#<- will continue not addressing this

[oncillabrigade]

Finally read Robins!

I have a lot of thoughts, but I just want to say this panel is the funniest thing I've ever seen:

[balis77]

Honestly, the funniest thing DC could do right now is have a crossover episode between My Adventures With Superman and Batman: Caped Crusader with the explanation of "Oh, Caped Crusader isn't set in the 40s/50s or anything. Gotham is just Like That."

[wigglebox]

Destiel Pride - Day 5; Cursed or not

[starwarsanthropology]

Canon genders the clones, both individually and collectively, pretty aggressively. They're men, brothers, boys, sirs. Omega is notable for being the "female" clone, to the point where she's not recognized as a clone in a meaningful way.

But the clones grew up without gendered social groups! Despite how clones are gendered by external factors, gender is functionally a nonentity in their lives until they meet civilians, and civilians do a load of other weird shit anyway.

So why do they still use gendered language?

My argument is that feminine language isn't used as a gendered form of address, but as a form of address that reflects a specific kind of power dynamic and relationship between parties.

Given the structure of the clone army, the only people a vast majority of young clones interact with who could insist on being called ma'am are exclusively kaminoans.

The kaminoans view clones not as autonomous subjects, but as property. They have and expect complete control over their lives and actions. Incidentally, the female kaminoans we see (such as Nala Se) tend to demonstrate an even more proprietary perspectives on the clones.

You can question a sir, like your superiors or trainers, at your discretion, but you can't question a ma'am. A sir is someone who has power over you, but is somewhat responsible for you. The have personal accountability to you in some way. Sirs are responsible for men under them. A ma'am is someone whose power over you is absolute, an authority without accountability, who is not beholden to you but that you must obey. You are tool or a number to a ma'am.

And when you bring clones out into the wider galaxy, I'm not sure anyone would figure it out that quickly.

Say you're a new jedi general. You meet your men, and they address you as "ma'am". Maybe you correct and move on, figuring that they've grown up surrounded by thousands of identical men and aren't great at guessing genders based on social and appearance cues. Scuttlebutt has your forms of address spread through the men by the end of the day, and you don't think about it again.

The clones, on the other hand, take this correction as he/him jedi stating that they want to work with them and suppourt them despite having so much power over them, which fits with both what they know of the jedi and, most often, their leadership style.

She/her jedi (see Shaak Ti especially!), clones maybe treat a little more as absolute authorities. This gendered divide in behavior gets met with, "hm, maybe they're just not used to women." For many jedi, they eventually switch to calling them sir as well, especially as they build rapport.

For Shaak Ti specifically, she is an absolute authority as the representative of the Jedi on Kamino, not just as a figurehead but as a decision maker and educator. Even as the clones grow to trust and love her, she's a relatively distant and all-powered figure. She has near total authority over them, and clones might ask for help or suppourt, but there's no social obligation for those requests to be met, she's just kind. It's compassion, not duty.

Senators, there's a good mix of different factors that make it confusing. "Senator" is always an acceptable form of address if you're not sure how'd they react, even if they should be ma'ams by default, but they're either trying to build rapport for some reason or genuinely want to work with you when they say to call them sir, regardless of the actual power dynamic at play. The she/her senators that respect the clones are in the same boat as Shaak Ti: Padme Amidala may care about clone rights, but I am still just one of hundreds to her and she has no personal accountability to me. Her position is such that she should not and cannot owe me anything. Same with Riyo Chuchi, Mon Mothma, etc. etc.

And a civilian that insists on being called ma'am or sir is going to be an asshole either way, and they technically have power over clones without personal accountability or responsibility for them. It works.

Finally, Palpatine.

He's a slimy rat fuck who pretends to be affable and kind, so of course he's going to laugh and say, "Oh, no, call me Sir!" when you call him ma'am. He is not personally accountable to you, and he does not care about you, but it helps his image and it helps him manipulate people to pretend, so of course he's making you use sir to build false intimacy despite the fact that he's the ma'am of ma'ams, both in power gaps and lack of accountability for his treatment of clones.

So having clones using sir vs ma'am not as a reflection of gender but as a reflection of power? Yeah, I think it works.

