#I like hyper analyzing things that more than likely don't matter

[thesimulacrumb]

Something I like about Q!ironmouse lore is that she hardly focus's on being a demon any time its brought up she's pretty casual about it, sure she's proud but that's cause its really just what her heritage is. sure people are gonna be like "Holy shit your a demon?" but to her she's been a demon for as long as she remembers and there's nothing her or anyone else can do about it, its only after her talk with Tina where she really starts thinking about how different she is even asking if its okay to be herself to her child

[violetasteracademic]

I saw a reddit post a while back talking about how “obvious” gwynriel is, with hundreds of upvotes and everyone agreeing, saying that it’s exactly how SJM sets up her love interests, and it makes me feel like a crazy person.

I agree that SJM is obvious with her couples, but for me the only logical obvious answer is elriel. The entire time I was reading the series it couldn’t have been more obvious, and all my irl friends feel the same. We didn’t even know gwynriel was a thing. They barely interact in the books, and even then it’s only vaguely friendly and mostly one-sided. Then I get online and see all of these people who genuinely believe it’s gwynriel that’ll be endgame and I can’t understand how we’ve read the same books.

This is the only reason I question elriel at all; am I somehow missing something? What the hell are these people seeing that overshadows elriel’s foreshadowing? I just can’t see it from their point of view, no matter how many theories or analyzing I read from them. I almost wished I could so that this ship war wouldn’t be so frustrating, but I just can’t.

Sorry to throw this rant at you, your posts and explanations are just very comforting and you explain things so well. I read them whenever I’m worried to assure myself I’m not crazy :,)

Hi sweet anon!

I certainly don't think you are crazy or missing anything, and I'm glad to know that some of my posts have brought you comfort. That is my one and only goal.

I've been getting more and more messages like this in my inbox, and I've been struggling with how to answer them because I've learned that a lot of my thoughts don't really fit in with the fandom at large. I don't mind that other ships exist. I have real life G/wynriel and E/lucien friends that are very chill and wonderful and not knee deep in the online fandom and don't think horrific misogynistic things. I stay out of spaces where I'm bound to see something hurtful, and I scroll so fuckin fast when I see the Elriel community screenshotting and reblogging bad takes cause I *don't wanna see it.*

I'm just a girl, and while I'm honored that this little weirdo's opinion has become of some value in this little comfy cafe corner I'm trying to build here, I don't want to say the wrong thing and make people feel discredited and invalidated. I've learned that people really like being in the drama and venting and focusing on how badly the other side is behaving, which I don't really like, and it often leaves me at odds with my own "side" of the war. But since you are here in my asks, I'll share my thoughts. Please know I am saying this with all the tender love and care in my heart, but I say:

Just let them exist. You don't need to understand. You also don't need to let it worry you. None of us are in control of the ships that are sailing in this war. So for whatever it is worth, I want to encourage you to try to stay away from the spaces that make you feel upset, confused, hurt, or angry.

We are all honestly similar in ways that might be hard to admit. If we are here, deep into this fandom, we are probably connected in a number of ways. Maybe we're a little bit lonely (me), a little bit mentally ill (me), a little bit hyper-fixated (me). Maybe we are easily consumed and obsessed, and don't have anywhere for that energy to go in our real lives and so we live on in a chronic state of escape and disassociation (yep, me).

We are also an exceptionally small percentage of SJM's readership, and we take things as far as a fan could possibly take them. This is not how most readers are interacting with her work. So to see hundreds of upvotes on something, even thousands, yes- it seems like a lot. But it's not actually that much in terms of SJM's actual numbers. Anyone on reddit, tumblr, tiktok, ect, is looking for community and people who share their thoughts and likes and dislikes. I think this is often why a lot of non canon ships actually grow more popular than canon ships, because people are here looking for a road the written story will not take them down.

I don't think it's strange or offensive or unhinged that ships other than Azriel or Elain exist and are popular. I *do* think its a little odd that this fandom has taken the stance of proving non-canon things as canon instead of just enjoying crackships, but I can't honestly sit here and say my posts proving "canon" to try to comfort people who want the same fictional couple as me is not the exact same behavior. I think I'm right. They think they are right. There will come a day when Sarah lets us know what she has decided, and it's out of our hands. But the ships will live on.

I love so many non canon ships, and I engage with them here every day. This is what fandom is for. I think this fandom in particular would be a lot less toxic if we would just live and let live and leave each other be. I am gonna keep making theory posts and writing fanfic. They are gonna keep making theory posts and writing fanfic.

Take care of yourself. Rock the block button. Strangers on the internet do not get unfettered access to me or you or anyone else just because we are online. Set some boundaries for yourself. Lurk where you feel good.

I hope my page continues to be one of those places where you can lurk to feel better. And if that ever changes, block me. I encourage it deeply. I actually feel relieved when I can see that someone has blocked me, because I know they are taking care of themselves and also saved me the time and energy of trying to diffuse an argument.

I hear your frustrations. I know it sucks to want to go on reddit if that has been a fun and comforting space for you, and now it feels overrun and not safe and not fun. Grieve that. We obviously all care very deeply, and that's okay. It's nothing at all to be ashamed of.

But at some point, we are all gonna have to learn to live with each other, because no matter what happens in canon, the ships are not going anywhere.

Take care of yourself, anon. And I hope you continue to find comforting spaces to rest.

[clovermarigold]

Smoke & Ice Head cannons and facts

Small facts and characteristics that are cannon to my fic, Smoke & Ice. Please note I do not claim any of these to be cannon to the MK franchise!

Don't worry I won't do any woobifying.

Also note after finishing this, I should have named this Angst angst and more angst

pt.2 pt.3

Calla has actually never been in a relationship because she always felt responsible for the Mangrove and like their parents/caretaker/sibling, even when they were around her age. (#oldest daughter vibes)

Bi han grew up with a different side of his father compared to his siblings. I head cannon that he probably learned his assholery from his father when he was younger. But he grew as a person as he had more kids.

Thats also why I think Bi han has both his evident hate and some internalized hate for Smoke. Because he's jealous of how soft and easy he went on him. (#oldest son vibes). This coldness and quiet resentment are also why he is TERRIBLE with children. He will seriously treat them like whole ass adults.

Calla: Go on. Talk to him

Bi han: ...Wanna beer?

Calla: NO!

Smoke on the other hand, is amazing with children. He didn't have a lot of interactions or experience with children, but that didn't stop him from being really good at it. Kids are really good at vibe checks, they can tell.

Smoke tends to hyper analyze and feel guilty after being around the children however, because he feels like he's projecting his memories of his sister onto them.

Smoke despite having MAJOR trauma has a habit of minimalizing it and brushing it off. Which infuriates Kuai Liang to no end.

Kuai Liang is the middle child that acts like the eldest. He got a glimpse to the kind of man their father was, since he's not that much younger than Bi han. But he was one of the first things to inspire their father to grow as a person.

Despite being the middle child, and the brother Bi han hates the least. It's usually Smoke who is the mediator between the two brothers.

The three brothers have vastly different relationships with their parents.

Bi han was an absolute mama's boy. He was always closer to his mom since she was the only person he would accept kindness, love, and even pity from. The day she died was when he truly became the Bi han we all know today. He had a terrible relationship with his father. Due to being put through grueling training when he was younger, as well and having the Lin Kuei's greatness instilled in his mind. Only to watch his father change and abandon this ideology as he aged. To him, any attack to his values is an attack on him.

Kuai Liang on the other hand unfortunately suffered from middle child syndrome. Often not being prioritized due to his mother's focus on Bi han, as well as his father's priority on training Bi han to lead, and later favoritism of Tomas. This neglect is what made him easily the most independent of bunch in their youth. Though this did change after the loss of their mother, which left Bi han to be the most independent and cold.

