#[“Why is he so mean. I did nothing”]

[whetstonefires]

Hey here's an angle on the Jiang family dynamic and its impact on Wei Wuxian that I haven't seen discussed:

Wei Wuxian grew up seeing Jiang Yanli routinely having her agency cut off and denied in both large (betrothal) and small ways. That were largely tied up in her gender, sure, but this was also a family containing Yu Ziyuan. A daughter in this household had every chance of having her gender treated as of secondary importance.

She just had to earn it.

The way Jiang Yanli was hemmed in and her potential as an independent actor dismissed was at least as strongly correlated with her failure to be a powerful sword cultivator.

So Wei Wuxian's total refusal to let anyone know that he'd lost access to his cultivation and his violent reactivity against being diminished or condescended to during his Sunshot-to-death period, when before he was pretty immune to being looked down on, could have a lot to do with having been presented with this clearly labeled diagram of how your personhood gets stripped away when you are, by the standards of your society, disabled.

#hoc est meum #like jiang cheng's desire to die about it also has this #but he had some specific shame issues #and the realistic assessment that rebuilding his sect and getting revenge was now impractical #and his problem was never really feeling like his place in the world was actually going to be taken #just like he failed to deserve it #whereas wwx had his secrets to keep but even after he'd lived up to most of his obligations #during this period #and i think it's what he's so mad at himself about looking back #during the Empathy flashback #that he valued his pride and clinging to his status when it turned out #it did jack-all to help and he got everyone killed #(Present-Day wwx is not an objective source on himself lmao) #and this in turn is why in the present-time of the novel he's so willing to lean into the indignity of mo xuanyu #he now has nothing to lose and it's liberating #but during his march-toward-death era having any more of his self-respect and conceptual status stripped away was agony #because it felt like an unpersoning #and some of the disability angles around this come up in fandom sometimes but #the fact that he internalized the idea that not having this specific type of power means you lose your personal freedom looking at jyl #doesn't really #and i think she Very Much informed his relationship to #power gender disability and #marriage #mdzs #wei wuxian #jiang yanli

[secondbeatsongs]

is Teller (of Penn & Teller fame) actually gay, or did I just fully hallucinate that knowledge

#penn & teller #penn and teller #I could have sworn I read somewhere he was gay #like. ten years ago #like I swear I had sources for this #but now I look and I find nothing #why did I think he was gay? #why was I so thoroughly convinced? #I mean #maybe he is! I bet he is #but still #why did I truly believe that #what were my sources! #personal #sbs rambles

[seawing-vibes]

Some sillay doodles!! Qinterwatcher + trans jade-winglet doodles <3 I tend to do these silly (very off model & probably real out of character) jade winglet doodles as warm ups & cool downs after bigger drawings !! They’re fun to do

#(also when I say off-model i mean of my personal designs for them . canon designs mean nothing to me lmao) #it’s taken me weeks to build the confidence (?) to post these i do not know why #i did most of these during artfight 👍 theres a lot more but its mainly just little doodles of them standin around #either way I headcanon the entire jade winglet as trans in some way <3 you can put your own headcanons onto that as you please but my #personal headcanons are - #winter (trans man) Turtle (transfem) Moon (transmasc / nonbinary) Kinkajou (genderfluid is the best descriptor maybe) Qibli (nonbinary) #Peril (nonbinary) !! that first ‘’’’comic’’’’ w/ winter is him just tellin everyone because he transitioned before they met & he was comfy #enough with them all to let them know thar part of his identity :0) !!!!!! or at least thats how I interpret it #doodle #winter #qibli #moonwatcher #qinterwatcher #<- is that they’re ship name ?? Im not really sure #turtle #kinkajou #peril #hopefully ill post the other doodles maybe !!!! dunno why im so scared to post art online rn pghj so many artfight attacks …. never posted.. #TideArt

[fonmythenmetz]

Literally the final fight in the Dune book

Gurney: I wanna fight a Harkonnen! You promised me a Harkonnen, my lord!

Paul: Of course, Gurney, and you shall have it.

Emperor: *orders his guards to hide Feyd* We do not have any.

