#trying to act innocent

[gayvampyr]

“queer spaces should be inclusive of people who don’t enjoy sex and who have “strange”, negative or repulsed relationships with sex” and “sex is an important aspect of lgbt community, history, and activism and queer people should be allowed and able to talk freely about sex without stigma or shame” are ideas that can and should coexist.

#‘queer people were banned from and shamed for having sex and that’s where a lot of our activism stemmed from’ and #‘not liking or having sex is considered abnormal and a mental illness and also needs to be destigmatized’ are concepts that not only can but #often do coalign #it’s esp important to consider that a lot of lgbt ppl who have a tricky and strained relationship with sex are like that because of trauma #which is very common for queer folks #it’s really not an ace-only thing #like i am sex repulsed but it’s very hard to discern if it’s because i’m asexual or if it’s the trauma. either way i deserve to have those #feelings and be included in lgbt spaces and discussions about sex and treated as just another queer person with a different experience #instead of being alienated because my feelings about sex don’t directly line up with yours #im so sick of people in this community trying to pit us against each other. as an ace lesbian that shit is so toxic and harmful #my relationship with sex is fluid. im sex-positive always‚ but i often find myself sex repulsed. im otherwise neutral about it but im sick #of people acting like it’s either you enjoy sex and have it frequently or you hate it and you shame everyone who has it like youre a puritan #and it’s often aphobes who bought into that ‘aces are puritanical celibate straights who want ppl who have gay sex to die or think they’re #‘dirty’ or some shit. and it was literally 90% crypto-aphobes pretending to be aces to get people to adopt that into their belief system #the same way crypto-t/rfs pretend to be trans women who want to prey on the ‘innocent women’ #and y’all will use those posts/screenshots as ‘evidence’ that whatever scapegoat you’ve selected is actually inherently bad/homophobic/ #misogynistic/etc and not even #acknowledge the giant hole in your logic cuz you’re too busy trying to find a scapegoat #it’s the same tactics and y’all fall for it every time #text post #like. lesbians are CONSTANTLY getting hounded and told that we’re broken or mentally i’ll for not showing interest in (having sex with) men #for the same reason asexuality is considered bad or wrong or weird #not showing interest in heterosexual relationships or sex is why this is so important #anyone that falls outside the scope of heterosexuality is part of this community whether you like it or not

[pleasantlyinsincere]

A Yoko Paul conversation I wish I could have been present for. "you should really start eating meat" "that's women's happiness" 🤣

#paul and yoko trying to have a conversation should have been on a stage as performance art #yoko hustling and paul's fake innocent I'm just trying to be helpful act #random reading

[gwyns]

so over the years e/riels have *checks notes* doxxed people, stolen art, faked cancer, told people (myself included) to kill themselves, harassed countless fans, sjm's irl friends, her publisher, threatened her child and sjm herself... and that somehow makes them the victims?

#its so funny when they try to act all sweet and innocent #like no honey we know youre assholes 🩷 #antielriel #anti e/riel #tp

[stiltonbasket]

nielan headcanon: they have this joke that the other one will surely get gray hair first between the two of them. secretly nmj also thinks he'll get the first one too but will swear up and down outloud that lxc having to deal with the lan elders and being so generally polite and everything else lxc does will make him gray first. somehow this turned into them genuinely checking when they meet up (albeit casually, mostly just glancing for a moment), I think lxc gets the first one but up to you 👀

I headcanon that Nie Mingjue's hair starts going gray first, but Lan Xichen's hair turns white faster--NMJ is still only 10% gray ten years after his first gray hairs showed up, but Lan Xichen's hair started graying five years after NMJ's did, and his hair is snow-white five years later.

