#i dont even accept it as canon if it is

[happynewyear-99]

hey guys lets not talk about unpleasant eating the cat. lets leave tje cat alone okay guys. okay guys. on the same page? yeah

#least favorite hc by far #i dont even accept it as canon if it is #hope not man #this shit sucks #regretevator #slayer of doom incoherent ramblings

[pasta-pardner]

spotify | john marston's revenge quest, set to music from 1960s spaghetti westerns.

Fun detail: the opening cutscene for Red Dead Revolver (2004) features an instrumental version of "His Name Is King". The lyrical version is oddly fitting for John, given that it's a song about seeking vengeance for a dead brother.

#red dead #rdr2 #john marston #arthur morgan #pardner playlists #pardner posts #tagging arthur in this bc even tho its a john-centric playlist.. its about the way john grieves arthur #y'all know me !!! im always a sucker for a revenge story!!! #so i cant help but dwell on johns attitude of ~i will throw away my chance at a future because i'm stuck in the past grieving you~ #like thats a banger. thats a good revenge story. the ultimate act of devotion is also an ultimate act of betrayal. #this is admittedly a kind of pulpy playlist and im embracing that. im a fan of 'horse opera' westerns and im attaching that to epilogue joh #anyways. all the songs on this playlist were released btwn 1966 - 1971 so its definitely a vintage vibe. #i tried to match that vintage energy with the graphic design. the cover art is screenshots of rdr2 that i've /heavily/ edited in photoshop #i wanted the images to look like those oil and/or acrylic paintings done for old movie posters #it took a lot of filter adjustments and paint-overs to get to this stage. i spent a lot of time on it. (please clap) #i initially wanted john to be wearing arthur's hat for this but . hdkhjdf ran into some difficulties sourcing usable screenshots. #i refuse to accept unmodded epilogue john as canon. i dont know what you think that thing is but that is not my son etc etc. #its jmrp or bust for me #most of the jmrp screengrabs i could turn into a workable composition featured the john hat so i just went with that. unfortunate but mehh #sidenote. plz click for quality bc a lot of the paint texturing in these covers gets lost in the compression #alight yall. have fun with the playlist !! lmk if u end up giving it a listen. #rdr2 spoilers #🤠 #art

[aroaceleovaldez]

i hope this doesn't sound like a silly or weird thing to send you, but i'm autistic and have long thought of nico and a handful of other riordanverse characters as autistic and i love your posts about why nico in particular seems intentionally autistic-coded. but i've been thinking, if rick did intend for any of his characters to be autistic, why wouldn't he say so outside of the text at least? i can't think of a good reason why not, when he goes out of his way to be explicit about so many other characters' various marginalized identities and has confirmed things like reyna being asexual outside of the original text. so it gives me this nagging sort of doubt that maybe rick just made nico come off as so extremely autistic coded by accident, somehow. if it wasn't an accident i do kind of wish he'd say so because there's next to zero explicitly stated autistic representation in, like, any media so it'd be nice to have here even if not strictly necessary. either way though, like i said, i love your posts and i agree with you 100% about autistic nico! some others i like to think are autistic are annabeth and leo.

(Most of this is gonna be kind of a tangential ramble to your point and i apologize in advance just bear with me)

This actually touches upon something I've been meaning to do a write-up on recently, which is: depending on the coding, that is our explicit statement. In most coding, actually, that's kind of the point. (Also something something Death of the Author.)

You may have noticed a recent trend across media of characters saying things directly rather than expressing them in a natural way, and often this includes incredibly stilted dialogue of characters explaining things in very politically correct, wikipedia-esque descriptions and terminology that make absolutely no sense for the characters' personalities or mannerisms. This is born out of the idea that if something is not stated in explicit terms, no amount of evidence below an outright direct exact statement will ever count - if two characters of the same gender have an explicit kiss and wedding on-screen, it doesn't matter because they never said the word "gay," etc etc.

