#gorgeously written

[desdasiwrites]

–Anna-Marie McLemore, When the Moon Was Ours

#book quote of the day #anna marie mclemore #when the moon was ours #Valentine's day reading recs #magical realism #ya books #bipoc representation #lgbtqia+ literature #transgender protagonist #pakistani protagonist #latinx protagonist #mexican-american author #James Tiptree Jr Award winner #Stonewall Honor Award winner #young adult fantasy #romance books #own voices #gorgeously written #book recommendations

[prettyboysdontlookatexplosions]

logan homophobically bullying kendall in the first episode vs. kendall informing stewy kissing guys on molly doesn’t qualify as weird sex in the last episode. when you think about it with your third eye open he did close one portal at least

#if jesse armstrong didn’t want me to cope with his gorgeously executed emotionally devastating shakespearian tragedy by making these jokes #he simply should not have written You Kiss Guys On Molly #but he did and he was right to and i will #succession spoilers #succession

[augustameretrix]

guys i know it has fuck all to do with the movie as a whole but that scene in civil war (2024) where the young reporter tells kristin dunst in the green dress to shut the fuck up so she can snap a picture of her so she mercilessly teases her experienced older colleague until shes shy and flustered and then click my god. i felt that

#welcome to another episode of finding yuri in the worst fucking places #the movie was..... i mean it was gorgeously shot and edited but the script uh. the writing is. well. its yknow written. #civil war 2024

[smallfrenchstudyblr]

Camus may not have written "Shall I kill myself, or shall I have a cup of coffee"

but he said "Shall we die willingly, or shall we hope despite everything?"

which is just as good.

#a girl is re-reading The Myth of Sisyphus #all philosophy should be written that gorgeously #spoiler: we shall hope

[ask-princessandromeda]

Ethan, you will die the death of a hero, and you will be remembered as a hero, Percy Jackson himself will sew your shroud - magnificent black silk embroidered with golden threads with scales under two crossed swords, the symbol of your mother. The younger gods will receive respect and their cabins in the camp, your mother too. Nemesis' cabin (#16) it will be small but elegant made of red brick, its door is made of oak, torches will light it from the outside, a wheel from her motorcycle will hang over the door. The interior will be modest, but cozy. There will be photographs of Nemesis' mortal lovers and the parents of her children on the bedside tables [if their relationship is satisfactory]. Nemesis will give her children a bowl that will show where a person in hades will go, - if it is filled with golden exquisite wine - elysium, simple black tea, - fields of asphodels, ordinary water, - fields of punishment. And you're going to have a younger brother named Damien White, he's a cute boy. There are some anger issues, but he's good.

By the way, guys, I'm joining your ranks, I'll give you a prophecy and advice :)

Kore Pythia Hayashi, daughter of Apollo, now the warrior of Kronos and his seer.

P.S. - By the way, Alabaster, you will become an exile, you will be blocked from entering the camp for the rest of your life so that you do not "corrupt" your brothers and sisters.

Ethan: Oh. Let… me sit down for a bit.

Ethan: My mother told me some of these things when I exchanged my eye. It’s only fair that my sacrifice would be meaningful. Thing is, I’ve always been comfortable with this fate. Dying for a cause. Bringing some light into the world, even if that means I’ll have to burn from the inside out. But now… it seems like a bigger threat. I never thought I’d be scared of death, but here I am, sitting between the walls of this ship, questioning the things I’ve dedicated my whole existence for. I’ll have to have faith, faith that my name would be forever engraved in the cabin’s walls, in my comrades’s blood, faith that my death will make hundreds of lifes better. I’ll never get to see my cabin, I’ll have to exchange my body and my soul for the mere hope that it’ll exist. Can I even trust you? Can I even trust fate? I don’t know. But the fool likes to stick to his ideals, as they’re the only things keeping him alive.

Ethan: *bitterly smiles*

Ethan: I’m such a fool. I have to keep hoping, don’t I?

Ethan: *glances at Alabaster* I hope that he’ll be okay. Say hello to Damien for me, because I don’t think I’ll ever be able to meet him.

Ethan: *stops for a moment, then gets up* Everyone, welcome Kore to our ranks! The new advisor of Kronos!

