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witchlingcirce · 2 days

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This is probably such an unpopular opinion but I remember reading TMI for the first time and a character that really stood out to me was always Amatis. She experienced so much misery in her life, and than once she broke free from it she was put back into that misery again (By Sebastian)

I absolutely adore the Graymark family 😭 wish we saw more of them in other series!!!

Also tell me why Sebastian made her head of the endarkend, okay miss bad bitch SLAY. Like I feel like she must have been a rlly good fighter (atleast when she did patrol)

#am the only one?#amatis graymark #city of glass #the mortal instruments #tmi #tsc #the shadowhunter chronicles #shadowhunters #likeee idk I thought she was such an interesting character #also her house was one of my favourite settings for some reason #she ate I’m sorry #I love flops

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walrus150915 · 3 days

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Happy pride, Nimona fandom :3

I gotcha some sketches! Gotta place them in different parts of the post so that you read everything

It's not just drawings I got HEADCANONS for you too!

Off topic but I love Nimona's design SO MUCH it's so AMAZING TO DRAW AGHHH

So

⚧Nimona LGBTQ+ specific headcanons of mine🏳‍🌈

• I've made a conclusion that if queer flags exist in Nimona universe, as well as gay drag bars (so was confirmed in the artbook), then labels DO exist. As well as good old homophobia??? I suppose????

• Nimona doesn't have a specific label because she thinks they are sorta restrictive. Also she just doesn't need one lol, if somebody asked her about her gender she'd say "Nimona"

• She'd wear the heck out of a "protect trans kids" shirt she bought no she ain't feeding into the capitalist machine she stole it

• There was something between Nimona and Gloreth but Nimona can't exactly say what for sure. Not exactly romantic but not strictly platonic. Homegirl had that toxic doomed kindergarten yuri going on😭

• Nimona doesn't look for romantic relationships. She explains it as "romance is for sappy dumb-dumbs" but in reality she just doesn't want to date and romantically love somebody who'll. Eventually die and leave her all by herself again yk (oh this got angsty real fast)

• Maybe one day Ballister tried to help her find her label (because he still tries to put things in boxes) and she just waved it off

Speaking of Ballister

• My man is transgender. Do I even have to explain. Read one of those posts that explain his transness better LMAO

• He started his medical transition as a teenager and had to fit right in not to disrupt the Institute's function. If he's a man then he has to transition QUICKLY so that others don't notice

• Because of that he's a transmedicalist and probably an enbyphobe at the start of the movie, thinking only one type of valid transness exists, and it's the one that is very binary and restrictive

• At the end he realizes the wrong of his ways and works on the internalized transphobia

• He came to terms with his homosexuality a bit easier. "It's always been boys" yk the drill

A couple of words about his boy lol

• Ambrosius is a painfully cisgender gay man. I genuinely apologize to all Transbrosius believers but he gives off STRONG cis vibes can't have a character with this surname dickless

• He's a trans ally but his opinions on trans issues were like. Very closed-minded. He supported but didn't entirely understand. Of course it changed as he went through ✨character development✨

• He was fully supportive of Ballister on his trans journey. Reassured him when Ballister felt like he wasn't enough, tried to make his boyfriend as secure as possible, loving every part of him

There should be a bunch of rather suggestive headcanons but this isn't that type of post LOL

No but think about Ambrosius kissing down Ballister's body and across his chest scars. This is my ultimate dream as a trans man

• Ambrosius also rocks a "protect trans kids" shirt that's for SURE

• He came to terms with his queerness as a teenager and had a whole crisis about it. As a Goldenloin he had the expectations of ✨continuing Gloreth's bloodline✨ thrown at him back in childhood so he sorta internalized that. Then boom, my boy is g a y and oh how gay he is!

