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imunbreakabledude · 10 months

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Headcanons about Maevelander pls?

uhhh well ok! generally speaking my headcanons are just the overall vibes and then a lot of specific scenarios or moments that they mightve had earlier in their relationship. some of which i've put into fics already... some of which i just post about silly sometimes... maybe let me see if i can mine some old shitposts from twitter for this

to me, maeve and homelander in their "good years" were menaces together. and by menaces i mean they were beloved by the public and extremely profitable for vought but totally INSUFFERABLE to everyone else working with them. like the 2 strongest beings in the world but they're on the same page and full of themselves with celebrity?? it would be sooo bad.

on that note i may have said on here before that i believe in those prime years homelander and maeve were fucking everywhere. constantly. in scenic/ridiculous locations he could fly them to, yes, but also all over the vought building

i have a vision of them fucking in madelyn's office specifically on madelyn's desk to "get back at her" for some silly thing that made them both annoyed like idk her not putting as much money into their oscar campaigns one year or something. homelander goin at maeve and she's like "hold back we're gonna break the desk" and he's like "why does that matter" and maeve says "cuz then she'll get a new one"

i dont have a superduper detailed headcanon for homelander's upbringing but one tidbit i imagine that maybe i'll flesh out in a fic some day if i can muster it is.. i love the idea that at some point when he was a teen and acting out/desperate for the Touch of a Woman, madelyn or vogelbaum or someone told him almost like a fairytale of a girl out there in the world almost as strong as him, just like him, and he would meet her some day, and give him little tidbits about her, not like her full life story but just eough that he imagines this perfect fairytale princess maggie in his head so that by the time he actually meets Maeve he's like already in love with the idea of her in his head

and as a consequence of that i think homelander is actually quite patient in seducing her like he's charming and pushy but not TOO pushy in that way that he can be because in his mind it's inevitable they will end up together and live happily ever after. and due to this charming and not steamrollery approach, that's what leads maeve to actually fall for him in the early days

obviously as they both get to know the true person of each other over the years the illusion falls apart but yeah I think that pull of "this is the one other person like me, the one person who understands me, we're destined to be together" would be reallllly intoxicating (and maybe also comforting??) for both of them

yeah idk this is a bunch already i definitely have more like scenarios and such in my head and also some thoughts about madelyn's role in engineering this relationship but also maybe regretting it down the line... maybe for other posts

#i love thinking about how ROMANTIC their early days must have been #solely by knowing that it DIDNT work out and never WOULD work out #thats what makes it compelling for me!!!#and i love imagining maeve at her WORST in this relationship lol #queen maeve #homelander #queenlander #ask #anonymous

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croakings · 2 months

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i apologize for mithrunposting incessantly but honestly if any of you expected better of me you shouldn't have

anyway i get it and some of the failguy jokes are funny. i can tell that nothing i've run into is even malicious. but also it would be really cool and awesome if there were simply less posts calling a disabled person a failure or baby or a dog or whatever for needing accommodation or extra help, especially when like. hey did you know the source material very on purpose did not do anything remotely like that. critical thinking question: could there be some reasons these phrases are not great, potentially

#*#mithrun #dungeon meshi #people are being weird about laois and falin wrt autism also but this is a separate issue #the downside of rep outside of like Average Action Movie Protagonist #which is to say. rep at all. as we would think of it.#is that you get to see not in-group folks talk about those characters. also.#and sometimes. people have. let us say. unexamined. or unacknowledged. biases. perhaps prejudices. at times.#ANYWAY #DISABLED PEOPLE HOWEVER DISABLED ARE NOT INFANTS OR ANIMALS. THANK YOU.#ALSO JUST FOR THE RECORD NOT THAT IT MAKES A DIFFERENCE TO MY POINT #BUT MITHRUN IS SAID IN THE STORY TO BE FAIRLY SELF SUFFICIENT OUTSIDE OF DUNGEON CRAWLING.#his intelligence and strength stats are both extremely high. hey. hey. hey guys. what about him compels you to portray him #as weak or bumbling or unintelligent. quickly.#edit:#like look. if your whole joke is just ''ooooh he's so fucked up. he's so fucked up he's basically a goofy dog''. think about some things.#talking about/including a character's disability: 👍✅#exclusively talking about how fucked up it makes them/how fucked up it is to be disabled: 😕❌#double anyway. fucking. please for the love of god if nothing else. understand that real life disabled people see how you talk about #and portray those with disabilities. and sometimes! it does not feel good. thank you.#this isn't no fun alloweding. just THINK before you say shit PLEASE.#the only character ive seen get called a dog as much as mithrun is fucking laois. which. yk? ykwim here? would u call chilchuck a pursedog.#would that be fucked up‚ maybe. can you tell me why. are you reading me.#ok. i'm done. just. god. negative sims interaction bubble. JUST THINK ABOUT IT THATS ALL.#''its funny to ship mithrun with beautiful people bc he looks so fucked up now haha'' PLEASE CAN ANYONE HEAR ME.#actually i have more to say. rbing this. god. God.

