#at least on some basic level

[iverna]

One of the most egregious "not a typical girl" thing is when they make the rough-and-tough survival-artist fighter lady bad at cooking. Aside from the sexism, it just makes no sense. Like. You're telling me this woman knows ten different ways to kill a man and can survive for weeks in the wilderness, she's an independent woman and proud of it, but she doesn't know how to cook?

Cooking is a survival skill. A very basic, very important one. It's also not very difficult. She can fix an engine, but she can't figure out how to make pasta? Come on.

The only reason to make her bad at cooking is because cooking is seen as a female thing and she is Not Like Other Girls and sneers at anything feminine. Like the ability to make food for yourself.

ALSO btw every single person I know who trains and wants/needs their body to be in good shape is decent at cooking because they all end up cooking, because it just makes sense to make sure you're getting the right nutrition, enough protein etc, when you're trying to build muscle and endurance. Your body needs fuel and the better the fuel, the better the performance. So you learn about nutrition and cooking.

The only reason to make a female character bad at cooking is because cooking is seen as a female thing and she is Not Like Other Girls and sneers at anything feminine. And we've decided that the ability to make food, an actual survival skill, is feminine and therefore silly and beneath the dignity of tough warriors.

It's a stupid stereotype and it makes no sense and it ends up making her seem like an incompetent child who needs other people to provide her with one of her most basic needs and who, realistically, isn't getting the nutrition she needs to be tough and strong. You can't be an independent woman (or man, or person, or whatever) if you can't even feed yourself.

How about badass warrior types who make a fantastic spaghetti bolognaise and just make people slightly uneasy with how quickly and precisely they can slice a tomato or their insistence on always using the biggest possible knife, how about ripped fighters who exchange tips on how to add more protein to your meals because that's way more realistic than "eww no cooking is for GIRLS".

#at least in my experience it's realistic #having witnessed several conversations like this #during and after sword training #just saying #i'll never believe that emma swan can't cook #at least on some basic level #or that leia organa never learned #either at home or in the rebellion #or that MARA JADE can't cook #like... what #madness

[mumblesplash]

every time i’m reminded invincible exists i think wow what a good show i should browse fanart of it and every time i am shocked to discover a lot of it is horny art of omniman. no matter how much this happens it’s always a surprise. i’m not even disgusted there is no judgement in my heart my brain just cannot retain the fact that it’s possible to be attracted to that man

#mumbling #the funny part is it’s not even because he sucks #it’s because he has a moustache #i am at least on some level attracted to men and i can find them attractive with basically any other configuration of facial hair #but a moustache by itself somehow completely neutralizes any degree of hotness #and i *don’t even dislike moustaches* #they don’t bother me at all #they look genuinely great on some people #but they make some switch flip in my head #it’s as if ‘guy with a moustache’ was an entirely distinct gender i’m just simply not attracted to

[aroaceleovaldez]

my trials as possibly the one singular person who cares about the larger worldbuilding lore of the riordanverse is figuring out what the difference between harpies, sirens, and bird nymphs (from Artemis' retinue) are. what are the distinctions between these bird women.

#pjo #riordanverse #anyways my current distinction is that harpies are like. the most bird and bird nymphs are the least bird #sirens im going with the top half is almost totally human and then bottom half is all bird like a bird woman centaur type situation #cause thats a common interpretation in statues and some ancient art and that feels nicely distinct from harpies #with harpies being like. basically all bird with a human face usually #except i have to also give them weird hands incorporated into their wings #cause pjo canonically they can do tasks that require opposable thumbs. like DRIVING apparently #im sort of splitting the difference by having there be multiple variants of harpies in varying levels of anthro #so like Ella is a lot more humanoid than some other harpies for instance #and then bird nymphs are basically near entirely human but with just bird legs/maybe tail and maybe wings somewhere (back / head / or arms)

[chimchiri]

Build A Lesbian (poll 22)

Little Imani is an alchemist/apothecary/doc/something of the like! <3

I love it, gives a lot of possibilities to care for some injured ladies. It also gives me an excuse to draw these hunky women with scars.

With an adorable doctor like that, I'm pretty sure there are a few who might have gotten their injuries not by accident.

Speaking of which...

