#and as such. it is so so difficult to find them online

[legend-as-old-as-time]

I keep thinking about how Bionicle as a story was written to sell toys for an aging-but-still-children/teenager fanbase and found another layer of hilarity about the Toa Metru's ages.

I can make a sensible argument that the Toa Metru can be read as young teenagers, because their books were aimed at that age bracket.

Of course, they're not literally teenagers. Characters are devices for the story. Characters don't have to be human or even physically resemble humans, as long as they resonate with the audience. So you get animals, gods, mythical beings in general, objects, plants, planets, or semi-organic semi-mechanical constructs with elemental powers plus more. That's not going even into other facets of storytelling related to characters.

Also, stories are often created with a specific audience to appeal to. The stories' characters experience situations that said audience is familiar / can resonate with / finds cool.

The books focusing on the Toa Mata are a power fantasy for children in the sense of make-believe games. You can be a super-powered hero, too! The Mata Nui Online Games are a different kind of power fantasy where the non-powered, outsider characters among the matoran come together as they are and show their heroic resolve. You are a child and you might be small and appear weird to others, which doesn't change that your actions matter, too!

The Toa Metru's adventures are darker in tone, events, characters, and setting. The Toa Metru become and stay outcasts during their time as toa. They are flung by authority (adults) into a responsibility they used to see as amazing but turns out is difficult and isolating in the place where they live. They both want to be independent and for somebody else to make decisions for them to ease the burden.

Ignorance of their previous circle as the best place gets shattered as they experience other places and their home from a different angle. The highest authority they used to look to for guidance brands them as criminals for something they didn't do, and this makes them pariahs in the perception of their former peers. They get transformed into monsters and feel like ones, when they were arguably treated as such already before as Toa Metru.

This is a story that would appeal to some groups of young teenagers, because they can relate with these experience and know the Toa Metru are the stories' heroes.

Back to this post's beginning:

Onewa still can be arguably the oldest of the Toa Metru. In this interpretation, he equals roughly a sixteen-years old who had to work several jobs to survive, dealt with a lot of shit, has comparatively more worldly knowledge to others of his age, and now thinks he's The Expert (TM) in how the world and every person works.

When he's never left his neighborhood before because it was discouraged, and doesn't realize that

"No, things work very differently in other places. And bad things happen there, too." - And

"You might have gotten a good reading of your fellow teenager, but you're not even considering what kind of shit they went through."

He has his reasons for how he acts. It doesn't make his behavior okay, but it does explain it.

#bionicle #toa metru #bionicle meta #bionicle analysis

[nosferatu-png]

Hello! You ship Zephrit right?? I’m genuinely curious as to how this ship came to be, I’ve been digging around and seeing some great art (including yours omg I love your art) is there like concert footage of Ifrit and Zephyr? (Bc Terzomega there is lots of on stage footage and stuff) Anyways, I would love if you could tell me more about zephrit!!

EEE I would love to talk about it!! I'm not sure the exact origins of it so I'm definitely gonna ramble a little (a lot) - but they did have a lot of fun things on stage together!

I do think part of it is just the overall closeness of the Popestar lineup, at least in my opinion. It definitely feels like a lot of other ships along the lines of "these two interacted and have a good energy together and I think they should kiss about it" HAHAHA

But honestly, Ifrit played around so much with everyone and did NOT let Zephyr fade into the background and I really do love that, especially when it's so hard to find good clips of keyboardists.. and Zeph was so lively, it helped that Ifrit was Right There for them to goof around with

Another factor might be that Ifrit and Zephyr were the only two ghouls who didn't move on in the lineup (aside from Ivy, who of course is nor mentioned enough because of how briefly he was there). We got to see Aether, Dew, and Mountain's relationships all evolve together while Zephyr and Ifrit are a little seperate from that, only being there for the year.

