#if he was still that shallow

[firebirdsdaughter]

You know…

… Further evidence that I think the series ending was meant to be more hopeful—in the Peter going undercover as his true identity as Neal’s dad ep the second  (we all know the first one was the school ep), when he, again, proceeds to describe his entire relationship and difficulties w/ Neal when smoothing things over w/ the auction lady… Her response is literally ‘as long as he’s in your life, there’s always time to make it right.’

And how do we end the series?

#White Collar #like I've said I've realised #a lot of my issues come from the weird characterisation in larger parts of s5 #stuff like that convo def implies this isn't meant to be viewed as 'the end' #if not for s6 trying to toss most of his character development the point of the ending would be that Neal is Neal but he's also different #he's not 'just' a thief he's got a new set of morals and a self awareness that Peter and El taught him #take out his self centred and shallow behaviours in s5 #and you've got a kid who is going out there to do good rather than just take bc he can or for the fun of it #and you know his dad is going to go after him and they'll make amends #bc you KNOW it's gonna be 4-0 and Peter's bringing his boy home in some capacity #I feel super comfortable disregarding the weird stuff in s5 bc I don't think Neal would have left Peter a trail if he'd actually reverted #if he was still that shallow #hell he didn't just leave him a trail he left him the whole detailed explanation #in Neal speak that's like phoning and saying 'come pick me up' #that's him leave the door open #rather than listening to Keller or even Mozzie #to me just goes to show that they're gonna be okay #Adopt a Felon 101

[uncanny-tranny]

Shoutout to all the other adults who have acne or any other condition of the skin that you are expected to outgrow or "just deal with."

Adulthood isn't this magical time where everything just disappears, and the reality is that these skin conditions are largely genetic. It isn't your fault (nor your skin's fault) that you are an adult with different skin than other people. In fact, it's neutral (and even, dare I say, good!).

#positivity #body positivity #acne positivity #i have skin redness and acne still and it actually is a neutral thing at worst :3 #in fact it makes me feel better because it gives me the (false) notion that i am genetically more like him than anybody else :) #he has the same unique features i do :) #and it's helped me appreciate body moles and non-ski slope noses and boney features #as much as people like to pretend that body image is shallow (it can be) it's still not a moral failure to be insecure #we live in a society after all and it's inevitable that society's messaging can become like a malevolent growth in your brain #it's okay if you have a hard time with the reality that your features are neutral at WORST. it's hard to swallow that pill sometimes #but no matter what just know that you are lovable and you are loved. as you are too #do what you want forever dear reader #oh hey the 'him' that the tags didn't include is my dad! not some Mystery Guy lmaooo

[marriedtobigfoot]

My biggest delusion is the aggressive belief that if Spencer Reid and I existed in the same universe and were the same age, I could make him fall in love with me.

#I feel like i COULD though #like based on our interests and personalities #only thing is Im not stunningly beautiful like every other person he dates #but Spencer isnt shallow so I still think id have a chance #Spencer reid #criminal minds #matthew gray gubler

[fromtheseventhhell]

I also find it funny that fandom will only accept Lyanna being her non-conforming, wild self in the context of saying that Arya isn't meant to be pretty; Any other day we get back-to-back posts about how Lyanna is actually super traditionally feminine cause she sniffled at a song once, so she's actually more like Sansa. Instead of constantly speaking on Arya and Lyanna, how about you guys reflect on why your standards of beauty for women are attached to how well they perform feminity within the patriarchy?

