#isn't that how it always goes

[crackers4jenn]

spn is such a funny show, it'll be like:

Naomi tells Cas he has to choose "us, or them" and 'them' is meant to imply Sam and Dean both, but then

she makes Cas kill fake copies of Dean only

Or Metatron will speechify about how Cas is "in love... with humanity"

and then give Cas another lil speech about how it was all "to save Dean Winchester. That was your goal, right? I mean, you draped yourself in the flag of Heaven, but ultimately it was about saving one human, right?"

Ishim shows up and tries to tell Cas how weak he is for befriending Sam and Dean

and then when he wants to "cure" Cas of his human weakness, that weakness is just Dean

AND THEN you'll have things like

Sam will say that Cas is family, that he'd die for him

but he also refers to Cas as an "it" just hanging around in a vessel strong enough to take on Lucifer (in season 11!! It's not like he said that in s4 or something, it was like 8 years after knowing the guy)

Or in "Regarding Dean," Dean will say to Sam "and our best friend's an angel!"

and then when he's by himself in the mirror, he'll say "and Cast--Cas is my best friend."

#just thinking about the various ways the show frames cas's relationship as being a sam-and-dean kinda thing #and then will later emphasize how actually it's dean in particular that motivates cas #supernatural #destiel #castiel #dean winchester #otp: profound bond #(this isn't sam hate btw it's more just #i don't know #it's so interesting how the show first goes the 'we' route meaning sam-dean-cas and then almost always #separately takes dean and cas aside and reiterates the theme of 'we' differently without sam #😩😩)

[egophiliac]

CROWLEY SSR THOUGHTS

there is zero basis for this, but I can't get this thought of my head

I don't know why I decided to draw it this way

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers #(these will be relevant in a moment) #this isn't going to happen. but WHAT IF. #anyway i didn't get him (damnit birdman come home) so i had to look up his story #and let me tell you friends my findings were SHOCKING #crowley canonically likes vegetables which means that the crowley is revaan theory = BUSTED #crowley is sailor venus = CONFIRMED #(i know 'whip of love' is a saying but that's where my mind always goes) #DISCLAIMER: this is (mostly) a joke please continue to hold whatever theories and headcanons you want #but look. c'mon. look over here at this whiteboard i've covered in red yarn. #revaan being a picky eater has come up multiple times and there is an entire whole bit about how much he hated jerky and refused to eat it #and now they've made a point of talking about how crowley will eat almost anything and loOoOoves wild game meat especially #it's SO stupid but i can't help but read way too much into it #(this is tumblr if you don't want to see incredibly stupid overanalysis of anime guys then why are you HERE) #and i gotta hold on to something because otherwise whenever malleus and crowley are onscreen together i just keep going 'same hair color... #unless this is like. some kind of deep cover thing. #lilia doesn't recognize him because he saw him eat a green bean once and revaan would NEVER #crowley's secret is safe for another day #(serious hat on: i do think they're probably connected in some way) #(but there's something deeper going on that we're just not clued into yet that will hopefully explain things) #man forget revaan what if crowley whips off his mask and it turns out he was meleanor this whole time #wait hold on meleanor loves jerky. IT ALL FITS...

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Preview of the runner up results from this poll. I wish everyone who wanted to see more SVSSS characters from me a merry "I'm So Sorry'.

#poorly drawn SVSSS #SVSSS #mobei jun #shang qinghua #Preview of a much bigger and sillier post while I spend the next few days trying to figure to how go-karts work #I had way too much confidence in my emerging artist skills...I am still going to try my best! #but yeah...I ran out of time to draw today. If the full post isn't tomorrow's upload then it will be monday's #I wish I had more time in the day to do the things I need to do...but alas... #This is one hell of a debut for these two but I think we all know how it goes on this blog. #I unfortunately do not know these two very well besides what I have absorbed through fan posts so these designs are *very* subject to chang #All I know is that MBJ always has his honkers out and SQH looks like he wants to burrow in woodchips for the next decade #50-50 chance I'll unhamster SQH next time I draw him #Mousexian is a prominent feature in my sketchbook and now Shang Qinghamster and join him in being 'unseen beasts'

