#so it's like meta-procrastination

[antennatoheaven]

meta knight is the character ever. he got to wish for literally anything he wanted and he wished to fight against the strongest warrior in the galaxy, he has zero communication skills, he didn't like how everyone lazes around all day so he decided to overthrow the government and failed, his ship has his face plastered on the front for no reason, he decided to go down with said ship, he has a strict moral code but is willing to throw hands with an 8 year with no hesitation, he keeps getting his ass kicked by said 8 year old, he has a sweet tooth and feels the need to hide it even though literally everyone around him loves sweets. he's punched jk rowling in the face

#kirby #meta knight #ramblings #kirby right back at ya #hoshi no kaabii #im procrastinating on studying for my german exam tomorrow ✌ #he feels like he wanted to be in any game other than kirby and has since learned that in the end he got attached to #the weird little planet and its weird little inhabitants #edit: this post gained a lot more attention than i thought it would so i feel the need to clarify; #meta knight punched jk rowling in an episode of the kirby anime #but it was her evil clone. i just thought it would be funny to reference #bc ive been bingewatching KRBAY and then saw an edit that makes it look like there's just one jk rowling #so the episode is pro-hp (but to be fair it was 2002) sorry :') #but we can dream

[augerer]

I think there’s a remarkable way in which the isekai doomed villain aspects of my next life as a villainess and the bisexual harem aspects gel together to create a metaphor for queer childhood. to me the most interesting way to view katerina is as a girl who is convinced from a young age that people around her are eventually going to subject her to a fate beyond her control and she’s going to be cast out, and this colors her entire perception of the world around her.

it feels very gay experience (though ofc not universal) to be like i have to overcorrect for the fact that one day everyone is going to hate me and exile me for something i can't help through being so kind and helpful to them.  i have to heal everyone around me.  or i will DIE.  they will KILL ME. i need to make myself essential to the people around me because something is inherently wrong with me that only i know about.  and then of course she self-conceives what is in large part her earnest desire to help the people around her as like "i am masterminding a dastardly plan to change my fate"  (read: feelings of duplicity and monstrousness as a gay child).

i also think there’s a way in which her revelation of her past life’s memories could have given her an uncomfortable or even predatory power over the people around her but it does not.  instead she reads very much as a child but like a child with an adult's sense of responsibility for the other children around her (in a world with horrible real adults)?  + mildly related point on the game mechanics aspect, i also like how neatly katerina’s backstory solves for some of her oblivious and quirky tendencies.  like of course she doesn’t think her friends are in love with her, she’s worried about them killing her.

anyway, on katarina/maria: it’s also soooo interesting that everyone is in love with her by the time she meets maria and the possibility she is going to be the "villain" who "dies" is 0 but she just doesn't know it.  but she meets her and is like she is so beautiful and charming and cool, that's why i'm so sure to meet an evil fate. . it’s so on the nose for like, the evil anvil that is going to fall on me which is proof that i’m doomed. . . is how wonderful and captivating this other girl is!  because of course it is, the crux of the issue is gay childhood.  [astronaut meme] “wait it was all about gay feelings?” “always has been”

#hamefura #my next life as a villainess #katarina claes #marikata #meta #op #text #ok u may be thinking 'did u just watch this 2020 anime' #no i didn't. i watched it in 2020. #i just reread my texts with shengli @lowbrw abt it #and i'm procrastinating. #all of this is like c/pd and edited from my texts which is why its so scattered #also there's a whole other discussion #abt how much of this framing is intentional which ftr #i think much of it is not but reading it this way is so easy it almost doesnt matter #also i watched s1 and part of s2 so if theres something else i should know. #sorry.

[fruity-pontmercy]

Les Mis adaptations and apolitical appropriation

I think it's no secret on this blog that I love the original Les Mis 1980 concept album in French, and that I also love comparing different versions of the stage musical. I've noticed that Les Mis seems to get progressively more vaguely apolitical as time goes on, not only in the way it's viewed in our culture, but in the actual text as well.

It's natural for specifics to be lost in adaptation. It's easier to get people to care about 'the people vs. the king' in a relatively short musical rather than actually facing the audience with the absolute mess that were 19th century french politics (monarchist orleanists vs monarchist legitimists vs imperialist vs bonapartist democrats vs every flavour of republican imaginable). Still, I feel that as time goes on, as more revivals and adaptations of the stage musical come out, the more watered down its politics become. Like, Les Mis at it's core is just meant to be a fancily written, drawn out political essay, right?

