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so it’s officially been 1,000 days since the annoying white haired guy with the blindfold got sealed!!! everyone clapped!!! in honor of this anniversary i come to you with a serious post (don’t hate me).

since jjk0 came out on crunchyroll i’ve seen some old discussions happening all over again. some people are still shocked that gojo only knew geto for less than 3 years, but even after 10 years he was still mentally stuck in the past that they’d shared. really, it’s not surprising at all. 

as we know, gojo has spent his entire life being treated as a commodity; i think his inability to make new friends has little to do with him being cocky/annoying, and a lot to do with the fact that NOBODY in canon perceives him as an actual person. other characters who have very strong personalities (maki, nobara, maybe hakari, etc.) are still able to form meaningful bonds with the rest of the characters because within the universe of jjk, they are perceived as real people with reasonable flaws/attitude problems that don’t define them. similarly, the characters understand that nanami’s serious demeanor and rigidity are a result of his unlucky experiences as a sorcerer, yet none of them are able to see past gojo’s childish attitude. nobody tries to understand him or cut him some slack, because after all, he’s the strongest. “what are we supposed to do? feel sad for him? feel pity? please”. this is why i think the scene with geto in okinawa is so important: geto asks gojo if he’s exhausted and needs to rest, and it’s possibly the only time in jjk when someone considers that gojo might experience actual human sensations. so it is not surprising at all that he will never get over the three years of his life when he had someone who indulged him with even the slightest sense of understanding and vulnerability

#jjk #satosugu #excuse me while I cry into my cereal bowl

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Airport talk

#satosugu #it's been so long since I was on tumblr that I forgot how to use tags #forever crying #this is canon you can't change my mind

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Without a doubt, he is stronger than anyone, but during his youth, there were probably moments when he confided his weaknesses to his best friend.

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Why Rezaren’s portrayal was a waste of potential imo

I'm not saying he deserved any better, but the way he just immediately became a mustache-twirling villain killed any nuance or discussion that could've been had about the real evil at the root of his behavior: the way slavery, power abuse, and systemic inequality are accepted as the natural order to things in Tevinter society.

Historically speaking, few slave owners likely considered themselves evil. Putting aside the people responsible for large-scale atrocities, those who passively participated in the system and had grown up with it - like Rezaren - simply accepted it as a way of life. Many might have even considered themselves benevolent by virtue of not "mistreating" their slaves, or considering their slaves as "part of the family" - ignoring the massive incongruity of how the slaves are always at the mercy of their owners and are never treated as equals.

The same incongruity is evident in the set-up of Rezaren's relationship with Miri and Neb. "We were raised as siblings," he says in the same breath as he admits his mother owned them. He reminisces about their "happy" childhood, but conveniently glosses over the abuse they faced or how Miri would again be completely at his mercy to control or dispose of as he wishes if she "returned home".

IMO, I think it would've been way more interesting if he had been forced to tackle this incongruity. By pushing him to realize that as much as he misses Neb and Miri, the two are still objects to him more than real family, he could've had a crisis of faith for his world-views. If they wanted to keep him a villain, he could still choose to be wilfully ignorant and stick to his ways, refusing to admit that he was wrong and thinking he knows what's better for them as their master. We see bits of this in his confrontation with Miri in ep 4, but it's glossed over in favor of painting Rezaren as your typical callous and power-hungry magister instead.

I think that in turn kind of oversimplifies the whole narrative theme of how evil slavery is. Slavery isn't just evil because all slave owners are villainous sociopaths who think of people as tools by default, but because it's a system that facilitates and promotes such behavior in every level of the society in which it exists. By pinning it on a single individual character's moral compass, we ignore that the real evil is how terrifyingly easy it is for anybody born to Rezaren's amount of privilege to do the same without ever questioning how messed up that is. How normalized dehumanization and oppression become as part of everyday life, and how difficult it is to challenge those benefiting from it to see what they do as evil.

Idk, I'm likely overthinking this given the length and the budget of the show, but I just thought it had such potential when they first presented us with how he sees Miri as a sister, only to more or less trash the implications of it within half an episode. I think it would've been more compelling if they had just stuck to Rezaren wanting the circulum to revive Neb and have his "family" back rather than weave it into his ambitions.

The narrative primarily signals "Rezaren is evil, that's why he's a slave owner" after the Divine reveal, when we could have focused on "Rezaren wants to stay a slave owner even after knowing how it harms the people he claims to love, and that makes him evil" -- the latter which could've been a far more powerful commentary on how awful slavery is, at least in my view.

#dragon age #dragon age: absolution #daa #daa rezaren #daa miriam #rezaren ammosine #can't believe I'm reviving my dead tumblr because the sub deleted my post #but I have Thoughts on this ok #I'm not saying we should have redeemed him #but rather that the true evil of what he was doing isn't conveyed properly #by highlighting his individual wickedness #we fail to focus on how slavery is a systemic evil #and what it truly means when they say that there are no kind slave masters

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Oh no :( Merrill, my baby

#dragon age #da2 #merrill #mahariel #dalish elf origin #(my Warden did the US)

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Cinematic parallels: Merrill watching my HoF leave in DA:O vs. Merrill leaving herself in DA2

#dragon age #da:o #da2 #merrill #marethari #dalish elf origin #yes I resurrected my near-dead tumblr just to share this #I love DA... #also shown here: the wonders of mods #mahariel

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WAIT. HOLD UP. SIMTOPI IS BACK?! HOW THE HELL DID I MISS THIS????