[spielzeugkaiser]

[MASTERPOST]

Eskel is like "I WILL read this book about... A wolf and all his friends? Dancing and being. happy... 🥺"

#the witcher netflix #geraskier lovechild #eskel #soft eskel #geraskier #(no jeskel I am sorry but honestly I can see it at times) #omegaverse #listen retrospectively Eskel will slap his face (repeatedly) because it is at times pretty obvious (but only if you know!!) #did Milek accidentally call Eskel 'daddy' a few times? ofc he did. (how should Eskel know that he didn't just mixed it up in excitement.) #'oh he clearly meant his omega father' WELL #Roach should have been an indicator! but it's either that that name is in one of jaskiers songs (probable) and jaskier is like #'oh yeah he likes that one bard song about the horse - I swear he loves horses' #(that isn't even a lie and it's very Jaskier to compose an ode for Roach) #or he just goes 'We heard stories about a witcher crossing our town-' #and now wolf themed kids book. it's- #oh well #a lot of things are obvious when you look back to them #and I think Eskel could have made the connection! if Jaskier still had a lute. he would have gone at least once '... geralts omega bard??' #(who Geralt didn't really talk about but who they always could still smell traces of on him - bad thing that scents change after pregnancy) #but no lute?? connection not made. #that's the one jaskier thing Eskel knows of. always has a lute. #and retrospectively he can see that Milek and Geralt really look alike - it's at this age more obvious than later - because that is the age #that Eskel remembers. In which he still has a mental picture of what Geralt looked like? but it's been SO LONG #over a century #and Eskel was a traumatized child too. Things are. Very muddy. #the only ones who have a chance to recognize Milek are Visenna and Vesemir and that's it.

[brookheimer]

succession fans need to learn that there is something in between This Character Is The Only Good One and This Character Is Uniquely Evil And Horrible and that something is called nuance

#this goes out to roman and shiv interps in particular -- they're literally always portrayed as one or the other #twt in particular specializes in shiv as the former and rome as the latter #whereas reddit these days is rome as the former shiv as the latter #maybe.... perhaps....... that is not how the show works........ that is not how people work.................... #succession #not even tagging this spoilers this isn't spoilers #100 #500

[fuedalreesespieces]

attempts were made to change the subject

#what do you mean this isn't how the episode goes #this entire episode is so fun lmao #any episode where he's in the future is always good #i can't imagine being kagome's friends meeting this guy who i imagined to be a sketchy loser only for him to come in through the window #wearing that bandanna #still can't believe how he's getting away with wearing things that barely cover up his hanyou features #also i can't draw so bear with me until i get off my ass and actually write some fanfic #inuyasha #inuyasha anime #inukag #inuyasha kagome #kagome higurashi #inuyasha fanart #inuyasha a feudal fairy tale

[buckttommy]

Having been around the block in various fandoms over the last ten years, one thing I can say with unequivocal certainty is that things always start to go bad when shippers go from being just shippers to being shippers that stan one half of the ship or the other. I don't know what it is about it, but the finer the pieces you break a fandom into, the more the rot sinks in.

#One of those groups of shippers always believes that they/their favorite character is in some way persecuted. Usually by the TPTB (whoever #they are) or by fandom at large. This belief subsequently leads to these shippers “closing down ranks” and becoming more... exclusive... so #they can feed the echo chamber whilst furthering the belief in each other that they are persecuted and they are the only ones who #“understand” what they're experiencing. It's sinister as hell when you lay it out and this isn't me reading from any book or anything this #is just literally how it goes based on my years of watching this happen in countless fandoms. Anyways. I'm falling asleep #but y'all be careful who you spend time with and who you listen to and throw your weight behind #that's all I'm saying

[anotherpapercut]

I love when non Americans are tryna like get Americans on fahrenheit by saying "do you know what temperature water boils at???" I have never once in my fucking life needed to know what temperature water boils at. I boil water all the time by literally just looking at it. what are you guys needing the boiling point of water so much for?