In a way I feel that the 1980 concept album almost tried to modernise it with its symbols of progress. Yes, through Enjolras' infamous disco segment (and other similar allusions to the ideals of social change), but perhaps most interestingly to me, through one short line that threw me off when I first heard it, because it seems so insignificant, but might actually be the most explicitly leftist line of all of Les Mis.

"Son coeur vibrait à gauche et il le proclama" (roughly "His heart beat to the left and he proclaimed it" i.e: he was a leftist) Feuilly says, while speaking of the now dead général Lamarque in Les Amis de L'ABC.

What's that? An actual mention of leftism??? in MY vaguely progressive yet apolitical musical??? More seriously, this mention of leftism, clashing with the rest of the musical due to it's seeming anachronism, is interesting not because it's actually more political than anything else in Les Mis, rather, because it's not scared to explicitly name what it's trying to do.

But we've come a long way from the Concept Album days, it's been 43 years, and Les Misérables is now one of the most famous and beloved musicals in the entire world. It's been revived and reimagined and adapted in a million ways, in different mediums, in different languages and countries, and it's clear that it's changed along with it's audience.

On top of pointing out a cool line in my favourite version of the musical, I wanted to write this post to reflect on the perception of the political message of this work. We as a Les Mis fandom on Tumblr are very political, I don't need to tell you that, however, I feel that because this very left leaning space has sprung out of a work we all love so much, we oftentimes forget to revisit it from a more objective point of view.

Les Misérables has a history of being misrepresented, this has been true since it's publication, since american confederate soldiers became entranced with their censored translation Lee's Miserables. However, with it's musical adaptation, this misinterpretation has been made not only more accessible but also easier. As much as I love musical theatre and I think it is at it's best an incredible art form able to communicate complex themes visulally by the masses for the masses, I think it'd be idealistic to ignore the fact that the people who can afford to go see musicals regularly are, usually, not the common folk. Broadway and the West End are industries which, like most, need money to keep them afloat, and are loved people of all political backgrounds (and unfortunately, often older conservatives) not just communists on tumblr. We've seen the way Les Miz UK's social media team constantly misses the mark regarding different social issues, and the way Cameron Makintosh has used the musical to propagate his transphobia, and most of us can agree that these actions are in complete antithesis with the message of Les Misérables as a novel.

But I must ask, how does Les Mis ,as a West End musical in it's current form, actually drive a leftist message, and how are we as a community helping if every time someone relating to the musical messes up if we just claim they "don't get it"?

I'm thinking in particular of incidents like last october, where Just Stop Oil crashed Les Mis at the West End. Whether you think it's good activism or not is not the question I think, this instance is interesting particularly because it shows that, outside of Les Misérables analysis circles and fandom spaces, it is not recognised as an inherently leftist, political or activist work, and instead of just saying they completely missed the point of the musical, I think it'd be interesting to take a step back and look at what the musical as it stands actually represents in our culture today.

I don't pretend to have all the answers, so I won't try to give one, but I do hope we can reflect on this a bit.

#this is my first time making a well thought out les Mis post in possibly like 2 years PLEASSEEE BE NICE #wrote this instead of listening to my Marxist Philosophy lecture so i hope it technically counts as productive procrastination #Btw in this i use Les Mis when reffering to the musical and Les Misérables when talking about the book (and Les Miz talking about the #west end musical so) #les mis #les miserables #les miz #les amis de l'abc #the brick #musical theatre #enjolras #litblr #meta analysis #media analysis

[sleepynegress]

On Greta Danesti...

I'm just taking this time to correct a certain anti-Black, (and anti-Romani) sadly typical fandom troll's misogynoir fuckery in the tag and establishing who Greta Danesti is in canon Castlevania animation lore. This is Greta Danesti's official character sheet:

She's the village headwoman of Danesti a few miles away from Alucard's castle. This is what her voice actress, Marsha Thompson looks like:

It's pretty obvious her character design took cues from the actress, who is Afro-British. In show canon, however, her family escaped from the Roman city of Carthage, which today, is located in the African country Tunisia. Alucard correctly speculated where her people are from while conversing with her, here (s4 e5):

Greta then confirms that her people did escape the Romans, but she now fully embraces her "family" in her village who are "from all over" and the responsibility of taking care of them.

