#connections blah

[mexicancherry]

i love seeing my notifications going up while im in my dash cause it fills me with joy that people are interacting with what im reblogging or even maybe when i post, like maybe it made them feel something like it did with me, maybe crying a little with that poem too or grabbing the same inspo from that makeup.... i just love it

#connections blah #human blahah

[ganondoodle]

dont want to make two posts so im putting them both in one (totk thoughts ... uh oh i cannot shut up)

anyone else find raurus arm .. WEIRD? like, judging how the rings on the fingers are literally MADE for absorbing someones elses ability just adds to rauru and the lot of the sonau feeling .. off- what do you mean you wear a bracelet made for incorporating swears of fealty from others and gaining their abilities while they gain nothing?? and then rauru doesnt even seem to make use of that (which i guess is in line with .. the ghost copies links gets going away if the actual sage is there- SO WHATS THE POINT THEN???) though thats a bit more unclear since ..... we dont get to see ANYTHING from the last battle, all standing around with dirt tm texture on them 5 times and then they throw their weapons (weird.... use your damn ability) so zelda can use her new important time power .... once .... to make them fly backwards again and rauru does one thing :/

another thing, funny how the enigma stones are supposedly enhancing whatever powers someone already had, bc other than ganondorf none really gain anything, they act like they achieved some new power level (and suddendly know how to do it as soon as they have the stone) but then its just a silent ghost copy of themselves and they gain ... nothing but some jewelry, i find that a little .. underwhelming? and strange bc why does gan get a nuclear power upgrade and they print a bad copy of themselves and its treated like the same thing (i know its gan and he kinda deserves to get more out of it but do you know what i mean?)

cant help but also feel like its not even .. related to their own ability, like at all, istn it supped to enhance THEIR power, what does a ghost copy have to do with water magic? (wouldnt that more be sth of the shiekah/yiga .. creating copies of yourself?) if anything its something for link to gain .. i guess? or raurus arm i suppose? wouldnt it have been great if they all had a weaker version of the ability at the start and AFTER they gain the stone it gets upgraded, or its like it now is and after the they get their stone its stronger, like maybe rijus is as normal but then when she has the stone it charges faster and doesnt get canceled if she gets knocked over (assuming the way to control the ability stays the same ... which i wouldnt want bc that is so bad to control even if you change it like this) and giving link access to it is just PART of the stones power and not literally all it is

AND THEN ... you cant even argue that it doubles their fighting power bc now theres two of each bc .... the copies ... go away when the actual sage is there .......................................... so its really just a hamfisted way to give you their power ... and its not really giving you their power its giving you a copy of them which is just clunky and unnecessary, you want the theme to be connection (lol where) so you give the player soulless silent ghosts to accompany you ...? not even the real deal? (i know that would be harder to do bc they are all important ppl in their own region and turning them off would be be strange- but them having to teleport around isnt an argument bc they also do that in their dungeon- hello yuno i didnt know you can fall from the sky at will- and all that wouldnt be a problem with my next suggestion

wouldnt it be even MORE of a connection if it worked more like in botw? giving YOU a literal part of their ability, their soul even, and their abilities are now so much a part of you that you cant sever them, its integrated into your moveset, no silent ghosts to run after, your friends are part of you, ACTUAL YOU and not part of an ancient kings arm bracelet rings

#ganondoodles talks #zelda #ganondoodles rants #totk #totk critical #like really #whats more of a connection #putting a silent staring ghost of your friend into a ring of an arm that doesnt even belong to you #or getting granted a piece of your friends very soul infusing you with a part of their power #i get its suppoed to be well its raurus arm on link so its a conenction to link blah blah #but thats the only argument against that imo #and i might find a workaround for that too

[statementlou]

hello :) could you maybe explain a little bit how dan wootton blackmailed louis?

