#because it is clearly implied

[winepresswrath]

sudden yearning for time travelling teen jiang fengmian lands at lotus pier fic that winds up being about a perfectly nice kid having a varying series of "oh no. i don't like that. that's a lot" reactions.

#i think in order for this to be satisfying i have to give grace and interiority to teenmian #i'm picturing an older teen like 18ish? maybe even early 20s? #big crush on csr he's already pretty sure isn't going to work out #but at least he'll always have wei-xiong #anyway this is my ploy to give jfm a chance at an ugly crying meltdown #he's trying so hard to be even keeled and like #maybe take this as an evil vision designed to teach him something #but somewhere in between my crush stole my man and then they died #my whole sect burned #my grown ass son who is older than me making the vibe sooooo weird #and my grandson! child of my dead???? daughter?????? #is just like yeah he never talks about you. no never never #and then wwx blows into town and idk somehow they all end up at dinner together and jfm politely calls lqr a punk ass bitch in front of lwj #because what???? context clues suggest lqr has the fucking nerve to not like wei xiong's baby after All That #only for adult son with the weird vibes #to imply only filial piety is keeping him from naming the real #punk ass bitch #anyway this ends with jfm crying because clearly he marries yuanyuan and she HATES HIM and then his own son ALSO HATES HIM #and would rather stupid Lan-er-gongzi #be his dad. #if you like lqr so much why don't you just join the lan sect then????? #and that's how jc learns he didn't get it all from his mama #jc didn't mean it he was stressed! this isn't his dad it's an a-ling sized kid. but it's still stressful

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

Honestly the idea of putting the victors back in for the 75th games is so immensely stupid even if there weren't a rebellion being planned at the same time like it breaks all the rules, the people were told if you won you got to live and now they don't, the people were told if you get older than 18 you get to live and now that's not true either, the whole point of the games is this extremely fragile balance between fear and hope and even if it hadn't ended with the rebels it would have shattered that balance and might well have lead to rebellion anyway because what did they have to lose if the capitol could just change the rules like that? All this to say Snow's a moron for agreeing to this.

#thg #like was it forged? absolutely. was it a rebel plot because Plutarch it's implied did it? probably! it got Katniss into an area with less #security surrounded by allies #was it CLEARLY never going to work? absolutely it was.

[niuniente]

Aaa, I did some digging on how the hell writing is so inconsistent in Buffy. Turns out the creator Whedon was abusive towards pretty much everyone on the set through all the years they were filming Buffy.

He especially hated that Spike's actor made Spike popular and fans wanted more of him. Whedon threatened Spike's actor James: " (He) backed me up against a wall one day and he was just like, ‘I don’t care how popular you are, kid, you’re dead. You hear me? Dead. Dead!'" Apparently, you don't mess with Whedon's own plans (which is weird; he should know that characters do what they want and it should be an honor if a character resonates with the audience, even when it wasn't your plan).

Whedon also told to Buffy's stunt actress and the stunt coordinator, who met in the series and started dating, that if they don't break up, he's going to destroy both of their careers.

Cordelia's actress got pregnant during Angel filming and Whedon kept insisting that she should abort the baby (because his artistic visions are now ruined).

Even his wife said he's an asshole!

Well. Suddenly it makes perfect sense why - especially Spike - is written so inconsistently. The creator hated the character and its actor. No wonder Spike has been written to do horrible things - yes, I read about Spike's rape attempt towards Buffy, sometime at the end of S6. I'm not that far yet but I suspect it has been written something like "Don't you dare to leave me, bitch!". Lots of attempts to make fans hate Spike from the S5 onward...

I'm always underlining that creations don't really speak about their creators but also, whatever we create, we leave our fingerprints on them.

And Buffy is full of shitty, shitty fingerprints of its creator....

#what a piece of shit... #niu watches buffy #idk if I even want to watch this anymore because of all of above #maybe I watch some good parts and leave the rest #not a fan of rape scenes personally either.... #whether attempted or clearly implied right after the act #I can write about the stuff for my own comics but....

