#anyways if i'm wrong feel free to correct me!

[dropthedemiurge]

Some language comments for Gray Shelter [Episode 5], just like I promised!

"Do whatever/however you want to. (literally: 'Do it the way your heart desires') You do things how you want to anyway."

"I'm sorry" - the translation is correct, it's just it's funny how Yoondae's level of apology to his friend he just lashed out at last time + he wants to ask him for HELP, and all he says is: 미안 (mian). The most informal and short way of apologizing possible. He's so teenager-minded still.

Even when he asks "Can I leave my stuff in your dad's warehouse?" it comes out grammatically more of a demand, like 'Let me do that'. Yoondae is talking like someone who has a lot of walls and doesn't reach out to people, he doesn't talk kindly but he's honest and straightforward and he cries easily but he's very angry about it.

I especially love his facial expression, even when he's at his most miserable, he'll make it everyone else's problem, as if being pitiful is the worst thing that could happen to him. "I have no one else I could ask for help but you >:(("

Fun fact about Korean's sentence structure, when you quote someone or express your thoughts, you put your sentence this way: "quoted phrase" and then + "that's what they said/what i thought/etc". So oftentimes, I see Kdramas use that trick when characters say a phrase... and then take it back with "that's someone else's thoughts" or "that's what you thought I'd say, right? LMAO". It's funny how the translators' way of transferring this was using the word "Sike!" xD

"It wasn't a mistake to me." "If it wasn't a mistake, then [what]? Since you started talking [about it], let me ask you. So what if it wasn't a mistake? What do you want to achieve with me?" "Can I do anything about it? In the past or now, you're the one who runs away and avoids me. I asked you, can I make a decision (do I have any choices)?" "You made the move but you want me to decide? Fine, then. Let sleep together once and end it once and for all. Go wash up first. I don't have time, I only left office for a short time."

The way they both care about each other but their dialogues and words are very sharp and bitter almost all the time, especially here, aaaah. That's the contrast that hooked me for all these 5 episodes. Soohyuk doesn't swear but he's talking to Yoondae very harshly and emotionless here, and for Yoondae harsh talk is the default, it's like Soohyuk is lowering his manners to talk on his level, to provoke him (or maybe that's also how he distances himself from the discovery that Yoondae has feelings for him).

And Yoondae is holding back his frustration and tears, but he understands the way such words were aimed to hurt him, so instead of lashing out back at Soohyuk, as he probably wants him to, he swallows and unusually calmly, almost softly says: "Let's talk when you can be honest. Because I will shut up and wait for you."

And it makes Soohyuk stand there in shock and contemplate.

I'll add next scenes in READ MORE since this post is getting long!

Here's the moment when the boss asks their youngest employee to write something more 'trendy' for their marketing text xD It's very true that trends in Korea come and go very quickly, they also love to invent new terms and phrases all the time. Like "MZ slang", there are many phrases, and the one trendy phrase the boss uses as the example is 킹받네 (king-pad-nae) which literally written as 'receive the king' but means "I got angry" - but with a teasing/playful subtext, like friends could say each other 'ah you're so cute, it makes me angry'.

If I'm not wrong, this phrase was widely used like 1-2 years ago and not really in its trendy peak as well right now but kudos to boss to even learning it xD And it's funny how translator chose to (I assume) use "[living in my head] rent-free" phrase as a substitute. Another fun fact, they ended up using some trendy lingo in their ad that translator gave us as "no cap!" but that part of phone msg was so blurry, I couldn't see which exact Korean phrase they ended up using x)

"Hyung, if you have any ask for help, say so. For you, 2 million... No, I'll try to give you until 3 million won in any way."

Can I just say that we had this character for one moment and I'm so not ready to let him go, I want Jeongwan to have his own storyline and everything and he's too sweet and also caring for strangers/his colleagues, and so he stole the spotlight for me xD

Yoondae said there's no food at home. But also, as you can see, there is: beer, water, rice that you can cook in the microwave, kimchi for a side dish and some other microwaved food. According to my Korean friends, typical Korean person (poor like student) can survive if they have rice, kimchi and also ramyeon. That's their the most basic food. Just a fun fact. xD

Also he was on his third can of beer, and he already made a drunken longing call on the verge of tears to Soohyuk, lying about being hurt and bringing trouble just so he'd return home. "Is that okay with you?" - just shoot me, please. :')

"I called [the cleaning service/you] to tell you to stop it [sleeping outside of home]" "Let's have that dinner [that I promised you] today. Wait for me."

After days, Yoondae was ready to give up, he "tricked" Soohyuk to return home just so he could tell him he'll move out and stop pushing any talk. And then, Soohyuk brought up the dinner (the feelings) that he kept avoiding. No wonder Yoondae looked so struck and confused. It just gave him his hopes back (and viewers too, but we probably should've known better with this kind of series haha)

Interesting cultural context: they are getting samgyeopsal - grilled meat, chosen by Soohyuk because Yoongdae said there wasn't anything he wanted to eat. And usually, the youngest one has to set the cutlery and grill meat, out of respect for the seniors. And here we see that Soohyuk is the one choosing the place, menu and even grilling the meat and pouring soju for Yoondae.

