#i'm not here for that drama

[dgcatanisiri]

I still say that the problem of Disney's portrayal of the Empire (and by extension the First Order) is that... They keep softening the edges of the fascism of the Imperials.

Sure, Andor has been showing the Empire BEING fascist, exerting control and crushing rebellion of the weak... But who really IS the "them" to the Empire's "us"? It's too... indistinct and nebulous. "Them" accounts for anyone the showrunners want to have as the good guys, but what has MADE them to be "them" in the Empire's eyes?

Like Legends!Star Wars always framed it as the Empire being a human male dominated environment, and that makes it all so obvious - aliens and their sympathizers are the reason we have the problems. Hell, the CIS helped justify this evolution, since that was an organization led by several aliens, while the good guys of the Clone Wars were predominantly human - so, in the aftermath of the Clone Wars, the Empire made non-humans the scapegoat for things. That became the grounds for a "High Human Culture" to grow in the halls of power of the Empire - humans were Imperial, aliens were the enemies (no matter how many non-humans were in the Senate).

And I feel like they're sort of dancing around this so far, with the higher echelons of Imperial society being shown as human-dominated in Andor, with Mon Mothma hobnobbing with the powerful of Coruscant who we only see as being human - there's a mention of Sly Moore, an incidental non-human character from the prequels, but she's still been seen with human Senators in pretty much all the scenes of her public life. But... That doesn't really fit with the other portrayals they have of Imperial worlds to this point. And while retcons are always a thing in Star Wars, it seems a little late in the game to try and retrofit this into it.

I've said it before, it feels like Disney is comfortable using the imagery of fascism for the Empire/First Order, sell those snazzy toys, but they don't really want to acknowledge that this group that they are making bank on and even having parade in their parks - Captain Phasma regularly marches the minions of the First Order through Tomorrowland. They have no problems taking the Empire, the First Order, the organization outright modeled after actual fascists, using them as a marketing gimmick, take the money of people who want the merch... But they don't want to acknowledge that they're making money off fascism. Fictional fascists, sure, but still fascists. That all these characters they want as "the face" of the franchise in terms of who is on all their marketing and posters and logos ARE FASCISTS. Y'know, Kylo Ren, Captain Phasma, Darth Vader... They all are the bad guys.

But these are the characters that Disney wants marching in their parks. And, in fairness, because I won't ascribe to malice what is easily attributable to convenience, a part of that almost certainly is also because they all wear face-concealing masks and are able to be played by multiple actors in multiple parks - much harder to make a mascot out of a character like Luke Skywalker or Han Solo or Obi-Wan Kenobi, characters who have a distinct face. So I can understand the reasoning in play here that aren't "let's indulge fascism" or anything like that.

But I still stand by that honestly just undercutting the stories being told, because it's trying to have characters fight fascism while refusing to really acknowledge the fascism.

#dg rambles #i have long since learned to leave my star wars thoughts untagged #i'm not here for that drama

[bixels]

I watched Starship Troopers tonight.

#personal #dumb #my art #immediately after finishing i was pumped to watch some analysis vids on it #cuz i heard a lot of the drama about the original author being a pro military fascist and the director going “fuck that” and making a satir #scrolling through youtube search results was not promising. lots of male film buffs i would Not trust even on a first glance. #“The Critical Drinker” (pfp of a bearded man drinking alcohol) lol. #and then I saw cinemawins did a video on it and was like oh nice i haven't seen his stuff in a while but he's a pretty leftist creator #scrolled through the comments #second panel face #this sucks i'm outta here. #just leagues and leagues and leagues of anime pfps and right leaning people dogpiling on him for “not understanding what fascism is” #idk it's pretty alien and weird to me watching this movie and going “wow yeah that was pretty obvious huh” like literally the from opening #to the teacher preaching militance and only giving voting rights to “those who serve their nation first and earn it” #and then seeing droves of people online going #WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? It's not anti-fascist and even if it was it's #the director's fault for desecrating heinlein's incredible sci-fi epic vision. ermm media literacy is dead.

[rythyme]

is anyone gonna tell f1 tumblr that the first ever live action omegaverse show is a sports drama about gay racecar drivers. because that feels like something they'd want to know.

