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personally, assigning morality to fiction is a slippery slope. of course tyun has the moral high ground over gyu in yamqn, but oc also doesn’t have any frame of reference of love and morality in relationships is, so of course she’s not really capable of making a true choice between the two.
it would be out of character for her to take what’s best for her into account, because it’s not anything she was ever taught to do. people don’t come preloaded with the idea of what love should feel like when it’s done right, it’s a learned skill. and oc was only ever taught to be used, and to get the most she can out of those using her. gyu was the closest person to ever showing her that she is valued, as twisted as that value is, so i can see why she misses him and the feeling of being “loved.”
and as to gyu himself, what is his frame of reference for what love is? his parents are clearly not an ideal couple, and while he has siblings, that’s not really the same, is it? what does a prince who has never known relations outside of being used and manipulated himself (his mother and sister aside) understand about loving in a moral way?
and then we get to tyun, who lives with constant burden, telling himself that he has to remain strong in the face of every circumstance, who was only ever taught pain and abuse. he isn’t capable of loving freely, is he?
while as a reader, we can assign morality, we are stepping out of the immersion of the story. these characters can learn and grow, of course, but through whom? everyone is twisted in some way in this story, by circumstance or by the simple fact of it being a different time and a different world. that’s the beauty of having conflict in a work of fiction, seeing how each character reacts and how they grow (or regress!) from it.
anyways, tldr of all these run on sentences, these characters are not the reader, and you’re unfolding a story of pain and uncertainty in a beautiful way that is true to the world you’ve built. -🖤
Ugh thank you so much for this nuanced take. I couldn't ask for more as a writer honestly. You understand the characters and understand the context they operate in. Yeah a lot of us nowadays know what toxic relationships look like but for these characters they don't. Honestly even for us modern humans, I have had to explain to my male friend that the relationship he is in is toxic because he couldn't see it and me and my family had to intervene with one of my brother's relationships along with his friends just to point out to him that he is in a very abusive relationship and he should leave it despite the other person's manipulations. And that's in modern time, imagine what these characters are going through, they don't know shit about this. Toxic relationships are the norm.
For OC most of her contemporaries would think she's being too much either with gyu or with tyun. With gyu they'd say that she had the prince willing to give her anything she wanted so she should've taken it and with tyun they would’ve dismissed her need for love because he provides for her and protects her so what more could she want?
OC herself would see that she could either get love with Beomgyu or respect with taehyun and that it's impossible to have both. And gyu wouldn't think much of her bring his concubine because he's doing her a service, isn't he? He's giving her way more than she would've ever gotten with anyone else. Tyun too would think that he saved her from her captor and gave her the independence she wanted so why is she fishing for emotions right now?
Idk I'm a bit tipsy so maybe I don't make sense but your point about the context of their lives and the time period is so so important. Readers are judging them according to modern standards when these characters operate in a very different system. That's why gyu's father is so against oc because he doesn't understand why his son is fighting so hard for a low born noble. And why tyun is struggling so hard to be sweet with her because that was never expected of him (plus his other issues). And why oc feels like she has to choose between love and respect.
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bastardlybonkers · 1 month
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i feel like not enough ppl are factoring in the cultural clash between laios and shuro and the many micro agressions shuro faced while being in their group. literally the name 'shuro' in itself is one
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his name is toshiro 😭 lets also not forget that he has his own communication issues, in the opposite way that laios does- thats literally a factor in their argument, that his envy for laios's ability to express himself sincerely manifested as part of his distaste for him.
