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maskspurpose · 8 months

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the revstar fandom asked: in the new event we saw firsthand how wataru still hasn’t dealt with all his emotions concerning the war, that he still is quite upset about it and has mixed feelings about eichi then. But we know wataru also Loves eichi, very much so, otherwise he wouldn’t be in fine most likely wouldn’t still be an idol yadda yadda. so, i ask… what do you think this means for wataei? that wataru is still having troubles figuring out his emotions towards eichi, although he clearly values him and wants to be with him. do you think he’s telling himself he loves eichi unconditionally to avoid dealing with his past emotions, even though there may be some grain of truth in that?

i'm waiting until the event is fully translated to like actually settle on my opinion on this bc theres a lot of nuance imo? i dont think hes lying to himself (or others) about how much he loves eichi-- his feelings about EICHI are actually some of the few times he allows himself to like... express the fact that he's felt negative emotions before (ep:link has a few good examples of this-- he talks about it with hokuto and later with eichi on the rooftop, he used to not be too sure about him but grew to love and admire him over the year together) and i think it's in part because there's this like... really solid base of to some extent uncertainty but also of knowing what it feels like to be... opponents in some way that he was able to build up the love he now feels? idk i like the idea that his decision to remain an idol alongside eichi was like... complicated for him and involved a lot of thinking and agonizing about it because it goes against his normal "patterns" where instead of facing any negative emotions that may occur he just... leaves. he tries to do it to the theater club in transparency and masks, he left the eccentrics after the war, but even after the disaster that was the rooftop proposal he stayed with eichi, yknow?

there's always an aspect of avoidance to how wataru acts and i wouldn't characterize wataei as like an ideal relationship. they're both BARELY 19 at the end of the event story and both deeply struggle with communicating because of their past which is an important thing to consider so i think interpreting stuff differently is also fine fdsjksakdh. i think a lot of wataru's actions in the past can be seen as him like... trying to overpower his past negative memories with good ones (altered being a huge one, i think diner live also counts) and i think seeing that as him like trying to Not Deal With any negative feelings he might have is. valid.

i think emotions are always complicated, especially love and i think figuring out what love means you and for your relationship is. a normal and ongoing part of a relationship that never really stops. i think a lot of what happens in the event story is like... BECAUSE tori and wataru love eichi they want... to push him (and fine) into a direction that is different, kinder. i need to reread the sanctuary epilogue i think. wah.

another thing is that like i think it's not just watarus feelings about eichi but his feelings about The Student Council which like YES eichi is the face of but other people like keito and tsumugi were also instrumental during the war. wataru has a good relationship with nagisa these days, his relationship with keito is.... Something for sure and the fact that him and tsumugi are really awkward around each other the like two times theyve talked ever is also really good. idk what i'm trying to get at with this just... i think the fact that tori doesnt specifically ask wataru about eichi but rather the student council (as an institution) is another thing-- it might not JUST be about eichi, it could be about other people and what the student council in general represents to wataru.

[Smile or comment on the answer here]

#retrospring ask #enstars #wataru hibiki #eichi tenshouin #idk may as wlel put this in their tags #since it got long. even if its rambly.

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3rddimension · 5 months

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I want to reply to that anon's ask, who i guess was the same one from before who did a little rant. This is going to be a little long so sorry in advance.

"what kind of community is this if someone isn’t allowed to share their thoughts"

1) You are allowed to share your thoughts, your ask was literally replied when it could have been just ignored.

2) The same way you can have an opinion the rest of the community is allowed to respond or have an opinion about yours. Basically what i am saying is that "free speech" or "free opinions" are not exempt from consequences or criticism.

"You can disagree but don’t tell people how to feel about something. "

You can feel however you want, but that doesn't mean that it has a logical or good reason behind that.

Like i said before, Smosh has literally 'monetized' or teased shipping (with smosh theater fanfics for example) before, and they are ALLOWED to do it because they are professionals, it is their work and they can sell it however they want. So i don't get why you are now against it, if you don't want to spend money in the show just don't watch it, you are not forced to buy it.

"It’s so disrespectful and you’re all better than that"

Ummmm WHAT?, who are you to call others "disrespectful" when your first ask said and i quote:

"It's beyond gross from everyone involved"

You literally called Smosh's production team, crew and cast, "gross", doesn't that seem disrespectful to you?, don't be a hypocrite.

I don't get where do you get that Smosh has 'demonized' shipping before, maybe if you were a little more specific that would help. I'm not a new fan, but i can't remember that demonization you are talking about, Courtney herself has said that she doesn't mind it as long as it is not harmful (Smoshcast #75, August 14th 2020). Idk what you are even talking about Damien 'doing the same'. Specify if you want at least to be understood.

Also i think you said something about fans attacking shippers.

1) Smosh literally can't control fans opinions or behavior, you can't make them responsible for what a few fans think or behave.

2) Shipping in general (not just Smosh's fandom) gets a bad reputation because some shippers get too far and get too obsessed, what leads to harassment. Again, it is not Smosh fault nor exclusive to their fandom.

Sorry if i sounded too harsh, but idk why that anon is so angry about to call Smosh, and even Shayne and Court 'gross'. They are just working, calm down, if you are a normal shipper you should be happy that they are sharing a 'couple picture' with us. It helps their 'soft launching', it is easier to just enjoy it instead of getting angry for some random reason.

Also if you think "the characters" they are portraying don't make sense together. Dudes, did you watch the others Funeral roasts before? Half the characters don't make sense, they don't share a narrative thread or cohesion, most of the time they are just random characters. For Ian's funeral Courtney didn't play any character, Shayne was Dumpster Wizard and Jackie played a flight attendant, nothing about that makes sense or shares a narrative.

Maybe they are playing just two random characters paired together just like Angela was paired with Chanse.

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patriciavetinari · 7 months

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☕️theatre? You've had interesting opinions on the couple of plays you've mentioned...

Big topic!!

Btw, I signed up for another round of drama 'classes', so very relevant.

I love theater, been introduced to it as a child and I think it really should be a bigger part of children's education, way more widespread. I want drama clubs to be as essential for any schools libraries (arts general to be funded better as well). Schools should cooperate with local theaters and get children to see plays several times a year etc, starting from puppetry and up to weird, experimental stuff.

Community theaters should also be funded and where there aren't any comrades should come together and start one. Honestly, this is not me trying to elevate theater as the most important art form or something, it's not better or worse than others, but it is essentially an opportunity for all ages to play pretend and involve their whole body in silliness and healthy tomfoolery. That's aside from the power of storytelling and outreach and shakespeare in prisons and all of that highly important yada yada, we all know and love that. We should do more of it. To be honest, I don't really get the snarky comments about theater kids (though people who focus heavily on european theatre and DO try to elevate it as supreme art form etc of course are at risk of letting their discrimination sully their art, you know).

And I firmly believe that there should be theaters for all occasions and all expectations of what genre of even it is – like with restaurants, sometimes you want a fancy meal and sometimes you want street food. Theater should 100% be versatile and accessible, it should include much more ethnic and body diversity and I think age/gender/race-blind castings are a great idea as long as everyone involved is not making 'guy in a dress' type of joke underneath.