Feyd: *breaks through the guards to reveal himself* I WILL fight

Paul: *sees Feyd* *pushes Gurney away* No one touch him, I’M gonna handle him

Gurney: But you promised!!

Paul: FORGET WHAT I SAID THIS ONE IS FOR ME

#this is literally how it was #and gurney was like ? why #i deserve it you said so yourself #and PAUL JUST VERBALLY ATTACKS HIS OWN MAN OVER IT #over the right to fight this particular harkonnen who he sees for the first time and who did nothing to him personally #dune #paul atreides #feyd rautha harkonnen #feyd x paul #before that he was all abou irulan-chani-irulan-chani #but then feyd appeared and from that point it was only feyd rautha this feyd rautha that #i mean #paul you’re obvious #the funniest thing is that feyd almost won lol #got nerfed bc paul said something and it took him off guard #whats the point of bene gesserit hypnosis if it literally has the same effect as blurting out random shit during the fight

[andthebeanstalk]

PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS

PUSSY.

BIG FLAPPY WET JESUS PUSSY.

JESUS' SOPPING WET PUSS-PUSS

[Edited months after posting to discourage catholics from replying to this post after finding that both the nice and much funnier not-nice responses to this were equally bad for my mental health. I didn't wanna delete it bc I was quite proud of some of my responses and it helps to have a visual reminder of why I left an abusive organization. Also, this means that any catholic who has reblogged this in an attempt to convert me, has now reblogged a post that, if clicked, links back to this. Use MY post for propaganda, will you!]

Thinking about how it was never made clear to me in Catholic school exactly WHY Jesus died for our sins. I just remembered that I was literally never clear on who the dying helped??

I've heard theories as an adult, but basically what I'm saying is pointless martyrdom seems a little pointless, and also with enough propaganda the big logical gaps in a belief system get really hard to see. Especially if questioning anything is blasphemy.

I would have gotten in so much trouble for insisting the teacher explain how Jesus helped us by being tortured to death by Romans even when God could have prevented it! God sent his only Son, they would have said! Be grateful, they'd say! Be guilty! Stop asking why he did that!!!

#original #religious trauma #<- what's up guys why did he do that??? for real i was raised catholic and it is FUCKING UNCLEAR but also the basis of a huge chunk of #my childhood?? like WHY though? my friend madeleine said it was related to animal sacrifices with the lamb of god stuff and all #this was NEVER mentioned in my school. i thought he was the lamb bc he followed god but maybe not #no wonder my impulse as a person is to constantly sacrifice myself unnecessarily #i think martyrdom is a bad gift. but i guess torture your son to death or whatever dude. but it's weird to do that and say it was for me #like...... thanks?? you're literally omnipotent but this is like the worst possible version of a cat leaving a dead mouse on my bed #Christianity #thank goodness i was too much of a fag to stay. i was so unhappy there. #the good place actually addresses a lot of my issues with Christianity as a whole while also not being all about Christianity #like what does it mean to condemn a person capable of change to eternal hell?M #*hell?? #the good place #god pays the devil's rent y'all. like in that post that made my long beautiful essay about this irrelevant by #summing it up with 'girl they are in cahoots.' i think about that post all the fukn time nothing i can write longform is as punchy as that

[scintillyyy]

and the thing is that dick *did* need tim's emotional support and help during the beginning of the batman reborn era because dick's life was also falling apart and they did need to help each other badly and tim leaving him to fix everything and handle the city and damian by himself *was* mean and a bit selfish, but also if tim had stayed to do this, there would have been no real chance for good independent growth for himself (in-universe and narratively speaking) and staying to help dick manage the city would have also meant deprioritizing his own wants and continuing to push down his own grief to do what's best for the greater good and ignoring both his suspicions and what he felt he needed to do at the time (search for bruce, prove himself right, have a breakdown around the world as he figured out his place in it) to focus instead on prioritizing what was currently best for current batman/dick's sake. which is just. kind of a continuation of what he's done/tried to do since he showed up in alpod. (would therapy probably have been a healthier option to move past this? well, yes, but unhealthy coping mechanisms or gtfo frankly) (anyways despite the fact he left to ostensibly find bruce, which is still batman related, leaving is still what allowed tim to get into situations that made him solidify himself as the person he wanted to be moving forth into adulthood + get to the point where he is still helping batman but also is starting to prioritize himself over prioritizing batman's needs so leaving was the objectively correct decision for himself)

anyways, they were both doing the equivalent of putting on their own oxygen masks first here instead of prioritizing what the other felt they needed at the time. and that's okay. they're both allowed to be a bit selfish at this point.

