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kaiserin-erzsebet · 4 months
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There is something I absolutely loathe about fashion content on the whole.
"What is your color season? Buy a whole new wardrobe." - I assure you that I am not throwing out perfectly good things I already have.
"Find your aesthetic and build a whole wardrobe around it" - again, this involves getting rid of things and buying new ones.
"Instead of buying this sweater, buy one that is pure wool." - I have news for you about how affordable pure wool is.
"Just go thrifting!" - Thrifting is not the gold mine that people seem to think it is. A lot of influencers are getting lucky because they live in cities where there is a relatively high turnover of stock at the thrift store. My average thrift store visit ends with me buying one or two things that 1. I like. 2. Are reasonably priced for the condition they're in. 3. Are actually my size.
If I had to sum up my irritation with this, it's that a lot of fashion content (and interior design from what I've seen) is that it is built on the idea that your life should have a unified aesthetic. But I would wager that most people have pieces and parts of different aesthetics cobbled together across different periods of their life. And there's nothing wrong with that. You don't have to start over every time your "aesthetic" shifts a bit.
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Just thinking about how Dean calls Sam "little brother" so often and how that's always felt unnatural to me. I don't know any siblings I've ever met who actually use the phrase "big brother" or "little brother" when actually talking to their siblings.
And there's the fact that Sam doesn't really say it back. Like he says "he's my big brother" or even "you're my big brother", but he doesn't ever really seem to use it in place of Dean's name the way Dean does for Sam.
So I've always wondered where that came from, and when Dean picked it up.
I have a theory that it was actually at the very beginning. I can imagine Mary and John telling him "This is Sam. He's your little brother." And that standing out to him because Sam is clearly everyone's but he's only his little brother.
Maybe that hadn't fully set in though until the night of the fire, when his dad tells him "grab your brother and run!", and as his house is burning down behind him, and he sits on that back of the ambulance with his dad and knowing he's lost his mom, maybe that phrase repeats in his head. Your brother. Your brother. Your your your.
And I think that did something to Dean's brain. Especially as his Dad starts leaving them more and more. Houses? They can be lost. Mom's? They die. Dad's? They weren't really all there in the first place. But little brothers? The thing that's only his? They're his. They're his, he can grab them, and he can keep them, and as long as that stays, as long as he has a little brother, he's got one thing.
Maybe he repeats that in his head over and over until he can finally speak again after the fire. My little brother. Little brother. Mine. Maybe that stays even after he can speak again, after all Sammy is too young to really know any different or correct him. So maybe sometimes when Dean folds himself in his brother's crib he says that out loud, over and over, to reassure himself he's still got something to hold onto.
Little brother, little brother, little brother.
I think eventually he does clearly grow out of it, he grows old enough to start calling Sam Sammy. But I think when he gets stressed, when he feels like things are slipping away, it falls out like an old balm on wounds that never closed.
I think that's why it slips out sometimes in the show. Sometimes that habit he has still comes forward, and he just needs to know. Little brother? (Are you ok?) Little brother? (Do I still have you?) Little brother? (Am I ok?)
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The thing I love about a Reverse Robins AU, but I never get to really see fleshed out, is that Dick Grayson's Robin changes everything about being Batman's sidekick.
Like you can make up ur choice of bird or bat themed sidekick to ride along with batman during their tenure at his side and that's cool but the title is Batman&Robin. Like they are thee dynamic duo.
So what I'm saying is, in a reverse robins AU no matter whose sidekick is the first and what name they take inevitably the best team up is Gonna end up being 40+ yrold Bruce Wayne and 8 yrold Dick Grayson.
Like the drama there y'all!? Not just in sibling rivalry, because I'm sure they were all good sidekicks in their own right, but Dick and Bruce together are just different.
Dick as Robin comes out of the corner with a steel chair leaving everyone stunned because he's the best of them. It's not even a competition. If he's not the first then everything from the way he moves, the way he quips, the way he fights, makes him the last.