In PJO, prior to more recent books, we get plenty of examples of characters explaining parts of their identities without direct statements. Percy never needs to say in outright terms that he has PTSD from Gabe - and it doesn't make sense that he would! He's 12! He's never been diagnosed for that. He probably doesn't even know what PTSD is really. But we, the audience, know without a doubt he has PTSD, because it is clearly expressed to us. That is coding. Tyson is coded as having down syndrome. Nico is coded as being autistic. It doesn't make sense for Nico to turn to the camera and explain that he's autistic and what that means, because he definitely never got diagnosed for it and probably doesn't know what that means cause the diagnosis literally did not exist when he was growing up - and heck, autism terminology was still kind of getting sorted out back in 2007 when TTC was published, so it's unlikely we could have feasibly gotten any exact terminology wink-wink-nudge-nudges short of something like how Percy outright mentions other students called Tyson the r-slur in Sea of Monsters. And in fact we see that same exact style of coding with Nico later on in the series. Nico never turns to the camera and says word-for-word "I am gay, I am mlm, here's me wearing my exact pride flags" (until TOA/TSATS, which... did the exact thing i mentioned about characters speaking like theyre trying to get a good grade in therapy, or giving a powerpoint presentation). But it is never unclear that HoO is telling us outright that Nico is gay. It's not just hinted at. It's there, in your face. But entirely because no one ever outright says "gay" specifically it's technically still only coding. We know he's gay, we know the characters have trauma/ptsd, etc etc. We don't need it spelled out - that's just kind of condescending. It's like if you said describing a character with "eyes like moss" means they were "green-eye coded."

Nico being autistic-coded isn't hidden. It's not a secret. It's very overt. If you know what autism looks like, well, yeah, there he is. Even if you only know very vague 2007 media presentation of autism, Nico in TTC is easily recognizable enough as autistic because that's the point. Tyson is easily recognizable as being coded as having down syndrome and it's very clearly very intentional! It's just never spoon-fed in exact terms to the reader because it's not necessary! You've already been told the information necessary to tell you what is up with this character, so just plainly going "oh they're [x] in exact terms" is very much telling-not-showing and feels redundant. And while there are places for that kind of thing, most of the time it's very unnecessary. Sometimes coding is subtle, sometimes it's obvious, and yeah there are times where writers code characters unintentionally, but the textual evidence is there, and that's the whole point.

And that's what Death of the Author is about - it doesn't matter what the author intended at the end of the day, because if it's in the text it's in the text. You can look at author intent to try and figure out what that text means, but the text is the text. A Separate Peace is a very classic example - author John Knowles denies there being homosexual subtext, and meanwhile one of the protagonists living in 1942 puts on a pink shirt while saying he doesn't mind of people think of him as gay. What the author says after the fact doesn't matter - if it's there, it's there. So Rick saying anything outside of the books is completely irrelevant. And Rick talks about this a lot - he actively tells people that his statements outside of the books are just his own thoughts, but what's in the books is what's in the books, and if the text supports it then that's all the evidence you need.

Nico specifically is a case where yeah, he's clearly autistic-coded. It's very obvious and very obviously intentional when he's younger, and as the books progress it remains a background trait of his but is still notable (except for when it gets forgotten in TOA/TSATS like everything else, including the adhd/dyslexia, but i digress). It's a clear pattern within the first few books that Rick is intentionally including. It doesn't make sense, especially for the year the book was published, for the reader to be directly told in explicit terminology that Nico is autistic, because the reader is already being told that Nico is autistic.

