#<- potentially. I don't even know anymore.

[howi99]

Ashen Knight 9

Kid Cinder: *looking at their new identities* Pfft, Jaune? That's the name they gave you?

Rk Jaune: *shaking his head* It was my real name, Cinder. The only thing they changed was the family name.

Cinder: *laughing* But Jaune?! Really!? Ahahahahah! It's just a color! What, did your mom lack names that were related to your hair color?

Jaune: Yes, actually.

Cinder: ... Wait really?

Jaune: Seven sisters and a bunch of cousins that are all blond really weeded out the number of names they could use. Heck, if i remember correctly, i had... Have? *Shake his head* One of them was called dandelion and another crucifer, which is basically another name for mustard.

Cinder: ... That last one did sound badass though.

Jaune: ... I do have to agree on that one. *Taking another look at the false papers* The last name isn't bad at least.

Cinder: Amaryllis? Why? It sounds like we are from Argus.

Jaune: It's a good cover. A father and daughter leave Argus to search for a better life in Atlas-

Cinder: *deadpan* The grimmland would have been preferable to this god forsaken place.

Jaune: *roll his eyes* I know Atlas is the second worst place in Remnant after Mistral, but trust me when i say that i'd prefer to stay another hundred years in the ever after instead of getting my foot in the grimmlands for more than a week.

Cinder: *pouting* But i still want to go!

Jaune: ... *Kneeling down to her size, smiling at the little girl* Cinder, i know that you want to leave this place as soon as possible. *Chuckle* Trust me, i miss Vale as much as you hate Atlas... But you saw how Winter reacted when she talked about her dad. *Shaking his head* I can't just leave her alone, nor her or her siblings.

Cinder: *Sigh* I know that, but why can't i just use my semblance on him? It would be finished in a matter of seconds!

Jaune: *serious* And you'd have killed.

Cinder: *trying to justify herself* B-but he's a bad guy! Like in your stor-

Jaune: *Cutting her, his voice authoritative* Cinder!

Cinder: *surprised by Jaune reaction* W-whu-

Jaune: *sigh, calming his voice* Cinder... Killing is not a solution to a problem. It's a consequence. *Closing his eyes, taking a deep breath* Grimms don't have feelings. They don't have aspirations or dreams... But peoples? People have dreams. *Open his eyes, seeing Cinder's eyes reflecting his own* When you look at me, what do you see?

Cinder: *unsure* M-my savior? A knight?

Jaune: *shaking his head* Cinder, when i look at you, i see how good you can be. I see your future, i see all your potential... But do you know what i see when I have to kill someone? When they lay before me?

Cinder: *shake her head*

Jaune: *sigh* I see nothing... When they die, they cannot change anymore, Cinder. Death is the end, not A end, THE end. Killing someone is robbing them of their future, of everything they could have done. You cannot repent in death... *Look at his broken sword* Nor can you dream of better days...

Cinder: *looking down, ashamed of even thinking about killing Jacques* I'm sorry... I thought i could be useful... I just-

Jaune: *taking her in his arms, hugging her* You don't need to be useful, Cinder. You need to be you, to be happy!

Cinder: *slowly hugging the knight back, silently crying* B-but then... What good am i?

Jaune: *Tightening his hug a little bit* You aren't a tool, Cinder. You are a kid... Be kind, be happy... And that will be plenty enough.

[divineerdrick]

Homestuck: Beyond Canon Upd8 for November 11, 2024

*flops*

Don't mind me.

Just gonna lie here while I do the Homestuck liveblog thing.

I am going to give a heads up. If my next migraine treatment brings me a bit more back in line, I'll be doing VLogs again. I have a bigger video project planned, but it's not Homestuck related. I'll be posting the updates here though, so you'll still know when I blog an upd8. Then you'll all get to see my haggard and aged face.

We begin with the monthly news upd8 from James. Except no! It is in fact an upd8 from Miles! James fades into the background, and apparently Miles will be our flattering correspondent from now on.

