#ask mea

[local-diavolo-anon]

so help wanted 2 is out

and i would die for jack-o-moon

look at them

they look so cool

i love the colors, they feel like a reference to how the fandom drew eclipse before Ruin! (which makes sense since jack-o-moon kinda looks like the bb minigame eclipse)

Edit: thinking about it, why is this guy's name jack o Moon?

Like this is Sun's model repainted, it doesn't have a nightcap, why would this guy be named "Moon" then?

Edit 2: please not again, please stop liking this

#not an ask #fnaf moon #fnaf #me ranting #fnaf dca #fnaf daycare attendant #fnaf jack-o-moon #jack o moon #like i am sure it is a reference to the bb minigame eclipse #and how the fandom drew them #it even has red hands and rays #the pic comes from jack o moon's wikia page #help wanted 2 spoilers #fnaf help wanted 2 spoilers #forgot to tag that #mea culpa #why are my most noted posts just pics of characters from the wikia #i draw and write i make art and writing requests #please #why are my most like posts just these #i post fnaf and genshin and mxtx novel art #i take commissions #please this is agony T-T

[saint-ambrosef]

Hi all... we found out today that our baby has no heartbeat. I would have been twelve weeks, but the sonogram suggested they actually passed a few weeks ago. Please please pray for us in our grief, and for the decision we will need to make regarding removal of the remains.

#mea #... #no asks or DMs please just prayers

[cultrise]

morning cult <33 where I am is morning ahh !!

soft hobie this time,, since I’m in a fluff mood .. and this is kinda self indulgent but,, holding hands with hobie and rubbing small circles around his skin with your thumb or playing around with his long fingers and messing around with his rings just cause.

and he loves it, adores the way you do it without noticing, bonus points when you sit on his lap, his arm wrapped around your waist letting you play with his hands and rings.

morning, darling ^^ i’m in a soft, fluff mood too <3

i know damn well he’d notice the little things you do to him without realising. like messing with his rings, drawing circles on his skin the moment youre in his arms, nuzzling your face into his neck as you fall asleep or how your hands always find a way under his shirt so you can feel his warmth against your palms.

hobie always surprises you by telling you random facts he knows about you that you don’t even know. like when you’re all cuddled up on the couch and he says “fuck.. you’re so fucking cute when you scrunch your nose up like that” and you just look at him confused.

“you always scrunch your nose when you smile at me”

“do i?”

“mhm”

“i didn’t know.. guess it’s because i love you so much”

and he starts squeezing you in his arms so hard you think you might run out of breath. he just loves u so fucking much :(

#god im not asking for much #please :( #hobie #hobie brown #𐙚 — inbox. #ಇ. mea

[tearwolfe]

do you think any of the tsukasas in your aus would judge rui for being chubby (and then end up dating him anyways)

absolutely not i think tsukasa is always into that no matter what AU. also he is too nice. well cyberidol tsukasa is mean but not like that

#ask #a man can apprcuate when #a man can appreciate when another man has some mea #meat #a ma

[jamiesfootball]

What are your thoughts on Ted? Is it good he went home?

These are two separate answers but I'm gonna try to combine them into one thought bubble (bear with me).

My short answer regarding Ted's ending is that you can't create a fully fleshed out character for 2-3 seasons and then in the final hour decide he was Mary Poppins all along. The Mary Poppins is meant to be strange, not-quite of normal ilk. She's the static character who leads the change in others, the one who inspires. You don't usually see the inner thoughts and workings of a static character.

From the very first time the audience meets Ted, we understand that this is not a static character because he is literally one of our starting POVs. We see his uncertainty about flying across the globe to go teach a sport he doesn't understand. We see him turning to Beard for reassurance. We see him stick his hand out where it isn't wanted while he tries to find common ground with people in a new country. We see the beginnings of a panic attack at the press conference.

That is is episode one. He is not a static character. He is not a strange and unusual person impossible to understand. He is inspiring, yes, but that is because of his humanity- his kindness.