#[anon this is so gorgeously written] #[I hope that my answer is worthy of the ask] #ask princess andromeda #ethan nakamura #titan army #damien white #pjo ask blog #pjo #percy jackson and the olympians #percy jackson

[iphisesque]

Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (1982)

#audre lorde #zami #female oedipus tag #(i don't think it's necessarily a female oedipus story – there's not so much antagonism for the father – but we take what we can get) #(and obviously it is a gorgeously written book aside from that. please go read it right now and if you've already read it go reread it)

[anxiouspark]

#It's the kind of smile poetries are written for #Like the eye smile #The kind that lights up everything around #Plus the gorgeousness #wi ha joon #the worst of evil #I miss #Little women

[bunquest]

grimoire fandom jumping through 1 million hoops to give their special boy twink the most in depth backstory known to man when the games are full of infinitely more interesting and complex characters that get woefully ignored bc theyre not an attractive skinny white boy

#fifi was a beautifully written autistic character and for what? #fitz is literally one of the most tragic characters ive ever seen in anything And For What? #penelope was a gorgeously complex villain with compelling motives and a heartbreaking backstory AND. FOR. WHAT? #SIGH. #rambles #im not putting this in the tags lol

[monstraduplicia]

favorite lines from the things by peter watts

#the things #peter watts #the thing #the thing 1982 #mine #such an amazing short story its just gorgeously written from start to finish #quote

[metanarrates]

I was so tempted to tag you in the princess poll lol I was like does meta know????

Number One Fan Of Weird Reincarnating Princess Goddess Women already on the case good anon

#narrates #i LOVE zelda esp botw zelda... (totk writers dni) #but she's fighting the immense uphill battle of being the title character in a franchise that does not respect women #and has damselling her an integral part of its formula STILL for some reason #whereas the princess stp is a gorgeously complex entity written by people who LOVE women esp fucked up nightmare horror women #im sorry zelda but stp damsel deconstructed u and therefore blasted u out of the stratosphere...

[geodethecrow]

I've currently got a mug of warm tea, an absolutely lovely book, and a cat sleeping next to me :)

What more could a guy wish for?

#and its break!! no school for a week lets go #book is “a psalm for the wild-built” by becky chambers and its just gorgeously written highly recommend #unsolicited life updates that you definitely dont need #candlelight musings

[csmbrsk]

Some thoughts about Makima; 

I will surely do about other characters from chainsaw man (or about some manga)

some spoilers under, don't read if you're not up to the manga !!

Feel free to give me ur thoughts about her in general or about this post, kinda cool to interact with some fans (:

I scrolled on twitter and Tumblr to see people's pov on Makima (like French twitter or English one) and every time, either people just adore her because of her design or hate her because of what she did to Denji &Co. Even with some of my friends (bc I really like this character), they either see me as a "simp" or a "dumbass".

For sure, Makima is portrayed to be like at first because the story starts from Denji's eyes, we are reading his story, so we perceive everything like him. She seems incredible and unattainable, an impossible reward or reach, and the fact that she is mysterious just embellishes her. Even in the 3rd and 5th ending, she is portrayed as Maria, religious connotations to portray her as something/someone unattainable. She is a savior for Denji, Aki, Power and I'm sure for a lot of devils or humans. Her appearances are often short but very determinant for the story or the plot, so we are kinda intrigued by her. In the beginning, we don't really see her "human" side (y'know she is a devil but she has a soft side), we just see her as a woman who have goals to achieve and tricks Denji as her wishes want.

In fact, if we just see her actions, she is a bad person. Tricking everyone with her controlling power, abusing Denji's truth (and Aki's too), ruining people life because it seems right for her, for her idealistic world. In French, we call that ''conséquentialisme", it has as a definition : "the ethical theory that the morality of an action depends solely on its consequences", so as for Makima, her action may be seen as "valable" because she wants a better world, because she is here to create a better place for everyone even tho it's based on Denji's misery. Her actions are valid thanks to their consequences; an utopia. We may associate her to another philosophy trend called "utilitarisme", defined as : "maximize everyone's happiness" in this case. It means your actions are useful for everyone, it has a meaning.

