#he has a very valid point

[its-your-mind]

HEY. HEY.

HEY @re-dracula WHAT GAVE YOU THE RIGHT TO HAVE JONATHAN ACTUALLY READING THAT PASSAGE OUT LOUD BEHIND SEWARD DESCRIBING THE SCENE, HUH? WITH THE TEARS IN HIS VOICE AND THE PAUSING AND THE SHORT LITTLE INHALES AND THE VOICE CRACKS? WAS IT TRULY NECESSARY??? I WAS ALREADY CRYING. I DIDN'T NEED THIS TOO. WHAT THE FUCK.

#dracula #dracula daily #re: dracula #re dracula #to be clear this is meant in sarcastic jest this episode was a beautifully crafted piece of art and I'm blown away by the cast and #the producers and the editors... holy fucking shit I know today's was a short episode but I think it's taken its place as my favorite so fa #it beat out jonathan fuckin dropping out of the sky in front of drac with his fuckin knife out in order to protect his wife which was ALSO #very good and made me cheer out loud in my car but THIS #also why does jack get to narrate all the dope ass dramatic scenes #I wonder if Mina was like #no really y'all this dude has the best voice and grammar structure for storytelling #we gotta let him keep doing the phonograph thing and I'll just keep copying it down later #tbh she's so valid for that also y'all are so valid for casting jonny sims in this role bc he SHINES when he's describing emotional shit #he NAILS the middle ground between conveying the emotion of a scene and still being a separate narrator #it's almost like he did a whole podcast of that one time ANYWAY my point is y'all are incredible and I am so fuckin glad y'all decided to #start this project

[hybbart]

Codfather was short for a fishman (much shorter than his sister and shorter than elf scott)

The sheriff and ken are both toy sized

Good guy is also short, even when given an enlarging potion

Jimmy made himself shorter than tango in his own thumbnail

He says he's big and strong with all the conviction of a little kid you could punt like a football

He is constantly crouching and making himself look small

I think at this point Jimmy is just canonically a little guy

#i love drawing jimmy as a long boi #but never has there ever been so much speicific lore around someones height #and it all points to him being a little shorty #hes up there with bdubs in terms of short jokes he badly denies #anyways all this to say that short king jimmy is very valid and i support anyone who draws or writes him as such wholeheartedly #this was supposed to go on my main blog but i guess its stuck here now...

[ahalliance]

qsmp francophone cubitos and their dynamic drive me wild, they all know they’re mutually lying and obscuring the truth to one another, they all know they’re keeping each other at arm’s distance, they all know they’re not as open as they once were when it was just them and the aftermath of a plane crash, but the love is still there. the worry and the concern. they pry information out of one another in supposedly subtle ways that really just convey how much they still care about each other. what’s your stance on the federation. how’s your code arm doing. even if in the end you don’t turn to me, please call out to someone. maybe looking out for yourself is looking out for others as well. i don’t know you anymore but i will protect the unknown anyway

#qsmp #qsmp french #jay rambles #i need to go sleep . said i’d go to sleep ages ago . rotating them in my mind anw . fawk #it’s like. they KNOW they’re not being frank with one another. and it’s almost a game they play #i ask you this question and you know what i mean . but i will not say it outright . #for how long can we dance around the topic until one of us spills the obvious out into the open air #<- etoiles broke first btw lmao . and he and baghera went right back to pretending like neither of them knew any better too #insane of them . fuck #(for context it was about bbh and ron . both him and baghz were prodding at each other trying to gauge how much the other knew #and etoiles at one point just said ‘oh my god i know you know baghera !!! please !!!!’ it was a very validating moment for french cubito #enjoyers . right until they went back to pretending nothing had happened . win) #shoutout to like two months ago when etoiles said smth along the lines of how baghera isn’t telling him everything bc she doesn’t trust him #i will explode and explode and explode #antoine’s whole Thing early on about being distrustful and wary of others and how it hurt that he wasn’t always told everything anymore #a slow unraveling of the status quo that you don’t even realised has happened until you look around you

[lunyselene]

ALEX MEYERS MADE A VIDEO TALKING ABOUT LOCKWOOD AND CO!

what he says is so validating and he seemed to really like it! give it a watch if you have a few minutes to spare :)

#lockwood and co #save lockwood and co #alex meyers #i just hope he knows about the graphic novel as well !! #Youtube #oh and im adding this now but #alex Meyers has said some insensitive jokes and he does sometimes make surface level criticism that isnt very valid #but i think that it's important to have a big youtuber talk about Lockwood and co in such a good light #especially since his points are pretty pertinent #and it'll give more visibility to lockwood and co #!!

