#and in all cases they are characters and people that mean a lot to me and I love them and their different views and takes that I otherwise
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what's he got that i don't? 𝜗𝜚 ⊹ ‧₊˚
pairing percy jackson x fem!reader
summary based off this request!!
an i actually love this request sm 😋 in jealous percy we trust
PERCY sighed dramatically as he plopped himself down on his bed, scooting up to put his head in your lap. he'd just gotten back from a meeting with chiron about helping out with teaching new campers how to handle swords and was quite frankly, exhausted. he'd spent his whole day running around, going from lesson to lesson, already helping out with all sorts of things. he hadn't seen you since breakfast and desperately needed to feel you close after his hectic day. walking into his cabin to see you sitting in his bed reading made him feel like maybe the gods didn't hate him and they knew how to answer his prayers after all.
"long day?" you asked, moving one of your hands down to his hair and ran your fingers through it while the other continued to hold up your book.
"mhm" he hummed in response.
"what'd you do?" you followed up.
"teach, teach some more, help out, then go teach again" he said, "i didn't even ask to be a teacher."
"you didn't ask for a lot of things, just another thing to add to the list babe. im sure the kids who need help greatly appreciate you and your teaching"
"i guess"
you sat in silence for a minute, continuing to play with percy's hair and read. he would've been fine staying like that and maybe even wouldve ended up falling asleep in your lap, but he had hardly spent any time with you today. he wanted to talk to you more and kiss your lips and hug you, but your nose was stuck in that stupid book he didn't even understand.
"whatcha reading?" he asked and lifted his head up, moving it to rest his chin on your stomach.
"the hunger games" you replied.
he mumbled a quick 'okay' and kept his head on your stomach, looking up at you and watching as you read.
as much as percy loved quiet moments like this, it was the opposite of what he wanted. he knew you enjoyed reading, and now was one of the few opportunities you got to read in peace, but he hadn't seen you in hours and (even though he wouldnt admit it) was in desperate need for your attention. when he saw you smile at something in your book, he decided to try for a conversation again.
"whatcha smilin' at?"
you looked away from your book, "nothin. just this guy."
he got up and furrowed his brow, "what guy?"
"he's not real, percy."
"don't matter, what guy is making my girl smile like that?"
you rolled your eyes, "a guy made of ink and imaginations. that's who."
"lemme see" he said, holding out his hand for you to hand him the book.
you handed him the book and watched as he squinted his eyes, trying to read it.
"i can't read."
"i know."
"what's it say?"
he handed you the book back, ""i don’t think it’s going to work out. winning . . . won’t help in my case," says peeta. "why ever not?" says caesar, mystified. peeta blushes beet red and stammers out. "because . . .because . . . she came here with me.""
percy pauses for a second. "you were smiling at that? what does it even mean?"
"see! you dont get it, it's nothing." you said, trying to brush it off.
"mmm i think its something" he said. he already had your attention away from reading your book, now it was just a matter of keeping it up.
"you wanna know? fine." you huffed, "im smiling because i remember when i read this for the first time and i was freaking out because katniss and peeta hardly even talk in this part of the book, and he just reveals that he's got a crush on her, but you don't know that he's actually faking it - but at the same time he's not - because it's set in katniss' perspective, so you're left all 'what was that?! what does he mean!!!' and it becomes something that peeta does again later cause he's smart and knows what cards to play in order for people to like him!!"
he looked at you in surprise, "oh- wow, sorry." he apologized, taking your hands in his, "so is peeta your favorite character?"
you knew you could just give him a simple yes and be over with the whole thing, but if he wanted the truth, then the truth is what he would get.
"yea, he really is. he's just the perfect guy" you said smugly, opening your book back up and pretending to start reading again.
"pfff- yea right! what happened to imaginations and ink?" he said. you could hear the slightest bit of jealousy in his voice and decided to keep going.
"doesnt take away the fact that he's perfect" you said as a mattter-of-factly.
"oh yea? well i think he's a fake nobody."
"fake nobody or not, he's still really smart, strong, an artist, a great baker, handsome in the movies-"
"josh hutcherson is not handsome."
"im gonna act like you didn't just say that." you said, realizing this was going the way you wanted it to, "but gods, did i mention how good of a boyfriend he is? i mean the way he cared for katniss?? hes literally everything a girl could ask fo-"
"hey you know im your boyfriend, not him, right?" percy asked, his tone sounding unsure and annoyed.
you stopped there and put your book down. you didn't think he'd actually be bothered by you talking about a fictional guy. he was never really the jealous type, had he actually taken it seriously?
"perce... are you.. jealous?" you asked in disbelief.
he gave you an offended look that you could tell was fake, "what?! no! course not! why would i be jealous of some fake baker dude??"
you couldnt help but laugh as he continued to try and defend himself from your 'wild' and 'indecorous' 'accusations'.