We've decided they're on good terms. But what exactly is their relationship? Are they seeing each other in secret? Are they friends? How well do they know each other?

#no there is no option for open relationship because I LOVE some flirty tension #or at least secret relationship #her knightly vow #my art #polls #just a rough doodle today basically concept level #build a lesbian #The Tenderness She Gives

[itwoodbeprefect]

youtube when i've been watching things with the subtitles turned on and the next video that starts playing has zero english subtitle options, so it switches to whatever is available: this user can read. surely they can also read brazilian portuguese

#the worst part is that youtube is sort of right #on an extremely basic level i know just enough spanish that this at least gives me a fighting chance at guessing some stuff #and i do think that switching to Whatever We've Got is better than turning subtitles off for lack of english. but it's also very funny #*

[enough-spider-noir-stuff]

a really fun thing about hobie is that i can project my music taste onto him with zero alterations or explanations and it will range from "super accurate vibes at least" over "highly likely" and "heavily supported by canon and/or creators" to "literally canon"

another really fun thing is that i can look at hobie's canonical music taste and what doesn't already overlap with my own will do so in about another week or so lemme listen to all of that on repeat real quick--

#a biscuit's rambles #hobie brown #spider punk #which version? take your pick :) #no but literally this just straight-up Works #watch me project the entirety of my 2nd wave of british street punk sampler onto him and then every other album i own #there is nothing in there he wouldnt at least occasionally/passively listen to/enjoy #without having to like. warp his identity At All #its so fun #with basically all my other blorbos i needed at least some level of explaining that left canon behind at least slightly #not with hobie nuh uh

[bluesadansey]

remembering on my circa 2017 booklr I used to tell people to read Gemma Doyle by describing it as trc but with an all girls boarding school / all girl group in a historical setting… I was trying to do the lord’s work she deserved tumblr fame

#I do think that was an oversimplification of both but. Not totally off base there are some similar char tropes used I’m proud of past me for #the attempt. Also I think I’m going to start advocating for Diviners in that way now that trc fandom is apparently quite miserable post GW #you like gay people doing dream magic? you like witchcraft and ghosts and strong ensemble casts? #you like an ambitious abuse survivor getting a healing arc with learning to control magic/psychic abilities as a metaphor? you like four #book series where the first three books rock and the last book which is named king + corvid is a bit underwhelm who said that? #a positive point in diviners favor is Ling x Wei Mei >>>> RonanKavinsky. Generally find the take on dream magic in diviners more compelling #(although LingHenry + RonanHennessy both being mlm wlw duos who are the dreamers is kinda fun) #anyway. This is not actually a fair comparison because Ling is my fav or at least top two w Theta of the leads and I love Ronan but he is m #least favorite of the trc leads of which there are four all of whom I love so it says nothing bad about him. But it does put me as an #outlier re: fandom priorities.. #on the flip side while I love diviners dynamics sadly I don’t think they ever come anywhere close to Gangsey levels of extreme codependency #so I can not care quite as much…. #from what I remember the girls in Gemma Doyle are a lot more codependent good for them. Would have to reread to compare codependency levels #Ling and Theta are both my favorite in diviners in the same way Blue and Adam are my favorite in trc and Abed and Annie are both my fav for #community. basically one char who I love and overidentify with (Ling/Blue/Abed) and one char I love who in many ways I’m not like #but in a handful of very niche specific ways I also relate quite a bit. And am fascinated with (Theta/Adam/Annie) #s speaks #very off topic from my initial point which was you should read Libba Bray’s books #and in both cases I have a second and a half tier fav (Evie/Gansey/Britta) who I love fictionally but if I was trapped in a room w them I’d #kill myself. with the white blonde women I’d also want to make out w them debatable if that makes it better or worse #but like. I could not stand listening to them speak for that long I know this #Gansey might just die a third time by my hands…

[softietrait]