And bonus chronic pain/fatigue ghoul X excited heat pack ghoul

Digging in my Zeph Stash but I'm sure I have more and better stage moments hidden somewhere ^^ I am always willing to talk about anything Popestar ghouls, especially Zephyr related!! They're just a bit more difficult to find because there's really only so much recordings online from the era, especially ones that focus on anyone else *but* Terzo

(ALSO I'M SO GLAD U ENJOY MY LIL DOODLES💗🦇💗🦇💗)

‼️FLASH WARNING FOR THE GIF UNDER THE CUT‼️

#TY FOR LETTING ME RAMBLE #I was very excited to get this in my inbox 😫 #theyve been so special to me for a couple years now #the band ghost #nameless ghouls #popestar #zephrit #zephyr ghoul #ifrit ghoul

[krismatic]

fighting for my life trying to get my hands on Revue Starlight Gekijōban instrumentals

#they were only ever released as a bonus cd when you bought the movie songs as a set from a specific company #and as such. it is so so difficult to find them online #I was able to somehow manage to find a zip file with all of them! great! #except it’s from a website in a language I do not speak. and whenever I try to download the zip file. it also attempts to download #an exe file #which isn’t ideal #so I went down the rabbit hole of figuring out how to download from that website without the. exe thing #and then that lead to MORE problems #and I just wish. someone with the CD would just. upload them onto MEGA or Google Drive or something. #for me <3 #all I want is high quality rips of the instrumentals PLEASE #I know there are YouTube vids of them. but the quality is so bad #kris speaks #anyways if any revstar fans reading this already have the files DM me

[brittlebutch]

finally found a place to read With the Light online and i'm thrilled; if you haven't read this manga i do Legitimately recommend it

#N posts stuff #like don't get it wrong it Is Not a series about being autistic it Is a series about raising an autistic kid #but also don't be put off by that because it's legitimately a series that I feel Loves autistic people with its whole being #it's kind of a teaching manga so it showcases a lot of different opinions/characters/conflicts/etc. but the Framing is very consistent #in that the manga is Extremely of the opinion that autistic people are People who deserve to be Valued and Accepted As They Are #the onus for change is never put on autistic individuals the framing is basically Universal in the 'the World needs to change #to be more accepting' -- it's a very Social Model depiction of autism that ALSO never veers too far into the #'autism isn't even Really a disability' fallacy; it's very much a 'A lot of autistic people will need constant support in a variety of ways #throughout their lives but that isn't the roadblock preventing them from having their own lives; ableism in society is the roadblock' #the first two chapters are the hardest to get through bc they take place before Sachiko has any real understanding of autism and #so she's isolated and stressed out and the ignorance makes it difficult for her to care for Hikaru properly (there's also a lot of #other characters Blaming her for what's going on which goes unchallenged at this point though that changes later); but after she #understands what autism is she's Firmly in Hikaru's corner for the rest of the series - you can skip right to ch 3 without a problem #if you're not interested in reading about that initial conflict #there's still a Lot of conflict ofc but by then the chapters have some of my favorite moments so i don't want to advocate skipping #them; like Hikaru's daycare teacher explaining how Hikaru's difficulty speaking is the same as other kids' troubles with #things like jump-roping/etc.; and then a mother who has An Issue with Hikaru's presence in her daughter's class realizing the #depth of the problematic opinion bc Her mother (who had a stroke) faces similar ableism from her peers #i'm cutting this post off b4 the tags get Too long but if you're curious but still hesitant man. send me an ask and i will Happily #write an insanely long essay about how much i love this series; i have all the books i'm not excited about the online availability #for Me i'm excited bc i've been wanting to rec this manga for like almost a full decade and i can finally give you a link instead of #saying 'well. you can find used copies sometimes' lol

[dandyshucks]

if i didn't have to eat then i think I'd spend the entire day just working on digital painting tbh,,, it feels like sculpting and i love it sm :]

#cannot wait to start working on it again after i get some dinner :3 #its so fun idk its like... moulding smth under ur hands almost #u get to create the shape of the face and everything... watch it come to life as u add the right colours... its so cool #im a bit puzzled rn w it though bc Chase did Guz and I did myself and I feel like they look a little different somehow #and idk what we did differently so i dont know how to make them look the same fjdkdl #smth is different btwn the two though... i think maybe he did a little less detailing perhaps? #but my face is scrunched so theres more lines on the face... and his isn't so theres less... so it is kind of less detailed #but not necessarily incorrectly so :/ hrmm !! #difficult to do this when i have genuinely no real idea what im doing dhdksl #i wonder if i could find some lessons somewhere that i could listen to or watch online abt realistic digital painting #i wanna LEARN #dandy.cmd

[idiosyncraticrednebula]

Finding Sims 4 CC for Disney Princes is a big pain in the butt.

