#feel free to disagree with me

[therighthandofvengeance]

Which Babylon 5 Character You are based on your Zodiac Sign but I give you no expalanation

Disclaimer: I am by no means an astrologer. This is purely for entertainment purposes.

Aries: G’Kar

Taurus: John Sheridan

Gemini: Marcus Cole

Cancer: Michael Garibaldi

Leo: Londo Mollari

Virgo: Stephen Franklin

Libra: Delenn of Mir

Scorpio: Mr. Morden

Sagittarius: Elizabeth Lochley

Capricorn: Susan Ivanova

Aquarius: Kosh Naranek

Pisces: Lyta Alexander

#who are queue? what do queue want? #babylon 5 #b5 #for once it’s not an incorrect quote #g’kar #john sheridan #marcus cole #michael garibaldi #londo mollari #dr. stephen franklin #delenn of mir #mr. morden #elizabeth lochley #susan ivanova #kosh naranek #lyta alexander #feel free to disagree with me #for the record I absolutely have reasoning for all of these #I’m just not sharing it

[enbysiriusblack]

Everyone thinks Lily is the most imp Marauder era character but I disagree.

What did she do? Decline death when she had an oppurtunity. Brave and loyal. But I think James plays a bigger role than her. Lily only dies when she has a chance at survival and decides to stop being friends with Snape bc Snape's bigotry was affecting her.

James meanwhile plays a bigger part both b4 and after dying. He and Snape are sworn rivals. He is the on who understands how dark the path Snape chose (and probably before Snape).

He's the one that, despite the war, manages to look at someone from themselves and not their families. He looks at the person not the family, or at the lycanthropy, or blood status.

He's the one that saves Remus, Peter and Sirius from themselves and others repeatedly. He saves Snape too (and foghting the war he obvi saves others as well)

Also, I don't think the prophecy is alone the reason Voldemort went after the Potters.

I mean obvi plays a role bc they had a 'child born as the seventh month dies' and 'defies thrice' Voldemort but I think James had a bigger role in this than Lily.

I mean was Lily really so exceptional that Voldemort wanted *her*? I think not. Not saying she's dumb but she definitely isn't *that* important. So why does Voldemort ask her to join? I can see two reasons:

Snape

James

I think Snape asked Voldemort to consider her, just like he asked her to be spared.

I also think, however, that the reasson Voldemort agreed was not only bc Snape was trusted and a spy and what not, but also bc Lily was involved with James. James Potter, a wealthy pureblood. Probably the only wealthy pureblood family which was so known and likely powerful that fought against him.

Basically I think by the 70s, there were three big pureblood famlies, and that the rest of the wizarding world often bended to their will. If all three were with Voldemort he would be unstoppable. Not even Dumbledore would be a problem. And Voldemort had two; Blacks and Malfoys. Because of this he had a huge following, bc of this was the war so big and long and dangerous.

But he didn't have the Potters. The three living Potters, Fleamont, Euphemia and James were extremely open about where their priorities lied, unlike the Blacks and Malfoys who were hiding their support, handling things from being the curtains, the Potter made it public from the first signs of conflict (in fact even before that) that Voldemort did not have their support. Later James remained, and he married Lily.

Lily Evans just happened to be the girl Snape believed would do great on his side, and so he tried to convince him. She denied, and so did James. When he realised which famlies the prophecy spoke of, Voldemort chose Harry, because he was half-blood but more importantly because the Potter family, because James, was a threat.

I suppose this might have gone to theory/head canon towards the end, but you got the point right? I think James was far more important Canon-wise.

And in the main series we see Harry yearning for James all the time. Lily is barely mentioned in comparision. He has some 7 father figures but he wants James, but he's perfectly happy with Molly as a mother figure.

Also, James happens to be where he gets his quidditch skill from (which is important). Harry's patronus is also James animagus form and I think in that way James keeps Harry safe.

Lily seems to more or less exist bc Harry needs to have a mother whereas James exists as a stand-a-lone very important character, and I think he very easily defeats Lily in most imp. character of that time.

What did Lily contribute? The protection charm thing? I don't thing that helped Harry at all ever. Not even when the text says so. I think he aquired Potter Luck from his father, James.