And yeah, Rick doesn't mention Nico being autistic-coded outside of the text, but he also doesn't mention Tyson being coded as having down syndrome. He also said one time that Percy doesn't have PTSD at all, which is very incorrect starting from book 1. Again, Death of the Author. Whatever Rick says outside of the books does not matter, because he already said it in the books. And there's plenty of other stuff in the books that Rick doesn't touch upon, particularly relating to character identity - did you know Leo is Native? Sammy mentions that the Valdez family is Native in Son of Neptune but we don't get any specifics and then it's like never brought up again anywhere. That happens all the time in the series - and outside of the series - Rick can't possibly address every single point to confirm/deny everything from the books. That's what analysis is for! And that's why my blog exists 👍

#pjo #riordanverse #nico di angelo #autistic nico #analysis #ask #Anonymous #long post // #tone indicator just to be sure cause i know i used a lot of italics: this is all non-agressive/not mad i prommy #im just very passionate about this topic (coding & fandom concepts surrounding ''canon'' + death of the author) #also controversial opinion cause i know some people have talked about wanting the use of the r-slur in SoM censored #but i think it should stay because. well. yeah no that was still very commonly used in 2006 #trust me i heard it a lot. i was there. in fact it was commonly used after that point. for awhile. #it wasnt until like a bit into the 2010s iirc that campaigns started to go ''hey maybe. dont use that word.'' #like that was RECENT #and yeah! these books are not old! TLT is only just coming up on 20 years. thats not super old for a book! #and yeah! that term was considered a-okay terminology to be used in a middle grade book in 2006! which is startling to think now! #but that's also why it's important to not erase that #because otherwise you forget that up until very recently that word was considered Perfectly Acceptable #and in SoM it's even specifically acknowledged to be used in a hurtful way! Percy is actively condemning it! #like. dont put it in the show or whatever. obviously. replace it with a different indication/coding to explain Tyson's struggles #not that i think Disney would put the r-slur in their show. but like. dont erase it from the book??? from 2006?????? #i am frightened to see how the show will handle tyson though. its not gonna go well i can feel it in my bones #anyways man i should post that excerpt from A Separate Peace though #just cause that scene has lived in my brain rent-free for years

[hypogryffin]

Apparently Erina is just wearing armor on her leg but no I refuse I am fully headcanoning that as a prosthetic

oh i really thought it was meant to be a prosthetic, considering. uh. The Incident. esp with adult eri natsuhara using a cane implying shes lost some ambulatory ability.

#but yeah im dying on the missing leg missing eye hill dont give two shits if it isnt canon #also if its just armour that means erina is wearing two different shoes and not in a fun cute quirky way #i cant accept that #p5t spoilers #asks & requests #not art #also it would be nice to see more physically disabled characters in persona even if her injuries arent brougjt up at all #i guess it makes sense cuz if it was a prosthetic or injury that means we were CHEATED #of a ryuuji erina bonding moment

[oceanwithouthermoon]

people who hate on ships just because they headcanon a character as a different sexuality are the weakest links and need to be purged

like idk what makes you think your opinion is that important but.. its just a headcanon, girl, leave people alone

#talking specifically about saiki k but this happens in a lot of fandoms #people who hc kusuo as completely romance repulsed are constantly hating on others for no reason #and also people who hate teruhashi and yumehara for this reason are just misogynistic #people hate on kokomi because they think she needs to leave saiki be #as if he canonically doesn't respect and care about her #ur just haters #idk why people refuse to accept that people on the aroace spectrum can still fall in love and date #yall dont even know what youre arguing #ironically i dont see a lot of people hating on aiura for the same reason even though she and teruhashi treat him the same #not sure if people are just hypocritical or if i just havent seen it #and i see so many people hate yumehara because they think kaidos gay #you can ship what you want but its so weird to hate her for that #saiki k #tdlosk #the disastrous life of saiki k. #meows post #saiki kusuo

[lovrbooy]

i feel like i have very unpopular opinions on dennis within this fandom. i am scared of fandom spaces so. to the tags i go

