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carwoodron · 8 months

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lipton is just so. consistently the best guy around. yeah boy, remember to get your life insurance... first to sign his resignation as an nco because he's loyal to his men not to rank... gets hit trying to get the men to leave a zeroed area. dragging luz into the foxhole, always being the first one out of his. yelling to stay down and take cover. don't trash-talk our incompetent c.o. who runs when the fight breaks it's bad for morale. it's hard being a replacement officer with the toughest most professional and dedicated sons of bitches. oh hey malarkey, didn't i hear you say you wanted to bring a luger home to your kid brother? compton how are you holding up? doc heads up we're gonna need you soon. i'll draw the sniper's fire for you shifty. always right where he's needed. oh, you mean it's me who's been holding easy company together? i'm just trying to make myself useful despite having pneumonia sir

#my dearest boy. the sun itself #got carried away i just love him #carwood lipton #rewatch shenanigans #band of brothers #everyone say thank you 1st sergeant lipton

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commsroom · 9 months

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im sure you've talked about this before but what are your opinions on hilbert

hilbert is... a fascinating character. he's an archetype disguised as another archetype, concealing a real person with understandable motivations and sincerely held ambitions. in a way, that's very reflective of how his work has been hollowed out and warped with each iteration of himself he becomes to continue it. hilbert is an insidious type of evil, because his goals are noble and he doesn't enjoy hurting people, but he will carry out orders and rationalize his actions "for the greater good." which makes him an excellent foil for eiffel; hilbert is nothing if not a Big Picture thinker. "you talk about helping people, but what about the real, live people around you?" / "increasingly, i find them to be of negligible importance." etc.

i think it says a lot about wolf 359's character writing philosophy that hilbert's betrayal and big reveal is really kind of his first character moment. he's there for two seasons after that, but he's never redeemed, and his goals never change. what makes hilbert more complex, more real, more understandable, is entirely perspective.

and the tragedy of hilbert, i suppose, is that he sacrificed everything for what he believed was right, sold his soul to the devil for it, and then... wasn't even particularly good at it. he's a big fish in a very small pond, as far as wolf 359 antagonists go. his death virus was never going to be anything but a death virus, and cutter figured that out (and found another use for it) ages ago. in change of mind, he was so certain he had the right answer - of course it was the scientist, his work was threatened - and they wouldn't have made it out if not for fourier, who realized it was really about human relationships. in am i alone now? hilbert's part is the only one where no one else speaks. before he dies, jacobi cuts his comms line, and his final words are a cut off "can anybody hear-?"

so, again... hilbert is a narratively and thematically significant character. this is barely even scratching the surface of that. but do i like him? hell no. absolutely not. he tried to murder hera and then said "tell me you're not mourning that appliance" so i think it's fine that he died, actually. that's how i judge all wolf 359 characters.

#thank you for asking!! i do like to talk about other characters + aspects of the show but. usually won't unless it comes up #i like eiffel and hera and minkowski and lovelace as people. and everyone else is. narratively significant.#anyway there's so much more that could be said about hilbert but i always get carried away writing paragraphs.#i will say one other interesting thing about him is he's the one wolf 359 antagonist who doesn't account for himself in his own big picture #there's no happy endings. the work is all there is. etc.#asks

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fuckingguide · 2 years

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And the shapes that you drew may change beneath a different light, and everything you thought you knew will fall apart, but you’ll be all right | Nandor the Relentless + Constellations by The Oh Hellos

the thesis of this video can be boiled down to this: Nandor is, fundamentally, a man who is struggling to cope with the realisation that while he has stayed the same for years, the world around him has been changing without his say so. he clings to what he's always known - for example his image as a relentless warrior - and the boxes he's put people in, without realising that these things don't quite fit him anymore. and when he does start to make an active effort to make a change, despite having every good intention, things rarely work out for him because, often, what he's seeking out in new places, he actually already has. all he needs to do is look around himself and see things in a new light to realise it.

