#shes kind but still flawed.

[cozystars]

The one who carries the Mushroom Kingdom on her shoulders.

#sorry for the caption being a bit corny...i couldnt think of anything else #i want to explain everything here we would be here for a few minutes lol BUT UH #the basics: peach is poisonous. similar to how poison ivy works (via contacting skin) but uh a bit stronger. #a trait gained from her mom who was toad-adjacent #which is why she wears those gloves everywhere. #Because of this fact she believes she has to do things by herself. anyone who gets too close means she has a higher chance of hurting them #And leads to her just....expelling a lot of bottled shit by herself :) yaaay #i wanted to keep the fact that peach is shown to be very emotional person. both in terms of sadness and anger #shes kind but still flawed. #“im a nervous wreck but no one can know that! They're all counting on me!” #it was weird but fun to draw her eyes...idk if those are gonna be the final colors #well that was also a pragraph of tags WHOOPS #JP&E #super mario bros #mario #princess peach #now if youll excuse me i gotta go regain my strength from all this drawing i did. holy shit #eye strain #body horror #cosmo creates #illustration

[wayward-wren]

I'm hoping episode 3 let's Ruby see the dark side of the Doctor. I feel that adds a very important dynamic to a Doctor-companion relationship, when they see how dark he can be and still choose to travel with him early on.

Rose watching Nine drag Cassandra back to die. Eleven yelling at Amy "Nobody human has anything to say to me today!" Donna begging Ten to stop drowning the spider babies, and then again to go back and save someone in Pompeii.

Fifteen has been FUN and I know he can do emotional range, I've seen his fear and his tears already. But I want to see him dark, and I want to see Ruby respond to that. I think it would add a LOT of depth to their relationship and is something missing.

Plus showcasing the Doctor's flaws (selfishness) will make him a much more interesting character. I want to see some conflict between the Doctor and Ruby.

#wren rambles #doctor who #fifteenth doctor #ruby sunday #something about not letting heroes have flaws #and thus being one dimentional and less interesting #its a flaw i saw them slipping into a bit with thirteen #where she was always the Moral Voice #i LIKE it when the Doctor is instinctually cruel and has to be talked out of it and actively choose to be kind #it makes the character SO much more interesting #and raises the emotional stakes so much #so far fifteen has been FUN #but he hasnt been a rounded character #and until we see his flaws hes never gonna be in the runnings for a favourite #i think the doctor is an inherantly selfish character #and he has to make an active effort to NOT be #“Im his carer” “yes she cares so I dont have to” #im worried a six month time jump removed the opportunity for this kinda thing though #i Need to be able to look at the doctor and know. this is the man who killed a planet #and i havent been seeing that in the character recently #still early days yet though! #the doctor shouldnt be the moral center of the show--his companion should be #i think thats why i love 12 so much tbh #because his whole THING is to choose to be kind #without hope without witness without reward #being “good” (and whatever that means is a discussion for another day) doesnt come easily to him #love isnt an emotion its a promise #i want to see fifteen STRUGGLING to choose to do good #and i want to see ruby witness that

[vigilskeep]

Whenever I think about your Keir I think about Bethany telling Anders he reminds her of Malcom. I’m sure that won’t ever affect Keir ever.

bethany is my favourite mage bc she never misses with that psychic damage

but really he and anders aren’t even a thing in act 1 so it’s less like “PLEASE stop comparing my crush to our father” and more like “oh fuck off i spend my entire life trying to act like our dad and one (1) mage rolls up and suddenly he’s dad??”

#the bethany anders keir weirdness about malcolm is so real #because bethany says ‘you remind me of him (generally positive)’ in act 1 #but in later acts i think she’s still seeing the same thing just with a different uhhh mindset #seeing the way her dad wanted her to be something she wasnt and strive for something she was never sure was worth the sacrifice #how he tried to make decisions about what was best for other people. how he risked lives etc #whereas anders also has his own perception of malcolm which i think is quite... idealised #it means a lot to him that a mage raised a family that loved him. and hes envious of it #but thats definitely a standard anders is making up. if anders and malcolm really met we’d have to cast a barrier between them within five #minutes. for their own safety. #whereas keir in some ways saw a more complete version of his father from the beginning #but he also believes those more uhh flawed abrasive damaging sides are necessary. of course he does he repeats them #his father may not have been the easiest man in the world to live with but he always did what he had to #and kept his word and held himself to the same standards as others #but oh wait here’s the legacy dlc with the steel chair— #anyway my point being that u get these 3 in a room and theyre talking abt 3 entirely different malcolms. carnage #i dont think it would naturally occur to keir to compare anders to malcolm #but hed be like. ‘i GUESS?’ when bethany said it #honestly anders one of the things that’s kind of disillusioning abt malcolm bc like #i mean say what you like about my man anders but he was never all talk #not to dismiss the courage it took for malcolm to escape & raise a family #but thats one thing. insisting on using your abilities to help people & to go BACK for those still in the circle is kind of another #a lot of dialogue implying malcolm talked a big game about mage rights #but apart from raising a daughter who hates herself what did he actually do. #sorry thats mean but you see my point #and its not just justice that makes anders like that. sure he was more scared and hopeless about the circle #but his instincts are to help. you wouldnt catch malcolm going back to help against darkspawn even when told to run #and my malcolms also. gruff. stoic. serious. a man of few words. he does not do bits or tell you about his cat #if keir hears bethany compare anders to malcolm and at all agrees it’s not really anything about personality #he’s saying yeah i guess anders does seem like a good mage and a good man. thats the only commonality he would jump to #these tags got incredibly away from me