"i wasnt accusing you of anything! just asking!!" you said through your fit of giggles.
"yea you were! i feel very attacked right now, i though this was supposed to be a safe space!!" you only laughed more.
once you managed to get yourself to stop laughing, you moved closer to percy and pressed a kiss on his cheek. "i was just joking, you know that right?"
he mumbled a quick 'yea' while moving over to your side so he could put his arm around you and pull you into his chest. he left a kiss ontop of your head as you got comfortable in his embrace, putting your book on his nightstand.
percy had gotten his chance to talk to you, and now was able to hold you close, just like he wanted. yes it took listening to you ramble about some other (fake) guy, but who cares!! before finally closing his eyes and falling under hypnos' spell, he only had one more question about the book you were reading.
"by the way, who's finnick odair?"
"OHMYGOD, SO-"
#percy was in the wrong okay bye !!#percy jackson#pjo#percy jackson x reader#pjo x reader#percy jackson x you#by bells ♡⋆ ࣪.
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ok I am in fact using this as an excuse to make a long post about this thank you thank you asjksdjfaljdf
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Interpreting Yuri as asexual is my very very favorite type of headcanon, which is one that 1. is compellingly coded in the source material (even if that wasn't the creator's intent), 2. is thematically relevant to what the piece of media is Trying To Do as a whole, and 3. just means a lot to me, personally, because I said so.
Coded in the source material
Yuri’s short program is “eros”, aka desire (you can interpret what “eros” means in various ways, but YOI itself explicitly refers to sexual love, at least in the English translations). Yuri struggles with this. Hard. He can’t come up with an answer when asked what eros means to him. His big revelatory moment about desire is that it’s how he feels about wanting to eat his favorite food (omg… boy). Even as the season goes on and the way he views the Eros program changes, the program doesn’t ever really embody the idea of eros as sexuality or romance (which was how the other characters expect him to interpret it) but rather as a desire to keep Victor in his life.
Like look. I’m obviously not going to say that the creator intended any kind of ace subtext to be there. I kind of doubt it was her intent. But goddamn is the subtext there.
2. Thematic relevance
The central theme throughout YOI is “love”, and especially loving people in a way that inspires you both to be your best selves: Yuri learning that the people in his life truly love and support him; Victor finding someone who makes him feel joy about skating again.
Like, Yuri’s whole skating theme for the Grand Prix is literally about him exploring what love looks like to him, even when it takes a form that other people don’t totally understand. Viewing all this through a lens of him being ace is really compelling. It adds depth to the idea of learning how to express the way you feel love even when it looks different than what other people expect. I think it’s a really delicious layer that adds even more nuance to what the show is getting at.
Besides, it’s an interesting way of viewing the criticism of the show that occurred for it not being 100% explicit about them being a couple (aka people getting mad because the kiss in ep 7 is blocked by Victor’s arm lmaooo). Like, ok, did you see the ending scene of ep 9? Did you see ep 10??? They definitely, definitely love each other, in whatever way that means for them. Their relationship takes a form that’s pretty different than the other way people in the show are going about romantic relationships, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t real for them. That is very much in line with the main themes of the show.
3. Means a lot to me
In the final scene of the penultimate episode, Yuri tells Victor that they should end their coaching relationship after the Grand Prix ends. This is because he thinks he’s holding Victor back, that Victor would be happier being free to go back to skating on his own instead of being Yuri’s coach. When I watched this (and, I’ll be honest, this is completely me projecting here) I REALLY interpreted this as an ace thing. I think it’s pretty easy to internalize the idea when you’re asexual that you just won’t be… enough, for other people. In my case I ended up a strong impulse to self-sabotage relationships because I would rather be the one to end things than to let someone else tell me that who I am as a person is fundamentally lacking. Yuri destroying a connection he desperately wants because he thinks there’s something about him that is holding Victor back from a life he’d be truly happy with? Oh yeah. I can fucking relate to that.
Also: YOI came out in 2016, which was the absolute peak of hostility to ace people I was seeing on this site. It was bad here. At the same time Tumblr was going wild over this show. Everyone was watching it. Seeing a whole site of people absolutely adore a character I very deeply in my heart believed to be ace? Extremely vindicating.
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In conclusion Yuri is asexual because it is fun and interesting that way, and also because of this:
#like it adds so much to the show if you view it through this lens! it's really good!#same reason for why I hc zuko as gay like ->#yeah ok you don't *have* to see it this way... but don't you want to live deliciously (in your media analysis)???#yoi#yuri on ice#thank u for giving me the excuse to finally post about this lol this has been building in my head for literally the last 8 years
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Give me some potential Bucktommy angst you’d like them to explore
So as of right now, we see Tommy through this sort of rose-gold, Superman-esque lens because that's how Buck sees him. Which is very sweet, by the way. Tommy's confident, he's sexy, he's heroic, and strong, and blah blah blah. And I love that, I do. But Tommy, like every other flawed character on this show, is deeply flawed and I'd love to see the writers explore that.
