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damianbugs · 5 months ago

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Hello✨👋. What's your favorite era of Batman? What's your favorite costume? I love reading your thoughts on everything. What do you think caused the writers to decide to make Batman darker even though at the time he had stories that touched on interesting themes. If you were a writer what characters would you develop and in what direction? Are there any underrated characters you love?

HI !!! this is so sweet, thank you for asking so many things! i would love to answer :]

my favourite batman era was the 90s !! i think it's more honest to say there's not been a single era i didn't like entirely (even the infamous new 52 had its good stories) — but when i add up all my favourites, a large majority of those comics are found in the 90s! it was a time for those darker stories to thrive without relying on ridiculous plot-twists and unnecessary violence for a shock factor.

just to name a vew of my all time favourites from this era: Batman Venom (1991), Tales of the Demon (1991), Batman Night Cries (1992), Batman The Ultimate Evil (1995), Batman Prodigal (1997), Batman War on Crime (1999), Batman & Dracula Trilogy (1991-1999) OKAY ILL STOP HERE BUT BASICALLY IT WAS ALL FANTASTIC

on that note, i think the turning point for a Darker Batman was in the 80s, and there's many reasons for it! one of the main ones i think is that for comics as a whole, the 80s was a chance to START exploring explicit adult themes in comics — due to indie titles! despite popular belief, back then the big 2 of comics weren't churning out nearly as many comics as it seems like on paper, with much more maturer and 'gritty' independent titles gaining popularity. i think batman writers noticed and were keeping up with that was becoming interesting in the meta. then of course the 90s was all dark and gritty and everyone wanted a chance to revitalise the accepted picture of batman. after all, everyone remembers a sad story.

then of course, probably the biggest turning point was... jason todd's death. i truly do think it was this event that changed batman as a character, an idea and a story forever. the comics that followed ADiTF were written with this young ghost perpetually in the background, bruce's grief heavy in the pages whether or not jason was explicitly mentioned — so the stories had to be, in turn, dark and mournful.

my favourite costume is blue and grey with yellow symbol batman suit, especially by the artists neal adams and norm breyfogle :) bruce looks so good in this style and the blue reminds me of such wonderful stories. it might seem like a weird detail, but the other than the satisfying cape dynamics, i love the way they draw his legs and boots for this costume!!

if i was a writer i would sink my claws into stephanie brown and never let go. EVER. the role she could have in gotham as a vigilante closely tied with a community would be literally fantastic for her character and backstory. if i could, i think i would write her leaning towards the Huntress route compared to the Batman route, but still keeping her ties to cass, tim and babs (and bruce, i say tentatively). i would also bring back her adorable relationship with damian IMMEDIATELY!!!

and last but not least, the most underrated character of all time ever, JACE FOX. my batman. i love him. i have literally fantasised someone with a darker and less 'deserving' backstory, growing as a person, reforming and learning from their mistakes to become batman AND HE DID. HE DID THAT. no matter what people say, i think jace fox is a character who encompasses everything you need to be batman, including all the flaws that come with that mantle. one day i hope we get to see cass and jace bond and grow, reforming a duo ready to succeed bruce.

THANK YOU FOR ASKING THIS WAS SO MUCH FUN TO SHARE !!!!

#saki comic talks

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tangledbea · 8 months ago

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As heartwarming as the epilogue is, It does encapsulate a problem I have with the show: it’s that it has these big payoffs that are usually satisfactory in the moment, but had very little build up

Rapunzel becoming a good queen?: On paper that is extremely fitting. But here’s the thing: other than other characters mentioning that she was gonna become queen, we never actually got to see Rapunzel realizing just how big of a responsibility that is, and the process of her learning what it means to be a good ruler. There’s bits and pieces of it (Great Tree, the painting episode, etc) but it never really sticks

Eugene becoming captain of the guards?: Where did that even come from?! Honestly, it felt like the writers didn’t really know what to do with him. The closest we got to an arc for him was the Dark Kingdom, but that gets kinda forgotten about, and doesn’t affect his character all that much.

Cassandra going off to find a path that’ll make her truly happy?: Again, conceptually fitting, but it wasn’t properly fleshed out or set up because for 99% of the season Cass whined about Gothel and like 5 other things that barely related

Varian reconciling with and feeling validated his dad?: Well Qurin wrote this letter back in “Queen for a Day”, shortly before getting trapped in the amber, and it was stated to have been something very important. But come season 3 it turns out the letter just says “I proud of U :)” , and all the baggage is instantly resolved, Varian is a okay now, yipeeeeee-. Like nice sentiment but we were promised more.

To be fair, I'm not at all positive that Rapunzel is supposed to be the queen at the end of the series. Her accepting the crown means she's officially ready to officially have the responsibility she's been carrying out for the entire season.

But when you look at the finale scene, Frederic and Arianna are still wearing their crowns.

But when you see them being casual (not "on the clock" as it were) they don't wear them. So, I don't think Rapunzel is meant to be queen in the epilogue, just officially ready to take on all responsibilities of Crown Princess.

I was never too fond of Eugene becoming Captain. It's sort of... the "natural" conclusion of "Fitzherbert P.I.," where he's shown not being a fit for the guard. Over the course of the series, he becomes more responsible, more reliable, and moreover, he's Rapunzel's #1 defender. I still don't like him as Captain, though, and I personally headcanon that he only keeps it up for a couple years, tops, before turning the guard over to Maximus. After all, the movie's epilogue implies that Max is the one who keeps the kingdom crime-free, and that Eugene has nothing to do with it.

Cassandra actually spent most of the series dissatisfied with her lot in life, and "Beginnings" even shows that she's not happy in Corona and would rather be somewhere else. Besides, I headcanon that she was soft-banished for taking Corona over. That's why she wasn't expected to help clean up the mess she made; because Rapunzel very lovingly told her she had to go and wasn't welcome there anymore.

As for Varian, his plot resolved at the beginning of S2. I know a lot of people really would have liked to see more with him and Quirin, but that wasn't a loose end for me. What little we saw of them showed that they were getting along better and making an effort to be a part of each other's lives. But while Varian achieved main character status, in actually, he's physically in 15 of 60 episodes (including the pilot), and two of those episodes ("Not In the Mood" and "King and Queen of Hearts") he's barely in them, so it's more like 13 episodes, which is less than 22% (21.66666666 etc%) of the series. Then he has his imaginary cameo in "Happiness Is..." So as much as people love him, he's not actually a major part of the overall series plot, in general, and his presence in S3 is more about how he now gets along with the gang than his dad. That's not really a flaw of the series, IMO.

#Tangled #Tangled the Series #Rapunzel #Eugene Fitzherbert #Varian #Cassandra #TTS #Answered

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cosmicroseflower · 4 months ago

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We help benefit everyone we are worried about by changing ourselves first because we are one, we are everything, we are the entire Universe and we affect the entire multiverse by changing ourselves.

The good news is this 2025, the apocalypse is not coming. (Ah shoot for my pessimists) But all your dreams are. You can relax. Breathe. You get to choose whatever timeline feels the best for you. There is not one future, there is not just one Earth, and there is not just one human collective. You shift by changing your vibration. You shift to another planet when you change yourself. The end of the world and doom and gloom predictions will not play out for you. You are too far on the ascending timelines to ever have to worry about being on those dark worlds where they have forgotten their humanity. Here are the keys to the kingdom 🗝️:

Once you say, "Oh, thank you demon, thank you fear, thank you traumas, thank you darkness, thank you "sickness", thank you person pretending to be something they are not which is Source which is love. Thank you for triggering what needed to be triggered within me to heal this trigger. Thank you for releasing all this darkness out of me to be released for good. Thank you for reminding me to come back to Source /God. Thank you for reminding me to be forgiving of others who do evil, our oppressors who do unjust things, and to forgive myself for reacting negatively out of character before and giving myself these opportunities to grow."

