#then claim things that is meant for us

[nebulouscoffee]

The thing about Kai Winn's storyline ultimately being a tragedy is, it's not only a tragedy because her fate (in the eyes of the non-linear Prophets) was already known and nothing she did or said was ever going to make them acknowledge her- not only because she wanted so badly to have a big role to play in the grand, historic story of the newly independent Bajor and just couldn't handle the fact that she was never meant to- not only because the Prophets spoke to Sisko and Bareil and Kira and literally even Quark but not her- not only because she was deceived and raped and killed in the end- but most of all because, it was partly her love of Bajor that killed her.

Think about it- her whole regression during that final arc with Dukat is so tragic precisely because she was THIS close to redemption! Throughout the show, we see that her brain processes information in very rigid, binary ways: if you are not my ally, then you are my enemy. If you disagree with even one of my opinions, you are my enemy. If you refuse to endorse and support me in this mission, you are my enemy. That's part of why she's so easily swayed by fascist rhetoric, I think- she's just unable to cope with nuance. (This is foreshadowed in 'Shakaar', where she puts the whole of Bajor under martial law just because Shakaar disagreed with her over how she was handling soil reclamators.) Her personal narrative is I am the one who will save Bajor -> anyone who gets in my way is my enemy and therefore an enemy of Bajor -> I must stop them using any force necessary for the good of Bajor because I am after all the one who will save Bajor.

But when Sisko discovers the city of B'hala in 'Rapture', she is for the first time forced to accept the truth that he really hasn't been faking this whole "talks to the Prophets" thing- he's the real deal. We learn later on (when she tells "Anjohl" about how she honestly felt nothing the first time she saw the wormhole open) that a small, small part of her actually always doubted the existence of the Prophets. Now, she is faced with definitive proof that they are not only very real, but they also really do have a bond with Sisko. And for a while, she even comes to terms with this! In fact, at the end of the episode, she and Kira have possibly their first completely honest exchange:

KIRA: Maybe we're the ones who need to trust the Prophets. For all we know, this is part of their plan. Maybe they've told Captain Sisko everything they want him to know.  WINN: Perhaps. I suppose you heard that Bajor will not join the Federation today. The Council of Ministers has voted to delay acceptance of Federation membership.  KIRA: You must be very pleased.  WINN: I wish I were. But things are not that simple. Not anymore. Before Captain Sisko found B'hala, my path was clear. I knew who my enemies were. But now? Now nothing is certain.  KIRA: Makes life interesting, doesn't it?

Like, YASS babygirl- you too can learn to handle nuance!! I believe in you!!💪💪

And later on, at the onset of the Dominion War, she comes to Sisko for advice herself. She doesn't want to see her planet colonised again, and she's even willing to put aside her desire to be the main character to ensure it doesn't happen. Driven by pride and the need for power as she is, she is also driven by the desire save Bajor (and preferably be the one saving Bajor, which is the subsection of this desire that ultimately ends up being her downfall) - and she does briefly decide that cooperating with the Emissary is the best way to do this! I think about this scene from 'In The Cards' so much:

WINN: ... I have asked the Prophets to guide me, but they have not answered my prayers. I even consulted the Orb of Wisdom before coming here and it has told me nothing. So I come to you, Emissary. You have heard the voice of the Prophets. You were sent here to guide us through troubled times. Tell me what to do and I will do it. How can I save Bajor?  SISKO: You want my advice? Then this is it. Stall. Tell Weyoun you have to consult with the Council of Ministers, or that you have to meditate on your response. Anything you want, but you have to stall for time.  WINN: Time for what?  SISKO: I don't know. But I do know the moment of crisis isn't here yet, and until that moment arrives we have to keep Bajor's options open. I'm aware that this is difficult for you, given our past, but this time you have to trust me.  (Winn holds Sisko's left ear.)  WINN: Very well, Emissary. We put ourselves in your hands. May we all walk with the Prophets.

In the earlier seasons, Winn would often casually make claims that the Prophets had "told her" something, or that she was just "doing what the Prophets asked"- and her political position as Kai always allowed her to just lie about being in contact with them all the time. Now, you can see the sheer humility- the embarrassment, even- on her face as she (for the first time) openly admits to Sisko that she has never actually heard them speak before; and that they clearly "prefer" him. Yes, there's some (understandable imo) bitterness here- but not at him, at THEM. And when she tries to read his pagh at the end- something she probably does to dozens of people every day, most of whom would unquestioningly believe anything she declares afterwards- she doesn't even try to pretend she felt anything there. It's one of her most genuine moments in the whole show, you can just SEE the redemption arc in reach and it's so heartbreaking!!

