#I know this is unfair lol

[gnr-fashion]

On the Topic of Clothes-Sharing...

Izzy, Duff & The Zebra Jacket

[avpdcomic]

you’re not the boss of me now and you’re not so big

[samglyph]

Whenever someone includes Malevolent on their “queer podcast” lists I feel like laughing. Malevolent is the equivalent of the lonely cis allo straight guy at a pride parade. He didn’t come to support anyone. He doesn’t even know how he got there. He was just walking down the street and got pulled into the fray by excited subtext enjoyers.

[jade-of-mourning]

sorry sometimes i think about mako and my heart hurts so much. this kid raised himself and his brother on the streets in homelessness and utter poverty from eight through fifteen, promptly after seeing the violent death of his mother and father. he turned to the triple threats because they couldn't survive as a pair of wretched kids without any adult support, and the environment forced him to turn into the exact character that killed his parents in a terrible twist of irony. and after sheer-fucking-luck hits and they aren't homeless anymore, their livelihood wavers on the outcome of what's a literally game to everyone but them; and after things are finally starting to look up and their team is going places and things just might be okay, his gradually stabilizing world unceremoniously expands and everything goes to shit.

and the city that chewed him up and spat him back out, ruined him as a child and took away his ability to stay afloat in a true sense of normalcy as an adult — when it's on the verge of destruction and falling to pieces before his eyes, he gives himself to save it with the full expectation to die. he went from the kid who didn't and couldn't care about anything outside of himself and his brother, to finding redemption for his younger self in his police work despite its injustice against him, to willingly sacrificing himself to a world that had never loved him.

he's a desperate people pleaser, socially and emotionally stunted for the adult he had to be as a kid, unable to navigate interpersonal relationships easily yet still trying his damned hardest. he's intensely and entirely devoted to the things that matter to him and for so long it was only him, bolin, and ensuring their survival — yet by the end, that devotion has expanded to protecting the rest of the world. he starts out entirely self-reliant and ends in trusting the people he cares about to know their own needs, to be able to take care of themselves, to be okay without him despite having spent so much of his life defined by his role in others' well-being.

just. what the fuck i'm such a big fan of this fictional guy and i'm unashamed about it at this point. also let him cry please (if you won't i'll do it i'll let him cry)

[moomeecore]

at this point any time i discuss auditory sensory issues and someone says they have them too in order to get a one up on me when they disagree with me in a fundamentally redicolous way that implies they either don't actually know what sensory issues are or are lying their asses off, or just have sensory issues so minor that they shouldn't be involved in the conversation on them i gotta send them like. a quiz or smthn . my idea . bc this I'm never gonna fake claim anyone but this is a specific symtom and we need to gatekeep it soooo hard bc nobody fucking knows what it is

if you don't answer yes to most of these questions (except number 2, which should be a solid NO), you aren't allowed to give your unsolicited opinion on auditory sensory issues

1. has a noise ever directly caused you to have a full blown anxiety attack. it does not count if you did not have difficulty breathing over it

2. have you ever gone a single, individual day in your life where a sound did not signifigantly upset you (if you answered yes, back down right the fuck now)

3. do other people go "i didn't even hear that until you pointed it out" on a frequent basis when you say a sound is bothering you

4. when people play music at parties, do you typically struggle to tune it out, to the point that it distracts you from taking to people

5. do quiet sounds (buzzing/humming from radiator, sounds of pencil scratching, sounds of cutlery/silverware, sounds of tapping on ipad with stylus) aggrivate you to the point of making it difficult to focus, on a regular basis- as in, every day or almost every day. AT LEAST once a week

6. would you describe certain sounds as "like someone took a pizza cutter, sliced it through my head, and started sawing at my brain"

7. do repetitive noises (beeping, tapping, ticking) frequently get "stuck in your head" - even after the noise is turned off you still hear it

8. have you ever been pushed to tears over a sound that upset you? more importantly, does this happen to you frequently enough that you would say that it's happened at least once every year of your life that you can remember

9. when you wear earplugs or noise cancelling headphones (or both at the same time), does it, even in the best case scenario, still usually not block out all the sounds that are bothering you

10. has an upsetting noise pushed you to the point of considering or enacting self harm in order to distract yourself from the pain and discomfort by inducing a comparable physical pain on your body

11. would you consider the act of tripping down the stairs and falling on your face, without lasting injury but still extreme pain, to be generally preferable to hearing your least favorite sounds

12. when somebody plays audio on a device out loud does the audio quality typically interrupt your ability to process, enjoy, and understand the music. this can vary a lot based on device, sound, and how well you're doing mentally, but would you at least say that a good portion if the time, when someone plays audio on a device out loud (radio, phone, speaker) it comes out as very significantly more unintelligible than if you listened to it on headphones

13. when a sound upsets you, do you often (near daily or daily basis) experience a headache as a result?