He is not a Mary Poppins.

Ted is at his most interesting when he is a complicated, struggling, but ultimately kind man who tries his best to show genuine empathy and compassion towards others. The fact that this same trait doubles as a flaw is equally intriguing.

Ted can reassure Sam that Jamie won't be coming back, or Ted can reach out to Jamie when he's struggling and ask him to come back. Both are acts of kindness. He can not do both.

Ted can show Rebecca empathy and understanding for her trying to sabotage Richmond, but it ties his hands on being honest to Jamie about why he was sent away in the first place.

In trying to balance kindness, Ted struggles to be direct. He struggles to come right out and tell people how he's feeling about situations. Despite encouraging other people to talk about their feelings, he dances around his own and avoids awkward confrontations. I think that is the flaw that Ted most needed to explore. At the same time, I hesitate to say he could have learned too much given how he was struggling to process his own trauma with his dad and how it effected his relationships with those around him. (Put a pin here, I'll be back for it in a later.)

Pivoting back to Ted's purpose in the narrative, unfortunately as the show ran through season three, it became too near-sighted on The Message and in turn lost sight of making sure the characters had fulfilling interactions with each other. This especially becomes apparent when it comes to Ted, whose motto in season one is 'be curious not judgemental.' I maintain that season three was a low point for Ted emotionally, and if I were to assign a reason in-universe as to why Ted seemed so off from his usual self, it would be that in his depression, he no longer had the energy to realize he wasn't being curious. One indication of this would be how many times Ted casts assumptions on people in season three, compared to his hey-do-you-think conversational openers from earlier seasons. Some examples would include:

-never trying to figure out what makes Zava tick (this is a big one to me. I think season one Ted would have been all over trying to crack Zava like a nut)

-assuming he already knows why Jamie is upset about Zava joining the team and brushing it off

-assuming that Dr Jacob would propose + assuming that Michelle would say yes instead of trying to ferret out whether

-his assumptions about Henry being bullied (the knee-jerk reaction as a parent to protect your kid is understandable, the lack of delving into the situation and why it happened are more what I mean here)

-his whole conversation with Jamie about his dad. Other people in more succinct words have pointed out how it feels like he fully projected what he needed to hear onto Jamie's situation, and I think that's fairly accurate. This was not a 'talk to me and tell me what's going on so I can better understand how i need to help you' conversation. This was a 'oh that's whats going on? how about you do this? that work? alright then' talk.

So the finale struts back around and Ted has made a decision. He's going home. And it's meant to feel like closure. They play the Cat Stevens song and it's supposed to feel like Ted has finally made a step in the right direction (which is certainly one take on those lyrics but I digress). He's going back home. He's going to be with his son. He's letting go of the damage his father leaving did to him. He's giving up on something and he's finally okay with that. He left Richmond better than he found it and that's what matters.

Everyone else can cry but he's not crying. He's finally with Henry again.

So here's my two cents. And this is definitely just my opinion but-

THAT'S FUCKING STUPID.

Because the only way that Henry OR Richmond exists is in a false dichotomy wherein the two cannot possibly coincide, despite the fact that there are MANY KIDS' SHOWS ABOUT CHILDREN MOVING TO NEW LOCATIONS EVEN NEW COUNTRIES because that is a NORMAL THING THAT HAPPENS IN THE NORMAL WORLD ALL THE TIME.

Like holy shit that is. That is just the plot of a Disney channel show. 'My dad the football coach moved to england to coach the other football.' That is just the plot of a Disney channel original movie with a $300 budget that magically gets a sequel. Is that what I'm supposed to say 'oh no, that could never happen' over? Because I"m already watching a TV show. You can put a show in another show- I'm fine with that.

Remember that pin above? Time to pull it out. Because you know what would have been a more narratively satisfying conclusion?

