#cause they're the main ones who do this

[fromtheseventhhell]

The day people stop comparing Aegon/Rhaenys/Visenya to Jon/Arya/Sansa is the day I'll know peace. People hate Daenerys (and house Targaryen by extension) but then always want to steal from her story to uplift their faves. It's past the point of being pathetic 🙄

#daenerys targaryen #pro daenerys targaryen #house targaryen #anti sansa stans #jonsas too #cause they're the main ones who do this #I hate how Arya and Jon are brought into this nonsense when the majority of the people saying this don't give a fuck about them #the obsession with hating Targaryens and then stealing from them is crazy #I get it they have more/cooler history but that doesn't mean your fave from a completely different house has anything to do with them #the targs are evil nasty colonizers...but also look at these parallels they have with my fave lol #this also applies to that specific brand of reddit Jon stan who acts like Jon is the /good/ targaryen and Dany is just a placeholder #I saw this most when the show was airing but I'm seeing a resurgence now #Just another case of people thinking something is evil when it's associated with Dany but good if it's with anybody else #saw someone say that the /direwolf has three heads/ give me a break #the same for people who do this with Stannis and Renly too!!!!!

[unopenablebox]

just discovered that all the wikipedia pages for the protein im studying absolutely suck ass. going on an editing crusade about it

#im going to add REVIEW ARTICLE citations. you're not supposed to use the primary literature for this! you animals! people could say anything #the main article for my protein was clearly written by a neuroscientist who was also an idiot #and apparently just did not bother to check if like any of the ideas they're describing flow together or are related #or if they're ignoring the broadly acknowledged PRIMARY FUNCTION of the protein in favor of poorly studied minutiae about axons #the article about the specific form im studying-- which is in fact extremely well-studied because it's developmentally vital in most #bilaterians and causes serious developmental diseases people actually care about in humans-- #contains a SINGLE PLAGIARIZED PARAGRAPH citing only a DEBUNKED CLAIM FROM 1997 #but that one has to be completely overhauled so im waiting to do it until tomorrow & just left a bitchy comment in the talk page for now #box opener

[todayisafridaynight]

I’m fairly new to the fandom, but I do have a question if you can answer it! Why do people ship Daigo with Aoki / Masato? I tried looking to see if they’ve interacted before, but couldn’t find anything! Sorry for asking I’m just </3 dumb AND I LOVE YOUR ART OF THEM!!! Nerd looking ahhhhhh

hi ! welcome to the community i hope you're having a lovely time so far and ty for enjoyin my stuff :) no need for apologies it's a very fair question to have :]

i cant speak for everyone (all. ten people into masadai anyway) but Personally To Me i just think the idea of them together is very funny. thats quite literally it im afraid..

#snap chats #//twenty page google doc in the background// ignore that. it's mostly for comedic purposes #might also be my fault idk sorry about that. allegedly. idk ive had like three people tell me they started to ship them cause of me 🧍‍♂️ #@mementoasts is another person who's drawn masadai and whose stuff i love and am inspod by .. i love their disneyland fic sm ... #there was another artist on twitter who posted a neat drawing of them but i cant remember who they were and i didnt bookmark it //screams// #recently there's been ANOTHER masadai artist ive started following on twitter - @wifekiryu. his account's n/s/f/w fyi before you go looking #he has a tumblr too @foxdies. i say cause i realized as much recently vjeaKLGJALKGJ #oh but I GUESS ill get deeper into why. /i/ personally ship masadai or whatever #first off they're opposing factions yet their character alignments Do Not Match their roles. stereotypically anyway #aoki who leads the 'surface' of society and is meant to be an admirable figure and someone 'just' when really. he sucks LMAO #though that's not atypical of politicians but just from a stereotypical This Is A Respectable Individual perspective of his role #daigo on the other hand leads the 'underbelly' of society- yk comprised of dangerous criminals and outcasts and whatnot #yet as we know him daigo's compassionate and considerate of his men- he doesnt treat them like tools like aoki does #if put in a room with the two daigo would be most people's choice of person to hang out with. probably open a trapdoor on aoki tbh #and i think thats really cool and epic i always love that kinda Subverting Expectations thing #theres also the fact they both started off like. edgy/angsty in the franchise and then brush up down the line #masato does a stronger 180. publicly. obviously but its still really funny they both have to get their act together #if you wanna talk about in-text reasons. there really is none LMAO I TELLS YOU masadai is pure crack #but if i wanted to pull a muscle reaching then there's daigo being on aoki's side while everyone else is on arakawa's during the funeral #im lying of course. mitsu was behind him. rgg tryna make me forget mitsu exist .... put him back in y8 .... #and ofc ichi joins that side to even out the seating but moving on another Goofy Reason is arakawa being like #'the chairman and my son are like p much the same age Surely he knows how he thinks :)' #and then i just think daigo being all smarmy about outsmarting aoki is really goofy and im choosing to interpret that as personal #they both also have issues with their dad. s. dad/s/. anyway. #tbh the google doc tag was a joke but i really could sit here and list every dumb reason why i think theyre funny together #like i started going over the tag limit so uhhhh yeah needless to say i have a lot of. dumb reasons 💀💀💀💀 #one day ill use the main text for long rambles like this but todays not that day Point Is my imagination is rampant im afraid #so the short and sweet of it is I Think It's Funny. And They'd Be Terrible Together. Which Is Why It's Funny. #and the unfortunate part is anything i find funny i obsess over for a year so. //gestures to the mountain of bullshit thats my masadai tag/

