#was created for one reason only

[hussyknee]

I'm really not a villain enjoyer. I love anti-heroes and anti-villains. But I can't see fictional evil separate from real evil. As in not that enjoying dark fiction means you condone it, but that all fiction holds up some kind of mirror to the world as it is. Killing innocent people doesn't make you an iconic lesbian girlboss it just makes you part of the mundane and stultifying black rot of the universe.

"But characters struggling with honour and goodness and the egoism of being good are so boring." Cool well some of us actually struggle with that stuff on the daily because being a good person is complicated and harder than being an edgelord.

Sure you can use fiction to explore the darkness of human nature and learn empathy, but the world doesn't actually suffer from a deficit of empathy for powerful and privileged people who do heinous stuff. You could literally kill a thousand babies in broad daylight and they'll find a way to blame your childhood trauma for it as long as you're white, cisgender, abled and attractive, and you'll be their poor little meow meow by the end of the week. Don't act like you're advocating for Quasimodo when you're just making Elon Musk hot, smart and gay.

#this is one of the reasons why #although i would kill antis in real life if i could #i also don't trust anyone who identifies as 'pro-ship' #it's just an excuse to shut down legitimate ethical questions and engaging in honest self-reflective media consumption and critique #art doesn't exist in a vacuum #it's a flat impossibility for it not to inform nor be informed by real world politics and attitudes #because that's what it means to be created by human hands #we can't even make machine learning thats not just human bias fed into an algorithm #if the way we interact with art truly didn't influence anything then there would be no value in it #just because antis have weaponized those points in the most bad faith ways possible #doesn't mean you can ignore them in good faith #anyway fandom stans villains because society loves to defend and protect abusers #it's not because you get the chance to be free and empathetic and indulge in your darkness and what not #it's just people's normal levels of attachment to shitty people with an added layer of justification for it #this blog is for boring do-gooder enjoyers only #lol #knee of huss #fandom wank #media critique #pop culture #fandom discourse

[adhdslugcrimes]

Wally is raised by his grandmother on his mother's side after his bios lost custody of him, grandmama Ruby ain't for the faint of hearts but loves her little grandson to death. Also she lives in Blue Valley Nebraska

Artemis: why are we getting Baywatch again? He'll come to the mountain eventually!

Dick: because Batman has to talk to him with his Uncle, but he's scared of his Aunt and his grandmother… he's scared of the women in Wally's life… bring that up with Canary later.

Roy: of course that's why he has a hard time with commitment, if you make Grandma Ruby mad at you, how can you commit to another woman?

Artemis: okay, yeah why are you here? Didn't you quit this team before it started?

Roy: yeah, but Oliver mentioned Grandma and I ain't missing that lady.

Kaldur: understandable.

M’gann: she's a sweet lady!

Artemis: so, he's visiting her and we're getting him from her?

Dick: no, he lives with her duh. Well we know who ain't the mole, ain't paying attention.

Artemis: okay, rude… but explains a lot with his flirting and gifts…

Connor: and the amount of hard candy he has in his pockets… right?

Kaldur: yep, here's the most wonderful woman home, Roy it's your turn to knock.

Roy: with pleasure. *Knocks*

Grandma Ruby: oh! Hello kids, come in come in! My little Walnut is not back from his violin practice, Mr. Vascas was so kind to teach him at his house for my poor ears.

Dick: we don't mind waiting here grandma Ruby.

Grandma Ruby: of course, sit in the living room I'll go get the cookies and tea… but my favorite little songbird, may I ask why Batman isn't coming to get my Walnut?

Dick: same old, same old ma'am. Agent A sends his regards though.

Grandma Ruby: well, I'll put a few extra cookies for him and that Wonderful young man A. I'll be back.

Artemis: Walnut? Songbird? Embarrassing nicknames, almost feel bad for Baywatch.

Dick: okay, let me tell you the two rules we don't break. One, we don't talk about Batman more than we need to because this is my break away from him, and two we don't disrespect Grandma Ruby, so if she gives you a nickname or whatever you take it with pride damnit.

Roy: exactly!