Once again, it shows that despite Yoondae's emotions and pleads, he is not mature enough, he is not ready to focus on other people. We know he can't plan his own future, he doesn't know what to do, and we see where their relationship stands now - Yoondae is still more of a burden than an equal partner to Soohyuk, and Soohyuk is more of a parent.

Even when they drink soju (in Korean drinking etiquette usually you don't drink alone, you toast together and drink together), notice how they don't even clink their glasses together, then Soohyuk is the only one drinking and Yoondae wants to follow him but puts the glass back. He's taking a shot later, when Soohyuk grills the meat again. They are totally unsynchronized at this point of their lives, and it's painful to watch.

"I said he [my father] was dead because that's the truth/reality for me. There was no other [hidden] meaning. I didn't plan to lie to you."

"I moved out completely. If I don't organize my life starting from doing this, then I don't think I'll be able to live like all the other [normal] people."

The fact that Yoondae started thinking about improving his life (the word 'organizing'), immediately made Soohyuk stop in surprise. So he started asking what does the normal life like others mean to him, hopeful to find that equal adult footing from Yoondae... but Yoondae's thoughts stopped there. And Soohyuk offered his own goal and life meaning: "to have a place to go back to, that's enough for me".

Here's when Yoondae thoughtfully agreed with him: "It's important to have a home", and took the meat tongs from Soohyuk, saying how high-maintenance he is. Yoondae embraced that realization, he took the responsibility (even a small cultural gesture) and even though Yoondae nagged him, Soohyuk smirked. Because it wasn't a completely hopeless situation. And Yoondae proved it, by saying how eating like this and going home together is his normal life as well. (and yet they were still unsynchronized until the very end! we can't have happy ending yet)

AND HERE IS WHERE I HAVE TO MAKE A SECOND POST! Because tumblr only allows 30 images in one, and I can't stop screenshotting the last conversation so I'm going to make another post that you can find in 'gray shelter comments' or 'dropthemeta' tags (upd. or here's the link to the post!)^^

#gray shelter comments #gray shelter #gray current #dropthemeta #kbl #korean bl #kactors #grey shelter #bl series #soohyuk x yoondae #language details #language #korean language #korea #korean culture #things you didn't notice

[tommykinard6]

I don't mean to pile onto your bad day but I've been seeing a lot of creators on tiktok complain/compare the bucktommy and henren tags/fic count on ao3 because there's almost more bucktommy fics then there are henren fics. The number one claim is always that bucktommy writers are racist because we don't write for henren. But like, that's not correct at all? People can write fanfiction for whatever they want to. If they want to see more henren stuff then they can write it on their own.

We can coexist without fighting each other. I'm just tired of people screaming about how bucktommy is anti this or anti that, when we're just vibing by ourselves and don't want the drama but the drama finds us anyway because Sucky People are loud and get heard the most.

You’re good, anon. It actually gave me something to think about during work.

As a quick disclaimer, before we begin, I’m not a POC. I am not speaking for anyone in the Black community and am not attempting to speak over them. My following thoughts are as a queer woman-ish who is also a writer.

I think it must be noted that Hen and Karen have been overlooked since day one. The fact that Buck coming out made it the “gay firefighter show” when we’ve had a beautiful canonical lesbian couple since the very beginning? Is only proof. Is this proof of racism in the fandom? Maybe. Quite possibly. I would argue that it comes from a misogynistic point as well.

If you look in any fandom, regardless of the color of their skin, any wlw ship is horribly overlooked. I’ve done some tag searching on ao3. Straight and mlm ships battle for dominance while there are canonical and fanonical wlw ships that have a drastic difference in numbers. This isn’t a good thing. But it’s an experience that spans fandoms.

I find it sad that BuckTommy has almost more fics, with only two episodes under their belt, than Henren with 7 seasons. However, this isn’t a reason to hate on BuckTommy. The ship didn’t do anything wrong. Comparison is the thief of joy and it’s also rage bait. I think that some creators simply are using anything they can to hate on BuckTommy. Which that makes it sadder, that they aren’t concerned about Henren other than pushing their own agenda.

This isn’t to say all creators who are speaking about this are doing this, but I guarantee some are.

Now, let me speak as a writer.

As someone with 62 published fics on ao3, I write almost exclusively mlm ships. This isn’t because I hate women. And as a queer woman-ish, don’t even start about homophobia. But for some reason, I find it so much easier to write men than I do to write women. This is true for straight and wlw ships and also just in general. I love Henren, but I don’t have the faintest idea about how to write them.