I think 'The Reckoning' is a huge episode for her too, for many reasons- but let's talk about how it sets up this fascinating parallel between her and Kira (who Odo describes in this episode as having "both faith and humility"). The Prophets choose Kira as their "vessel" because she was "willing"- meanwhile, Winn was right there just begging to be a part of this! Here she is, with a Prophet right in front of her face- and she prays and postures and begs and prays some more, all just to get ignored. Kira's brand of faith is very, "I am ultimately insignificant and I surrender my power and my body and pagh to the Prophets"- Winn's is more, "if I do all the right things, then I will be able to prove to the Prophets that I am worthy of their attention, worthier than everyone else, and maybe then they'll appoint me the saviour of Bajor! It's My Destiny, You See!! (Why Isn't This Happening For Me??)" And the events of this episode are kind of a big slap in the face to her honestly, because they sort of prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Prophets have no interest in her. Maybe stopping the battle was also an attempt at regaining some kind of agency with them- I DID THIS, I pulled a switch and it had a direct effect on the Prophets, so there!! (Whatever that effect entails). She does care about Bajor. Of course she does. But her ideal configuration of Bajor involves her being a major player in its salvation, which she was just never meant to be. And this is why she's so tragically susceptible to Dukat's manipulation- he was the first person ever to tell her everything she always wanted to hear.

And the intriguing thing about Dukat's deception is, it doesn't all fall apart at one go. It falls apart in layers. And this makes for some excellent, excellent Winn characterisation imo.

First, she thinks the pah wraiths are the Prophets- and they tell her, hey, The Sisko has faltered, Bajor needs you, and only you can fix this. Good lord, imagine finally getting to hear those words after a lifetime of silence! And it's very telling that her first reaction isn't to gloat like she would've in the earlier seasons, but instead to humbly- even anxiously- pray. Bajor needs her, the "Prophets" have asked her to do something, this is her moment! Then, this random lovely Bajoran farmer comes in and tells her even more things she has always wanted to hear- that her activism during the Occupation (ignored by Kira and Sisko alike) saved lives, that he always wondered why the Prophets would choose an alien as their Emissary, that surely Sisko and his followers were mistaken- and finally, "our world will be reborn- with YOU as its leader". Sounds good, right? But THEN she finds out she's been speaking to the pah wraiths and the lovely farmer is a devil worshipper actually. And she tries the "wash away my sins" approach- she wants some kind of quick fix ritual that will "purify" her, so she can continue to be Kai the right way. She even admits to Kira that she's always been power hungry and she wants to change- and I believe her! Unfortunately, Kira then tells her something she doesn't want to hear- that she has to step down as Kai. And surely that can't be, right? She's the saviour of Bajor! She's so complex... it's not simply her love of power that this scene reveals imo, but more significantly, her inability to see herself as not a vital part of Bajor's history; of this whole larger narrative. Like-

WINN: I'm a patient woman. But I have run out of patience. I will no longer serve gods who give me nothing in return. "GIVE ME"!! ADAMI MY BESTIE MY GIRL MY BUDDY THEREIN LIES THE PROBLEM!!!

So, okay, fine, now she's swayed over to the side that maybe the Prophets aren't that great, and maybe the pah wraiths are the true gods of Bajor (because they were willing to talk to her), and maybe she's okay working with the devil worshipper. But then it turns out he's DUKAT- and at this point, she's literally murdered someone, she's ready to stop this, to go back to Sisko and set things right- but then the book of the Kosst Amojan lights up because of the blood she spilled. She did that. It happened as a direct result of her actions. She's just so desperate to be acknowledged... to have a role to play in all this, no matter who offers it to her. So the pah wraiths actually giving her a reaction isn't something she can resist. And here's where things get even more tragic.

WINN: But the prophecies! They warn that the release of the Pah wraiths will mean the end of Bajor.  DUKAT: The old Bajor, perhaps. But from its ashes a new Bajor will arise and the Restoration will begin.  WINN: Who will be left to see it?  DUKAT: Those the gods find worthy. It will be the dawn of paradise. And you, Adami, are destined to rule it.  WINN: You're sure of that?  DUKAT: It is meant to be.

