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did anybody ask for my 2:30 am thoughts on the hellfire gala outfits? no. did i want to be up this late? no. but did the brainworms set in and did it happen anyway in the longest tags for a post ive ever made? you bet your ass it did
#and I'll DO IT AGAIN#i have legit thoughts on it#which is kinda out of character for me considering i know nothing about fashion lol#but who needs to know about fashion when we all just look at the met gala outfits for judgemnet anyways#idk whats happening to my brain rn man. dont ask#andis thought geyser#hellfire gala#xmen#brainworms have come and they will not let me be#like honetsly i filled up the tags for the prev post so much it didnt include most of them#and i just ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ dont remember what they were#they're gone forever#byeeeeee#im sleep dep highhhhh
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now that I'm caught up on csm i need to catch back up on jjk
#last i remember was they were just starting the games and gege was trying sooooo hard to explain it#but we still dont understand whats happening ¯\_(ツ)_/ ¯
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Tumblr socio-political observation time
Identifying with fandoms and movements and brands to validate yourself has led to a society where your interests define you and your character instead of your character defining you and your interests and I think as a whole that's why performative activism is so rampant
(and likewise it's probably why people are so protective of the things that bring them a sense of self and why it's so important those things remain politically neutral and separate from politics but that's another post)
I dont necessarily think it's a Bad as in something that makes you evil but it is bad in that we now have a lot of people doing things in good faith that some are doing in bad faith and all these people are being painted the same because as a whole we arent critically engaging with ideas anymore
As a millennial I know am very much responsible for creating that climate. I think a lot of us grew up thinking that we could shame people into being "good" the same way that we were shamed growing up anytime we had an opinion that differed from our bigoted genx & boomer parents.
It manifested in a lot of ways but one of the prominent examples that most of us will remember is doxxing. Now I want to be clear that I never did this myself but doxxing, call out posts, block lists, etc were everywhere from I wanna say about 2007 to 2017 when I'd say it's status as a common social behavior started to be frowned upon and ineffective.
We were trying to hold people accountable with those actions.
I think that very much backfired. Bigots just got better at hiding and they learned to co-opt our language and mental health terms to gaslight us when we did call them out until those words became meaningless to use. It's simple to not appear bigoted now. Just don't share anything from known bigoted brands or companies and don't follow anyone problematic. Easy.
Cuz those define you and your character, right? Isn't that why y'all still put "supports x" as reasons for your own call-out posts? That's what validates or voids your good person card. At least, thats what everyone made it seem like a decade ago.
The millennial failure was how superficial it all was. We weren't dismantling anything. We were shaming support of x, y, & z as a way of shaming bigots and racist comments and calling them out, but we weren't actually learning to recognize or dismantle racism itself and that's how 10+ years later most of us are watching our kids deal with the same shit we did except now they're also struggling with critical thinking skills inside and outside the classroom.
I think a lot of millennials mixed up righteous anger with doing what's right. Thinking that because we were angry about bigotry and taking it out on bigots that meant we couldn't be bigots. I mean everyone is a little bigoted but not like Bigots™ are bigots, you know?
And then we refused to put ourselves under that microscope or think about that any further. We stopped thinking about a lot of things, I think. We started accepting that we would be told what was okay to believe in or say and I think a LOT of millennials esp white millenials still wait for someone else, especially a Black person to speak on something so they can see the "right" side they're supposed to take.
Someone please learn something from this. This is still very much racist and avoiding the issue is still very much enabling white supremacy.
It will only go away if it's directly addressed.
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So I'd like to submit a formal request to bring back one good thing from back then. White responsibility for white supremacy.
Some of us may remember some posts that said if anyone should be responsible for engaging with white supremacists and helping them break down their beliefs it'd be white ppl ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ that its dangerous work for anyone else to do (for obvious reasons) and besides that white supremacists won't listen to anyone else. And allies did.
Bring that back.
The defensive white retaliation to this idea is seen on any mutual aid post in comments like "fuck your emotional labor, I don't owe you anything" or "idgaf if youre black/disabled/gay/whatever I don't owe you shit." So for the people getting ready to type something similar in my notes: This is a white supremacist defense mechanism that reinforces BIPOC isolation through individualism without seeming malicious on the surface. We all owe each other something tho; it's how a community operates and how humanity has survived for so long. Don't fall for this line of thinking and don't bring that nonsense to me.
White supremacy won't go away on its own and white supremacists sure as hell won't go away by letting them fester behind block lists until they're old enough to run for senator so if you can handle this task then respectfully, do it.
"but white supremacists are a waste of time to talk to" yeah for those of us who they'd rather see dead.
The labor and time it takes to make a white supremacist see you as a human who says words worth listening to so that you can then have a good faith conversation about politics is not WORTH the effort and risk to safety for the people who they hate. Especially not if we're doing it and getting death threats 9x out of 10 or they just wanted us to waste our time and exhaust us out of being effective
So if you are not included in the list of people that white supremacists want dead then it is worth your time and in fact is arguably one of the most productive ways to spend your time.