[sparkles-oflight]

Sometimes I'm like "lol, the joker out boys did something funny/relatable/cringe/etc that I'm not used seeing celebs doing but I'm glad they do because me too!" and then I remember they are quite literally JUST GUYS IN THEIR 20S DOING THINGS OF GUYS IN THEIR 20S

#it's so weird to enjoy people who are around my age #(same goes for Måneskin) #it makes me feel both great about seeing them being relatable or flawed #and sad at the same time because I'm useless and don't have achievements in contrast 🥲 #today I was rewatching the love of my life's performance at worlds 2019 (yk it's Zhenya) and looking at her at the age of 19 #and what she had achieved already made me feel both amazed and bad about myself #idk how to explain it #i just kind wish I were a fighter and not a quitter 😅 #joker out #btw #i know we shouldn't out celebrities in a pedestal but it's still quiet inevitable to feel like this #*put #*quite

[radioroxx]

yargh. complicated characters save me complicated characters…

#im thinking about ceroba… #im thinking about how ive seen so many ppl (in ‘hot takes’) call her a bad mother for what she did to kanako #and im thinking about how its. silly to base the entire view of her as a character around one mistake #yes sure a very BIG mistake but still one mistake #i dont know if i would even say shes a bad mom. to do so would require me to make some kind of criteria to actually define #what MAKES a bad person #ive spoken before to a friend about how our concepts of good and bad as a whole r subjective anyway #but thats besides the point #i think ceroba as a interesting character becauseee of her mistakes because of her flaws #i think (er. KNOW) that she was a very caring mother. she loved kanako lots lots lots and did everything in her power to fix that mistake #but that doesnt take away that it still happened #im just rambling at this point. nonsense probably #but i think the reason i dislike the bad mom ceroba takes so much is that its reduction to her character in a way… #and that it cant and shouldnt rlly speak to her characterization before and after. yknow the incident #sorry thats a big mess….. i have thoughts i dont know how to speak them #i could say the same abt the other characters too… how ppl like to equate their whole view of a char #to only a few moments with that char #weve forgotten star tried briefly to take clovers soul </3 but oh well #ok im done jfkdkd this is disorganized

[poelya]

so i rewatched the friendly type for the first time today since watching the deleted scene, and I have to say. I was a puddle of feelings about it, but the thing that got to me the absolute most was the boat scene.

I feel like there was probably another deleted moment, between the one that got released and the scene on the boat, because it does flow fairly well (I think I'm in the minority that feels like it's not necessarily out of character for Layla, and I think the deleted scene could honestly have been kept it, but I think it was ultimately the most responsible thing to do to delete it, because considering the lack of critical thinking and how deeply ableist some of the responses to the show as it is were, then I can only imagine we'd get some of that patented star wars fandom "oh this character is saying this so we're meant to believe them and agree with them over the actual narrative" 'logic' going around), so for the sake of this post I'm treating the deleted scene as if it did happen off-screen.

Like, nearly immediately after the trial and having his own disability weaponized against him, we have Marc run into Layla again. Someone he trusts, and loves, and spent the last some odd years of his life with as a partner (presumably somewhere around ten years, is what I'm figuring). And in the deleted scene, we see her unconsciously echo some of the same ableism that Marc just faced, down to calling his alters "personalities" instead, questioning Marc's sense of reality regarding Khonshu - something that, obviously, deeply hurts Marc (I have a lot of thoughts on this deleted scene man).

And honestly, you would think it would make the boat scene feel contradictory. On paper, absolutely - why would Marc tell Layla, or think that he could, when she's just proven otherwise? Well, it's entirely possible she would have handled it better and more quickly challenged her internalized ableism had she known, but that's not the part I actually opened a tumblr post for.

No, I'm thinking about Marc telling her "for what it's worth, I had it under control until very recently" because...that's kind of quintessential Marc. Just hours ago, she was saying nearly everything he's already come to expect from people, proving him correct in why he shouldn't have told her...

But sitting opposite of her, hearing her telling him he could have, and Marc's first instinct is to offer her some kind of comfort. In the deleted scene, he tells her this is his reality, and here he's quick to reassure her that until recently, it wasn't a prominent enough reality to tell her about.