Again with the ease at which she's swayed by fascist rhetoric! Let's be clear, she was (and is) absolutely against the Cardassian Occupation. But her worldview is built on the pursuit of being "worthier" than everyone else, of being "closer to god" than everyone else- her expectation of faith is that it's some sort of determiner of who's doing it The Most Effectively, rather than it being a practice- and she just completely misses that any sort of plan that executes masses and spares whoever is deemed "worthy" is... literally exactly what people like Dukat did to her planet. Something something faith as competition, faith as determiner of inherent superiority, faith as a way to gain power via proximity to god… never faith as submission. And the worst part is she’s self-aware. It’s heartbreaking.

And it's about to get even more heartbreaking, because she truly believes she has arrived at her girlboss moment in the finale (I think the tragedy of her being a rape victim and knowing this and having to hide the body of the one (1) person who was looking out for her while being stuck with her rapist speaks for itself.) After kicking Dukat out on the street (lol), she studies the eeevil texts and realises that to set the pah wraiths free, you need to make a sacrifice. So now she gets to deceive him in return. And she does! The look of shock on his face when he discovers she poisoned him is priceless imo, and her triumph as she taunts his dead body, the sheer joy on her face as she casts off her Kai robes, when she recites those incantations and something actually happens- and that too such a large pyrotechnic spectacle- is so sad knowing what's coming. Because ultimately, the pah wraiths want to destroy Bajor, right? And Winn just doesn't. Of course they don't choose her. Of course they choose Dukat over her! She really thought that by tricking and murdering him, she'd made him the unimportant piece of the puzzle, that she was stealing back his thunder- but tragically, it turns out even the pah wraiths see her as disposable. Of course they resurrect Dukat (a man who's proved time and time again that he wants to see Bajor & Bajorans destroyed) and turn her into the sacrifice. The way she screams "NO!" here breaks my heart- she's betrayed her planet, and it was all for nothing. (Dukat's "are you still here?" is particularly devastating.) I think it's very significant that her final words are "Emissary, the book!"- it shows that in her last moments, she's owning her mistakes- she's stepping away from power and putting Bajor first, and leaving her own fate in the hands of the Prophets. Who, of course, once again ignore her, and choose to save Sisko instead. God.

The utter tragedy that even in the pah wraiths' plan, she was just a pawn. That she died at the hands of the gods she thought chose her, but used her, all while the gods she'd coveted her whole life stood by and did nothing. The Prophets chose Sisko because they believed he would put Bajor's interests over even his own- and now they ensure he will be back one day to see the new Bajor. She never will.

Yes, it was her pride that got her here. Her mean streak. Her inability to cope with nuance. Her inability to see herself as ultimately insignificant. Her inability to surrender to a higher power in any way that didn't involve becoming more powerful herself; more relevant, more "close to god". But it was also her love of Bajor. Because if she'd cared about Bajor less, then maybe the pah wraiths might have chosen her- or at least spared her, or taken her to their realm after she burned, the way they did with Dukat. Now, she ends up being the one thing she never wanted to be: insignificant.

Honestly if I had to summarise the tragedy of her arc in one sentence, it would probably be Kai Winn: Too Evil For The Prophets, Not Evil Enough For The Pah Wraiths. She and Dukat are not the same! She is a perfectly pathetic, sad and wet blorbo and I am holding her gently in my hands while apologising for her crimes <3

#cw rape mention #ds9 #just to be clear: I did write this post after seeing the take #'the prophets never spoke to winn because even they found her insufferable & knew she didn't even care about bajor' #which I happened to disagree with (as I do w/ every take that claims she didn't care about Bajor or that she and dukat were 'equally evil') #BUT! this is absolutely not meant to be a callout post or anything #there is a lot of general misogyny in discussions about her and I have my issues with the way people make light of her trauma #but if you just don't happen to love her as a character that's totally fine! honestly the very last thing I want #is to make anyone reading this post feel bad (or for it to be used to hate on people who just like other fictional characters more) #so I kindly request that people not reblog this post with that sort of energy thank you <3 #(also I might turn off reblogs if I suddenly get shy lol)

[findafight]

Sorry I know I've talked about it before but it's just. Very annoying that people will say that jancy shippers consider what is good for both, especially Nancy, while stancies don't?? Listen I don't mind either ship but I do think stancy is more interesting to me personally, but I also like jancy! It's cute and fun! So this isn't from a "my ship is better than yours" place, it's from a place of "why are they using something so easily flipped on their ship to diss another"

