Lieutenant Ghost 💀

Hey here's an angle on the Jiang family dynamic and its impact on Wei Wuxian that I haven't seen discussed:

Wei Wuxian grew up seeing Jiang Yanli routinely having her agency cut off and denied in both large (betrothal) and small ways. That were largely tied up in her gender, sure, but this was also a family containing Yu Ziyuan. A daughter in this household had every chance of having her gender treated as of secondary importance.

She just had to earn it.

The way Jiang Yanli was hemmed in and her potential as an independent actor dismissed was at least as strongly correlated with her failure to be a powerful sword cultivator.

So Wei Wuxian's total refusal to let anyone know that he'd lost access to his cultivation and his violent reactivity against being diminished or condescended to during his Sunshot-to-death period, when before he was pretty immune to being looked down on, could have a lot to do with having been presented with this clearly labeled diagram of how your personhood gets stripped away when you are, by the standards of your society, disabled.

i'm mad at david jenkins. but i don't NEED to direct my anger at him. i don't want to. i'm sure he knows people aren't happy by now

“Sky didn’t communicate with Dave! Sky lead Dave on! Sky hurt him!” Good I hope she communicates with him less, I hope she “leads him on” for real, I hope she hurts him more, I hope we never get sober, and I hope when you think of me years down the line you can’t find one good thing to say, and I hope that if I found the strength to walk out you’d stay the hell out of my way. I am drowning

oh i really hope cellbit gives a good lapada seca to everyone who tries to shit on forever presidential plans (like messing up with the polls)

It's past 11 on a school night and I'm fucking crying over robot sentience.

I could never understand what it would feel like to be created with the intent to kill and maim. Maybe, the intent to work and be worked, but not kill and maim.

I will never understand what it's like to be created with the intention of being a product for the masses, either. I think, I hope, I beg, no one does.

I will never ever be able to fully comprehend why hours of people's work, time, and money would be put into formulating my sentience only for me to be seen as disposable. Even if I could be improved, even if I were "defective", there is no reasonable justification for giving me emotions only to dismiss them by pushing me as a product for a year before starting anew.

It's... It's cruel, to the machines. Sentient or not, it's cruel. Though, I guess we are cruel.

ok i might need to force myself to not romance astarion bc i don't want to know what it says about me to turn down karlach, the woman of my dreams, the character made to cater me personally, like, if she was real i'd bring the moon and stars down for the chance to see her smile, she's everything i've hoped for in a rpg companion, what does it say about me if i turn that down for someone like astarion

The thing that bugs me about tfp starscream is that sure, some of his mistakes were definitely him panicking but some of them really seemed like they wanted him to forward the plot

I also hate how the show made it seem like he didn't stand much chance in a fight against other decepticons who were his inferior. HES SECOND IN COMMAND for heavens sake why do they keep having Starscream be overpowered by everyone. The moments we get of Starscream being smart and cunning and kicking ass are so good. Make him scary. He's the second in command bls. Woulda loved to see him kickass more not just with the Decepticons but over the autobots as well. Show us why Megatron would make Starscream his second in command.

Something I've noticed for a long time-

Almost all the friends I had in my life time have either been gay, trans, and/or geeks. My best friend growing up turned out to be trans, 2 childhood friends are gay (I don't think they ever met each other), someone I used to hang out with out at theater camp who snidely made fun of someone who also transitioned ALSO turned out to be trans (I just learned his new name today lol), I wanted to be friends with a trans masc and a lesbian in high school- heck, I even had a manager that once told me out of the blue he was trans (one of the nicest managers ever). I've had and still have more LGBTQ+ friends and geek friends, but its still just very funny that that's always been my go-to friends.

Most of the trans friends were F to M and were also mostly all geeks. I'm still questioning my own gender conformity, but for all my trans friends throughout my life- I salute you and I am proud of you! You made my life great in every step. Thank you.

emma you aren't allowed to read this post or the tags it's ted lasso spoilers.

fuck you nate shelley <3 (extremely derogatory)

im gonna tbh with yall, listening to magnus archives again without the constant fanon bleed and regular discussion etc.... definitely colors it a different way lol! i have more criticisms than i did when i listened to it the first time and it makes me a bit sad because i love it so so soso much. just coming up on the unknowing arc and i'm mentally strapping myself in because i'm realizing things [I dont like jmart very much / would like it MUCH BETTER if martin was actually a twist villain and web aligned i keep seeing the wires johnny i am shaking you by the shoulders DID YOU TAKE WEB ALIGNED EVIL MARTIN FROM US TO APPEASE THE FOUND FAMILY FANFICTION SOFT TEENAGE FANS ..... tell me why jonelias is so much more appealing to me now relistening to it as a grown ass woman . PAIN].

the video of H getting to the airport in Barcelona and a bunch of people instantly coming right at him :) i'm so mad :) i'm fucking furious :) i could literally kill someone rn :)

I’m trying to figure out the best way to fix the “Albus Severus Problem” while sticking closely to canon and Harry’s naming conventions. I’m also trying to keep in mind the “there is nothing wrong with being in Slytherin” thing although that doesn’t seem terribly important. So I’m putting it out there:

I wrote it like this because there are too many combinations so just pick whichever one you like the best!

Reblog for bigger sample size :)

◜The stars illuminate all mortal destinies, but few have eyes to perceive their meaning.◞

◜Fate is a cruel and perilous thing. It bodes only ill, lurking in dark places like the Chasm. To me, that place is the epitome of human misfortune. People died there, far from their homes. People with hopes and dreams, dutiful to the bitter end... Different motivations resulted in the same tragic conclusion. People ought to fear disaster unless they can learn to draw strength from their fear. Perhaps Yelan is just such a unique case, undeterred by fate’s cruel design there is no path she will not go down in the pursuit of secrets.◞

◜Even I myself do not relish the solitary life I lead. When others are fortunate enough to meet a companion for their journey, I sincerely wish them the very best. After all, to this day, I hold that people should be authors of their own fate. Both the crane ready to make peace with the past and the beast with a grudge to bear have the freedom to make their journey home.◞

𝐂𝐗𝐗𝐗𝐕. Dain, sir. If you're trying to tell us something, please blink twice. In all seriousness now, it speaks volumes that even Dain was searching for his own destiny when he lost everything, even his purpose to live when he has no other choice but to continue doing so because of the curse of immortality. Only to decide that fate is a cruel thing. Re-reading this, I can't help but think that he has two fights going on, both of them in benefit to humans.

One, against the Abyss Order whose actions will certainly put in danger other people's safety and the second one against fate itself, highly likely the Heavenly Principles even, to reject this world (perhaps the current order). It gets me even more intrigued the thought that he's relevant to the possibility of re-weaving all threads of fate and I keep thinking that this would be his last act of kindness for not only humans, but this world and the other creatures that live in it. Because it's clear that fate is arguably the most messed up thing, specially if it can be decided just out of whim by some gods who are questionable at the very least.

Every Film I Watch In 2023:

225. Mad About The Boy: The Noël Coward Story (2023)

I think we should give Zora a gun and whatever happens to the Shadow Decree happens