#vs real actions

[proshippy-fox]

can people PLEASE stop saying proshippers have to be supportive of radqueers..... yeah I like weird fiction and yeah I think people who claim to be "transmexican" or "transkorean" are being disrespectful. those aren't linked to each other.

#like I get the argument of being anti para and proship since those arguments are based around the existence of thought crimes #vs real actions #but where do these people saying “my identity as a real life person is inherently tied into this stance of fiction” #????????/ #math isn't mathing #rant

[cairavende]

Worm Arc 15 interludes thoughts

Carol interlude:

Holy shit you really were just a fucking TERRIBLE mother!

Like I get it, you had lots of horrible childhood trauma. And you didn't want to adopt Amy and let yourself get bullied into it by your sister. But that doesn't give you an excuse for how you treated both your kids.

Got to see another trigger event!! Fuck yes. Give me more. I want to see more details on those higher dimensional beings.

Fucking hell seeing Marquis's powers in play is pretty crazy. Dangerous boy.

Carol was just going to full blown stab right through that closet door without even looking inside! She almost killed a child! God damn.

“No.  He’s just my daddy.  Reads me bedtime stories, makes me dinner, and tells me jokes.  I love him more than anything else in the world.  You can’t take him away from me.  You can’t!” Fucking ooof that's a line.

No seriously though this can't be the first time there has been a young child of a cape that needed to be adopted because their parent was arrested or killed. Is there really no system in place for this? Cause Amy should not be going with Carol.

Just the way through most of the present sections of the interlude that Carol thinks about her daughter and Amy. Not her daughters. And this was before she knew anything about what Amy had done. Terrible mother.

HOLY SHIT AMY OH MY GOD YOU MADE IT EVEN WORSE! And I thought flesh coffin Victoria was bad! FUCK!

Vic is going to need lots of therapy.

Fucking Carol basically deciding Amy is her daughter now only because she doesn't want to think about Victoria being her daughter. Damn. Bad mother.

And Amy is in the birdcage (Hellfire playing in my head the entire damn time I'm reading this part). I'd be rather terrified to see what she becomes except no one ever gets out of the birdcage so obviously there is no worries. She is never going to be an issues. (I shouldn't need the /s but just to be safe.)

Brian interlude:

Not much to say here, most of my thoughts on this relationship was said in my last post.

I do always love seeing Taylor from the PoV of someone else. Just shows how fucking badass she is. And kinda terrifying.

"She conveyed an eerie kind of confidence that he knew she didn’t have at her core." This is just incorrect bud. When she isn't thinking about how she is portraying herself she conveys the confidence she does have at her core. The stuff she hides from herself.

Alexandria interlude:

DATES! DATA! LORE! AHHHHHHH!!!!

Date of first Endbringer attack!!!!! Strong estimation of the number of capes in August 1986! Knowledge that Cauldron was working in 1986! Their "success" rate at the time that I can compare to now! (Success in quotes cause I don't personally think tentacles is a failure. I want to meet tentacle lady.)

Obviously I'm not a big fan of any of the Cauldron people on the surface. But I think I like Contessa within those boundaries. I technically have no idea what she can do but I'm almost positive she is some type of precog. And I kind of ship her and Alexandria.

Behemoth is fucking scary. Just light people on fire from the inside, shoot lightning. Full energy manipulation. Damn.

Alexandria is the head of the PRT! Damn! (I assume at least.)

I want to know more about the Terminus project!

And Coil is a product of Cauldron! But he doesn't know it (supposedly). Damn. They list him as an alternate to the Protectorate which is very interesting. I'm super curious what Cauldron's goal with the Protectorate was and how Coil can do the same.

Fucking Alexandria just going and grabbing people to be experimented on and it's "ok" cause they were dying. Holy shit! She even manages to make the comparison to her chemo treatment and still does it! Fuck lady. You can justify anything.

Triumph interlude:

See? Triumph is fine! So Skitter didn't do anything wrong.

Triumph is Cauldron created too. Cause he was only good enough at baseball for the minor league but not the majors. God damn fucking privileged ass rich white boy. And he describes it as a traumatic thing! God. At least later he does kinda call out that he got stuff from having a rich dad with connections.