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bruciemilf · 1 year

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" but it's not a permanent solution and --" just say you want to committ homicide! Grow up.

#last part is a joke btw #but some of you are really annoying with your perspective of justice and who exactly deserves what #i don't understand why we have to de complexify this extremely nuanced shade in Bruce’s character #when it plays such a crucial role in what makes him interesting and compelling. his hatred of murder is precisely what sets him apart from #your regular descenetized male hero with no proper character structure #bruce is a puzzle. NOT a story #and his mercy system being ineffective- they're comic book characters. thats the whole point?#bruce wayne #dc comics #dc #batman #SOME of you. i dont wanna name names. gets really annoying abt this argument #people who reserve Batman Who Kills for fruly interesting and/or self indulgent reasons and dont bother anyone else: is it me??#no. jason stans; is it ME?#...its not the others. shrug #memes

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ty-bayonet-betteridge · 2 months

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3l!grian is frequently depicted as a tragic figure and sometimes i wonder if we even watched the same series

#like yes he is tragic. every character in the series is tragic but i think hes easily the least tragic of the winners #(except maybe cleo. i have my own thoughts about how cleos victory plays into her core themes and why its not as joyous or triumphant as #cleo the players and the fandom at large make it seem that i will have to make a real post about at some point)#grian dies Laughing. he smiles and calls it a dual victory before the final fight. his last words are “its been amazing.”#to me Grians arc is about how he came in with this sense of mirth. had it ripled away by the reality when his joke gets Scar killed.#and then rediscovers it as he learns that the horror of their circumstances doesn't need to keep him from delight #plus also ive never seen a man more delighted to explode three of his friends #ill also bring up that Martyns lore has Grian involved in the games explicitly to COMBAT the angst #that Grians inherent silliness and joy makes the players less hopeless as they meet their endings #and theres obviously parts of martyns lore i can take or leave but this is one area where Eyes and Ears lines up very well with what actions #the characters take and so im happy to bring it up #unlike other parts such as “limlife pearl and cleo retained more trauma between seasons than any player has before”#which i do directly refute as it doesn't seem to line up with the way the characters act and the story plays out #thats for another post though #my point here is 3l grian was having the time of his life and i think there are some fanon interpretationd that disregard that #which theyre free to do im definitely someone who has ignored canon plenty of times in the past (glances at worm)#but i think this is the sort of thing that makes the canon more interesting and compelling #anyway. um. rambled longer than i meant to there #grian #trafficblr #3rd life #3rd life smp #3lsmp

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dol-dee · 1 month

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I WENT THROUGH ALL OF THAT WRAITH BS ONLY TO MISS THIS??? < had to reload

ALSO SYDNEY?? BABY WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU??????? DONT SAY THAT

#SYDNEY THATS HOW YOU END UP IN ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIPS SYDNEYYY (Walt Screaming in a Car meme)#hrrgghh I really dont want Dee to hit her but it does feel in character. Their whole relationship began bc she resented sydney after all #I've also tried out the other options and I don't think theyre quite as compelling to me #i reloaded an earlier safe to check this out bc Dees trauma/stress stats are too far down now #I know it perfectly makes sense for the kind of person Sydney is but if someone told me that pseudo religious bs while I was having-#-a breakdown I would be so done (ik she means well)#Dee absolutely flabbergasted by what Sydney said at the end and will spend the next few days incredulous while-#-she slowly descends into a cocktail of self loathing; guilt and shame #NO I CANT MOVE ON FROM THIS SYDNEY DONT OFFER YOURSELF UP AS A PUNCHING BAG!!!!??????#i knew there was smth wrong with ehr too but holllllyyyyy fuck #dol rambles #sydney the fallen #dee the defiant

