#i guess it's a matter of power

[shibuiking]

messy ref thing for mu-15, ill edit and add stuff as i think of it

#oc: mu-15 #not sure whether to tag this...? not like it matters i guess #unless someone out there knows the purpose of the leg wires/tubes. id love to know. #man fuck it look at my thing #skitarii #adeptus mechanicus #should also clarify i dont know anyone else whos into 40k rly except a few new acquaintances so this was made for ppl with no knowledge #also curious how mechadendrites are powered in general...? havent seen it mentioned anywhere yet. unless im being stupid #oc

[comic-sans-chan]

obsessed with julian asking "what did they do to you? is it some kind of punishment device?" in the wire because my god if this man didn’t go from "this is garak my super cool spy pal who i go on secret missions with and sometimes fuck teehee but also yeah his planet’s kinda fucked up and he’s got some weird ideas but we’re working on it" to "this is garak he's my precious little angel babyman who has been horribly traumatized and brainwashed by his government but it's okay because i'm a doctor and i will fuck and suck the fascism out of him if it’s the last thing i do" in just two years. shit's wild

#i'm having a moment #again #my posts #garashir #julian that entire episode is really just ''the power of love compels you!!!!!!!'' i can't stand him #garak was blorbo from julian's shows for a hot minute there and julian was writing all kinds of woobified fanfiction about him #like i've cried a hundred times over the wire from garak's pov cuz i see it as the episode where he started to respect and love him fr fr #but for julian i think it was more of an eye-opener like. he wanted to exonerate garak of all his crimes to try to justify his crush on him #and i don't think the wire exactly proved him wrong... but i do think it revealed key details and context that he was missing before #like that garak wasn't just some underling spy he was almost the head of his organization #basically garak canonballed julian's beloved headcanons so he had to start from scratch #obsessed w garak recognizing that julian had romanticized him and being like ''ok but what if i'm just a bloodthirsty killer? what then?'' #like they went thru All That just for julian to meet tain and come back like #''Your Boss Dad Is Evil The Plan To Heal You With My Dick Is Back On'' #gold star for trying i guess but ur gonna be loved no matter what apparently

[hella1975]

hiiii haha. hello. exceptionally awkward introduction bc idrk how to start something like this so let's just jump right in. im taking a break from this account for a bit. i know i said i wanted taob out before halloween and currently im fine sticking with that deadline, but if i decide i need longer away then i will take longer away. every time ive reassured people that id never abandon a fic and updates will always come eventually i never once considered that my writing and ability to feel safe and comfortable on this site would be actively taken from me, so im not even going to apologise. i dont want this either and more importantly i dont fucking deserve it. i dont know what it is in the past year, if ive hit a certain amount of followers or 'popularity' that's made it so the natural ratio of positive to negative interactions must in turn go up, but there's been a serious uptick in weird asks for me. the annoying part is that a very small amount of them are actually objectively mean and hateful, the rest are just weird and invasive from people who seemingly dont realise that's what they're being. ive reached a point where i dont care if the intentions are good. it's not my job as a 20 year old tumblr user of all things to defend the morality of someone who couldnt even bother to come off anon. unfortunately, after blocking only one or two anons, the weird asks have decreased substantially, which says all you need to know about the fascinating and exhilarating lives led by these people, but ive also gone on to turn anon asks off entirely. this is something i actively fought against doing and had to be pushed into by my mutuals (who have been the coolest people on planet earth during this entire thing). turning off anon was a big deal to me even if it sounds silly. i felt betrayed and like id been backed into a corner because it was so vehmently something i DIDNT WANT that to feel like i had to do it anyway for my own mental health??? that sucks. so even though ive 'fixed' the problem, im still kind of reeling and uncomfortable every time i come on tumblr. i hope it's just something i need time to ease because i'll truly be devastated if this becomes 'ruined' for me. tumblr exists as the only place in the world where i am honestly every facet of myself without shame or hesitation; losing that would be insanely harmful to me. and to the people who cant appeal to the actual human behind the post, let me put that in words you can understand: we wouldn't get any more writing 😦😦😦 riots and fires and sirens, i know. so yeah. to anyone who has sent me an anon ask and you're now wondering if you were part of the problem, im firmly of the belief that you'll know if you are. when i say 'weird asks' i dont mean 'you sent me a para about your personal life just to vent or ask for advice' or 'you sent me a really deep emotional compliment about the impact me and/or my writing has had on you' - i love asks like that, so much that i put off taking a break and turning off anon solely for the joy they bring me. im sorry that it might feel like you're being punished too bc of the actions of what in reality is a HANDFUL of weird people, but this is what i feel like i have to do to feel safe and not go insane every time i log in. love you guys, hopefully ill see you soon x

