#personal commentary

[haggishlyhagging]

What I’m getting is Christ was anti-childbirth and pro-androgyny

-M. Esther Harding, Woman’s Mysteries: Ancient and Modern

#m. Esther Harding #personal commentary

[lucavettorisworld-blog]

A woman should always be loved and respected, make her feel that you love her and she will love you back every day 🌹

#personal commentary

[liviz223]

So I’m writing another post-canon au fic for The Good Fight that takes place in France (with Carmen, Jay and Marissa visiting Kurt and Diane) since Queen Christine Baranski said in an interview (can’t remember which one) that Kurt and Diane were “in France...sipping Chablis”, and I’d like to imagine that the work children would visit them from time to time, so I have travel and tourist site tabs up and I’m noting down where I’d like the trio to go in-between their time with Diane and Kurt, which means that I am pretty much planning a whole ass vacation for fictional characters...

#the good fight fanfiction #diane x kurt #diane lockhart x kurt mcveigh #McHart #mchart fanfiction #marissa gold #jay dipersia #carmen moyo #fanfiction #here's a run-on sentence if I've ever seen one #seriously: 8 lines for 1 sentence #It's like I'm getting paid by the word #I'm not getting paid at all though #personal commentary

[jem-in-eyee]

When i leaned in, i heard your words underneath the song—you were speaking to your father. Your real one. Cheeks wet with tears, you nearly shouted. “Where are you, Ba?” you demanded in Vietnamese, shifting from foot to foot. “Where the hell are you? Come get me! Get me out of here! Come back and get me.”

—Ocean Vuong, ‘On earth we are briefly gorgeous’

This part of the narrative, or poetry, takes place in a church, a couple(son and mother) of Vietnamese refugees trying to trace down religion in a stranger country. To have the guts to enter an institution like this and then grieve about forgotten fathers, or rather the fathers that left, oh to have such guts. Ocean is a witness here, to her mother’s grief for her father, the absence of her ‘real father’, the word real resonates with such tight bloodlines and even safer men maybe. What Ocean does with her mother in this somewhat epistolary piece of work, he sees her mother do that in a church and thus rushes forth to record it.

This is right after his mother explains to him how the grandfather he was going to visit wasn’t really his grandfather, he was just a man who fell in love with a pregnant Lan and decided to stay (a man who decided to not leave). How the realness here is definitive of blood, and not goodness, how the realness is here defined by Vietnamese blood.

Every refugee is conscious of his/her/their blood, it is the one thing that is theirs, that belongs to the place they came from, and in an instance like this, it is important to keep that blood ‘safe’.

(Continuations on the mother-son story by Ocean Vuong)

#art #artists on tumblr #tumblr #poetry #writers #wilderness #vsco edit #literature #english literature #on earth we are briefly gorgeous #ocean vuong #literary continuation of vuong’s work #personal commentary #social commentary #vietnamese

[1lilspark]

Can the grim reapers quit trying to one up one another on deaths that hurt me the most…. The holidays are bad enough for my personal mental health without it

#personal commentary #tw: death #tw: suicide #leslie jordan #kirstie alley #twitch #Sonya eddy #general hospital

[shojo-sylveon]

Spoilers: Cardcaptor Sakura episode 66

I just wanted to say I think it's unfair Yukito was not given a childhood or a family, and instead was given false memories of a family who never existed. Why couldn't Clow have arranged for him to end up adopted by his clan somehow? There's still all these people in both Hong Kong and Japan who know of him and retain responsibilities left by him, no one could have actually taken care of Yukito?

#cardcaptor sakura #ccs #personal commentary #commentary #yukito

[charlies-congealed-spaghetti]

Came home from work to find my dog watching Twilight: Eclipse by himself. We usually leave YouTube up on the TV with a documentary or video game play-through on as they’re longer videos but nothing in the viewing history of my partner’s account should have suggested this movie for auto play. Anyway, we’re watching New Moon now.

#twilight #the twilight saga #twilight eclipse #personal commentary

[musesofchaos]

"Fuck you, world! Now I got two badass dads!" "We're gonna kickass and take names!"

#crimsion on my lips when I smile i'm a t-rex (momoko) #ic #dash commentary #personal commentary #//hi she loves her two creepy dads #//she was so excited when sasori came around lmao #//she was like hey you're the puppet guy you're cool! #//lol

[beckmezser]

It's not that i'm overreacting, you are just watering down your emotions.