If Ted had actually asked Henry and Michelle if they'd liked to move to London to be closer to him. If he had actually expressed his fucking need to have both his Kansas family and his Richmond family close to him. Maybe they would have said no, maybe they would have said yes, but you know what? It would have at least opened the door to the discussion about what Ted might need as a person moving forward, whichever way the chips fell. At least he would have done the one thing we didn't see him do all show:

Ask for something for himself. Because he wants it. Not for the good of his family, or the team, or anyone else. Just for Ted.

I am not saying his son isn't the most important thing in his life. I am saying as a goddamn adult person, you can NOT mold your life around your kids. You can't. Full stop. It is not healthy. You put your kid's needs above your own, but as a parent your needs have to come second. You have to take care of your own emotional health so that you have the bandwidth to give them support. You have to set the example of what healthy boundaries and taking care of yourself looks like.

Could Ted make new social connections back in Kansas? Well that's the thing isn't it- season one Ted could have. Easily. Season three Ted? The one who's checked out and looks tired all the time and isn't even following his own motto anymore and didn't even cry like he'd miss his friends when he was leaving? I'm not sure about that Ted. I'm worried about that Ted. I'm worried he's going to put himself in a situation where for the next 9 years of his life his only priority is going to be keeping Henry happy by giving Henry the attention he never got from his own father. And after that? Henry's an adult. Henry has to go live his own life.

And Henry's going to be able to tell, by the way, if his dad is struggling. Whatever Ted's emotional health is like, Henry is going to pick up on it. This isn't a one way road. Kids notice.

Ted untangled himself enough to admit that what he wants is to be close to Henry. I commend that. But then he decided that there was only one way to do that, and he didn't look any further than that. The narrative didn't look any further than that. For a show that itself raises the topic of mental health, it feels tone-deaf to pretend that Ted moving away from his entire support group is a happy ending. He doesn't even have Beard!

So to summarize: what do I think about Ted? I think he's a fascinating character. I think he has a genuine kindness to him that is rare. I think he is flawed, and a little bent up on the inside, and he's got a lot of issues to work through. And I think the show did him a disservice by painting him going back to Kansas as a sign that everything was going to be okay.

#that's my very long take! #sorry! #and yes i am a 'how dare the found family break up at the end' type of person #but I can usually give props to canon if they at least made the reasons satisfying #lotr for example gets a pass on this #here tho? not satisfied #love ted; not satisfied with where we left him #would've preferred to run him through the washer a few times and see what happens #ted lasso #ted lasso meta #complaining about the finale #adding this to my 'i guess i'll fix it myself' pile #i am so sorry anon i just looked back at your ask and it was just two innocuous questions #and i busted out the capslock #mea culpa

[greenerteacups]

What do you think as Hermione's career would be post battle of Hogwarts? To me her being minister for magic really doesn't make sense. She does not have patience or tact to wade through murky waters of politics 😭😭

So hard to say! The Trio are so, so young when we leave them, I find it almost impossible to project their futures farther than a few years out. The job that suited me at 17 would be radically unsuited to me now. That's why of all the Trio, Ron's ending strikes me as the most realistic — he jumps straight into the save-the-world business again, burns out, realizes he's actually Done The Fuck Enough, Thanks, and pivots into a low-stress career where he gets to see his family a lot. Feels accurate! The others are weirder to me because they do seem to just... pick a lane and stay there.

With Hermione, you could spin her a couple ways. You could say that she leans into her bookish side and does research or teaching, which is not my preference for a couple reasons (namely, I don't think Hermione would like academia as a profession; she finds her classwork interesting and enjoys intellectual validation, but she'd be stifled and wasted in a DPhil program, and she'd be infuriated by the administrative politicking of your average higher-ed faculty). You could say that she gets disaffected with politics and ends up as a barrister or a lobbyist of some kind, but if anything that requires more political finesse, because you don't actually have institutional power, you're just handling the people who make decisions and trying to persuade them of your goals. This is not Hermione's preferred method of influence. She's not even particularly good at persuasion, she just happens to be smart enough (and right often enough) that people take her ideas seriously.