#disney #disney princes #sims 4 #txt #because disney princes are considerably less popular than the princesses that's why it's more difficult to find content of them #although when it comes to sims 4 in general there is way more cc for women than there is for men #i assume most of the players are women and gays idk #but yeah #and this one page that had all of the disney princes outfits is just gone. wiped off the face of the earth #which is making this just even more difficult #i was able to get cc of eric beast aladdin as they are some of the more popular ones #but li shang??? he is gonna be very hard #and naveen probably as well despite all the thirst over him online #flynn is gonna be easier than probably all of them lol #and kristoff too... i think #i'm also planning to build a whole house for them #i gave the princesses one so i'm give the princes equal treatment and privileges. why should they be stripped of that just because they are #less popular?

[piplupod]

re-organized my bookshelf for the first time in four or five years and wowzas it is so much better now !!! also I have far more books than I thought I did - nothing like moving nearly every single book you own to make you realize just how many there are :')

really pleased with it though - I've got all my fairytale and nursery rhyme and other poem books in one section and another section has all my classic children's books (heidi, phantom tollbooth, black beauty, narnia, anne of green gables, a wrinkle in time series, etc)

and then !!! my visually favourite shelves:

i managed to fit my entire trixie belden and james herriot and little house on the prairie series all on one shelf !!!! huge win !!! and then I've got (most of my) zine collection and my big birds dictionary series and Philbert the Telephone on the shelf underneath :3

#i think im still missing a few Trixie Belden books but theyre so difficult to find #i could maybe find them online but like... thats no fun fjdkdl plus thats expensive #I've been sticking to thrift stores only!! and surprisingly had some VERY good luck finding missing books #i love all my books sm :] they make me very happy to look at fhdkdl #collections my beloved !!!! #pippen needs 2nd breakfast

[gingerbreadmonsters]

gahhhh. im sure it doesn't sound like it most of the time, but wow my degree is so cool and fun 🥰🥰

#yes it is painful sometimes and yes it is lots of hard work and frustration #but like....... isnt it so cool to find out why the world became the way it is #how people in the past were like us and also so totally different #through the right lens human history is both the ultimate tragedy of a self-obsessed power hungry cannibalistic species #and also the greatest funniest soap opera of all time #stories upon stories #i will be very honest with u i was kind of scared when i started that i had chosen the wrong degree #what if its not as fun at uni as it was at school - what if its actually way too difficult and i end up hating it #but ykw?? im so glad i chose this #(for those who may not know i am a history student) #idk man i just wish more people knew how cool and funny history is sometimes #plus the sorts of ways this degree encourages u to think are VERY useful (esp nowadays) #'always question everything' is the motto and wow it is very enlightening to live like this #where has this info come from - can i trust them? why are they telling me this? what do they want? is it even true? how do they know this? #does this info fit with what i already know? why? what do other people say abt this? does this imply something about the wider context here #look me in the eye and tell me thats not the most important ingredient for being online nowadays #(except for block and move on. that one is supreme we all know that) #if u are not so into history i would encourage u to have a little look at some of the cool stories that are there i think u will like them #one of the funny (and very gory) ones that i would recommend is the life and especially death of maximilian robespierre #he was alive during the french revolution in the late 1700s and the way he dies is fucking hilarious when u know whats going on #i have actually talked abt this a lot on discord bc i think its funny - much to the annoyance of everyone else in the server lol #another one from that time is napoleon's coup and the removal to saint-cloud #the power struggles of the GMD and CCP in china in the early-mid 20th century are also v interesting if u like that sort of thing #this has all come about bc i was reading an account today of the marriage of alfonso vi of leon and castile and princess zaida of seville #and wow i have a lot of thoughts about it #theres no way to tell if they were really in love or not and if so how much #but idk something about it is very sweet and very sad to me #she the daughter in law of the muslim king of seville and supposedly falls in love with the christian king alfonso - she converts #to christianity so she can marry him but they are only together for a short time - she dies a few years later in 1093 giving birth to their #son sancho alfonsez (who is killed in 1108 at age 15) and she's buried at alfonso's favourite church (technically an abbey but ykwim)

[13eyond13]