Assault seems to be doing great! Sure was a good idea to let him join the Protectorate just cause he wanted to be a creep to this one girl. Turns out when that girl is gone he doesn't have any motivations to be a "good guy". Great decision Legend.

Robot daughter! Good to see you again! And you built yourself a bio body! Or a head at least. Still, fun!

AAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Defiant.

Definitely isn't Polearm McGee! Nope! Absolutely a different person. That also likes really long pointy sticks.

I am glad Frank Miller's Armsmaster was able to remove the restrictions on robot daughters code. She deserves freedom. Pretty much served his purpose now and she basically just keeps him around to humor him. "Oh yes I need Defiant to help me, even though I built his suit and could just control it directly myself."

Seven Dragon suits in Brockton Bay huh? I'm sure that won't result in anything next arc. What with Dragon specifically on the lookout for Taylor and Taylor planning on going with her dad to the town hall on the election.

Triumph gives in to the weight of not speaking up about Defiant being Armsmaster but then he gets mad at Prism for not speaking up! My dude! You didn't speak up, you can't be mad at her for the same thing!

Fucking LOVED the ending of this interlude, and thus this arc, though. Absolutely perfect. Just with the inherent comparison of Defiant to Mannequin, especially considering Colin called Mannequin a "monster" in his interlude and said "I'm nothing like you!" And then Triumph thinking how he could see the reason for every step Colin made and could see himself justifying each one. And the previous chapter had Taylor dealing with how far she had let herself go. All that and then ending this chapter with Triumph staring at the bodies of Crawler and Mannequin (finally confirmed dead) and the line "Maybe it was to find some clue, some sign he could watch out for, that would let him identify the monsters from the men."

Just fucking. So good. I think it's my favorite quotable arc ending so far. I might like Arc 11's ending more (it's close) but not in quotable way. "All lies" at the end of Arc 14 is a close second, but I like this one more.

#Worm #Worm Web Serial #Parahumans #Cairavende reads Worm #Carol Dallon #Creepy Crawlies #Alexandria #Cauldron #Triumph #Dragon #Frank Miller's Armsmaster #For real though I kinda want to write up an essay on the “identify monsters from the men” bit. There is just so many layers of stuff! #At a minimum it goes all the way back to 3.6 when Tattletale is talking about her “cops vs robbers” analogy. #And she says “And then there's the monsters.” Referencing SH9 and Nilbog (want to know more about) and Skitter brings up the Endbringers. #And the whole constant theme of the heroes not necessarily being the “good guys” and labels mattering more than actions. #And just the idea that there is 3 things. Heroes. Villains. And Monsters. #Monster in many ways being just as made up of a label as hero or villain but it lets people justify their actions better. #Just. AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #Worm is good. #Girlfriend thank you tag! Thanks for pestering me (affectionately) to read Worm. #My life (and the life of everyone who likes reading my thoughts on it) is better for it! Love you!!!

[field-s-of-flowers]

Palamedes is such a liminal spaces kinda dude. River bubble Canaan House. Cam’s body when she’s in control. Ianthe’s mind palace. Man seriously cannot catch a break

#soph’s posts #This is part of my Camilla-and-Palamedes action-and-thought thesis btw #He represents the abstract and hypothetical. Which is why he spends so much time in places that aren’t quite real #He’s not really a complete person without Cam there #And vice versa #So Paul is textually two people at once. But thematically they’re the synthesis of a singular person out of two halves #It’s like when Pal lets Cam off the leash for the duel scene she goes buckwild on Marta until he reins her in #And he stays in the river bubble until Cam somehow brings him into her body and back to reality #Unrealizable ideas vs unchecked animal instinct. What was I talking about #the locked tomb #palamedes sextus #the unwanted guest

[wouteke]

bike change

#i was going to make this in a compilation but like....................................... #let's be real. about the rewatchability of this vs his slow mo start #not that i dont love grug shouldering action but like hooooly fuck 😭😭😭😭 #mathieu van der poel

[navree]

you get it

#personal #that is what was going on in my head while making that set #love told in words vs the love told in real action #viserys and daemon talk a good game but like #what we actually see on screen is thirteen year old aegon and ten year old aemond reaching for each other during violent conflict #so that's what i'm gonna care about more

[slavonicrhapsody]

Honestly debating Elden Ring's characters' moralities is like putting oil in the fire

