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mareestoermers · 2 days

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i think we are all forgetting something when we talk about how toxic patrick, tashi, and art are — or when we decide one is “worse” than the other. they all have moments of seeing right through it, seeing each other’s toxic behavior for what it is, and STILL want and need each other in this possessive, envious, visceral way.

1. in the way beginning, tashi is clearly flirting more with art than patrick, and patrick is visibly annoyed. art sees right through it and even challenges him like “okay, let’s leave”, and has this little smirk on his face because he knows patrick won’t give up on tashi.

2. tashi immediately sees the visible tension and love between art and patrick, and literally orchestrates their first kiss. she sees right through their repression, and even calls herself a “home-wrecker” but still entangles herself with them, especially patrick because he’s clearly the better tennis player at that point and that is tash’s ONLY true love. tennis. that’s what she desires most in him, and patrick knows that. he even calls her out on it in the dorm room scene. but they have this mirroring fire in each other that neither of them can give up, not until patrick breaks the balance and bails — tashi’s injury is literally a metaphor for the balance shattering between all three of them when patrick leaves her.

3. before this, patrick sees right through art trying to break them up, and even admires that quality — maybe even feels smug and flattered because art is jealous and feels left out from both tashi and patrick. patrick has known this all along, we saw it in the “tick-serve” scene, where he even swears to tashi he won’t tell anyone but he still tells art, who is desperate to feel a part of them and patrick wants that, too — even keeps that close intimacy with art that we see in the churro scene (swoon swoon swoon).

4. haven’t you noticed that arts desire to be great is only ever tied up in patrick and tashi? how he needs to beat patrick to win tashis affection, how he needs to win in tennis so that tashi can live through him, how he lives up to his potential in the ending only because tashi and patrick push him to it, in their little fucked up ways? he knows this — he even admits that he’s playing for tashi, that he knows she’s living through him. he even admits he’s playing a fucked up little game with patrick when they’re in the sauna. yet he still does it. again, he knows what’s happening, sees right through them — still does it, still loves them.

5. when tashi calls patrick to come pick her up he knows it’s not just to tell him to throw the match — and despite how she battles him about it, they still have sex in the car, because he already knows. he’s so fully aware of her and her game and he’s so willing to be caught up in it, the same as art.

just some examples of how they all have moments of clarity and agency and yet they still choose to be entangled in one another because they’re all fucked up in their own, individual ways, and they’re all living through each other for their own specific needs. arts is to be seen as worthy, as great, but only through their gaze. tashis is to have the career that was stolen from her. patricks is truly to be in love and in lust with both of them, because we even see that from the beginning that tashis love alone will never satiate him; it has to be arts love, too. that scene in the sauna when he thinks he’s lost it from art is the most sad and fucked up we ever even see patrick. on top of tashi asking him to throw the game — he’s so defensive of arts feelings.

in short this is an actual love triangle (and i would go as far as to see it as a polyship). you can’t erase one without the whole thing unraveling, and you can’t say one character was the “worst” without picking apart the motivations and pointing to the fact that their bad behavior was never a secret or left unchecked.

even at the end, patrick signals to art that he slept with tashi — art knows and they still have that intimate completion at the end, all three of them. art living up to his potential and embracing patrick fully (id argue this could even be a metaphor for embracing his bisexuality), patrick having both tashi and arts affection again, and tashi playing a phenomenal tennis match through her little white boys — in such a visceral, emotional way that she cries out like she did in the beginning and the last frame is her smiling.

in a fucked up way, they all get what they wanted out of each other.

#challengers #challengers spoilers #tashi duncan #art donaldson #patrick zweig #zendaya #mike faist #josh o'connor #luca guadagnino #text post

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thydungeongal · 3 days

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Hey do you know any ttrpgs that take place in high fantasy worlds but aren't combat centric?

I've got a sprawling fantasy world or several I want to keep using for games but I want to step away from the combat-centric dungeon crawls of your dnd's and pathfinders for a bit and experience more of what's going on in the RPG space.

Sorry if you're not the right person to ask, you just feel like someone who might have opinions on the topic.

I have a few I could recommend!