#asks #lxc starts dressing in more white than blue after his hair turns white #one day nmj is bathing in the cold spring and sees lxc coming out of the trees in white robes with no shoes on #he's like :D my love are you here for a bath too? #but lxc acts like he doesn't recognize him and nmj is ._.?? #it turns out lxc was trying to act out a “innocent traveler stumbles across powerful and ancient snow spirit in the woods” kind of scenario #and nmj did NOT catch on at first haha #nielan #lan xichen #nie mingjue

[payasita]

I just want to say you were my first introduction to slay the princess so I partially blame you for my current hyperfixation/j thank you I am deranged over eldritch horror princess and Just Some Guy eldritch horror bird (they are everything to me)

OH I will ask: who is your favourite princess/voice and why? Mine is voice of the contrarian bc he just like me fr, and thorn bc 🫶🫶

WOO glad you're into it! Definitely up there with my favorite games of all time

god I'm gonna have to give you a list. this was a much much longer answer because I have several paragraphs to say for Many Of My Favorites but I'll spare this blog the vomit for now until I can structure parts of it better

fave princesses: Witch and all its routes, Specter and all its routes, Nightmare and all its routes

Fave voices: Stubborn, Skeptic, Smitten. special shout-out to Opportunist for consistently having the best dialogue in the game tho, he sucks and I love him so much

Favorite routes: Razor, Thorn, Damsel

LEGITIMATELY it's so hard to pick but for the sake of giving Some explanation, the razor has to be my favorite for how it exists as the purest subversion of both the story the game is telling (which is itself a subversion of classic monsterslaying fairy tales) and it sort of has to get kind of meta, but it leans into it SO joyously. you as the protagonist being constantly split because the story plot twisted itself so fucking hard that it just. Broke Everything

and the result is absurd and horrifying and slips away from any kind of growth or cogency until both protagonists are stripped completely bare, and it's weird and it's hilarious and no one is having a good time except for the very AGENT of shifting perspectives, no longer constrained by any world or singular force that matters!

and also. How could I not pick the route that gave us The Look™.

#slay the princess #slay the princess spoilers #I HAVE SO MANY THOUGHTS AND MY HANDS ARE SO SMALL AND COLD #stubborn is right tho. she is the Perfect Woman #i have a soft spot for damsel and thorn for reasons very similar to each other and a lot less interesting haha #fairy tales and romantic heroes were a childhood fixation of mine and that drew me to the game in the first place #the damsel and the smitten are so fucking silly. i love the idea of THOSE two being unleashed on the world #literal gods who can remake reality because they adore each other so much with all the innocence of disney teenagers. like #DO YOU UNDERSTAND HOW CATASTROPHIC THAT WOULD BE FOR THE WORLD? #THEYRE SO STUPID. THEYRE GODS. HIS FIRST ACT AS A FREE MAN WAS TO TRY AND PLUCK ALL HIS FEATHERS TO MAKE HER A COAT WHEN SHE FELT CHILLY #IM CONVINCED THEY WOULD MELT EVERYTHING #Okay im done for now i mean it this time #i wrote all this on the clock<3 #edit: dont get me started on the narrator also. I forgive him

[skyward-floored]

Skippy has decided she’s a Christmas present

#actually she’s trying to act innocent so she can drink the tree water #but she’s still cute #even if she drives my dad crazy #rambles from the floor #cats #photos from the floor

[kingofmyborrowedheart]

I’m sorry but you can’t cry “human rights violation!!!!” when you are actively carrying out a campaign of genocide.

#sorry but it doesn’t work like that! #you can’t decry humans rights violations of a group that doesn’t even represent a majority of innocent people (by the way)… #…if you are actively carrying out a genocide under the thinly veiled guise of going after that group #Genocide which is y’know one of the greatest violations of human rights since it seeks to completely eradicate one group of people. #like there are innocent people being caught in the crosshairs on both sides #not everyone living in Israel or who is Jewish supports the Israel government’s bombings of Gaza #not every Palestinian supports Hamas or condones their brutal attacks on innocent civilians #but to try and conflate the actions of a militant group to represent the thinking of all of the citizens and be an excuse to destroy them… #…isn’t right and deserves to be held accountable #also stop acting like there is not a massive power imbalance present #Israel has the Iron Dome and their own military forces and funding from the U.S. #Hamas has missels and stock piled resources from funding from Iran #Israel controls the food water fuel and medicine access to those that have been forced to live in Gaza #they are not in any way shape or form on equal footing which doesn’t make this a ‘war’ #I can’t wrap my head around the fact that one of the groups persecuted in one of the most horrifying genocides is currently conducting… #…a genocide on another group of people #the rhetoric of gov’t officials from Israel dehumanizing innocent civilians points to the fact that this isn’t about retribution #but to conduct a genocide #if you don’t think that the current actions of the Israeli government aren’t wrong and are supporting it you can unfollow and block me! #like it’s not black and white but the actions that are currently happening are not acceptable

[brittlebutch]

Desperately trying to make sense of Alex's motivations in Season Two and you know, I do eventually have to wonder if maybe Alex wasn't actually lying in the majority of those tapes.