DAY & NIGHT 4: third and fourth solo dates! ‹𝟹

‹𝟹 third solo date was with jae hahn at a library in windenburg! not sure what kind of date you can have at a library, but these two somehow made it work! they chat for a bit at one of the tables and then sat together in a little nook to red next to each other. after reading a bit, they went outside to sit at one of the tables to engage in more conversation! they had a fewwww awkward moments though. sadie took it upon herself to flatter jae a few times - especially about how she likes his singing! most of the date was just reading & getting to know each other. at the end of it, sadie gained the close and adoring sentiments with jae. they almost became best friends by the time the date ended! ‹𝟹 fourth solo date was with oliver at a lounge in brindleton bay! a place both of them thrive in, of course haha. they first sat at the edge of the pool for a while and chat - mostly goofing around!(i swear this is all they do lmao) they both then went and ordered a drink, oliver got a beer and sadie got her favorite: vodka & juice (im assuming LMAO). it got a bit cold so they carried their date on inside the lounge! she gained an adoring sentiment for oliver and her perception of him changed to basic looking (how the- hjdsfjksdf)-- in the end, they grew especially close (!!!) and oliver is the 2nd to get a first kiss from sadie!

#sincerelysadie. #ts4 legacy #ts4 gameplay #ts4 simblr #ts4 challenge #ts4 #okay so has anyone else have a sim who's attractive perception of another sim change as their romance level changed? #or is this from when i re-generated them last episode? lol #anyway ig at least she finds him basic looking now xD #javi & oliver both meshed well in a more romantic way with sadie #while silas & jae meshed well with her in a platonic way. #i'm sensing a pattern here... #gosh this is so fun though!! #i have some outtakes for the two who made jae & oliver i'll be sending here in a few mins <3

[meat-loving-meat]

I want to write a Vanyel/Stefen modern-with-magic AU soooo bad but I don’t know Valdemar lore like at all. There are six books standing between me and feeling comfortable enough in the lore to imagine what Valdemar might look like with the internet and planes

#anyway I have unhinged ideas about what modern Valdemar #like. I’m imagining Valdemar as a prosperous #happy country with a high level of social development and technology #public transit everywhere. universal basic income/free high quality healthcare/etc #like. not utopian. not by a long shot. #but overall doing well (at least in comparison to some of the other countries on Velgarth) #HOWEVER they are having this really divisive cultural moment about Heralds and the King #bc they’re basically appointed by a completely unaccountable higher power? and they have so much direct influence and control over #the life of an average person??? why should that be allowed? #so there’s a movement for direct democracy which is very successful at a local level #and is slowly making its way into higher levels of the government #and there’s suddenly intense scrutiny on the heralds. so when Vanyel gets caught up in a series of scandals it does a LOT of damage to #the institution of the heralds. but Vanyel is very very important to the security of the world #bc he successfully prevented the detonation of a nuclear weapon a few years earlier so he’s sort of the only thing standing between #the world and nuclear war #anyway I think that setting is way too dramatic for a weird gay fanfiction. so I’m workshopping it #vanyel ashkevron #last herald mage #gay herald in a squirrel suit

[bijoumikhawal]

Rewatched afterimage and I'm still confounded by people who go "garak was lying about the closet thing" that's the one of the only realistic parts of this episode. He doesn't even think of it as counting as traumatic, excuses it by saying all parents discipline their kids, seems almost embarrassed when Ezri regards it as abnormal, and gets pissed off the moment Ezri starts asking him more questions about his father's patenting style. That's what people MY AGE do when you tell them their parents hitting them is bad and fucked up.

#You wanna talk about unrealistic? The idea that Garak having the revelation that he feels he's responsible for the ongoing genocide of #Cardassia meaning he's capable of acting normally now is completely full of shit. Do you know how much more stressed out having that #Thought clarified would make me? #Ds9 #Cipher talk #It's also kind of off-putting that Garak is so forthcoming in general but. Starfleet is basically his co-workers now which means there's a #Level of honesty he can't entirely avoid at least as far as his work goes #He spent like 6 months crammed in a tin can with a lot of these people while working alongside them #I realize this breaks some people's ability to picture him as idk. Stoic and cool or whatever but some honesty and social lubrication is #Required here and he probably isn't acting too too different from how he did in the Order with some of his fellow agents #Its obviously put on but I'm given to understand most people have a persona used at work even for their coworkers

[hella1975]

*crawling from debris bloody and breathless with tears in my eyes* hrrngh. my. my assignments. they are completed