There's a lot going on in the boat sequence, and the deleted scene gave me even more to chew on, but I'm just so stuck on the fact that in spite of how much hell he'd gone through that afternoon - Marc's first instinct was to comfort Layla.

#also i am FEELING feelings about how painfully aware he is that he's kept so much from her. #he knows he's worked himself into a corner and he's petrified of it and doesn't know any way out besides removing himself from the scenario #he /cannot/ stand the thought of watching another person go from loving to hating him #and layla bless her is clinging with white knuckles in the turbulence of the storm they're in #they are so MESSY and TRAGIC ough. #i think it may be an unpopular opinion but the deleted scene kinda made me appreciate layla more lmao #i like that she gets to be messy and flawed in it #and that it kind of explicitly shows that across the show she's unlearning her own internalized ableism... #my feelings may change i'm only halfway through my rewatch and it could change after the tomb but still #nym speaks #moon knight #ableism cw

[lord-squiggletits]

I need to reread the comics again to have specific arguments/evidence for this, but like

I feel a bit like I could've been sympathetic to the way other Cybertronian colonies view Cybertron, if it weren't for the fact that at least several of them (as in, ones that get notable dialogue/screen time) are so low-key self-righteous?

Like, idk... there's a lot of criticism of Cybertronians because they're so "warlike" and how their obsession with violence and vengeance is just dragging the whole galaxy down with them, but uh. The Autobot-Decepticon war was basically a product of societal ills bubbling over for like 6 million years beforehand and then finally boiling over into a 4 million year war that lasted as long as it did because the people involved had immense social/psychological trauma from being "raised" in an oppressive society.

So when the colonists come in being all 'omg you people are so violent and uncivilized why don't you just like, stop fighting' it kind of pissed me off a little bit as a reader/person like. Idk the colonists really came into this society of people full of massive amounts of trauma where even before the war society was super oppressive and no one has any experience of living "normal" lives unaffected by violence and bigotry. And the colonists were like "ummm wow why don't you guys just??? stop fighting???." Like idk it wasn't EVERY SINGLE MOMENT, in fact I think that when it was played for laughs it's quite a funny "fridge horror" type element. It was just annoying because like.... IDK???? It's just really annoying to watch a bunch of people who lived relatively sheltered lives on their own planets come to a different planet full of traumatized people and be like "omg why are you people so fucked up" IDK BRO MAYBE BECAUSE THEIR SOCIETY WAS OPPRESSIVE AND THEY LIVED THROUGH A LIFELONG WAR???

It also doesn't help that the colonies were literally founded based on imperialism and conquest so like, it's fucking rich to hear colonists scolding Cybertronians for their violence ruining the whole galaxy while literally sitting on planets that their Primes colonized from others. The hypocrisy of this is briefly mentioned in Unicron (literally the FINAL STORY OF THE SERIES) but like, that's basically the only time Cybertronian characters are given a reprieve of sympathy from other characters in universe and it's so tiresome.

I've talked to other people who didn't like the colonists and thought they basically (narratively speaking) existed just to shit on the existing characters, and it's actually really easy for me to sympathize with/outright agree with that assessment of the story considering how much of exRID/OP seems to be preoccupied with "Cybertron/the Primes/Optimus sucks" with very few reprieves for anything positive happening and even fewer chances for characters to get to explain themselves and experience a little bit of justice? Like, as the audience, it's just very frustrating to see the characters you spent hundreds of issues keeping up with get shit on by a bunch of "literally-who"s and then not really get a chance to ever defend themselves, either by literally defending themselves in conversation or having some sort of narrative thing happening that vindicates them at least symbolically

#squiggposting #paused work to muse about this which i prolly shouldn't have lol #oh well i'll still get stuff done #like idk an example of this is how pyra criticized OP for using religion to manipulate people #(lets just ignore how she said she would teach OP but never actually did) #but in the story there's never any sort of confrontation where pyra learns about history or talks with OP #and OP gets to be like. yeah on my planet primes fucking sucked and i'm the only one trying to redeem their image #also ive been fighting an endless war that lasted 4 mil years in which me being a shining figurehead was basically #the sole motivating force keeping my army from just collectively succumbing to endless despair #and i also had to use this shining figurehead image i had to keep the opposing army from genociding a bunch of organics #like not once does OP get to express his side of things he's basically just shit upon endlessly by other characters as he keeps doing plot #i feel like i had another example but i can't recall who/what was involved lmao #like idk it's not just that barber's writing is depressing and dark and edgy. i LIKE stories that do that kind of thing #it's just that it feels a bit as if the story is ENDLESSLY depressing and dark and edgy with almost no reprieve #as if it's mostly presenting the flaws of the characters with no chance for them to justify or redeem themselves #idk i feel like there was another better point/example i was gonna make but i can't remember it #like idk i guess a dark depressing story would've been better if the characters at least got to defend themselves #bc as is it basically feels like they (esp OP) get shit on endlessly and never once get to express anything about it #so like. they get shit on in universe. but also as the reader since there's never a contradicting viewpoint or the character defending them #it's as if you're supposed to take this one-sided criticism of them at face value and it just doesn't seem fair AS THE READER #if i read about OP getting shit on by some people and defended by others and also him expressing his opinion on himself #then that just feels like a normal fair narrative where i get to take sides #but if it's just OP being shit on and he hardly expresses much about it #then it feels like i as the reader am expected to agree with the portrayal being shown? #but in reality the portrayal just feels negative and unfair and one sided to me #and why the fuck do i want to read a story that's just the characters i know and like on an endless shame parade #also shout out to 'literally who' aka slide calling OP 'literally fascist' lmao #one of the most cringe moments of the entire comic. wait no. i can think of a more cringe Slide Moment #when unicron is about to destroy the planet and trypticon is getting shot and dying(?) in the background #and the story decides to pause and focus on Slide so she can monologue about how evil and tyrannical OP is