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#things i am excited about at my new job #it's nice to SEE AND INTERACT WITH PEOPLE EVERY DAY #jesus between covid and working from home that was getting seriously hard for me to achieve #i find the subject matter interesting (it's medical stuff and helping patients which is way more interesting to me than the finance shit #i was doing at my last job where i just like helped financial advisors get richer) #my bosses are kinda young and cool which is nice because mostly i have worked for boomer men older than my dad #i get to people watch and learn new things and it's challenging but not TOO overwhelmingly difficult #it's admin stuff which i kinda enjoy in a dorky sim management job sort of way (i do that kind of shit for fun in video games all the time) #the one thing im worried about rn is that the person who's training me that im filling in for is leaving soon and they're my fave part #of coming to work right now because i just like hanging out with them and they have like this hypnotically soothing aura #and sweet kind personality so im afraid once theyre gone (a) i will suck at doing it all without them and #(b) it just wont be nearly as nice but #i must think positive thoughts and hopefully i can use their mentorship as inspiration too #i spent all last year failing at being a self directed online student and juggling random part time shit so i am SO GLAD #to have full time work and work that isnt horribly boring and lonely like the finance work from home one before it #ps the person who is training me worked for 12 years as a 911 emergency phone operator if you want a picture of how calm and nice they are #like they can make anything seem ok and fine and remain calm no matter what and their voice is the gentlest thing on earth lol #i get free asmr all day basically #p

[sweetwateriver]

Mabel sweater done! 💜🌲 pattern

#Personal #personal: crochet #Now onto fantastic four sweater…. Im playing a very dangerous game where I bought 4 skeins of blue yarn #that were the PERFECT color so I HAD to get them but the brand is ‘knit & crochet’ by Joanns so obviously it’s VERY difficult #to try to find more online!! And I believe it was a clearance sale on them so. Ideally I have purchased the correct amount of yarn

[running-in-the-dark]

I was gonna go to bed earlier tonight. I wanna fix my completely fucked up sleep schedule etc. (not that that ever works but whatever)

except...

I drank a 500 ml energy drink (at like 22:00)

I started playing RimWorld

then I also started listening to music

AND then I also started downloading music

sooo now it's 5:30 and I just looked at a clock for the first time in 5 hours and I'm not even the least bit tired 🙃

#I've got the brain fog and everything. but I'm not tired. #and I just took my antidepressant now because I completely forgot. so I won't be tired for another hour 🙃 #this is going soooo well lol #also - trying to find random albums from the 70s is too difficult #everything should be available online even if no one has listened to it in 40 years okay?? I need my music 😔 (I'm trying to download some #albums that I bought on vinyl and it's more difficult than I had hoped) #(so I guess the next step will be learning how to digitally record them lol because I cannot have records that aren't also in my digital #collection. it's unacceptable so I must fix this problem immediately (not immediately immediately. like tomorrow. it's so late)) #maybe my brain is already asleep actually #that would explain a lot #also lol my friend saw that I have three monitors and she was like I don't understand what you'd use those for #I mean... musicbee on one. rimworld on two. and all the downloading stuff on three 🤷 I'd probably find uses for like 3 more tbh (but my #computer might die soo I probably won't do that) #oh my god just shut up already #personal #and also - yes i need to say more - I spilled iced tea on my mechanical keyboard a few days ago. my partner tried to fix it and it does #work again. but not well. all the keys are kinda stuck. so that makes everything really fucking annoying lol. #(I found the same one pretty cheap because its used so I hope that'll arrive soon but until then I will be annoyed lol. I love this stupid #keyboard so much. 😭)

[blossoms-and-possums]

full offence but if anyone has ever said anything so cruel to someone online that you’ve caused that person to leave their safe space on the internet… what is wrong with you?

#was your intention to be a bully? because that’s what you are. #being mean anonymously on the internet is not cool. it doesn’t make you a good person. it makes you awful #why is it so difficult to be kind? #if you don’t have anything nice to say #then don’t say anything at all #it’s not rocket science. it’s basic human etiquette. #if you have ever sent a nice person online hate for something that is subjective and irrelevant #you’re mean. you’re not a good person. #it’s cruel. #there is nothing wrong with being a nice person. it’s easy. it’s so easy. #please. i promise you have better things to do in this world than send someone an unsolicited negative comment #if you’ve ever sent someone an unnecessarily nasty comment - especially under the cover ob anonymity - you’re awful #there’s - thats - i’m sorry you had to find out like this :/ #please. words have long lasting reverberations. they leave an impact #words wield power. be careful with how you use them #use that power for good. please. #spread love <3 #spread kindness <3