The plays I've seen recently were Translations – a very popular play in Ireland, and a Ukrainian production was an interesting twist on it. I think I have a post on it somewhere in this attic of my blog.

The more recent one I saw just last month was And Then There None – I wrote a post but it was a rambling mess and I deleted it. I like the story (am aware of the racist original name and Christie's general issues with racism and orientalism) but also Christie truly killed the story when she rewrote it as a play with a happy ending. It becomes a vaguely thiller-esque comedy basically, and early films based on it treat it exactly this way. They play I saw didn't do that, but I feel like the play is still not the best medium for this particular story, it was rushed and the descent into paranoid madness feels very artificial. Actors were okay, it was the packed itinerary of deaths that was rushing them along. They made a couple of characters gay, and idk, it was fine, but also comedied them down. I don't know how I feel about this. It could have been better. Stage design was good. Also I'm heavily biased about this piece because the best production so far that I've seen has been a ussr 2-part movie that hits every point and is evisceratingly good, so it's hard to top. I have more feelings about the book itself but I should get a separate ask to ramble about that.

#send me a ☕️ with a topic and I'll ramble about it #ask #tea asks #theatre

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deepfriedseagullfeet · 2 years

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my marvin! lore rundown under the cut:

24-28, nonbinary (they them), pan/ace, 5’4”

what is there to say about marvin? theres not really anything ‘canon’ to compare them to, and in general, everyone’s marvins in the community are different and unique!! this ego gives so much creative freedom cause of the lack of canon content, so its always fun to see what other people do with that!

in general, my marvin is indeed still a magician, and they do have cool sorcerer powers that i still havent completely pinned down, but their main power is summoning fire, telepathy/making things move with their mind, and probably other miscellaneous things ive imagined over the years but never wrote down!

so lets talk about backstory. they were the third ego without a previous life, but they have quite a colorful life when they get created. like i feel like more happens with marvin even before anti its crazy. so flashback to the tiny apartment jack and jackie lived in, thats where marvin comes in. and uh, jack hated them the moment he saw them. my marvin has these cat like features to them. they have fangs and sharp teeth, sharp claws, and yellow pupil-slit eyes. they came out sick and unresponsive for a short time when they were born, and when they did feel well enough, they set things on fire and stuff with magic they couldnt control.

jackie, who again at the time was dealing with unmedicated schizophrenia, became really close with marvin in that kid sort of way. they were both sick and being neglected by jack. and things only got worse.

marvin was, or at least what jack assumed to be, was dying. and jack didnt want to have a body in his apartment. so he took marvin in the night, drove them out to the middle of the surrounding woods, and left them there on the ground. when he got back, jackie was heartbroken over marvin not being there, asking where they went. jack told him they ran away. and when it didnt make sense to jackie that an essentially sick baby thats never left the flat before ran off, jack told him he was delusional and to go back to bed.

now obviously, marvin didn’t end up dying alone in the woods. in fact, they got so, so much better. turns out that marvin gets a lot of their energy from nature, and being out there gave them the strength to get better. and this person basically lived like some kind of feral disney princess for awhile. another power that i just remembered about is they can talk to animals!! so yeah, literal disney princess. they hunted fish to eat and slept under trees, all the while waiting for jack to come back to get them. but he never did.

so at this point, marvin meets someone out there in the woods. i call this guy Mr. Burnake based off that one lemon demon song, but ill probably change his name someday. also he looks like arin hanson, which may or may not be a nod to the fact that a danny avidan lookalike was jackies mentor.

as u may guess, this other guy was a powerful sorcerer, and noticing this dirty, feral magician out in the woods, he took them in and took care of them for awhile. he was the one who really taught marvin the value of magic, and how to use theirs. he became kinda a father figure to marvin, and when he disappeared one day, marvin was pretty sad, but felt that they had learned enough to go out into the world.

things move pretty fast from here, like marvin gets a job at a theater, and eventually becomes a stage magician, impressing people with their magic! it was a wild time for them, being popular and having all this attention, finally getting to express themself on stage. they went through a lot of changes, figuring out their gender identity and stuff. all good things.

now ok. im gonna be real with yall. idk what happens next because it always changes. so ive sorta decided to align all the different ideas into one idea. so here it is. basically Anti comes to marvin’s show and falls in love with them, DESPITE still being with jameson at the time. they meet up, marvin becomes interested in anti too, they start dating. then marvin figures out about jameson, then figures out anti’s a demon, then figures out anti wants to kidnap and probably torture them to death in his basement, and nopes the fuck out of there.

from then on, because they knew anti was also made by jack, they wanted to find out if jackie was still out there. they tracked him down and met henrik and chase, and it was this big reunion and it was great. and then marvin is like ‘hey, antis still out there and someone is with him’ and thats when jackie is like oh SHIT and they all decide to go hunt anti and save jameson. or something like that. idk anti has to die and jameson has to get rescued somehow.

so yeah, from then on, marvin just kinda lived with the other egos and still performed while spending time with their new family. good times.

so some other basics about marvin is that they have a very witty and proud personality. their pretty short but still walk tall. they can come off as being an asshole sometimes, just because they tend to think they know whats best, and can be a lil narcissistic sometimes. they have a hard time making connections, even with the other egos, because of their past of being abandoned, but they still love the others, jackie especially. i like a storyline where they fall a little bit in love with jackie, but grow closer to chase, and they have this soft-undefined kinda lovey relationship. but, yeah, this is marvin!

#jacksepticegos #marvin the magnificent #my art #ego lore #ego posting

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whifferdills · 2 years

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I would love to see a list of movies from the last five (or ten or fifteen or whatever) movies that you've really loved, if you'd wanna share it? I definitely agree with you re: people decrying how "all modern movies are just CGI fests" because THERE IS SO MUCH VARIETY OUT THERE, you just gotta look around a bit! I'd love to hear your thoughts!

thank you for this ask! i love talking about my opinions <3

in terms of movies from the past few years:

We're All Going To The World's Fair (horror-adjacent new media trans* coming-of-age)

Titane (trans-adjacent black comedy/body-horror gore fest/found family drama. sweet, and even sweeter in the context of how fucking weird and uncomfortable it can get)

Memoria (a movie as a space to occupy. sound design as narrative thrust. a thought you can't get out of your head (a trepanned skull found during the construction of a highway). the impossibility of communication, and the importance of it regardless)

Everything Everywhere All At Once (generational trauma, the deep complexity of a fraught but loving mother/daughter relationship when it is also first/second gen immigrant, and straight/gay. butt plug fight scene. sausage fingers made me cry in the theater)

The Humans (horror sort of? psychological drama. funny. the house is a major character & Amy Schumer is sympathetic)

Drive My Car (slow bittersweet meditation on grief, performance, and human connection) & Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (Hamaguchi made 2 movies in 2021????how. but again: human connection, and the space a narrative can make for us, the words it can give us, a plainspoken honesty and room for your regret and anime blu-rays)

maɬni – towards the ocean, towards the shore (essay-film. language, myth, nature, and community)