This same troll used the g-slur to insist that she is Romani.

She is not. This troll used an early character design here, to make her case.:

And though it does have similarities to Romani clothing... It also looks like it takes cues from Tunisian clothing and likely local and non-local European clothing of the era with "fantasy" elements sprinkled in, as well, which would match the fact of her village's people coming from all over:

There definitely should be more Romani rep in media as it is so often whitewashed, but Greta is not Romani.

FYI, these women actors actually *are* of Romani descent: Fairuza Balk of The Craft, Oona Chaplin who played Robb Stark's wife in GOT (she's also Charlie Chaplin's granddaughter[!]), and Noomi Rapace from the Swedish movie, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo says her father may have been of Romani descent, as well.

And because I can predict it, as people like to find ways of discounting blackness in every way...

Yes, there are plenty of non-Black indigenous POC in North Africa, including within Tunisia. Another fun fact... Africa has more indigenous human genetic variation among its peoples than every other people on the planet has with everyone else on the planet[!]. All this to say non-white POC AND Black people are indigenous to Tunisia.

I feel I have to say that because there is a lot of anti-Black anthropological fetishization of North Africa. Egypt is a major example of that (see: Rami Malek, an indigenous Coptic Egyptian who self-identifies as African man of color and has likely had to clarify that *often* because people keep wanting to mislabel him as an Arab, but I digress...) And sadly, there is a decidedly anti-black movement to totally disconnect certain North African countries' identities from a continental African one, and to largely see it as mainly a part of the MENA world (it is both kiddies, BOTH). Here is an informative article (linked in the image) about that struggle:

So, this got heavy...but between the post insisting that Greta is NOT Black and the one saying she's not bisexual because that same troll is purposefully and maliciously being obtuse about how words go together... I figured clearing some things up and educating folks might be helpful. BTW, the fact of those issues in the article makes her blackness all the more resonant as rep in pop culture. And hey, poly folks have disagreements, just like the het folks do... -Still bi. I'm gonna end here with two images from the linked article of anti-racist Tunisian protesters (MENA and Black):

P.S. I also side-eye those keen to make her muscular... I mean yeah she wields a big-ass hammer and shortsword/dagger, but the tendency to masculinize black woman characters deserves a hardy eye-squint. Especially, given that the show has *no problem* making muscular women look like that and they DIDN'T for Miss Greta.

See: Zamfir and the Berserk-style sword-carrying Vampire warrior, Striga. Both of whom had that flex going on.

#tumblr gonna tumblr #misogynoir #greta danesti #greta x alucard #castlevania #I hate when wrong-ass trolling info is spread in the tumblr fandom tags about black women characters #and sadly it happens A LOT purposefully #if you don't like black women just stick to the characters you like instead...you really gotta put in effort to actively HATE as a hobby #same ole same ole #meta #one kinda hate ALWAYS comes with another #which is why solidarity makes sense #troll is anti-black & biphobic #so this is becoming a thing? #doing my best to make sure the black girl character tags have GOOD info about the characters #first uhura and now greta #sunday wip procrastination blah #block that “gretasworld” troll #btw the producers say she's not a spin-off Grant Dynasty so...that's why he's not mentioned

[quinn-pop]

sorry for the metadede flood lately um. anyway i think dedede officiates waddle weddings. if they even have them lol. it’d be funny and cute

#reason for the flood: thinking abt one idea means i get 50 more #one of these were drawn with the old pen! and my god it shows #one is also two sketches fused together (which ive had to do a lot lately) and…okay actually it’s still easy to tell but not bc of that #i am mad with power #meta knight #king dedede #kirbyposting #my art or something #i think my art ideas are probably very weird lol #but you know me i love a good shenanigan #if it’s any condolence i swear ive been working on less self indulgent stuff too lol #not…NOT self indulgent because it’s me and i like having fun #it’s my blog i do what i want or something #im juggling like 7-9 projects right now (and most of the time) so my progress on each is very random #i thrive off of goofiness #but yes that is why i do this stuff. and then the Big Serious Projects never get finished #half kidding. i have a lot of stuff at abt 80% rn #metadede #because i forgot if i need to tag when it’s already in the post lol #id probably save this for a few weeks out but i dont have anything else done and yeah im procrastinating on sleeping #wow i really do write an essay in every tag

[fictionadventurer]

My new mantra: It's better to do something badly now than to wait for some supposed future time when I'll be able to do it better.