#if you were a chemist you might need to know this and im sure you would if it was information you needed #literally when in my life am i going to need to measure the temperature of water to know if its boiling #also its 212° and u know how i know that? i googled it. because its 2023. #inspired by a podcast im listening to #listening to leftist podcasts sucks because theyre always very annoying! this dude still goes to fucking chick fil a at least once a week! #theyre correct about so many things and ignorant about other shit then theyre talking like theyre not ignorant about it #also every single american i have ever met in my entire life knows when water freezes. its 32° #were not so stupid that we cant remember a fucking number if it isn't 0

[pumpkinrootbeer]

ogfoofodoxx thinking about how the most defining character trait of haymitch is how protective he is. not in the sense it's the most obvious, but how all of his actions are fueled by this desire to protect. how hard he works at keeping katniss alive in the first games, him fighting to keep them from augmenting katniss's body, him yelling at plutarch to keep finnick from having to share his trauma, him being so involved in peeta's recovery and being the one to bring katniss home. him holding mayslee's hand as she died, fighting for plutarch to stay and rescue peeta, being the one to find katniss and finnick when johanna had an episode, begging coin to believe peeta's warning. it being heavily implied or either outright stated that he was one of the people who fought to protect effie.

makes me physically ill because no one does that for him. everyone who would of, died.

#DIES EXPLODES COMBUSTS #thg #haymitch abernathy #:v #haymitch acting like he doesn't care about anyone when he actually cares about everyone #he's acting like he's winning the idgaf war but love has disarmed him completely. #Tbc katniss and peeta would but they are literally incapable of being that for him. bc they are infant #also thinking about how we get this sense that while he has some modicum of power with the revolution his sway only goes so far #which is to say not far at all #the times we actually see what the negotiating process is like for him he has to beg coin to listen to him #and he says Plutarch didn't listen to him between cf and mockingjay when he tried to get them to stay for peeta #I just get this sense that most of the time he's in the room but isn't really allowed to make decisions #and constantly has to fight to be heard #I mean again I will always circle back to this they literally locked him in a room to detox #and the descriptions we get in cf is his withdrawal symptoms are incredibly severe #so clearly they weren't dependent on his imput #idk idk I just get this sense they valued his input up until the point he reminded them all he still views people as people. #him coaching katniss was to say in mockingjay during her speech in two also makes me chew drywall #how much of that is what he thought she needed to say to stay alive and how much is what he had always wanted to say #also thinking about how he wasn't lying when he told Plutarch he couldn't go back to twelve sober. #bc he gets katniss home and then immediately gets blackout drunk #I am of the opinion that he genuinely can't get sober while living in 12 #I like to think he lets himself leave eventually never to the capitol of course but in my hc he goes to 11 #just bc of his fondness for chaff and seeder but that's just a self indulgent headcanon #ALSO ALSO. #thinking about how he's fighting a revolution that he doesn't even believe will bring chance #well. he thinks it'll change things but that change will be temporary and fighting will break out again #my perfect pessimist idiot. in my heart of hearts he gets a therapist moves and actually recovers

[spearxwind]

Its really comforting to actually draw dragons honestly. Like... yeah I'm the Dragon Guy(tm) and have been for years but i actually am showing it atm and its really nice

#thunderclap #its not quite like nostalgia bc this isn't something from my past that im remembering #but rather coming back to something that feels like home #dragons are gonna be my ultimate fave always. and i mean. i am one also 🤙🏼 you know how it goes