ig all this to say like, was their fight heart wrenching, especially when reading laios as autistic? absolutely. anybody whos ever been in laios's position knows how much it hurts to realize someone you thought was your friend doesnt actually like having you around, especially when they didnt tell you and you had no way of knowing due to not understanding their cues. but im begging yall to step back and see the nuance of this situation cause im gonna be real a lot of you are kinda just brushing over it acting like everything is toshiros fault and that hes a terrible person when in reality hes an average guy who really, really clashed with laios and it led to a very long misunderstanding due to their supremely opposite methods of communication. even laios and toshiro, after letting everything out in their fight, were able to come to an understanding and start a foundation for an actual friendship built on better communication
ok yknow what Edit: i shouldve made it even more explicit at the end of this post, i hadnt thought i would need to since i started the post with this, but i think a few too many people are missing my point so i just wanna clarify. i shouldnt have said 'really clashed' and left it at that because yeah they did, but it wasnt just their opposite methods of communication, it is also very much that toshiro was experiencing microaggressions via laios. it may have been unintentional on laios's part, but it still happened and wore him down, made it harder for him to communicate on top of both the more subtle social cues that he was raised with and his own communication difficulties. i also want to say that the fandom reaction to toshiro and the complete ignorance of this point is also racist tbh or at the very least ignorant. i understand that the anime did not cover this panel, and neither did the manga, as this was an omake, but im gonna be real with you guys. there are enough context clues within the story to clue you into this. if you didnt pick up on it thats ok, but i think this is a good lesson in picking up subtext in the stories that youre watching and/or reading. kui shouldnt have to explicitly say 'by the way laios was racist to toshiro' for this point to be understood, and at the very least, when the author portrays a character in a sympathetic light (as kui clearly does) it should make you question Why they are doing so and what makes them sympathetic, rather than youre immediate and only reaction to be 'well i hated what this guy did/said so i hate them and they suck'. idk exactly how to finish this, just. idk. question your biases and gut reactions to things you see in media and stories, and think about whether or not theres subtext that youre missing.
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ruporas · 10 days
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trigunned the hades or hadesed the trigun (id in alt)
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egophiliac · 3 months
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(almost) four years in, and I finally had time to draw something for the anniversary! woo! 🎉🎉🎉
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hugs-and-stabbies · 13 days
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The self-awareness on this guy 😞 someone pls send him an "are you bi?" quiz STAT
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pixlokita · 3 months
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Aight 😔
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crispywizardtale · 4 months
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cocoacake · 1 year
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playing ishin for the story?? shinsengumi who???? sorry i only know taking care of my daughter 😌🌸
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pyrochickenpollo · 8 months
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I DONT GIVE A FLYING FUCK WHAT ANYONE ELSE SAYS ABOUT THESE TWO
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LOOK AT THEM THEY WERE SUCH LOAFLY AND AND
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LOOK AT THEM THE WHOLE TIME IN THIS SCENE EVERYTIME HE LOOKS AT BETTY ITS WITH LOAFLY GOO GOO EYES LIKE A BUG FLIES ON HER FACE AND THIS IS HIS REACTION
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THEY DONT EVEN NEED TO KISS CAUSE THE THOUGHT OF IT IS SUCH LOAFLY TO THEM; ALL THEY WANNA DO IS HUG EACH OTHER, HOLD EACH OTHER BECAUSE THEY FOUND EACH OTHER AND IF YOUR TELLING ME THIS ISNT THE CUTEST LOAFEST SHIT IN THE WORLD YOUR A LIAR
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LOOK AT THIS LAST MEMORY BEFORE HE WENT TO PUT THE CROWN ON AND KNEW HE WOULDNT COME BACK FROM IT LOOK AT HOW PRETTY SHE IS
I don't think he's remembering this point exactly I think he's remembering how pretty she looked in the car to him and her saying "goodbye Simon" was from some other point in his life when he lost her (the golb incident) because he knew he'd technically be dead if he changed to ice king
BUT I DONT GIVE TWO SHITS OR TWO FUCKS WHATEVER PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT THESE TWO THEY ARE SUCH LOAFLY AND SO IN LOAF THAT A KISS WOULDNT DO EM THE JUSTICE THEY NEED LIKE SUCH LOAFLY SO SAD
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topaziraphale · 8 months
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"Stop saying Crowley won't help Aziraphale in S3 he'd go back to him in a HEARTBEAT and nothing would stop him" I get it no one likes the idea of Crowley being bitter after what happened for a long period of time but like can we at least acknowledge that he's currently going through probably the most emotional pain in his life since falling? Can we agree that he's opened his heart entirely - something you couldn't pay him to do unless the world is literally ending and he's desperate - to Aziraphale, and got shot down? Can we understand that he did it AGAIN only to lose Aziraphale again? Not that what Aziraphale did isn't without Crowley's own shortcomings (hiding the truth of Heaven's cruelty from him) but like,,,,
The appeal here isn't Scorned Crowley Doesn't Love Aziraphale Anymore, or Never Wants To Help Him Again, the appeal here is Crowley learning enough self respect to not just walk back right to Aziraphale like nothing happened after Aziraphale has had a pattern of consistently refusing him. Going years ping-ponging between "We're not friends I don't even know him" to "That's what friends are for right?" and "We're friends, why would you even say anything?" and "Friends? We're not friends. We are an angel and a demon!"