Everyone can be utilitaristes, as seen with a simple example ;

A train has two roads, right and left, on the right side; the train will kill one person. On the left side, the train will kill five people. Which way will you choose ?

In this case, most people will save the five guys, this is what we call the "utilitarisme", and Fujimoto wrote the limits of it. Indeed, he made the trio "Denji, power, aki" so lovable, so endearing and so relatable that we won't see Makima's purpose as good because she killed most of them, because she destroyed them. We are blinded by our feelings. Even tho her actions are useful for the whole world, a lot of people hate her because she hurt a character they like. But, if we resumed chainsaw man as "a better world vs a guy's happiness", everyone would choose the better world except if they know the guy, it will create a feeling of pity, sadness, and you aren't objective anymore (some videos on YT explains a way lot better the idea of utilitarisme).

Chainsaw man is a shonen, most people reading a shonen won't search this deep into a character. Every character is either bad or good. Makima is bad for a lot of readers because she killed other characters.

Every thing up is just a resume of Makima's actions, but if we analyze her more closely, she isn't just there to create a better place for everyone, she wants to create one for her too.

Let's take the chapter 39, she is first seen asking Denji is everything is okay. Then, she invites him to a date, which he accepts happily and without any hesitation. During this date, they are watching movies, and the only one that affect her (and Denji) is a movie about a family, about reuniting with a loved one, with a closed one, with a sibling or a father. It's about genuine love, it's about genuine care. It isn't about war, despair or anything like that, it's about having a family. It's about having someone who cares for you and for who you care too. She is seen crying, a powerful feeling, because she is just always seen smiling or just neutral. This is a sign of her human side, her first desire; to have someone. Not a lover or anything, just someone who loves her, who gives her affection.

As Pochita said, the control devil only wants hugs, only wants someone who is equal to it. Some people see Makima as a "fangirl" of chainsaw man but it's not totally right. Why does she admire him ? Because he is strong, strong enough to defeat her. Makima doesn't know the defeat, Makima doesn't know someone who is stronger than her. The manga perfectly deflects that : everyone is scared of her (aka Quanxi threw her saber/sword when she saw her, she didnt even try to fight Makima). Added to the government who abandons any war against her, it nourishes the idea that she is invincible, it flourished in her. It became as obvious as the water is wet for her; that everyone is inferior. She indeed likes chainsaw man because he can erase any demon, but she also likes him because he can defeat her and it kinda excites her. She is smiling, laughing and excited during this last fight (some thing we never really saw from her). Even if it ended in her being eaten, she is honored and happy to have met someone who can injure her, who isn't going to die against her. When she tore Denji's torso to take Pochita, her first reflex is to squeeze him against her face, to hug him, to say that they are going to be together forever. She is hugging him as if she is craving a physical touch, as if she missed him, we never saw this side of her during the whole manga. So, with all that, Makima just seemed to be a lonely person during her whole life. All her relationships are based on fear or control. And I'm thinking that, even when she was younger or else, it was this way, it was always this way. And it will always be. She wanted to erase the death, maybe she suffered from a loss ? Even tho she wanted to help everyone or to delete any source of suffer, she also wanted to help herself. I'm always thinking that if someone showed Makima a genuine love, a real care, things would be different (but we won't be having this final for the part 1). Maybe she was doing it because she didn't want anyone to be as lonely or to suffer just as her. You know, your perception of love is strongly inspired by the love you see from your parents or between them. Maybe she just didnt have a great "example" of love, of what a real relationship should be.

Kishibe said to Denji to take care of Nayuta so the government cant make "another Makima", she is just a result of it. I think even her doesn't know her true self. Everyone saw her as a goddess, she didnt ask for it, people just feel the need to fall on their knees in front of her. She never described her as a "God" but, of course, for her purposes, she acted like one; she acted like a savior. She just abused the perception that people have of her at first sight.

Comparing a cold blooded Makima to a Makima hugging Pochita is kinda interesting; we have a facade and the true one. She acted all caring and loving after she thought everyone was dead, after she thought she won. You know, it seemed like a relief. She can be herself and start the life she really wanted; a loving one.

