#cant find the og post now and I'm sad :(

[satirn]

Can you like.... Elaborate on the Dib - Mother Mary association?

Like you're making visual connections with the color blue and Gir calls Dib Mary once in an unaired episode but other than that I'm not sure I understand your point? What does Dib himself have to do with motherhood or like... Purity..? Bringing Christ or a Christ analogue.?

(I'm assuming you're looking at this through like a Catholic lens?)

I'm sorry if this comes off as like mean or combative that is NOT my intention at all :(

I just think it's an interesting premise and would like to hear more and possibly discuss.

of course !!

i am not catholic or religious but i do have expirence with church & the bible (because i read it) (also because my grandfather was a preacher and let me come to services[i didnt pay attention because i was 4 😎]).

looking at the og post again i realize i forgot to add these mesages to it so heres these ones.

transcription: [ "i think especially cus like, dib, at least in the show, like represents earth itself i think. and earth is typically related to like, womenhood i guess, i dont know. i guess thats why like, genderbent dib AUs i guess, work so well at least for me, i think. I dont know, it just calls back to that... womanhood-esque thing he has with mother mary stuff.

this is also why in my (AU), she'll appear soon but, the "ultimate dib" I guess is actually just a genderbent dib, called mary. cus, i dont know I find that imagry neat. it also calls back to adam & eve -esque type stuff, i dont know.

i find religion interesting, if you cant tell. its just, ive grown up with it like, around me all the time. I dont know, its just found its way into my worldview, i guess. not really but you know what i mean.

we constantly have like, dibs that just absolutely hate the world. and that is canon-compliant and yes that is good. but like, I rarely ever see a Dib thats like, truely like, in ーokay this is not the right term but likeー in love with the world, i guess. like, i never see a Dib that just likes earth, like truely. cus earth can be so beautiful and like, poetic i guess. i need a Dib thats like, into poetry, yeah, thatd be cool.

its just it makes me sad you know. i know nihilism is a thing that will always be engraved into Zim and zims whole series, but like, I dont know. something different would be nice. i want hope, i guess, i dont know.

its just that, dib acts as a guardian for humanity, for earth. but like, for everything, a guardian acts like an embodiment of the thing that theyre protecting. so with dib representing like, humanity, him having connections with like, "mother mary" or womanhood, stuff like that, birth i guess, the womb, would be fitting, i think." ]

or to translate my cough syrup addled brain here, Mother mary calls back to dib's connection/ symbolism of earth. Its less "the birth of christ/the messiah" but more the aspect of creation and life that comes with Mary's symbolism. its a extension of his role as the "guardian of earth"

now i mentioned/alluded to the adam and eve paralells between zim and dib but yall aint ready for that conversation.

#sorry this took so long. the illness made me stupid #i think im finally becoming not sick ? my coughs still here though :[ #there was more i wanted to say but i forget. ill probably add onto this later lol #invader zim #dib membrane #not art #religion #tw religion #tw religious themes #religious themes #hm is it the fanfiction ??? i distinctly rememebr gir calling dib mary alot . hmg #:shrug: ig

[falling-hand-in-unlovable-hand]

for the ask game, skrael because i cant help but pick favorites

bc you didn't specify what questions, I'm Going To Do All Of Them

(except for the ones i already did lol)

1. a fun headcanon

so i'm not sure if this is fun, persay (skrael had fun, douxie was experiencing psychological warfare) but when the order'd find out where he and nari were he'd leave dead things on their doorstep, frozen solid

it was mostly pigeons that got hit by taxis, and nari always reanimated them anyways- with the fun bonus of creeping douxie the fuck out

bellroc: ......why are you putting that dead bird in your pocket?

skrael:

2. a sad headcanon

when bellroc was healing after kilahead he didn't leave their side for a moment he feels so guilty he didn't stop them from going in

3. a headcanon that canon doesn't disprove

he isn't bald he isn't bald he isn't fUCKING BALD

4. a headcanon to spite canon, specifically

he never calls merlin merlin, instead he calls him his og name that he first knew him by: Myrddin

5. a headcanon that's all but canon, and that's a hill I will die on

skrael is absolutely the voice of reason in the order- he's measured where nari and bellroc are absolutely feral (though he does have his moments😅)