I can't imagine getting a new little sibling who is just suddenly like a fuckin prodigy out of nowhere. And like yeah obviously he's gonna make mistakes and get into fights with Bruce and constantly be learning.
But can u imagine those older Batkids getting to stand back and watch in awe as Batman&Robin is born. As this little kid who lost everything, home to no place but a circus cart and with nothing but the clothes on his back, creates a legend in Gotham. A legend the city holds their fuckin breath to see born because Robin is magic.
Just...like can u imagine how devestating and amazing that would be as a previous batman sidekick? He's not even a replacement for you because he's so different he's, dare anyone say, better.
This kids in a league all his own and he's your little kid brother Dick Grayson and that's terrifying.
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epickiya722 · 4 months
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I just realized and maybe I missed a scene or something... but...
Yuji never enjoys fighting. As in, he's not showing thrill in fighting with someone. Hasn't even cracked a smile whether it be out of pure enjoyment of fighting or just feeling a feral moment.
It's not like how Gojo, Sukuna, Toji, Todo, Nobara has done it a time or two, even Megumi.
But Yuji?
He's just dead serious. He ain't laughing, no jokes, he's not smirking. Instead, he has this look in his eyes that's like "your lights are about to go out". And sometimes, he's raging out.
Which, with a character like Yuji, it makes sense that he wouldn't enjoy fighting.
Yuji is a strong kid, but he's not boastful about it. He doesn't feel the need to show off what he can do. Anytime he says he "won't lose", he's thinking about winning for others. He took it to heart when Wasuke told him he's a strong kid and try to help others.
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I have a thought, which is apart of another post working on, but I feel like this is one of the reasons why Sukuna despises Yuji.
Whenever Sukuna fights someone, he enjoys it. He's known as the King of Curses, the strongest sorcerer during the Heian period. And he likes to show it off.
Those he praises are those who push themselves to win and the reason would be out of pride.
Yuji is the opposite. He has the potential, yet doesn't care to be arrogant about it. And when he fights, it's not a game to him.
Sukuna probably has been observing Yuji all this time and thinking "how could this brat have all this strength and power and not relish in it?" He knows Yuji isn't really weak. He is always front row and center. Yuji even has the ability to suppress him and the first time he fought Sukuna, he was throwing skulls, punching at surfaces hard enough to shake them, etc. Maybe Sukuna called him boring because he saw that Yuji had that capability of giving him some entertaining match due to his skills, but Yuji wasn't showing enjoyment.
And what happened at the detention center I also believes plays a part, but I'll talk about that later in another post.
Anyways, yeah, Sukuna probably calls Yuji "weak" and "boring" to egg him on and finally get Yuji to snap into a "I'll show you weak" state to finally battle out to see who is the strongest. Not for the sake of the world, but for some actual entertainment.
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silverliing · 9 months
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Mike’s wall art
I love seeing analysis about ST set design because it really spells out so much of the story without verbally telling you, and ive seen much discussion abt the details of mike’s room in s4 (that one way sign haunts me btw). buuut there are two pieces of visible wall art that I don’t really see get talked about on here (that i’ve read) and I just have a few things to say about them and what i think they might be telling us about Mike’s character and upcoming journey (hint: going into the UD)(hint: making plans and leading the party)(hint: byler)
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so idk if this has been pointed out or if it’s common knowledge atp but the two pieces circled above are lithographs by artist MC Escher; Hand with Reflective Sphere (left)
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and Relativity (right)
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(a lil hard to see in this screenshot i’m sorry😢)
The artwork is beautiful as you can see (canon Mike Wheeler has great taste in art). Escher was most known for his intricate “impossible constructions” which are optical illusions of paradoxical space, he was also the inventor of the impossible cube:
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this is some pretty cool nerdy, mathy stuff that I’d expect mike would be into, but looking at it from the context of his character and the direction of where the story is headed, there were 3 immediate possible readings that popped into my head which point toward 3 different (yet coexisting) directions:
He likes the art — It’s true, this art taps into Mike’s interests. Valid but boring. zzzz. snooze. You could argue that these posters should be taken at face value, but I just feel like in a show like ST —where the main cast knows of and is in various ways affected by an evil alternate dimension— having a character with wall art that references perspective/dimensional anomalies doesn’t really tell us much about his specific character or story. We’ve known that the ST set designers use a character’s space to show us who they are as people, these two artworks need to tell us something about Mike and his journey. And maybe Mike’s sensibilities about the world at large are shifting into nihilism with everything that’s happened in hawkins and the art reflects an absurdist outlook of future (teenage stuff, growing up, etc. etc.)
