#but that's another post

[pantsaretherealheroes]

rewatching chimney begins and like, him saying in maaaaybe 2006? that he never saw himself growing old and having a family so he thought maybe live fast die young go out like an action hero and it KILLS ME

he really didn't think that he was worth it maybe and now it's 2023/4 (not entirely sure when it is in canon) and he's about to MARRY the LOVE OF HIS LIFE who is a BEAUTIFUL GODDESS who he has the MOST ADORABLE DAUGHTER WITH and i'm so emotional about it!! (this is of course. when they find/save him from whatever predicament he's in)

#i could also write a lot on the parallels between young chim and buck (especially young buck) #but that's another post #911 #chimney han #911 abc

[russenoire]

i don't think the background art in mob psycho 100's anime adaptation gets nearly enough love. it's full of mundane objects depicted in the most exquisite watercolors.

like this electrical pole here. with its giant soup can-like transformer and attendant power lines against a cloudy twilight sky, all shot through with vibrant pink and lilac and creamy butter yellow.

not only does this painting–and it is a painting–bring new meaning to the phrase 'golden hour', it's still one of the most glorious things i've ever laid eyes on. and you might pass one of these utility poles every day without a second glance. since seeing this image? i haven't been able to.

this is a single frame of animation. there are hundreds of thousands more in this series, maybe just as beautiful. i wanted to call your attention to this one. just because.

it reminds me to pay attention.

to notice, and keep noticing, the beauty in ordinary things (and beings!).

#mob psycho 100 #mp100 #mp100 meta #mp100 anime #art #watercolor #2D animation #background art #official art #thank you studio bones #image description in alt #image described #power lines #a screenshot of an electrical pole and its connected power lines against a vibrantly pink cloudy twilight sky #it's not just mob psycho #while infrastructure shots are ubiquitous in anime #they're not always this grand #i believe they are a call to viewers #to appreciate all the little things we don't think about #that make our lives work #but that's another post #分析

[cxanthos]

Lucy haunts Snow obviously yes and there seems to be a consensus that Katniss reminds him of her and too a point also yes- but I would have to say it's Peeta that truly reminds him of her.

Katniss reminds him more of Sejanus imo but that's another conversation-

Peeta and Lucy are both charismatic and showmanistic. They can sway the crowd, make people feel what they want them to feel. Pity for them or joy or anger on their behalf. Point is they make people want to support them, to root for them.

But it's more than that- at their soul they are just good people. I don't have to explain how and why Peeta is good but I want to draw your attention to this detail about Lucy:

Snow was chasing after her with a gun in those woods and she manage to distract him by luring him to where he would be bitten by a non-venomous snake. Lucy knew her snakes, if she wanted to find one that was venomous and would kill him- she would have. But she didn't want him dead, she only wanted to slow him down. Even as Snow chased after her holding a gun. Even after she realized what he did to Sejanus. Lucy really did love him.

Lucy and Peeta both had a goodness that shined through the essence in their character and I know that infuriated Snow when he saw Peeta doing the same things with it that Lucy did.

Don't get me wrong, Snow's main attention was Katniss. She was his enemy; she was the one who viscerally hated the capitol and threatened the system -like Sejanus- but I can't help but think that Snow took pleasure in Peeta's torture and his corruption because he reminded Snow so much of Lucy.

Snow tried to destroy the good in Peeta, break it into nothing. Something he never got to do to Lucy.

Yet he failed. Peeta's inherent goodness still remained at his core and it didn't matter how much hijacking or torture he went through. That wasn't going be to taken away from him.

"There's a natural goodness built into us all. We can step across that line into evil, or not." - Lucy Gray Baird.

Katniss wasn't Lucy's revenge, it was Peeta.

#and katniss was sejanus's revenge #but that's another post #coriolanus snow #peeta mellark #lucy gray baird #sejanus plinth #katniss everdeen #coryo snow #coriolanus x lucy gray #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #tbosas #tbosbas #the hunger games #thg

[toons-boop-boop]

SPOILER FOR DURGE

Durge refusing to take Bhaals inheritance: Nuh-Uh

Bhaal: fuck you mean "Nuh-Uh"? *kills Durge*

Withers: Nuh-Uh *revives Durge without the urge*

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #baldurs gate 3 #durge #dark urge #bg3 bhaalspawn #incorrect bhaalspawn quotes #the dark urge #lmao this thought just a few mins before bed #good night #funny #fuck bhaal #all my homies hate bhaal #also fuck mystra #but that's another post #withers

[wren-of-the-woods]

I was singing along to Fair today and I noticed something fascinating: it's possible that there are three characters in the song: "I," "he," and "she."

