Day 26. On one hand I like how this art month event has pushed me to finalize and share drawings I'm not proud of, and be less harsh on what I deem "good enough" to post. On the other hand, this is a drawing I'm not proud of
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i’m not the first person to say this but the neo kids being like ‘ooh neku’s a legendary player and the savior of shibuya! he’s so kind and brave and inspiring!’ and ‘beat used to be a reaper himself! he’s such a wise and seasoned veteran who knows the game like the back of his hand!’ is SO funny they have no idea what a terrible annoying selfish lazy person neku used to be and they have no idea that beat lasted one week on the job and failed to complete his singular objective in that time and just in general never really cared about carefully following rules as either a player or a reaper. and neither of these truths are ever exposed. both of them go the whole game being hailed as heroes.
therefore. i propose that neku and beat had a secret quiet contract in the background that neither of them would tell the others the truth about each other. vow of mutual silence to protect their reputations. like ‘hey man if you don’t tell them i was actually the most irritating piece of snot ever i won’t tell them you were honestly the world’s worst reaper.’ ‘deal, yo.’
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"Akiyama, what is this?"
"Why, I might be a beginner, but to say to my face that you can't even tell what I've drawn...!"
"I do know what this is, what I meant to ask is WHY."
"Ena lent me her tablet, so I wanted to make the most of it by drawing something truly great!"
"Why is Tsukasa wearing a dress?"
"I really wanted to draw one, so I asked him if I could draw him in a wedding dress, and he said yes!"
"Naturally, Akito! A star should look good in anything they wear, and this is no exception! I am quite pleased with the result!"
"Of course you'd say that..."
(CHAPTER 6 OF THIS IS LIKE MY SISTER'S SHOUJO MANGAS BUT WORSE OUT NOW! READ HERE!)
a better look at mizuki's drawing under the cut!
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hmm thinking about the idea of love songs. i think the idea of what a love song is that we have in our culture is inherently a little bit flawed because we have the idea that any song written about romantic feelings is a love song and im thinking thats not exactly true because there is a difference between "romance" and "love". what i'm saying is not that love is a broader category and applies to things that are not romantic in nature. this is in fact true, but it's not what makes the important distinction here. the true distinction between "romance" and "love" is that romance is a societally defined type of interest in another person, whereas love is, essentially, a promise that you make when you build a relationship.
as such, what i call "love" here might be better defined as "care", as that implies more time and effort, but that's a different suitcase to unpack and largely unimportant to my point here, which is more about the societal conventions of what we call love songs. the point is, relationships can be built with other people, yes, but also animals, places, organizations, ideas, so on and so on, whereas romance requires another person, hence the difference between the ideas of "romance" and "love".
with that in mind, there are two types of songs we in western, english speaking, society call "love songs":
1) songs that are about a person's romantic interest in someone that is either definitively known to be unrequited (existing monogamous relationship, sexuality that doesn't align, etc) or simply not requited (aka romantic interest being unknown); and
2) songs about an existing relationship (keeping in mind my points about relationships not just being with people, but also places, things, etcetera) as is.
(some examples of the latter category: mountaintop by relient k, which defines the relationship in question as non-romantic; or i miss my mum by cavetown, which is - as the title implies - a song about the singer missing their mother.)
now, the thing that makes distinguishing these two difficult is the fact that songs about an existing relationship CAN be about wanting certain aspects of that relationship to change. in these cases, determining that a song is one or the other will hinge either on a) authorial intent or b) whether the song is more about what the singer wants (thereby implying #1) or the lack thereof in that relationship (which would imply #2).
to get back to the subject at hand: the term "love song", as we think of it, is an umbrella term that include both of these two categories, and i think that perhaps it is reductive to do so. with that in mind, i think perhaps it would be more appropriate for "love song" to mean only the latter, whereas the former is a category of its own. WHICH is not to say that the two can't overlap — just that if a song is about a person with whom the singer has no relationship, it cannot be considered a love song due to the fact that it is a song about infatuation, not love.