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misspickman · 18 days

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Actually so evil of bg3 to have the emperor be referred to with it/its pronouns only to do the big reveal and make it a him again

#Not genuinely evil i am being dramatic etc. But sad to me #I do just hate the whole emperor reveal so much tho. He was a more interesting character before that #I still wasn't super compelled by it but thats ok. However. Ugh #In general the way bg3 does pronouns is not ideal imo like this is still a lot better than most games do it #But the fact that there is a they them option and no npc uses it #Only characters with non he/she pronouns are the two mindflayers (afaik?)#Its something for sure. Makes me think #Genuinely does make me wonder how Gender is in faerun.. Tell me more..#Everyone genders my character correctly but okay How do they know or even assume considering there doesn't seem to be #a precedent of gender neutral pronouns for other characters nor otherwise gender non-conforming characters #Yes i am thinking too much about it i know why it is the way it is. However. It is interesting to me #I like to think about this shit. Talk to me about gender in this fantasy world pspsps video game #Txt #No shade to omeluum my favorite it its mindflayer ever. U know what i mean

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taniushka12 · 2 months

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one day im gonna make fanart of MY fbc director!alan au with barry being Head of Communications and his right hand man (a win for nepotism!) because theres No Way hes being the director all on his own theres just No Way

#alan in control yes yes whatever who cares can we PLEASE talk about barry in this au? now THATS where my moneys at #tani's personal shit #real talk i kinda hate this au bc i cant find any logic in the timeline like. is this post aw2? what happened to jesse then?#cant be alan instead of jesse who found the gun after trench killed himself bc he was trapped in the dark place atm!#and it couldn't be Before the events of aw1 bc WHAT reason would there be for that to even happen!#it makes no sense timeline wise and how can i set a characterization accordingly? i hate it!#give me a good backstory that fits timeline & characterization wise and i Might consider it but otherwise it just vexes me..#head of communications barry though. he compels me 👀#head of communication barry being the right hand man of director alan NOW we're COOKING

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birdmenmanga · 2 months

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@raventhekittycat

hi okay so I've been mulling this one over for the past day or two and I think I have the answer. not to be using hamburger to explain anything to an american but you're my detco mutual so I'm going to try and explain it in detco terms

There's a post going around recently about how if you've read detco and only detco, the first time hakuba shows up you're going to be totally flummoxed, because damn this guy is clearly important, he gets to be even cooler than Shinichi, he's got a half-page shot of him (in such a panel-dense series such as Detective Conan, no less!!) and he's got a fucking hawk. he's CLEARLY important. everything about the narrative is indicating that you need to PAY ATTENTION to hakuba and that he's the coolest guy and he's important!!!! and then he dies in the case lol (not for real. but still.)!! and you're like huh??? what was that. why did aoyama do that.

But with the context of magic kaito this totally makes sense. He's a beloved character that people have been waiting decades to see again. Of course Aoyama is going to hype him up!! It's his big moment after years of being locked in the backrooms!!!

Anyways reading birdmen for me was kind of like that. The author's previous series, Kekkaishi, was pretty one-dimensional at the beginning, and even after the main plot started picking up at around volume 6, it still felt quite understandable. I knew what she was trying to get at, and the spectacular job she did with the anthropocene and climate change metaphor towards the end of that series really made me interested in the rest of her works. That and the way she writes familial relationships is absolutely DEVASTATING. (I mean this with the highest of praise)

But when I read BIRDMEN for the first time, I was probably in... middle school, maybe? And I read it, sure, but I didn't get it. I could see what was literally happening on the page but the narrative choices were absolutely baffling at times. Why skip over the entire part of the plot where they figure out who the birdman that saved them was? She blatantly doesn't care about that. What does she care about then?? I knew I didn't get it, I knew there were parts of it that were important and I couldn't figure out why and THAT'S how it dug its pretty little claws into me. Even after I finished catching up it nagged at me a little bit, not often at all, but enough that every once in a while I go, huh, right, that was a thing, let me go read it again.

For the record this type of story haunting has happened to me twice. First time was the Heart of Thomas, second time was BIRDMEN. I think the thing is that these are both stories which are not what other people say they are and I think I came into both of these stories with a misconception, trying to look too hard for things that weren't important and therefore missing the things that were.

Because sure, BIRDMEN is about mental illness. Yeah, it's about an evil scientific organization growing mutants in a lab. Yeah, it's about what it means to leave your humanity behind. That's all technically correct, on a surface level, and the fandom at large likely agrees with these takes for the most part, but in my opinion none of that really delves into what the thematic messaging of the story is about.

