#pro things making sense

[canonkiller]

do you consider your self made?

#my art #self portrait of sorts #been musing a lot on disability recently and how being relatively freshly unable to do Most Things has changed my perspective on things #for a long time growing up i was fixated on the idea of being An Impact On The World yknow? mainly the next Big Writer #(and that it would be sooo impressive that everyone would make my books bestsellers when i was only 12 because it was That Good) #and i mean. obviously that didnt work out as originally planned because i was 12 and learning. but I've felt a lot like #I've kind of built my sense of self on those big achievements. even if they were only big to me. and a lot of them #are now out of reach or very difficult to reach. and it's been a lot to. recontextualize #to take what ive been told my whole life and ignore it in favor of just being being enough. #things will happen as they happen. i havent earned anything by suffering but it hasnt ended the world either #im here doing what i Can do for as long as I'm able to do it. and thats all i need to be for now #just making sure that i Do do the things i can do rather than assume i can do them later #anyways. love you #cw: #top nudity #artistic nudity #the dreaded ambiguously presenting nipple #if you put any pro weight loss eating disorder shit on here ill kill you btw #my body is sexy because im in it and im still alive. not because its struggling to stay that way #lindwormposting

[cerebralabyss]

you think a shower feels fresh? try a shower where you switch in the middle of it. it’s so refreshing that you …. feel like a whole new person after

- 🥀

#im exhausted and insane so this makes no sense #but i’m not sorry for this terrible joke #endo safe #endo friendly #pro endo #plural system #pluralgang #plural #system #plurality #multiplicity #plural memes #plural things #actually plural #system memes #system things #sysblr #crbrl jax

[communistkenobi]

the more I read about contemporary homophobic laws globally the more it becomes apparent that there is basically a 1:1 direct relationship between whether a country was under historic British rule and how many anti-sodomy laws they currently have on the books. like I knew this in a general sense but not the staggering degree to which this was the case. and I know this probably isn’t really shocking especially given how insanely anti-trans the UK is right now but it’s kind of insane to see just how much homophobia is a comprehensively global export of the British

#also not suggesting that it’s a colonial INVENTION like it’s not that the world was a pro-gay utopia pre-European colonisation #but reading a lot of post-colonial scholarship it’s kind of mind-boggling #also a deeply privileged thing to admit I know. my surprise is mostly the degree to which ‘global homophobia is a colonial artefact’ #is like not an exaggerated claim at all basically #One thing that’s frustrating is that a lot of the scholarship I’ve read so far focuses on heterosexuality as the root cause #& not gender. like truly I do not think homophobia as colonial policy makes any sense without gender as the primary distribution mechanism #but anyway. much more reading to do !

[shortnotsweet]

Pearl of the Realm [2, 1.5, 1]

Lucerys returns from his travels with new confidence and clothing that shocks nobility and the commonwealth. Fashionable members of the court swamp their tailors with demands, and the constant buzz around Lucerys the Lovely makes him Prince of the People. Coincidentally, Aemond develops chronic nosebleeds that plague him whenever his nephew is in the room.

The corset above is based off of a gold and white pearl set. This evolved into an AU about Luke gaining a sense of self + allies for Rhaenyra through scandalous clothing. He also incapacitates his Uncle Aemond, who probably has an iron deficiency from all the nosebleeds the maesters can’t explain.

A memorable incident: After offending Lucerys by insinuating his clothing is “inappropriate for a Prince”, and “looks like it was stolen from a Dornish whore”, Aemond attempts to apologize with a string of pearls. His timing is, of course, awful, and he stumbles into his chambers right when Lucerys is bathing. Misunderstandings ensue when he tries to shove the gift at him but ends up flinging it across the room; Luke assumes it’s an elaborate assassination attempt and leaps out of the bath, sprinting down the halls of the Red Keep with Aemond in hot pursuit. Aegon laughs so hard he cries.

