#len speaks

[kenobihater]

tragedy enjoyers when a character perpetuates the cycle of violence they themselves were a victim of

#SORRY IT'S COMPELLING LOL #i was gonna write up a meta post abt astarion but im only in act 1 & havent got as firm a grasp on his character as id like to do that yet #one day soon mayhaps... #len speaks #len's memes #astarion #<-tagging my current blorbo du jour bc he's the reason this post exists

[hemocrewdeluxe]

/you are interesting~

/theres many of you here~

system.Out.printLn("Yea# well ive taken over most of t#is blog but maybe ill allow you t#e privilege of seeing some of t#e ot#er trolls here");

#system.Out.printLn('Whats the magic word'); #grumblr #unreality #len speaks #asks!!! #anonymous!!!

[shibalen]

Okay!! I think I'm gonna open matchups again after all (yay?)

#len speaks #matchups #anime matchups #how do I even tag this help🥲

[petricorah]

scenes i loved from Real Enough to Get Me Through by @marriedzukka <333 [ids in alt]

#zukka #zukka fanart #sokka #sokka fanart #zuko #zuko fanart #atla #atla fanart #avatar the last airbender #zukka fic rec #myart #yall. yall. dani. this FIC #first off it made me cry twice. not like 'oh im crying' internet speak no. like. eyes are too blurry to read let me stop this for a sec #it is SO GOOD #your prose? amazing #your insights on grief? life changing #THEM??? THEM their relationship and trust #'zuko looked at him and his world shifted on its axis' #ive been thinking about that line for WEEKS STRAIGHT #i can't tell you how many passages i screenshot just because of how beautiful or cute they were #the moment of seeing the painting of sokka's mom? how did you manage to make it so telling character wise--so sweet so PAINful AND so #cute with their relationship?!!?! #'oh so you think i'm beautiful too' #GOD #i had so many scenes i wanted to draw it was crazy #also #'Our loved ones leave impressions on us that can still impact our decisions and feelings even after they're gone' #fuck. had me crying AGAIN #seriously this fic is so wonderful and not just through a zukka lens. truly life changing you're an AMAZING writer #the fandom is so lucky to have you and i can't Believe it took me so long to get around to reading this masterpiece

[hetaari]

So apparently miku expo has these unofficial after parties and someone on twitter the vocaloid inspired drink lineup and I cannot stop thinking about how dirty they did kaito 💀

Like yea I understand the need for something non-alcoholic but come on you can do better than a measly ass bottle of water lmfao

#hetaari speaks #vocaloid #hatsune miku #kagamine rin #kagamine len #megurine luka #meiko vocaloid #kaito vocaloid

[pantherloid]

💬

#uwaa #vocaloid #kagamine len #len kagamine #鏡音レン #concept for when len speaks in english in-universe in visual/speech bubble form #its supposed to be written like how i'd tune his jp v4 to speak english #we do not use len v4 eng in this house 🗯🗯 plus i havent learnt #how to use eng vbs yet #do you think i wouldve been the worst offender talkaloider if i learnt vocaloid back in the day instead of now

[atissi]

okay very preliminary thoughts on mitski's new album BUT i think there's something with how "laurel hell" felt like a goodbye to the music industry (can't find the source but i remember reading that it was intended to be her last album under her contract) like i'm sorry anthony fantano but if you interpret the back half of "laurel hell" as being generic breakup songs you're missing like 80% of the context. to me TO ME it feels so clearly about her negotiating her relationship with fame, how she can't love her fans the way they love her, and how she feels like she sold her soul to her job, so the only thing to do is step away. but THEN "the land is inhospitable and so are we" was created after mitski decided to renegotiate her contract, specifically because she loved making music enough to deal with the negative aspects of the work. and then all the songs are about the ghost of love she can leave behind, despite the present pain or emptiness, and like. do you see it. do you see it.