Thank you for coming to my ted talk
#i had no business arguing with grown ass nazis when i was a teenager but youre gonna tell me grown women refuse cuz its bad for THEM?#we ALL owe each other something!#grown folks should be volunteering to do this so minors stop feeling like they have ro#my post#whiteness#white supremacy#allies#allyship#sociology#idk how to tag this tbh#rant#observations#colonization#bigotry#activism#millenials#boomers#gen x#gen z#gen alpha
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i try not to stereotype but its always wild to me when antis say billy would call them a slur while openly having steve as their fave or being a st//eddie because like,,,,,,
steve is the rich jock in the 80s, his parents 100% have membership to the country club, im like 90% sure theyd support reagan considering their financial situation, his dad loves a good game or tennis or even badminton if he wants to be a bit spontaneous, they definitely shop at whatever the us version of waitrose is, his parents have their own person tailor and if their outfits arent at least $100 they wont be wearing them outside and that extends to steve, they have definitely either used a slur and/or done that weird talking around it the "oh you know, those people who prefer embroidered tea cosies" or whatever.
like i dont want to say that steve would just parrot whatever his parents say and would just internalise their opinions, because obviously thats not true on most cases. but at the same time, theres a lot of psychological studies showing that kids do learn from their parents.
and weve already seen steve calling someone a slur on screen. i cant remember if it was queer or faggot, but he was also parroting the rhetoric that gay men are predators who prey on young boys. like where the fuck else did he get that rhetoric from? and even if it wasnt his parents, steve seems to have believed it enough to remember it and parrot it back at jonathan.
id like to think that steve wouldnt call me a slur, especially post-s3 steve, but its fucking wild to me that the "billy would call me a slur" crowd entirely ignore the everything about steves character.
like im sorry buddy, but if pre-s3 steve saw me, a trans man with tits too large to bind who goes out of his way to look as queer as possible, im pretty sure hed call me a whole myriad of slurs. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ meanwhile i dont think billy would because hes a cis dude who purposefully presents more feminine. wed probably just have a chill conversation about judas priest or id introduce him to soda stereo.
and anyway its not like know if steve agrees with his parents or not since he never gets any development whatsoever now that hes relegated to group mom
Everyone learns from their parents in one way or another. Steve called Jonathan “Queer” which is what makes it so ironic that fans claim he’s such a great ally and/or that Billy would hate crime them. Quite honestly, given the amount of homophobic rants I have to hear from teenager boys on a regular basis in the year 2023, it wouldn’t shock me if any of the beloved male characters were homophobic. I don’t see Billy as being more or less understanding, but I do think Billy just doesn’t care enough about other people to be out there committing hate crimes. The only time Billy cares what other people say or do is when it puts him at risk
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hi have an update on my creative brain!
i was meant to go to the dentist and get my braces on today, but the dentist was running so late that we need to rebook it for another time (anxiety about it going like the stocks vwoom vwoomp)
anyways, i have/had a free afternoon and bothered the angel on earth i call Blue, and neither of us had any idea of what we wanted to do, so i suggested a oneshot, but neither of us knew what to write about
after some ideas which are now on the backburner, i proposed a hurt/comfort one shot idea, because during english today the warm-up was to re-write a really bad introduction into an engaging one and i did that and the friend i swapped with for feedback said 'its depressing and good at being depressing, like it' so when i got that feedback i felt empowered™ about my angst writing. so then i remembered that and proposed Half Good Fic Idea™
after more braincells working, Blue coming up with Half Good Fic Idea™ as chapter 1, we have come up with what is now a full Good Fic Idea™ - it was meant to be a oneshot, but so were 2 of our other WIP fics, and they are ~4 and ~2 chapters planned now - so it evolved into a twoshot because of all Blue's amazing braincells (luv u blue <3).
ANYWAYS we collaborate/co-author fics directly on ao3 (which is a pain in the ass) because blue doesnt have a google account or she lost her passwords i dont remember
BUT for some dumbass reason i decided to do all the tags on the draft on ao3, and for those who dont know, drafts on ao3 delete after 1 month, regardless of whether you edit it (so from the day you first do something on it, you have a timer counting down), so now we have a time limit on when we publish the first chapter!
side note: for some dumb reason the tags dont come up with suggestions so i need to type out every single one and just make sure i didnt do a typo. aaaaaaaaaaaaa its pain but so is life.
the time limit will either be good or bad, depends ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
anyways i get to make up a disease curated to hurt/comfort now bye bye!
#yeyey#fanfiction#kat's rambles#me rambling about my afternoon and i know for a fact it'll be a maximum of three people seeing it#however i felt like sharing and the impulse - however dumb it is - cannot be ignored.#so take this#ao3#archive#writing
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Tantrum. - Kanato Sakamaki
♡Summary: Kanato gets jealous of Yui talking to his brothers and throws a tantrum ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
♡Word Count: 952
♡A/N: I hope you all enjoy! This is my first fic so. Kinda nervous. I went with a more simple concept since it's my first fic and I didnt want to write anything super super complicated. But I really like these silly vampires and I wanted to write about them because I've read almost every kanato fic on ao3 (and recent ones on tumblr) and I'm running out of content.