#tangentially related this is also a bit why i can't necessarily vibe #with bruce is dead and tim is okay with being wrong and just comes back to help dick with gotham and everyone is better for it #where is the drama and conflict #why would tim's pride allow for this #tim was never mad at dick and will always love and support him #but that scenario doesn't really do anything of note for tim's character tbh it's uninteresting #really if he does survive brucequest but bruce is dead he should really go on his nightwing arc. #not become nightwing ofc but do what dick did and gtfo of gotham and come back to help only if batman/dick needs him for something #really try to carve his own place in the world separate from batman-dick to grow and come into his own #anyways thinking of potentially lingering tension in this arc (not ridiculous fanon tension) #where dick is a little annoyed that tim left him when he needed tim to go on a quest that led to nothing (also feels bad it didn't work out #and tim is too prideful and upset that he was wrong (and a bit ashamed for leaving when he was needed to go chase ultimately nothing) #and they're brothers they love each other so much but they can't talk about this because that would mean emotional conversations #and there's just a slight schism there. tim will always come for dick when dick calls. #but tim is also content to manage his bonds away from gotham - a place where he's just reminded of his failures #anyways there's a nice little alpod arc there with dick's potential second robin #bringing tim fully back into the fold #something something something

[youjustwaitsunshine]

multi 21 x rocky x red bull seb x julius caesar, act III, scene ii

#long post #sebastian vettel #guillaume rocquelin #mark webber #rocky as marc antony turning the tides of the red bull garage towards an unapologetic seb and away from mark after multi 21. ok. #all of this is so intentional chomp chomp yes every picture is supposed to give more meaning to the words chomp chomp #idk why im chomping. probably because i love this speech so much and the way marc antony turns the crowd #ABSOLUTE brainworms #also the amount of rocky and seb pics out there. inSANE #no i love taking the role of marc antony here. painting seb in the glorious light of a faultless emperor. he did nothing wrong your honor. #sorry that it got so long but it needed to be that long ok thanks #will rb when it's not the middle of the night lol

[synthshenanigans]

I find it hilarious that like, most popular headcanons/ideas of HMS come from something that's in the actual album. Whether its the cover art or from a lyric, it makes sense with context or a metaphor. Then there's just a random ass chicken that came from nowhere.

#i mean like yea its more from the chicken song but like #there's a whole separate character that's been made & is so widely accepted that CJ has nothing to do with #like hearts wings. minds voice mod. minds mech parts. them having halos. soul having multiple sets of arms. them all having names #like they all have a reason as to why they exist. like something hints or is a metaphor or whatever from the album #soul 2 even #and then there's Darrell #like CJ finished Vol 1 & left for like 10 minutes #and now there's a chicken with its own character traits & life with HMS that is so widely accepted that to anyone new it'll look canon #how did we get here #blame sky its her fault/j #im here for it tho ofc #vol 2 could only be about darrell & id be fine with it #best CCCC character #also love the idea that if whole can meet HMS in whatever space they exist he sees Darrell & is like #<why is there a chicken in my head what> #chonny jash #moss post

[httpiastri]

ollie did so well 🥺 best of all f2 drivers 🥺

he did!!!! only f2 driver to be less than a second behind the guy in the same car <3<3 so proud of him

idk why but i felt like doing a list of the f1 rookies/f2 drivers and their fp1 times (& vs their teammate)

p6 - oscar piastri, 1.20.463 (lando p4, -0.226)

p14 - logan sargeant, 1.21.157 (alex p2, -1.344)

p15 - ollie bearman, 1.21.313 (nico p12, -0.345)

p17 - isack hadjar, 1.21.941 (daniel p8, -1.373)

p18 - jack doohan, 1.22.109 (esteban p9, -1.432)

p19 - frederik vesti, 1.22.937 (lewis p11, -2.213)

plussssss i just realized this in the shower tooday that.... pietro fittipaldi was signed to indycar this week... it would be hard to be both an indycar fulltime driver and haas's reserve driver.............. 👀