#THE NARRATIVE. #beepbeep.txt #mitski #like you can definitely interpret everything through the lens of personal romantic relationships BUT. i think its even better #envisioning that she is speaking to her actual audience. the love they have for her and the love she is trying to communicate to them #i mean especially “i don't like my mind” just feels like a response to “love me more” where she begs to keep her job #specifically so she doesn't have to be alone with all these thoughts. so she can be witnessed #but then i feel like “the deal” and “when memories snow” are responses to “working for the knife” and “everyone” where her job leaves her #feeling emptied out of all this pain and love simultaneously. hence the ghostliness of the whole album #and her coming to terms with this feeling of emptiness. or actually. the loneliness of having no witnesses at all. after the music. #being king of her own land. if one would like to use that turn of phrase #IS ANYONE ELSE GOING INSANE OR.

[alexkablob]

not to wade into discourse about shows online which I swore to stop doing but I think some of you need to recognize that not every piece of media is about you, and that focusing only on the themes that you personally identify with while erasing the ones you don't is Not Great

#some of you only know how to analyze things through a VERY specific queer lens that matches your own personal experiences and it shows #and I just think there is a lot more to enjoying narratives about having a complex relationship to gender in a very specific historical era #than arguing about what specific pronouns and labels they would use in 2023 #and that white queer people reducing stories that are about a character's struggle with being multiracial #to *only* the queer elements that we identify with is. not great??? #you can't separate these things you can't just ignore them #I'm obviously not equipped to do in-depth *commentary* on that aspect of mizu's character because I am in fact a white queer #that is for other people to speak about and I'm enjoying reading their takes on it #but like. you need to engage with media that is not about you. you need to assign artistic merit beyond what you personally identify with. #you can find things that resonate with you in them but you should not make the whole thing about you

[magnoliasandbeardedtooth]

thinking about the relationship between sif and the universe, and related theories / headcanons aka I listened to a song and I need to get these feefees out of me

this is a lot of prelude for something that can be shown with just the video clip, but I want to include all the strings that make up this knot

Its not explicitly stated, but I believe it's pretty clear that whenever sif repeats something three times while hoping for something (sharpening the keyknife, carving in general, praying to the change god statue in dormont), he is performing wish craft.

however, he doesnt repeat anything three times when getting the keyknife. he doesnt even need to pray to get it at all, the change god just gives it to him. they say themselves that they dont care for rituals. they never even take credit for the stat buff, they only take credit for the keyknife

when sif changes how they pray at the change god statue, their method more strongly resembles the ritual to make a wish at the favor tree (picking the one you like best), and as a result the buff gets better. it is the wish craft ritual that is the important part of the prayer to that statue, not the change god

one thing that IS explicitly stated is just how powerful wish craft is for those who know the rituals, and how dangerous it is in the wrong hands. between the disappearance of colors (Im pretty sure that was the result of a wish, I may be misremembering), the disappearance of the country, and the king being nearly successful in freezing all of vaugarde in time, it only takes one wish to take out massive chunks of the world at a time

we know that wish craft is very entwined in the culture of the country (the story written about in the journal is told as a cautionary fairy tale, the rituals themselves are so deeply ingrained in sif that the wish to forget the country did not restrict his memory of the rituals, and he can perform wish craft without even being fully aware he is doing it)

it seems reasonable to me that the reason for the country's disappearance was to hide the existence of wish craft and the rituals to access that power from the rest of the world. considering sif didnt even remember his culture AND had good intentions, and still nearly ended the world, seems like that concern is pretty well founded. however, thats not the important theory Im making this post about

the country has knowledge of wish craft in conjunction with worship of the universe. "the universe leads, we can only follow," "the universe willed it," seems pretty safe to say that sif's Universe is the "entity" that is granting wishes

the way wishes are described, they dont seem like something the universe grants based on who worships it. as long as you know the ritual, you get the wish. everyone is part of the universe, after all, worshiper or not