Or you could say her brashness fades with the years into a softened flavor of tell-you-like-it-is honesty, which some politicians actually do successfully trade on; as we see in British politics today, you don't have to be all that charming or clever to get ahead, you just need to be really driven and well-connected (which Hermione completely is; she fought shoulder-to-shoulder with the first postwar Minister and her bestie, the Literal Messiah, runs the Auror Office.) But I don't know if Hermione especially wants to be Minister, after the war. She's just watched years of horrendous bureaucratic incompetence plunge the country into a violent civil conflict. She's had not one, but two Ministers of Magic try to bully or shame her friends into complicity with fascism. Her view of government is... likely extremely dark.

But Hermione also isn't the kind of person who sees her life as a quest for happiness. Babygirl has a savior complex that makes Harry look selfish. (She basically kills her parents — yeah, obliviating is a form of murder, #changemymind — "for their own good," and justifies every batshit, vindictive, mean-spirited move she ever pulls on the grounds that it "helps" one of her friends.) She is a mean, lean, dragon-slaying machine, and she needs a dragon. After Voldemort, the Ministry is the no. 1 threat to muggle-borns and non-wizarding Beings. As a war heroine with basically infinite political capital, I'd be surprised if she didn't try to do something there. That said, Hermione is so vivacious and dynamic that she could potentially grow in a hundred different directions; it's possible that all of this, while true of her at 18, becomes completely inaccurate by 22. That's why I'm not too fussed about any particular fanon interpretation.

#greenteacup asks #sidebar: I know Minister “of” Magic is an Americanism but mea culpa #Someday I might actually bite it and pay someone to britpick Lionheart but I can't do it now #because I have a ban on editing published fic unless it's finished. Otherwise I'll never get around to writing the actual ending #I have a Process #is it the best process? likely not! but it makes the words go. so here we are. #I also think the fact that JKR is Gen X makes a difference here. careers worked differently in the 80s and 90s than they do now #i.e. we have the gig economy and a lot more mobility and EXPECTATION of mobility in your early life #that means career changes & professional pivots through your 20s and 30s are increasingly normal #and in fact have always been normal — but the image of the 'true' or 'ideal' career has changed #so we look at those careers and go hm. really? none of them changed? #none of them even went to uni? do wizards... just not? #but again. I believe the epilogue was written almost completely without consideration as to what happened between the BOH and then #I really believe that JKR did not know what happened to Harry except a wedding and 3 kids. because that was the whole point #I don't think she even knew what his career was when she wrote that scene #It existed to marry everyone off and do a quick munchkin headcount #because of the understandable temptation as an author to keep your hand on the wheel. but it didn't even matter! #the epilogue changed NOTHING! it was the most useless chapter in the series! I just — GOD #you can absolutely accuse me of being sour grapes about my ships getting nixed. I AM sour grapes. I AM a hater. #AND I have plot/theme/craft reasons for disliking it. #I'm not objective. I just want credit for being a sophisticated hater. my grapes may be sour but they're still artisinal.

[blindmagdalena]

I love Homelander so damn much that I'm jealous of this new character that apparently may be a love interest - the sparkler lady 😭 I'm so dumb lol But I just want him to stay single so I can self ship damnit She is super pretty tho and has a cool outfit but I want her over THERE so I can have Homie

aww darling, don't you fret! totally valid to have mixed or negative feelings. i don't think you're dumb. you're attached, and we already know that our brains don't efficiently differentiate between fictional and real crushes. if it makes you feel any better, i sincerely doubt any canonical love interest is going to go well for Homelander lol i hope there can at least be some excitement for the inevitable inspiration all us writers are gonna get from HL having a love interest again. i can't stomach any of the scenes with SF, so i'm really excited about the prospect of getting some food i can actually enjoy between him and Firecracker, however fucked up and weird it might be (fingers crossed for fucked up and weird in ways i specifically enjoy)

i agree with you in that i really like her design, and her accent is super cute. i'm practically vibrating at the thought of getting to see Homelander being a giddy boyfriend. i just know the whole fandom is gonna pop off when season 4 drops, and there will still be lots and LOTS of fic for the self shippers and x reader enjoyers 🖤