ugh sorry for taking a while to get to this. The problem is I feel like the only two ways to answer this are by spending a week and a half of full time labor sifting through old posts and evidence to get every detail right and lay out an airtight case, or to halfass something very serious, and so I felt a little stuck. So since I can't seem to find a good halfway point, apologies but here is the half assed version, if you want to get into it more I invite you to do your own deep dive or talk to other people, but here's how I remember things. Louis has almost never on video explicitly said things about Larry not being real and/or anything negative about fans and their theories (mostly the opposite), up until the last couple years when he obviously decided to make a major change he didn't talk about Freddie much at all let alone saying he was his kid, honestly not that much about Eleanor even; except for in two major interviews with Dan Wootton, each of which lined up with a serious traumatic Tomlinson family event that they managed to keep out of the tabloids until the very end (Jay's illness and Fizzy's struggles with substance abuse). After the fact of those events a lot of small things that didn't make sense at the time came together to look very much like Louis traded those interviews (and those answers) for having his family's private matters kept private. Story trading of this kind is a publicly known real thing that happens, and there were various clues that suggested he was being leaned on about those stories to lend legitimacy to the idea that it was something that happened in these cases. Given what we know about Dan Wootton and how he operates even before the recent flood of information and even more now, I think it's more than likely that he has been holding the threat of outing Louis (as he has done to many other public figures) over his head for over a decade, and has used his family's tragic struggles to get Louis to dance like a fucking puppet for him and I will REJOICE at his downfall when it comes whether it is now or 20 years from now... because someday it will, he has made too many enemies to stay above it forever

#I did start to try to deep dive before I realized it was too much #but I was reminded that when Louis was doing txf as a judge while fizzy was struggling #many people thought he had been pressured somehow into it; later when we knew what had been going on people were like #oh maybe he just wanted to be close to home to deal with fizzy stuff or somethng #but also: keeping fizzy stuff quiet would potentially be the info we didn't have at that time that could answer that q too of what they use #given the DW🤝simon jones🤝simon cowell cursed connections #(for the newbies: simon jones aka DWs bestie is Louis' publicist for no apparent reason even now long after he has gotten free of the rest #of the modest/syco/simon cowell shitshow) #anyway another example of story trading in our fandom is zayn's baby sister's teen pregnancy #which was known to the fandom early on but kept super quiet by respectful fans- during this time Z did some unprecedented actual interviews #for no obvious reason #and then iirc pretty much the day she turned 17 a very lowkey article reported on her marrying her bf and mentioning a pregnancy #but as if it was recent not like 7 months along #and even when she gave birth soon after it was all kind of... glossed over and around and not reported until a little later #blah blah blah #I felt like it was weird to talk about this for some reason but when I thought about it #I don't know if it matters. Like maybe talking about him not being a dad and being gay or whatever at all is bad #but assuming we're doing that anyway. why not talk about the struggles around that #and the creeps holding it over his head #dan wootton

[psychopcmpz]

efron being hesitant about dropping the fact that she ate neil:

mallory, wearing his skin:

#it's funny to think about sorry. blah blah connections via neil in both the physical and emotional sense. #mal.txt #scribbleshrimp #mallory leeroy #abraham efron #escam #error.og #escapism anthology

[aerithisms]

SLURPING this tweet about the "just see me" scene in deep breath. the way eleven and twelve both refer to themselves in the third person, because even though they are begging clara to understand they're still the same person even they still view each other as someone else. they both are the same person and they aren't.

#blahs #dw #sorry to everyone who doesn't like the phone call thing but i love it. it fits perfectly with the episode's broader themes #deep breath is really interested in the question of the doctor's identity after regeneration in a fascinating way!! #like with the broom metaphor. it is asking you to question if this doctor has anything in common anymore with his past selves #at the same time as it asks you to connect him with the previous iteration of the character #side note i've always loved jenna's face here. she looks stone faced until she makes the decision to hug him and give him a chance #like she's still kind of upset with him and she's not going to give him that window into her thoughts until SHE decides to

[bijoumikhawal]

honestly RE: censorship has produced some very appealing queer coded relationships, I think part of the problem is that like. Straight relationships often don't compel me, yeah? And part of it is that I frankly, don't believe a fair amount of these characters are in love. The art contains social conventions so you'll assume they're in love. And if you're unaware of it and buy into those conventions, you never notice a problem (unless they're using the conventions that give female characters no depth. People today are somewhat more aware of that). There's a level of laziness to the way so many straight relationships are written.

