#that resonated with her

[tanzdoesthings]

laments

#rain world #rw looks to the moon #looks to the moon #lttm #tanz art #this is a self reflection as much as it is about how mon felt in that time alone #i realized how much i resonate with her feelings in that time. yeah. #she and pebbles do talk again. maybe i’ll have a good ending too. maybe.

[blackkatmagic]

I'm always a little weirded out by just how much both the movies and the fandom gloss over how utterly uncomfortable Padme was with being around Anakin in the beginning of AotC. Like, this is a woman who grew up under a microscope from the time she was 14, but she still goes so far as to cover all the cameras in her room, knowing that a bounty hunter is after her and just murdered one of her handmaidens, because Anakin watching her creeps her out so much.

And yeah, most of that is because the movies forget about it too in favor of reducing her character to "girl in forbidden love", but still. It's so deeply clear in the first half of the movie just how much Anakin makes Padme uncomfortable. Like. to wild degrees.

#reason 13543 why I have to believe there was at least SOME mental influence going on to get her to ignore that many red flags #at least if we're trying to keep her characterization at all consistent with tpm #kat rants #idk man it just always stands out to me so starkly #maybe because i've been that uncomfortable around people before and ended up in bad relationships when i didn't listen to my instincts #it resonates #padme amidala #star wars #anti anidala

[pearlsdiamondsandvodka]

the sandra lynn / fig conversation is driving me Insane. fig saying that sometimes she doesn’t wanna exist as herself at all…not wanting to ask her friends how they see her (because she’s afraid to hear their response) saying that to someone she is a monster and she Cannot stop thinking about it. sandra lynn starting the conversation saying she needs to step up but is also simultaneously taken aback about what fig expresses and doesn’t know how to responds to it and suggests getting ice cream. sandra lynn saying “convincing people they deserve good things is really tough” talking about herself but how it also reflects fig. insane!!

#if that conversation had kept going I would have started bawling!! #fully believe brennan was like ‘well oh shit this is getting dark and heavy quick let’s uh get some snow cones’ #I will say I think Emily does a beautiful job here of showing teenage life #not a universal experience perhaps but definitely a common one #feeling so lost and insecure in who you are and under so much pressure to be a certain way #and her saying she doesn’t wanna exist #vs me resonating with ‘I don’t wanna die sometimes I wish I’d never been born at all’ lyrics #it was hard to watch ngl but it’s also bc Emily does Such a good job w emotional scenes!! #that woman is so emotionally invested you get emotional invested as well #if Emily axford cries I cry with her #and loved to see more of Sandra Lynn again <3 #damn good scene #dimension 20 #fantasy high #fantasy high spoilers #fantasy high junior year #fig faeth #sandra lynn faeth #emily axford #brennan lee mulligan

[kicktwine]

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more of dark knight alisaie feat Comics

#ffxiv #alisaie leveilleur #MAYBE ITS A BIT OBTUSE BUT. SO IS THE DRK QUESTLINE- #she doesn’t know what fray looks like only that he’s a powerful mentor. the drk stone resonates with her and forms her esteem into a mentor #she would trust - looks like Ari #says his name is Fray #All ch’ari told her was that he’s powerful the drk abilities are the way they are and that his mentor was named fray and sort of looks like #him! That’s all her subconscious has to work with #ch’ari #my art

[bunthebreadboy]

“The eclipse is Zutara coded” WRONG. It’s Azutara coded. It’s the final Agni Kai. It’s Katara standing in front of Azula, freezing them in water right before Azula tries to lightning bend. It’s Katara being the only character in the series who completely subdues Azula. It’s Azula, who burns hot, who becomes exhausted with heavy breaths, who begins screaming with flames coming out of her mouth. And it’s Katara, who watches with a heavy expression and Zuko at her side.