• Click here to read about my headcanons on goldenheart when they had only started falling in love :D

• Ambrosius made inoffensive jokes about Ballister's transness. Like yk those goofy puns like "baby you put men in MENstruation", "omg does this make your parents transparent". Ballister smiled at them and rolled his eyes but also silently appreciated his bf's support, although expressed so stupidly

• He also made sure Ballister took proper care of his body because you know Ballister would not bind safely, being a dumb teen

Anyway yeah gay people

Unpopular opinion but we as a fandom should start drawing Bal with a disability queer pride flag

Side characters headcanons, anyone? XD

• Diego came out as nonbinary after the events of the movie. He got that he/they swag going on

• Also Ballister was his queer awakening FIGHT ME ABOUT IT. He had the stupidest, most childish celebrity crush on Bal. Maybe Bal formed Diego's type in men fjfhhx I like to think Diego got a boyfriend whose attitude is similar to Bal's

• Remember those news anchors? (they are so underrated omg) Well Nate Knight has a husband and Alanzapam Davis is a bi queen🙏

• Speaking of queens. Valerin is a straight ally💪💪 I imagine her being quite iconic on the Kingdom's queer side of the internet. They call her "mother" and stuff aajjaj

• the Director is homophobic, need I say more? So is Todd but I actually imagine him being a type of guy to reject his queerness

Haha mailman *winks at yrrtyrrtwhenihrrthrrt*

• Todd had NO idea Ballister was trans. NONE

• The Kingdom has pride events!! Ambrosius and Ballister were very happy and excited to attend those as an official couple once they were out :}

• Nimona attended them every year, ofc she had to hide her true nature but it was fun for her to march along! And it was even more fun when everyone accepted her!!

Anyway yeah this was very fun to make!! Happy pride y'all, lmk what you think ;D

#nimona #ballister boldheart #ambrosius goldenloin #goldenheart #nimona fanart #nimona headcanons #actually therapeutic to make such a post while living in a violently queerphobic country #i wish to attend a pride march someday i know i will cry HARD once i do #in a body i dont hate and with a healed soul #sorry to make this depressing #happy pride 🌈#pride 2024 #lgbtq #transgender #diego the squire #queen valerin #the director nimona #todd sureblade

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loustat-0 · 22 hours

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Unpopular opinion about 2x4 Arun

Louis has shown to use his lovers weakness and vulnerabilities against them . I didn't see Louis calling Armand " Arun " scene romantic at all , I saw it the way Louis used Lestat telling him about why he didn't like to be abandoned and why he didn't want to be alone and how much he needed Louis . And what did Louis do ? Use that against him any chance he got . Never making Lestat feel secure that he will never leave him . Louis is using Armand's way of being portrayed by others , Armand is afraid to paint himself he is afraid to know who he is so he leave it at others hands to do it for him , because it's easier . First Marius , then Lestat and now Louis . Now Louis knows his vulnerabilities because Armand himself gave it to him , he tried to give it Lestat too through his blood but we didn't see it , Armand wants to be at the mercy of others because he won't accept to be at his own mercy . Now Louis will use it and Armand will think of it as a romantic gesture because unfortunately that's a belief he had ever since Marius . He thinks being used for others is act of love specially if that person has some feelings for you too . Louis has the feelings , Marius did too , and AMC Lestat did too until he left Armand ( unlike the TVL book ) . It's probably romantic gesture for Armand but not on Louis's side , Louis is using that for his And Claudia's survival . He did it to Lestat too , he knew he was thirty for his love every second so he used all of his love to manipulate Lestat to be able to kill him and abandon him . Using someone's weakness for having them to love you I can understand and I think that's Gothic romance . But using their weakness to win your own game is messed up but maybe some people see that as romance too . 😅

#interview with the vampire #iwtv #amc iwtv #amc interview with the vampire #loustat #louis de pointe du lac #lestat de lioncourt #iwtv spoilers #lestat x louis #loumand #louis x armand #iwtv season 2

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rollforfelicity · 2 days

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finally finished the season and was curious if you had any thoughts on the junior year finale?

Yes! I watched it when it came out and I'm kind of bad at remembering what happens in shows, haha, but I do have some thoughts (these will probably be more "entire season" thoughts rather than JUST the finale thoughts).

Overall, I really enjoyed this season. It was really funny, and maybe one of the seasons I laughed at the most, and since I view Dimension 20 as a comedy show first, that's a big selling point to me.

