#i'll always defend her

[sweetestlamb]

The way I want to hug Young-woo and tell her that being autistic doesn't make her unloveable, I know plenty of people who only think about themselves and they're aren't autistic and they don't even have the foresight to think about how lonely they might be making others. Girl, you are wifey material just keep communicating and trying your best. You're doing great sweetie.

#extraordinary attorney woo #that whole scene broke my heart #she's so thoughtful #they just highlight her social faux pases #she was the only one to come see attorney Jung #she's just learning everyday #it's admirable #some people never learn #woo young woo #I'll always defend her

[answer2jeff]

suddenly my name is Richie Jerimovich and i'm a 46 yr old divorced dad with a nicotine addiction! how strange?!

#i love when my gf threatens to stab people #and i love when she actually stabs people even more!!! #i love when women #i'm so gay #help lol #ayo edebiri #the bear #i love her your honor #sydney adamu #ebon moss bachrach #i need to be him #move bitch #besties fr #she's just in a silly goofy mood #she can stab me #i'll always defend her #she can do no wrong #i love this duo so much #two dumbasses #richie jerimovich #shut up Richie #idk richie why am i? #surge rates fucko

[chalkrub]

my silly sphinx siblings

#my art #monster art #illustration #sphinx #oc #thomas thomas #lucille #PEEP the leopard spots I gave lucille. and also her solid yellow eyes #I overuse yellow eyes a lot but they look good what can I say!! #calling them my silly siblings like they aren't NASTY nasty messed up little things #also team spicy even if we're destined to lose it's been an honour defending the beauty of a fragrant spice with you #i'm destined to lose splatfests forever and always I'll never back the winning team

[moe-broey]

Being an Alfonse enjoyer is SO fucking funny bc one minute you're thinking "Shit this guy can actually be scary if you fucking think about it like he's so fucked up actually" and the next he's. Being dragged along by his little sister and her antics AND he's being a good sport about it. Like he clearly doesn't want to be here but he's not gonna complain. He's going to put his heart into it actually. Because Sharena is putting her whole heart into it!!!! And well. There has to be two of them (retainers). Duh. Obviously.

#feh #alfonse really is just. one of the guys of all time. everything he does is so fucking funny to me #also like. there are so many little moments where i just. oughgh..... i just think. he loves sharena SO much. #just the way he plays along and looks out for her and keeps her close. #i have so many thoughts about that actually. how esp in battle she would always be just a few paces away. #and if you think about it. she's a lot safer knowing how to defend herself and fight than she would be locked away. #also she just. would never accept that. top ten worst things you could ever do to her. ect. #ALSO. HEY. UNRELATED. BUT LITERALLY A WHILE AGO I WAS WONDERING ABOUT RETAINERS #IN THE CONTEXT OF ASKR. AND NOW. IT'S. NOT JUST A HYPOTHETICAL???? like. are they gonna talk about that #how it seems like it's just always been alfonse sharena and anna. zach for a little bit. but mostly just the three. #unfortunately i haven't gotten too far in the fbs so. i'll have to wait and see. but i have QUESTIONS #fe alfonse #sharena

[fastcardotmp3]

forever thinking about the narrative we could've gotten if Kali had stuck around long-term and thinking about it specifically in conversation with the character arc of Abby in TLOU2, because like.

obviously the source materials are tonally different enough to not make it a clear-cut comparison, but there's something about the cycle of violence there and the desperation that comes with a years-long search for justice or revenge or closure, right?

these young women who were so deeply wronged by people more powerful than them, and so then run away and seek their own strength, seek out ways to use it. Abby gets this amazing storyline where we first see her exclusively from Ellie's perspective as the villain who killed this person she loved more than anyone, but who then becomes a person and who is given reasons and who is given a fullness of self that makes not just her more of a gut-punch to the world, but everyone around her too.

and I just keep thinking about what that sort of care could have done for a character like Kali who is so similarly caught in a cycle of violence in her search for closure, so similarly set in her pursuit of it, and what it might have been like to see her instead of seeing El's witnessing of her.

where are her hurts? what scars does she carry? whose death does she believe will be the one to make her feel okay again and when will she realize that none of them will?

Abby changes through relationships with people, through a relationship with a young boy who comes from such a different background to her but who has been hurt and who has lost in so many similar ways and Kali has that too.

Kali has El to show her a different perspective, to give her something worth loving again, to give her something to protect rather than something to fight.