#lyanna stark #arya stark #asoiaf #/Lyanna isn't actually pretty she was a wild tomboy/ Those two things are not mutually exclusive 😭 #how you look is not a reflection of your personality and this is also a running theme within the story #we have morally good characters who are ugly and morally bad characters who are beautiful this is like...kindergarten level #Lyanna is idealized in terms of her personality hence /you saw her beauty but not the iron underneath/ #and Ned correcting Robert when he said Lyanna wouldn't have shamed him like Cersei had #he's a very shallow misogynistic character and I truly doubt he would've been as attached to the idea of her without surface level beauty #reminds me of people saying that Olivia Hussey is a bad fancast for them because she has a /doll like/ beauty and they're /rougher/ 😭 #as though their entire facial structure magically changed once they realized they enjoyed playing with swords instead of sewing sdksdkdsksd #it's giving that one tiktok with the /cat pretty vs doe pretty vs bunny pretty/ #even if you wanted to make the case that her beauty is idealized in her death we get Arya described a pretty multiple times? #idk it's just so wild to me to use personality as an indication of looks it just sounds so stupid #Arya/Lyanna can still have /delicate/ features (which is extremely subjective) and still have a wild personality #how about we acknowledge that the perception of both of them is warped by strict patriarchal gender norms instead? #some real analysis just to shake things up idk

[waitineedaname]

when thinking about scar and mei's dynamic, I love thinking about why he becomes so attached to her. it's not just a parental instinct, it's specifically identifying with her struggles. the chang clan is small and has little political power compared to the more dominant clans in xing, and it's a struggle just to survive. even though it's not exactly the same, there's this feeling of solidarity between scar and mei because they're both disenfranchised within their respective countries. the sympathy mei describes when she found xiao-mei is what scar feels towards mei, seeing something of themselves in the other and taking pity on them

and there's this other element to him helping her find xiao-mei, and I might be misremembering, but I'm fairly certain it's the first deviation from his revenge based quest. so far, every time we've seen him, he's either been attacking state alchemists, going somewhere to find a state alchemist, or recovering from his injuries. he is very driven when it comes to his goals, but he sees this little girl crying because she is all alone in a foreign country on a desperate quest to save her people and she's just lost the only family she has with her, and he decides to help her. he didn't have to do that, he could have just ignored her or insisted on moving on, but he is not heartless or cruel, he is a compassionate person underneath all the pain, so he goes out of his way to help this little girl find her panda

no wonder mei is constantly reiterating to other people that scar is a good person

#fma #fmab #scar fma #mei chang #I HAVE BEEN THINKING ABOUT THEM ALL DAY #if scar was written by a worse author or was written as a shallow character #then he would just be heartless and cruel #but it is so important that he's not #his anger and violence comes from a powerful love for his people and a deep feeling of injustice #and I think that sensitivity to injustice and a heart that is fundamentally good deep down #is why he cares for mei the way he does #I'm realizing I'm just repeating what I wrote about in that one food fic I wrote #BUT IT STILL STANDS #hi strangers reading this. if you want this concept explored in fic form I wrote about it in the fic The Taste Of Home

[wierdshenanigans]

The way Uncle Rick had every out he could possibly take to make Caleo not happen and he did it anyway has me dropping dead on the floor in disappointment

#I still love uncle Rick but still #Leo was sent by khione #Not the fates #Leo and Calypso had a great friendship where they could have bonded and it would have been much more meaningful for both #Since Calypso has only had people she fell in love with for company #She's lonely asf and Leo seems so aroace coded it's hilarious considering he is attracted to people but only those he thinks are #Conventionally attractive or for shallow reasons and Calypso is a friend ge could vent to unlike the people on Argo ll #The impact it would have had to see Leo on a boat he built instead of a magical raft swearing on the river Styx he'd come back for her #Even if she's just a friend #Because nobody ever came for Leo and nobody ever came back for Calypso #The IMPACT OF FRIENDSHIP #anti caleo #hoo #calypso pjo #pjo hoo toa #hoo text post #heroes of olympus #leo valdez and calypso #leo valdez

[covenofthearticulate]

all jokes aside, i do want to eventually write a really tender and intimate fic where louis gets to instruct lestat on how to fuck him

#i know the Jackhammer Dick is funny and all but listen louis deserves better LOL #maybe it’s like the 3rd or 4th time after they get Fareeds Magical Injections so it’s like still fairly new to them #louis ends up bruising lestat’s ego a little bit #but once lestat figures out how to make louis’ eyes roll back he wants to do it again and again and again LOL #but anyway!! louis holding lestat’s face with both hands and breathing all shallow and whispering ‘easy…yes good…like that’ 🥺🥺🥺

