#kats little rambles

[kattt-5865]

Right. I'm in the rambling mood. So this post is probably going to be a whole load of nonsense, but fuck it I ball. I'm boutta yap to everyone about why I think Norman Osborn is a villain I can't sympathise with.

Let's start this by talking about villains I CAN sympathise with; Otto and Flint. I can sympathise with the other two because they have stories that make me feel empathetic. Flint wants to help his sick daughter, even if it's through illegal means. Otto had effectively a perfect life; a stable career and a loving wife, and he was doing what he enjoyed. When he loses it, it's bound to cause some empathy. Yes, his ambition is the cause of it all, but regardless, he lost practically everything.

With Norman, there's none of this. I don't feel any sort of sympathy. NWH's portrayal of him just makes it seem like his actions aren't his fault. In the Raimi Trilogy, the opposite is true. Norman wants the control, the power, but to accomplish that, he would taint his image. He doesn't want to taint his image because that would simply cause more problems. The serum simply just removed his inhibitions. Having had his inhibitions removed through the Goblin, he can do the things he wanted to do but without tainting his image. Norman lost nothing to achieve his goals.

But then you wonder, "Why didn't the same happen to Harry?"

It's because Harry had one goal in mind; kill Spider-man. He didn't want to harm anyone else, just him. Norman didn't care who he hurt, whereas Harry only wanted to harm Peter/Spidey.

Besides this, Norman was generally a bad father, too. That helps us sympathise much less.

Anyways, thanks for listening to me ramble, I had to get my thoughts out before I don't get any sleep ;-;

#spiderman #spiderman 2002 #spiderman 2 2004 #raimiverse #raimi trilogy #peter parker #harry osborn #otto octavius #flint marko #norman osborn #kats little rambles #ramblings #I AM ANTI NORMAN OSBORN RN. #this is an anti norman osborn post because he is unlikable #not willem dafoe tho #<3 willem dafoe hes a great actor

[lesbianturrets]

This new page is heavily interesting but. HOW ARE THESE NOT SHATTERING??? When you drop something from that height and that force, it’s bound to shatter, yes!? sorry logic brain taking over and getting annoyed by it! If they do break… he’s in for one hell of a time isn’t he!

I do feel for Victoria a lot, haha totally not because im biased BUT HEAR ME OUT!! It’s really sad how the Victorian society is through and through, suppressing your true self and feeling, turning you off like a robot to slide you into the “Social Norms” box, and when he does mad science it’s maybe.. not accepted but tolerated at least, but when SHE does it.. ohoho well things hit the fan.

I understand why she’s envious, I do! If I created a human and brought it back to life, getting shamed for it, and having to run away, then I see this man get love and attention, id be just as pissed off, yeah it may be because the creature killed people BUT WE DONT NEED TO MENTION THAT-

I know she wants her science to be shown, to see how brave she was and how much she went against the laws of nature, because if you see it that way, she’s a genius! She’s right. If you see his public science and then find someone doing something similar but with a few things changed, society will have that box again of tolerance. One thing out of there done and you’re out.

#the glass scientists #tgs jekyll #tgs frankenstein #HI i didn’t see kats ramble at all so i made my own! kinda…. #see my little victoria apologist post you goobers

[lesbiangiratina]

#their little laugh in ggx is cute did you know this. now you do #their ggx-ac voice in general can be very cute. i dont say this enough. #particularly in drama cds :) but in in xx and ac story modes too. usually around dizzy. her calming effect on them can not be overstated. #even with their mental health in the fucking gutter They could be quite sweet. because theyre sweet. sweetie. #but also their fighting voice lines are cute too theyre a little cocky sometimes its fun. they laugh Kind of a lot. and its cute. #every time i get the voice set in +r where they laugh when theyre hit i clap and cheer #also i like the filter on their voice in ggx the weird high pitched layer. well. its cute how else do you expect me to describe it #the filter is a lot more subtle in xx they just kinda sound Even more compressed than everyone else LOL but it sounds cool in drama cds. #their ac plus story voice filter........ is so cool. very different from their gameplay voice its kind of jarring but yeah.. #babygear why are you vocoded......... #sorry for rambling in the tags of a. a like 1 second long voice line #i like them. #the kat goes meow #gg #testament tag