Bacarau (surreal genre-mash town-under-siege story. Udo Kier as the personification of western colonialism. idk how to summarize this one it is A Lot, 10 pounds of movie in a 5 pound bag)

Lover's Rock (music, community, the casual intimacy of a house party. beautiful, joyous little thing. all of Small Axe is good but this especially)

Shirley (a good biopic? again, not-quite-horror...creation, invasion, psychosexual weirdness. the terror of being seen/the seduction of seeing)

laying it all out you can def see what my tastes are lol. & there's been a fair amount of 'really liked it but either the affection faded or it never bumped itself from Really Like to Love'. Faya Dayi, Macbeth, The Night House, Candyman, Annette, Swan Song....also some things i like bc i think the actor is super hot (Green Knight, Who You Think I Am).

i actually don't mind CGI-heavy things or at least feel like the fault is in the execution and intent, not the media. i really liked Matrix: Resurrections for ex, but even things that ARE resolutely slick theme park rides with zero "redeeming values" & filmed entirely with the world's most alienating green screen can be good theoretically i just think MCU etc gets bogged down in shit that is supposed to make you care about the characters but never does. a parallel universe MCU where every movie is like 90 minutes, has no serious continuity, and exists just so we can watch superheroes fighting supervillains sounds kinda dope actually

#world's fair is not explicitly trans but when i found out the director was a trans woman i was like #yeah that makes sense #deep thoughts with whifferdills #moving pictures

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blackfemmecharacterdependency · 2 years

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BFCD Reviews By Nesha || The Purge Franchise

Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to my experience with my Purge marathon this month, for October purposes. We could glide by the first one, since there is literally one Black woman in it and she’s there for like, a few minutes, or whatever. BUT. Since there were prominent Black female characters elsewhere in the franchise, I decided to just put all of my thoughts into one long post. (Only covered the movies 1-3, because that’s all I watched)

This essentially started whenever I saw this post that asked for POC thoughts on the representation in The Purge. I was already considering reviewing it, but that pretty much was like my little push. Then, I was in the comments or whatever, and just don’t think that I had the time at the moment to really state my thoughts in a comments section, particularly while I was only two movies in. Basically, long story short, if there is ever a story about POC, especially in stories where injustice is a major plot point - if there are characters of color, there need to be writers of color. If there are characters of color and no writers of color... Just know that them white people fucked it up. Sometimes it’s okay, because sometimes, they got a friend of color or something and have watched a few documentaries. Lol. Idk if this man who wrote this franchise know any Black people outside of work. 🤷🏾‍♀️

And the usual disclaimer, since we back OUTSIDE! You say you outside but you ain’t that outside. I’m outside of my fandoms in this department, and these things tend to bring the fandoms to me because I stepped foot in their things. Disclaimer for somebody who stumbled across this post because of the fandom tags - I am an independent partaker of this content, not “part of the fandom,” and my audience in particular is NOT for everybody. SO: If you may have been criticized in the past for casual racism, tone deafness to Black women’s concerns or accused of misogynoir or antiblackness, leave now. If you don’t like cussing, AAVE, general ratchetness and mean lesbian energy, you too might wanna go. A bitch can be eloquent, but I type like I talk, at times, so it is what it is and I don’t curate for kids, dudes, or nonblacks. That’s just what that is.

The Purge

I initially watched this movie whenever it first was out (more like whenever it was out of the theaters, so not at the very beginning of it’s existence, but pretty dang close). I watched it at my older sister’s house. I wasn’t interested in it. Whenever I heard the premise, I thought it sounded pretty dope, but then I saw Ethan Hawke, and so I was willing to pass. One thing I’ma do is pass on an Ethan Hawke movie without a second thought. So. I didn’t plan on watching it, but my sister put it on at her home one night and that’s her TV, so I wound up seeing the thing.

Wasn’t impressed with the movie, overall. It came out at a time where I was very invested and involved in Black activism and the movie read like someone who had read a few white liberal articles on politics and then made a lil’ movie about the horrors. It felt extremely tone deaf in some areas, and like the point it was trying to make was not being properly communicated.

BUT THEN, I noted that many of the white people I knew personally felt very into it and I decided, “Oh, okay. It was meant for them. It was to communicate things that we already know to these people who have often always been able to live without having to know or think about these things. I’m including this interaction with someone in the fandom, on the post linked above, to clarify:

So. To me, this family read as conservative. They could be moderates. I definitely could see it. They put their flowers out to show that they support the purge, but then whenever it comes down to it, they don’t actually have it in them to support it in full. But. I feel like there are so many conservatives like this as well.

I’m from Texas. Southeast Texas, to be exact. Right by the Gulf of Mexico, right by Louisiana. I have hella conservatives surrounding me who were “nice” people. They love their families, however that looked, and didn’t actually go out to klan rallies or anything, but they support law enforcement and make excuses for these “great institutions” in our nation, and in Texas. Now... They wouldn’t be likely to actually shoot me down dead without a second thought like the police would, but they would support the police force, despite them doing such things. This is how the main family reads, to me.

The writer though? Felt like someone on the other side. The ones who will gladly raise awareness to help the less fortunate, but if they had to do even a step more than that, they would not have the energy. The story read like a person - who puts BLM in their profile, but doesn’t really even know any Black people, much less help them - telling a story about how maybe, under the right (or very wrong) circumstances, their white counterparts could see the light about humanity.

I was glad to see that brotha survive, but beyond that, this was not a movie for me or mine. It isn’t a movie that outside of this marathon I will watch again either. Now, the second one, to me, was more empathetic. It was like if the writer heard feedback and decided to clarify and expound on what message the story was giving, and opened up a doorway to a broader audience.

The Purge: Anarchy

We followed characters around who knew what was up and were just trying to do their best. Instead of following people who were part of the problem like we did in the first movie, we followed people who were more likely to be affected by those in power who were the problem. They even went so far as to cast leads who are biracial Black women as part of the ensemble that we take this journey with.

Yes, like the first one, they’re still shown as targets of the problem, but they also are shown as survivors too, and while there is still an undertone of white saviorism, as there also was in the first movie, it isn’t a cut and dry white savior story. It is a group of people who need help through an impossible life in an unfair world, and how each of them does their best, not only to live, but to look out for their loved ones, and eventually each other. It is really the type of story that I would have wanted from a world like this, and I would have wanted evidence that there were people who could somehow make the best of it all.

Nobody don’t do that like Black people. One of our main identifiers is how we make lemonade out of lemons, so there was good visuals in who they selected to follow through this story and I thought the end was BEAUTIFUL. To see the brotha done not only survived last time, but he done started working to give power to the powerless? Loved that for him. Loved that Our Good Sis nem made sure to have the man’s back who had theirs in the beginning. It was a well told story for such a horrifying state of things.

The Purge: Election Year

I don’t know what happened here...