If Lou's reading on his character becomes canonized, Tommy's had a rough upbringing that is 100% going to influence how/who he is in a romantic relationship. I would love it if Tommy's go-to move is self-isolation because it would directly clash with Buck, who clings so tightly to people. There's a lot of potential there for miscommunication or hurt feelings.
But honestly, I think miscommunication is low-hanging fruit. It's never my favorite trope to rely on in fiction, so what I would actually love to see is acknowledgement for how terrifying it is that their feelings are developing so quickly. Buck's been hurt before. He's made a lot of bad relationship decisions in the past (hello Taylor Kelly) and Lou said Tommy is someone who will delay his own gratification unless he feels like something is real or right. If that's the case, that means he's in this thing with Buck until presumably the very end, and that's intimidating. There's a huge difference between wanting to be in love - real love - and actively being in love. It's beautiful, but it's scary as hell, and I'd love to see them try to grapple with the fact that they want this, want each other, but they're "doing it wrong."
They're supposed to slow down, it's not supposed to be this fast, blah blah blah. Buck, for his part, is listening to the (well-meaning) voices of the people in his circle who are telling him he's moving too qucikly, and Tommy, for his part, is ready to be in a lifelong relationship but he's not sure he wants to place that much intensity on Buck so quickly. This, of course, leads to one or both of them putting an unnatural "pause" on their relationship that ultimately hurts them, and they spend a couple episodes missing each other and struggling to hit their equilibrium. I think that would be nice.
And then, of course, my most self-indulgent fantasy is that all of their angst initially comes from circumstances around them, i.e. Buck and Eddie arguing, Tommy getting hurt at work, Buck getting hurt at work, etc. Just different things that will bring them closer together without putting a significant emotional strain on their dynamic. At least for Season 8. Season 9, it's going to be open season. I want them to be messy and hurtful to each other (only to fall back in love stronger than ever).
But yeah, those are my wishes.
#I am once again standing outside Tim Minear's window holding a boombox over my head#asking him to plagiarize my ideas#jack answers mail#tv: 911#bucktommy
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regarding the drool thing i highly doubt its a death mark or something like that given that a lot of characters do it and it isnt like. a permanent affect on his screen
also the insistence that its vals saliva therefore every seen hes salivating must have kissed val before. obviously that isnt true but i think its infinitely more telling that hes constantly SALIVATING. like do you have sialorrhea or are you just happy to see me?
even lucifer does it in hells greatest dad! though his is yellow like his blood..
so some homestuck troll shit-
my actual belief is that it isnt really saliva (atleast in the case of vox. lucifer. alastor.. we know vals is saliva) but instead blood and its supposed to indicate that the character is being "bloodthirsty" / violent.
it would make sense given all the scenes we see it used.
vox telling pentious to kill himself. the beginning of stayed gone. vox's finale hate boner. alastor doing creepy radio demon shit.
lucifer is even SAYING the word Blood during his scene. though its in the context of the family line, given the timing i can only imagine its deliberate.
the only exception id say would be at the end of poison (unless they're concocting a really devious plan). though id wager to say that in that scene specifically it actually is valentinos saliva
in this scene and this scene alone vox red droplets were on the left side of the screen (theres technically another time, buts its really on both sides of his screen there so).
this is right after we see angel with driplets on his left side, and you can see that val has his on the right side, (which is weird cause he mostly has it on his left side too?) which would be the sides to link up during a kiss
or maybe they're just sprite flipped idk
(follow-up to this ask)
tbf like
the cross on alastor's forehead isn't a permanent effect for him either (and it's been stated by ex-staff that alastor was shot in the head by a hunter so we basically know that's a death mark for him)
for lucifer's case I just thought he bit his lip while saying the line cause he was that pissed LMAO, funny how his blood is like an ugly yellow in that scene compared to the usual glowing yellow or gold we see from other angels. (also not the fucking homestuck troll comparison ksdkfflhl SOLLUX CAPTOR??)
my actual belief is that it isnt really saliva (atleast in the case of vox. lucifer. alastor.. we know vals is saliva) but instead blood and its supposed to indicate that the character is being "bloodthirsty" / violent.