Grandma Ruby: I'm back, eat up lovelies I'll go pick up my Walnut! *Leaves a plate of cookies*

Team: okay bye!

Dick: Artemis, eat a cookie.

Artemis: not a sweets type of person.

Dick: try it.

Artemis, sighs and eats a cookie:

Artemis, looks at the cookie: this... Is this what love of a parent feels like? In a cookie!? Is she a cookie meta?

Dick: no, she's better than a meta, she's a grandma.

#dick grayson #wally west #m'gann m'orzz #kaldur'ahm #Connor kent #artemis crock #birdflash #Grandma ruby was created for the only reason I wanted wally to be raised by his grandmother #and to have a badass grandma that Bruce fears #also bring back Wally lived in Nebraska one time that i can remember #now back to my viid

[swordheld]

hi! your blog is one of my favourites and i absolutely adore reading your thoughts. my grandfather recently passed away and it feels like i lost myself with him. how do i continue living after this? there is this constant weight on my chest and it feels like an emptiness has made a home inside of me. how do i go on when it feels like the world crashed on my shoulders?

hello, love! this is so very sweet and kind of you, and i hope you're treating yourself gently and kindly right now - there aren't words for a loss like this. that heaviness is difficult, and hard, and painful. it's okay if things don't feel okay, right now, or even soon - i think that's something that a lot of the people i know that have gone through similar grief feel: like they should be able to get back to a relative 'normal' in a [insert far too short period of time].

but it's okay if it hurts. that's where i'd like to start. you're allowed to feel that emptiness, that world-crashed feeling that goes beyond words, beyond time. don't feel like you have to rush this to feel some sort of better. things get easier with time, i promise you this, but sometimes painful feelings are important to feel, too. cry, scream, feel your emotions. they're a part of you. grieve.

it's perhaps a little silly, but when i think about death i always think about a couple of space songs: mainly drops of jupiter by train and saturn by sleeping at last. there are perhaps others that speak to the emotions better, but these two have always hit something a little deeper for me, and are popular for a wide-reaching reason.

and while personally i don't know much about grief like this, i do know a lot about love; and i think they're a lot of the same thing.

the people we love are a part of us, and this is why it takes from us so deeply when we lose them, because it does feel like we've lost a part of ourselves in the wake of it. but it's because they were so central to our experiences of living - our lives, that the separation introduces a hollowness - a place where they used to be. a home that now goes unlived in.

an emptiness, like you said.

but just because they're not here physically, doesn't mean he's not still there, in your heart, in your life, your memory. you can hold him close in smaller ways, as well: steal a sweater, or cologne/scent for something a little more physical and long lasting for remembering. hold onto the memories you cherish, the things that made you laugh, the ease of slow mornings and gentle nights. write them all down, slide a few photographs in there, go through it and add more when you miss him. keep them all close, keep them in your heart.

you're not alone, in this. he's still there, with you, it's just - in the little things.

he's with you in the way you see and go about your daily life, in doing what he liked to do, in the ways he interacted with the world that you shared with him. the memories you recall fondly when the night is late or the moment is right and something calls it into you like a melody, an old bell, laughter you'd recognize anywhere.

but i think, perhaps most importantly above all others - talk about him. with your family, your friends, his friends, strangers; stories are how we keep the people we love alive. the connections they've made, the legacies and experiences they've left behind, and so, so many stories.

how lucky, we are - to love so much it takes a piece of us when they go. grief is the other side of the coin, but it does not mean our love goes away. it lives in you. it lives in everyone who knew him, in the smallest pieces of our lives.

the people we love never really leave us, like this: they're in how we cook and the way we fold our newspapers, our laundry, in the radio stations we tune in to and the way we decorate our walls, our photo albums. they're in the way we store our mail, organize our closets, the scribbled notes in the indexes of our books. the meals we love and the drinks we mix, the way we spend time with one another. they've been passed down for generations, for longer than history - and we are all the luckier for it.

think about what you shared with him, and do it intentionally. bring him into your life, like this, again. whether it's crosswords or poetry or sports or anything else. if one doesn't help, try another. something might click.