#personal commentary #they are making me sick

[dumplingsjinson]

List of “not-so-random suggestive and non-suggestive” prompts 

“How was your sleep?” “Mm.. It was good. Better.” “Better how?” “Better because you’re here.” (THE WAY I GOT SO FLUSTERED WTF)

“That’s my girl/boy,” Character B murmurs in a hushed voice, stroking their fingers through Character A’s hair while Character A rests their head on their chest, trying to catch their breath. (THE SCREAM I SCRUMPT INTERNALLY, THE AUDACITY HE AUDACITIED??? WHAT THE FUCK??? EXCUSEEEE MEEEEEE??? BTW, SIR, HOW DO YOU LIKE YOUR EGGS IN THE MORNING-)

“Fuck, you turn me on so much with the noises you make,” Character B groans, thrusting their hips up into Character A’s and Character A whimpering softly at that. (Okay so I added the fuck at the start because it’s hotter this way bUTTTT WKGKSKFS PLSSSSS I JUST- OH MY GOD, I think I just realised that dialogue to me is SO IMPORTANT LMFAOOO)

“There are two hot things in this room right now: you, and the temperature.” (LET ME BREATHE, DAMNNNN) 

“Mmm, I’m gonna hog the bed so you can’t get on,” Character A murmurs, laying sprawled out on the bed. “That’s fine, I can just lay on you,” Character B says, making their way to the bed. “…Are you calling me a bed?” Character A questions as Character B gets on top of them, careful not to crush them under their weight. “Yeah, you're my bed,” Character B murmurs, snuggling close to Character A. (FUCKCKKCKXKDKKSKGKAKD HE’S JUST OUT HERE FLIRTING TO THE MAX WITH ME AND LEAVING ME SPEECHLESS TF)

“I told you my bed’s cozy,” Character B says, chuckling as they make their way over to Character A, who’s snuggled up under the covers. They pull the cover back and climb into the bed next to Character A, wrapping their arms around them. “And now it’s even cozier,” Character B murmurs into Character A’s neck. “Because you’re here?” Character A questions playfully. “Yeah,” Character B answers.

A laughter filled tickling play fight session somehow turning into them making out, turning into Character A straddling Character B, head thrown back in pleasure as they grind their hips against Character B’s while Character B holds onto their hips, thrusts matching the momentum of Character A’s movements.  

Spending way too much time tickling each other, peals of laughter coming from them both as they both try to attack each other’s sensitive spots. (His laughter is so cute AND I REALLY MISS HIM PLS WJDSK)

Morning cuddles and kisses as sunlight spills into the room.

“I’m gonna fuck you so good once we get there, yeah?” (MY HONEST REACTION WAS LITERALLY “???” I JUST?? WHAT?? SINCE WHEN WAS HE- AND HIM SWEARING? HOT HOT HOT HOT WKGKAKS)

Character A taking Character B’s hand into theirs while they’re driving. “You can drive with one hand, right?” they ask with a little grin, and Character B chuckles and nods. “Of course I can.” (HIM DRIVING WITH ONE HAND IS SO HOT BYE)

Character B guiding the speed of Character A’s hips as Character A grinds against them. (can he PLEASE manhandle me-)

“Okay, I’ll let you tickle me wherever you want if you give me one kiss.” (He lied a few times AHAHA, dodged my attacks instead after I gave him his kisses bruhhh) 

Character B lending their clothes to Character A since Character A’s staying the night. (The way I smelled like him AHHHH)

The soft “yeah?” Character B would mutter in response when they’re messing around with Character A and noises would fall from Character A’s mouth, involuntarily.

Stopping their play fight every now and again to kiss each other. 

Character B flirting with Character A and Character A not knowing how to respond other than half groaning and half laughing and calling them insufferable (affectionately). (Like I said, I’m romantically constipated-) 

Character B laughing every time Character A calls them annoying and insufferable whenever they flirt with them. 

Character A leaning in to kiss Character B… And then using that opportunity to tickle them when Character B’s guards are down. 

Them just laughing with each other at the dumbest shit until they’re out of breath; finding comfort and joy in each other’s company. 

Character A teasing Character B with how ticklish they are on certain spots. 

Character B tugging at the hem of Character A’s top, wanting to take it off, but Character A shakes their head and Character B immediately respects that by backing off a bit. (I’m including this because I don’t think people understand that any signs of no means no. Some people need to take notes for real)

“So… Are you going to stay over tonight?” “…Mm, maybe next time.” “You always say next time, though.” (EWLKNFWELN He really wanted me to stay, and I clearly folded so um pwnfewklnf) 

“I’m sorry if I’m like… Slow with all of this? I’m not experienced with any of this, and I don’t know what I’m doing. And I don’t think I’m ready for… You know.” “And that’s fine. Like I said, we’ll take it slow; we’ve got all the time in the world to get comfortable with each other, hm?” (WHEN I SAY I WAS GOING WEKJFNEWJKNEWFLN WHEN HE REASSURED ME, I LOVE HIM SO MUCH AHHH)

Character B climbing back into bed after taking their morning shower to get more cuddles in with Character A before they have to go to work.

