#the explications

[the-great-kraken]

if you see a male character kiss a male character, you assume they are gay.

if you see a female character kiss a female character, you assume they are a lesbian.

if you hear a character say they don't feel like their gender, you assume they are trans.

so why do a-spec characters have to jump through so many loops?

a character saying they've never had a crush or don't want a relationship or that they don't understand romantic love is so often ignored or used as fodder for other queer or autistic headcanons (reinforcing stereotypes that aroace people are secretly gay or always autistic)

why is it that our stories are always "up to interpretation"? why do we have to wait for the words aromantic or asexual to be said to be taken seriously? why is it that even when characters say they don't want relationships, fans will scream and cry about sex/romance favourable aspecs and qprs?

when it comes to gay and trans characters, even the likes of bisexual lighting is often treated as though it canonises their sexuality. for aroace characters, even the most explicit coding possible is swept under the rug in favour of other "interpretations"

i'm so tired of fighting for representation just to have it ignored and minimised by fans. let characters be aroace. please.

#obviously there are a ton of circumstances where the qpr and sex/romance favourable is completely fine #but when characters explicity say they dont have sex or dont want relationships it feels so hollow #fandom is fandom and there is nothing i can do to stop you shipping or writing smut or headcanoning or whatever #but please just think it through. the characters aren't real but there are so many geniunely harmful ideas doing stuff like this reinforces #rhi rambles #aroace #aromantic #asexual #a-spec #a spec #aspec #aro #ace #aspec representation #asexual representation #aromantic representation #lgbtq+ #queer

[annabelle--cane]

I like the subtle world building implications in the differences between the usher foundation and the magnus institute. if the usher foundation and the magnus institute were meant to be direct parallels to each other, then the usher foundation would have been established in like the 1870s in boston or nyc, but no, it's in dc and was founded no earlier that 1955, and that gives me less "old respectable academia" vibes and more "insane reagan era project comissioned to weaponize the supernatural in the cold war that didn't work but was never officially shut down."

#tma #marina marvels at life #some types of statements that I think the usher foundation has: #stories about cults and churches that are all incredibly fucked up but only about 10% of them are actually paranormal #area 51 alien sightings (all of these are false and/or true but mundanely explicable) #lotta nuclear power ones that adelard dekker spent weeks of his finite mortal life poring over #bigfoot (these ones are real) #corruption statements about rats in nyc

[michelada12]

Compilation of you’re favorite office worker

#elevator hitch #elevator hitch protag #my art #fan art #just a guy who experienced un explicable horror

[noknowshame]

right now my psych lab is doing research on differences in narrative perceptions of fictional characters versus real people and our funniest finding was that when we measured depth, participants thought of fictional characters as significantly more complex than real people. and that includes people they knew personally like their friends and family

#i let myself get too excited and they put me in charge of writing the paper. its due in two days and going to kill me #none of us can agree on why this happened #uhhh 'in the absence of clear theoretical guidance further research will be necessary to explicate the mechanisms underlying this phenomena

[random-autie-fangirl]

Shoutout to a bunch of voices crushing on the Razor

Voice of the Broken: She doesn't want us. Voice of the Contrarian: You're just saying that because you want her to be into you. Voice of the Broken: I know. I thought I was being obvious.

Voice of the Paranoid: Maybe it'll work! Maybe it'll throw her off. I know I'd be thrown off if she started flirting with us. Voice of the Contrarian: Yeah, because you'd be into it. Voice of the Paranoid: No comment.

Voice of the Stubborn: I'm into it. Voice of the Cheated: I can't say I mind either. If it weren't for all the cheating, I'd say she's pretty cute.

Bonus:

Hero doesn't know if he's into the Razor

#slay the princess #the razor #shifting quiet #broken paranoid stubborn cheated contrarian and smitten: I like the kind of woman who can actually just kill me #hey look! I did a thing #i'm sorry this is so funny #six of them! #hunted explicity doesn't want to flirt with her #opportunist cold and skeptic can't show up here #I didn't give smitten's line because everyone knows about him #got these quotes from tvtropes by the way #also love contra being the one to nudge his buddies and go like “you liiiikkke her don't you?”