i hope things feel a little easier for you, as they tend to do only with time. i hope you find joy in your grief, even if it is small and hard to grasp at first. know that your hurt stems from so much love that there isn't a place to put it properly, and that it is something so meaningful and hurting poets and storytellers have been struggling to put it into words and sounds that feel like the fit right for eons, and that it is also just simply yours. sometimes things don't have to make sense. sometimes they just are - unable to be put into words or neat little sentiments, as unfair and tragic as they come.

but i promise it will not feel like this forever. your love is real. and perhaps, on where to begin on from here - i think it's less on finding where to begin and just beginning. and you've already started. you've taken the most important and crucial step: the first one. wherever you go, after that, from here? you'll figure it out. you always have, and you always do. it'll come, as things always do. love leads us, as does light - and you're never alone in your hurt. in your grief, your missing something dear to you. i think if you talk about it with others, you'll find they have ways of helping you cope as well - and they have so much love of their own to spare, too.

as an aside, here is the song (northern star by dom fera) i was listening to when i wrote this, for no other reason more than it makes me think of connections, and love, and how we hold onto the people we love and how they change us, wonderfully and intrinsically. it's a little more joyous than the others i've mentioned, and plays like a story, and it made me think of what is at the core of this, love and stories and i am here with you, and maybe it'll bring you some joy, if you'd like it. wishing you all my love and ease 💛

#q&a. #birdsong. #wishing u gentle ease; the death of a loved one is near inexplicable to put into words and i hope you take care of yourself gently <3 #i hope this will make u laugh: when i was a tiny child in middle school there were times i would go outside in my tiny suburban cul de sac- #in the rain and sing along to my lil ipod nano and i only remember doing this to drops of jupiter. can you imagine going out to get the mai #after a long day of work and you just hear this kid singing train in the streets. in the RAIN.... it makes me laugh like i really. #i really thought i was so cool and deep and emotional ghjkd but i find it v funny that i only remember it w/ that one train track. #and saturn just. it's my fav s.a.l. song for a reason. that slow violin opening? the piano coming in gentle and easy? #it feels like light. like hope. like something new - a dawn after the long dark. that beautiful things can begin again even where #it hurts. and there is nothing more human than a sentiment like that. #how rare and beautiful it is to truly exist. what it is to be alive and get to be here and live with other people. with those we love. #i think your grandfather was so lucky to be able to know you. to have you in his life for the time you had together. #i'm no spiritual person; but i like to believe when you're thinking about him? he's thinking about you too. #the second law of thermodynamics (physics nerd mode) is that no energy has ever been created/destroyed since the beginning of the universe. #so it has to go somewhere - it's that carl sagan quote of 'we're all made of stardust'. because we are. we used to be stars; planets; etc. #i think it's why i think of these space songs - because they're a part of everything; once more; when they go. us and everything else.

[guardian-of-da-gay]

for various reasons I feel pretty confident that in the Knuckles show/Sonic 3 they're gonna reveal that Knuckles and Tails are sharing the attic with Sonic, but honestly? tf they mean this house doesn't have ONE spare bedroom???

#various reasons include: #its a kids series and stuff for kids tends to push the 'siblings sharing a room is fun' agenda #also its easier than having to create a new set design/set #also it'd be weird if the new kids/one of the new kids got their own bedroom when they put Sonic in the attic #ALSO it's implied that Sonic lived in his cave for a while?? after the events of the first movie?? #and they dressed up the attic with his stuff as a surprise?? #so like... if they acknowledge a spare bedroom then they gotta say why they didn't just let sonic use that #instead of making him go back to his cave #and don't even get me started on how tf a sheriff and a vet can afford the small towns' version of a luxury home #maybe they can afford it cuz nobody's buyin a house that big that's only got one bedroom >_> #can you tell im salty about this house #anyway #scu #wachowski family #knuckles wachowski #sonic wachowski #tails wachowski #give them their own rooms propaganda

[ahoyimlosingmymind]

maybe I didn't read the same books as ya'll- but I just do not buy into the whole 'Fitz put Sophie on a pedestal' 'Fitz was jealous of Sophie' narrative Shannon is trying to push. I get that it's supposedly canon? and he's Shannon's character, but it feels like such a bad misread of the whole situation and both characters?? And kind of like a failsafe argument for why sokeefe 'had' to happen.