Now, what I just said may have triggered you. You may be thinking, "Be love to my abusers? Be love to the darkness? HOW? Are you crazy? After what they did? Don't you know what they did to me? To those innocent children and people all over the world hurting people? HOW?" Believe me, I know. It's ridiculous how many people betrayed me. It's ridiculous how abused I was. The state of these evil people is so insane. It's ridiculous how much we saw innocents go through. I know. But, the pain serves a higher divine purpose. What did this pain teach you? It taught you a lot. This is a game. Remember it's a simulation. If you want to move to the next level of the game you must do this: Our oppressors give us the opportunity to be love everyday they do something to oppress us.

We are creating our realities, this is your Earth, your kingdom, you are everything, we are one. That person spewing hate, racism, bigotry, misogyny and anything else that separates us and causes more division, that person or group will not go away just because you pointed out their ignorance and flaws. Instead of focusing on teaching them a lesson, you actually create more of them in your reality. And they become more popular. It doesn't make them go away. It creates more of them. The more we fight, the more your reality responds to that vibration and your oppressors will rise up to be fought. Put your swords down. You don't need them anymore at this level. They used to serve you to protect yourself but now you're ascending to the 5th dimension. There's no war in the fifth dimensional level of consciousness.

The more you love, forgive, and have compassion for them, the more of them will change. The more we judge them and call them negative the more they stay the same. When you accept them completely as they are and you offer forgiveness and compassion to them, that is the only way they will ever change. They will change to reflect the change in you when you lay down your sword and you offer yourself up as a being of unconditional love. And you may be saying "okay, I can do that but what happens to the innocent children and people then if we don't defend and fight for them?" Remember this always. You are always helping yourself whenever you offer love to someone else, someone who is in great need of that love. When you change yourself, you change everything, EVERYTHING, you shift to another parallel Earth version including the number of people being oppressed in your reality. YOU must change, reprogram yourself, forgive yourself first, then you can forgive others if you want to free those innocents who are enslaved, you must change your inner world to see it reflected outwardly.

Why? Because it will give you the opportunity to evolve and not stay stuck in a reality you don't prefer. But you must accept everything and everything in your reality as it is now, and don't judge it negatively, just be neutral to it from there you can create positive change within yourself. Some of you want to impact and help as many people as possible in your lifetime, then all you have to do is be love, that's how you do it because you already are unconditional love you just have to remember that you are Source. The only way to get to a place of self-forgiveness and self-love is by being honest with yourself. So start there and work your way up to having compassion, forgiveness and love for yourself and for others. You are affecting the totality of the entire human collective by forgiving everyone.

That is how you level up, ascend to where you are going, that is how you demonstrate your superpower of forgiveness to the higher dimensions and earn the respect from the entire Universe and change the entire world by changing yourself first. The next step of your Ascension will be so much easier and you will feel so much more peace, ease, love and joy. Do it by being the love you want to see first. Your life will never be the same again. Level yourself up and you will be living in the fifth dimension before you know it.

#starseeds #spiritual awakening #Ascension #2025 #the future #Oneness

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fowltempered · 1 year ago

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Okay so I just woke up and have yet to have breakfast but I wanted to touch on the post I saw from @orangerosebush (sorry for the @ I just thought you might want to see this) regarding the thinly veiled tension between Angeline and Butler because boy do I have thoughts on that particular relationship in the series.

I think it’s worth noting that neither of these characters are wholly bad or wholly good. They’re both flawed people and that nuance is what makes them interesting.

For all of the protection and place to confide that Butler offers Artemis he is probably the boy’s number one enabler. He lets Artemis galivant across the world in search of creatures he’s not even sure exist, repeatedly put himself and others in danger -even going so far as to getting people killed because Butler does not feel like he is allowed to step in and put his foot down.

Even when he does put his foot down on something or offer up his opinion (something he rarely does) it’s framed in this weird sort of pleading manner: “Yes, Artemis. All is forgiven. Just one thing…” “Yes?” “Never again. Fairies are too…human.” Artemis Fowl, pg. 390

The fact of the matter is that no matter how he may feel about his charge, Artemis is his employer and that weird sort of dissonance is probably the only thing keeping Butler from plucking Artemis up like a kitten and placing him in a little box where he’d be easier to keep an eye on and protect. I think that he lets Artemis do these things partially because he wants Artemis to process his grief, but also because he just? Doesn’t feel like he can stop the boy despite being the adult in the situation. He’s been trained to protect in any situation, not to intervene when things get out of hand.

And then on the other side of this little coin you have Angeline. Sweet, ferocious mama bear Angline who has been more or less absent from Artemis’ life since the disappearance of his father. Arguably you could say she was absent from his life before then but we don’t really get a lot of exposition on Angeline as a mother before the absence of Fowl Sr. (Something I would kill for, Eoin, give me more Angeline content.) as I personally can’t imagine her to be particularly involved in Artemis’ life before she recovered from her…illness. She strikes me as one of those mothers who simply does not know how to handle a child like Artemis.

She is so ready to believe him when he lies to her because she wants to believe that her son is an upstanding young man who is not following in his father’s old footsteps as seen in TOD. Is she suspicious of him? Yes but she doesn’t do anything about it until TTP where the truth is fully revealed to her and she has no choice but to accept it. Then after that, she decides to take up more responsibility as his mother and try to put her foot down. Artemis listens, kind of, because he’s a mama’s boy wracked with the guilt of lying to her for so long but there’s still a weird sort of distance there.

It’s almost as if Artemis doesn’t really see her as his mother because of how little she’s been involved in his life. She doesn’t know him, she hasn’t seen him grow up. She just sort of vaguely knows what’s happened to him over the course of the last four-ish (seven-ish? I have a hard time with the limbo bit) years thanks to Opal. (This isn’t to say he doesn’t love her, he obviously does, I just don’t think he sees her as the involved mother she wants to be seen as)

But Butler has been there. He’s been watching Artemis grow and develop into a much more selfless, honorable young man, and Angeline knows that Butler has been there and I think it’s safe to say that she…resents him? For that. This man, this employee has played a stronger role in her son’s development than she has and I think she feels guilty for that. I think she wants to step in and reclaim what she thinks is hers, and I think Butler is resistant to that because…well, I think he may feel she doesn’t have the right due to her absence. He more or less raised Artemis, despite that not being in his job description, He died for Artemis on multiple occasions, and still Artemis defers to his mother rather than to the man that’s been present. (Artemis does defer to Butler as well, just…not as immediately as he does to Angeline.)

And Angeline still only views him as an employee. In TAC we see how she refers to Artemis as Her boy, and that “Family is everything” without explicitly including Butler in that sentiment despite everything that he’s done for Artemis because Artemis is the closest thing he has to family outside of Juliet. Artemis is very much his impudent little brother that he’s been shoehorned into the position of caring for.

I think that the tension between them is very warranted and I wish we’d gotten a little more of it during the series because I think at the very least Butler deserves a chance to sit down and go “Hey, I’m part of this family whether you like it or not.” I think Artemis should step in and remind his mother that Butler is part of the family now -and sort of always has been.

I don’t really know how to end this or if my thoughts on it are even complete, there may be an addition to this later.

TL;DR: Butler and Angeline are the Eldest Child “Parent” / Actual Parent dynamic and it keeps me up at night.

#artemis fowl #angeline fowl #butler #like I said I may add more to this later as I wake up and let my thoughts collect #I saw your post while I was scrolling through tumblr like the morning paper and had to put my 2 cents out there #sorry for the rambling lmao

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cosmichighpriestess · 1 year ago

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As I feel my emotions and move through them to become more aware of the pain in my physical vessel I in turn help heal my world and I am able to give more by giving myself the self forgiveness and self love that I needed. We help benefit everyone we are worried about by changing ourselves first because we are one, we are everything, we are the entire Universe and we affect the entire multiverse by changing ourselves. We could all use some good news right now don't you feel that way?

