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#protagonist mentality
spicesweet · 1 month
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I see a lot of people mocking this behavior as "terminally online", "delulu" or whatever, but I've noticed lately that narrating my chores in my head as if I'm teaching them to an imaginary audience actually helps a lot with doing an efficient job and following instructions without forgetting or mistaking the proper steps. I do this a lot while cooking and practicing yoga and pilates, and it helps my concentration on the task and it makes it so much easier to memorize recipes and routines. I'm not sure if this is part of the "protagonist" mentality that I tend to have but if it ain't broke, I won't fix it. highly recommend this for anyone struggling with tasks! ♡
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bixels · 8 months
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Now that Ghibli's new movie is coming out soon, I've been thinking about anime films and wanna talk about my favorite animated movie ever, Tokyo Godfathers.
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TG is a 2003 tragicomedy by Satoshi Kon, following three unhoused people––an alcoholic, a runaway girl, an a trans woman––who find a baby in a dumpster and set off across Tokyo to reunite her with her parents.
If you like the sound of that, go watch it because the rest of this post is spoilers and I have FEELINGS about this movie.
URGHH, the fact that only two moments of true kindness, generosity, and care given to the three protagonists without any expectation of reciprocity are given by a Latin-American immigrant couple and a drag show club full of trans women. The fact that, despite her loud and dramatic personality, Hana is the glue that holds the team together and the heart of the whole movie. The fact that this movie pulls no punches at showing the violence and inhumanity committed by "civilized Japanese society" against the unhoused. The fact that Miyuki craves to be loved by her parents and ends up seeing Hana as her true mother. The fact that Miyuki starts off accidentally using transphobic language against Hana, but slowly begins calling her "Miss Hana" out of respect. The fact that, according to Kon, Hana's role in the story is as a mythological trickster god and "disturb the morality and order of society, but also play a role in revitalizing culture." The fact that Hana so desperately wants to be part of a true family, yet is willing to sacrifice her found family so they can be with their own, and is rewarded for her good deeds in the end by becoming a godmother. The fact that, throughout the movie, wind and light have been used to signify the presence of god's hand/influence (this movie's about nondenominational faith––faith in yourself, faith in others, faith in a higher power. Lots of religious are referenced, such as Buddhism/Hinduism, Christianity, and Shintoism), and in the climax of the film, as Hana jumps off a building to save a baby that isn't hers, a gust of wind and a shower of light save her from death. The fact that god saves a trans woman's life because she proved herself a mother, and that shit makes me CRY.
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basimibnishaqs · 7 months
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saw a post about how “apparently in the novelization of rotj Luke was hoping the Death Star would explode with him on it” like no that’s not (just) the novel that straight up the text of the film his plan is literally to stall palpatine long enough for the rebels to destroy Death Star 2 he literally tells palpatine to his face that “soon i will be dead and you with me” he SMILES as he says it like we’re going down in a fiery blaze together, bitch, and if we’re both dead i won’t have turned or have been forced to kill my own dad and i’ll be dead and you’ll be dead that’s a win win let’s dance
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likealittleheartbeat · 2 months
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I try to generally be constructive and engaged with the show I love on here, so on this day, I’ll just say that one of the most thematically important aspects for me from the original ATLA is Aang’s emotional core of real shame for running away when he was hurt by the monk’s decision to send him away. People who feel the kind of deep-seated shame that Aang feels from this decision can understand how that kind of all-encompassing shame is not built around a simple failure or a lie they tell themselves; it’s constructed from real misbehaviors and transgressions of their own sense of ethics—lashing out, telling lies, attempting to hurt others intentionally—that then have consequences (abuses, abandonments, or deaths) which seem to far exceed their expectations or even basic logic.
The combination of the misbehavior with exaggerated existential punishments (along with a lack of support and amend-making in the immediate wake of the events) is what transforms a sense of guilt (I fucked up) into shame (I am a forever fuck-up). Then shame, that sense of being a secret monster ‘no matter what I do or how good everyone thinks I am,’ invites all the avoidance strategies (Aang puts on big smiles, makes lots of jokes, constantly tries to make everyone happy, hops from town to town without building deeper connections). One doesn’t want to acknowledge one’s true feelings or let others in to see those feelings and experiences because it’s too painful to face the grief at the same time that you have to look at yourself for being responsible—even when you recognize it wasn’t totally your fault. It’s just that if you had just been good, less emotional, less human, then maybe the world wouldn’t be so messed up. Of course, in a zen view of things, the world will always be messed up in the same way it will always be beautiful. These are constant facts that always coexist in balance, and this is the truth that Aang learns and that undergirds the whole series.