#Idk- I think Keefe is the one who puts her on a pedestal. #He's the one who questions her ideas and decisions the least #between him and Fitz I mean. #kotlc #fitz vacker #keefe scencen #There's moments where Fitz is annoyed that Sophie's ideas #are the ones people go with usually #which could create jealousy. #But deadass #I'm on his side most of the time. the only reason her ideas don't fail #is because of plot armor #<3 #i just don't get how fitz is demonized for being overly critical of sophie #but also putting her on a pedestal??? #what?

[stardustedknuckles]

Critical Role has ruined me for bad faith storytelling. If you don't believe in the world you've created, I don't want to be part of it. If your whole point is the banal everyday evil of humanity at every twist and turn with nothing good to say about anyone in it, if there is no kindness that does not go unpunished, I don't want it. I get enough of that shit just looking around. Reminding myself that people are fundamentally good and generally trying their best is hard enough these days. Give me stories about people doing their best and loving too much and failing any day. I love that, because people are also messy and biased and hypocritical. It's a feature, not a bug. But if nothing in your world can be trusted because "that's just how life works," or because you the writer have no faith in people or community or kindness, take it somewhere else. I'm tired of cynicism. Show me even the potential for joy, that you believe kindness to be integral to the spirit of humanity, and I'll follow the story anywhere.

#Critical role #Arcane did this really well despite my other annoyances with it #And listen I'm not saying there's no place for it #I think for some folks it can be cathartic #But when the people creating these awful worlds believe they're really talking about love #I take exception in a big way #CR is both dark and relentlessly optimistic #It's not the only show that does this of course but it's the one I've attached to so hard for three years for just this reason

[comic-sans-chan]

I adore how unhinged Garak is about the people he likes, because there's this theme of them being similarly unhinged. Like that colleague from the Order in Second Skin that he had to shoot and was like, "Aw :( ...Well Anyway" about. Or like Tain and Mila, both crazy bitches, imo. Or his last remaining contacts on Cardassia who he called up in In The Pale Moonlight who were all down to raid the Dominion’s underwear drawer at the drop of a hat. Like that's what Garak is used to. He likes excitement, he likes a bit of malice, he likes some cunning. And that's part of what makes Garashir so goddamn funny is Julian is actually a bit of a cunning, malicious little shit sometimes. If you watch the series knowing Julian's an augment, these moments come up all the time where it's clear he's fucking with people for his own amusement. Taking people for a bit of a ride just to see what happens. Then ofc there are all the gross incel fuckboy moments, but. 

I just love the idea of Julian going on some insane borderline villainous monologue about something or other and Garak sitting there with hearts swirling around his head. Don't get me wrong, Garak loves Julian for his goodness first and foremost, but Julian's not perfect and I think that makes the ship so much more interesting because I can't really see Garak finding most of Julian's worst flaws anything but thrilling. We go on about Garak loving Julian's infodumping and argumentativeness, but after the augment thing comes out, I think he equally enjoys watching Julian play dumb with people and Knowing he's playing dumb. It compliments his own Just a Simple Tailor routine so perfectly. They're just normal men. Just innocent men.

#i don't think julian's ever malicious about it to be clear #i think it just ended up being something that happened kind of inevitably because he already had to play dumb anyway #and it became one of the only ways he could really get any kind of enjoyment out of an otherwise miserable process of hiding himself #it's a sad lonely habit he got into #and it does bite him in the ass a lot. i think julian hates being underestimated A Lot #for obvious reasons (his parents are lunatics) #so... maybe it's a little mean of him sometimes #he has kind of a temper anyway. and it's a harmless way to let off steam #you can kinda tell after his augment secret gets out he becomes a lot more sarcastic #i think that's what his mind has been like for a long time #going a little off the rails here but julian's parents always acting like they did him some huge favor #meanwhile this is julian's every day experience now #just being so smart it's innately isolating and miserably lonely #he's not just mad at them for killing jules #he's mad at them for creating julian #my posts #garashir