14. when a sound upsets you, do you, much of the time (enough that you wouldn't consider it infrequent - you can think of more examples of this happening than you could count), cause physical pain/reaction beyond headaches - eye strain, breathing difficulty, tensed muscles, chest pain, heart palpitations

15. has an upsetting sound, more than once, caused you to have difficulty forming sentences (difficulty thinking of words, difficulty speaking- stuttering or inability to get words out even if you try)

16. has an upsetting sound, more than once, impaired your ability to walk or move / has it caused involuntary shaking and jittering

17. growing up, did you have a noticeable avoidance of public spaces because of sound? and/or did your parents avoid taking you out in public because of unusually severe and frequent "temper tantrums"?

18. do you, today, still avoid certain places because of potential sounds?

19. growing up, including middle and high school, have you ever had to leave school early because you got so overwhelmed by sounds that it made you unable to function (couldn't talk, couldn't participate in class, started throwing up, started crying, had a panic attack)

20. did the auditory enviorment in school cause such difficulty that you either considered or did in fact move to online school, drop out, or switch to a smaller school (college counts)

21. does your ability to talk, walk, process your enviorment, react at a reasonable time, or understand what's going on, diminish/get worse in public spaces, to at least some extent, to this day?

22. have you ever been so bothered by a noise coming from outside your house that you've, in a desperate attempt to find it and get rid of it, gone in search for it, walking around your neighborhood feeling like some sort of decreped beast on the hunt for blood. bonus points if it's the middle of the night. bonus bonus points if it's winter and bonus bonus bonus points if you were so distressed you didn't bother to dress appropriately for the weather. yes this has happened to me multiple times why do you ask

23. have you ever asked someone to stop making a sound? this one seems like a no brainer but i heard a horror story from my friend where somebody told him "i have sensory issued and ive never asked someone to quiet down for me 😌" and if this is you? never speak to me

[asksteverandle]

what kind of fighter jet do you fly? Or which is your favorite to fly?

Fighter jet?!

I think yer mistakin’ me for my stupid brother Pete

He flies an f-14 at some Navy flight school. Tuffest thing I get to drive is my rust bucket of a Chevy Styleline.

[mmhberry]

Regarding the current situation with bans in SSO…

Can’t believe I am defending SSE right now but there’s so much misinformations on the Instagram side and especially the TikTok side of the SSO community about the ongoing cheat bans it drives me nuts

“SSO is banning half of their community” what are you talking about, they banned like 0,5% of the active players. “Even ReShade gets you banned” I have used reshade for years I never got banned for it and my account is still up since the update, SSO has already confirmed since years that they fully allow reshade.

[crunchycrystals]

ok so like a lot of the stuff i've seen about the ending of painted devils seems to say "sad that vanja can't remember the lesson she learned throughout the book" but i'd argue she does. she knows that she's worthy of love, that the people around her care about her. it's just a bit harder to accept because of her trauma but she knows it. she leaves not because she thinks she's unworthy of love, but because she knows she has it but the system doesn't make it easy for people like her to love and be loved.

the system perpetuating poverty is the reason why she became a thief and now it refuses to let her forget that this is who she is. see kirkling (literally used as an example of what im talking about when vanja runs away), always unfairly harsh to vanja but immune to the consequences of her bias because she's retired. and now she loves someone who wants to be a prefect, someone who is going into that very system to try and improve it, but it's still the same thing. the loopholes are still there and one day someone worse will exploit it to ruin emeric's life, prevent him from saving others from her fate, and she cares about him and those girls like her too much to let that happen

the book says that it's one thing to know something but another thing to believe it. in the same vein, it's one thing to know what you want, it's one thing to know you are loved, believe you are loved, but it's a completely different thing to be allowed to pursue that want or love. vanja and emeric don't have that freedom. gisele didn't have that freedom until vanja broke the leadership system in minkja, but no one's breaking the system for vanja. not yet at least.

