#they’re still two different people

[fantasykiri5]

A pair of birds of prey for days 15 and 16 of @hermitadaymay !!! Definitely not a day and a half (?) late

#my art #Hermitaday #hermitadaymay #hermitadaymay2024 #hermit-a-day may #Hermit-a-day may 2024 #Hermitcraft #hermitcraft fanart #falsesymmetry #falsesymmetry fanart #welsknight #welsknight gaming #welsknight fanart #WHY DID I DECIDE TO DRAW THE STUPIDEST POSE FOR FALSE AND ARMOR FOR WELS AND WINGS FOR THEM BOTH ALL IN ONE DRAWING… #These cunts have six total hours tracked on them… I didn’t even do a background because they took so long… #and thats not even counting looking for armor and feather references like this took two straight days #I’m very proud of it though #anyways they’re NOT related I was in the middle of drawing and realized they looked uncannily alike. So I made the wise decision to give- #-Wels the same mole I give False and the same little lower lash because they’re nose and eye shapes already matched #they’re not siblings (shown by one of them not even being an actual raptor bird) but they do look uncannily similar #and I’ve decided now that my False and Wels like to just lie to people and say they’re twins for fun. #They both have fucked up doppelgängers they would find it funny. #anyways False is a red tailed hawk (specifically a dark morph) #and Wels is a peregrine falcon #armor is so hard to draw guys never draw armor it SUCKS. I did get to have Laois Dunmeshi Touden on my screen for reference the whole time- #-I was drawing Wels though so it’s not all bad #still baffled I draw the human body part of that pose for false so easily though. Fully believe I was possessed by one of the Greek muses- #-or something because I do not know enough about anatomy to have that shit memorized but it looked normal when I looked at it so. Shrugs #anyways YES i will get to Etho tomorrow… I may just draw him WITH Joe because I wanna draw him but I don’t wanna think about posing two- #-difference pieces… though then I’d have to pose them together… but the appeal of putting a Kakashi cosplayer and a muppet next to each-

[fogwitchoftheevermore]

(context for watcher/listener!sausage can be found in the “videos” tag on my blog if you want it, but this ficlet can be read without said context)

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“Y’know, of all the Hermits I was expecting to be pulling me into a dark corner tonight, I did not expect you to be first, Grian! I love the initiative!”

“I’m going to pretend I didn’t hear that,” Grian says in a voice near a hiss. He’s got Sausage by the wrist, leading him into a small area of the upper floor of the tavern in Sanctaury that does look like it was built for the exact purpose Sausage is implying. Grian decides to ignore that as well.

“What are you doing here?” Grian’s straight to the point. He always has to be, with these Things, if he doesn’t want to get trapped in a loop of slant rhyming pleasantries.

“What do you mean?” Sausage asks, shaking his wrist out of Grian’s tight grip and leaning comfortably against the wall. “This is where I live. It’s my home. If anything, I should be asking you mysterious strangers what you’re doing here, but I’m sure you’ve heard that question enough for one day.”

“You know exactly what I mean.” Grian crosses his arms and tries his best not to look petulant, but he sure feels like it. “I thought They’d given up on trying to snatch me back, so why would They send you of all people? What’s your game?”

Sausage laughs, honest to god laughs, like he can’t believe Grian’s even asking him such a question. Grian thinks it’s a reasonable question, in this scenario, but what he thinks and what’s reasonable rarely seems to matter with these things.

“They didn’t send me,” Sausage looks him up and down in that way that makes Grian have to physically stop himself from curling inwards. This is why he never talks to Them. “Nobody sends me anywhere, they don’t tell me what to do and I like it that way! I just do my own thing. Isn’t that what you’re doing?”

“No you’re not! You’re not- you can’t be! That’s not how this works!” Grian begins to notice that he’s no longer whisper-shouting and starting to just-normal-shout and takes a deep breath, trying not to draw the attention of his friends enjoying themselves on the floor below. And, realistically, in the other dark corners Sausage seems to have built into this place.

“That’s exactly how this works. You didn’t think you were the only person who’d left, did you?”

Grian opens his mouth, closes it, and thinks. In hindsight… yeah, he had kind of assumed he’d been the only person who’d left. Not for lack of trying, probably- but They’d tried for so long to get him back, kept him closely surveilled even when They’d accepted he was gone- surely some people had caved to that pressure eventually. When there was no sign They’d ever let up, ever let you go… he could understand eventually letting it overtake you.