[delicatebluebirdruins]

'Is that it?' Lockwood asked quietly. Is that really what this is all about?' I looked at him, sitting there beside me. 'It's enough,' I said. 'I put all your lives at risk, not once but several times. One way and another, I'm becoming a liability to the company, and I care too much about you all to let that happen again' It was super-hard to smile then, and it wasn't going to get any easier. So I just got on with it. 'And that's why i've made up my mind the way I have,' I said, 'and why I'm resigining at once from Lockwood and Co.' There was silence in the room... Lockwood and Co. Book Three: the Hollow Boy

1x02 "You're Lucy Carlyle. We can't let you go." and "We're Lockwood and Co. You, me and George... Please Stay"

1x03 "it's my agency. You belong here"

1x06 "Portland Row is my home. You and George"

1x07 "Everything ends and Everyone Leaves"

bonus quote I was planning on adding but decided not to because it didn't quite fit from episode 8 "I just wanted to say, don't give up on us please... don't give up on me"

#just some thoughts tossing around in my head #lockwood and co #lockwood & co #lucy carlyle #anthony lockwood #locklyle #lucy and lockwood #lockwood and lucy #the one from episode 7 is the only like that because I like how it looks #it used to be like the rest but then i thought i didn't like where the text was amongst other reasons so flipped it and added the text agai #keeping the flipped look as i like the inverted look #sorry if there is any mistakes i just wanted it out in the wild #ms paint and powerpoint is my editing software #ellie creates

[bullagit]

no bro the beauty of rottmnt is that there ISN’T one specific brother who actually REALLY has all the common sense trying to herd the other 3 like wayward children. 

the beauty of rottmnt is that they are ALL idiots and all GET to be idiots and they pass the reasonable brain cell around depending on the shenanigans they’re up to. i won’t take this slander and erasure of any of their rights to be complete and sincere dumbasses. they are STUPID and they are COMPETENT, each of them, as individuals and as a unit

#rottmnt #rise of the tmnt #rottmnt movie #i mean this is gonna happen w every ensemble show theres always gonna be the most popular fan fave getting all the credit #but its esp insulting in rise lmfao like #'oh leo has all the common sense if u really think about it' leo cut warren stone in half and accidentally portaled pirates to tahiti #'raph is the only one with the brain cell' raph panic ate his phone once raph wanted to strap hawks to their feet for skates #'donnie' u mean constant barely restrained violence boy? created sentient robo children on accident TWICE boy? #mikey 'whoa this bridge is so rickety LETS SEE HOW FAR IT SWINGS BABY' peak baby brother boy??? #like the fun in it is so much in that they all have moments where they shine and moments where they're STUPID TEEN BOYS #and ykw april included she's the fifth sibling!!!!!!! #she's just as chaotic as any of them!!!! #you know who in this family had solid reasonable brain cells? gram gram #end of list

[uncanny-tranny]

I have no clue if I have made a post like this, but: unfollow those blogs, accounts, or whomever who pressure you to have your hobby become a career/profession/True Craft. Unfollow them. Block them if you still see them on your feed if need be. If you feel horrible about yourself and your art when you Consume Their Content, unfollow.

When I made a conceited effort to only follow and enjoy shared craft from those not in the Hustle Grindset, my eagerness to enjoy my work flourished. I don't feel as guilty being too busy/anxious to crochet because I know there isn't anything wrong with not being on the grindset, and I think that's because I guard this craft seriously, and I want others to shamelessly do the same. Guard your happiness, not because it's "selfish," but because you deserve it. You deserve to enjoy your things.