Because i think I've seen people claim that stancy is bad because Nancy doesn't want kids and Steve projecting his dream onto her (unconfirmed! She said six kids would be a nightmare, when Steve was making a reference to the party and she had agreed a family roadtrip with kids sounded nice! "Screw that" was about getting married because it's expected. About settling for something she didn't really want. About resenting her spouse. About not having agency in her own life like her mother seemed to. It wasn't about kids!) LThen they act like Jonathan didn't assume Nancy would drop everything for him, would also have kids with him, and that they'd end up miserable, resented by each other and their kids. Like that is canonically what Jonathan thinks a future with Nancy would be like at that time. And while he was certainly catastrophizing in that, it doesn't mean there isn't truth to what he was thinking. He also wanted kids, or expected to have kids, with Nancy. How is that any different from Steve, besides the fact that Steve saw it as a positive and Jonathan thought it would be the worst?

You can't say that one ship is considering what's best for both while the other isn't if you aren't engaging with how that ship is actually doing in canon, which, for jancy, is still rocky because Jon is still lying to Nancy! He still thinks that eventually they'll have kids and a life together! Which according to some of these people is not what Nancy wants!

Even if he's slowmo breaking up with her, how is that indicative of being good for either of them? How is it good for Jon, who feels he can't be honest with Nancy without it leading to her resenting him? How is it good for Nancy, who's being lied to (and also according to some fans I guess, doesn't want kids) and is having second thoughts, eyeing someone else?

I think either ship can work and are cute but if you're going to pretend that one is superior to the other without actually engaging with what both have for or against them? If you just ignore in one what you claim is a problem for the other? Just making it boring and, to me, ingenuine when you offer those critiques.

#stranger things meta #stranger things #nancy wheeler #jonathan byers #anti jancy #i guess? not really tho #stancy #steve harrington #im tagging jancy being this is not meant to be bashing its meant to be 'please acknowledge its got the same problem you claim stancy has' #and for my personal organization #homestly i think itd be best for nancy to be single at the end. give her time alone to discover the great wide world! #finda's rambles #people love to hate on stancy but then. dont use the same criticisms for jancy which is wild to me #jancy

[onepiece-polls]

I love your polls and it’s great you try to be on both sides to give fair chance to everyone, but the way you talked about shanks/buggy is crazy They’re fine together but in canon they’re brothers and your shipping googles got so tight you actually sounded like you could believe they’re anywhere close to canon which is u know stupid af

lmao, okay, this came out of nowhere 😂 Like... I talked about that months ago. But okay.

Anyway, Shuggy is canon. They're making out behind you right now.

#Anon please 😂 #Calling me stupid because you think I think shuggy is canon #but all the while claiming that the fact that they are brothers IS canon #My dear... neither are canon. It's all in our heads. #as far as I know only the marines said Shanks used to see Buggy as a brother #and what the hell do they know about the relationship between two pirates? #sounds like historians talking about queer relationships by saying 'they were REALLY good friends' #And... I don't usually talk about my ships on this blog but that was for the shipping war #shipping goggles was what the tournament was ABOUT... #But come closer... come look at my main blog... #I assure you you can only enter that blog with shipping goggles on 😂 #This is all meant jokingly from my side of course #I don't see any ship but the confirmed ones as canon #even though some might be canon TO ME but that's something else entirely #Why not... you know... let people ship what they want to ship however much they want to ship it? #Do you see me taking offense to people who don't want to ship something? #No everyone is free to see relationships as platonically - even if they're canon confirmed to be married #I just take offense to people calling other people stupid because they don't agree with them on fandom things #Especially when they're claiming THEIR headcanons are actually canon #Honestly imo anyone talking about 'shipping goggles' is just trying to make people who enjoy shipping feel inferior #I'm sorry you can't believe we're all equals no matter what we ship or don't ship #anon #ask #not a poll #I hope you all get that this is not an invitation for you all to send me more messages about this #I don't want to start a discussion #I just want you all to respect each other