“Did- did you leave, too?” Grian doesn’t remember the last time he saw Sausage’s face. He didn’t know him back then, of course. He probably would’ve connected the man with the person Pearl so often spoke about sooner. But he knows it’s been a long time, maybe even longer than the last time Grian had gone There. He doesn’t think Sausage had been There, that day. This might explain why.

“Eh, not quite?”

“What-“ Grian flails, both mentally and with his arms a bit. “What do you mean not quite?”

“Exactly what I said! I was never- it’s complicated, y’know?”

“Explain. Now.”

“Well, uh,” Sausage seems to flounder for the first time since this conversation started, which Grian is choosing to take as a victory. “Look, I wasn’t- they didn’t pick me. For this, or for anything, ever. Sometimes things just happen and you get yourself into a place you shouldn’t have and then… they can’t get rid of me, I can’t get rid of them, it is what it is.”

Grian stares at him for a long moment. Really stares at him, in the same way Sausage had looked him over earlier, in the same way that makes you feel like you’re under a microscope. Judging by the sudden nerves in his eyes, Grian can assume he feels it too. Grian remembers his face. That had been the first thing he’d noticed, when the Hermits had arrived. It had been a long time since they’d seen each other, but Grian knew his face. And now that Grian was studying him, really trying to remember… he’s not sure he quite likes what memories he’s dredging up.

“What are you?”

“Grian!” Sausage’s voice drips with mock offense as he puts his hand up to partially cover his mouth. “We only just met, do you think that’s polite?”

“Answer the question,” Grian sighs. How Pearl deals with this man on the regular, he doesn’t know.

“Well, if you insist.” Sausage sighs, somehow even more exaggerated than his previous movements. “It’s just… if you’ll believe it, it’s somehow even harder to answer the first question.”

“It shouldn’t be,” Grian says. “They’re two very different People, you know.”

“But they’re the same species, when it all comes down to it. Like, you might be very different than a chicken, but you’re both birds in the long run.”

Grian pauses, fanning his wings out a bit behind him as he considers. “I don’t think that metaphor’s quite landing the way you want it to.”

“No, me neither. Anyways, let me continue.

When they don’t pick you, things go a little differently! You don’t get sorted onto one side or the other since, well, you’re not really supposed to be there? So I’m… whatever I want to be, really. I think I’m feeling like more of a Listener, today, but we’ll see how the mood shifts.”

Grian flinches at the Name, on instinct. He doesn’t know how to feel about that, so he files it away to be dealt with at a later date. As for the rest of what Sausage said-

“What?”

“You heard me.” Sausage shrugs. He’s so nonchalant, Grian thinks he might strangle him, if not for the worry that that’s exactly what he wants out of this, somehow.

“Did I? Did I hear you?” Grian wants to pace, but that requires leaving the security of the corner, so he forces his feet to root themselves to the floor. “I thought- I thought you had to- if you wanted to change sides, I thought you had to-“

Grian closes one eye and takes his thumb to it, twisting the finger into his eyelid. The gesture seems to get the point across.

“Well, that’s the funny thing about this, actually.” From the way he’s been talking, Grian assumed Sausage thought this whole thing was funny. He restrains himself from saying that out loud if only so Sausage will finish his explanation.

Sausage reaches up to his left eye, pulls his eye lid back a bit, and unceremoniously pops out his prosthetic eye.

“All these processes and rituals actually have a lot of loopholes.”

Grian doesn’t know what face he’s making, but it’s enough to make Sausage giggle while he pops the eye back in. Because of course he does. Because this how his day is going, apparently. Walk through a weird portal in his basement and wake up in a world filled with his friends who don’t recognize him and also a guy he only ever saw There, who he was never supposed to see again. Sure. Of course he’s laughing about it. Grian thinks if he was a slightly different person, he’d be laughing too. It is, undeniably, absurd.

“Well, I think we’re done here then!” Grian would probably object if he weren’t so shocked about the loopholes. As it is, he just stands there a bit stupidly.

Sausage turns away to return to the party before turn around again for just a moment, reaching over, and ruffling Grian’s hair. That shocks him enough to shake him out of his stupor and swat Sausage’s hand away, though not before his hair is suitably messed up.