[wormshirt]

Thirteen and yasmin are insane because watching the show it feels like the doctor is genuinely incapable on some level of truly loving yasmin- even to the extent that she fell in love with previous companions.

Hear me out, (this is a bit of a crackpot theory) something about this regeneration, something in the way she seems to be built as a direct reaction to twelve's late-season unabashed emotionally vulnerability- the way he held onto the pain and emotions and held on HARDER when they hurt, and now thirteen wont even pick them up.

Somewhere in those few seconds of regeneration, the regeneration itself must have latched onto the previous doctor's lingering thoughts- all those thoughts, a whole lifetime thinking about how much everything HURT- of much EASIER it would be to just AVOID all of that to just IGNORE it how he didn't HAVE TO GO THROUGH ALL OF THAT. But regeneration is a bit of a tricky process isn't it? You're usually lucky enough to get the right amount of arms and legs. You'd probably have pretty poor luck if you tried politely explaining"I'm just kind of grieving pretty hard right now and my life sucks ass usually and my desire to not suffer and irrationally blame my emotions themselves for this is actually a pretty common response so please don't overreact and make me incapable of proper emotional expression and connection with the people in my life please that'll actually make this WORSE not BETTER." I mean seriously good luck trying to explain those concepts to splitting timelord cells, I can't imagine they're great with conversation.

So the twelth Doctor's dying and one of his last thoughts is "man if I cared about people less I'd suffer less" and the thirteenth doctor is born (in a sense) woth that thought at the forefront. And she still cares!- so, SO much, but... it's.. different. It's not quite CLICKING. anymore. Things that WERE easy or at least DOABLE before just AREN'T now. Or at the very least they feel WRONG. Like walking around in someone else's shoes. In an old coat that doesn't quite fit. In an old face. And then the universe dumps the doctor right into the lap of 3 new companions with no clue about space or aliens or the doctor or any of that. No idea of what the doctor was like before- of what she is capable of now or WAS capable of before, and she doesn't tell them either.

And so she's walking around and she's keeping this ravine of distance between herself and everyone and everything in a way she never has before and there's no one there to call her out on it, but she pretends! She pretends it's not there! And she's really, REALLY good at it this time- maybe because twelve regretted not being better at it himself, even (but that's a different thought). And sure the companions call her out on it, yasmin in particular calls her out on it A LOT, Ryan, too- but they still don't realise the EXTENT to which the Doctor is (failing? refusing?) to connect with them because they have ONLY EVER met THIS DOCTOR and so they don't realise how drastic the difference is. They lack the proper knowledge to REALISE what is even truly going on with the doctor. But the doctor is still the doctor aren't they. And these are still their companions. And frankly, they're still kind of a dick.

So despite their sudden inability to connect with their companions on a level the doctor has never experienced before, and despite these new companions personalities being so unique and their journey with the doctor being so hectic that the doctor and all of them keep chafing and slipping out of the same old Doctor-And-Companion molds that the doctor keeps trying to shove them all into, the doctor wont stop trying to make these old molds fit! And honestly that never ends up being a huge problem for any of them. It's just kind of an interesting aspect of the doctor- a fascinating way that they sort of dehumanize their friends, by just plopping them in a mold and replacing them when they wear out. Because of course you still care for them! But by giving them a ROLE in your life that can just be REPLACED as opposed to letting them exist as a PERSON in your life once they're gone? That makes things easier. That makes the grief easier to bear.

ANYWAYS. back to the yasmin thing. If you remember the Yasmin thing. So. Yasmin falls in love. Of course she does. And the doctor notices. Of course she does. She's old and more people have been messing with her head than usual but she's good with noticing things no matter what else changes about her. And she doesn't say anything. Because she's a timelord! And Yasmin will die, or fall in love with someone else, or turn into a cyberman, or experience one of the infinite possibilities of horrors or wonders in all of time and space that will tear them apart and the doctor will be left alone again, so what's even the point!