Many queer censored relationships can't engage those assumptions because straight people don't understand something is gay until it's bedazzled in rainbow rhinestones, and even then some of them have doubts, so (usually) an artist must put effort in to make you think there's something there. There (usually) must be legitimate connection. And because they're censored, they continually cannot rely on anything too lazy to keep interest. They also can't try to deliver payoff that isn't ready (because they're rarely allowed to deliver payoff, if ever). They can't squash the appeal of a relationship by not knowing how to write these characters in a steady relationship to the point where you hate it.

You basically end up getting a (sometimes years long) build of potential and genuine connections, without a satisfying resolution- which sucks, but it also can be very compelling. The inability to say I love you outright means the characters must say it in other ways that tend to be more emotionally impactful- such as holding out a human heart to each other, selfless and hopeless sacrifices, pulling you out of hell, etc. You could argue these moments are an example of "showing not telling" even.

But as we move into more mainstream queer art I feel like some people are starting to use the same conventions I find so lazy and boring in depicting straight relationships. Because it's a Gay Piece of Media you know there will probably be a gay relationship, so you do come in with assumptions that the creators can play off of more efficiently than otherwise. You can miss at establishing the connection. You can rush the payoff. You can write the chase well but fail in writing the domestic. You can tell me these characters are in love without me buying in and believing it because you didn't really give me much to believe in.

#cipher talk #Obviously sometimes the reason people like a censored relationship or ship something is just bc they wanna see them fuck #Which is fine but not what I'm talking about #Also not all straight relationships blah blah blah #And there's something to be said for the emotional connection element and how female characters can get a raw deal #Either in not being written well to have emotional connections or audience reaction not caring #Whereas male characters tend to be both written with more care and have a more receptive audience #And audience reaction very much influences some of these works #I think like. Catradora is a good example of a canonically queer relationship everyone knew was gonna be canon that still is in tune with #The older style of censored storytelling so it ends up making a very compelling slow burn relationship

[ethosiab]

YOU. YOU TEAITOR . and when the boat 🛶 wins. YOUR WORST SIN WILL BE THAY YOUVE DESTROUED AND BEHTRAYED YOURSELF FOR NOTHINGGG

anyways ☺️ lovely eclipse yesterday have you heard

etho ( aromantic) certainly has SOMETHING going on with Joel smallishbeans that much is evident (or else I wouldn't be a boat boys girlie would i) but bdubs is different dude. I'm sorry but I'll never be the same after last life. No amount of etho and Joel dancing around each other daring the other to make the first move because theyre scared to admit they actually care will change that. Okay maybe I do like boat boys a little much but it's about the principle. Bdubs is always there. Etho can't fucking read his own feelings and doesn't know what any of his relationships really are. he falls into line when a partner establishes a dynamic because it's comfortable. But bdubs is always there and he always has been .

Part of the appeal of boat boys is that etho and Joel have only known each other since 3rd life. And they've only actually known each other since double life. They're messy and they're weird and neither knows where they stand with the other. But do I really ship them? I don't know! Bdubs is the only person I see etho having an established relationship with because he's always!!! There!!!

Anyway yeah I heard about the eclipse apparently it was really cool!! I wouldn't know though because I'm a filthy Australian who lives way outside the path of totality and experienced none of it. Sad.

#boat boys definitely fucked on that ship though ill give them that (i am so tired) #anyway obligatory im aromantic a d also a teenager so my view of love is weird but thats part of the reason i connect with ethos character #blah blah blah #i do not mind smalletho winning in fact i welcome it but i must stand by ethubs o7 #in this time of great need #nics rambles #ethoslab #ethubs #boat boys #hermitshipping #trafficshipping #anon #asks

[doctorweebmd]

Despite everything. Despite AFO trying to create the perfect spawn in Tomura. Despite having every moment of his life controlled from the day he was born. Despite experiencing tragedy after tragedy to create a creature so full of hate it would stamp out the sun, there is still a seed of love, of goodness, of rebellion in Tenko Shimura.