Like, we tend to assume that Alex's motivations have been a consistent throughline since the college years, but do we actually know that that's the case? Do we know for sure that Alex was acting in deliberate, calculated ways in 2006; or could it be that he's telling the Truth on those olds tapes when he says he's blacking out and can't remember what's happening to anyone? After all, if we're assuming that Season 2 Alex's motivations are the exact same as his motives in Season 3, then it doesn't make any sense at all that he spend months working with Jay to try to find Amy; Season 3 Alex would have attempted to kill Jay like, on sight just to get things over with as quickly as possible and contain the spread of contamination as best as he could.

But, maybe, if Alex really had been separated from Amy after the events of the 04-04-10 tape, and if he really doesn't know where she is, then maybe that could make things start to make more sense. Maybe he really had been watching Jay's channel, and seeing Jay start going through the same things he went through in college without things devolving into violence and disappearances, and wondered if things maybe could play out differently this time. Maybe he really did send that tape to Jay to ask him for help, maybe he really was just trying to find Amy.

But then, instead of actually being helpful, Jay makes it extremely clear that he's a lot more interested in stalking Alex than he is in finding Amy. Alex asked for help, and instead there's a bunch of masked dudes on Jay's heels that keep attacking him, Jay is breaking into his house, stealing his things, leading the Operator right to him all over again, keeps trying to get other people (namely: Jessica -- if Alex is being honest when he says that his call reassuring her that Amy had been found was an effort to make Sure she stayed away from everything that was happening) involved; and instead of anything getting better, instead of anyone finding Amy, things are just getting worse all over again.

It's not until after the incident at the tunnel that things seem to start rapidly devolving. Rather than a calculated attempt to finally follow through with his need to curb the spread of contamination, this is very clearly an outburst of rage and terror. Alex's "I told you not to follow me" line in conjunction with Jay speculating that Alex didn't know who that guy was, to me, pretty firmly seems to speak to Alex having mistaken that stranger for Jay. From his point of view, Alex knows that Jay and totheark know where he live, have broken in before, he suspects that Jay stole a key to make it easier to get into his house, and he's been followed on the daily for months -- Alex is sitting at the tunnel because he doesn't know where else he can go without being constantly surveilled, hunted, and assaulted. And instead of getting a moment by himself to breathe, Jay followed him out there all over again (it feels like Alex looks directly at the camera in Jay's footage of him from this day; he knew for a fact that Jay was there), and then to make matters worse now 'Jay' won't even keep his distance anymore.

So Alex lashes out. And it's not until afterwards that he looks down and finally recognizes that this wasn't Jay -- it was someone completely innocent. Things have finally reached the low point he was at in college all over again; maybe even worse this time. If Alex doesn't remember attacking anyone in college, but he was at least partially conscious of it this time, then things have reached an entirely new rock bottom, they've reached an absolute point of no return.

He has no idea what happened to Amy, and he's spent months trying to find her with no hint of where she could be; he doesn't know where Jay actually is or what additional trouble he could be causing at this point; he does know that now innocent people are getting caught in the crossfire (in regards to the stranger in the tunnel, and also Jessica now that Jay has her phone number, and the untold number of people Jay got involved when he started posting videos to the Marble Hornets channel); things are spiraling out of control and there's no one left to ask for help. The situation isn't getting better, it's getting worse; things aren't getting easier to handle, they're just getting more out of hand; the negative impact is spreading and who knows how much further it can still go?

So, Alex decides to go scorched earth. He disfigures the body with the rock either to hide evidence or to make sure the guy would actually stay dead and not just get back up to start his own cycle of contamination in a few years. He tries to give Jay one last chance to back off, and Jay instead admits he's been talking to Jessica, acts obstinate and lies about not having Alex's spare key, and then breaks into Alex's house a second time (minimum). If Alex doesn't stop him now, who will? Alex met with Jay planning to kill the others, and then himself, so he could put a stop to this once and for all and keep things from getting any worse than they already were.

Maybe it makes a lot more sense if, rather than being a strangely incomprehensible detour on what should have been a straight path, the events of Season Two were the breaking point that put Alex on that path to begin with.