7. a pre-canon headcanon

the order apprenticed merlin, when he was a young man (that's how he got the sealsssss😳)

8. a post-canon headcanon

he gets introduced to nail polish and his natural nails never see the light of day again

9. a missing scene that definitely happened

when he and nari had a nice long talk and hugged instead of horribly murdering each other :)

11. something [other character] believes about them that isn't true

tbh most think he wouldn't have a problem killing a small kid but he wouldn't do it unless absolutely necessary-

teenagers are a different story, if they manage to become his enemy he treats them just as he would an adult- murder and all

12. something they believe about [other character] that isn't true

that she hates them now

14. their worst memory

during killhead, just after bellroc fell- hearing their scream...

15. a secret

he's not very open about it, but like bellroc, he collects remnants of the past, there's a reason he was the first one to come up with a preservation spell

that and so they don't have to make new clothes constantly bc can you fucking imagine

16. favorite canon relationship

i guess i'll go with the Literal Only Person he interacted with more than once

he and bells <3

17. favorite fanon relationship

if canon won't give me content i'll make it so i guess that makes it fanon lol✊

him and nari bcs they had what? one conversation?

also him and the green knight (he's his poorly reanimated sON)

18. favorite should have been canon relationship

look. i just want more content on him being a little bitch to merlin (i'm actually writing smth with this, let's see if it ever sees the light of day)

19. [blank] / dealer's choice

he's got a bunch of little snacks (dried fruits/meats) in his scrying rooms bc once he goes in there it might be days until he leaves again

#ask #kiwifae says shit #skrael #skrael of the north wind #toa wizards #going loose w the definition of relationship here

[tutuandscoot]

I'm the og anon that brought up how people treated vm lol. I agree with everything you said. They really were like animals in a cage. I hate that people made them feel they have to hide anything. And all the crazy narratives, sometimes I cant believe what people came up with. It seems like they thought both tessa and scott were terrible people who would do these terrible things. How can you be a fan of someone and think they would cheat or intentionally hurt their best friend. It is kinda scary to think how invested these people were. I am all for thinking they are cute, but if they say they aren't involved i believe them. They never gave me a reason to doubt their sincerity and i honestly think it is disrespectful to question them at every turn. People asked their friends and family about it, going as far as bullying them for saying or posting something that didn't fit into the narrative. They made their private lives a spectacle. Also they criticized their tour and their skating, trying to find anything to throw back at them. Saying they skated badly because they broke up or whatever. And i am pissed because i honestly believe we could have had more tours if people hadn't crossed so many boundaries. Imagine all the programs we could have had if they continued skating. 😭😭😭 All in all thank you for being a voice of reason. I also try to ignore all the bad things that happened in this fandom and just try to support vm in all they do, they deserve it 🥺

Thanks Anon ❤️❤️ it is 1000% what T&S deserve that we speak of and admire them with love and kindness because that’s what they give all of us and each other. I do manage to ignore all the negativity and choose not to engage with it, and guess it’s just nice to put all that in the past. The best thing about being here now is there’s so much less to question and if there are still people here spreading hate then that’s pretty sad for them 😝

I do think there was the chance of getting more tours with them if not for this stuff, but part of me also thinks they had a plan and 2years of skating post pyc was what the plan was for a while. I guess it’s likely they may have done SOI in 2019 if not for some of this, but I guess there’s really no way to know. I can’t imagine this stuff not making its way back to them, especially if people were harassing their friends and family (which WTAF that is the dumbest, most horrible thing I can imagine happening to all these people. Scum of the earth I’m telling you🤬) so if it did indeed play a part that is just infuriating.

And while cyber bullying like this is impossible not to the affect even the strongest people, I do think it wouldn’t ever have affect their true feelings for each other or affect their friendship in any major way. They had been through hell and back multiple times through some of the toughest stages of their lives none the less through their partnership, and the always made it through the other side closer than they were before. They are so strong willed and committed to always maintaining their love. But as I said I think it’s definitely likely all this shit caused them to retreat from the public eye in order to protect each other.

