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You fought very hard in the Games, Miss Everdeen. But they were games. Would you like to be in a real war?
#the movie that this is#superior to all the others#catching fire#mine*#edits*#picspams*#thgedit#catchingfireedit#thg series#userserin#usercarol#userafolksongs#filmcentral#filmedit#scifiedit#usernaj#userhella
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“On the 6th Day of the 2nd Month of the First Year of the Kampo era. Taking a moment of my free time, I wish to express my joy of the cat. It arrived by boat as a gift to the late Emperor, received from the hands of Minamoto no Kuwashi.
The color of the fur is peerless. None could find the words to describe it, although one said it was reminiscent of the deepest ink. It has an air about it, similar to Kanno. Its length is 5 sun, and its height is 6 sun. I affixed a bow about its neck, but it did not remain for long.
In rebellion, it narrows its eyes and extends its needles. It shows its back.
When it lies down, it curls in a circle like a coin. You cannot see its feet. It’s as if it were circular Bi disk. When it stands, its cry expresses profound loneliness, like a black dragon floating above the clouds.
By nature, it likes to stalk birds. It lowers its head and works its tail. It can extend its spine to raise its height by at least 2 sun. Its color allows it to disappear at night. I am convinced it is superior to all other cats.”
- journal entry of 22-year-old Emperor Uda on March 11, 889 CE and earliest record of a cat in Japan [x]
Black Cat (detail) by Hishida Shunso, 1910 [x]
#this is one of my favorite things#proof cats have not changed in 1100 years#nor have cat owners#international cat day#kitties#cats#black cats#Japan#Japanese art#cats in art#new way to describe cats caterwaul#‘its cry expresses profound loneliness like a black dragon floating above the clouds’#‘I am convinced it is superior to all other cats’
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Me: hm, I want something to put on the TV as background noise... Huh. Looks like YouTube is recommending something called The Last Unicorn. That's perfect, it's probably some old shitty animation that has aged poorly! I can watch it ironically!
Me, 2 hours later as the credits roll: *crying, cheering, buying the book, composing the songs*
Me, 2 weeks later: So I have compiled all of the quotes from the book that I think could make good tattoos, and also, HOW HAVE I NEVER LEARNED ABOUT HOW THE LAST UNICORN FUCKING SLAPS??? This gay-ass little fairytale fed my soul! Watered my crops! Transed my gender! Can't believe I heard of this story from youtube recommendations, of all places!!
#original#the last unicorn#tlu#peter s beagle#molly gru#schmendrick#schmendrick the magician#two of my favorite characters in anything right there in the center of the story! and I'm glad I saw the film first!#my reading ability has diminished due to trauma disability etc. but it seems like having a visual reference actually really helped!#no wonder i only ever want to read fan fic! turns out reading is not actually Superior to other types of Storytelling. it's just different.#to say otherwise is snobbishness I have been eminently guilty of in my life!#but like it is easier for me to consume tv and movies and that is fine actually. also that's why I'm doing a graphic novel lol#because i wanted to make something i would actually be able to read if i found it at a library. altho the audio book IS gonna be bomb#the audiobook is for visually impaired readers and anyone who wants or needs it! accessible stories for everyone! yeah!!#my gender was already transed but now I've gained an ADDITIONAL gender! which one? I'll never tell 😘#i am so powerful i have so much fuckin gender. my wife has no gender. and she is equally as powerful.#and also she has STUDIED THE BLADE#mostly zoro's blades from One Piece#normally YouTube recommends me shit movies like idiocracy or smth this is like if every day ur cat brought you a piece of rotten food and#then one day it brings you a BEAUTIFULLY ANIMATED TALE FEATURING MY BELOVED TWINK FUCK-UP WIZARD FRIEND AND MY ALL-TIME HOMEGIRL MOLLY GRU#and also it's soft and beautiful and funny and fucking weird!! i wrote melodies to the songs in the books on my ukulele
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what i like especially about the pronouns in the goblin emperor is that this language doesn't just have the T-V distinction (aka informal vs. formal second-person pronouns, in this case 'thou' vs. 'you'), it also has informal and formal first-person pronouns. having BOTH of these distinctions in the same language lets you fine-tune your tone by mixing and matching. with only one axis of formality, when you use informal pronouns, are you being familiar in an intimate way, or in an insolent or dismissive way? when you use formal pronouns, are you being polite or standoffish? you can't tell just from the pronouns; there's ambiguity. but a language where you can use a formal first-person pronoun in the same sentence as an informal second-person pronoun allows you to distance yourself (via the formal first) while also being familiar (via the informal second), thereby achieving the conversational tenor known to linguists as Fuck Thee Specifically.
