#then it is only Right to pursue

[stbot]

Niamh Wilson as bitchy theater gay thespian Lydia ↳ Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies

#grease rise of the pink ladies #grease rotpl #rise of the pink ladies #rotpl #lydia rotpl #niamh wilson #known thespian 'i've studied your gait' lydia #i think i need a gif tag #i love her. i do not understand why i love her as much as i do but I Do. #lydia spitting on her classmates: Peasants. #me with hearts in my eyes and my head in my hands: total plebs ur so right queen #she's such a pretentious theater kid which is objectively the worst kind of theater kid #but i love her!!! #can't wait for her to go to new york to pursue a career on broadway only to end up doing beat poetry in the village instead #lydia with her gay lil berets and gay lil scarfs >>> #floyd's little laugh when she calls the rest of them peasants <3

[biblicalhorror]

Aroace Riz real but also Fabian is SO clearly in love with him and Riz has no idea

#honestly fabian might not even fully know yet #a core part of fabians character is that he is so deeply afraid of rejection that he is never going to pursue the people he actually wants #i do think he likes Maezy a lot but i think he only knows how to pursue hot toxic women that will discard him at a moments notice #which in a way protects him from ever actually dealing with heartbreak #is he a gay man dealing with comphet? ehh maybe #i could see that #but I think the vibe i get is more about how he has these platonic friends he completely adores and is fully devoted to #and then in another category he has the people that he does not have any actual attachment to that he will allow himself to pursue #and crossing the boundaries in between those two categories or allowing himself to pursue someone he really cares for #would require a level of vulnerability he is in no way prepared for #in his home life he has an emotionally detached mother who is well liked but kind of floats through interactions on a surface level #and a father who is extremely concerned with fame and glory and attention but doesnt seem to have ever stopped moving in his life #genuinely fabian does not know what a safe loving partnership would look like #and we see him constantly oscillating between emulating his mother and his father in relationships #but just beneath the surface is a little boy who wants so badly to cling to his loved ones so tight and be squeezed right back #with no way of knowing how to even ask for that if he wanted #and riz is his best friend in the world and he knows on some level that riz is simply not interested in having that kind of relationship #not on the level fabian needs #but that also makes riz a safe target for these feelings of devotion #theyre just friends! just besties! fabian never has to reckon with his own loneliness or harmful patterns #if he channels all of his yearning for closeness onto his best friend #anyway! this boy needs therapy #fhjy #fhjy spoilers #fabriz

[deep-spacediver577]

#Finally got this outta my folders! #This is what I call a refined doodle #Feels good to color Skulk again #Then again I always enjoy drawing him... #Kitty and Ember are friends right? #So Skulker and Johnny could be to! #(I think they are you can't change my mind) #With that said I see them breaking the law or robbing places #But with Johnny the way he is somethings Kitty would pursue them only to end up like this from time to time #(⁠ ͡⁠°⁠ ͜⁠ʖ⁠ ͡⁠°⁠) #Better hope GZ's finest ain't after them #Danny Phantom #BlackCat and Hunter'sFlame need to go on a double date. That would be hilarious! #DSD577art #Drew a Skulk! I'm satisfied for awhile now

[kingslayerstew]

#girl w the prosthetic in the top right is also the only time ive ever seen a clearly established butch lesbian in non-romance manga/manhwa #otta from dunmeshi is butch and canonically into women but shes never called a lesbian #<- (by dm elf standards) #or like. those girls from sailor moon r p clearly in a butch/femme relationship but again its never said outright theyre lesbians #but pretty early on sowol is confirmed in text as being lesbian + she gets to have ex-gfs and pursues women and everyones chill abt it #theres other wlw characters in fc3 but w them its less clear cut #fight class 3

[hiddenworldofmary]

the boy and the heron (how do you live?)