#IM FUCKING DONE #I BARELY DID ANYTHING TODAY TBH BC WE'D BASICALLY DONE THE GROUP PROJECT #BUT STILL EVEN JUST THE KNOWLEDGE OF AN ASSIGNMENT IS ENOUGH TO DAMPEN THE MOOD #FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU #BUT IM FREE NOW #FOR A FEW WEEKS AND THEN IT'S SUMMER EXAM SEASON BUT WHO CARES #WRITING TIME BITCHES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #gonna do a little to-do list here: #1. taob ch42 #2. TAMS PLOT OUTLINE (fun thing about tams is while literally ALL of my other wips are outlined basically minute-by-minute #like the level of detail i put into the outline before even writing a single sentence is INSANE #tams just doesnt have an outline. ive just got bullet points of Main Scenes that are happening so i at least know plot twists #and things like that #but everything in-between is just me freestyling lmfao #BUT ive recently had some superrrr good plot ideas so i think im gonna properly do her outline now #bc tams is turning out wayyyyy better than anticipated like it intially was a fun little passion project #but now it's like 'oh shit you could Be Something'. #ANYWAY) #3. tams ch5 and respond to ch4 comments/asks #FUN :)))) #taob is the only one i TECHNICALLY need done by the end of march but it's nice having 'deadlines' for things i actually enjoy #also my flatmate's OLD flatmate (V) who i saw a lot last year bc i basically just invaded their flat every single day #like i was there ALL THE TIME their flat was the main base of operations #so even though V was just 'my friend's flatmate' he still became my friend on his own and joined our pres a lot etc etc #and his girlfriend visits from the next city over a lot and she's genuinely the loml i really like her #but obvs since they all moved out of that flat for second year i literally HAVENT SEEN V OR HIS GIRLFRIEND SINCE #BUT THEYRE COMING TO OURS FOR SOME DRINKS TONIGHT <333 we're literally just gonna catch up and play wii #and today is also my friend's bday so tomorrow our main group is going for bottomless brunch #AND i decided to be the bigger person with the other flatmate that i fell out with #so we're both fine again now and it's lifted more of a weight off me than i realised <3

[polysyndetonaddictsupportgroup]

I was reading sea glass gardens for like the 8th time in a row (listen I was praying to the gods for a fic focuses on Megumi & Yuuta, for a fic that shows Megs dynamic with the Zenins more, and for a fun little gojo adopts the fushiguro siblings and forced his friends to play aunt and uncle. You checked all my boxes. I am in debt to you now.) and its the way I'm still seeing the little details that should've been so fucking obvious to me —

Megumi and Tsumiki fucking around and adopting some of Gojo’s habits and sayings? I know he was so proud that his children is becoming mini versions of him. Toji is crying in the depths of hell while Mamaguro is happy as hell in the pearly gates.

“It’s a garden” it took so long for me to peep that this was his domain. Like tfw when your domain is fucking you up. I pray that Gege shows us his completed domain. Actually I PRAY GEGE LET MEGUMI SHOW OFF HIS FUCKING POTENTIAL. But alas Gege is a coward.

THE NICOTINE PATCH? Oh Shoko my beloved. I get her. I fucking hate cancer sticks but if I had to spend time with corpses, being forced to converse with the higher ups, and having to be friends with Gojo and Geto AND witness their divorce. Well. I would’ve smoked something too. Like goddamn these bitches should’ve been at the club.

The little callbacks to the playbooks? How petty the sorcerer world gotta be for them to have cheat sheets on their enemies. Is that not crazy? Is this who they are? Petty bastards.

toji pulling up to get married in sweats. megumi killing curses at such a young age for his sister? toji giving megumi shit to get him to stfu? oh megumi you dodged a bullet with toji.

BUT WHAT I REALLT WANTED TO WAS THE BATHHOUSE. Megumi needs to go feral as a threat cause imagine how humiliating that must’ve been. A bunch of assholes & such watching you like some fucking cult. I really hope that Megumi and Gojo have some type of reassuring talk about his time at the Zenins.

(Yaga and Gojo going at it while Panda in the room is so funny to be but…it’s also kind of sad. Like imagine seeing your dad figure basically be okay, well not okay but not willing to fight back, about the higher ups and everything.)