I don't know how I feel about the down time mechanic. On the one hand, I think it's the only way they could have done this season, since it seemed like they were pretty set on it taking the whole year. On the other hand, there were quite a few rolls that Brennan said we'd come back to that I don't think were fully addressed (I could be wrong about how many, I'd have to go back and re-watch.) When they first introduced the mechanic, I thought it was basically a way for time to quickly pass while establishing how the school year was going, so each roll wouldn't involve too many scenes or roleplay, which I thought was smart. But then they did involve a ton of scenes and roleplay! So I have mixed feelings.

Similarly, it did feel like some things that could have been fun were underexplored because there was SO much jammed into this season, plot-wise. That's partially the medium of Actual Play, and partially being ambitious with how much they included. I love the idea of character foils or "dark reflections" of characters, and I wish we would have gotten a little more time with the Rat Grinders. We ended with a lot of implications about them, but I kind of wish there would have been a "this is what happened with them exactly" kind of moment. I guess they were all killed by Porter while on an adventure? Maybe I'm forgetting stuff and there was a more clear answer. I'm usually playing Power Wash Simulator while I'm watching Dimension 20 so sometimes I miss things.

Specific finale stuff! Gorgug and Unit and Gorgug and Mary Ann were both so funny. Zac is one of the funniest people alive. Brennan cannot keep his NPCs from flirting with Zac, and Zac cannot say no to a funny bit. I thiiiiink the finale was also the "Say it don't spray it" moment, which was incredible. Murph using Hold Person to take out Kipperlily was great, so tactical, so timely.

Maybe this is an unpopular opinion but I think the finale episode retroactively made the infamous "blimey" moment less funny. I wish Brennan wouldn't have gone back on having K2 destroyed. His rationale was that she actually did have access to Divine Intervention but also he gave advantage on the roll which isn't how the ability works, so I think having K2 be destroyed was fair and also really funny.

I was a little underwhelmed by the Bad Kids reactions to Ankarna's scenes with each of them. It felt like none of them knew exactly what was going on, and even though they had some good character moments, it felt muddled and I wasn't sure what was supposed to happen or honestly even what *did* happen there.

I liked Buddy's new god and Kalina showing up. I don't think she's evil, I think she just knows that Ankarna wants to kill her, so she's hitching her wagon on a new star.

Brennan said something during the final Adventuring Party about how if people would have laughed more at Gilear saying they were getting a dog that Fabian's mom wouldn't have been pregnant, which confirms something I've always thought! Obviously a lot of Dimension 20 is planned in advance because of the sets, but I've always felt like sometimes when things don't make sense it's because they decide something on the fly because it's funny. Even Porter being evil was decided because it would be funny (although that obviously wasn't decided on the fly). It makes sense why sometimes the pacing and plot of the shows are a little weird, because they're actual plays, and they're comedic APs at that. It's kind of heartwarming that it seems like even though they're making a show, they're all mostly just trying to make each other laugh, because if they make each other laugh, it'll probably make the audience laugh too.

Thanks for the ask! There's probably a lot of other stuff I thought that I've forgotten, haha. Would love to hear what you thought of the finale, too!

#dimension 20 #fhjy spoilers

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magical-oppas · 2 days

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This might be a very unpopular opinion but can we please allow drivers to be messy again? I like the friendships just as much as anyone but come on, you are lying if you say you weren't entertained by brocedes antics or Multi 21. Like I'm a big Ferrari fan and I love and support both Charles and Carlos but I eat it up every time they get spicy with each other on track. Did Monza stress me the fuck out? Absolutely but god I FUCKING LOVE that they went for it!!

They are racing drivers! Let them race and throw tantrums! Let them be bitchy on team radio! Let them demand a team order and let them also ignore a team order! Let them throw shade in interviews! Half the appeal of Carcar is the bitchiness of it all, its compelling and fun to follow!

Its just...sometimes this whole "we are one big happy racing family" feels so fake and PR, I think the sport would benefit even more from drivers being strong characters again. Fernando Alonso is probably the shadiest, most messy person alive and he still has adoring fans so it clearly works.

