#<- not that bad but. for the text itself

[jichanxo]

all riled up

#kuwagami #takayuki yagami #yagami takayuki #kuwana jin #jin kuwana #lost judgment #judgment #jichanart #jichan'shandslipped #<- not that bad but. for the text itself #quite possibly the most labour intensive buildup for a joke i've ever made #because 1. comics+screentoning which i do almost never #and 2. drawing fights which i do literally never #worth it tho because it's funny #but i had to promise myself not to fuss too hard over this or i'd never do it #suffice to say trying new things is difficult but i did my best #sorry. trying not to throw a pity party over here but my point is... working hard for my silly kuwagami joke #no time to be upset over inconsistent line sizes. only kuwagami

[comradekatara]

drew the book 1 kiddos’ catsonas. just because :)

#id in alt text #avatar the last airbender #atla #katara #sokka #aang #zuko #art #mart #AUs #i guess???? #i was hesitant to draw this bc im usually rly bad at drawing animals #but i used references and i think it turned out ok! #either way it’s cute because cats are god’s most perfect creatures #i love cats more than life itself. if im being perfectly honest #MY cat most of all #god bless <3

[five-flavor-soup]

I personally think that basing your interpretation of how Ursa treated Azula on Zuko’s memories shown in ‘Zuko Alone’ is kind… incorrect. You can obviously — they’re the only real images of their childhood we get in the cartoon, other than the tiniest of snapshots in sepia — and that’s fine, but for me personally I just don’t think they’re complete enough.

These memories are from Zuko’s perspective. Not Ursa’s, not Azula’s, not Ozai’s or Iroh’s—Zuko’s perspective, his memories. And they’re all about him and Ursa together: every one of these memories have Ursa at their centre. We see her protect him and be kind to him, see her be physically affectionate and gentle, see her encourage him to be kind to himself and to Azula.

They essentially tell us that Zuko is Ursa’s son first, Ozai’s son second. Ozai remains a hovering, intimidating shadow on the sidelines (we still don’t see his face, we don’t see him genuinely interact with his children, and we see him irritating his father while being a very hands-off kinda dad himself) but Ursa is fully present. And ‘Zuko Alone’ is about Zuko trying to figure out who he is: the memories show that he views being his mother’s son as an exceptionally important part of his identity, which means they are about Zuko and his relationship with Ursa alone.

They are not supposed to tell us that Ursa neglected or abused Azula emotionally—that she only focused on protecting Zuko, while leaving Azula to suffer in Ozai’s incapable hands. Sure, we see Ursa scold Zuko for acting like Azula and cuddle him right after, and we see her scold Azula for acting mean and not cuddle her right after, but the key differences here are that Zuko shows guilt after frightening the turtleducks and Azula doubles down on trying to scare Zuko. The behaviour is different and will be, by any halfway decent parent, treated differently. 

I’m absolutely not saying that Azula wasn’t abused, because she 100% was. She was absolutely abused by Ozai, and I’m not ruling out that Ursa didn’t have a hand in how Azula ultimately turned out. But my point here is: these memories are far too limited and narrow for the viewer to properly determine whether Azula was treated incorrectly by Ursa. 

Zuko isn’t going to remember an intimate, lovely moment between Ursa and Azula when all that’s on his mind is his identity, and how it’s entangled with his mother and what she may have sacrificed for him. Additionally, he’s not particularly fond of Azula at this moment in the show (she did kind of kickstart his being a refugee, disregarding how the audience sees this sequence of events having begun), so he’s not going to remember her fondly either. Why would Zuko try to remember Ursa’s relationship with Azula at that point, instead of his own?

(Small tidbit: we also... don't know if Ursa's last words to Azula were 'what is wrong with that child', disregarding the comics which completely ruin azula anyway. Again, the memories are from Zuko's perspective and therefore won't show any private moments between Ursa and Azula. We're not even certain whether Azulon actually ordered Ozai to kill Zuko, or if that is simply what Azula interpreted it as/thought would be funny to say--causing the sequence of events that ultimately put Ozai on the throne. But whatever)

#fact of the matter is #based on the text itself the 'bad mom ursa' trope is iffy at best and completely unfounded at worst #ozai is VERY MUCH the aggressor of the family here #and ursa (in punishing her children for behaviour ozai would encourage) is trying to undermine him #scolding your kid for being mean isn't abuse actually. that's just parenting #ursa #azula #zuko #ozai #atla #avatar the last airbender #atla meta #azula meta #zuko alone #fire nation royal family #abuse mention

[andhumanslovedstories]