#did they intentionally schedule the premiere the same day as the las vegas gran prix #bc if so that's SO funny #''happy race day! here's episode 1! i know we said it wasn't omegaverse but um. we lied ❤️'' #f1 #las vegas gp #las vegas gp 2023 #formula 1 #pit babe the series #lgbt drama #thai drama #pit babe #sorry i just cannot handle this in silence. if I'm gonna lose my mind over this then I'm taking you all down with me #omegaverse #theo.txt #100 #500 #1k #pbts #2k

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

I'm a doctor, not a miracle worker.

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wen ning #wei wuxian #wen qing #jiang cheng #Truly Massive disclaimer here: I am a Jiang Cheng enjoyer. I like his character. I enjoy that he is very flawed and volatile. #This episode of the audio drama has a lot of great breakdown scenes featuring JC - and they all deserve a feature. #But underlying this comic is a small meta comment of 'ah man I have too many comics of JC just wailing sadly' #My goal is to draw 6-8 comics per episode - I sometimes have to truncate and cut good scenes out. #Especially when a large majority is just different flavours of trauma and toxic relationships to your self-worth. #I would also like to make a note here that just because you lose the ability to do something that is very tied to your core identity- #-does not mean your life is over. It will feel like the end of the world. It will send you into a spiral of grief. It will hurt so badly. #Sometimes we do not realize how tied up our identities can be in certain things until we are cut loose. #You don't lose yourself. I promise the pain will fade in time. I promise you will find other things to tether you. I promise you will be ok #Life moves forwards. Time moves forwards. You move forwards. #Ego death just means an opportunity for ego rebirth. You are never committed to being the same person forever. #To wrap this around to JC: Yeah I love the twist with the core transfer but man I would have loved to see JC accept the loss. #Obviously it happens for a reason (story) but I can have my AUs. I can have these 'what-ifs'. #described in alt text #I'm trying it out! *please* give me feedback - I want to eventually Add image ID to all of these comics one day

[teaboot]

I'm so goddamn oblivious all the time and sometimes someone pokes their head into my bubble to let me know shit like "You know Kate from work hates your guts, right? She's always rolling her eyes and talking about u" And I wish I was the kinda person who didn't care but it genuinely just makes me sad cause. Like. Why?? I mind my business. I try to be kind and helpful. Hate and dislike takes up so much energy. Why are they using so much energy on me?? I don't even think about them. We never interact. I'm in a different department. They could never see me again if they decided they didn't wanna. And the whole time I thought they were nice. Can't we all just do our jobs and go home. Why it gotta be like this. Why is this everywhere. I don't wanna have beef with anyone I wanna read fantasy fiction and take a nap

#Vent post #I'm so tired #I have never wanted drama it's so pointless #Can't we just be polite #It doesn't seem hard #I don't even talk to anybody here

[lepusrufus]

In which they're all artists working for the same animation studio (and these two still bicker like angry kittens)

#I'm sorry to inform you this AU has kinda rotted my brain #there's so much mini plots to it but no overarching story so it's just abunch of little guys having their own mini dramas #like we're in The Office but make it fantasy artsy #just snipe me already #the biggest stake here is whether or not Shadowheart will fix her posture or become a geriatric 25 year old #and whatever the fuck is going on with the moon lesbians #augh #baldur's gate 3 #animation studio AU #lae'zel #Shadowheart #shadowzel #my art

[outer-stars]

"hey, it's that waybright kid"

#i'm just saying #i think everyone was able to tell that something was DIFFERENT with the calamity trio when they got back #you can't just go through that much character development and not have your entire vibe change #and i think that it would be especially obvious at school #they literally faced life and death stakes many times- do you really think that they'd find typical school drama that important anymore? #idk i feel they wouldn't #<- has SO many thoughts and feelings on this #amphibia #amphibia fanart #my art #outerstars art #sasha waybright #amphibia sasha #calamity trio #this art is somewhat old but i still like it enough to share here :]

[arcanemarion]

Deeply funny to me that Caleb Widogast, Level 20 Wizard, creator of Widogast's Nascent Nine-Sided Tower and a vast number of other spells, man who puts together a whole detailed scheme of exactly how he would change the past if only he can figure out how to go back in time, guy who can turn into freaking Gelidon the Nightmare in Ivory, chooses to not ever learn the Sending spell and instead carry around like 20 sending stones in his pockets, but apparently can't be bothered to have one directly to Astrid whom he helped go into hiding at his favorite porn shop so he can give her a heads up that his partner is gonna show up with seven weirdos in tow to ask some questions.