Someone or anyone ought to make a huge mess out of it,intentional or not

What I think is that hardly any of us can really judge how they act,who they are,cuz we're not in the same story,the same world. I just enjoy how complex and morally challenging it is without thinking too hard about it

yeah essentially my thoughts are that it’s completely unhelpful to take a story and sort the characters into the bad guys and the good guys; this is a story, not real life, and the focus of discussion should be on how their morally challenging actions affect their character dynamics and the direction of the story. at the same time though the severity of their actions in the story should be considered, not for the purpose of simply condemning their actions, but in order to understand how the characters’ actions have shaped their world and the people in it

#it’s the difference between ‘this character did xyz which means they’re evil and i hate them’ #vs. this character did xyz which had this effect on the world which says this about the story #for example: we should all agree it’s Bad that rykard tortured people #but i’m not sitting here saying like how can you people like him he’s so evillll #his actions have severe consequences for the world he exists in but he as a person is not real #hope this makes sense #asks

[ssaseaprince]

It's time for my annual controversial Hunger Games post

The fact that Gale is so villianized is such a strong testament to the fact that people will only stand with the oppressed if they find them palpable enough. If you think his anger was extreme and his actions were unnecessary, then you have no real grasp on how revolutions actually work.

#I can understand not liking him on a personal level for how he treats Katniss #But I'm talking about the people who villianize him for his actions and feeling during the war and revolution #Suzanne Collins did a remarkable job using real life revolutions as models for her books #Everybody is basing whether or not everybody's actions were justified around how Katniss personally felt and it doesnt work like that #Because yes Katniss's input was necessary and important but so was everybody elses #Because if it was all up to Katniss 100% realistically they would not have won the revolution #Which makes sense because Katniss was a 16 year old girl and it would be unreasonable and unfair to expect her to be the sole decision make #They all helped win the war - Gale included #This is also evident in how people react to Johanna vs Gale when their actions are so similar and if anything Johanna would be more violent #But Johanna is more palpable so people support her more #Its just such an obvious example of the fact that people don't care about the oppressed unless they find them personally likeable #And people don't want to acknowledge the undesirable parts of wars and revolutions and what it takes out of people #People just want to see everybody as black and white #ANYWAYS Suzanne Collins is a genuis I adore her #the hunger games #catching fire #the mockingjay #gale hawthorne #katniss everdeen #thg #gale #katniss and gale

[mellowmaidenhairs]

so weirded out how fandom treats female characters nowadays and whenever i see posts criticizing it people get soooo upset and defensive like maybe you should examine why you can only get attatched to skinny usually young white conventionally attractive men no matter what their character is like but can’t think about a fleshed out woman from that same piece of media for more than 3 seconds before popping a vein

#also yes this can definitely be a result of most female characters being given less interesting roles or characteristics in a lot of media #like girl characters really are made to be more endearing or appealing and less real or gross or interesting #but it’s very obvious when fans just like characters for being dudes rhat they can make sad or pair w another skinny attractive dude #and look @ how people treat bad/morally grey actions of female characters vs how they treat male characters on that same level it’s wild!!! #☀️🌈🔥

[syn0vial]

so, i've been seeing a lot about the new BG3 epilogues, but i gotta ask: do you get a similar epilogue if you choose to become the absolute at the end? i know it's unlikely, but... i have thoughts about how that could go 👀

#baldur's gate 3 #like maybe absolute!tav gets bored of being surrounded by mindless thralls #and magnanimously gives the party their minds back for one evening #not enough that they can fight back but enough to say what they're really thinking #i think it'd be interesting to see which companions have resigned themselves to or even accepted their fate #and which ones are still fucking furious #and it could depend on things like companion quest outcomes and relationships! #for example if you never killed cazador maybe astarion would be more resigned to his fate #bc tav isn't as cruel a master as cazador was and in a twisted way keeps him safe from being taken back in by cazador's compulsion #whereas if you killed cazador‚ he'd be furious. bc he had just had his first taste of real freedom and you took it away from him. #different flavors of angry for spawn vs ascendant astarion of course #or like if you were playing a shar cleric and shadowheart stayed a shar worshiper she might actually see your actions as a good thing #seeing you as taking control of the absolute in the name of shar #whereas if you'd encouraged her to forge her own path she'd be disgusted with your hypocrisy #things like that #basically: feed me the angst pls