“What was that for?!”

Sausage smiles as he reaches up to rough up his own hair as well. “I assumed you didn’t want your friends asking questions about why you were dragging me into a dark corner, you know?” Sausage even goes far enough to pull his shirt a bit out of where it’s tucked into his pants, because of course he does. Grian tries not to cringe, but Sausage is right about this one thing. It is the easiest way to dodge any questions about where he’d gone off to- at the expense of the many knowing looks and teasing remarks he’ll be getting from the other Hermits instead.

“Have a good night, Grian!” Sausage calls over his shoulder as he turns to leave for real this time. “And remember, drinks are on me for all you guests tonight! You look like you need it.”

#empires smp #hermitcraft #grian #mythicalsausage #hermitfic #empiresfic #long post #my writing #….do i need to tag shipping on this #they’re not actually DOING anything. and i would say i’m not really going much further than sausage usually does #but like. idk man. if i wake up in the morning and decide i need to tag shipping i will #anyways. fics for an audience of like two people total #but that’s ok cause i like this SO MUCH #the first few sentences have been rotting in my tumblr drafts for like at least two months #and i finally kicked myself into gear to just finish it #and i had fun! i liked the way i used capitalization here to really wedge the difference between how these two think of the watchers #(and listeners) #grian doesn’t necessarily respect them but he does still see them as Other. and he’s maybe a little afraid #so all the important stuff gets capitalized #sausage doesn’t. he doesn’t respect them and he doesn’t fear them and they’re just a weird bureaucracy to him #so no capitalization! #also ten seconds after posting this i got a post on my dash #of sausage posting a screenshot of e’s tumblr post about him checking tumblr in their twitter replies #terrifying. hey king if you see this keep the bit up. i think it’s funny

[designernishiki]

it’s so weird to think that ryuji was only a major character in one canon game. like he’s such a strong character with such a strong personality it doesn’t feel like he was only prominent in one canon game at ALL. he feels almost as ever-present and beloved as someone like daigo and yet he’s basically never even mentioned after kiwami 2. that’s so crazy to me.

#am I saying bring ryuji back? yes. end of statement #same goes for mine to a slightly lesser degree. and somehow yokoyama agrees with me on both of these I think #I am biased in a way because I am one of the few who has been lucky enough to play dead souls but. yeah #those two are also just good examples of antagonists that are almost comically malicious but still somehow have depth under the surface #and redeemability. in a way. not saying mine bulldozing an orphanage is Forgivable im saying he Did start to have a change of heart at the #end of y3 so he’s Capable of change and whatnot. and ryuji’s just a bully who takes his feelings out on other people usually physically #like he’s very much a teenage bully in the body of a gigantic adult man. #cause he never had to grow out of that. no one challenged him/his views/etc enough to do so. until the end of yk2 #AND IN DEAD SOULS ITS JUST A FACT THAT HES GROWN AS A PERSON AND MATURED. #it’s somehow a DRASTIC difference in personality from him in yk2 and yet still believable because of how much in his life had to change #and because he is like. the adult version of the previous ryuji. I know ryuji was already 30 in yk2 but you get my point. he wasn’t grown up #not really. (same goes for daigo- they’re such obvious foils for one another it’s so interesting and I wish it was explored more but ANYWAY) #ryuji #yk2 #rambling

[ickypuppi3]

now why would they do this

#billy hargrove #steve harrington #harringrove #very boyfriends and for what #the way they’re the only two looking at each other i’m gonna end it all #for people who love the most hated character in the show we sure do still keep winning every day #what’s that about #they fucked the hands up though #because steve’s are bigger like actually #billy has little baby hands and that’s okay #they got the height difference right though #and billy’s back is to steve so #need i elaborate #but ANYWAY #counting this as a win either way because they’re looking entirely like they’re about to hatefuck in cartoon form and that’s enough for me #ickyspeaks

[boltgunkiller-archive]

i find it damn near impossible to get mad at santana’s behavior in 3x06 and 3x07 because i genuinely do think she had the right to be lashing out at everybody. sue me idk