[artbyblastweave]

My sense of what Crossovers are for, conceptually, the thing they do that other works can't, was entirely formulated by my early-childhood exposure to Kurt Busiek and George Perez's seminal 2004 Marvel/DC crossover JLA/Avengers. Like most stuff Busiek writes it's a love-letter, and part-and-parcel with its status as a love-letter was that he took the time to render the horror and bewilderment that the respective teams had upon encountering the status-quo of their counterpart's setting. The JLA encounter the anti-mutant hysteria, the supervillainous fiefdoms like Latveria, figures like Hulk and Punisher being allowed to roam free, all those tonal hallmarks of Marvel, and they come to the conclusion that the Marvel Universe is hanging on by its fingernails and that the Avengers are somewhere between in over their heads and actively negligent. Meanwhile the Avengers explore the shiny, forward-thinking, optimistic DC universe, encounter the ubiquitously positive reactions they get from people on the street just for visibly Being Superheroes, see things like the Flash Museum and the Hall of Justice, and Captain America comes to the conclusion that the Justice League obviously must have led a fascist takeover of America. Then they hit each other a lot. Anyway, if you're writing a crossover between two works and you want me to care at all, you need to meet the JLA/Avengers Bar. When a character from one work is placed in the context of another work's setting, what commentary on the original work is that character in a position to provide through their outlook and worldview? What insight, in turn, can their commentary provide on on the assumptions and conventions of their native narrative? Have all characters involved experienced enough of the events of their own work that they've actually got something to compare and contrast with, or is the crossover occurring so early in one or more of their respective timelines that you're basically dealing with OCs due to the butterfly effect? Are you actually acknowledging the different properties as discrete narratives that are abrading each other in interesting ways, or are you for the one millionth time reimagining Izuku Midoriya as a native resident of some other setting (seemingly decided via roulette wheel?) And of course, are you correct in your assessments of how these are bouncing off each other? How many times am I getting hit with "They would not fucking say that/react like that/understand their new surroundings in that way/go five minutes without trying to disembowel this fan-favorite character from the other work that you've decided they're getting along great with?"

#this is a wormpost in spirit but I'm not naming names #Also I don't want to imply that the ONLY way to do a crossover that meets this bar is to have like a literal portal open #there are definitely setting quote-unquote fusions I've encountered that take the tack that the events of both properties happened #because the settings of each are compatible in interesting ways to begin with and that's clearly the exigence for the crossover #but yeah #post-gm Taylor is in a really good position to take advantage of the JLA/Avengers dynamic #which is great when it goes well and phenomenally annoying when they whiff it #thoughts #meta

[aromacaque]

you want to analyze a cartoon that is something children can watch? ok here's the first and most important lesson ever.

have you ever heard of "suspension of disbelief?"

ok. next step. do you know what an unreliable narrator is and can you separate the character's perspective and opinions from the writers? because i promise you that the beliefs of the main character do not always reflect the writers and the point of analyzing media is to dissect that.

#like guys sometimes the silly jokes in the cartoon are JUST silly jokes you gotta let them be silly jokes #sometimes the shenanigans are super outlandish because it's a FICTIONAL CARTOON where sentient AIs and magic exist #i promise you. I PROMISE YOU that rottmnt's mind meld was not some elaborate problematic take on eugenics of all things #<- an actual thing i read with my own eyes #like i promise you that is literally not what the episode was doing #'they kept saying they made his brothers smarter which is incredibly ableist because it implies they weren't smart before' #ahem. it was donnie's idea of smarter #you know donnie. the one who constantly puts his intelligence on a pedestal to boost his ego #it was HIS definition of smarter and that is not the narratives definition #i think the series makes that abundantly clear with how much they make fun of donnie for whatever superiority complex he's got going on #and (in the nicest way possible) if you watch the episode it's not actually that they're getting 'smarter' what is actually happening #is that they are beginning to act more and more like donnie personality wise #and that the conflict starts with donnie feeling like they don't fully understand him. #and since donnie is a flawed character his way of coping with that is by being like 'well clearly they're inferior to my intelligence!' #(which .. if you really dissect his character is not actually what he means he just doesn't know how to constructively word his feelings)

[scintillyyy]

red robin #4

robin iii: cry of the huntress #4

same vibes. to me.