This movie was not good. At the end of the day, I think that they needed Black people, preferably ones who know about community work, politics, and such to assist them in trying to write these characters.

They gave you more POC in this story... They gave you more access to the ones standing up to the corrupt power system. But, then they sort of sullied it with this idea that to rise up is to be as bad as those who LITERALLY use their power to eradicate you and have the means and malice to do it.

White liberal knucka strikes again with a heavy hand in false equivalencies of an organization that had to be created in order to help and protect the most vulnerable people in these disgusting times with actual white supremacists. The white supremacists were a seen, real, force trying to eliminate the one person who wanted to make changes, from a place of power.

Enter the White Savior Trope that they were flirting with last movie, and amplify that bitch. This movie was so damn annoying with the thought of this white woman being the only hope that the people had, when the brotha had been tearing through the Purge purists’ shit for years. (He finally got him a name this movie too). But, my point is. There is no better way for you to get me to roll my eyes and smack my teeth than to try to paint some white as the only hope, and in THIS particular story, it’s especially heinous, because there was already some hope in the niggas evening the field a little bit by exterminating some of the high profile people and hitting their fancy events.

What this movie did was that, and even worse, they shoved down my THROAT that these negros with guns were just as bad, and somebody in there had the audacity to have the main negro say at one point, “Now, I love Black people, but I’m not letting you shoot these good white folks. These our white folks” while those people were in the process of trying to thwart an operation that could eliminate one of the worst of the purge pushers who had ALREADY tried to kill them PERSONALLY! WHY??? WHO BUT SOME HONKEY OR SOME COON WOULD WRITE THAT AND BE SERIOUS???????????

HUGE. STEP. DOWN. From the trust that they built with me as a Black viewer in the previous movie. I thought perhaps that there might be another increase in awareness and quality, like there was between the first and second movies. There was not. Not for my Black ass. I didn’t even watch it in one sitting, and was ready to end my trek through the franchise. I was that irritated by the complete and utter audacity, in a universe like this, in a situation like this for THAT. What SHOULD have happened, if it wasn’t some white nonsense, was everybody shoulda told that white lady what the brotha was tryna tell her and get the white people to sit down and shut up and get out the way, because come 7:00, THEY were gonna fucking be safe again! EVEN IF this white bitch is the only fucking hope in this universe, what she was gon’ do? Wave a wand and make it so?

These people were supposed to just wait for you to have the right pieces in order to possibly help them, when they KNOW FOR SURE, one of they problems can end, right now today, by blowing this dude brains out? GOOFY. This is goofy. This was the height of too white for me to personally enjoy. Especially because people who tend to say shit like, “Then, you’re no better than them” usually haven’t gone through nothing. This hoe went through the purge. Shit killed her whole family. She was almost assassinated TONIGHT, multiple times, and the minute. THE VERY MINUTE she realized that these people who HELPED HER were going after her opponent, her main focus was how SHE couldn’t win like that. BITCH, THIS IS THESE PEOPLE’S LIVES. FUCK YOUR WIN.

AND, WHO THE FUCK PUT THIS LADY IN CHARGE??? They already have an entire operation that they had to do with not one spec of help from the great white hope, and they have been doing there best and helping people. They have been about it, while she has spoken about it. And then suddenly, folk all gather to crowd and protect her and why is everybody in this movie priority to protect her? This is not my ministry. Hated it, for all of that. Some other POC might have liked it, oh no baby, not my Black ass. I was cussing all they asses out through them shenanigans. Fuckin’ up the church’s money.

“This is no longer an assassination. It’s a rescue mission.” IT COULD BE BOTH! UGH. HATE THIS GODDAMN BULLSHIT. “We can’t be like them.” YOUR LIFE LITERALLY IS NOT GOING TO BE SHIT TOMORROW, LADY, FUCK YOU! And she’s like... getting in his way as they’re tryna move out, talking through him through the door when he has this decision to make. Quite frankly, I think she’s a piece of shit specifically for getting in the way of this group killing that man. She’s just the “lesser of two evils,” who STILL does not have these people’s best interests at heart, and it is not clear if the writer knew this or actually believed in her policies. Judging from the way this story has always read as white liberal bullshit, I think it’s a writer issue, and not that her character is this way on purpose.

AND THEY KILL MY NIGGA! They gave us the optics of the main Black character getting gunned down by Nazis. And the one white hero whose entire mission this movie is to save the white woman is the one we get to see defeat the main Nazi. Who, as I said, had just killed the longest running Black character in the franchise, who only even got a name THIS movie, even though it’s his third appearance in the franchise. The other main negro jump in front of the white woman to give us the Sacrificial Negro Trope that I had a sneaky suspicion would occur in this movie. I just didn’t know which one they was gon’ do it too. But I knew. I felt it in my spirit that this was the type of writer who would employ that representation. Girl, fuck this movie. No lol.

The first hour and a quarter are tolerable, then it just shits itself. I actually went to try to see if there was some shuckin’ & jivin’ ass nigga behind the scenes that for whatever made them think this was okay, but nope - white people were responsible, and it SHOWS. Powered through the last half hour on principle. Don’t know if I wanna continue. There are so many horrific things that I can watch that I will probably love out there.

Not only was this the worst movie in the franchise, but this is one of the worst movies that I have seen recently. I’d advise the Black people with interests similar to mine not to waste your time. I would punch this man in his face for writing this movie, if I could. Whew. Well, niggas and friends... idk if Auntie Nesha will be finishing this franchise, but even if I do, at MOST, I’d do a “Nesha Watches” and liveblog it. This shit got my equilibrium fucked up.

#BFCD Reviews by Nesha #The Purge #Nesha Watches The Purge Franchise #Nesha Watches The Purge #Nesha Watches #The Purge Franchise #Eva Sanchez #Carmen Ejogo #Cali Sanchez #Zoe Soul #Laney Rucker #Betty Gabriel #Freak Bride #Brittany Mirabile #long post #reviews #BFCD Spooky Season #Queuetober

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angeltreasure · 2 months

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Hi! I was wondering if you could offer some advice and of course pray - if anyone else has anything to add I’d appreciate it.

So I have always liked my own space, even though I do like to socialise but I like to be able to have the freedom to choose when I do my thing etc and since fully committing to faith that’s been how I like it. I really love my friends and community in church like it’s 100% necessary and wonderful. A lot of my old ‘friends’ drifted apart and I know God was pulling me away from certain things and people.

I don’t know if I’m going to explain this very well but I think in my soul I know I don’t want to be a part of big group gatherings (that are not Christian of any kind) where the general vibe is young adults/ people looking to party and have a good time and just??? I don’t know but that doesn’t fill me with excitement, if fills me with dread. But people in my life always say things like ‘it might be fun to meet new people etc and do fun things’ but my point isn’t that I don’t want to socialise and do fun things but that’s not my kind of fun! If it was a group trip or outing with other believers or people who were generally not going looking for typical young people fun (lol please I know I sound dumb rn haha) but then maybe it would be lovely. I also get anxious at the thought of having to be part of a group and feeling like I have to join in with things so for example, if the group were at a party or getting drunk I would probably end up feeling like I should just so I’m not left out but even if I didn’t join in I’d be left there bored, miserable and just wanting to leave and so in most ways I know this is something I don’t think I would benefit or enjoy but it’s hard to not feel like ‘what if I’m missing out’ especially when people around me who ig are not Christian’s or just say you should maybe do this because it’s fun or whatever. Idk if that makes any sense at all but yeah prayers, advice or anything is welcome!!!!