Ofc, for this to work the fans would need to have the emotional maturity to understand that this is how sports rivalries works and that to a certain level everyone is constantly competing with everyone and maybe thats where it all falls apart...

#I just.....this sport is gossip girl on wheels #can we please let it be gossip girl on wheels?#I long for the day oscar disputes a team order....#and because of the emotional maturity thing let me calirfy that is not a lando critisism ok?#or like checo can you maybe not let max through like a good boy all the time? let the man work for it damnit!#idk if im making sense but I just hate the fake friendliness that is forced upon them #ofc some of them are actual friends but like come on alpine is trying to force us to believe that pierre and esteban are fine #and they are almost succeeding! they are not fine and its ok! they hate eo and its ok! let it be!#Formula 1 #f1 #mint talks

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deep-space-netwerk · 9 months

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So Venus is my favorite planet in the solar system - everything about it is just so weird.

It has this extraordinarily dense atmosphere that by all accounts shouldn't exist - Venus is close enough to the sun (and therefore hot enough) that the atmosphere should have literally evaporated away, just like Mercury's. We think Earth manages to keep its atmosphere by virtue of our magnetic field, but Venus doesn't even have that going for it. While Venus is probably volcanically active, it definitely doesn't have an internal magnetic dynamo, so whatever form of volcanism it has going on is very different from ours. And, it spins backwards! For some reason!!

But, for as many mysteries as Venus has, the United States really hasn't spent much time investigating it. The Soviet Union, on the other hand, sent no less than 16 probes to Venus between 1961 and 1984 as part of the Venera program - most of them looked like this!

The Soviet Union had a very different approach to space than the United States. NASA missions are typically extremely risk averse, and the spacecraft we launch are generally very expensive one-offs that have only one chance to succeed or fail.

It's lead to some really amazing science, but to put it into perspective, the Mars Opportunity rover only had to survive on Mars for 90 days for the mission to be declared a complete success. That thing lasted 15 years. I love the Opportunity rover as much as any self-respecting NASA engineer, but how much extra time and money did we spend that we didn't technically "need" to for it to last 60x longer than required?

Anyway, all to say, the Soviet Union took a more incremental approach, where failures were far less devastating. The Venera 9 through 14 probes were designed to land on the surface of Venus, and survive long enough to take a picture with two cameras - not an easy task, but a fairly straightforward goal compared to NASA standards. They had…mixed results.

Venera 9 managed to take a picture with one camera, but the other one's lens cap didn't deploy.

Venera 10 also managed to take a picture with one camera, but again the other lens cap didn't deploy.

Venera 11 took no pictures - neither lens cap deployed this time.

Venera 12 also took no pictures - because again, neither lens cap deployed.

Lotta problems with lens caps.

For Venera 13 and 14, in addition to the cameras they sent a device to sample the Venusian "soil". Upon landing, the arm was supposed to swing down and analyze the surface it touched - it was a simple mechanism that couldn't be re-deployed or adjusted after the first go.

This time, both lens caps FINALLY ejected perfectly, and we were treated to these marvelous, eerie pictures of the Venus landscape:

However, when the Venera 14 soil sampler arm deployed, instead of sampling the Venus surface, it managed to swing down and land perfectly on….an ejected lens cap.

#space #space history #venus #NASA #Venera #spost #I will talk all day about venus #ask me about venus floating sky cities #unpopular opinion venus > mars #this is probably my favorite space history story #the surface of venus is made of lens caps #don't try to tell me the universe doesn't have a sense of humor #well #I guess its more that people have a sense of humor and we happen to live in the universe

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banjo-bugs · 1 year

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I truly genuinely believe they would get along so well

#columbo #benoit blanc #knives out glass onion #just watched it tonight …. so good dude I loved it #unpopular opinion maybe but way better than the firsr #first movie !! idk I like that benoit got to show his personality a little more : )#columbo vc your partners a chef? well that’s just wonderful.. I could probably burn water if my wife ever let me in the kitchen #digital art #twizz scribs

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holyvirgilscriptures · 7 months

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When a person belonging to a minority group says or does something bad, you are, of course, free to criticize them. But it still does not give you the right to be a bigot. Noah Schnapp sharing stupid, careless, and uninformed geopolitical opinions deserves to be called out, but it does not mean that you suddenly get to tell him that he should have been gassed by Hitler or killed by anti-Jewish hate groups or terrorists — both things I've read on Twitter and on Tumblr. It does not justify you calling him homophobic or antisemitic slurs.