Smoke, however, is a more complicated matter. While he is undoubtably a daddy's boy. Due to his lack of a present birth father growing up and being taken in by him. His relationship with their mother is difficult. In no way does he dislike or have any problems with her. He just can't bring himself to truly see her as his mom. After watching the death of his true mother and sister, Tomas inherited a number of mental issues that the Lin Kuei never truly bothered to address. The loss of his twin sister made him incredibly clingy and reliant on his brothers, but the loss of his mother left him feeling guilty any time he tried to bond with his adoptive one.

Johhny cage has MAJOR daddy issues and minor mommy issues. Based on character interactions from both MK11 & MK1, we can deduce that he was an asshole. His dad switched between emotionally abusive and absent all together.

While he absolutely adores and loves his mom for being the parent who stayed and raised him, it didn't change the fact that she gave mostly tough love, being a cop and a single mother of two. (His brother who is said to be an asshole though we don't know the extent)

Movies were his main escape from his shitty home life and social life. I decided to keep his characteristics from Mortal Kombat Cage Match, being that he was bullied as a kid. Both by classmates and his brother. As a result, he absolutely loathes bullies, and is fully down to beat the shit out of any adult or minor that bullies any future kids of his, nephews, nieces, or just friend's.

When recreating the timeline, Liu Kang had to decide what to do with the children of Kronica and whether or not to include them in it.

I don't have a canon decision of Shinnok, since we won't be focusing on that in the story, and it'll probably be explained in future games. But Cetrion is a different story.

Cetrion was made to be a caretaker of the earth realm and its life. However, after falling in love with a mortal, was granted permission by Liu Kang to live among them as a mortal.

Their children would eventually become the dryad and subsequentially the Hamadryad, which is why they do not exist in any other previous timelines. It is also why Cetrion was able to become mortal without abandoning her duties. By creating a clan tasked with her previous role.

Anyways! Hope you enjoyed my "Head cannons". Have some tissues on your way out, I know I needed them.

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[bugcatcherkit]

do you have shou mom hc or anything like that? I was looking at the bingo cards and wondered about your thoughts

kind of YES! I'm making another list. I don't know if you mean the entire Broad Range of what a HC is, or something specific. So these will be random thoughts I think about her.

This isn't really a HC and more explaining and/or expanding her canon personality traits. But alongside her headstrongness, I think she can be impulsive. Like, rushes into things she shouldn't but she becomes wholeheartedly committed anyway. Which isn't to say she's naive -- she knows exactly what she's getting into, she just thinks she can handle more than she actually can. Like someone else I know..

Also anybody else notice her strong need to make a huge impact on somebody else's life. She chose the Worst Guy ever with full intent that she alone could Fix Him (didn't even wait to see if she could). I think she wants the validation that her words, efforts, and convictions alone can make the world (and other people) a little better overall. It's just interesting that she could possibly seek a Big Goal through relationships themselves instead of at the expense of them.

Does anybody else think about how she was the only person outside of Claw who knew about it. Her ex literally got someone murdered and she couldn't do anything about it or go to anyone (because who's going to believe that? Especially when she doesn't have any evidence). And she had to live with it for years. Probably isolating as hell !!!! Especially because we don't know what her support system outside of her family was, if she even had an extensive one.

I imagine she tends to feel bad about things very easily, specifically her own actions/inaction, and how that effects other people. Like a responsibility thing, even though most things are out of her control. Her knowing when she needs to quit doesn't quite stop her feeling bad for doing so (and also I don't think she learned her own limits until That Argument, so she's like "what if I did More". It's part of I think she's always asking about Toichiro and planned to visit him with Shou -- she wanted to try again. This is Alongside her concern for him).

OKAY I am going to rant about the abandonment thing again because I keep seeing it still. Grabs everyone by the shoulders. There are so many reasons that she did not take Shou with her. Since (in the context of the argument) her leaving seems like a split-second decision, she probably did not have the proper resources to support him immediately after she left. By the time she got something figured she literally couldn’t get custody. AND I hope nobody forgot that Toichiro used Shou as leverage against her and that was why he cut contact between them entirely (or he thought he did). But they stayed in contact anyway!!!!!!!! They called and visited!!!! People get so distracted with the "abandonment" part that they overlook any potential complicated feelings that probably exist on both sides. Because those are very normal to have with a situation like that!!! For example, her leaving did not have the effect she thought it would (make Toichiro see his mistakes), and she has to consider that! But, at the time, she had run out of things to do or say, and it wouldn't have mattered anyway because the whole point was that Toichiro refused to listen to her or consider her feelings or Accept Change at all. Can anybody hear me??? So sorry to put this rant here when all you wanted was some headcanons

FUCK THAT GOT LONG. That's not even HC that's just character analysis I think? I don’t know anything. I'm actually bad at HCs guys. IDK what characters do in their spare time I just hyper-analyze their thoughts and motivations and ideals. Here's some actual HC maybe?

post-divorce she doesn't get her own place for a while (she is Unsure of what her next steps are and has a LOT to consider) but when she does it's quite small and cozy. Though, it only develops a Homely feel when Shou starts visiting. It becomes more personalized after that, I guess? Does that make sense.

She seems like the type to have a collection of trinkets that are One specific animal. She's got like 50 little porcelain bears sitting on a shelf somewhere or something.

she has one of those ugly little dogs with the crusty eyes. And she saw him at the shelter and he was so old and sad that she almost cried, so she had to take him home.

She is big on manners. Constantly scolding Shou for his lack of them when he moves in with her finally

also she's got the same bluntness and genuineness that Tsubomi has, I think. Actually she has a lot in common with Tsubomi. They are shaking hands. Committed to the people they care about but don't sacrifice their true selves for anything. Etc.

LET HER HAVE A LITTLE GARDEN!!!!!!! She'd love it. She'd talk to her plants to help them grow.

I want to give her a name but I haven't been able to settle on one. Very sad. Hopefully soon?

this feels like me saying a whole lot of nothing. I guess I couldn't get too deep into things because at that point it would feel like I'm inventing a totally different character (because she does not exist in the narrative outside of Narrative Device). Maybe she needs it though. but I fear i cannot do Mob Psycho like ONE can....

[seafoamreadings]

week of april 9th, 2023

aries: this week is a little less hyper-aries, although it is still aries season. seize the opportunity for restful rejuvenation; do what thrills you but don't worry too much about anything that doesn't.

taurus: your ruling planet venus heads out of your sign and into gemini. but don't despair, that's your second house and it's great for you financially. venus is never a bad thing! this is money-magnet taurus.

gemini: venus moves into your sign and then promptly squares saturn in pisces. so it's a blessing mostly, it's hard to see venus in any other way. saturn imposes some restrictions, but sometimes those are for the best. analyze for yourself which restrictions serve you and which are meant to be (later) broken.

cancerians: this week is pretty calm and cool for you, even pretty supportive. *next* week though? get ready for eclipse season. you're so lunar-sensitive you may even be feeling the vibes by the end of this week, especially if you have planets in late cancer. do relax now, so you don't freak out later.

leo: sun on jupiter is super lucky for leos. so what if it's near chiron or eris? a healthy disagreement never hurt anyone, right? this is your fiery 9th house, you'll grow and expand like a beautiful flower no matter what anyone else says.

virgo: you're in a fairy tale. it's not happily ever after yet, but it's not over until it's over. this is sort of a mini climax in your life, your ruler (ceres) in your sign and neptune, your 7th house's ruler, in its domicile, conversing with each other like any lovers should. its surreal, but your fairy godmother or woodland creature friends are backing you up.

libra: your ruling planet venus shifts rather out of her element, and yet still somewhat in your wheelhouse. your wheelhouse in this case is your 9th house; smarts are endlessly attractive here. find some aesthetically pleasing library and a fun book and see what unfolds for you.

scorpio: because the south node hangs out in your sign these days, you feel the impending eclipse season more than most. it's soon but it isn't yet. stay calm and collected, at least externally. prepare for a little chaos in the next couple weeks on both personal and social scales. if you can prepare well, you can stay calm and collected in the midst of it too.

sagittarius: venus into gemini means big googoo heart eyes. are you making them or receiving them from someone special? don't let the square to saturn worry you. it slows things down but wouldn't you rather it smolder than fizzle out quick?

capricorn: it's a saturnine week featuring a capricorn moon so you're really comfortable with the vibe most likely. but don't get too comfortable, with a lot of aries activity not quite appearing on the horizon just yet there is some sort of home/family drama brewing.

aquarius: i know some of you have dreaded the ingress of pluto. this week's trine from venus in gemini, however, is really nice for you; very romantic in an intense and perhaps operatic way. just enjoy it, you don't have to sort everything out at this time. a little drama isn't so bad.

pisces: the surreal and sentimental tone of the week fits you well. next week is less your speed. for now just enjoy the silence of empty space, the stillness. the connectedness of all things.