I know the exact feeling because I’m basically the same way. I don’t find parties where everyone’s drinking to get drunk to have a “good time” etc., and even loud spaces like crowded areas at a mall where all the people scramble around the food court like rats… the noises bouncing off the walls and the ceilings. I don’t see the fun in getting drunk or submitting to the peer pressure of the culture. While it is good to visit places now and then where there are people, know that you don’t have to participate in activities that make you feel unsafe and uncomfortable. If you ever feel like something is not right, immediately recognize that gut feeling because that’s actually your guardian angel telling you to get the heck out. Why don’t you try something else instead, such as a parish mission or a group retreat (bonus if you get one that has Eucharistic Adoration or Benediction!)? Volunteering also can be good, there are many options. This way you help someone and in turn you feel satisfaction. Another idea is invite any friend to go with you somewhere to see a movie of the faith in theaters or go eat somewhere, or perhaps go for a nature hike on a trail. As simple as that sounds, you are able to sustain and build those bonds as well as be selective of where to go and when to leave. When you get home, make time aside specifically at some point of or day or night to pray and do some self care. This will help you recharge and give you peace. Even Jesus had to get away from the crowds time to time by long walks and praying alone. You can do it too.

I’ll pray for you!

#prayer request #asks

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gayraccoonthing · 4 months

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Okay, I just got back from my two day trip and LET ME TELL YOU, I'm not lying when I say that shit was fucking AMAZING!

(Small note, this is mostly about the LGBTQ rep there. There was a lot of awesome POC rep, too, but I don't feel qualified to talk about that.)

So, first, we went to the Minnesota zoo (pretty awesome ngl) and saw lots of cool animals and scenery (shit was expensive tho lmao).

Then I got to go to Barnes and nobles (fucking score) got some Adam silvera books and left for the science museum.

And when I tell you this museum was one of the best places I've ever been in, I MEAN IT.

Because HOLY SHIT, it was so welcoming and inclusive, and that's not even going into detail right now. (Images and positive rant under cut)

OKAY! I'll do my best to describe the pictures a bit. Let me go on this positive rant about the museum and it's LGBTQ inclusivity because OH MY GOD.

So, we explored the first floor exhibitions a bit before going off to the omni theater (think movie theater but with a big ass screen that's curved to give the illusion you're in the place it shows on screen, hella headache inducing but fun. Don't recommend it for those with light, sound, or just general sensitivity issues. If I wasn't sensory seeking, it'd be hell.) And the ads go on the screen (ads for the museum, not other companies) and this comes up!

It's hard to read, but I figured a visual may help.

The header at the top says, "Pride in STEM" the paragraph below states as following, "We celebrate the scientists creating a world that's inclusive instead of exclusive, diverse instead of uniform, and powered by the communities they hold. Together, we can make a better place for science itself. Learn more at 500queerscientists.com" and FUCK, if I didn't already love the museum enough.

We go through all the exhibits and floors, all extremely awesome and educational, very hands-on (lots of hand sanitizer too) the dinosaur section was awesome, I loved sportsology (I don't even like sports), the human body section was fascinating, seeing the natural life in Minnesota was so cool, the musical stairs were so fucking fun, the tugboat was amazing, and there's so much more I loved.

And then the giftshop. God damn I loved that gift shop. (What's that one meme? The tumblr post. The one with the three dragons, idk.) And I start to look through, and there's an LGBTQ section!!! It's small, but it's so much more than any other gift shop I've seen.

(Picture from far away, couldn't get too close because my mom) (also, no more images in this post from here on, just so you know)

I ended up getting some awesome enamel pins and a small magnet and cheap button pin. And in the pin display, there was a whole lgbtq section for pins!! I got this trans dopamine test tube pin (pray to God my mom didn't see, I had to get brave and ask the person myself, lmao) unfortunately I didn't get a picture of the pin display, but it was so fucking awesome to see.

The staff were all so nice, SO FUCKING NICE YOU HAVE NO IDEA.

but this one lady at the register for the gift shop, I swear, she's amazing. I walked up with my pins to pay, and she looks at me, and I see her protect trans kids pin and her she/her pronoun pin, and I don't think I've ever felt more safe and secure in my life. And she looks at my pins (either my aroace pin on my bag or my new trans pin, no idea) and says to me, "you're just like me, I don't see a lot of people like us here." In such a sweet voice, I swear to God I MELTED right then and there (not actually, but in my head I'm screaming with pure happiness) and she smiles at me the whole time, and I'm just so fucking happy!

And on my way out, this person almost walks into me, and they say, "Sorry there, son." And, OH. MY. GOD. SON!!!! They looked at me, this 5'4, not passing at all, long hair, fem faced, me, and called me son!!! It could have so easily been some mistake (probably was), but, God, it feels so damn nice to be called son by a stranger! The gender euphoria is real rn.

I genuinely love that museum so much. It fills me with life.

So, if you're ever in St. Paul MN and looking for a good museum I highly encourage you to go there. It's amazing and I love it.

#queer #science museum of Minnesota #long post #trans positivity #images #elliots real life #elliot writes sappy shit #elliots adventures #elliot rambles #old draft but needs 2 be posted

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allsassnoclass · 11 months

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hiii hazel it's been a while i hope you're good! for the asks i'm picking these emojis 💜💚💙 and i'm also asking for your top 5 narnia characters and also top 5 songs at the moment -monse <3

@lukemichaelcalumashton hi monse <3 hope all is well with you!!!

💜 - What Label(s) Have You Identified With for the Longest? asexual! that's my longest label and my main one. the one that feels like home. if i ever shift and realize that i don't fit the technical definition for whatever reason it'd make me incredibly sad to leave behind so i probably won't leave it anyway and i'll just still call myself ace lol

💚 - How many queer people do you know irl? well! my entire high school friend group is queer. i have a picture from my 9th grade birthday party and literally everyone except for 1 person in it later came out as queer in some form. however, i don't talk to most of them anymore because we naturally drifted away, and a lot of my college friends were cishet. however, i do work in theater, so i know a lot of queer people! many many!

💙 - When you first learned about the Queer community, did you immediately realize ‘That’s me!’ Or did you consider yourself a ‘really good ally’ for some time? nope! i didn't realize, and i didn't really consider myself an ally for a long time either (raised catholic, and catholics as a whole have not been as nice towards queer people as we are called to be). it wasn't until i found the label of asexual that i had a lightbulb moment, and it took a while after that before i realized i like girls

Top 5 Narnia Characters

Prince Caspian-is this just because I loved the movie as a kid and he's so so so so cool and also i now associate him with a very close family friend who i love dearly? quite possibly! but that doesn't mean i'm wrong!