(this vid only uses footage from the first 3 seasons btw, you don’t need to be caught up with the latest eps to watch it)

#what we do in the shadows #wwdits #nandor the relentless #everyone else also features in this but the focus is on nandor #it's about the found family #if the last third especially the audio seems a bit nandermo heavy it's because NONE OF THE OTHER VAMPIRES EVER SAY ANYTHING NICE smh #do you know how much time i spent looking for a clip of any of the others saying anything remotely loving about nandor #i found some nadja in the end but had to give up on laszlo #it's so frustrating I KNOW YOU GUYS LOVE EACH OTHER CAN YOU MAYBE SAY IT OUT LOUD ONCE PLEASE #anyway thank you guillermo for carrying the entire 'nandor actually has a family that loves him and is there for him' section on your back #where would i be without your speeches about family #this video has been (and this is not an exaggeration) six months in the making #i started it at the end of january bc i really wanted to explore nandor's character and then i got SO STUCK #but hey we made it in the end! i'm pretty happy with how this came out 😊#and i think the message i was trying to convey is pretty clear while still leaving room for thought #hope you guys enjoy it!!!#nandor is such a fascinating character i love to analyze him and rotate him in my head #i'm excited to see how his arc continues in the coming seasons. you can do it baby you're so close to realising your family is right there!!#edits.mp4 #video.mp4 #oh btw i'm still not super happy with the video quality on tumblr so i've also uploaded this to youtube (link in the caption)#eventually i'll also upload everything else there too

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6-2-aestheticsofhate · 2 months

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i have a lot of thoughts on minos in relation to pasiphae and the minotaur (both greek mythological and in ultrakill) but i dont really want to make a lot of posts abt it considering. the topic is generally hard to talk about.

#like i dont wanna go around claiming that the myth went 1:1 in ultrakills lore #because for example sisyphus was more based off a book rather than his mythology (thank god)#so minos might be only loosely based on his mythological counter part as well #but like. the fact that with the introduction of the minotaur enemy we KNOW the minotaur thing actually happened? jesus fuck #like we KNOW ultrakill minos thinks that the people of lust are only punished for loving eachother....#while his real life mythological counterpart got mad at his wife for essentially being raped by proxy and she had to defend herself saying #why would she want that. she was cursed/forced to do that because minos didnt sacrifice that bull to poseidon #like i KNOW why that was never really brought up in ultrakill that would be. a weird topic to bring up in a funny robot shooter #and i dont think you could accurately handle the themes of rape through lore books you find in levels of the game #but theres just. something about minos willfully thinking his wife did that of her own accord and him refusing to think about how lust #carries more than people who had sex a lot in ultrakill.#again the myth MAY be different in ultrakill. maybe he never even accused his wife of that. maybe he was more understanding #but theres a non zero chance he did #he could be willfully ignorant and think his wife willingly cheated on him. he thinks everyone in lust is innocent/only had consensual sex #because the alternatives are too gross/immoral for him to think about #it might be because i sympathize a lot with greek mythology women but finding out that the thing with pasiphae happened in ultrakill #DID happen made me lose respect for minos.#... also towards a lot of the fandom for joking abt it.#rape tw

