#I MEAN CMON HAVE YOU SEEN THEIR HISTORY

[hetaestoniahq]

Estswe bingo?

Interpret this as whatever way you like, just know I love this ship and its among my top Estonia ships ever :'''D

[azulaaaaaaah]

atla/tlok characters that i think did *it* (but i just can’t prove it)

this is the most unserious post i’ve ever made. (AND I WANT TO PREFACE BY SAYING BY *IT* I MEAN KISSING)

Sozin and Roku

and history will say that they were just great friends…

this is the only one where ill legitimately die on this hill

like i’m 90% sure roku just showed Aang their friendship in the flashbacks to prevent awkwardly explaining to a 12 year old monk that he was romantically and/or physically involved with the person who committed a g*nocide against his people

LIKE CMON WHY IN THE WORLD WAS SOZIN SO PRESSED IN THE BACKGROUND OF ROKU’S WEDDING ??? AND FOR NO REASON?? WHY WAS THEIR FRIENDSHIP SO INTENSE?

sozin i feel loved roku (to an obsessive level) and roku literally dgaf. king shit

Wan and Raava

genuinely what the fuck was going on between these two. like i don’t even have any words

canonically at the very least it was a domestic partnership

S2 korra doesn’t make sense at the best of times. imagine trying to explain the intensity of this pair’s devotion to each other, to someone who hasn’t seen the show- all the while knowing raava is a disembodied spirit practically older than time

she’s the embodiment of everything good and light in the universe and he’s just wan. (and he’s wanough <3)

‘do you think we’re soulmates in every life?’

‘bet’

‘wait that’s not what i-‘

Cabbage Merchant and his cabbages (or at least a cabbage)

yeah i’m not touching this one with a 10 foot pole

Every member of the red lotus squad

ah yes it’s my favourite evil polycule

amidst plans to kidnap children and topple monarchies what else is there to do except… kiss.

let’s be real there’s something so inherently romantic about being apart of an elite, vaguely murderous anarchist squad

they all share one exact bed. it’s canon

(p’li somehow big spoons all of them)

The S2 Nomads

these dudes are the textbook definition of anti-monogamy

like they’re obsessed with love so i fully believe that they think ‘it should be spread amongst others’ or some shit

oh to be a travelling communist nomad in a band, wandering the wilds with my wife, and our several partners

they’re somehow the opposite of the red lotus and yet the same. they all share a single bed/sleep area

The dangerous ladies (but all separately)

i don’t ship any of these particularly and yet can still admit that it’s canon

ty-lee and azula have kissed bc azula probably made up a dumb excuse like ‘oh i don’t want my first kiss with a guy to be… erm… bad’

mai and ty-lee have kissed because they both probably have genuine, vaguely deep rooted romantic feelings for each other

mai and azula have kissed to purely spite zuko (and yknow what ty-lee too)

HOWEVER A KEY ASPECT TO THIS DYNAMIC: azula is completely unaware about the ty-lee and mai thing. it’s uh… better off that way.

Hakoda and Bato

i ship this about 50% but like… it’s got to have happened once right? considering all that down time they spent together on a boat away from the repercussions of water tribe society…

also considering they were leaders i doubt the other warriors were in a position to ever call them out on it

like cmoooooooon what’s a little kiss between the homies every now and again?

hakoda is where sokka gets his rizz/flagrant bisexuality from and i can’t change that guys

[simplydnp]

idk why this matters to me but in the last few months they've been acknowledging so many things I never ever thought they would. pinof and the touching. the phude multiple times. dapc slime (ok they had merch to sell for that one but still)

no but actually. phil literally said 'i thought we weren't acknowledging it' about the phude and now they just bring it up all the time.

pinof reacts... i still can't believe we're in a post pinof-reacts universe. how did that happen. i was changed permanently--like something shuffled in my dna when i got the notif for pinof reacts 1. this is not a physical reaction but a chemical one that cannot be undone. for something that was so... sacred. and integral. to their existence and history. pinof wasn't generally talked about unless it was pinof time. and even then it was 'it'll be up soon' or 'we just posted it' and then Never talked about outside of that. especially not the first one! we freak out about the We Know You Know in the newsletter but it's Always been like that with pinof 1. so to see them--new (& natural 🥺) hair for them both, in a house they bought and built together, in the first few months of giving the gaming channel a second chance--reflect on how it all began? absolutely devastating. and to lean into moments and discuss them in new ways. in territory previously not breached! the 'they're toUching'?!?!? the '11 hour fuck session'!?!? the '£9000 champagne'?!?!? like hey we're not supposed to talk about that, dan and phil might see!! shhh!! but they're the ones saying it!! absolutely wild.

in a way, it had to happen. especially with where we're at now (them literally selling merch of them holding hands). in order for them to move beyond that... mindset? i guess? that a lot of fans had, they had to defang it. i really see it as one of the biggest walls they've broken down in the way they communicate with us. the 'hey. it's okay. we've seen it. it's not a big deal. we will absolutely make fun of you for it though. but we're good.'

i'm just really curious whose idea it was. (lbr it was probably phil given dans not a react kinda guy. but i'd be lying if i said i didn't want to be in the room where it happened when they talked about actually doing it or not, and what it would mean) (big ad revenue thats for sure 🤣 get it kings)

i will never be able to get phil's 'they touched' out of my head and at this point i wouldn't want to. it's absolutely earned. and i guess it makes me a masochist to enjoy the psychic damage it inflicts on me, but such is life i suppose.

the crafts mention really surprised me! i had contemplated a few different scenarios in how they'd go about it, and i'll be honest i feel like they could've committed to the bit a little more but they're forgiven. like what about glitchy interstitials! cuts to the merch website. found footage inserted between sections! i recognize they don't want to 'scare' their usual audience wirh sudden cuts to intense/graphic content but my immersionnn. absolutely shattered by 'oh we have new merch now btw'. cmon boys you love to lie to us. say theres merch up but you dont know where it came from. just that we should buy it 👀 or idk, something clever. and i recognize i may sound like a spoilt brat bc i just got a 14 minute long masterpiece of an unexpected dapc revival, but my immersion. i mean i already bought the merch before they shilled it anyways so it didn't influence me regardless 🤣

ultimately we really are in a new era. even beyond just the revival. i think they're really finding their stride--not only in their content (evidenced by a semi-regular schedule) but also creatively, in doing what they want to do, how they want to do it, and truly not giving that much of a fuck anymore. and i'm really happy for them. phil talked a bit about this in his 'rating my icons' video, where he's kind of decided he doesn't care what people on twitter think, and how it's been good for him, and i think we're seeing that reflected in not only his content, but also the gaming channel. they play what they want. they say what they want. and it's just fun. dan going on the record to say he's really enjoying it makes me so happy to hear, because literally december 2022 he believed he'd disappear after WAD. and now, instead, he gets to play games and make stupid jokes and smile and laugh multiple times a week, and he's really happy about it. he gets to be silly and goofy and crude without having to Stress about it. i keep saying it but they're so settled now. and as someone who's followed them through big changes and turbulent times, getting to see them happy after everything... it brings a lot of hope. and i know theyre millionaires. but there's something to looking at someone you fell in love with 15 years ago the same then as you do now. but instead of it being something scary, something you have to hide, something that feels like it can consume you and everything you have--it gets to be something beautiful. and regular. and embraced. you've read this far you get to listen to me wax poetic about them.

we've been thoroughly boiled and maybe, just maybe, it's warming our hearts too.