[tangledbea]

I'm writing a new dream fic, and Analyzing Character Psychology™️ is kinda hard. What would you say are Rapunzel and Eugene's biggest flaws? What are their most crucial *positive* qualities?

On that topic, what advice do you have for writing characters IN character? How to get them right?

Oof, this is a difficult question, because do you want me to stick to series canon or the way I see and portray them?

Rapunzel's Flaws

The Series: Her biggest flaw in the series is that she cannot see the world from any perspective but her own. In their attempt to make Rapunzel "always right," they made her come across as dismissive of other people's feelings and point of view. This is what leads her to bugging Cassandra incessantly at the beginning of "Under Raps" (or what caused her to try to force her to be her friend in the first place), and to dismiss Eugene's concerns about someone stealing the identity of Flynn Rider, none of which I felt was in character for her.

The reason I don't agree with this is because of the way she was raised. Gothel raised her to be attentive and obedient, which would cause her to be hyper-aware of people's moods and know when it's best to stay out of their way. The movie shows her being nonconfrontational. The series got right that she's a people pleaser, because all she knew until she left the tower, was to do things so that the only other person in her life would like/love her more. She felt her only worth was in her hair and what she could give others. She would not insist upon doing everything her own way.

My Interpretation: Her biggest flaw in my interpretation is that she wants to be all things to all people, and that means taking on responsibilities and emotional burdens that she can't really bear, but not sharing them with other people because she doesn't want to be a bother to them. She gives and gives and gives of herself until she's burned out, and even then, she forces herself to smile through the fatigue and pain. There is a lot going on behind that sunshiny personality.

Rapunzel's Positive Traits

The Series: The series has her most positive trait fragrantly be that she doesn't give up on people, no matter what. And yes, her willingness to give people a second, third, fifth, fiftieth chance is a good thing, but it can also be taken too far and turn her into an assault victim (and yet she'll keep getting up and not giving up on the person who wants her dead).

The reason I don't agree with this is because she did eventually stand up to Gothel when she realized she'd been done dirty. And though she didn't particularly want to harm her, she was 100% ready to walk out of her life forever and never look back. Rapunzel knew that her hair was keeping Gothel alive, but she swore to never let her use it again. I don't think she'd be so keen to keep trying to "save" Cassandra, given that Cassandra was literally trying to kill her.

My Interpretation: To me, her most positive trait is that she sees the world with new eyes. Because she wasn't raised in a society, she notices and questions things that most of society just grows up taking for granted. This attitude will lead her to lift up the very people who were trying to take her and the other nobles down in "Tangled: before Ever After". And because of my previous complaint with how the series portrays her biggest flaw, I fully believe that she will listen to the people she's trying to reform and find out what made them turn to crime in the first place. Rapunzel is the sort of person to fix the system, not the problems the system caused.

Eugene's Flaws

The Series: The series would have us believe that Eugene's biggest flaw is his vanity. They play it up for laughs ("Be Very Afraid") and have it be this annoying thing he's utterly obsessed with.

I don't agree with this, but it's closer than their version of Rapunzel's biggest flaw. Eugene's vanity is a symptom of his actual biggest flaw, which I'll address below.

My Interpretation: Eugene's biggest flaw is that he has no sense of self-worth. The series actually does touch on this multiple times, and in that respect they did him proud. The vanity is there because, just as beauty is only skin-deep, so is his self worth. But if he looks good on the outside, then that will buy him time to convince people he's worth theirs. (Besides, there's literally nothing wrong with a man being well-groomed and liking his appearance.) Eugene's sense of self-worth is so low that he spent over half his life pretending to be someone else. He told Rapunzel that she fixed him, because he didn't see himself as being able to do it on his own. He begins the series literally not knowing who he is as a person, because the person he pretended to be has been retired. And while he does spend the series gaining confidence in himself and finding purpose, I don't agree with what they decided his purpose eventually is.

Eugene's Positive Traits

The Series: His loyalty. And you know what? For the most part, I don't disagree with this. However, they took his loyalty and turned it into a flaw by having him just go along with whatever Rapunzel wanted. Not having self-worth doesn't mean that he has no thoughts or opinions of his own.

I don't think even for a moment that he'd forgive Cassandra for everything that she did. She didn't just betray Rapunzel, she betrayed them all. Not only that, she attempted to kill him and his entire close friend group, especially Rapunzel, she took over the only place that ever felt like home to him, she helped the greatest evil and threat become unleashed. He wouldn't sit in a burning building drinking coffee and saying, "This is fine." Nor would he turn a blind eye and say, "Glad you're back to normal."

My Interpretation: His loyalty, not only to Rapunzel, but to himself and his standards. Once you win his trust, he's got your back. But if you then stab him in the back, he is done with you. We don't know what happened between him and Lance to make them part ways, but Eugene didn't trust Lance not to ruin his new way of life, even after Lance had started to reform (see "The Way of the Willow"). Eugene might not have much self-worth, but he protects that which he cares about (so long as it hasn't hurt him in the process).

Secondly to this is his compassion. He acts tough and thoughtless, but he actually cares deeply, and you can see it in how he treats people once he warms up to them.

Keeping Characters In Character

The best way I've found to keep a character I'm writing in character is to think about what a situation makes them think and how a it makes them feel. (And explaining this thought process in the writing with both descriptive words [He was amazed.] and actual reactive thoughts [Did that really just happen? What was he supposed to do with that?!].) Writing a character's reaction to something isn't always easy, and sometimes you're going to find that the reaction you anticipated them having is not the one you're getting. In those cases, you either let their new reaction carry the story in a slightly altered direction, or else you slightly alter events to get the reaction you wanted. Always keep their backstory in mind, and how that backstory would affect their emotions. But include all of the backstory, including the recent past. Rapunzel is not the same person post-series as she is in the movie, because she's experienced a lot in that time period. But who she was raised to be will still affect her actions going forward. You can't just undo 18 years of trauma, neglect, and abuse.

As for dialogue, write the gist of what you want them to say, then read it back to yourself in their voice. Can you clearly hear it in their voice in your head, or does it feel clunky and not like something they'd say? Adjust it until it sounds like them. (One of my biggest jobs when editing Tangled: Between the Kisses is making sure the dialogue is phrased in such a way as it sounds like the character saying in.)

I hope this helps! Feel free to ask me if you've got any other questions!

[sippinggossip]

Why are you guys so quick to assume Victoria is a terrible person?

Do we have any concrete proof she doesn't get along with ALL her friends' gfs?

Not an assumption

Not her not liking posts or not following them

We need concrete proof

We know at the very least...