So I always loved that Aang ran away. It was his sin and his salvation. And it becomes this constant tension for the series—he gets hurt in Bato of the Water Tribe and starts to run away from Katara and Sokka, he runs away to the Guru in the Crossroads of Destiny and his best friend is attacked, he and the gaang retreat after the Day of the Black Sun failure, he runs away to meditation in Sozin’s Comet when everyone wants him preparing for war. Aang’s reluctance to be a hero and the attachments and petulance for which he gets criticized are what metamorphasize to become his most noble attributes. They allow him to empathize with others shame and, ultimately, wield the kind of compassion that can deconstruct the power and perfectionism of imperialism.
So yes, Aang ran away from his temple 100 years ago. It wasn’t the mentally healthy choice. It wasn’t the ethical choice. It wasn’t the wise choice. It was human and emotional and shameful and real. Aang is a better character for it. ATLA is a better show because of it. And we are better people when we understand these kind of tragic emotional experiences that people are trying so hard to grow through.
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starshine-valley · 7 months
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“I ship Kanade with the passive character with long hair and a great singing voice!”
Which one?
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“No, actually, I meant the one with a ponytail who acts in front of others to please them and is an honor student!”
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I said. Which. One?
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pikkish · 10 months
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I thought it was hilarious, at first, that everyone’s decided Doomguy is still the protagonist of MyHouse.wad. After all, it doesn’t really have much more to do with Doom than gmod has to do with Half-Life 2. But then I remembered, isn’t that a plot point of Doom II? Visiting the burnt out ruins of your hometown on your way to the portal to Hell? Why couldn’t Doomguy take a few minutes to have a nightmare of an emotional journey in a childhood friend’s home to come to terms with everyone and everything he ever loved being destroyed?
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mios-art · 1 year
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Ok but their story is so tragic I think about it often
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ethanharmonia · 6 months
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Volo my beloved babagrill pls take my hand in marriage you evil motherfather.
I have drawn my babygirl, he is so damn silly i love him, i do not care if he betrayed the main character, he is amazing, shut up, he is babygirl material
(also i do not know how to draw clothes what the actual hell did i do to him)
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This is basically just my design for my AU cuz honestly all the concepts i did SUCKED so hard so i just did this and bam, Volo, uh, babagrill, housewife, babygirl, malewife, his favourite pokemon are definetly Giratina and Arceus, definetly, he has posters of them in his damn room, do not ask, im not gonna shut up about this babygirl he is so damn cool i bet he just took the Giratina like nothin and kept it like a dawg yall, its now his lawyer (what am i saying ahr har)
(his hair was so damn fluffy at the beginning but he looked like a completly different character so i just gave him his actual hairstyle that he had in the ginkgo guild in the game, i am NOT giving him that Arceus looking ahh hairstyle that makes him look like a bull smh)
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spicesweet · 1 month
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good morning, girls*ੈ✩‧₊˚
woke up a little earlier than usual today, but it's okay because it means I'll get to watch the sun rise, which is the perfect way to start the day. and a surprise: my skin is so smooth and glassy I'm starting to think I should get more into this whole skincare thing, because just from my one-step routine I'm getting such gorgeous results. I feel like silk all over.
I'm also having a very reflective coffee: reflecting whether I should buy a coffee bean grinder... a friend of mine has one and she said it levelled up her breakfast game entirely. I'm kinda thinking of trying it out. wouldn't it be supercute, to get raw coffee beans and toast them and grind them to one's liking? I'll marinate on the idea.
in other news, today is a rest day, which means I can only do some light yoga but no weights and no jogging. I'm determined to not feel guilty about it, so I'm gonna use the downtime to be productive in other areas, like reading. don't know why but 2024 has been my slowest year in the book area. I've finished 2 books this year when usually I would've gone through like, 6 at this point in the calendar.
yes, I am in competition with myself. I don't want 2023-me to think she's smarter!
what are your plans for today? I hope you have tons of fun ⋆。°✩
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mieowkoid09 · 7 months
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I need someone to talk to about Unordinary rn or I'm gonna pop.
Okay remember Claire's premonition on John meeting a white haired dude we find out IS HIS UNCLE??? I ACTUALLY CANNOT WAIT FOR THE TRAINING ARC THAT'LL PROBABLY UNFOLD WITH JOHN LEARNING FROM HIS UNCLE AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. ALSO I WANNA SEE REMI AND JOHN INTERACT MORE SINCE THEY'RE IDEALS ARE SO SIMILAR AND THE WAY THEY GO ABOUT IT IS SO DIFFERENT FROM ONE ANOTHER. UGH REMINDS ME OF EUCLASE AND PHOS' DYNAMIC. OR EVEN SEEING REMI AND/OR SERA SAVING AND INTERACTING WITH JOHN'S MOM LIKE BADASS WOMEN FOR THE WINNNNNN
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qbdatabase · 3 months
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Pet by Akwaeke Emezi There are no monsters anymore. Jam and her best friend, Redemption, have grown up with this lesson all their life. But when Jam meets Pet, a creature made of horns and colors and claws, who emerges from one of her mother's paintings and a drop of Jam's blood, she must reconsider what she's been told. View the full summary and rep info on wordpress or check it out for free from the Queer Liberation Library!