#like just thinking about it in this ask here gave me sooo many ideas hhhhhhh #i will say sorry in advance for people who preemptively don't like firecracker bc i already love her and i want to kiss her on the mouth #she's a redhead okay!!! it's not my fault!! i'm not to blame!!! (mea culpa. mea culpa) #her little salute and smile have cast a witch's spell upon my dick!!!! (mea culpa) #it's not my fault if in gods plan he made a redhead so much stronger than a lesbian!!! (mea culpa) #ask and you shall receive #darling anon #homelander x reader #the boys spoilers #the boys season 4

[thesherrinfordfacility]

Crowley's flaws: I think Gaiman accidentally wrote himself into a hole that he either doesn't see or doesn't know how to escape, and he fell into the hole when he decided to turn what was a political allegory into a psychologized relationship issue. Pratchett's understanding of evil is rooted in post-WWII thinking about totalitarianism, in which unthinkable acts are perpetrated by bureaucracies staffed by "normal" people, and resistance comes from individuals who become aware of what this routinization really conceals. This is consistent across the Discworld novels, not just GO. What GO does is take this point and filter it through C. S. Lewis' THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS (the hell-as-bureaucracy model, which NG and TP then extend to Heaven). In the novel, there's a direct line from Crowley's "hung out with the wrong people" to the moment at the airfield when he tries to reject Aziraphale's claim that they're both responsible for the mess the humans are in because they were "only doing our jobs." That's a textbook example of what we now call the Nuremberg defense ("just following orders/just doing my job"). The fandom loves romanticizing this aspect of Crowley's character--he has trauma! he's a proto-Marxist with demonic class consciousness!--but when Crowley busts out this kind of reasoning, he gives way to /evil/, just as Aziraphale does when he tries to justify the ways of Heaven to himself. Any fan who wants to be uncomfortable ought to read Hannah Arendt's EICHMANN IN JERUSALEM and then go back and look at Crowley's dialogue again, because boy howdy. But when it comes to their relationship, the transgression is not /personal/.

In the series, the political allegory has vanished, and the direct line runs from Crowley's "it's not my fault" to manipulating Aziraphale into killing the Antichrist. So far, so good, sort of? Gaiman had to remind the fandom that we aren't supposed to buy Crowley's excuses, all of which are bad. He's called out on the "why me" bit three times in the first episode alone. But by the end, there is no sign that Aziraphale understands that he has been manipulated, and no sign that Crowley understands that he did something wrong! The moral epiphany Crowley had in the novel vanishes, so we are left with a nasty /personal/ transgression that neither character understands as such. Aziraphale, by contrast, keeps owning up to his mistakes (at the bar, to Adam during the timestop, on the park bench). Part of this has to do with comedy and its lack of object permanence, so to speak. However, instead of facing up to the conflict it's created for itself, the series drops the whole thing like a Hellfire-hot potato, and so appears to conclude that there's nothing wrong when one character repeatedly takes advantage of another one's gullibility, sometimes in destructive ways. The question is to what extent the new writer has any opinions about this, or even notices.

i have no words........ 👀 a very interesting and thought-provoking take. i dig it. i never thought to look at the tonal comparison of the book vs. the show but this is... eye-opening. yes. YES. (and this doesn't mean that the characters nor the story are unlikeable. it means they have depth but that depth sinks into murky, terrifying, bottomless oceans just as much as clear, shiny, crystal-like reefs). YES.

also anon if you are comfortable pls message me direct i just wanna give u a lil virtual kiss a lil smooch✨