#just kidding i don't know what linguists call that tenor. or any tenors. i'm not totally positive what a tenor even is#but i can't let that stop me from writing a jokey post on tumblr dot com#register is a very interesting area of linguistics that i know very little about#so i'm probably revealing the depths of my vast ignorance here to all the sociolinguists who surely hang on my every word#but i've always thought of the formal/informal pronoun thing as being about two things: intimacy-distance & rudeness-politeness#and of course you can usually tell from context whether a formal pronoun is meant to indicate distance or politeness#(plus distance and politeness are related to each other (to various degrees depending on culture))#but it seems like it would be cool to have a built-in alignment chart of sorts just for pronoun combos#instead of prep jock nerd goth...why not try intimate self-effacing polite superior?#the goblin emperor#pronouns#register#sociolinguistics#my posts#f#anyway i know i said i wasn't going to reread the goblin emperor...but guess what. lol#and i edited my tags on that earlier post but fyi the language DOES distinguish between plural and formal singular pronouns#i had said i thought it used the same pronouns for plural and formal but i just wasn't paying close enough attention#so anyway i just reread the part where maia is talking to setheris in formal first and informal second#and you can see setheris going ohhh shit. oh shit oh shit oh shit#i'm in biiiiiig trouble#you sure are dude. that's the Time to Grovel signal#it's interesting because at the very beginning of the book when i first saw the formal first used i just thought it was the royal we#because i knew the main character was supposed to be royalty#but then EVERYONE was doing it. so it's not the royal we it's just the formal we#however. this does make me realize that the way the royal we would function in a language that retains the t-v distinction#is the same way i'm describing here. it's just reserving that particular tone (i'm better than you and am displeased with you)#for royalty only. which makes sense given royalty's whole deal
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katara’s fatal flaw when it comes to politics and also just general communication is that she cannot fathom why anyone would wish to act in a cruel manner and knowingly harm others, whereas sokka’s is that he does not understand how people can be willfully ignorant or even just plain dumb. it’s why sokka is always having to point out to katara that someone is a malicious actor who is taking advantage of her compassion and idealism (jet, hama, aunt wu, etc) because he knows that not everyone has pure, altruistic intentions, but he also doesn’t understand that king kuei isn’t just sheltered, he is also straight up an idiot (or that hahn isn’t just arrogant, he is also incompetent, etc etc) until it’s too late.
#katara assumes that everyone knows they ought to conduct themselves compassionately#whereas sokka assumes that everyone knows they ought to conduct themselves rationally#like in their minds (respectively) that it what is in everyone’s best interest at all times#and sokka’s ‘rationality’ is compassionate in nature#but he also acknowledges that other people mind find it in their best interest to be selfish#and conduct themselves accordingly#while katara always just sees the best in people#and is pretty unforgiving if they ‘mess up’ despite herself not being a perfect beacon of compassion#(she can be selfish myopic etc)#same goes for sokka perceiving himself as rational but also just. having a huge blind spot when it comes to his self esteem & daddy issues#(family issues in general tbh)#which can cause him to act irrationally#and then zuko and azula have the same thing (where zuko believes in compassion and azula believes in reason) but also like. far more cynical#just because they were raised to believe in their natural superiority and it fucks with their perception of themselves and others#but zuko does have a very similar fundamental worldview to katara & azula to sokka#anyway. im off topic now#katara#sokka#katara&sokka#analysis#ish
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cyno x gn!reader
“You’ll like him, I promise!”