It’s hard enough to write as it is and I’m already writing on ships that are easy for me. I try to write women and it just hasn’t come out right. I want to challenge myself, branch out, and maybe I’ll write for Henren to do that. But I say all this to point out that for some people like me, writing some ships and demographics of ships are just a little more difficult.

That leads me into something else.

I, as a white person, worry about accidentally writing non-white characters wrong. And this was reinforced not too long ago when we had that whole thing on ao3 with deliberate racism in 9-1-1 fics. If anyone has resources or advice for writing non-white characters, I would love to hear that! The last thing I want to do is cause any harm.

I feel like I’ve spoken a lot about me, but that’s because I can’t really speak for anyone else. I can only speak from my experience.

We already have a ship war between BuckTommy and Buddie. We don’t need to pit more people against each other. I think we can love BuckTommy while agreeing that Henren needs to be seen and appreciated and treated equally.

End note to say: I tried to speak as delicately and as sensitively as I could, but if anything came out wrong, please feel free to point it out (kindly). Again, I speak for no one but my very little section of the world. I’m interested to hear what people of other backgrounds have to add!

#911 abc #911 show #9-1-1 #tommy kinard #bucktommy #evan buckley #lou ferrigno jr #911 season 7 #tk6 answers #oliver stark #henren #henrietta wilson #hen wilson #karen wilson

[purplink8]

Hate to burst anyone's bubble but I don't think L would've revealed his face to Light if the latter wasn't Kira. The Kira case was the only case in which L shows his identity to anyone besides Watari because it's the first time he (and his authority) has been challenged like this (with the majority of the Japanese task force leaving since they can't trust L coz of the FBI incident).

If Light weren't Kira and went on to become an NPA officer like his father, he might work with L on some cases together but that doesn't mean L would've revealed his identity to him, however intelligent this particular NPA officer may be.

Like I ship Lawlight very much and I'm not (in this post, that is) referring to anyone exploring the idea of non-Kira!Light with L in their AUs as bad (I like those AUs too), but let's remember that it wouldn't be plausible if we're going by canon. Even if Ohba said somewhere that they'd work together if Light weren't Kira, I'm sure he didn't mean working together as in face-to-face.

#that doesn't stop Light from being L's most favorite detective in the NPA tho #but i doubt that L would show his face to him just because Light's a genius like him #again i am not attacking anyone loving the idea of non-kira!Light & L working together (i'm one of those people; hi) and #reading (hello again) or writing about it in AUs #but that's not canonically plausible? #i can only think of one scenario where it's plausible #it's when L & non-Kira!Light are working on a case that's even bigger than the Kira case which requires showing your identity #anyways if i'm wrong feel free to correct me! #death note #light yagami #l lawliet #musings #p

[fragile-snail]

not sure if i’m reading into this or misremembering, but one of the details i love is how oj would sometimes use horse language (not sure how else to phrase it) when communicating with other people. like when angel first came to set up the cameras and yelled really loud oj immediately went “woah,” but the cadence he said it in sounded like the cadence you’d use with a horse. and when he was holding the door open for em and angel to get in the van he started slapping his hip/thigh in a “hurry up!” motion, which again, kinda made me think of what you’d do with a horse.

#i am not a horse person so i'm sorry if i interpreted this wrong #and if i'm wrong or people think differently please feel free to correct me #i just think it's interesting!!! #anyway these are the only moments i remember clearly #so feel free to add on if you think of anything #nope #nope 2022 #jordan peele #daniel kaluuya #nope spoilers #nope 2022 spoilers

[doublebassawareness]

So is no one gonna talk about how Jing Yuan is ambidextrous?

For example, in his basic attack in the overworld and in combat, he uses his left hand.

In his skill, he starts with the left, but makes the actual strike with his right.

In the character line up, he holds his weapon with his right, but in his stance before his basic attack and skill, he holds it in his left.

This is in contrast with character like Luocha or March 7th who use their right hand to wield their weapons (or, in march's case, she draws her bow with only her right)

Such a mundane fact, but I'm gonna collect more evidence. I'm also gonna be on the lookout for more characters who are not right handed

#Fun fact #dan heng was almost added to the light of right handed characters #but then I realized that during his ultimate he uses his left #The fact that I am right handed but still excited over the non-right handed rep #anyways #honkai star rail #star rail #jing yuan #luocha #march 7th #also feel free to correct me if I'm wrong because I do mix up right and left quite easily

[cowardlychimera]

Chimera I'm staring at u w my autistic eyes please share your theories w me

I love love Yume Nikki and Omori parallels I once read someone's comment saying "Black Space is a love letter written to Yume Nikki," which is so true to me!!!!! AGHH

ah okay!! fair warning though that this might just be me getting excited over a cool idea lol and might be wrong

okay so: 2 things I noticed that seem similar in both. windows and doors.

when someone hears the word daydreamer, the first thing they think of might be someone staring out a window, right?

and we know Madotsuki and Sunny both prefer their dreams over reality. so windows = inaction. observing, going with the flow.

this fits I think, since in omori, what's one very important window?

this.