[humanitys-strongest-bamf]

so much of manga ACWNR is just farlan reigning levi in and i'm so mad that it wasn't all animated

#he's such a little shit #and so sassy #also these books smell so great even tho i think they're used?? #idk something about the scent of a bound book is 👌🏼 #kat rambles

[lordmushroomkat]

Anyway I have purged my queue of Ace Attorney (I posted it all, enjoy the the massive wall of nonsense from me.) So now it's just miscellaneous and then The New Brainrot.

There's already an image of one of these clowns on here so enjoy that.

But anyway... It's Vanitas Time.

I am unhinged about all of the characters but I am becoming absolutely unwell about the titular Vanitas himself.

He's an asshole and I like him so much.

He's unhinged. He's so disingenuous and so repressed but he's so bad at keeping his feelings in. I swear sometimes he's just dissociating in the middle of a conversation.

He's a bastard and a bitch. He hates both vampires and humans for their cruelty but not nearly as much as he hates himself.

He has completely given up on life and is sustaining himself purely on spite and guilt. He makes people hate him on purpose.

He is kind but not nice. He is the embodiment of that cat knife meme, you know the one. He is babygirl and pathetic little meow meow. I want to send him to therapy.*

His vibes are constructed entirely out of red flags. He's a bisexual man that you want to keep 20 feet away from all women at all times because geeeeez my guy learn to behave yourself. He's a sarcastic prick. He's incomprehensibly traumatized.

I want to run him over with a freight train. I want to wrap him up in a homemade quilt and give him a cup of hot cocoa. I want someone to hold him tenderly. I want that twink obliterated (gayly).

He looks and acts like a feral alley cat. His outfit is simultaneously iconic and absurd. I think he stole someone's gender. He wears gloves with claws on them.

He is terrified of genuine connection yet he craves intimacy so badly. He is a massive pile of trust issues.

He is doomed by the narrative, he is running out of time, he is destroying himself through every step of his objective. He knows he will likely destroy himself before he can ever succeed. He is terrified of losing his humanity. He calls his objective vengeance but I'm pretty sure it's actually absolution.

There is something very very wrong with him.💖💜💙

*(I want to send all of these characters to therapy.)

#fandom brainrot #the case study of vanitas #vanitas no carte #vnc #Vanitas [the human] (vnc) #bisexual Vanitas #Vanitas is babygirl #Vanitas is my poor little meow meow #everyone in vnc needs therapy #Vanitas is a danger twink #also I think he is a bratty sub and someone needs to tenderly dom him and then thoroughly fuck the noise out of his head #that's right I saved the spiciest thought for the tags #anyway I never mentioned it in the post because I was trying to be ambiguous but I think Noé is the gentle dom for the job so: vanoé #regardless of his being doomed by the narrative I still hold out quiet hope that he gets to live; albeit forever changed #what can I say? I think it would be more interesting if he was simply made new and had to deal with the fact that he will continue to exist #we'll see #kat rambles about the stupid vampire show

[katalyna-rose]

Coming along nicely!! I continue to be Obsessed(tm) with mushroom carvings from @bekkathyst and I adore the tiny planet upon which I can play god. The azurite malachite cluster I got as my gift on my last purchase is such a lovely pop of bright color. I am genuinely so grateful to have gotten the exact colors of the bunny carvings that I wanted, I squealed when I pulled a green one out!

Now that I have this pretty corner I actually want to use my standing desk lol. Also the copper bonsai was made by my mother!

#kat rambles #i may rearrange it a little #the one skull with druzy likes to be tall #that or i ran out of space lol #but seriously i love having pretty rocks again i missed it #been slowly growing this collection #trying not to let it get too big because i need to be able to take it across the world with me #but I'm sure I'll get a few more things anyway #especially if the forbidden ice cubes come back #why did the pics do this

[lizardthelizard]

Every word you wrote about Tamara is just FACTS!!!!!!!!!!!! What I would have given for Grag & Tamara to be so broken because of magic, that they both had plans of revenge. Getting more people involved behind the scenes even. Tragic, yet understandable backstories and a real threat to Storybrooke from the outside world. The fears of some folks in town coming true (the whole E.T. thing Leroy mentioned in the hospital after Greg first showed up). The danger of having magic in a non-magical world.

