Feeling very normal about Reiwa no Dara-san

If I had a nickel for every time I saw a bastard old man in an incredibly powerful position that holds one last patch of genuine feeling of warmth for a woman that he loved and was too good for what his nature becomes (and that he still chooses power and influence over her anyway);

I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice specifically in the span of two months

the thing about the taking of deborah logan is that it just gets worse and worse the longer you watch it. like the horror of dementia is a potent hook, "a lesbian struggles with the complications of taking care of her ailing homophobic mother" is an incredible premise. then it pivots into framing the elderly disabled mother as a spooky (& dehumanized) physical danger, which would be yawn enough on its own even without the onerous detour into the #Lore about how her dementia is the result of being possessed by a devil-worshipping serial killer (he possessed her because she was bravely trying to protect her daughter, you see,). and then youre just left to think: ok theyve discarded all of their best ideas in favour of some tepid generi family values shit, but at least the plot is batshit enough to be fun right?? so why isnt it fun??????

Here admire Spider's design a little closer

Sometimes I’m in a momentary panic of “oh fuck I don’t wanna age” and then I remember that hell yeah I do. I wanna be one of those people who go to pride events n shit, that are old enough to be the mom to anyone there, and be giving hugs like the guys in those videos.

Tryna be a helpful little role model for the youngins, so I gotta look the part. You feel me? Need a little costume

a very sad thought that just popped into my head, regarding Snake's comment about orphanages being horrible places... I was worried about it messing with my backstory for Snake, but actually it makes my headcanons even sadder

obviously he was in a terrible orphanage which probably abused and neglected their charges

that's not even the worst part, though, and he doesn't KNOW the worst part

after they were separated, Felicity looked for him everywhere she thought of to look

she never thought to look in circuses, because, well, the idea that her son was some freakshow to be gawked at never occurred to her

but she did look in orphanages, every single one in the area and traveling as far as she thought the people who took him would be willing to go

the orphanage where Snake wound up found his appearance off-putting, and the headmaster/headmistress or caregivers (such as they were, considering the God-awful care they gave) would make sure that nobody who came looking for children would see him

whenever someone came to the orphanage in hopes of adopting children, or in Felicity’s case looking for a missing child, these people would hide Snake in another room until the prospective parent left (with or without a child)

“look at yourself, boy. what parent would pick out a child like you?”

it makes my backstory for him hurt more, because he had a chance to reunite with his mother before he grew up

his mother was in the other room looking for her son, and he didn’t know it

she came looking for her child who’d been kidnapped, and the people who ran the orphanage hid him from her because they thought his appearance would drive people away

the people who took him were responsible for ripping a child away from his mother, but the people who ran the orphanage are at least as culpable for the fact that he went through hell in the following years, tortured and abused instead of with his mother

all because they couldn’t conceive of someone loving a child who looked like Snake.

The Carribean Princess 👗

Like, I have no intentions of buying the Hogwarts game-- but dear fucking gods do a bare minimum Google search of what Sîrona is before making "sir" jokes!!

Yeah supporting the game indirectly supports a TERF, but can we please not disparage the name of a literal goddess? She is my patron diety and I just wish people could see *her* instead of hearing "sir" and giggling.

Thing I want to draw when i have the time and hand mobility:

a short comic of Adonis and Ione at the grocery store. Ione is carrying the basket which seems to mostly have meat candy and booze in it.

Adonis picks something up off the shelf.

I: Oh wait. Check to make sure it's not sugar free, i can't have a lot of types of artificial sweeteners.

A: How do I check?

I: It's usually written on the box? Look for something that says 'sugar free' or 'artificially sweetened.'

Adonis holds the box up and examines it closely before looking back up at her.

A: I can't read.

I: Ah.

SONGBIRDS AND SNAKES OR WHATEVER IS ALTERING ME AS A PERSON ACTIVELY WHAY

Reading over my outline rlly reminds me just how unhinged I got in the run up to the end of the semester because I do not know why my Brian thought any of this was a good idea or why I’ve phrased things the way I did? I seem to just stop thinking in the middle of a sentence

i think the biggest snake inconsistencies in the manga that irritated me the most is that he has good vision (can see the moon, a small luck charm she made, etc) but then they still point out that he actually "sees" by smelling. HOW THE FUCK DOES HE SMELL THE MOON. and then also he was like "ill take care of our children no matter what" UR A SNAKE DUDE. SNAKES ABANDON THEIR CHILDREN IMMEDIATELYYYY.

Undertale and Deltarune

Escape from New York and Escape from LA

Weird how there are two separate times someone told the same story just a little to the left bc ppl didn't fully get it the first time

Everyone who had me thinking Ballad of Sonbirds and Snakes was going to be good???

I want my money back

Low key tempted to write a fuller review, might if I find the time, or the ability to care.

college will really have you doing things like competing to get an "internship" to volunteer in a state park visitor's center in february