She and Lavinia get along

She and Dove haven't gotten a chance to truly hang out since she's been busy ASF for the past year

We nothing on her and cyd afaik

And stop with the body shaming, Idgaf if she gets injections or surgery stop associating cosmetic enhancements with ill morals, it's backwards, outdated and not aligned with the feminist values that should be present today, doing so only pits women against each other, damned if she does damned if she doesn't

If she hates the way she looks and does nothing she's the madonna who needs to be shown how to love herself

If she hates the way she looks and changes it she's the superficial whore who needs to be shown how to love herself

If she loves the way she looks and doesn't change then she's the superficial whore who needs to be taken down a few pegs and humbled

If she loves the way she looks and gets enhancements then she's the superficial whore whose vain and self-hating and needs to be taken down a few pegs and humbled

No matter what she does she cannot win

Stop with the fucking slut shaming seriously it's getting irritating how people feel the need to hyper criticize and over police what she wears bc what she wears when performing as a DJ or on stage is probably not the same thing that she's wearing and day-to-day life and regardless it's not our business to go this hard and critiquing over analyzing and being unbearable bitches to her

Most likely you have been slut-shamed in one way or another and does not feel good so why are we doing it to someone else especially someone who we are claiming to be a fan of and if you've slut shamed someone get the fuck off your high horse seriously putting others down won't lift you up and it's getting really irritating seeing the amount of slut shaming and misogynistic derogatory remarks made about Victoria and her friends especially considering the band and their aesthetic I can assure you the last thing they're doing is worrying about what the fuck other people are wearing

Måneskin is the LAST band that would demand modesty If you want to dress modestly congratulations that's your business more power to you whatever makes you feel comfortable

If you want to dress in a way that is not modest congratulations that's your business more power to you whatever makes you feel comfortable

It truly truly gives pick me energy the way that you guys are ripping Victoria to shreds because the guys go topless quite often but when the guys do it it's more acceptable than my Victoria is topless

Who fucking cares if she's topless boobs are boobs stop sexualizing the human body stop assuming nudity is inherently sexual and even if an adult nude body is posted online in a sexual manner that is not a moral failing and is in fact surprisingly the business of the adult who posted their own body

Her being topless on a boat or at the beach is not a moral failing is not a bad thing and it's not surprising given The fact that in places like Italy being topless on the beach is completely normal and don't even try to use the excuse that you're American and for Americans going topless is not normal because I'm American unless you're living in middle of bum fuck nowhere USA (on the coasts at least) you can find a topless beach and in general we need to stop over sexualizing the human form this is also something that the band has been pushing for quite some time

The guys are topless in boats and at the beach why is it bad for her but not for the guys

Make it make sense

Stop being misogynistic hateful "I'm not like other girls"ass bitches

Because I bet a lot of you say that you're for feminism and that you're against bigotry and backward mindsets but then you jump on here and act like the people you hate same shit different font essentially.

And shockingly I have yet to see you guys hyper criticize the guys for being with their friend groups it's because they're not always posting each other? Is it because you don't care? Because surprisingly the band members are not friendless losers who only have each other! If Victoria only had guy friends you guys would criticize her for that and we already see the way you guys act with her being around her girl friends

You guys can criticize behavior but the second you bring misogyny and bigotry into the critique your words are no longer a valid critique

It is very clear that a lot of you guys are not girls girls because a girl's girl would never use the disgusting rancid misogyny slut shaming and hateful narratives that I have seen here from anons you can critique behavior but don't you dare bring hateful narratives and misogyny into the critique cuz then it has no basis other than to bring other women down

And I think that's what pisses me off the most at least anti-feminists have the balls to say that they're anti-feminists they're up front about it you bitches are wolves in sheep's clothing I might be wrong but anti-feminists who are clear that they are anti-feminists they are wolves you see them coming you know what they are they say what they are they don't try to hide behind a cloak of wool

Y'all act like you're feminists and want to make the world a better place but it's very clear that is a bunch of bullshit

God forbid Victoria is confident in herself God forbid she post whatever the fuck she wants to post on her social media

But yeah the misogyny / misogynoir that I've seen in this fandom both on here and on Twitter is disgusting and upsetting especially as a woman of color and I'm really getting tired of it sorry for the rant

Let’s be clear that the admin of this blog doesn’t think Vic is a terrible person and whatnot.

I’m sorry you’re getting tired of this, anon. Your rant is allowed.

[kyrodo]

There's one clear difference between Choskey and Shine. As far as crushes go I mean. Shine is always mindful for Snowy whenever he's visiting us. Always tries to make him feel included, always tries to ensure he doesn't feel isolated when he's being affectionate with me. At the same time, it's still somewhat obvious that he likes me a lot in particular. He'll be mindful of Choskey, he'll be mindful of Red, Lupy, Icy, BalloonToes, whoever is visiting us and ensure he's interacted with them all at least once. He's always making this effort to make everyone feel included, even though he kinda magnets to me for most of it. Which fits with his theme. Helping people, making people feel comfortable, making people not feel lonely, always being mindful of people's emotions perhaps to an extreme. The opposite of Choskey.

Choskey back in the day when I was jealous of him and CarboorCat, or Lightfostpaw, or even WolfangCerberus to a degree, I used to get hyper jealous. He'd always be inching closer to someone other than me, leaving me with the choices to either inch closer to remain included or in most cases sulk alone by myself or even hop worlds to see other people. He used to be completely oblivious of my feelings and always make me feel excluded. Which he does have difficulty with empathy or being mindful of what other think or feel and even admits it.

Shine is an overthinker like me, but an affectionate type. I'm more spiteful, sulky, jealous, selfish, just very good at hiding it at least in the moment. I'm always hoping for some degree of mind reading, hoping people will always be mindful of how I feel, or eventually notice enough to start wondering how I feel. Which is partly why it's beneficial for me to have a semi-private space to spill all that. Since other wise it would strain my friendships with the people I feel for or care about the most. But yeah... it's very clear Shine missed me a lot and was very happy to see me last night. I was getting nightly messages from him on the days we couldn't see each other on vrchat, to kind of make up for the fact we didn't see each other that night. Which I doubt Choskey or others have had that same kind of treatment.

The comfortable voice. The willing to share personal things. The warm paws for phantom sense. The highly compatible by his own words. Always purring and meowing to no end regardless of who's around or what they think of us. That is still me.

And not to toot my own horn but, the soothing voice, by multiple sources, multiple separate people have told me that, the warm paws for phantom sense also multiple separate people even someone I had just met day of at a khnfucat meetup told me the same exact thing Shine did the night before. And it is... I love having that identity. I love representing that. I love how consistent that is. I love how people feel that way about me without even pushing for it, that is objectively what people think of me. Lupyraster's said that too and even confirmed that with IcyCoyote who agreed. And that is the opposite of what people thought of me when I was all text on twitter.

People say all these positive things about me. Always positive. Unless it's some rando in a public lobby going "ew furries" people are generally accepting of me and enjoy my presence. And yet not some years ago some people I was hoping to be trusting with was doing the exact opposite.

And analyzing the past, analyzing the reaction I was observing when I was first being spied upon, that air I had in the irls was always there. It was just very much hidden by how negative I can be when I am spilling thoughts online. In vrchat, I can show my full potential without having to prove myself or fight for it. I literally just have to be my natural self.

That's the thing about manipulative or gaslighty people like Ronnie or his friends. No matter who you are or how good you can be, they will always make you out to be the worst person on the internet if you don't put an excessive amount of effort to quell every lie they make or imply about you because of the way they communicate, or the sheer level of injustice they put to what you're trying to communicate or who you actually are. You will always feel violated around people like that. Because the reality stops mattering, all that matters is who you could be which they'll maximize all the negative stuff as much as possible until just defending yourself is proof that whatever preassumptions have been made still feel likely to them. You will never feel comfortable. You will always feel hated.