First of all, Burning Wheel. Burning Wheel is an interesting game because it's a fantasy RPG with a very simple core system (d6 dice pool) with a bunch of systems built on top of it to the point where it's actually amazingly complex. Now, the default setting of Burning Wheel is very Tolkienistic. It assumes a medieval level of technology and a human-centric world, with elves, dwarves, and orcs filling the non-human side. It's a fascinating system but also a lot. What it does best is support characters with firm beliefs and ideals living according to those beliefs and ideals, and it can support high intrigue just as well as combat. (There is a combat system but it is almost better suited to duels instead of skirmishes.)

Mythras and RuneQuest are d100 fantasy RPGs, the former being basically a version of the latter but without the Glorantha license. Now, they are very trad RPGs and as such combat remains the one part of their systems they are most opinionated about, but both make combat into a very gritty and lethal affair to the point where engaging in combat without thinking is very much discouraged. They also have extremely detailed and fine-grained magic systems, as well as systems that encourage characters growing organically. And the system of Passions that mechanically reward characters acting according to their beliefs and building connections to the world. Now, Glorantha is one of the coolest fantasy settings on the planet, but if you've already got a setting of your own Mythras might be the better of the two.

Hmmm. I'm actually drawing a blank here. Oh, there's Free from the Yoke, which is a game based on Legacy: Life Among the Ruins, but set in a medieval fantasy setting where an alliance of noble houses has staged a revolution and freed their people from foreign rule. The game has some implied setting to it, with there apparently being some Slavic influences to the setting, but looking at it I think it could fit into almost any high fantasy setting with minimal modification. However, the gameplay loop will center around each player controlling a noble house, with two different levels of fiction (house level and character level, as they each also control an individual member of their own house), so it shouldn't be treated as a generic game.

#thydungeongal answers

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rubenhopclap · 2 days

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Despite Ruben having more screentime than any other RG, nearly all of it has been spent interacting with the BKs, interacting with Wanda, or literally performing.

So it is a little difficult to tell, which of these is most like the way that he is normally, the rest of the time.

But with the info of voting against Kipperlilly, and with the one moment that doesn't fit into those three categories, I think he might not even have specific beef with the BKs (or with Kipperlilly) and that's just what he's like right now.

Ruben's main characterization is that he's desperate for attention. His type is "anyone who thinks he's cool. Straight up." Not conventionally attractive, skinny, rich or popular people who think he's cool. Just literally anyone who will give him attention and treat him like he's special. I think the way that he is with Wanda is probably close to the way he is with anyone he's talking to romantically, and it's different because he's already receiving a different kind of attention. (Same thing with performing.)

The rest of the time he's consistently described as smirking or sneering, and engaging with people in a way that pisses them off. The big examples we had before Kipperlilly were Fig and Gorgug, so it might have just been that he had some mysterious problem with the BKs in particular himself. Maybe he still does, maybe he separately has a problem with the BKs for being popular and with Kipperlilly for being a nerd who cares.

But there is one single moment where we know some behavior of his that doesn't have anything to do with a specific other character. And that's the scene where Yolanda Badgood's death was announced to the school. And Ruben was described as smirking.

Now you might interpret this as incredibly callous, and it is pretty callous. But we don't know how much yet. If the giant did the killing, then Ruben might not actually have known the death was related to Lucy's death at that moment. Which would make it about as callous as Adaine dunking on the dead oracle.

But most people in that scene weren't actually reacting to Yolanda's death anyway. They were reacting to the Pass/Fail news. Max Durden's party was happy about it, but a lot of people were upset. I think Ruben was smirking about that. I think at some point during that assembly he was probably making eye contact or taunting some people who were affected by it. I don't think it's because he has some issue with people who care about their grades, they're just the people available at the moment to be a troll at. And at this point it looks like that's probably also his reason for acting the way he did towards the BKs and to Kipperlilly, because he doesn't need an extra one.

Obviously this doesn't actually make him look better as a person, than if he had been messing with Kipperlilly (or the BKs) because he specifically wanted to upset her/them as individuals. He's clearly a huge mess at this point in his life (just like every Rat Grinder and every Bad Kid). Despite my obvious bias, it's not my goal to make anybody like him. Just maybe think about him for longer than two seconds.