[omarwolaeth]

Actually, on a similar note to last post (abt ritual au stuff), it actually made me look into bracelet girl ace monster design a bit. Specifically around their faces.

The bracelet girl's ace monsters have a single unifying feature: empty eyes. They have eyes, sure, but they're a single colour with no defined iris or pupil - they look distant and out of place in comparison to the other monsters of their archetypes... well, they mostly have this trait.

And I'd argue its Natural Energy related (rambling below the cut)

Melodious is a little bit outlying here, all things considered - Both Mozarta and Bloom Diva are ace monsters, and both have empty eyes, so they don't look hugely out of place given each other's existences.

The same occurs with Windwitch - Winter Bell - even if half of the Windwitches don't even have eyes to contrast them. Fusion monster Crystal Bell is a recoloured Diamond Bell with some changed design elements, but needs Winter Bell as her named fusion material (Diamond Bell not showing up in anime at all does not help), and has the same eyes as Winter Bell.

The phenomenon appears most obvious in Lunalight. Any Lunalight with visible eyes have more human looking eyes than Cat Dancer, of whom just has blank yellow eyes. (Leo added for reference on this, and also because of Duel Links.)

Its this same phenomenon that breaks as soon as Lyrilusc is brought up. Assembled Nightingale is the only extra deck Xyz Lyrilusc we see Ruri use, which is pretty fair to her considering it can close out games on its own effects (add Wagtail to her collection of overlay units and watch your opponent squirm),

but then... we have Independent Nightingale. Not by choice, granted; Independent is one of the two Parasite Fusioner-made monsters alongside Crystal Bell, and- and what's this?

So- So Independent Nightingale has the empty eyes, but not Assembled? And I did double check the other Xyz 'luscs, and lo-and-behold; it really is only Independent (who, now I'm looking at her, I realise her wings have talons on the ends.)

Anyway. Now we've gone through the ace monsters shown in anime (and at least one that wasn't but was very related), what would this have to do with the Natural Energies?

I have to talk about the girls super briefly for that. In order shown in the post; we have Hiiragi Yuzu (Flowers/Melodious), Rin (Winds/Windwitch), Serena (Moon/Lunalight), and Kurosaki Ruri (Birds/Lyrilusc). Each of them were made by dividing Akaba Ray up like Zarc was; divided by a Natural Energy interacting with the dragon it counters.

All of Zarc's Dragons have the same empty eyes trait as all of the above monsters (minus Assembled) - again, same order as above;

Which, if we take these things into account, imply the empty eyes should be dragon eyes instead (through influence of the Natural Energies). This, also then, implies that Lyrilusc might not be crafted to suit each bracelet girl as closely as the others seemingly were (I'm staring directly at Rin with regards to this), assuming the Natural Energies crafted monsters in their images.