[gaymersasuke]

"this is a declaration of love"

#sasuke #narusasu #my art #so like u know how we say sasuke didnt get his freaky hashirama cell arm bc his arm is a reminder #of everythinf he's done and everything naruto has done for him #and it ultimately is a form of self flagellation #which is rly valid bc yeah freaky cell arm #what if it was more like #'our destroyed hands are holding in the aether that we created' #and 'our mollecules are one' #that kind of super unhinged way to express affection #so sasuke keeps his arm amputated as is as a token of love #i prefer to think of it that way #because i dont like thinking of sasuke being consumed by guilt and wasting his days on a 'redemption' that will never come #because he's the only one that decides when he's redeemed #and he will never get to that point #and its OKAY!! to have regrets i think its very sexy of sasuke to regret some of his actions (towards naruto) #thats jsut human nature and it makes him the well-rounded three-dimensional character that i love #bottom line #: every day sasuke wakes up without an arm. it's a declaration of love

[sysig]

Bad time of it, all things considered (Patreon)

#Doodles #SCII #Helix #ZEX #Blood #Just a bit but y'know - Enough #It honestly made me So sad that it took until his canonmates saw it happen that someone /finally/ acknowledged his spontaneous cuts D: #Like I get it it's dark and it's hard to see but his skin just opened up and he made a noise about it! The possible danger!! #And then by that point he's just so used to everyone ignoring it that their concern for him is barely even a factor weh ZEX ;; #Plus it's just a cool effect haha - sudden blood from nothing! Very rich mental movement #At least Max had someone concerned for him about it <3 Not that he could do anything about it but even just the validation of seeing it! #He has enough cuts on him :( Poor tenderized flesh #He gets all crabby from being sore from healing constantly haha :'D Of course he would! #One thing I found very interesting was the scar sidedness :0 Most of the examples in the gallery have his scar and missing eye opposite #But that's not necessarily the case! I actually scoured mid-read and there /are/ a couple instances of matching side! #They're very tiny so I overlooked them upon first viewing hehe ♪ But they're there! It's very interesting to me! #I like the aesthetics of the opposite - probably because I'm more used to it lol - but I can see the appeal and reasoning for the other way #I do honestly enjoy how much is open to interpretation and allowance uwu♪ And what's consistent! Like how it's always his right eye :D #That tracks hehe ♫ #Haha his meeting with his delightfully inept counselor - I'm pretty sure I was actually more angry about his supposed injury than he was #He chilled out pretty quickly while I was just - A Scratched Cornea??? The disrespect!! #So happy with his eyebrow expression on that one as well ah <3 #It really does make me curious for how the staff is kept there - they don't /seem/ malicious during the day! But they're also unaware #It's interesting where the lines of reality are between everyone :D Very interesting ♪ #Capping off with another song my playlist is looking quite healthy now hehe #Flagpole Sitta is one of those songs that only comes up for me every half dozen years or so but when it Does - phewph #It is /such/ a ZEX song to me now hehe <3 The flirtiness and exasperation - the defeatism even! So many killer lines #I think my favourite is ''I'm not sick but I'm not well'' ask me to read into that I will I'm gonna I'll do it even if you don't ask me lol #So fun to draw those lapses in control the poor dear ♥ #The digital reconstruction there was a lot of fun as well actually :D I think I nailed it :3 Pulled around from all over the page! Pleased ♪

[angst-is-love-angst-is-life]

Having Oliver Queen be the one to comfort other characters when in situations because he hardly ever got any in his five years and he wants to make sure no one else has to feel that way

#this was very poorly worded #sorry #I’ve done this from day 1 #maybe this is wildly out of character but it’s ingrained in my writing DNA at this point #also he generally just has the most experience out of everyone so he knows how to help #really need to rewatch Arrow though #feels like his characterization is slipping through my fingers rn #luckily I don’t write him very often so a full binge can wait #my posts #side fics #oliver queen #am I perhaps projecting my ‘older sibling-ness’ onto him? perhaps #but he is also an older sibling #so it’s valid #free therapy #arrowverse #arrowverse fanfiction #also unrelated but I need to challenge myself to write a whump fic without Barry as the one getting hurt