[but-the-library-of-alexandria]

in 2024 I wanna stop hearing about betterhelp

#elise's posts #SO many youtubers etc I like are promoting this shit #fyi for those who don't know it's a REALLY unethical business trying to take advantage of the mentally ill #and before you say 'but how else am I meant to find a therapist that does online sessions' #post-pandemic most therapists offer this #and if you want the whole 'I can text my therapist for therapy anytime 24/7' thing... #sorry I know it might sound useful but it's SUPER bad for both your own mental health and your therapist's #sorry but therapists are not meant to be there for you 24/7 #that's not their job and it's really unhelpful for YOU to become dependant on a 24/7 therapist #betterhelp do not vet their therapists thoroughly #and some people say they have been evangelised to on betterhelp by preachers who ask the algorithm to assign them queer and atheist clients #many reputable therapists state that it's a terrible business model promoting unhealthy practices to patients #it claims to be the cheapest option but it's more expensive than the most expensive therapist I've ever had (I'm in the UK) #and significantly more expensive than the cheapest who was still good and probably more qualified than some people on betterhelp #you pay extra for the middleman #(being allocated a therapist you didn't choose and vet yourself isn't great anyway imo surely you want agency in this huge decision?) #and I'm sorry but pride counselling is a branch of the same company #please just look for therapists that specialise in your needs through a regulatory model and get in touch with them directly #not all of them have waitlists and tbh if every therapist on betterhelp is available whenever what does that say about them

[shopcat]

i think there's probably something to be said about like. how a concerning amount of your own rights and life are locked behind red tape and prerequisite knowing how to do something "official" and how legal situations work and everything. as well as how technology is being integrated into it all. bc fundamentally a lot of people just will not be able to do these things without help and they don't know how to get that help and the members of ur community that are vulnerable to this like i don't know the disabled the elderly people whose first languages aren't english even just quote unquote "the uneducated" or those who struggled to get an education for any reason are all just CONSTANTLY being fucked bc the formula is locked away and those who put it in place just go "well you should have known". like how could you know what you DON'T KNOW. and these aren't a small percentage of people like i'd say it's literally just. laymen. people you know.

#🐾 #like for example my dad got served a small claims amount for like i think 3k #which he can't afford obviously and there's this whole like personal situation aspect to it #but he missed the hearing because they told him they'd call but really they meant they'd send a fucking #google meeting invite to his gmail account (that he doesn't use) which he'd then have to know how to set up #and now after the fact he's trying to submit different forms to reopen the case and he said like #how are they going to hold it against me that i'm not brainy enough to understand the steps to take #and he's RIGHT it's LITERALLY not fair like yeah if i'd known i would've helped him but if it's not fair that he'd have to rely on someone #else. these people should be taking the fucking initiative and doing what they're meant to do and TELLING PEOPLE how to do things #not telling a 64 year old man who doesn't have good english to find and print pdfs and shit #which sounds really simple sure but it's just like. the entire process is ridiculous. AND IRS FRUSTRATING #like there's hundreds of thousands of ppl just being taken advantage of bc they don't know processes to follow it's ridiculous

[system-of-a-feather]

While it is completely valid to hate capitalism for personal reasons, if your hatred for it ends when your needs are met, then you are inherently missing the point.

-XIV

#rage against the machine #alter: xiv #commie posting #politics tw #politics #discourse #discourse tw #capitalism tw #honestly was formed largely to be good at capitalism #capitalism has fucked us over but we arguably know how to be good at capitalism #if it was mainly personal and selfdriven then i wouldnt give a shit #but its not a personal thing #its a matter of principle #and i get and understand that most people dont have it in them to keep angry when their needs are met cause capitalism burns you out #so I genuinely do not judge those that recognize that and acknowledge that #but if you but stop when your needs are met yet deny that you are taking care of yourself #and still act like a uwu anti capitalist #you are honestly kinda a feaud and a joke #its okay to be burnt out and need to take time and self care cause burning out resisting shit meant to birn you out gets you no where #but dont be a poser who claims they fight for the people and care for the people but their care ends when theyre fed #cause ngl #thats just accepting and playing a role in capitalism at that point #anyways #xiv hates capitalism pass it on

[floorpancakes]

ppl will be like omgggg lesbian yaoi when and not know about rei x kaoru

#oniisama e #if i wanted to be mean id bring up love gene xx but #altho it used to be my fav when i was a teenager i immediately went back and was like oh....oh no... #despite the frankly incredible concept of 'takarazuka yaoi but yuri au' the whole thing is laughably badly trans exclusionary #its like your series has school issue binders and pronouns in it but no trans people even within the confines of the new gender system??lol? #none of this makes sense without context but if you actually want to read love gene xx id recommend it only for the art and design rly #didnt age well bc it was one of those shortsighted 'what if gender but wacky!' shows that claims to tackle gender issues n wraps arnd to #being super incompetent #but it was camp! but thats besides the point i was meant to be talking about oniisama e lol #this isnt kaorei thank fuck although that ship is also plagued by ... societal norms #shudders

[ride-a-dromedary]

One more thing while I’m back on the Cyrano bs, but I will never be over the interpretive duality of this line (both in how it’s written and delivered) from the Crimp adaptation:

“You’re telling me, you loved me, but you signed his name. His name, Cyrano! How many times?”