But, Lyrilusc aren't the only birds Ruri theoretically has. Through Kurosaki Shun, who is her brother, we have Raidraptors. And we know he learned Lyrilusc to teach it to Ruri, so assumedly it fills the bracelet girl equivalent of Performapal existing before its Yuboy does? I think it'd be neat if it turned out she did know how to play Raidraptor (to everyone's surprise or not.)

By virtue of being giant mechanical birds, all of them have the empty/dragon eyes trait as the other monsters here (Rise Falcon for reference.)

Does it mean anything? Eh, probably not? It appears to be a "this is designed to counter [dragon], because it was made in said dragon's defeat", which Lyrilusc achieves on its own anyway - low attack stats bolstered by repetitive attacking and just ignoring that your opponent has monsters.

Is it an inconsistency that will bug me to the end of time? Yes.

#Marwospeaking #Its not even an inconsistency that has any relevance anyway? Assumedly either Assembled has been here longer than Ruri.. #.. or defending Heartland/Xyz from Academia was way more important than keeping Dark Reb in check; hell they're working together #It also could imply that Ruri subconsciously ignoring her purpose as a shard of Ray is why she's not blonde. and instead has.. #.. the opposite hair colour to her bracelet's colour? She's here to vibe. not keep one goth from losing it - hell she doesn't even need to #not until the war starts up at least. not that she gets to do her job as En Birds anyway #and maybe that's why Assembled doesn't have Independent's empty/dragon eyes? Independent was used to counter Yuuto.. #.. unlike Assembled. who was used instead to duel him for fun rather than trying to kill/brainwash him and Yuuya #Maybe a late meeting also caused it? they were both about a decade old when they met. given the war was apparently 3 years long #and the yuboys/bracelet girls are all the same age at 14 years old #So they were. at most 11 when they met #gives the very funny image of En Birds switching host to Shun. at least he met Xyz Zarc- and then Ruri meets him and its okay #I'm not tagging either of the main tags for this one. its just me rambling #One day I will ramble about En Birds having two viable hosts to wear it. but not today

[medicinemane]

So, the real reason I'm sharing this is less even to do with it (you watch it, it's exactly what it says on the tin, people saying how great putin is and how much they want him to keep being president)

I'm more sharing it because I hear people in other parts of the world talk the same way about their politicians and I just really really want to caution people and suggest they take a serious look at their relationship with politicians

And if you're saying something like that they're great, that you wouldn't want anyone else, I really want you to think about if you'd want to live in a country like russia

Like just take some time to say "do I adulate politicians?", and like you'll say "obviously not, I'm smart", but like take some time and really really ask yourself if you do cause I see people behave and talk like this

Like you might not, and that would be great, but it's always worth checking in, and it's worth never ever putting politicians on pedestals

"They align well with my policies and have been competent" is a fine thing to say, but not like... "oh they're so charismatic and they're just great"... but are they any good? Do they govern effectively? Do they do things that benefit democracy or do they want to hoard power?

#in the US the answer to that last question if they're a senator is they 100% want to hoard power #unless they're fighting for term limits on senators then they to some degree want to be a career politician and want to hoard power #and I'll say that about all of them; even ones I might like better #we need term limits so bad #putin being in power for 20 years is a real problem... but guess what about a lot of US senators? #it's one of the main things we could do to improve this country for all parties #cause then instead of some crusty old incumbent who maybe you vote for cause you don't like who the other part is offering #you could vote from at least a couple choices of new people in your party every... lets say 12 years as a limit (maybe less) #and I don't care how old a politician is; I care if they've been doing it forever and are more worried about reelection #than about making things better for the country

[slippery-minghus]

hmm. had an actual conversation with nightmare coworker today that seemed mutually productive. she apologized for saying some bullshit that hurt my feelings and i clarified that my intentions are to help not to undermine her, and we both agreed that there's no competition against each other and that it's the lack of growth in our role that's the problem. it was...productive.

and further cementing for me that it is time to begin making my Exit. i will be sending out my resume to a few places this weekend.

i'm still processing the conversation, and am struggling to place myself in where i am responsible to better my behavior. because i genuinely don't want to be an ass, even though i really don't like this lady and will jump for joy the day i never have to see her again. she stated that she knows my intentions aren't to hurt her, and that she thinks i'm very kind. i apologized for if my behavior came off as undermining her, and said that my intentions are only to better my own growth—and that i know she's trying to succeed too. i validated her feelings, and complemented the effort she is putting in.