Comments and feedback are always appreciated! Lmk if you like it!
7:45pm.
Yui was early for school. She had been having trouble adjusting to going to school during the night and basically living nocturnally since beginning her stay with the Sakamaki's. For the first few weeks, she had difficulty trying not to fall asleep in most of her classes. Recently, however, it's been ever so slightly easier.
Yui made a quick stop at her locker to change her shoes and grab a few snacks to put in her bag. She always made sure to bring little candies and sweets wherever she went as a quick way to help Kanato calm down if he was having one of his usual tantrums. She shut the door to her locker and checked the clock on the wall.
7:50pm. She still had 10 minutes until class started.
She let out a sigh and began wandering the halls. She decided she would head to her first class of the night at around 7:57pm. As of right now, she had some free time to relax before she needed to attend class.
"Bitch-Chan!!" A familiar voice called from down the hall. Yui turned around to see Laito and Ayato walking towards her.
"Yo! Chichinashi!!" Ayato smiled as he took a few steps in her direction.
Yui decided she would stay and chat with the two for a few minutes. "Kanato might not be too happy with me if I stay to talk to you two," she sighs. "But its my decision. And I dont see a problem with chatting for a few minutes before class begins."
"Don't worry about what that hysteric thinks! All he'll do is throw a little tantrum. It's not like he can do anything to stop us from just talking to you." Ayato let's out a small laugh.
"What was that?" Another voice could be heard from behind Yui, "Just what do you think you're doing?!" A voice that was normally soft on days when things went his way, overcome with anger.
A hand grabbed at Yui's wrist and held her arm tightly. She turned around to look into Kanato's eyes.
She was pulled down the hallway and away from Laito and Ayato before she could even process what was going on.
Kanato pulled her into a dark, empty classroom as they turned the corner at the end of the hallway. By the way he was acting, Yui could tell he was about to start screaming at her. She knew she'd be late to class because of him, yet again.
Still tightly gripping her arm, his eyes began to tear up.
"Kanato!? I'm sorry, please stop crying!" Yui attempted to get him to stop crying, but this only further agitated him.
"You're mine! How could I stop myself from being jealous of you looking at them instead of me!" He screams, "You're supposed to only look at me!" He starts to walk forward, and backs her into the closest wall of the classroom.
"Please dont scream at me like that! I'm sorry, I promise!" Yui pleaded.
Kanato tightened his grip on her arm, "You think I'm a monster! Even though this is your fault! You chose to be by my side, remember? Yet you'd rather spend your time talking to my brothers instead of me!"
Yui let out a small squeal as his nails dug into her skin. He used his other hand to grab the back of her head and slightly tug on her hair.
"I can't leave you alone for even a minute without you trying to seduce my brothers! What do they have that I don't!?" His brows furrowed as he looked at her.
"I wasn't trying to do anything! I was just talking to them!" Yui was desperate to try to explain what happened, but to no avail.
"You liar! I saw the way they were looking at you as if you were their prey! They were trying to take you away from me!" He cries, "What's so special about them anyways?" He pulled her hair again, but this time much harder, forcing her to look at him.
Yui pleaded with him again, "Please stop! I promise I didn't mean to do anything! I just want you to forgive me... what can I do to make it up to you?"
His breathing became ever so slightly more steady as she asked this, and he began to calm down a little bit. He slightly loosened the hold he had on her wrist and lets go of the lock of hair he had grabbed. Little red crescent shapes from his nails, now visible on her arm. He begins to laugh a bit.
"Don't look at anyone else ever again, nobody deserves your kindness except me," he smiles, "no one else can love you like I do. Only look at me, only talk to me."
Yui nodded reluctantly. She knew it wouldn't fix much, but if she agrees to do what he says it would get him to calm down.
Kanato leaned in closer to Yui. He held on to her shoulders and started breathing heavily.
"What's wrong? Do you feel sick?" Yui grew concerned with how he was acting. She thought maybe he had gotten lightheaded from crying and screaming.
He smiled again. "I'm thirsty. I can smell the scent of your blood through your skin," he leaned in even closer, "it's your fault I got upset, so you should make it up to me."
"I'll make sure to drink a lot as your punishment," he laughed, and bit the side of her neck.
Yui could feel her heart start beating faster as she checked the clock on the wall of the classroom. 8:20pm.
Maybe tomorrow she'd have better luck.
#diabolik lovers#diahell#kanato sakamaki#diabolik lovers kanato#dialovers kanato#ayato sakamaki#laito sakamaki#yui komori#kanato sakamaki x yui komori
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got distracted by cartoons, have a late ask game ask!!!!!
i wanna know! #s 5, 7, 8, 12, 25, 26, and 30!
