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not-poignant · 13 days

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That latest chapter of Palmerosa was a big one right in the feels, I'm simultaneously worried that Raphael is going to be a total shit to Astarion and also kind of hoping that he is so that the people at the Last Word can tell him off for it. Cymon is very sweet, but God do I want to punch Eurus in the face.

Aha, I'm sure Raphael will be a total shit and somehow be decent at the same time.

The thing is, I think the people at the Last Word have a very 'how they are in that relationship is between them and none of our business' - so if Raphael were to torment Astarion in order to help ground him, they'd honestly stay out of it.

Eurus definitely showed his most hostile side, but from his perspective, he's got a devil who has locked two folks he knows into contracts, and he's got a vampire spawn who literally can only exist by eating people like him and his partner, who is vulnerable and under his protection.

He has no reason at all to view Astarion from the same lens we do, and he has actually no reason at all to view Astarion as anything other than a violent and unpredictable monster which - frankly - is pretty understandable given this is actually how most vampire spawn tend to behave.

Like, even giving him a chance to talk to Cymon on his own is incredibly generous of him.

We award Astarion personhood and humanity because we've played the game. Eurus however lives in a universe where vampire spawn literally murder, kill and eat people like him so they can keep murdering, killing and eating people like him. They are an infection / parasite / curse / monster that takes over the body of whoever was there before, and uses their visage to hunt. Personhood is not something that is awarded by default to folks like that, especially when those folks are in the company of someone who already has a pretty difficult relationship with The Last Word!

This is one of those situations - that I love writing - where Eurus has his own motives, and is making his own choices. If we view his actions through our own lens of knowing Astarion very well, then he's a dickhead. If we view his actions as someone who is determined to make it clear he isn't afraid to stand up for himself or his loved one in front of two monsters who could - honestly - tear the room and everyone in it apart if they wanted to, he actually becomes someone who's behaving in a fairly heroic way to keep it together for his partner, while still allowing for some flexibility because Alectrona is there.

That whole 'everyone is the hero of their own story' applies very well to Eurus in these circumstances, tbh.

#asks and answers #palmarosa #thespectaclesofthor #like obviously not a *literal* hero #but eurus very much sees himself as the protagonist #and honestly i think anyone would in those circumstances #this is also why imho #eurus shows more humanity to astarion over time #and not less #because he starts to see more and more actual personhood #though he's still extremely concerned that astarion will just #*literally kill his partner and eat him*

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wizardemotions · 3 months

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pinterest showed me some screenshots of posts that gave me the concept for an au where both harry and ron are sorted slytherin & draco is just slightly less rude in the first book. i could go into why i think this makes a lot of sense for ron but i won't. i've affectionately dubbed them the platinum quartet in my head and they will not leave me the fuck alone

#quill to paper #draco malfoy #harry potter #ron weasley #hermione granger #romione #drarry #slytherin harry #slytherin ron #golden trio #platinum quartet #actually i'll go into why it makes sense for ron here in the tags.#imho a major slytherin trait is ambition #and ron *has* ambition he's just never had it actively encouraged and fostered #book fucking one the mirror of erised shows him winning the quidditch cup & being head boy and all #he HAS ambition! and by god does he have something to *prove*#youngest weasley boy who desperately wants to do something different from his family #not get lumped in as 'just another weasley'#he's the anti-sirius in this context tbqh. old pureblood family of gryffindors and he's plastering his room at the burrow w green and silver #in my head draco is also in the train compartment when ron walks in and asks to sit there & harry speaks first so draco shuts up #a little tense but draco also relaxes a little bit. he's ELEVEN he just wants FRIENDS.#ron watches the boys he sat with on the train both get sorted slytherin and has just the biggest burning desire an 11 yr old can have #to get into slytherin instead of gryffindor. to do something different from his other siblings at the gryff table. to Prove Something #the hats like 'ohh. a weasley huh. but so much to prove... there's real ambition #and the potential for cunning... slytherin? alright #good luck! slytherin it is!'#and draco's smug little ass is like 'i suppose there's hope for the weasleys yet if they can turn out a slytherin #and ron is psyched out of his eleven year old gourd bc harry fucking potter is grinning and clapping for him #and also because percy n the twins look SHOCKED AS FUCK as do half the profs #snape is over at the table realizing w complete clarity that he's going to be put thru the ringer as slyth head of house these next 7 yrs

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softness-and-shattering · 5 months

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So I put on this netflix show, in their tradition of being extremely obvious with names its called Mech Cadets, and its an alien-mecha human-pilot fight-the-giant-bug-aliens story. My first complaint is that the alien mechas are called Robo's. Wow exciting /sarcasm. Anyway thats totally forgiven because 1 the story actually makes choices and puts the characters through consequences instead of like hinting at oh it something bad gonna happen psych we dont have the guts for that. Its a kid/teen show so its not super dark but it follows through and goes the places it needs to.