#jibber jabber blabber bluff #it's just...it's just a lot #because here's the thing - i always pay attention in this adaptation in how language is used - the thing is literally all about words #so when words are used in the past tense or emphasized in certain ways it packs so much meaning into something so small #and i feel like i *have* to look at it in multiple ways - both simple and not so much #because that's the way it's meant to be looked at - interpretively #we as interpreters are left somewhat confused - we assume yes this comes from roxane's anger over him lying to her #(you claim you love me and yet you went along with all of this and it was your idea on top of it) #but then *also* because this play reframes cyrano through a queer lense #the emphasis on the word 'his' in 'his name' brings pause #because you think...let's parallel 'loved' and 'signed' here #both in past tense #it comes across very much as 'you claim you loved me but are you sure it's *me* you loved' #'because now every time you talk of loving me his name is in your mouth' #'*his* name was on the paper - which is it?' #but also with mcavoy's delivery of 'i was in love with...you [roxane]' #(while on his tirade defending christian's honour and also the past tense 'was') like martin crimp and co i just want to TALK #there's more i wanted to say but my brain is a scrambled egg rn i hope this makes sense

[thefaeriefeatherdark]

Personally a big fan of restoring Kon's "Human with TTK" thing but making him a clone of Lex and Paul Westfield so that he can be 100% evil divorced dad genetically, but instead of having identity crises over whether or not he'll become evil he keeps getting freaked out because he'll have the sudden urge to buy a Tesla or something.

#This is a joke #I am 100% in support of the Human with TTK thing but for separate reasons. #Primarily I felt that it made his powers more interesting since he lacked the full invulnerability and it meant he needed to be more clever #Kon El #Superboy #dc comics #dccomics #comics #kon el superboy #conner kent #Oh also I feel that making him an actual Superman clone undercut a lot of his whole deal. #Like he benefits from not being a blood relative of Superman and not really having a claim to that name but still being Superman's cousin. #Also I think he works better if he's coming from an origin of being entirely made up of Villain's DNA. #Like he's not good because the Superman DNA won he's good because he chooses to be. #I'd also prefer if Lex's DNA was secretly used by Westfield to create him because it provides them a much more interesting dynamic. #Superboy sharing his DNA suprising Lex and catching him offguard while serving as a manifestation of a road Lex chose not to take.

[jenny-dreadful]

yk when someone confidently slides on their socks into a complex ongoing discourse to be like “um actually. [term] means [thing] 💅” all smug, and expect to be taken seriously, not realizing they completely lack a concept of a specific and contextually-applicable usage which everybody else here already understands. <<<<<<<<<

#might as well suggest my asexual ass is claiming to reproduce via budding while you’re at it. you know #versions of this happen all the time #huge contextualizing tag ramble coming. sorry #rn i’m thinking of a post the other day where someone was like #‘actually all christians are evangelical. so………’ #and i mean. it wasn’t like #‘i think this emerged terminology is weird bc evangelising isn’t exclusive to those ones’ #it was like. you know. like they CLEARLY thought that quirk of terminology meant #that all prior discussion and criticism n what have u of Evangelical Christians™️ #should be equally and indiscriminately applied to the whole concept bc theoretically the *name* being used for that specific thing could be #and like. no bb i’m sorry you don’t have the perspective or context or whatever to appreciate this is discussion of #a particular subgroup with like. its own broadly-applicable tendencies n problems n attitudes n behaviors #imagine if you were discussing smth about Baptists [sect] n someone walked in like #‘uhhhh 🤨 other christians do baptism too…so you mean all of them actually…’ #you know. weird and reductive #if you’ve been unable to gather from context what people r talking about here #and you like google ‘what does evangelize mean’ #or whatever the fuck #maybe it’d be good to stop and wonder if ur the kind of expert that should be trynna correct people