Lucy Pevensie-my projection character <3 as the youngest sibling in a group of 4 who looked a lot like georgie henley when lion witch and wardrobe movie first came out, she's always been my character

Reepicheep-he's so cool. he's a mouse with a sword! what more could you want in a character

Jill Pole-yeah this is because silver chair is really the only book that i've technically read (we listened to the focus on the family radio program versions when i was little, but i don't have clear memories of it). i liked her!!! shout out to her!!!

Edmund-character development <3

Top 5 Songs at the Moment

"Curses" by the Crane Wives-bro there's a clarinet. there's harmonies. "ashes to ashes, dust to dust/the devil's after both of us" and the way that it switches to "ashes to ashes, dust to dust/tell me i am good enough" for the last verse???? yes! there's so much character to this song and i love it

"Grudges" by Caroline Kole-I like songs about women getting revenge and this song is perfect for my current blorbo nie huaisang like the lyrics are extremely accurate plus he would definitely exclusively listen to girl pop if he was a modern character

"Sinner" by Andy Grammer-should this song actually be on the list? idk i'm just vibing right now but i like when songs sound slightly western. this song sounds like one that the band train would make

"The Weather" by Lawrence-i remembered recently that this song exists. i love it. it makes me feel things, it's beautiful in it's simplicity, and i just really like lawrence as a band in general

"Sugar Cloud" from Ride the Cyclone-my favorite song from this musical <3 in a show about teenagers who violently died competing to be brought back to life, to have a song so unashamedly joyful and celebrating a completely ordinary life is wonderful, especially taken in context following Constance's monologue

#ask #monse #lukemichaelcalumashton #yeah i didn't write 500 words for this unfortunately. i wrote like. 70 #i got mad about something work related and did this to try to take my mind off it #now i might read some fic to try to distract myself more lol #but thank you for asking monse!!!!#these were good questions

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salt-volk · 2 years

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I considered creating a new thread on DV. But seeing as community morale's already so low & users saying they're crushed by onsite toxicity, I don't know if this will simply add fuel to the fire. So I'm posting this here instead. You can weigh in with your opinions if there are any, idk. I just feel like talking with you guys.

In the beginning, high tension existed between casual players and speedrunners:

https://dappervolk.com/forum/topic/18317-dont-punish-casuals-for-speedrunners

(Feels like a lifetime ago.)

A lot, if not all, of the frustration was directed at the site rather than the players themselves. Many of us feared that DV was catering to the wrong demographic or that we were the ones who shouldn't be here.

Eventually, we reached a point where most of the remaining players finished what's available of the main story/questline, and the speedrunner & casual gamer tension became a thing of the past. Much of the proceeding complaints revolved around the overall lack of content, staff's failure to deliver promises, and DV's game mechanic flaws.

One year later, the custom queue finally opens. The discourse evolves into "rich players vs the general userbase." And that's what rules the conversation today.

It just seems that DV tends to give off the uncomfortable impression that they "cater" to the smallest group of players, leaving the rest of us dissatisfied and seemingly deserted. Whether they're really catering to any specific group is arguable. Fact remains that we've seen this before when it was about speedrunners in 2020.

And like, it's frustrating. It's frustrating because DV created this.

That's why I don't think the term "rich users" should necessarily belong in the heading or opening paragraph of these complaints. The discussion will inevitably derail as people zone in on those two words: Rich. Users.

The focus should be on DV's questionable decision-making: what the heck were you guys thinking when you created this system?

Customs have no business consuming so much of the community's energy, time, and attention, and honestly I don't think staff intended this either. Maybe this distraction is convenient. Because without the customs debacle, we'd all circle back to: the overall lack of content, staff's failure to deliver promises, and DV's game mechanic flaws.

I wish they'd first and foremost push out that roadmap thread that's been on the "what we're working on" list since July 2021:

"While working on our balancing roadmap, we decided that it might be beneficial to set up a general roadmap thread. It would be updated periodically with adjustments and additions as time goes on. It would contain an itemized list of each future update we'll be focusing on in succession."

That sounds great. Communication. Exactly what we've been pleading for. Why is this thread taking 8 months (so far) to develop...?

You know what I want? I want housing. I want guild duels. Additionally: I want restrictionless guilds with no member caps. I want normal shops. I want towns that are not fetch-quest galore. I want a streakless Ad Theater. I want true adventuring, not riddles in the goddang dark.

I don't give a damn about customs unless that custom is a fully furnished single story house with a cute frontyard garden and backyard pond & armored chicken guards in Louise friggin Hill!!!!!!

(This ended up as a long rant 💀 Sorry. Also mod egg please help me with the tags, this mobile app is not cooperating)

#throwaway-chi #balancing #customs #forums #guilds #quests #staff #submission #mod egg

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xgh0ulx · 2 years

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Hi im making this for myself but posting incase it helps anyone.

Reasons life is good, actually.

The list will be very neurodivergent focused because I am neurodivergent and that experience is inseparable from me.

- holding a bowl of warm food.

- holding a hot beverage.

- the beauty of seeing your favorite season roll in.

- talking to a friend about something that you never thought anyone would understand, but they understand and relate.

- when you pet a cat and they do that little activation noise. “Mrrrp?” You know the one.

- finally getting that food you’ve been craving with the perfect texture.

- hearing a study about animals that is super cute, like the fact that cat purrs speed up healing, or that rats can feel regret, and enjoy driving cars.

- soft blankets.

- feeling clean and soft and comfortable after a well needed shower.

- when you’re a little cold and you get into a warm bath.

- finding a meme that makes you laugh so hard you think this is the funniest thing you’ve seen in your life.

- doing things for the sake of kindness to a stranger and seeing their face light up, gently reminded that kind people exist.

- realizing how much you mean to the people around you and how much they really care.

- finally a song is released by your favorite artist and it’s better than you could have even imagined.

- finally seeing a movie you’ve been wanting to see with the friends who also wanted to see it. Bonus if you like movie theaters or have a movie watching ritual at home.

- those little (harmless) rituals that set the world in place. Like a block that fits perfectly in a structure. Things are set right again.

- hearing someone talk about an experience you never thought was a shared experience, realizing you’re not alone as you thought.

- you and your friends all come together for something fun.

- being surrounded by a community that you love and feel loved in.

- fully expressing how much someone means to you and just talking about it makes you a little weepy in a good way.

- jokes with friends that only u guys seem to find that hilarious.

- being held. Not just hugged, held.

- laying your head on someone you love, platonically or romantically as

- That hug or physical touch that makes you realize just how much you needed it.

- listening to your favorite song

- seeing someone who was really excited to see you.

- sitting in the sunlight and feeling it warm your soul.

- drinking that cool refreshing 3 am water.

- the smell of bakeries.

- your favorite dessert.

- your favorite place.

- seeing a concert you’ve been excited to go to for months.

- fulfilling a creative idea and seeing it come to fruition at your hands.