[puhpandas]

I change how I feel about Gregory and Tony's relationship ten thousand times a day

#like i dont even think theyd get together if tony was how he was in ggy #gregory wouldnt work to fix him or something hed hate him for being mean to ellis #its why all my beckory stuff i always imagine is in a specific scenario both when theyve been through stuff #and also after like years have passed and theyre 14/15 #AND most importantly tony has had the chance to become a better person and make up with ellid #i think there cant be beckory without ellis #all the stuff ive made for them save for like rabbit burrow i feel doesnt match how i see them in my head #i don't even know how i feel about gregory in a romantic relationship still #idc about it when hes 12 and doesnt have 3 star fam yet but ive alqays seen it in a beckory dtance #as it being good that gregory can think about romance now because he got what he needed most already #but atill. #hes just such a family guy #but i really do like the beckory ship #its so interesting #idk ive changed my mind a lot and havent made enough stuff of them to keep up #with how i see them nowadays #i want to fix that #also i think i feel like the beckody stuff ive made feels shallow because #if its in a scenario where a lot of stuff has happened to get them to that point #and none of that stuff is shown and you dont see them chance #they just feel like randomly completely different people #idk im trying to muster up writing that multichapter ive been wanting to write #and sovereign is pretty much abandonded only because it wasnt working out at all #and ive truly taken everything good from that fic and added it to this new concpet #that made both seperate ideas better #so its a good thing #after the week im gonna try and recharge my writing battery #since the great ipad explosion of 2024 and scrambling to finish the week kinds fried my brain #i miss writing💔 #and also wanna explore this new fic concpet im absolutely in love with

[lady-tortilla-chip]

Ok not only did they swim out and turn the tables Fyodor also really said ‘Fyoya is better’ ha ok wow thanks Asagiri

#crying not him calling Soukoku SHALLOW #I’m losing my shit #before I was rather disinterested and didn’t care that much which is saying a lot cuz Chuuya is my favorite and I was glad to see him #but like I already trusted he would be FINE so I’m still more invested in seeing whether FUKUZAWA OR AYA ARE FINE #but this is ok this is great I’m love this #Fyoya ftw #BSD manga #BSD manga spoilers #BSD spoilers #fyodor dostoevsky #Nakahara Chuuya #dazai osamu #Bungou stray dogs #Fyoya #Soukoku

[lunarrolls]

i cannot fucking overstate how much i love fcg’s reasoning for helping the gods btw. they don’t want to save them because they believe in them, though they do—they want to save them because, deep down, the purpose they’ve always had, always wanted to have, is to help. he wants to save the gods because they’ve asked for his help, and in turn, he believes that they’ll be able to help more people across exandria. he believes that if he helps, the gods will pay that favor back and help others too. and i just. dear god i love that. fcg recklessly and relentlessly chooses kindness and seems to have come back even more determined to do so after their detour in wildemount and i absolutely cannot wait to see it

#cr #cr3 #fcg #roll insight #i just love this silly little robit soooo fucking much #it’s not even that shallow naïveté understanding of human kindness and emotion that they had in the beginning #now they’ve SEEN mortals. they’ve EXPERIENCED the depth of emotion #he’s starting to realize that he also has emotions like them like all those soul touched people he thought he was separate from #and if he can feel all those things… why can’t the gods? #fcg brings such a unique and fresh perspective to the table #and i’m so excited to see them start using that high wis #NOT TO MENTION HOW ADORABLE IT IS THAT THEY CONSIDER THEIR FRIENDS’ EXISTENCES MIRACLES #like. it was not a good thing to say in that moment at all #but it’s actually so sweet that he believes that his friends still being around is proof that the gods are good #i just. holds them so dearly. this robit can store so much love in them

[yaeggravate]

the thing about kaeya is that you HAVE to be familiar with his backstory AND his personality AND the details of his kit AND the game's lore AND pay attention to every single word that comes out of his mouth or you're gonna get bamboozled. you cannot take this guy for granted he's literally built different

#this is why so many ppl mischaracterize him they gotta use their brain for once #instead of pasting a shallow himbo mold onto his character bc they refuse to think beyond shipping tropes #.txt #there are still ppl out there who dont know he knows who venti is 💀 LIKE PLEASE PAY ATTENTION TO HOW HE SPEAKS TO HIM #ppl always get mad when paimon states the obvious but im starting to think it's necessary

[deepspaceclawstation]

Saw the confounding take 'Garak never held Julian's hand or said soft words to him'. We are speaking about GARAK. That’s the issue you have with him??