Everything they say about you or whatever you have to say is so offputting that even the "positive" stuff they have to say about you feels like carefully veiled insults. This is the world I came from. And nobody sees it. Nobody sees the environment I survived. Nobody sees all the heartbreak, frustration, embarassment, sadness, pain or anger it took to make it here. Shine is one of the few people who truly understands the full extent of what I've experienced.

And once again I appreciate how socially and emotionally rich my life is in the present compared to back then. Both near and far. I still remember when Shine was shyly asking about discordant discourse wishing to be a part of it. Nearly everyone I've added to it has been active in it except Beastner. Though Choskey monopolized me enough that he stopped being interested in interacting with me much. That and he's overly self conscious about the french thing. He made a little too much noise in the voice calls when he was at work though so it's for the best but I wish I had a bit more time to include him more in our gaming at least. But he still got some value out of RGB up until he made his own server.

But other than him everyone I've added since vrchat became this little family I have, even carboorcat and lightfostpaw, who used to be my competition became friends to hang out with. We have this little hang out home, we're always seeing each other on vrchat when we can and that is the type of cohesion I wanted. I didn't get much value out of Omi's group chat and I didn't have anywhere else to go up until vrc. But when it's our own server it's a lot easier to be a part of things, it's a lot easier to be involved. And as long as I remain selective and slow about who I add to the server and how well personalities will fit with it, it will continue to be this lively tight nit community.

Vrchat added so much value to my life, identity wise, social wise, romantic wise, even got a job out of it, like I can't overstate how much vrchat turned my life around. Or how directly it eases my trauma wounds. So yeah, maybe I'm not for everyone, but most people seem to like me. You're just not most people. And that's okay.

It's clear that back when I was wondering if I would be a good fit for your group, I should have actually been thinking about if you would be good fit for mine. And a shitty manipulative personality like yours is never finding it's way inside my home. All this time and shit never seems to go in your favor does it? Not when it comes to me, not even when you're feeding me to the mob. The funny thing on my end of things is even though I would spout all these out into public places, which was and still is perhaps not okay, I didn't build a fucking army against you. I wasn't talking about you behind your back except to select people like my therapy friend or my bff. The only person who does that kinda shit is you. I don't mind if you spy on me now, kiss my fucking ass. Show all your friends how good I actually am, it sure fucking worked the first time around.

Maybe next time consider more finding out than fucking around. Maybe then you'll start looking less like a fucking asshole. Only you could take careful obvious diplomatic planning and turn it into a total disaster. You're just a beacon of amazing decision making skills. You ever change, or are you just the same old you?

Happy Halloween and all. I hate to admit that my sona kinda fits the part. But I clearly didn't have the right person to bring me into the horror scene. I don't care how well my sona goes with someone if they're a shitty person. Nothing makes up for having a trainwreck as a personality. So what am I supposed to say. Didn't have the right environment to be a great person? Yeah well you sure didn't give me the right environment either. When I'm emotionally fucked, I'm not looking for someone to be emotionally fucked with, I'm looking for a fucking cure. Distrust and gaslighting doesn't make for great treatment.

Who are you? What do you represent? If choices make you who you are than who are you? My point of reference is very limited I admit but I don't hold much hope for you at all. You don't exactly seem the learning type. You're the blame everyone for your mistakes type. You're the wounded ego type that doesn't give a shit if they're doing something wrong or not. That's the only side of you you've ever shown me. The Ghost in the Shell. You like doing everything the hard way especially when it comes to basic communication so who am I to fucking stop you.

In heavy contrast when I can be myself, when I get the soft and forthcoming environment I want, I fucking thrive. You're only great when you're the only choice.

[eregyrn-falls]

YES. YES. YES.

I'm extremely fond of DD&MD as an episode, and I also admire the way it functions to balance out our introduction to Ford in ATOTS, and establish a number of points about him as a character that complicates the conclusion of his introduction. After all, ATOTS ends with that bitter exchange between Stan and Ford, and no matter how much the episode has done to round him out and try to make his viewpoint understandable, it's troubling for a viewer to end on that "You give me my house back" speech from him.

So to follow that up with DD&MD is like... as an episode, it's not just a break from the heaviness of the past several eps. It also does a LOT to expand the audience's view of what Ford is like NOW, as an adult, post-Portal. It gives him a lot more complexity, and, it also does several things that kind of immediately tell us that the note we ended ATOTS on is not necessarily as final as it may have sounded.

I could write lots more about the opening, and other points in the ep. But let's just focus on this mentioned bit!

For one thing, the bickering between Stan and Ford that leads up to this moment is a lot more like just... sibling bickering, than two men who are genuinely angry at each other. ("Move that and pay the price!" - "Oh, what? 50 magical dwarf dollars?" - "Don't mock our fantastical monetary system!") But, Ford drawing back a bit and regaining his composure, and then suggesting that Stan would have fun if he played the game with them -- yeah, that IS showing that Ford is working on himself. And it's also Ford making an overture to Stan. You can't be THAT angry at a guy, or hate a guy that much, if you're inviting him to join you in playing a game that you love.

It's not really the RIGHT kind of overture at that moment -- I think it comes from a genuine place for Ford (he does love this game), but it's not something that's going to appeal to Stan. So it doesn't work. But it's a small sign that things aren't necessarily irreparable between the two of them. If Ford, at that point, is the main obstacle to their reconciliation, it's an indication that he is more open to making peace with Stan than it seemed at the end of ATOTS.

(I also find it interesting that there's no mention in the episode of Ford blaming Stan for the predicament they wind up in. Not that Stan is really to blame anyway -- he didn't know what throwing the dice bag could have done. Although, you know -- don't grab others' things and throw them, kids. But if Ford was only interested in being hyper-critical of Stan, then he could have made some kind of remark about it. Instead he just kind of ruefully admits that he's the one to got carried away, at the end. I also did write a long essay analyzing a little micro-expression of his when Stan is apologizing to Dipper, that I find fascinating. Anyway.)

There's also the small moment at the end, when Ford reveals to Dipper that he's dismantled the Portal. What Ford says is, "That's why I was mad at Stan for using it." It's a tiny thing, but he's using the past tense. In any writing situation, you always have choices about how to phrase something. There are other ways to write it, if you want to convey that Ford continues to be mad at Stan for using it to save him; or that Ford will never forgive him, or something. If what you want to do is emphasize how intractable this problem is between them, then you can do that.

But I don't think the line that they ended up with does that. I think, rather, that it conveys that Ford has cooled down a bit in the day or two or three since he got back. And that, taken all together, there are these indications throughout the episode that Ford is much more open to repairing his relationship with Stan than it seemed at the end of ATOTS. The building blocks are there. Watch this space, etc.

Theres a part in Dungeons Dungeons and More Dungeons that I really like. When Dipper and Ford have overtaken the living room and Ford and Stan start to get in an argument, Ford starts to yell at him, but he stops himself and calmly suggests Stan might have fun playing too.

I think sometimes people feel like Ford hadn't learned anything about his behaviors till the finale. We've seen his negative emotions get the best of him in the past, twice with Stan and once with Fiddleford.

But that tiny two second exchange in DDMD is a pretty clear marker the man's been working on himself since the portal. To me anyway.

[littlestarprincess]

More Haunting Adeline stuff before work. I don't know that I'm doing a good job of actually analyzing things . . . I'm still mostly just making notes of details here and then mulling over more details in my head haha

It's interesting to me that we're opening with a scene where Daya sexualizes Addie's grandma in the same way as she and Addie tend to sexualize each other, and Addie is like "NO, gross" about it, which is understandable.

I have no experience with platonic relationships being this sexual, but I do know that more conservative girls I've interacted with interact with each other in this kind of way, so I wouldn't say it seems unrealistic so much as now that I'm paying attention to Addie's self image, and in particular how she interacts with the concept of sex, it's a constant barrage.