#dick and tim #arkham takes are dumb and tired #tim should instead angst about how ppl always want to send him to metropolis when he's riding the struggle bus #tim should tell dick that he's acting like jack & that should have the same energy of when my fil tells my mil she's acting like her sister #we all know what that really means when that is said #actually realistically i in no way think that dick was trying to shuttle tim off to another city because he couldn't deal with him #nor do i think that he was trying to institutionalize tim. clearly he was just trying to get him to talk to someone #but the 'in metropolis' bit always gets me a little bit because there's a perceived distance from gotham damian etc implied there #like why not a therapist in gotham? because dick wanted tim to have some distance from the cause of all his current pain #because maybe he thought that's what tim needed to heal. to process away from the epicenter of grief. #anyways that it's metropolis will never not be funny to me because i can make this joke

[worstloki]

there is a difference between being born to a throne, maliciously vying for a throne, stealing a throne, and having a throne thrust upon you when you are already in the midst of an identity crisis. And I fear Loki's place in the line of succession has people unable to differentiate between any of these

#you can't really argue he planned the extent of Thor's downfall #that was all Odin #Loki didn't force Thor to invade Jotunheim he isn't even the one who gave Thor the idea -- Thor did that all on his own! #that he was doing waswasa @ thor didn't help but wasn't really crime worthy on its own #Thor himself took time convincing the other warriors to be okay with the trip despite the treason and danger involved #like. what. Thor can't differentiate good advice from bad and is emotionally volatile and reckless and that's Loki's fault? #THOR was the one who got them past Heimdall too #the entire ordeal inadvertently showed off the favouritism Thor was receiving in comparison to Loki #even though Loki was the one supposedly so easily influencing Thor to such an extent #call Thor a puppet the way he--wait. no. that sounds weird. uhhhhh #you get the point #people will claim Loki was all up in there rearranging Thor's mental processes to cause his downfall #when really it was Loki doing the bare minimum instigation and watching things only devolve from there #because Thor WAS reckless and immature ?? and he WAS quick to anger and enjoyed exerting his power with violence ?? #Loki didn't STEAL THE THRONE FROM THOR he literally just is implied to undermine the coronation #that's not even confirmed but we assume it's true that he let the frost giants in near the casket etc. #Loki has his own actual crimes that he did against Thor and hugging his bro's arm and saying 'you're soooooo strong and correct' was not on #even if you manage to argue Loki was cheering Thor on for the invasion (he wasn't) it was clearly to dob Thor in with Odin #which he did when he had some guard inform Odin #that Odin's chosen punishment was for Thor's disobedience aside stop blaming Loki for the damage ODIN inflicted on him #focus on Loki making up lies to Thor about how Odin died instead like at least Loki DID SOMETHING for that #you can even ascribe as evil a motive as you want there bc Loki was slipping fr #twirling his hair and telling Thor he's smarter about the realm's safety than the king was on the normal scale #you want to talk morals go look at how eager Thor was to invade mass destroy and massacre in the other realm #and expected Odin to 'finish them off! together!' bc he was power high on whatever bloodlust pheromones battle apparently imitates for him #sigh. this is why you can't have nice things Thor. no Loki you're barely any better. sit down. have a cookie.

[liquidstar]

How is tumblr going to ban porn and then show me ads where two triceratops are straight up having sex

#frankly these mobile game ads have also gotten just kinda disgusting and i feel like there needs to be regulations on them #i don't mean the dino fuck one it's not graphic but like #all the ones about those app women getting abused are out of hand like i keep seeing one where a guy cuts off a his wifes boob??? #or where a lady is lactating or pissing herself or shitting herself #or even ones that imply straight up sa. like. #i understand. it's because it's shocking and drives engagement and ppl to make YouTube videos going woooaa weird ads but. #like. i don't wanna talk too much about them bc i don't wanna feed into what makes it effective but i just feel like #there needs to be somekinda standards here. the same way you can't just show whatever on tv advertisements #bc malicious advertising is an issue and there SHOULD be limitations to make sure this doesn't happen #not just bc it's gross but because it's underhanded and also false advertising! that stuff is straight up not in the app lol #it's usually just candy crush w extra steps #tbh im surprised no one has capitalized on actually making a fucked up gross game like that since there's clearly an audience #but still. annoying. sick of seeing them

[antiqua-lugar]

Gale: I've missed them. I've missed this.