[birgittesilverbae]

strategist!beatrice admitting she's at a loss for how to proceed

#warrior nun #sister beatrice #beatrice over and over again pointing out information that they don't know and need to learn #lining up contingency plans a-z and beyond #trying to hang onto some modicum of control by her fingertips only for ava to do something she hadn't anticipated #(and isn't that always the way with ava - that she didn't see her coming - that if she'd had any inkling of what was to become of their #relationship she'd have bolstered her walls even further - that even then ava still would have phased right through them) #ava goes rogue in a way beatrice can't ever have anticipated and all her plans go out the window and she has to admit she's at a loss #never expected ava to jeopardize their cover to save her life #never expected ava to go to the man who all but lit the fuse that killed shannon #never expects just how deeply ava feels or how much capacity she has for forgiveness #and beatrice is unmoored by it #angry with ava in ep2 for jeopardizing the mission to save her #angry with herself in ep7 for jeopardizing the mission to save ava #packed full of rage and fear and only the faintest shred of hope #idk this might be incoherent i'm just rotating her always #mywn #myedit

[anghraine]

Maybe it's just because I'm sleepy and my brain is tired and irritable, but I do wish fandom in general weren't so absolutely intent on casting all familial or quasi-familial relationships into some near approximation of US nuclear family idealization.

Acting as a caretaker for a child doesn't automatically make someone their "real parent" or "adopted parent" or "any parent at all" if the child doesn't see them that way. These caretaking relationships can be messy, begrudging, or essentially coercive (in both fiction and IRL, and in life, forcing children into situations where "they'll be taken care of" is often coercive and/or predatory).

And sometimes a caretaker adult, whether a natural parent, adoptive parent, some kind of guardian, or more amorphous caretaker, is ... bad, actually. It's understandable for the children they take care of (whether literal children or now-adult people who experienced it previously) to have had negative experiences they have complicated feelings about, to have complicated feelings about their caretakers that may not distill down to "real parents", to be capable of harsh criticism of their former caretakers, even if they love them.

Sometimes it is the simpler scenario where a child is adopted and it looks very much like a conventional "nuclear" relationship (though even then, the child can have more complex and inconvenient feelings than they're often supposed to have). But—okay, I may be biased from coming from a family that was licensed for foster care, which saw a lot of children essentially forced into foster care with varying complicated feelings about it that didn't always equate to "this person who looks after me is my mother"—even after a long time, sometimes.

And there's frequently a nasty pressure on children placed in "care" to either reach out to their birth or adoptive parents, or to wholly turn their backs on them and accept their current caretakers as the only parents who matter. But usually things are messier than that. You can care about a caretaker, you can respect and love them, and still not feel like you're their child. Or maybe you do! It just depends.

This can happen with siblings as well, especially when there's a big age difference—yeah, one of the siblings may be functionally filling the shoes of their parents as well as they can, but it doesn't necessarily make them actual parents in the eyes of their younger siblings (or themselves). It can, but doesn't have to. Or maybe it's something messier, like when the relationship is almost parental, but not quite, and the exact nature of the dynamic is hard to pin down.

There's also the case where the relationship may have been parental at one point, but one of the parties (usually the caretaker) burned bridges so badly that the child (often an adult at this point) cuts ties and doesn't deny that the caretaker filled a parental role back then, but wholly rejects it as any kind of current reality. This can happen with biological family, but also with looser caretaker relationships as well (esp the cultier ones).

I'm thinking of a lot of fandom examples of these kinds of indeterminate caretaker-child (or former child) relationships, where either we know or have good reason to believe the child doesn't regard a former caretaker as exactly the same as a parent, or we just don't know what the nature of the relationship is, and fandom will be absolutely insistent that the only possible way to read it is parent-child.

And also, sometimes there's nothing wrong with the caretaker relationship, but it's still not parent-child. It simply doesn't map onto this parental mold that fandom tries to box all adult-child caretaking relationships into, because family is more complicated than a single, very simplistic model allows.