I mean yeah I believe that, I've mentioned it before it appears when vox shows strong emotion. the reason I subscribed to that one anon's death mark theory is cause alastor's red "x" appears whenever he semi brings out his demon form (the example we see of alastor bleeding from the mouth too also has that "x")
and yeah, I think poison is like the SOLE outlier to this, all other times he has the red lines he's showing some kind of strong/violent/feral emotion. I originally just held the idea vox produced it himself and the strong emotions were actually from making out with val (yes I do actually think they made out in this scene I just didn't buy into the val saliva theory) but you bringing up the different side of the lines from usual and the mirroring is a good point actually, I didn't realise that, honestly changed my mind and convinced me that yeah this specific case it is val's saliva
see the thing is, I do think it CAN mean he was making out with val I just don't think it NECESSARILY does cause of all the times it happens outside of val like I said. in this case, yeah they were probably making out LMAO.
in other cases, nope.
my thing isn't that I'm against the idea of it coming from val, it's more like some people act like it's a definite indicator that they were making out whenever vox has it, but I don't think that's the case at all, the red lines are definitely something vox can form by himself
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this is a dutch van der linde and micah bell hate club - dutch and micah defenders are not welcome here
#also dutch defenders does not equal dutch likers. you can still like hin as a character n stuff#i underrstand he's cool to think about and one of the most conplex characters in the game#but if you come to me and say “dutch is a good guy” or “molly deserved it” or stuff like that. immediate block fuck off#micah though. eh. like. choose better bestie#the writing for micah isnt bad per say but there are better written more complex characters than him#i mean. micah isnt complex at all. hes a bad guy who enjoys doing bad things n it all dates back into his childhood#theres nothing more to that really. bad and malicious people exist and hes one of them#sure there might be more to that but thats all the analysis i will ever do of him. he makes me so mad#also. like. i like vandermatthews. heckbi love vandermatthews because their relationship is so interesting to think about.#but i often feel that in the case of vandermatthews dutch's canon treatment of his partners including hosea gets ignored a lot#im glad they divorced. hosea deserves better. molly deserves better. susan deserves better. everyone deserves better.#rdr2#red dead redemption 2#rdr2 dutch van der linde#dutch van der linde#rdr2 micah bell#micah bell#strawberry speaks
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but if I say 'kaiser would rather continue the cycle of abuse than get therapy' I'd be jumped so I won't say that someone else said that not me tho
#linny talks#sometimes i forget how off the walk fucking bonkers blue lock is#*wall#then im reminded#like what do you mean kaiser beat up police officers in cuffs with a soccer ball#and the president of fifa showed up to recruit him while he was in jail?#also the cops had guns but didnt shoot? thats craaaaazyyyyy#had the power of ⚪️ on his side there#jokes aside tho def a pet peeve of mine that as soon as a shithead character revealed to have sad backstory#hes suddenly absolved of all wrong doing in the eyes of fandom#like he can still be bad while also having had bad stuff happen to him#in fact thats the case for a lot of bad people#i wrote a whole google doc trying to get my thots and feelings out on the matter#i dont participate in 'fandom' much at all ever#especially not popular stuff so its been a bizarre experience seeing how other people like... interpret things (delusional)#dont get me wrong i like kaiser and i figured his backstory was fucked#but ive seen a lot of people like allergic to admitting hes abusive its strange#youre allowed to like him still?#anyways lmao this manga is so over the top#hope gagamaru is doing well
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So yesterday I read "Slimed with Gravy, Ringed by Drink" by Camille Ralphs, an article from the Poetry Foundation on the publication of the First Folio in 1623, a major work without which most of Shakespeare's plays might very well have been lost today, possibly the most influential secular work of literature in the world, you know.
It's a good article overall on the history and mysteries of the Folio. Lots of interesting stuff in there including how Shakespeare has been adapted, the state of many surviving Folios, theories of its accuracy to the text, a really interesting identification of John Milton's own copy currently in the Free Library of Philadelphia, and the fascinating annotations that may have influenced Milton's own poetry!!! Do read it. It's not an atrociously long article but there's a lot of thought-provoking information in there.
There's one paragraph in particular I keep coming back to though, so I'm just gonna quote it down here:
...[T]he Play on Shakespeare series, published by ACMRS Press, the publications division of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Arizona State University... grew out of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s plan to “translate” Shakespeare for the current century, bills itself “a new First Folio for a new era.” The 39 newly-commissioned versions of Shakespeare’s plays were written primarily by contemporary dramatists, who were asked to follow the reasonable principle laid out by series editor Lue Douthit: tamper in the name of clarification but submit to “do no harm.” The project was inspired by something the linguist John McWhorter wrote in 1998: “[the] irony today is that the Russians, the French, and other people in foreign countries possess Shakespeare to a much greater extent than we do … [because] they get to enjoy Shakespeare in the language they speak.”