Mari says Sunny's seen this before, when he almost drowned. he almost drowned because he gave in. he didn't believe he could do anything, so he didn't.

don't have much for yume nikki about windows tbh though, just that from what I remember Madotsuki's name might refer to windows (if there's anything I don't know of/forgot please share!)

okay now doors!! doors definitely tie these 2 games together! doors = action. choosing to do something instead of just letting things happen

Madotsuki refuses to open her door. she refuses to make the choice to leave, seeming to prefer her dreams over reality. Sunny can do the same. the front door that Kel knocks on, it's Sunny's last chance to fix things. he gets to choose.

and in white space and Madotsuki's dream room? they can leave whenever they want to, through a door! same thing with nexus/door room/whatever you wanna call it and black space! they get to choose what doors to open. they get to choose whether or not they want to accept reality. and even more in omori, the door to Basil's bedroom and his hospital room. he doesn't have to open those doors. whether he faces reality and tries to fix things is up to him. and the door to the roof too! once he walks through the door, he can't go back. he already made his choice.

and sliding glass doors? I'm not 100% about these yet, but sliding glass doors could represent a choice they might want to make, but are hesitant to for whatever reason. they're like a combination of windows and doors! in omori, they're shown in both reality and black space/after finding the photo where Sunny pushed Mari. they're Sunny's want and choice to face reality and accept it, attempting to fix things. but in yume nikki? Madotsuki wants to escape. there's 2 events (I've only triggered one of these 2 so far, so info on one might be incorrect!) where Madotsuki can fly away, and unfortunately fall, the witch event and the spaceship + spaceship event. one has her flying through the clouds, and falling from the sky, while the other has her flying through the stars, also falling from the sky (if you manage to trigger the event, that is). Madotsuki wants to fly away. the sliding door could represent her want, and her choice to escape reality.

okay okay I'm almost done lmao hang in there

now, closets! (once again, I haven't explored any closet stuff in yume nikki yet lol so I might be wrong about stuff) first, in omori! it's obvious Sunny doesn't want to acknowledge the closet is broken violin is hidden in, going far enough for it to even disappear for him! the closet represents something he's hiding. there is a phrase, "skeleton in the closet", that refers to a secret someone wants to hide. so this theory fits the closet in omori! it might also fit the closets found in yume nikki.

Madotsuki doesn't want to find herself.

(also final thing: these things probably do represent more than just this. this is just stuff I noticed seems connected to both games so far! also also I haven't finished yume nikki yet lol so once again feel free to correct me if anything's wrong)

#all photos are taken from the wikis! #anyways I hope this isn't too hard to read I got excited lol #not main tagging this because that sounds terrifying #get nervous about sharing my theories because I'm always worried someone will see em and think I'm stupid/wrong or something </3 #oh well take this anyways #I looove rambling about theories #one more time if anything here is wrong please feel free to correct me!! I'd be very glad! #okay okay I'll post this now #penny for a thought #chimera babbles

[phantomuss]

Okay so lets talk about how absolutely down right hillarious (to me at least which is all that matters) Executor is during this event and the event's potrayal of him-

-Spoilers for Guiding Ahead(?)-

Let me preface this by saying that he's not trying to be funny! He's just so hardass that its funny! Nokia 3310 blushed when it saw him because while its a brick it can't really compare to our favourite terminator, whose first words might as well be a line of C code.

To understand him its VERY simple his prority is:

- Law

- Protocol

- You're his boss and protocol states to be cordial

The law, however, vastly outstrips the things below it; If you're obstructing his ability to carry out his duty to the law then he'll exercise his right to disregard your position to uphold it. He DOES NOT care that you are his superior. If you broke the law you're going into the slammer- if it was against the law to like Cactus tarts he would've dragged the pope down to the slammer if he had to.

The dude doesn't even have time to use the art of Kalt'sitese(TM) Executor just goes that's not a yes, which means....its a no! And its very cute that he asks like this by the by- he does the equivalent of "Hello good sir did you smuggle cocaine into the country? If you did in accordance to the law I must ask that you follow me down to the office"-

-and he expects them to comply. That's because that's something he would do. I stated the laws please respond.

By the way did I mention the 'if' part? That's right. He wasn't sure. The arrest of this legatus versus the arrest of Oren is VASTLY different in tone- that's because Oren is 100% busted when he went to hunt for him but for this one? he had No concrete proof. Nil. Nada. But he's determined to bring them in because if you're not completely innocent then you're guilty of Something (source: just trust me bro)

This is also NOT the first instance of source: just trust me bro during the event- the first instance was actually at the beginning of the event with the introduction of Cecelia. Federico's first line is his request for entry.

But his second scene is him being in the room. (We later find that he was confronting her for potentially being involved with a sarkaz which was his grounds for investigation). Cecelia would not open the door for a suspicious man asking for entry- and to cement that fact the narration had her hiding under the chair when Executor was in the room with him being none the wiser.