[bartxnhood]

love you need | s.h

shawn hunter x fem!reader

summary: you notice shawn distancing himself from you and the group until one night she shows up at your door hoping to talk it out.

warnings: angst! both shawn and reader have some self doubt.

a/n: this is my first time writing for shawn, and tbh it’s been a hot minute since i’ve rewatched bmw so😭 but i really miss shawn and i relate to his character sm. so i might start writing for him now, this is just to test the waters. enjoy !

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you stand at your locker rummaging through your books searching for your history book. “hey!” topanga hollers, followed by cory. you push you locker door inwards revealing the couple. “have you seen shawn?” cory questions, you simply shake your head and close your locker. “no, why?” you ask, leaning against the metal. “i haven’t heard from him over the weekend. totally unusual, normally i csnt get rid of him” cory answers, your eyebrows raised. now that you think of it, he hasn’t called or stopped by to see you either.

shawn was the type of boyfriend to check in occasionally, even out of school. he’d often surprise you with small gifts just to lighten things up if you were having a bad day. so this was out of character for him, if he was sick or something came up he’d always tell you or cory. something wasn’t right.

“wel..” you trailed off, furrowing your brows. “we can call if he doesn’t show. surely he wouldn’t not show up and not have a reason or tell us” the other two agrees and decided to let it go for the rest of the day.

but a day turned into two, and next thing you knew he never showed that whole week. you tried desperately to call but each time it went to voicemail. you felt frustrated, why did he disappear all of a sudden? why didn’t he tell anybody? you were high strung for the remainder of that week. snapping at people when you didn’t mean to but, nothing was as important as shawn was to you.

“did i do something to upset him?” you’re laying on topangas bed. she invited you over to work on a project, but after you stayed for dinner. “what if he doesn’t want to be with me anymore? what if he found someone else.” your mind is racing, why else would shawn not come to school or return your calls?

you hear topanga sigh, and came to your aide. “y/n, look at me” you sit-up, looking at her. she puts her hands on your shoulder, “he loves you, y/n. i’m sure he has a reason for why he’s been gone.” you groan, she was probably right but it didn’t your heart from aching. “now, cmon. let’s go eat dinner, okay? get your mind off things.”

it wasn’t unusual for you to be home alone as your parents were typically on work trips. you had your own little routine after school. you’d come home, make a snack, do some homework, maybe read for a couple hours, shower, then go to bed. but today was different, after doing your homework you were pretty exhausted so you had just planned on laying down. thank god you we’re graduating in a few months, the work was beginning to run you down mentally.

it seemed no matter how hard yo supplied yourself, you always came in last. you were barely making the grades to pass your classes, but you were trying so hard.

as you were entering the bathroom, ready to brush your teeth and wash your face you heard banging at your door. of course, you didn’t want to answer because who would be banging on your door at this hour? but, something told you to answer it. you cursed at yourself mentally, you were too nice for your own good and your kindness would be your demise. but when you opened the door you didn’t expect to see him. “shawn?”

“i’m sorry for coming here so late but i just didn’t know where else to go.” shawn states as he runs his hand through his hair. your heart broke just looking at him. it looked like he hadn’t slept in days, his eyes were so dark, he looked beyond exhausted. “shawn, you don’t have to apologize. you know you’ll always have a place here.”

shawn took a seat at the edge of your bed he feels like his heart has been ripped out, all he wants to do is sleep and probably never wake up again. “i just” he rubs his eyes. “i got left alone again, dad went out. i just i didn’t have the guts to face you.” he feels so little, sitting in front of you like this on the verge of tears. “oh, shawn..” you cup his face making him look at you. “it’s okay, you know i’ll always be here. no judgement, shawn. it’s just you and me” you offer a smile.

you see the tears swell in his eyes. shawn wraps his arms around you and rests his head on your stomach. “i’m sorry” he says just above a whisper. “shawn, you didn't do anything wrong. there's nothing to apologize for." you feel him shake his head against your, “no, y/n. i’m sorry i’m not good enough for you.” tears begin to fall from his eyes and he hold on to you as if you were about to be ripped away from him.

“i live in a trailer park, i have nothing to offer you, you could do some much better than me..i don’t deserve you, y/n. you need someone who can provide and give you what you need..i don’t know if i can be that person for you, y/n” you can feel his tears staining your shirt. you remove his arms from your waist as you fall to your knees so you could be eye level with him. “shawn. listen to me” you wipe away his tears, smiling sadly. “you are good enough for me. in fact, i often think you’re too good for me because sometimes i think you could find someone better than me.” now you begin to tear up, confessing all of your bottled emotions.

“shawn, i have felt this toward someone as much as i have you. you’ve saved me so many times and you probably don’t even know it. i promise, you are good enough. you’ll always be good enough,okay? i’ll always be here for you, just let me be the love you need.” tears begin to fall from your eyes, so now the both of you are a crying mess.

“don’t cry, i hate seeing your cry” shawn hums, he wipes away your tears and rests his hand on your cheek. you nod, “i know..” sniffling.

there’s a moment of silence between you two, a comfortable silence. shawn is staring at you. admiring you, puffy eyes and all. he realizes how in love he is, that no matter what life throws at him that he will always have you. shawn softly rubs the pad of his thumb over your check.

“i love you.”

you blink, a few seconds of silence fills the room. he hadn’t said that to you yet, in your years of dating he hadn’t said he loved you, once. shawn was too afraid to love anybody. afraid that he’d ruin the person he wants to love. shawn was like that most of his life, until you changed his mind.

“what?” you feel all the air leave your lungs, your emotions were all over the place now. from crying to now feeling this warmth in your chest as you heard him say the words you had been waiting so long to hear. “say it again”

“i love you, y/n.”

instinctively you wrap your arms around his neck, embracing him in a tight hug. “i’ve been waiting to hear that for so long” you sniffle. shawn rubs you back, you feel him nod. “i know, i should’ve said it a long time ago.”

hours later, after the both of you had spilled your hearts to each other, you offered him dinner but he denied claiming he just wanted to lie down.

you rested comfortably on his chest, he drew circles on your spine. both of you enjoying the silent. “i want to spend the rest of my life with you.” you say. shawn is taken aback, looking down at you. “what?” you look up, smiling softly. “i know we’re still young, but there’s no one else in my life i’d want besides you. i want to be with you forever.” you see him smile, and he tightens his grip around you.

“i like the sound of that…y/n hunter…that has a nice ring to it”

[thedynamicworm]

Okay, so I just saw a post by @ozais-lobotomist about how lightning bending is sexy to firebenders, and while I liked the original post (I can’t find it at the moment) I want to take this theory a little to the left.