Mainly it's the John McWhorter thing I keep coming back to. Side note: any of my non-native-English-speaking mutuals who have read Shakespeare, I would love to know your experiences. If you have read him in translation, or in the original English, or a mix of both. It's something I do wonder about! Even as an Anglophone reader, I find my experience varies so much just based on which edition of the text I'm reading and how it's presented. There's just so much variety in how to read literature and I would love to know what forces have shaped your own relationships to the stories. But anyway...
The article then goes on to talk about how the anachronistic language in Shakespeare will only fall more and more out of intelligibility for everyone because of how language evolves and yadda yadda yadda. I'm not going to say that that's wrong but I think it massively overlooks the history of the English language and how modern standard English became modern standard English.
First of all, is Shakespeare's language completely unintelligible to native English speakers today? No. Certain words and grammatical tenses have fallen out of use. Many words have shifted in meaning. But with context aiding a contemporary reader, there are very few lines in Shakespeare where the meaning can be said to be "unknown," and abundant lines that are perfectly comprehensible today. On the other hand, it's worth mentioning how many double entendres are well preserved in modern understanding. And additionally, things like archaic grammar and vocabulary are simply hurdles to get over. Once you get familiarized with your thees and thous, they're no longer likely to trip you up so much.
But it's also doubtful that 400 years from now, as the article suggests, our everyday language will be as hard to understand for twenty-fifth century English speakers to comprehend. The English language has significantly stabilized due to colonialism and the international adoption of English as a lingua franca. There are countless dialects within English, but what we consider to be standard international "correct" English will probably not change so radically, since it is so well and far established. The development and proliferation of modern English took a lot of blood and money from the rest of the world, the legacy of which can never be fully restored.
And this was just barely in sight by the time that Shakespeare died. This is why the language of the Elizabethans and Jacobeans is early-modern English. It forms the foundations of modern English, hence why it's mostly intelligible to speakers today, but there are still many antiquated figures within it. Early-modern English was more fluid and liberal. Spelling had not been standardized. Many regions of England still had slight variations in preferences for things like pronouns and verb conjugation. We see this even in works Shakespeare cowrote with the likes of Fletcher and Middleton, as the article points out. Shakespeare's vocabulary may not just reflect style and sentiment, but his Stratford background. His preferences could be deemed more "rustic" than many of his peers reared in London.
Features that make English more consistent now were not formalized yet. That's why Shakespeare sounds so "old." It's not just him being fancy. And there's also the fact that blank verse plays are an entirely neglected art nowadays. Regardless of the comprehensibility of the English, it's still strange for modern audiences uninitiated to Elizabethan literature to sit there and watch a King drop mad poetry about his feelings on stage by himself. The form and style of the entire genre is off.
But that, to me, is why we should read Shakespeare. We SHOULD be challenged. It very much IS within the grasp of a literate adult fluent in English to read one of his plays, in a modern edition with proper assistance and context. It is GOOD to be acquainted with something unfamiliar to us, but within our reach. I'm serious. I do not think I'm so much smarter than everyone else because I read Shakespeare. I don't just read the plain text as it was printed in the First Folio! The scholarship exists which has made Shakespeare accessible to me, and I take advantage of that access for my own pleasure.
This is to say that I disagree with the notion that Shakespeare is better suited to be enjoyed in foreign tongues. I think that's quite a complacent, modern American take. Not to say that the sentiment of McWhorter is wrong; I get what he's saying. And it's quite a beautiful thing that Shakespeare's plays are still so commonly staged, although arguably that comes from a false notion in our culture that Shakespeare is high literature worth preserving, at the expense of the rest of time and history. It is true that his body of work has such a high level of privilege in the so-called Western literary canon that either numerous other writers equally deserve, or no writer ever could possibly deserve.
The effort that goes into making Shakespeare's twenty-first century legacy, though, is a half-assed one. So much illustrious praise and deification of the individual and his works, and yet not as much to understanding the context of his time and place, of his influences, forms, and impacts on the eras which proceeded him. Shakespeare seems to exist in a vacuum with his archaic language, and we read it once or twice in high school when we're forced to, with prosaic translations on the adjoining page. This does not inspire a true appreciation in a culture for Shakespeare but it does reinforce a stereotype that he must be somehow important. It's this shallow stereotype that makes it seem in many minds today that it would be worth it to rip the precise language out of the text of a poet, and spit back out an equivalent "modern translation."