“If he’s anything like you, I suppose.”
“Well…” You trail off, imagining you and your brother growing up and constantly being told how different the two of you are, from your personalities down to your looks. “Anyway! He can be a bit of a dummy, but he means well.”
Cyno nods, a thoughtful frown on his lips as he crosses his arms and waits for your brother to arrive at your meeting spot.
You spy the eye-catching ahoge from a mile away. You beam, raising your hand in a wave and turning to your partner beside you—only to blink as you realize that he left without your notice.
The sound of steel against steel in the distance blares an alarm in your head. Frantic, you whip your head to the direction of the sound and find two very familiar individuals duking it out.
Oh no.
“Big brother Haitham, stop!”
They both freeze at the sound of your voice for two completely different reasons.
Al-Haitham pulls you behind him and points his sword at your very confused partner, uncharacteristically slow to connect the dots. “Choose your next actions carefully, Cyno.”
Cyno completely lowers his weapon as he switches his gaze between the two of you as if in disbelief that Al-Haitham, the so-called Akademiya lunatic who he’s barely spoken two words to, is your older brother. You, the light of his life—but also an Akademiya drop out who only managed to get in through sheer luck after your random answers on the entrance examination turned out to be right—were related to him?
Impossible.
…Or so he would have thought a minute ago before his world was turned upside down and his partner’s brother wasn’t the most suspicious person in Cyno’s eyes.
My brother is really smart like you! He’s really nice and he used to help me study for my tests back when I still went to the Akademiya. A little, um, mean—but he’s actually a good person!
Hah, mean. A large understatement. It would equate to a scholar calling the General Mahamatra benign.
He suppose he should have expected it from you. You do have the tendency to think the best of people, even when they don’t deserve it.
“Brother.” You tug on Al-Haitham’s arm to bring his sword down, but he refuses to do so, unwilling to take his eyes off Cyno. Huffing in annoyance, you stomp on his feet and feel immense satisfaction when he turns his head to glare at you.
“This isn’t the time—”
“He’s Cynie!”
There’s a joke to be made about a pin dropping in the silence after your words and your brother’s dawning look of realization and the skepticism that follows.
He whirls his head to Cyno and points, “That’s Cynie?”
You nod with a growing smile, delighted that your brother finally lowered his sword so you can come up to Cyno and drag him close by the arm. “Cynie, meet my brother, Haitham!”
“…I told you not to call me that in front of others.”
“But it’s cute!”
“Only when we’re alone.” To this, he sends a baleful glare to Al-Haitham that your brother returns with a glare of his own.
“Oh, please. My sibling has told me everything that’s happened in your relationship,” then, as if to add salt to the wound, he strictly emphasizes, “Cynie.”
A muscle in your partner’s brow twitches.
“It’s great that you two are getting along!” You exclaim with a smile that could rival the sun.
They can’t say no to that face. They both have no choice but to reluctantly grumble a hesitant ‘yes…’ that has your eyes shining bright.
“I have our outing planned for today! I saw a promo in a restaurant that said if you can finish some kind of large meal in under an hour, you don’t have to pay for it! Not too sure how big it is, but I know I can eat it all. I also passed by this really cool place yesterday…”
They let you drag them by the arm across the city, shooting glares at each other and throwing subtle barbs when they think you aren’t looking.
You called that day the ‘brothers-in-law bonding day’. They hated every second of it and vowed to never talk to the other again.
Unless you asked them to, of course.