Love when Aang and Zuko get those contrasting storylines. It takes me back to being in a college lit class, and I have an essay to slam out by tomorrow. This time it’s Aang trying to undo Jet’s brainwashing by the Dai Li versus Iroh trying to convince Zuko to settle down and make a life in Ba Sing Se. Here’s two takes in one episode on the same fuckin theme, I could write 2,000 words about that out with plenty of time to spare for not writing any of that and instead dicking around in tumblr as inside I scream and scream and scream at myself oh my god why are you on tumblr write your essay write your essay hmm a link to a little game where you dress up dolls you say

#atla #I will not forget the actual misery of writing some of those essays #that’s the devil trying to lure you into grad school #anyway I’d use this ep in a supporting argument for an essay on iroh being a bad uncle #because a contrarian opinion about a major part of a work’s argument where the nuance of the argument #means there’s a counter argument to the text within the text itself #anyway that’s the easiest thing in the world to get a quick essay out of #compare and contrast and then saying ‘character that’s good is actually character that’s BAD’ #it’s a fun little OH NO OH NO EVEN IN THE TAGS??? EVEN IN THE TAGS I AM HERE MISSING LIT ESSAYS????

[sctir]

so i wrote an 8-page essay about personhood and yoo joonghyuk in omniscient reader's viewpoint for my real life seminar for a real life grade that will be on my academic record forever. why? because im insane.

read "me, myself, and i: recognizing personhood in omniscient reader's viewpoint" here!

i would highly recommend reading this short text as an introduction to some of the theory and terms used in my essay; ive also included an extremely condensed version of the major points used for my paper under the cut.

narrative prosthesis: disability and the dependencies of discourse speaks on disability— and more abstractly, a deficiency in something— being a vital part of literary narratives, while also disqualifying disabled people from being perceived as human.

characters need to be missing something or deficient in some way in order to necessitate a story to be told about them, and at the same time this disqualifies them from being a "human person". essentially, disability is used because of its inherent implications: that there is a story to be told about it, and that there is a story that can be made from it. the end goal of the narrative is to either "fix" this disability/deficiency, or to "prosthesize" it with an equally narratively valuable explanation or compensation, hiding it from view.

disability and its place in literature is surrounded by a myriad of issues, such as how representations of disabled people are used to justify their abuse and exploitation. disability is viewed as the "master trope of human disqualification", automatically marking someone to be completely unrecognisable as a "normal" human, and when a disability becomes too apparent— both in literature and in the real world— a prosthetic is sought by the narrative or by social pressure in order to "compensate" for the disability, restoring it to an "acceptable" level.

#omniscient reader's viewpoint #yoo joonghyuk #kim dokja #orv #orv meta #hahahh. hi. here it js. #i havent gotten it marked or anything so if its bad well. haha. 💜 #wei.post #seriously if u wanna talk abt it!! send me a msg or ask or smn #comments are also enabled on the doc itself #also please read the recommended text it really is good as a precursor for my essay but also just as a disability studies text as well #orvposting

[w1lmuttart]

"this is no place for lingering souls, follow me"

#hi so I’m back in kiu brainrot #decided to skip on text bubbles out of this comic and let it speak for itself #minus the caption of course lol I chickened out #so anyway #I’ve had thoughts before about what would happen to the underworld after hades defeat #like yayy we beat the bad guy who put the world out of balance. how are we putting back into balance afterwards? :D ??? :D #and I feel like our favorite edgy god critic would be with me on this one fhdbdb #so ye enjoy this ig? #kid icarus #kid icarus uprising #kiu

[dailypokemoncrochet]

There's just something so ?¿? about how I'm only able to actively work on this project when I'm at objectively the lowest points of my life (deepest depression, lonely, unemployed, no income, lot of time) and only because I have family that I can be wholly financially dependent on. All of the work I've done is cool and an accomplishment but also nearly the entire time spent on it I've felt like a failure because I can't do anything else.

But when I'm working full time and even when I love my job and coworkers, I am so tired I can't do any art or anything after work, and then I seemingly out of nowhere have a meltdown and quit. Idk. Something here about needing art to live but not being able to live off making art and the disparate ways art is tied to survival

#text #depression has been here the whole time but making itself Known atm #im so tired and sad and wish i didnt have to be this way #i wish i could separate the guilt of everything else from making my crochets #but the circumstances that let me crochet to this extent. come with massive amounts of guilt. and its just all bad. #society wasnt made for people like me. and that sucks. #i quit my last job because they changed my seat. thats the stupidest fucking thing. but my brain could not get over it and #also i never wanted to work for [company] and management wouldnt accommodate me without medical documentation and so i just quit #and im back making my art. (positive) (negative) (?¿¿)

[lemonhemlock]

not to be a hater on main but i just stumbled on a tik tok claiming that tsh both takes itself too seriously and could use more absurd comedy and it nearly made me punch a wall