[razberrypuck]

catch me thinking about how likely none of the riptide captains thought they were gonna live past childhood

#i say “likely” bc gillions the only one whos explicity said as much iirc #but. mmmmm. #thinking about tghem. #jrwi riptide #jrwi #albatrio #jay ferin #gillion tidestrider #chip lastname #jrwi jay #jrwi gillion #jrwi chip

[renard-dartigue]

@ghxstly-death

👉👈

#my art #sleep token #sleep token band #my he/him wife #couldn't decide on masked or unmasked #sleep token ii #sleep token art #sleep token fanart #he just killed his millionaire husband and donated the money to the church of Sleep #vesselvisage #this is as explicate as its gonna get on my blog lol #tasteful leg🦵

[candylitaaa]

The river of lies

Timelapse:

#idk what to say here. reason of why i didn't do a explication of what happens on this drawing LMAO #invader zim #iz #zim #the tallest #almighty tallest #tallest red #tallest purple #iz fanart #iz fan art #fanart #drawing #digital draw #digital drawing #my art #Youtube

[huariqueje]

Fourth Explication - Mari Slaatelid , 2008.

Norwegian, b. 1960 -

Oil behind plexi glass  , 65 x 65 cm.

#Mari Slaatelid #norwegian artist #explication #silouette

[tennessoui]

kit's january ko-fi fic: Anakitty AU

ugh i am so excited to be posting this on my kofi, i had such a blast writing this that i literally wrote 3k yesterday for it and 3k today in like. 3 hours. she's the definition of a silly little au becoming a fic!!

in this fic/au, anakin becomes a cat; meanwhile, obi-wan just happens to find a cat outside his doors that he decides to take in to care for, as he's a lonely old man now that his padawan has left the nest. good thing this cat is really affectionate and just melts when obi-wan gives it pets!

meanwhile anakin thinks it's a pretty sweet deal to be a cat forever if it means he has obi-wan's affection and attention and love and attention and pets and attention and, etc etc

here's a little snippet!:

“So you haven’t heard from Anakin in a few days,” Obi-Wan says carefully, brushing each slightly curly strand of the cat’s fur flat as he examines his grand padawan. “Are you worried about him?” Obi-Wan hasn’t heard from Anakin lately either, but the boy has been pulling slowly and carefully away from him for ages. For the most part, Obi-Wan has stopped reaching out, and their virtual communications have dried up. “Not anymore,” Ahsoka says, picking up her tea with an angry look at the cat. “How long has it been since he’s been like thi—I mean, since you last heard from him?” “Well, I couldn’t quite say!” Eleven days. “Though, if I’m being honest, the Council is close to drawing him up on charges for abandoning his troops without leave to take a holiday. I’m sure he will slip back into the Temple sooner or later.” “Wow!” Ahsoka’s voice is pitched much too loud and much too pointed to be natural. “Did you hear that, Anakin? You’re going to be tried for abandoning your troops if you don’t tell the Council you’re experiencing a bit of a setback soon!” The cat rolls onto its back with a loud purr, paws folded upward to allow Obi-Wan the maximum of tummy to scratch. Obi-Wan, knowing it's his due, scratches its tummy obligingly.

as a reminder for how these kofi fics work: i've uploaded the google document link into my gallery on ko-fi. to view the image and get the link that's in the image description, you have to be a monthly subscriber. it's $4 a month, and once you become a subscriber, you can read the 5 other ficlets i've uploaded! if you want to donate to get access, make sure the donation bar is set to "monthly" instead of "one time".

#kit's kofi #obikin #anakitty au #the au post that this is written from is linked at the top of the google doc too!! #and there's an ask linked that has a picture of anakitty #pulled unashamedly from google images #also i think it's been far too long since i explicity said but i appreciate the support so so so much #im really glad and thankful for any subscriber i get for this and always try to make the fics i write for kofi #be at least on par with the level of writing i post to ao3 #which is a step above fics i post on tumblr #you guys got me through grad school apps and. that's just amazing so thank you!! #i hope you enjoy anakitty!!