There are cryptic conversations about authority and human extinction and peculiar outfit and ability choices. You can tell these choices weren't made to serve the purpose of "writing exciting shonen manga" because that was what she did for the most part in Kekkaishi and you can tell she wasn't putting her whole pussy into doing that here. So what was she doing? What's like. All of this. Waves my hands at this.

The short answer is that it's really about the interplay between capitalism (represented by humanity) and communism (represented by birdmen), and explores the role institutional white supremacy (EDEN) plays in enforcing capitalism. It is ALSO about queer liberation and the importance of community, but hey, that double-stacks conveniently with the communism metaphor.

But also take this opinion of mine with a grain of salt. As far as I know I'm the only one who really truly deeply believes that it is not only AN interpretation of the work, but one that was fully intended by the author.

So basically, I like it, because I think it says something true and beautiful that I also believe in, even if I didn't have the words for it the first time I read it. But I don't really think that's what people really look for in a media recommendation.

Do I like it? Yes, I love it. Will I recommend it to others? Yeah, sure. But do I think it's deeply flawed? Yeah, absolutely. It's flawed in the same ways as The Witch from Mercury— a rushed ending, too many threads that were opened and never tied together. The pacing and characterization is perfect in the beginning, and too rushed at the end. There are prerequisites you basically HAVE to read in order to understand the story (tempest for G-Witch and the communist manifesto for birdmen). I think a truly good story wouldn't have any of these things so if people don't like it I never blame them.

It's my personal experiences that make birdmen so profound to me. If you are not queer I just don't think Eishi coming out as a birdman to his mom will hit the same, just as an example. Sorry that I wasn't the kid you wanted me to be. I know you love me and you just want the best for me and that's why you're so controlling, because you think I can be saved by conforming to societal expectations. But I can't live like that. I can't be like that. And that's why I must go. etc.

Aesthetically I do love birdmen a lot. If I had to describe it in a few words it would probably be "chilling", "beautiful", and "powerful", which nicely coincides with the type of things I personally like to draw. It's also silly to a small degree but it's so serious and I know Tanabe can be way way way funnier (read kekkaishi for this. kekkaishi and hanazakari no kimitachi he were foundational to my sense of sequential art humor) so that's not really the standout trait of this series.

I can't let it go because I'm chewing this series like a bone. And it's taking me years but I am getting that sweet sweet marrow. By god. We are on year 3 of this shit and I am GOING to understand this series. and I'm going to make 3 video essays about it

#just thinking thoughts...#stray bird thoughts #so it's like... I don't like it because birdmen is good #I think I like it because I am a certain type of person and the author was trying to say something specifically to the type of person I am #OH #I'M THE TARGETED AUDIENCE THATS WHY I LIKE IT.#YEAH THATS REALLY IT!!!#A long time ago I said that birdmen wasn't written for the people who read it at the time it serialized.#it was written for the people they would become.#and I stand by that 100%#if it really stays with you there is going to be a reason even if you can't articulate it yet #and it may APPEAR sloppy to someone who doesn't see the queer or communist metaphor #like 'what is she doing what is she saying here she's not saying anything meaningful and emphasizing the wrong things'#but that sort of presumes she is gunning to make 'the best shonen manga ever'#which she clearly isn't.#I remember when I was reading fma with a bunch of my classmates and I'd lend them a volume or two every day #and a piece of feedback I received that has stuck with me was 'volume 15 was so boring'#(that was the volume recounting the ishval civil war. it was boring because we were middle schoolers and didn't REALLY get it.)#and like. I think to people who are looking for something like kks. the whole thing is going to feel like fma volume 15 #like WHAT is she going on about? ? ?#like witch hat and dunmesh I think are similar types of stories but I think these two are just executed way better than bm #but because of that it is just not as compelling to me you know.#like yeah yeah it's well constructed. we all see it's well constructed.#the metaphor is so well constructed that I don't feel the need to point it out. everyone is saying it already you know #but bm is cryptic enough and just slightly missed that execution enough that I feel like I'm pulling the analysis out of a smoking wreckage #recently I've been watching mentourpilot videos about airplane accidents and like. that's exactly it.#there's nothing to say about a perfectly executed flight.#it's the ones that failed. and in particular the ones that just barely failed by a little bit. that compels people the most.#cue my de communism is failure post. bc that bm sure did fail.