#this is just a stream-of-consciousness rambling. ignore me if im not making sense which im probably not#long post#text post#rant#shakespeare#also to clarify on that last point i am not shitting on the art of translation. AT all.#into other languages that is. nor am i knocking all modern adaptations of shakespeare's works#made with good intent. and also if you enjoy modern translated english shakespeare a la no fear shakespeare#genuinely good for you! that series has helped a lot of people and im glad for them to have that resource#HOWEVER. i WOULD like to challenge the idea that that is the best way to READ shakespeare#i think it's simply a shortcut.#and by all means take a shortcut if what you're reading shakespeare for is the plot. especially if youre new to him!#i DO on the other hand think it is entirely possible for any general reader to eventually be able to read shakespeare#in other types of editions. with the plain text and academic footnotes or annotations.#i do think enjoying the poetry of the works is as enriching as the characters or plot#in fact in the case of characters. the intricacies of the poetry of course enhance them!#you know. like i think the challenge is more doable than we ever really talk about in the mainstream#when you read him in high school you most likely had your english teacher holding your hand through every line#that's basically what the literal prose translations do too. in my opinion.#at least a la no fear shakespeare because those aren't meant to be performed like an equivalent art.#the translations are clarification.#again i think it's entirely possible to adapt the language of shakespeare and even a worthwhile project#but that's not. you know. the thing on the shelves to be read.#we can all still read shakespeare and we are all smart enough to do so.#if we think of early-modern english as another dialect rather than a whole different language#and there are so many mutually intelligible yet very distinct dialects of english around the world today#(the literature of which is also well worth reading) and if one seems approachable. well they all can be.
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You can in fact do whatever you want forever!! If it's not as convincing when you say it to yourself, here I am saying it to you as well. And it's cute to see you expressing yourself comfortably, even if you were contradictory, who cares. Kill the identity police inside your head or whatever
you guys are going to have me crying like for real
#i say like it is not happening already i mean what no its just. allergies#I KNOW AND I TALK ABT IT FOR OTHER PEOPLE ALL THE TIME BUT IM THE WORLDS BIGGEST HYPOCRITE#its just. idk#it feels like im lying to people#being a pretty 'typical' asexual was such a big and stable part of my identity for a while and when it wasnt actually the case anymore idk#it feels like im lying to people and im going back on things#but really im just changing and i know thats okay and even expected but aughthwhskgkg#head in hands#you guys have been really helpful though and i love you all a lot#i mean its what got me to this point anyway. i remember i used to get so embarrassed to the point i couldn't even admit i wanted to kiss a#character (cough cough venti) but now i CAN even if im still embarrassed abt it#and i need to keep it in mind for stuff like this too but woeifjghfnd#anyway the point is. thank you all. a lot#aethers asks#personal posts and stuff#aethers rants
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me every time I finish an episode of house md season 3
#house md#i feel like s1 and s2 balanced drama and comedy perfectly#and obviously s3 also has a lot of funny moments#but every episode leaves me contemplating the meaning of life#i'm still not over s3e12#and i just watched the one where foreman kills the girl with an infection#like idk what it is with this season but even the episodes that are on the light side#like the one with the romani patient for example the stakes weren't super high but at the end when he refuses to take the internship#and says to foreman that they're all great doctors but they're alone...i almost cried#it's the way every medical case in s3 really has an impact on the characters in some way#and even the tritter storyline#if you compare it to vogler in s1 vogler was about criticism of the healthcare system#sure wilson standing up for house was cute but tritter was about the way house treats people#it gave depth to his relationship with wilson with cuddy and even with the team#anyway i'm getting carried away just know that i'm crying every night
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[ID: screenshot from the spamton sweepstakes page, featuring a caption from the engraved wristwatch prize. It says "NEED PROOF? THERE LIES THE NAME OF THE [angel with the tattered wings]!". End ID]
So I think regarding this page. It's interesting to contextualise it with the text preceding it - especially the angel with the tattered wings part.
I don’t think we’ve ever seen Noelle Holiday described like this before and it’s absolutely fascinating to me.
#deltarune#noelle#spamton sweepstakes#Edit: really long tags!! fyi#there is a lot I want to say but i'm too tired lol. anyways noelle holiday is a character with well documented flaws and--#--the text in that page doesn't feel ooc for me at all. like. yes she's indecisive. yes she's literally frozen in fear. yes she'll literally#inconvenience herself so she doesn't step on others toes. and yes she's not gonna do anything about the bullying because...#what CAN she do? talk to kris? something that's established as a Hard and Rare thing to do. tell a teacher? literally which teacher??#alphys the one who sees this happen day in and out and with the authority to make a difference... but doesn't. or toriel. which I'm#not even gonna explain why that would go terribly. So that leaves us with... noelle standing up to susie herself. which i'd like to#point out that noelle learns to stand up for herself and others by the *end* of chapter 2. so I think there's most definitely a#precedent here for noelle to act the way she does. she's deeply flawed and has many weaknesses to exploit (as we've seen in --#snowgrave) BUT she's deeply wonderful and kind and all of that coexists together.#WHOOPS I didn't mean for this to get so long sdfghjkl and rant-y uhm I'm really not that fussed I just think people are seeing--#a character act in a non-ideal way and immediately assuming that it has to be Not Canon or OOC or Wrong.#I agree the topic and text is uncomfortable but. not anything unexpected?? yeah that's my 2 cents#this was all typed in one go by a sleep deprived me so if I got anything incorrect please don't pick me apart thank u#cryptic capri#discourse#<-- just in case bc I went OFF on a tangent with this lol
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Ok I’m probably not the best person to say this, but I’ve been seeing a lot of (as of right now) accurate insults on how the CGI approach for the Live Action Little Mermaid movie, but please be mindful that you don’t take things too far, and *especially* don’t start going after Halle Bailey (Ariel’s actress) and to a lesser extent, Ariel the character.