Edit: Everyone keeps reblogging the version without the addition so I'm turning off reblogs (which I should have done already). I wish there was a way to only allow for reblogs with unreal/romance's addition but there isn't so we'll have to make do

#Garashir #They are not wrong exactly I understand what they mean #They feel that Garak doesn't demonstrate his feelings explicitly in face of Julian's very public brand of affection #and that would create some insecurity for Julian #I don't agree with them on this but it's a valid point to make I think #But god framing it like he doesn't hold his hand or speak soft words to him sounds so shallow #Do you only know of one way to show affection #Oh apparently it was more about he doesn't provide emotional support. still don't agree but if I'm vagueing I'll vague correctly

[runningatypufullspeed]

I AM BEING FORCED TO ROLEPLAY AS SCYTHE FUCKING GODDARD FOR MY SCHOOLA SISIGNMRNT CAN SOMEONE END ME PLEASE END ME NOW

#CAN SOMEBODY HELP ME?? LIKE GIVE ME SOME POINTERS #arc of scythe #only talking about the first book btw I forgot literally everything else #IVE ANNOTATED HIS CHARACTER FRONT AND BACK BUT LIKE DESPITE ALLAT IM STILL REALLY SHIT AT ROLEPLAY #also I SUCK at 0aying these sorts of villains if he was creepy that’d be a different story but he’s just pompous #and greedy and sadistic and power hungry like YEAH he is KIND of creepy but not like. captain beatty #weird comparison but *vague hand gestures #scythe goddard #I actually think it’s really interesting how both he and scythe curie glean for the sake of solving stagnation #it’s just that scythe curie gleans handpicked stagnant people whereas #goddard thinks that EVERYONE is stagnant thus he feels the need to not only glean them but traumatize them as well #‘’remind them of their mortality’’ or whatever bs I CANT ACTUALLY TELL IF HES BEING GENUINE BUT #THATS WHAT I GOT FROM HIS JOURNALS #who knows maybe that’s just an excuse to end lives excessively ugh he’s such a #I don’t wanna say shallow character? but. but #SOMEBODY HELP ME? PLEASE? #I WANNA GO BACK TO F451ING

[marlenacantswim]

just finished matt smith's run as the doctor, still hot off the tails, and as is to be expected, everything that happened to him keeps making me think of nine and ten. i hadn't stopped to consider just how fresh the whole "committing genocide against my own people" thing was for nine. like the amount of High Grade Denial And Suppression he had to have been doing to be as barely functional as he was must have been publishable.

#this isn't even me getting into the whole thing about ten/length of life lived/dying alone/violent regeneration thing that i could go on ab #but can i just say even though i loved day of the doctor (while moffat's writing pitfalls as showrunner were still there #they were more like shallow valleys than trenches in dotd) #i'm kinda dissapointed that the doctor ended up Not Doing A Genocide #i liked the fact that he had made a real fucked up choice in a no win scenario that weighed on him so heavily #i LOVED that our being of pure good did somethong so drastic in the name of it #and though the lost memories means 89& 10 are still fully under the impression they did a genocide #from a dramatic irony perspective as an audience member it does retroactively lessen the impact #and i worry it'll take away a huuuge layer of complexity from the doctors henceforth who KNOW their slates are clean #anyways matt smith doctor should have gotten so old he turned into a little imp like tennant's did that one time #running my mouth #doctor who #nuwho #9th doctor #10th doctor #11th doctor

[maddieandangel]

Had a weird Hollow Knight-related dream a couple days ago, so I decided to draw a major scene I remembered from it dgsgshf

More context will be in the tags, for those interested!