#seriously another shout out to my mutuals #id particularly like to say thank you to boom who's always right there for me no matter what's happening or how insane im being #and also everyone in our little discord that wound up having to make a whole new channel for venting #bc i was there so often like 'today's weird ask isssss.... telling me about my cupsize!! rip them to shreds!!!' #hannah and theo especially being there and pushing me to finally turn off anon. war is truly over #and of course rori bc the shamelessness u show when hating on my anon asks has been genuinely really cathartic #sometimes u really do just need a rottweiler mutual to tell random people online to kill themselves 😭 #okay weird oscar acceptance speechcore gratitude over. i do just rlly love my mutuals #like i went three years not telling anyone about the worse side of internet popularity for fear of looking spoiled and ungrateful #so for the first time to open up about it and be met with outrage on my behalf and people saying in fact it's MORE fucked up #than i initially realised bc ive grown desensitised to it is. yeah cathartic i guess #they are singlehandedly reassuring me of the good this cursed app still holds #so everyone thank them and send them flowers NOW #okay im done i think. see you guys soon. i truly do want to come back asap bc like i said i NEVER EVEN WANTED TO FUCKING LEAVE #SOME ASSHOLES JUST HAD TO PUT GRENADES ON WHAT I ASSUMED WERE VERY UNIVERSAL AND OBVIOUS BOUNDARIES #if you're reading this like 'ohhh fuck i defo sent something invasive lately. i thought it was a joke/we were friends' #then 1) we arent friends if you're on anon. it immediately creates a power imbalance where you know me and any necessary context #but i have no idea who you are or how much you know about me. that's already a fucked dynamic #and 2) I HOPE YOU FEEL BAD. LIKE GENUINELY I HOPE YOU FEEL AWFUL AND HAVE A GOOD LONG LOOK AT YOURSELF #okay i think that's all. ta-ra lads??? how tf do u end something like this #ive queued this to reblog a couple more times throughout the day

[ricopop]

mini oscillo ref aahh what EVERRR dies @superbellsubways @cephalonheadquarters

#slowly trynna draw our virtual guys again i miss them so much... #virtual assistants #ocs #rico art #oscillo #more virus stuff and the armies i guess. they all have a unit number if theyre recruited by a formal virus leader w actual power #most viruses r more commonly just stragglers at least in. my head they are #for now theres. 2 main types? viruses that come from virus matter #and viruses that are just.. like that HAHAHA #the idiot twins r a good example of both i guess? theyre comprised of virus matter but more put together than how it usually presents itsel #the way virus matter can properly survive is by taking over an electronic it can live without a host but its much more weak and vulnerabl #without a shell ya feel me #UHHH FEEL FREE TO LIKE. ADD STUFF THIS IS MOSTLY JUST BRAIN GOOP AHHH #i would go on but idk how to properly explain things.. i eventually wanna make a big old post abt it but idk how many people would actually #be interested lol #and i'd have to think abt it much much more #anyways ysaaa

[scribefindegil]

i’ve decided that post-canon Ed and Winry keep a little flock of chickens and it’s mostly a bunch of sweet hens that they and the kids dote on, but they also have a tiny yellow bantam rooster which Ed is in a FEUD with. they are NEMESES. this creature keeps escaping from the run and getting into things he shouldn’t and pecking at Ed’s ankles every chance he gets. the kids love him and ‘accidentally’ let him into the house where he causes utter chaos. Ed insists this is the most vile creature in the world. but of course everyone else who sees their altercations is just like “Ah. He has found a kindred spirit.”

