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griffin harley lovell, a study.
#babel#babel or the necessity of violence#my art#griffin lovell#griffin harley#I PROMISE I"M NOT MAKING UP THE GRIFFIN/ANTHONY MOMENT THAT'S INSPIRED BY THE BONUS WATERSTONES CONTENT#anthony is 'the only person who could temper griffin; the pragmatist to his idealist'#like they're crazy
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I feel like a lot of people mistake comic relief or goofiness for lack of effort or caring by the creator, and that belies a real lack of understanding of like, writing and humor and art in general.
#i'm thinking about how on 4sd travis and sam talked about the work they put into chet and fcg and veth#all of whom have been treated really dismissively in weird ways#and the people who are like haha they're a dumb joke character invariably stan characters with WAY less effort put in#which is fine! you should like what you like!#but you're not grading on effort clearly so stop pretending you are! it's fine!#this is actually this blog's mission statement. like what you like but stop justifying it with blatant lies#hell for all braius is by necessity not the deepest of characters sam clearly cared enough to rewrite his spoiled backstory!#like i find it just. really...suspicious isn't quite the right word but i'm not landing on the correct one#how people jump to equate their personal preferences with thought and care and effort and quality in the absence of evidence#like man it's ok if you did a wine tasting and your fave was the three buck chuck. drink that and live your truth
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I think the most beautiful thing about writing of Howl and Sophie's pair is that they are written as people before being written as a pair. Let me explain this very quick.
The thing about book Sophie and Howl is that they are not really fully fitting into any "classic" romantic trope. They are not exactly enemies to lovers, as their angry chats are definitely cannot be considered a life or death battle, they are not rivals to lovers because the only aspect of rivalry between them is the cleaningness of Howl's room. They are not friends to lovers, as their relationship just doesn't fit into "friendship" structure at the very start, nor they are roomates (yes, they live in the same house but that's not the core aspect of their relationships). Of course, you can go on and fit the name of the trope you found specifically for them, but that's the thing.
They simply cannot be processed through a pairings lenses only, in order to understand how they act in relationship you need to analyse them separately, as a characters first of all. Cause that's what the book itself does!
Sure, it doesn't have a whole lot of romance instead, but it gives us time to learn and observe the life of incredibly written, alive characters, understand them as personalities first of all, while slowly immersing the dynamic between two characters (in this case, Howl and Sophie) into work. They are written as personalities, both being fully separated and interviewing, changing eachother's point of view.
It's difficult to find a trope for them. They're are not a trope. They are Howl and Sophie, and that's probably the only way their dynamic can be properly described. Just as real people, they are not really fitting into the boxes of linial character progression, but go way deeper into being complex, filled with little differences and moments only people with their personality can have in romantic (or any different) kind of interaction. They're imperfect, and silly, and multidimensional and the reader knows them well enough to imagine them interacting way beyond of what the book says to them.
They are being people before being a ship, a pair of a trope — and that's why they work so perfectly charming in the end.
Howl and Sophie are unique in being themselves.
#and that's not that they're the only ones like that#I'm sure there's a lote of well-written paintings like them as well#it's just I feel that people would try to find them some kind of a trope in the end anyways#actually If you let me brag about it a bit#I feel like people nowadays are trying a little to hard to force romance (and other dynamic but romance especially) into some kind#eh..tiny boxes instead of letting characters actually interacting on independent manner?#like there's so many bookshops and book covers that say “enemies to lovers!!” on it and like#nothing else. that may be a fault of booktock cause so many videos in there are “top-5 friends to lovers books of the year!!”#I don't care?? tell me about the characters about how their personalities are connecting them tell me about their story about their quircks#about the parts of them that led to romance being as it is about the parts of them that compliment each other#TELL ME ABOUT THE BOOK AND THEIR PERSONALITIES GODDAMIT#I have nothing against people inventing a way of naming the progression their characters relationship are that's actually pretty handy#I'm just kinda puzzled cause way people are starting to act like having one of this two three maybe five classic tropes is a necessity#I cannot understand why people won't read a book simply because the cover doesn't say enemies to lovers#I cannot understand why ppl are thinking it's enough for characters to be enemies to lovers and nothing else#I was doing tell me abt your ship template with Sophie and I had to add a million of arrows and little texts explaining every specific#AND I LOVED IT SM LIKE THEY ARE SO??! THEMSELVES THEY ARE SO ALONE#you cannot understand how much I love it#(and yes I do categorise my ships sometimes it's just I feel I don't put as much meaning into it as someone else would??)#hmc book#howl's moving castle book#hmc#howell jenkins#sophie hatter#howl x sophie#howl's moving castle#howl pendragon
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hunters college AU w/ orcabirb
#arknights#orcabirb#they're on a date(temp)#p.s. poor hunters literally eat instant noodle every. single. fucking day as Laurentina spent all their pocket money on art supplies/snacks#so they kinda work in Gladiia's maid cafe or something to cover other necessity
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I think one of the most compelling aspects of Harleith to me is the fact that everything and nothing changes between them following Harley's operation, despite the difference in corporeal form. It was always bickering under the guise of flirting (or vice versa), begrudging acknowledgement of the other, and a vague, genuine curiosity of what the other is doing (if a bit one-sided on Leith's part)... and basically none of that changes after the fact. Leith might have even less to fear, at least with regards to interference from Harley. There's more on his plate compared to years past, but at least there's someone he can find a twisted sense of solace in. Teasing words spoken against flesh or wires, it doesn't matter.