I also think that Harry is, Canon-wise, more like James because we only see Lily as someone Snape is obsessed with, someone who Sirius and Remus knew, someone who James married, someone who is the mother of Harry, someone who was prefect with Remus etc. Harry? We know him as him, just like we know James as James, in opposition to Lily was that in relation to that.

I'll get to a last point which was Slughorn and the memory Harry acquired. Harry was going to get that memory no matter what bc he had drank the liquid luck.

Literally anyone else could have been Harry's mother and the only change would be is Harry's eyeshape, colour and nose.

Male someone else Harry's dad and everything changes, from is he going to be the boy who lived and does Snape hate him *as much* to his personality. Half the time he lives it's luck and things that he has due to James so I think James definitely takes this win.

My opinion though feel free to disagree.

okay so, i get what you're saying. but lily does still play a very large part (in my opinion, slightly more than james, but i can understand if you think james is more important).

james is severus' rival (i'm pretty sure it's more severus thinking of james as his rival than the other way around, whilst james doesn't really, he more messes with severus because of his ideology + trying to entertain sirius, but anyway. getting a bit off topic there). james and severus are 'rivals' because of lily. without lily, they would have barely interacted ever. lily is severus' best friend/crush and severus gets jealous that james spends lots of time with her/lily dates him. they do have that argument on the train in first year, but again. the conversation started between lily and severus- without lily they would never have argued about hogwarts houses. lily is the central point to their conflict- severus fights james and his friends because he wants to control/be with lily and he thinks james is in the way of that, even though lily just doesn't like him in that way. and james fights severus because severus is picking a fight with him/severus is bigoted.

also severus is pretty major in the storyline of harry potter- like he plays a vital role in the majority of the books/films. and everything he does is fuelled by his obsession/inability to get over lily evans. he's overly mean to harry because he looks like james who he thinks stole lily from him. he's overly mean to other students because he's mad that his ex-best friend/childhood crush died. he's a spy for dumbledore because he knows that's what lily would want from him (ish). he secretly helps harry because he is still lily's son. literally every action of this man (who is in the top 10 most important hp characters for this storyline) is because of lily.

i'm pretty sure voldemort wanted both james and lily, not one or the other. both. they are both very powerful and if voldemort gets them than he gets two very powerful wizards that had previously been against them. also yes, i do think james is smarter than lily. but, maybe this is my own hc, but she is more powerful. she's slughorn's favourite even as a muggleborn likely from a working class or middle class family, because she's very good in class. she manages to do that dumb mother-y magic to protect harry (i disagree that it wasn't effective- without it harry would've died when voldemort tried to kill him as a baby. he is the boy who lived because of lily. not saying it's not such a dumb plotline, i honestly think its so fucking stupid- but that's my beef with jkr (well part of it. i hate her so much for countless reasons ofc). and i know you said this bit was more your headcanon, which is fine of course. but in my mind and I'm pretty sure it's canon that there is the sacred 28 (so that's 28 families that are seen as fully pureblooded) and i think voldemort would go after them all, which the potter's are a part of, but again, that's one family out of 28 and he probably only has like half during the 70s. also he went after alice and frank as well- as neville also fitted the prophecy so voldemort tried to recruit alice and frank as well. maybe the guy was just trying to recruit all the order members tbh.

i think with harry seeming to care more about james is more because he knows more about james. like, yes he's been living with his mum's sister for years (oh yeah didn't mention the dursleys. but real quick, the people he grew up with are lily's relatives. he's abused, which is of course a huge part of the protagonist's life, is because of lily and her past with her sister. petunia was jealous that lily was a witch and not her, and disagreed with the way lily lived/who she dated, so then decided to abuse her sister's son after her sister died). anyway, harry only really has petunia to tell him about his mum, who isn't really gonna do that, especially in a nice way. he does have slughorn for like a year, who tells him a bit. and remus, who also tells him a little (and i think sirius does?? i don't remember), and then obviously you have severus' memories. which i wouldn't really fully trust either. whilst harry has got his dad's best friend and his other close friend telling him stuff for several years. james was more outgoing in school, so there's also more teachers/hagrid/rosmerta that remember james more and have stories for harry about him. whilst lily has a lot less. but that doesn't mean she's not as important to harry. they're both what harry wants more than anything- equally. (also i very much disagree with the molly being practically his mother. like as someone with a mum a bit like molly, she very much does not see him as a son/he doesn't see her as a mother. if she treated him as a son, she wouldn't act so nice to him and be so mean to her actual kids. she puts on a charade in front of harry to appear as the perfect family. my mum would do that when i had friends over. harry is not a son to her, but an outsider that she has to impress or she'll feel embarrassed. mcgonagall is more a mum to harry, or even sirius is more his mum.