I dunno where I'm going with this, I've had Kali on the mind lately and I'll always live on the Abby defense squad, but I really do mourn the direction the story could have gone if Kali had been offered the same level of personhood and depth by the narrative that Abby was.

#dot post #maybe i'll write it for her one of these days she's been really prodding at my brain worms lately #kali prasad #stranger things meta #cursed to always be the defender of characters fandom hates I SUPPOSE #it's been a minute since i did a ramble but i'm simply thinkin out loud tonight

[sskk-manifesto]

MITCHELL AKUTAGAWA EPISODE!!!!!!!!!!

#MITCHELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #///AND/// AKUTAGAWA EPISODE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And Yosano and Kenji spotlight too. Episode written precisely for my personal liking #Too bad no Atsushi then it would have been perfect (╥﹏╥) At least we got his voice in the episdoe preview #Alright I **LOVE** Mitchell. This is not the space to talk about it properly but I just really like how flawed she is‚ #but also in a way that results funny and endearing. And I love love love how much she cares about her family and is loyal to it!!! #It makes her so noble and virtuous. I know she has so little screentime but really the way she's so harsh and in apparence self-absorbed– #But in reality so kind and altruistic... The way her hearsh ways are implied to be only a consequence of a life of struggles and her will– #to save her family's name through a noble behavior and appearance too... It makes her so complex and multilayered imo #AND just how her innate tendency to defend people spans out of her family too!!!! #In my interpretation she did NOT care for Hawthorne or like him. But she still gave her life for him because she just instinctively– #protects the people around her. I don't have any strong feelings for haw/mitch but like how to blame Hawthorne I would have– #fallen for her right that istant too. #Now to Akutagawa. I'm really endeared by this episode because I'm pretty sure that's when I started sympathizing with / liking him :') #Like that's the moment when the things Dark Era showed us and the canon Akutagawa behavior click together and the watcher goes “Oh. OH.” #At least I'm pretty sure it was for me. It's bittersweet but especially sweet. #One more thing is... Wow bsd really has been like *that* since the beginning hasn't it. It's kinda silly to think back to all the criticism #the latest arc got now. #The criticism regarding how the ridiculously high stakes have been solved seemingly effortlessly in a way that resulted very anticlimatic?? #That's ALWAYS been there. “Oh no the ada is done for if they found out our base!!” *holds literally ZERO consequences* #“Oh no the Guild is done for if they destruct Zelda!!” *holds literally ZERO consequences* #“Oh no the Guild knows were our clerk is!!” *holds near to ZERO consequences* #And #“Oh no Akutagawa died!” “Oh no half world population was tuned in vampires!” “Oh no Fukuchi obtained One Order!” #“Oh no Chuuya is a vampire siding against Dazai!” #It's really the same‚ isn't it? #But like‚ we're still glad all of it happened right? Because it makes the experience enjoyable lol. #It's really about enjoying the ride I suppose. #I have more to ramble about but I've ran out of tags so I'll be doing it on my main blog reblog later #random rambles

[backjustforberena]

Just pointing this out because I don’t think people get how ambiguous Rhaenys’s position was, and how independent from the Greens and Blacks she remained until the war actually started - In Episode 09, Rhaenys was still in King’s Landing and didn’t leave with the Blacks because:

A) She had a different destination, and would be heading back to Driftmark rather than Dragonstone. 

B) She was overseeing the preparation and then the transportation of Vaemond Velaryon’s body. The Silent Sisters had to do their work, so she stayed the night, whereas there’s no reason why the Blacks couldn’t just hotfoot it after the meal with Viserys.

C) It is not automatic she would go with them. Her position, despite the betrothals, on Rhaenyra and Daemon has not changed. There’s no reason to play happy families and no reason for her to accompany Baela if she goes with her father. There’s no coordination; Rhaenys is not synonymous with “the Blacks” at this point in the narrative. She’s continually positioned as an outsider from the two factions!!

It’s not fair to categorize her being in King’s Landing as a stupid move on her part - there’s no reason to think she is in danger by staying till the next day as she isn’t to know Viserys would die.