Let’s say there was a fire lord a couple centuries ago, who was such a huge lesbian that she basically became synonymous with the word. I’m bad at naming things without research so I’ll just call her fire!sappho for now.

Anyways, she could bend lightning extremely well, so that also became kind of a euphemism for being a lesbian, both because of fire!sapphos relationships and because the most proper lightning bending form is using two fingers, of course. So there’s a lot of “She’s more of a female lightning master, if you catch my drift”.

Fast forward back to the present and Azula is here, being a prodigy who can produce lightning. Now, since Sozin made homosexuality illegal (it’s because Roku rejected him. Cmon we were all thinking it), queer people have had to become a lot more discreet with euphemisms and such. Fire nation officials know what fire!sapphos name means, so that is off the table. However, female lightning master has not been caught onto yet.

When Mai, Ty Lee and Azula meet up, they’re about fourteen. For the sake of this, let’s say that Azula hasn’t seen them since before she learned how to lightning bend. Ty Lee only realized she’s lesbian a few months ago, and has been secretly researching queer people of history, so she ended up finding out about this particular euphemism.

When she meets back up with Azula, she is almost immediately taken again with the crush (she didn’t know it was a crush before) she has always had on Azula. So imagine her surprise when she sees azula lightning bend for the first time.

Ty Lee finds her ability incredibly funny, and for the life of her Azula cant figure out why. Ty Lee made it clear she wasn’t laughing at Azula’s skill, but it’s still confusing to her. Imagine at least one time when Ty Lee asks Azula if she considers herself a female lightning master, to which Azula responds yes, of course, because she is nothing if not perfect.

Eventually, after the war and after Azula recovers, (or during the war if you want a slight fix it) Ty Lee and her get into a relationship. Azula finally asks her what she had been laughing about back then, and Ty Lee tells her about fire!sappho and the female lightning master euphemism, which is the inspiration Azula needs to get back into lightning bending once again.

[freddie-77-ao3]

Gonna use the ask box for this 🙃 ask 1/? (I have so many questions, though you have answered so many already)

What are your thoughts on Trials of Apollo, and the characters?

go ahead and keep asking!!! i love your questions!!

ANYWAY

gonna start smaller with characters:

lavinia: the jewish thing wasn't handled completely correctly (just a couple of small things there) but overall 10/10 character. i think she's hilarious and her official artwork ROCKS.

meg: i love her. she seems a little immature for twelve years old TO ME but i also had a... rather abnormal upbringing so that might explain the differences. overall she was a great character and i LOVE the demeter rep (my thoughts on how riordan treated demeter take five pages to clarify so-- basically) love seeing it-- demeter was a kronide and her kids should be treated as such! great character development. peaches was also hilarious (as was crotch-kicker mccaffrey)

lester: calling him lester to separate between godly apollo and post toa apollo. again, fantastic character development. he's so fucking funny. like he does some really dumb stuff at the start of the series (swearing to not use a musical instrument and stuff?? LESTER MAN CMON) his and meg's relationship is so sweet-- and kayla and austin with him? chefs kiss. love apollo kids getting some time with their dad.

jason: absolutely got fridged. i've already touched on my suicide theory so i won't go into that here but basically i think we shoulda seen jason similar to percy (very minor, doing his own thing behind the scenes) but alas.

piper: the shel thing was a bit sudden. don't get me wrong, i'm ALL for queer rep (i think there should be more of it in the books actually) but-- going straight from breaking up with jason to jason sacrificing himself for her to a relationship seems really unhealthy. i think she should have a chance to grow outside of a relationship.

reyna: joining the hunt was a bad end for her. since when was that an ambition of hers? she seemed genuinely happy in new rome and called it her home multiple times in HoO and going from that to the hunt? idk seems like rick doesn't know how to write characters NOT be in a relationship (piper, reyna, leo... they all get squared away)

leo: oh leo baby he didn't get to see jason before he died??? so heartbreaking. didn't belong in a relationship with calypso. the punching thing was weird when he came back to camp-- esp with a character who has a history of physical abuse

frank: i love the frank deciding his own fate thing but also idk seems like a cop out.

hazel: shouldn't have just become praetor i mean cmon. i love her but she's what, 14 now? no way.

Nico: FINALLY ONE OF THE CHARACTERS CANONICALLY GETS THERAPY. the doctors note is--

will: solangelo flirting is hilarious 10/10. "do you want to be my buddy?" "significant annoyance" i can't breathe. also poor will for putting up with apollo in the hidden oracle because i could not help my dad learn how to use the toilet i'm sorry but that shit is crazy.

malcolm: why is malcolm going to battle without pants on so funny to me i just-- 10/10 i love him.

connor: such a dumbass. the hair grafts 😭. i feel bad that travis isn't there and then communication lines go down like oh buddy :(

cecil: see me RUNNING with the knowledge cecil can cook

other small stuff:

love the waystation, always been my personal hc that there's more than just that one but that's for another post.

percabeth finally making it to college!!!

speaking of which AT WHAT TIME DID TRAVIS AND CLARISSE FILL OUT COLLEGE APPS THEY WERE AT WAR???? WHAT DO THEIR OFFICIAL TRANSCRIPTS LOOK LIKE???

the jackson-blofis family warms my heart <3

thoughts on the series as a whole?

i love it. definitely top three riordan series (tied with pjo and mcga)

i like that (like mcga) toa was more mature? like we finally see demigods with ptsd, we get queer characters, just... everything

[rocketinthesky]

hey! in case if no one asked for norapinto in the ask game yet, here i am!! i know it's like a budding ship, but i really enjoyed your takes on the other ships as well, and i'm curious if you have some lingering thoughts about them? aaand if i could be greedy, i'd ask for gax as well, since i don't really know much about that pairing (yet) but you seem to enjoy them, so i might came to the right place? :D

ALSO! also thank you so much for sharing my silly little fic? it means a whole lot to me! 😭 ♥

Hello! Ty for mentioning two of my otps lmaoskjdjf (thank YOU for writing norapinto dude we need more content of them ugh thanks for contributing! <3)

As for the ask game i realise i highkey forgot to label the last two asks with the compel factor thing so i’ll do that this time hehe i’ll try to keep my ramblings short

Norapinto: makes sense and compels me very much

I mean yea franco JUST entered the grid and has been in like three races but we already have a LOT to work with for these two.

The reveal that Lando was the first one to text him at when the news broke that Franco was joining the grid?? CMON. Like. Lando?! Wtf?! That’s so fucking sweet. We overlook how much of a sweet guy Lando is and the fact that he was being thoughtful for this rookie who was joining in less than ideal circumstances, immediately doing everything to make Franco more comfortable and relaxed on the grid? CMON.

And ofc before we even had this bit of lore THE DRIVERS PARADE! Franco Yapinto and Lando heart eyes Norris? That pic is going down in fucking history LANDO U CANNOT HIDE FROM ME.

And ofc the post race moment where they were down to duet the interview and the way Lando’s gaze just lingered on Franco, the way they smile at eo, the general EASE in their interactions from what little we’ve seen.

