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a-polite-melody · 2 months

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If you think any group of trans people has systemic privilege over another, I need you to think long and hard about what the word “systemic” means.

#my post #transphobia #certain trans people may have situational privilege very conditionally #but that is not something systemic #and can’t even be applied to any group only individually

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ghosts-and-blue-sweaters · 2 months

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Please stop telling people to die. Please stop telling people to kill themselves. For the love of everything, please stop. Don’t do that.

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mylonelydreaming · 10 months

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I take issue with this idea of Link just "fucking off" and leaving Zelda completely alone before totk. Not even in just a shipping sort of way either, as close friends and him choosing to remain her knight, that makes zero logical sense? It is completely out of character for him?

Link doesn't ever leave Zelda's side. This is canon. "Fucking off" is just not something he does during peace time when he isn't on a heroic quest and being controlled by the player's whims

That's five times it's stated officially somewhere that he is by her side, and that's only the ones I can immediately recall. Botw's full ending and totk's opening together also show us that. We see them together when the story ends and we see them together when it picks back up in the sequel. At no point is it implied they ever parted.

And can we just remember for a second what happens when he's not there, for even a short amount of time, if she is unable to call upon her abilities and therefore defend herself?:

"Fucking off" is a fantastic way to get her killed. The Yiga worship Ganon, there is nobody they want dead more (besides Link), than the last living member of the royal family. They are also not opposed at all to going into villages. They snuck into Kakariko to assassinate Dorian's wife. We just don't see that reflected in gameplay.

Some people will say "it's just his job" to deny they even have a friendship or growth as characters, but want him to... not do the main part of that? "It's just his job" and "he fucked off to the wilderness" are simply not compatible ideas. Either you think Link is just a completely duty-bound mindless command robot or you think he completely doesn't care anymore about that to the point of endangering the person he's supposed to protect. It can't be both at the same time.

Thankfully, it's implied by the wording of master works, the cutscenes and the jpn version that he wants to protect and support her. That this is what he desires, even when the king is dead and he is immediately given the option to not do so anymore. That he is motivated by wanting to see her happy and safe. I'm pretty sure the only way to get him to stop trying to protect her or following her is death, and he has already proven that twice over.

#zelink #tears of the kingdom #link #totk #botw #totk link #botw link #loz #tloz #I wasn't going to publish this post originally but #just had to vent #We play as Link either A) after he woke up after the apocalypse with no memory #or B) after the upheaval when shit hits the fan and Zelda has already been transported to the past #both scenarios where he is literally forced into a survival situation and can't be with her due to the plot #Why apply when we control him to the peaceful off-screen times in-between.#it just doesn't make any sense

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ohsalome · 5 months

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I am still baffled by the american line of reasoning that "USA has commited many war crimes in Vietnam/Afganistan/Iraq etc., therefore it would be hypocritical for us to get involved in stopping ukrainian genocide". So you admit that USA has its collective hands covered in blood, and yet your conclusion out of this is not "USA has an opportunity to redeem itself in fighiting in a just war", but "we should allow russia commit war crimes consequence-free" 🤯🤯🤯🤯

#ukraine #russia #war in ukraine #usa politics #the amount of times i have had this argument thrown at me by usamericans is concerning #with ''i am sorry for ukrainians BUT''#y'all have atrophied empathy or what?#you wouldn't apply this logic to any other situation #this can't be all russian bots

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koipepo · 1 year

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Theon getting cornered, and then whisked away by a dark-haired stranger

(before and after)

#thramsay #my art #my fanart #modern au #outlast au #kinda #bc it's the same outfit but this situation can apply to any modern street thug au

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arvoze · 6 months

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would you like to learn about what's in my head.