Except then Ryan and Graham leave. And then the Timeless Child arc happens. And it wouldn't hurt to feed into it a little would it? Just to keep Yasmin around? Just to keep her from leaving? It wouldn't hurt right? I mean Thirteen could love Yas! She does! Of course she does! Yas is her fam! Her companion! The only one who's stuck with her through it all!- who keeps calling her out, coming back for her, saving her, taking care of her, helping her- and she's grateful! And she cares about Yas! That's not so different from love, right? And love would make Yas stay! And it'd be easy! It'd take what?- a date? Two? Probably! Humans like dates! And romance! And flirting! She can do those! In all honestly she HAS been doing those- (She gets incredibly posessive of anything that becomes part of her tardis, her world, her home, and well, yasmin has been there a long time. And flirting is fun! And a sort of socially acceptable way of staking a claim isn't it? Not to mention the doctor isn't great at denying themself anything that gets another being to feed their ego.) So she leads Yas on a little. Drops hints here and there. She doesn't really know if she means them or not but she knows that she wants Yasmin to stay, that she can't even imagine Yasmin leaving. And that's love right? Or close enough anyways.

So she decides that she loves Yasmin and that she and Yasmin are "together" in a way and decides not to question it further. Because she's placed yasmin in a new companion mold and herself in a new doctor-companion relationship model, and everything's as it should be! and yasmin has no other point of reference for the doctor, so she settles for what she's given. Decides "this is all she can give. She abandoned Ace and Tegan seemingly without a second thought and didn't even apologize- I guess this is how it's always been, with every companion. That's fine! I can handle this! It's worth it for her." And in the meantime The Doctor is sitting there on the other side of the console fully aware of the fact that this is in fact NOT the limits of her affection, but she's HAPPY, or at least as happy as she will allow herself to be with Yasmin.

Yasmin though. Yasmin WANTS more, she DESERVES more and Thirteen KNOWS this, but Thirteen puts her own desire to both keep Yasmin at a distance and avoid desciphering her own feelings above Yasmin. Eventually, Dan calls the doctor out on this. Pretty much just telling her "You KNOW that she likes you. Do SOMETHING about it." The doctor doesn't say anything but does, in a later episode, sit down on a beach and make a wish with Yasmin. "I wish this would go on forever" both meaning she hopes yasmin stays with her forever and that their relationship never progresses. She has everything she needs from yas- which, for the doctor who with previously loves (i am intentionally NOT specifying romantic interests) became OBSESSED with them to the point of not just self-destruction, but universe destruction? Potential INTER-universal destruction in the case of Rose? How could THAT doctor- because YES this is a DIFFERENT DOCTOR, but this is still THE DOCTOR- ever be satisfied with the disconnected relationship she has with Yasmin if she was in love with Yasmin? If she felt THAT WAY about Yasmin? Like she had for all those comapnions that had come before Yasmin that The Doctor had fallen in love with?

#While all of the doctor's previous relationships DID have hard limits and boundaries #that hurt and limited the relationship and companions in a way that resembled thirteen and yasmin's relationship #at the end of the day thirteen and yasmin still felt like strangers when they parted on screen #at least from the perspective of the viewer #And that too- THE DOCTOR LET YASMIN GO #like yeah the doctor has let companions go before #but they have always had to have been PRACTICALLY RIPPED AWAY from the doctor first #The doctordonna killing donna. Rose Tyler trapped in another universe burning up a sun to say goodbye #and then 10 leaving himself with her because he thought it'd be kinder to give her a life with him (however she felt about that). #Clara. nearly tearing up the universe getting yelled at by Me AND Clara and then having a memory-wiping device backfire on him #And The Doctor just let Yasmin go. #okay. #doctor who #dw #thirteenth doctor #yasmin khan #also I get kind of annoyed when people try to paint 13 as not being the huge asshole to yasmin that she was in their dynamic #because she WAS a DICK #she LED YASMIN ON and she KNEW IT #and that's MY FAVORITE CHARACTER FLAW OF HERS #IS THAT SHE'S A SELFISH ASSHOLE WHO PUTS HER COMFORT #AND EMOTIONAL AVOIDANCE ABOVE THE FEELINGA ND SOMETIMES LIVES OF LITERALLY EVERYONE ELSE #they just wont allow women to suck. let her suck. she sucks. she's an asshole. let her be an asshole. #twelve was not out there on screen every episode vaping fat clouds and flipping off everyone for you to decide #that 13 was the second coming of the eleventh doctor and a present hand-delivered to you by chibnall #to woobify the doctor again #twelve was all hard edges and rusty nails that were TRYING to giving you tetanus. #that did not get flushed down the drain with thirteen. she just put a blanket over it and asked you to ignore it #and kicked it every time it made a weird noise #also twelve was totally vaping and flipping people off onscreen and she also said FUCK too you can trust me I was there I promise.