EXACTLY!!! 'Tragic yet understandable' is the perfect way to phrase it, because OUAT is very good at including antagonists with these kinds of backstories (although, the effectiveness of this varies from character to character) and I'm sad that Tamara didn't get enough attention to receive the same treatment!

Okay, so, I'm gonna lay out some thoughts properly because why not:

(Disclaimer: I'm adding a read more because this got VERY out of hand. But please read on if anyone is interested in headcanoned Tamara backstory!)

(Second disclaimer: I've actually used this general backstory for Tamara in one of my fics before, although I wasn't able to go into quite as much detail at the time)

So, imagine. Tamara is a child (maybe 10 or 11). She has a happy family; parents that love her, a younger brother that she cares about a lot, a pet goldfish, whatever. And then imagine that, one night, 10 year old Tamara hears a noise from her brother's bedroom. She goes to investigate it but, when she opens the door, she finds herself frozen in shock. The window is wide open and her brother is floating in the middle of the room.

There's the faint sparkle of a glowing green dust on him and a dark shadow with bright, hollow eyes floats just beside him. Tamara pinches herself. She thinks she's dreaming. She's not. The shadowy figure spots her and before she can do a thing to stop it, the creature has taken her brother's hand and flown out the window with him. Maybe he cheerfully waves goodbye, maybe he doesn't even notice that she was there at all.

When Tamara finally works up the courage to move, she rushes to the window. Her brother is long gone, but there's a very fine sprinkle of green dust on the windowsill left in his absence.

Of course, she goes to tell her parents and, of course, they panic. Tamara tries to tell them what she saw but they naturally ignore any claims that she saw her brother flying or that the person that kidnapped him was nothing but a shadow with white, glowing eyes.

There was no sign of a break in from anywhere in the apartment. And the investigation team are baffled as to how anyone could have clambered in and out of the window when the room is situated on the third floor of the building. Tamara's brother never comes back and it's eventually considered a cold case.

Tamara has always considered herself honest, logical and responsible. For a long while, she insists that what she saw was true. It's only after she starts getting therapy that she begins to doubt things.

Therapy does little to fix things. Her family is completely broken. A year or so down the line, her parents divorce. Tamara starts to visit her Grandmother more and more often and she develops a very tight bond with her.

Tamara grows up and moves on from it all as best she can. She eventually stumbles into the same conspiracy group that Greg is a part of. They don't connect right away, but, after a couple of meet ups, they discover that they have a lot in common and also come to realise that, perhaps, they're the only two people in this group that have actually seen real magic.

They eventually confide in one another, talking about how 'magic' has ruined their lives. How it's hurt them in ways that no one else in this group that they're a part of will understand. They connect (idk, they can still get together romantically if they want, although I personally didn't see much chemistry between them and the show only really paired them up for shock value let's be honest) and they start talking about fairy tales and Storybrooke.

(Side note, since Greg is kind of aware of Regina being the Evil Queen (right? or is he not aware of that until he reaches Storybrooke again?) maybe he's even able to suggest that it could have been Peter Pan/Peter's Shadow that kidnapped her brother. I like the idea that he's very overly familiar with a lot of fairy tales and stories is more than willing to consider them in the real world ever since his interaction with Regina)

Anyway, I don't know HOW (and forgive me if I'm missing something from canon here, I'm guessing it maybe had something to do with Pan) but I like the idea of Greg in particular managing to track down either August or Neal (since, aside from Emma, those two are the links that lead back to Storybrooke). And, from here, the pair of them start working on plans to get to Storybrooke.