we don't really know how james or lily fully acted. but tbh i don't think he acts like either of them, personally. like yes he's into quidditch like james. but who says lily wasn't a quidditch fan too?

what is potter luck? i've never actually heard that before and I'm so curious. like is being a potter give you luck in life?? is that a thing?? why have i not heard that?? is that canon?? (i haven't read/watched in ages so forgive me if this is like. a huge thing in harry potter that I've just completely forgotten about)

I also think that Harry is, Canon-wise, more like James because we only see Lily as someone Snape is obsessed with, someone who Sirius and Remus knew, someone who James married, someone who is the mother of Harry, someone who was prefect with Remus etc. Harry? We know him as him, just like we know James as James, in opposition to Lily was that in relation to that.

^you are so very right here. i fully agree. but i don't think it takes away lily's importance. i think it becomes part of jkr's sexism/sexist writing. she just loves to put her female characters in mother/wife roles and give them absolutely nothing else. because being a mother is just so fucking important and the biggest thing in a women's life whilst being a father isn't important at all and is just what a man comes home to after a day at work. but being a mother is all a women has, being a mother gives you mother superpowers and magic baking abilities. (sorry i got mad at jkr). lily is the mother. james is james. god you are so fucking right. lily is defined by the men around her.

apart from the letter!!!! i've been building up to this. but the letter. mwah the letter. we get a letter from lily!! remember that?? lily writes a letter to sirius thanking him for the toy broom he got harry?? and its lily's actual fucking words instead of someone's else's memory of her?? but we don't have that for james, we only ever have other people talking about him, never any of his own words (if you want to view snape's memories as actually what happened in the past then you can, i just tend to view it more as what memories actually are- biased and warped over time). but we have lily's own words and handwriting!! and she's still just fulfilling a role as mother and friend and wife but at least this is her own voice/writing in it and although it's not words that are too harry, he does get a small glimpse into lily and how she spoke (well, wrote), which he doesn't get from james, sadly. but he does get lily's!! and that's so important to him and he's the protagonist so its also important for the story as a whole!!

what you said about "make someone else harry's dad and everything changes" is very much true. but that does also apply to lily. make someone harry's mum and harry is no longer raised by the dursleys/raised in an abusive home, or treated badly but secretly helped by severus, or told things by slughorn, or even fucking alive, he would've died as a baby if someone else was his mum.

my closing statement: lily evans is important because i think she's very hot and I'm so very gay for her and also she's the reason the protagonist didn't die as a 1 yr old or whatever.

#hope this made sense <3 #also. as you said as well #feel free to disagree with me #(and i'm not diminishing james in anyway if at all it sounded like it. he's one of my fav characters ever and i love him so much0 #(however if it sounded like i was diminishing severus or jkr in anyway then yes i very much was. they deserve it) #lily evans #marauders era #marauders #james potter #harry potter #anti severus snape #anti jkr

[zeroducks-2]

Tumblr should add a badge for when you find people vagueblogging about you lol

#You can reblog my stuff if you disagree with me folks it's not illegal #If I feel up to a debate we can debate if not you can have your different opinion it's all good #You don't need to write about how Jason's fans are rabid and have 'sterile sandpaper takes' lmao I loved that one #'but zero you are vagueblogging too' YEAH THEY STARTED IT OK? #In all seriousness friend if you see this post no hard feelings! It's comics after all I don't take stuff personally #Feel free to disagree with me

[guccigarantine]

im not trying to start beef with anyone especially a post from two and a half years ago but for me there is no way to interpret cassander being an eidolon of war as anything other than a tragedy. his name is only ever spoken of to say he was a good leader during war times. no one remembers they were the youngest of three sibling never intended for the throne, no one remembers how long it took him to martyr himself, or that they made squid ink pasta for their friends, or that he was a doctor first. all of that is lost and the violence is all that’s left.