2. We still have each other. That's all I ever need.

Gale: I'm not sure I'll ever get over my good fortune in that respect. You are the happiness I never dreamed I could deserve.

Apparently you only get this line if Tara is busy around camp when you talk to Gale. To really hammer home how Gale really wasn't happy even before the Orb and thought he would never deserve *check notes* ...the happiness of someone loving him as a person.

...anyway if you pick option 4, he admits he would like to write down a book on all that happened! Perhaps with some embellishments! Yay!

#antiqua plays bg3 #bg3 epilogue spoilers #gale #bg3 spoilers #like I know it's mentioned before he wasn't happy but like jesus #brain hamster running frantically on his wheel as I focus on that deserve bit #the game mostly focuses on his ambition thing but I am glad they still try to flesh out that gale wasn't unhappy just because of that #gale himself is like imagine that i wasn't satisfied being an arch mage and Chosen of Mystra and lover of the Goddess of Magic #he wasn't just unsatisfied he was actually unhappy and he apparently thought he deserved that #probably because on paper he should have been happy! but he wasn't! so clearly something was wrong with him for being unhappy! #society truly took a child and fucked him up #his writing is so good when they want it to be I am eating glass #jesus fucking fuck #I know this is all implied in his romance but these lines hit me #bg3 #galemance #gale dekarios #gale of waterdeep

[rabarbarzcukrem]

"Noé" being the name of the biblical savior of all life.

"Vanitas" meaning vanity, futility, something that is ultimately meaningless and doesn't last. I am unwell.

#there is also this interesting thing going on where their dynamic clearly represents the conflict between selfishness and selflessness #but vanitas ends up being the successful savior despite doing it for his own benefit #while noé fails to save the people he actually cares about time and time again #I'm very curious about how they're gonna handle the theme of salvation and what it really means #I think it's implied that killing vanitas would be an act of salvation for him #when his formula gets rewritten to the point he's no longer himself #but chloe d'apchier's storyline seems to kind of contradict the notion that death is the answer and a perfect escape #and with how vanitas views himself as a lost cause already... wouldn't it be nice if they kind of turned it around #like no. you don't get to die. you need to life and that's harder #because I think showing a character who doesn't see a future for themselves and has given up on hope #be forced to confront the fact that that's not the case at all. that there is in fact hope for them #would be more interesting that simply proving them right #<<me delusional about a character that's clearly doomed by the narrative #vnc #the case study of vanitas #moje

[todayisafridaynight]

what makes minedai even sadder is that we never rlly see daigo try to build a bond with anyone else like he did with mine it rlly shows how badly it effected him like yeah he reached out to shinada in y5 but that’s rlly it and he probably would wanna leave him alone after that and not involve him in any yakuza stuff so i don’t think they would’ve hung out or anything like that afterwards. All he rlly had were saejima and majima but they were more like babysitters than anything, wish we saw more of their dynamic tho like we did with majima and daigo in dead souls since that was fun and we were lowkey robbed but in canon he’s just as lonely as he was before majimas promise to kiryu. And mine is the only person he really had a meaningful relationship with romantic or not they were still really close and we don’t see that again with daigo ever (from what i recall after y3) ok sorry for rambling LMFAO

even with shinada, he reached out to him more so out of 'duty' and trying to make up for the misfortune that befell him because of yakuza than wanting to rekindle any kind of friendship they might have had in high school (though it sounds more like they were just acquaintances if shinada needing a second to remember who daigo was is anything), so yah i doubt they really had any kind of bond afterwards

dead souls really was the only time after Y3 where we got to see daigo be more sociable with someone, but its as you say majima and saejima are more like retainers than close friends