Just with added ammunition in the form of, "You're playing with fire, Leith." "Oh, you'd certainly know something about playing with fire..."
#evil gay people?? in a mascot horror game?? wow.... wow.........#relationships that span decades and are born out of an inherent/undeniable necessity despite reservations..... really awesome stuff there#that need seems one-sided on the outside because leith makes it clear that they're the ones that need harley#but it's mutual#harley needed playtime and specifically leith willingly bringing him back in order carry on his work with financial backing.......#gOSH toxic symbiosis.... that's been taking place over a significant amount of time.....#making them listen to carole king and the partridge family and mid-60s british rock in my head#poppy playtime#poppy playtime chapter 4#the doctor#harley sawyer#leith pierre#flygon used boomburst#harleith
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you know im thinking. im thinking maybe Yoichi wasn't even that into captain hero as an adult, but AfO kept bringing LITERALLY every conversation back to that because he decided to Be The Demon Lord and so Yoichi like, can't get an argument in unless he uses the same material so he's like 'oh my god i haven't even thought about that comic in ten years but even i know the bad guy didn't win. you should not be basing you whole identity, business model, and world destruction plan on your five-second impression of a comic book bad guy who didn't even win! also you shouldn't kill people!'
#AfO has a very flat picture of Yoichi in his head#His Possession. Weak and small. and taught him language reading and socialization with Captain Hero#he's THORS POPTARTS-ing his own brother in his memories#what sort of art styles did yoichi like? how did he interact with gender? did he like his eyes or did he wish they were different? was he a#morning person or a night person? were there clothing textures he loved or couldn't stand? did he like to collect feathers or leaves? did h#ever pick up any sense of religious knowledge from his assorted readings? cultural identity? did he learn how to cook in theory but never#had the materials to practice? or did he cook once they were older as AfO sort of internalized that as yoichi's subservient role?#or did he make absolute monstrosities when he attempted to bake anything?#We dont know because all we see of Yoichi is:#his brother's memories of him. could be flanderization for all we know#and an imprint of Yoichi in ofa#who by necessity has to be focused on his brother#we'll never get to see the whole picture of the dead holders. they're dead. and we can't change that. can't know their vibrant lives#so yeah lets see. a five+one fic about yoichi's changing relationship with media property captain hero over time in his life and death#compared to afo's static impression of yoichi's relationship / afo's own unchanging relationship with it#hmmmm
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Very soon, your brother will embrace dark magic to save those he loves. Oh, and I suppose you've seen it written in the stars? No, no. I have seen it written in his eyes. / It seems love's got a tighter grip on you than those chains round your wrists, so I'll do you a favour and set you free.
#cube hostage exchange theory#the key of aaravos#devil and the lovers#they're coming home to me#arc 2#'out of necessity' 'aaravos did what was necessary' ugh. UGHH#this is my valentines day gift to myself
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out of curiosity, would you consider yourself butch?
used to be a blonde underweight twink and now I'm a based jock still got the chanel bag and the sick albeit matured mind of a suckpig to prove it so I'm gonna let you decide whether you wanna call me that word just cuz I got a pussy and short hair. I promise you that there have been enough advancements made in the art of lesbian sexual dynamics in the past 50 years to broaden the vocabulary used to describe the plethora of types of masculine females.