“You can just change in here if you want.” (WO4HKLWFN THIS FUCKING MAN LMFAOOO, the way I didn’t listen and went to the bathroom to change because I’m still feeling too embarrassed to change in front of him even though he’s kind of seen me topless before)

Hugging each other a little tighter, and Character A mumbling, “God, I really don’t want to leave” before they part ways.

“The way you keep running around in my mind everyday… How dare you?” Character A mumbles. “Well, is there a problem with that?” Character B questions with a chuckle. (I’m bold for this one, praise me LKNEFKLNWG)

The constant check ins from Character B, to make sure Character A’s all good and well. (every prompt list has this because it’s something I’ll always fucking harp on about lmao)

Character B grasping Character A’s wrists so they’d stop attacking their ticklish spots, pulling them in for a kiss instead. (He did this SO MANY TIMES AND FAILED SO MANY TIMES AHAHA, I’m a sneaky menace) 

Character A pulling the Spiderman kiss on Character B while Character B’s lying down. (I WANNA KISS HIM MORE FUCKSLKFNES’F)

Character A waking up in Character B’s clothes and in their bed, hair all mussed up and sporting a faint mark on their neck. (I think I uh… I think I like having marks on my neck?? Made by him, specifically, IDK wpeofnew;nf)

Get home safe! Love you lots and lots, Character B texts Character A. (THE WAY I SMILED WHEN I SAW HIS TEXT WHILE HEADING TO THE STATION AHAHA, it wasn’t even ten minutes since we parted and he sent me this and I was fangirling about it to my friends AHAHA) 

“Aren’t you going to get up now? You gotta get to work,” Character A says, poking Character B’s side. “Mmm, five more minutes,” Character B murmurs, pulling Character A closer to them. (HE’S SO CLINGY AND I LOVE IT SO MUCH AHDFOEKNF)

Character A realising they might actually be falling in love, slowly but surely, with Character B. (YEAH SO THIS IS A REVELATION AND A HALF AND IDK HOW TO FEEL ABOUT IT) 

#long post #based on personal experience 😮‍💨 #so sorry for all of the commentary HAHAH #and yes before you say anything i’m living the fanfic life for you all LESNFNLK #cat guy chronicles #writing prompts #prompts #dialogue prompts #writing scenarios #otp prompts #suggestive prompts #smut prompts #fluff prompts #non-suggestive prompts

[haggishlyhagging]

Not sure if Anticlimax by Sheila Jeffreys is meant to be comedic but I snorted hard at this:

#sheila jeffreys #anticlimax #personal commentary #men

[inkskinned]

you have to go to work so you can pay for your doctor, who is not taking your insurance right now, and if you say i can't afford the doctor's you are told - get a better job. it is very sad that you are unwell, yes, but maybe you should have thought about that before not having a better job.

(where is the better job? who is giving out these better jobs? you are sick, you are hurting - how the hell are you supposed to be well enough for this better job?)

but you go to the doctor because you had the nerve to be hurt or sick or whatever else. and they tell you that it is because you have anxiety. you try your best. you are a self-advocate. you've done the reading (which sometimes pisses them off worse, honestly). you say it is actually adding to my anxiety, it is effecting my quality of life. so they say that you are fat. they say that all young people have this happen to them, isn't it a medical marvel! they say that you should eat more vegetables. they say that you probably just need to lose a little more weight, and that you are faking it for attention.

(what attention could this doctor possibly give? what validation? that's their fucking job, isn't it?)

there is always a hypochondriac, right. someone always tells you about a hypochondriac. or someone who is unnecessarily aggressive during the worst days of their life. or someone looking "for a quick fix". or some idiot who wasn't educated about how to properly care for themselves who just abandons their treatment. and again, the hypochondriac, the overly-cautious hysteric. these people don't deserve to be treated like humans (right), and since you might be one of these people, you also don't get treated like a human. because those people can really fuck with the system, you now have to pay for it. and besides. you're actually probably faking it.