[ezralva]

Drama-site report comics part 1

Part 2

#the thing is I think Seto would be more like Igarashi if he just acted more like his real cheerful and goofy self #but in the drama he's more melancholic Igarashi #cool doji danshi #play it cool guys #manga vs live action #nakamoto yuta #maito fujioka #dori sakurada #takumi kawanishi #toshiki seto

[ourhouseishaunted]

my brain for the past like 2 weeks

#.txt #trigun #specifically #trimax #i am rotating her in my head always she is so fascinating to me i have so many thoughts i could write a novel #shes captivating to me. as a person #tbh her and tesla and the dependant plants as like. catalysts for so many emotions in the story but we dont get real insight into #their internal lives #and rem captivates me specifically bc shes so complicated wrt her actions with tesla but also the way she talks about leaving earth #and the idea of giving up on her home planet and putting her whole fresh start into seeds and then immediately making #the worst mistake of her life (tesla) and then starting over blank Again with vash and knives and how that all turned out #like!!!! the emotions going on there for her must be insane. i think about it Literally Constantly #and how it all ties into the mangas theme of the potential to be better vs the people you hurt before getting there #im literally obsessed with her #also she dresses like a lesbian electrician and i really like that vibe for her. im not immune #rem saverem #holding her in my hands i just think shes neat #also i have a whole incoherent google doc filled with random scenes from idk iguess the rem pov novel that lives in my brain?? #maybe ill clean them up and post them one day that is a threat #also i love fat baby knives in the itty bitty manga screencap i chose. i just know hes the densest baby alive #normal looking baby who you pick up and handles like a bag of wet cement

[quenxi]

people getting mad at fictional characters as if they have agency and are not written by authors whose biases and ideologies inform the characters they write. “he should know better than to XYZ” HE IS NOT REAL

#i feel like #there’s a difference between critiquing a character’s actions within the scope of the narrative #vs admonishing them as if they are a person you know in real life

[elytrafemme]

also like. life update. since coming to college i think i've decided i want to be less online in general, because i don't think it benefits my mental health to be on any online website too much. i know i still have strong ties to fandom and whatnot but i'm trying to reconcile my relationship with the things i've created knowing the headspace i was in when that happened; cs is more of a diary to me than anything, at least where i'm at currently. i DO want to be on discord more this break because there's people i want to VC and catch up with-- but ultimately i think i'm like exactly the worst kind of person to operate with any kind of stability on the internet so we're going to mess around with what that looks like for me for a while. love u guys and once finals are officially up in two days i'll be back to say hi :]

#nightmare.personal #i just think like. idk. i don't really know how to compassionately phrase this #but i realized with all the stuff happening in the world that like. #it's just far better to host those conversations and do those actions irl? #for a lot of reasons. one of the major ones being that its easier to weed out people in real life who are like #wildly antisemitic and awful shit like that. vs being online its like people do that for breakfast #it's also just easier to do meaningful things. so then kind of from that i was just thinking and like #it's weird! because i don't miss the act of posting or opening discord or anything #but i miss the people. but also the way you interact with online friends is so distinctive? #like i can't just get everyone's phone numbers. it'd kind of be sick if i could but you know. everyone feels diff about internet security #so like i'm constantly drawn back to tumblr because i miss people and same with discord #but i don't really adore being on here that much so it's like. really weirdly perplexing #i'm also so goddamn bad at keeping up online friendships and everyone i know here has the patience of a saint #which i deeply appreciate it's also just kinda like. #if we were here in person i could so much better convey my appreciation for you all #so i just hope you know that i do appreciate you. it's weird. #i also have to separately reconcile with the fact that i'm an evolving person IRL #but online that comes at a lag? so like i don't even know how anyone perceives my personality #because it's not that i ever really faked it its just kind of like. we all start somewhere #i don't know what i'm saying. it's disorienting is my point. #i guess i could fix this if i got the discord or tumblr app but #i'm not going to do either of those things but like. i don't know #i wish i talked more regularly to people but the actual process of doing that feels so odd to me #i dunno. we party

[chernobog13]

Godzilla went to the doctor because he could no longer ignore the man-shaped cyst on his back.