#i know i've grumped about this before—both the trend and specific instances of it #but it never goes away so my annoyance is evergreen #i've always thought it interesting that austen persistently characterizes georgiana's perception of darcy as /almost/ a father #they're close in this caretaker-child way that could be parental but isn't /quite/ #i also think that elrond loving aragorn as much as he loves elladan and elrohir is incredibly touching #but also that fandom tends to overlook gilraen's influence and how her being as much elrond's niece as arathorn was his nephew #may have played into the family dynamic at rivendell #i also wish there was more fic exploring the difference between how leia feels as an adopted daughter and luke as a loved nephew #because luke so emphatically identifies with anakin and considers padmé their 'real mother' and says he can't remember his #like ... it's very clear that he's not thinking of beru as his mother even though he loved her #but bail and breha are totally leia's parents! #it's okay for things to be complicated and messy in ways that a strict nuclear family structure doesn't account for #anghraine rants #general fanwank #long post #for the tags: #austen blogging #austen fanwank #legendarium blogging #legendarium fanwank #sw fanwank

[theprinceandthewitch]

Luz and Hunter are Evelyn/Caleb coded and I think it's really funny how the show chooses to be unsubtle about it all the way up until the end of TTT.

[I legit can't see how TOH is supposed to be a subversion of romantic expectations when it constantly beats us over the head with the Caleb/Evelyn = Lunter parallels.]

I rewatched HM last night and this episode in particular never fails to make me WAIL.

1.) "Out of all the Grimwalkers, you looked the most like him"

2,) Luz wearing a jacket that has a big ol "E" on it in an episode that directly parallels Luz and Hunter with Caleb and Evelyn with zero subtlety.

This clothing choice is especially crazy in hindsight because we still didn't know Evelyn's name at this point in time. But the writers did and they made Luz wear a jacket with a giant "E" on it and THEN do shit like this:

OK COOL, THIS IS FINE.

I can see how we aren't supposed to read this as romantically coded, especially when they parallel the paintings with scenes in this episode and they make Luz wear a jacket with an "E" on it. [I am being sarcastic, btw].

LMAO, AND THEN - and then Thanks to Them comes around to officially solidify these parallels by name dropping Evelyn, which makes Luz's jacket choice in HM extremely suspicious.

Oh and TTT also shows us Evelyn was the one responsible for introducing Flapjack to Caleb like how Luz introduced Flapjack to Hunter in HP.

Antis: There are no Lunter hints or Lunter = Caleb/Evelyn coding in the show ur just delusional.

TOH: ... Anyways. [Makes it very clear Luz and Hunter are tied to the story of Caleb/Evelyn and they make Luz and Hunter kiss in a spoiler episode.]

HOW is this show subverting romantic expectations when it keeps laying on the Caleb/Evelyn + Lunter parallels? Especially SAI, which is a spoiler episode with THIS in it.

This show did everything but subvert romantic expectations LMAO. Luz and Hunter are tied to Caleb and Evelyn's story. It doesn't matter if you don't like it because that's how the show wants you to view Luz's and Hunter's dynamic.

#Lunter=Caleb/Evelyn is so intentional it's crazy how dissonant antis are. #someone needs to write an essay about how TOH isn't a subversion of romantic expectations because this show really wants you #to associate Luz and Hunter with Caleb and Evelyn and it goes about it unsubtly #I might have to be that person because the biphobia coolaide is making people insane and abnormal about bisexual media #''Luz ending up with a boy is homophobic'' and ''Luz ending up with a girl is proof that she was always gay'' #is just proof that people dont see bisexuality as a legitimate sexuality and they also see bisexuality as a moral dilemma #super fucked up ngl.

[momentomori24]

From now until march, along with KOSA and support for trans folks/tumblr's transphobia, I'm only going to be reblogging posts about Palestine, Congo, Sudan and the potential other countries that I'm unaware of subjected to atrocities and genocides all at the same time (because just when you thought you've seen the depths of human vileness you learn about something else happening that makes you realise no you didn't). My blog's pretty small so this probably doesn't mean much in the grand scheme of things, but since I didn't completely go through with the strike this time around I feel like the least I can do is this. General reminder to not stop talking about the genocides, donate if you can, write/call up your MPs, show support for the trans community and spread as much awareness as possible about all these issues mentioned. Stay safe, everyone.