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shitpostingkats · 7 months

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There are two, possibly three oneshots planned in the yugioh gc au for the sole reason of making sure the Arc V bois and girlies get adopted and happy endings.

#arc v I may have mixed feelings about you but its the show than made me start writing this darn thing #because I feel compelled to write out what happened to the yubois and bracelet girls #as well as adressig Yuya's staggering mental health issues #anyways #Yuri as Jaden's weird little intern i WILL fight to make this happen #as well as Yusei adopting Yugo and Rin #Yuma's too young to adopt but thats okay at least Yuto and Lulu have an actual home to go back to #the possible third installation is Jack and Crow helping Yugo and Rin move out of their apartment and getting to meet their au selves #just because I think this is a hilarious concept #yugioh gc au #yugioh #arc v #yugioh arc v #ygo arc v

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eosofspades · 3 months

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my hottest writing take is that if your character writing is good enough i literally do not care about how detailed or significant the worldbuilding is. the reason tiktok trope-list books suck isn't inherently because they lack worldbuilding it's because the character writing is bad

#i love stories grounded in RELATIONSHIPS two characters sitting in a blank void and talking COULD #be a compelling story if they were well-written enough and if that's the case i don't even WANT to know #what the void is or why theyre there or how they got there.#in my experience trying to flesh out your worldbuilding in a serious and majorly detailed way can actually be DETRIMENTAL to #your story bc it detracts from the raw consuming nature of your character relationships (if thats your goal) because #now you have to remember Lore and Details and Events and stuff and on some level i think it can affect your #immersion because it is constantly reminding you this is happening in a fictional fantasy world #does this make any sense. can anyone hear me #writing #mine

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toastsnaffler · 6 months

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in a hilarious turn of events my flatmate didn't even know I use any pronouns....

#i thought when she was talking abt how her parents thought i was gonna come out as trans and kept checking my name/pronouns-#that the joke was that im ALREADY trans but in ways they dont know abt.... but nope she genuinely didnt know 🤭#to be fair. i dont rly let anyone in on my gender business unless we're close enough to be dating or its an anonymous online space #like im legally cis and thats fine. idc abt ppl using my name + she/her bc thats not my gender identity its just AN identity that i use-#to navigate the world without ppl being fucking nosy bc i pass as + am sociopolitically treated as a woman (if butch lol)#to ppl who are friends ill joke that my gender is dyke (true) and to friends whose gender falls on a similar spectrum-#or who are transmasc ill talk a little more honestly abt it bc theyre usually able to understand better than anyone else #other butch dykes w a weird gender going on are the only motherfuckers who actually Get It but theyre hard to come by tbh #to be frank i dont fucking know whats going on w my gender. and i dont rly care enough to do the introspection to figure it out rn #i have so many other problems in my life and im lucky that most of my beef w gender can be solved by presenting butch + binding #and using any pronouns around other queer ppl. its actually incredibly funny to me when ppl she/her me bc its like tch. this chump hasnt #unlocked my level of gender yet. pronouns and names in general are so far disconnected from the way i exist in the world...#its just smth thats fun for me to play around with + makes me feel weird sometimes but in ways i havent distilled yet yknow #and this has been my approach to gender for like?? 4-5 years now??? and likely will continue to be for a long while..#anyway. its not actually that surprising my flatmate doesnt know bc shes cis so ive never felt compelled to have a deeper conversation #abt gender with her. but also i could sweeaaar its been mentioned bc almost all our other friends are trans lol #and also ive been introducing myself at queer sports socials w any pronouns and i swear i talked abt that w her..... whatever #and my pronouns are on discord and shes def seen my tumblr before but maybe i didnt have them in my bio at the time... i digress #i kind of prefer cis ppl she/hering me tbh. theyre not able to they them or he him or whatever else me in a way that matters.....#altho i do find it fascinating when she or other ppl elect to use neutral or masculine terms for me. raising an eyebrow and taking notes #like when she got a job and joked abt me being her househusband.. pulling up the fem/masc tally chart and chalking a line up #a la nona the ninth.... ive been trying to figure out whos inhabiting this body my entire fucking life with no luck girl #ANYWAY just smth to think abt. im so tired i think my brain is gonna start seeping out my eyeballs #im gonna watch some more pluto and read and then -> 🛌#another 6:30 start tomorrow woohoo #.diaries #zzzzz