If Ankarna is manifesting in him at all, it seems very likely that she's doing it this way, by twisting his desire for attention into something that engages with rage.

#fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #ruben hopclap #kipperlilly copperkettle #rat grinders #fhjy spoilers #for the kipperlikers who see their own experiences in that moment or want the angst etc: you're valid #ruben's pov and whether he actually got how much it meant to her are irrelevant to her experience #she felt how she felt. she has a pov that can be sympathized with and normal teen struggles. so does ruben tho

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yioh · 5 months

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why are like 95% of genshin mlm ships so boring and cliche😭

#idk they feel so dull lol #the only mlm ships i like are the scara ships (kazuscara and chiscara) i feel like that’s because scara has such a fun personality and #character design also his colour palette looks so nice with any character #i like kaebedo ofc but they don’t count because they’re not rly popular and have like 0.5 in game material lol #but everything else is so dull #like zhongli/childe kaveh/al haitham ayato/thoma the fontaine guys idk their names #SOOOOO BORING …#wait but i did have a ayato/itto phase they are actually super cute 😭😭😭 i love their dynamic it’s so adorable i would love for more ayaitto #i love how ayaitto compliment eachother it makes so much sense and thoma rly does just feel like a sweet friend honestly i love him for tha #lowkey miss inazuma now lol #WHEREAS most of the wlw ships are soooo fun #idk man like beiguang eimiko while not my favourite ever they are still super fun and cute and i like seeing them #they don’t feel boring lol #i think it’s because i already like their characters individually #plus shenjin and guiping #they’re all so cute #the women of genshin impact are so nicely written now that i think abt it #there’s also lumine/heat and ayalumi #*JEHT NOT HEAT WTF #KOKOSARA beloveds #dehya and dunyazard #not rly a fan of the fontaine girls tho they look kinda basic lol #don’t take this post too seriously i’m just rambling lol

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luimagines · 1 year

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Fck it Droid AU headcanons? Or just a small thing with Skydroid / Twidroid?

Droid au lives on forever

Let’s introduce the rest of the boys

Masterlist

Content under the cut!

Sky

Model SKYLNK

Programmed to be a domestic droid

Babysitter, cook, butler

Tutors the small children, watches over them, and takes care of pets as well

Due to it’s softer programming, when working in the public, it tends to work in bedside manner

Like nurses and nannies

The kind to work in hospitals and elderly living

Not necessarily the newest model on the block, but is one of the most affordable one

Commonly seen in the homes of the middle class

This droid is known for having very little drive deviate from orders

There’s very little facial expressions for newer models

Some, however, have been seen to mimic the facial expressions of the people they serve due to the acclimating programming naturally found in all droids

The droid is built for handy work around the house

But not designed for hard labor or any heavy lifting

Perfect designed to keep things moving smoothly through the unit it’s assigned to

However- newer models have been seen to come with relationship programming (a new project from Hylia.Inc)

Further development is yet to be seen

Time

Model TIMLNK

One of the few adults droids on the market

Versatile for many upgrades and job applications

Heavy work? Built for it

Domestic droid? On it

Teacher, hospital nurse, secretary? Just download the needed package for him to take on what job you need him to do

There are certain things that maybe a bit awkward for him to do

Like translating or babysitting

But it works in a pinch

Also sought out as a companionship droid

Takes on a lot of brunt work

While he has a lot of packages that came with time (ha), he is used more for heavy work, like cargo or supply shipments

Isn’t so much for public availability despite the company’s best efforts to expand his roles in society

Not very expressive due to the shift in attention when he was being designed

This is probably why he’s not bought for public use even if he can do the jobs

But he is programmed to be hard working and the robotic equivalent to compassionate

So this guy never really stops working if the data received can be interpreted as contributing

Legend

Model LGNLNK

Teenage Domestic droid

Known for it’s extensive programming

In the highest demand due to the versatile talents that goes into him

Is used beyond domestic circumstances

Is typically found in place of a translator for political or high standing communal events

Can cook

Clean

Teach

Can directly call emergency services

Known for the original intention of keeping younger children company or for acting as a Jiminy Cricket for older children

Also originally advertised for older couples who wanted a younger energy in their empty nest