#good omens #good omens season 2 #good omens spoilers #good omens 2 spoilers #i know a fair bit about ww2 socio-politics so im actually going to screenshot this and study it later but #oh man #this is a Something Else post #nonnie you have an acute and sharp mind god bless you #i love this i live for it #YUMMY. FUCKING. SOUP🍲 #also my analogy is SHITE but mea culpa i am trying to work at the same time as this #not a shitpost but its good omens babyyyy #ask #the legend of the longwinded anon✨

[splendidemendax]

so my parents and i are watching percy jackson, which is a hilarious dynamic bc you have me (massive pjo fan for more than a decade), my dad (read the books once about ten years ago and remembers some stuff), and my mom (has never read the books).

so my mom is the only one who has no idea what's happening but she's also the only one of the three of us who likes spoilers, so it's a constant stream of "is x a good guy? is she good? who's that?" and my dad tormenting her with half answers and me vibrating out of my skin trying to keep my mouth shut

#she's finally given up and said she's just going to have to read the books #hasn't stopped her from asking me about twelve times whether luke is a good guy and who percy's dad is #percy jackson #mea res

[saint-ambrosef]

young devout Catholics: A lot of laity don't really seem to know or understand a lot of core Church teachings, so it's important that we clearly teach and live it :) boomer hippie Catholics: Wow, so arrogant and unkind. Extremist millennials like you will be the death of the Church. young devout Catholics: ??????????

#no joke i see this a LOT #i Don't Get It^tm #i mean i do but....huh?? #older priests/laity will make comments about how young conservative Catholics are “misguided” and “lack compassion for others” #and if you ask them its because we *checks notes* #want better doctrinal education in homilies and for clergy to be uncompromising/unambiguous in matters of grave morality #like fuck wow okay sorry i didnt realize asking Catholics to um *checks notes again* know and uphold their faith was so radical??? #mea #like they'll see a young priest gently but unwaveringly tell his parish that you're not suppose to receive the Eucharist in a state of sin #and theyre like “wow SO unkind of him we're finding a different parish” #if you dont like having a morally consistent theology that might sometimes be a lil uncomfortable then honey you shouldnt be Catholic

[cultrise]

hobie and you making out and he doesn’t let go at all 😭 ! you try to talk to him but get constantly interrupted by shushing you up with his kisses.

“don’t spoil the mood, sweet’eart.. let me feel those pretty lips again” he’d whisper, pulling you once again into many rounds of kissing. at this point don’t even try to ask him a question or talk, he just wants to make out with you and pour his love into the kissing you two are doing.

oh my god😭 you pecking his lips repeatedly only so u can speak to him

“you” kiss “are” kiss “such” kiss “a dick” kiss

“why’s that?” hobie asks as he pulls away slightly, making you jut your lip out at him, in a pout.

“wanna talk to you and you keep shushing me”

he smiles, a huge grin taking over his lips as he caresses your hip gently “ ‘m sorry, luv. i can’t get enough o’ those lips. can we talk after? or would you rather i stopped kissing you”

and he knows damn well what the answers is because you mutter a “fuck you” to him before pulling him in again. and he just chuckles against your lips as he whispers “anytime” 😵‍💫😵‍💫

#please im not asking for much #𐙚 — inbox. #ಇ. mea

[queenmea604]

why did you add the ssi and unnie shit in the fic?? i’m not saying that 😭 not everyone that reads the fic is gonna be korean

😮‍💨😮‍💨 I really getting tired with anon who keep on question what i make. I will edit back that part

#mea inbox #anon #i'm getting tired with this shit #anon ask #anon answered

[megamindsecretlair]

I know you’ve seen Mea Culpa👀

You know I did 🫠

It was good! It wasnt AS bad as I was thinking. It definitely couldve been better. Idk why Tyler Perry thinks its a flex to write, direct, and produce these movies in 20 days but he clearly has no real friends. No one's telling him to fn quit. And he needs some real therapy.

Its becoming abundantly clear how he really feels/thinks about Black women and men, specifically dark skinned Black people.