#pokemon #pokemon mystery dungeon #cacturne #nuzleaf #breloom #not tagging the other 2 its literally pngs #keith #luwel #mike #this is pre-luwels-retirement btw (you know when that happens bc he changes coats)#(he has a black/green coat when hes still in the team bc its just what the team wears)#the RTA have an annual(? maybe) “event” wherein like. teams get put through tests #to determine if they deserve to keep their current rescue rank or not #(it only applies to a certain rank or higher)#you get like. monitored and stuff. youre put through situations to test u and all that #it's not the best system in the world by any means because some of the RTA will deliberately screw you over #like sometims you are pushed to your absolute LIMITS as a means to prove a point and thats wht happens 2 the guys #they reach a certain point and then have to deal w/ a volcanic rescue which is deliberately set up for them to fail #specifically as a means to be like Well that's what you get for beign 3 grass types #it is. challenging. they reach the rescue. a deliberately-placed like. trap or whatever is there #and it's mutually agreed for mike to take the rescue away to safety bc that's the priority #the other 2 still have to complete the exploration....................... tags r long i cant say any more

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moe-broey · 1 month

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Three of them

#fire emblem #feh #DIRECTLY INSPIRED by how sometimes i like to cheat in heroes journey and bring duo al/sharena LMFAOO #two of them and some other guy. idk when it happened it just integrated here.#world is a fuck born to tag along. this applies to BOTH moe and sharena i think.#it is so funny and so important to me actually that 'sometimes there's a third one' applies to both of them #anyways please please PLEASE read into the characterization in the poses bc i'm going to throw up. and cry #like fuck i'll do it for you actually LMFAO like moe is just silly. nosferatu ass. why do you sleep like that.#it doesn't like being touched a whole lot though. it's extremely picky about it. it's easier to hold a stuffed animal instead.#alfonse has a higher tolerance for touch but it's still situational. but when he touches he clings.#also. one hand gripping the plush goat ear. an acknowledgement of moe's boundaries.#and the other hand. lightly subconsciously holding on to a tuft of sharena's hair.#sharena has grown out of being super cuddly w alfonse but she will take any and every opportunity to 'steal body warmth'#she also directly mirrors him.#also i think whenever she shares a bed/sleeping area w someone she's a bed hog. she is pushing you off that thang #if you're not Willing to be smooshed by her. also. which is why alfonse is acting as a barrier here too LMFAO #like it's just a tiny doodle esp cause i didn't have the energy to do more but it made me ache so bad #that i threw up and exploded and died. badly.#fe alfonse #sharena #moe tag #summoner oc #my art

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deficiencies · 1 year

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i think buffy is different than other female superheroes before and contemporary to her bc her femininity is something she works at rather than smth thts a given

#like yes her interests align w what is considered traditionally feminine but its something she expresses an interest in and actively wants #like yk tht one post on here abt how survival situation women w a full face of makeupwld be less insulting if we saw them hunt for lipstick #talk #like buffy is obvs a character. but her depiction feels more realistic bc her fashion sense isnt an afterthought its a passion #i think it might also be bc in btvs its something tht specifically applies to buffy and not the other female characters #her and cordelia are the only ones who care abt being girly rly…and cordy is just buffys shadow so. Idk !#this post is sponsored by s1e3 s1e11 2e1 s2e3 s2e10 s2e12 s3e5 s3e20 s5e1 s5e5 s6e7 and many more #i just like tht its shown she actively puts thought into her appearance rather than it seeming like she is just Naturally tht put together..#i dont know if this makes any sense. this might be coming off as a Let women be feminine! post but Tht is not what i am talking abt

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ghosttrolls · 3 months

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HI I Love your Posts about trollhunters and Danny Phantom.

they are things i gad trollhunters is different form Danny Phantom

Jim only date one girl and everyone agrees that she is the best Choice for him.

and the main creator isn't a Dick.

but my Question for is if Dash were to become Like Steve was Expose the Ghost world Just Like him how do you think would've involved and this Time his memory stays Like Jez did.