#in case ur wondering reader knows they dont like each other but is choosing not to acknowledge it#reader: i pretend i do not see 😑#in the canon serious x airhead au haitham and reader aren’t related at all but instead good friends bc reader finds haithams sassiness funny#oh wow there’s canon and non canon versions now…..anyway#i love me my grumpy and sunshine trope it will always remain superior <3#genshin x reader#genshin impact x reader#cyno x reader#genshin cyno x reader#gn reader#serious x airhead
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of the many injustices put forth toward the show by fans i think the most overall damaging and telling of a complete lack of critical viewership is the idea that sam riegel builds his characters with nothing more than the bit in mind. like you are only telling on yourself if you think characters like scanlan shorthalt and veth brennato are one-dimensional and depthless
#if im being exTREMEly generous i can maybe understand this view of scanlan if you started c1 and then gave up 30 episodes later#he played the long game with him more than any other and a lot of his growth could be looked at as shallow if you DIDNT watch til the payoff#but any time this opinion is used as a blanket over all of his characters including tary and even FCG.. like be serious#i mean at this point im definitely biased bc he is my favorite player at the table. However. that wasnt always the case#and even when i was myself writing some character choices off i NEVER applied that to the characters themselves. how can you??#seen sooo many ppl criticize him for making veth an alcoholic or scanlan irreverent & hedonistic as tho it’s only possible#to play these traits as shallow jokes or at best played out satire…. and then the same person will turn around#and praise how percy was built to be pompous & superior and jester immature & self-centered and caleb steeped in self-effacing hubris#why are these characters and their players given a near universal acceptance of nuance and acknowledgement of growth & healing#but SAMS CHARACTERS ARE NOT!!!!#this turned into such a rant but it bothers me SO much. everyone at the cr table is so goddamned talented#and takes the game as seriously as it deserves#so many more points i could argue but this is already so goddamn long no one is reading this far. i love sam and all of his characters <333#critical role#sam riegel#scanlan shorthalt#veth brennato#my posts
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the show needs to let annabeth be a 12 yo girl more <3
#this is not on Leah at all btw#she's doing an amazing job#this is on the writers#have they nailed Annabeth's bluntness? her pride? her superiority complex? her intelligence?#yep#now show all of her other characteristics I believe in you <3#she's wise beyond her years but she's still a kid#her grabbing all the snacks was perfect we need more of that#this will be the next post to get me crucified on here im certain#pjo show crit#pjo adaptation
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gaston leroux writing the prologue to the phantom of the opera
#leroux: le fantôme de l'opéra a existé#me 113 years later: holy shit#but fr i do love this framing of the novel#like i know the fact that it's a century old mystery that's been solved a thousand times can make it a slog to read#(along with other issues related to age and translation)#but i really really love it#and ofc leroux erik is simply superior to all others no competition#phantom of the opera#poto#gaston leroux#poto shitpost
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Valkyrie is a complete PR nightmare. I know it, in my heart.
#This could apply to the rest of Eden as well#maybe Fushimi#But I thought it'd be funnier with Valkyrie#I'm sure CosPro must have a whole PR department#since that's basically the first thing Saegusa tells Trickstar when he's trying to convince them to sign with CosPro#and Saegusa himself probably has little to no involvement since he's already doing so much all of the time#But I like to think it's just him on three company devices writing apologies to superiors and audiences every other day of the week#enstars#ensemble stars#enstars meme#enstars textpost#saegusa ibara#ibara saegusa#itsuki shuu#shu itsuki#kagehira mika#mika kagehira#enstars valkyrie
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I do not have tiktok mostly bc I simply choose to use only one social media at a time and I've dug my grave on this site but luckily my beloved friends who do have tiktok never fail to update me on whatever bizarro drama is going on over there (bizarro not bc it's anymore ridiculous than this or any other social site but bc it's generally so different from the drama I'm accustomed to on here) which means I get to chuckle at "real" mob wife vs clean girl compilations (only the cream of the crop plucked for me by my angels currently suffering in the algorithm pits) without having to sell my soul to yet another bottomless app.
#tcp#again i feel no moral superiority by not having tiktok truly using any social media is akin to all others#however i simply do not need another timesuck in my life or phone
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When I feed the hungry, they call me a saint. When I ask why people are hungry, they call me a Communist.