#astrid becke #caleb widogast #critical role #critical role spoilers #cr spoilers #c3e94 #how else would he know exactly where to find her #for some reason people think they're enemies but i doubt that's the case #wizards gotta drama though so I'm here for it

[average-riot]

Piece I did for a fanfic I'm writing called Fire in Cairo <3 It's still not out but I'm jus so proud of this piece so I had to post it cuz gosh...

#art #digital art #total drama #td #total drama island #tdi #total drama world tour #tdwt #td noah #td tyler #td izzy #td owen #td alejandro #team chris is really really really really hot #i love them actually #they're all my babies #Noah looks so handsome unwillingly basking in the sunlight... #I'll post sumn here when I'm done with writing #but it takes place in between Walk like an egyptian and Happy fun time japan

[mikuni14]

It's about how Billy and Babe play lovers, how natural, how normal they are with each other's bodies, how they claw at each other with their fingers, how they are not afraid of strong caresses that pull the skin. This is unbelievably hot to me. When I see a couple of actors for whom physical closeness is so wonderfully normal.

We giggle and blush when we say how sweet Phaya's fantasies are, but his dreams also have an unmistakable air of tension, rawness, urgency and absolute WANT.

And that's the point of it all, that's why we're all so obsessed with Phaya and Tharn: because Billy and Babe leave no doubt that the characters they play absolutely WANT each other, in every sense of the word.

#if anyone asks I'm still here #camping in Phaya's dream #the sign the series #bl drama #thai bl

[pharawee]

Babe Tanatat as THARN & Billy Patchanon as PHAYA —THE SIGN · Episode 1

#the sign the series #the sign #the sign bl #billy patchanon #babe tanatat #phayatharn #thesignedit #thai bl #thai drama #bl drama #bl series #my edits. #watch these super manly hooya boys be super extra cute around each other #that's what i'm here for #and good to see billy is still the worst tease of them all

[mrinafria]

And I’d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I’d find you and I’d choose you. (CoS)

[contains spoilers; tw: blood]

When they ask me about the purest love story out there, I'd show them these two.

It's not the sacrifice per se that makes it great for me, it's the way they feel about each other, about the love they give and receive. Even in their last/worst moments, they somehow find the courage because the other one is safe? Im Sol is scared out of her mind handling this traumatic ordeal on her own so she seeks help from the detectives. Her only peace of mind is that at least Seon Jae is safe. Then she learns about his phone call and doesn't spare a second to run. The same girl who was so scared a while back throws all caution out of the window the moment Seon Jae is in danger, because she'd risk her life than Seon Jae's. Can you imagine the trauma seeing him dying for the third time, and her actually witnessing it this time around? If I were Im Sol, I would do anything to not have to go through that too. Even if it meant losing the person so they were never my person to begin with.

And Seon Jae. Boy is dying. Dying. You can see it in his eyes that he's aware of it too and yet, he is so grateful? So at peace with himself and with life? Like he has no regrets about any unfinished business, unlived years, unattained dreams, unspoken words to his loved ones. He already told Im Sol he loved her, and she reciprocated. That was enough. For him, that was good enough.

I go back to this scene like a masochist because THE DETAILS. By the time Im Sol arrives, you know Seon Jae is beyond saving. He knows it too. He's not even trying to escape or save himself. It looks like he's been holding on on his own for a while. His face has turned ashen, breathing uneven, hands slightly shaking. He's barely holding it together. Barely there.

However, he is not trying to push that guy away or take that knife out.

Instead, he's holding that guy's hand.

Let that sink in for a moment.

He is holding on to that hand. JUST SO HE CAN HOLD ON TO THE GUY.

Since the taxi driver is at an advantage here, and Seon Jae knows he cannot fight back anymore, so he is using whatever he can as a last resort to keep the guy occupied with him, and keep him from going after Im Sol. Seon Jae could perhaps guess Im Sol would arrive any time since the cliff was where he'd found her earlier, sitting in shock. But even if she didn't make it, you can bet he'd have spent his last breaths trying to fall off the cliff taking the guy down with him. THIS SCENE. The resolution is so clearly etched on his face.