Don't you feel like something is coming? Well I have good news. The apocalypse is not coming. But all your dreams are. You can relax. Breathe. You get to choose whatever timeline feels the best for you. There is not one future, there is not just one Earth, and there is not just one human collective. You shift by changing your vibration. You shift to another planet when you change yourself. The end of the world and doom and gloom predictions will not play out for you. You are too far on the ascending timelines to ever have to worry about being on those dark worlds where they have forgotten their humanity. We want to give you the keys to the kingdom. 🗝️

Because even if you're not ready, you will be soon and you will ascend to the fifth dimension and beyond. That is a guarantee. Here is the curriculum you've given yourself. You must face this challenge to be love in the face of evil, the wicked ones, the evil-doers, the bad guys, the ones who trigger you in real life and behind a screen playing their roles in the dark. Because what are they doing? They are there to trigger you. Once you say, " oh thank you demon, thank you fear, thank you trauma, thank you person pretending to be something they are not which is Source which is love. Thank you for triggering what needed to be triggered within me to heal this trigger. Thank you for reminding me to come back to Source /God. Thank you for reminding me to be forgiving of others who do evil, our oppressors who do unjust things, and to forgive myself for reacting negatively out of character before and giving myself these opportunities to grow."

That is how you level up, that is how you demonstrate your superpower of forgiveness to the higher dimensions and earn the respect from the entire Universe and change the entire world by changing yourself first. The next step of your Ascension will be so much easier and you will feel so much more peace, ease, love and joy. Do it by being the love you want to see first. Level yourself up and you will be living in the fifth dimension before you know it.

#ascending to the 5th dimension #level up to the next level #forgiveness #rose messages

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wisteria-html · 3 months ago

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In other news: my friend and I were at work discussing which characters we see the other as. I compared her to Richie Tozier and nailed it, and then we talked about mental health and how we perceive ourselves. Tell me why I get home, get ready for bed, and she sends me this:

Actually, now that I think about it, you kind of remind me of Jayce Talis

I'll have to look into it more before I make that my pick for you but

The struggle to balance yourself between things that excite you and the desire to be a good person

The fear that your accomplishments/qualities are only tricking others into liking you, and they'll never be as devoted as you are to them

Jayce is heavily influenced by the past but constantly worried that he's not processing those lessons in a healthy way, and so despite his powerful convictions and confidence he is susceptible to others trying to blunt him

He doesn't think he's a good person because he thinks compassion is just the best way forward, the way through external problems, rather than something that takes actual strength to maintain and therefore doesn't give himself enough credit

And everyone around him is literally obsessed with him because they know just how selfless and valiant he is, even if his obsessions can lead his usual empathy to get hyper focused on individual people or situations

And so sometimes people get mad or hurt because they assume they're being ignored or not prioritized, rather than simply trying to understand this is who he is

And these feelings can coalesce into accusations of toxicity towards jayce, because these people have put him on a pedestal, and now that they're not feeling the love they assume it's intentional from someone so otherwise seemingly perfect

The people who truly understand Jayce are those who are able to separate the person from the moment

Jayce - you - are obsessed with whether you're doing the right or proper thing in a moral sense, but despite that, you don't think that makes you a good person - even though that's literally the main qualifier. The reason for this is because you strongly feel that you are simply not allowed to be selfish; therefore, doing good and being caring doesn't feel like a choice to you, ergo you don't take pride in it and don't reward yourself for it. It feels.. dare I say it.. like a neutral mode

And I personally think, learning to be a bit selfish would be really helpful for you, because it would help demystify this and remove anxiety over the deep-seated fear that one slip-up and you'll descend into toxicity and pain-causing. The problem is that you're such a good person, that in the few instances where someone did accuse you of being toxic, you empathize with them enough to believe they had at least some semblance of a point and so put the onus of the blame on yourself instead. "This is what happens when I'm not careful enough," you internalized. "I made a mistake", rather than simply accept that other people can be flawed pieces of crap whose problems with you are just reflections of problems with themselves

I think you need to have real, visceral experience that being a little selfish is not the enemy, and it won't consume you if you indulge in it. In fact, it might help you gain confidence in what you are and what you put out into the world.

So where is I need to remember that my kingdom is secure, even if it doesn't feel like that

I think you need to remember that the world outside your kingdom will love you no matter what you choose to do with your realm

I think that's why you strive for such an intensely connected romantic relationship, by the way. Because if you're going to let someone in that close, they have to be someone truly in love with you, someone utterly amazing in your eyes, otherwise you'll have to spend time together worrying about whether you're being a good person, whether they'll see through this imagined facade of yours. In another odd inversion of me, I seek people who can ground me and help me feel things, and I think you seek a person who can help you ascend past the grounded fears within you

I need to learn to trust the world around me. I think you should learn to trust yourself.

#man what da hell #😟#in all seriousness holy SHIT dude #she fuckin got my ass #I need to talk to my therapist about this #in a good way #like I think this gave me some really good stuff I didn’t even know what there #that I can now deconstruct #now we’re talking about how I don’t know who I am when others aren’t looking at me #I’m always so aware of what people think that I don’t know who I am without it #I don’t know my own baseline #wild #anyway I’m fucking insane #enjoy this read of my psyche #because she was 100% correct #jayce talis #arcane #character study #(?)

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duhragonball · 2 years ago

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All right, let me put this under a cut, because this doesn’t come up often, but I think I’d like a single post I can refer people to when this topic gets brought up.

Short version: I read all seven books and hated them, and now the author is an unapologetic transphobe, which is something I have no patience for. In recent years, critics have begun to connect the author’s neoliberal politics with a lot of the flaws in the writing, and this video by Shaun is a pretty good exploration of what was so frustrating about the books and the characters.

Long version: I “liveblogged” all seven Harry Potter novels between 2005 and 2012. I use the quote marks because back in those days I’m not sure “liveblog” was a term, but I certainly hadn’t heard of it. I called it a “review”, but I basically would read each chapter and recap the whole thing with my smartass commentary. In hindsight, this was probably more like me trying to do Nostalgia Critic’s bit in prose format, but I wasn’t very familiar with him at the time either.

Soon afterward, I moved my online presence to tumblr, which was sort of a fresh start for me. It sounds like I’m implying there was some sort of bad experience that came out of the whole thing, but there wasn’t. I was proud of the work I did at the time, and while I’m not sure if it holds up in the 2020′s, I got a lot of satisfaction out of finishing a multiyear project like that. But by the end, I was ready to move on, and so I have moved on, which is why I don’t speak of it much in this space.

The point I’m making here is that I read all the books and I examined them pretty thoroughly, and my conclusion was that they all sucked. Yes, even your favorite one. No, it didn’t start out good and jump the shark later on. They all sucked. That’s what I had against Harry Potter.

I say “had”, because even though I’ve moved on to other pursuits, J.K. Rowling continues to maintain a public presence, selling her video games and spin-off movies and so on. She’s also gone full-on TERF, spouting transphobic rhetoric and using her platform as a billionaire best-seller to bully people who are much less fortunate than herself.

I’ll embed that video I linked to up top.

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I think Shaun does a really excellent job explaining just what bugged me so much about the Harry Potter books. I found the main characters extremely unlikeable, and I could never quite put my finger on the reason. And the villains were pretty weak too, despite all their terrible crimes and talk of conquest. Superficially, the whole thing feels like a classic good vs. evil struggle, with good wizards fighting bad wizards, kind of like how the Transformers are about good alien robots fighting a war against bad alien robots. But it never seemed to work in the Harry Potter books.