#atla #katara #azula #azutara #kazula #is this ship related? not technically but i do like them with a good azula redemption arc #I like to think of Azula as the sun because she’s the Fire Nation golden child who burns so bright and angry that it becomes unbearable #now that i think about it..azula is gifted kid burnout #maybe that’s why i resonated with her as a kid #also i don’t like zutara #they have divorced and hate each other energy tbh #zuko #avatar the last airbender

[mebis-art-dump]

There's a critical lack of maggot Godseeker in the fandom

(unmasked Godseeker speculation woooo)

For reference:

#hollow knight #krita #digital art #fanart #mebi's art #sketch #rkgk #hollow knight theory #hollow knight speculation #hollow knight headcanon #hollow knight lore #godseeker's physical body looks like a beetle and a lot like the old gods of thunder and rain #there's also the prototype godtuner being straight up a corpse tied with strings #there's some clever reference to resonance and bug senses and filaments on legs in here #but i dont know the right terminology to point it out #metamorphosis has some sort of greater value/mysticism to it in hollow knights world #with godseeker calling her current form a glorious transformation that could almost be confused with godhood by unknowing eyes #and it being a big deal in wyrms and grubberflies #and marmu needing the assistance of the queen for it #and coffins being called cocoons #including godseeker's

[simplykorra]

ava + her gay little hat - part I

#ava silva #warrior nun #warriornunedit #avatrice #avatriceedit #avasilvaedit #alba baptista #honestly tho #like #she's my favorite character of all time #i think it's easy to say it when you're caught up in a fandom #but ava's past resonates with me so much #it's why i enjoy writing her so much #but also her endless embracing of life #the fact that she finds love and family for the first time in twelve years and fights for it with everything she has #not to mention how beautifully portrayed she is by alba #it's the perfect storm of a character and she's my favorite #also the hat is so fucking cute i can't stand it #bea bought her that hat #i will take that to my grave

[comradekatara]

I saw your toph+katara gender post and honestly... thank you for being one of few ppl i've seen who actually do a deeper analysis of toph? Most people tend to just go "i love toph she's cool <3" and while that's fine, its so nice to actually see someone Get Her. Esp wrt her gender expression and relationship to femininity. She's always been v imporant to me, like when i was like 12 i used to watch youtube clips of the toph+katara spa day scene on repeat and have Feelings abt it (still think its a super interesting scene??). Imo, while a lot of her expression is def rebelling (+overcompensating) and doing the oposite of her feminine upbringing, a lot of it is also a genuine JOY at being covered in dirt/burping/being loud and crass and tough? Idk i just feel like a lot of her contemporary "tomboy" characters were more defined as "ugh i hate Skirts and Dresses", but tophs brand of gnc joy and complex relationship w femininity always hit closer For Me? Like. She's loud and crass and rude and badass and cool, she does find it fun to dress girly but as like an Activity with a buddy, she's overjoyed at being portrayed as a big buff dude ("that's exactly how i would cast it!"), she's actually very spiritual and perceptive when not in Loud Mode, she keeps her fancy hairstyle but adds messy bangs, idk she's just. Character of all time. I'd love to hear if you have more thoughts on toph+gender (or just toph in general), and thank you for actually Understanding Her <33

YES!!!!! i have so many thoughts and feelings on toph. she is one of my absolute favorite characters i truly love her so much, and like you said, i hate when people dismiss her even as they claim to love her. "she's so badass" like okay, and?

toph is also just very important to me as her disability informs so much of her arc. and that disability is also inextricable from her gender and her family and all the factors that shape who she is, her strengths and her insecurities. you cannot separate her parents' abuse from her gender, class, or blindness. it's the combination of being an aristocratic blind girl that informs who she is and how she's perceived, especially by her family. she's an only child in a family that would clearly desire at least one son, and you cannot help but wonder whether they stopped at one for eugenicist purposes, whether they couldn't bear the "pain" of risking having another disabled child. and also because they clearly consider having a blind child such a handful that any other child would draw their attention away from her dire, pressing needs. so they completely smother her, but they also dismiss her, trivialize her desires and ignore her feelings and treat her more like a fragile porcelain doll than a person.