#idgaf if she was mean to kurt and blaine when they were “trying to help” in IKAG #they were the first performance & santana was put under the spotlight by the guy who fully outed her to the ENTIRE STATE OF OHIO & now she #-was expected to be just happy and jolly about some bullshit lady music week to celebrate women as if that has anything to do with wtf just #-happened to her by finn’s hands & of course she was upset because she was only back in the new directions because finn basically #-blackmailed her into rejoining like hello!!! so of course she was snippy with them… and tbh i don’t even think she was being that mean. #i think she’d have reason to be even MEANER actually. that reaction of hers was completely reasonable. and honestly it must’ve hurt seeing #-two people who are meant to Get what it’s like.. participate in that? especially when the last thing she wants is her sexuality that she’s #-still very insecure with Being broadcasted. to the whole damn club. it’s already about to be shown to all of ohio with names addresses #-details about her whole personal life etc like she really didn’t need that spotlight right then she needed to have space and love and #-support… none of which she got. #also the glee writers tend to make a character do a bad thing and then have another character do an INFINITELY WORSE THING #and then they’re like “oh but. the first character was being so mean. this absolutely deplorable and wayyyy too far reaction is definitely #-justified now because that was just so mean of the first character ugh!” and basically spins what happened into showing the first characte #-as the most evil person alive??? as if that’s even remotely true.??? and yes this is about santana cause they do this w her #and quinn. a LOTTTT. like a LOT. rn i’m talking ab santana though so i won’t cover quinn sorry fabrayers… one day! #like yes santana was being mean sure whatever. but finn didn’t have an excuse IDGAF what the hell anybody says about the body shaming stuff #it was mean. yes that’s true. but i don’t think you understand how different those two things are #they’re both bad but the outing is infinitely more despicable and personal and filled with malice and it’s so much more endangering in a wa #-that can’t even be compared to the dangers of body shaming you know. like they’re completely different and the outing thing is just too #-personal and Wrong like. idk. just get that through ur head they’re both so different and finn went way too far and personal. he could’ve #-just mocked her looks if he really wanted to get back at her. mocked ANYTHING else. but he chose the worst thing you could do to somebody #who is scared and in the closet and hurting #also yes santana’s written to be rude a lot of the time but her degree of rudeness in those episodes was Overplayed and def not in characte #like it didn’t feel much like santana’s brand of meanness it was 100% the writers trying to justify finn more because they continued to #-paint finn as the good guy who chose the high road… when that couldn’t be further from the truth thanks. he didn’t choose the high road he #-completely blackmailed santana and used her to make him look good basically. so you can’t change my mind on that Def being a writer issue #and just them Hating Women. especially santana. thanks. #also this is all coming from somebody who loves finn. so. 🤣 #i fuckingggg hate seeing people say santana was mean and had no right to be doing all of that in those eps.. BITCH YES SHE DID #like in other eps sure (<- nuanced topic/take) but this one? No. she was justified IDGAF. should’ve been meaner

[headedoutleft]

I think the most irrelevant argument happening rn is the definition of punk, like it is mostly angry dudes who are angry about whatever establishment issue they’ve latched onto, some of them are just rude and many of them are literal Nazis, idk what to tell you

#this is TSwifts fault tho #punk hasn’t been a real movement in decades #at least not in the majority of places maybe the Pacific Northwest and NYC still has some idk #no idea what it’s like in the UK #I think people are arguing about two different things #historical meaning and current ‘proper’ use of the term #but think they’re having the same argument #.txt

[justanotherfanartist]

i got the kind of autism where I make theme songs and leitmotifs for my characters that I haven’t written anything about but have a complete fuzzy image of in my head