Is that too much? MAYBE! But I feel like at this point in my internet life and our interactions and such, this is just to be expected ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
(I will not be chill w/ q's next time fr fr)
(i am lying)
5. Estimate of how much of your art you post online vs. the art you keep for yourself
Oh I post SO MUCH of my stuff. The doodle dumps are to blame mostly. Thats gotta be an 80/20 ratio on stuff that sees the light of day. This website is my dumping ground and i will use it like a fucking landfill.
Here's an ANCIENT doodle of the actual canonical characters of this franchise for the trouble.
(Small Buddy with elf shoes is a whole staple fyi)
7. A medium of art you don't work in but appreciate
As per last ask, Comic artists! I do not have any will whatsoever to be stylistically consistent at all! I appreciate the people who can so many characters that many times AND convey a story. Cheers to that bro, could not be me.
8. What's an old project idea that you've lost interest in
I don't know about any other projects I've abandoned but here's a character I've abandoned! Kinda, not really. Its Death! Death WILL make an appearance in CC, in the finale, but they've gotten a redesign as of late so here's what they used to look like
Thye used to be VERY self-inserty, but now their gonna be a lot more god like and much more ambiguous. Just you wait til Lucy meets them in person >:)
12. Easiest part of body to draw
Hands! People say their hard, but I think I've done enough studies to where I can crank out a decent hand like nothing. Love drawing hands.
25. Something your art has been compared to that you were NOT inspired by
I don't remember ever receiving a direct comparison to something pertaining to my art 🤔 Now I'm curious as to what it reminds people of!
26. What's a piece that got a wildly different interpretation from what you intended
Most of my pieces are pretty straight forward. We do it for the sillies here. I'm really blanking on this one! I dont do too much hidden meaning in illustrations, if I want something to look cool im gonna try and make it cool. Not a lot to interpolate lol
30. What piece of yours do you think is underrated
Probably a tie between these two!
It's probably because i starred at both of them it until my eyes bled but I like em! The lighting on Mera and Kills and the rock bridge on the wild west one scratches my brain itches.
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mid-year book freak out tag
tagged by @bloody-wonder, thank you!
1. Best Book You’ve Read So Far in 2023?
Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente. i dont even know what to say. i want to sit raptly while someone smarter than me explains all the history and symbolism in this book that i missed. haunting.
2. Best Sequel You’ve Read So Far in 2023?
partially just because i've read few sequels this year, The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik wins. I maintain that Orion is boring as hell after book 1 and I don't care about him but the rest of the book? Delicious. El is so snarky and dark. Ooooh im an evil witch princess im so scary my friends have to hold me back from committing evil (devotes her life to protecting other people) (refuses to live in an enclave because it feels like cheating) (shows up whenever people ask for help even if they suck). also the reveal with the mawmouths was just. such fucking 10/10 writing. the punch of understanding. the way the text gives the reader space to figure it out themself and just go HOLY SHIT.
3. New Release You Haven’t Read Yet, But Want To?
Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle. I have it downloaded. I am ready.
4. Most Anticipated Release For Second Half of 2023?
I have no idea. I just find books when I find them, y'know?
5. Biggest Disappointment?
ironically, the sequel to question 6, The Return of Fitzroy Angursell by Victoria Goddard. after a book which is about a guy whose whole thing is "really good civil servant" this book was just...not what i wanted. it was about a classic singing robin hood style hero who is charming and cool and magical and does adventures and maybe otherwise i would have enjoyed it but how can i read a book set in the world of my favourite bureaucrat Kip and not read about bureaucracy??? only book so far this year i just straight up didnt finish. also, you can only tell the same vague story about how kip made a joke that one time without actually telling the joke before it stops being "backstory" and starts being "the author never actually figured out what the joke was".
6. Biggest Surprise?
The Hands of the Emperor by Victoria Goddard. absolutely bizarre book. there is no real plot other than the emperor preparing for retirement. the first three hundred pages the emperor just. goes on vacation?? i was expecting political intrigue but the political intrigue is 90% just "the rich guys dont like it but our guy, Kip the bureaucrat, is the emperors specialist guy and also extremely stubborn so everyone has to go alone with UBI". the biggest conflict is literally just interpersonal miscommunication but good. i was so hooked it was ridiculous. where did the heterosexuality come from i am perplexed
7. Favorite New Author?
i was about to say catherynne m valente but i actually cant claim that because now i looked her up and ive read other work by her! she did The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making and sequels which were extremely delightful also. so this one goes to Victoria Goddard on the basis of i have apparently read a lot of authors i already know this year
8. Newest Favorite Character?
Cliopher (Kip) Mdang my beloved
9. Newest Fictional Crush?
¯\_ (ツ)_/¯
💕Best Ship💕
¯\_ (ツ)_/¯
okay i guess maybe kip + the emperor? or maybe el + liesel because i was surprisingly a big fan of liesel by the end. though maybe thats just me wanted el to be with someone more interesting than orion.