AFO could try take everything from Tenko. But he could never take his heart.

#every 3 months or so I think about tomur shigaraki and I burst into flames #bnha spoilers #this chapter is sending me #tenko shimura #tomura shigaraki #no listen #he was able to form connections with others. find people he cares for. build something when he was only told he could destroy #he still remembers that heroic heart. it lives within him and struggles against the confines of what he’s before #blah blah he’s a villain killed your bestie literally dis-armed your son #yeah but he was GOOD AT IT #king shit. god. I love he.

[pumpumdemsugah]

#blah #quotes #audre lorde #@ online ppl that think we need to identify the same way cause that's how right wingers see us #lgbt #queer #homogeneity of identity thought or experiences #black feminism #radical feminism #Audre Lorde was a rad fem so if you're pissed by that connect with the afterlife and tell her #lesbian feminism

[connectionterminated13]

the art I did recently of Cassie coming across what remained of Michael.... Thinking of turning that into an AU

That's like the only safe room in the underground pizza plex. I'm pretty sure Cassie has to sleep there so the mimic doesn't come to get Her... Like she has to sleep in the room with the dead body and the pile of wires. Sometimes she talks to the body, There's nothing else to do when she isn't hunting for snacks or evading the mimic. It never moves never talks because it's a corpse.

But sometimes she sees things in that room. A boy in a old Freddy's mask the kind her father kept in the glass case in the basement watching her. Sometimes I'll just walk into the room from seemingly nowhere and sit with her by the fire saying nothing. Sometimes he brings things with him food, blankets, Roxy merchandise. He never eats anything never says anything he just there. Cassie accepts him as part of the day today as she tries to figure out a way to escape the underground

#Weird idea poorly executed blah blah blah #So many spelling mistakes I don't care #Second AU with Cassie and Michael being connected in some way because I said so #fnaf au #cassie fnaf #michael afton

[statementlou]

ugh I cannot stop thinking about the rumor of Andrew Cushin asking girls from the audience how old they are and inviting them backstage, the implication that 1) he is selecting girls young enough that he can't tell by looking if they're legal or not and 2) he has intentions that they need to be legal for, like I am very aware this is anything but unusual but Louis has created such a beautiful and respectful culture around his tours that it's a jarring and fucked up reminder of the shitty wider culture and I just want to know if Louis knows someone is treating his army of depraved younger sisters like this because I do not think he's gonna like it- and boy am I praying for that reckoning

#we'll never see it ofc but we might just... not see this guy again after afhf #if he really fucks up maybe an unfollow. but it's enough for me we would know #and if that is the way this goes down I also love the idea of word sort of getting around #that if you get invited for louis stuff this kind of behavior does not fly #we will see. there was a time when louis lad crew behaved like this. but I think its different now and louis feels more connected #to his girlies #blah blah blah #andrew cushin

[l0v3c0r3e]

since the party is going to be together in s5 there is a chance of there being a scene where it makes it clearly obvious that mike and wills connection is romantic

#byler #like maybe at first it shows dustin's & lucas's dynamic and their doing whatever maybe making fun of eachother but then it cuts to #mike and will and we see them contrasting lucas's & dustin's connection by being all sweet and looking at eachother differently blah blah bl #this could be really good if they did this as it would make it obvious to the audience that their relationship is different

[loveandthings11]

Jeremy Strong for Newsweek, 3/26/23

Not well and unsettled.

"Please, let him get what he wants this time."

So what does satisfy? Love?