Shaun explains why: Despite the “good versus evil” premise, a lot of the good guys just act like thoughtless, selfish pricks sometimes, and it’s justified because they’re on the good guy team. Sometimes a character will do something terrible to another character, and it’s deemed acceptable because they’re nominally a “good guy”, and the person they’re being a jerk to is a “bad guy”, so they’re fair game. It’s less about “good vs. evil” and more about “us vs. them”.

Shaun doesn’t spent a lot of time getting into Rowling’s transphobia, but he does talk about a lot of the other problematic stuff in the books, like the lack of thought she put into Cho Chang’s name. He also points out the hypocrisy in having all the other characters act irritated with Hermione’s anti-slavery campaign. The whole thing with the house elves was half-baked from the start, and Rowling kept stumbling through each book trying to correct course, ultimately settling on having one character stand up for the Right Thing, only to have all the other characters ignore or dismiss her concerns. Harry himself seems to have no particular opinion on house-elf slavery, which sums up the character very succinctly. He’s the protagonist and the viewpoint character, but he doesn’t stand for anything in particular.

Now that I think about it, I suppose this was why I kept working anime characters and Transformers and professional wrestlers into my liveblog of the books. At the time, I would have told you I was just doing it to keep myself entertained as I trudged through the series, but in hindsight, I think I was just starved for characters who actually believed in something bigger than themselves. Harry can barely be arsed to do his own homework, meanwhile, I’ve known what passions fuel Omega Supreme since I was nine years old.

“Diction: Straighforward. Personality: Complex. (*snif*)”

I don’t know what sort of person you are, @endmylife69 . You strike me as a reply guy, contrarian for its own sake. I see feminist and antifeminist posts in your likes, and one of the three posts on your blog is about how much you hate Chi-Chi, so I don’t know why you even show up to my blog, where I think Chi-Chi is awesome. The point is if your agenda here is to sea-lion me into “proving” that Rowling is a TERF and that TERFs are bad, I’m not interested in playing that game. There’s plenty of critics out there who will walk you through that discussion step by step. You asked what my problem is with her, and I’m telling you.

There are fans of hers who have to struggle with the moral implications of liking her work while distancing themselves from her hateful beliefs. I respect the fans who have to figure that out. I don’t respect the fans who just pretend like the dilemma doesn’t exist, because they care more about playing that new Hogwarts vidya game than anything else.

For my own part, I can’t relate to the fans’ dilemma, because I always thought Rowling’s book series sucked shit. What’s frustrating for me is that I spent about seven years roasting her books on the internet, and the whole time I was going “Ha ha these books suck shit!”, and it all just feels so dated now, because she’s going to go down in history as this rich, hateful bigot. Her lousy writing is going to be a footnote to her career. It’s like writing an “epic takedown” of Mel Gibson movies without ever getting into all the antisemitic stuff he’s done. In retrospect, I feel kind of disgusted for engaging with her work at all, even to insult it.

I’m sick of talking about Harry Potter, so let me make this about Chi-Chi, since that seems to be the only thing I know you have strong opinions about. Part of the reason I like Chi-Chi so much is because she’s basically right. She objects to a lot of the things that happen in Dragon Ball, which makes her seem like a killjoy, but her motives are sensible and important. She grounds the other characters, keeping them with one foot in the real world.

This is because Chi-Chi understands that there’s more to life than fighting gonzo anime battles. Yes, she lives in a world where laser karate is real and quite prevalent. Yes, her sons are insanely powerful warriors who are sometimes the only thing standing in the way of world annihilation. But at the same time? Gohan and Goten really do need to study and get good jobs. Protecting the world is important, but so is family, and home life, and the work you do. Also, maybe it’s important to stop breaking the furniture all the time. Its expensive, dammit.

These are messages that a lot of DB fans don’t care for, because they tuned in for gonzo anime battles, and this loud woman is scolding everyone for wanting that. But the point of the character is that there’s a bigger world in the lore. There’s places to live and people to meet and things to do besides fighting Frieza all the time, and she wants her loved ones to thrive in that world, which is why she keeps reminding them of it.

And that’s a metaphor for our own world, where there’s more to our own lives than the shows we watch and the books we read, and the internet arguments we get into. We each have to ask ourselves what we stand for, what we’re trying to be on this planet. My problem with the Harry Potter franchise is that it doesn’t seem to stand for much of anything. The characters only seem to care about stopping big league threats, but have no interest in reforming their broken society. The protagonist spends much of his time just passively experiencing the story like he’s sitting in a theme park ride. The author only seems to feel strongly about punching down, attacking trans people and surrounding herself with anyone willing to congratulate her for this despicable attitude. Her supporters only seem to care about being on her side, no matter how morally bankrupt it is.

Like, okay, that video game came out a few months ago, and I saw people on Twitter trying to angrily justify their decision to buy it, even though a lot of people have pointed out that it directly supports a woman who uses her wealth to justify her bigotry platform. They’d go “It’s just a game!” and someone made a really snotty TikTok about it or something, and I’m like “Who are you trying to convince, me or yourself?” If it was just a game, then they’d just play it and not say anything. But they know it’s not just about the game, and that’s why they’re so defensive about it. They want to be on both sides of this thing, and that doesn’t surprise me much, since their favorite book series taught them that they can be a real selfish dickbag and still be a good guy as long as you oppose the main villain.

Chi-Chi would see right through that. It’s not enough to just oppose the final boss. It’s the life you live before and after those kinds of battles that defines you as a person.

Anyway, Harry Potter sucks rotten eggs, and the author is a giant toolshed. Also, that funeral they did for the giant spider was a fucking ordeal to read. 0/10 would not recommend.

#ask duhragonball #index

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episodeoftv · 2 years ago

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Round 1 of 8, Group 5 of 8

propaganda and summaries are under the cut (May include spoilers)

Kamen Rider W: 1.31 The Beast Must Be Persued / 1.32 Now, in the Radiance

A mob friend of Sokichi asks Shotaro to help him settle an old score and get what he came back to Futo for. / While under pressure of being abandoned by Philip as his Double partner for not keeping up, Shotaro tries to decipher the truth behind Bito's framing.

the show revolves around the idea of two person working together to become a one superhero entity (Kamen Rider W/Double), and this entire arc is about the hardest challenge in every relationship; what if one of us is changing and it's affecting our relationship? what would you do if that happen? would you go, would you stay? in this episode, there happens to be physical change between one half of the duo (Philip), leaving the other half (Shotaro) become incompatible to form as Kamen Rider W anymore. a mysterious entity suggested a thing to Philip; partnering with the more compatible guy, who happens to be their friend and a fellow Kamen Rider Accel, Ryu. would they reform W? or is this the end of W? Well, the answer is no, LOL. Philip considered that idea only to be shoved off immediately by Ryu. Shotaro, who was devastated with their previous battle (which they got lost terribly due to their incompatibility) decided to solve the current case all by himself, which didn't end well. He then were found by Philip who started to gave a speech who basically is just "fuck incompatibility. I want to be your partner. If that means we can't form W again, that's alright. when I choose you as a partner, that means I'm accepting not only your strength, but your flaw as well. why? because nobody's perfect*" *"nobody's perfect" was a message from Shotaro's mentor. it's actually meant for their client who took the blame of all of his friends' crimes and got sent to jail for several years. (the client asked the mentor, got sentenced, freed, returned to the detective agency cause the mentor told him he has something for him).the mentor's message is like a closure for all of things he had done for the sake of his friends. because nobody is perfect. Somehow, that message also fits the entire incompatibility narrative of the episode, and it's beautiful. so they return to fight the monster. are they still incompatible? of course. but they were so stubborn and keep fighting it, they could surpass it. thus, the main form was born, as they became more synchronized than before, and saved the day. so, for the question on the above, what is the answer for both Shotaro and Philip? they choose to stay and find a way to make it work. all of that shown on parallel with their current case's narrative, and if that's not the episode of all time, then idk what it is. idk if this could explain the episode enough, it's pretty complicated LMAO

Young Justice: 1.16 Failsafe

When the Justice League is defeated during an alien invasion, the Team has to step up and fill their mentors' shoes.