[12hangingmaidens]

I know a lot of people say the opposite happened for them but I find I am much less tolerant of being alone for prolonged periods of time after quarantine happened. Maybe that’s due to the fact that even before quarantine I was typically alone; and now that I’m moved out of my parents house I actually have opportunities to hang out with people and have used those opportunities often, I now know how it feels to not be alone constantly. It’s nice to not be alone all the time but sometimes I miss the fact I would be able to just do stuff alone more often. Now it feels almost impossible to do things without even the motivation of showing someone what I’ve done

#tbf when I was living with my parents most of my friends were online friends who while I couldn’t spend time with irl #I still had constant access to talking to them and at any given moment at least one of them was online #I think that’s what I miss about having online friends #if I was ever actually feeling super lonely I could just message someone and have a fun chat and forget about my feelings #but now if I’m feeling like that I look at the like. one gc I’m in where half the people don’t really seem to like me #and I’m just like #mmm I’d rather deal with feeling alone #I wanna make more online friends again #but it’s much harder now #child me was so open and friendly (to an almost annoying degree I’m sure) #and adult me #I’m so #blunt and critical and afraid to really goof around with a lot of people #and I think part of that is due to the fact that now that I’m working in the adult world a lot of people are far less tolerant #of those sorts of personalities #so I’ve kinda dulled myself down #and now find it difficult to not be like that

[astrxealis]

life is not being silly to me rn

#⋯ ꒰ა starry thoughts ໒꒱ *·˚ #no i'm probably just being dramatic. but. still. #kinda frustrated w one of my friends rn bcs i think she knows smth is up w us atm but girl has the nerve to be like 'smth's been off #since the start of the sy' in a shared server w another friend and uh. girl. ily but you've been weird since the start of the sy #and haven't told me or my twin why at all even when we've asked <//3 so. sigh. spending time w other friends more atm yay!!! #anyway i miss some friends a whole lot tho ..... one online friend i've grown even closer w thx to instagram surprisingly #and irls i've actually interacted a lot w in a really nice way the last two months and so :3 it's amazing really #and like ... 3 or 4 online friends i really miss (aka i am attached to them but we haven't been talking much lately for wtvr reason) #and i want to get to know more people still but i don't want to be like my friends who do that but forget other friends. i wna balance it #all which is going to be reaaal difficult esp w me being an academic high achiever w cets coming up but i have tons of hobbies #and i get tired and distracted easily and find it hard to start AND finish things and and and i still have social anxiety #but i'll try my best! <3 i am wayyy too ambitious indeed but hey i gotta try to do what i can and achieve what i want ya know!!

[murphyslawyer]

I really just saw someone, on this website, tell a person who felt disturbed by a friend’s suicidal thoughts that maybe the friend shouldn’t have unloaded on them like that.

Are you fucking kidding me?? What are people supposed to do, then? Keep that shit shoved so deep inside them that they actually end up killing themselves??

I understand it can be really disturbing to hear that shit from someone who’s close to you, but bearing that discomfort is in fact necessary because maybe people need a friend’s support before seeking professional help. And that discomfort is nowhere nearly as bad as the pain of losing a friend. Get over yourselves.

#Johanna speaks #suicide tw #suicidal ideation tw #I would’ve killed myself in my early teens if one of my friends’ mum hadn’t called my mum to tell her I was saying weird shit at school #like. I get that it might’ve felt super uncomfortable to my friend and her mum but it literally saved my life #A few years ago I thought we were making a lot of progress when it came to destigmatising mental health issues #but I feel that what we have now - at least in online communities - is this very surface level kind of support #and still such an individualistic approach to this kind of issues. #Sometimes being a good friend means being uncomfortable if that means you’re helping your friend out #also if we look at how men struggle with mental health in particular this is such a dangerous way of thinking #bc so many men already find it so difficult to be vulnerable and seek help and that ends up killing them. Just think for a second please. #Anyway the person whose friend was struggling didn’t think like this but that comment just pissed me off so much

[it-goes-on]

Hello comrades!! I am looking for a fun tapestry for my living room. If you know of any fun tapestries pls let me know!♡♡♡

#I’m looking at redbubble and at small shops #but the problem w small businesses is theyre difficult to find online #& redbubble is So Large #so if you know of any cool shops/designs/artists that do them pls let me know! #its me