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seiya-starsniper · 7 months

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#if I've made anyone uncomfortable with the things I've been posting the last few days that was in fact the point and fully intended #and I don't say that to be cruel but simply to drive home the point that fandom spaces can be both safe and hostile at the same time #it is a deeply uncomfortable thing to acknowledge and I know most people do no want to deal with that and I understand that truly #but it was important to me to acknowledge and to give my opinion so that's what I did #At the same time none of this changes my opinion on my ship or the fact that I love a certain character other people find problematic #and I am fine with people finding that problematic because I am human being I am problematic by default #and I am confident enough in myself as a person to know when to acknowledge when I've contributed to problematic behavior #and realize the world doesn't end when this happens #my opinion of the fandom I've made my home in hasn't changed either #I had these views before and now they're out there in the open messy wording and all #and if you've decided that changes your opinion of me for the worse that's fine you can unfollow block etc #I understand that even in my attempt to acknowledge hurt within my fandom I've probably hurt other people and I have made my peace with it #but for everyone else that's shown me support both on tumblr and in private #for everyone that's listened to me vent about this subject over DMs and validated my hurt feelings #instead of trying to press your own discomforts onto me to carry in addition to my own #thank you #I've carved a permanent space in my heart for you and I truly mean that #I waded into this mess fully expecting to be ignored at best and to lose connections at worst and I was fully okay with it #but the love I've gotten and the deep honest and vulnerable conversations I've had over the last few days has truly been astounding to me #this last part is taking me AGES to write #because I'm actually crying thinking about all the good that's come out of this #and I acknowledge that's not a universal opinion and that's fine I'm really only speaking to my personal experience with what's happened #which despite outward appearances has been incredibly cathartic and uplifting for me #and I don't need everyone in the fandom to share my views or validate me or tell me I'm right people are allowed to disagree #I also don't need to have a deep personal and honest connection with everyone in the fandom where I can share my deepest vulnerabilities #but the fact that I could have that connection with some of you? that's enough for me. it's everything to me.

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five-of-cr · 5 months

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here's the thing about matthias: he isn't the honorable, reformed hero some of the fandom seems to see him as.

yes, he was raised by a tight-knit family of comrade soldiers and decides to betray them in the end. of course that took incredible strength. i don't deny that. but we also need to recognize that the drüskelle are not just some rogue cult. they are a core part of the fjerdan government, who is trying to wipe out the grisha because they are seen as dangerous. that's literally just genocide. however indoctrinated someone is, this is something that is evil from every angle, even if the character can't or won't see it.

and look, i love a good redemption arc, but matthias is such a passive actor in his. he falls in love with nina against his will. she changes his attitudes toward grisha because she's beautiful and kind so all grisha can't be bad, right? this a classic example of the trope of separating the "good ones" from the rest, where you cherry-pick specific individuals to point to as exceptions to a group's nature, which is still implied to be evil. you have to do a lot more than fall in love to truly unearth and address the roots of bigotry.

tbh, this is my biggest critique of the books as a whole. i loathe the "love conquers all" trope that pairs together a character from the oppressed group and one from the oppressors, letting the one show the other through the power of love that being bigoted is not nice. it puts all the responsibility on the former to prove their humanity, and gives all the credit to the latter's ability to be persuaded to recognize it. and then it inevitably leads to forgiveness, because the character has "earned" it by changing their views, once again making the victim seem like the villain if they don't absolve the oppressor of their past "mistakes". also, it's incredibly unrealistic for someone to fall in love with a person who actively hates them and considers them sub-human. in real life, people have to work on their bigotry before that happens, not use the relationship as a plot device for character development.

i think the idea of writing a character like matthias is neat. i think portraying someone's struggle to throw off the suffocating, hateful dogma they've been fed all their life is a story we need more of. i think personal growth of this variety should be celebrated, because otherwise people would never change. but i don't think the people, fictional or real, get to do this without facing profound consequences. it is not enough to feel sorry. it is not enough to apologize. it is definitely not enough to fall in love. and i think writing that lets people off the hook like this grossly oversimplifies power and oppression, and ends up being a feel-good way to romanticize people who cause a lot of harm.

a last note: my opinion is 100% influenced by my being bipoc. matthias is a classic aryan supremacist, even if being aryan isn't the thing he's being supremacist about. my gut reaction to that type of character is always going to be mistrust, both because people in real life have given me reason to be mistrustful and because characters like these are often written in a way that makes you sympathize with oppressors. i don't think matthias earns that trust, and i don't see why i owe him my affection as a reader.