10. Book That Made You Cry?
i can't actually remember if i cried but Driftwood by Marie Brennan was quite haunting and beautiful and bittersweet
11. Book That Made You Happy?
Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson. now, all brandon sandersons are at least 30% power of friendship by weight but i really do appreciate that this one was like "yeah no we're saying that part out loud. people are heros because they love their friends anything else is just set dressing"
12. Favorite Book Adaptation You Saw This Year?
i...dont think ive watched any book adaptations this year
13. Favorite Review You’ve Written This Year?
don't write 'em, so n/a
14. Most Beautiful Cover?
im going to say Deathless tho i think i am biased because the book hypnotised me
15. What Books Do You Need To Read By The End of The Year?
so many. Ancillary Justice. I also really should read Nona the Ninth but book 2 was so...eugh. i ravenously devoured a bunch of Pratchett's last month and i am waiting on several more from the library. apparently theres a new murderbot out soon? i should check that out.
tagging @a-fish-bee, @foxsoulcourt if you want to do this one :)
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i read a post saying how we should make true barbiesonas based on the movie concept of each doll being tied to a real-world person and their mindset influencing the doll’s own SO. though p much all the ones i had were movie/princess dolls heres the story of the only generic barbie and ken i had/have <3
Travel Barbie
 i tried finding her in the attic but with no success, she might’ve been donated <:/ either way she was a generic blonde barbie that usually had her hair pulled up/back so it looked cool in her helmet, but i can’t remember what color eyes were so for uniqueness sake imma say she had color shifting hazel eyes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (face claim is chloe grace mortez (or sabrina carpenter, ive been a fan of hers for forever but i dont think her eyes or face/body shape match the character so im torn))
yall i had SO many vehicles, the only one i still have is her bike but i also remember a pink car, a little camper van, and a carriage for the princesses ofc
so it only makes sense that her ‘job’ would be traveling/exploring, just making her way across the country through different means and sharing her experiences, maybe through reviews and blogposts maybe through writing and memoirs who knows :p
i’m leaning towards the latter so she can mirror my own love of writing and flowery word choice, just not to an award-winning degree but girl me neither dw
i also want to imbue my creative nature into her so she also loves drawing singing and cooking— painting the sceneries she comes across to capture their vibrancy, vibing along to the radio as she drives or camps out for the night, and making herself tasty pancakes and smoothies and pasta and chili and cupcakes and smores using the limited counter space she has to fuel up and treat herself throughout the course of the day <3
assumedly she would also be rather active/athletic and resourceful, with a decent amount of knowledge regarding mechanics so she could fix any malfunctions while on the road
(this tracks cause my mom has an rv herself and is also handy like that so she would inherit those traits from my mom (her grandma ig?? if you wanna think about it like that lol) which furthers the familial themes of the movie)
also i absolutely ADORED weird barbie’s robot dog so my barbie’s getting a dog too!! a curly haired poodle that loves water and long rides like my irl dog does!! is it real? that’s up to reader interpretation ;)
as mentioned above my main dolls were ones from the animated movies, specifically the diamond castle since it was and is my all time favorite, and i had alexa and liana along with melody and the two other muses
(yall the texture on their grecian dresses was SO nice i remember it to this day—)
(i also had rosella from the island princess movie which was my second favorite)
i don’t know if they’d be in barbie land canonically but i’m not characterizing them here cause they’re… already… characters…
BUT i’m using that to say travel barbie is friends with royalty, and as such is simultaneously fun and friendly while being mature and refined with a princess-y vibe from being surrounded by them so much
maybe cause gloria had skipper’s treehouse as a kid so her barbie lived next to it, my barbie would live next to the diamond castle or sumn afshjdasvdjs
in terms of who she is it makes sense, being well-traveled and getting the chance to meet people from all walks of life, and just clicking with them specifically for no particular reason
but it also works in terms of who I am/was, even when i was super young i was kind and generous and bouncy but a bit more serious and reserved than other kids, it just works so well with how those traits would reflect on my barbie both in and out of universe :))
if she’s still in my possession/house somewhere and connected to me then at the VERY moment shes just generally emotional with an inexplicable love of life and humanity yall im telling you this movie is affecting meeee—
overall tho she’s more mushy like stereotypical barbie, sad and complicated and anxious for no reason at times but still lively and talented and living her best life and working through it all with the help of her friends
i can’t remember if i’ve found her in the past, but man i hope i didn’t have her out for long, that’s how you get “inexplicable thoughts of death barbie” and “highschool dropout barbie” and “why don’t i have a real job why is everyone around me so much more successful barbie” and “feeling inferior and ugly and ashamed and unlovable barbie”
IT’S IN THE PAST YALL I SWEAR IM DOING BETTER I GOT MEDICATED SO WOULD SHE—
super close with psychiatrist barbie nowadays 😂😂
speaking of i saw this meme/image (credit to gmf.designs on ig!!) and the culture of this movie just continues to hit hard, like it fits so perfectly i—
Swim Ken
clean-shaven black boy with sculpted hair and colorful striped swim trunks (faceclaim and bodyclaim is winston duke)
as such his job wouldn’t be just beach like rg!ken but rather swim/swimming, which also extends to pools
is he a good swimmer? beats me 🥴
he likes it that’s all that matters!!