#i fear that some of you see dennis reynolds in a fanon way that you have accepted as canon ... #he is not . GOOD! guys. i say this as someone who deeply relates to him #he is canonically unmedicated for bpd and i Am medicated so i feel extremely attached to the mindset he has that used to be my LIFE! #i dont believe dennis would ever willingly put himself in any sort of situation where he isnt in control or powerful. its why he creates #entire identities just to have power over women for a few weeks. he doesnt date because at some point they become powerful and he losespowe #i am certain that there are parts of his psyche that love his friends and family bc he DOES have feelings ! but i also believe its hard for #him to accept that or even think about it if he wanted to because he is so obsessed with his delusions of grandeur #i dont think love is ever something he could give to someone easily and if he did it would be a painful toxic wound #we already know this. he loves dee and they are horrible for each other. and hes worse for her whether some ppl want 2 admit it or not #dennis is my favorite character on this show and i wanna reiterate that because im scared ppl will be annoying I Dont Share my Opinions #about Media a lot even though i think Tons of them #iasip #dennis reynolds

[essekthelysssideblog]

My hot take is I don't think Essek realized he had any kind of attraction Caleb until the Traveller Con arc, and even then I don't think he necessarily would have thought of it as romantic. I think this because Essek hanging around the ship in episodes 98-99 does not react in any specific way with Caleb, but by the time we see him again at the outpost he can't make eye contact with Caleb.

I think part of his processing between those times was developing a sense of shame and a desire to be better-- other people have talked about how much Essek shifted between those two appearances-- and part of those realizations was also the realization that Caleb did something remarkable in reaching out to him that day. Remarkable in a way that enhances the shame, hence no eye contact next time they meet, but also made him realize that Caleb was special to him.

#if that makes sense lol #shadowgast #essek thelyss #critical role #meta #mine #i dont think he would have called it romantic during canon... maybe after that cheek kiss goodbye #he might accept that word for it #caleb is both more and less complicated here because i think hes very aware of his attraction #but even still i dont think he fully allowed himself to be uncomplicatedly in love with essek #until... honestly maybe after taking down trent? #i think hes aware of being in love with him from the tower scene tho #sometimes fighting an evil archmage solidifies things tho i think

[lycanr0t]

i feel very frustrated about the trend of giving chil body hair bc if it was any other anime twink i would be thrilled its just that it seems to only be because people are SO afraid of him looking young they have to make him hairy to justify liking him in ships.

meanwhile it does directly go against canon (he literally is supposed to look like a child. this is integral to both his character and his race's lore as a whole and it makes no damn sense that he would be mistaken for a child if he has body hair i mean. cmon.)

and it's like. some men are hairless. some men look young. when youre a trans man in your 20s-30s its especially common to be mistaken for a teenager, even more so if you're not on t. and short. these traits do not make you less of a man or an adult. :/

#rot posts #listen its like. i just wish ppl werent doing it for the reasons they seem to be #you NEVER see tiny little men get body hair in fanart i should know ive been in multiple fandoms where i was the only 1 givin bitches hair #but it also sucks when its like. clearly from a place of discomfort and not wanting him to seem young #rather than actually loving body hair #for example where is laios with body hair. wheres kabru. mithrun. literally any other character #(senshi us a slight exception on account of semi canonically having hair) #it just feels like a performance for no one. ok yeah good job you made chil look like a hairy 30 year old #did you pay attention to how that totally disregards his story and how he canonically looks like a child and that IS an important aspect #half foots face infantilism to an extreme and his appearance is a part of this. the discrimination he faces is partially BECAUSE of looks! #so changing him to erase such a HUGE important aspect of his race's lore just bc ppl seem uncomfortable with him being young looking feels #idk the feeling. its frustrating to me #i just wish there was some self reflection here. i guess. some actual acknowledgement of his canon struggles #do you even like chil if you cant accept one of his core canonical traits... #whew anyways this is HUGELY a limited edition post bc im deleting it as soon as my husband reads it ❤️ #i hate drama i hate discourse so like always if you try to start shit i will ignore + block you soo fast dont try me

[jichanxo]

kitakata sensei au stuff [from sept/2023]