(more often than not, you find a 2:1 ratio of these stories. for every "hypochondriac", there are 2 people who knew something was wrong, and yet nobody could fucking find it. the story often ends with pointless suffering. the story often ends with and now it's too late, and it's going to kill me.)

you are actually just making excuses. someone else got that procedure or that diagnosis and he's fine, you should be fine too. someone else said they watched a documentary about other inspirational people with your exact same condition, maybe you should be inspirational, too. you're just too morbid. your pain and your experience is probably just not statistically concerning. it is all self-reported anyway, and you're just being a baby.

(once, while sitting down in the middle of making coffee, you had the sudden, horrible thought - i could kill myself to make the pain stop. you had to call your best friend after that. had to pet your dog. had to cry about it in the shower. you won't, but that moment - god, fuck. the pain just goes on and on.)

you know someone who went in for routine surgery and said i still feel everything. they told her to just relax. it took her kicking and screaming before they figured out she wasn't lying - the anesthetic drip hadn't been working. you know someone who went in for severe migraines who was told drink water and lose weight. you know someone who was actively bleeding out and throwing up in the ER and was told you're just having a bad period.

in the ER there are always these little posters saying things like "don't wait! get checked today!" and you think about how often you do wait. how often the days spool out. you once waited a full week before seeing the doctor for what you thought was a sprained wrist. it had actually been broken - they had to rebreak it to set it.

but you go into the doctor. the problem you're having is immediate. the person behind the counter frowns and says we're not taking your insurance. you will be paying for this out-of-pocket.

they send you home with tylenol and a little health packet about weight loss or anxiety or attention deficit. on the front it has your birthday and diagnosis. you think about crying, and the words swim. it might as well say go fuck yourself. it might as well say you're a fucking idiot. it might as well say light your money on fire and lie down in it. and the entire fucking time - the problem persists.

it's okay. it's okay, it's just another thing, you think. it's just another thing i have to learn to live with.

#spilled ink #warm up #can you tell what i'm mad about today specifically #i will say that there are a LOT of things that go into this. like a lot. this is ungendered and unspecific for a reason #it isn't just sexism. it's also racism. and ableism. and honestly classism. #and before a healthcare professional reads this as a personal attack: i understand ur burnt out #we are ALSO burnt out. your situation is also dire. this is not an attack on you. #this is a commentary on the incredible amounts of bigotry that lie at the heart of capitalism #where people have to pay money out of pocket to be told to fuck off. #your job is important. so is our humanity. and if you cannot accept that people are fucking mad as hell #at the industry - you are probably not listening . #anyway at some point im gonna write a piece about sexism specifically in medical shit #but i don't want terfs clowning in it bc they can't understand nuance #> it is true that ppl w/a uterus are more likely to experience medical malpractice & dismissal globally #> it is also true that trans people experience an equally fucked up and bad time in the medical field #> great news! the medical industrial complex is an equal opportunity life ruiner :) #(if you find it necessary to go into a debate about biology while discussing medical malpractice #i want to warn you that you're misunderstanding the issue. because guess what. #cis MEN might experience this. particularly black men. particularly disabled men. #so YES having a uterus can lead to more trouble for you. but this happens a LOT. #instead of fighting those ALSO experiencing your pain.... try working WITH them. #which btw. is like. actual feminism.)

[logicpng]

how does he make these anyway

#welcome home #welcome home arg #wally darling #welcome home wally #partycoffin #very funny to find out that times new roman works so well as a font to use in artwork #don't like editing typography for artwork; but i prefer it to handwriting #scopophobia #cw scopophobia #eye strain #eyestrain #Pwease dont copy my commentary in tags to your tags: those are a bit personal

[katierosefun]

pyramid game is such a perfect little drama for the sapphics because you've got a whole demented psychological thriller going on about high school girls creating a whole fake social class system that results because one bored little princess bitch thought it'd be funny, and you've got all these dynamics that can only be boiled down to some kind of love story because like. ye lim and eun jeong's dynamic? the princess idol and her athlete bodyguard. soo ji and ja eun's dynamic? the cold mastermind and the compassionate heart. even whatever da yeon and seol ha have got going on? typical hitter and loyal dog dynamic. the list can go on.