#hollow knight #little ghost #hk ghost #the knight #hk hornet #hornet #alright. as of writing these tags it's been a week since the original dream so! let's see what i remember dgsgsgf #i was playing a game. which was a sequel to hollow knight ((Not silksong though)) #there was some new sort of divine infection in hallownest and hornet had asked ghost to investigate it. they ended the last one after all! #the red glowy spike gate thingy is what you jumped into to enter the 'infected' areas #though it actually led directly to a hub world type of place. which was kinda like an expanded base for the grimm troupe? #more like an entire lair instead of a camp. also some greek gods were there for some reason lmao. they had their own special rooms too #so sidenote but- new headcanon that there are grimm troupe members named ares athena artemis &... venus lmao. not aphrodite for some reason #also monomon was there?? i think??? except she was cooking????? she had a sidequest to deliver something to someone though i dunno hdgfhdgh #i remember going back to the grimm troupe lair a couple times throughout my 'playthrough' #anyway. the 'infection' this time around was more of a glitchy physical corruption thing? rather than a mind corruption. #though there were still aggressive enemies to fight. but i remember getting a map from cornifer early on and he was. probably infected #i think part of his body was covered in electricity or something? so he wasn't fully visible? but he was still acting normally #there was also a moth who was the seer but then later wasn't the seer (but was still the same moth) dghgdhf. i delivered stuff to her #that glowing white wall thing in the drawing was like a one-way gate. you could only cross it from the other side and ghost came from there #i guess things looped back up somehow i dunno ghdgfhgf #anyway. ghost's red eyes. those are significant! those happened while i was walking through a corridor. it had pools of shallow water #(shallow enough to just walk through) and also creatures that were lightseeds but red.the implication was that they were full of Blood lmao #and as i went along killing them--as one does--as i walked through the hall. they started turning the water red too #there was also narration about this as it was happening ashdgsf. specifically the narrator said the water turned red before it actually did #ghost's eyes slowly turned red too. but aside from that they were fine! since. they're the player character and the player is perfectly fin #BUT. when they encountered hornet again. she thought they were infected. and that she lost the only family she had left </3 #she didn't attack though. instead she just jumped into the red spike gate without a word. decided to try to fix everything herself #but eventually you'd encounter her again down below and she'd fight you. didn't actually get to that in the dream though #aand i'm out of tags </3 i wanted to talk about what i'd do to make this make more sense as an au or something now that i'm awake but. :c

[timegears-moved]

tbh i gotta take back what i said before. totk hasn't really done anything to make me care about this version of zel*nk

#bwark #don't get me wrong it's still a fine ship but i think this is just a case of me preferring their friendship #and also it's more of a criticism of this incarnation of link than a criticism of the game itself #he's just too. static. i don't like that he shows more emotion at cooking than at the actual tragedy of the plot #and i know that it's stated that he has anxiety from the pressure of the calamity but like i said he's still capable of showing emotion #but like at the wrong times. it's cute that he's happy about food but where's the shock that he was asleep for 100 years and everyone he #once loved is dead and he doesn't even have memories of them before seeking them out #or that his best friend had to suffer a millenia as a dragon for the sake of everyone #compare this to like. idk tp link's horror when ganondorf holds up midna's fused shadow and crushes it with his hand #and his relief at the end that not only is she back to her true form but is still the same mischevious midna he's known the whole game #or sksw link's pure anger at ghirahim for kidnapping zelda near the end #or ww link's visible guilt and heartbreak at having to leave his grandma behind and alone to go and save his sister #not trying to be mean because i still like him. he is still link after all. but idk he just falls a bit short for me #like his promise to mipha's father comes across as very shallow when he kept a blank face at her in both the memory and her spirit scene #the only character that benefits from him being flat is revali and that's because it fuels revali's dislike of him because of a #misunderstanding and lack of communication #totk spoilers #<- in the tags at least