This episode genuinely rewired my brain when I watched it back in 2011. Like? It became clear by halfway through the episode that what is going isn't "real" because of course all those characters wouldn't have died, the whole plot wouldn't change like that, so it leaves the audience in a state of suspense of what's really going on. It's like an insidious feeling. Through this end of the world scenario we really see things in these characters that we wouldn't otherwise, things that disturb us. That Superboy would be willing to sacrifice his own life for others so easily without a second thought. That Robin would be so ready to let his friends & himself die. That Kidflash isn't even mad when he dies with Robin though he knows Robin planned it all along. And the gut punch at the end of the episode when you realize not only was it not real (which we predicted) but that the hallucination was because of MISS MARTIAN. The mental toll that this takes on her because she didn't mean to and the mental toll it takes on the other characters having to deal with this knowledge of themselves and their friends it just... ugh. There's great follow-up in the next episode, too, but in general I wish the show on a whole actually followed up on it better. Anyway great episode.

#kamen rider w #young justice #kamen rider #poll #polls #round1 #r1g5

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cosmosrebellion · 2 years ago

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You know what the SUPER striking thing about the last two episodes makes clear?

That this show isn't afraid to point out that Clark is an insecure, neurotic mess in his own right, who's surprisingly loathe to open himself up to others.

Like, you can absolutely make an argument that maybe Clark didn't know Lois long enough to trust her with his secret. I can see a *fair,* if not personally agreeable, argument for that.

But Jimmy? Clark's known him for years, at least four, judging by the freshman remark. And Clark seemed like he was no closer to telling him his secret either. I get why he's slow to let people in, but it's one of those "Clark, buddy..." moments that I appreciate out of him as a character.

Clark is someone who holds himself to a high-moral standard once he decides to be Superman.

Clark is also a deeply insecure mess who desperately wishes to be loved and accepted and is terrified of losing the love and acceptance he already has. And that leads to him hiding things from the people who love him, even when he really shouldn't it.

And even with what you said about Lois in mind, he was fully ready to start a relationship with her if that's the road she took with him. And seeing how he was with Jimmy, would clearly keep that secret from her for as long as he could. That's always been the status quo with Superman with several different eras, and I'm glad they threw it out the way, while still doing excellent character work with it.

There's this thing with some Supermam fans who always want Clark to be portrayed as the most perfectest man ever, who never does anything wrong, and if criticized, his critic is always in the wrong. And that's the most boring thing you can do with him.

There's so much you can explore with Clark's flaws and insecurities and I'm so happy the show is doing that.

#my adventures with superman #my adventures with superman spoilers #my rambles on superman

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orangedodge · 2 years ago

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"Jedi are meant to put aside their attachments and sacrifice for the greater good--"

Wrong.

I've seen this sentiment constantly these past five weeks, and so far as I can determine it stems from a misunderstanding of the Empire Strikes Back, when Yoda urges Luke to put his feelings aside and complete his training rather than rush off to Cloud City. But this was not an argument against the compassionate desire to save life in service to a utilitarian plea for the greater good: Yoda just thought Luke wasn't ready to face Vader yet, and was going to fail to save his friends regardless. He wasn't opposed to Luke facing Vader if Luke was ready to face him.

While the life of a Jedi is to be one of sacrifice, it's specifically supposed to be self-sacrifice, and not the sacrifice of others. And furthermore, the overall narrative of Star Wars takes the position that the greatest good is always unknowable to the individual, and may only ever become apparent retrospectively on the most grand of cosmic scales.

Therefore their duty is always to serve the will of the Force by acting to preserve life where they may, trusting that the aggregated will of the universe knows best where they are needed, and will direct them to where they must go so long as they trust their feelings. Hence, the Jedi maxim "trust in the Force," and not "trust in the Senate Permanent Select Committee on Judicial Affairs."

We see this in action during Episode I, when despite the urgency of the situation, Qui-Gon always stops for whomsoever is in need of his aid, instead of ignoring Anakin and Jar-Jar for seeming unimportant to his task--and he is treated as the ideal Jedi by the prequel trilogy in that he alone reaches enlightenment through his own actions.

Where attachments--defined in universe as selfish, jealous, controlling, and possessive behaviors that disregard the autonomy of others--become problematic is when they cause one to allow their personal feelings to override their duty to the Force and its will. That's not was Sabine was doing when she chose to save Ezra. Ezra was still alive to rescue, and both desired rescue, and had an expectation that his comrades would not write off his life.

It is left open to audience interpretation whether Sabine was unknowingly listening to the Force and doing what she was meant to do, or if failing that was just making the best choice she could ("save one person" over "save no one"), but regardless her choice is treated as at minimum an acceptable one by the narrative via the contrast between the heroes and antagonist.

It is Grand Admiral Thrawn, and not our protagonists, who best typifies the practice of reaching a state of detachment from his emotions, and maintaining a willingness to sacrifice those few insignificant lives to service a greater good. Thrawn has absolutely no idea why anyone would think the intergalactic rescue of Ezra Bridger was worthwhile, and seethes that he cannot understand.

When Thrawn dispatches TIE fighters and Stormtroopers to delay Ahsoka, he's doing so with the expectation that those men are already dead. He takes no pleasure in it, as Palpatine or Grievous would, and should they survive he would welcome them back, but nor does he make any provision to save them if things go wrong. Their lives are a resource to leverage, currency to spend, without inherent worth. It was his very capacity for this mode of thinking that, in the first place, made him vulnerable to getting corrupted from his purpose by a fascist dictatorship, and set him up for his role as the ultimate villain of the post-Empire era.

This is his primary character flaw, and audiences are not meant to see great wisdom in it, less wish that the protagonists should be more like him. His inability to make the leap of faith is why he is ultimately a tragic villain, doomed by the narrative. The moral thesis of the setting is that weighing lives against one another is a trap. It holds that not knowing what is best for the galaxy, the correct position is therefore to always to treat people with compassion and kindness, and those who refuse to render aid to someone in need of it, in favor of servicing an abstract higher good are always treated as in the wrong.

#star wars #star wars ahsoka #ahsoka #grand admiral thrawn #sabine wren

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I watched Maja Ma today and I do this as some form of self inflicted hurt/comfort cause I love me some desi queer people but also AHHHHHHHHHHHHGGGGGGGAHHSJSJS

I originally thought the son was gonna be supportive of the mum cause he was from America and maybe more exposed to queer people and accepting attitudes?? Boy was I wrong! I was also surprised that they revealed it so early in the movie and then I realised it was gonna be a forced outing trope and I was SO STRESSED.

I would kill for Pallavi she's wonderful spectacular amazing so sweet and she's such a compelling character!! The trope of queer people planning to run away from their not accepting community but then one staying is definitely a problematic one but also one that I am an absolute sucker for. THE ANGST!!! THE DRAMA!! THE DESPERATION!!! THE HOPE!!! THE FACT THAT YOU WANT TO HATE PALLAVI FOR BREAKING JANAKA'S HEART BUT YOU UNDERSTAND WHY SHE DID IT!!! THE DESPERATE WANT TO FIT IN AND BE LIKE EVERYONE ELSE!!! Also she's Madhuri Dixit!!! She literally played her so well she CARRIED the whole movie!!