We talk about how Cishet Guys think everything is about sex; "liberal" woman who are actually hyper-conservative (aka, women who adopt the aesthetics [talking about being Empaths or woo woo spiritual stuff rather than Christian Talking Points is really the big one that comes to mind] of being liberal but act according to conservative values, for whatever reason) will talk about how men are like dogs / animals that can't control themselves around sex, blah blah blah, but in actuality, conservative women tend to be hyper sexual in exactly the same ways and conservative guys, and this is really illustrated in this scene between Addie and Daya, where Daya suggests Addie's grandma was into freaky sex stuff based on her lingerie, and Addie ends up suggesting Daya do a strip tease to "scare off ghosts".

Addie straight up talks about how it's necessary for her to neg Daya:

"She knows damn well she's beautiful, which is why I tend to tease her about being the opposite. Someone's gotta humble the sexy bitch every once in a while. She'll get too big for this earth if I don't."

What??? Does this mean??? I would not want to be friends with Addie, and I would not want to be friends with Daya. They seem like very, very toxic people. Addie is giving big "praying on your downfall" energy.

Zade has left another rose, and Addie is freaked out, not knowing if he's still in the house or not. He could be, and she thinks to herself that she doesn't want to be the stupid girl in a horror movie who goes investigating and ends up victim, and she doesn't want to let some asshole intimidate her, and I think think this is the crux of the story, the dilemma that the fantasy is built on: she doesn't want to be stupid and she doesn't want to be weak.

It's funny that even when she decides on a course of action, she still has to be self-depreciating and kind of sexist about it. I'm not surprised that Addie has low self esteem, but it's getting increasingly obvious that the way she sees herself is as a loser, no matter how much she tries to talk herself up.

After Addie tells Daya what happened, Daya talks about trying to get Addie to not sleep in this old house, and offhandedly suggests dragging out Addie by her hair -- this gives Addie a pause where her only action is to frown and be like, I don't want to be dragged out by my hair.

Which is ultimately my way of saying, for all that they're pretending they're joking when they're cruel to each other, it's still cruel???

The aesthetics in this book are really strong when it comes to the actual stalking & scenes (somewhat lacking when it comes to Daya and Addie, but eh, it's a romance novel) -- the juxtaposition of the ghosts and haunted house vibes pairs really well to create the sense of "haunting" when Zade leaves deliberate traces of himself in the house.

[tollighophyne]

“How Does She Feel About Me? Should We Be Exclusive?🐛”

How Your Person Feels About You!

So I broke it down into two questions : How hey feel about you as a PERSON (LEFT) and how they feel about you ROMANTICALLY(RIGHT)

To the left we have Ace of Cups Upright and The Magician In Reverse. How they feel about you as a person is very difficult to place honestly. On one hand they really admire how you can get yourself out of any funk, any type of unfavorable situation, and still have the stamina and self respect to not only rebuild what may have been damaged but to also grow and manifest ontop of that. Your person really admires how even in your darkest head space or physical moments you're still always bending over backwards for others and never seek any type of reward or praise from it, you're genuinely giving and want to inspire others... HOWEVER... with the Magician card in reverse... YOU DO NOT LIFT YOURSELF UP! The same love and inspirational power you give to others no matter what you're going through, doesnt get returned to yourself through you. This is creating a pit in their stomach because they see all that you are and are becoming and love this about you... but at the same time they wished you were more confident and self praising towards yourself because they see how you will feel undeserving of them and in general. They need you to be at your fullest because it hurts them to see you so low at times when they know you know who the fuck you are. It's okie though! Everyone has these moments to spring back upwards and go even higher than they imagined so don't feel bad! Like I said, your person already sees how capable you are!

How they feel romantically... I will be honest. Now is not the time for a relationship. Eight of Wands and Seven of Cups both in reverse makes me feel like both of you or one of you feels a sense of rush. Are you guys long distance? Sense of rush in 2 separate ways, if you guys can re balance your mindsets and control your worries and anxieties and even some levels of insecurities... I think that's when it'll be time to make it official! With the 8 of Wands in reverse there is a sense of time being an over focus when it needs to be something that guides you and adds as a form of strength to your day. When you over focus on time and making sure you squeeze out ALL of the juice from the lemon, you end up missing any seeds that fell through or maybe now you have too much juice and pulp so you have to re balance it out with more/less water/sugar. This is how you(or them or both) are treating time. There is a sense of not having enough words said, or not displaying enough intentions, or etc. Stop this. If it's you please stop over analyzing and obsessing over time love. It is simply driving you NUTS and adding more insecurities for you when in reality you have to let go of that control and understand Natural Pace exists for a reason. Especially in relationships revolving love. You're not able to fully see where you're going, what is waiting for you there, and how you're even going to get there because you (or them or both) are focusing on one thing and hyper fixating on it. With the 7 of Cups in Reverse there's a different sense of rush: Limitations. So much can be said with this card alone honestly but I am not trying to talk your ear off. Spirit is very talkative today. Insecure... this is why we need that Magician card; knowing who tf you are and what you bring to the table, to be re balanced love. Insecure energy is good because it helps us see what we have been suppressing, ignoring, or have been blinded to as far as what we need to work on or fulfill in ourselves, so do not get upset by this term that I use. See it for what it truly is which is direction and change love! You both really do have a lot of things on your plates and sometimes you guys feel you're bringing the other person away from goals, or aren't able to really lift them/support them like you ideally want to and this causes inbalacement within yourselves and sometimes gets projected into the relationship. Communicate and come together and talk about it, do not supress it. I feel you guys have alot you already talk about and maybe avoid topics like this because it can seem too serious or too "exclusive" or etc. but it's all about vulnerability, respect, and dedication. We are adults, communicate together and at the very least tend to the friendship. Do not walk on eggshells. The sooner you guys can get over these senses of being rushed and feeling you need to make bold (maybe even impulsive) moves, the sooner you'll see growth and feel the change.

Your Ending Messages were

#15 Catch Your Breath, #50 Potential Gateway, and #23 You Are Worth It all in Reverse.

Do I need to even say ;p;. #15 Is letting you know again to pause, regain yourself, and give yourself patience love. It is 6 added together so Transition energy coming through; as in you will be moving from one phase to another which is exactly what this sounds like, but you HAVE to learn when to rest and when to also rest your mind and emotions love. #50 adds up to 5 which is all about uncomfy moments or strife. This isn't something you're used to really having to prove or use as a powerhouse for yourself and so do not feel bad or get on yourself too hard love. This is a learning experience for you and there's nothing wrong with that, this is why I also encourage you to communicate with them because I really feel a lot of what you're going through they probably feel on some level in themselves or definitely have noticed in you but haven't wanted to over step or kill the vibe. #23 adds up to 5 again and it re stressed how you really do have to understand who tf you are and respect and love all parts of you, especially if you want any sort of relationship (platonic or romantic) to work out love. Self love is a reoccurring theme for you as well as patience dear, please understand who tf you are because you really are amazing and I would love for this to work out. There may be a situation where you or she reaches our on that exclusive question, if you wait until then to communicate, it'll take alot for you to set that line and it may come off more hurtful than if you guys started really communicating now. This is also why I urge you to start really communicating any issues. anxieties, and insecurities you both have.

[thegirlwhowrites642]

Hinny shippers and romione

Note: if you start reading this, you have to finish it, especially if you want to comment or reblog.

It had never dawned on me until recently that a significant amount of hinny shippers doesn't seem to be particularly fond of romione (at least this is the impression I got). Which I have to admit surprised me a little because with all the crazy non-canon ships this fandom has, canon shippers always stuck together in my head.

Now, as the biggest nerd on this planet and a hardcore hinny shipper who always liked romione, I feel like I'm qualified and impartial enough to take up the challenge of analyzing where this dislike for romione in hinny shippers comes from. Even if I'm sure not all the hinny shippers who don't like romione will identify with all the points.