As since branched out to include the other features and is the more commonly seen droid out in public

Also the most customizable out of all of the publicly made droids

Is the only droid available beyond national borders

Other, more advanced models are in progress

Hyrule

Model TRVLNK

A multi-purpose droid

Designed for human relation work or bedside manner

Typically a nurse droid

But not designed for domestic use

Is designed with high grade professional use in mind

Is commonly found in nursing homes or in children’s hospitals

Is also a part of public staff in very highly populated common areas

Like carnivals and amusement parks and zoos and museums and the like

Also acts as tour guide in many other places where travel agencies send tourists for their holiday vacations

Is one of the few droids on the market that can connect to GPS

When droids begin to start working for the public division, they were at first found in buses, driving people from destination to destination

Naturally this upset many people and bus use fell around 19%

But with time people got used to it’s features and the buses ran on time for a change

Not to mention his pleasant demeanor and over all cheerful disposition in his programming made this model likable by many who had to see him on a day to day basis

Four

Model FSWLNK

Meant to be the successor to the WNDLNK model

Used as a child support droid

But also a family companion for lonely, childless adults who want youthful energy in the household

Because of his youthful appearance but older programming, this model tends to be used for public service more so than private ownership

Even if this model is seen nearly in every family friendly public space, there are a few who do accompany children as a family owned appliance

The reason he’s more corporately owned than privately is because he is also used as a child safety surveillance system

Like at public places where children can easily be lost

Like at the zoo, museum, festival, carnival, you name it

They are looking for kids without supervision or who appear to be in danger

It took a lot of training to get that programming even marginally successful

Because they need a lot of of the droids on surveillance, they tend to wear different colored uniforms so people can identify what job that specific droid is doing

Can also be found in child counseling offices or therapy clinics (physical therapy included)

One of the more easy going personality programs

Easy to get along with and easy to like

Is programmed to work with multiple units despite the success in privately owned facilities

Wild

Model CALLNK

Meant for high paced, highly demanding work

A public service droid by nature

Meant to work in the police force

Also found in office facilities

Or a high scale kitchen where orders have to leave in the matter of minutes

Used as a security droid in a lot of places as well

But more so as a security droid for high profile individuals

Meant to defend and protect no matter the cost

Even if it includes damage to self in the process

Not very expressive in nature

Due to the difficulties and intricacies in programming, they forgo any need for there to be a personal expression in this particular model

So he’s always straight faced no matter what the circumstances are

It’s very unusual for this model to be found in the private or commercial sector

As mentioned before those who use this model for private use are high profile people and people with money

One of the most expensive models on the market

Very few even know he exists

Wind

Model WNDLNK

Child Domestic Droid

One of the first models made by Hylia.INC

Made as an support companion

Later tweaked for homes where children are wanted but not available for whatever reason

As support companions they were designed to help children with special needs, whatever it may be

From reminding children to take their medicine on time, to helping them keep to a schedule and remembering chores as well as simply being emotional support

The concept was at first a personified tablet

But later on, newer models became more life like and more attuned for family life

Even more later on, they were designed for aforementioned concept of lonely adults who wanted to have children without the cost or mess or real children (Take that as you will)

Is sensitive to temperature

Occasionally feels “hunger” to simulate taking care of another human

Very playful in nature

Few models can be seen in schools with a little more money to float around, helping children where Paras are hard to find

Typically used in school with younger children as the older ones tend to be a little put off by his young appearance

A people pleasure by default, but no one knows if it’s based on his programming or on his need to see though with his missions for the day

Warrior

Model WARLNK

Consort Droid- built for relationships

Has been used for espionage purposes

Doubles as a security droid as well

Is seen typically working a desk job as well

Secretary models, am I right?

Someone has to handle all the forms and PAs and meetings and names and appointments

Not just desk jobs, but also customer service

Is very much used for the public service

Only the rich have it for personal use since it would have added features regarding said spy ware and filtrations mannerisms

Or just to have a pretty thing around

Some people are into that so he’s also for them

Service with a smile~

(potential angst for android War? Definitely.)