2, and maybe most importantly, I gotta talk about the disability rep. There's four teens chosen by the alien mechs to be their drift-compatible pilots (I think im using that correctly? Im not super informed on the genre but I know some), and we see straight away that one of the guys has a prosthetic leg from the thigh down, and uses it as an example to tell the main protagonist, hey none of us are perfect we dont have to be perfect we just need to be human. The next episode the mechas are given human-designed weapons to fight with, and the disabled kid gets these flippy sticks I cant quite work out. One of them gets a staff, the other gets this glove for punching, story moves on. Then a bug-alien-antagonist gets into the teens dorm and while fighting it, the alien dismembers the guys prosthetic. He immediately grabs his crutches and goes to town on it with his crutches, and balancing on them to kick with his one good foot*. Then they disconnect the rest of the prosthetic and use its sharp edge to kill the alien. And then he just moves around on his crutches with no comment and Ill cut myself off there so I dont spoil the whole thing.

Except, a couple episodes later, Im watching him in the mech fighting and moving around, and I realise that his giant fuck-off monster attacking weapons ARE A PAIR OF CRUTCHES. Theyre his fucking WEAPONS. Thats cool as fuck!

#is it mech and not mecha and im making a fool of myself? I just cant quite bear to call them Robos im sorry #Mech Cadets #Theres more nice stuff about the disability rep but I want to leave some surprises for y'all when you watch it #The animation is ok theres one character who's face sometimes looks a bit plastic and moves a bit janky imho but otherwise its alright #I also definitely want more about the robos as people because theyre intelligent but theyre also a bit treated like machines #and not sentient beings #but they clearly are sentient #theres definitely themes happening about how alive they are but its not properly dug into yet. if they get a second season I definitely wan #more on them #like why did they just show up to earth to partner with people and fight the bug aliens? where are they from? whats their motivation?#but in a I want more world building way not in a wow this is shit world building way #anyway #mine #disability rep #disability representation #its got some really fun vibes #*his one foot. he doesnt have a good foot and a bad foot he just has a foot. getting him mixed in my head with Kaz Brekker and his cane

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bearforceone3 · 9 months

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blue the beetle and booster the gold

#my art #dc comics #booster gold #blue beetle #ted is a tf forum dweller imho #the gfm links to a six page essay about why they’re literally cheetor and rattrap (it’s written by booster) (it’s gibberish)#also why did ted get btfo’d by a kamen rider villain today?

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the-pigeolympics · 10 months

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working on doodle requests from my shop ✨

#hatoful boyfriend #my art #yuuya sakazaki #sakuya le bel shirogane #iwamine shuu #miru #kaku #yuuyanghel #anghel higure #the yuuyanghels turned out unreasonably cute imho!!! eats them #also im sooooo glad someone requested yuuya and sakuya together….#my concept for this doodle is that yuuya knows all of the good french bakeries in the area and he introduces them to sakuya…#hence why i drew them eating croissants together

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karmirage · 27 days

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so I'm trying to read all the appearances of my favorite characters and I'm rereading marvel graphic novel #4. it's really interesting how usually (lately) humans are portrayed as having wide open minds/needing technological telepathic blockers to stop psychic intrusions, but Black Eagle (Dani's grandfather) is noted as having specifically natural psychic defenses, in addition to what almost looks like a form of precognition (the vision Dani pulls from his head is his own death at the hands of Pierce's agents). this in addition to the fact that apparently Black Eagle and the Lonestars knew Charles Xavier makes me think that Dani's not the only mutant in her family...?

#dani moonstar/mirage #like if we're gonna mutantify fucking MOIRA we should also bring back black eagle. imho.#marvel #river rambles #idk why they'd feel so positively about some old money guy but yknow. there's a story there.