Also, I don’t think having them on tv as much as their agents had them was a good thing- it just gave the trolls more fuel to throw on the fire. Yes they had to go on to promote TTYCT but I feel like they were on a lot of TV shows, news/ morning shows that they didn’t need to be on- it was just coz after pyc they were the hot gossip and everyone wanted a piece of them, everyone wanted to be in their presence to see if they could actually see this so called “secret romantic relationship”. It’s horrible that the conversation got away from their career achievements and instead was about all this relationship crap that literally didn’t even exist the way (most people) wanted it to. So yeh, in retrospect I think that didn’t help- and because they are who they are, they probably didn’t think all this objectification was even happening until it got so toxic and started affecting them directly, and the damage was done 😖.

So yes! Let’s proceed with love and positivity❤️

#it may surprise you to know I tend to be a pretty mellow. cynical person irl #vm have taught me love and kindness and I’m trying to apply that in my own life #we need it just as much online as we do in irl #they truly inspire me every day! #anon #ask

[xxwritemeastoryxx]

Hello lovely 😊 Any fic recs for the og 6 Avengers? 💙

Since I think I am done being distracted by fics while making this list, I should post said list now, right?

Sad to say, I havent found many Bruce, Thor or Nat fics I have fallen head over heels for. And the ones that I have, I cant seem to find them now 😅😭

So if any yall have favorites and want to share, please send them my way 💚

Tony Stark/Ironman

Battle Scars by @thatfanficstuff ONE OF MY ABSOLUTE FAVORITES AND I WILL CONTINOUSLY SHARE IT AND GLADLY PRAISE THIS WORK OF ART TO ANYONE THAT WILL LISTEN!

Out of time by @just-dreaming-marvel I absolutely love that there are two possible endings for it (And I seriously need to catch up cause I'm behind on this masterpiece.) And I absolutely love that the movies and shows are being worked into this story and I cant wait to catch up on it.

I Need You by @evien-stark I love, love this one. I finally really started using AO3 and I found this beauty. I still have quite a bit to finish reading to catch up but I am enjoying every minute of it. I promise once I finish binging I'll be posting all my thoughts on this one.

Clint Barton/Hawkeye

The Light in My Darkness by @thatfanficstuff Again one of my favs! Kat never misses with her series and I really enjoyed this one 💚

Unfortunately all the others that I love I cant seem to find again 😭 and it makes me so sad that I can't find them now that I'm looking for them.

Steve Rogers/Captain America

Carry You by @idkxwriting LET ME START OFF BY SAYING THAT ANYTHING HEATHER WRITES IS AMAZING. Like I know this isnt like a full on Steve centric fic but damn it it's good and angsty just the way I love things. And I seriously need to catch up again(a reoccurring theme with these fic recs). 😅

I really tried to keep character specific and stick to the OG 6. But apparently my love is focused on one of them and a majority of other characters in the MCU. I really need to read more fics. 🤣

If anyone wants to add their favorites, please dont hesitate to reblog with them. 💚

#dom's inbox #dom answers #dom recommends #fic recommendations #mcu fics #my favs

[sorrowandmadness]