That being said, due the upgraded systems used for both security work and espionage

WARLNK models have also been integrated into public police forces

Public opinion varies heavily on either side

But their effectiveness cannot be ignored when investigating a crime scene

Twilight

Model TWILNK

Heavy work load droid

Handy man is all aspects

Meant to be put to work

Known from farms to construction sites

Programmed to be very loyal to the cause

Lives to serve so to speak

Needs to receive feed back to know if it’s contributing to the community

While not the typical domestic droid, some houses have been known to have a model or two around

Some companies rent out their models to the common folk to help with renovations, or moving, or landscaping, or plumbing- even electrical work

In this au, a lot work for “Got Junk?”

There has been the one in a million celebrity that has managed to find customization locals and renovate the model to be that of an escort droid

But that’s a very expensive process

And frankly, it’s easier to change the hardware than the software

Is also the occasional nursing droid

Known to be working in nursing homes and independent living units, where it might be required to lift an entire body as dead weight for whatever reason

Is the strongest droid on the market

#linked universe #linked universe x reader #linkeduniverse #a *lot* of this au is based off of Detroit Become Human #with little tweaks here and there #Like Conner? He'd be a WARLNK model #Marcus? TMELNK or SKYLNK #Lucius is TWILNK for sure just built for heavy labor #Alice? WNDLNK #Kara? TRVLNK or WLDLNK #I forget the name of the hive mind #Jerry? I think his name is Jerry #but I was tempted to make that Four... but it didn't feel like that would do his character justice you know #now in terms of *individual* droids #Twi- Wild- and Sky (obviously) all have a backstory #Wind is pretty simple all things considered #pretty standard can't really be expanded upon that hasn't been already said #thing with WLDLNK is that well... he's only Wild because of his death right?#why would a droid be designed to be damage?#his crash dummy history aside #I'm putting it as more of a Calamity Link model #WLDLNK is after that #which works I think #Wild is an individual #Cal is the model #if that makes any sense

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lenievi · 2 years

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MCCOY: Look, Jim. I know what it means to you to lose a crewman. KIRK: That's only one down, Doctor.

love how apart from seeing that Kirk is angry with McCoy in this moment, you can also tell by him calling McCoy “Doctor” three times in like one minute

and then he has time to cool down (and honestly the few seconds where he kind of awkwardly walks toward McCoy and prepares himself for an apology are so funny, but also so true and real) and he stops being the captain for those few seconds and

and switches back to “Bones”

but now McCoy is like

“Yes, Captain?” because he doesn’t know what to expect

and Kirk smiles and tells him “I shouldn't have chewed you out. I'm sorry.”

and all’s well~

#anyway just for my own reference for writing re: kirk being awkward lol #it's funny how different it is from the man trap where he was all smiling and coming closer and looking straight at mccoy #here he kinda can't look at him properly #anyway there's nothing deep about this just random thoughts #based on some tag comments i occasionally get i feel like people consider everything as 'this has to be special'#'why do you think this is special?' 'it's true for all of them' and like.... yes i've never implied it's something special or only true for #two individuals.... like ????? just let me ramble on my own blog?#people post wilder takes #also LOVE how Spock is on McCoy's side in this scene~#tos nonsense #headcanon times #(since i'm already rambling in the tags it's also so weird to me that some people think that just because someone talks about only one or #two characters they don't care for others or other dynamics and like ???)#i just don't have spoons to be interested in too many characters... the same way i can't be actively participating in more than one fandom #Leonard McCoy #Jim Kirk #ETA: took out mccoy calls kirk 'captain' later for no reason because 1. the transcript was wrong 2. there's a reason

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t3tr0m1n0 · 4 months

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is it true that the range of npcs created for campaigns as a gm is "some fucker i wasn't expecting to make a name for" to "slightly modified expy of a character i already know" to "has an extremely elaborate backstory & personal narrative that i'm terrified of my players not finding out"

#also sprach #because i am thinking of my guy from the third category. leaves. what a fucked up individual.#technically they're also an expy of a character i already know but that second role is filled by #a way way more direct expy in the campaign leaves is from. leaves has a full-on different name from their source character #among. most things about their character.#like the similarities are only familiar to people who'd know leaves' source character & also maybe have spent some time in my head #over the past few months #and people in the former category are few enough already

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winepresswrath · 1 year

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After spending NiF listening to my girlfriend explain how Lin Shu should die, she is now spending Mr. Sunshine listening to me explain how Lady Ae-shin is femmephobic because she will not marry Hui-seong and have threesomes and/or a protracted emotional affair with Eugene.