It looks like Miles is putting potential spoilers in the news post, so I might have to be careful in the future. Of course these might be jokes. We'll have to see.

Work continues on the planned [S] page and more Beyond Canon merch. We won't be getting an upd8 for December, but they will be running the Patreon. The next upd8 looks like it might be as late as February.

That's all unfortunate. But I fully support if the team wants to take a well earned holiday.

Upd8

Tavvy has decided to join Yiffy on an adventure. This can't possibly end well. His attempts at being her lackey have so far landed him mostly in trouble. And there's a heap of trouble brewing on the soon to be battlefield.

Yeah that's not happening.

Heh! Harry brought the trail mix.

Oh wow. And oh no!

OH NO!!!

That can't possibly count as Heroic though. Getting sniped while performing a purely tactical role is not a hero's end. Still, Rose is probably glad the kids aren't seeing that.

And button.

Interesting view to cut to.

Again, I don't think this will count as Heroic for anyone. But a lot of people are about to die. And let's not forget, none of the trolls currently outside for the Plot Point are God Tiers. This is bad. This is really bad. This is the kind of moment that calls for an extreme, deus ex machina, like the Plot Point has the potential for.

But we're not getting to see it yet.

Edit: @vriedi reminded me that Meenah is a God Tier. Though this does make me wonder, what happens when a dead God Tier dies?

Orange curtains.

Okay! Legitimately fantastic Psyche Out. They actually got me pretty good there.

Okay, we have a new troll it I think.

gavageCunctation is messaging Vrissy. Though that doesn't necessarily tell us much, except that a new player may have entered the drama.

And they're "negging" Vrissy. So this troll clearly sees themselves as a "player" too.

We've got a "game" that's about to be played. A game being run by a TC. Now Gamzee is dead, but that doesn't mean he didn't setup something before Vriska killed him. Still, it's likely these are two completely new troll kids.

We've got a new AA too. So we might be seeing more troll descendants. After all, they used cloning to kick things off. This troll is typing in purple, but blood typing may not be universal anymore. I do find it interesting that we're continuing the nucleotide pairs though. They could have gone for a different motif. Maybe they're trying to symbolize that these are potential paradox clones for a new session?

AA is apparently our chronic auspistice for this group. And potentially our Seer, though we've had fake-outs on that before.

And our actual cliffhanger ending is this new GC's computer exploding.

So yeah. Something has to happen for a lot of our beloved characters to not bite it. I'm also curious how Rose's vision of future events can come true if Jane has unleashed her weapon. But I mentioned last time that Rose is playing a dangerous game here. I don't think any of our God Tiers are in trouble, and I'm pretty sure the Plot Point is fine.

I'm wondering if this is how Calliope ends up sacrificing themself, if Rose was even correct there. Either way, this a dark ending for the year on a community that's already seen some dark endings.

*Returns to flop*

[ultramaga]

"if a man believes that virginity is important (because of beliefs about purity or anything else) and expects a partner to conform to this belief but does not do so himself, that is hypocritical" IFF they believe ALL people should be virgins unless married etc. Example: A lesbian domme is looking for a submissive. She is not a hypocrite because she doesn't want to be a submissive herself. An Aztec believes all other races should be tortured and sacrificed. They are not a hypocrite because they don't want to be sacrificed themselves. "the social importance placed on virginity characterizes a woman as "unclean" or "used" after she is no longer a virgin" Women and men are biologically different. It's hardly surprising that translates into psychological and social differences. There's no equivalent of a hymen, and men do not, despite Leftist propaganda, get pregnant. Pregnancy is an incredibly significant and potentially dangerous event, and therefore there's much more anxiety over females because they get pregnant after sex. You can say that's irrational, but it's not a matter of reason but instinct.