Greg and Tamara are both therefore stuck with these similar backstories, involving someone they loved being taken from them by someone magical. And ALSO similar in the sense that...no one believed them when they tried to tell the truth about this... Not only would this be about getting some kind of revenge (Greg wanting to get closure on his father and then kill Regina when he confirms that she did murder his dad, and Tamara desperate to find some trace of the shadow that took her brother), but it would also be about proving that they were right this entire time. That they weren't lying or 'crazy' or making things up. That magic is real and it's dangerous.

I guess the dilemma for Greg and Tamara is: how? How are they able to prove that magic actually exists, in a world where magic is unseen to those that don't believe in it? (This is a question that I will be pondering on, but not one that I'll be answering here. This ask has already gotten too long, ahahah)

(Still, there's one final thing I'd like to address)

Because, you see, there's something so deliciously tragic about Pan being the one to cause this trauma in the first place. For him to be so heavily responsible for Tamara's tragic childhood and then him continuing to have a chokehold on Tamara years later on. OUGH.

That said? yeah, I absolutely would have preferred if the Pan arc had been kept entirely separate from Greg and Tamara's (aka, they were there exclusively for their own reasons and not just because Pan said so). Greg and Tamara deserved their own arc that had nothing to do with Neverland. No 'home office', no dumb crystal that was triggered to explode the town or whatever (or! DO include those things! but tie them exclusively to John and Michael's story instead!)

I just!!!!!! I have way more feelings about Tamara (and to a lesser extent Greg/Owen) than I know I should and I'm getting a bit weird thinking about her lately!!!!!!

#kat thank you so much for the ask btw I always get so happy when I see you in my inbox :) #uyghjsdfjsuhdjfjsdf this is SUCH a rambling mess omg SORRY #if I work out a little more of this then I'll make some kind of part 2 #also listen. I'm SO open for other interpretations and headcanons in relation to her character and backstory #I used the 'pan's shadow stole her brother' thing because there are a lot of elements that work smoothly with one another #but I also appreciate that there's maybe not enough 'magic' involved to justify her hatred for that specifically #ouat #asks #oh no I can't tag this as august meta. this is a first for me #ouat meta #KIND OF. NOT REALLY BUT OH WELL

[h0t-p1nk-ch33tah-pr1nt]

Yall please,,, I crave a new stuffed animal

#kat text #i literally have a list of what i want #once i get my job applied #im not gonna shut up abt my two rn though #love my two little guys.... #personal rambles.

[lunalucykat]

so wait tell me about alastair

Oh boy, what all do I even say?

Well, basics. He's a human warlock, but he's basically unaware of his patron. He was a little nerd boy growing up and read a lot about magic and runes and burial practices and such, so I'm sure he knows by this point he must Have a warlock patron, but he has no idea how he entered into a contract with one, or why one would choose him. I'm playing it so that his patron is the Raven Queen and she's technically an archfey patron for him in this campaign.

Not gonna go too much in depth with his backstory (but you know it's Tragic), but we're playing in Faerûn and he's from Bryn Shander. So he's spent a long time on the road traveling south. Shortly before the campaign, Song ran into him on the side of the road and invited to take him to the Firefly Festival going on outside of Elturel.

Alastair is very closed off and generally mistrusting. He doesn't really like to talk about himself, and initiating conversation is hard for him, but it doesn't really matter in the group he's in because his new party mates are plenty talkative. Dearleigh (my older sister's drow rogue) is generally on the same page with him in terms of skepticism and suspicion of others, so she usually ends up saying what he might be thinking at times. Slowly but surely he's becoming more and more comfortable hanging out with people.

Currently, he silently enjoys Dearleigh's antics. He thinks she's funny, but he's not going to tell her that because he Knows it would go straight to her head. But she also very much Gets Shit Done, so he respects that.

He's not so sure what to think of Flester (my aunt's half-elf bard); he knows Flester is primarily a pacifist and wonders what his goals are just in general - though he's sure others are thinking that of him as well.

And Song is the first person he's felt comfortable around in a Long time. He has a calming presence, not to mention he's strong and fiercely protective, so Alastair feels very safe around Song and hopes he's not annoyed by him trailing after him like a lost puppy.