#was contemplating a fic last night #for my 'Ed develops chronic fatigue as a result of that one time he used his own life energy as a power source' headcanon #but got very sidetracked thinking about chickens #they all have names that are either very specific mechanical engineering terms or elements/alchemical compounds #they call the rooster Pete but it's short for 'Saltpeter' #Ed did not think he was going to get attached to the chickens because he's not an Animal Person the way Al is #but in true dad-who-insisted-he-didn't-want-a-pet fashion it takes him like two weeks to become utterly smitten #fusses over 'the girls' and brings them the *good* weeds from other parts of the yard #has been seen chasing predators away from the coop brandishing a frying pan #has to go sit with them for a bit in the morning when he lets them out #(until the rooster attacks him) #gives effusive speeches about how marvelous it is that eggs exist #Winry finds it all deeply amusing #i'm not very fandom about this show i mostly just point at it and go 'wow! a good story!' #but this is what matters to me i guess #Edward Elric has chronic fatigue and chickens #fma

[nemmet]

#i've always wanted to do a poll like this and am looking forward to the results/people's reasons for their favourite fred! #to clarify: the zombie island era is just zombie island witch's ghost alien invaders and cyber chase #the wnsd era includes the movies created in that style (legend of the vampire until samurai sword) as well as the tv show #the 2010s dtvs go from abracadabra doo until return to zombie island #the 2020s era includes the guess who series and the dtv movies from happy halloween onwards #i didn't include scoob fred or hbo velma fred since i couldn't see anyone choosing them #but power to you if they're your favourites i guess???? #my personal favourite fred is probably wnsd era but i also love mystery inc zombie island era and 2010s dtvs fred a lot! #the only fred i genuinely fully dislike is robbie amell fred. i'm sorry he's just not recogniseable as fred at all to me #but no matter how different some of these other freds can be from each other i can look at each of them and be like :) that's my boy #scooby doo #fred jones #fred scooby doo #scooby doo poll #scooby doo and nemmet too!

[dr3amofagame]

On the note of c!Dream and the Revolution and L’manburg in particular, I actually wanted to touch on another argument that I see sometimes that I’ve been thinking about lately re. L’manburg’s legitimacy. Because among some groups that are more L’manburg-positive, one take that I feel is decently common is the idea that L’manburg couldn’t be a government because it was only four, five, six people, that the size of the group meant that it was functionally incapable of the power attributed to it. In this, the assertion tends to be that because L’manburg is small, the power it holds is meaningless; it doesn’t have the power and provisions backing it that a regular “government” has, so L’manburg is fundamentally no different from a group of friends that believe in the same thing and therefore work together. The argument, here, seems to be that because the power of L’manburg as a government is manufactured, the power doesn’t actually exist in any meaningful way. 

And the thing about L’manburg to me is that, well, the power being manufactured is...the point? Like. The whole point is that L’manburg doesn’t actually have jack shit to base itself off of, the whole point is that L’manburg is founded on a lie and writes itself into being treated as a legitimate entity through scapegoating other people in a story. That’s the reason why the mythos exists! The mythos needs to exist because it’s the foundation of L’manburg’s existence. Why does L’manburg exist? Because they were ~fighting against oppression~. Why does c!Wilbur have the power to do X, Y, and Z? Because if you’re opposing him you’re on the side of traitors and tyrants and enemies and get out of his fucking country. Just because L’manburg’s existing as a nation and government and what have you is illogical doesn’t prevent it from being treated as a legitimate country and government etc, because in the end people treated it as legitimate and therefore it had real power not only over its own land, but later on over how the entire server operated--see everyone being swept up in the elections, Manberg vs. Pogtopia, etc. 

(What’s especially funny to me about this take is that in a lot of ways, it really reminds me of c!Dream’s opinion of L’manburg during the Revolution. Because while c!Dream definitely saw L’manburg as a threat in terms of the people who were declaring war against him, in terms of the...actual ideology? The whole government thing, “we’re going to be a separate server”? It’s pretty clear that c!Dream thinks that all of that makes NO SENSE WHATSOEVER. He calls L’manburg a “delusional small part” of the server because from his perspective, what the fuck do you MEAN you’re a government now? What do you mean you’re a separate country--scratch that, what do you mean you’re a separate SERVER? Game rules? Whitelist? What the fuck?? You’re a group of people threatening violence because you have a grudge against me, not revolutionaries fighting a nonexistent oppressive rulership like holy shit I’ve NEVER EVEN MET YOU BEFORE? c!Dream approaches L’manburg’s shit as illegitimate and ridiculous and nonsensical from the get go, because yeah, I mean--they’re literally just a small group of people, not the government they claim to be or that they claim they want to form, or whatever. But things...don’t stay that way.) 