(another interesting wrinkle this provides is the fact that a song might start out in the first category and, as the writer develops a relationship with a person, might move into the second category as they write more.)
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go crack open an ao3 tag of a fandom that aired/got published 10-15 years ago, realise that after sorting by kudos/bookmarks most fics on the front page may be good and solid but not any more or less earth-shatteringly rewiring your brain chemistry as the occasional gem on page 10, 50, 100, 1873, and maybe you'll calm down about popularity dick measuring contests
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mike telling will it's not his fault he doesn't like girls and will destroying castle byers to symbolize the loss of not only childhood innocence and what was but also the loss of his most treasured safe space. mike threw that back in his face—his biggest, most sacred and unspeakable truth; the one that's haunted his entire life and damned him to this—and he specifically ripped their photo down the middle while calling himself stupid and tore everything down because god dammit he WANTED to play dnd with mike forever and never get girlfriends because they were supposed to go crazy TOGETHER and being friends was the best thing they'd EVER done and now castle byers can't be his safe space anymore because it's been tainted. there's too much mike. there's too many reminders of his stupid, stupid dreams. it's no longer a safe harbor—it's just a reminder of his naivety, his childish dream that someone like him could ever get what he wants. and he's clearly still hurt by that because we knew previously that will trusted mike more than any other party member and even his family. he told him first about everything with the upside down and he was there through every part of his possession. will loves mike more than anyone, but after that rain fight he just doesn't trust him with that stuff anymore. "because what if they don't like the truth...?" with that knowing, searching glance. because he WANTS to tell mike. even now, after everything, he still wants to be honest with him. to be himself with him again. he's DYING to and we know that because will doesn't like to lie, least of all to mike, but he's damned if he does and damned if he doesn't so he rips the band-aid off and confesses under his own sister's name. an ugly compromise because he can't keep lying and he can't keep listening to mike think so lowly of himself but he can't be honest either. because he doesn't trust that mike will still like him afterward. if mike said that to him before he knew, what would he say after will confirmed it? like. GODDDDD THE ANGST OF IT ALL.....
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I’m begging the Anton Chigurh girlies to watch Fargo produced by the Coen brothers has a great cast great representation of women poc and just indigenous ppl in general but most of all a lot of the shows hit men are literally fifty shades of Anton Chigurh.
Like we have:
Fruitloop Anton
Native Anton
And Non-binary Anton who has the most precious most wholesome ending with the pro tags of season 5 like fuck what the fuck
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There has never been a doubt in my mind that OoT Ganondorf cared about his people. Yes I've seen the arguments for otherwise, but I've also been able to deduce solid reasons against those arguments without issue. So. I'm pretty sure at this point it's not something I will ever have a change of heart over.
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How I think XH Wrap Presents 💖
[This is a bonus for Prompt 6: Wrapping presents together]
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Gunil: Very meticulous-- is making sure each present he wraps is wrapped perfectly and signed before moving on to the next [True Neutral].
Jungsu: Absolutely makes the prettiest bows on top of each present he wraps, which makes him finish last in the present wrapping race (dubbed by nugget time) [Neutral Good].
Gaon: Wraps super fast! Wraps all the gifts he has bought in less than an hour-- no matter the amount [½ of Chaos duo].
O.de: Absolutely calm, each present getting at max three pieces of sticky tape before pushing them into their individual piles [Chaotic Neutral]. (Finishes second in the race).
Jun Han: Makes sure that each person gets their own unique wrapping paper and that each present is wrapped nicely (w/ or w/o a bow) before moving on to the next [Lawful Good].
Jooyeon: Is wrapping as fast as Gaon but somehow has managed to wrap himself up while everyone wasn’t looking [Other ½ of Chaos duo].
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y'know it's a night when hal sits and eats cereal in the dark room at 1.30am.
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📽 action!: rank all six of the films (or three if you're a hater)
Answers for this LotR ask-game.