What did that mean?

He broke in without permission.

The narrative does not show Executor as he's absolutely wrecking havoc while going through the grapevine. He arrested a Legatus for peeps sake- that's an official delegate stamp approved by the Pope! People see him crashing though windows and if you know even a tiny bit about the Notarial Hall's executors then you would have Definitely Heard About Him.

And the cherry on the cake? He wasn't even here for Cecelia or the fact that Oren and Andoain was plotting something during the summit. His appearance was for something completely different entirely, he was on a damn vacation! This wasn't a mission of his!He was really vital to cornering Oren in all of this but its portrayed like he's on a sidequest- all his scenes was him trying to arrest people! He just happened to be caught up in this hoo-ha trying to catch the person that MIGHT have a lead on the fugitive he was tracking.

And when the dust settles he's like damn that was a waste of time- Oren goes 'oh wait I literally met this person you're looking for lmao'

-surprised Exe.jpg-

^ one pixel of difference btw.

#aqua's adventures #arknights #I love him #he's definitely going to be centred around another event I cannot wait. #executor #if I'm wrong in anyway feel free to correct me because I played this event with green tea in my veins at 5am

[moonrecalled]

i know that it's common to think of nyx as like ryoji's mother, and in some ways that's not entirely inaccurate, but like... in a lot of ways, to my understanding, ryoji IS nyx. or at least the closest thing we'll ever get to her. hear me out???

ryoji talks about nyx as a seperate being from himself, but at the same time, ryoji is a collection/embodiment of "all" shadows - and shadows, as well as being the suppressed side of the self, are also quite literally fragments of nyx's psyche sealed in the human unconsciousness. the p3 club book also mentions how it's nyx's psyche that calls her body down to earth, which is exactly the same as ryoji's role as the appriser! although admittedly later in the club book ryoji also explains how as the 13th arcana death, he's capable of taking on the full weight of nyx's psyche and power and that when that happens, he becomes the nyx avatar - so maybe he doesn't really count as "nyx" until that fusion takes place??

the point is, though that there's no like... separate consciousness belonging to nyx existing elsewhere that he's like "taking orders" from. the moon is just nyx's body, while her "consciousness" is what came together to create ryoji to begin with. of course, ryoji was also given humanity from makoto, so it's not just as simple as that, and ryoji doesn't consider himself nyx at least until becoming her avatar, but... idk. it's just interesting to me.

NOTE THAT THIS IS ALL MY TAKE BASED ON THE TRANSLATION OF THE CLUB BOOK I READ but like. i could be completely misunderstanding it haha :'))

#ooc #headcanons. #anyway feel free to offer corrections if you understood the lore differently or i'm wrong!! it wouldn't surprise me #also i think about what this means for ryoji re: gender all the time. like nyx is female; but ryoji is male (due to his human side coming #from makoto) but also nyx IS ryoji................... #i don't know where i'm gonna take the concept yet but i just think it's very very cool. akhkdsjfdkjf #i get so confused on the difference between erebus and ryoji too but that's another post JFHDKSJFSJK

[sunshinefurby]

hm. i've been quiet abt it bc i don't really like being negative on here but honestly the new furby design is. disappointing idk. absolutely nothing against people who like it ofc, and there are def some cute aspects. but it sucks to see that the design is so far removed from original furbies and just doesn't have the same charm idk. the connect was already straying pretty far but honestly i kinda like connects bc the shapes are cute but. idk the 2023 furbs just seem like they're trying to hard to be cutesy and it just feels sort of forced?? if it appeals to kids and young people get to enjoy it that's awesome and honestly that's kind of the point. but i do get why people are unhappy with it. like in regards certain aspects like the eyes the fixed beak & the way it's like. super difficult to take apart bc of the clips and stuff. i can totally see why a lot of customizers especially aren't happy with it. i'm sure lots of people have said the exact same stuff but yeah overall i feel like. relatively neutral to the whole thing idk it's nice to see furbies being produced and sold again and yeah it is cute but i get why people aren't loving it. that said ofc there are people who do love it and that's totally okay. regardless if you love it or hate it what's not okay is people within the community being rude to each other based on whether they like it or not cmon. it's not for everyone but if people do like it that's their business and there's no need to be rude!!! but on the other hand if people have complaints about it they should be allowed to voice that as long as they're not being mean yknow. letting it cause a rift in the community is silly. but anyways