Like the whole point is that in the end, it doesn’t matter that c!Wilbur shouldn’t have been able to stick a flag in a piece of land, declare it as his own, make all these arbitrary rules about who could or couldn’t go inside and what they had to do and declare himself leader over these people and leverage joining his little club to keep them from opposing him and use all of that to threaten conflict against a guy he literally never even met before. Because...he did! And with the mythos established, no one challenged that. L’manburg’s policies and power and legitimacy and leadership and what the leader could and couldn’t do were all based in literally nothing and that didn’t matter because people acted like it was a real thing, so it became real. c!Dream fighting against L’manburg and discrediting its legitimacy at the beginning is part of what gives L’manburg legitimacy because the revolution ends up being used as the foundational story that made L’manburg a Real Thing. The elections and c!Quackity challenging c!Wilbur by running against him when the elections were originally rigged ends up reinforcing L’manburg’s legitimacy as the elections become a Real Thing and the leader of L’manburg as established by the elections are a Real Thing, etc. As long as people buy into L’manburg, as long as it’s TREATED as a real entity, then it remains real because that’s what people believe (which is part of why doomsday and L’manburg like, dying required the people within it to become disillusioned w/ the country so they didn’t feel inclined to rebuild it again.) 

People treated L’manburg as a real entity with real power, which gave it real power over people. Nothing should’ve been in place that allowed c!Wilbur to declare a rigged election, or c!Schlatt to execute the Red Festival, or c!Tubbo to create an extrajudicial army that put c!Phil under house arrest and would extend its influence outside of its own land to kidnap c!Techno’s pet and execute him. The reality of the consequences of L’manburg do not depend on whether or not it should’ve logistically had the power to back up what it was trying to do but whether or not people actually treated it like it did, and they did. Just because L’manburg shouldn’t have been capable of acting like a government doesn’t mean that people didn’t treat it as a government the entire time--from its conception to its death, L’manburg was given a lot of power and influence comparable to that of a government because of what was granted to it that allowed the leader of the faction to do a lot of things without challenge or argument “for the country” both to people within the country’s borders and outside of it, and this very real power and influence wasn’t challenged or disturbed because people believed that it had a right to exist. 

YES L’manburg was manufactured! YES that power didn’t make any sense! YES the legitimacy that L’manburg had as a government entity was basically a fucking crapshoot based on jack shit, and yes it had real power anyway. At the end of the day L’manburg was always treated w/ a level of power and legitimacy beyond just being a Group Of People, and therefore that power and legitimacy became real. L’manburg was a government because people treated it as one. L’manburg was powerful and legitimate and free and independent because that’s what the story said, and everyone believed the story, and that’s what’s important moreso than the logic of whether or not it had enough people to actually “be” a government in the first place.

#c!dreamisms #c!dream and the revolution #c!dream #dreblr #lmanburg critical #c!wilbur critical #<- i guess #listen lmanburg was bullshit its power was bullshit and the mythos was bullshit #that doesn't matter #the manufactured nature of lmanburg is the point !! #that's why the mythos of lmanburg was necessary in the first place! #that's what necessitated the tyrant-revolution-hero-and-villain schtick #lmanburg legitimized itself on the back of the story that c!wilbur wrote #anyway this is a mess but yeahhhh fuck lmanburg god bless

[konakoro]

Also going off some promo pics and footage, it looks like the gang ends up hiding in a nice looking home, which makes me think they're at either Jordan, Cate, or Emma's parents' house to lie low, and all have the potential for interesting character drama I wanna see

#dumb stuff #gen v #gen v spoilers #jordan can show their parents that marie and the others love them for who they are no matter the gender they take #cate can confront her mom about the horrible way she was treated throughout her young adulthood and have the backing of her friends #emma can stick it to her mom and show how she was able to be a hero using all aspects of her powers and do actual good with helping sam #4th option is none of those and i hope it's at least one of them. specifically i want it to be Jordan's parents house if that's the case #i guess maybe andre's place when his dad isn't there but that's a stretch i feel #anyways i liked the new episode and excited for the next one

[kurozu501]

this is one of those moments with silence that really gets me, just the way she gently works on the girls hairs while softly guiding ifrit to the conclusion “you should read her a story to calm her down” without directly telling her the answer is just. peak soft mom vibes. this owl is mom of the year, of all years. 