Hi, thank you! Before I say anything else I would like to clarify that while I spend a lot of time comparing themes between the two shows, I don't really feel like one could replace the other - they're both so unique in their execution! Honestly, all the characters in both shows have personalities that couldn't be copied over between the two without the status quo of each show drastically changing. I don't really think of Danny Phantom and Trollhunters in terms of "Danny and Jim are the same person," but more like "Danny and Jim experience things that are interesting parallels of each other and I like to explore those narrative parallels," which I can understand being a kind of complicated distinction.

There definitely is a thing with both of these shows where they pick sort of Traditional Character Roles to some extent, like The Bully, The Hero, The Best Friend, The Romantic Interest, etc. So thinking in terms like that, Dash and Steve do fill kind of similar roles in their shows. I am pretty sure that Dash knows ghosts exist by the end of the show, even if you're writing off Phantom Planet (the final episode that people like to ignore happened). There's an episode where all the adults in Amity Park are brainwashed to go on a "cruise" which ends up just being a way for some ghosts to use them as a power source - but because the adults are brainwashed, the kids are the ones that have to save them, and Danny uses his parents' ghost tech to work together with all the other kids to fight the ghosts. This includes Dash. They all fight ghosts on the deck of a pirate ship, and Dash and Danny stand back to back as Dash says, "When I wail on you tomorrow, I'll be wailing on a hero. But I will be wailing on you." At this point in the show, Dash and other people know about and are fans of Danny Phantom... I don't think his memory gets wiped of the incident, but Danny does get in trouble for using the tech without asking and that makes him "lame" again in the eyes of the other high schoolers. I think that's meant to be the show's explanation for why it doesn't get brought up again later.

I'd love to consider what would happen if Dash had actually been more active within the ghost fighting community - I'm pretty sure he's one of those people who thinks it's "weird," so he'd probably need some convincing. But it would be super interesting if he learned that Danny was Phantom and joined the team! I'm not the first person to say this, but still. It would be cool. I did really enjoy in Trollhunters when Steve and Eli had just formed Creepslayerz but they were trying to keep it on the down low, and acted comically to cover their tracks. I imagine Dash would have to do something similar to keep his jock friends in the dark about Danny's secret... In general, DP never really gave us that big of a look into what Dash's life is like outside of school, other than throwing a party when his parents aren't around. If he joined the team in some way we'd be able to see more of his backstory and he'd become a much more fleshed out character!

And I know you didn't ask for my opinion on this, but I do wish that Steve had more development after the end of Trollhunters and 3Below. Like, he stopped bullying Jim and Eli, he got a girlfriend - and now we learn he's really scared all the time! And they make him kind of like a knight in Wizards but he's still like, terrified of everything, and bad at very simple tasks to an almost annoying extent. It makes me wonder if the trio really explained very much to him, because we didn't see any explaining happen on screen... and then it felt like they were hinting that Steve would learn some cool stuff from Lancelot, but that never happened. And WHY didn't Aja WARN HIM that he could become pregnant like that! That was so out of the blue too. I really liked how they had Steve develop as a character over the course of Trollhunters, so when he kind of stopped changing for most of the other TOA content, I was a little sad.

I guess this is just an appreciation post for bully characters that decide to become nicer. They deserve more love, for sure.

#ghostly posts #danny phantom #trollhunters #ask #theslayerbrother #theres definitely pros and cons between the two shows #generally trollhunters comes with better writing and pacing #most listings for dp have episodes out of order which doesnt help #with dp youve got a lot of lore dumps with hardly any explanation or elaboration #which i do feel leaves more room for fanworks to explore #trollhunters does come across to me as a better story with a stronger ending #and there's objectively less cringeworthy moments in TH #but also like. one of them is about ghosts and one of them is about trolls #they have different subject matter so ultimately the comparison cant go the full extent of saying theyre the same thing #cause they arent #they just coincidentally because of the 'teenage superhero' genre use similar tropes #and i like lookin at how those tropes apply to a world of ghosts #and a world of trolls.... two different things #i just also really love the strickler/vlad situations where theyre fighting the protag while the mom they wanna date is in the other room #very fun and silly even if the fight is serious sajgdhgsjh