It's not going to be argued away. We know, to our bones, that promiscous women are going to be in more danger than men, and that they cause more social havok. We can use reason to demand men not cause pregnancy, but we only discovered that pretty recently, and feminists have been arguing to the contrary since the 1960s. c.f. "The First Sex" for an example of a popular feminist work which argued, completely seriously, that women could get pregnant without men, and also see the recent "Agatha" television series which made the same claim, yes, without magic, no, they did not invent a scientific workaround, they just asserted it.

So we have instinctual desires to keep women virginal unless they are bound to us, to keep daughters virginal unless they are in a safe and secure marriage.

And feminists can argue all they like - that instinct will not disappear, which is why the desire for virgins is global. There was no men's conference where they came together over cappucinos and decided to oppress women. That's not even physically possible, considering the preference occurred before fast travel or communication, and may predate modern humanity. "Challenging the misogynistic system that treats women's virginity as a commodity" Feminists are completely free to never have sex with men again, and have promised every single day since the 1960s that they would go on a sex strike until their demands are met. Simultaneously, they demand ever more abortions because they can't keep their legs closed. They also demanded the destruction of the family, which has been pretty much achieved in Western cultures, meaning the few women who have children are either having them without marriage or are getting divorced quickly afterwards. It turns out if women have many partners, they don't settle down. I remember seeing studies that they simply do not bond anymore once the association between romance and sex is successfully severed. If you want to argue that men should also be virgins until married, you can, and religions have, but that's not the feminist argument. It is that the preference of males for virgins is evil, but the females for sexually experienced males is good. In fact, the typical insult of a feminist towards a male is "virgin" or "incel", and it is used against married and single men alike, because it is seen as such a great blight upon their character for them not to be sexually experienced that it can be applied even when physical evidence directly contradicts it in the form of children.

Biology is not oppression. Women and men preferring different things in partners is biology, and mundane across species with sexuality. If it's not convenient that what men want doesn't conform to the feminist vision, tough luck. You cannot shame men into experiencing lust upon command.

I have to wonder - what is the end goal for feminists? Submissive and miserable men, who service them sexually, and loathe it? How does badgering men solve the problem, since most women are heterosexual? I think feminism is anti-rational. It does not want to proceed from problem to solution - instead it wallows in victimhood, as if never having to try is a joy in instelf.

It’s not hypocritical for a man to want a virgin woman for a partner when he himself isn’t a virgin. People are allowed to have preferences. That’s like saying a woman is a hypocrite for wanting a tall man as a partner when she isn’t tall herself, or that she’s a hypocrite for wanting a man as a partner when she isn’t a man. It’s ridiculous

Hypocritical: "characterized by behavior that contradicts what one claims to believe or feel : characterized by hypocrisy" [1].

So, for example, if a man believes that virginity is important (because of beliefs about purity or anything else) and expects a partner to conform to this belief but does not do so himself, that is hypocritical.

More importantly, the social importance placed on virginity characterizes a woman as "unclean" or "used" after she is no longer a virgin, which is clearly misogynistic (e.g., it suggests a woman's value is tied to sexual behavior). Notably, the same importance is not placed on men's virginity, further confirming it is a misogynistic concept.

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Height is a sexually dimorphic physical trait not a behavior, belief, or feeling.

Further, while there appears to be some height preference in "mate choice" [2], "people adjust their preferences for [Sexual Dimorphism in Stature] in relation to their own height in order to increase their potential pool of partners" [3]. So there really isn't some great limiting factor here.

That being said, there may still be some degree of sexism at play here. Specifically, "less dominant women tended to prefer taller partners", suggesting women who conform to social expectations regarding their social role in relationships may also be the conforming to social expectations regarding their physical differences. However, "women’s height preferences were not reflected in their real mate choices", so again, really not a limiting factor. [4]

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"wanting a man as a partner when she isn’t a man"

This is called sexuality. Heterosexual people are attracted to the opposite sex, homosexual people to the same sex, and bisexual people to both. And again, sexuality is an unalterable trait, not a behavior, belief, or feeling.

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No one is ever obligated to have sex with or be in a relationship with anyone.