#arknights #olivia silence #silence arknights #ifrit #all the rhine characters are good but silence's defining trait is her humanity. her gentleness and love. her refusal to allow injustice. #i feel like im just listing classic hero traits but somehow the way they are presented in silence is so effective #she's just a normal young woman who got caught up in all this bc she refused to turn a blind eye to ifrit's suffering #she doesnt have any special powers. her power is her empathy. #she looked at this fucked up situation and said well i guess im her mom now. and she stuck to that no matter all the hell that followed

[hauntswitch]

Hey so, your boyfriend, uhhh... he's in the panopticon... Yeah, he's being plagued by the possibility of constant observation :( no he can't escape, he's in there forever now... Sorry.

#this post is gonna flop but guess what. its funny To Me and thats all that matters :3 i find the Tumblr boyfriend meme unreasonably funny #tumblr boyfriend #your boyfriend #collective boyfriend #panopticon #what else am i meant to tag this stupidity as... #foucault #sociology #that'll do i guess #anyway i mean panopticon in the foucault way not the bentham way bc its the power of the force of social control regulated by the #Indivodual (mr Your Boyfriend in this case) that is keeping him metaphorically (or literally if you take it in the Bentham way) in the #panopticon‚ yknow??? #soc

[w1lmutt]

Take that might send me to the shadow realm but uhhhh

Runaway kid/the runaway/Rk >>> seven

🏃

#like i know seven is following the same banking convention as six and all #but to me runaway just feels so much more right. like an actual nickname the maw kids would give him #''the runaway's trying to escape again. how long till the janitor gets him this time?'' #idk i feel like it's a nickname w power behind it. like ''no matter how much you keep me down i will never stop running'' #while also having a bit of a negative connotation like ''rubbing away from ones problems'' instead of facing them right on #meanwhile seven is a number. good for em i guess #little nightmares runaway kid #w1l says some stuff #this rant was born out of looking at ln fics on ao3 and everyone insisting on calling my boy seven lmao #edit: YEEHAW autocorrect ruining my tags for me yet again. ''running from ones problem'' not rubbing hhh #edit again cuz i noticed ANOTHER autocorrect: ''naming convention'' not banking convention good lorddddddd #i need to reread my tags more before posting smh

[lizasweetling]

yall- in world validation that the mechanicsburg&Heterodyne ship is so cannon.

I'm so happy about this- I'm in serious danger of composing a song about how happy I am about this <3

#girl genius #page react #oh my god #on the rest of the page it turns out Albia is not all knowing on top of not being all powerful (we been knew) #and the little she does know she doesn't plan to share at this time (is this eldritch knowledge? the profain what causes spontaneous fire?) #(we've been there done that with the resplendent immolation I'm sure it'd be fine but I guess caution is fair) #but Mechanicsburg??? It's a part of her now <3<3 #(was it always? does it matter if it wasn't??) #god someone get me a damp cloth I think I'm overheating from excitment wow

[the-acid-pear]

There's some to be said about the Card Kingdom and its fate because as tragic as it is for them to have been abandoned like that it's such... An inevitable event in nature. Because it not only happened because Gerson fucking died so the classroom wasn't used anymore but also because the kids who were once there probably just grew up!

I think it's just the inherent cruelty of this world. Holy shit a cop with. Holy shit something is going on. INFANTERÍA?! UM I don't know what that was anyway

It's the inherent cruelty of this universe and its nature, it's not the lightners or the darkners fault. The darkners are forced to live as tools for the lightners, something the later aren't even aware of, and just like that they're doomed to come a time where they are abandoned, where they stop being useful. This cop is gonna get run over anxious fuck.