[pansyfemme]

mmm but. i miss pansyfemme as a url already. but im lowkey really tired of people sending me asks questioning terminology i have explained dozens of times in the past so ive been. stepping away a bit from the term femme- not because i dont identify with it anymore. just that this blog’s gotten a bit of attention lately, and while a lot of the circles ive always run in tend to know the history of the term femme is not one exclusive to one gender or identity, people seeing my posts on my dash send me a lot of asks about it in heavily varying levels of politeness. and while i have explained it with sources and everything in the past,, i kind of. hate doing that all the time and despite having a faq people still. dont read it. so i kinda. uh. more so just. dont feel like justifying myself ten times a day and i also. dont like ignoring the asks so.. it will be definitly a term i will still use but kind of dont want in my username anymore. does that make any sense.

[marzipanandminutiae]

Sometimes I'll be having a perfectly normal day and then get blindsided out of nowhere by the "Louisa May Alcott was definitely 100% a binary trans man and if you call her a woman or use she/her pronouns for her, you're transphobic" Hot Take

why couldn't that asshole have just stuck to writing racist South Park (yes, really; this person even filed the serial numbers off one story and got it published) fanfiction and left queer/trans history to the people who have an ounce of nuanced thinking or interest in the broader context of what they read

[iwritenarrativesandstuff]

See, I think Charles’ annoyance and frustration with the Cat King really was just pure protectiveness and not any kind of jealousy - it’s understandable, because Edwin is not telling him what happened even though something clearly did, which is not typical for them. Edwin doesn’t usually hide things like this! Of course he’s worried!

Charles’ reaction to Monty, on the other hand, is difficult to explain in a way that isn’t jealousy. You could say he’s being protective again, but Charles shows no sign of distrust in Monty, and had no idea of who Monty was or that he might betray them - he was actually very chill with him, except in a select few specific scenes. You could say he just doesn’t like him because he got brushed off during their first meeting, but not only does that not seem like Charles at all, it also doesn’t make sense, since, again, in most instances, Charles is genuinely friendly and is happy when Monty compliments him and seems to have come around to liking him (it completely flies over his head that this is a petty jab at Edwin on Monty’s part but oh well hahaha). You could say it changes up their status quo a bit and that bothers Charles. I do think this bothers him a bit, but I think, unlike Edwin, Charles’ fear and frustration here is directed more at situations (the Cat King whisking him away for several hours, as an example) than others. He’s sociable and likes being able to talk to new people. There’s absolutely no way he’d begrudge Edwin doing the same - and he doesn’t… with Niko. Edwin and Niko hit it off and become very close and that never bothers Charles at all. He’s incredibly endeared to her, just like the rest, and for the most part, he’s chill with Monty too, and smiles pretty knowingly when Edwin confesses to him having awakened some feelings. The only exceptions, where he shows definite annoyance, are when Monty first shows up and gets really in Edwin’s personal space to show him the astrology chart he made, and when Edwin is so sucked into the book Monty gave him that he doesn’t hear that Charles is talking to him, to which he annoyedly says that they seem to have been “spending a lot of time together”.

You could say he’s unused to having anyone get in Edwin’s personal space like that, but, again, Niko. She’s very tactile with him and he doesn’t seem to mind all that much; they spend time together watching things. If it was just someone getting close with Edwin in general, not only would that be weirdly possessive for the character, but it would also mean he would show discomfort with anyone getting close, I think. Does Charles see Monty as more of a potential threat than Niko, seeing as he knows her and her personality and doesn’t know Monty? Well, maybe, but again, Charles shows no sign of distrusting Monty at all.

Monty is a boy. Okay. So something about seeing Edwin so close to a boy that is not him, getting lost in thought over something this boy gave him, really rubs Charles the wrong way. Charles appears to catch on just as quickly as anyone else that there is something (or it looks like something) between Edwin and Monty. He is not surprised when Edwin comes out to him in episode 6, and in fact, seems to have just been waiting for him to verbalize it. He smiles and is not bothered at all by Edwin showing (what he thinks is) a romantic interest in Monty - he just doesn’t like it when Monty clearly shows a romantic interest in Edwin. Um. Well. Well.

Charles is jealous. I really don’t know what else to say.

Look, when I first watched this show, I actually didn’t want them to end up together romantically - I love the idea of one having fallen in love with another who does not reciprocate and the two of them still loving each other just as much. That Edwin’s confession made them closer instead of making things awkward is such a beautiful outcome to this build up and I absolutely love it. However. On my two rewatches, I caught a lot more little details, and I think it would be very strange if the show did not follow up on this. That, plus the deliberate quality of these “jealousy” moments where the camera focuses on him, Charles’ Orpheus coding throughout the show, the fact that Edwin’s arc was far more about realizing his feelings for Charles specifically than just coming to terms with his sexuality, and that even the actors admit that Charles’ response to the confession kind of left things open, it really seems to me like the path leads to a romantic endgame for them, or at the very least, that this possibility will be explored in more depth.