SHEESH!!! This is getting a bit long!!! We've only played like 5 sessions and I already feel like I have so much to say! But these are the basics of Alastair right now! We hit level 3 not too long ago; we're doing milestone leveling which I appreciate, and my most used spell is Eldritch Blast (because tbh, why wouldn't it be?)

#thanks for the ask! #kat rambles #i'm so happy to be playing a proper campaign!! and that I get to be a class i really wanted to play! #and that i get to be my favorite little goth guy! #thanks for letting me ramble in short snippets about Alastair! :3c

[claudemblems]

My current character obsession is Blade from Star Rail. Do what you will with this information

#🌸 - kat rambles #first off his voice #second his aesthetic #third his kit #he's probably a little crazy but I can deal with that

[hobbitunderthemountain]

i really, really wanna finish nano this year since this is the tenth year in a row i'm doing it and it'd be cool to do so (and i like the design of the winner tshirt this year)

but also. I have/had so much going on this month. and i don't wanna stress myself out over it. but also. stressed if I don't. stressed if I do.

#from my mental health. my physical health. actually traveling this year over thanksgiving. #auwhgaugh #i'm close to 30k rn so it's not like. impossible. but also. it is a little bit #i don't have a ton left in my writing arsenal to work on. or that i wanna work on. aughghgh #kat does nano 2k23 #rambling

[kattt-5865]

when the football match gets so bad you start drawing ship art of two of your faves looking at eachother in pure love

#katttposting #kats little rambles #i wouldn't share what ship it is but i will regardless #its... #parksborn #my sillies #raimi parksborn #the sillies

[blackkatmagic]

.....There has been an accidental kitten acquisition, so apparently I need to break out my names list again.

#kat rambles #what name suits a little tuxedo waif girl #totally asking for science

[humanitys-strongest-bamf]

hi im really getting sick of people only paying attention to acute trauma while invalidating, disregarding, or ignoring complex trauma that is just as difficult to deal with :)

#like i know cptsd isn't in the dsm #but its in the icd #and there's so much research that supports bpd to be the result of complex trauma #and the accumulation of “little traumas” into the overarching complex trauma #thats actually so fucking difficult to treat bc none of the therapists here are really trauma-informed with complex trauma #like quit invalidating others life experiences??? #and also dont do trauma olympics a;dljkfal;sdf #tw: trauma #kat rambles

[supersecretnerd]

I think there should be a crossover au where the protagonists of Henry Slick's film (Jack Skellington, James Trotter, Coraline Jones, and Kat from the upcoming film Wendell and Wild) are all friends.

I just feel like it could lead to a multitude of cute, funny, and even some angsty interactions- I also love all of these films so it's like a bonus to be able to talk about them to folks.

#of course- sorta have to wait for Wendell and Wild to come out to fully understand Kat's personality and how she would interact with #the other characters #but i can imagine the other characters dynamic- #coraline would at first be immediately suscipous of Jack and James' bug family and it would take some time for her to warm up to them #Jack may try to scare them for fun but other than that he would be super sweet towards the kiddos- kinda like a fun uncle- #however he also doesn't understand humans very well so that would lead to some bizarre interactions between the kids #James would be both a happy go lucky kid but also surprisky chill with the absurdity the other chatacters bring #he's seen alotta werid stuff- he's pretty much like 'oh a skeleton and some girls from the furture. cool you guys wanna play?' #also i think it would be funny if Kat and Coraline just show James technology from the future- he mainly loves the films #James just playing Cut the Rope on one of their cellphones cause he likes to feed 'the cute little froggy' #im gonna stop rambling now haha- #just wanna to shout my ideas #the nightmare before christmas #coraline #james and the giant peach #wendell and wild

[foldingfittedsheets]

I watched 2 Broke Girls for the first time on the plane and like. It’s not good but it turns out I’ll sit through anything just to look at Kat Dennings.

#like nick and Norah’s infinite playlist- Michael cera has so little charisma but kat dennings tho… #and they try to pretend she’s not drop dead gorgeous which is a fucking joke #ramblies #2 broke girls #it’s not like… bad? but their timing is way too fast and ba dum tiss over every line #I might acquire the series just to see cause I’m always burning through shows when I work