#sorry for the super long post #but yeah these are just some thoughts abt it. idk personally i don't love it it's not for me #but i can acknowledge that other people and kids especially are enjoying it and that's good!!! #i hate being negative on here so i wasn't even gonna voice my opinion on it. but like #i personally do not really like booms n 2012s to be honest. the like digital eye thing and everything idk it's not for me #connects too they're just. not my fave. but honestly they're aesthetically very nice i think?? just not the bluetooth aspect and fart jokes #but idk it does feel like with each new model it gets further and further from the originals and ik ik that's what a redesign IS but #i do kinda wish they went back in the other direction a little idk. there's a reason why 1998s and 2005s are the most popular models #and i truly don't think it's bc they're considered retro or whatever i think it's bc they're a little out there and very unlike other toys #and the whole cutesy rainbow thing is. i totally get why some people love it!!! but you can't rlly deny that it's not really unique #but. idk. i do get both sides of the argument. personally i would have loved smth a little more adjacent to 1998s #that said. a lot of ppl do find 98s creepy and weird so from a sales perspective i get why they might not be. marketable #bc i guess a lot of kids might find them offputting #also correct me if i'm wrong but i think the 2023s have painted on eyes?? which. Don't Like. #didn't love the digital eyes either bc i keep the batteries out so they're just blank for me which is kinda boring #and i don't love the digitization of everything like 😭 idk. so i'm kinda glad they moved away from that #but if they're painted/printed idkkkk. i'm an eyechip girly i think they're great honestly #they're just nice to work with for customizing especially. also keep in mind w my opinions i primarily am a customizer so #i do kinda view it from that perspective #ANYWAY feel free to rb or comment or whatever and lmk ur thoughts. i genuinely do not want to get on here and be negative #or say anything that would upset anyone bc i imagine some anti 2023 furb ppl have probably been pretty nasty #honestly i haven't been online much at all so idk but i can imagine 😭 i ain't wanna come on here and be like BOOOO I HATE IT #i don't hate it tbh i just don't love it yk. but i'm not gonna shit on people who do love it

[foundtotoro]

TO STUMBLE INTO a new adventure was one of mei's favorite pastimes. normally , it was granted beside her sister , but her sister was off to school today. adventure could only hold out for so long before it beckoned the youngest in , cradling her softly.

she has reached an impasse. did totoro go into this door or the next one across the way ? she is looking between two different locations. one door looks regular --- the other door looks even more regular. a little too regular , but a four year old will hardly know the difference. " eeny .. meeny .. miny .. moe .. " she says , bouncing her hand between the two doors from afar. " catch a .. totoro .. by his .. nose .. if he hollers .. make him .. pay .. fifty .. dollars .. every .. DAY ! " AND , her choice is the right one. she is very proud of the incredibly normal door to be picked. not progressing with the song enough for that to change , she rushes up without second thought.

mei is reaching up for the doorknob , but it proves to be quite futile without extra help due to her height being rather small. ( it was nothing that a quick jump couldn't fix ! ) she jumps high , grabbing ahold of the knob and swinging it open with all of her might. though , another problem for but a second was that she could no longer reach the ground so easily.

she falls into the new location , losing her footing enough to land in a seated position. bruised knees was just another hard days work for the girl though. she rises , excitedly looking up a short walk of stairs to see a humble living situation.

with a wide eyed grin , she is heading in. taking a deep breath , she says as loudly and boisterously as she can " TOTOROOOOO .. come out , come out wherever you are ! come out , come out wherever you areeee ! "

thread for @penddraig

#penddraig #₊˚🌿✧ 𝚊 𝚐𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝 𝚋𝚒𝚐 𝚠𝚑𝚒𝚖𝚜𝚒𝚌𝚊𝚕 𝚓𝚘𝚞𝚛𝚗𝚎𝚢. ( main ) #[ so .. correct me if i'm wrong- #but i thought i remembered that the castle could #manifest itself as regular buildings on the outside #if i got that wrong then this whole post is silly fdkfjddkf #BUT I RLY THOUGHT I REMEMBERED THAT FROM THE MOVIE #when s.ophie walked in at first ?? #anyway. i rly hope it works #if it doesnt then pls feel free to tell me #correct my errored ways

[dreamyandinadaze]

Thinking about outsider art and how beautiful and amazing and important it is, and yet a lot of the interest in it is not necessarily in the lives, stories, and messages of the primarily mentally ill/disabled people that make it, but rather the fact they're "crazy" and "insane" and "holy shit those artists must have been on drugs or something!" like holy shit can you be any more fucking stigmatizing towards mentally ill/disabled artists whose conditions heavily influence their work

#hi I'm Micki #I'm a mentally ill artist whose mental illnesses heavily influence their work #and I'm very mad about this!!! #like christ can abled people PLEASE be normal about disabled and mentally ill ppl for like five fucking seconds please I am BEGGING you #like you can enjoy and celebrate outsider art without further perpetuating ableist attitudes towards the artists that make it #also i should clarify that there's absolutely nothing wrong with using drugs to help with creating art or coming up with concepts for art #but the idea that ppl can only come up with super creative and conceptual art with the aid of drugs is just. not correct at all lol #anyway #shut up micki #art #art rant #also uhhhh feel free to tell me I'm wrong about anything in this post bc I love hearing outside perspectives #and also I am not an authority figure on ableism in the art world whatsoever

[welcometogrouchland]

"aaaand he's right behind me, isn't he?" Is an overplayed joke but I think ppl are focusing too much on the joke out of context like. It's not the line itself that's the problem, I've seen this joke done well, the problem with this kind of overplayed quip is when assembly line blockbusters use it as a substitute for actual characterization and thought out jokes with set up and pay off.