To justify what she did to everyone during the manga, don't forget that Makima recognizes people thanks to their smell. I really think she cant identify someone just by the face or the sound of their voice. She said that she saw humans just like humans saw dogs. Being detached to them kinda help her to act like this. She doesn't even see them as human or devil, she cant have any compassion to them. During summer, you can kill an annoying fly, right ? You won't have any remorse, even tho this fly had a life, it was living, you killed it because it was just annoying.

Don't be wrong, I really love Denji, I was sad for what she did to Aki, but I can put this affection aside and just try understand a character's depth.

#my English is kinda broken im sorry #I tried my best #she is a gorgeously well written character #idk what happened in my head when I start writing #dont know if someone is going to read all that but it was great to do an in-depth analyze of Makima (: #Denji is the next I think #wanted to add more philosophy's ideas to her buttttt im not here to write an essay ha #Fujimoto did an amazing work with her and idc if we can have another character like her #makima #denji #chainsawman #chainsaw man #Denji #Makima #Aki #Pochita #Chainsaw Man #Mappa #csm #csm spoilers #chainsaw man spoilers

[eggbagelz]

I have beef with a lot of bg3 but by god did they pop off with gale

#my sweet silly overly verbose wizard man................... talk 2 me abt ur cat for ever and ever and ever please #i mean. look the characters are gorgeously written but gale is by far my favorite #wyll and karlach are very very close behind #also its kind of funny that u can romance halsin bc whenever i interact with him im like oh you are my dad. boogie woogie woogie #paydja plays baldur's gate

[lovelyrotter]

us and our partner have been finally reading through the homestuck epilogues and holy shit. holy shit??? genuinely i have no idea why people hate them sm. i mean i can totally see why but i fuckin love them. though meat has Empowered(tm) our partner systems Dirk in the most hilarious fuckin way. i love this guy sm he doesnt even know cause i havent told him in the inflection i keep tryin to dodge HAHAHA

#my t #daveposting #meat lit the spiciest fire under my boys twinky ass and his actual bf in our system thinks its hilarious in a #“aww u think you can narratively control me like that. you are SO cute. anyway heres your calm-down-time collar sweetheart” #its funny cause his bf is jake hahaha #anyway the epilogues are gorgeously written and super fuckin clever i could write a whole essay on em #legit ive got no complaints it fully just feels like More Homestuck to me #ppl mad jane 'turned into' a fascist like ???? thats how growing up in a privilege bubble and never actually waking up from the propaganda- #youve been being fed works??? shes literally the heir apparent to fish hitlers empire and ppl were surprised and shocked #she never actually became disillusioned from her home situation like nana egbert did #jane and nana are like bro and dirk but reverse #theyll get mad bc im RIGHT

[stvlti]

Jaime's the title character of Blue Beetle, but in many ways, he's not its hero. At least, not its sole hero.

He's chosen by the alien mech-suit, yes, but he's anything but yet another Chosen One hero. He's not some lone figure charged with carrying the weight of responsibility on his own — he's part of a collective that offers him support and strength and moral guidance. He's not a Superman who floats above us, he's an Everyman who's one of us — because he doesn't simply protect those he loves, he entirely depends on them as well. And they, in turn, take extraordinary steps to save him when he's in danger, a neat inversion of the classic hero/sidekick relationship. His family members are not his sidekicks — they're all members of a team or, to put it another way: a community.

Fans have been saying that we need more diverse superhero stories in live action adaptations: diverse not just in representation but from the character archetypes shown on screen to the cultural specificities woven into the very quirks and plot beats of the narrative. We have in Blue Beetle the clearest example of what a movie like that looks like. Here's to hoping DC will continue on this trajectory after the win that is Jaime Reyes' own movie.

Go watch Blue Beetle if you haven't yet!

#blue beetle #op ed #what I've been reading #film talk #this is a gorgeously written piece of journalism #but also on a personal level: YES they captured the way Jaime leans on his family and his community in the comic perfectly in the movie!! #dc meta

[whiteshipnightjar]

Darling, there's a place for us

Can we go, before I turn to dust?

Oh, my darling there's a place for us

Darling. C’mon will you dance, My darling?

#i'm glad bear got away #monkey & bear is such a gorgeously written epic isn't it <333 #q and a #anonymous