#blue's post

[blue-ravens]

rah rah rahhh

#this is for mack who just graduated this week! #the absolute pick of the literati <3 #charles emerson winchester iii #winchester wednesday #blue's post #mash #charlie memerson #idk how much longer i can keep doing these tbh #i am le tired #this could be it for a while :))))

[your-daily-dose-of-dos]

kia ora koutou katoa!

so this little side blog came to me in a dream. no really, it did. even the blog title. so here it is, a humble corner of this hellsite dedicated to the icon that is david ogden stiers. i don't exactly know how it's going to function yet, so we'll see how it goes.

i have amassed quite a bit of content over the past six or so years, and i love nothing more than to share the wealth with my favourite people here in this fandom. however, if you have any media and resources you want to share, or if you just want to squee in general, the asks and submissions are totally open, i'd love to hear from you. welcome, and please enjoy your stay!

@blue-ravens 💜

#blue's post #david ogden stiers #mash 4077 #mash #charles emerson winchester iii

[spiribia]

personal injury lawyer billboards are all like INJURED?

#talks #EDIT: I DID NOT MAKE THIS IMAGE. #This is the “people with blue eyes” meme originally posted by twitter user @Pubby_Kat.

[ducktollers]

if you or a loved one has been diagnosed with. Captivated by a man with big sparkly brown eyes and slutty hands and a pretty waist you may be entitled to financial compensation

#if u write the word BLUE anywhere on this post u will not see the gates of heaven #found in my drafts #guys its dark and scary in there. #[redacted] #x

[eatyourdamnpears]

I’ve been in such a funk since the concert. I’m not even sure I enjoyed myself that much. maybe I did. I don’t know

#I don’t think I’m a concert person #parts of it were fun but parts of it were like …I’d rather be in bed right now and watching clips of this off tiktok #isn’t post-concert blues a thing? right? it’s a thing? #all I know is I feel really shitty and all I want to do is cry about it

[angel-in-your-basement]

Here’s the thing that some people don’t seem to understand about sex & kink. You have to respect boundaries before you get to push them. You have to show people they’re safe before you get to make them feel scared. You have to respect people before you get to degrade them. You have to be normal with people before you get to be dirty with them. You can’t be skipping steps. Treating them like a person always comes before treating them like a toy.

#and this is why you can’t just start domming or subbing to someone out of the blue #cala posts #kink education

[dollkisses05]

Me when I get home from literally anything

#coquette #coquette aesthetic #girlblogging #hell is a teenage girl #this is what makes us girls #whisper girl #coqeutte #femcel #gatekeep gaslight girlboss #just girly things #lana del rey vinyl #the virgin suicides #sleeping beauty #trailer park trash #trailer park princess #fallen angel #angelic #lana del ray aka lizzy grant #cinnamon girl #blue banisters #norman fucking rockwell #ultraviolence #lily rose melody depp #elizabeth woolridge grant #white swan #black swan #lizzy grant #female manipulator #deergirl #lena posts

[suspicious-scarecrow]

#snufkin #moomintroll #moomin #the moomins #moominvalley #mine #my art #doodles #coming back here once in a blue moon just to post the most random shit ever #u never know which fandom it will be. it’s fuckin russian roulette

[sockich]

I WANT TO BE GREAT.

BLUE EYE SAMURAI (2023)

#i adore mizu with my whole heart #but akemi is a VERY close second #(that said i hope taigen gets his simple happiness too genuinely would love that for him) #akemi #love her #taigen #blue eye samurai #tv #my posts

[stromblessed]

Mizu, femininity, and fallen sparrows

In my last post about Mizu and Akemi, I feel like I came across as overly critical of Mizu given that Mizu is a woman who - in her own words - has to live as a man in order to go down the path of revenge.

If she is ever discovered to be female by the wrong person, she will not only be unable to complete her quest, but there's a good chance that she'll be arrested or killed.

So it makes complete sense for Mizu to distance herself as much as possible from any behavior that she feels like would make someone question her sex.

I felt so indignant toward Mizu on my first couple watchthroughs for this moment. Why couldn't Mizu bribe the woman and her child's way into the city too? If Mizu is presenting as a man, couldn't she claim to be the woman's escort?

However, this moment makes things pretty clear. Mizu knows all too well the plight of women in her society. She knows it so well that she cannot risk ever finding herself back in their position again. She helps in what little way she can - without drawing attention to herself.

Mizu is not a hero and she is not one to make of herself a martyr - she will not set herself on fire to keep others warm. There's room to argue that Mizu shouldn't prioritize her quest over people's lives, but given the collateral damage Mizu can live with in almost every episode of season 1, Mizu is simply not operating under that kind of morality at this point. ("You don't know what I've done to reach you," Mizu tells Fowler.)

And while I still feel like Mizu has an obvious and established blind spot when it comes to Akemi because of their differences in station, such that Mizu's judgment of Akemi and actions in episode 5 are the result of prejudice rather than the result of Mizu's caution, I also want to establish that Mizu is just as caged as Akemi is, despite her technically having more freedom while living as a man.

Mizu can hide her mixed race identity some of the time, and she can hide her sex almost all of the time, but being able to operate outside of her society's strict rules for women does not mean she cannot see their plight.