I believe there are different angles on this matter that we have to discuss.

The differences between hinny and romione

An inevitable factor to take into consideration is that we are talking about the taste of people who are very into hinny. Therefore I consider it essential to highlight the differences between these two ships.

What we know about hinny and romione from the books

The books are written from Harry's point of view (it's slightly more complex but I'm simplifying) which means that we have inside information on hinny.

We know how they behave when they are alone, we have extremely emotionally intimate moments between them, we know why they are appealing to each other, they are always described in hyper poetic ways because we have the opportunity of getting into Harry's feelings. Understanding the reasons why they are a perfect fit is not that hard.

For the same reason, we don't know a thing about romione as a couple.

We don't know how they behave when they are alone, how they make each other feel on an intimate level, you can make suppositions, sure, and there are nice moments between them, but you don't actually know, which considering that they are not the two most compatible people on earth, at least on paper, can make a lot of people struggling in imagining them in a relationship.

If maybe having them get together sooner would have solved the issue because Harry would have been presented with them as an actual couple, this possibility was destroyed by the plot necessity of them getting together at the very end of the series.

In short, we know why Harry and Ginny love each other, we know why they are in for the long haul, with Ron and Hermione you lack all the answers to the whys that are not speculation, even if usually supported by canon material.

The different narratives that hinny and romione portray

Stating that hinny and romione have completely different dynamics seems like using a euphemism. They are like night and day. As a writer, I actually appreciate it but it's also true that some dynamics are more emotionally appealing than others depending on well, personal taste, life experience, therefore is not really surprising that someone would have a clear favorite between these two couples.

Harry and Ginny have a soulmates dynamic. They are presented as characters who were always meant for each other, had an instant connection, and were kept separate by lack of knowledge of each other/external factors/previous misconceptions. It's never about them not getting along or not being compatible until a certain point in time. It's always about them not having time to talk/spend together, being distracted by various traumas and life-threatening situations, and so on. There are also certain passages in the books that bring up this symbolism of a love that defeats death and logic. They are the ones that can read each other minds and who find peace in one another, the ones that even when jealous of each other treat the other with such grace. This is not the first time I bring this up in my posts and it probably deserves its analysis but this is not what we are doing right now. To make it short: hinny is built on the "it's always been you" trope. Which is pretty much the textbook technique to create a soulmates dynamic. If you don't see it and don't trust my opinion, trust JKR's one seeing that she wrote them and called them soulmates on more than one occasion, if you don't trust her then trust Harry who chose life over death to build a family with Ginny.

On the other side, we have Ron and Hermione. They have known each other and been best friends since age eleven and yet it took them seven years and a war to get together. Insecurities, inability to open up to each other, petty jealousy is what kept them apart. They were kept apart by themselves. They had to go through all the life experiences we see in the books to actually be a good fit for one another. This is a very short explanation of why Ron and Hermione are not soulmates. You can argue with me about terries hunting otters all day long if you want, but it doesn't change the fact that they are not presented as soulmates. What comes out of the books is two people who shaped each other and who were shaped by what they went through into the right partner for the other one. A good exercise to understand if two characters are written as soulmates is putting them in an alternate universe where their lives are different. If you do that you'll realize that Ron and Hermione could have easily not ended up together [depending on your consideration of TCC this could be explicitly canon; I do not consider TCC canon]. I do think that in every scenario in which they are at school together (unless you consider wrong sortings) and they have their canon childhoods, they end up dating because they were always attracted to each other, but I don't know if they would end up married in all of them.

Now, of course there's beauty in both narratives, at least in my opinion, but if you are particularly fond of one you might not be too big on the other.

Ron and Hermione could be your parents or your bestfriend's parents, Harry and Ginny are that type of couple you meet maybe once in your life with those crazy stories like "we met and three months later we were married, now we have been together for forty years".

Added note, because apparently, it's not as obvious as I thought: When I'm talking about soulmates, I'm referring to the romantic matching souls that always end up finding each other. A concept present in a lot of pagan beliefs. And not to the overused by the mainstream media version of two people simply being a good romantic match.

The perception of Hermione

I don't think it necessary to explain that the perception of a character in a ship can influence the perception of the ship itself.

Hermione in the books

The thing about people who produce/enjoy content on canon ships is that they are probably very into canon. They know the characters really well, can analyze them and all that. With this in mind, Hermione is a very useful character in the books in terms of plot, she moves the plot on a lot, so regardless of what unpleasant behavior she may have during the books she always compensates with being useful. The moment people think about her a bit more though, maybe they try to put her in another context for a story they want to write, they are left to contemplate only her personality and often end up realizing they don't find her so pleasant. As someone who views Hermione as a version of herself stripped away from a lot of her favorite qualities of herself, I know where they are coming from. Every time I read about people having Hermione as their favorite character, I get very skeptical about their perception of canon because I know from first-hand experience that Hermione is someone that very few people would want around.

Opinions on Ron and how Hermione treats him

As far as I'm aware, Ron is very beloved in the hinny fandom. He's closer in personality to Harry and Ginny after all. I don't think there's a single hinny shipper out there that will tell you that they don't like romione because Hermione deserves better. On the other hand, there will be someone who will tell you that Ron deserves better. Considering that we are talking about people obsessed over a ship like hinny where respect and grace are on the front line and Hermione sent bloody canaries to eat Ron alive, it's not that crazy.

Hermione in the movies and that disgusting borderline incestuous ship

If you were already someone who wasn't too fond of Hermione in the books, I have a feeling the movies didn't really improve your opinion. If Hermione's character in the books holds a certain value with not being presented as perfect but an actual human being with flaws, Hermione in the movies is what it's commonly known as a Mary Sue. This was not only an insult to feminism but an excellent way of making Hermione unbearable to the people who happen to actually enjoy the books.

Add to all of this that Kloves, who probably never had a friend of the opposite gender in his entire life, decided to push his harmi*ne propaganda in the movies while simultaneously destroying Ginny and hinny not only in the storyline of the movies but in the perception of all those people who never read the books, and the dislike of Hermione from hinny shippers isn't that inconceivable. In this case, instead of being logical it's purely an emotional reaction due to exasperation.

Conclusion

If the nature of these two couples inevitably brings the reader to pick a favorite, I believe what ultimately produces the dislike of the ship in some hinny shippers is the dislike of Hermione.

Personal opinion

As I stated more than once during this analysis I enjoy romione as a pairing and to be completely honest I argued on more than one occasion both on the Internet and in real life to defend them.

I'd dare say that JKR wouldn't be so objective if she had to do this same analysis.

Final note, please read

Hinny and romione are two valid ships and in this godforsaken fandom where people are shipping decent characters with death eaters, we canon shippers should honestly stick together.

It's absolutely normal to like hinny or romione more, being two very different ships I find it hard to believe that someone could like them equally.

Of course, if you don't like one of these ships it's fine, just don't go mental shipping one of these four characters with adults or pathetic human beings like Malfoy ;D .

And not liking a positive character is fine too as long as you are respectful about it and have reasons for it that don't steam down to things like sexism (like it often happens with Ginny) or classism (like it often happens with Ron).

I hope this post won't start some war between hinny and romione shippers, not that I think my blog is that relevant but I'd like to specify just in case.

That said, I'm pretty sure there are more romione shippers who don't like hinny anyway.

[trilobiter]

I believe that a lot of people, Trump fans and foes alike, don't actually think of public figures as "real people." A real person is some one you either know or might possibly bump into, while most public figures only exist as images for most people. The president in real life is not much more real to them than the president from a movie.

So if you like Trump, there isn't actually that much difference between the "real" Trump and the hyper-masculine caricature of Trump that you admire. You probably know that the real Trump is not actually the cartoon character from your memes, but they both represent the same idea in your mind, and you're not likely to get close enough to the real guy to thoroughly analyze his departure from the meme anyway.