Ahh okay so at this point I have to confess something terrible: I still have not seen the third Hobbit movie. I'm sorry! I just couldn't do it. The fuckery of it all, especially in the second movie with Mirkwood and Thranduil and Legolas ("a lowly Silvan elf" what the FUCK what the fuck PJ WHAT THE FUCK), was just too much for me. Character-assassination is one thing, and I thought after Denethor I knew what I was going to be getting with Thranduil but NOPE! It was literal world building assassination and I just CANNOT.
Don't get me wrong, Lee Pace did an amazing job and actually seeing Mirkwood was amazing and it was genuinely delightful to see Orlando put those ears on again; but the OuTrAgE that filled my heart at the yeet-ing of what minimal canon we even have for the Mirkwood elves was just intolerable, and while I did mean to go see it, really I did, I just...couldn't actually get the motivation to go before it was out of theatres. I've heard the EE are better (less studio fuckery) so I'll watch them someday! Honest! I just...haven't. yet.
And as to the Lord of the Rings trilogy...man, I don't even know how to do this. In terms of which is the best film, or in terms of which one I enjoy watching most, or in terms of which on hits me in the heart hardest or...? I don't know if I can objectively rank my feelings about these movies even in my own brain because RotK ends with Into the West and I have FeelingsTM about the Undying Lands and Sea Longing okay. So the last scene of RotK at the Grey Havens is a fucking spear through the heart every time and I can't even describe the knot of feelings it engenders, and I think overall TTT may be my favorite but also it has Plot Issues that piss me off even more than the Plot Issues in RotK I think,...yeah, we're going to do this in terms of Film Crafting rather than personal favorites because I'm having too many feelings lmao. So! In order of most-well-done-movie to least:
Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
Return Of The King
The Desolation of Smaug
An Unexpected Journey
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2020 is to 2024 as 2014 was to 2018... ever think about that?
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not pro kink not anti kink but a secret third thing
Real.
Nah, in all seriousness though, I'll explain what I mean very briefly: I do not believe all kinks are inherently abusive - the thing is, WHICH kink are we talking about?
I don't think it is abusive to enjoy, say, massaging or fucking someone's feet, which is a fetish for lots of people. The same goes for light (!) pet play, though, again, only light, none of the face masks or cages, which are way too dehumanizing for my liking.
As you can see, my approach is more critical, or skeptical, rather than completely "anti". There are even some kinks I personally enjoy, such as leather - definitely no one saw that one coming!!!
Also, I have weird feelings about kink in homosexual relationships, given there is not a culturally inherent power dynamic in them, unlike with heterosexual ones. But my thoughts about that are quite complicated, at best, and problematic, at worst.
Even so, I do not support "CNC" nor race play or age play in any type of relationship, gay or straight. Aaand, I think strangulating someone is abusive, as well as Shibari. And I hope women who call their jakeys "daddy" find a better life...
By the way, as you might've guessed, my URL is a reference to Venus in Furs. Not the book, though, but the Hugh Dancy play (which is 100 times much hotter, in my humble horny opinion). This brings me to highlight my, again, complicated, relationship with dominatrixes... Another day's explanation.
P.S.: I must clarify that, of all the kinks I listed as abusive, my negative feelings go all towards the "doms" in said contexts, a.k.a. the ones doing the action (pretending to rape, for example), whereas the "subs" (pretending to be raped, for example) have my whole sympathy and my best wishes for it to get better, and for them to realize they deserve better, and leave their "doms" behind <3.
Feel free to peacefully discuss this with me anytime; it's honestly a topic I find interesting.
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INFP: I have to take the plane home this weekend instead of the train. It's so annoying.
ESFP: And you're at it again. Always so grumpy.
INFP: I'm not grumpy, I'm just saying it how it is.
ESFP: You're saying it how you see it and you only see what you want to see. I, for one, have chosen to only focus on the positive side of things, so that's all I'm seeing.
INFP: But you're getting annoyed by seeing me not being positive.
ESFP: Don't drag me down with you.
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Love getting asked my opinion on minedai , like what can i say other than what the two of them had was painfully real
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