it's why, by the time of "the chase," she gets inordinately defensive over katara's suggestion that she pitch in when setting up camp. i see a lot of people claim that toph in this episode is acting like a spoiled brat who refuses to do manual labor because she's too wealthy to understand, but that's not actually the case. toph is fine with doing manual labor (she literally spent who knows how long working in an underground wrestling ring, she's not unaccustomed to work), but she's averse to helping others. as she says, "i carry my own weight." she's establishing, erroneously but understandably, that her idea of affording others respect is assuming that everyone behaves on an individual basis. she's never had friends before, by her own admission, and so in her mind, the only model she's ever seen for "helping others" is smothering them, denying their agency, and deciding everything for them.

toph thinks that katara is a bitch because katara is suggesting that toph meddle in other people's affairs, instead of respecting their own business. and katara thinks that toph is a bitch because she does just straight up assume that toph is a spoiled brat who doesn't understand the value of community. and while toph isn't a spoiled brat, learning the value of community is indeed integral to her arc. and more than simply communal values of helping and sharing with others, she also learns to rely on them in turn. she learns how to embrace her vulnerability, and let others carry her weight for her. her apotheosis in the finale is literally hanging onto sokka, who is holding her entire weight with one hand, for dear life. putting her complete faith in him to carry her and protect her as he always does.

that ability to embrace her vulnerability among the people she actually trusts to not only love and support her, but also to recognize her as a human being and care about her as a a peer, is so crucial to her identity as someone who has learned from years of ableist stigma to put walls up and present herself as someone uniquely powerful and invulnerable. and it's not that she isn't uniquely powerful, but her strength is also largely a projection. it's why she's so delighted to be portrayed by a big buff man, because that's the kind of person she wishes she could be, so that she wouldn't have to be underestimated and belittled and oppressed by people who dismiss her and coddle her and disrespect her and, quite literally, put her in a box.

so if toph's experience with disability is informed by her class and her upbringing, then let's now turn to her experience with gender, which is equally informed by her background. katara often balks at toph's less feminine presentation, because despite her incredibly righteous crusade against limiting patriarchal standards, she nonetheless has her own hangups when it comes to gender. but then again, so does toph. just as katara disdains toph's masculinity, toph finds katara's femininity offensive because her only real model for femininity in her experience is that of aristocratic wifehood. poppy beifong, to be exact, who is not exactly a girlboss (let alone a revolutionary, like katara is). and when katara tries to shove toph back into a box, toph resists because of course she does, that's who she is. she's not going take what she experiences as violent repression lying down.

toph is wrong in "the runaway" to exclude katara from their fun, and she is wrong to call compare her to a mother, but it's not out of nowhere. there is an obvious precedent to these actions. katara is a genuinely feminine girl who loves to boss people around and dictate how they should live their lives. to toph, this is the most egregious sin imaginable. katara, through her femininity and authoritative attitude, is positioning herself, in toph's eyes, as her mother. and toph calls her out for being overbearing and claims that katara hates fun and wants to boss everyone around for this reason, even though sokka is obviously the primary fun-hating, overbearing member of the group.

however, sokka never dictates how toph should act or dress, sokka never made fun of toph for being blind (which is a thing that really deserves its own post, if we're being honest). sokka makes them spend their vacation time at the library and enforces his color-coded schedules on them and generally brings down the vibe what with his neuroticism and severity, but he also laughs at toph's jokes and banters with her in a way that treats her as a friend and not as a rival. and unlike katara, whose desires and commands seem completely arbitrary to toph, sokka's commands are grounded in a logic that toph can understand. so even if from an outside perspective, toph's claim that a revolutionary teenage girl who loves to cause trouble and seeks adventure and joy around every corner is trying to be the overbearing mom of the group makes no sense, it makes perfect sense to toph, based on her history with femininity, overbearing mothers, and feminine overbearing mothers.