Like I saw an article that described the Russo bros dialogue in their latest film as feeling like placeholders for funnier jokes meant to be added later, and that's very much what "and he's right behind me" is being used to represent in the recent wave of memes parodying it and movies that feature it- it's dialogue that could be funny in the right context but reads as annoying, insincere and overplayed because writers and directors employ it just as a way to

a) self parody in a way that creates distance between the film and the audience- which is distance from criticism, yes, but also distance that halts all investment and identification between the story and audience

and b) make their job easier at the cost of quality. Because "he's right behind me, isn't he?" Is a tried and true joke that doesn't tell us anything about the character saying it other than "they're meant to be funny and sarcastic and likeable" in the most generic sense of all those words

because a blandly likeable protagonist is easy to write, and they want things that are easy to write so they can put them on the assembly line. Which is frustrating but I do understand it's mostly a product of corporate monopoly and strangling studios. I'm sure most of these writers would like to make something better but just. Cannot be bothered to when the film is guaranteed money based on brand name clout alone AND they have to deal with execs who micromanage projects that fall under their 'brand'. Why write jokes that feel specific to the characters you've created, or engineer characters with comedy in mind? Thats too personal and gimmicky and high effort- slap a one-liner on them and now you've got the human equivalent of a palette cleanser when you flit between summer mega movies. Except every meal is a palette cleanser, and in the end, it tastes like nothing at all.

#ramblings of a lunatic #sorry i just. saw something that annoyed me #where they judged the quality of a thing (admittedly a thing i like so I'm very biased here!) by the fact that they personally felt #that it was the kind of show that would include a ''hes right behind me isn't he?'' joke #and it's like. i get what you're going for and other parts of your post are more coherent in your grievances #(you think it's generic) #but like. idk i just feel like turning specific lines that are overplayed but ultimately neutral on their own- #-into shorthand for ''generic and bad'' is like. gonna be unhelpful in the long run #idk feel free to add on to this with expansions or anything you think i got factually wrong if i did say something completely untrue #just like be civil yknow. like i have good faith for the ppl who follow me don't get me wrong I'm just. not in the mood rn for tomfoolery #this is highly unedited and i might wake up tomorrow and find it incomprehensible or just. poorly articulated #but for now you're getting my moaning and groaning as is. o natural babey #Anyway yes- mega blockbusters made on an assembly line are bad and they produce bad movies. #But it's less to do with a couple individual words that appear often and more abt the conditions surrounding their production. #it's why i keep calling them assembly line blockbusters #to the person who once compared the mcu to cinematic fast food...hows it feel to be so deeply correct #(fast food good sometimes and I have nostalgic favourites but by god it cannot be all i eat or I will get very sick)

[professionalfangirl24601]

I'm not into sports so maybe I'm wrong, but shouldn't the Foxes jersey numbers be a mess? How does it go from 1 to 10 so perfectly (rip Seth)?

I've wondered about this for a long time and still don't know the answer, but that's because I pretend it was fate a coincidence and the proof that the og Foxes were the perfect team.

#There are 3 possibilities #1) it has a really deep and meaningful answer #2) it was a mistake #3)i don't know anything about sports #I guess my main question is how come the monsters jersey numbers are lower tban the upperclassmen's #They joined later #And kevin still got his N2 #I guess it's technically possible if the older foxes (older than seth) graduated in that order and #The ones before them did too #But doesn't that at least make it unlikely and exceptional? #Actually now that i think about it #Andrew's question at the beginning of tfc whether neil believed in fate or not makes a lot of sense now #Because of course he noticed #Even if i'm wrong about the whole thing #This is my hc now #It's even implied in canon #In my eyes at least #But feel free to correct me anyway #Aftg

[napsaps-archive]

so did he actually cheat? 😭 i’m very new to the fandom so i’m not really sure what even happened

oof well. Ok. some mods noticed some discrepancias in his runs specifically his drop rates (ender eyes and blaze rods i'm pretty sure and i think piglin trades too) and made the decision to take his runs down and stuff, dream initially denied the accusations and like accused some of the mods of being biased against him he hired some guy to run the numbers independently (idk exactly what happened there sorry) blah blah blah and basically for his mc videos there was a piece of code that causes higher drop rates to make the videos faster to record, he thought it was just for a certain type of thing like just for videos he wanted to record because the developer of the code - i think - said that was how it worked, he later backtracked on that, and it was revealed that the code ran for his videos AND speedruns and influenced the drop rates for both, meaning the mods were right to have taken his runs and WRs down so like . it was unintentional cheating but yeah he cheated

#the hate he gets for it is unreal and insane however . like it is not at all proportional #anyway someone feel free to correct me if i'm wrong / add more detail or explanation #i hate talking about this and i hate even thinking about it but i wanted to be helpful so 😭 #ok off to take my shower <3 #ask #anonymous #// discourse

[dusklived]

Yuzuki can't believe the chance she's been presented with all at once. Because this - the man in front of her, she's sure of it - has to be Takaya, the creator of the Nyx cult... the very same cult that she's been investigating since it first appeared at just the beginning of this month!