It foreshadows Mike’s s5 arc — I love this one. Mike is one of the few in the main cast who haven’t been in the upside down proper, so this art could reference not only that he’ll go into the UD in s5 but also that there could be dimensional anomalies involved in his travel or journey there. Perhaps this is how they’ll be able to find Max— by bending the laws of physics and using the mechanics of dimensional travel against itself, perhaps to open new doors or travel in different directions (hint: time travel 😏). And i think the reason this art is in Mike’s wall is bc it will be Mike who formulates the plan to find Max and retrieve her with the help of El and Will’s new powers 😏 (g*d knows i want to see leader Mike make a come back)(and Will with powers).
Will Byers — we know Mike and Will are tied together by the narrative and so I think these artworks could be directly pointing to Will with big red arrows. This point is corroborated by simply analyzing the formal qualities of the artwork, both individually and as a set. Hand with Reflective Sphere is about optics and perspective, about seeing, but also about the flattening of space. Relativity is about space, dimension, and paradox, but also about impossible perspective/vantage point. When read together the objective reading of them is about sight and space and paradox, about how the flattening of space helps us see something new and impossible. While Mike hasn’t experienced the dimensional travel into the UD proper, many of those closest to him atp had; El, Will, Nancy… but the reason i think these two posters remind him of Will specifically is because out of everyone else who has been in the UD, only Will experiences the feeling of being stuck there and of seeing into both dimensions at once; the stuck view-master, true sight. Mike associates these things combined (dimensional travel and dimensional sight/perception) with Will.
Also, Mike is a nerdy guy, he seems interested in this kind of stuff for the fun of it so he could’ve had sciency charts that reference the subject of visible light and paradoxes the way Suzie does, but instead he has not one but two fine-art pieces by a pretty big graphic artist that reference the subject of sight and space. Also, Idk what it is about the fact that it’s fine-art and not movie/game/dnd art that makes me also associate it with Will— the self-proclaimed visual artist of the show. The words are all jumbled up in my head rn but; artist. sight. all-encompassing. dimension. paradox. new perspective. -> -> -> -> Will Byers (is this a hint to wills powers??) etc. etc. etc. you get it
Secret 4th option (ties into #2)
Mike gets Vecnaed and this forces him into extensive self-reflection and the labyrinthian trials of finding himself and mastering his fears(maybe he’s already begun his self-searching and that’s why we see this art at the beginning of s4). cue cool musical montage of Mike navigating his own memories and mind-scape to find the answer that will make everything make sense while also hiding from vecna and buying the party time to find a way to end him.
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yikes-00 · 1 year
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In TG 86 Ice flew the mission right? And who saved the day, Mav… as spare.
While I was in the shower it hit me that Mav knew that he could fly with Bradley (Ice coded) so who would Mav trust to save the day if he needed it? Jake (Mav coded).
SO!!!!!
Bradley was presented as the Ice coded character between the two of them. He’s slow but perfect. Methodical, aloof and arrogantly pulled back. Has friends but keeps the at the distance and butts head WITH Mav over trivial things but also thinks Mav is reckless and dangerous. Bradley also dislikes Jake, or at least has a rivalry with Jake based on the unpredictable nature and recklessness that Jake flies with. Bradley also doesn’t have a problem with calling Jake out on his flying (“you’ll someone to an early grave” which mirrors “yeah I have a problem, you’re dangerous”).