- Hélder Câmara, Brazilian archbishop and Servant of God, as quoted in Peace Behind Bars: A Peacemaking Priest's Journal from Jail (1995) by John Dear.
#catholic#tower of babble#quote#helder camara#Hélder Câmara#Hélder Câmara my beloved. I need to read more of his writing.#sorry I saw some Catholic Blogs being very….petty about politics.#I’m no communist myself but if your faith in god doesn’t transcend political structures then you need more faith.#I’m no hardcore capitalist either but that doesn’t stop me from sympathizing with the suffering of people who are capitalists and believe#in the supremacy of that power structure. the same way our faith should extend to pagans and heretics and nonbelievers.#they are all your family in Christ made in God’s divine image whether you like it or not. agree with them or not.#stop finding superiority over others in what you perceive to be their weaknesses and naivety. it’s not a good look even IF you’re right.
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Dc x Dp Prompt #5
Demon Twin AU except Damian never had a blood son phase:
Damian would like to start saying he is not at fault for this….miscommunication. Truly, how was he to know sharing the same blood as Jasmine and Danyal would make them “siblings”? Not once has anyone mentioned such absurd claims. He has never and will never treat either of the two the way he would Richard or any of his other siblings, but apparently sharing the same donors when being created automatically makes people siblings.
Worse, father is upset at him and mother for “hiding away” two of his “children” from him. Richard and Thomas will not stop staring at him. Todd, Brown, and Drake will not stop laughing. Cassandra has not stopped looking at his body language since this whole encounter started. Alfred is giving him his patented disappointed face he oh so hates but what is he to do?
Damian was not hiding anything or anyone. Jasmine and Danyal have not nor will they ever be his siblings. They are the children of Jack and Maddie Fenton just as Richard and the rest of them are Bruce’s children. Blood has nothing to do with family. They are at best “god-siblings” or “cousins” if father refuses to believe they are simply childhood companions.
There is barely a hint of emotion as father purses his lips while his siblings continue looking on at him in disbelief. Damian is not understanding why they are having trouble comprehending such simple logic. It is common sense to know that siblings are the children at least one of your parents have raised other than yourself. Parents are the people who raise you. Talia raised him therefore she is his mother. He lives with Bruce who is now raising him and therefore he is his father.
Neither Talia nor Bruce raised Jasmine or Danyal, therefore they are not siblings. It is merely coincidence that he shared blood with both Bruce and Talia. After all, every time he’s visited Amity Park, most children look nothing like their parents. How can it not be coincidence when it is clearly far more normal to raise children who don’t share an ounce of blood with you, than those who do.
How can it not be normal when Jack Fenton took Jasmine in so easily knowing he didn’t share any dna with her? Even more so with Danyal who doesn’t share even a drop of blood with either Jack or Maddie. Look at yourself father. Out of all your children, only one shares your dna. Do not try and pin this on Damian for being the only sensible person in this family. Blood siblings, ha, don’t make him laugh.
#dc x dp#dp x dc#dc x dp prompt#dp x dc prompt#dc x dp crossover#dp x dc crossover#danny and damian are twins#they and Jazz are all bio siblings through Bruce#but only Jazz and Danny think of each other as siblings#Jazz is Bruce and Maddie’s kid#Jack is infertile#Talia being a great bff to Maddie offered up Bruce’s dna#this changes everything and nothing at the same time#Damian never called himself the only blood son#Talia and Ra’s never instilled it into him knowing Jazz and Danny were around#Damian still had a superiority complex but only because he was heir to demon#the batfam told him to call Jazz/Danny to fact check#unfortunately for them neither Jazz or Danny knew this either#they were all taught that blood didn’t mean shit by both the league and their parents#for Damian this included Bruce too (which he is now slowly regretting)#it also wasn’t until the batfam saw danny that anyone found out danny and Damian were twins#no one in amity ever really thought about why danny and damian looked so similar#amity park is big on adoption#very few of them actually gave birth to their children#this only enforced the thought that raising a child who you sired isn’t common#Damian uses amity park as a reference for what’s considered normal#Bruce almost had an aneurism when he found out about Dan and Ellie
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So I was thinking about the whole elves-being-naturally-prettier-than-humans thing because that was always sort of weird to me when I FINALLY think I figured it out.