where i'm struggling with is: am i in the wrong/causing harm and needing to change if the issue is that her feelings are incongruent with what she knows of my intentions? her feelings are her responsibility (WOW i almost typed "her feelings are my responsibility". i feel like that's a freudian slip) and she states that she knows i don't mean to hurt her. i'm going to try to be more clear in wording my intentions with her (she feels like me trying to take work off her plate is to undermine her. when really, i'm caught up and see her getting overwhelmed, and i want to help and also have something to do since i'm bored).

but i'm really struggling to look at my role in this and pass judgement on myself. i can and want to do better, and i don't think i did anything wrong, but i'm always so hesitant to say it's not my fault or i didn't do something bad. like i can't trust my judgement on that. my intentions were good, her bad feelings are ones caused by her insecurities, which she more or less has expressed to be aware that they are not true—the hurtful thing she said to me, she acknowledged was said out of hurt and not what she actually thinks. so, is it fair to say i'm not the bad guy? i'm not in the wrong? i know good intentions that still result in harm don't absolve anyone, but when the things that are clashing are insufficient communication and reactive insecurities... i'm not a monster, am i?

#well. i AM probably a monster for how much i dislike this lady #but i don't ACT on it #and i genuinely couldn't care less about her. i participate in decent human pleasantries because i am a decent human. #and at work we're stuck together #the thing that's irked me so much about this conversation is just.. her self centeredness #that she thinks everyone is out to get her. to undermine her. whatever. #bitch nobody cares about you enough one way or the other to put in that kind of effort. i sure don't #i empathize but i do not sympathize. to feel that pit that makes you feel like the worst kind of center of attention #i get it. but genuinely you are not the main character and no one is going to spend their limited time and energy to slowly attack you #you are not the cat with all the knives pointed at it #it's a terrible feeling to feel like you are! but when it influences your behavior to the point that you are making snide comments #to people who have no option not to interact with you then uh. then you're in the wrong buddy #and the people around you (who cannot easily leave! bc work!) should not have to bend over backwards to assure you #that they're not pointing knives at you. to protect themselves from your feelings making you say mean shit #like yes. i can be more clear with my intentions. i'm generally not the greatest at that. but my baseline that i want to #modify my behavior from is NOT one that a regular well adjusted person would take as anything but kind #and if a regular well adjusted person got a little offput by me volunteering to take work off their hands we would've had a very chill #3 sentence conversation about it MONTHS AGO. #i understand and respect (even if i find it annoying and overbearing) the need for me to announce my intentions like im working in a kitchen #and saying 'hot water' or 'knife' as i move around other people but we shouldn't have reached this conclusion this way #and frankly who's to fucking say me being more clear with my intentions will only feed the flames of her thinking i'm out to get her! #'i caught up on my stuff and your plate looks full. i'm bored. anything i can do to help?' could be a pointed knife for all i know!! #and if it is- and my actions still hurt her in that scenario- am i still responsible for the hurt caused?? #like WHERE DOES IT FUCKING E N D ? #personal #*exhales* okay i feel better now #i just hate talking about my interactions with her bc i just want NOTHING to do with it. i want her out of my head!! #but until i process it i can't let go #and i'm still going to have to go over all of this with my shrink tomorrow #it just makes me mad how much of my time this bitch takes up. i'm not getting paid to think about work right now!!!!

[catgirljaneway]

#i know there are multiple ships in each of these shows #but i'm referring to the main crew #like of the main ships #or in ds9's case: space station #i hope that's clear #ok also I love voyager crew to death but I don't think they're winning this #I think it would be the TOS crew #they're just such a well oiled machine #and they have the benefits of not having two different crews who have to learn to work together #the voyager crew is a hot mess #love them so much though #TNG crew would take forever cause Picard keeps stopping to mull over every decision #ds9 crew keeps having to waste time getting Quark pardoned at every different planet he tries to scam #odo keeps suggesting they just leave him but weirdly enough he's always quick to volunteer to be part of the rescue missions #ok also this might be controversial #but i don't think the Cerritos would do as badly as one might think #like they're pretty capable #i don't think they're winning by any means #but i don't think they'd be there forever #star trek #star trek tos #star trek lower decks #star trek the original series #star trek the next generation #star trek tng #star trek voyager #trek #star trek ds9 #star trek deep space nine #star trek strange new worlds