#the boy and the heron #hayao miyazaki #i have many many personal thoughts after this movie and they’re all running wild in my head #you watch some movies at just the right time in your life and this was one of those #it was the same with kiki’s delivery service which i watched right after moving away #coincidentally also all alone and by the sea and to pursue education #i cried six times and i will no longer consider wet eyes crying at a movie because i was full on sobbing #for the first time in my life #first at the very beginning. then the fiery girl. then the creatures #then two times at the end of movie monologues. Ann then the closing song delivered the final blow #i’m very sad that the only person i would immediately want to walk about it and who would enjoy it with me isn’t here #but i’m also hopeful and i believe that there will be equally great friends in my future #i will find them or they will find me and perhaps it will be a little awkward at first but that’s how you build relationships (and worlds) #piece by piece and changing them once in a while #and it will be ok and i will not forget #mine #oh and i also got a movie postcard in the cinema which was so nice

[astriiformes]

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#i am just so scared that we are going to be stuck in a cycle of relative poverty now due to scribe being sick #like we were doing okay but realizing i'm not going to have enough money from financial aid this year has messed me up #the only reason we were doing okay was because the state was willing to give me money for school. and now they're not #basically entirely because i'm a non-traditional student too #and like what comes next #i want to go to grad school so badly. will it just be more of this? #will i be saddled with so many loans we can never afford to have our own place or feel secure and not guilty for having nice things? #i can't support us both on a student's not-salary #and i'm scared that me going back to school is just permanently screwing us both over now #or alternatively. will i have to give up on my dream so we can live #it was different when she had an income #now i just feel bad and selfish for pursuing something i care about #and like i'm morally in the wrong for not just dropping out and finding work somewhere even if it sucks #i'm so tired. i don't want to be crying about money right now #but here we are i guess

[rox-of-iu]

me + mayhem going on a stupid silly hike for my stupid silly mental health

touched grass and i am normal again (lying)

#i will get back to drawing soon let me just sleep for a few years shdjhkfds #anyway photo credit to mayhem again i cant take pictures to save my life lol #btw the caption is obvs reference to that one hike video tiktok i think so credit to that also its not my joke #anywqay it was nice did help me a little bit #been feeling a bit down due to some personal problems ykno #and also due to not being accepted into a med uni I rly wanted to (but didn't put enough effort I'll confess) and that almost no one getsin #but i was only missing one point o(-( i was the first in line outside the capacity limit hasjkdhsahd #even tho my brain is rly small for it lets be real hfjsdfhksd but like hhsdjhshdjkhd those biches at physiotherapy baited me hdsjd #mqf i have failed you lol #also i have accidentaly gotten back into one piece as I do for like two weeks periodically every few months or so dhjsdhk #so im revisiting my olde blorbo trafalgar which is just reminding me of a fact that this was one of the fuckers my itty bitty young self - #- wanted to pursue medicine beacause of lmaoooo #bad timing one piece fixation!! bad bad!! sdhhdjshdjakshd #whatevrrr whatevr whatevr io dotn care! enough of that hahhskj #but hey as some of u may remeber im czech so haa whats up with the mountains right since we are very cute and 'down to earth' state hahaha #its cuz its actually from austria :)) #we went hiking there since theyre co by kamenem dohodil as they say #fuck english has the exactly same saying im moron that ruins my whole thing hjdsk 'a stone's throw away' whatever ignore that ig hahhah #so yeah very beautiful very powerful go touch some grass lads #also they are not stones throw away i was lying but close enough- #also random czechs stop jumpscaring me in other countries challenge why was there so many of us horrible horrible horrible

[diluc33rpm]

the romance/relationship system in bg3 is genuinely some of the worst designed shit i've ever seen in any game with that feature but at least the memes we get out of it are funny. once saw someone comment something along the lines of 'patch note: waving at gale will no longer cause him to buy a house for the two of you to retire in' and i've never recovered since