Humans used to know about the elves, and there are some things they still remember—hence myths about Atlantis and such. Reality is, humans and elves resembled each other in a lot of ways, but elves put themselves on a pedestal as better than every other species (that’s, like, canon, and better be addressed more fully at some point?) and that’s probably a part of the reasons humans “betrayed” the elves—they got sick of hearing that elves were better.
But it was just sort of implanted in their minds, though they weren’t fans of the idea, and elves didn’t go to great lengths to erase that idea from their minds. So humans remember myths and some things about elves, and Atlantis being the underwater city………and beauty standards.
It’s not that elves are naturally prettier than humans. It’s that human beauty standards are shaped around the natural looks of elves.
Thanks for coming to my ted talk
#and human beauty standards change all the time obviously#height and weight and all. they come in and out of fashion every decade and that’s it’s whole own issue#but things like symmetry#clear skin#etc#those things are pretty much universal#there’s also a mathematical model for a ratio range of female attributes that is considered most beautiful across all times and cultures#even considering different heights and weights and such#so there’s definitely some consistency to beauty standards and THAT would be how elves are more naturally beautiful.#they look like their own species and they’ve ingrained it into the minds of other species that they are superior#so subconsciously the humans still believe it#>:(#kotlc#keeper of the lost cities#sophie foster#shannon messenger#kotlc fandom#kotlc theories
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I truly admire those who treat the cw's supernatural as like...a very serious piece of media but like...also...it's the cw's supernatural
#idk how to put this in words it's just like idk how any of us (myself included) have like a superiority complex over 'understanding'#this show more than other anyone else. my opinions and interpretations are all correct tho#personal
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Yo, people, it genuinely didn't occur to me that people wouldn't know what Bliztø, Fizz, and Barbie's forehead marks are.
Guys, they're imps. In hell. They have a mark on their forehead that won't come off (to the point that not even scar tissue or make-up will cover it, Fizz hides his with a hat and Barbie puts tape on her's)
It's the mark of the beast. You know, the mark that indicates that you are one of Satan's chosen?
It's literally a goat skull with horns. Which is how Satan is depicted in this canon (yeah, Lucy and Satan are different people in this lore)
Anyway, that's super interesting to me cause Helluva Boss focuses a lot on classism and the class hierarchy of hell and uhhhhhhhhhh... This very much flips the script for Blitzø and Fizz in that regard.
"And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads"
As you read above, the mark of the beast doesn't give a fuck about class systems. It's just kinda permanently branded onto you, either on your right hand or your forehead. So, even though Bliztø isn't a blue blood, he has no fame or fortune, he was born at the bottom of the social hierarchy, ect, he's still capable of being important/doing important things.
For example:
"And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name."
Yeah, so, basically Bliztø, Barbie and Fizz have an immense amount of power as they are the only ones capable of doing any kind of business, at all, at the end of the world. Aka, the antichrist is born? Well, guess what. The entire economy of hell falls and suddenly a handful of imps are the ones in control of EVERYTHING.
I just think this is neat because it balances the power dynamics with Stolas and Lust.
#i saw a theory that it was a brand from lust and i was like ???#and then it occurred to me that not everyone had to read the book of revelations by age 8 and knows all the signs of the apocalypse#so#uhhhhh. yeah. i guess that isn't obvious to everyone else huh? i mean its why Blitzø Barbie and Fizz are double the height#of all the other imps. and why the cowboy dude called Bliztø 'superior' to Millie and Moxie#helluva boss#blitzo#fizzeroli#barbie wire
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