"But he deserves it!" you argue. First of all, why do you think so? What makes it okay for any person to be given the green signal to get called slurs, or have people advocate for them to get hatecrimed? And more importantly, you are only signaling to your Jewish friends that you are actually capable of antisemitism. Same thing goes with your queer friends, or any friends belonging to a minority group. When you justify one form of bigotry, even to just one person — you justify all forms of bigotry.

So if you find yourself doing any of these, ask yourself why it's so easy to slip into bigoted rhetoric instead of simply focusing your criticism on what a person did/said.

#here's another example: a couple years back many chinese idols made statements supporting the ccp #despite the fact that the ccp was comitting genocide on its muslim population #it was awful and i have stopped supporting any of these idols #but that doesn't mean i could call these idols sinophobic slurs #and when anti-chinese hate crimes because of covid were spiking it didn't mean i could say that these chinese idols deserved to get beat up #because that is a horrible fucking thing to say #noah schnapp #antisemitism #this is probably the last thing i talk about noah bc again people care too much about him #i'm aware i hold a shockingly unpopular opinion lol #a person from x minority doing something disagreeable is not and will never be grounds for you to act bigoted

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ladykeyleth · 3 months

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I don't know what to do. What's the end goal of all of this? Am I really just supposed to keep chasing and consuming power wherever I find it? To what end? And will it actually ever be enough?

Bonus:

#criticalroleedit #critteredit #critical role #laudna #delilah briarwood #imodna #(sort of. but yeah actually bc that's what this is all about)#cr spoilers #c3e86 3h21m57s on twitch #mgifs #delilah you sneaky manipulative undead bitch #also probably unpopular opinion idk but this is one of the best things that's happened to laudna's character arc lol #she's been SO stagnant for so long. this conversation is finally taking her (and us) somewhere #she's finally Making Choices that are gonna move her plot forward!!! you go girl time to start breaking shit!!!

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museaway · 2 months

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kudos don't determine worth

#such Opinions on the internet today #you and your writing are so much more than a number!!!#unpopular opinion but I'd like a site without stats at all #I know I know - I'm a writer too I get it #but imagine if you didn't go in with that bias #and could just select something because it sounds neat #I prefer that to people asking when a fic is 'good enough' to read #fandom #oh btw there's a post about this making the rounds #you'll probably see it at some point #just...sigh.

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thegreatcaptainusopp · 5 months

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Water 7 was like specifically engineered to hit on every single sensitive spot Usopp has and honestly he almost under-reacted with how nuts the circumstances were for the moment that he snapped:

1. They just came off a fight where Aokiji knocked them around like it was nothing, where he had this realization:

So he’s going in already feeling super inadequate, more than he usually does (which is a lot already).

2. Relatedly, up to this point fixing the Merry was his job because they didn’t have a shipwright yet. Her being unfixable probably felt, to him, like a personal failing because he was the one in charge of fixing her

3. The Merry was most like another crew member to him because he’s the one who worked on her most, AND he was the only one who saw her klabautermann at this point

4. The big elephant in the room here is that Kaya was the one who gave them Merry. So, you know, he’s attached to her most for this reason too

5. There’s also the fact that this probably hit on the very specific trauma of his mother’s death, because she also got sick enough that everyone deemed her unsavable.

6. On top of all that, it also hit on his trauma regarding his dad and abandonment: he doesn’t want to repeat that and feel like he abandoned a crew member who needed him.