[classicjdog]

CURSE MY FUCKING SHITARSE INTERNET I JUST WANT TO PLAY SOME FUCKING TEKKEN GAAAAHHHHHHHH

REINA IS SO FUCKING SICK AND I CAN'T PLAY HER AGAINST REAL PPL I'M STUCK FIGHTING THE STUPID AI FUCK

#i have some christmas money lying around so i guess i'm just gonna have to buy an ethernet cable #my setup (if you wanna call it that) is really not conducive to getting wired up at all #but fuck man there's no way i'm gonna just not play this fucking game it's way too fucking sick #well at least i had plenty of time to play the story lol which for the first like 80% of it's runtime it's like hey this is fun #like it's not super boring & there are actually some really cool moments sprinkled in here & there #then there's the second-to-last jin/kaz fight which was kinda what i expected the finale to be #like ok they've got their big crazy final forms & they're gonna have their big over-the-top anime fight & that's all fine i guess #but then they have one last normal hand-to-hand fight #and speaking as a long-time hardcore tekken fan that last fight is one of the best most joyful experiences i've ever had with a video game #like i've always felt that jin's transition from tekken 3 to tekken 4 was such a cool melding of story with gameplay #like in story at the end of t3 he's betrayed by heihachi so in t4 he forcibly unlearns the martial art heihachi taught him #and this is reflected in gameplay by his moveset being completely different so them coming back around to that in t8 #and reinforcing the whole theme of jin accepting his past by LITERALLY GIVING YOU HIS TEKKEN 3 MOVESET IN THE FIGHT AGAINST KAZUYA #WHILE A REMIX OF HIS TEKKEN 3 THEME PLAYS???? GOD WHAT A FUCKING SEQUENCE!!! CHEF'S KISS MWAH MWAH MWAH #and then just the lovely little moments of fanservice. obvious stuff like kaz wavedashing or he & jin doing the namco logo thing 1 last tim #but then obscure stuff like jins t3 df1 glitch & kazuyas weirdo t4 re-stun combos?? like how many ppl are even gonna know about that shit?? #they hella did not have to do that but they did & it makes me so so so happy #so yea the t8 story is like 80% a fun entertaining little romp & 20% the hypest shit i've ever ever ever seen #and also reina is the best new character namco have made for tekken since steve in t4 #it's funny cause in the whole leadup to t8 i was having a little trouble figuring out who i was gonna main #cause in t7 i spent most of my time bouncing around basically the whole cast before finally settling on julia near the end #obv no julia in t8 so i had to pick someone else & no one in t8 was really jumping out at me #lots of super cool characters that i'd already played quite a lot of but not really anyone that's like ok yea that's my fucking guy #lots of sick af potential secondaries but no main basically #then they released the reina trailer & i was like ok yea that's my fucking guy #sick design sick stage sick AS FUCK music & a bunch of mishima staples to go along with it??? #she's got an electric? hellsweep? wavedash? flash punch combo? stonehead? #plus some heihachi specific staples? demon breath? heaven's gate? iron hand? fucking HUNTING HAWK??? then yea that's MY FUCKING GUY #so yea reina fucking rules & i just wanna play her against real ppl please for the love of fuck #OH ONE MORE THING THEY DID ANOTHER GREAT JOB WITH THE MUSIC. AT LEAST 3 NEW TRACKS ADDED TO THE TEKKEN PANTHEON OF ALL-TIME CLASSICS

[fightzaynfight]

i go fairly long periods of time not actually looking @ the z°wens tag on here and every time i take a peek in i'm just like

