#jen's ramblings

[a-force-dyad-in-space]

In other news, my Reylo artbook by @afterblossom arrived 😍😍😍😍😍

#jen's ramblings

[crazypercheron]

So yes, anyway. I read @quaranmine 's fic "Incandescence of a Dying Light " and got HUGELY inspired to do a recursive fic of the aftermath. Actually, I got two in mind, but I've finally typed up the one I'm currently working on, but with Cub because we need some softer more fun times with Convex just kicking back and stuff.

Huge thank you to Quaranmine for the awesome fic and for answering all my silly questions I have about stuff. Without further ado, here's chapter 1 of my fic "I waved Goodbye to The End of Beginning"

#jen's ramblings #Hc_firewatch_au #Convex #Goodtimeswithscar #Cubfan135

[aceof-stars]

I'm so tired of hearing that Phoenix saved Miles without hearing about any of its implications.

Because Phoenix's savior complex is a major problem not a solution. Because Wrightworth is not about Phoenix saving Miles, it's about them saving each other. Because in Farewell My Turnabout, Miles Edgeworth said "We aren't some sort of heroes. We're only human." and he was right.

#you are not a hero #you are a defense attorney #all you can do is fight for the truth #that’s not the exact quote because I forgot #but still !!! #I will never shut up about Phoenix’s savior complex #Phoenix and Miles find the truth together #and the truth is that they’re both human and they help each other and #ace attorney #phoenix wright #miles edgeworth #wrightworth #narumitsu #jen's rambles

[novantinuum]

y'know, given how Steven KNOWINGLY chose to invite Pearl along on his and Greg's little Empire City vacation hoping to nudge them into a situation where they could finally work things out, him having that awkward little line of showing off his gem and saying "and don't forget Mom :DDDD" was ABSOLUTELY an intentional decision

the little mans was TRYING to drag up their little rift so they'd finally fucking talk about it oh my god Steven, idk whether to congratulate you or call you a master manipulator uhjfnsdjhg

#jen rambles #su #steven universe #it was... emotional manipulation with Noble intent lmao #my mans be playing 6D chess with his emotionally fucked up family here #now get him a therapist

[a-sketchy-jedi]

why does this shit get more likes than my art

#😭😭😭 #jen’s rants #jen's ramblings

[commander-minkowski]

"jens is gay" not bad per se, but a bit predictable and reductive, like, of course the flamboyant yet uptight dancer is gay

"it's unclear whether or not jens is genuinely attracted to men, but he's eager to perform gayness whenever it's profitable" iconic. hilarious. brimming with character

#my ramblings #naddpod #trinyvale #jens lyndelle #100

[chradi]

Feeling normal about blood magic in this chili’s tonight

#atla #knk #dragon age #csm #chainsaw man #kyoukai no kanata #avatar the last airbender #jen rambles #1k #1000 #100 #200 #500

[mctwinkdom]

lando sticking to facial hair while oscar is around.... dare i say boyfriend behavior

I love Lando with facial hair ughh

I don't know if that's boyfriend behavior but Oscar seems as obsessed with Lando's goatee as Lando is with Oscar's hair woosh, that's so... cute. They disgust me. And they probably should kiss about it.

#ask #anon #landoscar #mctwinks #jen's rambling

[minijenn]

Why isn’t Zelda allowed to have anything nice? 

#i made this in five minutes and it shows #seriously tho they gave zelda two surrogate moms #and killed them both wtf is up with that #jen rambles #tears of the kingdom #breath of the wild #link #zelda #urbosa #queen sonia #totk spoilers #legend of zelda #loz spoilers

[samgelina-jolie]

this is how I imagine Eddie talking about Steve in @morganbritton132 and other tiktok aus

#credit: @alli_​bellairs #the hop when they say dodging demons?? such an eddie move #the random use of sign language at the end??? #eddie munson #steve harrington #steddie #steve x eddie #eddie x steve #show: stranger things #ch: eddie munson #ch: steve harrington #dynamic: eddie/steve #ship: steve/eddie #ship: steddie #video #jen rambles

[beautifulhigh]

Welcome to the next edition of Jen's meta ramblings

I have watched the movie at least once a day since it came out and I kid you not, I see something new every time. The fact that this is Matthew López's first directoral debut is just... I'm in awe. And you can tell how much he loves the story because of the way things like this are set up and played out

In the novel, Henry and Alex are skinny dipping in the lake at night, and so I absolutely got the change in both time of day and also attire. But let's talk about that little island shall we?