I'm curious about how the game will develop because as we stand I feel like the core problem isn't really being solved here. Because I don't give a fuck about the angel and the knight what I care about is the sickening power dynamic forced upon these individuals.

And this is without mentioning that the game hasn't even brought up the horror of being replaced, something often done with objects. Usually when a character is missing here the whole they left can be felt. But let's put an example, using Queen. What if she was no longer useful as a computer? What if they got a new more improved computer instead and just kept the old one saved away because it's useless now? Once a ruler and now you've been replaced Just Like That because the lightners deemed you unworthy, outdated, useless.

Definitely won't happen with Queen but I'd kill to see it happening in general because it is Very Fucking Possible.

#luly talks #deltarune #boy am i rambling here #honestly tho. you'd argue the reason the card kingdom was abandoned was the very same why the cyber world grew powerful #but maybe that's too big of a stretch LMAO #i think it's just a matter of Aging Up #i went all over the place here but i reslly think there's some theme of Fate of Inevitable Events #but i guess the point is that your choices matter even then...

[saph-y]

🎃Repostober Day 15 - (art from 2021)

Let's do a Jasper week. I need to hype him since I have PLANS. But... for when I have time ; ; Anyway I went to find his first design sketches from when we decided we'd add another protag to Nomades because it wasn't long enough already :')

#oops guess who forgot to post stuff #not even that i didn't had time i plain FORGOT #dumbass me #(i'm kidding it really doesn't matter one bit u3u) #repostober #nomades rp #jasper #my art #random fact about this lad #he exists in this story because one day i went to selkys like #hey look at my old skyrim character isn't he pretty #funny enough he ended up with unrelated voice powers too - different from a dragonborn but still xD circle of life haha

[dulcewrites]

Whole different type of delusion that I see in this fandom is how helaemond shippers act. All they say is everyone should support Helaena cheating on her unfaithful husband because if you someone doesn't, it's misogynistic, but when you mention Alicent having sex with Criston in season 2 they are furious and say Alicent is not Rhaenyra to sleep around 😂

For them it's like helaemond makes sense because Helaena was smarter than Rhaenyra so no one knew Aemond's the father.

And then when you point out they behave exactly like daemyra stans they are surprised 😂

I knew Alys will be hated in fandom because of 2 things. By Blacks because she was better Queen at Harrenhall than Rhaenyra was for 6 months time and Alys have no supporters and no dragon and no Aemond by her side because he was dead then. And by Greens because she is the opposite of Alicent and Helaena who are stuck and doomed and living in the cage.

But the one truly doomed is in fact Alys. She is lowborn bastard and women, so she means nothing and can be used by her family as they please. And yet she survives and makes the best out of Dance. All without any political machinations, she just took power over Harrenhall and no one took it away from her. If this isn't the best character of this show I don't know who may be.

I think in general people in this fandom, and this is something I must remind myself as well, need to program their brains to stop relating every single thing that happens to a woman in this story to a man. Especially romantically

It is pretty clear that one major point at the base of hotd is patriarchy and how way men often use the girls/women in their lives as pawns or martyrs. Whether people think it was well done or not is their choice, but it is clearly there. That conversation I get, and think we need to have. But the way people are so hellbent on ‘pairing’ women in this story with someone, specifically men, can get exhausting.

Why is the most horrid thing that happens in the dance, something that fundamentally breaks Helaena as a person turned into an argument to either uplift/tear down Aegon or Aemond?? Why is her taking her own life out of grief and fear about her brother(s)???

Why does Alicent, someone who clearly has been through sexual trauma in her life at the hands of men - someone who already has creepy psychosexual relationships with men in her life, have to sleep with criston?? Hell, why does criston someone that’s been taken advantage of by nobility (depending on how you read that scene in ep 4) have to sleep with Alicent, his queen???

If Helaena wants to be unfaithful to her husband, I will support her bc Aegon is not a good husband lmao. But the idea she needs to be with her brother, and he had those kids with her is… very odd to me. I don’t see it and idc if that makes me a hater. In general, I think people’s insistence on taking one of the few targ characters that doesn’t have incest as a major footnote in his story (Aemond) and making him into someone he isn’t, is annoying.