**This is just my reading of it. Please do not use this post as a gotcha for anyone who loves them as a platonic duo or people who really love Crystal and Charles together (because let’s face it, they’re super cute too). I’m just doing my rambles. As per usual.

[sammywolfgirl]

I for one am okay with my pre corruption shadow milk design being probably non cannon anymore but I like to propose a compromise for those who are still attached to their own pre corruption shadow milk designs (and this might have evidence???)

The beasts style/look changed before they fell.

Ie- the closer shadow milk got to falling the more jester elements he added. Or at least changed up his look.

So the new costume? Cannon look, the design seen in the gacha? Also cannon. Shadow milk maybe was the most obvious about it since he shapeshifts and I can see even pre corruption shadow milk playing around with his look (but maybe he got way more intense about it closer to falling)

But also the evidence(??) I have is via burning spice. In the reveal trailer the silhouette of burning spice pre corruption looks different than the herald of change (I forgot the exact wording) we see in the cutscene.

Two reasons for this. 1) devs just did a soft recon of the design between the production of that reveal trailer and the cutscene

2) the beasts look changed the closer they got to falling, and as we see the moment burning spice breaks in that cutscene, I’m willing to bet on this idea.

But hey that’s just my two cents.

[age-of-moonknight]

“Reborn,” Moon Knight: Fist of Khonshu (Vol. 2/2024), #2.

Writer: Jed MacKay; Penciler and Inker: Alessandro Cappuccio; Colorist: Rachelle Rosenberg; Letterer: Cory Petit

[velvetwyrme]

!!!My Idea for Triple-Changers!!! Since there's only, like, four triple changers, i think they'd be really really rare hybrid individuals. Also I think Tarantulas steals genetic/CNA data during scavenging missions and shoved all of them together with his own to create little springer, which is why he Looks Like That. Dragonfly/grasshopper thing.

Also I think in the wild, Cybugs in general are more omnivorous, but mechanimals, helicopters, and seekers are much more carnivorous as a requirement. I think Seeker Trines first started forming in order to hunt bigger prey (tarantulas, songbirds, etc)

Speaking of Tarantuals. I think he's much closer to an obligate carnivore, and likely hunts birds and large insects (plus the occasional poor cybug he can catch in his web)

Springer can create webs/thread as a grub, but looses the ability after metamorphosis. Also Tarantulas does Not go through metamorphasis, he molts many many times instead like a regular spider. He probably eats the shedded plating/armour too

this is so fun i am very very entertained by Little Creechurs

AAYWAHAJHDJ AHH this is really really cool 🥺❣️ these are all very very fun things to think about >:000

springer being a hybrid of a buncha different types of CNA... really fun! outlier of outliers... hybrids are already not very common but he's got a WEIRD mixup of genes (in realistic terms i think they'd be too far apart in terms of biology/taxonomy for a typical genetic hybrid to be created* but also. it's Tarantulas. he could do it.

i like the idea of trines forming to hunt larger prey- i can absolutely see that being one of the factors tht influenced their formation :0!! also i definitely agree abt your thoughts on diet <3! (obligate carnivore tarantulas... !!)

*usually hybrids occur between subspecies/species/genera, but again, it's Tarantulas. also sometimes we can bend the rules because they are. little guys that turn into vehicles but are also bugs. AND i think technically w/ the existing taxonomic chart most triple changers wouldve had to hybridize at a level above genera anyway, so honestly who the fuck knows.

[qoldenskies]

I wonder how much Splinter picks apart the memory of Donnie crawling to him and asking for guidance that day.

How apologetic he was for interrupting Splinter at all. The questions—are you mad at me, do you think I’m selfish—and how genuinely childish and young they were in nature. Whether Donnie would have told him what had happened if Splinter hadn’t interrupted him. How long it took before Donnie came to him for help. How when Splinter asked “Are you sure you have not upset them?” the answer was “Maybe, I think so.” “Have you done anything to make them angry with you?” and even with what his brothers had done to him, what Leo had done to him, Donnie still said “Probably.” Agreed when Splinter said they had a reason for treating him that way.