And then he sees her. And the detectives. She is safe. She is saved. He did it. He saved her. And it's the Im Sol who knows him, who recognizes him, who loves him. She is safe, and that's all that matters. He saved the person he loves more than his life, literally.

His job is done. The choice he made gave him the outcome he wanted and desperately fought for.

And he is exhausted. All that resolve took a lot out of him. So we see his body finally giving up, him finally letting go. He resigns to his fate, but also not in a resentful way. He knew this was his fate all along (because no matter what choice Im Sol made, he'd choose to run toward her any day), it just happened earlier than expected. But he knew it, and he still made that choice. He doesn't regret it because he'd be making the same choice in every timeline (as he has been). He is able to see his Im Sol for one last time before his eyes close, with memories of their time together and Im Sol's voice echoing in his ears, his soul.

Sometimes you know the consequences, but make the same choice anyway. Because you like it.

The faint smile on his face in his final moments before he falls off the cliff? You'd think the boy won a gold medal for swimming or something. It's like he's achieved the biggest purpose there was in his life besides loving Im Sol. True to his words, he is grateful Im Sol exists in the world. That he got the chance to love her because she exists in this world. And he is thankful he gets to leave the world knowing Im Sol still exists in the world, his gift from the heavens.

One is jumping through space and time, living the same nightmare, constantly, over and over again, and yet going out of her way to save her love. Even if it means carrying the trauma and heartbreak and pain and loneliness and longing of three, four, multiple timelines, for the same guy. The other is making the choice to love her through all the storm, all the warnings, all the odds of time and space and fate stacked against him. How could you be so brave when fate is both so very kind and yet so extremely cruel to you no matter what you do? How do you choose to persevere? How do you get to have a love so pure?

Should I be ready to die if I want to be with you? - Ryu Seon Jae

#Lovely Runner #Byeon Woo Seok #Kim Hye Yoon #Sun Jae #Im Sol #Seon Jae #선재 업고 튀어 #kdrama #kdrama recommendations #east asian drama #episode reaction #I'm focusing on seon jae here because this scene will stay with me forever #and tbh I don't write a lot about im sol cuz it's too traumatizing to think through her perspective T_T

[dailynakaharachuuya]

Your warmth.

#bungo stray dogs #bungo stray dogs chuuya #bungo stray dogs dazai #bungou stray dogs #bungou stray dogs chuuya #bungou stray dogs dazai #bsd #bsd chuuya #bsd dazai #skk #soukoku #(I'm so cold) #(Our boilers been broken for the last like 5 days) #(So we've had no heating or hot taps) #(I think it's affecting my mood haha I've been feeling so grouchy and sad) #(Been watching comedy dramas with my friends and the moment theres even a somewhat sad scene even if it's goofy) #(Or something inconvient happens I feel like I'm gonna cry haha) #(Ramble over haha I feel like I can only say things like this on tumblr because I have no mutuals on here)

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[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Game night ruined.

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #jiang cheng #wang lingjiao #If the assorted Jiang disciples look familiar it's because they are the same as the disciples in the LWJ in Yunmeng Jiang AU comics! #I decided that if I was going to have background characters come up a lot I may as well solidify a few designs. #We are following MLP background character rules in the sense there are more disciples around but these guys fill in for them #Do they have names? No(t yet). #I just think the jiang disciples are very sweet and cute in the audio drama. I hope nothing bad happens to them. #(let me have me fun and whimsy with them before...you know...) #I feel like I totally missed an opportunity to set WLJ up as an 'Um Actually" girl. #“you're hitting on my man? UM ACTUALLY get BURNT” #“You want to fly kites? UM ACTUALLY It's offensive to my sect so get fucked” #“UM ACTUALLY we're setting up a supervisory office here” #“You want me to stay? UM ACTUALLY I think we pissed off some ghosts so I'm outtie <3” #Do you see the lost potential here? I'm furious at myself for not seeing it sooner.

[ishipgenfics]

I love it when you start listening to a podcast and you can instantly tell the person making it has listened to Welcome to Night Vale.

#welcome to night vale #wtnv #hello from the hallowoods #woe.begone #mostly the fake ads interlude for that one #thoughts #hello from the hallowoods is the main one though #like #they're doing a cecil voice right? #i'm not losing my mind? #not criticizing here it's a very good cecil voice #and i like it so far #i just find it interesting #bit deeper than cecil's voice #like Drama Cecil but the whole time #i like it