#random thought of the day #gotta write this down so maybe it'll stick #this is mostly applying to writing and prayer right now but is also applicable to other procrastinate-able tasks #(i'm trying to work up the courage to go back to my wip) #(i've once again hit the point where i like the story too much) #(and can see all the meta ways to make it better) #(and i just need to go back to my deadline mindset of forward motion at all costs)

[note-boom]

Huh I just realised from the new art that these three....

....are all incredibly lethal, silver/gray haired ability users with potential to alter the ability user world

#me: hair symbolism in bsd exists and i can PROVE IT #its like that meme if connecting the dots and not actually connecting anything #but come on they're the only ones with natural-ish silver-gray hair and there HAS to be something in that right? #colour palettes my beloved #bungo stray dogs #bsd #bungou stray dogs #bsd atsushi #bsd fukuchi #bsd fukuzawa #bsd official art #bsd musings #spitting nonsense #anyway the ed cover is just so.... #like they added the black hair streak how can i not love it? #anyway i need a meta of fukufuku and atsu parallels but im still procrastinating on the manga...

[moongothic]

So what are your thoughts on the potential Sandman/Dreams connection between Crocodile and Joy Boy/Nika/Luffy?

I remembered how the Sandman is a character associated with dreams/sleep and suddenly my mind ran wild with the idea.

You know we all like to speculate about Logia Awakenings but could you imagine if Sand Sand Awakening gave Crocodile the ability to put people to sleep or some shit

You know it's funny, despite people calling Crocodile "sandman" pretty often in the fandom I never even thought about that. Whether the fairytale character could actually reflect in Crocodile somehow

I guess it kind of depends on which version of the fairytale you go with though? Like growing up the version I knew of the character was just the cutesy version of a silly little guy who blows magic dust/sand into your eyes that puts you to sleep (the German stopmotion version in specific), and like, if Crocodad Real I'm sure you could get a cute twist out of that (something about Crocodile wanting to protect his son's dreams by any means nececary)

But there's also like, less wholesome versions of the Sandman character, where instead of helping kids sleep, the Sandman punishes children for not going to bed like they're supposed to by stealing their eyes with the sand. And. Well ain't that fucked up. And while it's not quite the same, you could see this in Crocodile too althought in reverse; instead of punishing a child for not dreaming, he attempted to punish a "dreaming child" by "waking him up" into a harsh, cold reality where dreams don't come true.

I'm not sure if Crocodile was meant to be like, intentionally partially inspired by the Sandman- like it's possible considdering he's already like, such an amalgam of characters/etc to begin with (like you got Wagnas from Romancing SaGa 2, Sobek from Egyptian mythology, I'm sure Captain Hook is in there somewhere, Toyotama Hime from Japanese mythology could be there too if Crocodad Real, so like. Sure we could throw the Sandman into the mix too, why the fuck not), but it's definitely not a huge part of the character, at least right now. Like depending on where the plot goes, it could become like a part of his character, who knows, time will tell But in that same sense, I don't quite see how that would tie into/pay off of the God of Liberation. Which also depends on if it's Good Sandman or Bad Sandman- like if it's the Bad Sandman then Luffy liberated people from someone who was stealing/ruining people's dreams (of rain and prosperity, freedom). If it's the Good Sandman then... IDK the Protector of Dreams brought the God of Liberation into the world? I'm sure that's symbolic of something

I dunno, I think it could be an interesting connection but it doesn't put my brain into overdrive with ideas unfortunately

#Moon posting #Asks #OP Meta #Sorry I took so long to get to these I had such a sudden influx of asks and some of them were only gonna be relevant for so long #(Like the most recent asks about chapter 1106. Usually don't skip asks in line but y'know. I only had a week before those became moot) #And then I had to stop procrastinating on work and I can so easily get super lost in thought while replying to these #But point is! I'm gonna try to get through the asks in my inbox finally! Aaaaa