#my quest to find agreeable creators on booktok and booktube leaves me v frustrated sometimes #!!! i accept no criticism of this book #but even without stan goggles on how can say with your entire chest that tsh takes itself too seriously #when it literally makes fun of 'dark academia' types TO YOUR FACE #which is ironic for the book that spawned the entire genre #it's a comedy of manners at the very least #'this book that contains copious amounts of absurdly comedic situations and makes fun of pretentious twits obsessed with aesthetics #could use more absurd comedy and is not satirical enough' #recognising those basic building blocks of the text does NOT even mean to have to like it?? #i hate to be bringing the Reading Comprehension debate again but good lord. and this person claims to have a phd in literature too 🤦‍♀️ #i am so over this pretense at criticism that basically boils down to 'i didn't like this thing so i can't be seen to admit it executes #anything well. so instead i'm going to pretend basic obvious techniques in the text don't exist and peddle it as groundbreaking critique' #stuff like recognising basic genre. what happened to that. #i don't like The Hangover either but it would be very strange to call it anything other than a comedy #the secret history #donna tartt #again you don't even have to like the book!!! #I'M SORRY BUT IT MADE ME WANT TO RANT SO BAD #livresque #booktok and booktube are satan's garden

[themagicalghost]

I think they could be friends

When Timmy mentioned that he didn't want the elders to find out he got the jail cell door open because he could get locked up in the dungeon where Winston is, it eventually got me wondering "hey,

what WOULD that be like?"

They could keep each other entertained for the rest of eternity, make some sort of plan to escape the dungeon together, drive each other nuts from either anger or insanity, etc.

I imagine there would be moments where they fall off because of disagreements but then later on they get along again, since they're forced to be stuck together anyway

Oh yeah also the fact that a cog and a toon could possibly get along together is an interesting thought by itself

So many possibilities

#ttcc #toontown #toontown corporate clash #toontown cc #corporate clash #toonblr #timmy riddler ttcc #prr ttcc #winston byrd #I'm tempted to let the elders know what he did anyway to see what happens #Originally most of the text above was in the tags but with all that talking I think it was worth putting onto the post itself #Oh also when I went to Byrd by myself to get a screenshot of him for my picture and fled the battle afterwards #he begged me to stay #Dang I thought he would have taunted me but I feel bad now :[

[ask-thearchivists]

Whats the end goal for collecting mortals? You gonna drop everything you collected on a rock and call it good, like whats the point of all of this? What if their nothing left to collect, your jobs become meaningless, life would become meaningless, this is what mortals want to live their own live for is to find the good in life not to be stuck in stasis until the end of time. It's like a prison or a never ending nightmare we can't wake from. I think I would rather die.

The Curator: I would say "then die" but we aren't allowed to let you die. Real weird for you to act like any time at all has passed for you since you were Collected. That's the point. We Collect you, and if you are ever released it doesn't matter if it's been a million years, it will feel like you blinked. No prison or nightmares because it feels like blinking.

The Charmer: You act like mortals don't attempt to Collect either, especially Collecting just to Have. We are actually fully equipped to preserve what we Collect, while most other mortals pathetically attempt to preserve the creatures all around them, and sometimes even others of their own species, with terrible methods only used on the dead. They could only dream of preserving things that are still alive, for the rest of eternity, like we can.

The Cartographer: I must agree. The Collections created by mortals we visit are always infinitely more horrifying than what we do, especially since so many involve killing the creature being Collected. Pin boards of tiny, impaled mortal's corpses. Horrifying imitations of life made from the skins of dead mortals, cured into shape. Using chemicals that you inject into the flesh of the mortal to preserve them, or submerging them in chemicals entirely. It doesn't have to be something you like, but the way we Collect is infinitely more considerate.

The Charmer: It's not like any of the mortals get permission from the creatures around them that do not share their elevated sentience. So it strictly comes down to the permission of those mortals, and I have said this before, I am good at my job, so most come willingly. And we Collect to preserve the life of the mortals.

#ask blog #ask the archivists #asks are open #toh the archivists #the owl house #toh #toh oc #the archivists #id in alt text #ask to tag #I will say that as long as it's not taken to the extremes they go to #collecting like how they do would kick ass tbh #Look me in the eyes and tell me people who Collect bugs wouldn't want what they have #no hate or judgement to people who do those collections btw #I wrote a snippet for the fic I'm making where I adopt the Collector #and I bring up those sorts of collections to reassure him that Collecting by itself isn't bad #because it's really not? Like definitely not any worse than hunting or fishing or collecting bugs #my sibling sent this in and I was like 'girl they are going to tear you limb from limb'

[arowrath]

the thing is i need to curl up in bed and write bad notes app poetry while my phone is charging every night as part of my healing process. however due to the location of my charger and not wanting to irritate my piercing i cannot do that. so the healing is on pause til my industrial heals

#text #joke. i'll just make the piercing itself into a metaphor for my bad notes app poetry

[comradekatara]

fucking theater kids.