Either he wanted to fuck Trevante or wanted to be that character, maybe some combination of the two, but lawdt. I have more questions at the end of this than answers. But I'll take more Trevante. 🥵 baby, the way I want to rewrite that entire movie 🫠🫠🫠

Like forgive my ego, but it couldve been handled so much better! Spoilers under the cut!!!

See, me personally, I feel like Kelly played it entirely too cold. She was cleary bitter about her aint shit husband and I dont condone cheating, but if there was ever a good reason for it 😪

The mom was entirely too fuckin nasty towards her and Charlise. Entirely too much venom. Especially considering that you don't find out why until the last 30mins of the movie. And it comes off like emotional incest, because why is she that invested her in sons' lives???

I still dont know what happened with the blood and bone fragments found in the paintings. Sure you can say it was planted by the brother in law, but I needed that explicitly stated. Why were there paintings in the brother in laws house? Why did Zyair paint all over that lady's portrait?

Were they together? Chuz he said they werent and then referred to her as a gf? And why was Hydie hiding out in the DR, scared out of her mind if Zyair posed no threat to her?

I also dont know why TP loves hitting on Black women. Like that part of it was sooo unnecessary. Her WEAK ass husband didnt have to hit her in the end. And TP petty as hell for the bill scene. You KNOW that was in response to his BS commentary on how Black women need to be happy with the bare minimum.

Zyair could have been more interesting. He came off so pushy? More worried about getting her in bed than the seduction. The corruption. Slowly driving her insane with lust. I didnt like that she hopped on him after fucking the snow patrol, and in response to her weak ass husband. Like he shouldnt have been a factor. Fuck him 🤷🏽‍♀️

Plot holes aside, I genuinely did like it. I juss wish there was more than one sex scene between them. Because fuhhh that was hot 🥵🥵 Ill be honest, I wanted a court drama 😪🤣🤣

I do like that she didnt stay with him in the end and he continued bout his fuck boy activites. Hes so disrespectful. Jeebus, I need him 🥵🥵🥵

#megaminds asks #mea culpa #this a tyler perry hate account #fuck him and his tired ass movies #i dont blame him though #id wanna fuck trevante rhodes too #megamind be watching #netflix mea culpa #the writer in me wanna redo it all #but do i have the time and energy?

[nesonkin]

Absolutely in love with this drawing my friend made for me! My girls 🥰

This was posted with her permission and you can see more of her drawings here:

https://vk.com/4nge7

https://twitter.com/sonyangel47

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The drawing was based off this image

#mass effect #mass effect andromeda #mea #me:a #sara ryder #vetra nyx #vetryder #mass effect fanart #before you ask this is my custom ryder that i based off the 10th preset

[element-zero]

Why do you dislike Cora? Not saying it's bad to do so, I've just seen a lot of tiring fandom shit around her (People saying stuff like "she talks about the Asari like a westerner fetishizing Japan" as like, their excuse to then go on and be really misogynistic) that burns me out of a lot of 'critique' of her. But you're smart and I like your readings so I'm curious for a more legitimate explanation that isn't just "because she's a bitch" as a lot of fans say.

Oh boy… I feel like no matter what I say there’s gonna be someone accusing me of misogyny anyway… but here goes.

(Keep in mind I’ve not yet completed the game, though. I’m basing this on my limited experience and what I’ve seen on YouTube. Maybe things drastically turn out different for her and I’ll suddenly like her by the end. Maybe I dislike her even more. I don’t know. We’ll see.)

One of your first interactions with her is her romanticizing earth’s early colonizers. “I always wondered what it was like when explorers crossed the ocean. Nothing but the stars and dead reckoning to guide them,” she says. I have such an extreme hatred of the western re-branding of those fuckers as “explorers,” as opposed to murderous-gold-thirsty-slaver-colonizers.