#yes i am out here defending rhaenys #i will always defend her #but ESPECIALLY her actions in Episodes 08 and 09 #i'll stick criticise the heck out of the dragon pit scene for its framing #but i can back up the character choices #please can people just THINK about things from her perspective??? #house of the dragon #yes i did write this in my tea break #my gifs

[rigberts]

I wish people appreciated that het ships can also about delving into a female character's inner world and complicated relationships with others and shipping the guy with a man he barely knows and interacts with is not necessarily more interesting or subversive just bc it's gay

#this is kinda about shinogiyuu tbh #bc just labeling shinobu as a lesbian to get her out of the way is irritating and lazy tbh #or writing her off as someone who hates giyuu when that's simply not true #of course I'll always defend multishipping #but having a het ship (misleading bc they're both bi in my heart) be seen as less interesting and somehow less progressive #is deeply infuriating

[khalesci]

d.une discourse crossing over into a.soiaf discourse is the worst possible thing that could have happened actually bc now there are a lot of dudebros trying to say that paul and dany "have the same arc actually" and I am going to pull my hair out like please and I mean this in the most disrespectful way possible, shut the fuck up

#♛ ooc. ⊱ ❝ 𝘖𝘩 𝘯𝘰 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘪. ❞ #tell me you don't actually understand daenerys without telling me #I blame dave&dan and that bullshit final season for this #giving ammunition to all these people who were dying to find a reason to validate the hate they have for her #without having to admit the REAL reasons they hate her (she's a woman with power and agency that does not conform to societal standards) #(and she is a victim who has reclaimed her power instead of revictimizing herself for male approval over and over again) #if you try to argue in any way that dany is supposed to be the villain or a 'false hero' by any means #then I automatically distrust anything you have to say about this series at all #like I'm heated about it okay !! I will never stand for all this slander against her #because I have NEVER seen anyone give a single valid reason for it #it's always the same r*ddit inc*l talking points being regurgitated over and over again #it's okay to just not like a character but you cross a line when you start trying to paint THE PERSON TRYING TO END SLAVERY #as a GODDAMN F*SCIST #anyway I'm angry but I'll get over it I just needed to vent #dany is the number one character I will defend against *that* side of the fandom with my life like I will fucking die in the pit for her

[sort-of-a-hero-that-way]

"They ruined Britta" by what, fleshing her out? I'm so sick of this take being used anytime Britta is shown as flawed. She's an activist because she's super opinionated and she stands up for what she believes in, and that's her strength as well as her biggest flaw because she also gets caught up in her own perception of the world and fails to factor in other people's thoughts and needs (like when she paid the deaf girl to spoil Abed his book). She gets caught up in her jokes, gets caught up in her need to "treat" her friends, gets caught up in proving she's right. And sometimes she's right and she succeeds, sometimes she takes it too far and hurts people. It's her coping mechanism after having had to run away and to prove herself to everyone. She wanted, no, needed, people to see her succeed so badly, she sometimes fell into self-centeredness, even when her intentions are never malign.

So no, she didn't necessarily get ruined, it always made sense for her arc and she's a much more relatable character that way.

#people need to take a moment and analyze how great her character can be instead of dismissing everything due to poor writing #she's my wife and one of my main kins I'll always defend her #britta perry #nbc community

[aegonrhaenys]

I can’t believe Wanda Maximoff got the Daenerys Targaryen treatment

#personal #doctor strange in the multiverse of madness #doctor strange in the multiverse of madness spoilers #don't get me wrong i'll defend her always lol #both of them actually #it's not their fault they were written by men :)

[parkiiinson]

i never watched jodie whittaker's seasons but i can always tell when criticism about her performance comes from misogyny

#it's so fucking obvious #and i'll always defend her for that #doctor who #jodie whittaker #text #misogyny #dw

[archiephd]

the shivgirlification of hiatus

#like i KNOW when s4 drops i'll be back on my ken bullshit but like. shiv roy has easily become my number 1 boygirl. to me #like at first it was my typical i must defend this character with my life to compensate for them being overhated by the fandom #(which always happens with characters that happen to be ginger btw. unrelated but. btw) #but like. in me fashion i would now kill for her :) because she is neat #j.txt

[wanderingmind867]

I keep telling myself I'm going to keep watching South park, yet it can sometimes take me two days to finish an episode. This is because I've started giving up halfway through if I find even one joke unfunny. Take the episode about honey boo-boo and James Cameron; I stopped watching it halfway through because I didn't like the jokes about Randy Newman. (Why do people always deride him as a bad musician, anyway? I've always liked his music).