[vhscorp]

La pire des trahisons, c’est de quitter l’autre sans explications…

V. H. SCORP

#trahison #quitter #l'autre #sans #explications #citation #v.h.scorp #28/11/2023

[gorgeousgreymatter-x]

hi hello if you read books or fanfiction or consume media with the express intent to find something problematic to be upset about idk how to tell you my buddy my friend my guy but the problem is u

#you can consume media and fiction with a critical eye that is not what i am saying here #but if you explicity come in to it with bad faith intentions you are simply never going to have a good time #pro library #pro fiction #anti anti #fandom discourse #anti booktok #booktok #pro ao3 #anti censorship

[deadpanwalking]

hello!! do you have any recommendations for books or essays about becoming a better reader of poetry? I love the poems you post and esp love when your tags go into what you got out of it / understood from it, bc it’s always so much more than I was able to interpret on my own. and I want to become a better reader and learn how to really sit with a poem and get into all its layers but idk where to start.

I stand behind the recs in this post, but since you want to focus on poetry and poetics, in addition to William Empson's The Seven Types of Ambiguity and Helen Vendler's Poems, Poets, and Poetry, I'd also recommend Christopher Ricks' The Force of Poetry, I. A. Richards' Practical Criticism, and Jorge Luis Borges' The Craft of Verse. They are all beautifully written, by people whose love of the form transcends academia and becomes, at times, a kind of secular worship. I loved poetry before I fully understood language, back when it was just incomprehensible mouthwords my parents repeated to get me to sleep; I'd have loved poetry even if I never toiled a day in the hermeneutics mines, like my grandmother reciting Eugene Onegin after her dementia cleared everything else from the table—she wasn't sure what it meant, all she knew was that this was the nicest thing she had. Isn't that a kind of faith?

There are other good books about how to read poetry, but these were the ones that initiated me into a conspiracy of words, they taught me to be curious about why I liked a poem, how to take pleasure in its vivisection without worrying I'd kill that faith—like martyrs, good poems never fall apart when you open them up, they yield. If anything, the practice of explication has made me even more of a fanatic. I hope it does the same for you!

If there are poets you already like, I can get more specific about recs—I'm partial to modernist poetry, but that just means I like following breadcrumb trails of allusions to lots of different literary traditions and can tell you where the bodies, hatchets and/or treasures are buried.

#where's that bugs bunny meme that's like lord forgive me but it's time 2 go back to tha old me #but it's me about to reblog tha helen vendler emperor of ice cream explication #literary criticism #i read much of the night and go south in the winter #r-osehips #assbox #okay caveat the vendler and ricks books are definitely out of print but get them used—i promise they pay for themselves #in a hypothetical future where the economy crashes and poetry understanding becomes the most valuable form of currency

[alifeasvivid]

Alfred can never really put his finger on it, but he finds Simon Cowell inexplicably attractive sometimes.

#oh yes #very inexplicably #not tagging as uk/us but >.> you know #it’s actually quite explicable

[lithiumache]

people being like “oh i hope they also make trent crimm canonically queer” my friend blessed are those who have eyes and see. just look at him

#it would be shocking if they made him straight! #not everything needs to explicity stated to be ‘canon’ #trent crimm #ted lasso #also will he out colin? i don’t think so but then again #he has been KNOWN to be a snake and a ruthless journalist #and he’s had a bit of character development sure #but who knows?

[hailkingphantom]

Dp x dc

Jason always dissapear one day in the year.

At first noone notice it but as more passed more they can see the patron, so when the date come the next year thay decide to follow him.

They didn't expect to see jason enter into a green portal with a snow white haired floating kid.

#danny phantom #dp x dc #ghost king au #jason todd #jason death day #jason met danny some time ago #and he finally get a explication about what a death day is #he go to his lair since then #jason's death day