[thstarsofsilver]

the belly vs devi discourse is hilarious to me because they have almost nothing in common except for the fact they were in relatively evenly split love triangles

however, i think devi is inherently a more likeable character. why? because she's more well-rounded.

outside of belly's romances, the only thing we really get to know about her is volleyball. aside from taylor, we find out about her relationship with susannah and history with cousins, but it's all deeply interwoven with her romances. devi's story ends up being more about her friendships, her social status, her culture, her education/academic journey, her relationship with herself & her grief, almost all of which are either independent of or do not revolve around her romances. even her relationship with her mother strikes a more emotional note - the treatment of laurel & belly's relationship, and the grief that divided it, felt strangely one-note and surface level for the depth that tsitp is capable of achieving.

devi's grief, i feel, is also treated very differently. yes, it's true that death happened at the start of her story, but that kind of means it can be used as an explanation of her behaviour. belly was a menace before she even found out about susannah lmaoooo (plus devi is trying to help herself through therapy, even if she was forced into it. belly is doing no such thing and just causing chaos haha)

i know we've seen the end of devi's story and belly's is still just beginning, but from the beginning devi had a self-awareness that belly just lacks. and yes, tsitp is not a comedy, but devi also managed to provide (comedic) relief from the heavier notes by herself, while belly's personality is less distinct and truthfully a bit more y/n. (on that note, i fully recognise that tsitp is adapted from source material while nhie was original, but that doesn't mean they can't continue to take liberties!)

also, at least devi wasn't involved with brothers!!! save that for elena gilbert!!!

that said i love them both <3 thank u and goodnight

#userfiz #mine #textpost #tv #tsitp #nhie #devi vishwakumar #belly conklin #i have no idea why i felt the need to write this but i just did #still love my girls tho #they both have their flaws and their merits #the summer i turned pretty #never have i ever #you may be asking: where does this discourse take place? and then i direct you to my niche corner of the clock app #i also kind of wanted to add that devi's triangle wasn't as transparent(?) as belly's #like (until s4) you didn't necessarily feel like u knew who she was going to end up with but in tsitp it feels like it will always be conra #i didn't want queue to be alone

[sskk-manifesto]

MITCHELL AKUTAGAWA EPISODE!!!!!!!!!!

#MITCHELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #///AND/// AKUTAGAWA EPISODE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And Yosano and Kenji spotlight too. Episode written precisely for my personal liking #Too bad no Atsushi then it would have been perfect (╥﹏╥) At least we got his voice in the episdoe preview #Alright I **LOVE** Mitchell. This is not the space to talk about it properly but I just really like how flawed she is‚ #but also in a way that results funny and endearing. And I love love love how much she cares about her family and is loyal to it!!! #It makes her so noble and virtuous. I know she has so little screentime but really the way she's so harsh and in apparence self-absorbed– #But in reality so kind and altruistic... The way her hearsh ways are implied to be only a consequence of a life of struggles and her will– #to save her family's name through a noble behavior and appearance too... It makes her so complex and multilayered imo #AND just how her innate tendency to defend people spans out of her family too!!!! #In my interpretation she did NOT care for Hawthorne or like him. But she still gave her life for him because she just instinctively– #protects the people around her. I don't have any strong feelings for haw/mitch but like how to blame Hawthorne I would have– #fallen for her right that istant too. #Now to Akutagawa. I'm really endeared by this episode because I'm pretty sure that's when I started sympathizing with / liking him :') #Like that's the moment when the things Dark Era showed us and the canon Akutagawa behavior click together and the watcher goes “Oh. OH.” #At least I'm pretty sure it was for me. It's bittersweet but especially sweet. #One more thing is... Wow bsd really has been like *that* since the beginning hasn't it. It's kinda silly to think back to all the criticism #the latest arc got now. #The criticism regarding how the ridiculously high stakes have been solved seemingly effortlessly in a way that resulted very anticlimatic?? #That's ALWAYS been there. “Oh no the ada is done for if they found out our base!!” *holds literally ZERO consequences* #“Oh no the Guild is done for if they destruct Zelda!!” *holds literally ZERO consequences* #“Oh no the Guild knows were our clerk is!!” *holds near to ZERO consequences* #And #“Oh no Akutagawa died!” “Oh no half world population was tuned in vampires!” “Oh no Fukuchi obtained One Order!” #“Oh no Chuuya is a vampire siding against Dazai!” #It's really the same‚ isn't it? #But like‚ we're still glad all of it happened right? Because it makes the experience enjoyable lol. #It's really about enjoying the ride I suppose. #I have more to ramble about but I've ran out of tags so I'll be doing it on my main blog reblog later #random rambles

