#(astounding as always!)

[univemma]

I acknowledge that the season was cut almost in half so I should really cut them some slack but I WON'T, SO:

Plot holes/Forgotten Stuff in TUA:

(some of these are mostly just unanswered questions)

-Sloane?? Where tf did she go?

-Why was Jennifer (in the original timeline) in a cage? In Moldova?? Like, was she discovered to have something ( the dimaldo stuff whatever) inside of her, so they wanted to test on her? if she never came into contact with marigold before ben then why would they? WHAT

-also wait how the fuck did she get that stuff in her anyway? How did the dimaldo get to earth after it caused the end of Reginald's home planet? Like,,,shouldnt we know that?

-Her,,,in a squid??? she was Inside a giant squid? W h a t

-the S3 post credits of ben in the train. sure, whatever, that means nothing LMAOO

-I also can't get over - Five explaining "oh yeah when we do this EVERY ALTERNATE TIMELINE is gonna be destroyed, leaving only what should've been - the original," and lila fighitng to put her family in the train station,,,All the other timelines will be destroyed??They're dying and being reborn/reincarnated in the new one anyway GIRL WHAT ARE YOU DOING

(unless ive highly misunderstood that which is likely)

-this isnt a plot hole just - five "trying desperately over and over again to save his unhelpful family who he loves very very much" being literally turned into,,,that. did someone say character assassination?

-lila and five. thats a plot hole in and of itself I DONT CARE if he's aged 12 years from season 3, (6 yr timeskip at beginning of season, then 6 technically 7 in teh train), I DONT CARE IF HES 25 NOW, I DONT CARE IF HES MENTALLY 60 SOMETHING. Lila met and spent time with him when he looked like THIS

THATS A CHILD. and clearly, the family had SOME contact in the 6 yr skip, so she WATCHED HIM GROW UP from 13 - 19, like thats just so WEIRD WHAT

this was supposed to be plot holes and just turned into me being pissed im sorry but HOW DO YOU FUCK UP AN ENDING THIS BAD??

[tahopo]

we truly regressed when people started buying into the genderbending is inherently transphobic thing. yeah that twelve year old being inquisitive and having fun on deviantart was your enemy all along.

[gurggggleburgle]

the reason why Luo Binghe and Shen Yuan can't attic wife each other in their house and never leave is that they don't have internet or anything else around to help keep them moving. I think we chalk too much of Shen Qingqiu being a super productive person post transmigration often too much to reading into things and treating his unreliable narration as fact.

But like, what is he supposed to do all if not actually go outside and talk to people and get a job. Luo Binghe needs to do things other than be a housewife for his own sanity so he doesn't cabin fever. He can't live focusing his day around a singular person being in the room its not healthy and would drive him insane. These are not overly productive constantly doing things people. These are people doing things to make sure they aren't malaise slugs feeling nothing in their day to day drudgery.

This is just what a healthy post/pre internet mental state kinda looks like.

[maxdurden]

the raw power of gorgug and kristen synchronized second hand embarrassment is unspeakable

[storkteller]

sorry ominis

[schmweed]

[scrumptiousstuffs]

🥹🥹🥹

Khaotung 1st Fansign Chongqing

Source: link 1, link 2, link 3

17/11/2024

[numbuh424]

Let's talk composition in the jdrama. L is always on the brighter side of the frame while Light is on the darker side.

[jiangwanyinscatmom]

Hello, hope you are well.

I wanted to ask if you know, Lan Wangji has understood his feelings for Wei Wuxian since the lectures right?

I always assumed he knew and was 'horrified' by liking someone who seemed to be the opposite of what he valued. On top of being a teenager who is probably struggling with thinking he's being obvious about his feelings (literally no one can tell lol) and warring with himself about wanting to be close to Wei Wuxian versus running for the hills in mortification.

Hmmmm, well, I think he indeed knew he was very attracted to Wei Wuxian, but I don't think he necessarily was in love, or understood it as such yet, with Wei Wuxian at the time of the lectures. And this also is the same for Wei Wuxian of course.

In a way I can see Wei Wuxian having his "love at first sight" without realizing it as such, since he relentlessly pigtail bullies and teases Lan Wangji but is consistently praising the other all the while. But for Lan Wangji he being raised so ascetically I think was embarrassed very heavily that someone was able to get him hot and bothered when it was instilled in him to be above that sort of thing and it was a frivolous waste of time.