WHERE Jake is presented as the Mav character. Loud, charming, the center of attention. Hated for his talented ALSO!!! Uses songs to convey feelings (throw back to Mav singing to Charlie and Jake playing Slow Ride). Jake also flies like Mav (fast, carefree, leaves his wingmen- Mav even commented on that). Jake also KNOWS that he’s reckless dangerous and wears it like a badge of honor. (“We’ll anyone who follows you will just run out of gas. But that’s just you, ain’t it Rooster?” Mirroring “you’re right, Iceman, I am dangerous”).
Jake flying spare wasn’t saying that Bradley’s the better pilot or even a comparison on their talent, it was a direct reflection OF their talents. Jake can pull off insane flying but he’s unpredictable and thrives in environments where he can improvise and rely on himself. Where Bradley thrives where he has a plan and can be perfect. They’re both insanely talented but in different ways.
So Bradley who is Ice and Goose, the two people Mav knows he flies well with, Mav would pick him as the wingman because Mav can predict that and trust Bradley in the sky like he trusted Ice. BUT!!!! Mav would trust that someone like himself would be able to save the day because he SAVED the day. Which is why he would put Jake in as the last defense. Because Bradley could NEVER fly spare where Jake could NEVER fly wingman because Ice is a wingman and Mav is the savior.
And I think that it’s so cool.
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maaxverstappen · 3 months
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i feel the need to scream about how lestappen coded suburban legends by taylor swift is
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I'm sure this has been said before and I don't want to step on anyone's toes but one change between Archives and Protocol that I've had to adjust to, but am starting to *really* appreciate, is that the statements this time around are more... fragmentary.
Obviously Archives leaves a lot to the imagination, because the people *giving* the statements don't often Understand what happened to them, and the True Nature of it all is often left up to the imagination. But at least when the statements *are* given - or later, extracted - they're usually as complete as they can be as far as the statement giver knows and understands.
But the statements don't always work like that in Protocol - the only ones that do if memory serves are the violin, the service station, the therapy session/Ink5oul one, and the Dice one. The rest are incomplete and NONE of them were given to the OIAR willingly. They're not intended for us, or even intended to be an archive/preservation of what happened. Website servers get taken down, posts get banned by moderators, and no one is actually trying to explain everything to anyone. Even with the more seemingly complete extracts, like MAGP3, might have ulterior motives that lead to certain Key Details being left unsaid.
People were willingly [SOMETIMES] giving all of the information they could to the Institute, either because they wanted answers or were trying to defend themselves. But the OIAR is scavenging all of this information, they are not the intended audience. What that might imply for the Nature of the OIAR and what they're actually trying to DO is one thing, but for now I am LOVING the way this is being used to great effect in certain stories. Not just gaps in a statement-giver's understanding of what happened to them, but gaps in the information we have left about it. What aren't we seeing now that we can't assume people are being entirely forthcoming?
And it seems very clear to me that the lengths people will go to to fill in those gaps in understanding is a Very Big Part of where the story is headed.
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meyerlansky · 3 months
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not to be a freak on main [lol] but the decline in popularity of sex pollen/fuck or die as a fic trope is so sad To Me
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polteergeistt · 5 months
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Sleep Token and Hans Zimmer collab.
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the-feels-assassin · 6 months
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I've been thinking about the original Thor in light of the Loki finale, for all of the obvious parallels and character reasons. But also I can't stop thinking about this:
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When Loki tried to destroy Jotunheim, he froze the sword into place, and it created this simulacrum of Yggdrasil.
And then of course the end of Loki season 2 we get this:
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Loki takes all the threads and they appear to be Yggdrasil--Loki becomes Yggdrasil.