7. Speaking of abandonment, seeing a situation where, in his mind, the crew leaves someone behind who is now deemed useless probably touched on a lot of his own fears about his place on his crew and own perceived usefulness

8. He had also just been brutally beaten twice on the same day and is pretty badly injured, compounding both feelings of usefulness and aligning him with the merry in his mind in terms of physical state.

9. He had also just lost the money they needed to fix the Merry, again compounding the feeling that he was useless AND he was responsible for the Merry not being fixable

10. He woke up to the crew, who had already processed the news, telling him about it AND that a decision had been made, which made him feel like it was a him vs them thing

There’s probably more I think but yes, it is completely unsurprising that he fell apart so spectacularly

#one piece #op #usopp #water 7 #speaks #honestly I KNOW he was self sabotaging and snapping here but #I kinda respect him standing up to Luffy for what he thought was right #Luffy needs to be challenged more often generally speaking #this is probably an unpopular opinion but I never liked the blind loyalty = good thing that one piece champions #I think the best people to have in a crew are the ones who challenge you 🤷‍♀️

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scintillyyy · 4 months

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the thing is. i don't particularly love the whole steph sends assassins after tim at the end of robin thing. but it is fascinating to me as one of those things that dc's like "okay, this did happen because we need it to have happened (it's pretty important as far as setting up steph and tim to move on to red robin & batgirl, it's extremely important that steph makes a mistake that causes harm so that tim is upset with her & so there's a justifiable reason steph can't be spoiler anymore & to set the stage for their dynamic in the reborn era & because her doing this to tim is also important to maintain tim's self-isolation at the start of red robin because if he had a girlfriend to depend on who he wasn't mad at he wouldn't be quite so self-destructive), but at the same time we desperately need to pretend like it did not happen (because if it did, and steph sent assassins after tim, he's entirely justified in being mad at her & also if she did that dick would probably feel about steph the way he feels about jean-paul valley)"

#actually my most unpopular opinion is that i think that dick is probably like. very neutral on steph as a whole #given that tim absolutely would get dick in the divorce and dick would be on tim's side as far as being upset #at the ways she's hurt him (not that tim is a saint in the rship i just think that dick is allowed to be messy & biased and on tim's side)#like everytime he sees steph he probably remembers the phone call with tim. it's hard not to look at her #and not see tim breaking down at the side of the pit #and if the assassins did happen he's probably also upset and irritated about that #anyways i think he can be very professional & i think he definitely comes around to 'she's a competent vigilante who deserves to be there'#and he's probably grateful as to how she gets along with damian & has been good for him #but i just can't picture them hanging out outside of work. they're the epitome of coworkers to me

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the-dying-sun7 · 9 months

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I hate how so many therians/otherkins of tumblr often say stuff like 'those weird tiktok therians' . It's damaging for the community. Dam it, I'm on tumblr. Just because a therian/otherkin is on tt doesn't instantly mean they're faking, and think that therianthropy/ Otherkinity is just quads and having a connection to an animal. I get that tt is a problem, with quadrobists calling themselves therians, and not even bothering to explain what therianthropy is, if they even know. But it's ridiculous how divided we are. I've even seen this sort of stuff on reddit. I don't like it. Idrk if anyone disagrees, I know my own opinions, and I know that I have a point. I don't care if my opinions unpopular, but it needs to be said.

#otherkinity #nonhuman #caninekin #german shepherd #angelkin #divinekin #dog therian #therian #alterhuman #otherkin #tiktok therians #discource?#unpopular opinion #probably unpopular #sunshine rambling

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roykentschesthair · 6 months

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Listen. Do I understand people who ship Roy/Jamie/Keeley? Sure. The dynamic has potential. The chemistry is there definitely. All three of these people are disaster!bisexuals even as Keeley is the only canonic confirmed queer person between the three.

But…..

I don’t know. I just don’t buy it. I do not buy that Keeley, freshly on her own and determined to dominate in her career is willing or able to be a part of a poly relationship that is going to demand SO MUCH emotional labor.

I love my girl Keeley, she’s an absolutely fantastic character. But, I dunno, is she the most emotionally intelligent of the three? Sure. Is she the most emotionally mature? I don’t know, I think that might go to Jamie in all honesty. Roy is definitely the most stunted of the three.