#kuwagami #kuwana jin #yagami takayuki #lost judgment #kitakata sensei #jichanart #you ever look at two guys who do nothing but fight and go “ah... but what if they were... domestic” #anyway truly shocked that i dont see more kitakata sensei content out in the wild idk i think it's a fun concept #like hear me out yagami helps out the mrc like canon except he meets kitakata there and they proceed to have the pettiest beef ever #and a nice mundane enemies to lovers romance #like i love the high stakes of canon but having them fight over pointless shit is also good #yagami complains to all his friends about this dickhead he met at his volunteering work and then is forced to admit he wants to kiss him #“kiss” lol. fucking is also an acceptable option (and kaito will say it even if yagami refuses to) #also yeah i gave him his kuwana hair instead i'm not giving him that cringe ass canon haircut lmao #ALSO also kitakata sensei vapes on the school roof absolutely #ive thought a lot about this au can you tell #(looks at my unfinished fanfiction)

[goldenfoxthe1st]

listen if you see shadowpeach as brothers thats fine but you have to accept that its a HEADCANON cause it hasnt been confirmed in the lmk series. im not gonna say you cant get upset at people for shipping them, you're entitled to your own feelings, but you cant go around forcing your headcanon onto people who just dont see it the way you do. headcanons are just that, in your head, made up. im sick of people arguing about this (mostly on tiktok and twitter) just mind your own business

#lego monkie kid #monkie kid #sun wukong #monkey king #macaque #lmk #shadowpeach #shadowpeach is a non canon ship therefore its also a headcanon #this goes both ways #i personally dont see them as brothers #cause even though my brother and i are close i would never call him a gem #but i accept the brothers headcanon because its none of my business #and i ignore it anyways

[magnusbae]

Nothing hurts me quite as much as reading perfect slowburn with compelling and deeply in character interactions that are swiftly replaced by some professional lemon doppelgangers during the smut and after 😔😔😔

#like if you wouldnt show great understanding of canon compliant characteristics i wouldnt be as upset #but going from a character who cannot morally accept even looking at character B nor ever using slang to suddenly saying 'baby' and shaggin #within the paragraph is such a massive whiplash i simply cannot handle #also people assuming that once you start dating it's all easy smooth sailing with pet names and domestic bliss #WHERE IS THE AWKWARD EXCITEMENT #where is the uncertainty if they're dating like THAT #or like THIS #where is the first dates and the first hand holding and the first gifts #where is the charafter flaws from the slowburning part and the relapse under stress or when buttons are pressed #(for example not expressing feelings or being secretive or getting insedure) #(those things are not forever gone after shagging or getting together they come back to bite) #i dont know i am just so so so so so starved for slowburns AFTER the Shag/Confession.... #i know ...i know i should probably just....uh....oh.....write #buns.txt

[walking-fnaf-encyclopedia]

yk whats really funny to me? people tend to characterize lolbit as highly aggressive, but like.. its not. like genuinely, it doesnt ever kill you. it just.. what, stops you from using stuff?

if anything, its the least dangerous sister location animatronic??

AND its one of the helpful animatronics in fnaf world!! it provides you with all sorts of helpful bytes! and dee dee (also a shopkeeper in fnaf world, and originating from there like lolbit) in the main games is only characterized as a nuisance by fans, not aggressive. if anything dee dee is worse - they dont offer a way for you to stop them like lolbit does, and you have to scramble to figure who the hell was added because they could very well kill you.

#vr doesnt really count thats made by fazco #and its in vr so if lolbit could legitimately jumpscare you anywhere without killing you itd be there #and weve seen that purely-software characters can do things to the actual person if they so desire (and if they have enough power) #(<-talking abt glitchtrap ofc) #i think everyones like oh its just funtime foxy but software and a lil goofy cause of the lol stuff #WRONG it just likes to fuck w ppl #lolbit is literally just a troll. yeah it knows ur home address and full name but it solely uses that to send you glitter bombs and a large+ #cardboard box filled to the brim w spaghetti #it has one v v simple request; type L-O-L and itll leave you and your stuff be #and even if you dont it just blocks off ur stuff #i also love dee dee this is not dissing them!!!! fucking love that little nuisance !!!!! #the only acceptable capitalists are mendo lolbit and dee dee. my fav capitalists too #n e ways…… lolbit my darling #and dee dee my darling. they were just the closest example to lolbit in how they are in canon #x #x chatter #fnaf #lolbit #dee dee