He had the same conversation with April months later, and yet the seeds of it had been here, too��had been there years before.

sometimes i am caught between feeling so bad for splinter and kind of hoping he internalizes the way he brushed him off for of the rest of his life. there's a good chance he will think of that conversation EVERY time donnie reaches out to him looking for a savior or protector, especially after april leaves and he's the only "safe person" in the house when donnie cant think straight.

in an attempt to be unlike of HIS oppressive family he went the opposite way and went for a more relaxed style of parenting, and he veered too hard in that direction and COMPLETELY turned a blind eye to such horrifying abuse happening. it kind of reminds me of like turtle dega nights where he's so shocked to realize the shit they just get up to. for like. fun. he's NOT in a position to shelter them without pushback and he understands that now, which is a big reason he leaves them to make their own decisions when it comes to kitsune.

its hard to find a line between acknowledging theyre independent in a way he cant really stop and need to be treated with that respect and acknowledging theyre children! just kids! his baby boys!!! he's so used to seeing them silly and unserious around him that he hasn't properly processed the weight of his passive neglect until all of THIS blew up in his face. and i think that's best shown through him dismissing donnie. they mostly fell out of conversation after that point, but im sure they exchanged a few words sometime in between (for the sake of realism, its something to acknowledge) and i think splinter would think of that a lot too. why didn't he notice donnie was starting to look up so beat up? getting thinner and thinner? just disappearing during leo's birthday?? staring through him whenever splinter shot im a quick hello on the way to the kitchen??? originally that conversation weighed on the back of his mind already (because i dont think donnie comes to him for comfort like THAT much, technically i think in cc that was usually leo's job. rooftop conversations and all that), but obviously he wouldnt correlate it with any red flags now. just like how april didnt WANT to assume they were doing anything wrong because the four of them were so close, malice just didnt feel like a REALISTIC thing to expect from them and they were acting normal to her!!

cannot even begin to imagine how he was feeling in cw ch1. hearing about most of what they did and seeing how tiny and roughed up donnie was is one thing, and seeing him cling to his robe and inconsolably sob and scream for his daddy is another. splinter probably cant help but wonder if this is what donnie had wanted the whole time. cant help but wonder if he would have reacted like this at ANY point before it all got this far. all he had to do is reach out, for once. to ask HIM if he's okay, for once.

and he didn't.

[cosmicjoke]

I guess I should make my own post on this, since it's been brought to my attention, again. All I do is post cat pictures and videos all day, and this clown continues to have a meltdown over me saying eruri isn't canon, lol.

@tsuki-no-ura is accusing me of plagiarizing her posts, lol, which, okay. And her "proof" of this is picking out single sentences from long analyses posts I've written regarding Levi's vow to kill the Beast Titan which use similar words to some of her own posts, like "personal feelings" and "vow", and this, apparently, is concrete evidence that I've based all of my own thoughts and feelings regarding this aspect of Levi's character and story on her analyses. I can't say I'm surprised, though, given tsuki's entire MO is taking quotes and words out of context and presenting them in a vacuum to push a specific narrative and agenda. She does it with Isayama and his interviews, and even the canon material itself, so why not do the same with me and anyone else who disagrees with her?

Like the idea that Levi's choice to let Erwin die and give Armin the serum was rooted in personal feelings is an original idea that belongs only to tsuki and which has no other originating source, lol. As if, while discussing the same material, there isn't going to be some overlap in the ideas and themes discussed. And for what reason is she picking out that specific wording from my posts? Is she trying to prove that I used to agree with her and changed my mind or something? That I'm being hypocritical by acknowledging that Levi's choice was based on personal feeling while also saying that Levi didn't actively decide to choose Erwin over humanity? Like both things can't be true at the same time? As I've stated over and over, Levi made the choice he believed was morally right, both for Erwin's personal well-being and for humanity, and yes, that was a choice based on his personal feelings, because as Levi himself acknowledges, that's all anyone can ever do, is make the choice they feel is best. I've made entire posts talking about how all of Levi's choices are rooted in personal feeling. That's what his entire philosophy of no regrets is about. About making the choice you feel, in your heart, is right, whether you know it to be true or not. I've also written countless posts about one of the reasons Levi's so admired Erwin was because he believed Erwin was capable of completely removing himself and his personal feelings from the choices he made, and Levi admired that in Erwin because Levi himself has always struggled with doing the same. He thought it made Erwin a superior man to himself, that he could make decisions without letting emotion interfere. I've also made posts discussing how, in actuality, we see demonstrated through Levi this theme in AoT of how it's actually those who make choices based on compassion and emotion that can be seen as superior, because it's those who cast aside their humanity for the so-called "greater good" who actually end up destroying everything. That's a clear theme presented in AoT, and nowhere is it more clearly demonstrated than through Levi and Erwin, with Levi eventually being revealed as the superior and stronger man, not in spite of his compassion, but because of it.