The show Loki is obviously timey-wimey. I am convinced that the Kang killed in Ant-Man is in fact "He Who Remains." One could argue that in the version of events we are viewing in the MCU that the sacred timeline has been broken since the beginning, the timey-wimey nature of Loki means it could occur when we think it does in the "time-line" of the MCU or it could occur at literally any time. Because the sacred timeline appears as a ring around He Who Remains' palace place. Repeating, endlessly, perfect. (Also very similar to a snake eating it's own tail, Jormungandr himself, and let's not forget who the parent of Jormungandr actually is in mythology.)
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But in the MCU events we view, certainly since Ant-Man this sacred timeline is broken. Ant-Man and company defeat the would-be He Who Remains. (I think it's him, because Janet talks about him murdering entire timelines, and him saying it must be, had to be done. This is very He Who Remains).
So what if in the sequence of events we're viewing via the movies, Loki was always Loki-Who-Remains from the perspective of the branch we are viewing?
Therefore, when Loki goes to freeze the bifrost, it has a cosmic/multiversal reaction, and shows a reflection of who Loki truly is, Yggdrasil, Loki who remains.
Of course Mobius implies all of this happened on the sacred timeline too, but due to the timey-whimey nature there is no reason why all the timelines would not resonate back and foreshadow the ultimate end.
After all as Loki says:
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It's about Loki. The father of the World Serpent, the god of chaos, the god of stories. And like the movie Thor, it was always about him. Thor, Avengers, The Dark World, Ragnorak these are all Loki stories.
And only Loki could do this, could defeat Kang. Loki, the world tree, who holds everything together. As he has been since the beginning and will be to the end.
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For all time. Always.
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kaiserin-erzsebet · 1 month
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I would love to hear what you have to say about fashion history aestheticizing history! I no longer work in the industry, but my last long-term job was in film/television costuming, specifically 20th century vintage, and we were also involved in the vintage fashion market, and some of her way people really into vintage fashion and how they approach history in a romanticized way based on aesthetics alone is genuinely alarming in a way that is ignorant at best and reactionary at worst - I know everyone rightfully complains about how Gatsby parties miss the point, but I also remember reading about a racist vintage party with a 1930s Shanghai theme where people were encouraged to dress up as white and Japanese colonizers, and recently, I saw something about a Fall of the Weimar Republic party that really made me wonder if anyone involved knew what that entailed beyond glamorous 1930s aesthetics.
Gladly. Though may I start by saying the concept of a "Fall of the Weimar Republic party" makes me as a historian of the German speaking world feel more than a little sick to my stomach.
I think it's very necessary to caveat a bit by saying that I'm not going to say that fashion history is bad. I respect it greatly as a discipline. Nor am I above history bounding. I own corsets (one of them even has steel boning.) I have scrolled wistfully through the American Duchess website before remembering that a graduate student stipend does not allow for period accurate Edwardian leather boots. I'm not going to say that I have the high ground to be the fun police. I don't.
My issue is really the popularity of it over other ways to engage with the past. It feels as though the history content creation sphere that isn't men telling you numbers about world wars is heavily skewed towards discussions of clothing and aesthetics. And most of them are about the upper class and what they would wear at a particular time.
And this wouldn't be an issue if it was an entry point to understanding history more broadly, but at least from my observations it doesn't seem to be. The only piece of historical misinformation I see routinely corrected in comment sections is when someone suggests that women in the past didn't love their corsets. And believe me, that is not the only piece of misinformation out there by a long shot.
My concern is that the aesthetic and vintage clothing has become a surface level way to engage with the past in the same way that military bros do with the specs of tanks. It becomes trivia about what hem lines or silhouettes identify an era. It's not the patterns of consumption or the labor conditions that create those garments.
The fact is that this is more often than not (and I can think of creators who go out of their way to not do this) the fashion of a privileged class that we still have. So, this aesthetic version of the past is the idealized version of the leisure class. So, whose lives are we imagining when the majority of the history content online is about fashion?