#i know i'm usually a 'haha silly little textpost' blog (and don't get me wrong i still am) but this has been on my mind for a while #to be clear i don't think you have to hate him as a character to be a morally upstanding person #and there's nothing inherently wrong about relating to him either #but i do think we as a fandom (a very white one at that) need to acknowledge this #especially because it carries over beyond fiction #stories are powerful and the messages we take from them stick with us even after we close the book #plus even by the end he still is very bigoted #and i realize that he would have had more time to work on himself if he hadn't... y'know #but that's why i like fanon matthias a lot better #he's usually further along in his unlearning process or he actually has to experience that process in a realistically painful way #in fact i really *like* matthias fanon where he actually grapples with his hatred and comes out a better person for it when it's done well #i.e. when he isn't simply forgiven by everyone (especially nina) because he says sowwy #i am thankful to leigh bardugo for creating this universe AND i think she fumbled the matthias redemption arc #nuance!! it exists!!!#ok rant over #also absolutely NO calahan hate on this post #in this house we do not equate characters with their actors #soc #soc spinoff #matthias helvar #helnik #nina zenik #sab #six of crows #save six of crows #save shadow and bone #shadow and bone #crooked kingdom #grishaverse

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villainsidestep · 23 days

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oh survivor!fawn we are really in it now

#gideon shut the hell up challenge #people keep saying they’re sorry for your loss. Your Loss. that is how they refer to your brothers. how they refer to you.#you have always been one of three. part of the pack. and that has always been fine but now you are alone and you are not You but your loss.#julia says sorry for your loss. ricardo says sorry for your loss. you yell that it should be their loss too. it is everyone’s loss.#they have lost your brothers and now they have lost you too. (fate works in funny ways you think)#at the funeral people offer apologies. offer you flowers. offer you baked goods and stories of how [your loss] saved them or their mom or #their dad’s uncle’s wife’s coworker’s daughter’s friend from childhood or someone else equally unimportant. someone alive.#[I’m sorry for your loss] they all say and you do not say thank you. there is no being thankful for [your loss].#[I’m sorry] says ricardo. you stop listening. [I’m sorry] says julia. you wonder if she said it to the man she punched.#you do not apologize back. you do not let it be [their loss]. it is yours. they have always been yours.#[I’m sorry] says chen . for river and cyrus. the first to use their names with you. to acknowledge them as your brothers. to make them more #than just the pieces of you that have been broken. and you thank him.#we like writing in tags sorry !!!! also at some point the original idea was that any parts of ‘I’m sorry for your loss’#would start distorting and then get blacked out to show like. when u hear smth so much and esp w grief that u just block it out #anyway. survivor!fawn but still factoring in that chen is not afraid to just. Say Things.#esp in v3 I think the ortegas would be even more cautious w fawn out of wanting to not upset them and meanwhile chen is like yeah I’m gonna #just straight up acknowledge ur brothers for u bc I can tell that’s what u need #we are also thinking abt v3!au and fawn being heartbreak but. that’s not for this post obvs #verse: you are the survivor; you carry the guilt

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beencryingfor25years · 2 years

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Can’t believe Carrie was supposed to have a scene in I Got the Music and was cut, this is too funny

#I'm truly cracking up about Tori's faces here #and Carrie is truly jamming #also the fact that in Julie's dream sequence she sees Carrie behind a door and just... slams it in her face #a whole lot of nope from her #everyone say thank you paul becker for feeding us with more content #I hope those hard drives have more gems bc truly this brightened my day #julie and the phantoms #jatp #so I made a thing

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yangjeongin · 7 months

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actually logged into this account for the first time in a week i hope nobody said anything funny in the tags of our posts in the past week because i will Not be going back to read everything

#carly.txt #everyone say thank you mary for carrying the blog #maybe i'll make a gifset soon.......#idk kinda have a lot going on i'm ngl

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mamposteria-deactivated06192023 · 2 years

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FIAMETTA!!

