very understandable frustration and anger that comes at the end of a ten year war as gospel truth for how she felt in the beginning? Or even five years ago?

Especially so when, by her own words, she's been in Troy for twenty years? (Not that one needs to go with that. But just. That's the timeframe involved here, that was in at least some sources considered seriously and not as hyperbole!)

#helen and paris #no nuance to be found anywhere here

[thisbluespirit]

Me, finally watching s1 of The Crown

In things I really did not expect here:

Anthony Eden/Winston Churchill transatlantic phone sex scene.

#the crown #liveblogging #(except not because i do not watch tv anywhere near anything i can post online with) #like. obv it was not that but lol #“say it again winston! I want to hear you say it!” #(i found s1 in a charity shop for £2 and curiosity got the better of me also the lure of Actors I Like. but it turns out #actually it IS good; much more cynical and sharper than i'd expected and great nuanced writing. lovely hist stuff #and obv awesome cast #(i ended up watching it sooner than expected because i was like hmm i should watch more jeremy northam and then it turned out #guess what he was in?) #i was going to say don't expect any more liveblogging #but if they do that again i will let you know because unexpected Tory PM slash needs warnings

[clovernment]

this site has it's fandom advantages and all that but twt has been showing me such great accs when it comes to animanga im all for it

#esp for chainsaw man #to some extent jjk #i think its near impossible to find consistently good takes on naruto anywhere #and that is excluding all the powerscaler dudebro homophobes btw #there are nuances about naruto online fandom communities i could not even begin to explain to the dudes in my college with the #kunai keychains and corny akatsuki cosplays