#SORRY FOR BEING DRAMATIC #BUT THIS IS SOMETHING I THINK ABOUT A LOT #stepping off my soap box #feel free to disagree with me #but im not gonna argue with anyone #simialr to how laurel is a perversion of history so is this #anyway #how is everyone else’s monday going

[floralneonlights]

At some points I put my foot down and basically refuse to watch MCD s2.

Why? Oh, just what happened to Dante. I hate how he was turned into a scumbag, even if it wasn't his intention and him dealing with grief plus mental illness. It was clear that in MyStreet it's shown as a scummy thing because it IS, but in MCD it's like. Nana forgives him. And she's like "Sister Nicole" or whatever like it's a commune. And also!! It wasn't even like the story was like Nicole wanted to tell Dante that she was pregnant and he was with Nana or even just talking to her, clearly moving on, NANA WAS PREGNANT. CLEARLY PREGNANT.

MCD s2 had a huge character assassination, and I don't even think Dante would've tried to fill that loneliness with Nicole or Nana based on his past that wasn't really explored until s3 which is, as we all know, hell.

I enjoy watching s2 because we get a LOT of development and lore points but I find it hard to enjoy knowing that one of my favorite characters got bastardized. One of Dante's biggest qualities is his loyalty, like all of the guards, he's level-headed, logical, empathetic, etc. He would still see Nana and Nicole as people rather than things to fill that void, like, he'd gain a complex as seeing himself as Gene then.

In case any of you are curious, Aphmau is a Fairy Tail fan and some elements from FT were put into MCD, and I think the time skip was one of them, esp when it comes to "rebuilding Phoenix Drop." Nothing dealing with the aged up cast really entertained me because they felt like foreign characters we were supposed to know still, because Nana, Dante, Nicole, even Levin and Malachi had become viable characters in the first season and then became. Older, obviously. The only character that felt loyal was Cadenza and I always lost interest around the time Lucinda was found.

#Feel free to disagree with me #Everyone has different feelings about MCD and mine are #Uh #This #And every other post I've made on it #mcd #minecraft diaries #aphblr #aphverse #mcd dante #dante mcd #mcd nicole #nicole mcd #nana mcd #mcd nana #One of these days those tags will have fanart and not Anger on my blog.

[sparkles-oflight]

Nace, I know seeing Slovenia so high is good, but this is kind of a shit take

#i agree with most of the “BEST” but this is in general a shitty take on Eurovision imo #feel free to disagree with me #Eurovision #eurovision 2023 #nace jordan #joker out #slovenia #joker out Nace

[navstuffs]

oooooh so what about Chris Redfield and Leon Kennedy? on the mtl to fail nnn thingy?

hey again annon!!!

chris def will have a hard time lol i don't see him as serial masturbator but that man is an opportunist. he will take his time, leave a cream and tissue box by the bed and if happens, it happens. SO during nnn i feel like chris will have a harder time, mostly cause he will have his hands down his pants and all of sudden he will remember abt the challenge, and will pull his hand out like he is committing A CRIME LOL MUST STAY STRONG REDFIELD!

now, what to say about my baby leon....aaah leon. will do just fine. in my eyes, leon is more worried about food, vacay and getting a good night of rest, which masturbating would disturb most of those. maybe when he is super relaxed he does it, his eyes closed and trying to hold back moans, but if he can't, he can't and that is okay. will do nnn just fine.

scale of less likely to lose nnn to more likely to lose:

arthur morgan

leon kennedy

carlos oliveira

chris redfield

luis serra

#ask #asks #feel free to disagree with me #now lets talk thickness and size

[brazilian-whalien52]

Although it is true that some actors just do BL to make easy money and fame, it's actually really funny to see people blaming mostly the actors from the oldest BLs of that, you know the BLs from the time where the budget was so small that it looked like a high school student video project

#i mean yeah they don't personally have the best atitudes #but they accept to make gay character when there was mostly almost nothing ti gain from it #not forgiving homophobic remarks #but also i see that a lot of these actor grow and learned more about the community #sotus #make it right #puppy honey #dark blue kiss #together with me #offgun #love sick #and yeah i do understand the acting was kinda off and many moments because not all actor seemed comfortable? #feel free to disagree with me #2moons #i would say mostly starting from 2017/2018 it was really that lucrative #people saw how much money and success previous actors got #2017 2018 2019 and 2020 you have more actors that used bl as step stone and then never again #now the last years that we are seeing people sticking to bl and even famous actors doind some bl or another

[coffeeandcalligraphy]

imo harrison did not in fact bring sexy back. sorry.