Every other person in the movie annoyed the fuck out of me. I understand that they were supposed to be flawed but jesus Christ I wanted to punch them through the screen. (Apart from maybe the husband he was so funny I loved pallavis reactions to him trying to be romantic she really was like ??????? and also obviously liked Janaka and the fiancée was an absolutely wonderful person she deserves the world and can do way better than fucking bitchass dickface Tejas.) I genuinely started screaming at the son for trying to fucking convert his mum???! Violently as well?????! Your own mother????? I was ready to DICK PUNCH through the screen let me tell you. I hated the daughter so much. Obviously I get that we're supposed to get annoyed at her but god damn bitch was insane!! Loved it when that one queer person was like yeah her and her straight privilege and borrowed outrage can go fuck right off trying to fucking force her mum out of the closet in an extremely traditional society I was like GO OFF KING. TELL IT LIKE IT IS.

And obviously it's asking a bit much from a Bollywood movie to adhere to western views and language used about queer people and I'm taking what I can get really but god damn I hated the way she went about things and I hated that she was portrayed as an angry feminist gender studies person who's making trouble, like Jesus Christ we've had enough of that we don't want the one accepting person to be portrayed like their insane for accepting them??? I don't know what the purpose of her character was supposed to be?? I guess that line about her being more of a social worker than a daughter sums it up

Honestly girl ate with those speeches!!! I loved the bit where she was like yeah I failed the lie detector test cause they were asking the wrong questions. If they'd asked if she ever had fallen in love with a girl, then she'd gladly fail I was literally kicking my feet giggling at this!!

Yeah the way they resolved the conflict was a little bit childish but I got my comfort and I'm glad it wasn't queer sadness!! It was super interesting seeing this type of story from the mother's point of view, cause usually it's the kid coming out and facing these things and I think it added a really nice level of depth and angst about womanhood and being queer in a traditional Indian society. I loved how it had the quintessential Bollywood dance and song scenes I thought they were lovely!! I especially loved the last shot of pallavi and Janaka dancing together in the middle of the circle with the pulsing lights I thought that was so beautiful!!

Honestly overall this movie was messy and did make me want to scream more times than I thought was intended but the cute parts were really cute and pallavi's depth and character and Madhuri Dixit made it a whole lot better!! 6.8/10

#maja ma #madhuri dixit #desi queer #movie review #spoilers #obviously #queer movies #lgbtq #its my little everyones out of the house guilty pleasure #i need to watch badhaai ho as well

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ramblingroommate · 11 months ago

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Part 2 of 911 episode 1x1 (part 1 here)

Okay so now that I’m sane again (lie) after finding out Ryan fucking Murphy is also behind this show and have accepted what that will probably mean for my mental state (another lie), I’m ready to get back to the episode (wariness levels are suddenly 100%)

Oh wait what? Really? I’ve been seeing this man’s face on my dashboard for the last two years and never realized he had a birthmark on his face? Well now I feel dumb lol

Wait he doesn’t run into burning buildings? Isn’t that the whole thing about being a firefighter? This might sound dumb but I’m asking because I actually found it weird when they went to save that one kid who almost drowned. Is it different in the u.s.? Because over here they would call an ambulance for strictly medical emergencies and the firefighters for fires or car crashes and things like that

I have to say the characterization that’s been established is pretty strong and interesting even from this early on! I mean… half of these characters have barely had any lines yet and I still feel like I know at least one thing about each one of them. That tracks now that I know Ryan Murphy is involved in this: his shows may have a thousand flaws but he (usually) has really strong great characters. Over the top perhaps, but great. Let’s see what we have so far:

Chimney is insecure so he lies to his girlfriend about the stuff he does at work. The fact that he met her on a dating website for people who are into people in uniforms (he’s basically her wet dream) and he still has to lie because he doesn’t feel interesting enough? That says A LOT

Hen is sassy and is always ready with a witty comeback. It may not seem like much but she has had exactly ONE line so far so… not that bad

Bobby is the easy going reliable captain who cares about the others but has a Secret Past TM. I know from the memes that the fandom calls Bobby the father of the group but twenty minutes in and he just straight up says it

Buck is the young reckless guy, he likes sleeping around and doesn’t take things as seriously as the others do. From what I’ve read over the years this apparently changes with his character development but right now that’s where we are

All of this and I’ve barely seen half the first episode! I can see why people like this show already. I’m a sucker for shows with well defined characters (and I like that a lot of their traits are coming up naturally)

A baby in a wall… is this a true story? Why does it sound familiar?

… he’s such an idiot, I love him already

I’m curious about this cop character and how they’re gonna handle her storylines. I’m saying this because I used to really really like police procedurals (castle, criminal minds, white collar, lie to me…) but then real life events turned me off them. This seems to be a show mainly about firefighters saving lives so there probably won’t be any over the top cop storylines. I’ll keep an open mind anyhow

No one kept the elevator door open, I like that sprinkle of realism.

Also I’m finding Buck’s character really interesting. First half of the first episode and he’s already been established as reckless and impulsive BUT also as responsible and careful with the baby. He is careless when he takes the fire truck out to get laid but he cares a lot when he is inside one trying to keep a newborn alive.

Yeah he definitely cares a lot but is also… naive? In a way? He got attached really quickly and needed Bobby to remind him that their job doesn’t reach beyond those doors.

I don’t know, I’ve read posts before talking about how much Buck cares about people and maybe I’m jumping ahead? It feels like that’s what they’re going for tho

Also I just realized: we’re never going to find out more about that young mother are we? We really are following the first responders point of view… after we reach the hospital it’s not our responsibility anymore.

Buck’s reaction to the mother is also really interesting because it was VERY unprofessional but also understandable in a very human way. Don’t get me wrong: he was 100% wrong and Athena was absolutely right in tearing him a new one, but he’s also young and saw something really awful. I like when characters are flawed and make bad decisions and the show can point out they are wrong while still not paint them as bad people.

Also, I like Athena. So far she’s the typical hardass cop we have seen before, but the actress portrays it really well

Well that was unexpected.

My first gay character on the gay firefighter show? Yay

Jokes aside, I didn’t expect this. The daughter reaction was pretty... unrealistic? I don't know. Going out of her way to say that she supports gay people IN GENERAL but not in this very specific case because it's their dad and there are going to be repercussions on them feels... a bit too scripted? Like... I can imagine two writers saying "make sure she says she supports gay rights and her anger has nothing to do with that or else people are gonna get mad".

She's a teenager and her parents have been fighting for days (or even weeks?) and she just found out her dad has been lying to them AND her parents are probably gonna divorce (even if they say otherwise)... it doesn't feel realistic that IN THAT MOMENT she would be going out of her way to make sure everyone knows she supports gay rights and that's not what she's angry about. That is a conversation that could have come up later on? I don't know, it also feels like I'm getting stuck on a detail that's not really important so I'll shut up now.

This feels like a more realistic reaction! She is clearly a very proud woman, so her feeling humiliated and lashing out makes sense. Also her acting is amazing.

Also this is getting wayyy too long so I'll make a third part.

#911 #911 show #911 abc #911 season 1 #911 s1e1 #ro watches 911

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I think one of the reasons I love Jujutsu Kaisen because it feels like a reverse-parody of shounen, atleast to me. Gege takes common shounen tropes and instead of doing the same thing as the writers before him, he takes those tropes seriously instead of just using them as clutches to make things happen.

For example Sukuna, he isn't just an evil magic battery inside our main hero to get him out of tough situations who gets tamed with time but a fully realized character with motivations of his own. Or the failed older generation that reflects and mirrors the current trio (Nobara is still alive and nothing can take this delusion away from me) who are not just copypaste with a minor twist to them. Gojo isn't just the strongest character who our protagonist will have to eventually overcome and the world doesn't revolve around Yuuji, like literally 7 other characters could have been the main characters as well. Even with the KennyMommy twist we got nothing but a crushing irony that Yuuji was made to be expendable instead of being the most special character out of them all. (Even if there is more to the story -which is very likely, but who knows because it's Gege- and he was in fact more special than that, it still works because next to someone like Maki or Yuta, it's like nothing lmao)

I also love the grading system and how realistict it is, the special grade curses/sorcerers are treated more as monsters than the goal the characters should work towards, I never once felt that grade 1 sorcerers were ever disregarded or degraded to constantly up the power scale. Grade, technique, curse level or even domain expansion isn't the ends of all means, every fight is unique and fresh, unlike in some other shounens were the fights start to feel like dick measuring after a time.