#south park #kyle brovlofski #eric cartman #stan marsh #Although I loved the honey boo-boo jokes #i eventually got worried about laughing at them #since it seems rude to her #considering she was six when her show came out #I'll also never understand the Randy Newman hate #I'll defend him to the grave #since he made my favorite disney soundtrack #the princess and the frog #so I'll always love his music

[seaweedstarshine]

Sometimes I think of Amy Pond, who grew up being called mad by those who wielded the word as a tool of exclusion and shame —

Amy Pond, who though forced into the hands of four psychiatrists, still clung to that which they called madness until those systems which elevate psychosocial conformity above humanity stripped it from her —

Amy Pond, whose imaginary friend reappeared for a single hour after twelve years and reignited that faith before disappearing for two more years —

Amy Pond, who spent those those two years under the same implicit threat ingrained in her through psychiatric violence, and thus began to believe the man who stopped the invasion was “just a madman with a box,” only for him to agree, and to also call her “mad, impossible Amy Pond,” reframing madness as non-negative for the first time in her life —

Amy Pond, who ignored the disembodied voice of her imaginary friend even as she ran away with him for real, who still lived each day with the traumatic internalization of deviancy dictated upon her by the psychiatric-industrial complex that shaped her from childhood —

Amy Pond, who wouldn't acknowledge the Doctor's voice, such that it took an Angel in her eye that was literally killing her to ensure she couldn't reality check herself —

Amy Pond, who stood before a room which muttered about “the psychiatrists we brought her to,” and though afraid, escaped their rigid parameters of acceptable existence.

#I like seeing it as indicating she began hearing his voice when he was gone for all those years! why else wouldn't she say anything? #actually psychotic Amy agenda #Amy Pond #eleventh doctor #reclaimed language #oh look its another antipsychiatry themed doctor who post #sumn abt in Fairies At The Bottom Of The Garden audio AND Imaginary Enemies comic we see Amelia bein called slurs against psychotic people #(shes called psycho in both) #like!!! and SO MUCH OF AMYS STORY is about her claiming her agency in ways that previous companions weren't allowed to- #companions whose status as a Wife was a signifier of an to end of their value individually- 'this is no place for a married woman' etc #in some cases Wife-ness forced upon them *as* a denial of agency 'I spent all that time trying to find you I'm not going back now!' etc #whereas Amys story deconstructs that; Amys “Choice” is an illusion- Amy being a Wife doesn't demote her agency as an companion #anyways I love that aspect of reclaimed agency for Amy but ALSO #“madness” as an expression of agency against systems of oppression is SO relevant. the mind defends itself and the alternative isnt better #the oppressive system in this case being ableist structures and the psychiatric system ITSELF which is a whole other layer #the moral being that even if the Doctor WAS a delusion? he'd still be a needed coping mechanism for a child who says “ppl always leave” #and instead of examining her feelings of abandonment they insist 'aLiENs DoNt ExIsT' as seen in the 'sTaRs DoNt ExIsT' psychiatrist in TBB #they don't care that she's in PAIN- why would they?- they just care that she's 'abnormal' and therefore not deserving of humanity #(eleventh) doctor is neurodivergent tag #I mean technically this is about Amy but I once (twice) used that tag on the post about the Master. its the spirit of it! #and Amy Pond + her Raggedy Doctor as “mad” people is very *chefs kiss* #((you know what im putting the tag on my last Amy post :D )) #Mels experienced this very differently and I'll make a post about her at some point- I just wanna make sure my points are got across better #sumn abt Amelia's “crazy” was Mels' “delinquency.” Amy treated as if she doesn't know her own life while Mels treated as threatening #sumn abt adultification of Black girls while Amy is infantilized #Amy Pond who could rewrite reality in a reborn universe because she grew up with a Crack in her wall that no one believed was special — #ableism #saneism #unreality #because I mean Amy's stand against psychiatric dehumanization was to REWRITE THE UNIVERSE with her Crack powers

[brieserker]

That feeling of relief when I got the email for me to confirm my therapy appointment for Wednesday!

#its been 3 weeks since my last session #and something about my aunt being in town has triggered some mommy issues i thought werent that big of a deal #but between tiptoeing around my mom to try to make plans with my aunt because my mom let her issues take over and stopped talking to her #20 fucking years ago #and when i am talking with my aunt to try to avoid the topic of my mom or else I'll be stuck defending my mom #even if a lot of what my family says about her is truex #ive always been stuck being the only singular person in her corner and idk how much of that is me genuinely trying to clear her name #or if i was essentially groomed to always blindly follow her because 'thats what you do when your mom is raising you alone' #it also doesnt help im approaching an age where i can say 'i remember when my mom was this old' #and the excuses i made for her growing up look.... less valid #i love my mom she is my lorelai gilmore #but