Obsessed with the fact that I can toss up what seems to me to be a random niche interest and find a community of people who wanted exactly that. I’m thrilled I checked off your boxes.

The bathhouse was designed to be humiliating by nature. I talked about it more on another post (but fuck if I know where it is), but the point of including that whole bit was that I really couldnt think of any better way to emphasize that megumi wasn’t a person to them.

On its face, the private bathhouse with servants tending to it could be a sign of status. It’s kind of an old world nobility thing to have? Which fits with the Zenin, who are very traditional and value Megumi as their most treasured person to be born to the clan in centuries. He would be presumptive heir if Gojo hadn’t intervened. So they’d easily be able to cast this in their own minds as a good thing, as a way they’re taking care of him. He’s not subjected to the communal bathhouses or small private bathrooms like the majority of the clan—they’ve given him his own private facilities and servants to care for him in it.

However, once you take away Megumi’s consent, it becomes an absolutely humiliating and degrading experience that only happens for the Zenin’s comfort and not his own.

I spoke about this in the other post in more detail, but I tried to imply that this wasn’t the first time the Zenin had done this to him. And there’s two points that kind of implicate that—when Maki’s talking to Yuuta about how it used to be when Megumi was a kid, she says the first thing that they would do when he arrived in the clan was hand him over to the servants to make him presentable. She also talks about how viciously he hated the way they’d make him look in the clan, including stomping the clothes they’d make him wear in the mud. When Megumi himself is talking about the bathhouse, he says he was given over to the servants like when he was a kid. This wasn’t a new experience for him. They weren’t doing this to him for the first time. They did this to him when he was a kid, and he’s reliving all of that trauma anew.

In my mind, it was a product of how selfish the Zenin’s love for megumi is.

He’s their favorite doll. He’s a possession. They want him to look and act exactly the way they expect from him, and they despise any divergence from what they want the ten shadows to be. And they hate it when they’re reminded of how Gojo took him from them.

They don’t want him dressed in modern clothes. They don’t want his hair styled in a manner similar to Gojo’s. They want him to look like the Ten Shadows they always wanted, and one surefire way of controlling that is to simply do it themselves, whether or not megumi is on board.

And the thing is? It is such a fundamentally minor thing to let someone bathe and dress themselves. It would have cost the Zenin so so little to let Megumi do it. Even if they were still dictating what clothes he wore and how he styled his hair (which would still rob him of his autonomy on its own, they could have at least let him do the actual act of bathing and dressing himself. They could have violated him a little bit less than they already were. The biggest inconvenience it would have risked to them would be him doing something not to their exact standards and losing a few minutes to making him redo it. But on Megumi’s end, it symbolizes a huge source of autonomy and comfort. Letting Megumi bathe himself really does impact so little for them, but for Megumi, it could have saved him from lasting trauma.

The Zenin do it to him anyway because they value their minor conveniences over his very bodily autonomy. They don’t even recognize that as a genuine concern. He’s a possession to them. An object. They don’t actually love him, and the love they think they have is actively dangerous to him. They will violate him in a very fundamental way just so they can make sure he looks how the ten shadows is supposed to look, and they won’t care.

Being forcibly bathed against your will is just humiliating, especially at Megumi’s age, and it’s one of the things that hurt him the worst out of everything the Zenin just did to him. I think Megumi takes physical pain better than he does humiliation. Having to be exposed and vulnerable the way he was with other people watching was a more effective torture than locking him in a room with curses for days.

But there’s extra layers to it if you consider 1) this is something the Zenin have done to him before and 2) this is something that he could have stopped.

When Megumi was six, he was definitely at the age where he was already bathing himself. Some parenting books say parents should still be helping at that age, but his parents were completely checked out well before then. He had already been handling all his hygiene needs on his own. Having strange adults force him to let them do it for him was a traumatizing and infantilizing experience that represented one of the many ways the Zenin robbed him of all control over his own life when they had him.

But now it’s happening again.

And megumi probably didn’t think the Zenin would do that to him again, walking into this. He probably explained it away as them doing that to him because he was still a little kid at the time. He told himself it happened because he was six, and he’s not six anymore.

Having it all happen again was a very visceral reminder of how helpless his abusers used to make him, and immediately kicked him back down to that level with a very potent reminder. It’s trauma reawakening trauma. He felt like he was six again. He probably told himself for a long time that it would never happen again and it still did.