Also also our main character isn't the moral epitome of the whole world with writer's clairvoyance, who knows everything better than everyone else. No, he isn't always right and his approach isn't always the right one or the only right one, something that was showcased with both Megumi, Junpei or even Mahito. When he faced the awakened Junpei, he didn't want to accept his actions and preeched without knowing anything, it is only when Yuuji tried to understand Junpei is when he made a big push through, which was handled greatly in my opinion. It's understandable that Yuuji rejected him at first and I don't neccessarily see it as a flaw, but him trying to connect to Junpei is what made him a great protagonist in my opinion. Everything is chaotic and gray in JJK, there is no clear right and wrong, there is only your side and their side, or more accurately you vs them. There are no one-dimensional bad guys who suddenly turn one-dimensional good guys once they are defeated (which I'm so thankful for, my god). Curses, for fuck's sake this universe has curses which could have been the faceless unthinking monsters the heroes could massacre en masse without ANY moral implications, then Gege went ahead and said Lmao, Lol even, here, kill these innocent civilians made by a sentient curse that's the manifestation of humankind's fear and hatred for our own kind while you are there and then things just went further downhill after that. (I just want to say, when Nanami and Yuuji defeated those curses without knowing their true nature, I really cried seeing those poor people suffer, I can't wait to see the Shibuya arc being finally animated. Maybe this time Nanami and Nobara won't die if I am delusional enough).

Sorry for rambling, I may not have worded things exactly the way I wanted them but writing in English is not my greatest expertise. Also idk if someone has already made this point or not, I try to avoid the JJK fandom as much as possible because 90% of it is just SatoSugu or Character x Y/N and I'm not interested in either of those (no hate towards the fans tho)

HOLA anon! Ehem...

So... when your ask came through I was getting ready to go Cancun+ing, but I promise that even while my skin scorched under the sun (I am sunburnt af 🥲) I was in deep thought regarding your magnificent ask because.................

HOLY DAMN YES!

Welcome to another JJK-Sunday Confessionals.

I love it! Thanks for sending your #thoughts. I honestly don't even know that I have much more to add to this other than saying that I love how you've captured many of the #things I love about jjk.

Ok, jk, have we met? I vomit words and words I shall vomit under the cut.

Gege takes common shounen tropes and instead of doing the same thing as the writers before him, he takes those tropes seriously instead of just using them as clutches to make things happen

I love this so much and I've been thinking about what it is about how Gege writes that is so refreshing and I think it defo has something to do with how he fleshes out the tropes he uses in detail.

Perhaps he understands that tropes are at their core experiences. And where most mangaka rely on tropes at face value, he re-imagines new ways of expressing the same core concept. i.e. the Kurama vs. Sukuna example you shared.

Honestly, this is one of the reasons I like jjk so much. I simply cannot predict it to a t. There's a lot of media that I simply do not indulge because, as soon as I am able to predict the story because of the tropes used, I get bored.

the failed older generation that reflects and mirrors the current trio

Ok but listen. What if Kenny, Tengen and Sukuna were such a trio? Same trope, take it back, way back. There's something about how Gege is writing about Tengen (especially in relation to Kenny) that is interesting in that there's this sense that fate has been repeating itself for many, many years.

I haven't been able to gather my thoughts on it but... something about it...

the world doesn't revolve around Yuuji, like literally 7 other characters could have been the main characters as well. Even with the KennyMommy twist we got nothing but a crushing irony that Yuuji was made to be expendable instead of being the most special character out of them all.

Just today I was thinking about how Yuji is such a refreshing and unique take on his trope as the mc of a battle shonen. Like Megumi, he is all the #things that define him according to his trope, and yet he does it in a way that is unequivocally Yuji.

As for the other main characters, that's what I love about them. It's like they are all the protagonists of their own lives. There are a few plot devices in the story, but for the most part Gege's character writing is absolutely fantastic.

Also. Crushing irony is abso-fucking-lutely on point lol.

Grade, technique, curse level or even domain expansion isn't the ends of all means, every fight is unique and fresh, unlike in some other shounens were the fights start to feel like dick measuring after a time.

YES. I have to half disagree about how the fights don't feel like dick measuring tho.

There's something very ironic and absurd about Hakari vs. Kashimo and Gojo vs. Sukuna that is 300% dick measuring but in this very Gege-kind-of-egotistical-way 😂. I personally love it tho. No complaints here.

Also also our main character isn't the moral epitome of the whole world with writer's clairvoyance, who knows everything better than everyone else.

Loved this 🥲. All of it!

I can't wait to see the Shibuya arc being finally animated. Maybe this time Nanami and Nobara won't die if I am delusional enough.

oh hey! it's like me thinking Tokyo Babylon's volume 7 will have a different outcome if only I read it enough times. I have not successfully managed to manifest a different ending but shall keep trying lol.

So relatable.

Nah, please ramble away. Thank you for sharing your #thoughts with me.

You are using British English, does that mean you are on the other side of the world (Europe/Asia)? Also I'd say you write quite well in English :) better than many USAmericans actually lol.

Yeah so... about the fandom.

What I'll say is that I have had several negative experiences that have left a very sour taste in my mouth. It's gotten to the point that sometimes people will comment on my content with inoffensive messages and I immediately get defensive because I think they're being mean when they aren't. It actually makes me sad to react like that and it is something I'm working on.

For that reason I've stayed here in my little Tumblr corner for the vast majority of my fandom experience and interacted with others very little because I found some posts and attitudes to be too triggering.

But alas, I've come out of my shell and have met good friends/moots through here as a result. So thank you to my Tumblr moots for helping make my jjk experience better!

I also only recently started interacting more on twitter with others in the fandom. So I have a small circle of mutuals who share the same level of understanding as me but it isn't always easy to find people I vibe with in such a large ocean of loud voices.

It's interesting to note that the most popular content for jjk isn't necessarily the kind of discourse I enjoy. To your point, sometimes I see a a very popular post that is specifically about satosugu and I wonder whether it would be as popular if it wasn't about the ship. So I totally share your feelings about the state of the fandom on all levels.

And while I personally do enjoy "shipping", I also like to explore and understand the characters as individuals. That is not to mention I consider myself to be on camp ship and let ship.

What I've learned is that you have to curate your content experience and I get the feeling you're already on it for yourself.

Anyways anon! Thank you so much for dropping by!

I really enjoyed reading your thoughts on why you love jjk and look forward to hearing about what other #jjk thoughts you might have.

#god I love jujutsu kaisen #ask the mental gymnastics anime girl

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vendettavalor · 2 years ago

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Alfinnea and the Elefthysi Nomads

// In celebration of finally getting her bio done, I decided to make a post featuring all the lore I created for her background. This is far from all of it. There will be more. And when there is, it will go under a special section in her bio.

Alfinnea’s people are a group of nomadic wanderers who live as one with the wild world, known as the Elefthysi. Quite literally translating to “they who wander and live free in the wild,” they are experts in hunting, gathering, farming, foraging, beast handling, navigation, and magic.

Elefthysi normally travel in small groups called bands. These bands all follow different routes, noting landmarks, locations, resources, and other geographical details to be shared when they eventually reach an agreed upon destination and converge with the other bands into their larger pack. The pack will stay and set up camp in this location for a short amount of time- usually no longer than one season, often leaving sooner if necessary. During this time, they will farm, forage, hunt, and occasionally trade as individuals with other groups. Mostly though, they keep to themselves. They are known to be so remote and elusive that many only regard them as myths and legends now.