#i love gale he doesn't deserve (most of) the incel slander #but it's painfully such a good riff because it really really does feel like that #the player choices being a b/w alternation between 'hey there' and 'YOU SHOULD KILL YOURSELF... NOW!' normally is already comical as is #the fact that it carries over into interactions with the party members who you're presumably trying to be close with is... something else #and what makes it worse is it ISN'T jokey hyperbole. anyone remember 'send a mental image of you kissing him or HIS HEAD ON A PIKE.' c'mon #trying to chat and vibe at the refugee camp celebration and the sum of conversation i get is one (1) line asking how they're doing #because going any further than that elicits marking you down for the path of boning take it or leave it #it's genuinely so hard to get to feel like you can deepen a relationship with the characters in ways that aren't trying to pursue them #yes! halsin! i really want to know you better! i just don't want the ass!! why is trying to hit the only option other than up and leaving!! #99% of the time i expect nothing from media creators in terms of writing interactive relationships #larian are beyond parody in that they've somehow managed to do worse than the already suboptimal majority #we're just going to impose the roadblock of do you want to fuck y/n right off the bat. good luck finding a way to talk around that if not #the obscuration surrounding where exactly the checks are really does not help at all either #when the shit's got even the allos complaining about it you know it's BAD #shame because i was excited for character scenes given that's a lot of what's hyped up about the game #but no it's all just the romances. 'what if i'd like to breathe in someone's general direction-' well now have you heard of our romances? #fish fear them party members fear them and tav is going to have to walk alone on this sinful earth #conservative bigoted relative at the family reunion withers era was a fucking time before they tweaked that line speaking of #just so crazy they can get away with this shit #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 liveblog

[16-jarrah]

i get why people would opt to say walter was a terrible person since the beginning, but i think that's like, the most boring takeaway you can get about his character. he was already insecure and prideful from the start, and it's what would hurt him and keep hurting him. but like, being insecure and prideful are regular traits any regular person can have. the actions that he makes because of these traits, which in turn keep fueling his ego more and more, are what makes him an interesting character. and he was already pretty capable of hurting other people, but he wasn't doing it out of malice, but more because of careless selfishness at first. what makes walter terrifying is that the more he does it, the more he becomes aware of what he's doing, and the more he keeps going and keeps being more and more meticulous and deliberate about what he does that hurts people and even to the point when it was specifically to hurt people.

i think the traits were there in walter from the beginning��the pilot did a pretty good job of establishing how powerless he's felt all his life and just how susceptible he is to letting this newfound perceived power get to his head so easily. he even says this explicitly in 5x06 "Buyout" when he tells jesse "i'm not in the money business, i'm in the empire business". but saying he was this monster from the start kind of implies he didn't undergo through a character arc throughout the show when it's quite literally what he did. he got worse. so much worse. through mostly the fault of his own fragility.

#idk if i put it into words right but i'm just musing #was walter a good person when brba started? up in the air. but his family genuinely adored him. despite feeling like a loser teacher #some of his coworkers actually really liked and respected him. he was just as much of a regular person as anyone else was tbh #you know it's interesting that he and gale basically have the same motivations. why jump to meth of all things. why go from 0 to 100 when #it sounds COMPLETELY ridiculous. but they were both very passionate about chemistry who felt like their potentials were wasted and felt #like they were finally putting their skills to good use again. getting to flex their muscles and shit. whenever they cook better purer meth #than most other people. i think it's a really genius idea to have this premise for the show lol #cz as much as walter is motivated by him feeling like he desperately has to take control of his own life he also is a scientist at heart #who desperately needs to apply his knowledge and skills somewhere where it would feel gratifying #seriously dude you could've tried to get a paper published or two or something. djhdidhd #but the academe has its own Politics and whatnot. so one could only speculate why walt didn't get to pursue that any more #(aside from the whole grey matter industries thing) #anyway uhhh i hope i get the post across lol not to sound cheesy cliche but brba is a corruption slash character deterioration arc #quite literally the whole point is that he Didn't Start Off Like This And He Gets Worse #again. he already had some of his bad tendencies and traits but it's like. we all do that's not necessarily inherently make or break #it's what he DOES and KEEPS DOING. CONSCIOUSLY that turns him into the horrifying man he is by the end of it all #so i just think if your biggest takeaway is Walter Was Always A Monster then you're just missing the whole damn point #op #brbaposting

[steamdyke]

this is not something very Articulated but. your religion, or lack of thereof, is a morally neutral thing.

it does not automatically make you less or more progressive nor compassionate. religious beliefs and practices are not a monolith. you can find the most disgusting, bigoted, conservative talking points in a denomination just to turn around and find a queer-friendly-leftist-adjacent branch of the same religion.

disclaimer: this is coming from a catholic. i had a faith crisis as a teen, called myself an atheist for a while and then tried to find a perfect religion to align my beliefs only to realize that it was 1. a totally frivolous thing to do if only for brownie points 2. disrespectful to the people who practice those religions, their struggles, culture and the violence they may face.

