#i certainly am

[coolunspokenforname]

I feel kinda bad for the charlastor shippers. Like, as a radiodust shipper, we got it bad after the series, but at least what we got was no content. Charlastor? Phew. I have no doubt that world's greatest dad cut your numbers down bad. And the people I've seen against the ship because of that song? Even when Alastor saying she's like a daughter to him was clearly a manipulation tactic and a way to get on Lucifer's nerves? Sure, the ship isn't my cup of tea, but the amount of people calling the ship gross is a little annoying. Again, Alastor clearly doesn't actually think of Charlie as a daughter. Someone he can use to get power? Yeah. But the only one that is even close to being a daughter to him is Nifty.

(Sorry, this was just a ramble. I've seen way too many people shitting on this ship)

#charlastor #radiodust #im guessing that most shipping these are coming from the pilot #i certainly am #and it does make sense #also im not gonna change my mind so dont try

[a-living-cartoon]

A very special Dannypocalypse is coming up!

We will be celebrating 20 YEARS of Danny Phantom this April 3rd! WHO IS READY??

#I certainly am #already preparing my memes #how many danno Christmas carol adaptations can I make? #danny phantom #dannypocalypse #danno

[tadpole-apocalypse]

Morgan and Astarion 🥰

#bg3 #baldur’s gate 3 #baldur’s gate #astarion #astarion x tav #bg3: Morgan #my art #enjoy the side boob! #I certainly am #nsft

[popcornjunkie2k18]

Wondering how many CAS fans are tempted to get an X tattoo on their wrist

#I certainly am #cass apocalyptic series #CAS #rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles

[icarusdiesatdawn]

and it's a mystery to me. He's confident, he's charming, he's an actor, he embraces femininity, he's fun to hang out with, he COOKS, the girls should be all over him

#I certainly am #boy should be popular af?? #skip to loafer #narumi kanechika

[catalise-comenta]

Guys I'm starting to think that the theory that all islanders are criminals may be true and this really was a rehabilitation island

#maybe im slow #i certainly am #liveblogging #qsmp #qsmp theory

[the-rat-wins]

I swear, if he'd lived, we'd have had punk rock by 1963

[Ed Sullivan] cut the Crickets’ act from two songs to one, and he mispronounced Holly’s name when he introduced them as “Buddy Hollet and his Crickets.” In addition, the line feed for Holly’s electric guitar was turned off, and he tried to compensate by singing as loudly as he could and repeatedly trying to turn up the volume on his guitar. He finally let loose with a dramatic solo during the instrumental break so the audience would know the technical fault wasn’t his. (x)

#who isn't sometimes struck with a rush of awe for buddy holly?? #i certainly am #buddy holly #Youtube

[raven-writes-fanfic]

I have one thing to say that sums up how I feel about the recent laws targeting the LGBTQ community. Steve Rogers would be severely disappointed in our country. We've gone from no LGBTQ rights when Steve was growing up to a country of at least begrudging acceptance and NOW back to making it all illegal again.

I'll say it louder for the people in the back: Steve Rogers would be ashamed.

#Steve would be so disappointed in American politics rn #i certainly am #support our LGBTQ siblings kthx #LGBTQ rights #LGBTQ

[thyandrawrites]

Lady nagant crumbs tomorrow. Who's excited

#I certainly am #Gonna be out all morning so I'm gonna be dodging spoilers like neo dodging bullets in matrix #I am so curious about her voice #Thyandra.txt

[sparrowsarus]

me next me next!

Ew

Your face is ew!

You are a coastal bagel elitist who HATES Montreal and works for BIG GOVERNMENT and you STOLE a bear from its natural environment!!

And I'm terrified to ever find out if you are actually correct about the bagel thing. Cause you were correct about the Leverage thing! What other correct secrets are you hiding, gingerpolyglot! If that's even your REAL NAME!

#sorry I got very silly and dramatic here #as a theatre nerd I thought you would be amused #I certainly am

[vaguelyprophetic]

not to be delulu, but stewy looked directly at roman when he said “i like weird sex”, just saying..

anon you are SO right. either 1) he likes weird sex (with roman) or 2) he was dropping a hint to roman that he’d like to have weird sex with him. either is good.

#either is good!!!!! #also embrace the delusion. #I certainly am #stewyroman #ask #anonymous

[eviesaurusrex]

I have two more Stephen pieces hanging around in my drafts and ready to go because I'm obsessed with this man (well, the prologue is 100% about reader and Tony because I love him as well. But the second one has Stephen in it, tho!) Plus, I desperately wanted to start my series about him and Stark!Reader. But I have to write a lot of backstory and stuff because I’m a sucker for that. So it will start with Iron Man 1, and then I’ll see where I’m going with it, I guess? Idk. We’ll see!

Not sure if I should post the prologue today already or not 👀

#stephen strange x reader #stephen strange x stark!reader #doctor strange x stark!reader #doctor strange x reader #wip stuff #just tell me if you’re ready #i guess? #i certainly am #i need more Tony in my life #so you have to deal with that #and my obnoxiously huge need for backstory

[cosmicallymundane]

someone, probably a nerd: don't clunk up your writing with flowery prose! it'll turn readers away and—

me, who very much likes pretty flowers:

#who says i care what readers think #writing #writer #beginner writer #tumblr writing community #tumblr #shit post #my post #books #meme #writing tip #write for you even if you want to describe a room for several pages #you do you boo #i certainly am

[exercuted]

Sigh. I really miss the old friends, the dear folks, nostalgic blogs from people I had the pleasure, privilege, and were privy to in those past glory days.