#shut up kell #like. hello .? i'm not here to start shit i'm just baffled by the behaviours truly #they're best friends. they don't hate each other they weren't miserable together. they told a fantastic story and they deserved that moment #even though the rest of the run left a /lot/ to be desired. #but ALSO. not everything they do revolves around one another? they're separate people? they're not going to die while apart? #sz's promo from the other night had ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with ko. the match he wrestled had nothing to do with ko. #he is not an accessory that comes with the ko toy. sz is an incredible performer in his own right and he deserves a singles title run #and i'm not gonna lie i was legit devastated when ko turned up on sd. they've been my main fixation this year and emotionally i wasn't ready #but it's okay. they will be okay. they're still best friends in real life. they're still gonna have each others' backs. #but their characters can and should do separate things and do so successfully. like it's okay. #everyone around here needs to get just a little bit normaller about these two. we don't know them. YOU DON'T KNOW THEM. #z°wens is rpf. please remember how rpf is meant to work. remind yourself it isn't real. it shouldn't be causing legit beef between people. #doesn't matter what you think the real “truth” is. you don't. the only people who do are the real men who portray sz and ko. and that's fine #everyone chill i'm literally begging lmfao

[hershelwidget]

every once in a while I remember that Die (and by extension Dime) is technically a TNBC OC and every single time I lose it

like. LOOK at him

When you take into account the fact he IS a pumpkin-man it does make sense but everything else about him?? his ass does NOT fit in with Halloween Town!! he's almost never in dark raggedy clothes or even particularly scary. yeah he's enthusiastic about Halloween and loves the atmosphere but he and his brother Dime look more like they're meant to exist in Christmas Town. and now I think about it that would be an EXCELLENT plot point if I ever wrote stories for the Rebirths and Dime + Die's story could be about them struggling with that thought that even though Jack literally adopted them and did his absolute best to integrate them into the society, they don't quite feel like they're meant to be there.

... ThIS tOok A TuRn-

but I am absolutely gonna make stories for the Rebirths now,, the ask blog will be perfect for that,,, uheuehue

#uuuhh the point of this post was to just call Die a silly little man as I normally do #yet here we are. feeling a little bummed out #dimentio rebirth au #the nightmare before christmas #i rp'd as die recently and i think i'm rEALLY starting to get into this man's mind. but now im wondering why i am REALLY developing #the SECONDARY rebirths first when the PRIMARY/MAIN ones are RIGHT THERE #I still don't have a proper explanation as to HOW Dime made Die!! where the HELL did Dime get that power from???? #the most developed of the primary rebirths is Dimented cause he literally has his own story that was the clue-in to the rebirth's existence #he was literally the first rebirth!! the other one with a lot of development is Dimentia who I honestly forgot was primary for a moment #oh erm btw that image i used for die is from an artfight attack i made :) i wish i had made His left arm more visible though. #it looks a lot shorter than it is i promise you he has it bent up towards his face for a thumbs-up #ANYWAYS. damn i really wanna draw die dime and jack interacting. they're literally father and sons how have i not properly done this yet

[fictional-worlds-are-exquisite]

Happiness is like. fake marriage to lovers au. also everyone’s a murderer and rich people continue to suck

#the show. not happiness as a concept lmao #happiness #happiness netflix #i'm watching episode 11 and i just #i'm fucking losing track at this point there's so many awful people #there's the main murderer. killed. hmm...3 people? 4? idk #there's the doctor guy who's just. i mean. fuck. a murderer who isn't so open about it #tbf he did try to kill like the entire building and even though he failed the intent still isn't great #there's the representative. who's. a rich entitled asshole. has she murdered anyone? ...... #no.....i don't THINK so.....but she did aid a murder which honestly. not good bro. and was doing other illegal shit #there's lawyer and the other chick who are #well fuck man. lawyer's cheating on his wife. the chick isn't exactly cheating since that whole relationship with the doctor is fucked #but she's also like. trying to get his riches. and i think she might be about to murder him based on where i paused?????? #mm.... #now who was it that tried to kill sae-bom early on with the infected. oh that was the doctor wasn't it? or was it...i don't know #the two younger ones. supermarket girl and vlogger boy. kind of indirectly caused harm. but comparatively they're minor #fuck who else is left. oh. the cleaners couple. hmm...honestly they SHOULD steal from the rich that's valid #you know what there's just too many i can't even collect my thoughts sjfdskjsdfk

[mntcoronet]

declaring myself the only person who is normal about this one anime (closely followed by the two irl friends who made me watch it, and my mum who watches it with me, but they are not subjected to nearly as much Online stuff as I am so they are inherently more normal about things anyway)