[puppys-rhythm-heaven]

the tiny robots from fillbots 2 being unused in megamix and moddable is really inch resting to me cuz like. there's no listing for fillbots 2. or any unused icon or anything. meanwhile the double cue from micro-row 2 is unused in megamix and moddable also but there IS data for micro-row 2 (or i guess micro-row 3 but whatever). there's so much weird unused stuff in megamix like that-

#puppy rambles #rhythm hell #megamix #fillbots 2 #micro-row 2 #marching orders and night walk have unused sprites for their sequels but they're not moddable at all #tcrf claims that the dazzles 2 and bouncy road 2 have stuff from them in some form #but that's just in a template saying to put that stuff on the page sfdkljfdsklfjsdfsd- #what's interesting to me is that there's not really any unused data for any games that aren't in megamix at all #the most we have is remix 10's music but that was definitely just a test #there are unused NEW games but no unused RETURNING games other than sequels #and even then the only sequel with any actual data n not just sprites or cues is micro-row 2 #honestly for marching orders given that the pointing sprites are still using the original game's textures and not the sequel's #i'm guessing they were probably just intended for final remix or smth tbh- #no idea on the electric fish from night walk 2 tho. like. idk why they'd update the texture if it was just cuz of porting the sprites #but. why is it there. y'know #esp for night walk since it's a shop game sfdkljfsdkldfsjf- #also another interesting thing: there were seemingly meant to be four on the floor sections for clappy trio #probably in citrus remix #there's an unused 4 graphic in the sprite sheet for clappy trio. no data for four on the floor i don't think tho #thank god there's not four on the floor segments clappy trio already makes the timeline confusing as is #thank god there's not four on the floor snappy trio segments in tengoku that'd fuck with the timeline so much- #the rhythm heaven timeline is in shambles and it's all because of clappy trio and also dj school kind of but not as much there #ds' comics mean dj school has to happen after all of ds' other games sdfkldjklfdsjfds- #meanwhile clappy trio just makes stuff confusing cuz like. the conductor left at somepoint before prequel clappy trio presumably #but the four on the floor segments in tengoku remix 1 and 7 make that not really make sense #prequels can be assumed to all take place before the originals logically. and sequels take place afterwards #(aside from rap women ofc) #ninja reincarnate also makes things confusing honestly #it's canonically in the future. which is also funny because it means that in rhythm heaven in the present day

[howaboutcaptainwesker]

besties you have GOT to start fact-checking those 'RE fact' posts

#resident evil #this isnt meant to be a jab at anyone / I know they're probably not all like this #but 90% of the ones that ive seen have been like #5000 unsourced claims #an observation (ops interpretation being the 'fact') #something from RE: the book / the true story behind biohazard (non canon) #canon things from the games mixed in with things from other sources that are only semi canon (or not canon at all) #subjectspeaks #i just ask so so gently that you look things up before you believe them and repeat them to other people. #or before you use them for your lore analysis post or whatever #edit: the RE fandom wiki does not count as a source for your RE facts. #Please check their further reading/source links at the bottom of the page before you believe anything please please pleases

[hella1975]

my friend watched banana fish and im actually.... kinda annoyed about it

#this is SO DUMB #but basically i did all the 'guys omg NEVER watch this show' with my mates when i finished bf #while secretly hoping one of them would watch it so we could talk about it #but like genuinely the longer it goes since i finished that godforsaken anime the more it matters to me? #like 'matters to me' is a bad way of wording it bc it makes it sound like a GOOD THING #and i mean it matters to me because it is so incredibly harmful to me individually #like i really fucking projected some serious trauma in my life into that show partially bc of the time i watched banana fish #and also just bc i see a lot of myself in ash which was something i realised in episode 1 #which meant i watched the ENTIRE thing aware of this just to have THAT ending happen. it was really devastating #but at the same time im aware that 80% of the reason banana fish was so sad for me #is bc of my own personal lens i watched it through #the other 20% is just the fact it's an actual sad anime #so now my friend has watched it and she's doing all the 'oh that was so sad! let's talk about it!' #and im like idk how to tell you this but i CANNOT talk about it with you like i literally cant #and for the past few months my whole 'omg NEVER watch this show' has actually been 100% serious #like i do not want my friends touching this show it's MY thing it's very personal #which is why this is such a dumb post like im literally trying to claim this anime #but it's just actually kinda invalidating to have my close irls watch it in a very casual way #it's one of those things where it's fine on tumblr bc tumblrinas GET IT bc NONE OF US are normal about our shows #but people irl are so determined to consume media in a very normal way lmao #and basically my friend is going to start making out i overreacted i just know she is #and i cannot STAND even an insinuation that im being a baby about something but i also will prove her point #if i go off on one about WHY bf is such a big deal bc i'll just look defensive #does any of this make sense #tldr: sharing media that's important to you is nice but also it's Bad and i want to Gatekeep #banana fish #probably #delete later #bc this is pathetic LMAO