#ive always been thinking that it would be waaay too soon to put ollie in f1 but haas seem to be really pushing it #i wonder why hmmmm #god now im extra excited even tho nothing has happened lol #ollie tho <3<3 he really did do so well #and i know that the list doesnt have to mean anything bcs they were testing tires and their could be trying out different stuff and blah bl #but still cool to see ollie up there <3 #and ofc oscar but i mean him being good in an f1 car is nothing new 😙 #asks! #anon! #f1 #formula 1 #formula one #ollie bearman #f2

[spacedlexi]

the differences in the framing of the reuniting with minnie scene between louis and violet.. the way the hug with louis is a close up shot but with violets hug clem takes up a third of the frame.....they knew what they were doing

really including her in their moment. they said you WILL watch clems reaction to them hugging. girl why are you making a face about it 😏

#this is the shit i mean when i say clemviminnie makes me silly like this is so intentional they did Not have to include clem like that #also the fact you can tell minnie violets in charge but you cant tell her louis is in charge 💀 i know he didnt step up in ep 2 but still #idk i just found it interesting theres nothing to say about him. she doesnt even believe it about violet so why cant we lie about louis lol #my little co leaders :") #twdg #violentine #im having fun posting my cringe little thoughts >:) i love the tension between these 3 mmm theres so much meat to chew on >:) #it speaks

[sylvies-kablooie]

sylvie screaming as she blasts magic into loki on the ferris wheel. how her shoulder slams into the door when his magic hits her, her emotions running too high to fight back properly the way she has for centuries. her machete shaking as she clenches and unclenches her fist, her voice shaking as she says this is all very familiar, isn’t it. taking steps forward and backward. she cannot let herself stay still, it is all too much, to be rehashing the same fight that drove her and loki apart from her life’s mission. the desperation in i can’t let him live. you think i want to kill him? she asks. you think it brings me pleasure? after her knees buckled underneath her when she killed He Who Remains the first time, after she realized it wasn’t going to ease the pain, why would he think she wants to do it all over again? she sticks by her moral compass as long as she can, doing what she swore she had to in order to ensure the world would have the free will she was denied, until she can’t. until she sees victor begging for his life, begging for a chance to become someone the timeline didn’t decree. and in that she sees herself, her tiny body being grabbed by ravonna and thrown into the TVA, for a crime she has yet to commit. only then can sylvie back away from her single-minded purpose that has kept her burning for so long, and she doesn’t trust herself not to change her mind. it was tactical to say get him away, because at any moment she might realize the gravity of abandoning her life’s work and change her mind. don’t make me regret this is her final warning to loki, who doesn’t bother trying to persuade her to come with him after seeing how firmly she claims to want nothing to do with him. one last lingering look between them.

#Sophia Di Martino i see all of the nuance you put into that performance and I praise you for it #It’s just so much she’s just so much #She wants peace and she wants to follow her morals and they seem fundamentally incompatible #And Loki seeing her shaking #Her trembling and crying #But he doesn’t do a damn thing because he must genuinely think he means nothing to her #Even after all the pleading #How loyal is he to the TVA now? Where did that mischief go? #Why does he really think she wants nothing to do with him? #loki #loki series #loki show #loki tv show #loki tv #sylvie #sylvie laufeydottir #loki s2 #anything for sylvie #loki meta #loki season 2 #juni analysis

[screwpinecaprice]

In the city!