i appropriately don’t remember much about him since i wouldn’t play with him much lmaooo
the only other boy doll i had was the prince from island princess (specifically remember his gorgeous blue jacket and his weird pointy plastic crown band thing), so they would be best friends and as such, he would have a similar elegant/royal vibe about him
aww he probably gets a bunch of ideas on how to woo travel barbie from him
honestly?? idk if theyd be more like margot robbie + ryan gosling or ncuti gatwa + emma mackey in terms of relationship
(ik that one part where they hug and stuff is supposed to be a shoutout to the sex ed fans but i truly think theyre an item vs being just friends, and different barbies have different types of relationships with their kens)
anyway idk what type of relationship they’d have but he’d be super gentlemanly and romantic regardless, true prince material
they probably have a lake in barbieland right? for rowing and fishing and stuff
that’s where they would hang out/meet up the most, still go to the malibu beach ofc but a quiet crystal blue lake fits the vibe better imo
he simultaneously has pool lake and beach vibes JUST ALL THE WATER
#barbie#barbie movie#barbie 2023#barbie spoilers#barbiesona#crying at how long her description is in comparison to his omllll#im not counting this as an oc thing really cause i probably wont revisit it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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the way the fandom treats steve and mike are the same for me. both have the most privilaged lives out of every other charatcer but for some reason ppl try to attribute such angst narratives to their characters that they become entirely different characters. i remember laughing my ass off when ppl were saying steve is secretly gay/bi and have internalized homophobia and that he is abused and neglected by his family because his family isnt there and he is so lonely and.... and then i was like, that's exactly what people say regarding mike. the amount of reaching i've seen ppl come up with regarding mike's character is almost identical to how people perceive and make stuff up with steve's character that just... dont exist there.
Oooh. This is a super interesting point. Fully agree about Steve, I was kind of talking about that with some friends last night. It is very different with Mike, but you definitely have a point here.
The difference with Mike is we actually have information to go on. We see that his father is distant, we see the way he and Nancy hide things from their parents and each other suggesting a strained relationship, we see that his family are republicans, he's actually queercoded, he actually shows signs of IH, etc.
As opposed to Steve, where we know nothing about his family life (canonically, I know the fandom has decided his parents are awful and neglectful because they went away one time, wouldn’t want their son drinking underage, and wanted him to get a job after high school) and he's certainly not queercoded, in fact being heterosexual is important to his characterization because of his relationship with Robin.
BUT what is interesting (which I believe is what you were saying in the first place? so sorry for the long winded answer) is that some people do seem to ascribe other things to Mike's character that there isn't necessarily canonical evidence for... and that reminds me of the way people treat Steve's character. It's a bit apples to oranges with Mike and Steve as characters, but you're right there's something there.
And I don't know exactly why people do it. In fics it seems to sometimes be a setup for a hurt/comfort senario so that's probably part of it. The other part of it is probably projection. Who knows ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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me and my friend (who knows i love chris but is herself more of a “passively appreciative of his handsomeness and talent” vibe) were talking about The Grey Man and she said that Lloyd made her think of chris “from that diving resort movie we watched” because lloyd’s styling was also “so 70s”
and she broke my brain i think 😂😂😂 theyre both 70’s but the vibes are SO DIFFERENT. but truly what i appreciated was just that she remembered red sea diving resort like at all lol.