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moregraceful · 1 month

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actually one thing causing severe sunday scaries is my former coworker said she'd front the cost of me submitting my writing to a pretty prestigious contest that includes mentorship and publication, and while i'm not afraid of being judged, because i know the value of my poetry and i know what it means to ME, i am deeply afraid of winning and someone being like do you have chapbook material, and me having to be like. well i have a pantoum about nathan mackinnon, some blackout poetry about being transgender from an article about the new jersey devils, and a really good poem-comic about grief and love and queer found family but it's also about witches and also it's kind of distantly fanfiction about the baltimore orioles but i don't have the art skill to pull it off. like hello? no. i don't fear anonymous judges disliking my poetry because ultimately i do not care about their opinion, i fear being asked to seriously consider publication of my nonsense poetry

#someone SHOULD publish the gay witches baltimore orioles death comic though. i will tell you that for free #the poem about sorrel and m is gonna hit tho. i just know it #my biggest thing abt my poetry is like i have a lot of raw talent imho but only college-level training so there's like. huge holes #i did consider an mfa in poetry at one point and then i was like. god i'd have to interact with other poets. i can't do that #so now i just write my little poems abt my friends for my friends and sometimes a pantoum about sports when i am motivated #actually post cancelled i just remembered i wrote a haiga abt california's fire season and william eklund last year #and now i'm furious bc i don't know what i did with the paper (my sister's master thesis is my poetry notebook except it's all loose leaf #so i never really know where my poetry drafts are)(this is also why i cannot get an mfa they'd tell me to try drafting in a slightly less #insane way. but i CAN'T.)#fresno oilers.txt #if i were smart i'd at the very least bookbind my sister's thesis so i'd have a notebook so i stop losing drafts. but i'm not smart :(

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vermin-disciple · 7 months

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This line is just deeply funny to me, coming from an alleged archaeologist.

#tell me you know nothing about archaeology without telling me you know nothing about archaeology #like imagine trying to escape bureaucracy by going into archaeology of all things #this whole arc could have been so much funnier if it had been written by someone who did know something about archaeology irl imho #there is so much comedy potential if you get away from the tired indiana jones homages #also archaeology is one of the worst disciples to use for this sort of lone wolf adventurer archetype #though as far as I can tell she's basically just a treasure bounty hunter #star trek #why do you fail so hard at anything to do with anthropology?#lower decks #screencaps #vermin rites

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rawliverandgoronspice · 8 months

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nothing is funnier than seeing huge masses of gamers having One Major Complain about a game that's about to come out and repeat it over and over as THE deal-breaking thing, meanwhile you (gamedev) are like "buddy that's not even in the top 3 of things that are wrong with this game you're all gonna forget it was even a thing that bothered you by the time you actually have the controller in your hands"

#thoughts #gamedev #deactivated the reblog because #me posting this is bad praxis #but #it is very funny #(tbh I think gamers have by and large very strange priorities and hyperfocus on shit that literally does not matter)#(or is integral to the vision/the specific experience provided)#(also I'm sorry but unless the fps drop makes the game unplayable or consistently annoying I could not care less)#(if the experience is worth a janky framing I'm able to forgive almost any jankiness personally)#(sometimes the jankiness enhances the experience even! looking at you oblivion!)#(“is the game fun and why does it have soul does it speak to you do you feel enriched” is so often??? left out of the conversation???)#(to be perfectly honest a whole lot of gamers don't really respect games that much imho)#(expecting the experience to cater to them instead of being willing to meet them where they are *and then* assess and discuss)#(this medium suffers from such a lack of curiosity and introspection across the board it's genuinely exhausting)#((sorry I'm in a very sour mood regarding the game industry in general right now so!!!!))

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fish-bowl-2 · 11 months

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Impressed that they were able to keep the video under 6 mins. If it were up to me this would end up being a 1:55:00 thesis.

#no shade towards the creator intended btw I am just goofing #but fr a video on this could easily be way WAY longer #this kid has so much issues lmaooo??#I mean all three of the eds do #but imho eddy stands out #also youtube was obsessed for a time with recommending me that video every time I opened the site like omg I get it pls leave me alone #I haven't actually watched the video yet out of spite for youtube's algorithm but I will eventually ig why not #eene #ed edd n eddy #squack

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heartslobbf · 2 years

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[ID: ten shots from 'revolutionary girl utena with excerpts of black text edited onto them. the first is of a bandage unravelling from around saionji's hand. text reads: '"you can be so inconsiderate." / "you are too sensitive." / "then why don't you take my feelings into consideration?" / "if you weren't so sensitive it wouldn't matter."'