#this is a joke I am joking #what is true is that I have never watched a show with people less inclined to polyamory that really makes me want poly fic #even my beloved nif featured more poly inclined characters #and it's a shame because there's so much there!#I think all five of the main characters have individually interesting and sexy relationships with each other #under other circumstances I'd be throwing all the male romance options down a well for #ae-shin/hina but no! the guys are great both with the ladies and each other #this is admittedly very much an ae-shin's harem situation with the possible exception of hina who is the most capable of resisting her #by virtue of not being canonically in love with her #but tbh out of perversity this is only making me ship it more #marry the girl who keeps cockblocking you by being irresistible to every dude in your radius #you are already managing her harem #just like. make it even more fraught and terrible by falling in love #tbh I do also love how hina is a little bit of a closet romantic #won't catch her with a dude who is buying mensware for another girl #Hina: your path will doom you and also them while making all four of you deeply unhappy #Also Hina: I will do everything you do but backwards in high heels #same path they're all on the same path!!!#one might even say walking side by side

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trashbatistrash · 1 year

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#the only good to thing to come of this damned hyperfixation is that it helped me solidify a proper backstory for one of my characters #only because of my dumb brainrot about death and having to live with the consequences of that as someone who is no longer dead #I have this character that’s always been called Dead in all my iterations of them #she’s supposed to be the Frankenstein archetype of my supernatural slice of life thing I made when I was a teenager #and then I decided that oh I could take these characters and put them in a more high stakes action packed storyline #I decided to be predictable #as a trans person myself I found myself interested in Frankenstein monster allegories #and I pretty much used her to explore that one thing I’m always yapping about #parents of trans people mourning the previous iteration of them like they’re dead when when the individual is still there #specifically this #but like #Dead was literally brought back to life so now I’m worried it’s gonna muddy the waters a bit #she was already not going to be the same person they mourned. she doesn’t have her memories of them #just the base personality of their deceased child which has been tightly closeted for the previous iterations entire life #idk am I elevating transness to this pedestal if I explore it through the lens of rebirth and recreation?#then again I do have like a more mundane trans character in this cast too so maybe that balances it out?#like Dell is just there. and he didn’t have any family left alive when he transitioned so I didn’t think there was anything to add #I’m overthinking o(-(#OC stuff #OC brainrot #ramble

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riveluart · 2 years

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No one here has done this but like a couple people on twitter be making my Robyn art about shipping her with Winter and like my dudes I have nothing against that ship but no stop this is not about shipping this is about me loving Robyn please just let me love a cool character without making it about a ship

Shipping is fun but this is not about a ship

This is about ME being queer for a character not a queer ship thank you very much

#not art #ally cat rambles #im just complaining to the void #theres only like 3 replies so the fact that 2 of them bring up shipping kinda makes it feel like a lot #and like there are only 3 replies why are 2 about ships this isnt ship art it is not about shipping #like im not crazy right like this wouldnt be a good look if it was about a ship where the other character was male so #why do people think its chill with a gay ship #like i dont even really have anything against that ship like its not my favorite robyn ship but like i dont HATE it i just #dont like that people saw art i did for a character i love and then decided to make it about a ship #anyway im going to love robyn even HARDER now and not do ship art of her just because this annoyed me a lot and i want her to #be her own character without a ship #unless the other character is me /j #im joking but also rwby oc??? maybe??#why am i typing that like i havent already made multiple when i was bored #i talk so much in the tags does anyone even actually read all of them ???#also this is so WEIRD because of all the character art ive done of individual characters #this is the first time people tried to bring ships into it like what the fuck???