#lucemond #aemond x lucerys #lucerys valeryon #house of the dragon #aemond targaryen #my art #Aemond must have a degregadtion kink or smt bc he is always getting humiliated in this #he is EXTREMELY obvious. that eye contact is not going anywhere and Alicent is at her wits end #i think lucerys is oblivious about some things but mostly just enjoying himself #also i used a lot of Pinterest references for this and there are so many other outfits not in this post #i think Luke in this specific shade of blue is just super pretty #and of course he has red and black accents. it just makes sense ya know #anyway if you ask Aemond the devil wears not Prada but the most delicate and intricate of outfits the Westeros cant deal with #I am very pro Aemond w a man bun btw

[dirtytransmasc]

Yes, she decided. The moment she continued to go in his chamber, she could advice him to wed laena instead of trying to have a relationship with him, she could have remember him of his duty. She had a choice as everyone has

clearly logic is something that will not reach you no matter what I say but let's try again shall we.

first off, Viserys married for pleasure, not power or political gain. he knew his duties he knew what was best and had no interest. he married Alicent because that's what he wanted. it would be insanely inappropriate for a girl to advise a king on political matters AND it should not be the job of a 14 year old child to tell a king what he should be doing.

second off, she had a father to please, cause again, to reiterate, she was his daughter and she had a duty to him and her house. this was not a duty she wanted, but she didn't have a choice. she was young but se wasn't stupid she knew what her father expected of her, and if word got back from Viserys that she was actively advising him to marry someone else, she would then not only bring disobeying her father but going against him.

thirdly, and more minorly, "she should have pushed him to marry laena" isn't the gotcha you think it is. laena was even younger than her, and even if it was politically expected of him, still fucking gross.

lastly, cause I apparently can't stress this enough, SHE DIDNT HAVE A CHOICE, plain and simple. she had no agency, she had no power, she had no out, she was at the mercy of her father, she had to obey him, she had to do what he said, even if it meant walking herself to slaughter. once she met with the king, he took a liking to her and DEMANDED her presence, he the DEMANDED her hand. again, there was no point she could have said no. she couldn't say no to her father, she couldn't advise the king (he barely tolerated it when she was literally the queen, let alone if she had just been some girl entertaining him in his chambers), she couldn't deny the king of anything, she didn't have a choice.

she was 14 and scared, 14 and trying to survive, 14 and trying to please her father, 14 and sent to a man 3 times her age's chambers, 14 and lusted after by the king, 14 and knowing of her place in the world and what was expected of her. like every other woman in their history, she couldn't escape, she couldn't, there's no plainer way to say it. she faced her duty with poise and a stiff lip, cause that's what you had to do, but she was just a child.

you can't expect her to have been some radical icon, there were none, women who went against their station in life were punished or killed or put into god awful betrothals to lessen the shame brought to her family. she was a nobleman's daughter, she had a house to bring honor to. she did the heartbreaking thing of giving up, for the benefit of her father and house, doesn't mean she wanted it, doesn't mean it was ok, doesn't mean she isn't deserving of pity. giving in to your duty =/= wanting it.

"she had a choice as everyone has" she had a choice every woman has; accept it with grace, be forced into it, or damn herself to a fate much worse (and that's being generous, most didn't even have that many choices). it's the men who had choices, Otto offered his daughter up, he didn't have to, he had no obligation and nothing to lose if he didn't. Viserys had every choice, he could have married whoever he wanted, he could have denied her the second she entered his chambers. the men in her life had every choice to change her fate, yet they didn't take it, and you would rather blame her over them?

and listen, I know your set in your mindset of victim blaming a child bride who was raped until her husband didn't have the health or stamina to keep it up, and that you'll choose to blame her over the men in her life who damned her to such a fate. nothing I say will ever convince you, cause you clearly hate her past where logic will reach. you can keep sending asks with your terrible takes that have no backing or logic and actively ignore the political and societal state of the times and what it means for her as a young noble girl, and I'll keep answering them cause I have nothing better to do and I'll defend my girl to the grave.

#actually unbelievable #I cant wrap my head around this lack of logic and common sense #like her offering up the 12 year old is any better #cause if she did y'all woukd be all over her like a pack of dogs #calling her horrible things #whether or not he even took laena's hand instead #she would have been the evil girl throwing a 12 year old at an olf man to save herself #and the “she had a choice thing” is such a tired insanely incorrect take that is frankly mind numbing #she didnt #that was the point of her position within the plot #she had no choice no power no agency #she did ehat was expected of her to survive #just because she accepted her duty doesnt make it right #I dont know what else I can say about that #its just the fact of the matter #thats what it was like for women #pro alicent hightower #alicent hightower #pro team green #hotd #house of the dragon #currently gnawing on my own leg with anger