[bacchuschucklefuck]

love thinking kipperlilly spends her afterlife looking for lucy in a familiar forest

[cnl0400]

... They can't do this to me...

You can't do this to HER!!!!!

[thebirdandhersong]

It's not so much that I object to this potential blind date boy. I haven't said yes because im NERVOUS and my heart is SORE

[streets-in-paradise]

Hello there, just some lil questions I wanted to ask: what do you think about Odysseus? Since I am still unsure if he is a good guy after all…and what do you think about the wooden horse ?

Sending best wishes :)

Hi!

Overall? I do like Odysseus.

The question about if he is a good or bad guy? I feel it depends a lot of which Odysseus we are talking about. The many different adaptational Odysseus, one can argue, but I feel it's unfair measuring homeric Odysseus in a good vs bad measure. This is something you can't really make with any homeric figure, not only Odysseus.

One thing I enjoy of Troy (2004) is how in this analogy with modern imperialism it positions Odysseus as a cunning king that remains subservient to the imperial power in order to secure his land. Ithaca is in this kinda third world country position to an United States-coded Mycenae and that is very interesting to see.

However, there is also the fact that the dynamic of Odysseus and Agamemnon resembles Gandalf and Denethor in the Return of the King. He is the only one seeing the bigger picture while this armchair general calling himself " King of Kings" (the movie makes its own specifical use of this epithet from the Iliad) takes the worst choices ever. In the context of the film, with Agamemnon in the middle of a power driven mystic delirium oathing to Zeus he will sacrifice 40.000 greeks smashing the walls of Troy, you really can't blame the guy.

At that point of the film, Agamemnon is pretty much like grief over Boromir crazy Denethor about to burn Faramir alive, only he is about to get them all killed to destroy Troy in memory of Menelaus. Odysseus reacts as a way to preserve everyone, just as Gandalf sort of taking command in the Siege of Gondor. Arguably, Paris also attempts the same with Priam when he tells him not to accept the horse, but fails.

Speaking of Troy (2004) Odysseus? Yes, he is meant to be one of the good guys. The movie responsabilizes Agamemnon for him having to come up with the trojan horse and for the brutality displayed on the fall of Troy. It's not about power for him anymore, it has became a personal vengeance. He is, essentially, doing to that city for Menelaus exactly what Achilles did to the corpse of Hector over Patroclus.

Now, if we get in mythological territory, things get more complicated. This is why I feel you can't really judge him on good vs bad mentality. Homeric/ Trojan Cycle Odysseus is not a " did nothing wrong" neither a " figure of evil" character. He has both very redeemable and very loathsome moments.

For example, he is a devoted parent. Despite being far away from his boy, Telemachus is his life. While all the other heroes describe themselves in name of their parents, he adresses himself publicly as " the father of Telemachus". However, he is the direct responsible for the death of two kids: encouraged the sacrifice of Iphigenia, and in some versions, killed by his own hand the baby boy of Hector to stop him from growing and possibly seeking revenge for the atrocities commited.

I do feel blaming him for the trojan horse would be as ridiculous as the people who hate on Hector for killing Patroclus. It's an act of war in a war story, the guy did what Athena inspired him to do in order to win. However, the especially vile atrocities commited during the fall of Troy are another story. With the all white cast of the film the thing got a bit unnoticed, but Troy (2004) introduced the concept of the trojan war as the first genocide of the West against the East. As my very first introduction to the story, this idea kind of stayed with me.

I hate what the greeks did in Troy, but the story itself brings them their karma. Am I pissed off about Astyanax and Andromache? Absolutely, but the gods punished Odysseus for me with that trip back home and Pyrrhus got disowned by Peleus to later get killed by Orestes. Most of the greeks turned out cursed, and the trojans ended up founding Rome!! I have nothing left to hate, gods balanced the universe for me.

( If you like to see greek karma in action, like I do, I recommend the book " The Talisman of Troy " by Valerio Massimo Manfredi. Despite it takes the post war greek pov of a wide variety of characters, but mostly follows Diomedes, it is cathartic from the trojan one. The conversation stopping the Aeneas vs Diomedes duel in italy is delicious when it comes to trojan catharsis.)