Most of the first-person material in the song is in the form of quotations (e.g. and he'll say "it's not fair how much I love you"). We certainly have two characters, "he" and "she", who speak to each other throughout the song.

At the beginning and the end, however, something different might be going on. The song opens with a few verses in first person with no reference to "he" or "she" (It's what my heart just yearns to say...the reason I was born). Because Joey Batey is singing, it's easy to assume that this is "he" narrating. That may be the intention. It's interesting, though, that directly after this it switches to third person: Cos outwardly he says I try so hard to make you laugh at me / And she, she does, she laughs...

A similar thing happens at the end, starting with "how unfair they'll sing." This verse is narrated by an outside perspective: something looking in on the couple from outside. Fascinatingly, the chorus that comes after this is the only one that does not begin with a dialogue tag, simply saying "it's not fair." It's almost like that first line is a moment of the narrator's perspective before it switches back to dialogue between the characters.

Is this narrator a different person, perhaps a friend of the couple? Is it the world? Is it destiny? Is it the stars that hum and hear them? Regardless, they seem to be just as in love with the story and the people as the couple are with each other, and I think that's beautiful.

TLDR: The narrator in Fair may be a seperate entity from the characters within the song, but they are just as in love with the story as the characters are with each other.

#fair #the amazing devil #joey batey #madeleine hyland #wren talks #does this make sense? no idea but i'm having feelings!! #something something the narrative being in love with the characters something the story being wrapped into the love #aksjdfhjas #this occurred to me while i was making food and the urge to leave the stove alone to look at the bandcamp lyrics was Strong #fortunately i resisted #what with all the i/he/she meta surrounding her sweet kiss i'm surprised this never occurred to me! #something something one joey batey voice crack song has the narrator excluded from the love triangle #while the other is a part of the beauty #that meme of the guy with the pinboard and all the red lines? that's me #also i feel like there's something to be said about how little miss why so new york torch song and fair all have a he says/she says structu #but that's another post

[g1deonthefirst]

i will say. i think that this fandom is generally very reluctant to criticize tamsyn muir as a white author but there's a meaningful difference between representation that's actually in the books and the author's headcanons posted on tumblr dot com.

#not to reference h*rry p*tter but surely we all learned this lesson #with the gay dumbledore fiasco right #like i think there are some benefits to tamsyn muir not ascribing many characters' specific races #(and i also think she indicates race in ways beyond describing skin color) #and she does engage with race sometimes in intentional ways! #but i think that it's a little silly to say oh tlt has so much representation just look at her tumblr post #also. think that the fandom could engage a lil more critically w that representation too. tbh #like is anybody gonna talk abt the fact that three of the four characters commonly interpreted as black are all space cops #but that's another post

[anartificialsatellite]

Controversial (?) TURN opinions I have posted before elsewhere, episode whatever:

Caleb Brewster has the most consistent and solid moral compass in the show, fight me about it.

#turn amc #caleb brewster #also feel like among the main crew of culpers caleb was second only to anna in getting shafted by the narrative #but that's another post

[dagranwrites]

a thought: the psychic link that Danny was initially supposed to share with Sam, that got scrapped before the show started, makes a whole lot more sense for him and Dani, where it can also neatly play into the twin telepathy trope

of course they’re not twins, not like that, not really, at least not according to canon, but they basically have the same face and probably very similar body language and it wouldn’t be too far-fetched to say that they’re at the very least exceptionally good at reading each other, and it would give a new level of depth to their relationship and all potential angst thrown at them

#fandom: danny phantom #character: danny fenton #character: danielle fenton #type: text post #danny phantom #danny fenton #dani fenton #maybe one day I'll manage to put all my thoughts here #instead of just telling them to people on discord #who knows! #well technically they could be twins #but that's another post

[poppies-from-oz]

We should really talk more about how Ozma’s first thought upon learning her real identity is that she’s going to be torn away from her friends and therefore the only support system she’s ever had.

And how she doesn’t calm down until the Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow- the first adults to show her any sort of kindness or affection- assure her that they’ll still be part of her life no matter what.

We should really talk more about how Ozma spent the entirety of her early life in the care of someone who openly resented her and she never knew parental love of any kind. Or about how the Scarecrow did a better job of caring for Ozma in the course of a single day than Mombi did for over a decade.

Or how Ozma demonstrates a great deal of attachment to the Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow throughout the rest of the series to the point where the Scarecrow divides his time between living with Ozma and living with the Tin Man-

Not to mentio the numerous times where the Tin Woodman is willing to die for Ozma’s sake-

In conclusion, we should really talk more about these guys. I have a lot of feelings about them.