No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea

Every single one of us is not meant to be alone, without connection and without a link to someone else. We are parts of a whole and if we lose that... well. It's not good.

Henry is on that island, our prince who belongs to Britain and Henry Fox who thinks he has to belong to himself. The prince is forced into status and circumstance, of appearances and mindless ribbon cuttings. When he does something that means something - like the trip to the cancer ward - then he doesn't do it with cameras. I'd argue he's not the prince there, he's Henry Fox. The man who lost his father to cancer.

But this is not that meta.

Henry has shut himself off, shut himself away. He doesn't date the people he's interested in, he doesn't live his truth (and for very good and valid reasons). He has decided that while Prince Henry belongs to Britain, Henry Fox is an island.

And look who is swimming up to that island. Look who is coming out to Henry, having realised the night before that oh yeah, I do feel forever about him and so Alex swims out to that island.

And the first thing he does? He makes Henry laugh. He is silly and fun and the complete antithesis of the composed and collected Prince of Wales. And then he joins Henry, on his island.

This gorgeous overhead shot shows us that Alex is putting himself on Henry's right (protocol or his good side?) but he's also in the centre of the island. He's not on the edge of it. In the metaphor of Henry Fox's island, Alex is putting himself at the heart of it all. RIght before he lays out his heart to Henry.

The shot that broke our hearts too, along with Henry's. Because we can see the shore in the background now. We're reminded that islands are not - they cannot be fully independent. People cannot be islands and even though Alex is literally and metaphorically planting himself at Henry's side, Henry knows that this island he's formed for himself in his heart and his sense of self cannot stand if Alex is there. If Alex is with him then he is no longer an island. Henry Fox will not belong to himself and the sense of protection and self-preservation we see coming out in the Storming of Kensington is under threat.

So he bails.

The island is submerged, like the mythical Atlantis, because how do you render land useless? Drown it. How do you deal with water? Drain it away. He abandons his island and flees back to the only other space he has left - Kensington Palace - in an attempt to regroup. He drains his life of Alex and what he brings. He has to return to being the Prince of Wales because Henry Fox got too close. Because Henry Fox realised he was being loved by a man who would literally swim out to where he is.

Moment of appreciation for the shot. Matthew, you have a fucking talent and I cannot wait to see what else you do. Because our #imtaller boy looks so small here. So lost. When else have we seen someone look so small and lost?

Oh. Yeah.

When he's curling in on himself in an almost last-ditch attempt to protect himself and his boundaries from what is coming. You can see that he's no longer dry, that Alex's "shower time" has changed him. Alex brought laughter and love and water onto his island and Henry has just realised what this means. This isn't a visitor's visa. This is immigration.

Which is what makes THIS so much more. Back to our boy, drenched from the storm, plaintively asking Henry to talk to him.

Because yes, the Storming of Kensington happens during an actual storm, but by now you know I overead into everything... so once again we have Alex "swimming" out to Henry. He's dived right in and gone are the jokes, gone is the humour. He is here and he is asking to be let in and daring Henry to send him away.

This is Alex, serious and in love and following Henry to whatever landmass he is setting foot on. Henry is trying to be an island and Alex is out here going, "I'll just build another boat you fucker". A true 'ship if you will. He swam out to an island on a lake, he flew to a tiny island across an ocean. He is standing at Henry's borders and he isn't launching an offensive. He's just saying that if Henry wants to be cut off from everything then he needs to do the cutting himself.

Prince Henry felt like he belonged to Britain, Henry Fox felt like he had to belong to himself, and Alex turned up and went "nope. Mine now". (Insert additional historical quip about the English being colonised for once.) But there is still some truth in that: the Prince is part of England, and we should all belong to ourselves even in relationships. Henry just learns that the different parts of him can co-exist. Bit like how water and land can co-exist without one destroying the other.

Henry is Alex's North Star but he's also his solid ground. Insert quip about Alex colonising Henry and claiming him for his own, planting of flag, your innuendo of choice goes here. Pyramus wished there wasn't a wall - Alex straight up scaled Henry's.