#momento rambles #normally i don't make posts like this because i can't ever feel like i should be the one to and let people better equipped than me do it #because i'm more confident in their commentary and advice than mine but this is more important than my discomfort so here goes #free palestine #free congo #free sudan #kosa bill #transgender #if you haven't please look into what's been happening #but make sure not to burn yourselves out doing so #and be aware of that god awful bill and how damaging it could be #and keep your blogs trans friendly and safe. i just scream into the void here but you're always welcome and safe to see me be cringe #the world is shit and it always has been but that's more reason for us to stand together #this stuff isn't my strong suit at all but i hope it helps even a little. take care

[front-facing-pokemon]

#metagross #bonus angle under the cut because i didn't even know this thing had a mouth #TPC knew when they named this thing… they even put “meta” in its name… #i always used to pronounce this “meta–grahhss.” but i've also been told multiple times that it's “meta-grohhss.” don't like that #like the word “gross.” they're not gross..! they're strong competitively or whatever..! yeah this is never a pokémon i cared about #some folks only care about pokémon for their competitive viability but that just is not a factor for me when determining pokémon i like #i do like how the X on their face goes over their eyes to make them look angry from practically every angle. i think that's a nice touch #and steel/psychic is rather cool. but i still don't know what this thing is supposed to be. though again i guess there's something to be #said for a pokémon that isn't necessarily Based off anything and is just its own creature. i think there's gotta be at least a few of those #out there‚ innit? i thought the trapinch line was but. lo and behold i guess. maybe they're all based off something and i'm just wrong

[nosferatufaggot]

In the universe in which Bruce Wayne and Joker are in a public relationship and are a power couple, I gots some thoughts.

So, Bruce visits Joker in Arkham or whatever. Like brings him flowers or something, I dunno. And someone says something about how they cannot BELIEVE billionaire Bruce Wayne would spend his time with someone who is mentally unstable enough to be in Arkham. Well, said someone's buisness suddenly fails when for some unbeknownst reason, Wayne Enterprises stop financially supporting said buisness.

Some time later, Joker and Bruce are at a gala. Bruce Wayne expierences autism 100 moment and someone goes ableism about it. Just a passing comment. And then after the rich socialite party, maybe two nights after, Joker doesn't kill them, but he sure does psychological torture.

#If you cannot tell by how I wrote this‚ my brain is fried. #It took all my strength not to call Joker 'the Jonker' and I'm proud I didn't. #I do not know WHY I've been thinking about Batjokes so much but I have. #And WHY CAN'T I FIND FICS LIKE THIS? I don't want Batman and Joker smooching!!!! No no no! #What I want is infamous criminal Joker and billionaire with social status Bruce Wayne gay married! #And the press won't leave them alone about it! The news is always telling stories. It's great for Bruce Wayne's cover! #All the headlines think Bruce Wayne is secretly some villain because how else is he gay married to Joker?????? #Cuz he. Heem. Him. He's Batman. #And everytime Alfred forces Bruce to go to a gala and network‚ Joker is his date. And all the billionaires are scared out of their brains. #How is everyone so hyped up on the freak nature of Batman and Joker going at it freak style and not THIS? #I get the appeal‚ but this has layers of intriguing in another aspect that I feel isn't explored enough. #AND THERE ARE TOO MANY FANFICTIONS FOR ME TO SORT THROUGH TO FIND SOMETHING LIKE THIS! #And think about it! If Joker lives with Bruce Wayne‚ and everyone knows where Bruce Wayne lives‚ and Joker does some joking... #And Batman goes to handle the situation‚ it would make a REALLY good excuse if anyone notices Batman going into the Wayne residence. #Batman can be like 'Oh no. I'm not here after a long day of crime fighting cuz I live here!!! I'm here to interrogate Joker!' #And then everyone smiles and nods. #autistic Bruce Wayne #Sentiments of a vampire. #batjokes