[ash-and-starlight]

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#alright re: last reblog #first of all zuko is a massive bitch and i love him so much #second u know he was just like there is One person in the world that katara wants to murder more than me so let’s do that #so she can let it out And spare my ass <3 #tHIRD ppl it’s not really surprising that zuzu is pro murder like #boy was supposed to inherit an imperialist empire and keep up an imperialist war #idk if ozai was the only one able to get the throne without going to battle once but iroh and lu ten were generals. led armies. #zuko was Fully prepared to take on that role too (see: the fateful war meeting) #he’s been raised with the yeah murder is a thing that you’ll have to do mindset #like he’s not a killer but he Would do it if the circumstances called for it #(sokka parallel btw) #does it make sense? #also like #he fully says that if he wasn’t such a firm believer in destiny he Could and Would have killed ozai on the day of the black sun #he says it to his face #this would be a fun au actually lmao like. the gaang bursting into the room and there’s just zuko there #next to ozai’s lightning fried corpse #like hello 🧍🏻‍♂️👋🏼 zuko here 😬🔥 #and has to convince everyone he’s good and friendly now this is not an evil plan 🫶🏼 #last thing but this reminds me #WHERE is that post that was like #sokka finds out zuko could have ended the war the day of the black sun but didn’t and just throttles him #<333 #if you read all this ty i’m sorry i’m kissing u #send post

[autistic-britta-perry]

they're NOT killing the eggs you guys don't worry this makes a lot of sense as a strategic threat to keep these three too scared to resist or do anything to fight the federation. Roier and Slime both lost their eggs so they technically have less to lose, and Roier is connected to Cellbit as well. Tubbo's been trying to fight the federation since he got there and they're clearly very annoyed at him SPECIALLY I think part of the key is also what some meta has talked about recently about the new islanders vs the old ones where the old islanders will just be like 'we already tried that there's no point to any of that' and have gotten used to the kidnappings and such, and tubbo's still like THIS IS FUCKED WAKE UP WE HAVE TO DO STUFF and I think they hate that and want to crush that. To put these three through this achieves two awful things at once: it makes Slime and Roier relive what happened to Bobby & Juana Flipa and it makes the three of them fear that it's happening again. ALSO it could seed mistrust if they tell people about this because anyone who wasn't in the room may blame Tubbo for it

#qsmp #i know roier has his thing with osito bimbo but he's still not pro deferation #*federation #they don't need to get jaiden on their side they think they have her #it feels like a hostage tactic in movies where they'll like. kill someone so they're too scared of the rest getting hurt #but they're not actually hurting them just putting the thought into their head of the eggs dying #and slime just logged in after not having done it for a long time and is prone to chaos so they'd want to spook him a bit too #IT ALL MAKES SENSE in my head #on a meta level i just don't think they'd kill the eggs like that but i think this is the in world explanation

[yujiitadorigirlfriend]

Do you think in another Always Universe we’re together?

In the other universe

#I don’t know if this make sense or not #sukuita #jujutsu kaisen #puzzleshipping #yu gi oh #I remember I loved this ship always had a thing for ancient powerful beings and their teenage other half #op is a proshipper #pro ship

[divine-construct]

i am taking oppenheimer away from the public until everyone learns how to read and understand media because my god the public’s media literacy when it comes to oppenheimer is terribly bad.

#this is directed at anyone who thinks oppenheimer is abt justifying atomic bombs. pro-fascist. glorifying america. glorifying war. #how did we watch the same movie #since it’s a BIOGRAPHY in oppenheimer’s pov i see no point in putting the perspective of natives or japanese ppl into the movie #simply bc the movie isn’t abt that. it’s not the point. the point is it’s a biography. #the critique about the lack of women is the only one i’ve seen so far that actually makes sense #and obv i get if the movie just isn’t to your tastes so you dislike it #and there are other smaller things to complain about #but the movie did a great job at being what it is (a biography) and i loved it #it’s a great movie imo #and even if you disagree.... at least critique things that make sense to critique #and try to watch & understand the movie before writing it off as something it isn’t #hot take but i can’t anymore #divine rambles. ` 🕊 #oppenheimer

[bonetrousledbones]

anyway. if yall ever want a really fun way to fuck around and decompress i will recommend you write a character who is so fancy-talking and so so self-grandiose and such an absolutely mythic bitch

#trousled dumb #pros: you get to figure out the very specific ways in which this dude would make an extremely normal sentence into some kinda bullshit #cons: you have to make it still communicate the message in a way that makes sense not only to you specifically #its been like a puzzle for my character brain im having a lotta fun lmao #putting like 3 different meanings into one sentence while still making the overall thing feel like an insult. its dialogue hard mode #ebony #atbb

[bibxrbie]

No, please, please don't force these non-related characters of a found family into a Western nuclear construct. Noooo..