Obv we haven’t seen much yet but like the little we have i just think they’re a fun, fluffy and sweet pairing. Like i just picture Franco the professional yapper yapping away while Lando fondly smiles at him while hanging on to every word. There’s the angle of Lando being a sort of support system for Franco, being a comforting presence to quell his anxieties, to make him feel wanted and less alone with the complicated situation surrounding him getting his seat. Lando who doesn’t wanna see a rookie get consumed by all the not-so spectacular sides of F1, and in the process finds himself falling head over heels for this dude who can’t stfu and is flirty with everyone and sounds hot when he speaks spanish. Then there’s Franco who came into the whole thing with the mentality of maybe staying strong, putting up walls, telling himself he can take all the pressure, but then when he finds Lando so readily offering him so much comfort despite being virtual strangers atp, he feels more relaxed and open.

Anyway they’re fluffy and sweet and total switches ty.

Gax: MAKES SENSE AND COMPELS ME SO MUCH I’M DYING ON THIS HILL

OK SO there’s a surprisingly amount of LORE to gax and i will sum it up without too much rambling: they’ve been racing more or less all their lives tgt in the same categories and stuff since their karting days. They were even teammates at one point in a junior category. The incident that most people know Gax by (and admittedly what got me into F1 to begin with) happened last year in Baku where they had a bit of an inchident with Max confronting him childishly and George just bein his goofy gremlin self.

ANYWAY. A lot of people like to see them as enemies to lovers which i mean hey its a delicious dynamic and i love that but Gax is more complex than that. They’ve have their quarrel but they’re actually really friendly? It’s a friendliness that comes with just knowing eo practically all their lives. They have a mutual respect for eo and always speak good things about one another, but it’s also clear from their racing and few incidents where they clash that neither of them are the types of back down. Max is definitely more explosive in his rage and arrogance but George is a more simmering fire. He will say things as it is with a smile, and i could see how their egos would clash hard cuz they’re both passionate about racing and winning. But they’re also not the types to hold a grudge, they’re able to separate racing from off-track relationships, which is evident in how quickly they made up from the 2023 inchident and went back to their friendly interactions.

I see Gax’s dynamic as something akin to comfort. They’re both sarcastic chaos gremlins who know how to banter and tease, but Max can be a bit explosive and sensitive about racing which might carry out off-track, but George is the type to calmly be both upfront about his stance while not being outright combative. They’d balance each other out in a way, though they’d still have their disagreements and arguments given how prideful they are as drivers.

Gax is a dynamic where there’s an understanding there from the years of being in each other’s orbit. They’ve never been the best of friends but there’s an attraction there, with sparks flying on track, the adrenaline persisting even off track and condensing into a carnal need. It’s confusing at first—they have people they’re much closer with you’d expect them to fall for but then they find each other? It’s unexpected for them too but they fall into the dynamic easily, their sense of humor clicking. They wouldn’t be overly sweet but they’d be pretty domestic imo, like have an easygoing, chill dynamic in their relationship.

The horniness needs to be studied tho esp Max’s obsession with George being shirtless like bro i am NOT kidding about the carnal magnetism between them. As for their bedroom dynamics i’m a 100% bottom max truther and George is such a service top so there’s that :D

Hope any of that made sense lol ty for sending in the ask!

[mydollsaregay]

Last night, I was thinking about the twins and was able to put my finger on what was still bugging me about them.

Despite it making us feel old, the 90s IS history (hell, yesterday is history!). AG is saying it, but I’m not sure they… mean it?

From the hints of the girls’ stories I’ve seen so far, the only anchoring historical event seems to be y2k. Everything else is nice enough, but certainly not unique to the 90s, and could be given to a goty instead.

Honestly? Y2K is not enough. It’s a little too safe. Yes, it was a big deal to the people who lived through it. However, it was literally just New Years, but cooler (and with a lot of programming work in the background to change years to be stored as four digits). What are the lasting effects that kids can recognize today? Because I see very few that can’t just be chalked up to the passage of time.

There was a lot more to the 90s than fashion, pop culture, and the biggest new years ever, but it kinda seems like those are the only parts AG is interested in portraying. When you put y2k up against some of the other historical events that other American Girls live through, even just the ones from the 20th century, it seems pretty silly. Second wave feminism, the Great Depression, the civil rights movement, and now….. new years but the number changes a bit more than usual!!!!!! Like. Cmon.

Even if they were wedded to portraying y2k, columbine, the effects of which are VERY much felt by kids today, happened that same year. But I kinda doubt AG will have the guts to even discuss it in the girl’s stories, which is really sad (and honestly one of the biggest downsides to more modern historical dolls - the history they’re covering is still too touchy for a lot of parents to be comfortable with).

Also, by pushing the girls to be in the late 90s, I’m betting AG is trying to worm their way out of having the 2000s girl live through 9/11 (i.e. watching it on tv) and the start of the war on terror. Which like. I get WHY (still too touchy for parents) but it’s really frustrating. 9/11 and it’s aftermath is arguably one of the most impactful events in American history, it’s stupid to dance around it. Felicity gets to live through the actual revolution but god forbid a more modern girl actually live through recent historical events.

[sketching-shark]

Man, zhu bajie n tang sanzang had to b up there w swk about their mischaracterization n hated in lmk fandom

I have never seen so much mishandling as i seen with those three characters 😭😭(like bro i get that the most noticeable arc that ppl retain is the white bone spirit arc bc of OSP BUT THEY DIDNT STUCK TO THAT CHARACTERISTICS IN THE LATER ARCS LIKE CMON NOW—bajie couldn’t even lie about the dragon piss medicine in a later arc, what makes yall think he’s always a fantastic liar. Theres some benefit to his lying but they also backfire. BAJIE DO END UP LIKING EVERYONE LIKE HE REFER TO SWK AS ELDER BROTHER!<- no man could ever live up to the wonder of zhu wuneng. He just sweet n he does get a fantastic arc in the novel!

Tang sanzang does have some(albeit rare moments where hes nice but his asshoole moments sometimes intertwined) where hes like “yea my disciples r greats but theyre mad ugly.” Or that he gets better at having more trust in his disciples besides zhu wuneng. Even if its followed by hella traumatizing moments that no human person would remain sane like that. <hes just barely holding on by his faith, his mission and his disciples. Not his horse bc he cant hold on to save his life but that character arc where he DIDNT FELL OFF THOO!>

Monkie Kid spoilers below

Hmmm I know about the Sun Wukong & Tang Sanzang dunking but is that happening with Zhu Bajie too? Have to say I find that a little surprising given that (if memory serves correctly) Monkie Kid did say Zhu Bajie's main fault (well besides the whole being a man-eating yaoguai thing) was being stubborn, but then lego Patriarch Subodhi said he became one of the hardest workers of the pilgrimage. I guess I was under the impression that people were more light on their criticisms and thoughts about Zhu Bajie, but maybe that's just because he doesn't seem to be a point of great interest in the lego show fandom lol.