anyway i dont know what to do with this comparison so im giving it to you for Thoughts ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (also happy belated birthday 😘)
AHH THANK YOU BESTIE !! AND YESSS ALL THAT'S LEFT IS FOR HIM TO GO SLUTTY 70S BF WITH TINY SHORTS AND CROP TOPS
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after this latest ultimate extended rewatch with @lecampy i can finally say for sure: i like the hobbit movies more than the OT ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
All 6 are more consistent in quality than I remembered so there's less for me to get hung up on that i wasn't already accepting from the first movies -- there's infrequently wonky cgi, weird act 3 pacing, and stupid action sequences in the OT but they didn't get in the way of my enjoyment then, that's still the case for me here
i already like tolkien dwarves so all the focus on them was awesome, i like that they blended in some other tolkien works, i like that there were references to the cartoons and various illustrated editions
it must be said -- the soundtrack fucks! howard shore adds some new great dwarvish themes to the leitmotifs we're already familiar with and it works so well -- in particular its underscoring of thorin's descent is really really good
the biggest thing for me though is the characters. I am incredibly fond of all the dwarves, and bc the movies put effort into differentiating them I was able to quickly learn names. i always come away from a rewatching getting attached to a new character (this time its balin ;__;)
riddles in the dark! the barrel escape! goofy and heartfelt songs! outwitting trolls and bluffing dragons! i think all the best stuff from the novel is a lot of fun in large part bc freeman is the perfect bilbo, he handles this ridiculous, increasingly depressing procession of events with a combination of twitchy insecurity and desperate nerve and its exactly as i imagined
dont even get me started on armitage as thorin jesus christ holy fcuk. I'm still recovering and it's been a decade. his last scene had me in hysterics
in general bilbo is a more interesting and compelling protagonist, (all his little tics are so endearing!! there's like 50 Relatable Bilbo Moments per movie) and thorin's tragic character arc beats the shit out of anything from the OT. i wish i had 10 more hours of them interacting. i wish they had more time together
love the stuff with bard the bowman, he is a much more interesting figure than i initially gave him credit for, especially after laketown is destroyed and he's trying to care for all the refugees who immediately looked to him for guidance because he's the one that killed the dragon. he feels the weight of responsibility for their survival on his shoulders, his dragonslaying wasn't so much a feat as it is a prelude to the real work that is the result of prowess -- those who can, MUST. and that pressure drives his plea for thorin to just honor their prior agreement, and the feeling of betrayal when that plea is callously refused. its just like thorin taking responsibility for his people after erebor was lost (and the deliciousness of thorin treating bard like thranduil treated him, and the way the trauma of being abandoned to starvation and exile ripples out over years)
the critique i agree most with is the execution of the kili/tauriel romantic subplot, it could have been better developed imo, theyre really intense about each other after like one conversation LKJFdsjf
pacing is definitely wonky at times
specifically the pacing of the gandalf subplot was not as good as the main plot, but i think it was better handled in the extended editions
i dont think smaug was killed too quickly, or the confrontation was weirdly positioned astride the 2nd and 3rd movies bc the dragon isn't the most interesting antagonist of this story and there are more important things to explore, like thorin's descent into paranoia, his awful choices as a leader once he steps inside erebor and how theyre connected to his past experiences, and the way infighting leaves all parties vulnerable to destruction. but i'm someone who was bummed they cut scourging of the shire from the OT so i would enjoy stuff like this, those arcs that show the fallout after the Big Final Battle, (or what seemed like it at the time), where you have to reconcile real world shit like diplomacy w/ neighboring polities.
i still love the OT, its a classic for a reason, but the hobbit movies are underrated and i'll die on this (under)hill.
#bleep blorp bullshit#when i finish watching lotr i feel emotional and satisfied#when i finish watching the hobbit i want to start rewatching it immediately#the hobbit
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7, 11, 13 for the self insert lore asks :3 - @hearts-and-stars
@hearts-and-stars :)
7. would any other characters (besides your f/o) have a crush on your self insert?
not rly. most of the characters are either dead or children sooo ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
11. what kind of outfit(s) does your self insert wear?
they have the closet of an edgy kpop idol and i wish every day that i could have just one of those outfits for real. the loser = lover choreography outfits especially
13. does your self insert have any information about their family?
they don't remember anything about their birth family. their first memories are waking up in Traverse Town when they were 10 years old, anything before that was lost with the heartless.
As far as theyre concerned, their life before Traverse Town was a different person and they dont care too much about learning about them. they found their own family with Axel, Roxas, and Xion, and they wouldnt trade that for all the worlds
#thank u friend!!#morgyn tag#ask games#memorize this (s/i edition)#sea salt quartet in a minor#.text
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Been thinking a lot about your post about Hank. Do we like Hank?
He's on the Androids' side, but he's also a cop.
And unlike Connor, he doesn't have the excuse that he literally wasn't sentient when he was obeying his cop orders long before the game even started. He used to be a decorated officer.