Like I get it, Crowley is a heartbreakingly forgiving person. Of course he's gonna forgive Aziraphale, I'll be surprised if he didn't forgive him by the time he walked out the bookshop door, but gdi he could at least grant himself the luxury of being at least a little irritated for longer than however long it takes to make a globe and some books float and angrily cry out to God in his flat. But due to the change of pace and dynamic that is establishing part of the conflict for Season 3, I just really like the idea of him for ONCE prioritizing himself and being like "Okay, fine. We'll get back at it when you're ready, then," instead of just taking Aziraphale back like his words and actions meant nothing to him, when clearly they have an effect on him.
What is Aziraphale going to learn if Crowley just accepts what he did so quickly, like he always has the entire time they've been friends? Idk maybe I'm just projecting too much darkness on their dynamic but I mean, if the pattern of Aziraphale pushing Crowley away/disrespecting him one day and then being fine with his friendship the next + Crowley never stopping to be like "Hey, that's not cool, at least give me a little credit" or smth was fine all along and will continue to be fine in the future, then why, after 6,000 years of being friends and loving this demon, can Aziraphale still not accept that Crowley is just fine the way he is, and instead got excited to promote him to an angel in a heartbeat once the opportunity presented itself? You can't blame all of it on Heaven when Aziraphale has demonstrated his free will/defiance to Heaven so many times. Or, I don't know, I guess maybe we can? Maybe I'm just craving too much angst to the point where I'm letting it cloud my analysis of canon. Idk.
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screwpinecaprice · 3 months
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She's on a hospital bed, amnesiac after an accident and she's having a crush on this man who is apparently her husband.
@dragonuva's part on an art trade with them from last year! 🥰 It's based on the first chapter of Chiptune by Newlense.
Guys. This fanfic is my favorite FAVORITE connverse fic and I love it so much I don't care if the last update was in 2020 nor if it's never going to be continued. It's so tender and the angst whalloped my guts in the right places. 😭💕
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egophiliac · 11 months
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redesigning my headcanon for Sebek's parents, based on important new information (SCALES)
(you can't see it but they're both wearing crocs)
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fromtheseventhhell · 1 month
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I also find it funny that fandom will only accept Lyanna being her non-conforming, wild self in the context of saying that Arya isn't meant to be pretty; Any other day we get back-to-back posts about how Lyanna is actually super traditionally feminine cause she sniffled at a song once, so she's actually more like Sansa. Instead of constantly speaking on Arya and Lyanna, how about you guys reflect on why your standards of beauty for women are attached to how well they perform feminity within the patriarchy?