The other thing is that he’s a lot more capable in a fight than a six year old. He’s a grade two jujutsu sorcerer. He’s a fighter. And he’s being manhandled by servants who don’t have a lot of cursed energy, if they’re even sorcerers at all, and aren’t meant to be combatants. These are people he should be able to defend himself against easily. He should be able to stop them from doing this to him again.

For whatever reason, he couldn’t.

Maybe Gojos theory about them having something on him was right. Or maybe he was too worn down and broken from the cursed spirits. Maybe it was something else. Whatever the reason, this is something that he would have told himself he was strong enough to stop, and then he wasn’t. He either had to let it happen or couldn’t stop it even if he tried. It’s a new level of helplessness and humiliation that it made him experience.

In short, megumi does deserve to go feral over the bathhouse, and probably needs to. He’s really not okay over it. It would probably be cathartic.

#sea glass gardens #this fic was designed to make sure megumi came out of it with a really bad state of mind and part of the reason why is because it’s meant to #slot into the gap of canon between JJK0 and season 1 #Megumi walks into season 1 with his fixation on maharoaga at an absolutely dire level #he tries to pull the trigger there every other fight #and in my mind a lot of that’s because Megumi’s just /not okay/ when canon starts #this episode with the Zenin is supposed to feed into that #prior to the Zenin mahoraga was a last resort #but when we hit season 1 Megumi’s very decidely hitting ‘last resort’ a bit. prematurely. #he’ll start a fight and be like ‘whelp this is it’ bb try at least #this zenin incident is meant to feed into it #he had his moment of last resort. the moment where even Gojo and Nanami agreed that what the Zenin were demanding he do was a death sentence #and he /didn’t use it/ for some reason. they kept him from it. #mahoraga was his safety blanket over the years. the one sure point of control over his life. he’d die as a jujutsu sorcerer and not have #a choice in becoming one to begin with. but he’d die taking them down with him. he’d die on his terms. it was the /one/ point of control he #had. the Zenin robbed him of that and robbed him of a lot of other illusions of control #megumi didn’t have control over when he slept. when he ate. where he went. what clothes he wore. they even stripped him of the basic act of #getting control over his own bathing processes. it was the most violating loss of autonomy imaginable. #Megumi’s going into season 1 with severe ptsd and an almost manic desire to make sure he doesn’t lose control again. he wants to make sure #that he can at least go out on his terms. he lost every other feeling of security and autonomy and he needs to still have this #also panda was fucking sweating during that time #his dad was Not the most popular man in that room and he agreed #megumi thinks that the Zenin did that purposefully to hurt him and it would honestly hurt him worse to find out that it was a twisted act of #love. like. he gets hate. he understands hate. he knows why someone would do that to hurt him. he doesn’t know why they would do it out of #love. and it would disturb him on a profound level if he knew that was what the Zenin thought of that moment #they told themselves that they were putting him to rights and restoring him to the ten shadows he would one day be again and would #understand then. they can’t conceptualize a version of megumi that legitimately rejects them so they reject his autonomy and freedom in #getting to decide to reject them

[enekorre]

apparently a guy at work is a new type of guy. he's a vegan (this is relevant) who thinks we need to stop entropy. he's a vegan bc the making of a fruit releases less energy than the making of a cow. and the more energy (we, humans, on this one planet) "release" the quicker "full entropy" will happen, which is like a doomsday where nothing can move.

what the fuck. nothing we do on this planet will affect the universe or entropy in and measurable way. we cannot affect entropy in any way that matters

#M #New type of guy #I honestly don't wanna engage with him bc he seems genuinely deranged #This is like. The worst kind of 'morally superior' guy bc he is simply wrong on the most basic level #Another guy asked 'is this like a religious thing for you' and it honestly seems like that #At least other guy is putting up some resistance #OH HOLY SHIT NOW HE'S TALKING ABOUT SPONTANEOUS PARTICLE CREATION

[everysongineverykey]

some guy commented on my narrator + toriel fic saying "well the narrator's done some questionable stuff once or twice but he's not the one who let SIX children DIE just to SPITE her ex-husband" lmaoooo bro did you even play undertale? you can just say you have no reading comprehension it's okay