i ponder a lot about that too tbh, i think from my perspective, the most logical path if he survives is that he would quit his job. and not in a "just because i like him = he is unable to fuck up" way, but from his dialogue, it sounds like he starts realising the state of the world a lot more differently once he looks through these cases with Connor and he experiences empathy for things he never imagined he would, and sees how actions spread consequences. i dont know who exactly it was who said it here so im sorry if im not crediting you right now, but i saw someone recently point out (which i did notice as i played) Hank doesn't even JUST blame the human doctor for his son's death, but says 'this fucked up world where the only relief people get is from a fistful of powder'. i wonder if this is a thought he always had, or if this was one of the things he learned along the way. AND he visibly resents his job once 'the civil war' starts looming and the case is about to be handed over to the FBI because his job conflicts with what he deems is right
im gonna have to check again because i dont remember very well his timeline, but im led to believe from the game that he started cracking down on the drug trade Because of his incident (and from what i recall those were his most successful cases), and he was probably misled to think this would help with such problems, but started becoming hopeless once he realised even if you take out one trader, another will show up in his place, and people will always want more, and there was just... no winning. Hank is visibly very pessimistic and disilusioned with humanity, hes nihilistic and just trudges through his life, and when you're stuck in a rut like this you barely want to move out of your comfort (which i wouldnt say is like, morally correct, but i understand), but it's like once he hears the first hand accounts on the step by step through oppression that he starts to really get it. is it fucked up to take a systemically oppressive job as revenge? absolutely. is he late on realising his job makes him do fucked up things? yeah, but i think depending on how he moves on from his past, there's still hope for him. and obviously, its easy for me to be so forgiving on him, the game does want you to like him, but this is just what i think lol in the end, the only good cops are either dead or no longer cops. and about half of his paths end like that ¯_(ツ)_/¯
#anonymous#ramble#hank#i love hank so im guilty#but i know he fucked up Very badly at times#he does give the impression of being one of the cops who became cops because he believed in the whole 'protect' myth of it#this game has a nasty way of treating drugs as a discussion#not only addressing but framing it#and very visibly implying but never addressing the core evil being capitalism imperialism#and id say hank is the single character closest to addressing it straight up#part of what makes me appreciate him#so close yet so far#actually i could go on for HOURS on this stupid fucking game and framing#i love it but HHHHH#much to be said about what lures people into becoming cops
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So we're driving home and somehow the topic of earthquakes come up. I know Aaron lived through the nesqualli quake in like 2000. I mention the Idaho earthquake that was sometime between 2015-2020. I called it a 7 and Aaron goes off about how a seven feels and I apologize because I didn't actually experience the quake but I know people felt it and I was proud that I knew why there are quakes in Idaho.
Aaron starts getting more upset. Moves on to the fear that mount st Helens would erupt again around 2004-2005 and I told him I was in 4th grade watching the seismometers move, showing activity. Aaron said that they weren't worried about that because mt Rainier grew a lava dome when he was in 7th grade. I said, "no, that was mount st Helens. remember? I just said I was obsessed with it in 4th grade which would be when you were in 7th grade?"
Then, no matter what I said, he accused me of not knowing shit because I didn't live in this area and didn't know the fear he felt. I agreed that I could never know the fear he felt, but it was mt st Helens that had the lava dome. We get home and he changes his argument to "I don't give a fuck that you think the name of the mountain is important, the point of the matter is that you weren't fucking here and you didn't experience the terror"
I told him this was not an argument, this is me just correcting him bc I know I'm right and standing with it. He moved the goal posts when he realized I was right. He started getting so angry and yelling that "YOU DONT KNOW SHIT YOU WERENT FUCKING HERE TO EXPERIENCE THE FEAR WE FELT" then I told him to sleep on the couch. He said "like hell I will YOU sleep on the couch!" So imma go sleep in the garage room because it was unacceptable how he lashed out at me and cussed me out. The "fucking"s were so pointed. And this man thought he could get some tonight. Sorry, you can't get that when you get drunk and then act entitled and enraged ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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drifted off and had the most interesting dream...
not new, but a newer one
i almost made it to the ending just now...or at least where it seems like it should end, i don't know, maybe there's more...
i wish i could remember the premise and not just the endingest part
me and a partner were...protecting grandma and grandpa, but we were also...doing this we needed to hide from them? you know like when shit hits the fan, they pretend everythings going fine? liek when talking on the phone or something? i don't remember like anything, but there was cool risky stuff and i remember kicking something?
but there was like...a big i dont know almost mass extinction event happening? the outside world was grim and people were pulling party cracker like instant explosion things to escape. like instantly vaporized with minimum bloodshed
whatever we had been trying to do, we couldn't so we and the granparents decided we should also just end things on our terms. we decided to go out dancing (like cheek to cheek, waltzing or something), so we danced
but before we could die (i dont remember how that was supposed to happen but it was supposed to be painless), a random nurse who appeared said gramma wouldnt be able to because she had big black abscesses in her legs and wouldnt be able to keep dancing (??? my brain just tossing out whatever, i guess)
and grandpa also wasnt doing well, he couldnt breathe (i think i was waking up here, because it got really chaotic really fast and continuity was totally lost)
so we quickly said our goodbyes and comforted him while he slowly slumped over, saying thank you. so we moved on to getting grandma to the bed, awkwardly pushing her wheelchair down the hall. we managed to get her on the bed and she eventually passed as well.
my partner (i dont think we were romantically involved, but we were acting sort of like spies?? so?? what relationship???) and i decided to end it quickly by
and then i woke up. ツ
like come on i was so close to knowing the ending.
i think this is maybe the second time ive seen this one.
not all of my dreams become recurring dreams, but this one might.
its not a happy dream, but they never are, i guess.
i want to know what happens next. if it was some kind of mass extinction event, why were we prolonging it and what were my partner and i doing the whole time? who was that random nurse who popped it at the end, did we know her from earlier? what was the dancing plan?? how would that have worked??
i tried to fall back into the dream, but i couldn't ><
anyways, yeah im going to bed it's 3:45 am now
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