#i love her and i love her and i love her and i love her #homestuck #hiveswap #hiveswap act 3 #fiamet #um.#hiveswap concept art axolotl first guardian #< yup. that’s. a tag that exists now >_>;#masonry artistry #i would like to thank tumblr user transfiamet for making me fiametpilled #she’s been on my head constantly for two months and her official reveal just increased those feelings #i’m so in love with her it’s unreal #she’s so fun to draw my gogggg i love her design #i feel like i can speak for everyone when i say that her design took me by surprise!#a tail? and six horns?! something’s fishy about her…#(or i guess i should say not fishy. because she’s definitely not a seadweller. hoo ha!)#laying my fia design to rest… thank you for carrying me through girlie u_u i’ll miss you…#I want YOU to ask me about her but YOU don’t want to ask ME about her #because i’ll ramble for five hours about things that only make sense to me lollllll #tl;dr: love her. }O{#hiveswap spoilers #hiveswap act 3 spoilers #expect me to continue fiametposting

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mmmmuffins · 11 months

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you meet the worlds most misogynistic person and its literally your mother

#thank god she doesnt have a son her daughter in laws wouldve cried #how she can actively say things like but women have to be lesser than men in some way is beyond me you are literally a woman??????????????#'the womans role is to give birth' maam WHY did u waste dollars to send me to school and university then #im not saying housewives are less they are very respectable!!!!!!!!!! but if both a husband and a wife are doing a nine to five why do u #expect the woman to ALSO take care of the children and ALSO do all the household chores on top of that ???????#men just exist to lay around ???????????#her argument is didnt people in the past do this. maam #the economy is ignificalty worse cost of living is way higher salaries are lower #a modenr family cannot survive on one persons salary!!!!!!!! and what man is completely willing to be the sole breadwinner and let his wife #spend his money as she likes #if u are expecting women to carry out the traditional role then men shouldtoo and be the only breadwinners and stay out for work everyday.#'didnt your grandmother do this? didnt she work as a teacher and also raise all three of her kids alone?' yes and my poor grandmother admits #to me that she wasnt happy about it and that she regrets a lot 😐#poor woman spent her life taking care of everyone #oh my god i hsouldnt get into these arguments with her. its a waste of my time and energy

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crescentfool · 6 months

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5 and 11 for the artist asks :3

hi kipper thank u for stopping by the askbox!!! :3

5. Estimate of how much of your art you post online vs. the art you keep for yourself

i think i probably only post 10% of my art at most...? there's a bunch of things i don't post because it's mostly studies (lines only, for the most part).

i really enjoy breaking down images of objects to boxes and cylinders, or draw objects from different angles (i have a few page dedicated to squiffer and how to hold it, for example)!

there's also a few pages examining and notetaking on art styles that interest me because i like seeing how they use shapes/lines and proportions...

and for anything "bigger" that i'm really invested in the outcome in, i tend to accumulate a few pages of poses/studied related to the thing before actually drawing it... because i hate having to look up references mid-illustration 💔

i think most of the things that end up being closer to finished (colored) end up getting posted in some shape or form, though, whether if it's to friends, my toyhouse gallery, or my social media...!

11. Do you listen to anything while drawing? If so, what

in regards to music while drawing... sometimes i will listen to the same song for an hour (or 30 minutes). more hours if i'm crazy (10 hour coconut mall and beneath the mask im looking at you). or i'll do a mix of different songs, usually music from persona 4, splatoon, and other video game osts that i like. or k-pop. lmao.

more often than not, i end up "watching" videos while drawing so i'll have splatoon tournament sets/scrims/x rank in the background, or whatever games i'm interested in watching (shoutout to pikmin 4)... or when friends screenshare things to me (i love when they do that)

#lizzy askbox #I GET SO CARRIED AWAY ANSWERING THESE.. anyway thank you for entertaining my nonsense <3 #i am 100% serious when i say that online gets a very tiny fraction of what i draw LOL there r soo many studies #some of the sillies stay offline for a bit b4 i decide to post them too #but yeah!! art!!! i love talking about art!!!#everyone expect long answers i cannot shut the fuck up

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kpgimpactor · 7 months

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story time 👹