#N posts stuff #idk!!! I've been thinking a lot lately about the tendency to take Characters at Face Value; when they tell us things we tend to #automatically believe them despite what evidence we might have to the contrary. & like when it comes to deciphering what #went down during the college film project it's mostly totheark that posits that Alex was Definitely Lying and Definitely Acting on Purpose #(even Jay is largely ambivalent - wondering which way it leans and basically saying it could go either way) #but. do we KNOW that they know that? Do we Know that they're Right when they claim that? Or are they just Assuming based off #of their own rage and animosity towards Alex due to what happened? Do we Know for Sure that Alex Was Lying in s1? #i don't know if we do!! And so without Knowing that for sure; how can we speak to Alex's motivations in season one OR season two? #now TO BE CLEAR: I am not saying this in an attempt to claim that Alex is somehow completely innocent of all guilt and that like. #Jay is the 'Real Antagonist' of the series - not at all my intention. this is just More of my usual 'look. Everyone in this series is #all kinds of Morally Grey; no recurring character in this series is free of guilt they ALL have unique fatal flaws & trends towards #antagonism that makes things worse and dooms them all' shtick - a la 'everyone Thinks they're doing the Right Thing but No One Is' #BUT i Am wondering if this Does help to like. clear up some of the ambiguity/uncertainty of Season Two - and even Season One - and #lets the series as a whole read a little bit clearer? idk i know that Jay does Claim to think that Alex was bullshitting him #the whole time & was Actually planning on tying up loose ends the whole time but AGAIN it doesn't make Sense he'd wait so long #idk - Am i making sense? does any of this track? i'm trying to figure it out; i am open to comments on the subject to help #i haven't rewatched season 3 yet today and so maybe there's stuff in there that contradicts this whole theory lmao but i'm taking a break #and just posting this anyway; we'll see what happens lol #marble hornets #mh lb

[musubiki]

clarinette "Wait....................if mochi dies, then lime will be sad enough to date me again to get over her................" and joins the kill-mochi-on-sight club

#but like. in a hilarious way #since i dont take anything seriously #sets up a guillotine trap on the front door or something #some tom and jerry shit #and then acts all innocent when caught #very quickly discovers just how out-matched she really is #(after she knows about mochi being a witch) #shes like ohhh this girl..... she used magic to seduce him for sure..... #lime in the back: are we or are we not resistant to magic #she goes (shes a witch so now i have an EXCUSE to kill her/lock her up/etc) #clarinette creating very contrived ways of getting at mochi #and lime having the vibes of a babysitter trying to stop a small child from sticking a fork in an outlet #lime (i dont actually care about you but i dont think attacking mochi is a good idea) goldwood

[geekyhistoriansunite]

!!!!!! I admit, episode 7 was a LOT to take in. Like...I need a moment. The preciousness of the beginning, the sense of hope, just to be crushed by ick and the worst in people. I literally got nauseated during the interactions with the teacher and Non, just going, "nonononononono" and knowing it was going to happen anyway. And then Jin....motherfucking Jin. I didn't think anything could be worse than the teacher....I was wrong. He deserves everything that's coming to him. I thought Tee was the worst, Jin straight up said "Hold my beer." and made it worse. Like WHAT THE FUCK! God, next week is going to hurt. Things are coming to a head fast.

#dff ep 7 #dff the series #dead friend forever #fuck Jin #Try to act all innocent in the beginning of the show #bitch you get what's coming to you

[dailyayao]

#yeah! so don't try to act so innocent! you can take that fake apology and shove it right up your hairy—

[thegalaxyinapaperbag2]

i’m rewatching megamind and it just occurred to me that megamind might have been completely serious when he said “wow, he’s a brave one, isn’t he?” after hal told his weird ass ninja story to roxanne because he probably didn’t realize hal was very obviously lying and it may have confirmed for him that hal was at least SOMEWHAT capable of being a hero

#that is #if he wasn’t just trying to play innocent to be convincing as bernard #but he’s kinda bad at acting as bernard throughout the whole movie so idk #megamind #suggestive

[time-slink]

i love how ren spent a good chunk of his episode being like ohhh god im nervous about whats gonna happen when i meet up with doc. its gonna be crazy. and then he proceeds to be the LEAST chill about it. 'what have we done' like ren wasnt the one who absolutely delighted in the carnage