Chapter 54: Victims

Full chapter on Dreamwidth (TW warnings: stalking, assault, blood )

#sims 2 #simtopi #sims 2 stories #this is what happens when I stay on my alternate otome acc for too long

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my piece for @dorianartbook, i can upload it at last

i’m so glad that i had an opportunity to be a part of this project!

#dragon age #dragon age:inquisition #da:i #dorian pavus

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yay now that the PDF’s have gone out i can share my full piece for fortitudo @dorianartbook :D I got to meet some many incredible people and artists through this wonderful project, i’m so thankful to have been a part of it <3

#dragon age #dragon age:inquisition #da:i #dorian pavus #this is gorgeous

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roger that

#fiction #writing #I had no idea this was Mira Grant but I love her work #all of this

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An assassin on the run

Redraw speed-paint practice of << link >> to commemorate the new year. Also, sped-up video on youtube here: << link >>

Patrons get a step-by-step image tutorial! 

kofi  ♢ patreon  ♢ commissions

#dragon age #dragon age: origins #zevran #my love

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Again, thank you so much for liking my baby Adel!! And thanks again for holding this wonderful contest <3

Hello everyone!

The moment you all have been waiting for is here! Here are the winners for our first contest.

Congratulations!

You can check out the winning entries HERE!

Thanks again to everyone who participated! We were absolutely amazed by the quantity of entries we had coming in, despite the busy time of year. Though it was a difficult task, we truly enjoyed reviewing everyones’ entries and are grateful for your participation.

#cinderella phenomenon #writing #personal #otome #oelvn #cpcontest

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an endless game of “does she/he know that I know?”

iron bull //  dorian // cullen

#dragon age #da:i #cullenmance #cole #so cute

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forgetting to change into better looking armour and having to watch a serious cut-scene play out is like getting publicly shamed 

#dragon age #dragon age:inquisition #da:i #solas #SAVAGE #but still true lol

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Me while editing: *adds a sentence*

*finds nearly identical sentence in the next paragraph*

#personal #writing #same #why do I love the words hey and even and billowing so much #why does everything have to billow #or flutter #or people suppressing the urge to do something #also the word well #why do I have to edit out at least 3 well's in every dialogue

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If you’re straight, write stories with gay characters, but don’t write stories about being gay. That’s not your story to tell.

If you’re cis, write stories with trans characters, but don’t white stories about being trans. That’s not your story to tell.

If you’re allistic, write stories with autistic characters, but don’t write stories about being autistic. That’s not your story to tell.

If you’re neurotipical, write mentally ill characters, but don’t write stories about being mentally ill. That’s not your story to tell. 

If you’re able bodied, write stories with disabled characters, but don’t write stories about being disabled. That’s not your story to tell. 

If you’re white, write characters who are POC, but don’t write stories about being a POC. That’s not your story to tell 

Write stories with diverse and complex characters, but unless you’ve experienced the oppression that we have, don’t write the stories that we need to tell ourselves. 

#writing #YES #THIS #POC with an invisible disability here and I'm so sick of not existing in media #this level of censorship is ridiculous #of course writing about these topics is a very sensitive matter and plenty of research is needed #and naturally this shouldn't equate to drowning out the voices of those who've actually lived through it #but to tell people that they're only allowed to depict these as a character trait that have no impact on their lives #since you wouldn't know about that journey #is stupid #just freaking talk to people who've been there #make sure that your depiction is realistic and respectful #and again #RESEARCH #this is how we wind up with tokenism #because people are too afraid to delve into their characters and so just have them for the sake of having them #if I have to read one more Asian character who might as well have been white if not for occasionally namedropping Asian things... #or disabled characters who resort to the same old stereotype #this is like the SJW version of that write only what you know bullshit #if you don't know it #learn #that's all there is to it really #wow this was one hell of a tag rant

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A meeting with my insurance administrator

Me: Due to my neurological dysfunction, multisensory impressions are difficult to process for my brain. This makes leaving the house very tiring for me, especially since I live in the smack center of the city and am bombarded with a lot of motion, noise, etc. as soon as I step outside the door.

My insurance admin: So, in other words, you’re too tired to leave the house.

Me: Yes.

My insurance admin: Have you tried going out more often

#personal #rant #what kind of neurotypical bullshit #what exactly about being too tired to leave the house do you not understand?? #and now they want me to try low-energy activities outside my home on a regular basis so I can qualify for my goddamn insurance #invisible illness #it's like thinking that riding a broken bike more often will make it less broken #oh it's just stiff in the beginning #THAT'S NOT HOW NEUROLOGICAL DYSFUNCTION FUCKING WORKS