Kind of funny story anon but I've been vicariously growing in awareness on how much Zhu Bajie is loved in China through @antidotefortheawkward's posts about the pigman. And yeah, I can see that being in large part because Xiyouji in its totality does give a very different impression of who these characters are and where they end up than a cartoony summary can provide. As a number of people on this site have noted for example, the White Bone Demon Arc can be understood in a much more complex light than "Tang Sanzang & Zhu Bajie hurt poor monkey for nothing" when placed in the context of it being more near the beginning of the journey when the pilgrims were still grating against each other a lot & it happening very soon after the whole debacle with the Ginseng fruit tree. Here after all you can see how the monk has a recent history of getting into serious trouble from the monkey lying and being quick to destruction, so he would be primed to not believe SWK, not to mention he does hesitate to use the headband against SWK more than many give him credit for here. And YEAH given all the things they go through together I am more willing to accept a Sun Wukong and Zhu Bajie enemies to friends arc than that put on many another character.

Also LMAOOOOO Tang Sanzang DOES seem to have quite a few lines where he tries to comfort terrified individuals by telling them that the pilgrims are good people even with their rancid looks (ugly pilgrim rights <3). And oh dang anon you are so right about how even if Tang Sanzang is much more of a static character in comparison to SWK it's kind of a shame more attention isn't given to the series of horrifying events he goes through and what effect that would have on him so that he gets a little more depth than "weepy monk who's mean to the Monkey King & falls off his dragon horse" in the popular western imagination. But then again I can understand why the monk's trauma is largely downplayed in western cartoony retellings, given that said lighthearted cartoony retellings probably wouldn't be the best medium to even touch on stuff like human butchery, death threats, sexual assault, and the consequences thereof.

[infectedhau]

So there's a new Dragon Age coming out, and as someone who's owned the first three for literal decades at this point without ever touching them, I figured I'd get caught up

My broad thoughts: this is the first time I've seen a franchise go through puberty (disclaimer, I don't actually know anything about the development history of Dragon Age, these are all just my impressions from my mostly blind playthrough. I didn't look up anything story wise, but I did do a little research into builds just to make sure the combat got a fair shake)

Starting Origins, you can clearly see that it wants to be an ARPG, but was realized by a bunch of guys that had only done CRPGs up to that point. You've got these flashy cinematic finishers, a camera that can technically be zoomed out to a more traditional top-down view but prefers to sit over your shoulder, and a tactics menu that basically means you don't have to micro your party at all if you don't want to (maybe you do on higher difficulties, idk, I went through on normal because the thing kept crashing and didn't wanna have to deal with constantly redoing fights). I can feel the Baldur's Gate energy in it, but I can also feel some guy saying "and we want it to be more dramatic and dynamic" while a copy of Dragon's Dogma floats over his shoulder like a stand. Lore-wise, it's a darker, lower-magic setting, which I honestly think works pretty well for it looking the way it does. You've got your occasional crazy armor or fantasy-ass sword, but everything else was pretty grounded, and I definitely got the feeling that I wasn't all that stronger than the enemies, despite being a diet witcher. That being said, it's an older game, so it's pretty easy to break. I played a Blood Mage/Arcane Knight build, and basically every single encounter was solved by stunlocking the entire room to death, which somewhat ruined the immersion of these guys being an actual problem. Maybe if the Templars weren't such dicks about it this would've all been solved sooner.

On to Dragon Age 2, and boy oh boy can you tell this game was made in the early 10s. Everything has gotten spkier and edgier, you've got more impractical armor and weapons, the opening shot is your sister's tits bouncing around as you run through a battlefield, and the game tries to start you as an unremarkable white guy with a goatee and a shitty haircut (I shut that shit down real fast, though I didn't really customize lady Hawke either since from what I understand the customization doesn't carry over). You also see it crawling a bit further towards ARPG territory, now even your auto attacks are flashy and stylish, especially if you're a Rogue, but the bones are still basically the same. You still attack on a timer, you can still click to move, and there's still a pause button. The AI has also improved, I don't think I even looked at the tactics menu and I still got through with minimal difficulty. Also, they retconned a wholeass race, with the Qunari graduating from "humans but bigger" to these cool gray horned dudes. Definitely an improvement, no I am not at all biased, don't look at my Qunari inquisitor lady and my Dranei Death Knight lady and my Au'ra Mahcinist Lady this ain't about her. Also turning the duelist trainer from Origins into a slutty pirate lady was... a choice, but honestly I liked her character, and her, Aveline, and Merrill were my core party members through most of it (still though, put some pants on girl, cmon). This is also where my first actual complaint comes in, that being that they seemed to think the best way to add difficulty was to just swarm you with guys. I don't mind big fights, but having to chew through two or three waves of enemies with every single combat encounter got a bit old by the end.

And now, Inquisition, where we're almost there, it's so close I can taste it. You finally click to attack, you have a jump button, the tactics menu is basically gone, but it's still clinging to its CRPG roots, the pause button haunting your hotbar like a ghost of real-time-with-pause past. I haven't noticed any dramatic changes lore-wise like I did with 2, but they did manage to find some (slightly) more reasonable armor designs and thus far none of my party members are running around half-naked. An overall improvement, and while I'm not done with this one yet I've been enjoying it so far. From what I hear, the new one is finally a proper ARPG, and all I can say is holy hell it took them long enough

[sleepy-achilles]

Not how I planned.

I had a version of this marriage purposal were it was all cute and cuddly. But, I think realistically this is how it'd happen. The alt is mentioned in this.

And that's when it hits him. It's a horrible time.

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Taker smiles as the sun hits the land. A nice cold, special beer, in his hand.

"I just don't get it." Leon whispers staring at his special beer. "Its a beer. You drink it." Taker grunts. Leon looks at him. "You know that's not what I'm on about." Leon frowns. "I do love watching two demons discuss human emotions" Randy snickers from where him and John are perched on the loveseat.

Taker shakes his head as he rocks on the rocking chair. Rhea glances up from the steps. "What even caused it?" She asks. "I don't know. We were walking around town, I went to help someone and I came back and he was upset." Leon sighs slouching down as Cassie walks out. "You know. They are just sat in there in silence. Neither are saying anything" cassie confesses as she sits next to Rhea on the steps. "Its Pas magic touch. Gets through without speaking. You'll have that talk one day" John tells her.

Leon tilts his head back and groans. "I just wish I understood why. Someone must of said something." Leon sighs. "Which for you, with your history here, is not a good thing." Randy states. Leon glares at him. "Cmon, we've all seen the 18th birthday footage." Rhea giggles. "Tell me about it" Taker grumbles.

Leon jolts up as the door swings open, drew rushes past them all, putting his coat on as he walks down the path. "Drew? Drew!" Leon yells as he pushes out of his seat, dropping his beer that Taker thankfully catches as his son rushes after his lover. Taker glances as shawn sits in Leon's seat.