#before anyone gets funny ideas. no. i do not think that conversion is a bad thing. #it is morally neutral and not something you should pursue if you only aim at having The Right Labels #claude speaks

[queen-scribbles]

I saw the post about the big Bioware sale and figured you're a good person to ask since I've seen you posting about Mass Effect/Dragon Age a lot. The games look fun, and I'm a sucker for complex stories with customizable protagonists, but I am a complete weenie about the more, uh, mature stuff when it comes to romance and the 'M' rating keeps scaring me off.

Like I'm over 18 and I'm fine with the violence/drinking/most of the swearing listed with the M rating, but I just get deeply uncomfortable with the other stuff. I'm just weird like that, I guess.

Is it really a lot? Or is there like a skip option, or some kinda setting that'll just have it be a fade-to-black sitch like SWTOR? I won't be too disappointed if there isn't, I kind of expect that really, but I figured it was worth an ask while the sale is on/to keep in mind for the next sale.

I have major social anxiety and am kinda embarrassed about all this, so sorry about the anon-asking. :P

No, no, you're fine, I understand completely. (I can take or leave a lot of the sexier stuff myself) Now I will try to remember romance scenes bc I haven't played some of these games in 4-5 years, and some of the romances I haven't gotten to yet. 😅 (if you don't mind spoilers you can always look up the romance on yt to check for yourself if it goes past your preferences. but if you do wanna avoid spoilers I will do my best) P much all the romances there's only even potentially anything that might be a problem in the Culmination Scene.

(If I got anything wrong anyone please feel free to correct me)

I know in ME1 the romance scene(with Kaidan for f!Shep, Ashley for m!Shep, Liara for either) there's sideview but shadowed nudity for f!Shep/Ashely/Liara(with Arm Strategically Placed to block boobs so all you really see is a little bit of butt) and Kaidan/mShep is shirtless.

ME2.... I think there's 0 nudity and ftb for Garrus, Thane, Tali, and Jack(ftb on tenderness, comes back in to fully-clothed snuggles in bed), Jacob's shirtless, and Miranda you half-unzip her catsuit uniform so you can see her bra. Oh, and there's a mini-romance-y thing with Kelly and she wears something really skimpy if you do that.

ME3... I need to caveat I've only actually gotten through ME3 with my Kaidanmancers + the Jackmancer, but I watched p much all the others on yt to hurt myself. Also it's been a while. I don't thiiiiink there's any full nudity, when it gets to the big sex scene toward the end, the furthest it goes is cuddling/foreplay with underwear still on, then cuts to waking up still just in underwear, and not all the romances get that. Some of them, ah. end prematurely for different reasons, or the romance isn't an actual companion in this game, so there's less content(Kaidan, Ashley, Garrus, Liara, and Tali get the most, since they join the team + have been established longer). There are new m/m and f/f exclusive option in ME3, but it's been long enough I don't rememberrrrrr if there's anything risque for them. I don't think so.

Andromeda I've only done Liam's romance and I don't think there was much in there(you can get him to stop wearing a shirt on the ship about halfway through and there's a makeout session on the couch that ftb). I think Cora's and Jaal's involve male and female shirtlessness, but I'm straight up blanking for the rest of them.

FOR DRAGON AGE

In Origins, the "big scene" for the romances does involve "sexy" movements, but the characters still have on underwear, so no nudity, and tbh with game engine/graphics advances that have been made a lot of people find those scenes cringey/silly more than sexy now. I think you can skip those, maybe, but if you can't there's dialogue after so you can just look away til you hear your chosen sweetie start talking and the conversation takes place fully clothed.

DA2 they did ftb for the four vanilla game romances. Love interest shows up, there's cutscene kissing fully clothed, ftb, wake up in underwear at worst. (Sebastian MY BELOVED is romanceable with a f!Hawke, but since he's a) chaste and b) a DLC companion, there's absolutely no sex scenes with him, you can get chaste married on his friend path and he'll talk about the two of you getting married to reclaim his homeland on his rival path).