[littledreamling]

I know we all meme on Dream for this (he’s just like me fr) but I’m reading the comics for the first time and finally have context behind this… I’ll never be able to look at it the same way again

#poor dream #this is literally one of his lowest points #trying to avoid comic spoilers but like… cut him some slack y’all #mans is out here seriously Depressed ™ and he has a very valid reason to be #dream of the endless #morpheus #sandman comics #neil gaiman #sandman neil gaiman

[quietwingsinthesky]

can we talk about the meep’s pronouns moment in the star beast again? i want to talk about the way it’s set up. in any other show, this would have been a joke. it would have been, “oh, look at this trans person getting so up in arms about the doctor assuming this alien’s pronouns. isn’t that an insane thing to care about?” and then that would be where it ended, the entire point being that asking for pronouns is ridiculous, that a trans person pointing it out is ridiculous, and we should be laughing at Rose for bringing it up.

but. it’s not. Rose says, “You’re assuming he as a pronoun?” in a tone of voice that, to me, at least, reads as someone who has been in this situation many, many times before and been laughed at for caring. who has been the butt of that joke. who starts this dialogue off from a defensive position because every time before she’s ever asked in earnest, she’s been shut down.

and then the Doctor says, “True. Yes. Sorry. Good point. Are you he or she or they?” The Doctor acknowledges Rose’s point, apologizes for glossing over it, and makes an effort to ask. Hell, the moment is even used to set up the Doctor connecting to the Meep more like he will when the Meep mentions having two hearts; they both share “the” as a pronoun as a pronoun.

(and I’m reading through the transcript right now to check, but as far as I can tell, yeah. The Doctor does then use “The Meep” to refer to the Meep for the rest of the episode, not any other pronoun.)

It’s a very brief moment, but it feels intentionally made to invoke those jokes, to take them and say, ‘no, why would this be a joke, we’ll take it seriously.’ Expectations subverted brilliantly. The Doctor says trans rights.

#it’s a good moment! this episode is not perfect by any means. esp the bit at the end where we go from ‘well the doctor is male and female #neither and more.’ to ‘a male-presenting doctor would Not get this :/‘ like. okay. #but i think there’s a genuine effort here that’s lovely and earnest. a fumble or two is acceptable in an attempt to do good you know? #but yeah this moment is a very good short little moment and i love it and i love rose noble #i love how quickly the doctor turns to her and takes her seriously. i love that her question is immediately validated. i love her. #also i dont know when else ill get to talk about this but i love that ‘the’ is canonically one of the doctor’s pronouns. #ive seen some people say ‘well why do they put that line in and people keep calling the doctor ‘he’?’ and i think like. because he uses more #than just the one? i really dont think the doctor would just sit down and shut up if she was really upset about being misgendered. have u #seen her. 90% of her character is talking. he would make it known immediately. #it just seemed clear to me that this was the doctor acknowledging that they use more than the usual set. and that’s why im petition for #xe/xem doctor in the next season- #(or…. or it/its doctor……….. ouguh 🥺) #anyway point is that the doctor has many a pronoun and one of them is just ‘the doctor’. #doctor who #rose noble #fourteenth doctor #the doctor

[agnisleftpec]

yknow, i think a lot of my annoyance with anti-aang discourse is that a lot of criticisms seem to act like they're marks against aang's character writing specifically, as opposed to the approach of the narrative as whole, which aang is uniquely representative of by being the main character. it just feels like some people are frustrated at the show for being reserved in its exploration of certain aspects of war, and they take that out on aang.

#not that you can't just not like aang #that's chill #but ive seen a lot of posts about how aang never addresses the people he's most definitely killed throughout the series #and they act like it's a specific point against aang's writing #like. you notice how the entire narrative is like that #you notice how they never outright say that fire nation soldiers drowned in the north pole #you notice how aang has nightmares about it anyway #sure absolutely you can be frustrated about the arrative refusing to properly address the violent situations they devise #but unless you're also mad at toph and katara and sokka for the people they've most definitely killed and not addressed #you dont get to be mad at aang for it #it's not an aang problem #it's a narrative tone one #which in a lot of ways isn't a problem so much as it's adults wishing for more complexity out of an already very complex children's show #maybe just pause and think if it's a valid criticism of a children's show #or just something that you'd prefer to see expanded on to cater to your maturity level #that's what fandom is for baby #surround yourself with content at your maturity level #ok mini rant over lmao #atla #aang #fandom critical #my takes

[dimiclaudeblaigan]

Honestly though, this (what Ashe is pointing out) is exactly why I don't think GW could possibly end well. There's no "talking it over" after all the bloodshed (especially bloodshed started by them, and especially bloodshed started by them that didn't have to happen).