He was also obstinate in wanting to think of Wei Wuxian as worse than he was, the ribbon pulling scene comes to mind. Lan Wangji was not used to casualness even amongst those closest to him and Wei Wuxian is friendly, especially to Lan Wangji and getting within Lan Wangji's space because of his own infatuation. Lan Wangji tries convincing himself it's because Wei Wuxian really is just a shallow, cruel player.

He hadn't accepted that Wei Wuxian embodied everything he idealized regarding morals and kindness and was still trying to convince himself Wei Wuxian was needlessly cruel to him in particular or as if the boy knew of Lan Wangji's feelings and was toying with him in the Xuanwu Cave. Ironically I think it is after Phoenix Mountain and Wei Wuxian running and protecting the Wens is when Lan Wangji accepted he was in love with him and Wei Wuxian was simply a good and kind person.

Ironic since this is about the turn where Wei Wuxian really did think Lan Wangji thought of him as amoral, nasty and cruel as others tried to say about him, and with their confrontation at Nightless City states this. I think unconsciously Wei Wuxian had given up the idea of "reciprocity" when he thought Lan Wangji was defaming him in the Supervisory Office. But of course he was still teasing him and trying to catch Lan Wangji's attentions.

I don't think he really understood it as "love" until his visit to the Burial Mounds and how he himself finally went out of his way to check on Wei Wuxian, tell him of Jiang Yanli, and to listen to Wei Wuxian's thoughts. It shows as he is similar to the Hanguang-Jun of thirteen years later who stands by Wei Wuxian patiently. It's more than just the attraction, he is accepting who Wei Wuxian is as a person l, and that's what it means to be in love with another. He is the one to go out of his way to find Wei Wuxian for once.

I have said before essentially Wei Wuxian is "the chaser" and caddish rogue of the romance here while Lan Wangi is the ice cold maiden that is thawed by the good of the protagonist and accepts everything about the other after stubborn obstinacy of trying to think the worst of the other despite all points saying that's your own.

[iamrizaka]

When Luke is worried, he fumbles with his bracelet. He doesn’t even notice it.

It usually happens when Lee is away for way too long. Most of the time, it's nothing serious — just some issues at home or picking up his siblings from the strawberry picking, maybe even getting a scratch during Capture the Flag. But there were few instances when Luke genuinely thought he had lost him.

During their first winter, Lee went to spend Christmas, and New Year with his family. It would've been nothing, but he wasn't at camp when he promised and didn't answer any IMs, so Luke left to search for him. He found him far away from his grandma's house, with bruises on his neck and arms, hiding away. Luke didn't want to let him go after that.

(Thankfully, it was just bruises. He managed to escape his mother and her boyfriend's car before anything serious happened. Didn't mean that he was happy about the whole situation.)

The other time, Luke couldn't find him after the end of Capture the Flag. The only reason he found him was because someone was calling for a healer. Luke didn't leave his cot for hours, waiting for Lee to wake up.

(He just hit his head, nothing too bad. But the panic Luke felt when Lee didn't open his eyes after promised two hours were too much. And when Lee started screaming, when he wasn't seeing Luke? Absolutely painful.)

There were many times Luke was worried about Lee, and most of them were just paranoia. But he can never forget the days when it was real and he was scared and praying for his friend's life.

[black-queen-rising]

The people taking this dialogue as a legitimate “character flaw” or literally just at face value at all and not as a continuation of the blatant disrespect the writers have not just towards Rhaenyra as the heir of twenty years, but towards anything that could even vaguely be construed as “women’s work”, is the most perfect encapsulation of just how entrenched misogyny is into the very heart of our pop culture and how the popularization of fantasy has managed to worsen our societal view of soft power by painting it as not only weak, but frivolously feminine, unimportant, and a waste of time.

Since the beginning of the show the writers have almost exclusively portrayed Rhaenyra as disinterested if not opposed to her role as heir, as a politician, and a woman in power broadly all against the original canon and all glaringly, not to make her look worse or better or likable or incompetent (they do all those things, almost every episode, with however they need her to affect the plot in that given moment because they’re incapable of having the characters drive it organically) because it’s not truly about her at all. It’s simply because they cannot fathom a story where a woman is politically adept and as a result either 1. evil or 2. boring, and that is fundamentally because once again they are so biased and against portraying anything that could even vaguely be construed as women’s work or at all “feminine-coded” in an even neutral-but-interesting way they do for (stereotypically) masculine-coded activities like sword fighting, horse back riding, dragon riding, hunting, archery, not to mention just the concept of the political conversations that drive these stories, let alone an actually positive way.