#snap chats #you can tell i was into fire emblem when the first term that comes to my mind to call majima and saejima was 'retainers' omfg #but yeah ..... depressing .... #does make me wonder who daigo was on the phone with during the rggo story though. like clearly daigo has friends #apparently. we just never see or hear of them. tho ig it is implied those were his friends from the y2 era. as mine said flarkjla #REGARDLESS yeah after y3 daigo just feels depressing to watch #i think its just because he really has to do everything on his own now #but not even have a friend to just chill with at the end of the day- like the technical work is whatever. for the most part #THATS stressful obvi so to not have anyone to really be personable with thats probably the dire part. imo. #cause yk the world could suck but as long as you have that One Person to just relax with then its ok but with mine gone. 🧍‍♂️ #probably doesnt help that like. during the 'flashback' segment of y3 where we get to see daigo sitting with kiryu and nakahara #we see him all cheery and bein a lil jokester and just. A Happy Dude #granted this is barely a year or two into being chairman so The Horrors Havent Set In relatively but still ... i miss his smile .. #every time i think of daigo post-mine i think of those like. tragedies or accounts of people where its like #'after X's friend/lover died they never found another again' like thats the vibe i always get #he really packed it up and never got close with anyone else again and it makes me want to throw up #y4 widow arc still good tho it makes me chortle

[silvermarmoset]

something that i wish thirteen's era had covered more fully are the sheer weirdnesses in this body she regenerated into. why did she regenerate with brown hair that was already half-dyed blonde? how did she have ear piercings as part of a fresh new body? in what world does it make sense for her newly regenerated body to have cleanly shaven legs? thirteen has all these little feminine things going the second she appears, and it's never noticed within the show. and while i guess the masculine-presenting doctors also had little weirdnesses (Ten freshly regenerated with hair gel already applied), it feels more noticeable when the alien doctor falls in so hard with the very specific beauty trends of twenty-first century earth, in every element.

idk i just think having a female doctor could have been room for such growth, but these unspoken little markers that require work and choice being shown as innate and present the minute the doctor appears female strikes me as...i dunno, like guys who think women only look right if they're wearing makeup? like the female-presentation shtick women go through is in any way natural. the thirteenth doctor often seems surprised to be labeled a woman, and yet she's wearing eyeliner. who put that on?

#i feel like i'm not discussing this as clearly as i like...and i don't want to offend anyone or imply that eyeliner is only a woman's thing #eyeliner/ear piercings/etc. but it stands out to me that the only time we see the doctor lean into them heavily is when she's suddenly in #a female body? i feel like chibs' assumptions show up a little hard there #im just. sad that my mad little alien suddenly subscribes to modern earth beauty standards the second she appears #which i guess the masc doctors did too! but because masculine beauty standards are more in line w being natural theyre less noticeable #someone help me. something something feminism #doctor who #thirteen #thirteenth doctor #dw analysis #(kind of. mostly just. uhh. wondering why the doctor has to be pretty)

[comingboon]

genba is hilarious because he really just watched jou and gang get their ass demolished for 10 minutes straight and then he gets acknowledged and leaves

#It's really funny how it's subtly implied he was just waiting for jou to give an awesome speech #^ do you think this will get mentioned in the show at all #probably not but it'd be so funny #genba collecting his cheque or something and someone who's still salty abt it goes #“hey remember when we were getting our shit rocked and you stood there and watched” clearly a little upset about it #bonus if genba goes “yeah. Lol” #sera talks boonboomger #bakuage sentai boonboomger #maintagging this because it's not about my insane delusion headcanons this time

[ickypuppi3]

billy accidentally nearly calling steve ‘sir’ during an argument one time

maybe steve’s pissed about something, maybe billy is, either way they’re having an argument

maybe steve backs billy against the wall for a minute, not thinking anything of it because it’s billy and billy can hold his own, can argue back

but then steve asks him a question, yells when he says it

and maybe billy flinches, forgets where he is

and that’s when it happens

you know a little “yes si-” and billy just freezes.. and steve’s staring at billy and trying to work out what billy was going to say and then he’s like oh..