DAI is... simultaneously best and worst in this regard lol Josephine and Solas there's nothing. Sera and Cassandra you see boobs and enough leg to hint at full nudity without actually showing it(Sera's might get a little more explicit, it's been longer for her so I don't 100% remember). Dorian's has... full rear nudity, but I think that's it. Blackwall's I don't remember, Cullen and Iron Bull both have scenes where you can tell they're naked, but the Inquisitor or an object is strategically in the way of the naughty bits.

OH AND not romance related, but possibly an issue, there are demons in the DRagon Age canon known as Desire Demons, who look like practically naked purple ladies(they have, like, an even skimpier version of the SWtOR Slave Girl outfit and are fond of caressing themselves seductively). They aren't in DAI, but do show up in the first two games for a few quests.

#queen rambles #i really really hope i'm remembering things right #there are many romances and i have not done/watched them all #some day i will escape the magnetic draw of raphael sbarge's voice and romance someone OTHER THAN KAIDAN with fshep #(tho points to him for being literally the only video game romance i can't skip if playing a gender who can pursue them😂)

[bumblingbabooshka]

I will walk down to the end with you / If you will come all the way down with me.

#B'Elanna Torres #B'Elanna art #B'Elanna #-thinks so hard about B'Elanna's self image issues and about how Tom Paris could be baked into an apple pie he oozes so much All American #Charm and about how B'Elanna was literally ready to break up with Tom because she felt he wasn't committed to her emotionally #and didn't prioritize her needs/wants and when she tried to bring it up he didn't address any of that and instead just asked her to marry #him and she said yes bc it's what she wanted wasn't it? But also thinks about how getting married solves literally 0 of their problems bc #that wasn't the issue - and how they never REALLY talked about the issue she had and the proposal seemed more like a desperate attempt to #hold onto her and B'Elanna's acceptance was her tightening her grip as well and thinks about how the solution to Tom not prioritizing #B'Elanna was framed as B'Elanna trying to do what Tom wanted and about how B'Elanna blames her mother entirely for her father abandoning #them - how she blames SPECIFICALLY the fact that her mother was too Klingon and about how Tom blames the fact that he never showed how much #he cares about/is committed to B'Elanna on the fact that she has 'that tough Klingon exterior' and how her response is #'do I look that tough right now?' and about how B'Elanna associates Klingon features so strongly with negativity - unloveability - rejection #that she tries to erase her features from her daughter's face and make her Human which to her means Good and Beautiful and Loveable and #about how she STILL after all this time only wants her father to love her again. Thinks about fear of abandonment which makes you hold onto #something which doesn't work bc you can't bear to be alone or fail. If she said no to Tom's proposal who else would she have? And #doesn't it feel like a prize? Like you finally WON. The Human Prince wants to marry you - you're FINALLY good enough for someone to sign #a contract saying they'll never leave you. Even if they don't pay attention to you - even if they abandon you to pursue their own interests #every time something shinier comes up they'll never LEAVE and that's what you're the most afraid of. Thinks about the fear of being too much #and too klingon and about how B'Elanna told Tom it was okay he forgot their romantic getaway even though she took so much time to plan it #and was so excited for it because she didn't want to spoil his fun (is being with her work?) and about how she still remembers that little #human boy who pointed at her forehead ridges and called her 'turtlehead' until she beat him so viciously they had to pull her off him #Thinks about all of those things VERY hard and EXPLODES- #bea art tag #st voyager #st voyager art #CHARACTER. OF. ALL. TIME.

[luckyfailure]

matilda and mob psycho 100 are the only works of art ever about gifted children. i'm not interested about the rest.