#I’m so sorry I had this thought while listening to this song to classical condition my way out of executive dysfunction #& I decided to immortalize it on the internet instead of u know #keeping it to myself #feel free to disagree with me #he’s a loser we should bully him

[lemon-wedges]

What do u think Sunny's fursona would be? Obviously otacon is ottercon the otter and snake is Dogvid the wolf dog but what would sunny be....

I feel like I'm bad at assigning animals cause I'm just gonna make a decision based on what I think is cute and not anything else

BUT I'd say a Pika. They're related to rabbits but have round ears like mice. But MOST IMPORTANTLY ottercon and dogvid having a baby whoose animal name sounds like ur about to say pikachuu

#unfortunately theres no nice sounding way yo combine sunny and pika #pikanny #sunka #? #feel free to disagree with me

[asherasgayagenda]

i might be a kohakuP (...looks at blog) but what the hell is that white swan outfit

#in the words of kohaku tl #“Wait a minute there’s too many straps what goes where?! This design's popular sure but I still don’t understand clothes like this.” #TORI GOT IT ACTUALLY GOOD #IM SORRY!!! WHAT WAS HAPPYELE ON WHEN MAKING THAT ONE #feel free to disagree with me #kohaku. #also his scr? IBYE #enstars #secret swan #is ashe rambling again

[its-tortle]

— taylor swift albums as months of the year —

#thought about adding ttpd as november #but i did not feel sure enough #also i think folklore is a mix of august/september and evermore is a mix of november/december #but i went with the later months because september is also a retrospective of summer and december includes the experience of november yknow #i hope that makes sense #and i hope my general album to month decisions make sense also #feel free to ask me about my reasoning #or fully disagree with me lmao #taylor swift #ts #taylor swift albums #tortle makes things #ts debut #fearless #speak now #red #1989 #reputation #lover #folklore #evermore #midnights

[unsertraumschiff]

spock chart that came to me in a vision

#i am certain some people would disagree with me on classifying leonard as straight and/or bully as gay. #however it is for the joke and the joke ONLY #so feel free to switch them in your head or something. either works they’re both gay spocks #I think some people would also disagree with me calling aos straight. sorry for that. once again a simplification for the bit #not even gonna tag this tbh it’s a bad meme #except for one tag: #bullyparade #for my personal reference

[cerealbishh]

"Good job, Aerith!" "It was nothing compared to you!" // "I'm so glad you're all okay!" "Right back atcha."

#ffvii remake #ffvii rebirth #aerith gainsborough #tifa lockhart #aerti #aerith x tifa #ffvii rebirth spoilers? #i love them so much #and i'm sure someone's already made this gifset but better... but why not? #i quoted their first and last high five dialogue #aerti high fives are adorable and romantic too i think #but obviously feel free to disagree #ffviiedit #ffviiredit #tifalockhartedit #aerithgainsboroughedit #aertiedit #pls not aerith's little hop/jump and tifa leaning in... it's too cute #twitter could never make me hate either one of these ladies #i might be missing a high five or two so if you can let me knoe which ones i'm missing that'd be great!

[kaladinkholins]

Very interesting to me that a certain subset of the BES fandom's favourite iterations of Mizu and Akemi are seemingly rooted in the facades they have projected towards the world, and are not accurate representations of their true selves.

And I see this is especially the case with Mizu, where fanon likes to paint her as this dominant, hyper-masculine, smirking Cool GuyTM who's going to give you her strap. And this idea of Mizu is often based on the image of her wearing her glasses, and optionally, with her cloak and big, wide-brimmed kasa.

And what's interesting about this, to me, is that fanon is seemingly falling for her deliberate disguise. Because the glasses (with the optional combination of cloak and hat) represent Mizu's suppression of her true self. She is playing a role.

Take this scene of Mizu in the brothel in Episode 4 for example. Here, not only is Mizu wearing her glasses to symbolise the mask she is wearing, but she is purposely acting like some suave and cocky gentleman, intimidating, calm, in control. Her voice is even deeper than usual, like what we hear in her first scene while facing off with Hachiman the Flesh-Trader in Episode 1.