I will never forget them, I will take the lessons they’ve taught me, and continue the movement, the progression forward. I hope wherever they are, all my old friends, I genuinely hope they are thriving and living a life they love.

#i certainly am #maybe one day they’ll get back on #thoughts #personal

[a-gaggle-of-colors]

Like I've said in the past, ya'll are free to take my silly little articles and headcanons and bits and pieces of fantroll sandbox stuff and run with it.

#kat speaks #kat rambles #i certainly am #:D #i won't spoil anything though

[stromblessed]

Mizu, femininity, and fallen sparrows

In my last post about Mizu and Akemi, I feel like I came across as overly critical of Mizu given that Mizu is a woman who - in her own words - has to live as a man in order to go down the path of revenge.

If she is ever discovered to be female by the wrong person, she will not only be unable to complete her quest, but there's a good chance that she'll be arrested or killed.

So it makes complete sense for Mizu to distance herself as much as possible from any behavior that she feels like would make someone question her sex.

I felt so indignant toward Mizu on my first couple watchthroughs for this moment. Why couldn't Mizu bribe the woman and her child's way into the city too? If Mizu is presenting as a man, couldn't she claim to be the woman's escort?

However, this moment makes things pretty clear. Mizu knows all too well the plight of women in her society. She knows it so well that she cannot risk ever finding herself back in their position again. She helps in what little way she can - without drawing attention to herself.

Mizu is not a hero and she is not one to make of herself a martyr - she will not set herself on fire to keep others warm. There's room to argue that Mizu shouldn't prioritize her quest over people's lives, but given the collateral damage Mizu can live with in almost every episode of season 1, Mizu is simply not operating under that kind of morality at this point. ("You don't know what I've done to reach you," Mizu tells Fowler.)

And while I still feel like Mizu has an obvious and established blind spot when it comes to Akemi because of their differences in station, such that Mizu's judgment of Akemi and actions in episode 5 are the result of prejudice rather than the result of Mizu's caution, I also want to establish that Mizu is just as caged as Akemi is, despite her technically having more freedom while living as a man.

Mizu can hide her mixed race identity some of the time, and she can hide her sex almost all of the time, but being able to operate outside of her society's strict rules for women does not mean she cannot see their plight.

It does not mean she doesn't hurt for them.

Back to Mizu and collateral damage, remember that sparrow?

While Mizu is breaking into Boss Hamata's manse, she gets startled by a bird and kills it on reflex. She then cradles it in her hands - much more tenderly than we've seen Mizu treat almost anything up to this point in the season:

She then puts it in its nest, with its unhatched eggs. Almost like she's trying to make the death look natural. Or like an accident.

You see where I'm going with this.

When Mizu kills Kinuyo, Mizu lingers in the moment, holding the body tenderly:

And btw a lot of stuff about this show hit me hard, but this remains the biggest gut punch of them all for me, Mizu holding that poor girl's body close, GOD

When Mizu arranges the "scene of the crime," Kinuyo's body is delicate, birdlike. And Mizu is so shaken afterward that she gets sloppy. She's horrified at this kill to the point that she can't bring herself to take another innocent life - the boy who rats her out.

MIZU'S ONE MOMENT OF SOFTNESS AND MERCY, COMING ON THE HEELS OF HER NEEDING TO KILL A GIRL TO SPARE HER THE WORST FATE THAT THIS RIGID SOCIETY HAS TO OFFER WOMEN, AND TO SPARE A BROTHEL FULL OF INNOCENT WOMEN WHO ARE THE CASTOFFS OF SOCIETY, NEARLY RESULTS IN ALL OF THEIR DEATHS

No wonder Mizu is as stoic and cold as she is.

And no wonder Mizu has no patience for Akemi whatsoever right before the terrible reveal and the fight breaks out:

Speaking of Akemi - guess who else is compared to a bird!

The plumage is more colorful, a bit flashier. But a bird is a bird.

And, uh

Yeah.

I like to think that Mizu killing the sparrow is not only foreshadowing for what she must do to Kinuyo, but is also a representation of the choice she makes on Akemi's behalf. She decides to cage the bird because she believes the bird is "better off." Better off caged than... dead.

But because Mizu doesn't know Akemi or her situation, she of course doesn't realize that the bird is fated to die if it is caged and sent back home.

Mizu is clearly not happy, or pleased, or satisfied by allowing Akemi to be dragged back to her father:

But softness and mercy haven't gotten Mizu anywhere good, recently.

There is so much tragedy layered into Mizu's character, and it includes the things she has to witness and the choices she makes - or believes she has to make - involving women, when she herself can skirt around a lot of what her society throws at women. Although, I do believe that it comes at the cost of a part of Mizu's soul.

After all, I'm gonna be haunted for the rest of this show by Mizu's very first prayer in episode 1:

"LET" her die. Because as Ringo points out, she doesn't "know how" to die.

Kind of like another bird in this show:

#blue eye samurai #mizu #akemi #kinuyo #bes #women are birds okay they are BIRDS #the let me die line is so SCARY AND SAD like a part of Mizu wants death but she cant? she doesnt know how?? excuse you show??? #when all these other delicate birds are dying all around her #akemis character gets more and more gutwrenching upon subsequent rewatches because whenever she says her life is in danger #NO ONE BELIEVES HER - certainly not other women #because shes rich and pampered and that means shes safe and is worrying about nothing right? right????? #and it turns out that all of akemis instincts were right and she was in danger the ENTIRE TIME #also I need to make a post just for kinuyo because I am sad