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pointsfortrying · 1 month

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Ah lads here we go again. Chat, who's going to tell them

#dungeon meshi spoilers #<- for the beloveds #head in hands #when characters are written well (complex) but ppl Neeeed to be able to 'they're a bad person' bc they did a bad thing #failing to realize that literally EVERYONE has done bad things---#the characters have depth! thats whats compelling!!!#yes this is bc the anime reached toshiro and we are once again seeing the waves of 'i hate shuro he's an awful person' raghhhhhhh #i fucking love laios he's an incredible character but raghhhh #chat they (fandom) don't know about the microaggressions #grahhh cultural differences and arguably clashes of nd bc i can see toshiro also being nd but even if not raghhh #yes toshiro should have handled things better but also laios should have and its wrong to baby either of them raghhh #also toshiro hasnt eaten or slept in days and is all over the place at this point and Laios Even Acknowledges It raghhhhhhhhhhh #raghhhhhhhhhhhh #ghhhhhhh knows that the later scenes will probably hopefully make some ppl better understand but its going to ten ten trillion years to get #there and raghhhhhhh #oh boy i cant wait to see th fucking. racisms.#ghhhhhhhhhh #me when idrc ab toshiro but the sheer scale of hate directed towards him makes me want to blorbo him out of spite rahhhhh #<- me when i have been in situations where im both laios and toshiro and it sucks from both sides #and thats! the! point!!!!!!!!!!!!#you can hurt ppl you care ab!!!!!!!!#grahhhhhhhh #the cultural part is one that just. grah.#ryoko kui does such an incredible job establishing and showing that different cultures exists and just the fandom ignoring that gh.#also stop calling him shuro raghhh <- thats a pet peeve one but god as someone who's irl name has been made fun of #So many times bc it's not 'local'.#ghhhhh laios ily but the panel where you were going 'HUH? SHURO? NICE TO MEET YOU EVERYONE THIS IS SHURO :D'. pain and agony #ryoko kui has absolutely been there before as most asian ppl when white person #<- this was me just having a moment bc goes into tag and sighs.#toshiro you're an asian side character standing in the way of the blorbo mc and blorbo yuri you never stood a chance.....

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vaugarde · 2 months

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i feel like there's definitely this pressure online to be obsessed with tumblr or twitters favorite show of the week no matter what and i think as someone who doesnt really engage with a lot of things as theyre coming out, it's a bit easier to see that, and i think it's good to kinda go "am i watching this bc im actually interested in the premise or just bc its the darling show of the month"? and its not a bad thing if it doesnt vibe with you.

i say this as sort of a long winded way of saying that despite the premise feeling like it was tailor made for me in every way that i did not latch on to mp100 the way everyone else in my circle seemed to LOL

#idk why. there were definitely moments that got to me like that arc where mob was put in hell autism world or something like that #and i thought the stuff about kids being pushed to be the adults in the room despite their immaturity was compelling #but idk. it didnt grip me and i dont remember a lot of it #maybeee its bc i watched it subbed? but i watched rgu subbed and that didnt make it any less impactful to me #and i felt bad for a while bc i was like ''man am i just too dumb to get it?? am i failing social circles??''#but eh. nothing wrong with the show at its core. i just didnt latch on to it #maybeeee its something a rewatch in the dub could fix? idk #i definitely feel like its this culture where nothing feels truly long term anymore ig? a series has its time in the spotlight #and in a month everyone says its cringe and dumb to still be as obsessed with it #and thats exhausting #not saying thats what happened to mob bc i dont think it did but idk #echoed voice

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freakshowcowboy · 2 months

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pre-canon shannon and eddie. means so much to me. you dont get it..

#im a gay eddie truther and i think thats what makes shannon and eddie so compelling to me #like.#they were just kids with so much care for each other they think it must be love #and then they have a baby and theyre both so young and confused and scared and everything good they had between them twists and breaks down #they dont know how to exist together in these new roles #husband and wife mother and father #just. eddie so drenched in what hes been taught these roles mean and what hes supposed to be and the terror it strikes in him #and shannon left confused and alone lost her best friend with all this responsibility shoved onto her shoulders #idkidkidk theyre just So. To Me #yeehawing #911 #eddie diaz #shannon diaz

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skitskatdacat63 · 1 year

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2009 Bahrain Grand Prix - Sebastian Vettel(ft. Jenson Button)