Admittedly, its a bit of a stretch to say that the universe as a collective force has any sense of empathy for human struggles. but using the change god as an example, as spiteful as they are to sif, and unsympathetic to anything other than a human's role in the concept of change, they still show a great deal of care and favor to mira, someone who loves them. it is possible for a deity to care for those that care about it

sif, despite no longer having access to his culture or why he cares about the universe, still loves the universe, very very deeply, just as much as mira loves change. the change god says that sif's deity will never answer him, but I dont think thats the case

and this is the important headcanon that I am making this post for

sif is performing the rituals, so he gets the wishes, simple as. but I feel strongly that his wishes getting granted in very small but noticeable ways, despite not knowing how or why hes doing it, is the presence of his universe helping him, caring for him, even when he doesnt remember it

the strongest evidence for this, and the basis for this whole thing, is exactly how euphrasie breaks down in act 5

at first I only really noticed when she laughs, it reminded me very much of how the change god, a being who uses sprites of other characters and has done a whole possession, laughed during their encounter. they and euphrasie are the only two that use anything other than "ha," and right after this laugh is when her breakdown pauses and she says the lines

"... Soon you'll be able to go back to your normal lives. Away from battle and strife. Finally, you'll all be able to go home!!!"

which, knowing the end of the game is coming, is incredibly relevant. very deliberate

before this pause, her breakdown seems pretty chaotic. the characters and the player are just coming out of one harrowing experience, and are clearly headed for another. the cohesiveness of this glitchy breakdown amongst a mess of the rest of the world doing the same isnt really high up on the list of priorities. none of the characters notice anything beyond the fact that reality is breaking, not even sif. it just sounds like scary nonsense.

but with the context of euphrasie being possessed to talk to sif, every single one of her lines makes perfect sense

(footage from Zhain Gaming on yt)

the universe is there its talking directly to him, it was there the whole time

the Universe loves Sif so much

#isat #in stars and time #isat spoilers #isat act 5 spoilers #I have no idea how obvious this is or if its old news #since I havent seen anyone else talk about it #but the relationship between sif and the universe makes me emotional #I wrote this at 3 am based on memory #at first I wasnt too confident in it since it was only based on the laugh and the lines that follow it #this was just something that made me happy that I was gonna keep no matter what #but when I went back to look at the lines and found that every one lined up‚ I cried #anyway #I wanted to write this whole thing after listening to Secret For The Mad by Dodie under the lens of the universe talking to siffrin #special shoutout to pidgey who joked that the universe was adrienne actually #they were goofing but as a high concept meta art thing I can definitely appreciate #speaks

[marysong-mp3]

midnights is not a breakup album but it is an album about examining new and old kinds of hurt which exist next to new and old kinds of love and how those things have and continue to impact your life and your relationships.

how have we gotten to where we are? where can we go from here? i miss you and i love you and i feel suffocated and i want no one else but you. when have i been here before? how do i get through this now?

#i'm sorry!!! there is just too much love still present there for me to dismiss it as a breakup album!! #it's too introspective and reflective and hopeful for it to be a “breakup album”!!! #we don't know the specifics but if she stayed for another year and a half then there must have been a lot of love there still #and that is more interesting to me as an analytical and artistic lens #dee speaks #midnights #taylor swift #you're losing me

[kenobihater]

enjoying 2012 les mis is like. yes i love parts of it. yes aspects of it are absolutely sinful and straight up bad. the acting is terrific. the singing is dogshit (please give jackman a glass of water) except when it verges on angelic (redmayne, barks, and seyfried). the casting is iconic (blagden served cunt for his .2 seconds of screentime and barks is legendary). who let tom hooper direct this (it was mackintosh (derogatory)). why did they cut parts of the songs only to ADD an entire new number. would i recommend watching it? absolutely. should it be your first exposure to les mis? absolutely NOT. was it mine? you know it babes! is it the most well known/popular/easiest version to find? again, yes, but i'm begging you on hands and knees to watch it live or find a bootleg or the 25th anniversary concert or ANYTHING else as an introduction or i promise that the version of the musical that burns itself into your memory will include ugly singing (i speak from experience)