#maggles ramblings #i don't know what ppl on here are like about it and i don't think i want to. i think it will remain one of those things i enjoy by myself #bc like the story is about this one big and fucked up family. but apparently it's only 'family' in the loose sense; #as in; i haven't gotten to any clarification in the anime itself yet but the wiki says it's more a structure of power than actual family #which makes some things in it... Much more tolerable to say the least. but i do not trust literally any fans on here to care about that #i have a very strong inkling that not many ppl would care enough about that distinction anyway and get too into shipping regardless #despite how much ELSE there is to look at; including things i haven't really seen other stuff cover before in this particular way #and like yea ik there's shit in it anyway; not all bad but some is just rather sensitive yknow. but my point IS #that i simply do not trust the wider internet on here with the themes and situations i find so interestingly portrayed in this thing. #my brain kind of conked out near the end and i lost my original point #ahh idk it's tough to explain. i get it though in my head i am so correct about everything #like. it has some Really interesting parts!! two main characters who hate each other bc they think the other has everything they want! #when Actually both are suffering uniquely!! #an older sibling trying to deal with guilt over not protecting the younger one from abuse when they had the chance to - #and the younger one accepting their desire to reconnect; without being forced to forgive them! #characters dealing with not being Wanted; with not being able to help; with feeling like they're causing problems just by existing! #but then you have shit like 'haha this guy says weird things abt the teen characters as a joke lol' #and 'this character is trans? noo you're mistaken they simply dress feminine bc they're too cowardly to present as a guy' #and more. but yea it's. so tough. there are parts i like but i do not want it to be assumed that i also agree with all the weird shit #but i KNOW on here i can't just assume everyone else cares as much abt the shit as i do. #so i think i will just be happier having fun with it with those two irl friends of mine.

[football-in-tuxedos]

What's distressing, but also important to understand, about JK Rowling hitting the "Denying trans people were targeted in the Holocaust" point is that it's kind of the last stop before she just goes full alt-right weirdo.

Joanne is denying the Holocaust (if a group was targeted, denying they were targeted is Holocaust denial) and that's going to lead to pushback from historians and experts. But Joanne is too deep in to believe what anyone who disagrees with her says, so she's just going to dismiss what those historians and experts tell her. And once she's disbelieving them about that one thing, well it's just a tiny step to start disbelieving them about other things.

This isn't by accident either, transphobic circles are swarming with far right agitators, ready to use hatred of trans people as an in to recruit people into their causes. They have handbooks for this sort of thing and they are, unfortunately, good at it. I suspect Joanne will be spouting coded versions of Great Replacement stuff by the end of the summer.

This is not a plea to try and pull Joanne out. She's too deep in, and even if she wasn't, she's already demonstrated an inability to examine her own prejudices, an unwillingness to hear criticism and a weakness to flattery. She is perfect recruitment bait for people who know what they're doing, and my impression is she's surrounded herself with people like that.

No, this is to understand two things: First is to use her as an example, to understand how a well meaning liberal can chase their own prejudices down a very dark rabbit hole. We are none of us immune to propaganda and even if we can't change what's happened to her, we can at least use it to protect ourselves.

And second is to understand that one of the main reasons you can't pull Joanne out of the transphobic pipeline is cause she is the pipeline now. She is the transphobic banner bearer now, she is funneling money and attention to these groups, she is their most famous celebrity and she is helping recruit people. Being able to show people how far she's gone, how deep into the right wing rabbit hole she's going, is important to help other people who still think she just "Had some concerns" know where her path leads.

#jk rowling #joanne rowling #transphobia #terfs #I'll probably delete this #I just wanted to write it

[arolesbianism]

Shakes the bars of my cage I need to draw soooo bad I need to draw I need to draw let me draw I have to draw I need to draw I must draw (<- has been too sick to be on electronics much and doesn't like doing traditional art)