The way the narration leaves it "open" too at the end of GW just comes across as "it failed". It feels like... a kind of pointless story?

And I know some people might think that since Dimitri personally isn't as deeply affected by losing Matthias and so might be willing, that's still no good if his people and closest allies aren't. Rodrigue and Sylvain wouldn't be so forgiving, and I do think Dimitri would follow suit because that's his father (Rodrigue)'s closest friend and one of his own closest friends' father.

Add that to the fact that they have Sreng to deal with still (and I imagine sooner or Sylvain would figure out that Leicester had a hand in provoking Sreng to attack Faerghus) on top of losing Matthias and I imagine all the stress and aggravation wouldn't bode well for Leicester as far as Claude's thinking of things working out goes.

I just really can't see where GW goes afterward that would be "good" or works in Claude's favor at all. Maybe that was the intention and it was meant to be a route with a completely tragic ending, but apparently there are players who think it would end well and whatnot and I just can't see that happening (both from Faerghus' end and from Adrestia's end, the latter of which Claude discussed within GW itself).

If their intention was for a totally tragic ending, like yeah, I can see that... but as always the writing muddies the waters to make it sound good while something bad is happening. It keeps trying to have a positive spin on bad things as if they're just afraid to commit to a fully bad ending.

#DCB Three Hopes Run #also to be specific the reason I just call Rodrigue his father outright is bc he refers to him as a “second father” in Houses #but I'm not gonna literally write “his second father” every time I mention it and honestly “adoptive father” doesn't work for me either #bc him being an adoptive sort of parent doesn't make the fact that he /is/ a parent to him any less valid #like a parent is a parent and I don't feel the need to point that out and the feeling is mutual between them #if Rodrigue is literally calling him ''my boy'' it's a pretty cut and dry parent/child relationship #obviously I'm using Houses context in this case but it's still accurate in Hopes #and I just can't see losing Matthias going over smoothly at all and things getting better with time #I mean Matthias is such a major player in Faerghus and so important that I just can't see them being like #well it was only /one/ important bigwig who died. like no it was one important bigwig saving a whole lot of lives #who is also very intelligent and has a deep say in politics. that's ofc not counting #as Ashe says here in AM in reference to Adrestia that they've killed so much on both sides bc of the war #that he can't imagine just sitting and talking now. just because we as players only saw one named character die #and just because that character wasn't a playable character nor a returning character we already knew and loved #doesn't mean hundreds if not thousands more didn't die in Leicester's invasion #like Ashe says here I just don't see how both sides could sit and talk after all that #esp since Sylvain would prob be involved and uh... Sylvain is... a very emotional and angry person #and extremely vengeful (and they rly leaned into that side of him in Hopes in all routes) #I canNOT imagine talks with him involved not getting heated and aggressive #and he'd /have/ to be there bc he's the Margrave now in GW. if they want to have important talks like that #they need all their major players which like even if Felix say wasn't there #Rodrigue has basically equal authority as Felix bc Rodrigue has the respect of experience and has proven himself #so they could be swapped out for talks and Felix being the ''official'' Duke wouldn't affect talks in the least #if Rodrigue was/had to be present instead. with Sylvain you've either got no other options #or you've got Miklan who I can't imagine would want to even get involved with all of that #both bc of his mixed feelings on Matthias but also bc he's been out of the political atmosphere for so long #so yeah I uh... can't... see talks ever going well unless Claude legitimately makes amends somehow #or Houses Claude gets in there smacks him around and fixes some shit before heading back to his own verse lol

[melodianaartist]

A piece of media can have a group of people who are wayy too hard on it and the same piece of media can also be imperfect. Like, the urge to defend and negate any valid critiques is there but that’s also not good. The same piece of media can bring you so much joy too btw.