[mspaintlover]

i;m so sick of swatch/ton im gonna throw up for real

#IM NOT GOING TO CLAIM ITS LIKE MORALLY WRONG OR SOMETHING I JUST DON'T LIKE IT. IT DISINTERESTS ME DEEPLY #It just makes 97% of anything ever made or related to swatch disinteresting to me immediately its frustrating #i know they have canon character tensions going on between them which is fine but i dont get why exploring them by default has to ship #^sorry i saw cool art that was tagged ship #also sorry to put this here but i don't want to put Fandomy Complaints on my main and this is my swatch blog #.bmp #uh.. #complaining #?? #i just don't get it but maybe its becauyse im Swatch Brained but like i feel like maybe. it doesnt have to be about spamton sometimes . #maybe swatch can be their own character outside of half of a ship dynamic idk #<- also ALSO. i wrote up a huge thing about how Swatch wouldn't have like severely and permanently disfigured spamton #by throwing him in burning acid. which i intended mostly as like 'swatch isn't just Mean Butler/Barista and nothing else' because i was sic #of them just being used as a prop villain for Spamton #but i really didn't mean it as like. they were closer than they seem in game or that they didnt clearly hate eachother's guts #they very much do not like eachother . like Swatch is SO mad he stole the NEO body they made it clearly meant a lot to them #no doubt they have some bullshit going on but to me making it romantic or whatever doesn't add anything to the interpersonal conflict #this why it is my mission to make swatch art that is not ship sorry

[springcatalyst]

I was just going to write something silly and little and now I have 10 tabs open about ships and navigation. I've written 2 sentences

#girl help. idk how marine navigation works #how do u know where u ARE #YES i know about astrolabes and sextants and dead reckoning but like. how do u KNOW #like. astrolabes can get u lattitude??? but wh. i mean. i guess thats better than nothing??? but?? #what if u lose track of time or speed or heading for an hour?? u just die??? #i guess thats what a compass and an astrolabe is for but still????????? #guy who just found out navigation in antiquity was probably hard. clown behavior #i may be. stupid #dont get me STARTED on ship schematics #i get fore and aft sails are easier to manage than square sails especially with a skeleton crew. but like #those are usually used for small boats?? or like a sloop is a good type of rig for what i want but thats so SMALL #i need a ship that is meant to crew like 10ish people min. but CAN be operated. badly. by very very few #and then do small ships even have a below deck??? whadda hell #i dont know. anythinf #this started as 'what side is the anchor on for this type of ship' #the answer is the bow btw. if u were wondering #idk if the anchor ALWAYS goes at the bow bcause thats where it was on the ships i helped out on last summer. but those were TINY tiny #anyhway. i didnt claim to know things #what the fuck is a gaff rig

[sumyerki]

every time i talk about the little palace i might start crying.   it was meant to be aleksandr's childhood dream,   a paradise where all grisha could be free  &  live in peace  &  now,   when it turned out to be neither freedom nor peace,   he argued that at least they would be safe    ( - er than outside )    but then even that was no longer true  &  anyway i can understand large portions of his initial frustration with the entire world

#⁽ ⁱⁱ ⁾ . HEADCANON / THE HEADS OF MANY THAT WILL STILL BE CLAIMED / BUT WARNINGS FOR THE FOES WHO TRY TO CAPTURE EVERYTHING OF OURS #i circle back to this periodically but please for a second imagine #imagine having something you meant to be fundamentally good #something you created with a loved one even #it's your project. your child #something you have worked towards for quite literally half a millennium #& no it is not ideal it is not perfect #to be precise it is not even yours #because at the end of the day #you too are just as reliant on the king's mood as the rest of the fucking country #worse maybe because he could have you executed simply for existing #so no the thing you did is merely the best of what you were able to do #with the means available to you #but you try to make it as safe & secure for those you want to protect as you can #but it is also all you get #being used as weapons & tools for a country that hates you #is the best you can hope for? #dying for a family that sees you as less than human is the peak your kind can achieve? #wouldn't you ... after centuries of this #be a little frustrated as well? angry? stuck?