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lord-squiggletits · 3 months
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The thing about the fandom headcanon that calls Pharma Ratchet's crazy ex and treats him like some sort of stalker or intrusion on Ratchet's love life (usually with Drift) is that
On one level, it's already annoying when a perfectly fine/interesting character is reduced to nothing but "bitter ex getting in the way of The Actual OTP" because it simplifies the character to only exist as a satellite to someone's ship (the bitter loser who can't let go/doesn't deserve person A/etc) instead of having their own life going on.
But when it comes to Pharma it's particularly annoying because it reduces Pharma to "the crazy stalker/bitter ex", framing Pharma as if he's the villain ruining Ratchet's life with his inability to just let go,
When in actual canon it was Ratchet who was best friends with Pharma their whole life (they're even shown together in the Functionist Universe). Ratchet who ditched Pharma with barely a word of goodbye (before Delphi, and ironically the same conversation where Pharma asked Ratchet if he should accept the station at Delphi). And it was Ratchet who asked Drift if he was scared of going into DJD territory as an ex-Decepticon, but treated Pharma like scum for killing patients under threat of being murdered by the DJD. And Ratchet who stole Pharma's hands. And Ratchet who tried to manipulate Pharma by using his deepest insecurities against him on Luna-1.
It's not like Pharma is some rando who Ratchet barely knew. They were BEST FRIENDS whose friendship was severed on a really messy note. Pharma has every right to be invested in a relationship/friendship that almost literally lasted he and Ratchet's entire life. It sucks when people implicitly treat Pharma as if he's obsessed and should just move on when the reality is that it was Ratchet who first terminated their relationship with no explanation or even a goodbye (pre Delphi) and then with leaving Pharma to die and then stealing his hands (post-Delphi). So is Pharma really "obsessed" or is he just understandably upset about being betrayed by the person who should've known and cared about him the most?
So like, it's really annoying when Ratchet has so many flaws in canon and questionable ways he treated Pharma, but the fandom just calls Pharma a crazy stalker ex as if Pharma is the freak who's overreacting and mentally insane while Ratchet is just some guy who was only minding his own business. To me it's not even a matter of shipping, it's just the fact that Ratchet DID handle his relationship with Pharma super fucking poorly. And I really wish more people in the fandom acknowledged that instead of framing Pharma as the evil/crazy/overly attached one for being upset about being ditched. Pharma has reasons to be pissed off and driven to get revenge on Ratchet, and even if his romantic feelings towards Ratchet might play somewhat of a role, Pharma is way more than just some stalker ex who's evil because he's crazy and wants Ratchet to be his boyfriend.
I mean Pharma literally says on the page that the reasons he's angry at Ratchet are for ruining his plans at Delphi and for stealing his hands. Even though Pharma-as-Adaptus orders Drift shot later in LL, it's not explicitly framed as some romantic jealousy and could also just as easily be construed as Pharma getting revenge for Drift cutting his hands off. I don't think Pharma ever even talks about or mentions Drift in the entire story. It's very clear that Pharma's beef/obsession with Ratchet is entirely between him and Ratchet and Drift is only a footnote in all of the reasons Pharma is pissed off.
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crimeronan · 4 months
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called these up from memory so if i'm missing iconic moments or misphrased these..... no i didn't....
i was thinking about making a hunter highlights reel for my non-toh friends but then decided i can't be assed to edit things. you guys Do get the lines that felt essential though.
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viceqr2d6g1m · 1 year
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generic-sonic-fan · 3 months
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In regards to GUNs contingencies on Tails, are there fears to Sonic's reactions if such contingencies where found out warranted?
(Asker is continuing off of this post)
Hmmm. . .
I'd say their fears about Sonic's reaction to the Tails contingencies are probably overblown. I'll explain the "probably" in a second.
Sonic's not the type to go berserk and start destroying things over a plan that hasn't been enacted yet. That's more Omega, Amy, or even Shadow's speed. There's very, very few things that would cause Sonic to truly snap. GUN is correct in that serious/lethal injury to Tails is one of those things, but that's where their accuracy on the matter ends.