[inloveanddepth]

love these guys

#i like how cringe they all are. like all of them are flawed & immensely cringe. no one's main is safe #they're cringe in different ways & some more than others but they're all cringe. love it #why are the fans for my two favourite soul fighter champions the autistic-coded ones !! #why are the autistic-coded ones the most unhinged.... #though tbh i think you could make an argument for all 5 of them being autistic 😭 #sommer's homemade jhin cosplay is so cute #they somehow managed to capture the exact brand of weird that jhin fans are. bravo #i think the funniest part about him is that jhin would not be able to stand him lmao #him wearing a shirt with the same art that's on the print he's holding makes me crack up for some reason #obsessed with the jacked yordle named rizz.... she's everything #also can i just say i love the crop top on guy. fantastic creative decision. so many crop tops in soul fighter i love it #kiri is crazy though what do you mean she's literally selling rpf at an event that the people she's writing rpf about are at #her repeatedly trying to get samira to read her fanfiction is kind of hilarious #& then she tells samira she's going to write fanfic about her. which is kiri's way of praising her. she is nuts (affectionate) #the way she keeps casually mentioning pyke totally kills people in this universe & she still adores him #she's the worst kind of fangirl (which is the point. they're all parodies) but it's hard to hate her lol she's so silly #my only issue with her is that she's a jhin hater.... how rude #i know her tumblr game goes crazy #the only character i'm confused by is jade. the lux fangirling felt really forced to me #it's not reflected in her design at all; honestly she looks more like evelynn #especially when riki guy & rizz & sommer are all clearly emulating gwen sett & jhin respectively #plus jade's shtick was more about parodying true crime & political content creators it seemed. the lux stuff felt tacked on #i guess it was because dema is after lux & jade doesn't like dema but it felt over the top at least #on top of the fact that it's pretty hard to make sjw characters actually funny #they should've made a dema bootlicker character tbh. for funzies #i think riot should publish some of kiri's fanfiction on the universe site. wouldn't that be silly #they could do one for each of them! a transcription of one of jade's podcast episodes; guy & rizz's training regimen; a poem from sommer #hope some of them show up in LoR sometime. just for fun #league of legends #soul fighter

[glindyupland]

I just think it’s silly that so many people complain about Villain Amaya as “wasted potential” and that “we were robbed” like-

My pals, post canon fan fiction is right there. The desire to free her husband is right there. Either by touching an evil book while being too eager to remember the obsidian oil, or being possessed by contact (ie what she believes is true loves kiss) when trying to reason with him in the dungeon.

We don’t need a rewrite, we can have a continuation. Both can be true. Amaya is a complex character, she can handle it.

#Wish #Queen Amaya #I assume I'm going to get hate for this but like #I know it's not store bought and you have to still make it yourself but also #I'm kind of just tired of seeing a lot of people sh*tting on Wish because it's not the concept art #And I'm kind of over here like how about we love it recognize it has flaws and THEN try to make something new without bashing the OG? #I just love Amaya and she definitely deserves more #but her good character is so interesting and complex #she still knows how to have fun. She still can be sassy or bite. #Like she's still Magnifico's perfect partner you know? and Magnifico isn't perfect? #A truly pure person wouldn't click with Magnifico the way Amaya does...? #I would rather build on Amaya's character than say she can only be good and boring or a villain? #Amaya is so smart yall. I know you can't see it all just on the movie but like she's read every magic book in Magnifico's library #THOUSANDS OF BOOKS. #And knows basic protection spells #She's a devoted leader. #Like. #Idk #She both loves her husband and recognizes that she has to go against him. #She doesn't /turn/ on him. She addresses his flaws and tells him that it's not okay? #She still jokes with him even though she has to put him in time out. She's complex and strong and wise and kind. #And I just hate seeing so many people so quick to just say 'the concept art was better' when like... the idea might be more appealing to yo #But I hate the level of cynicism and pretentiousness I see of people saying their personal ideas of what Wish should be- #-Is better than the piece of media they claim to care about? #Like their personal vision of Wish based exclusively off the concept art is somehow intellectually superior? #And I'm not saying stop doing your rewrites or AU's or anything! Like there's definitely beautiful creativity happening! #I just hate seeing people so negative and like honestly mean. It hurts my heart to see everyone calling Wish garbage? #It's not great but I really really dont think it's as bad as everyone is saying. Like its no like Oppenheimer but it's a children's movie.. #Like I personally love the Teens and Amaya #And everyone saying they stink makes me sad... Because they're just great characters?

[thisloveforyourmom]

the pearlrose tag is sure full of takes

#people seeing rose as someone who has real flaws and struggles to see past her own self interest is not people seeing rose as horrible evil #(yes including self hatred! doing things without considering others is still doing things without considering others #if its bc u assume u know whats best for them) #like she is a more interesting character if she goes against the 'kind selfless amazing wonderful departed mother leader' trope #by just being actually selfish! #not secretly selfless! actually kinda selfish and self centered and accidentally cruel in a nonmalicious but still painful way! #and it's interesting that all of this coexists alongside the good in her #like how amethyst's easygoing attitude and commitment to growth coexist alongside her destructive temper and insecurity #like how garnet's affection and sense of responsibility exist alongside her isolationism and impulsivity when pressured #like how pearl's strong caretaking nature and capability exists alongside her obsessive tendencies and snobbiness #rose is more interesting if she is both caring and selfish! both healing and cruel! she is flawed she is deeply flawed #ITS A FEATURE NOT A BUG!!