Of course, she has to be careful. She's not stupid - a cult leader has to be a dangerous man, and she doesn't want him thinking that she has any kind of nefarious intentions. To be honest, she's actually quite scared; and she can hear her heart racing uncomfortably in her ears as she thinks about what she's about to do. But... she really mostly is just genuinely curious - that should be something he wants, right? It's not like she's trying to do anything stupid like take him down. So...

"Excuse me!" she calls out boldly, before even really realizing what she's doing. Once she's sure he's got his attention, she tries to dial back the enthusiasm a bit, and once again speaks in a more serious tone.

"You're... you're Takaya, aren't you? I saw your interview. About Nyx... and the end of the world."

@quillheel ( starter for takaya! )

#ic #quillheel #v. mainverse. #c. yuzuki. #!!!! TY SO MUCH FOR THE FOLLOW and i hope this works!! #i'm so excited you have takaya tbh; he's so interesting and i'd already decided that i wanted yuzuki to have been investigating the cult #when i made her! so i couldn't resist haha #it's been ages since i went through his parts in p3 so apologies if i get any details wrong #feel free to let me know if i need to correct anything otl #but anyway; thank you once again! <3

[magerightsmagefights]

I know people tend to forget Wyll a lot in this fandom (I wonder why. What Could Possibly Be Different. Can you spot the difference?/s) but I'm genuinely surprised at the lack of Durge x Wyll content. Especially if you're going Redeemed, there's that inherent flavor of "My lover cannot know the truth, I am horrible and they would hate me, they would be correct to hate me." And with Wyll it's just... so juicy, he's so pure and shining, and Durge is so filled with filth and misery that there's barely a person left underneath.

Idk, as a femme romance reader I've spent so many years reading the "love redeems" arc where a FMC plays beauty to an MMC beast, in every genre, medium, budget, etc. I'm not here to yuck anyone's yum, but beauty and the beast as a story structure has never done it for me.

until it's reversed, apparently, because Wyll as the beauty to Durge's beast needs to be injected directly into my veins like yesterday. All the other companions are good and sweet, don't get me wrong, but their reactions are coded like 'i accept you,' where Wyll to me comes off much more as 'we will heal you.' He doesn't have any funny little quips about you trying to bite him, no innuendos, no "I Will Put You Down" a la Laezel, he's just... so good, and he believes in your inherent goodness, he so easily sees "you" and "your urges" as wholly seperate entities he would step between if he could.

Speaking of which!! The coronation scene, when everyone finds out you're Bhaalspawn? I never see anyone talking about Wyll's reaction compared to other companions getting angry (even Dark Shadowheart will yell at you) because Wyll seems to be the ONLY PERSON who immediately separates you(the person he knows) from you(the person you used to be). Astarion isn't angry, he even appreciates your scheme freeing him from Cazador, but he also kinda falls into the whole "I will talk to you as if you are the exact same person who did these things, this is Your True Nature and I feel positive about it."

Wyll's reaction feels like the only one saying "You WERE that," instead of "You ARE that." It also feels like the only one that kinda-sorta acknowledges Durge's actual amnesia, because he doesn't treat this revelation like a betrayal the way the other "good" companions do. They be saying "The real evil was hiding within our ranks all along" like wym hiding? Durge didn't know either, how tf they supposed to tell you?

Wyll doesn't even blink. Once he knows what you are, his No.1 priority is reassuring YOU about it. The fact you're Bhaalspawn isn't a betrayal; it's a Horrible Burden and he's sorry you have to bear it, but there have been others like you who were good, who overcame, and your blood isn't who you are. His first instinct is to offer hope, to reassure you that there's a way out, he believes so hard that your urges are a defeatable enemy and he's ready to fight them with you.

(I also fall into the Durge And Gortash Fucked camp, and I cannot overstate the tastiness of Durge waltzing into the coronation of their ex, the Worst Man Alive, while bringing along their new boyfriend, the Best Man Alive)

Idk, I've just never engaged in a romance where I played the part of the Beast. As much as people rag on pure, princely archetypes, I don't actually see them that often. I genuinely don't remember the last time I read/saw a male lead behave like Wyll, but I've seen plenty of Astarions, Fenrises, Rhysands, etc. Romance loves a fixable MMC, but so rarely an MMC who wants to do the fixing.

Anyway. Justice for Wyll or whatever. I can only cross my fingers that future DLC will include more romance content, because we all deserve to have a Beauty for our Beast sometimes.

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