When it comes to mythological Odysseus, I fall on a middle ground. I am against those fully negative " Odysseus was a cheater asshole" narratives represented by stuff like Madeline Miller's Circe. However, I am not as forgiving of the heaviest Odysseus' wrongs as, let's say, some sections of the Epic fanbase.

And btw, he was not a cheater. When the options are " sleep with this goddess or risk her wrath", there is nothing much the man could have done even if it happened twice. The only time he had the capacity to consent was when Nausicaa got infatuated with him, and he didn't sleep with her. I just say people who hate on Odysseus for " cheating " are looking at the wrong reasons lol.

Books Odysseus is a complicated man, but I enjoy his character too.

( all but the Telegony, in this blog we pretend the Telegony never existed. It's such an OOC trainwreck, even if it's ancient, I refuse to take it in consideration.)

[mushroominaforest]

I had a tennis assessment today and I’m very nervous so uh fingers crossed my coaches give me a high mark lol

I think I played well, I won two out of three of my games today, and the only one I lost was against a guy (the two I won were against other girls) so if I have to play the gender card I’m not above that lmfao /j

[ganondoodle]

the more time goes on the more negative i feel about totk, its got lots of reasons but aside from me thinking about what else they could have easily done instead of what we got its more and more bc its so put on a pedestal like its the best zelda ever and also its affecting botw in retrospect, not just by the lore, but the fact that people have been saying even shortly after totks release that theres 'no point playing botw' anymore, and will see botw as nothing but totks "bad" prototype is just SO infuriating to me

you know when you initially feel neutral (or ignorable dislike) about a character but then the fandom for some reason gets so insanely obsessed with them that you just start disliking them more and more over time ... yeah

[clownmoontoon]

so im one of those adults that used to read a shit ton of books as a kid/teen and i actively tried to read more irl books (not just online stuff) for a while last year, and i feel like smth that gets left out of the "why dont i read as much as i did in school/when i was a kid/teen etc" conversation is the fact that when you first start really reading youre kinda experiencing every trope for the first time

a book you read in middle school that features a protag your age saving the world is GROUNDBREAKING once youve sped thru so many books in your teens you start learning and recognizing tropes, you get to a point where you can compare, say which author pulled this sort of thing off better etc

and as you get older, your standards get higher

when youre reading as a kid plots and tropes are new and not played out, storylines are all original to YOU and thats much more exciting!

its definitely not a bad thing that your standards get higher, but it does make finding a good book harder

i think these days i gravitate so much more to fanfic than irl books bc from the start im already guaranteed my established fave characters are in this without having to go thru the work of creating new faves, and SO MANY FANFIC AUTHORS ARE JUST INCREDIBLE AND SO CREATIVE chances are ill be exposed to something new and most likely queer in this story than a random book i pick up in a store, and if im already tired from work or life in general these stories are comforting

very much want to make it clear that im not trying to discourage adults from reading books lol but i think we should def stop beating ourselves up for not reading as much as we used to, we just stocked up so much story and writing knowledge that now we're understandably picky!

[ireallyamabear]

one thing that i find a bit difficult is the strict timeline we know will happen in the next 3 arcs, and what that means for speculating about the plot threads. we know there's gonna be a time jump again and the characters will have lived a year (or around that), so there's no picking up immediate conversations/actions ... the thread will be the emotional state of all of them, i think. and, one of the best things the first season does is the looping back on plot points; you learn stuff later that really change and enhance the context of stuff we learn earlier. like the fact that Clem was actually Cassian's adopted father's name. So i am very confident that in the future episodes we will learn stuff that makes us look back in time to 4bby and then 3 bby and so on and enhance those scenes. right now i'm especially thinking about the rebels left on yavin (which might have been the weakest point of the first 3 episodes. yet!) and what seeds there are that we will come back to. They're left on the planet. they'll probably have to take each other out because of mistrust or for resources. Bardi has a brother who took a ship and left them. They might or might not have seen their leader be killed. edit: amending this post because i'm fucking stupid and Bardi got killed actually by the dinosaur. whooooooops. Maybe the brother is his twin and the actor will come back? anyway