#this is about Hazbin hotel #/helluva boss #I often see critiques that are wayy too hard on it like people criticising the designs for beeing unanimateable #which is wild to me. like?? none of the animators (to my knowledge) spoke up about it but that’s a huge critique of some characters #(I do realise that speaking up could also risk their job but still) #we have no idea what goes on in vivziepop’s studio. where did that come from #or that the animators were slutshaming Angel with the signs in loser baby when like.. #the point is that he has all those things happen to him or said about him (in various degrees of validity) but he is not closing himself ofg #anymore and getting the strength to overcome his struggles in community?? #that beeing said the pacing in Hazbin hotel is very much off #and there are things I wish we could have focused on more #or HELL the whole voice cast beeing replaced by more high profile actors when some of them are deadass just trying to sound like the og ones #so what is the point. #those voodoo symbols on Alastor’s trading card are also sorta iffy #this was written before I watched the last two episodes #btw so please don’t spoil me

[ijustwantaplacetorantinpeace]

Get a god killed, host a shrimp party seconds later... yeah that sounds like what Junior Year was to me

#d20 spoilers #fhjy #sometimes it feels like Zac multiclassed as an excuse to raise Gorgug's int so that he could narratively point out important stuff #thinking back to him being the only one suspicious of the bank during season 1 that slowly got overtaken by graveyard shenanigans #entirely valid for all parties tbh #also a bad luck curse is very on brand for junior year #curds worked out for them in Neverafter so naturally Brennan has to throw it back at them

[jaqvenus]

okay okay okay i love ron and terry’s relationship right? they’re so great but i just get a little heated thinking about it

i feel like terry had to be the “adult” one with ron? and before i start i know like half of their interactions were like that bc it was funny or whatever and it’s just ‘ron being ron’ but with all the shit terry had to go through he shouldn’t have had to be the sensible one in that relationship. for a while there after ron married samantha, terry spent all his time hating ron (and was also traumatized by ron after seeing him decapitate a man who looked exactly like his father) then after their relationship was repaired, spent half of the time having to guide ron and be the levelheaded one, AND THEN has to see ron’s own trauma. i just think so much of this kid’s childhood was taken from him and he deserves more than that

#dndaddies #dungeons and daddies #dndads #ron stampler #terry jr #terry stampler #i also think terry doesn’t get enough love by the fandom but that’s for another soap box #also i think that at a certain point terry just couldn’t justify being mad at ron anymore because of all of ron’s own trauma #so he has to push away his own very valid anger #idk maybe i’m just overthinking this dnd podcast

[doozie97]

We could’ve had a phenomenal episode if it was Ondine who was akumatized upon the cold realization that her boyfriend might not be the guy she thought he was and for Kim’s two braincells to brush against each other enough to make the connection between what he once did to prank Marinette and what he felt after what Chloe would later do to humiliate him in Dark Cupid.

#i come back for one episode and they ruin him #Kim has been done with Chloe since S1 you can see that in Zombiezou how annoyed he is even though he still cared for her wellbeing #you had a very believable conflict between teenagers and you mucked it up #like the boys will be boys thing with kim was so believable i can believe that Kim didn’t mean to hurt Marinette #and he never thought anything about it because Marinette doesn’t want to confront him about it #communication is freaking hard! people can hurt you even when they didnt mean to and that doesn’t make your feelings less valid #even though Marinette obviously forgave Kim it doesn’t change the harm he did #and sometimes you have to beat ppl over the head for them to get the point across #but no that would require making a new akuma for Ondine #i legit felt a little watery while watching this ep until the Akuma went to Kim instead #instead we got Chat Noir almost using cataclysm on an akumatized civilian #ml salt #ml derision #ml spoilers #ml season 5 spoilers #ml season 5 #derision

[misspermitted]

Oh my god she’s starting to realise she isn’t actually in love with ZZ just guilty and that they’re bad influences on each other omg

#story of kunning palace #xie wei has a way to go with the not trying to control her thing though #very valid point made in these episodes #I actually think the You Fangin and business man relationship #well parallels the issues with Xie Wei and Ning at the moment #You Fangin is offered freedom in her relationship #xie wei wants to control everything because trauma #even though if Ning was actually controlled he would not like her #but we have like many more episodes for him to get there #just as we have many more episodes for Ning to realise that she’s worthy of love #without having to be someone else