The Elefthysi have many ceremonies of note. These include:

Florenove (First Breath) - A ceremony celebrating the birth of a new nomad. They and their family are celebrated, given gifts, and their child’s name is announced.

Vinculumtor (The Forge) - Occuring at the age of 5 or 6, young nomads set off of their first quest, guided by a fellow trusted nomad of their choosing to a sacred place- the guarded ruins of the Elefthysi’s Last Stand- where they will encounter the Contricor (The Brokenhearted), a monster made of old emotions and magic who changes shape and reveals the character flaw of the nomad who must overcome said flaw to defeat it. Once they have, they will discover a kinship ore that calls out to them, mine it, bring it back to be refined, purify it, and then forge the apparatus that will hold it with the help of their nomad guide. With their kinship stone, they take the first step into becoming a beast-master.

Novitas (First Hatching) - Newly christened holders of kinship stones hatch their first egg and forge the bond with their first beast. This happens only after they have adequately trained and attuned their soul to the kinship stone. Usually happens around 8-9.

Magifera (Wild Magic) - The ceremony that tests all that they have learned in magic. They must perform spells, create and enchantment their own weapons and armor, and demonstrate an understanding of how to respectfully utilize magic. Once they have completed this, they are ready for their greatest test of all. Usually happens around 10-12.

Feromitor (First Taming) - The ceremony where nomads really put their skills to the test by taming their first wild beast instead of hatching one. This requires much more skill, both those learned from hatching and those learned from wild magic. This is the second greatest test a nomad must face. It’s also very dangerous. Many fail before they succeed. Typical start is around 13-14.

Vitafera (Wild Life) - This pivotal coming-of-age ceremony involves letting the young nomads put into practice all that they have learned. For at least a year, they will live amongst the wilds on their own, just them and their beasts. In order to return, they must bring back a great artifact as proof of some great challenge they’ve overcome in order to return to their clan and be accepted as an adult. Many do return, but not all. Happens around 16.

Feraldi (Wild Return) - The ceremony of return is celebrated in numerous ways. It includes dancing, feasts, and a ritual in which the individual’s artifact is used as a base for their soul, which is given a physical shape in the form of an independent companion that goes with them wherever they go and only parts with them at death. This being is known as a Kinbeast and it can take on any shape at any time (though they usually have one shape they use as their primary and preferred shape), as it represents the individual’s moods, instincts, and ever-changing, ever-growing nature. Kinbeasts may engulf their people in their aura and become one with them when using powerful magic or shapeshifting. They’re sacred and should not be touched by anyone but their nomad unless invited to otherwise.

Feranatus (Wild Rebirth) - A ceremony to welcome in those who join the nomad lifestyle from outside. Based on who they are and what stage of life they’re at, this ceremony can include several components of the others. The nomad who brought them in shall guide them on their journey to master the ways of the nomad and endorse them during their many trials ahead.

Amoria (Love Bond) - A ceremony to celebrate the joining of nomads into a new band. A wedding ceremony basically.

Morexolv (Death Cycle) - A funeral and celebration of life. The passed is honored and cherished as their Kinbeast guides their energy back to the earth to be reborn. Their beasts may remain or return to the wild.

Novissimemor (The Last Stand’s Memory) - A ceremony to celebrate the day the nomads lost their only permanent home in a bloody battle to the monster hunters. The place is not visited. But nomads channel their energy and magic to keep the place protected and engage in solemn festivities to honor all they lost in the fight.

Nomads customize everything. Their weapons, their instruments, their homes, their armor. Even their beasts will be painted if they allow for it. They love tying symbolism and art into everything they have. When you’re always on the move, it’s good to know that some things will always be yours. This also means that giving something handmade and hand-decorated is incredibly meaningful and important to nomads. It is a true and pure sign of their connection to one another, especially if it is something functional.

To Nomads, hair is sacred. It is used to represent bloodlines, abilities, status, and roles. It’s dyed, designed, and played with to help form bonds. Cutting it is forbidden, unless the circumstances are extreme. Because of this, cutting their hair was used as a form of humiliation and alienation by hunters.

Additionally, the Elefthysi utilize tattoos in various forms. Many are decorative and symbolic of heritage, roles, and abilities. Some, however, are runes and symbols of power marked in invisible ink that glows when their magic is used.

Similarly, the Elefthysi believe in enchanting their armor for extra protection. They use enchantments to aid in camouflage, stealth, and protection. They will even enchant their weapons to make them more effective.

HOWEVER, the Elefthysi do not use magic itself as a weapon. To them, magic is energy tied to the earth and the life force the flows within it and all living things. They believe that such a force must never be used for destruction. Magic is used only as a tool, for entertainment, for recreation, and for lifestyle purposes. It should be treated and handled with respect, for failure to do so can lead to chaos. As such, nomads can use it for a variety of things such as talking to plants and animals, changing shape, putting on performances, and animating normally inanimate objects. Spells, hexes, and combat magic are considered taboo in their culture if the intention is to cause direct harm. If it is to ever be utilized, it can only be utilized in defense of one’s self. Never as an offensive measure.

Nomads place high priority on protecting all living things. They respect the earth and its creatures very deeply, and they believe that any beast’s soul holds equal value as a human’s. As such, they have a variety of practices on how to ensure the souls of any beasts they kill pass on peacefully. This includes wasting absolutely no part of a beast.

While the Elefthysi people normally travel by foot in caravans, they are also capable of moving via boat or by airship caravan. They will use their beasts as bases for lightweight homes and create bridges between the moving structures they erect on their mounts’ backs.

The Elefthysi, due to their history, place very high value on their elders to pass down knowledge and information pivotal to their survival. They are also incredibly protective of their children and look to them to carry on the future of their nomadic ways.

While it’s incredibly uncommon now, the Elefthysi do allow for the induction of outsiders. The nomad who brings them in is deemed responsible for them, from their training to their adjustment, and will act as their sponsor for all events they partake in.

#lore : i will be here when you’re ready to wake up #( ocm : alfinnea the wild rider )#about : you’re just a lost cause

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creaturebehavior · 2 years ago

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finally coming around the bend

beginning to realize my own worth. it’s really taken this long to start to feel something change within me but i’m really becoming aware that i’m special and that it’s okay to be myself and the right people will love me for who i am and i only want the right people in my life.

it’s hard to see my assets through my flaws but i’m beginning to remember that i can be flawed and still be a human worthy of life and love. i can be flawed and also have good qualities about me. those things are not mutually exclusive, and i’m not unique in this human experience of having character defects and having character assets at the same time.

i often feel like i’m seeking permission to love myself from other people. like if they tell me i’m good enough then phew, it must be true. but i’m beginning to let this go and give myself permission to love myself despite being imperfect, and without the permission of others. i am allowed to do this.

i also realize on occasion, and then somehow forget about it again, that i don’t give myself permission to be happy. i’m afraid of happiness and joy. this is something i have to remember to face and try to work through.

i dont know where the fear of happiness comes from. is it the fear of the absence of the happiness that follows?

whether i like it or not, happiness is fleeting, intangible, and all feelings come and go. i have to accept this about happiness in a different way.

i think i fear happiness because the end of happiness after feels like grief or it feels like a huge plummet in dopamine which is difficult to cope with. so i avoid happiness altogether to try and avoid the crash that comes when it ends.

but all feelings come and go anyway. so i need to learn to let happiness in, and i need to learn to let happiness go without it shattering my world.

i don’t want to fear happiness or joy. i want to bring more light into my life. i wish it weren’t so scary. i don’t even feel ready for happiness as i’m writing this. but at least i know i want to get there

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