[piosplayhouse]

Me giving my hour long monologue about how trans lesbians jiang cheng x wen qing is the only form of the ship I'll consume

#i think its because jc would need to deal with too many neuroses before i think he would be good for wq #otherwise it just turns into an uncomfortable feedback loop where theyre forced into a weird dynamic of older sibling #with all the emotional responsibility and younger sibling who never learned how to deal with that . so a stalemate #anyway just pulling words in the tags before i sleep since i was thinking of it earlier but it really is so ? i guess weird to me how #normalized cq became after c ql s release and subsequent netflixification #because literally no one was shipping it before it was. Like its weird to me when people watch the show first and are like this shouldve #been canon in the book because like. idk . No LOL . sorry i dont mean to be mean im genuinely just fascinated #because when c ql initially aired everyone was making fun of or mad abt that plotline #like i can pull up tweets from back then but it was just a general state of disbelief like . why #of all the characters #so its interesting that its looped around to becoming accepted to the point where people project it backwards onto the source #which i have my hangups about but whatever s v doesnt even have a drama to change anything so i wont say shit #anyway goodnight thanks for indulging me as always buddies

[dnangelic]

so far in just about every other universe he will find some way to fall hopelessly in love with somebody who also for w/e reason happens to hate dark and will get really sad about it

#*･ﾟ⊰ 𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐃𝐒. ⊱ ✦ › OUT. #canon infinitely repeats and daisuke suffers either way. OAWHEAJLK #ITS ALWAYS ORGANICALLY TOO IVE NEVER PLOTTED ANY OF THIS OUT WITH ANYBODY. #he still keeps going though......... he can't keep his eyes off them can't get their voice out of his head #until he at least gets a proper rejection. or miraculously (to him) accepted #oh dai..... my baby..... even in verses like fgo he turns into dark he self isolates he can't bear to be Witnessed #and scowled or glared or leered at or whatever #unless/until dark himself actually starts wandering around #hes soooo embarrassed......... th curse............ #ok well. anyways. i dont think i should stay up anymore #u shouldve seen some of th typos i was making. they were horrible #hopefully i fixed them. most. nightnight #to any of my weird timezone muts too hope u guys have fun <3

[dirtytransmasc]

listen, haven't even seen atsv yet, I'm seeing it this weekend, but I know enough to know one very specific thing I need from Miguel O'Hara;

I need this man to have a crisis, I need to watch his entire worldview collapse, I need to watch him enter a crisis, an even bigger crisis than his "bad things must happen" crisis he developed to deal with his issues and trauma, now having the "I fought a 15 year old, lost control, and came close to killing him multiple times and inflicted immense amounts of trauma on him, just cause he wanted his dad" crisis, going into a depression, going through an even more depressing "redemption arc" of trying to make it up to miles, to be a better person, and fix things with all the kids, while simultaneously feeling as though he is undeserving of trust or forgiveness so he pushes everyone away at the same time, resulting in one big emotional nightmare that will eventually blow up in all of their faces in oke way or another...

let's just say I like my men extensively emotionally damaged and I like to watch them suffer pitifully.

Edit: I have now seen atsv, I still need this, I actually need it more

#miguel o'hara #dont even know how accurate this is #I just saw him and all he had going on #and knew I needed him to be my new emotionally fucked up asshole turned emotionally damaged father figure #he's to perfect and tragic and hot and ahhhhh #father could be fathering #I'm gonna make him father #he has no choice #this is the only canon id ever accept #atsv #spider man: across the spider verse #across the spiderverse

[ganeshkfp]

Doof loves his enemy, Doof loves his enemy, Doof loves his enemy 🎵🎵 🎵

❤

#where are you dan #its canon! #they cant say anything else i dont accept it! #Its beautiful #photo is even heart shaped! #he caresses it oh my god #perry the platypus #heinz doofenshmirtz #perryshmirtz #phineas and ferb #pnf