It does not mean she doesn't hurt for them.

Back to Mizu and collateral damage, remember that sparrow?

While Mizu is breaking into Boss Hamata's manse, she gets startled by a bird and kills it on reflex. She then cradles it in her hands - much more tenderly than we've seen Mizu treat almost anything up to this point in the season:

She then puts it in its nest, with its unhatched eggs. Almost like she's trying to make the death look natural. Or like an accident.

You see where I'm going with this.

When Mizu kills Kinuyo, Mizu lingers in the moment, holding the body tenderly:

And btw a lot of stuff about this show hit me hard, but this remains the biggest gut punch of them all for me, Mizu holding that poor girl's body close, GOD

When Mizu arranges the "scene of the crime," Kinuyo's body is delicate, birdlike. And Mizu is so shaken afterward that she gets sloppy. She's horrified at this kill to the point that she can't bring herself to take another innocent life - the boy who rats her out.

MIZU'S ONE MOMENT OF SOFTNESS AND MERCY, COMING ON THE HEELS OF HER NEEDING TO KILL A GIRL TO SPARE HER THE WORST FATE THAT THIS RIGID SOCIETY HAS TO OFFER WOMEN, AND TO SPARE A BROTHEL FULL OF INNOCENT WOMEN WHO ARE THE CASTOFFS OF SOCIETY, NEARLY RESULTS IN ALL OF THEIR DEATHS

No wonder Mizu is as stoic and cold as she is.

And no wonder Mizu has no patience for Akemi whatsoever right before the terrible reveal and the fight breaks out:

Speaking of Akemi - guess who else is compared to a bird!

The plumage is more colorful, a bit flashier. But a bird is a bird.

And, uh

Yeah.

I like to think that Mizu killing the sparrow is not only foreshadowing for what she must do to Kinuyo, but is also a representation of the choice she makes on Akemi's behalf. She decides to cage the bird because she believes the bird is "better off." Better off caged than... dead.

But because Mizu doesn't know Akemi or her situation, she of course doesn't realize that the bird is fated to die if it is caged and sent back home.

Mizu is clearly not happy, or pleased, or satisfied by allowing Akemi to be dragged back to her father:

But softness and mercy haven't gotten Mizu anywhere good, recently.

There is so much tragedy layered into Mizu's character, and it includes the things she has to witness and the choices she makes - or believes she has to make - involving women, when she herself can skirt around a lot of what her society throws at women. Although, I do believe that it comes at the cost of a part of Mizu's soul.

After all, I'm gonna be haunted for the rest of this show by Mizu's very first prayer in episode 1:

"LET" her die. Because as Ringo points out, she doesn't "know how" to die.

Kind of like another bird in this show:

#blue eye samurai #mizu #akemi #kinuyo #bes #women are birds okay they are BIRDS #the let me die line is so SCARY AND SAD like a part of Mizu wants death but she cant? she doesnt know how?? excuse you show??? #when all these other delicate birds are dying all around her #akemis character gets more and more gutwrenching upon subsequent rewatches because whenever she says her life is in danger #NO ONE BELIEVES HER - certainly not other women #because shes rich and pampered and that means shes safe and is worrying about nothing right? right????? #and it turns out that all of akemis instincts were right and she was in danger the ENTIRE TIME #also I need to make a post just for kinuyo because I am sad

[atinymexicanbird]

in which shadow cared !! (again)

#i wanted to color this at first but if i did that i would have never posted this stupid comic so it is what it is #srry if thr art is inconsistent jsajsj #hot topic wannabe and blue gumball son of a bitch #my art #sth #sonic the hedgehog #shadow the hedgehog #sonic fanart #sonadow #if you squint your eyes i guess #who r we kidding this is them flirting #sonic

[blue-ravens]

#patronising saint of being that bitch #bj hunnicutt #charles emerson winchester iii #mash 4077 #m*a*s*h #winchester wednesday #blue's post #mash #charlie memerson

[this-simplefeeling]

something something ten was rarely wearing less than three layers representing his being very closed off and scared of vulnerability, while fourteen sheds his coat early on and has rolled up sleeves most of the time to parallel his being far more comfortable with his emotions and the vulnerability that comes with it or something idk

#ten was literally being hurtled toward the sun in 42 and still wouldn't take off his suit jacket #doctor who #fourteenth doctor #tenth doctor #david tennant #the star beast #the giggle #wild blue yonder #donna noble #doctor donna #orion dw posts

[mithrun-house-of-kerensil]

last thing you see before he fucking GETS YOU

#dungeon meshi #dungeon meshi spoilers #delicious in dungeon spoilers #delicious in dungeon #dungeon meshi kabru #god i wish he had beautiful brown eyes #his blue eyed stare is so scary #I love him soooo much #my post #kabru

[cemeterything]

#🐉 #more positive spin on my last post #please do tell me what i missed btw i love symbolism #and there were so many i couldnt fit on the poll. like closed fist/open palm. ship/anchor. blue/orange. etc.

[satyavaswaniis]

pikmin fans how we doin

#pikmin #the Post #red pikmin #yellow pikmin #blue pikmin #glow pikmin #rock pikmin #pikmin 4 #nintendo direct #my edit