Antiblackness is still an issue in a lot of fandom spaces, and it doesn’t just come out as using nasty slurs or stereotypes. It manifests as drawing Black characters lighter and/or with more white features, it comes out as removing Black partners from ships, and it starts out as plausibly deniable insults that get the door open to microaggressions and outright nasty comments.
I’m not saying that all discussion of the movie should be stalled, or even if it turns out to be an artistic failure, that it doesn’t merit discussion. I’m saying that you shouldn’t extend your vitriol to the characters and actors.
If you really feel the need to insult her, it might be worth a little introspection. Ask yourself, “Do I resent that they changed Ariel, or that they changed Ariel in this way?”. You’re not irredeemable if your personal answer isn’t kind. Just be more careful, try and observe how that sort of world view affects your behavior to others, and then course correct.
A lot of little kids would love to see another Black Princess. A lot of little kids would love to have a Black mermaid as a main character. Hell, a lot of adults would love those too. Black fantasy characters have long been excluded, transformed, killed, merely in the background, relegated to stereotypes, villainized and have hardly ever in the spotlight, especially in major productions.
Don’t make it harder for kids (and adults!) to see themselves on screen. Don’t ruin their wonder. So don’t make unkind comments. Keep it to yourself. Frankly, Halle looks beautiful, and I can’t wait to see the sparkles in her fans’ eyes as she swims across the screen.
#live action little mermaid#the little mermaid 2023#Halle Bailey#I’m a white girl but the concept of a Black Ariel is near and dear to my heart#my best friend in elementary loved H20:Just add water and introduced it to me#and she dreamed (at least half then#we haven’t kept in touch) of ordering herself a mermaid tail to swim around in#and I really hope that she has. if she didn’t fuck up a year of college like I did (she was damn smart so I doubt it)#then she’s likely just about to graduate#M I hope you get a great paying job and can order yourself a beautiful quality tail and live out that little girl dream#you deserve it. I don’t think you had near enough#black girl Magic growing up. miss you#i doubt you’re on tumblr but just in case you’re wondering#‘is that me?’ I’ll give you a hint:#I used to say floober doober instead of cursing when we played Mario kart#I mean I did start cursing heavily later. but at first I said that#in any case idk if you’re still into mermaids but we both know you would’ve loved to watch this movie when you were little#this was both spurred on by all the flounder posts I’ve been seeing and ‘A Song Below Water’ by Bethany C. Morrow#one of the main characters Effie works as a Renaissance Faire mermaid and she talks a lot about#how people write fiction about her character but whitewash her or body swap her or would rather do self inserts#or the only comments made about her beauty are just about her tail and never about her Black skin or features#and how she (and her Mom before her death) were usually the only Black characters at the fair#and how she feels so beautiful and incredible being her mermaid self#also again I’m white so I don’t have personal experience but my younger brother is mixed#and he’s always been really lowkey about his feelings but#I took him to see Into the Spiderverse when it first came out#and he’s loved it since#here was this (adorable - don’t tell my brother I said that lol) lanky smart awkward hurting courageous Black boy on screen#and I can see in his heart how he’s been affected by it. he’s not a super fan or anything but I can just tell (big sister thing.) Anyways I#really hope that joy will happen more and more for everyone.