And Jamie and Roy being equally as clingy and desperate and needy as each other, in ways that complement so beautifully it’s almost perfect, doesn’t leave a lot of space for Keeley to emotionally connect with them.

And she doesn’t seem to want to?

Like, she has the opportunity to get back with either one of them…multiple times! And she doesn’t? She loves them, both of them, but chooses to just be by herself. Chooses what she needs and wants in that moment because I think it’s kind of clear that neither Jamie nor Roy can truly give her that?

I LOVED Roy and Keeley at first, but the pure cruelty of lamenting how clingy he was when he was going through a massive depressive episode broke my heart. (Maybe my own mental health struggles make me extra sensitive to this)

But I just don’t buy that Keeley, free spirit and business woman, wants to settle down with these two, no matter how much she may love them.

#roy kent #jamie tartt #ted lasso #royjamie #roy x jamie #keeley jones #this is probably a massively unpopular opinion #but I just don’t buy it #and that’s okay #each of these characters is still fantastic

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nightswatchdisbandmentera · 8 months

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Something that drives me absolutely crazy about Jon and Rickon is that while the rest of the Stark kids love Jon, they’re all too cognizant of his “otherness”. Robb, Bran, and Arya love him as one would love any brother, but he’s always separated from the rest of the family: Ned Stark had five children, and then a sixth who was separate. And even when the Stark kids think of the direwolves, Ghost is always set apart from the rest of them. We’re always reminded that six pups were found in the snow, five huddled together and one who was white as snow separate from the rest of them.

But Jon is not separate in Rickon’s mind. During the royal feast, at an occasion where the social schism between the Stark children is all too apparent, Rickon is too caught up on “where’s Jon? Why is he not here among us? Why is he separate? He should be here!” And we see this when he waddled to where Jon was sitting with the squires, only leaving when big brother set him back on the path to the dais, thus enforcing a social boundary that he himself was not aware of. And the crazy thing is, Rickon is a bit of an other in a way. Shaggy, Rickon’s familiar, is not brown or grey like the other wolves. He’s black with green eyes, a visual representation of northern mysticism just as Jon’s Ghost is.

And it’s going to come to a head when Jon’s true parentage is revealed to the world. And Ghost’s difference becomes even more pronounced. But what a stark (pun intended) reminder it will be to know that Jon is not alone, and he is wholly accepted just as he is. Rickon is so young and full of ignorance. But that childish ignorance could go a long way, especially in reminding a very insecure Jon that he does indeed belong, all differences be damned.

#jon snow #rickon stark #asoiaf #valyrianscrolls #their relationship is probably the most underrated among the stark kids but they’re soooo special to me!#I have so much to say about rickon and shaggy and how they too are othered and why that matters - especially within a magical context #I’ll get to it someday…I hope #but anyway I do think it’s so symbolically important that Rickon goes to meet Jon where he is #below the dais and among the squires fully intending to be there with him #the physical differences of the social gap don’t matter because to rickon jon will always be big brother #and a bit of an unpopular opinion but I think rickon’s love will especially prove to be the deciding factor in how Jon moves forward re #robb’s will…but that’s a story for another day

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tevanbuckley · 18 days

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Have you seen the outrage of Lou’s new cameo 🧍🏽‍♀️in it saying people can’t be upset but it definitely feels like the outage is mostly due to them not liking tommy and bucktommy and they’re using this as a thing to support wanting tommy gone. I can’t help but recognize a whole lot of hypocrisy here …

i managed to track down the cameo i assume is the one ppl are talking about (a lot of the links i've seen posted are broken) and the outrage seems very overblown to me.

was "teasing," the best choice of words, probably not, he could've chosen something less ambiguous and made the exact same point, but it's an incredibly bad faith leap of logic to say he thinks tommy did nothing wrong when he also describes tommy's behaviour as toxic, ignorant, and immature in the same video.

at the end of the day it's one sentence in a ~2 minute video, ppl who want to give him the benefit of the doubt will, ppl who already didn't won't.

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