#online synthesizer my beloved #I have a couple for characters and I’m trying to figure out these two brothers rn (Campbell and Carnegie) #(their names are because I thought they sounded cool but weird enough to be considered stupid by other characters and in the vein #of rvb style humor they get bullied for this. Campbell especially cus he’s the younger brother with a cooler older brother) #so now I’m working on a theme that’s kind of supposed to be them coming together and working really well as a team or pair #but they still have their own little leitmotif moments that are somewhat combative or jarring with eachother to show #that while they work very harmoniously together in song and via characters #they’re still very different people and there is still tension between them #cus they’re both kinda showboaty and dicks about it but it just presents in different ways #so Campbell is reprimanded for it and gets pushback socially where Carnegie is rewarded for it #just because the behavior manifests differently #god I have sooo many thoughts about the Bennett twins (technically not twins I just call them that) you have no idea (my guys) #they’re kind of inspired by the potential in the relationship that north and south could have had #with north being the good one and south being the bad one #while they both have problems #in the Bennetts case it’s the same problem #it’s just rewarded by militaristic higher ups very differently based on skill #so yes #they’re both arrogant insecure assholes who think very highly of themselves and are quick to frustration #and are often very sensitive to outside opinions and words rather than literal meaning or action #but Campbell turns softer and much more emotionally volatile form how he gets socially rebuffed for it especially because he’s not #a great soldier #and his perfect older brother Carnegie gets all the privilege and trust because he’s seen as ruthless and ambitious and skilled when #hes just as if not visibly more petty than Campbell is #god they run circles in my head at night

[gregmarriage]

x files 1x08 ‘ice’ was so fucking funny for having mulder make a joke about the size of his dick in front of two other men, and scully touch a woman’s chest as part of a medical exam, then immediately share a lesbian look with her, that has nothing to do with said medical exam

#they both give off intense gay vibes i’m always saying this #even when they’re in a relationship together they’re gay hope that helps <3 #they’re so bi4bi coded #also lesbians #also trans #they’re every letter <3 #what the absolute fuck did they put in these two characters in 1993 they’re like crack fr fr #they’re one of those ‘straight’ pairings that were made for gay people except it was a accident imaooooo #anyways i’ve been in love with scully since i was a child and i’ve even more in love with her now #i love her and her fuckass bob <3 #mulder my best friend mulder #girlboy supreme #the fucking thing he says in the jersey devil ep where he’s like ‘millions of years of evolution and she’s the same as you or me’ #i’m paraphrasing obviously imao #and i know hes supposed to mean the jersey devil girl isn’t different from them because she’s still a person etc #but it also just makes it sound like mulder is calling himself a girl #also his whole thing with jerry in 1x07 #‘we worked together.’ ‘worked together? we were partners’ cue extremely awkward mulder face #just the way he is with jerry the entire time and seems to go beyond being ex partners in the regular sense #something something do you think they explored each other’s bodies #and in true bury your gays fashion jerry dies in the same episode #IMAOOOO ANYWAYSSSSSS #i love you goofy 90’s alien show <3 #gwen rambles #gwenposting #gwen watches stuff #(gay se)x files posting

[coconut530]

🫣 Ada… what

ALSO

FP THUMB UNDER CUT

MY BOI!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!???!!?!?!!!??!!?!?!? 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷 HE’S BEEN FOUND GOOD GOD WE HAVEN’T SEEN HIM SINCE NOVEMBER 3RD IN THIS PANEL:

HE BACK!!! MAYBE!!! I DON’T KNOW WHAT HAPPENS!!! BUT I SEE HIM SO I’M FREAKING OUT!!!

#Nevermore #Nevermore Webtoon #Webtoon #ok so Ada’s spectre still is nightmare fuel but it is kinda one of the cooler ones??? #It’s different; usually the person like keeps who they are and you can tell it’s them but Ada noooooo #bc like one she talks by screaming two she like surrenders herself to her spectre and becomes feral three she can make people see things #Annabel being like “what a short-sighted notion” was funny #Monty doesn’t have 5D chess brain like she does #And Ada being like “DO YOU LOVE ME YET!?” …girl you look like a skeleton and are screaming in my face idkkkkkkkkk #If anything this definitely makes Prospero love her WAY less #Bc those visions are *shudders* NO THANK YOU #Like the hands and the cut off hand and the unbuttoning and the sAW— #No thanksssssssss hahahahahaa #Maybe he’ll keep her on the smart kid team for the scare factor to others but for ONLY that reason #Uhhhhhh and then she went into Annabel and hahahaha dead Lenore never left her brainnnnnnnn #Eeek like ribbons have never been so scary dude #They’re meant to decorate the women they’re put on but it only ties them up and it’s like horrible #Forces them to stay that way: pretty #When all they want is to be free #Ok uh philosophical rant over bye #Oh wait one more thing did everyone see the thumbnail switching today?? Crazy