"Drew!" Leon yells catching up the man. He grabs his arm causing Drew to turn and slap his hand away. Leon's eyes widen at the tears building in those beautiful blues. (The irony of Leon being colourblind is missed here)

"You girls might want to come under." Shawn mutters watching the sunny blue sky turn cloudy. Rhea and cassie do so as it starts raining and starts raining hard. "The valley has accepted him." Taker mutters in awe, sitting forward to watch the pair.

"Dont. Do not touch me" Drew hisses pulling his hood up. He feels bad as Leon's tshirt starts to stick. "Please...please talk to me." Leon tries, unsure what to do with his hands as they hover. "No. I'm going back to the motel and then I'm getting the first ride home." Drew snaps. "Why? What happened, drew please!" Leon tries. "Im sick of trying so damn hard to just be told I'm not good enough. To be ignored. Put down. Felt unloved."

And boy that shatters Leon's heart. His eyes widen as drew goes to turn to leave. "I mean i feel like you brought me here just so i can how badly im not good for you." Drew whispers. "So I'm going. And whatever that means for us, so be it." Drew whispers. "Marry me."

Drew pauses. "What?" "Marry me drew."

Drew turns to look at the other. "I-I had this big plan, I was going to take you to my favourite diner and-and I was going to show you how beautiful the valley is at night. Before asking you." Leon rambles as his hand fiddles in his soaked jeans. Drews eyes follow to clearly see the outline of the box.

"What.." Drew whispers. He watches as Leon fumbles with the box before lowering to his knee. "Drew Mcintyre. I um..I'm not good at this stuff. You know that. But I.. I really really fucking love you and I would really appreciate it if you would be my husband. For like ever." Drew watches in awe as Leon's face turns red for blush. "Fuck." Drew gasps. "Will you?" Leon asks.

"Yes. Of course I will." Drew smiles as Leon slips the ring on. Leon stands and drew goes to pull him in. Leon steps back. "Im wet." Leon points out. Drew smirks. "Well, maybe wait till we are away from your family." Leon rolls his eyes and pulls Drew into a hug causing the bigger man to groan at the feeling of the wet tshirt.

Shawn smiles as they share a kiss, the rain clears. "Looks like we've got a wedding to plan my dear" Shawn pats takers thigh. "No. They have." Everyone looks at him. "Okay yes, I realise now...trusting Leon and drew to plan a wedding is a stupid idea. I'll phone goldust." Taker sighs. "Good boy." Shawn chuckles watches as drew pulls back, holding Leon's face with a big smile. Shawn smiles softly, squeezing takers thigh as Leon wears a smile on his face.

[silverteacups]

i got bored again so here you go

favourite comms for each character ( + favourite lyric in english from each )

ichika hoshino - With our sounds, we too can become one of those shooting stars.

meteor pulse

this was my first shiho cover i heard and i LOVE the MV + lyrics

saki tenma - I don't want to begin hate, hate, hating / Neither myself, nor the world around me!

almost said stella then i checked the wiki and FUCKING TERATERA. literally almost to it on my playlist

honami mochizuki - The wind'll calm down, as long as I keep on living.

i don't think i've ever seen someone say anything negative about flyway. i am not surprised

shiho hinomori - There’s only one future that we can envision, so let’s see it with our own eyes.

purpose? nuh-uh shiho sounded ever-so-slightly like blue paint i dont like it

i've heard voices and peaky peaky too much

but THIS SONG. i love 「１」 so fucking much

minori hanasato - Even if these wings are broken apart, if you’re there, then I can try my hardest once more!

almost went for teammate but tenshi no clover gets it. the event story dear god

haruka kiritani - Even if this life is worthless, the world is beautiful.

how could i give this to literally anything other than if

airi momoi - Even if it's rusty, its colors are unfading.

absolutely love momoiro no kagi

shizuku hinomori - I'm sure I'll never be protected again; however, I've got everything I want to protect, so I'm not worried.

i love i am, we are but the set. yeah no thanks this looks like one of the first birthday cards

kohane azusawa - What do you want to do after you end up all by yourself? (sobs loudly they gave the line to an and akito)

vbs has almost been nothing but bangers lately (i'd include niigo but, excluding god-ish, it's probably been that way since meru, maybe earlier)

anyway yeah hitsuji ga ippiki

an shiraishi - Can I break apart? Go and break me apart.

gekokujo 💔💔💔💔

akito shinonome (oh no) - What roars out is my own tune, my own tune - not someone else's.

why do i have to pick one they're all amazing 💔💔💔 i was really close to saying kashika but then gekkou but then fucking CINEMA

but yeah

toya aoyagi - Not knowing the reason why, not needing the reason why I'm defying against fate’s rules.

not a huge fan of toya comms but cmon RAD DOGS is great

tsukasa tenma - Aren't we just inevitably going around in circles? You ought to slip and fall in a panic in the final moment.

88☆彡

on a scale of 1-88 how surprised are you that i picked this one (it's 88 isnt it i know it is you're so shocked)

emu otori - We'll always be one / The promise that we made, we'll keep it forever!

i dont have anything to say tbh just hoshizora orchestra

nene kusanagi - And without ever having met you, the coral in the miniature garden will dazzle me one day / I'll sing this song and smile.

hakoniwa no coral is so pretty

rui kamishiro - Would you call this a dream, that comes with such pain?

still not ready to love wxs but dear god i love this song

kanade yoisaki (oh my god i have to pick a lyric now) - So don't say that you've given up on reality, Samsa! Okay?

almost said kanadetomosusora but then i remembered samsa

and dear god the LYRICS??

mafuyu asahina - I was so delighted to see the pleased faces they made that I played my role desperately— so much that I have even forgotten to breathe.

engeki 💔💔💔💔

ena shinonome - All life is ridiculously pretty, struggling and then it stops raining / t's an unprecedented brilliance in human history - that's what love is.

no idea what the lyrics mean but i love ena's alt

mizuki akiyama - I'm sure that the lights that shine upon the shadows of the city seemed more gentle than yesterday, so today, I can sleep embraced in warmth.

almost said kitty but the full ver of kimi no yoru wo kure stole it for me

AND now a ranking:

20. kimi no yoru wo kure - love it, just love the others more 19. hakoniwa no coral 18. engeki 17. gekokujo 16. RAD DOGS 15. hoshizora orchestra 14. i am, we are 13. pulse of the meteor 12. 88☆彡 11. hitsuji ga ippiki 10. momoiro no kagi 9. i nandesu 8. what sort of ending are you wishing for? 7. teratera 6. IF 5. flyway 4. samsa 3. 「1」 2. cinema 1. tenshi no clover

[klwl-truck]

2, 7, 9, 21, 25!! You can pick either kny or Haikyuu for this idm :))

I picked kny for this one, since I don’t talk about it as much 😁👍

7. what character did you begin to hate not because of canon but because how how the fandom acts about them?

It’s hard to think of characters that I genuinely dislike in kny, since I can appreciate all of them, but I’d have to say it’s Douma for me. Idk I felt like he was over hyped, I never really liked him that much anyways and the way the fandom absolutely eviscerated his characterization dug his grave for me (SPECIFICALLY HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH AKAZA, DONT EVEN GET ME STARTED ON HOW THE FANDOM FUCKED THAT UP).