My personal take on the matter? I don't think much would change if Sonic found out. Sonic's relationship with the organization is already really rocky- he tolerates them, only barely. The events of Sonic Adventure 2, where GUN went crazy and tried to frame and then capture him, are probably still fresh in his mind. In my headcanon land, where Team Dark are GUN operatives, I imagine that Sonic has gotten more chill with the organization- slightly. Very slightly. He still tries to avoid them if possible and hates working with them, though he'll do it if it's the Right Thing To Do.
If Sonic found out that GUN had plans to kill Tails should Tails go rogue, it'd be a pretty serious blow to what little trust Sonic had in them in the first place. I imagine that he'd get pretty pissed, avoid them even harder, and maybe trash some of their robots, but I don't think he'd ever go as far as launching an attack on one of their bases or hurting anybody. Not unless they acted to attack Tails, in which case all bets are off and GUN better start writing their last will and testament.
About that "probably"- the nature of any sort of emergency planning is to be more cautious now rather than have to suffer for the lack of preparation later. GUN thinks that there's a chance that Sonic could be seriously turned against the organization if he finds out about this contingency, and rather than risking that small chance coming true, they go overboard with stringent protocol. That's because Sonic turning on them is, in their minds, the worst case scenario. Better safe than sorry.
TL;DR: Sonic's a pretty chill guy and his relationship with GUN is already pretty rocky. I don't think things would get much worse for GUN as a result.
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eldritch-thrumming · 9 months
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i saw that review on letterboxd of all the rhetorical questions for barbie and like… the more i think abt it, the more i’m certain that the review’s author fundamentally misunderstood the film. barbie land is not a utopia in the way that adults would think abt a utopia, like the author seems to imply… barbie land is canonically shaped by little girls playing with their dolls. that’s why we see a supreme court. thats why there are nobel prizes and authors and lawyers (also because that’s how the toys are marketed… would there be a mermaid in ur utopia??? there would be in mine!). that’s why barbie and ken don’t necessarily know what a boyfriend and girlfriend are “meant” to do (not to mention that the author’s assumption that sex is fundamental to a romantic relationship is problematic at best). that’s why barbie is indifferent to ken (i personally had the life size barbie and my sister had the barbie dream house—we had the working woman barbie game, i had the genie barbie gameboy game, we had countless barbie dolls; we didn’t own a single ken doll lol). barbie land is a world created by and for little girls as they play with their dolls (she says in a comment on the original post “don’t little girls play with their dolls in a sexual way?” and yeah, sure, some do. but i didn’t and i’m sure there are others who didn’t… just like there are some girls who completely mutilated their own dolls and made them into horrifying creatures)… that’s why stereotypical barbie starts having an existential crisis—because a grown woman begins to play with her doll again and starts reshaping barbie land… we, as the audience, are meant to understand this as an outlier to how barbie land is canonically created. the author also calls ken “crass” and “slovenly”… maybe after he builds the patriarchy in barbie land he becomes “crass” but i wouldn’t call him slovenly at any point in the film (i suppose this is just semantics tho).
also, please stop saying that barbie land is a reversal of the real world. it isn’t, even if that may have been the filmmakers intentions. again, barbie is indifferent to ken. she does not abuse him, she does not treat him like he exists to service her by cooking or cleaning or providing other favors for her… barbie does not oppress ken in the way that men oppress women in the real world (we have no idea if he owns property or where he lives and she doesn’t seem to particularly care—extremely different from the fact that women couldn’t have their own bank accounts or credit cards, get a mortgage on their own or divorce their husbands through no fault divorce until the second half of the 20th century in the us… within a lot of our mothers and grandmothers lifetimes!!!!) and it is a complete disservice to conflate or equate the two. we actually see barbie drawing clear boundaries around her time and space in regards to ken—this is not a reversal of misogyny as women and girls experience it in the real world, by any stretch of the imagination.
is the film perfect or revolutionary or radical? of course not. it was produced by major studios and corporations in hollywood. of course the barbie movie is a fucking commercial for barbie, like… to expect anything different is just extremely dumb on your part if u saw the trailer, saw the marketing, saw the interviews, bought a ticket, and sat ur ass in the theater, like be fuckin serious. but don’t do women and girls a disservice by discrediting the world and thoughts and ideas it could open up for them by seeing themselves be taken seriously on screen in a major summer blockbuster with stupid fucking questions because u want to feel superior to everyone else because YOU and ONLY YOU see through the capitalist marketing of lipstick pop girlboss feminism (especially when juxtaposed with the way the female characters are treated in oppenheimer, which we cannot help but compare to the barbie film with the viral marketing of barbenheimer).
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