#I'm dying inside #gonna throw up and kms before i have to see this not to be dramatic #but i can't deal with this #the complete about-face that is going to happen is hard to even wrap my head around #like he's all teamwork and connected to his siblings and then apparently destroys them #what #I can't even imagine this version of him?!?! #Jeremy said before that Kendall had crossed ethical lines but he was talking about the car accident #so this is something different I am assuming #something ruthless as that one review put it #I can't with this #I love Kendall don't make him like this 😭 #Logan-esque like where Logan is at the beginning of this season #has lost everything but so powerful and blah blah #this is the longest tag essay of all time but I am very upset about this #jesse if this is actually where you leave him I hate you #gonna cry #WE WERE PROMISED HOPE- CAN'T GIVE UP YET #kendall roy #jeremy strong #succession #succession season 4 #succession spoilers

[clits-and-clips]

Since writing the affirmations and starting manifestation again, I've actually been in a much better headspace. It's crazy how things align, and you end up where you need to be, especially through pain

#txt #have been reading the affirmations every day twice a day sometimes #doing my intentions and manifesting what i wsnt #which is mainly independence #also a good relationship with my ex from here #mainly stuff for me tho #and the full moon on Wednesday which is in scorpio which is his sun sign #will be a big release and maybe i can let go a bit or a lot lol #i need to move on and focus on myself and what i want in life and doing it all on my own #with support obviously but ive never been fully independent and im so ready for the blessings and the open doors #i dont know if ill truly ever be over him but i have to try for my own sanity at this point #i dont want to manifest anything selfish like him coming back to me because it probably wont happen anyway lmao #i hope i dont sound crazy lmao but coming back into my spiritual journey is definitely what i need #connecting with myself and my purpose feels like the only thing i can do rn #have a driving lesson tomorrow but in all honesty i could just go do the test and pass cause ive been driving forever and im good at it #just need to practice certain things but im nearly there! so close i can feel it and see it #anyway i hope i can keep this energy up and continue to head in a positive direction because it feels really good #if i need to cry about him and the loss then i will but im not going to dwell on it too much #i just need to take it as a lesson and let it go :) #cause at the end of the day i really did lead myself here whether it was his choice to end it or not #blah

[babygoestozspace]

I kinda hate how Cirie's demise has exposed how comp dependent BB has become. Like yeah we been knew, but it’s like… you don't need to do all this song and dance on Survivor. But because a single person has the power to control the fate of everyone in the house week to week, it requires players to cover themselves on all sides, resulting in the post-16 meta of a huge onion alliance to maximize one's chances of not hitting the block any given week. There's no need for that in Survivor; the only person an immunity winner can impact is themselves, so the rest of the tribe isn't forced to play around the whims of a single person. And with the comps themselves becoming increasingly physical over the years, somehow this glorified summer camp is more dependent on physical fitness than the game that starves people on an island for a month and a half.

#bb25 #like am i making sense? #bb allows players to wield raw power in a way one cant on survivor #and this raw power comes from winning comps #you have to align yourself with people in order to not have that power used against you #and then not do anything to piss them off #j*ckson m*chie created his ideal endgame by trading comp wins with his showmance #an immunity run in survivor only guarantees your own safety #yes the professors self cannibalized but that's exactly because they didn't trust their comp winners not to turn on them #the whole leftovers thing with hisam and red's connection with cam #7ds was formed at least in part to cover cirie/izzy/felicia in the event matt or jag won an hoh #okay sure yeah say im making excuses but i hope im making sense #eta: i see that there's a bsb meeting rn and thats what i mean #cirie could pull off a miracle and here and it simply wouldnt matter if even one person stays anti cirie and that person wins hoh #blah blah social game but there's a hell of a lot less room to maneuver if you're up against only one other person

[aerithisms]

and isn't that the fuck of it all. ff7 thesis statement

#blahs #ff7 #like yes there is a cycle of life and death yes aerith understood that and was connected to that better than anyone #but does that blunt the pain of her loss? of the loss of anyone? what is returning to the planet against living? #sure aerith speaks to cloud from the lifestream but she can't get on that tiny bronco. she can't experience LIFE anymore #what about my pain what are we supposed to do!!!!!!! #this chapter is SO! god. #i love you barret wallace