#rat rambles #Im starting to feel better tho Im betting within a day or two Ill have made a full recovery #but I just have so many things I wanna draw all the sudden and its killing me #its because I've been thinking abt ocs again and that gives me a lot more options lol #in particular I've been thinking abt marci and toon more again recently #its just the two of them flirting in their mutual workplace environment with toon being dead serious and marci doing it ironically #the main thing is that marci was rly under the impression that toon like. hated her and was taunting her since they're friends with loonie #who long story short is marci's ex childhood best friend who she fell out with after the death of loonie's mom #the two are not on good terms in the slightest and marci knows very well that loonie would want her dead if she had been more honest #so as toon starts to like get more casual and like genuine with marci as the two spend more time together marci warms up somewhat but still #doesn't rly see toon as a friendly figure until they take her out to a museum and marci kind of snaps a bit and asks toon to stop beating #around the bush and is caught off guard when toon seems genuinely kind of hurt and meekly explains that they were just trying to help her #because she had seemed rly stressed and sad all the time and they thought that their lil dates had been helping her relax a bit #that confrontation left marci initially feeling confused but after the initial shock she was mostly left with a sense of dread and guilt #partially because she had just snapped at someone who she had grown to care abt for no reason and partially because she now felt that she #was hiding stuff from toon that would cause them to change their mind on her immediately if they knew #aka that she and loonie are divorced and that she thinks its mom sucked absolute ass (which she did) #oh and also that she used to have a crush on the guy that killed its mom who was also his mom which is also the reason she hates said mom #said mom treated him (aka midas) like shit and tried to get him killed several times #so when all hell broke loose marci at the end ended up mourning midas much more than his mom who everyone else was mourning #including loonie since it actually had a very positive relationship with its mom and a very distant relationship from its siblings #now marci never admitted all of this to anyone but she did act on those feelings to eventually lash out at loonie causing a huge fight #basically she yelled at it for being pushy and clingy and forcing her into a job she didnt want and expecting her to solve all its problems #the two dont necessarily hate eachother but they definitely heavily resent eachother #they still often long for eachothers companionship but not nearly enough for either to wanna make ammends #so toon quite liking both of them causes some internal conflict for the both of them #loonie is fully aware that toon has a big ol crush on marci but doesnt stop them from being friends with her even if it makes it sad #and marci rly wishes that toon wasnt friends with loonie but feels guilty for feeling that way #its a complicated situation and one that rly isn't helped by the fact that one of the three has the dead god queen mom #loonie could get away with a Lot and everyone knows it

[recallthename]

okay hear me out. kevin/andrew/neil = louis/lestat/armand

#this post is interesting to one person and that person is me #yes i am thinking about this because i'm reading both rn #but also #because i'm right #kevin is louis because they're both a quieter kind of insane/like to pretend they're normal #also because andrew/neil and lestat/armand are fucking obsessed with them #neil is lestat #cause yk main character energy #everyone's kind of in love with them but also completely exacerbated with them at all times #cannot be trusted to do anything ever #will pick fights with people who can kill them #and andrew is armand #completely batshit? check #has a giant crush on neil/lestat? check #terrifying but also the person people go to when they have problems? check #of course this would all mean endgame kevin/neil or lestat/armand #but lbr endgame for all involved is poly #so #(i can also see arguments for neil/armand and andrew/lestat #but i think i'm mostly right)

[stickystarspectrumtroll-ocs]

Thinkin’ ‘bout Luna commonalities with Alastor from Hazbin Hotel.

#HEAR ME OUT OKAY #it seems to me like he very wholeheartedly enjoys committing atrocities and very wholeheartedly enjoys the reputation he has for it #but also judging by that one official day-in-the-afterlife comic it's very possible he's also kinda lonely #i'm not sure if he'll get redeemed to a point where he'll like. not commit atrocities anymore. and i don't think i'd want him to really. #but i feel like it would be good if the rest of the main cast gets to a be a group of good actual friends for him. #and he can have a small group of people who actually enjoy his company and who he can actually open up to and lean on #(and vice versa to both) #that's all very like luna and her arc #she likes causing trouble and she enjoys the way most people see her #but she does need a small number of people who she can just be a person with #who enjoy her company and who she can open up to and lean on (and vice versa to both) #random ramblings #luna #oh and also they're both very aroace lkdshlghfsklg #(big difference between me and vivziepop when it comes to that though) #(she's one of the ''yeah they're aroace in canon but do whatever you want in fanon ha ha'' creators) #(and the fandom went ''okay!'' and proceeded to be aphobic as frick) #(i would absolutely just go ''hey y'all. just so we're clear: luna and jewel are aroace. please do not ship them with anycreature.'') #(and then i would watch the explosions go off.)