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sieglinde-freud · 1 year

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i think the fell xenologue does a great job at characterizing some of the royals beyond the vanilla game mostly because every single royal has like one or two core principles that really make them who they are and so getting rid of those one or two things completely converts them into a completely different person. like alcryst losing his self doubt, celine loses her empathy, hortensia loses her resilience, etc etc. but i think my favorite version of this has to be fogado, who has in my opinion the most drastic change. i think all of the other royals have very outward presenting traits that you can easily catch onto and see theyve lost. but fogado is just a little different, because what fell fogado lacks isnt really a trait; he loses his sense of love. (rest under the cut bc it turned into an essay. my bad also fell xenologue spoilers obvs)

“our” fogado (?? idk how to differentiate between them. work with me here) is not an easy person to read in universe. he makes it very clear in chapter 13 that he’s pretty good at deception and is very willing to make use of that skill. his supports with timerra and pandreo also tell us he’s gotten used to keeping up a specially crafted persona meant to kind of suppress his feelings (that timerra and pandreo can see through but. like 1. theyre smart 2. sister and bff ok moving on). but he doesn’t do it out of malice or because he just likes being tricky, he lies because he loves. everything in fogado’s life is shaped by what he loves: his country, his friends, and his sister. every single motivation he has is fueled by this: the constant partying, how often he leaves the castle, all his acting. its even in his goddamn class name (cupido) and birthday (feb 14) if you needed the game to spell it out for you

so thats why when we get to the fell xenologue, the fogado we meet is changed in that one specific way: his love is gone. we know this because of a few things, the first of which is that he is honest. aside from the robe (in which he is assassinating someone! but also. lets be so honest with ourselves here. you can see his fucking face) he’s immediately upfront with his intentions: he wants the bracelets, he wants power, and he wants you to die. and thats it. he just kind of hands you that information, and then fucks off when you win. on what earth would our fogado do that? dude wouldnt even tell you if he broke his leg, he just partied a little hard last night. but thats just it isnt it? our fogado lies because he loves people, hes protecting them. fell!fogado is transparent because he’s not protecting anyone, he doesn’t care.

but the biggest kicker in fell!fogado’s lack of love is in his interaction with our timerra. our fogado loves his sister more than anything, as he literally plans his entire life around making HER life easier. he sacrifices even just spending time with her just because he needs to make sure hes fully prepared to keep her safe (not that timerra wants that for him but he doesnt really get that. which is another topic i could dive into but this post is long enough lets not make it a novel). fell!fogado though? well you see–

any love fogado holds for his sister, or any love at all really, is just not present in fell!fogado. and you could say that maybe its just because of the corruption, but then why do we still see love between the fierenese and brodian siblings? even fell!timerra still loves her brother if her conversation with our fogado is anything to go off of. but the writers know that fogado lives and dies on his love for people, its his entire being and so much more so than the rest of the cast. which is why thats what had to change in him for the fell xenologue. it wasnt really just a flip of the switch haha murder thing (though. it could have been handled better. lets be real) but it was the loss of everything that makes fogado him. and i think the fact that this gets to be highlighted in the dlc just makes base game fogado all that much more interesting, because it cements his motivation now that we know what he's like without it. fogado is a guy driven by love and its just fucking great

#fe fogado #ann gets engaged #im not really sure what compels me to type up gigantic rambles in the middle of the night but. whatever #anyways so next up on the agenda: my argument for why hes aroace—#ok kidding bc thats purely headcanon and has nothing to do with fogados motivations but cmon. let a girl dream.#anyways when i first started typing this out it was supposed to be like. four sentences about me liking the contrast between the fogados #whoops!#my hand mustve slipped #but idk i just like. i like talking about fogado bc i feel like not enough people really do #and like theres discussion about him but its usually either shipping stuff or unit viability #both of which are valid! its just that in those discussions fogado as a character takes a backseat #which is j such a shame bc. grerahhekkdke hes sooo compelling. im putting him in my washing machine #oh and then theres the racism in the fandom but. wow. fe fans and racism noooo way. so shocked #/s if that wasnt obvious #and THEN if there is discussion about him as a person theres like 50% chance its j ‘oh hes claude 2’#which i have already expressed my frustration about as i love both of them and theyre j. so not the same.#but people assume bc they know claude they know fogado and thats just not true. its so not true.#whatever im not trying to make the tags longer than the post i just think fogado is neat :)#engage fav? yeah. top 10 fe character? ykw. probably #ok goodnight

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