#like. of all the toriel slander i've seen this is by far the most ridiculous bc like #even on the most basic of levels it is so clearly wrong. toriel did not let the children go WITH THE INTENTION OF THEM DYING lmao #like her entire thing is not wanting kids to die and being overprotective because of it. that is a basic tenet of her character #and most toriel slander i've seen at least. knows this basic fact #they say shit like 'she's controlling and domineering' or 'she should've gone with them' #but this guy? no. they seem to believe that she. wanted them to die. to 'spite asgore'? how exactly would this spite him? #if i recall correctly (sarcasm. of course i recall correctly) #asgore was the one who WANTED the fallen humans to die. #or he didn't really want them to die deep down inside #but still he saw to it that they did. they would not be dead if it were not for him #and the anti-human laws he put in place #and his attempt to raise the kingdom's spirits by declaring war on humans. #i try to be as neutral as possible on any given character but you can't deny that that's an objective fact. #if toriel let them die she would be helping asgore's purposes. #her entire goal by living in the ruins is to take in fallen humans and protect them #so asgore DOESN'T kill them. so she can thwart his plans THAT way. #also i love the wording of 'the narrator's done some questionable stuff' #he exploded stanley. he erased all of stanley's friends and coworkers. he has made stanley's existence a living hell for god knows how long #i mean yeah yeah it's not really him who's in control they're both slaves to the narrative and all that #but he holds a lot of power over stanley and he uses it. and abuses it. #to act like wilful sadistic murder is on the same level as a distraught bereaved mother #trying to save other children from the fate her own suffered and becoming overprotective in the process #is just ridiculous. lol #anyways i deleted the comment :] no toriel slander under toriel-sympathetic fics pleeeaaase

[garciapimienta]

it's done, he's going to miami

#.......sighs #I think i am dissapointed in him in ways I didnt expect to be #unless something comes out that points to the club being at fault rn it looks like there was never any real intention to come #why else would he not be willing to give us at least a few weeks to get some players out and move stuff around to be able to fit him in #economically #and its also dissapointing bc he still plays at a great level he should be going to another european team or something..... at least a more #competitive league #going to miami is like retiring basically and I was hoping he didnt do it #but oh well its his life and his career if what he wants is just money and low level stakes football then thats what he wants and im no one #to tell him what he should do #lionel messi #leo messi #fcb #fc barcelona #barça

[onepiece-polls]

i actually agree with the other asker about the english speaker rule

it's not like this is any sort of official casting process so what if an actor doesn't speak english? it literally doesn't matter so what is this rule trying to achieve other than putting english on some pedestal just because it's the language the internet uses?

in the end it's your blog and nobody can force you to change anything but i find it strange to exclude actors who don't speak english, especially in a fandom for media that is first and foremost not english

The reason why I put up that rule was actually because the media in question (the live action netflix show) IS English. To make it a little more realistic they could in theory be cast. That's all. Not at all because it's the language the internet uses, just because it's the language the live action uses. I mean, if the live action was made in Japanese, it would probably have been Japanese that the actors should be able to speak.

But then again, I said from the beginning that I'm probably not gonna do some deep research after if all actors can speak English, so... 🤷‍♀️ I like to believe most people (especially in the acting world) would be able to speak some English. (But this might be my biased view, since I'm Dutch and most people in the Netherlands speak at least some English and quite a few Dutch actors have made it to big, English spoken shows and movies).

What I want to say is... this is not an extremely 'set in stone' kinda rule. Someone just added (paraphrased by me) "according to imdb, they did something at the Brittish embassey, so they probably speak English" to the propaganda, and you know what? That's good enough for me.

Also, I think about half of the actors submitted (or near half at least), have a non-native-english speaking background. (Just wanted to let you know)

#ask #anon #I honestly hadn't even thought about this before someone asked about it #but I mainly just want you all to submit people who you think could actually play the role really well and not just look the part #and if they want to play the role I think they should be able to speak English at least at a basic level #doesn't have to be fluent #I'm not 100% fluent either #I'm sure you've seen me make mistakes before #(I mean some are typos but some very much are just me not being perfect at English 😅)