Commission for  missyuniverse_ for her fanfic at Wattpad! ( account: Kittens_escapism or juanitasuniverse ) 😊😊😊

#connverse #Connie Maheswaran #Steven Quartz Universe #SU #Those guys I googled for references of the peeps in the background #also random references for the building and such #I used a gaussian blur to blur the background and I'm thinking now I might or should find a different way to blur my background. 🤔 #It was an odd experience drawing his vest because I used a real life reference at first and it looked so off. Then I used a drawing referenc #e and it instantly fixed it? So. like. I don't always trust real life reference after that. #I'm crying I really really wish I'll learn to draw facial hair some day. #I mean the client described that he only unintentionally grew stubbles because he got busy with something. but still #Why is my laptop already laggy I already restarted this and Nothing else but Chrome and Medibang is opened. -_- #I took so long to do the background. lol but I'd rather it stay blurred because of how it turned out. #Trust me it looked way bettered blurred. haha #Sorry.. Connie is suppose to be wearing her hair in a cute high ponytail with a small braid added little star accessories. #I'm not sure but I'm hoping the ponytail is still discernable #adult connverse #Okay I did spend this way too long in general but it was still fun drawing it #my shiz #commissioned work

[scrunchi]

Still makes no sense to me that Richies token was an arcade coin and not the fucking piece of wood he carved R+E in. You know... the literal thing that represents his biggest fear and the biggest thing he felt that summer.... IDK

#he could have cut it out that fugging bridge and it would have burned pretty nice just saying #I mean maybe there are more choices (if it even works at all) and the ritual would have worked #this fucking coin did nothing #also I'm sad that Eddie was probably his token but the board would come closest to Richies feelings so why the coin???? #CUT THE WOOD RICHARD #reddie #richie tozier #eddie kaspbrak #it 2017 #it chapter two #it 2019 #it #it headcanons

[hellfyre]

everytime i look in the lilith tag I see so much hate and antagonism for her, like my god. we barely know much about her but some people are just desperate to hate on her while woobifying male characters and I can think of one word why.

#misogyny #the ending scene was complex but im on the train shes gonna be good in the end. #bc i refuse to have another stella that shit sucks #lilith is a representation of feminism and empowerment for women like beyond any fictional media #the fandom and shows portrayal of stella vs characters like valentino is a big highlight into the general misogyny that exists in fandoms #i mean fandoms have a general issue with women who are in the way of their fictional man #and again #that stems from misogyny but whateverr #lilith hazbin #hazbin hotel lilith #lilith #hazbin critical #lucifer is not some innocent man who did nothing wrong anyways #like this is obvious to people right the show is not too subtle on that #like yes hes growing and getting better #but some people would hate lilith ever being depicted as good or if she does end up morally grey as getting a redemption #i wonder what word to why that could be??? #azael ranting again #sorry im sick and on meds so i dont know when to keep something in the drafts lol #hazbin hotel

[blinkpen]

my family loves me but in a way that does not make me feel loved

and it hurts because i cannot make myself not love them

#sometimes you just have to think about how fucking alienated you are and how they literally dont get and it refuse to try to get it #ad it sjust #fuck #man #i know i know so many people online support me #but it is natural i think to ache for familial love and lament #i did nothing wrong but exist wrong #i want to be loved the way i am #but i cannot fix that #its not even that hard we let my brother chaneg his name just he wanted to #we stopped using the nickname we always used since childhood bc his wife eprsonally decided she didnt like it #why is using a new word for me so hard #i think if they even ATTEMPTED it'd mean the world to me #they could try and constantly fail! but a tleast that means they care enough to try at all! instead of telling me Not Possible from jump

[sonknuxadow]

i swear to god sega must be choosing which 3d sonic games they wanna rerelease at random because none of their choices here make any sense when i said they should focus more on making the 3d games more accessible instead of re releasing the classic games a million times this isnt what i meant

#i mean the shadow parts of the trailer do have me interested now but im still confused about why they would do this at all #i said it all already but generations is a fairly recent game and the graphics still hold up well and its still somewhat accessible #its not in a situation where theres a bunch of stuff to change or its trapped on older consoles that barely anyone has these days #if generations was a super iconic game with a well loved story i would get it i guess but sonic generations is literally nothing story wise #there are so many other games that it would make more sense to bring back #also shadow??????? why is he the focus here he barely did anythign in generations #and generations whole gimmick is the classic and modern thing and you cant do that with shadow #whatever #like i said i am excited to see what theyre doing with the shadow levels actually im just confused you know