#being called butch just reminds me of how much males have the freedom to navigate between male archetypes and how people pay attention to#the distinguishing features of these varying masculinities#but when a female is seen as masculine it all gets lumped under the “butch” category#her masculinity is seen as unnatural and therefore incapable of being considered genuine or taken at face value as it is with males.#its always brought into question instead of taken in consideration with the rest of the woman's life and experiences and her particularities#Hence... Butch is still being treated as though its a huge lesbian cultural phenomena instead of a specific niche thing#also i dont mean to invite the “you dont pass!!” anons again bc that idiot is missing my point entirely (which is that im truly not trying)#but the fact is that for the past 3 years i have found myself increasingly navigating the male social world#and discovering what it means to me as a female to have access to the ability to take my “masculinity” for granted... relax#forget about it#etc#i think thats entirely antithetical to the Butch thing which seems to rest on the tension of other peoples expectations of her#people broadly are more surprised to find out that im interested in women just as much as they're surprised that im a gym queen iykwim...#ive worked hard for this and now that ive gotten the Woman Social Role thing pretty much entirely out of the way i am living the dream#i think a large part of that is learning as a dyke to appropriate the language of gay men theres a reason their terminology had#staying power even when their scene was *literally* dying meanwhile all that seemed to survive from dyke spaces was butch n femme ??#its because theirs didnt necessitate the building and maintenance of a scene in order for the subculture to hold its head above water#their labels *largely* weren't predicated on their relationships to gender roles and its telling that for dykes it was#their labels rested on the need to simply show up anonymous n be able to easily flag whether they were looking to fuck or be fucked#alongside the set of circumstances under which they would be fucking or getting fucked or what have you#it all comes back to the restrictions of female social blah blah blah and i think the sooner we collectively set down what we see as our#responsibility as lesbians and as feminists to Be A Woman the sooner we can step outside of that#n start thinking clearly about our individual circumstances and the necessity of putting on your own oxygen mask first before helping others
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Save me movie Symbrock save me
(I am being very sincere - it's not lookin' good on the comic front)
#venom the last dance#symbrock#it may have its issues#like them only being together out of necessity/lack of alternatives#rather than through shared thrive/emotion/experiences & love#(eddie pussying out on addmitting that he loves the symbiote out loud - 3rd movie better deliver)#but they also don't have the baggage that comes with comic venom#so they're allowed to just ahve their slowly developing#mostly domestic#relationship with its small issues in comparison#venom 3#venom movies#venom posting#capeshit#marvel
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Long road to Colorado
#accidental child acquisition? no. intentional teenager acquisition.#the venture bros#pete white#billy quizboy#billy whalen#the invisible hand of fate#fanart#art tag#sorry i'm like obsessed with their backstory there's so much to dig into with it#the sort of kidnapping... the cocaine... the roadtrip... the media coverage... the aftermath... it's just so tasty#tonight we're thinking about pete taking this kid in and discovering only after that surprise! a teenager still needs to be parented#even the genius ones#also like was pete still high out of his mind during all this? was he still doing blow? or had he run out by the time they were on the road#also like... the necessity for immediate trust and reliance on one another because if they didnt have any other choice#and like why didn't billy ask his mom to take them? why did it have to be a secret thing?#i have... so many questions that will never be answered the whole thing was so fucked up#also i ignored their scooter design because it was dumb they're riding a vespa here whatever
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forever hilarious to me that tennis is promoted as this prestigious highbrow big-brain sport when most tennis fans these days are like. yeah this is my favorite player. yeah i don't know why they're like that. yes they are stupid. no i will not choose somebody else.
#wta tennis#atp tennis#i feel like the era of...shall we say 'federer-esque' players is waning#which i think can in part be related to the loss of the one-handed-backhand#as the sport moves more toward a necessity for fitness and athleticism players do not put as much emphasis on 'art'#which imo is fine! i think the 'art' of tennis is too protected in some ways. which i maybe will expand on later.#but i think it's too much for the tags of a (mostly) silly post#but yeah you can hear a lot of commentators touch on it#i know nadal even said something abt it recently(ish)#but i think as tennis is gradually less associated with this abstract 'image' (e.g. the obsession with federer's 'grace' and 'class')#players are coming in thinking 'this is a physical battle and i am going to win' and very much leaning into the *competition*#which not to say that they're ignoring/denying the mental aspects at all because i actually do think many players are very strategic/aware#and in truth i think many tennis players ARE actually very smart#but i also think it's less apparent because more and more players are able to just hit the shit out of the ball and call it a day#which leaves you with the occasional shot/point/game/set/match etc where it seems like they don't know what the fuck they're doing#but you think about most sports which evolve in phases#it's very normal for certain player profiles to become more or less popular as the landscape of the sport changes#or as new techniques/strategies are developed#or as new communities/populations become interested!#extreme example but think of like. high jump's fosbury flop. that was one guy!#one guy who changed the entire fucking sport! so it makes perfect sense that tennis is continuing to evolve#given how many unique players have come and gone#and how much the sport is changing externally as well as internally#anyways. this got out of hand but i love sports and i love tennis and i love my brainless players.#this whole post was inspired by rewatching sabalenka v boulter and aryna completely missed an overhead by like five feet. lol#love her <3
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For anyone whose Netflix region won't have Karakasa...