9. worst part of canon

Oooh this one’s a hard one, since I like the canon story of demon slayer a lot. But i think it’d have to be the way the characters felt a little,, shallow at times?? A lot of it was just fight after fight after fight and we don’t see much about a lot of characters besides one little exposition piece in the middle of one. I mean hell, a LOT of the info we get about characters isn’t from the main manga itself but from fanbooks made by the creator, so I’ve seen it can be hard for people who aren’t big fans of the show to get what I think can be pretty important information. This is mostly me saying that I wish we got more about each of the pillars individually, since some got a shit ton of backstory and exposition while others (cough himejima cough) got basically a conversation and that’s it.

21. part of canon you think is overhyped

I genuinely can’t think of anything besides maybe the animation on the part of the anime-only fandom?? And maybe mugen train (not saying it’s a bad arc, it’s just insanely overhyped oh my god)

25. common fandom complaint that you're sick of hearing

Oh my god I am so sick of hearing about the animation from inside and outside of the fandom. SICK. It’s either overhyped to the moon and back (sometimes for good reason I’ll give them that, the animation is good) OR it’s treated like the worst animation in the fucking world. ITS GOOD. ITS FINE. STOP COMPLAINING. NOTHING IS EVER ENOUGH FOR YOU PEOPLE SOMETIMES. They say it’s the best in anime history, but then there’s barely noticeable fish monster cgi and they think it’s the worst animation on the planet (we have the berserk anime, this ain’t nothing compared to that PLEASE). They just don’t stop complaining about every little imperfection in the animation, as if those animators aren’t likely living off a corn chip and diet soda and working 25 hours a day just to meet deadlines, like cmon you people need to be fucking nicer even when you don’t like something. (my point is, sometimes it’s good to shut up 😄)

[bitbrumal]

gets up real close to the mic. I DON'T LIKE HARBINGER DILUC BC OF HOW IT USUALLY SHOEHORNS HIM IN LIKE A GARY STUE.

             same with fatui infiltrator diluc. it's just a ploy to get him within fucking range of harbingers YOU DON'T WANT HIM CLOSE TO HARBINGERS THEY'LL SNIFF HIM OUT RIGHT AWAY STOOOOPP but also horny i get it i get it.

okay im gonna rant bc i want to so just know if u write it & don't wanna hear me shit on it :joy: Turn Away Now. i am about to piss in so many people’s soup but not bc i want to, just bc i wanna rant abt the frustration. if ur soup is pissable, don’t read this. i don't actually have an issue with anyone duh i just get heated abt portrayals being vapid despite being a hypocrite bc ofc its all just abt fun. but. so is ranting abt it.

fighting hard and being guarded don't make you suitable. when you're a person of interest, who hey! remarkably just had their father killed by us hmmm bet that has nothing to do with it haha what's that about timing? nahh. who has an easily known history esp when considering the fatui already had their claws well into the kof- if you think 4 years is a long enough time for it to stop mattering that crepus died, consider how long it would take to get anywhere near real power in the organisation + then obv the way they can CHECK THAT TIMELINE BC HE'S IN THEIR ORG NOW.          the harbingers are the shadiest mfuckers who've been arnd the shadiest mfuckers. diluc just isn't going to fool them & they just would not take the risk. they don't need smn like him. i know we all think he's very special, but he's so little in comparison. if he was enough, there'd be another 284774843 lined up for the position and they wouldn't. pick. the dude with very questionable intent. 

it’s just so contriiiiived i get you want them to kiss but holy fuck don’t make him a gary stue. mostly bc are you kidding me they’re not making diluc a harbinger just bc he hits hard, makes a pretty fire bird, & has political connections. DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE WOULD BE HARBINGERS IF SO? he’s hot shit, but not that hot.                     no-one’s under closer scrutiny than harbingers(-to-be)... you don’t hand out that much power, authority, & CONTROLLED FREEDOM to use it, to someone you don’t know. are you telling me you think no-one in there would be able to tell what diluc is like? you’re really gonna tell me you think they’ve not seen so many spies, infiltrators, defectors, dissenters, informants who find out they’re too big or too small for their pants, temporary allies who go apeshit bc they love it a lil too much, etc... you really think diluc ragnvindr can fucking fool these ppl?     i’m not saying diluc would necessarily not at all be able to fake it to make it in general, i’m saying that’s not fucking good enough.

there’d not even be a “hey i’m the ragnvindr heir btw” coming out of diluc’s mouth---& his time working his way into the lower ranks would be spent trying to stay off the radar enough to still be able to leave. get what you want, get the fuck out. in theory becoming a harbinger lets him have far more power to fuck shit up &, y’know, actually know what the fuck is going on. & i can absolutely see diluc as the idiot who’d feel like he has to go that far, but that doesn’t mean that he can get there. if equipped with braincells, he wouldn’t want to go near the harbingers because of how easily recognised he’d be. YEAH SURE DILUC REALLY WENT TO JOIN THEM AFTER THEY GOT HIS FATHER KILLED. DEFINITELY NO-ONE WITH A BRAINCELL WOULD QUESTION THIS. BROSKI... CMON NOW.                     they spend their time Not Trusting People, including each other. & they’re very good at being untrustworthy but not dead or disconnected.

diluc is not good enough at this game to fool a harbinger. & if that’s supposed to be a similarity between him & tartaglia... bro tart has the backing & training of a harbinger, & possibly the tsaritsa. he’s also a native, basically their adopted child ( child soldier mentality is really smth lmao ), etc. they know him in & out, he’s theirs. diluc is not. diluc had his father whom he lived for murdered by them. diluc’s character is known by them bc the kof knew him & the fatui have allies in the kof, or at least ‘had’ at the time & yeah prob still lbr. which is why diluc doesn’t want to work closely with the kof.

ORGANISATIONS WITH SERIOUS GOALS DO NOT SACRIFICE THOSE GOALS FOR A PRETTY SPY. I CAN NOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH. THEY HAVE WAY TOO MUCH GOING FOR THEM & ON AROUND THEM... TO JUST. oh ya we’ll take that risk!! fun. NO! lmfao. they wouldn’t actually draw him into their ranks to toy with him. fake draw him in, sure. make him betray everything he cares to be so he can’t live with the consequences, exacerbated by having done it all for barely anything? oh yeah, that someone might do. BUT EVEN THEN. THE HARBINGERS ARE BUSY, & GO O D L UC K GETTING ONTO THEIR RADAR + in a way that you could believe benefits you. bro get rekt.