[raedas]

oh that poll is going to annoy me so bad

#THEYRE DIFFERENT FORMATS OF FICTION. ITS NOT A VALUE JUDGEMENT… #people calling it elitist to not consider fanfiction books is just…. idk. what. huh #and also being lke. it counts as reading!!!!!!!!!! like yes great the poll asked if it counts as reading books #and then someone being like ‘i challenge everyone who’s voting no to read [long fic] that’s like 800 pages when bound’ great i have read #multiple fics over a MILLION words and i loved them!!! and they’re great quality!!! THEYRE STILL FANFICTION M #sure there are places where the distinction mighttttbe a little fuzzy with like public domain and whatnot but like #for the most part. those are two different things with two different meanings. almost every conflation of the two is a reactionary argument #and often just creating a value judgment WHEN THERE WASNT ONE TO BEGIN WITH #i enjoy fic and i enjoy books for vastly different reasons they give me different emotions and i interact with them differently!!! maybe you #interact with them the same way! great! they’re still different though. #shamsisms

[smilesrobotlover]

I genuinely can’t tell if this person blocked me or if Tumblr fricked up

#I cant see their posts at all #it shows it as if they deactivated #like it’s completely gone #but I asked and their account is not gone? #I follow two of their accounts and I can’t see any of the posts on there #cant visit their accounts either #cuz it shows that the account is gone #but again. friends confirmed that they’re still here #and they also mentioned how being blocked looks different than the posts just being straight up gone #what the heck happene #smiles rambles #I don’t even talk to this person so I wonder why they blocked me if they did #I’m not super upset that they blocked me of course people can do what they want #but I liked their posts and I didn’t say anything wrong to them #oh well #I honestly think Tumblr is fricked up

[theres-whump-in-that-nebula]

So there’s this kid I work with who screams and kicks people for 20+ minutes straight because they don’t want to do a single worksheet. I don’t blame the kid though; there are absolutely zero expectations at home and all they eat is sugar, which can’t be good for their mood. I’ve been trying to think of ways for all the kids there to engage in healthier behaviors; but I’m specifically focusing on the ones with dire conditions (such as refusing to drink water, not eating enough, or harming people (which will put them in danger as an adult)).

Today I put a letters puzzle on a different kid’s desk to keep them occupied and this kid just walked over and did it because they’re a perfectionist and need everything in its place. Maybe I can put the letters puzzle on their desk to lure them there and then replace it with worksheets once they’re finished (to ease the transition), and that way I don’t have to physically carry an 80 pound child to their desk multiple times a day, and said kid doesn’t have to endure me carrying them. Ohhhhhhhhh my god that might work

Now I need to find a way to get them to drink water and eat more nutritious food. I can try the chart thing but idk if it’ll work on this kid. I can’t use candy as an incentive because they don’t like candy…

hmmmmmm

#Being in early education is basically getting paid to trick little children #It sounds bad but that’s literally what it is. There are multiple power dynamics at play and you need to know how to use them gently #But yeah any trickery that replaces carrying a kid is good trickery. I try to do that as little as possible #for the sake of their senses and my knees #but at some point the kid has to learn when they are at school; but are they learning if they’re kicking and screaming? No #If I had been placed here earlier in the year I might have thought of this (or something else) sooner and saved this kid a lot of grief #I still have to try it but I think it’ll work #It sucks because everyone I work with seems really burned out #and they don’t feel like — or have the time to — seriously brainstorm anything #So they get irritated with the kids and keep jamming the same techniques into them hoping this time it’ll be different #or maybe at this point it’s out of spite #Everything seems like it’s out of spite. The catty behavior from some people I am not close to bleeds through into everyone’s mood #and affects people who want no part in creating a toxic workplace #Like yeah the kids have issues but certain adults need to stop the fucking drama for TWO SECONDS #Fortunately I’m untouched by the social aspect of working because I don’t get involved in it very much #and I’m sort of new #and everyone loves me (for now LOL)

[synthville]

so what im getting is that it was absolutely unnecessary to isolate raffi on gotham city in order for her story to go on.

a story that’s so halfhearted that five episodes in—halfway to the end. btw—her motivation is yet to be explained (why go back to this sector of intelligence work when teaching seemed to be fulfilling? was she made to do this?? did she volunteer because her son now lives on this planet now apparently?? was losing elnor cris and possibly seven so painful that burying herself in work seemed like a better option??? who knows! not me!!) and it’s definitely a retreat character-wise but the fact that they still haven’t laid the groundwork to make this stick is kind of amazing lol. it’s the way they’re not even pretending to give a fuck about her or any of the other women characters for me—they said you’re a womb or a subordinate ladies pick one and shut the hell up LMAO?