That being said, as discussed above, social emphasis on virginity is rooted in misogyny. Challenging the misogynistic system that treats women's virginity as a commodity and women like property is a basic aspect of feminism.

References below the cut:

“Hypocritical.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hypocritical. Accessed 2024.

Pisanski K, Fernandez-Alonso M, Díaz-Simón N, Oleszkiewicz A, Sardinas A, Pellegrino R, Estevez N, Mora EC, Luckett CR, Feinberg DR. Assortative mate preferences for height across short-term and long-term relationship contexts in a cross-cultural sample. Front Psychol. 2022 Aug 25;13:937146. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.937146. PMID: 36092066; PMCID: PMC9454610.

Fink, B., Neave, N., Brewer, G., & Pawlowski, B. (2007). Variable preferences for sexual dimorphism in stature (SDS): Further evidence for an adjustment in relation to own height. Personality and Individual Differences, 43(8), 2249-2257.

Sorokowski, P., Sabiniewicz, A., & Sorokowska, A. (2015). The impact of dominance on partner’s height preferences and height-related mate choices. Personality and Individual Differences, 74, 220-224.

[codexnuminous]

I love seeing INCREDIBLY vague posts, that just seem to be some sort of collection of poetry or somesuch, and could be about anything - and then scrolling to the bottom and seeing #woe.begone spoilers. What? What on earth is going to happen??? I'm on episode 32 and I'm now very scared.

[is-this-really--life]

I think this space is uniquely horrible to be in both for OSA woman *and* for SSA woman. And I think it's obvious at this point why it's so awful for OSA women, because that's more overt. You get told you're politically impure for partnering with men. Of course that's insane.

But... idk there's like... this fear and this shame of being attracted to women in the wrong way. When you're a separatist, everything revolves around demonizing male sexuality, and so of course you fear emulating it. I was* afraid any attraction to women, any expression of it, in any sort of way that isn't neat and tidy, perfectly feminist and politically correct, makes me like a man. And therefore bad. I couldn't even think about wanting to fuck women without feeling ashamed.

I was only able to unpack some of this, that I felt this way, after I stopped being a separatist.

[thaliagrayce]

y'know what we don't talk about enough? Hazel died. We talk about how she grew up in the 30's and 40's and we talk about how out of place she feels in the modern world, but! She died! She was dead! She has spent more time dead than alive, and not by a close margin!

How does that effect a person??? We got some of it in the flashbacks, but once those caught up with her present timeline and she shared them, they just kind of... disappeared. And she was a regular girl with some weird past experiences. That's one way of doing it, sure!

I think it would have been a lot cooler if she was just a touch creepier. If she felt a little bit Wrong. Yeah, in general she's more approachable than her brother, she's more sociable and less closed off, but. If you actually spend any time with her, it can be difficult to tell which child of the underworld is actually more unsettling.

Hazel is bright of personality and has a dazzling smile, but sometimes she'll just... shut down. She'll go completely blank for like half an hour and nobody knows what to do with it. Sometimes she forgets she's alive. Sometimes she'll spout the grimmest shit you've ever heard like it's nothing, she won't even notice it's weird until the room goes quiet. She spent decades in Asphodel, which is designed to make people forget about themselves and wander around for eternity, only she didn't have the luxury of forgetting! Wild! After she comes back to life, sometimes she forgets that she's allowed to Do Stuff now. She can spend so long sitting and staring at nothing. Sometimes she'll start crying on cloudless days because it hits her again that she can actually feel the warmth of the sun on her skin and she can hear birdsong. Every little mundane experience is a blessing and she will make you remember that in the most foreboding way possible.

[sezja]

Can we please bring the VIth Legion, trapped in Azys Lla, home to Garlemald or at the very least away from Azys Lla

[stormyoceans]

We are really that good? I'm scared off by the large number of couples. Is each of the couples sufficiently disclosed in the script? You're so excited about this show. I'm skeptical, but maybe I should try?