The way the game treats her biotics is very strange; like, 3/4ths of her entire personality is just “I’m a biotic”. Even other characters like Liam act as if this is something unique about her, despite others with biotics (like Ryder) standing right there. And when I say it eats up at her personality, I mean that as in it feels like she’s lacking in that department because of this choice. When you try to get to know her, more than half of her dialogue is just saying the same shit over and over again: “I was too powerful a biotic so I became an asari huntress. I never fit in anywhere.” Rinse and repeat.

One minute she’s supportive of Ryder being Pathfinder, and the next she’s acting like she’s the one in charge. This begins right away! Ryder wakes up and Lexi says they need to rest, Cora responds for them with “they’ve got two hours,” as if that’s her decision to make.

I really don’t like the way she talks with Peebee. Cora has these preconceived notions of how asari are all “meant” to be, and because Peebee doesn’t fit in that model, she openly dislikes her. Their banter is some of the worst and most uncomfortable in the game. For example:

Peebee: Serving with asari commandos doesn’t make you asari.

Cora: When did I say that?

Peebee: You sure act like it sometimes. It’s kinda funny. Just saying, don’t be that person, there’s nothing worse.

Cora: You’re wrong. Alien cultures need to learn from each other. Change. Grow.

Peebee: Here we go again.

Cora: Peebee, just so you know, I’m not stealing anyone’s culture. Fighting side by side with asari commandos changed the way I think. It was meant to.

Peebee: My! Aren’t we defensive today!

Cora: Yeah, I’m defensive. The Council ran that program specifically so species would integrate. It might save lives.

It makes Peebee, an actual asari, uncomfortable with how Cora behaves. And Cora gets defensive about this rather than does some self-reflection. And yeah, it does sound like she’s some white woman who spent a year travelling in Asia and comes back to North America acting like she unlocked the secrets of the universe through orientalism. I absolutely think that comparison is a fair one.

I’ve seen some people defend Cora’s behaviour with “but she was invited to train with the asari!” Yeah, but no one fucking invited her to fetishize them, which her idolization of their culture and way of life definitely comes off as. Yes you can learn from and appreciate other cultures, and benefit from that learning, but Cora takes it way too far.

Anyway, these are just some things I’ve observed thus far. It all adds up to me being uncomfortable with her.

#mea #anti cora #meta #ask

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All my life I've been told by all kinds of people that they can never really tell what I'm feeling or what's going through my mind because apparently I'm always just hiding everything behind a smile so that I've become rather unreadable. And then he just. Takes one look at me and goes 'Yeah. I know that face, oh here we go again, she's about to unleash her thoughts. She's gonna bash that theory I just showed her so hard. Where's my popcorn?' I hadn't even said anything yet and he was already laughing.

And to be honest. It's quite nice to be known, actually.

#i only went to his office to ask if he wants to join me for lunch he didn't have time and yet i still somehow ended up staying for 1.5 hours #'thanks for the conversation' he said when i left. 'and thanks for keeping me from my work' #as if HE hadn't kept me from lunch when he kept our conversation going on and on with his 'wait i still wanted to show you this' #talking to him always feels like wellness for my brain somehow. like. we're different people but we think the same way. #i don't have to translate my thoughts to be understood he already gets my point before i've even finished my train of thought #every time work tires me out so much that it feels like i can't think straight anymore then i talk to him and suddenly my brain works again #and i like how he calls me out on my nonsense when i lose myself in a contradiction or don't say what i want to say or say what i don't mea #and he lets me go on extensive rants about statistics despite not knowing anything about it and doesn't even complain #he just always says 'i'll pretend i know what that means' and says i should learn it well so he can ask me for my help with it later #recently he came to me right after teaching saying 'you won't believe how much i just messed up. let me show you how i failed' #and then proceeded to recreate the entire situation and his thought process at that moment and i just #there is a very big word running around in my mind that i dare not speak of but maybe one day #i don't even know if he even sees me as much as a friend maybe i'm just some co-worker he likes talking to occasionally you know #what does it mean what does it all mean #ramblings