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covertblizzard · 2 years

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dc is really trying so hard to be my villain origin story oh my god... imagine if someone asks you to describe an alternate universe and all you could say is “what if Mary Marvel starts turning to the dark side and her skirt gets shorter and shorter” like what the flying fucsrfgikdfgklsdfhgsdfghsdfgh SOMEONE SAID THAT! IN AN INTERVIEW!! 🔪 🔪 🔪 any dc fan that is not a straight white man should just get compensated by dc for being a fan

so apparently these are only few of the gentry and if they ever cycle back to this storyline i better see some big bad nasty gentry surrounding

misogynists and gender discrimination

white supremacists and racial discrimination

bigotry in general

or we’re going to have some problem, ESPECIALLY because they have already created and decided that “ultimate extreme of femme fatale” is worthy to be included in their list of cosmic parasites

#multiversity #dc thoughts #mypost #i don't want to tag the character it's so ew :/#anons who asked me for comments on stories i’ve never even read #this is like the second time i don’t know why you do that but i have (mostly) fun exploring the comics i guess #i read the 2 opening / closing issues i’m going to get through the individual worlds first + the guide before i respond #please be patient with me T.T #i am kind of SO angry about the femme fatale thing i cannot explain it right #every other concept makes sense and then there is THAT one which is just such a strangely targetted thing #you know those old writers who write countless horrible things happening to women and that women were evil incarnate #allegedly because they couldn't get a girl (in other words the og incels)#it’s giving that vibes ://#'ultimate extreme of femme fatale' my foot when the already prevailing bad idea of 'incels who think they are owed stuff' exists

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astridianmayfly · 2 years

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this is, perhaps, my most controversial take of all time,,,,but I don’t think Brendon Urie deserves to be treated like the antichrist for saying offensive shit 6+ years ago he apologized for and allegations that were entirely made up? Wish we could have a nuanced discussion about the privilege white-passing men have in the music industry while also allowing people space to improve themselves (to be clear--SA is always unforgivable). I just find it a little fucked that the celebrity y’all had to chase off of the internet was the one who’d dedicated their entire online presence to philanthropy and human rights activism. like lmao was that really worth it

#the tags are where I come to point out the illogical nature of this entire discussion #number one: when you make this conversation about band drama that is literally 13 years old at this point you detract from what we should #actually be talking about which is white people should NEVER say the n-word under any circumstances! you cannot reclaim a slur for a group #you are not part of and this is what we need to be talking about here.#he did not SA a band member. you are taking quotes out of context about a cheoreographed sequence he did with ryro during their debut #in which he played a character that was supposed to make unwanted advances on his bandmates. for years at panic shows various band members #come up to one another and do suggestive things #all band members joke about it and do it in good fun #including ryro who also nonconsensually did the same #things to brendon #next: sorry if you do not like pop music. if that is the case just do not listen. you are entitled to your own opinion but it is fucked #to perpetuate lies simply because you do not like the direction the sound that the band has gone in.#this is already getting too long but I am willing to have a civil discussion about these things simply because I feel like it is incredibly #weird to talk about parasocial relationships and celebrity culture while not realizing that simply assuming someone is evil who you don't #even know in real life is just as bad as any other parasocial relationship.#this is also not to convince you to like him. I do believe personally that the sheer amount of death threats I have seen just in a casual #corner of the internet is disturbing and unwarranted. And I think that in a broader context #if you identify as left-wing or progressive in any sense you must be more open to the idea that people can correct their behavior #and if you do not believe this you are supporting ideas that would be impossible without many individuals simultaneously changing their #behavior. I think that is a fair argument to make and I think that this conversation is important.#p!atd #panic at the disco #panic! at the disco #patd #ryan ross #dallon weekes #idkhow #anti brendon urie #viva las vengeance #brendon urie

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mobiues · 2 years

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i am going to be so controversial right now but i think episode 1 of the loki series might just be my favourite simply because the premise of the first episode was so promising. in fact, critically analysing the show, the theme of loki having had to outrun the title of villainy and yet not quite folding into the mold of a hero would have been so outrageously gorgeous to explore. people praise agent of asgard, and honestly, i don’t see that much of a difference between what the loki series wanted to do vs. what has been written — until the writers of the series completely forgot what it was that made loki so appealing in the first place (his ambiguous alignment and his overall morally grey character), and many heavier themes are sacrificed for a warped romantic story that hadn’t needed to be told in the first place