There's a divergence between Prince Henry and Henry Fox, but at the heart of them both there's Henry. And this is the man that Alex sees, this is the man that Alex loves. Alex swims out to the island for Henry Fox, Alex pushes through the rain for Prince Henry. Alex holds steady in the storm of talking with King James/Queen Mary and the public.

And it started with Alex literally making his way out to Henry on an island: be that England for the Royal Wedding, a pontoon island on a lake, or knocking down Henry's walls.

To this moment. Which is very hard to grab a screenshot of, but Alex asks Henry to "take a walk" with him. This time it's Henry going to/with Alex. The fact that he's there is one thing (and a rant rather than a meta) but at this point they have each other. They belong to each other. Where one of them goes, the other one follows. Independent, together, co-existing.

Anyway. I'm sure there will be more bullshit ramblings and metas at some point. Follow me if you want more of that (but be warned: blank and empty blogs are blocked on sight) because we are not islands in this metaphorical storm of life. Let us swim out to one another, dry off with one another, and live a life with broken down borders and walls.

ETA: I now have another name to add to the thanks. Stephen Goldblatt, from the bottom of my soul, thank you

#sorry this one rambles #a lot #and I'm still not sure it fully expresses what I want it to #but I have a lot of thoughts about repressed and isolated Henry #and the use of water as a metaphor in this film #right up to the point where we have a shot of the fucking Seine before they make love #water is life and terrifying - it is beautiful and deadly #and Henry tried to exist by himself in the middle of all of that #all on his own #until Alex braved it all for him #overthinking jen is overthinking #jen is on her bullshit again #firstprince #red white and royal blue #alex claremont diaz #henry fox mountchristen windsor #prince henry of wales #rwrb #rwrb movie #otp: history huh

[a-force-dyad-in-space]

If I got a nickel every time the Banana Splits song plays in the background of an action scene with a character played by Chloë Grace Moretz in the center, I would have two nickels, but it's funny that it happened twice 🤣

#jen's ramblings #nimona #hit girl

[crazypercheron]

Another snippet from the "I waved Goodbye" fic :)

(Damn, forgot the "a" between "complete" and "dichotomy")

#jen's ramblings

[aceof-stars]

Miles Edgeworth is both extremely perceptive about other people’s intentions and motivations, but also terrible at understanding how his own actions affect others. It’s quite an interesting nuance that I think is often overlooked.

When Edgeworth returns in 2-4, he is already aware of what Phoenix is lacking as an attorney before he even knows the full extent of Phoenix's crisis (Maya being kidnapped). In their first conversation, Edgeworth says: "In order to understand this case, you have to understand a certain "truth"". He knows that Phoenix's current motivation for being a defense attorney is flawed (cue his "we are not heroes" line). However, at the same time Edgeworth doesn’t fully understand how his actions of disappearing have affected both Phoenix and Franziska.

Another very obvious example of this is in AAI (I think?). In response to Kay asking: “Have you guys not decided if you are going out, or is it just one sided?” Edgeworth says: “‘Decided’…? Shouldn’t the parties involved naturally just know…?” Edgeworth thinks people in a relationship should instinctively perceive the feelings of the other person without communicating. He doesn’t consider the possibilities of misinterpretation or misunderstanding.

So in the context of Wrightworth, essentially what I'm saying is that unless something like fear is holding him back, Miles definitely knows about Phoenix's feelings. It's Phoenix who's off somewhere deluding himself.

#look miles is not stupid #he's just a dumbass sometimes #there is a difference #miles will say the most insightful thing #and the most socially awkward thing #in the same breath #wrightworth are dumb but in a very specific way #they are not complete idiots okay #ace attorney #miles edgeworth #phoenix wright #wrightworth #narumitsu #jen's rambles

[novantinuum]

becoming very fond of the concept of lars gaining empath powers after he’s resurrected but. specifically for steven ONLY like

Lars: feels a sudden very tight twinge in his chest that does not go away for a good while

Lars: (grumbling, drags out his phone)

Lars, texting: steven take ur goddamn pills

[beat]

Steven, texting: oh ya thanks

#su #su future #steven universe #lars barriga #jen rambles

[late-to-the-party-81]

Just in case anyone is in any doubt (and cos I wanna test the censors)

Trans men are men.

Trans women are women.

Your value is not defined by your genitals but by how you treat others, especially those who are having a tougher time than you are.

#jen rambles #trans ally #all trans folk are beautiful #live your truth #love not hate