This act that Mizu puts on is an embodiment of masculine showboating, which is highly effective against weak and insecure men like Hachi, but also against women like those who tried to seduce her at the Shindo House.

And that brings me to how Mizu's mask is actually a direct parallel to Akemi's mask in this very same scene.

Here, Akemi is also putting up an act, playing up her naivety and demure girlishness, using her high-pitched lilted voice, complimenting Mizu and trying to make small talk, all so she can seduce and lure Mizu in to drink the drugged cup of sake.

So what I find so interesting and funny about this scene, characters within it, and the subsequent fandom interpretations of both, is that everyone seems to literally be falling for the mask that Mizu and Akemi are putting up to conceal their identities, guard themselves from the world, and get what they want.

It's also a little frustrating because the fanon seems to twist what actually makes Mizu and Akemi's dynamic so interesting by flattening it completely. Because both here and throughout the story, Mizu and Akemi's entire relationship and treatment of each other is solely built off of masks, assumptions, and misconceptions.

Akemi believes Mizu is a selfish, cocky male samurai who destroyed her ex-fiance's career and life, and who abandoned her to let her get dragged away by her father's guards and forcibly married off to a man she didn't know. on the other hand, Mizu believes Akemi is bratty, naive princess who constantly needs saving and who can't make her own decisions.

These misconceptions are even evident in the framing of their first impressions of each other, both of which unfold in these slow-motion POV shots.

Mizu's first impression of Akemi is that of a beautiful, untouchable princess in a cage. Swirling string music in the background.

Akemi's first impression of Mizu is of a mysterious, stoic "demon" samurai who stole her fiance's scarf. Tense music and the sound of ocean waves in the background.

And then, going back to that scene of them together in Episode 4, both Mizu and Akemi continue to fool each other and hold these assumptions of each other, and they both feed into it, as both are purposely acting within the suppressive roles society binds them to in order to achieve their goals within the means they are allowed (Akemi playing the part of a subservient woman; Mizu playing the part of a dominant man).

But then, for once in both their lives, neither of their usual tactics work.

Akemi is trying to use flattery and seduction on Mizu, but Mizu sees right through it, knowing that Akemi is just trying to manipulate and harm her. Rather than give in to Akemi's tactics, Mizu plays with Akemi's emotions by alluding to Taigen's death, before pinning her down, and then when she starts crying, Mizu just rolls her eyes and tells her to shut up.

On the opposite end, when Mizu tries to use brute force and intimidation, Akemi also sees right through it, not falling for it, and instead says this:

"Under your mask, you're not the killer you pretend to be."

Nonetheless, despite the fact that they see a little bit through each other's masks, they both still hold their presumptions of each other until the very end of the season, with Akemi seeing Mizu as an obnoxious samurai swooping in to save the day, and Mizu seeing Akemi as a damsel in distress.

And what I find a bit irksome is that the fandom also resorts to flattening them to these tropes as well.

Because Mizu is not some cool, smooth-talking samurai with a big dick sword as Akemi (and the fandom) might believe. All of that is the facade she puts up and nothing more. In reality, Mizu is an angry, confused and lonely child, and a masterful artist, who is struggling against her own self-hatred. Master Eiji, her father figure who knows her best, knows this.

And Akemi, on the other hand, is not some girly, sweet, vain and spoiled princess as Mizu might believe. Instead she has never cared for frivolous things like fashion, love or looks, instead favouring poetry and strategy games instead, and has always only cared about her own independence. Seki, her father figure who knows her best, knows this.

But neither is she some authoritative dominatrix, though this is part of her new persona that she is trying to project to get what she wants. Because while Akemi is willful, outspoken, intelligent and authoritative, she can still be naive! She is still often unsure and needs to have her hand held through things, as she is still learning and growing into her full potential. Her new parental/guardian figure, Madame Kaji, knows this as well.

So with all that being said, now that we know that Mizu and Akemi are essentially wearing masks and putting up fronts throughout the show, what would a representation of Mizu's and Akemi's true selves actually look like? Easy. It's in their hair.