So hard for me to get out from bed and me waking up with a headache. I have an essay that is due on Monday and i havent even start haha. The old me would be like "What the hell are you doing?" "You are sabotaging yourself" That's what my doc even said to me and i said i know and the funny part is that i feel nth about it. My result for this term cant expect my honestly I wont be surprised I know will be disappointed even though me being this way want to score well but from the looks of me keep on being this way I wont might now score well. What would the old me say? Its me vs me. I just find it funny how they dislike me panicking and rushing about this and that till I couldn't stop etc but when I feel nothing also they dislike it haha. Honestly, the old reason why I'm typing this is cause want to boot on my brain and let it warm up so I can start on with my essay. So this is basically me just blabbing about random stuff and some don't even make any sense I guess. Usually I would write it down but I'm too lazy to write so I will just type random shits out. People see and judge on my English idc anymore honestly this is me just basically just typing and not giving a fuck if there's anyone reading my post. Well this used to be my personal space where i can reblog all kinds of shits and post wtv i want where no one knows my identity. I used to be on tumblr for hours everyday and just reblog random shits that's relatable to me till my data used to always exceed. Tumblr was the OG. So i had to force myself out from bed and took Knight for his walk but first after so long of drinking hazelnut coffee, i decided to make it today. Ive been waiting for the fam to get the coffee capsule. So yeah i took Knight for his walk and played with Skylar and just chill with those two. Honestly i can say they are my best friend lol. Eventhough i have trust issues with Knight now due to the accident and all i can say those two are my best friend. They entertain me whenever I'm bored and Skylar so cute every morning waiting for me to get up to play with her and follow me everywhere. If they are humans i would definitely be annoyed lmao but i guess cause they cant talk haha so it makes it less annoying at the same time they don't have problems lmao they don't have to worry about life. So i guess that's why i enjoy hanging out with animals more cause they are cute and at the same time i don't have to feel this sad energy. If only i can this fast for my essay lmao i will be able to complete it in a day if that were the case. 1500 words the back of my head now telling me its not much lmao but yeah compared to 2k and above honestly after doing a few of it 1500 words is nothing honestly. I miss dressing up. I miss feeling good about myself. I miss deceiving people on how nice i dress up when internally i was going thru so much shits. I miss feeling excited for online shopping. I miss being vain. I was so fucking vain cause i was so damn insecure so eversince i start going to therapy i try not to be vain thinking that if i stop being vain my insecurites would be lesser thinking that i wont care about my looks so much if i don't care. But it backfired me instead. Ive been trying for so long to fight this insecuurites off so long I've tried but its still ongoing and i look worst compared to last time lmao. I miss being vain i miss looking myself at the mirror every min just to check my hair lmao. Eversince therapy i tried not to look at the mirror cause of the criticizing but it backfired me. I barely have any nice clothes to wear now. Funny how broke i was back then i will still find a way to buy clothes for myself or shoes just to look good. I miss the feeling where people find me attractive lol. now like barely. I feel like every decision that I've made thru out this years have been sabotaging myself. I miss taking so many selfies lol. I miss dressing up even though where I'm going is just nearby.

[thoughtfulpaperback]

Skin and beauty standards.

Yall I want to discuss this because I feel like have been seeing this discussion a lot lately and actually had a pretty sad and eye opening discussion with my sister and friend.

So I want to start off saying that I am a light skinned Latina. My sister and friend are morena. Dark, very dark. Not black. But deep tan and caramel colored. And I have always told them I thought they were beautiful and that it sucks that cultural and broader societal beauty standards make them feel uncomfortable about thier color.

But my friend when I said this recently, sort of called me out (she has been having a hard time) and said that while it's nice that I say that it seems sort of hypocritical when I, who am already light skinned, do what I can to make my self lighter.

At first I was like super confused like ...."I dont try to make myself look lighter."

But then as we discussed it I realized "whole crap I didnt realize I was doing these things"

Examples

I use foundation one two two shades lighter than what either I have been matched or people say I match to (within reason I am not trying to look like a ghost) And say things like "do I look orange, or like too dark?" And in my mind I think I do look orange or unnaturally dark (not "attractive" latina tan but like obviously not this skin tone) even when people say it seems like a perfect match.

I have really dark brown hair, pretty much black, but when I can i prefer to dye my hair pitch black. I always liked it But everyone said it paled me out, but I liked it and have been wanting to do it again.

Now I argued with my friend and later sister as I discussed this discussion, that I mean I just like the way I look when I do these things and it didnt have anything to do with disliking darker skin tones.

But they pointed out, and I get it now, that the point isnt that it is a preference, but why it is and the fact I have the skin tone to get away with it.

As my sister said, "if I tried a foundation that was slightly lighter it would be obvious and most of the time I dont really have options. I have to really work for a shade that matches and you get to pick from all these shades and they more or less dont look bad or obvious unless we see you all the time."

My friend said "like I know you dont think dark skin is bad looking and you are supportive but like when you worry about looking too dark when you are like a light tan it kinda makes me feel a bit crappy"

Obviously. I mean I dont think there is anything wrong with my skin tone. But I didnt ever think about why I prefer some things or how my preference may be interpreted. I dont see my make up preferences or hair color preferences changing but I am definitely gonna pay more attention to what I say.