I MEAN. MUST A SHOW BE GOOD. IS IT NOT ENOUGH FOR IT TO SPARK JOY AND GIVE YOU A BRAINROT SO DEEP THEY HAVE TO GET YOU INVOLUNTARY COMMITTED BECAUSE OF IT

but all jokes aside, let's talk about it. when it comes to reviewing shows, i always try to be as honest and objective as i can, so im not just gonna lie to you and pretend we are is a masterpiece. it's very much not. if you enjoy plot driven stories then this series is very much not for you because the plot is basically non-existent, or rather.. all the different dynamics between the characters ARE the plot. to me the show is a slice of life in the connotation that's given to it in anime and manga: a narrative that takes place in a recognisable everyday setting, often in a school, and that focuses on interpersonal relationships. this isn't to say slice of life shows with a character driven story can't be masterpieces, they absolutely can, but we are is not..very refined, there are some things that do not make much sense to me and the way the story is told can be a bit frustrating at times, not to mention that for a director who likes to show a million angles of the same moment you'd think the editing would be top notch but it's just. it's not, okay, it looks like my hair after i chop it off over the bathroom sink at 2 am when i cannot sleep, that shit's ROUGH

all this being said, im still enjoying this show TREMENDOUSLY. and believe me, no one is more surprised about this than i am. tbh i can't quite explain to you why it works for me when other (maybe even better) shows don't, it just feels very genuine, the humor isn't over the top, the characters are all extremely likeable, and i love that they're giving the platonic relationships the same weight and importance as the romantic ones. and i mean..im mostly insane about phumpeem because apparently that's THEE Dynamic™ for me, but since there are four different pairings i feel like there's something for everyone

although when it comes to development, since you asked, i do want to point out that pondphuwin and winnysatang's pairings are clearly the main ones (before anyone comes at me, i do remember the cast saying this), but aouboom still get a fair amount of screentime and they're the heart of the show tbh. the only pair that's suffering in this regard is marcpoon, but honestly it makes sense considering they had to reshoot stuff

so, um. yeah ;;;;;; this is way too long and it's probably a mess but i wanted to give you an honest and complete overview so you know what you're getting yourself into if you do decide to give it a chance. i actually started to like the show more and more after episode 3, so maybe if you have a free evening you could just try it out and see if you can get into it!!!!!!

tl;dr: it's not a masterpiece and it has its shortcomings but it's highly enjoyable and although not all couples have the same amount of screentime and development i think everyone could find something to like in the show

[einsatzzz]

art time-lapse of this piece that i posted in IG b4 to try out doing reels. i really like how this turned out overall plus "yasashii suisei" (link for eng tl) really fit the vibes so im queueing this here too

[itz-pandora]

Huh. If my life was a quote, it'd be "one of those sad ones with a deceptively happy tune"

[randomnameless]

Will Marianne's actual in-game characterization ever be represented again in Heroes, or is she doomed to be flanderized into "Momo suffered so much sad uwu" for the rest of the game's timespan?

Mean me wants to say she has no characterisation to give anything substantial to FEH to work around, but it's me being mean.

I guess that anything relating to her Relic, and Relics in general, will be flanderised and the truth will never be revealed because tea bags, and even if FEH tried, last year, with F!F!Billy (was it last year?) to give more meat to that subplot by saying Sothis from Nopes was pissed and wants revenge because her kin were slaughtered, even FEH can't craft stuff KT/IS left purposedly hanging in their games.

Sobbing about Momo though, give the impression that the devs care about the "lore" of Fodlan and give another, imo, more interesting angle to Marianne even if it comes as the cost of woobifying Momo but hey, since it's a given that no one gives a fuck about Nabateans, it's alright, poor Momo was a victim of his curse uwu, let's just not/never talk about what that curse is.

[algrenion]

the way i finally got to the coast in Disco Elysium and every line spoken hence "the swing set" scene has me in a trance...