#art #encouragement #honestly i only follow like... one crochet blog and two knitting blogs #i respect that we all need to get coin somehow but if you feel like a Bad Useless Person when you see the grindset... please back out #if i've made this post before then this is a remonder post <3 #your art is important to me because it is yours. your art is valuable not for monetary reasons but because it exists #i want you to continue making as long as you wish. i want you to be as Good or as Bad as /you/ want #that is your inherent and unalienable right as a sentient being and there should be no question as to if you 'deserve' to create

[grimgummies]

BEFORE I ASK AND BEFORE YOU CONTINUE

PLEASE remember I am asking this question because I want to know Tumblr's consensus on this ship vs the Twitter side of the fandom which is much more vocal about their thoughts.

I am simply asking out of pure curiosity and nothing else. And please don't assume any less of me just because I am curious. I don't want ppl to assume I'm this horrible person or anything qwq

Anyways onto the question:

What are your thoughts on Batmeat (Bob x Streber?)

Feel free to reblog with additional thoughts!!

#spooky month #poll tag #Okay imma put my thoughts here rq cuz I do have some things to say. #Mainly that I used to be extremely against it and grossed out by it but now I'm just meh?? But still leaning on the side of disliking it. #My thoughts mainly changed after talking to certain ppl (who to my knowledge are either against or neutral on it). #Two things these ppl had in common was the fact that neither were proship and both thought ship discourse was dumb (which yeah agree) #(Also for reference I'm not proship either) #When talking with one of these people we were talking about Holydemon and the discourse surrounding it. #Which made me think... #Both Batmeat and Holydemon share something in common. And that's in both ships the characters canonically hate each other and one killed/- #injured the other. #And in no way in the canon (key word CANON) universe would they get along under any circumstances. #But then why is one more accepted over the other?? #And then I realised it has to do mostly with this weird mob mentality the fandom has coupled with the way both these ships are interpreted. #Based on my own experiences it seemed Batmeat was mostly enjoyed by the genuinely gross people in the fandom. #And by this I mean people that had gross intentions with the ship and wanted to interpret it in an abusive way. #Meanwhile Holydemon was created as a silly joke between the Spooky Month team that evolved from joke to people genuinely enjoying it. #To my knowledge Holydemon was never created out of ill intent but rather to be a silly joke + demon x priest old man yaoi funny. #But Batmeat was mostly used by pro/comshippers to fetishize/romanticise abuse. #(Please keep in mind I have seen a bunch of examples on Twt as the ship doesn't seem to be as big here on Tumblr and isn't much of a- #point of discussion). #(But I found that a lot of the known gross ppl in the fandom seemed to enjoy Batmeat which I can only assume left a bad taste in- #people's mouths. Because it sure as Hell did for me). #HOWEVER call me crazy but if Batmeat was created with the same intentions as Holydemon would people still find it gross or think it's a- #funny joke ship? #I dunno I've just been thinkin about it a lot lately. #Oh and another thing I noticed is a lot of the ship discourse in the fandom usually surrounds Bob so take that as you will. #For whatever reason he is the one character that not only broke but split the fandom in a way I have never seen in any previous fandoms- #I've been in. I'm tellin you it's like it's own weird phenomenon. Is it cuz he's a cannibal??? #I wanted to go on but yk tag limit. I lost some things I wrote qwq

[moghedien]

i want the show to have Rand tell Lanfear that he knows she turned evil because Lews Therin broke her off and for her to just immediately start ranting about tenure and about how you make ONE little mistake and create ONE little bore and suddenly everyone is mad at you all the time and you can't get a third name and you're an embarrassment to have around

#Mierin's fall to the dark is like actually extremely interesting because while yeah you can simplify it to 'Lews Therin broke her heart' #you also gotta acknowledge there was a whole catastrophe of other events in Mierin Eronailes life that very much lead to that breaking poin #like the only other guy we know who was involved in creating the bore and survived it committed suicide later #like we forget sometimes that she didn't turn to the dark right after she helped release the dark one and that was very much an accident #like you know there are a number of reasons why Mierin Eronaile turned to the dark #and probably wasn't really anyone around to stop her from turning to the dark because at that point she might as well be a darkfriend #she caused all of this anyway didn't she? #I have so many feelings about Mierin she gives me such fucking brainrot thinking about her life in the AoL and what made her Like This #like she was the only Forsaken that picked her name #and she was one of the first to openly turn to the shadow #because like fuck if everyone's going to blame her for this she might as do it exactly how she wants #wheel of time #wot on prime #wot book spoilers #wot show spoilers #lanfear #rand al'thor

[theramblingvoid]

There were a few ways I predicted a horticultural show could go wrong. Murderous plants, perhaps! Escaped mandrakes forming a choir! Fungal hivemind infection!