#len speaks #les mis #les misérables #les miserables #les mis 2012 #les misérables 2012 #les miserables 2012 #this is incomprehensible but my feelings on the movie are varied and often contradictory #like the fact that i consider it painfully obvious oscar bait but i still think it should have won more awards <3 #tho thank GOD it didn't get nominated for best original song for suddenly bc. Bad. that song is Boring and Bad

[hemocrewdeluxe]

system.Out.printLn("Im so cool");

#len speaks #grumblr #unreality

[theplasticman]

if I said the Rusty Lake devs sold out and the franchise hasn’t been genuinely good since 2020

#Rusty lake #constant retconning + inability to ever actually progress the story and not just make dumb hits implying narrative progress #+ advertising ai + devs being incredibly unserious (negative) + total abandonment of much of the earlier themes and motifs #and instead just loosely referencing popular concepts or characters for the sake of fanservice #who else remembers that RL blog me and Bella used to have together #Len speaks

[shibalen]

♡ Hello all, I had a ton of fun with them but I am going to close the appearance matchups soon so I could finish the remaining normal matchups in my inbox! Appearance matchups are open until 20th of February, 23.00/11pm (UTC+2) so request if you want to and still can. People who have already requested are welcome!

#len speaks #matchups

[coldflasher]

anyway, thanks to that moment in the sound and the fury where barry is standing around watching with blank frustration like "god i wish i'd taken a language in high school" while hartley verbally eviscerates both cisco and eowells in multiple languages, i now headcanon that len speaks a second language, mostly cos barry would find it really annoying

#my headcanons #right now im leaning towards spanish. michael schofield had a hispanic/spanish-speaking cellmate in prison break right? #and who doesnt love a cheeky prison break ref in a coldflash fic #so yeah len picked up spanish in prison. he had the time. im not saying he's like fluent necessarily but he can get by #this gives me a fun chance to have him interact with cisco in spanish while barry is clueless. which is fun. i enjoy their dynamic #even more bonus points if lisa ALSO speaks some spanish because then i can have cisco speak to her in spanish #he thinks she doesn't understand so he says all these romantic things he'd never be bold enough to say normally #and then of course you get the trope where at a pivotal moment lisa turns and answers in spanish and it turns out she knew #what he was saying all along... #it's a classic <3 #anyways im obsessed with this now #the bit gets even funnier if everyone but barry speaks at least some spanish. like iris took it in high school so len and cisco are talking #while barry is like ????? and then iris joins in. still in spanish. and barry's like oh come on!! you too? #so they all get to bully him and he has no idea what they're saying <3

[power-chords]

Logs on three hours later to blog about The Zone of Interest: I can’t expect viewers to pick up on cultural forms of representation they have no cause to even recognize (at least here in American English departments you still get Hellenism as the default). But I saw these reactions to the ending that were just like… oh, man. Like if there is one thing I could stress to anybody who watches the film and feels conflicted about that decision, or confused about the attitude of it, it’s to try to keep in mind the centrality of archiving in the Jewish consciousness. Telling/re-telling (inscribing/re-inscribing, producing/reproducing) as explicit meta-commentary — where you are being constantly reminded of the text’s own structuring and framework, its (re-)generation and interpretation across a living historical continuum — if there were an essential “mode” to Jewish narrative, that would probably be it. I think this is being lost on a lot of people. It’s also why reactionaries hate critical theory.

#so much respect for glazer for him to insist upon that sensibility as the entire ‘lens’ for the film so to speak #this post is reductive for the sake of brevity but I was scrolling through letterboxd reviews and was Compelled #it may be ‘about’ the lives of these nazis but it is not their gaze. nor is it a western one