& depending how smart he is about infiltrating them ( read: NOT FUCKING NEAR MONDTSTAD ), he could go a long way without being recognised at all. because who’d know a random aristocrat in mondt? even the uncrowned king. the kamera just began to exist; the fatui in general are at a disadvantage as long as dilulu keeps his flaming red head down. the harbingers would know him because he is all that in mondt’s politics, but it’s far less likely random fatui would & that keeps him alive / safe / trusted with info. diluc could get his hands on something- or make a good attempt -if he shoots lower. higher, & he’s not gonna make it out alive enough to do anything*.

                       fellas, gays. tart doesn’t have time & the fatui may come off cartoonishly stupid but they wouldn’t be, realistically. if the lower ranks are, we know the higher ones aren’t. you cannot put diluc ragnvindr near a harbinger without them smelling it on him. too many things add up. you think they wouldn’t be able to run a thorough bg check? you think the damage he could do would really be overlooked vs the benefit he could be? he could give too little & would- bc of who he is -cost far too much. *they could just fucking keep him once he’s that close, have dottore clone him, & then either lock him up somewhere in case of future use or not even bother with that & kill him. let the clone be the pawn. the timeline of him starting any kind of shit with the fatui just won’t let them trust him enough. & make no mistake, attempting to join = starting shit. it won’t make anyone smart go ‘ah yes. a loyal recruit!’ even though ‘loyal’ only means loyal to a selfish agenda that w o n ‘ t particularly fuck with the fatui’s own.          HE IS TOO EASY TO READ MY FUCKERS. not even necessarily bc he can’t lie in someone’s face ( you can absolutely argue his upbringing taught him such strict decorum & when to apply it that he could use it to teach himself a different set of behaviours ) --- but because the harbingers are too good at this shit. 

LASTLY, we’ve seen what it takes for childe to feel challenged in a fight by someone in a way he’ll seek out. a fucking space god. a pocket dimension designed to put someone through an ever changing gauntlet. okay? mcdrama over here can make a fire bird. fuck you. the fatui has 39420394384 pyro agents with varying degrees of elemental mastery. :joy: harbingers meet ppl on harbinger level. i don’t think tart would really notice diluc or want him for a sparring buddy!! his go to? naww man. he just hasn’t got what it takes to put childe through his paces, & childe has a harbinger’s full schedule. when he wants a spar, he’ll want one that serves him - not one where he’s basically batting away a rookie. diluc’s hot shit, but not on that level.

gets up real close to the mic:  i love diluc too but stop making him a gary stueeee. being a harbinger isn’t cool when you’ve done & do nothing to earn it. diluc is not That Guy, not on that level. on lower levels yes he is he’s a fucking badass. unfortunately harbingers are literal atrocities onto god so c’mon now.

that said obviously u do want him close to them bc mmm hehe twirls hair. & ooohh that winter coat would look so good on him, & aghgmrrhff hE’D BE SO COOL IF WE DID MAKE HIM ONE--- BUT ALSO I AM SEETHING W UNADULTERATED FRUSTRATION I FUCKIN TELL U WHAT.

alright that's it im done.

BLOOPER: if he doesn’t just get laughed out of his audition anyway. which, since he’d have to work his way up OR walk into zapolyarny palace to say hey make me a harbinger i’m the uncrowned king pew pew pew ppewppewwww what’s up hoes!!!... uhh. yeah.

[twisted-tales-told]

2,7,8 for the ask game!!

Anon I love you

This ask game

2✦ What's the latest thing you're researching for your craft?

Surprisingly, Tarot.

The surprise is I’ve technically built a career over the past 3 years being a professional tarot reader. But I quit my job a month ago!

Since then I’ve actually re-found my joy of tarot reading. The craft and the history of it. The tarot cards tell a story, it feels a lot like an oral tradition. Wherever you go and whoever you talk to about tarot will have slightly different stories about the cards to tell. I think that’s beautiful.

7. What do you think is the most accurate representation of witchcraft in fictional media? (shows, movies or books!)

I have 2.

The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stievater & Agatha All Along (marvel tv show)

The raven cycle gets tarot and divination so right. Maggie Stievater has even created my absolute favourite tarot deck that I own.

Agatha all along…what didn’t it get right. I mean, the unbinding ritual that Jen does with Agatha??? That is the most accurate unbinding depiction I have ever seen. The emotion involved, the string? Yeah…

The facing your biggest fears via the witches road is SO shadow work coded (a spiritual form of therapy) the covens, the bonds between fellow witches, the uniqueness of everyone’s craft??

And don’t get me started on the depiction of death. Like I will cry.

I may not be the best person to speak on this, because I don’t understand all the cultural nuances, but I don’t think I’ve Ever seen Santa Muerte depicted in a positive light in mainstream media before. She has always been treated as taboo and the way that she was shown in Agatha all along as Rio truly made me <3333

Like, they never outwardly say Rio is Santa Muerte, but cmon

Traditional Santa Muerte

Rio:

Need I say more?

8. What piece of witchy media makes you feel more inspired:

Both of the ones I mentioned above, the book series the cruel prince REALLY makes me want to dive into working with the fae (BAD IDEA BAD IDEA BAD IDEA GIRL LOOK AT WHERE YOU FUCKING LIVE THATS A BAD IDEA)

Lilia from Agatha really made me invest more time into my tarot practice again.

And any time I so much as Think about the raven cycle it suddenly becomes Go Into The Woods and Commune With The Spirits time.

These were so fun omg sorry for ranting super long

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#policy.#pride.#(but like no ref to other stuff I could look at 🥺 cmOn can’t say it’s not the start and not give an EXAMPLE#(‘google exists’ GOOGLE IS FAULTY AND IF U DONT KNOW WHAT TO LOOK UP YOU JUST FIND PROPAGANDA AND ADS#(but like literally htkg didn’t America’s start to STOP gay liberation (puritans had a lot of reasons to leave but wouldn’t be surprised#(and by reasons I mean ‘unreasonable demands of society’

hey, if you're gonna be asking for resources, premptively accusing people of being assholes who will just ask you to google things may not be the best strategy?

This post was created in response to another post that discussed the way pride flags tend to be predominantly american symbols, and hence did not have examples. In the above tumblr thread are links to the US military service of the creator of the rainbow flag as well the creator of the trans flag who was part of and continues to encourages trans participation in the US Military.

This tumblr post about the Brazilian Travesti directly highlights the forms in which usamerican discourse perpetuate erasure. Terrorists Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times by Jasbir Puar elucidates the weaponisation of gay freedom to further usamerican imperial hegemony. The sections on Abu Ghraib and Israeli pinkwashing might be very illuminating to you. I don't endorse all of it, but this book is pretty much a touchstone in most discussions on modern imperialism and queer rights.

Queering India: Same-Sex Love and Eroticism in Indian Culture and Society edited by Ruth Vanita has a section on history of same sex desire that predates colonial intervention, and how colonial forces created, taxonomised and punished deviance from the heterosexual model of desire and kinship. In the modern day, the Khwaja Sira in Pakistan and Hijra in India are often relegated to the category of purely exotic "third gender" and denied obviously transgender organising because their subjectivities are not identical to those seen as trans women in the US.

I am unfamiliar with other regions, but a suggestion in my tags makes me think there is productive engagement to be found with the scholar Joseph Massad, who writes about the demands for practitioners of same sex activity to identify as gay in the book Arab Desire. Japanese, Korean and Phillipine queer histories under american imperialism might also be illuminating.

gay liberation began in the united states. TO YOU.