- visually stimulation videos. Like mushroom growing time lapses and videos of fish in beautiful ocean ecosystems

- seeing a beautiful sunny day and feeling a general sense that things will be ok and life isn’t that bad.

- seeing a storm roll in and feeling that instinctual pit in your stomach that a storm is coming but feeling calm and safe indoors so it’s just excitement.

- roller coasters, sleddding, sticking your head out the car window, anything with that feeling that your going fast and have the wind on your face.

- wanting to explore! This could be anything from travel to visiting that weird abandoned building everyone ignores but looks beautiful to you, or going into the woods with a list of species to look for.

- cat laying on your chest and feeling the purr resonate in your chest

- hearing a cool bird call, what bird was that? I haven’t heard that in a while!

- soft things. Plushies. Blankets. Pillows. Jusr being surrounded by COMFY.

- when an animal who normally doesn’t like people, takes a fondness of you.

- that special interest or hyperfixation!!! When friend is happy to hear you talk about that topic!!! Either because they like it too or are just happy because you are, the vibes are immaculate and idk how neurotypicals do friendship but clearly it’s not as good as this.

- I will periodically add to this list because!! Life always has new beautiful things waiting on the horizon.

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I was recently taken out of a project b/c of my views on proshipping. I wasn't very close, but we were definitely friendly & had been working together for a few months. Idk, I just was wondering if you had any advice for dealing w/ it, and knew any Disords that support proshipping. For more context: they said it was b/c I supported adult/minor shipping and their view was "We believe it is wrong to support that because it specifically puts minors in a position of exploitation and the adult" 1/2

"in a position of power. We believe that those who are willing to support such things may support the same ideas in life if it were legal and feel uncomfortable with that idea." They still are willing to talk & ig I wonder how I could argue against this. We're also all minors, so. 2/2

TBH, I would find new friends. If that’s their firm belief, you’re not going to change their minds, and you don’t need that nonsense in your life. If they want to talk more about it, you can tell them that you think it’s unethical to equate fiction preferences with real life behaviors, and you don’t want to associate with people who do that on moral grounds.

They’re engaging in a form of security theater that makes them feel safe: “If I detect The Bad Preferences and remove them from my vicinity, The Bad People will be gone too.” They’re not going to give up that false sense of security no matter how good your logical argument is.

I’m on a ton of discords, but all the best ones are RL friends, and a lot of the more anti-censorship spaces tend to be by adults, for adults. It’s usually not worth censoring ourselves or opening ourselves to attack. It’s a cultural problem, honestly, and it reminds me of the issue with queer spaces (i.e. it’s hard to be welcoming to people whose parents can come after you, but not being welcoming also has grave drawbacks). Kink communities have the same issue. It’s tough.

Most discords I’m on are for specific fandoms. Since you’re sensibly anonymous, I have no idea what your fandoms are.

Here’s the thing: plenty of people who are “pro ship” define it differently from one another. Some hate on RPF. Some hate it when they get bullied but turn around and act like complete hypocrites when the target is “deserving” in their eyes. So a discord that’s just about being pro-shippers isn’t going to have enough common ground to find you compatible friends.

The closest I can think of is Fiction-is-not-reality’s discord, The Fandom Exodus. I don’t think we post public invite links to that because it invites trolls, but if you can find someone in private who’s on it, they should be able to invite you. I checked the rules, and there’s no age limit. Nominally, it’s a space to discuss where fandom is going after tumblr, and it’s open to antis or whomever to join. In practice, a lot of people have ended up hanging out there and chatting.

In general, discords full of 40-somethings will be calmer and less prone to fiction=reality nonsense. I know there are minors in that one Man from UNCLE discord I’m in. I’m in a very nice, new Miami Vice one that allows minors. I can think of a starsky & hutch one. These probably aren’t your fandoms.

TBH, a lot of us used to lie and say we were older than we really were to access adult spaces. That’s an option.

Good luck, nonnie!

#fandom meta #Anonymous

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theelliottsmiths · 3 years

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Peter T. strikes me as the sort of person who would enable things like Till’s candle stunts and then get offended over Till the End.

I can’t even really put my finger on it, but idk, there are just people that get fascinated by extreme things but then can’t cope with the reality of it, idk. It’s how he’s a diehard metalhead but then in interviews and other things sometimes comes across as pretty conservative. I also think musically he’s a bit of a one trick pony, which isn’t bad, but a little boring over time. I think Till likes development more than he lets on when he’s all like “I’m a simple man, I don’t like change.” In all the Rammstein making ofs he always seems quite excited about them trying new musical directions (as opposed to exemple Paul, who always doubts.) It’s most noticeable on LIFAD, but really I think it’s always been there. Plus he likes to push himself lyrically, he clearly said so when he first worked with Peter and had english as a new playground. I don’t really think Peter is that kind of artist.

I really like Peter, but I can’t help but feel like they ended up with resentment (no communication over the DVD release?!), and I think maybe Till just doesn’t have the patience and self sacrifice in him he has for Rammstein, because having that sort of loyalty to one project seems quite enough.

I also got the feeling that Peter really didn’t like the way writing for theater worked in particular, and that Skills in Pills was more his thing. M&F objectively was the way better album but it was mostly due to Till and his lyrics and his vision, it’s quite clear he put so much heart into all of it (which he would, seeing as he seemed to do it mainly for his daughter.) I don’t know, I think ultimately they really grew apart in what they wanted for the project. It would have been nice if they could stay friends but seeing how personal music can be, that’s a tall order for most people. That’s the thing that makes Rammstein so special in the first place and I can totally see how experiencing the alternative and how it actually goes for most projects gave Till some perspective on “the wife”.

Sorry for ranting into your ask, I felt like spewing my opinion I guess.

Yeah I've gotten vibes from him I'd describe as voyeuristic but either apathetic or out of his depth: It's a gruesome curiosity but he can't necessarily handle what comes with it once the immediate thing is over. There's a kind of romanticisation in metal culture around self injury and other dangerous activities (see: remember all the murder stuff that happened?) that doesn't seem to account for the actual human aspects. People into that kind of thing, at least from what I've observed from people I've met and heard tale of, will be in some ways cool with the behaviour that is Extreme and Exciting but have a harder time with the crying and emotions and othersuch consequences. I'm sure this isn't universal, it's just A Thing I've seen.

If I'm honest the actual music of Lindemann and Pain kind of bores me. It's squeaky like when you chew halloumi and sounds like it's in a box and I don't know if it's because it's often just him writing it or what but be does seem more comfortable than is maybe useful there. Till and Rammstein as a whole are capable of and embrace (even reluctantly) new ideas and general growth. Tills skillset has changed and blossomed as he's aged and worked on it and he does, yes, seem excited by trying new things. That was the point of Lindemann, having increased freedom to explore things Rammstein didn't want to explore as a whole. Even if that freedom did largely mean getting silly and gross at first, it's all just experimentation and pushing boundaries. Skills and Pills is a teenager in album form and f&m is in its twenties. Hopefully that makes sense.