They have taken a story that at its core was always an indictment of structural misogyny and how it will literally cause societies to tear themselves apart over nothing. But because they decided at the outset they wouldn’t and couldn’t portray the structural part of said misogyny without scaring away their intended audience, and decided instead to base this all around ultimately meaningless ~team discourse~ (because literally everyone meeting their downfall as a result of the consequences of systemic misogyny is the point) their alternate path has been to over-exaggerate and ultimately turn to spectacle every single woman involved’s individual suffering at the expense of everything else about their characters. It doesn’t matter if that was the intent or not the principle result of this adaptation has been the continual disempowerment and degradation of women and their agency combined with an almost impressively voyeuristic portrayal of their suffering.

The women in this show are not allowed to have interests or hobbies unless it’s to serve to make them seem “bad” in someway, whether that be the discomfort around Helaena’s bugs, the total lack of any positive representation of Alicent’s religiosity, or how the women dragon riders are broadly painted as aggressive, violent, and unnatural. I don’t even have specific examples to list from the other “team” because in order to be portrayed as “likable” to the general audience the women of Team Black are barely allowed to have personalities, let alone distinguishing interests or characterizing hobbies. The agency and autonomy they have been stripped of, collectively, from both historical precedent and actual ASoIaF, is almost entirely in their refusal to allow women’s work to be portrayed positively. There are no balls, no sewing circles, no garden parties, no trappings of power and contests of will in the jewels and gowns Rhaenyra must now loathe to be (their deeply narrow and biased view of) “likable”, there are no female mentorships, and no female friendships, and at every chance they have had to portray these things at both a societal and personal level they have chosen to veer away and instead reinforce their suffering. They have removed women’s avenues and halls of power from this story, while making it very clear there are no others that exist in this world, and they cannot participate in the men’s; if they could this story wouldn’t exist. So we are left with a group of people who are supposedly driving this story, who this story is supposedly about, but they are internally and externally isolated, largely removed from the public eye, angry or distressed to be there on the rare occasions they’re present, disempowered, stripped of personal agency and will, and we’re still told they have power. But if we search for it the only logical conclusion is that any power which does not center on how much suffering they have been through, or how much more they may be dealt, is not only gone, it was never there in the first place.

I don’t enjoy Rhaenyra’s quasi domestic abuse any more than Alicent’s visceral sexual shame and I don’t enjoy the infantilization of Helaena’s character any more than the erasure of Rhaena’s and it is deeply concerning how many people look at these decisions, and nod their heads and say “yes, this is realistic, and not only is it realistic it’s, GOOD, because without horrific psychological and physical abuse and ultimately a complete reduction to every female character as peace loving victims of powerful men’s cruel machinations we could never even SEE how misogyny is so damaging.” And the mindset that drives people to claim that those of us who call out how this is, the definition of benevolent misogyny and say we’re crazy, that we can’t see the complexity, that actually we’re the ones somehow falling back into sexist tropes, or asking for a black and white story when instead the black and white has simply become an insultingly reductive view of evil men versus helpless women and when all else fails, accusing us of wanting a boring story because it’s either not focused on gratuitous individual female suffering, or is focused on the kind of political power every single featured female character on both sides of this conflict wielded in the original book instead of evil man conversations and eviler man dragon-battles, is at its heart why we have come to a place in pop culture where one of its most marquee properties displays and embodies these problems so glaringly in the fucking first place.

[muttmoxley]

smoke and mirrors (or, the man that was rolan deep)

wikipedia, jovialtorchlight, fatimah asghar, lise stoufflet, sweatermuppet, willotstreet, julykings, starchild by ghost quartet, crack baby by mitski, unknown, xenophelion, i don’t smoke by mitski, i had to get out by indigo de souza, orionis13

inspired by willotstreet [kindleaf]

[books-are-my-life-stuff]

Finished series, Fall 2023: Akuma-kun (2023)

"What is happiness to all humans? Are they happy if there's ample food, clothing, and shelter? Do they want self-fulfillment? Recognition from others? The psychologist Maslow said--" "Hold on. Hey, Ichiro. What is happiness to you?" "To me?"

[my-tea-is-cold]

I just realized the reason I was never able to write romance or smut in fanfiction is because I’m aroace

[honeytrap-graham]

something about becoming a sex symbol at 70 is so heart warming and special to me

[styona]

I've just realised that if Copia is the final boss, he can actually get to see the final boss. In the mirror.