#six of crows #everytime i see people call kaz and wylan father and son i die a little in the inside #this is actually about the jedi #everytime i see people call Obi-Wan and anakin father and son i gag a little #because theyre master and padawan and they love each other like master and padawan #“ahsoka is anakin's daughter” she is his padawan and that is okay #the jedi love each other and just because their way of doing things don't make sense to you doesn't mean it's wrong #star wars #pro jedi #and this isnt just target to them #i see this so many times with the found family trope and i hate it.

[wlwocprincess]

You know the when it comes to the “demonized radical leftist freedom fighter that the narrative has chosen to turn into a villain (maybe they’re a terrorist? War criminal?) that makes the protagonist realize that radicalism can be Just As Bad but then chooses a way that’s easier and safer than Liberation” I’m surprised nobody has pointed out Gale Hawthorne. He’s this trope exemplified. Ppl will pick all these characters but Gale Hawthorne, probably because we have all sort of deluded ourselves into choosing the comfort of the easier and safer option that is so within the ending of these books, isn’t labeled this way which is wild. This is a poor brown character who we get to know really well throughout the first two books and because of how angry he is due to his oppression he quite literally ends up making Bombs that are used to kill children. And we just. Move on from that. Accept that’s just who he is now and that’s the end of his story as we know it. Huh.

#the hunger games #gale hawthorne #like I get it blah blah Just War Theory and all but I find it so interesting that Collins uses Gale #a brown boy subjected to oppression and marginalization who’s only 19 by the end of the series to do ut #Coin makes sense in that people can absolutely exploit liberation in order to take power for themselves #but Gale actually experienced it unlike Coin whos been in 13 her whole life with knowledge of systems of power and how to get power #He ends up the story deemed “completely hopelessly lost and seperated from the protagonists’ happy ending FOR his brainwashing #it’s interesting bc I think the label of this trope gets misused a lot but I think Gale fits it almost perfectly #idk #pro Gale Hawthorne #Gale Hawthorne defense squad #is that a thing? lol.

[aleksanderscult]

How Aleksander felt in RoW carrying that book and duology:

#he's literally the only reason to read this duology #fuck everything else #nothing makes sense. it's like TGT and the Nikolai duology are two completely different things #also everyone else is annoying!!! 😀😀 #rule of wolves #king of scars #nikolai duology #the darkling #pro darkling #grishaverse #shadow and bone #grishaverse trilogy #aleksander morozova #pro aleksander morozova

[brookheimer]

okay. i need to rewatch the episode probably but i think my current feeling is that i like most of it a lot (rome, ken, the siblings not getting ceo, etc), think the tom ceo makes sense from a logical/character perspective but not sure how i feel about it from a broader more thematic lens (altho i'm leaning towards fine with it), and am very mixed on shiv's ending because i think it's well-conceived and meaningful from a broader thematic lens (shiv becomes her mother, the cycle always repeats, etc) but doesn't quite make sense to me from a logical/character one -- it could've worked, it could've worked brilliantly, but it was far too rushed and forced. it makes sense as an ending for shiv, but not her next step. i'm largely talking about her decision to return to tom, not her decision to vote against kendall (which i think should've been executed better and given more space but can understand given her character, mostly). i'm fine with it as an ending for shiv, but what i'm struggling to stomach is the way it played out -- it didn't feel like a choice the shiv we know would've made. it's an ending that makes sense thematically and for her character arc, but not a decision that makes sense for her character at present. that's kinda where i'm at right now