It’s actually one of Medicom’s Real Action Heroes Godzilla figures that are a padded Godzilla costume over a generic action figure.  There are two versions that I’m aware of: the King Kong vs. Godzilla version (pictured above), and the Mothra vs. Godzilla (aka Godzilla vs. The Thing) version.

I just wish Medicom had been able to use Haruo Nakajima’s lioness for the human figure, instead of the generic head sculpt they used.

#Godzilla #King Kong vs. Godzilla #kaiju #Medicom #Real Action Heroes #action figure #toys

[whileyoureinschoolidothisallday]

hey friends I have a petition for you if you have the time!!!!!!!!!

I follow this person on tiktok named WheelieErin who has the same neuromuscular disease as me!!!! They're working with an organization called Friends of Medicare to pressure the Canadian government (where they live) to prioritize home care spending in the next budget!!!!!!

This is very important for people like us because nursing care is the only way we're allowed to live independent lives like everyone else!!!!! Erin goes to school full time and lives in the dorms, I have a job, a mortgage, a cat, an in-progress writing career, and of course a beautiful life online!!!!!!! Without nursing care, neither of us would be able to pursue our dreams or have a life because we'd be stuck in institutions "staring at blank walls all day" as Erin so eloquently put it in their video (which I encourage you to watch here!)

You can sign the petition here! You don't have to live in Canada for it to be valid. Disability rights are everyone's rights, and making sure home health care is well-funded everywhere solves a lot of problems even abled adults have on their minds! Have you ever worried that you won't have anyone to take care of you when you're old without kids? Voila! Funding home care is the answer!!!!! Disabled voices don't mean much in the political sphere, but if this is seen as a widespread issue that EVERYONE supports, it'll have a much better chance at being taken seriously!

I really appreciate y'all for doing this! Even in the US, disabled people are critically understaffed because home care simply does not pay their staff and often doesn't even offer benefits, despite being more and more in-demand every year (even I am critically understaffed and have to have my family help more than I would like)!!!! This is both a labor issue and disability issue, as things usually are, so please consider spreading this as well. The more people who see this, the better!

OKAY THANK YOU FOR LISTENING I LOVE YOU MWAH!

#real life with risa #disability rights #honestly on twitter I saw SO many people with my disease opening gofundmes to fund their yearly healthcare #as far as I know alice walker is still doing it and she's in the US #we're talking HUNDRED THOUSANDS every year or you die #and I was worried that was what Erin was doing #because I've also seen a lot of the ones from Canada ending in MaiD #cause it's too expensive for the gov to help you live but they sure will help you die no problem!!!! #And most people wanna keep their dignity vs be institutionalized #But I'm very glad that wasn't the case for them and they're just taking action on the issue!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[writesailingdreams]

Watched the teaser trailer and actual trailer for the Disney live action Snow White (apparently that is a real thing that is happening somehow), and wow. I hate it.

read more because I wrote more than I thought; very rambling

the quality is lacking. I think there's shots with voice overs that don't match up. This may be because of the strike(s) and I'm okay with that if it teaches Disney you can't make good trailers if you don't pay people and recognize unions

I am so confused as to where it exists; I saw fantasy and/or historical and modern settings at the same time. (I hope that doesn't play into the choosing her destiny bit.)

I can do without girlbossing Snow White. like I get wanting to make her a more active character but active-in-story does not equal defying/rewriting destiny. What's wrong with gentleness and positivity as strengths?

most importantly, if you're doing live action Snow White anything and you don't give the dwarves dynamic character arcs, along with Snow, while focusing the emotional story around her and their relationship, what are you even doing?

it gives me 10th Kingdom vibes (the setting), but like with 90s era Disney feminism

also gives me vague Winter Lunar Chronicle vibes (mostly if that's a wolf I caught a glimpse of)

it doesn't feel like a fairy tale; it feels more fantasy -- fighting evil and darkness and lots of references to destiny (at least the 10th Kingdom tied destiny into the fairy tale angle of there being these larger roles you find yourself enacting & fitting into because of circumstances of your life but also your personal temperament due to those circumstances.)

#snow white #snow white 2024 #snow white live action #snow white and the seven dwarfs #the 10th kingdom #the lunar chronicles #fairy tales #disney #wsd opinions #wsd opinion piece #disney vs unions #what is even happening. i watched the trailer and i felt it wasn't even real. i don't know what that says #destiny #storytelling