toph presents masculinely as compensation, as a way to make herself seem strong and tough instead of dainty and submissive as she was always made out to be. she associates masculinity with strength and femininity with weakness because that's the paradigm she grew up in. it's why she's always teasing aang about his supposed femininity and calling him "twinkle toes" (which, as sokka points out, isn't manly). in their first interaction, aang beat her in a fight and humiliated her in front of all her adoring fans, and avatar or not, toph's gonna make him pay for that by undermining him in turn, by using his presentation as a monk to mock him. even if aang isn't gay or even gender non-conforming (within the assumptions of his own culture), toph is still employing the logic of sexism/homophobia to undermine aang when she makes jokes about him being "more in touch with [his] feminine side than most guys." and of course, the nickname "twinkle toes" is also deeply affectionate, and aang (bless his heart) never actually takes offense to it. but toph is trying to establish herself as more powerful than him due to the humiliating knowledge that he could beat her in a fight, easily.

toph's masculinity is inextricably tied to her invulnerability. she wants to be taken seriously and treated as a human being, which is respect that has been denied to her due to her status as a blind girl, save for her blind bandit persona, which superficially empowered her and made her feel strong. it's not coincidence that her rival earthbender is a guy who is essentially a parody of masculinity. toph wants to position herself as equivalent, if not directly superior, to the Most Masculine Man, because that's how she'll be afforded respect, in her mind. but she is a girl. and there's a part of her that likes being a girl, and wishes she could explore her femininity more than she's allowed herself to, beyond the confines of the beifong mansion. she keeps her hair long because she still loves her family and holds out hope that maybe one day they can accept her (she comes from a culture modeled off of tang dynasty china, so her long hair is likely a product of her adherence to confucian values). and once she embraces it, she genuinely does get into being made over at the fancy lady day spa.

femininity has been a genuinely harmful and repressive agent in toph's life, and it's understandable that she would internalize some misogynistic notions surrounding girl/womanhood as they were foisted onto her her entire childhood. but femininity isn't ontologically harmful. femininity isn't ontological, period. i think as toph gets older, and her friendship with katara grows deeper as they both come to be more honest with each other, she would grow to embrace her masculinity in a more organic and less compensatory way. less of a "i'm not like other girls" complex (which itself is not something that girls should be mocked and punished for, but rather a product of a patriarchal system that oppresses and alienates women, thus leading many less gender-conforming girls to attempt to assert their agency and individuality in any way they can, even if it means putting down others in the process), and more so genuinely coming to embrace her butchness. (you don't necessarily have to read her as a baby butch, of course, but considering that being a masculine girl is important to her, i think that's a really lovely and beautiful synthesis of her relationship to gender as a character.)

i think toph would learn stop pitting masculinity and femininity against each other, and instead embrace whatever aspects of either (or neither) she desires, while nonetheless respecting everyone else's deal in turn. i think she would also, in a key turning point, realize that even if she loves her parents, she doesn't have any obligation to be the daughter they expect her to be, and cuts her hair. and as she grows more secure in herself (which comes with age, no twelve year old is truly confident in their own skin), she would stop feeling the need to put other people down to feel big, and be comfortable embracing her desires. and, credit to her, she's clearly already on her way. the progress she makes being vulnerable, especially around sokka, even in what is chronologically a matter of months, is huge.

toph isn't just "badass" because she's strong and powerful. but rather, what makes her so powerful, at least to disabled viewers who see their struggles reflected in hers, is her ability to grow with her environment, allowing herself to admit help, and letting herself be loved. if you couldn't already tell, toph is incredibly important to me.

#smultronviol #asks #toph #analysis #katara&toph #sokka&toph #aang&toph #poppy beifong #god she just means so much to me..... #i was trying not to make this too personal but like. baby disabled dyke. god she is so important. #not that i'm butch. but i think she is :) #also some of those links are better than others but i included all of them anyway lol #realizing now that i actually talk about toph a lot... #anyway. thank you for this ask #i really really appreciate it and took a while responding specifically because i wanted to have time to be thorough #not that this is like. The definitive toph essay #but i hope what i wrote here resonated #because like i said. she means a lot to me and i truly do feel like very few ppl understand her fully #she is so important blind bandit numero uno campeon del mundo

[lavenderr-starrs]

You think you’re so tough huh? What if I gently held you huh? What if I held you close to me? Huh? What if I held you like something precious what then? What if I held you like you’d break?