[kittlyns]

A hard pill for me to swallow lately has been that, despite everything, I'm probably the best version of myself that could've existed. And that's not really a comforting thought.

#it's a special kind of doomed imo. #every other path most likely led to something worse #maybe it's pessimistic to think of it that way. maybe I should be more grateful that it isn't worse #but it's hard to find that within me atm #the best of bad outcomes doesn't mean good. it doesn't mean I'm happy. #it just means every other option would have been more miserable. and it's disheartening to think like that ofc #and I know the logic is flawed. but I know myself and even with the advantages I have I'm unable to make anything of myself #had I chosen differently it would only be worse. I'd still be impoverished. I'd still be depressed. #I might just also be stuck in a cult and married w kids in the middle of fucking nowhere wisconsin on top of it all #<- that's the worst case scenario. probably. really hard to say #biggest bullet I've dodged yet tho. completely unintentionally too. #another hard pill to swallow: sometimes the things we want the most WILL ruin your life and it's a blessing when it falls through #unfortunately you don't get to know this until years later #as you watch your ex best friend marry a man almost 2x her age and birth kids she never wanted into this world #and then you're like OHHHH that would've been my fate... I get it now 😐 #still. there's no relief in the realization because while you would've been miserable w a shitty husband and 3 or 4 kids #you are in fact still miserable without them. but oh well. #I would say 'anyways. I just need to go to the beach.' but honestly. I haven't felt the desire to do anything at all lately. #we're past the point of letting the sand and waves heal me. we're almost past the point of needlessly venting online! #there's so much I usually would vent about here but I have hardly had the urge to do so. #I'm just tired. life has drained me dry. my heart aches constantly and I barely know why

[mobblespsycho100]

thinkin abt topaz from an indigenous perspective also is SOOO

RIGHT. RIGHT 😭😭😭 SHE MAKES ME SO... AUGH

#she thinks she can fix the system from the inside. yknow. #she thinks that her colonizers saved her and her people . (she never wants to return home ever again) #she thinks that she can Help others with the same like plight as her #with the help of the IPC. #what ppl dont realize is that the Ipc Is a megacorp #thats awful yes but they also control a lot of things including trade and telecommunications advancements in the universal like stuff etc #THEYRE EVERYWHERE. #THEIR PROPAGANDA IS SO STRONG #LIKE?? #the IPC higher ups are so fucking crazy to me #but not everyone in the IPC is like morally bankrupt. lmao #like . #Topaz is at the end of the day upholding a flawed system #going on to like #harm other ppl like her (oppressed) for the sake of the oppressors #and her being this kind customer service lady is still . like she still has a hidden agenda sure. but #i dont think she WANTS colonization to like keep happening and stuff #she just thinks that the only way for planets and worlds to prosper is if theres a constant circulation of money #debts are paid and repaid #planets are helped and saved and integrated into the IPCs business empire #wealth and expenditure and equity. #she wants prosperity for ppl but she got brainwashed into thinking 3G (gold glory gospel) was correct HELP MEEEE #shes so... augh. it makes me sad. #asks #hsr #mourn 🌧️🐈 ! #topaz my beloved wife im writing this at 5 am

[artemx746]

really hope it becomes much more clear in the future of fool's gold that the foreclaimers aren't bad because they don't have empathy, but rather because they based their society on people having a set "value" and killing people who aren't "Valuable enough". Plus they also tortured a god for 300+ years

#Seeing way too many YT comments act like the forclaimers are bad because they don't have empathy #Empathy is an inherently neutral thing and the show only furthers that #Gothi a person who's biggest flaw is having too much empathy is a morally neutral person #Like she tries to do good things but she's still complicit in all the shit her friends do #Hell her closest and oldest friend tried to commit a genocide TWICE #he didn't even beat around the bush with it he fully knew it was a genocide he wanted #I may be Xanu's defense attorney but he was a terrible person #he fully manipulated Sips #He was kind of an ass to Gothi his closest (and arguably only) friend #He kinda controls Jack into only wanting to open the portal #he was awful #and Xanu has always had empathy and he still did this #I love him for the character development and the cool backstory not the actions #Sips has empathy Erina has empathy #the list goes on #media literacy may truly be dead if people don't get that #Masika doesn't have empathy but that's not what makes her complicated #She's still learning to recover from a society that taught her she was worthless #like... it's such a good series man #fools gold dnd #fools gold #foreclaimers #gothi fools gold #xanu fools gold #sips fools gold #erina fools gold #wouldn't be a post written at midnight without a wall of tags