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tea-kettlezztoo · 5 months

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One of my favorite things ever in the world is when L4D artists make Zoey look a bit more disheveled and messy

#left 4 dead #zoey l4d #fandom #this could apply to any survivor #but zoey is the biggest victim of ppl making the survivors look too perfect and clean for their situation #you know #being the 'hot survivor'#a title that clearly belongs to coach 🙄#okay but jokes aside shoutout to artists that make zoey look more disheveled #every time shes drawn like that an angel gains its wings

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tarisilmarwen · 15 days

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Really? An actor puts out the most milquetoast of comments on the Current Thing and all y'all brainlets immediately go into, "REEEEEEE IF YOU'RE NOT WITH US YOU'RE AGAINST US! REEEEEE!" mode and decide to throw a temper tantrum until he's recast?

You're embarrassing. Get off the internet and touch some grass.

#RL stuff #no i'm not going to clarify i don't need shrieking anons in my inbox right now #if you know you know #if you don't know... frankly apply this post to any recent RL situation and it probably fits #terminally online behavior

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xieyaohuan · 19 days

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It's jetlag-fueled midlife crisis time again, so you get to vote on my next career move! Basically, upward mobility (money wise) is extremely limited if I stay in my country and in my current (non-profit) field. Even if I took on significantly more responsibility, I'd still have to take a substantial pay cut if I applied for any new job in my industry. (Yes, it's a small field, so I literally know all the salaries for all the positions that might open up.)

#polls #personal #I'm currently surprisingly okay with my job #it's exhausting and not ideal but I kind of enjoy it #but it also feels like I need to change something #and in any case even if I don't do anything now this situation isn't going to change 5 years down the line #Meanwhile #I just did one lazy job search with one employer in Washington DC and found a perfectly matching job offer where I could earn 70k more #without more responsibilities #and it's not corporate #and taxes are way lower #I hate DC but I may just apply for the heck of it

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trans-cuchulainn · 3 months

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hi! we dont know each other but ive stumbled upon your posts in which you describe your anxiety brain and borrowing trouble from the future and i can totally relate to that. and it sounds a lot like ocd, which i know i have... idk if this would be helpful

sometimes i do see things about ocd that i relate to. i think a lot of the underlying thought patterns and fears are probably similar. i don't think i respond to them in the way that somebody with ocd does, though -- i don't experience compulsions and don't find any relief from behaving in certain ways or performing certain rituals, i just experience profound dread and physical discomfort until i'm able to forget about the thing that triggered the anxiety or i move on to something else

my sister has ocd, which i only learned recently (we don't live together and aren't super close), but again, although i see overlap between our experiences, i think we respond to those triggers differently and find different things helpful/harmful. obviously everyone is different so that doesn't rule out the possibility that i'd also have it, but i think it makes it less likely

generally i think my issues are largely attributable to generalised anxiety disorder, some kind of brainweirds (not sure if autistic or have adhd or both), and a solid dose of complex trauma that contributes a fair amount of hypervigilance and fear to the proceedings which make standard anxiety tactics less helpful

i think all mental health diagnoses are labels we give to certain groups of symptoms rather than like. firmly grouped Conditions between which there can be no overlap, though. some aspects of anxiety and ocd are very similar, and some are different -- the same stars in different constellations. i think i score more points in the anxiety chart, so that's where i am for now, but doesn't mean i'm not experiencing some of the same things, if that makes sense (and it also doesn't mean that some coping mechanisms designed for one condition won't work just because i don't think i fit under that label -- sometimes they do)