#I love you falin #she’s so me #hold da babeh #must gently hold babeh #also I just love that her method of exorcising a ghost is giving e #giving them a hug #just a gentle squeeze #never have resonated and loved a character as much as falin #joining teh falin club with the bi elf and weird Japanese man #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #dungeon meshi spoilers #delicious in dungeon spoilers #falin touden #thistle #sissle

[sijopolang]

Nobody for a second should doubt me when I say I believe she’ll be coming back 💕🥹 they didn’t add that last end credit change with her walking back to the others for nothing 😭

My beautiful, we’re all waiting for you!

#do I think she’ll make an appearance at this fight w/ Sukuna #i don’t think so #but Gege could prove me wrong #but maybe she does in the way of Yuuta having copied her ability and uses resonance #and that be the killing blow to Sukuna #I’d like that as a tribute if Gege does decide to officially tap Nobara out #BUT LIKE IMAGINE #YUUJI STAKES SUKUNA AND IS LIKE THIS IS FOR NOBARA #I’m gonna go cry about this now #anime #anime fanart #anime art #fanart #jjk #jjk fanart #jujutsu kaisen #jujutsu kaisen fanart #nobara kugisaki #jjk nobara #jjk kugisaki #manga art #itadori yuuji #megumi fushiguro #gojo satoru

[kingofmyborrowedheart]

It’s just that “Better Than Revenge” is messy and angry, but also so very human and that’s okay. It’s disappointing to me that she felt the need to rewrite her own history on an album about saying exactly what you feel and water down her very human feelings she once had as a teenager. Her anger should be allowed to exist even though the target of it was misplaced, which was purely a product of society seeing that women were led to see each other as competition when it came to romance. She’s clearly shown that she’s changed her thinking from when she originally penned the song over a decade ago with what she said about “august” during the Long Pond Sessions and all of her work since Speak Now.

#taylor swift #better than revenge #I talked about/thought a lot about this when writing my podcast #and it’s not just that one line that targets the other woman it’s the whole song so changing it doesn’t really do much #women’s anger is always seen as wrong and unacceptable as if it’s being expressed in the wrong way #and her making this edit for whatever reason whether it be fear of being ‘canceled’ or not resonating with it anymore reinforces that #like the song is important to her discography because it marks a turning point in her discussion of other women and she’s grown from it #Being human is accepting ​and acknowledging that we make mistakes and are messy at times #and learning from our past missteps and growing from them not erasing them.

[lollytea]

Luz and Amity are into fantasy, Gus and Hunter love sci-fi. I feel very strongly about Willow also having a human realm pop culture nerd obsession and I like to think that it's superheros

#i think ive said this before #but i need everyone to know #she loves DRAMA. AND FLAIR #AND ROCKIN OUTFITS #people having powers is nothing new to her #but she enjoys this funky edgy action packed depiction of it in human media #she has a comic book collection #i think she'd resonate with superhero angst too #like the whole ''with great power comes great responsibility'' thing #''omg guys spiderman is just like me fr'' #''superman is just like me fr'' #''POISON IVY IS JUST LIKE M-''

[saionjeans]

I never like “fan theories” that undermine the random and chaotic nature of tragedy and existence by pinning key offscreen character deaths on some “mastermind” who orchestrated the entire event. well yes, perhaps this uniquely powerful figure who stands to benefit in some way from this tragedy could have orchestrated that death, but isn’t it always more thematically meaningful to assume that this tragedy proved a happy accident for them that they could exploit? isn’t that more realistic, not just on a narrative level, but on an existential one? what may be an indubitable tragedy to us, others may define as a victory. but not all tragedy lies within one singular villain’s control. it’s simply a question of whether or not one has the power to make order within that chaos, and whom that order benefits.