[johnsspacesuittight]

okay but can we talk about how dean winchester's relationship to his sexuality is like perfectly mirrored by the entire narrative, like it keeps trying to make him straight and force him into this idea of what a man should be, but no matter what he isn't straight, they can try and he can try as hard as he wants but he's still not straight. like the entire fucking Amara storyline is literally exactly that, a narrative thing that forces him to have feelings for a woman, and they're supposedly super powerful and impossible to break through and yet guess fucking what it's his love for Castiel that breaks through it, like they tried so hard and yet somehow entirely failed to prove anything other than the exact thing they were fighting against and there's something strangely beautiful about that

#god this is just procrastinating writing an actual essay on this and instead making another meta tumblr post #but like seriously wtf #destiel #supernatural #dean winchester #destiel is a fight against the narrative that never ends it's still going #there's nothing like it #they tried to get rid of Cas so many times and it never worked #the story wanted something the writers didn't and they couldn't fight it despite how hard they tried

[lee-hakhyun]

the horrors of having a bright cloud of thoughts (my lovely ideas) and no way to condense it to pass on to the masses (cannot fucking write)

#i am not a writer. i can not write #<- as in i think in sights and colours and feelings and it's just too much energy to actually work it out into words #this isn't about anything important actually i have just been brainrotting over lhh/the side story in general but cannot make meta posts #it's just a bundle of energy so strong i feel like throwing up if i don't do SOMETHING about it. <- does not do anything about it #my thoughts on lee hakhyun will never get out unless i am asked pointed questions that forces me to sort out my jumbled mind #i answer asks to the best of my ability but that's easier because i have something to jump off of. i have never been good at essays #at least. this is my one defense against NOT being a lhh kinnie! i can't be a lhh kinnie if i don't write #even if everything else unfortunately matches up #i'd take being called a kdj kinnie over lhh thank you !! the lesser of two evils i think #yeah kdj is bad but. idk actually they're both bad but thinking about being called a lhh kinnie mortifies me in a way kdj does not #cutting this off here because i *am* using this to procrastinate. heh

[apollo-cackling]

oh come on catradora's going to be going up against griddlehark in the ao3 femslash poll only in round 3? that's semifinals material! (I could just be in a bubble but I doubt it. also either could hypothetically not make it but I doubt that too)

#my rambles #also eyeing one of the ships on there and wondering if I want to out myself by promoing it in the 2nd round #bc like the show it's in isn't very good. and it might not even be the best f/f ship in that show (certainly it's the less popular) #and I haven't even watched the show it's from bc like again by all accounts it's not very good #but this one writer on ao3 writes excellent fanfic for them that I really like and binged while procrastinating on smth #and I'm pretty fond of that ship #so. hm. #hey guys would you still like me if I'm cringe 👉👈 /j #poll meta

[theladyyavilee]

my dash has been too quiet and too hinged recently, not enough wilde and completely insane speculation, so my besties, my loves and my partners in clownery, I present to you

The s6a Speculation Board as it pertains to The Diaz Fridge Magnets, Heart Metaphors, Buddie In A Car and Buck In White 🧲💖👕

if you wanna participate, just tell me your predicitions and pick one of the still available colors of fridge magnets (at the moment all but the dark blue, the purple and the light blue are free xD) and I will add a fridge magnet, a heart, a car and a white shirt with your initial for you <3

everyone (and I mean it! mutuals, followers or whoever else sees this 💕💕💕) else is free to participate on a voluntary basis but I am tagging @mistmarauder, @stagefoureddiediaz and @kitkatpancakestack because the hinged door shoe squad are actually contractually obligated to indulge my insanity 🤭🥰

#9-1-1 #911 spoilers #911 season 6 speculation #buddie #the diaz fridge magnets #heart metaphors my beloved #buddie car meta #buck in white #can you tell I am procrastinating?????!!! kjdfsklafhaksjfhas #also yes #YES I absolutely can and will make everything about the fridge magnets at all times #also if anyone can think of another topic to add that we should speculate about just let me know xDDD #also dlfjkhaskh I am prepared for this to flop like pretty much everything I made in the ast month or so BUT at least I had fun making it xD

[whumpitisthen]