#i am once again back on my bullshit because i think the idea that self love #needed to be visualised the way it had been with the whole s*lvie and l*ki is so unnecessary #because there are TONS of movies and stories out there #about individuals struggling with self-acceptance and self-love #and they react in such a questionable or damaging ways #that would've been so fun to explore in l*ki's perspective #from loki's questionable character #like coming out of age-ish genre?? would've been so fun to infuse #even if tom is already well in his 40s #because what if the discovery of sense of self if not you feeling too young and too old in your own skin #and thinking about it now... s*lvie's character would've been such a nice contrast #of a l*ki who has went too rogue; too deep-set in her revenge to come back #vs. this l*ki whom after the invasion of new york is still particularly new from the wounds #we know he carried in the mcu since hasn't experienced it yet; not by himself #like i could go on and on #people are so insistent that s*lvie is her own character #which is fine! but u have to understand she too is a l*ki and i wish she would've written more with that in mind #because l*kis are so interesting to explore in and of itself; in whatever version they existed with or upon #like im not sure if im making sense but ..... i just wish people care more to explore character study when they say they want to #anyways ep 2 shouldve been my fave cause of mobius' gorgeous gorgeous involvement #but ep 1 is so chef's kiss... i love the potential.#that would for sure be my favourite #gen: out of character.

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jazzishuman · 11 months

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Netflix really said, "Hey you are autistic! Want to watch our transphobic and stupid Doctor show with an autistic lead!"

#The Good Doctor #Is not a good show #And the character is not good #He is mean #And I hate him #He shouldn't work in a hospital if he can't do so much as respect someone's pronounce #I already didn't like the show #Because its not realistic and wants to play in the fictional landscape of Savant #I don't think he is only autistic #He is a caricature #Of “low functioning” but also savant autistic individuals #And the show puts transphobic language in his mouth #While keeping the adjective “good” in the title #The Good Doctor is a bad doctor and I really truly hate that show #The Good Doctor is a bad doctor show as well #I hope the people who faked it loss their eyeballs in a freak watermelon accident

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neil-gaiman · 9 months

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Hello!!

First of all, THANK YOU!!! The world has been feeling harder and more hopeless to me in recent years, and individuals like yourself help more than I will ever be able to express to bring light and hope back into my world. Loving and obsessing over gems like Good Omens, and American Gods (the novel at least, I must admit I never saw the show 🙈) have always given me motivation, sparked my creativity, and made me feel so much love for this, often unfortunately cruel, world. I can't express the solace it brings to me when the creators of the things I love are thoughtful and decent human beings. So, again, THANK YOU 🫀🫀🫀

I just finished my second viewing of Season 2 and have a question for you (my apologies if it has already been asked and/or answered and I missed it)!!

How did you select the song "Everyday" by Buddy Holly? It is absolutely perfect on so many different levels, and for so many different threads and characters, all while still encompassing the perfect feelings of this show. I always include playlists with the stories I write, and often agonize over which song is the best choice for certain moments. You had to pick one song to encompass the entirety of it, and it truly blew me away!

Thank you this Season and for everything you do; it really does mean the world to so many of us 🫀🫀🫀

In February of 1991 (I think) Terry Pratchett and I were staying in the Chateau Marmont hotel in LA. These days it is a very fancy hotel but back then it was pretty manky and run down. We were being put up by a film company and each morning we would fax over an outline for a new version of Good Omens the Movie and each afternoon we'd go to the studio for a meeting and we would realise that nobody had actually read what we had sent over that morning. Then we would go back to the hotel and work on trying to incorporate the studio notes on the outline they hadn't actually read into what we were doing.

We worked up in Terry's room because it had heating, and it was incredibly cold in LA that February, especially cold because I was in a chalet out in the grounds and there weren't heaters or extra blankets or anything in the chalet.

And at some point in there we were talking about music, and I suggested a few scary and ominous songs that might work to signal the end times. And Terry said "What about Buddy Holly's song Everyday? It sounds so upbeat and cheerful. But what if it was about the end of the world?" And I got all excited at the idea of Everyday being the Good Omens theme song.

So it's really just there to make Terry happy.

#everyday #I wrote a short story called THE GOLDFISH POOL AND OTHER STORIES about that time and that place

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