..oh

and maybe he reaches out for billy but billy’s embarrassed so he tells steve to fuck off before getting the hell out of there

because he knows steve’s steve

knows steve would never lay a hand on him

not like that, not now

and billy’s so embarrassed

and he ends up avoiding steve for as long as he can, thinks that steve must think he’s a mess - even more of a mess - thinks that steve won’t get it.. not that billy really gets it either and that’s the problem

maybe billy just wants to forget it ever happened, wants steve to forget but he knows steve won’t because he’s steve.. he’s steve and he’ll want to talk about it

and billy doesn’t, because billy can’t explain it, doesn’t get it, doesn’t want to get it

doesn’t want to dig that deep

and steve’s all “you know i’d never hurt you, bills” “i’m not him” “you get that, don’t you?”

and billy refuses to even meet his eyes, knows it’s hurting them both but he doesn’t want to think about it

doesn’t want to talk about it

#billy hargrove #steve harrington #harringrove #cw implied abuse #billy not wanting to admit neil fucked him up #because denial is a big thing #and i feel like billy would have a hard time realising neil was actually abusive #that neil actually gave him long lasting trauma #:// #when you call your boyfriend sir but it’s not in a fun way #billy building his walls right back up after letting steve in bit by bit #he doesn’t want steve to treat him like he’s made of glass #but maybe steve’s scared of doing anything else after that #my words #sick to my stomach because you know when you can picture something so clearly #yeah so like billy how he was in that scene with neil #and steve doing that face he was doing when him and nancy were in the bathroom #when he realises what happened #not for nothing but je te laisserai des mots was playing while i typed this out and i’m not having a good time about it

[fourswords]

i do like comparing the fan translation of the fsa manga to the viz translation sometimes because i like seeing the differences in the implications and how that plays out later in the story. in this specific instance i'm looking at the difference in translations in ch2 when shadow is about to strike green down and the fairy appears and drives off shadow with her light and what interests me about it is the difference in shadow's words after he's like "argh the maiden still has power even after i sealed her"—in the viz translation, he says the (infamous) "light!! i hate... ...the cursed... ...light!" while in the fan translation he says "light!! light... i'm afraid... damn..." and both these sentences are accompanied by him clutching his shaking wrist. and quite frankly i do love the bluntness of the fan translation more because while shadow being scared is IMPLIED with the shaking (since he shakes like a chihuahua when the dark cloud scares the shit out of him again with light magic and he admits he's afraid AGAIN later on) i think there's a kind-of sort-of implied thing going on that you can see better with the fan translation and that thing is that the light scares shadow far more than it hurts him. which was quite literally the point of zelda's words to him at the end ("do you really think the light will hurt you?"). like it CAN hurt him obviously (see: The Fucking Four Sword) but when it comes to light by itself the only thing holding him back is his own absolute terror because he was having like seven panic attacks rolled into one anytime a light source got anywhere near him.

AND THEN THE LIGHT DIDN'T EVEN KILL HIM WHEN HE "DIED". that was the POINT. he's link's shadow and when he disappeared into the light he quite literally reformed the second link was whole again. yes he lost the tangible body given to him via the power of the dark mirror (which could honestly be traded out for another power source) but he is Still Alive. he is still HIMSELF. he walks in the light alongside link and zelda and it doesn't harm him and he's smiling and waving a little thumbs-up in the air. there MUST be light for a shadow to be cast in the first place. light is as integral to him as it is to link and zelda. that's the POINTTTTTTT

#i really think he does eventually get a body again because the manga very clearly implies that his story is not over by sheer virtue of the #fact that HE! IS! STILL! ALIVE!!!!!!! #ahem. anyway #fsa #txt

[harukakitous]

Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger | #14: 

“You’ve really lost all sight of yourself, haven’t you?” 

“How?!”

#ohsama sentai kingohger #ohsama sentai king ohger #kingohger #king ohger #hymeno ran #gira husty #kaguragi dybowski #yanma gast #super sentai #tokusatsu #tokuedit #my gifs #my edit #i was kind of baffled when some people on twitter were implying that gira didn't have a right to say this #because of a number of unrelated factors which is just a weird take imo #gira's a nice guy but he has the right to be brutally honest when he feels he needs to say it #whether he's in the right or not #(it probably doesn't help that the original poster is clearly biased but moving on) #this episode's character work was really good #i really like that they're setting up a level of trust and care between the members in a subtle but meaningful fashion #as prideful as they all are they still look out for each other even when they don't needto #which i think is just really nice #tag rant