the fact that the ‘real plot’ is happening on that other ship while everything raffi does is basically an afterthought with backstory slipped in between the cracks like aged caulk is so disheartening and pathetic. star trek picard make an effort maybe. she’s a polarizing character that’s been stuck in impossible situations, weighed down with retractions and stereotypes (they thread the line but HM) because the narrative continually refuses to meaningfully engage with her and a lot of fans of the show wont examine their own biases to see why they have such a viscerally negative reaction to a complicated black woman character that’s good at what she does, knows it and refuses to kneel at the foot of their hero’s :)

and if it wasn’t for ms hurd elevating this performance with sheer will, massive talent and the whip of that (sexy) ponytail? shit would be so much worse. but it’s still bad! because instead of giving her a nuanced, thoughtful send off she’s once again being made to suffer for the nth time. because why? oh right so wise man worf can guide her to the light lol give me a fuckin break.

and it’s no accident that if you cut raffi out (which they literally did in ep4 miss musiker you WILL be avenged) the story could more or less proceed as usual. that’s by design.

because legacy characters or not, im simply not buying that the main white cast members (plus two interlopers idgaf about those new guys and they’re doing nothing to make me care either. pick a random channel and their stories are being told right now live and in color like don’t piss me off) just so happen to be on the ship with the lead yet the sole woc is sent away on some underbaked adventure because ‘reasons?’ please. this season literally could not be more transparent about the audience they’re catering to and who/whose stories are of importance and consideration.

and i knew this would probably happen once the premise for s3 was revealed but i still can’t get over how obvious it is that there really was no plan for raffi and that she only happened to bypass the cull of the la sirena crew because she was romantically linked with seven at the time. which is baffling considering how things are (not) going between them (#theyareMARRIEDletthemTALKandKISSandREST)

and it’s not just them like everything about this season is quite literally happening just because. every slightly interesting or fresh development (and character it’s true) from the previous seasons has been dismissed or diminished and for what? secret sons and man pain? ew lmao. no suspense no lingering threads just excessive shots of ships, an aggressive insistence on biological families and rampant, shameless references to past glory. a mess.

#doing everyone so dirty but it’s fine because ‘familiar faces’ yeah okay 👍🏾 #like can we all be serious for one second lol #they’re not even trying. #at least if this season was good i would somewhat understand why they snapped my faves out of existence but it’s literally not #feels insane to see so many people praise this #is this really where we are as an audience? nostalgia = good? really? #and the new characters they chose to add? come on #no space for rios but yall had space for TWO random white guys? #a christmas miracle! #like the kid is one thing but captain crunch ? they’re playing in my FACE #like i don’t even have any firm feelings about him because he’s pretty much a giant bore but #seeing all these allowances being made for him because of what he looks like whilst raffi continues to get shit on irks me so bad #like i knew it would happen ive been alive in the world lol but still #unsurprising but irritating af that captain crunch can sulk around in all his dickheaded glory #and it’s fine because he’s gods most traumatized baby boy but let raffi lash out once and it’s questions about her competence #and calls to have her removed like oh what’s the difference i wonder #‘men can laugh while a woman can only chuckle’ -godforbid she be black and self assured- like that person was preaching i fear! #if this sounds bitter it’s because i am <3 #michelle hurd deserves so much better like someone pls get her a five season dramatic series on a prestige network asap! #looks at this dissertation i just wrote oops ain’t mean to rant like that but they forced my hand 😭 #now to watch raffi’s spar scene on loop and forget about the show until thursday comes around and rattles my cage again lol #raffi musiker #.rfi #stpk

[realcowboysdrinkjuice]

idk why i waited to say this but lmao it would suck if emizel died and shilo doesnt like sorry bud you’re never getting your normal unfucked up spine back good luck with that king also new teeth also shorter ears like you guys look even more similar but at what cost lmao pov your brother borrows your body parts and then dies with them and they get replaced w a new set of his