saionji's exchange diary being dropped into an incinerator by touga. text reads: '"do you love me?" / "of course⁠—; but i resent it."'

saionji pointing a katana at touga, who appears unfazed by this. text reads: '"couldn't we ever speak to each other without irony?" / "sure."'

a close-up of touga and saionji's hands in saionji's memory; touga has just finished bandaging his hand. text reads: '"i love you, you know." / "yes... but why?"'

touga standing on a discarded love letter. a butterfly perches on a poppy near his foot. text reads: '"why do you like these paintings?" / "what isn't there is more important than what is."'

touga and saionji sitting back-to-back on a bicycle at sunset. text reads: '"we should be more open with each other." / "yes." / "shall we talk things over?" / "what is there to say?"'

touga and saionji sitting at the student council meeting table, cameras surrounding them. text reads: '"are you ever going to cut down on your smoking?" / "it's all right⁠— i don't inhale."'

touga and saionji standing in the student council elevator together. text reads: '"sometimes i get very annoyed with you." / "the world is annoying."'

touga and saionji embracing intimately as saionji prepares to pull to touga's sword for a duel. text reads: '"do you enjoy suffering?" / "you can't work if you don't suffer." / "but we suffer anyway." / "i know."'

young touga and saionji in a church, touga kneeling down to utena's coffin to play with her hair; saionji stands behind him anxiously. text reads: '"you're always so negative." / "i feel death all the time." / "are you afraid of anything?" / "not working."' /end ID]

revolutionary girl utena (1997) / lloyd schwartz, who's on first?

#made this on monday. need to get it out into the world #used to love this poem and now it’s unfortunately inextricably linked with them in my brain </3 #anyway i cut out some sections of the poem for brevity and relevance’s sakes so please go read the whole thing #i love it every time i read it i go !!!!!!!!!!!!#there are a lot of sections i wanted to include for this but like it just didn’t Quite work ygm?#tldr why don’t you care more? i do. didn’t include that one but MAN.#also sorry for making this i have some nanami stuff in the works and a VERY loose juriori concept #imho the only juriori webweave that matters is the dorian gray one tho #revolutionary girl utena #rgu #web weaving #shut up daisy

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blujayonthewing · 6 months

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more dnd and adjacent media should be run and written by people who think dwarves and elves are boring but care very sincerely about halflings and gnomes

#me it's me they should put me in charge #welcome to my campaign. all of the halfling and gnome NPCs are richly developed and well-rounded. maybe sometimes a dwarf will exist #actually I almost left elves out of this post because imho they're more interesting than anyone ever bothers to remember or implement #and I don't think they're boring and I would give them loving and meaningful worldbuilding-- but I DO think most people run them boring #'oh they're like humans but better. they're like beautiful humans who are old' that's IT?? I am ASLEEP!!!#anyway why do people just flatly refuse to engage with the small races at all!!#are they boring or are you just writing them off for no reason!!#I have one(1) dnd friend and DM who Gets It-- oh no sorry I forgot Justin is also my DM and dnd friend dfkjhgdfj. TWO DMs who get it #so halfling and especially gnome NPCs actually get to 1) fucking exist at all and 2) feel like real people but also distinct from humans #I think people just don't know what to do with them. which is a bummer and also boring.#I dunno like. as a reasonably intelligent and fully realized adult who is also playful and silly #I have pretty strong feelings actually about gnomes getting to be real people and ALSO culturally value goofiness and whimsy #and very strong feelings about how hard that is for most people to understand or believe (:#about me #gnome stuff #worldbuilding

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aqours · 9 months

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The more I think about, the more I think Sesshomaru's biggest problem in Yashahime narratively is that in the second half especially he really had nothing to do. It's another thing I appreciate about the manga tbh, the fact that he's doing stuff. And we can blame this on anything: whether or not a third season was intended but cancelled due to the company merging, Hishida's extremely divergent opinion on Sesshomaru and the metaplot around Second Act, but regardless of what it's blamed on I think Sesshomaru's biggest issue was that he really had nothing to do until the very end.