But you know, tsuki ignores all of this, and all of this context, and instead highlights two or three, partial sentences from these 1500, 2000, 3000 word meta posts of mine as "proof" that I'm plagiarizing her. Keep it up tuski, you only continue to prove to all and sundry what a disingenuous, manipulative, lying clown you are, by exposing exactly how you operate. By taking single sentences, presenting them completely out of context, and using that as your evidence for whatever hair-brained theory you're presenting this time.

The stupidity is never-ending from this one, and her moronic followers are just the same. Have fun patting each other on the back for what I'm sure you've convinced yourself is a win, but only makes more obvious what a bunch of delusional, crybaby, professional victims you all are.

By the way, tsuki, everyone knows the real reason you have an issue with me is because of this post I made, what was it, more than two years ago now: https://www.tumblr.com/cosmicjoke/711701886703747072/the-problem-with-levi-and-shipping?source=share

You came onto my post to argue with me, acting as though my post was some sort of personal attack on you (shocking, given your raging victim complex, I know), when all it was was a general statement about certain trends I was seeing from the shipping communities overall, and I replied in a very cordial manner to your response, saying we mostly agreed, to which you never bothered responding, and ever since then, you've been vague posting about me on your blog, targeting every single thing I say about Levi, or Erwin, or any other aspect or character of AoT, having to contradict it, to the point of you willingly positing the most ridiculous and illogical conclusions, all in some pathological attempt to discredit me and my opinions. You're just that threatened by me, I guess, that you have to set yourself in opposition to every single opinion I have about AoT and its characters, all because I once said eruri isn't canon and anyone who analyzes AoT through a shipping lens, when nothing that happens in the story is on any level informed by fandom ships, is necessarily going to come away with a skewed understanding of the events of the story. You can't accept your own biases, and you can't accept anyone thinking differently from you, and so instead of owning up to your own failings as a person, you accuse everyone else of the most ridiculous shit imaginable, like plagiarism and Nazism, lol.

You're truly pathetic.

[dragonpyre]

Just got the urge to draw the death scene from rapunzal but with Cal and Merrin???????

[theweirwoodfiles]

HOTD Fandom Behavior

This is going to be a little long winded but this has been on my mind for awhile.

Why does it seem like it's only team black that gets put in the hot seat for fan behavior? I understand that team black makes up the majority of the fandom, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't address the rampant misogyny that has been present in the team green fandom since day one that has gone unchecked. The show amplified the voices of misogynists who feel drawn to the story of the dance because they enjoy Rhaenyra's suffering and tragedy. Not to mention the other, actual fans, who still just hate her for whatever reason and can't do so without being misogynistic just helping normalize that kind of behavior.

And I'm not talking about "well I just like Aegon more than Rhaenyra", but the fixation on Rhaenyra's sex life and weight, the ai slop photos or wojaks where she's a misogynistic caricature, the fact that there is genuinely a huge portion of team green fans that cannot admit to their dislike of Rhaenyra without falling into misogyny. Those people are not outliers, and they've made themselves very comfortable in that part of the fandom. They feel no shame and sometimes even get viral posts.

"I'm not team black because the fans ruined it for me" but the team green fans calling Rhaenyra a fat ho or saying she deserves everything she gets for daring to have sexual agency didn't turn you off from being team green?

[lazycranberrydoodles]

hello approx. 53 new followers that i gained from my art being featured on the tumblr radar. prepare to be hit with the yaoi yuri beam

[sweetlotusprince]

【哪吒之魔童闹海】破亿海报英译：16亿

【Nezha 2】 Box Office Milestone Poster Translation: 1.6 Billion

From top to bottom:

內地影史動画片票房單日冠军 -> Animated Feature Champion Makes History in the Domestic Box Office Within a Single Day

16亿 -> 1.6 Billion

申小豹：都给哥哥留着 / 将来肯定用的上！ -> Shen Xiaobao：I'll save these for big brother / they will definitely come in handy some day!

Basket：给哥哥 -> For big brother

Round case/box：仙丹 -> Immortality pills

Jar：护发(素/乳)：Hair conditioner

Envelope：红包 -> Red envelope

谢谢记得 一直在路上 -> Thank you for remembering, as you continue on your path

Suggestions on the translations would be appreciated as I work to improve my Chinese. I would also love to read/discuss other interpretations ☺️

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