#in this current situation i think i'm experiencing a heady dose of needing (and failing) to mask neurodivergence #AND pretend to be cis AND the overwhelming drive to Be Helpful and Be A Good Neighbour which feels existentially important #especially amidst the horrors of the world since i can help with so few large-scale things so the small ones start feeling like proxies #plus the christian upbringing. can't forget that. it's definitely a factor. good samaritan sleeper agent activated at cost to myself #while also being too chronically ill AND too anxious to be capable of handling any of those things on their own let alone all of them #and while logic brain tells me i can just say no. other logic brain tells me that doing so would be leaving a vulnerable person isolated #and compassion brain won't let me do that. but compassion brain needs to apply to me as well and mostly... doesn't #and that's the part i need therapy about lol #sometimes it's not so much religious/moral OCD as having grown up actually extremely religious #they look very similar but the underlying mechanisms and brain patterns are subtly different.#brainweasel hotel

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myrmica · 1 month

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thinking about zam talking about how he doesn't hold grudges and asking whether that's a bad thing and like getting mad at himself about it because the context for this was like. jepex hijinx. but it's so relevant to everything that has happened to him ever. you know how being followed home by pulp is a song about someone's memories of a past relationship and of a separate traumatic event blurring together, and the incredible intensity of emotion in the moment in comparison to the confusion and numbing of memory? please consider this re: eclipse fed. you know what raw data feel is about, just the whole album? i'm in the mood where i can only communicate character analysis through songs just go with it. compare the "whispering wall" in violent sun & jennifer to what the wall said by protomartyr. now listen to same face in a different mirror.

#why does everyone else in the world not possess my specific mental library of associations #songs represent ideas or qualities and change in context depending on the situation/character/fiction you apply them to and you can #put them together like building blocks to make larger statements. but because the experience of music is so personal and the way any given #listener might read the same song entirely differently it can never be exact communication. and thats beautiful but you should be able to #read my mind #m #music #lifesteal

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daz4i · 2 months

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sometimes i'll see a take that's like. i mean technically you're not wrong. but also you've completely stripped this issue off its entire cultural context, so everything you said is irrelevant. you definitely won the argument ig but that won't make any difference in practice sorry

#i do this too sometimes dgmw. i think everyone does. we get blinded by our own views and forget the reality of the situation #i will say tho! that's also context others may be ignoring. the experiences of other sides involved. yknow?#idk if i'm being clear bc i'm keeping things very vague lol but i feel like at least some of you got me here.#will say tho this thought process applies to any discourse you see online with two distinct vocal sides -#- where in reality the ''answer'' is usually somewhere in the middle. as with most things

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fiddlepickdouglas · 8 months

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A coworker joked about making a trip to Hawaii today.

"I don't think that's a good idea," I told them.

"In Maui, yeah, but I just wouldn't go there," was their response.

"You do understand that tourism is contributing to what's happening in Maui right now, right? The natives are literally asking us not to go. They're the ones being affected the most by this. I would listen to them."

"Well, most of them aren't even 100% native. When I last visited, most were Filipino and they were hella racist. Besides, history has been twisted in so many ways and the people are so mixed, I wouldn't know who to listen to."

The people that have generations of culture and ancestry there? How hard is that to understand? They're not saying, "don't visit Maui because it's on fire, but other islands are fine. Also, feel free to debate who is native enough, when you're 100% a non-native who isn't willing to consider human lives at the expense of your silly little fun time!"

Also, Asian-Pacific countries are not the main villains. 39% of tourists in 2019 were from the West Coast American states [x] and that statistic has steadily grown in the years since. Claiming another group as racist doesn't make you less so (and I very much side-eye those claims). Yes, it is sad that the native Hawaiian population is dwindling, so wouldn't it be a good idea to give them space to grow again? Instead of slowly ignoring their needs and letting them die out in favor of *checks notes* more white people?

Do we really think the other islands aren't being hurt by this and won't suffer in the future by continuing to treat them like playgrounds? If I am speaking out of turn, feel free to correct me, but if the people who come from a land you don't come from are saying something like "hey, what you're doing is hurting us. Please leave us alone," why is it so hard to comply? What isn't clear? Why can't you listen?

#anyway im so tired of people thinking that they can apply some kind of 'all sides of an argument' politics in situations like this #there's gray areas and then there's a clear difference between life and death #and i choose not to give death to someone for my own convenience under any given circumstances #hawaii

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