Early Yashahime hinted that Sesshomaru would inevitably become an enemy of the girls be Treekyo (also originally meant to be a villain), but his role in S1 was largely being Kirinmaru's lapdog: he even outright asks if Kirinmaru basically has any errands he wants him to carry out after the first time he confronts the girls. He's basically a forcibly chained dog forced to become subservient because Zero essentially had him by the balls by using the lives of his family as hostage. Sesshomaru was put into a position where he could barely do anything because doing so would sign an instant death ticket for his wife, and even his children (and we do see that he both paid for Setsuna's upkeep and tried to train her from afar as a child) would be put immediately on a horrid radar if he acted out. That is until the end of S1 when Rin makes it clear that nothing could be worth Towa's and Setsuna's safety and Sesshomaru makes it clear he's finally had enough of this bullshit and makes it quite clear he will kill Zero no matter the cost, even if it costs Rin her life, because that is Rin's own desire at this point for the sake of the kids. S1 is showing the one arrogantly proud Sesshomaru who once would have scoffed at the idea of loving a human (let alone having children with one) and gladly would have left her to her fate now forced to bow down to a heel because of the compassion he learned while only being able to give very distant support to the yashahime until he's able to bequeath the broken Tenseiga to Towa (WHICH SHE SHOULD HAVE BEEN ALLOWED TO KEEP). It's tragic, seeing that the result of him learning what made him a better person (but I think too many of us forget this isn't his default to all humans). Maybe it's not something everyone liked, but I thought it was a nice tragedy.

Then Second Act comes and Sesshomaru really has nothing to do until the end. He helps give direction to the girls but doesn't really do a lot. Season 2 really hammered in the rite of courage and cowardice thing, which is fine on paper, but it also reduced Sesshomaru to an extremely passive role except for a few key scenes and the very end. Rather than hunting down Zero to settle things once and for all, potentially creating a rift with his daughters who are now learning more about their mother and yearn to resolve this another way. He doesn't really do much until Rin is saved and then takes the frontline against Kirinmaru who never even got a rematch with the girls despite that being in the third OP and is overall not- that consequential. His role is more or less just to create a fight that firmly solidifies that he is the strongest character currently alive in the Inuyasha/Yashahime universe in terms of pure fighting ability (except maybe pure yokai Inuyasha if both were unarmed, but you can argue that if he's armed with Bakusaiga he'd come out on top), but that's kind of it. He doesn't really have any major plans than "Well hopefully Setsuna the girls Setsuna and Towa Setsuna can save Rin," and tell Moroha were to go too.

Dunno. Feel like that was my biggest gripe more than anything with Sesshomaru in S2. It's like that meme with "C'mon... do something..." but then when he did start doing something it was kinda just shounen action, which was really cool, but doesn't really say anything about his character. It's no wonder Towa was so conflicted about Sesshomaru not really doing anything by the end. Girl was pissed and it's kinda hard to blame her.

#hanyou no yashahime #yashahime #sengoku otogizoushi inuyasha #sesshomaru #starposts #if you disagree lmk!!! i'd love to hear it #i might make another post later about why i appreciate the more villainous direction it has shown with sesshomaru #that still manages imho to keep aligned with his character #but i'm a yashahime manga truther so #i'm biased #also especially disagree with quite a few other shippers and firmly believe shiina's take is overall simply superior in almost every way

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dying-suffering-french-stalkers · 2 years

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On the one hand: Why did anyone decide that Muppet Babies Young Sheldon Lupin Zero was a thing that needed to exist in a series famously allergic to giving out reliable backstory/lore, especially for its title character?

On the other hand: Visually, it looks like the animation is really going back to its roots, which means I am duty-bound to watch it

#my main question is Why but after seeing a bit more promo material i am reluctantly intrigued #someone on twitter said they hope every episode contradicts itself and yeah #also uh. what's this gonna be like without his crew?#unless they also get muppet baby-fied. please god no #there's no way this is gonna be however many episodes of small child gets traumatized: the series but like. that DOES have to be there imho #are we gonna see his actual grandfather?#also inch resting that they are now having him be a child in the '60s instead of entering his adulthood in the '60s #bizarre announcement all around #lupin iii #oh no i have to commit to a tag now #lupin zero

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shallowrambles · 14 days

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anon, the short answer is…not really. my block style is mostly merciful, i think. i’m also gifted with the ability to forget the faces and usernames of even users i DO like, so i rarely remember who i blocked after a certain point.

one thing i do despise when ppl reblog you en masse with walls of text, cluttering your feed, then delete their responses before you can reply, or act as if as if passive aggressiveness can be erased by signing everything with “<3.” i favor directness, and that is…the opposite.

but in that case too i see the person is usually troubled…and usually literally also torturing themselves w my blog and i feel like i’m doing them a huge favor by blocking. they get to save their energy!