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i could have it within me to be one of the better film bloggers on this site. if i was not faceblind and could reliably tell actors apart when watching films
#narrates#i WANT to know more about film because im very interested in the medium#i love set design and effects esp. it's really fun to me to know how things are made#but it's really rough :/ i have to concentrate a lot just to tell people apart and it means i can't pay as much attention#to anything else going on#it suckkkks i always want to appreciate art and art mediums to the best of my ability#but in the case of film it's simply always going to be an uphill battle#theatre is actually easier for me; a lot of costume design is focused on making sure major characters are visually distinct#since a good chunk of the audience will Not be able to see their faces at all
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Seeing reinochi hate on [REDACTED] will always be funny to me like I legit saw people saying “when knk gets more mainstream, twitter will hate you if you don’t ship Tobi and Rei 🙄” be ffr real bestie there’s like 5 of us and we are too busy making them kiss why would we hate you 😭😭😭
#we are too busy being delusional like#and tbh all the eve shippers I’ve met like in general are super chill (except y’know who) and minding their own business so#(by eve shippers i mean the characters in his universe just in case not him)#me in a corner in my room holding reinochi in each hand and playing with them like Barbies is triggering a lot of people#also to think knk will ever be mainstream lmao that won’t happen
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microwave viability surverys being like 'mike doesnt like will back theres no evidence' is so funny bc it really proves my theory that the st general audience is.. fucking stupid
almost Every Single Canon Couple (and non canon too) on the fucking show has to be set up Through Other Characters bc the gen audience straight up wont understand otherwise
genuinely the only cases of this not happening that i can think of is susie and dustin (who got tgthr off screen and we as the audience are just told theyre tgthr) and lumax(arguably bc they were def getting there anyway but we do have dustins 'i felt the electricity' thing so??)
like does someone have to bonk mike on the head and be like "YOURE GAY FOR WILL" before the general audience agrees that theres proof for reciprocated byler😭😭😭
#byler#mike wheeler is gay#im so srs abt this literally every couple#jopper get murrayd#jancy also get murrayd and nance gets told to date jon by bestie flo#stancy are a classic case of expectation relationship bc it 'makes sense' in s1 and then in s4#Three Seperate Characters tell them to get back tgthr(unsuccessfully but still)#on the topic of steve dustin is the one that tells him he likes robin#mikes told by various people that he has feelings for el#literally the only cases i can think of that are this doesnt happen at all is with suzie and dustin and with bob and joyce#and in both of these cases theres no development we are just told theyre together#lumax is a weird case of like it was gonna happen anyway but lucas does also get told that thats where its going by dustin#so 50/50 on them#anyway funny that the last 3 ships i mentioned. where theyre not told by anyone to get tgthr. are the healthiest. hmm#i mean aside from jopper maybe but they do also argue a lot and like hop is unreasonably jealous abt every man in a 50mile radius of joyce#love them tho but like#sorry the tags ran away from me again#to summarise#but ships shldnt need to be aggressively shoved into being by other people ¿pressuring? them#u shld be able to see mikes a fruit salad without someone like. calling him slurs or smthn💀💀#ik thats how they did it w will but noy every queer character has to get hatecrimed to be queercoded💀💀💀💀💀
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Yakuza just keeps getting more and more light hearted it’s really a long story of people looking at there situation and going bye 👋 by the way what’s the darkest Yakuza game in your opinion?
yakuza keeps getting more and more light hearted last game had babies in lockers and there's an entire city designated for dumping bodies
#snap chats#anyway i dont know the darkest yakuza game#they're all dark in their own rights i guess#i mean. y7?? might be?? just because of the politics of it all?#lest i neglect aforementioned babies in lockers and human dumping ground#y1 was definitely the darkest game for kiryu since he lost the remnants of his family in that (kazama/yumi/nishiki)#like idk. whats your definition of 'darkest' i guess cause that can range for people#idk. anyway Unrelated Tag Ramble Time i finished First Penguin this morning just as i expected to#def was a cute show- DEFINITELY makes it apparent iwasaki was fighting incredibly hard for the shore and her effort paid off#it was also good in depicting learned helplessness that can be experienced in abusive relationships#or i guess in this show's case business partnerships#iwasaki was just a great character in general. like she was determined and a romantic#but when she was angry She Was Angry and it was great- like she had her limits too and all#and her anger was never from an unreasonable place Again She Was Very Patient but Again x2. she had her limits#this show had me weak with how stupid all the fishermen were tho ☠️☠️ LIKE I GET IT BUT ALSO YOU LOT /ARE/ A BUNCH OF PENGUINS#which is what ultimately makes it satisfying to see them turn around as the show goes on and become competent..#yeah great show definitely recommend. it was fun watching the business take off and all the problems that came and how they deal with them
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I would love to jump on the bandwagon and pretend I’m a decent person … but the truth is …. It just isn’t so.
#i have wonderful friends who I met through writing duplicate muses#and I have wonderful friends who ended up writing duplicates later#and in all cases they are characters and people that mean a lot to me and I love them and their different views and takes that I otherwise#might not have ever opened up my eyes too.#sadly though - 98% of my experience with duplicates is that they are insecure. whiny. guilt trippy. unoriginal. guilt trippy. whiny.#liars and thieves.#I’m not here to hold hands sorry 🤷♂️#i think it’s different on any muse I’ve ever had on a multi but someone I just#lol no.#i don’t mind duplicates but I also am fully prepared for them to be the worst person ever bc that’s just how it is.#like tagging me in a reply to anon hate when I don’t even know you. bro please 😂😭
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