People (rightfully) point out how horrible targaryen girls/women are treated but then perpetuate the one thing that has led to many targ women’s downfall: The idea that they are property to the men in their family.

As for alys, she was going to be hated on several reasons : 1. Ageism (people call show and book Alicent a hag despite show Alicent being in her 30s and book Alicent being in her 40s). 2. The fact that aemond is now the fandom fanfic bike aka he gets ridden/shipped with everyone and him having a canon love interest pisses people off. 3. Low born or bastard born women get treated very differently by the fanbase than their male counterparts. 4. The murky relationship between her and Aemond. Now as someone who is excited to see where they take alysmond, even I can understand why people may put off by it. First you have the age difference on the side of her taking advantage of him. Especially now that in the show it has been implied Aemond delt with his own s.a. But by the time they meet, Aemond is Prince Regent. Clearly in a position of power over her. It is dubious and it’s ok to point that out.

But I’m sure as hell not gonna be reprimanded by daemrya or helaemond shippers on that. They clearly don’t give a shit about what is above board 💀💀. At at the very least, every alysmond shipper I’ve personally come across is very open and clear about alys and Aemond’s relationship, and the possible stipulations. I can’t say the same for the other two camps.

Every woman in this story, nobility or low born, has been through shit. That’s the whole point and the bitch of patriarchy. It affects every woman to a certain degree. Of course someone like Rhaenyra or Alicent has lived a very different life than Alys, and that needs to pointed out. All women are not on equal playing field. But all of them have been trapped or stuck at one point or another. How these women maneuver this world is important because of how differently each live, which is why it is dumb when people advocate for their stories to be cut (Sara, nettles, alys). These characters being vehemently hated by ANYONE is weird asf to me.

I enjoy team green, I write for team green, but people take this ‘team’ stuff too seriously sometimes. Well.. when it comes to the women. The male characters can get it lmao. I personally don’t like the rhetoric around how most women in story get spoken about. People are so focused on whose winning or shipping that the point of the story gets lost. And frankly regurgitating the same points and arguments sucks the fun out a show…shame. If people hate everything about it or have to make up crazy theories for it to work… just don’t watch 🤷🏽‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️

#power is not the be end all to end all for women #we see that in the noble women #no matter how much power one acquires they are still a woman #I’m sorry if I seem annoyed it’s not you anon #it’s more this fandom #a fandom overly obsessed with sex and shipping #people just pulling stuff out of thin air for shipping reasons #and idc if this makes sound like a ‘puriteen’ or whatever cringe word a grown ass adult made up to speak on children #idk how to tag this… #anti helaemond #I guess idk #anti daemyra #asks and requests

[valeriefauxnom]

Behold, the very first meme (and post) I have ever made, because me and a friend (that never played Dragalia that I've nonetheless spammed her about) made a meme of the royal fam sorted into "which 'spider on drugs' are they?" chart and I was. Inspired.

Please watch that video, "Spiders on Drugs", it's a famous short summary of a documentary. But for now I'll stick to the traditional character sort memes.

Is this perfect? Absolutely not.

Satisfactory? Possibly. ...Apparently.

So, uh, yeah. Ignore the fact the word 'children' got erased. 100% intentional in my Microsoft Paint artistry. Let's also pretend I remembered Nedrick in time to shove him way off in the 'black coffee' distance with most of the fam.

In any case, hi Dragalia fandom! Technically not new to it completely but might as well be, as I go by ValerieFauxNom (wow, what a shock!) on AO3, though with exactly one (1) dragalia fic I'm writing right now, so if you ever wanna ask questions or anything about that or anything dragalia (or tales of the abyss, or radiant historia, or-) feel free to send a message! Always up for dragalia stuff, especially regarding the royal fam because they are disasters and I loved it.

Other than that, sorry for any mistakes in this post! Probably made like 5 of them somewhere.

#dragalia lost #dragalia #euden's cheating and gets four to both give the barren right side variety and to reflect his character growth/if he's in a festive mood #haha get it though #“sacrificed”. because he dies- #beren can't reach the pedals but he's got the spite to power the car without ever needing to refuel it #follow me for more insightful takes on Important Matters like this I guess #leonidas is also cheating with two but that's also for character growth even if he barely shifts. Just a bit nicer.