[blizzardfluffykpop]

alright~ a few updates about everything! so this weekend I'll be seeing changkyun in chicago- so I prolly won't be posting until after I'm alive again from that 😂😅 (I am vv excited about it- I just know I'll be vv tired when I return home). Anyways, I have a few fics in the works~ one of them that is a request 🤭 I'm vv excited to work on them! But I think I'm going to change my masterlist a bit when I come back. I'm going to retire a few groups from the main masterlist and I've been debating for the past year about it... But I think I'm going to add a yearly masterlist- So it would go from most recent to the beginning of this year~

I'm also thinking about changing my pfp- I haven't been really into stray kids for uh... years- But I will be sure to make an update about that if I go thru with that too- (It may be ji changmin next 🫣🤭)

Anyways those are my few updates 🥰💖

[brekitten]

Guilt

Sometimes, Peter feels guilty.

He knows he shouldn't, because the skipped lab days with Tony and missed dinners with May, and all the little lies and excuses he's told them to ease their worries, are really for the greater good - a fact he has been told time and time again by his superiors. But no matter how much he tells himself this, he can't stop feeling guilty about all of it.

As he bids May a hasty goodbye, throwing his backpack over his shoulder, that same guilt threatens to crush him once again. He almost wants to stay, to have dinner with his aunt like he had promised he would. But he can't.

He hopes he doesn't have a mission tomorrow night, so he can make it up to her.

He steps into the alley outside his apartment, where two men are waiting for him. They hand him a folder, he skims over the information, and he hands it back. They leave without another word.

He quickly climbs onto the roof and changes into the clothes he brought with him. The mask - the final piece of his uniform - slides over his mouth, and he finds the familiarity comforting. Unlike his Spider-Man mask, which always seems so suffocating, it covers just enough of his face to keep him anonymous. He prefers this mask, and wishes he could use it instead. But he can't, because it isn't Spider-Man's.

The mission is quick, far quicker than most. The file had included the likely locations of the target, and Peter finds the man right away. The target is in an unprotected building. All it takes is one shot from Peter's gun, and the man is dead. No one sees him leave the rooftop he took the shot from, and he makes it home without incident.

He changes back into his civilian clothing, tucking his uniform and weapons back into his bag, and goes into the apartment. May is waiting for him, and he rattles off some story of what he had done, the lies falling easily from his tongue. He tells her nothing of his mission.

He does have dinner with her that night, even though it's late. He has dinner with her the next night, too. He still doesn't feel like it quite makes up for his repeated absences, especially with how strained May's smile always looks.

He tries not to feel guilty about all of the lies and excuses he tells her. It's for the greater good, after all. Everyone he kills in Hydra's name deserves it, and their absence from this world makes the lives of everyone else better. But he knows May won't see it that way; not many people do.

Maybe someday, he can tell her the truth. But for now, he lies.

And despite knowing that what he's doing is what's best for her and everyone he cares about, he feels guilty about it all.

[kumakuma-circus]

saw ur post abt the mentally unwell killer suspects in p4 and. i agree sm. specifically namatame like that’s my GOAT. i feel he already had some sort of mental issues beforehand. then with the whole scandal/affair with his wife made it worse then BOOM magical powers. literally thinking about the scene where in the IT confronts him at the hospital he’s literally on the floor violently shaking and holding his head . he also seems to be semi verbal too but that could be my autistic ass reading too much into it

you are so fucking right anon. i admittedly don't have as many thoughts about namatame cuz i like. only just got to that stuff where as it's been a week or so at this point since i finished mitsuo's dungeon. but he's definitely at least mostly just mentally unstable. though i'm not sure how much of that was present beforehand and how much of it was just him going kind of insane after developing a messiah complex (as adachi directly words it). i don't think it fully justifies his actions (esp the cheating, i get he was in a loveless marriage more or less but. still not great) but i think he mostly just needs therapy, same with mitsuo (though i mean. mitsuo did actually kill someone. so-).

[frankensteinmutual]

so my crush has officially left me on read after I gave up trying not to text her again. I think I need to drown myself in the lake