#id in alt text #avatar the last airbender #atla #zuko #art #mart #blue spirit memeing #tis the thing itself! #out there i'm a sharp knife #are you that blue light? #me: *writes a whole essay about how blue is Bad for zuko how zuko is Not blue* #also me: blue spirit drag queen its giving camp teehee #sorry but i still think his favorite color is blue. despite it all.

[maemil]

This is simultaneously an awful meme and also the funniest thing I have seen in my life

Daredevil (2023) #2

#discussed with my younger brother and we did agree this could plausibly be a meme some kids would make #it would just top text bottom text ironically #i have no idea if thats what the writers were going for but tbh leaning into the meme being bad is a good way to go shdjdj #its just extremely funny to see it treated as such a bombshell in the comic itself either way #daredevil #matt murdock #daredevil (2023) #mae reads comics #id in alt text

[served-over-dice]

BG3 Great Old One warlock patron encountering "Dribbles" be like:

There are few things in this multiverse that unsettle me, let alone frighten me. But that thing…

…That thing scares me.

Warlock Tav, getting ready to cast Eldritch Blast: Say no more, boss.

#baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #bg3 screenshots #bg3 warlock #great old one warlock #I do love getting the warlock flavor narration #almost as much as I love picking the WARLOCK text options #are they sometimes bad? #yes #cue Tav teaching a kid to raise the dead #but I do love going warlock mode #when the opportunity presents itself #cackles maniacally #talking in the tags

[fandomsoda]

Probably gonna be a hot take, but- art competitions are anti-art.

Competition kills art. Inherently. The second you start comparing people’s works and labeling some as “winners” and “losers”, you trivialize it.

So many young or beginner artists completely give up or don’t even try because they don’t believe they’ll ever be “good enough”, and competitive attitudes reinforce ideas of what is “good enough”.

It’s just overall- really yikes, imo.

#text post #soda rambles #it’s just really sad to see what this stuff does to younger artists #I almost quit art due to competition and elitism in the art community #So I wind up having more strong stances on this kind of thing.. #Even if it’s not a competition about the quality of the art itself #Competition feels dangerous #at least to me. It encourages division and breeds elitism. It’s something that makes me deeply uncomfortable. #when you place people as “winners” and “losers” you place arbitrary value on people and that’s bad ESPECIALLY with something like art. #Pitting people against each other just reads to me as a recipe for toxicity. #Idk maybe I’m just a pissbaby because I’ve been bullied so much throughout my life I just get scared #This isn’t supposed to be a grandstand or anything this is just how I feel about it #I know this is probably just a me thing

[featherymainffins]

Now this might be because I have issues but is it just me or does Slay The Princess feel like an allegory for a relationship?

#like i dont even mean the actual textual stuff like the two gods loving each other i mean like #while the narrator himself does say that he is not the protagonist at all the voices do in fact count him as one of them and #both the narrator and the voices are described as shattered glass pieces on the floor #and im saying that just to contextualise what im about to say because i feel like the narrator is an echo of someone who was in #a relationship with another person and is trying to 'slay' the memory of this person and defeat death not only literally but #on a metaphorical level (as in the death of a relationship). if you do slay her you destroy her memory and in that way you do not know her #at all nor do you care to #and the routes would be the perspectives held by different parts of you. shes literally a being that changes based on who perceives her #but metaphorically thats just how people work isnt it? relationships are complicated and there is a part of you who sees someone as a razor #and there is a part of you who sees them as a damsel and another who sees them as a god etc etc #its like youre a person who is trying to make sense of the situation and; which is why the construct of the princess is made up of #several vessels called perspectives. you understand the whole of what you think only when you take apart all your perspectives; #and theres a you who isnt you anymore who doesnt want to do this. hes telling you to just destroy it. it was wholly wretched and wholly bad #and it changed which is a crime in itself. theres an echo of you. and theres you; built by this echo because thats how the self works #we are each our own god and we build ourselves. the different voices are like different parts of you #much like the vessels are the equivalent of the voices. theyre the finite confined perspectives; aspects of a whole person #and slaying her in this context would obviously mean literally just destroying the memory and deciding that change and all it brings #is an awful thing. though im not yet sure what the difference between leaving with the whole and between separating yourself #and leaving with just an aspect would be. #thats probably like the only thing thats kinda ruining this interpretation lol #oh and obviously a lot of the routes have like very strong relationship symbolism. specifically a lot of them feel like #scenes from a relationship that is falling apart. for example in the adversary and then the fury when you run away the dialogue #basically mimics a partner running away from a conflict and the other one destroying themselves because of it #witch and the thorn are both heavily Esop-coded and the text itself says that its about two people hurting each other even though they love #each other but both are afraid of the other one and of being vulnerable. thorn is about finding forgiveness in one another #and deciding to be better and love each other despite the hurt youve caused each other due to your problems #etc etc #like am i insane am i mental am i projecting?