#lyanna stark#arya stark#asoiaf#/Lyanna isn't actually pretty she was a wild tomboy/ Those two things are not mutually exclusive 😭#how you look is not a reflection of your personality and this is also a running theme within the story#we have morally good characters who are ugly and morally bad characters who are beautiful this is like...kindergarten level#Lyanna is idealized in terms of her personality hence /you saw her beauty but not the iron underneath/#and Ned correcting Robert when he said Lyanna wouldn't have shamed him like Cersei had#he's a very shallow misogynistic character and I truly doubt he would've been as attached to the idea of her without surface level beauty#reminds me of people saying that Olivia Hussey is a bad fancast for them because she has a /doll like/ beauty and they're /rougher/ 😭#as though their entire facial structure magically changed once they realized they enjoyed playing with swords instead of sewing sdksdkdsksd#it's giving that one tiktok with the /cat pretty vs doe pretty vs bunny pretty/#even if you wanted to make the case that her beauty is idealized in her death we get Arya described a pretty multiple times?#idk it's just so wild to me to use personality as an indication of looks it just sounds so stupid#Arya/Lyanna can still have /delicate/ features (which is extremely subjective) and still have a wild personality#how about we acknowledge that the perception of both of them is warped by strict patriarchal gender norms instead?#some real analysis just to shake things up idk
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turtleblogatlast · 2 months
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Do you ship any of the turtles with anyone? or do you ship anything in rise at all?
(This ended up being a lot longer an answer than I intended hoo boy sorry about that)
Hmmm, I’m not too big a shipper tbh! Especially since I really enjoy canon interactions backing my ships, so it’s hard for me to actively like any that don’t really have that going for them. There’s plenty that I see around that I think are cute, but that’s usually the extent of my thought process for them.
For ships I more actively have, I guess I like AprilxSunita! They’re very very cute and I think they have some huge meet cute energy in their first episode together, and their chemistry is genuinely adorable (plus them being featured means more April screentime which is ALWAYS a good thing.)
I also think AprilxCasey (and when I say Casey I mean our OG girl) is really good, as I’m a sucker for enemies to lovers, and I think they have a lot in common and just bounce off each other very well (not to mention this ship in other iterations of TMNT has a loooooot going for it.)
Keeping the chain going, I think RaphxCasey (again, OG Casey) is also one with a tonnnnn of potential. They have a lot of common characteristics, and considering Raph’s whole thing with Franken-Foot, I really think there’s a lot of room there for a relationship to develop. Plus, like AprilxCasey, Raph and Casey tend to have a close relationship throughout the iterations of TMNT and it would be great to see that more with these two, even if not romantically.
Actually going back to enemies to lovers, I unironically think there’s a ton going for DonniexKendra. I know a lot of people hate this ship, but I don’t and I actually think it could very easily work whether in a love-hate way or a slow burn way. There’s a lot to like here and honestly they’re good together! Kendra is legit Donnie’s type too haha (cute, but mean.)
Lastly, SplinterxDraxum is good…when done right. I really like when people take it and don’t undermine the very real trauma that Splinter has gone through. As I’ve stated a lot, I love me some enemies to lovers, so I can see the potential here. Plus lbr Draxum was down BAD for Lou Jitsu when he first saw him haha.
I think that’s the extent to what I actively like? Everything else usually falls into “aw cute” or “ehhh not for me thanks”. And before you ask YES leosagi is cute and I’ll read fics with it if the premise is appealing, but I’m afraid I need some canon interactions to establish base character dynamics before I actively ship it alas.😔 Super cute though, no hate to it or any of the other CanonxCharacter-they’ve-never-met ships, I genuinely think people should just have fun! And for what it’s worth I really do wish we got a Usagi and Leo interaction in Rise like we have in other iterations.:(
So yeah. Overall, I have a few ships I enjoy, but I fall much more in the “prefer to keep everyone to themselves and make the focus family and friendship” category.
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dazais-guardian-angel · 9 months
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this torture we're going through with the anime must be divine karma for slandering Bones all this time...... they said "oh, you don't like how we adapt things? you say the manga does it better?? okay then, well now there is no more manga. it's Bones or bust, bitches."
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billy-crudup · 10 months
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met this dude from my icon today
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