#i love how their powers do carry the narrative but in a way that is so them #to pursue the things that are right to them #i also love how the adults in there are portrayed for different reasons #matilda is like yeah kids it is right to hate your parents. a power fantasy for me honestly #and mp100 has reigen fucking arataka. who is also shown to be in the wrong but has genuine love for this kid AND shows it #their messages are also opposite but not exactly? #matilda calls for rebellion against unfair adults from a kid standpoint. something i feel gifted kids perceive even more deeply #but it ends with her making a genuine connection with someone who sees her and gets her the accomodations she needs #making her quote unquote normal #and mob psycho 100 is explicitly about a gifted neurodivergent kid who got really lucky #his family supports his weirdness and never pushed the special one title on him #reigen also does this and also teaches him to see it as just one thing he happens to be good at #and yet he hides it bc he's aware it's not just superpowers what he has #in the same way gifted kids aren't only just smart a lot of the time. it's also a difference in perception of reality #and his character arc is insanely compassionate bc of this luck he had #and also filling in the aspects of himself that were hard for him to explore and grow in bc of what makes him different #this wholesomeness can only happen bc the ppl surrounding him are mostly kind #matilda's revenge is the only way she can fight to protect herself due to the environment she's in #they are both very close to me <3

[baladric]

how to tell the clingy opera person trying to be my friend who also keeps offering me gigs i previously would’ve died for that i’ve decided to kill the part of me that cringes about the quality of my voice and just screlt all the time until i’ve got an abysmal sort of wail goin on, bc i’m just very done with the shit opera does to my head and my sense of self-worth and i’m really deeply dedicated to the act of Singing Badly now

#like this goes hand in hand w the t #making the decision to Change has allowed me to -actually change- from the ground up #including the core part of me that's defined itself by the objective beauty of my voice since i was old enough to understand #praise and its obverse -void- in my life for anything that wasn't singing #singing was the only thing i did right according to every family member authority figure and friend #until i was 25 #and i'm done now #i'm done w performing that and i'm done w hating myself for it and i'm done with feeling like i did a bad thing #in ditching grad school and not pursuing a career in opera #i'm done! #and honestly that one single change has filled me with a really indescribable degree of Joy

[orbmanson7]

:(

Very bad grade in therapy today

#thought i could make progress this year and yet here i am having done jack shit by now #what has even been the point #i just wanted to do something today that didnt feel awful like try to encourage people to watch a show or play a game #and now im just right back to Why do i bother staying alive? im never going to make any progress #and even if i do I'm going to just be worthless the whole time and waste precious resources others could be using #oh yes just try saying a nice thing to yourself for once! yeah sure that will help when i cant do anything worth a damn #i want to help people but i have no skillsets and no money to further my education and teaching myself gets me right where i already am! #continuing like this is like spitting in the face of anyone who is actually out there pursuing their dreams and thats not fair to them #they put in all that hard work and im over here being a whiny ass bitch bc i want so badly to do better and learn more #but the only thing holding me back is that im a dumbass who cant do anything right and no one will ever think differently #why am i trying to make myself something i can never be? what is goddamn point if its just a waste of everyones time and effort #i just... it feels like the least i can do is just stop taking up space #free up some oxygen for someone who really needs it and shelter for someone who truly deserves it #i shouldnt even have these things and yet i complain about how much gas i have to pay to commute to my jobs #like such an asshole #and i said i so much in these tags bc im such a selfish jerk who coearly doesnt care enough nor has a worthwhile vocabulary to say otherwise #theres just no fucking point to any of this #... #its cold today #might be a good day to do my favorite plan #actually yeah fuck it im gonna go #hope you all stay kind to yourselves and enjoy your 2024 #you absolutely deserve it and everything you can get out of it #keep being amazing yall #see you on the flip side or whatever #orbs thought bubbles

[narcissusbrokenmirror]

I rarely think of Nick when i think of JATP and if u ask me I'll say he's got the most useless role in the show. however. When Caleb possessed him.

Man. Sacha Carlson showed right there in one single moment he was about to give us something big. and i will never get to see what it was. fucking Netflix.

#julie and the phantoms #nick jatp #im sorry that boy had the personality of a banana. the whole time he was dating carrie he just couldn't do a decision by himself #julie was right tho he is a sweetheart. cheering on carrie. not making their breakup smth dramatic. trying to compel her to make up w julie #also a sweetheart to julie when he only pursues her after his break up. supporting her music even after he got rejected. #but brah he got no swag. we love a boy failure tho. kinda missing him too