I just realized my masterlist is all kinds of fucked ill fix it later today and it'll probably become a whole lot easier to navigate sorry broskis

#not whump #meta #there's some tiny whump under art for some reason?? #and i think i should make a separate paragraph for tiny whump now #itll be good you'll see #this is def not me procrastinating on my book no sir #(its so close to being done someone yell at me i literally have to write like one more story for it) #who said that

[muninnhuginn]

Procrastinating on finishing the procrastination anime (Eizouken)

#I've been stalled for months now #and it's not that the show is bad so much as I get so called out by the project management and procrastination aspects #but yeah the irony of me procrastinating on finishing this specific show has not escaped me at all #eizouken #oh also side note but I very much do like the metaness of the show and the subtle worldbuilding with all the haphazard buildings #and the three mains are really well characterised both individually and how they interact with other people

[futurefind]

//Being MeTM I don't have mundane hcs (by default) for stuff like a muse's favorite xyz, or in this case fashion and more specifically sleep wear

But also the bleakly hilarious realization Sasume just . Doesn't have any??? She only sleeps like Maybe 1/3 nights, including going to bed At All. Combined with cleaning boons of water generation/bending and her fantasy action hero life style???

She changes her clothes as needed but "as needed" does not include passing tf out all day twice a week

#about // sasume #meta // #meta // sasume #...all my muses r wont to do smth similar but like #in the Accidentally Procrastinates Bed turbo hard sense (due to studying or work or the like) #(bc noricore is just tsun idiot nerds /hj) #and also mara puts the mess in hot mess so. gestures vaguely #smth smth joke abt fe3h rea and how the gloves and stirrup thigh highs stay ON in bed #(literally)

[batsarebetterthanpeople]

This is sort of a headcannon post in which I mention my fic but you don't have to read the fic to get the meta. Also I'm gonna talk about ye olde drugs. If you don't like talking about opium, cannabis or tobacco probably not the meta for you

Now, in the next chapter of Don't Hurt Yourself which I'm trying desperately to write as we speak (I'm failing and pitching my drug based headcannons to you on tumblr dot com as a form of procrastination), I'm going to establish that Ed's not really a smoker. This may seem contradictory to canon, which I like to at least move parallel to for the most part in my fic, because when we're introduced to him we see this

and when he's telling the story to the crew he's doing this

But I personally am not convinced it's tobacco in that big ass pipe. I know it doesn't really matter what he's smoking, they just gave him a huge pipe to make him look cool by putting him in a smokey atmosphere, and so Taika could blow smoke rings, but I like pulling this show apart so I'm gonna talk about it.

Hear me out.

Ed's got three substances that I think historically he would have access to that he could be smoking. Those substances are tobacco, which is what most of us probably assumed if we thought about it at all, good old weed, which transcends time barriers it is a plant which is not that hard to turn into drugs, and opium which was both a drug that got you high and is addictive but also was basically the most powerful pain killer they had access to. A lot like opiates today really.

Now Tobacco is a luxury item from the "new world" back then people like smoking it and would pay lots of money for it to be transported across the atlantic ocean. Makes sense that a pirate crew might be stealing it to sell to somebody to make a buck. However Ed canonically does not treat himself which is why Stede and his fine fabrics and his sugar in the tea is so exciting to him. So somehow I don't think in episode 3 he's smoking up the product he's meant to be moving. He could be but I kinda doubt it.

But Opium and Weed both have medicinal benefits, specifically they are pain killers (weed also has benefits as a psychiatric medication for people with ptsd but I want to focus on the pain killer aspect as Ed doesn't really seem to be in mental distress in either of the scenes we see him smoking in)

We know he wears a knee brace, I know this is to pay homage to Mad Max but from a watsonian perspective it means he's got something going on with his knee, potentially chronic pain. And when he's smoking when we first meet him

He has the leg with the brace stretched out with his other foot on the ground. as if he is perhaps giving his knee a rest because it hurts. What I'm proposing is that he is treating chronic joint pain with either weed or opium, and that's what's in that pipe.

Thank you for coming to my obligatory promoting a disabled reading of OFMD post.

#ofmd #our flag means death #edward teach #blackbeard #edward teach ofmd #blackbeard ofmd #ed teach #divorce court au