How to watch Netflix from other countries in 2024
The gist of the article is that you can use a VPN to access foreign Netflix. This site recommends NordVPN, Surfshark, and Express VPN (I use this one, though I've never tried it with Netflix).
#mononoke#karakasa#trustworthy vpns aren't free unfortunately but they're an absolute necessity if you want to engage in underhanded activities online#never pirate without one and never use free ones (they'll sell your data)#psa
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Flowey has become my on-theme spacefiller and he’s so happy about it (Patreon)
#Doodles#UT#Flowey#Lol#He's a perfect spacefiller! He's tiny so he can fit anywhere but his text can also be as big or small as needed#He ends up reacting to nearby doodles in inappropriate ways which is fitting lol#Like the UGHHH one was in reaction to babybones lol ♪ They're so cute! And he is tired#Mostly he's just being silly and grumpy normal-style tho haha#He is also a great expression of my frustration with hell boxes ughhh (lol)#It's nice though since lately I've been less bothered with leaving some extra space on the page :)#He can still pop up! But just as an invitation not as a necessity#It's nicer to have a fully filled page of course haha but it's not so bad to have a little extra space here and there#And mostly to not have Worry about it to not be stressed about Having to fill a page#Still - having a little extra with a funny face hehe that I got toss into the mix and make my brain happy - it's nice! :D#Options ♪
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That Gojo booklet...
#The love really is stored in the GOJO 😭😭😭😭😭#He loves his students so much he's busy and burdened sleep deprived deranged!!! Like hell he will ever let his students know it#He's from Kyoto!!! I thought he was Tokyo city boi certified I love thisss#Also idk I imagine his parents begrudgingly drifting apart from him but resigned to it out of necessity his betterment#And Gojo becoming a stranger to them bc of his power/fate so even if they wanted to love him they couldn't#I would like soft yet estranged parent(s)for gojo idk he deserves it plus it's not like they were highest in rank before so it could work...#ALSO SWALLOW BOY GOJO SATORU!! SWALLOW BOY FROM KYOTO HAS A SENPAI IN KYOTO!! love thisss#The only thing I didn't like in the booklet I think is Gojo being a dog person like Gege sir... That is a Cat you are talking about pls#Also his relationship chart was interesting#I'm really intrigued by him and ichiji famdon loves ignoring the fact that Gojo genuinely trusts him the most out of their own convenience#For shipping purposes but I really want Gojos relationships explored and explained with the jujutsu staff esp nanami Utahime Shoko ichiji#Like that man does NOT hate them#They're the closest he has to “friends” so like#What's that about#Also yaga ofc#Gojo#Gojo satoru#Jjk
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✦ B A R D
She does not consider herself an archer, but the bow feels slick and powerful in her hand. She settles on the peak of the roof, unbothered by the fog and the rain, leather coat unfurling around her. Like the skill it takes to learn an instrument, hunting is as much about patience as it is about precision. Her breath stills. Her fingers flex, the bowstring taut. They will not see the arrow coming. —level 90 compendium
#ffxiv#ff14#final fantasy 14#gpose#gposers#ffxiv bard#brd#ffxiv gpose#lvl 90 compendium#myreia screenshots#aureia malathar#oc tag#aur's not a musician so the fundamentals of brd don't quite work for her#she can shoot a bow but she's not singing any songs any time soon#she has misophonia and certain musical phrases intonations and chord progressions can trigger anxiety and panic attacks#because they're too similar to styles used in garlean military music#so music can be at times oddly distressing to her even when it is uplifting to everyone else#it's why she doesn't really being to warm up to music until she's on the first#the traditions are different the influences developed in a different way#she can actually relax and enjoy it instead of her mind jumping to conclusions and freaking her out#(this is all very funny since her future daughter ends up being a bard who studies folk music from different shards#and grows up around different musical traditions)#aur did learn archery out of necessity when she fell down into the palace of the dead by accident and had to fight her way out#took a bow and quiver off a dead adventurer since it was the only thing available#she uses bows to hunt from time to time or if she wants a ranged weapon quieter than her gun and not as flashy as magic#so as not to give away her position#queued
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low prescription glasses wearers have no idea what the rest of us must endure 😔
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