#long shiv post talking ab this upcoming lol #bc so far i haven't seen like any shiv takes i've actually agreed with #it's either entirely anti ending or pro ending #whereas like. to me the ending works as an ending for the character. it's tragic dark devastating but it works and works well #but shiv making that choice does not make sense for where she is right now. it was rushed writing that forced an ending on her #that would be a satisfying ending but not a satisfying character choice and thus NOT a super satisfying ending #could've been EXTREMELY satisfying. but shiv wasn't there yet. her fatal flaw is blowing up good situations when she feels she's being #disrespected -- she's respect > power when it comes down to it #even tho she thinks she wants power more she NEEDS respect and is unable to stay quiet or make the smart choice in the face of disrespect #or men thinking they're superior etcetcetc. so her making a choice that allots her power (wife of CEO) but is the singular least respecting #outcome imaginable (meekly returning to your husband who betrayed you and stole the job you've been fighting for your entire life right out #of your grasp alongside your closest ally/flirt guyfriend who tapped him to do it explicitly to fuck you over because you're a pregnant #woman and thus inferior to the man who inseminated you -- and EVERYONE KNOWS ALL OF THIS! everyone knows you're the daughter of #the previous CEO and on two separate instances were meant to be CEO and now the weak man you married publicly betrayed you TWICE #but you still meekly return to him and place your hand in his and have his baby like the good pawn you are...) #that does not make sense for shiv. if we saw some development on the power > respect front or had a few more scenes or episodes developing #shiv as someone who would choose to become her mother (powerful and rich yet a disrespected pawn) over literally anything else #given her fundamental fear of being disrespected than maybe this would've made sense. it could be a great meaningful devastating ending #but it's one that just does not track for shiv as we know her right now. #ok tags got long as always sorry LOL i'm gonna write a longer thing explaining my hashtag thoughts bc i haven't seen much i agreed w on thi #front yet oops. ok bye 4 now tee hee #succession #succession spoilers #casey shut the fuck up about shiv roy

[molagboop]

So I put the power of friendship and impractical outfits into Metroid Dread. No suits, no shields: we die in a giant laser hand cannon fight like true warriors.

#raven beak #chozo #a lot of effort for a bit #i thought back to that one piece i did a few years ago where i put raven beak in bikini armor and i said #'wouldn't it be funny to see him actually fight in something like that?' #because as we all know exposed flesh in combat is very humorous when large guns that shoot beams are involved #and then my train of thought fell to 'wouldn't it be funny if Samus was covered more than Raven Beak is' #'to subvert the sexy outfits thing a little bit but also drive home the 'god-emperor of Chozo Victoria's Secret' look he has going for him' #So the original sketch was created July 21 2023. And I redid it on April 10 2024. #and built Raven Beak bulky like a pro wrestler to really drive home the drama/hamminess of the situation but also to make him look stronger #my outfit design continues to be lacking but my commitment to the bit remains unmatched #... it's also so much easier to draw silly bikini armor that makes no sense than it is to put characters in regular clothes. or armor. #if you want a 'lore justification' for the lack of armor let's just say Raven Beak doesn't need the suit to be powerful. #and Samus is about to demonstrate that he has sorely underestimated her. by a mile. or a kilometer. #anyways the differences in their outfits match their upbringing and general philosophy #Samus opts for the more practical leotard offering her mobility and lightweight motion #Raven Beak guns for the full regalia that shows off as much muscle as possible while not skipping out on symbols of rank #and he NEVER leaves home without a cape #the cape is a must if shoulder-mounted black hole generators aren't available.

[pillowprincessvarric]

Yk I was just thinking about the first time I got pulled over, and how absurd it felt the whole time because as I was following The Rules For Interacting With Cops, as dictated to me by largely pro-cop family members and the general society, it hit me how much those rules went against literally everything else I was socialized and taught my whole life about safety. Like I, a young woman driving alone at night, am now suddenly expected to give a strange man with a gun (!!) my id, which has all of my personal info, and then also answer a bunch of weird probing questions about where I live (!!!!!), the route I intend to take to get there (!) details of my daily schedule and whether this route is normal for me. And I have to act calm and regular the whole time, Or Else, and no one seems to really think that's fucked up, and would in fact blame me for Acting Strange Or Suspicious in that scenario.

#Idk what my point here is. pro cop brainwashing is intense? pro cop sentiment only makes sense if you don't analyze anything at all ever? #i hate that cock that pulled me over and he made me cry? perhaps all these things.