This shot on the left is the only time we see Mizu with her hair completely down. In this scene, she's being berated by Mama, and her guard is completely down, she has no weapon, and is no longer wearing any mask, as this is after she showed Mikio "all of herself" and tried to take off the mask of a subservient housewife. Thus, here, she is sad, vulnerable, and feeling small (emphasised further by the framing of the scene). This is a perfect encapsulation of what Mizu is on the inside, underneath all the layers of revenge-obsession and the walls she's put around herself.

In contrast, the only time we Akemi with her hair fully down, she is completely alone in the bath, and this scene takes place after being scorned by her father and left weeping at his feet. But despite all that, Akemi is headstrong, determined, taking the reigns of her life as she makes the choice to run away, but even that choice is reflective of her youthful naivety. She even gets scolded by Seki shortly after this in the next scene, because though she wants to be independent, she still hasn't completely learned to be. Not yet. Regardless, her decisiveness and moment of self-empowerment is emphasised by the framing of the scene, where her face takes up the majority of the shot, and she stares seriously into the middle distance.

To conclude, I wish popular fanon would stop mischaracterising these two, and flattening them into tropes and stereotypes (ie. masculine badass swordsman Mizu and feminine alluring queen but also girly swooning damsel Akemi), all of which just seems... reductive. It also irks me when Akemi is merely upheld as a love interest and romantic device for Mizu and nothing more, when she is literally Mizu's narrative foil (takes far more narrative precedence over romantic interest) and the deuteragonist of this show. She is her own person. That is literally the theme of her entire character and arc.

#blue eye samurai #mizu blue eye samurai #akemi blue eye samurai #blue eye samurai meta #just in case... im gonna tag this as #mizukemicritical #akemizucritical #though this post isnt actually criticising the ship itself but rather fanon's portrayal of the ship and the characters #for that reason lemme also tag this as #wank.mp3 #feel free to disagree of course but please be civil #and if you need to rant about how wrong i am without any convincing evidence kindly feel free to make your own post. peace and love <3 #fandom.rtf #meta dissertations.pdf #shut up haydar #edit: for full disclosure. i do rather dislike this ship. but obviously it's fine for anyone to enjoy it. please do! have your fun! #it's just that as usual! popular fanon and fandom around a ship is what has completely deterred me from any sense of enjoyment of it #it's a shame too because i was very open and even eager for some mizu/akemi romance in the future #but out-of-character fanon + the rudeness of certain fans has definitely soured it for me #but that doesn't mean people can't enjoy it obviously! ship and let ship!!! #plus it has its appeal which i DO STILL see and enjoy!!!! #i would even go as far as to call them soulmates because their narratives and characters are LITERALLY intertwined!!! #but. yeah. my gradual distaste for this ship is indeed very unfortunate.

[svltburn]

all of the yellowjackets are going to die.

i've had different versions of this theory bouncing around in my head since mid s1, and if you've seen final destination, you can just skip the rest of the post because you probably already know where i'm going with this.

natalie's death scene was overall unsatisfying in my opinion, but that's not because i don't think that the show was leading up to it eventually. her character arc was rushed and cut off too abruptly, but after sitting with the episode for a bit, i do think that natalie was always going to be the first of the survivors we saw die.

"we both know that's not true. this is exactly where we belong. we've been here for years."

now it's notable that natalie is appearing as she did the night of the party in the pilot. the last night before the plane crash. not just her outfit, but her hair and make up are the same. see how much of her roots are grown out, vs how much they're grown out in the 96 timeline.

when that plane went down 600 miles off course, no one was supposed to survive. not a single person on that plane should have made it out. The Wilderness, the lonely, violent, misunderstood Wilderness kept them alive when they crashed into It. when they found cabin guy's plane back in s1, lottie looked at the vines growing around the wheels and said "It didn't want him to leave", and she was right. laura lee's trip ending in spontaneous combustion should have been enough to prove that if only they were paying attention by then.

they all should have died when that plane crashed. The Wilderness allowed them to survive, to make a home. albeit violently, tragically, It nurtured them through two winters, and ungratefully, they all left anyway. eventually they're all going to have to go home to It, one way or another, dead or alive. It's already been inside them for years.

#anyway i'm feeling great! #<- dying inside #yellowjackets #yellowjackets spoilers #natalie scatorccio #lottie matthews #96yellowjackets #anyway i'm just saying things so if u disagree feel free to make fun of me to my face #yellowjackets meta #yellowjackets theory