I could so easily see them having an argument because their creative elements became totally mismatched as Till evolved and Peter just kind of... Didn't. Not to mention he didn't at all seem excited by or invested in the art that Till has been building into his work lately. Maybe it got too intense: this is Till were taking about. Not a half measures kind of man.

It did, in hindsight, seem a little suspicious that f&m was in German, since Peter doesn't speak it. The beginning of the end? A hint that maybe Peter was just willing and musically available but not necessarily passionate about it? In interviews they mentioned Till having to even just talk Peter into writing ballads when they started which, idk, it seems representative of a larger mismatch.

For the record because it actually comes up a lot re: Till and sometimes Flake, there's a difference between change and Change. They've said before that Till gets really upset and stressed when they change their setlist or lyrics—even if he agrees with the changes because that's not the point—and he's more comfortable sticking to what he knows but that doesn't mean he doesn't get bored. He's a very curious man who likes learning new things and when you don't have the pressure of the unknown of change its a completely different experience. That and you can know something is for the best whilst still grumbling about it, just like when my GP changed their answer message pathway to objectively make more sense so I simply hung up and whinged for a few days before calling back and preferring it. Nobody is immune to cognitive dissonance and the creative drive is way stronger in him than pretty much anything else, often to his detriment. The guy says he hates loud noise and people and yet continues to do this for a living. I have no doubt he hates change so very much.

So uh yeah. You don't need to apologise, it's interesting and I'm glad you sent it.

#conspiracy theory they just broke up their sexless marriage #lindemann #till lindemann #me rambling #you rambling also

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mahoushojoe · 3 years

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(regarding that ask-meme you reblogged) I would be very interested in reading your opinions on Scar, because he deserves every drop of appreciation he can get

AAAA DJKAID OKAY TIME TO R A N T ABOUT MY MAN

(SPOILER WARNING FOR BOTH 2003 AND BROTHERHOOD)

Why I like them:

Okay so....where to begin. Most important to me, I think, is that Scar is not a very common character. So many pieces of media focusing on war and genocide focus on the bad effects on the agents of it, but rarely on the (largely brown) victims, and never in a way that vindicates them. The FMA adaptations vary in the ways they handle Scar, but all of them give you the general idea that Scar has a definite right to feel this wrathful. Scar's arc isn't really about forgiving his oppressors by any means- he still fucking hates them at the end of both series, and for good reason. But he learns to direct his trauma and experiences into something that is more constructive for himself and for his community (in Brotherhood). This is shown in like the brilliant visual motif of him getting the deconstruction tattoo during the most traumatic and violent part of his life, but then gaining the reconstruction tattoo over the course of Brotherhood. In 03, despite the fact that he dies, I still like how he went out and how the show didn't really villainize him. He just has a lot of agency, and I like that.

What else, what else. His design is just fucking cool. His outfit rocks, he has white hair and red eyes, he's brown, he's a warrior priest, he's distinctly ~ Muslamic ~, he's cool as FUCK. He canonically likes cute animals and just adopts this little foreign princess for the hell of it. He's just COOL. Also he says some of the most absolutely metal lines in the series.

In short, Scar is really fucking cool, visually and narratively, and I have yet to find a character of color treated with his nuance in media.

Why I don't:

I can't really find a lot of answers to this tbh... I maybe find it hard that he was kinda chummy with General Armstrong at the end of Brotherhood? idk, he's cool as fuck, I love him.

Favorite episode:

The one where its his final fight against Wrath/Fuhrer Bradley, in Brotherhood. Like.........what a culmination. What a FINALE. First of all, the sheer brilliance of Scar, a dude whose entire motivation at the beginning was just wrath and revenge, fighting the literal PERSONIFICATION OF WRATH, thereby being a VISUAL REPRESENTATION OF HIS CHOICE TO MOVE BEYOND WRATH AND TO BECOME TRUE JUSTICE, just. WOWS me every time. It's also like a really fucking epic fight? And just....the way the show VINDICATES scar's beliefs because scar, in doing alchemy, is going against the teachings of ishvala, and Bradley mocks it, right? WELL, we pretty much get the implication that while BRADLEY is the personification of AMESTRIS' wrath, SCAR is the wrath of ISHVALA. SCAR IS ISHVALA. And he only STARTS BEING THAT when he stops convincing himself that he acts for Ishvala- he acts for his people. And it's just a wonderful callback to this scene where Bradley had mocked the Ishvallan leader with words a la "where is your god now? where is his wrath?" and then LIKE. THERE HE IS DUDE HE JUST FUCKING K I L L E D YOU

Ugh, the brilliance.

Also of course it goes without saying that it was very cathartic to see Scar be the one to kill the person who directly ordered his people's genocide in the first place.

Favorite season/movie:

I'm gonna interpret this as whether I like him more in 2003 or Brotherhood, and to be honest: I can't tell you. I like both Scars a lot.

Favorite line:

"My sympathy will not be spent on soldiers. Neither should yours." banger

"Your only solace from my wrath shall be damnation!" BANGER

Favorite outfit:

He only really has one outfit lmao but I will say I love the Adidas tracksuit/yellow jacket/sunglasses fit

OTP:

TBH he hasn't really been the most romantic dude huh. I've never really shipped him with anyone. He had a really interesting dynamic with Lust in 2003 though, I wish the fandom explored that more.

BROTP:

MEI!!! HIS DAUGHTER MEI CHANG!!!!!!! AND HIS OTHER DAUGHTER XIAO MEI!!!!! HE LOVES HIS DAUGHTER!!!!! HE DRIVES HER TO BALLET PRACTICE!!!!! HE TOOK HER TO SEE FROZEN IN MOVIE THEATERS!!!!! HE IS!!! HER FATHER!!!!

ok fr though there's sth so beautiful and poignant abt that scene where he listens to how mei is trying to save her people from starvation and how emotionally exhausted she is from the search for the philosopher's stone and from losing xiao mei and then deciding to help her find her even though he has no obligation to like....gets me every time

or when she comes back with envy and he's like "!!!! you fool!!!!! go save your people!!!!" and mei starts crying so he's like "alright stop crying you can stay" like????? what a fucking DAD

they also kick ass together

Headcanon:

Hm. Post B-hood he doesn't really become the new leader of Ishval or anything but he does become a very prolific and influential theologian with many seminal works on the history and religion of Ishval. Also, he and Mei keep in touch. They send letters and occasionally visit. She shares all the gossip with him so he has dirt on every single person of importance in Xing and Amestris. He pretends he doesn't care about the drama, but he's intrigued.

A wish:

I wish he got more screentime? He's just cool.

An oh-god-please-don't-ever-happen:

well, the franchise has been over for like......11 years. thank god he wasn't in the live action.

5 words best to describe them:

cool, sexy, talented, showstopping, amazing

My nickname for them:

do people??? nickname their favorite characters????

Anyway, thank you so much for the ask!!!!!! I enjoyed this!!!

#ask game #scar #fma #fma03 #fmab #1st-worldsaver

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