#caroline talks #pyramid game #like da yeon is an awful person but as soon as seol ha spoke up. like her first words were about how she hates ha rin #for having da yeon in the palm of her hand. like. okay. gay. #i also think a lot about ha rin and ja eun. like i despise ha rin so much but there's something distinctly gay about that behavior. #oh you see ja eun happy? you're obsessed that ja eun's happy? and now you want to ruin her for it? #i know that deeper down it's all a commentary about social class and how the uber wealthy and uber powerful will find new and creative ways #to screw over people who come from different socioeconomic backgrounds. because at the end it's really all about power #and how ha rin cannot fucking STAND not being seen as the silent ruler of the class #this got away from me. yes it's all about power. #it is also a bit about gay lust. it can be both <3

[1lilspark]

anyone know of any good FREE journal websites that I can back-post my older race journal posts and post about Foam Glow and everything else going forward? LiveJournal isn't even really an active site to begin with and now they want me to pay for a premium account to continue to upload photos? Should I make a side tumblr? Something Else?

#running #run journal #run log #run disney #journaling #personal commentary

[shojo-sylveon]

Discussion Post: Spoilers Ahead: Cardcaptor Sakura: Ruby Moon & Gang Excuse the fact that this is a crusty soundless video, it was supposed to be a gif, but even after putting it through like 5 separate compressors it was still too big for this pathetic website, so here’s a video.  So, the clip above is from CCS episode 50. I watched this scene twice: once with the Crunchyroll sub where I watched the whole series, and again with wherever this sub originally came from. The subtitles are slightly different so they are not the same sub, but the message was still the same in both, which is what I was checking to make sure of by watching the scene in two different subs.  Now, unless this is some sort of metaphor I’m not picking up on, does this scene not clearly state that Ruby Moon has eaten someone before? Am I missing something here? Because I just finished the series and this was never touched on again. And I googled it and no one else ever seems to talk about this scene. I thought maybe Spinel meant “snack on someone” in the sense of absorbing their powers the way Yue did for Toya (though even then, that’s absolutely not what the wording suggests, in my opinion. the wording suggests she has literally eaten a human being. but I digress), which may make sense as to why she always hung around him so closely from the start, but also, it was clearly part of Eriol’s plan for Yue to absorb Toya’s powers. Now, I’m not sure that he communicated that, but it seems odd that Ruby Moon would have done something that would directly interfere with Eriol’s plans. Though, perhaps he wasn’t planning that from the start? After all, he did not expect Yukito to end up with someone other than Sakura. I’m really not sure. I’m arguing with myself because I want to believe that CLAMP didn’t just make up this very extreme scene and then simply pretend it didn’t happen.  Eriol was introduced as a morally ambiguous character. We didn’t initially know what his motives were, if he was good or bad. We also don’t know Spinel or Ruby Moon’s motives. I had a hunch they would end up being good, just because Card Captor Sakura is incredibly wholesome and our last ambiguous character (Mizuki sensei) also ended up being good, but I wasn’t sure. Then this episode came along, and really had me leaning towards them being bad guys. I mean, Ruby Moon just said she EATS PEOPLE. Not a single person on this show has gotten killed. That’s kind of a HUGE step up. Then the show continues to reference that Eriol is likely good. And the whole time I was sitting thinking, “the eating people thing isn’t going to get addressed, is it?” and what did I know? It didn’t. But that whole scene was dedicated to making the three of them look excessively evil, plotting dramatically like cartoon villains in their evil lair. I’m not sure what this scene looked like in the manga, but I can’t help but feel like CLAMP went way overboard in trying to make them look evil. They concocted this unrealistic ridiculous scene that just takes away from the show with its nonsense. It feels like a few nights prior Eriol sat Ruby Moon and Spinel down and went, “okay guys, we’re gonna act as evil as possible from here on out while I bullshit Sakura for the next couple weeks. When we come home we’ll evil laugh and talk about murder and stuff. We really gotta get into character here.” Because in what other scenario would they really act this dramatically? Eriol is constantly like “>:)” in the privacy of his home in the beginning, for no reason. This is all just done to make him more morally questionable than he already was. He literally was already questionable. There was no need for this. Moving on, I also feel like Ruby Moon and Spinel’s motives are never clearly explained in general. Ruby Moon spent all that time keeping Toya and Yukito apart, and for what? Just to let them get together in the end anyways? Just like Eriol wanted? I feel like both of them are very neglected characters that received a lot of buildup, with very little explanation.  I have a lot more reactions to the series, but this is just the one big one that stuck out and bothered me. This very extreme scene that is never touched on again. If anyone out there interpreted this scene in a way that actually makes sense, feel free to share your input. I’d really love to wrap my head around this.  I apologize if this was organized/written poorly. I have covid and it’s late at night, my brain isn’t at its peak right now  

#cardcaptor sakura #Card Captor Sakura #ccs #anime #commentary #analysis #ruby moon #eriol #criticism #discussion #personal commentary #me #me talking #spoilers