#the wizard of oz #scarecrow #tin man #princess ozma #the marvelous land of oz #ozma of oz #the emerald city of oz #the scarecrow of oz #also I think ozma might have separation anxiety #but that's another post

[vanhelsingapologist]

Hey so tell me about Rudolph van Richten. Do you excuse his war crimes?

The Van Richten Conundrum

5e Van Richten is a mess. Let me monologue.

SPOILERS?? FOR VAN RICHTEN??

I think everyone kind of knows that, but I'm gonna say it anyway. He's unbearably racist, he's unhelpful, and he's overall difficult to work with if you play him as written. That's why we have older Ravenloft Van Richten, a character you can inject a little more nuance into.

I know a common interpretation is to nix his prejudice entirely, and honestly? Yeah. I think that's fine. In fact, I think it could make it a more comfortable experience for everyone involved.

However, for familial and heritage reasons, my DM went to me and asked me how I wanted to handle it. They laid out the whole thing (tiger, Ez's family, backstory) and let me decide what I wanted to do.

I decided to read the guides. They detailed a man who was turned to vicious hate because of the loss of his family. It wasn't righteous. It was ugly, even though he believed otherwise. You could see the path, and it didn't make it better. It made it tragic and awful. And then Van Richten's Guide to the Vistani came, and he started to change and learn. He started to feel shame and realized the cycle would continue. He disinherits his previous beliefs and tries to make restitution. I couldn't figure out why 5e, in an effort to clean things up, somehow made him worse when in the original material, he was, for lack of a better word, "recovering" by the time Curse of Strahd would be rolling around.

(Do I recommend Van Richten's Guide to the Vistani personally? NO. Definitely not. I think a lot of stuff in there is awful in ways that are completely, hilariously unintentional. Read it, by all means, and enjoy the story but I wouldn't touch some of that wording with a 5-foot pole.)

I told my DM it was important to me that he had once held those prejudices but that he was at the same place he was at the end of his guide. Tiger was changed to hunt vampires. No weird head in the trunk. Healing and learning were things I preferred to see, and honestly, in our group, I was glad my DM checked my comfort level and willingness to make that call. It made our story a lot richer. I love escapist fantasy, but I'm glad we elected for that approach with Van Richten, because...

I think Strahd (as a module) asks about redeemability a lot.

Mods like the Interactive Tome, I can imagine, likely expand on this. We asked the question "do your past actions make who you are now? Have you done enough to deserve absolution?" a LOT. That was the game we wanted to play. "Who do you become despite who you were?" We asked this again and again. This won't be the same answer for every party. Some people don't want to engage with that, and that's completely valid and fine.

Rudolph van Richten, against all odds, became one of my favorite characters in DnD.

I'll try and give an even longer answer sometime to profile the character my DM played. But this was about the crimes.

Anyway, so, I don't forgive his crimes. You deserve, Van Richten! But I do think they were important in our game. Long, long answer.

#curse of strahd #dr rudolph van richten #rudolph van richten #half answer #sorry haha #we also changed a ton about Ez's family because holy fuck. holy fuck. #but that's another post

[whatwhywhowherewhen]

Comparing Wei Wuxian's relationship with Jiang Wanyin vs his relationship with Wen Qionglin is beautiful because both are supposedly superior/subordinate relationships that function as mostly equal brotherhoods

But where Wei Wuxian contributes to decisions by manipulating Jiangs Wanyin and compensates for it by accepting any verbal or physical aggression

Wen Qionglin instead contributes by force of will and acting independently and receives what is likely Jiang Yanli inspired care and encouragement in turn

Anyway this is the beginning of my thesis on how many of Wei Wuxian's close relationships begin with him finding ways to bend to the authority of the other person and fall apart when he feels the trust between has been broken and pulls away in response (including Lan Wanji and Jiang Yanli)

#wen qionglin #wen ning #wei wuxian #jiang wanyin #jiang cheng #mxtx #mdzs #the untamed #jiang yanli #lan wangji #I actually think both Jiang Clan heads contributed to this trait rather than one or the other #but that's another post #wei wuxian need couples/group therapy with literally everyone he knows #my posts

[throwaninkpot]

I haven't seen the movie yet,so idk, but my personal theory when I first read Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes was that Collins had written the book specifically to be difficult to adapt to screen. Like. When I first read tThe Hunger Games trilogy? Way back at the age of 14/15? I was immediately struck by how visual those novels were. I wasn't surprised to learn the suthor had a background in TV, bc I could vividly Sense where the shot changes, commercial breaks, montages, etc. might be. It felt written with a mind for the screen.Versus Ballad, which to me seemed a very Book book. It is a story settled into the witten word. It's a book the way LotR is, with its pacing, pondering in narration, and fuckton of songs that apparently 90% don't appreciate bc they have no taste. It's a book that may not translate smoothly to a visual medium without big changes to accomodate a different kind of storytelling.