Not a gran epiphany I mean I recognize I have certain privileges like the variety of foundation shades and the relative ease of shade finding, and not having to hear people say things relatively negative about my color. But am for sure gonna be more aware of my own actions and words too.

EDIT:

Just want to elaborate because someone messaged me about this (probably a troll and personally I dont know how trolls find things that arent tagged or why a troll would follow me. I assume that must be the reason they say it).

I dont white face. That's not a thing.I am not saying that I do not like the color of my skin. Or that I am a dark skinned person. I would call myself white if my white friends and family didnt get uppity about it. I would never call myself dark because my very dark indigenous looking friends and family are dark and I wouldnt dare compare.

Just to further explain. I was born very white

This is baby me. No I am not a boy. They made me the devil because they thought it would be funny to make the dog the angel. But the dog destroyed its wings and they werent gonna buy either of us new costumes so the dog got a wraped in left over material

Anyways that white baby gradually turned into a very orangey looking kid. I was really self conscious about that. Not the looking less white part, but the orange part. My siblings and darker looking side of the family arent orangy. Although they say I am not, I look at the photos and see orange.

Eventually because of puberty I went from an oompa lompa kid to a just lightly orange tinted high school kid (I am not wearing foundation in the photo below also this wasnt a high school pick but college but my skin has stayed the same since then)

The next photos are of me when I wear foundation. Yes I drag foundation down to my chest...dont judge.

There isnt that much of a difference. The point of this post isnt that I dont like dark skin or I prefer lighter skin or that I pale myself out completely to look lighter. The point is about vocabulary. the terms lighter and dark white and dark arent accurate here but I use them. When I am matched to foundations I am matched to peachy undertones for medium skin. What I usually end up preferring are shades in the light to mediums with neutral undertones.

In the first picture (I was in college) the shade is tarte amazonian clay 29H for light to medium skin with peachy undertones. When I was in high school I was matched with 35N for medium/neutral skin, but I thought it was too dark for me (like actually dark not orangey). Just so you know this was a little before matching with the computer machine thingy was around, when I first was matched that meant the ladies sat me down and just slatheredy face with different swatches the foundation until they saw one that they thought looked good. Freshman or sophomore year of college I was matched to that shade (35n) with the new fangled match technology but told the ladies I didnt like that shade and found it too dark so they told me to go a step down that foundation ladder- which makes me wonder if the sephora people actually knew what they were doing- which is how I ended up wearing the 29H. I didnt like the 29H so I went with the 27n i believe which is the second photo. The third is fenty beauty shade 260 for medium skin/neutral undertones and the fourth (my favorite and most recent foundation) is fenty beauty 230 for light to medium skin/neutral undertones.

But again the point being that when comparing the difference isnt extremely different. I havent changed race or been attempting to. The issue is that my vocab and the way I can easily just explore and play with shades and undertones are things that trigger my darker friends and family. I don't complain about my skin tone (although I did so in this post), but when I use the term dark instead of orange it makes them uncomfortable and I never noticed. I never thought about how they must feel when we go into sephora and ulta and I spend a while trying to decide which shade I PREFER while they struggle to find a shade that actually matches. I knew that they struggled but not how my experience may actually add to that anxiety.

This isnt a #whitepeople problems this is a #holy crap I didnt realize that the things I do might be hurting someone

When I og wrote above the edit that I dont plan on changing my foundation or hair preferences that wasnt me saying, "I dont care if it makes you uncomfortable I'm gonna do what i want!" I do plan on watching and changing the words I use. I will try to avoid saying things like "is this too dark?" Or "I don't like that foundation shade because it makes me look dark or too dark." I'll try to be accurate, " I think the shade undertone is off with this one." Or "I prefer neutral undertones rather than peachy or warm undertones.

Also if this doesnt make you realize the privilege of being light complexed WTF is wrong with you? I am able to wear numerous shades in one brand and there are people who cant even find one that matches well when looking at multiple brands.

Also as mentioned in a different post, I am light and rarely see people who look like me in novelas (as non help or poor characters ) so if that doesnt scream something to you about the extreme colorism or preference for more european looking features in latin america ya must be not hearing well.

#skin #privledge