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theminecraftbee · 1 year
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oh yeah anyway my further deckbuilding advice for hctcg (and other tcgs) but this time less 'actual talk about ratios' and more 'philosophical advice i guess':
netdeck (copy other people) all you'd like. yes i KNOW people will be rude when you netdeck a popular deck but like... actually who cares, deckbuilding is a skill, it's hard, and netdecking gives you a framework you can be pretty sure is decent to start playing with so you can learn mechanically without losing all the time. later, you can adjust it to use stuff you like more, or adjust it based on what you see other people playing. (this is basically entirely how i build magic decks for mtg:a standard, i find a version of what i want to play that someone else made and then adjust it as i play it to be more what i want to play.)
similarly people will complain a LOT about people who play the meta and just... ignore those guys? if you enjoy playing meta play the meta. learning the meta and, more importantly, why certain strategies are meta will make you better at running off-meta when you want to too. literally any competitive game will have a meta, devs will use banlists/limited lists/errata to try to rebalance and change the meta as needed, players will try to break the meta. that's how it goes. you're not a bad person if you like winning. winning is fun. play meta all you want.
if you like a certain effect just build your deck around that thing you'll have fun with it i promise. yes even if it's bad. yes "is this thing really an optimal choice" is how i do a lot of thinking (hence my deck being so many three-ofs part of my process is "if i'm playing this, is it worth playing at less than three"), but that's not everyone's thing. "does this spark joy" is also important!
(glances back at mtg:a again there's a REASON i refused to play mono-black for like the past three sets and that's because i just don't like it, even if playing a deck that could actually play sheoldred probably would have been better,)
remember that single game format kinda sucks a little bit and there's a reason most tournaments play with a sideboard (set of 8-15 cards that you can swap in between games after seeing what your opponent plays). actually DO recommend sideboarding with friends. sideboarding is fun.
you're allowed to tell your friends you're playing with like, your own invented banlist, that's a thing you can do, have fun with it.
uh. basic items are boring but you need to play a lot of them unless you're playing really low-curve and even then my mono-redstone is the equivalent of 'really low curve' and i still hesitate to cut more items,
did you know i got FTKed by stress the other day? because i'm like this and think people should be allowed to play broken stuff i'll tell you how they did it, it was with a combination of rare stress, opponent flipping going second, and opponent drawing into a efficiency book turn one it was SO FUNNY. i love FTKs. winning before the opponent gets to play is very funny.
that's probably unreliable though and WILL make your friends mad at you if you do it so you know. mileage may vary
i still think "cheap and aggro" is probably the best deck atm; like, doc was complaining that pearl needs to be nerfed but i'm REALLY not convinced. maybe it's because i play the deck with all the status effects though.
idk i'm thinking about all of this. rotating it. because i'm a nerd.
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claybyte · 3 months
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im gonna write a starprince/snirius character/relationship study i think
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dittolicous · 5 months
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yknow, as like... a demi person on just like this side of being ace, its really tricky articulating my feelings on shipping as interaction with media without feeling like im bothering others
cuz there is a totally valid 'ugh not everything is about shipping!' stance but at the same time, i feel like maybe a good deal of shippers arent necessarily *ignoring* every other element or incapable of grasping themes or the like, but looking for the aspects *not* found in their favorite medias...
hence why, yknow, tragedies get fluffy aus or fix-its, cutesy stuff gets darker reimaginings, fantasys get coffee shop aus, modern stories get fantasy dnd aus, and things like say shonen series - which usually dont do romance at all or very well but have friendships down pat - get shipping!
(and maybe theres something to be said about modern media treatment of romance that many find lacking so even romances might not meet expectations...)
so of course, if they find all other elements fulfilling, i would say turning to shipping for fanfics is relatively harmless so long as they clearly know what theyre getting into and arent belittling the media for being something it was never meant to be or harassing about ships
for me personally, i turn to shipping a lot because... well i am actually a romantic at heart and would like to find love, and there can be such compelling love stories between strongly built characters! im not going to expect canon stuff to be about it, i just like exploring the things canon wont and probably doesnt need to to tell a well written story of its kind
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carelessflower · 11 months
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