#I do think there are A Lot of parallels to be drawn with LotR besides just this #but that's another post #the hunger games #the ballad of songbirds and snakes

[sirdurbe]

i'm mostly talking out of my ass here, but i wanted to give my two cents about kieran, because i find the writing there to be really compelling, but not in a way that endears me toward him. in fact, he makes me pretty uncomfortable -- and i think that's a feature and not a glitch.

kieran's arc is about an insecure young person lashing out at the world for not giving him what he believes he's owed. it's a very stark portrayal of the specific kind of entitlement that can blossom in quiet, sensitive people like that. and it resonates with players -- as it should -- but from what i'm seeing, not... necessarily in a way that makes them want to analyze their own behavior. instead they see themselves in kieran and seek to excuse the patterns they recognize, such as pushing away everyone who's kind to him and then languishing that he's misunderstood.

i'll take it one step further, too. kieran clearly projected heavily onto the story of the kitakami ogre, deciding it, like himself, was just misunderstood, and he derived a lot of comfort from his own interpretation. however, once it became undeniably clear to him that ogrepon's story did not exist with him in mind, but that it was instead her own, he took it as a deeply personal slight and became very angry; it's really the catalyst for how he acts once we get to the indigo disk. and it's very in-line with how many fans, especially younger fans (though people my age aren't exempt), engage with media these days. they project very vulnerable personal feelings onto stories they enjoy and if/when it ever becomes apparent those stories weren't made specifically for them, they lash out -- which is another example of the exact variety of entitlement that drives kieran as a character.

and let me clear: yes, kieran is a kid. (kieran is also not real.) kids and teens frequently have periods of being jerks, it's part of growing up. none of this is me saying that kieran is irredeemable (or god forbid, "problematic") and you're bad if you enjoy him, sympathetize with him or even relate to him. i just wanted to offer this alternate perspective because i found it interesting that it's one i hadn't seen yet.

#mine #pokémon #scarvi spoilers #scarvi dlc spoilers #kieran #it's also a little 🤔 that i've seen people wanting to project mistreatment (usually by carmine) onto him as a means to explain away his (1) #behavior; because his negative character development going from teal mask to indigo disk has very little to do with carmine at all #idk i'm just kind of watching it all from the sidelines which is my preferred way of engaging with fandom these days #anyway i miss looker and i'm still upset they aborted his arc right before he could realize all cops are bastards #but that's another post

[futureempressoftheuniverse]

fred andrews really watched his son get convicted for murder, get sent to juvie/prison, escape, then run away after being exhonerated, and when mr andrews finally finds him, instead of being like "hey archie let's get you home get you some therapy and work on that martyr complex of yours", decides to drive his teenage son to the canadian border and say "damn it sure would be nice if we could live in the wilderness together, to bad we can't ¯\_(ツ)_/¯" even though there's literally no reason he can't go with him and gives archie their dog before DRIVING AWAY AND ACTING AS THOUGH HE NEVER SAW HIS SON.

#and people are really out there saying he's the only decent parent in riverdale #rule number one of riverdale: there are no good parents #fred andrews #riverdale #riverdale season 3 #archie andrews #i mean listen #i understand that most media centered around kids/teens needs the parents to be a little absent or bad in order for the plot to work #bc if the parents are present and taking care of their kids then it's less likely they'll get into as much trouble as they do #and i'm not against that as a plot device in the slightest! #but when characters esp teens act as tho a parent is the best that doesn't mean that it's true #obvs fred's one of the better ones since he's one of the few not directly tied to a murder #but he's not great! #anyway #can you tell i'm rewatching riverdale season 3 lol #thinking a lot about the core four's relationships with their dads this rewatch #and about veronica and jughead parallels #but that's another post #myposts

[violetlunette]

I find it so funny that it’s canon that Present Mic does not like Bakagou.

(Poking the bear Mic, poking the bear.)

#lol #no I'm sure Mic's just teasing but still #Mic's the only one not tripping over his feet to praise Bakagou all the time #it's really refreshing #anti bakugou #anti bakugo katsuki #bakugou critical #not really but just in case #I also love that Mic adores Uraraka #but that's another post #bnha meta #mha #bnha #hizashi yamada #yamada hizashi #present mic #I'd like to say that he'd probably be the only to call him out #but that wouldn't be correct as Mic hates confrontation

[tatter-demalion]

Been really sick lately so here's Samara smiling. She's havin' a good time :)

#my wip #force crimson #owhoaugh I want my health to return #We're almost done with Descent into Avernus #and she's had sooo much fun tearing through demons and devils and stuff #Not a great module #would not recommend #but that's another post