#the suckening spoilers #<- kind of??? #like if it’s spoilers it’s spoilers from two weeks ago but still #idk why i listen to things day of release and then wait to say anything like i already had all the thoughts #why am i sitting on the thoughts #wait maybe he could one by one rip shit off and then regenerate it w blood points #that would take so long to make sure you didn’t fucking beef it #i also dunno if that remakes/repairs what is there or if it looks at your genes and makes what’s SUPPOSED to be there #but to be fair they’re both fucked up genetics wise since they were literally magic babies #new type of test tube baby just dropped #as someone who has trouble finding specific healthcare answers it would suck to be like …. one of very few if not the only people who were #just born out of magic #like if anything is different there good luck #like maybe he keeps aging??? he doesn’t really know?? like i think he said he stopped at 18 but… you’re still 18 you don’t know that #some of those will prolly be answered when i realisten but i haven’t done that in a sec

[chipmunkweirdo]

The most interesting thing about writing the 80s Chipmunks with the Alvinnn munks/My AU munks is that their similarities and differences really shine through.

I have noticed that even traits they share, they don’t share in the same intensity.

Anyway, if I absolutely HAD to describe each one in only a few words, (a near impossible task) this is how I would classify them.

It’s hard to describe them in a few words each but if I had to it would be….

80s Simon— Sarcastic, intellectual voice of reason

2015 Simon— Cocky, sleep deprived genius

80s Alvin— Born Showman and Entrepreneur

2015 Alvin—Ambitious, Anxious (closeted) Geeknerd

Alvin 2.0–The same, but no longer closeted

80s Theodore-Helpful sweetheart and chef

2015 Theodore-Food enthusiast, family therapist and goofball

80s Eleanor- Soccer playing Team Mom

2015 Eleanor—Sassy, Chaotic hellraiser

80s Brittany—Dramatic, Self assured Diva

2015 Brittany—Bratty, well meaning Perfectionist

80s Jeanette-Intelligent, Clumsy Bookworm

2015 Jeanette-Imaginative, Weirdo Environmentalist

Fascinating, isn’t it? How the same characters could have such variation in characterization to the point where you’d describe each version of them differently.

#alvin and the chipmunks #alvin seville #simon seville #brittany miller #jeanette miller #eleanor miller #theodore seville #aatc #alvinnn!!! and the chipmunks #the chipettes #comparison #contrast #80s chipmunks #80s Alvin and the Chipmunks #characters #personality #changes #differences #something I noticed #Eleanor and Alvin have it the worst #the others still have more similarities than differences but then there’s THOSE TWO #And no version is better than the other #they’re just different people growing up in different generations

[8rujaa]

okay, i might let people in

#i’ve been nonstop talking to this person for a few days now #like nonstop we’ll have multiple convos going at once and having to use voice messages to catch up to everything lol #our conversations have yet to die since the first one we’ve had #it feels very very very refreshing to find someone who can keep up #and we have so many things in common but like i’ve always found myself to be a lil weird and have out of the ordinary interests #not trying to say that ‘i’m not like other girls’ LMFAO but it’s hard to find ppl with this many things in common #like one or two things i get but we’ve been able to connect on so many things #even like chronic pain which like is nice to find someone who understands #so now i’m like actually excited for the first time about meeting someone #i’m very very excited and they’re so so so sweet #i feel like i can always tell who’s been in therapy because we tend to carry conversations in a similar way … does that make sense??? 🤣 #like u know how there’s ‘gentle parenting’ #i feel like there’s a specific way people who have been in therapy speak to others #they’re always so mindful of boundaries and also reciprocal #in conversations #we also have the same taste in music which is wild cuz i listen to every genre in existence and music from many different languages/culture #our spotify blend goes crazy 🤣🤣 #we’ve only been talking for a week so i’m trying not to get my hopes up but im just excited 😆😆😆 #lmao but like even if we just end up becoming friends i’m still happy to meet someone who’s so similar :D #i’ve been wanting friends who also struggle with the same things so we can do selfcare things together or maybe just chill on high pain day #and we will know how to be there for each other a little better than ppl who don’t get it.. i crave that real bad 🥲 #i realize i sound delulu as fuck cuz i haven’t even met them in person but i can already tell we’re going to get along 😌😌😌😌 #i’m aware of how delulu i sound and maybe i’m getting my hopes up but it truly does feel like i was waiting for someone like this 🥹