#shush slinky #hes trying to act all innocent when u just KNOW his tail starts wagging the speed of sound at the very hint of bloodshed

[gifti3]

I wanna imagine a demon asking asmo what mc likes cause theyre interested in them

I think he'd sabotage them on purpose by convincing them they arent MCs type (whether thats true or not) or giving them misinformation

#And uk hes trying to act innocent and cute about it like he didnt just crush someones hopes #How mc gonna get ass like this? 🙄 #Lol but seriously mc wont even know that person was interested in them #Ud think he wouldnt have to do that since hes the 'most beautiful being in existence' #And id like to unpack that on my endless rant about how asmos jealousy and insecurities manifests in a way #Where he needs to bend situations to his liking instead of just processing and accepting like a well adjusted person #And him having that strong of an ability to charm people is so not fair ahajajs #An mc that hates him and makes it known would probably drive him nuts #*walks back and forth in my empty room while talking to the walls* #If there were proper routes i think wed get to see amazing character development! #Ive seen fics touch on this before and i love fandom for this #Belphies route would be so cool too #But im not trying to get off topic #ANYWAYS Asmo trying to charm mc without thinking when they have a disagreement #Mc is like 'really dude? 😠' #Asmo: oopsie #This would be a (possible) scene in the asmo route that exists in my head #Obey me #obey me asmodeus #obey me nb #Anyways this is just my speculation #I could be off my word isnt law or anything

[urproblematicfav-arsonk]

Terrible news I think my cnc pwp fic about husk giving alastor drugs to fuck him is turning into a commentary on the infantilization of asexuals damn it my projection issues

#despite not finishing chap 1 i already got like a little 3 chapters arc planned in my head #part 1 is husk getting al drunk and then emotional intimacy #part 2 is roofies and al calming down long enough to enjoy it despite blacking out halfway through + husk realizing he has a huge somno kink #and part 3 is al trying to roofie himself by taking 5 pills only for husk not to be there catch him. resulting in angel finding out #al then immediately overdoses and casually dies in angel's bathroom. angel then freaks the fuck out on husk for being a creep and hypocrite #and then al gets pissed because neither of them will acknowledge his role in the relationship #they keep talking over him acting like cuz husk has more experience with sex that it must mean al's an innocent victim #and not like an adult man who could've easily not drugged himself to death #al also does not trust the idea that angel didn't do anything to him while he was out #anyway #fic wip

[the-owl-tree]

Revisited Outcast and while people (justifiably) talk about Crowfeather hitting his son for being rude to Purdy, which is rich coming from the guy who was also rude to Purdy while on the journey in Midnight, there is another really bad moment on the journey to the tribe. Basically Breezepaw, Lionpaw, and Hollypaw sneak off to hunt some mice and get attacked by dogs, though Purdy saves them. Breezepaw almost gets dragged from the hay by his tail, but he manages to escape with some injury. After they’re safe, Brambleclaw and Crowfeather have the brilliant idea to chastise them for disobeying orders despite them possibly being killed by dogs?? Breezepaw responds that they would have been fine without Purdy (being a cocky teenager) and said that they wouldn’t be in this mess if they weren’t hungry (fair statement). Crowfeather then hisses and turned his back on his son?? Who was injured?? The end of his tail was described as “ragged and bleeding.” And yet Crowfeather just ignores the fact that his son (that he’s supposed to be taking care of) is injured??

I remember that scene! Outcast is such a damning piece of evidence, it is an entire book where Crowfeather and Breezepaw are together without Nightcloud. If what he said was true, that she was getting in the way of them bonding, why does he spend the entire book belittling, ignoring, and yes, even if it's once, hitting his son. Doesn't look like Nightcloud's the problem here, hm!

here's the scene for those curious:

and here's a fun bonus of crowfeather being a great dad about his son almost dying (again):

#deer rambles #see what makes this frustrating #is that crowfeather never acts as a parent #and it's established early on that others agree crow should teach breeze manners #SO WHY IS THIS LATER IGNORED TO BLAME NIGHTCLOUD #IT'S OKAY IF HE'S A SHITTY DAD. JUST STOP TRYING TO PRETEND HE'S INNOCENT