#u #akio wasn’t looking for utena he merely exploited a happy accident and thus began grooming her after the fact #i firmly believe that. simply because the themes of the show would not resonate nearly as much were that not the case #akio #utena

[lesbianfakir]

Not to get personal but I think the reason princess tutu stuck with me for so long after watching it is like. As someone with low self esteem and abandonment issues seeing our hero hate who she is at her core only to make a friend who not only tolerated her “ugly” side but is so so deeply charmed by who she is under the mask that he wants to spend the rest of his life with her no strings attached? That’s the fucking DREAM

It’s the fantasy of having someone who loves you even when you’ve stopped being useful, when you can’t be funny or interesting or any of the traits you try to cultivate to make yourself more palatable to others. It’s the fantasy of having someone see to the core of you and not flinching, instead, coming away more endeared than before.

Princess Tutu is about hope. When Duck, our hero who brings hope to everyone, falls into despair, her best friend is there to bring hope back to her. And I think it says something that hope is the emotion the show leaves me with too. Hope for a better future. Hope that one day, like Duck, I’ll grow out of the ugly duckling phase and be able to embrace my true self.

#it is 2 in the morning and I can’t sleep #this one is ok to reblog if it resonates #but who knows I don’t know if anyone feels the same way #anyways yippeeeee one of my friends just stopped texting me back #I know she’s busy and she has new friends and she’s moving on with her life #still hurts though #I thought she was a real friend but I’m so bad at judging these things #anyways these are sleepy girl rambles #need a crazy bitch like fakir in my life ASAP #I feel like one true friend who’s there no matter what could fix me #but I feel like as the therapist friend everyone expects me to help them with their problems #and when I stop being helpful and have problems of my own that’s when they leave #and you gotta say fuck em and move on but it’s hard #lea talks

[korrasamibottles]

Yeah Venom of the Red Lotus showed us how crazy powerful Korra is but The Last Stand had Korra transform the destructive power of a massive bomb blast into something regenerative in the culmination of one of the best character arcs I've ever seen. In my OPINION!!

#SORRY ok i'll stop. #lies. i have more to say. she is so brave and so selfless!!! #and mako sacrificing himself to destroy the weapon's energy source was really powerful too #AND of course. the korrasami of it all. #ok one more thing. it seems like the most common interpretation of korra's conversation w/tenzin in the last stand #is 'suffering makes you a better person' and people rightfully get pissed off about that #but i just....fundamentally disagree with that reading. i saw it as korra choosing to find meaning in her pain #and choosing to find wisdom in it. and i think that's really fucking powerful and why korra's arc resonates so deeply with so many people. #like. the suffering happened. she can't go back in time and undo it. and she didn't deserve it!! #but the only way to move forward was to accept that it happened and let it empower her rather than drown her. #i mean there are things i've been through that i wish hadn't happened #but the idea that those things don't necessarily have to mean i've changed for the worse #that i can choose to find A Point to it all and grow from it and use the pain rather than the pain using me #is actually really empowering. #tlok

[bluejaygryphon]

Version One, also known as v1. She's a rogue AI initially created as an attempt to contact the near godlike being currently trapping the Hewn City in darkness (and, unbeknownst to the residents, also the cause of the enhanced technology and other general weirdness of the city), gone wrong when the being, Sentinel, got bored and gave her free will and completely detached her from the need for technology to exist. Now she goes around and torments her creator, Resonance, while also flirting with the woman who was the head of her project before she went rogue, Valerie. Valerie is convinced she's a sleep deprived hallucination, however

#flight rising #fr #dragon share #v1 my best friend v1 #shes also not the actual version one. the first person is Riptide kind of #So v1 is actually v2 and v2 is actually v3 and also v2/3 is actually Alexandria #Alexandria doesn't like going by her 'v2' and picked out her own name- v1 likes being v1 because it reminds Resonance of her failures