Rocks fall everyone dies, however, was NOT one of them -

#voidrambles #fallen london #estival spoilers #WHATTHEFUCK. JUST HAPPENED TO US #HELP???? #it's so seemingly unrelated but it's got to be related SOMEHOW #i can't wait to find out how #the best part is it didn't feel cheap or like. random in a bad way #it just felt. likely. completely unpredictable #and Fairly Dark actually holy shit #if there's one thing fbg knows how to do with a summer event it's create a convincing disaster atmosphere #can't wait to see where this goes #now time to spend all my actions begging Sinning Jenny for help because as per usual she's the only one out here being REASONABLE

[tropicalcryptid]

Man it's been like a decade since I was feral about Zutara but y'all are dragging me back in with your stunning thematic analyses and deconstructed character arcs and highlighting of how damn dirty Katara was done by the ending of ATLA. Ugh thanks now I'm rabid again.

#This post brought to you by the fact that it's not about the shipping it's about the THEMES #There's a reason Zutara won't die #and it's because Bryke created a situation where the “endgame” couple represented a regression for both characters #And where the “ship bait” alternative was way more fulfilling by every single narrative thematic and romantic trope #Ugh #Anger forever #Only issue with an otherwise fabulous show but honestly it's a big one :( #Sad face #atla #avatar the last airbender #zutara #katara #zuko #Foaming over the character implications because COME ON

[incorrectsibunaquotes]

I struggle immensely with the “Nina is the Most Pure of Heart™” narrative, not because I think she’s a bad person, but because I just don’t think she’s any more morally sound than anybody else in the damn house

#how easy would it have been to just say that the only reason it had to be Nina who could wear the Mask of Anubis and go to the afterlife #is because she is the chosen one #the mantle of which i remind you was literally created by ANUBIS as punishment for stealing the cup #so it stands to reason that Nina (chosen by Anubis) is the ONLY ONE who could successfully wear the Mask of ANUBIS #not bc she’s ‘pure of heart’ or some shit #i can appreciate that rufus had to go to super mega hell or whatever #but maybe that was bc the gods had enough of his shit #maybe instead of that being the fate of anyone who’s heart isn’t squeaky clean #it could maybe have just not worked 😭 #idk assigning a higher moral position to nina of all people is silly #bc what they’re saying there is that everybody else on the show SUCKS actually and deserves to burn in hell #which is not what they were intending obviously but ???? #house of anubis #just thinking

[sonknuxadow]

originally had a super long multi paragraph ramble about this written out but then realized i did not have to say all that . anyway . i think that the reason some little animal guy sonic characters have last names while most others just go by (name) the (species) has to do with cultural differences... the fact that the characters with last names are also the same characters who have more human sounding first names makes me think that they were born in an area that had a large human population, or that their parents or grandparents were, so their family was influenced by human naming practices

#that or their parents are two different animals and they have traits from both so they just go by a last name for simplicitys sake #that headcanon is kinda taken from archie sonic btw there are a few archie characters who have parents that are different animals #and iirc they all use last names rather than species names #though those characters tend to only inherent one parents species rather than looking like a combination of both #obviously these reasonings wouldnt apply to everyone there would still be exceptions . like shadow #who was created by humans and exclusively interacted with humans before the events of sa2 but still goes by shadow the hedgehog #though i feel like hes a special case because the robotnik last name would probably raise a lot of questions #or make people wanna start digging around in his private business. so maybe he just doenst use that name publicly #because he doesnt feel like dealing with all that. or maybe he chooses to not use it as a way of not living in the past all the time. idk #Hiii im the number one guy who thinks way too much about random sonic worldbuilding stuff that doesnt matter