Trump is just the guy who's going to build the wall and own the libs, and it doesn't matter that he doesn't really look like the Hulk, only that he'll make his supporters feel as powerful as the Hulk when he defeats Joe Biden.

As for the psychosexual aspects, lord knows. I don't think most of them actually want to get fucked by Muscle Trump, but I'm sure it's not all just one thing.

their shoild be a study on why conservatives are aroused by trump but domt want to admit it like with the trucks of trump in speedos and ripped or buff trump shirts or fake images of him as like an attractive anime guy or anything ivenever seen someone be looked at with like lust in a way that isn’t directly acknowledged. u got guys on twitter posting fake pics of trump lifting weights all sweaty with his pecs out whats up with that

[terrence-silver]

imagine Terry talking to beloved about his friendship with John. He would say how much he wished John had the best things life could offer. The best things he could offer John even today if John hadn't broken his heart and punished him with endless silence. "I would even share you with him if he wanted to." Terry would say to Beloved. "Then you must be a better person than I am, because I would never share you with anyone. Not even the ones I love." How would Terry react to that?

This is a new, unfamiliar sensation which Terry adores.

But, he's also confused by it. A bit lost.

And he doesn't like not knowing what to think in the moment, on his feet.

See, when you really analyze it, I don't think anyone ever selfishly and unapologetically wanted him above everyone else, is the problem; either as a friend. A lover, just for the sake of loving him. As a teacher, he often had to outright tactically bribe students with incredible benefits, perks, merch, lowered class prices, state of the art hyper-modernistic dojos and gifts --- or to lie to them and groom them to lure them in, like in the case of Daniel. His fake friend circle he keeps around in later decades with immeasurable and outright financing --- not to mention practically fabricating a whole personality to be accepted and to in effect blend in as someone who he technically wasn't. Especially in his later years. In the 80's and 70's, post-war, he does amazing favours for John to repay him for the debt he feels he owes after the war. One gets the impression, although it is never quite confirmed, that he enlisted in Vietnam despite the privileges of his birth that could easily have him skipping the draft altogether purely to appease or impress his despotic father who was prepared to, maybe, cut him out of his inheritance if he didn't join the army or do something drastic to show his quality as a ''real man''. For Terry Silver, literally everything in life comes with a heavy price and indeed, nothing is for free. Everything has to be earned and wrestled out of people. Coaxed out of them. Bled out of them. So much so, that he legitimately would happily share his beloved (and everything else) with John despite being the most territorially possessive person you can imagine if it meant he could show fealty and ultimate devotion to John through it. It wouldn't even be something that eats away at Terry. It is an instinct. He would, in fact, be delighted to do so, again, especially in the 80's. Goes without saying that what is his is John's, even though John might be unwilling to accept as readily as people think. No matter, Terry talks him into it. C'mon, Johnny, try it! I insist! Johnny, c'moooon!

Brothers-in-arms always share everything, naturally.

But, to hear someone is in fact attached to him to the point they would never share him under any circumstance and where he takes ultimate precedence, as he is, over everything else is...it is new. Sure, Terry is a narcissist and of course he at one point viewed himself as deity, but to actually hear it in this particular context is something else. It is unknown. It is something that makes him feel a bit like a wild, feral animal. He isn't sure if he should laugh off such a statement or be rendered silent. For all his bravado, charm, worldliness, materialism, cruelty, seductive qualities, I really don't think Terry heard such a declaration before. That he would never be shared with anyone. See, it turns out that his loved ones always loved someone a bit more than him, or at least, exhibited more yearning for others than him. John might've been a bit more attached to Johnny than him, because caring for Johnny, a boy and then a teenager, rather than a grown-up Terry was more normal. More paternalistic than questionable. He wore his hair in remembrance of Ponytail all his life but one has to ask if Ponytail would ever do the same in return if their situations were switched --- if Twig was the one who died. Kim Da-Eun cared for her grandfather's legacy more than him --- in fact, one feels she didn't care for him at all. Captain Turner was convinced Terry wasn't worth fighting for and that he would die anyway. His tofu social scene cared for the financial goods and the clout they'd achieve mingling around a billionaire's turf. Daniel Larusso cared infinitely more for Mr. Miyagi. His own father seemed to care more about his son proofing some arbitrary point of manhood than, you know, not dying in a war abroad, and so on. Terry needs absolute devotion and its assurance but when he actually gets it from beloved after seeking it in various people he collected for goodness knows how long, actually embracing it is difficult in any stage of his life and it takes a long time actually for him o actually compute what was said to him.

Maybe, in the gravitas of beloved's words, all Terry registers is one thing:

There are others who beloved loves?

Well, not for long.

He found someone willing to be perfectly his.

This time around, though, he will share them with nobody. No half measures.

[mbtimes]

Hello!

Could you do the diffrence between entp in si grip and a healthy one?

Also diffrence between entp and intp

I will try and bring this about in the best way that I understand, but first it's important to understand what a grip is, basically a grip is when your inferior function takes control and starts running your life rather than your dominant function. Now this can feel good and you can feel like you are either appeasing that function or are doing something with yourself but as time progresses you discover it actually becomes worse for your mental well being and you become a shadow of who you really are. So with that out of the way let's get into what an ENTP in a Si grip might look like.

They're gonna be hyper focused on details, tunnel visioned, believe that they and only they have "all the facts" and that everyone else around them is wrong because the people around them don't have the information they have. This information will be gathered in order to confirm their own biases, and should anyone question them they see it as their duty and maybe privilege to show them just how wrong they are by presenting facts. Facts which may be contradictory in nature but are highly detailed and narrowed down to the topic at hand. As this goes on they can develop into a state of melancholy, depression, with the enjoyment of life and ideas diminished and gone, and may perceive everything they experience to be something it's not and may in turn become paranoid as it goes on in many different ways, until they finally hit the point where they feel like nothing really matters anymore but still find the need to select details that don't make any sense but they continue to believe that they do.

That's the short and long of it, there are others who go far better into describing what Grips for certain types looks like and I'm just giving my understanding of it here. Now as for a healthy ENTP.

Healthy ENTPs are going to look a lot like Healthy ENFPs due to the fact that they bot share the same function that which is Ne. For an ENTP they will seek to open the minds of people, test things, toy with things, find the proper details as to how things work and how they can make things work and properly cross reference and look at everything with an open and objective mind. Instead of rushing through things and not stopping to look at the details properly, they will actually look at the facts and details and take them for what they are and see if there is any counter to said things as they enjoy having information for whatever project or thing they have on the go. They will also enjoy witty banter, have a brighter outlook on life or a more humorous one, and that's just a few of the things they've got going on.

As for the difference between ENTPs and INTPs, INTPs are going to be more focused on analyzing systems and patterns and consuming knowledge for the sake of knowledge itself, they will come up with ideas but they won't necessarily follow through with those ideas but they will entertain them. INTPs are always analyzing data and seeing where it fits as well as using their imagination and coming up with all sorts of unique problem solving solutions, they're also highly adaptable and can often be seen as the chameleons of society with their ability to understand systems, places and things and then BS their way through. ENTPs in turn are more like the Cheshire cat, they enjoy toying with people more than INTPs do, they enjoy debating a view point for the sake of discussion and to see whether or not they can open your mind or to see where you stand on a certain issue. Both are extraordinarily curious, but an ENTP will be more open about their curiosity where as an INTP will be more reserved and only show it to the people closest to them. If given a choice for the fun of it, an ENTP may try anything and everything or test anything and everything.

ENTPs are also seen as visionaries and their mind comes up with many ideas and concepts that they will either run to completion or abandon it and start something new. Most of the time they will start something and then after a while will start something else, and then something else. A perfect example of an ENTP who does this in my mind is Elon Musk who I am entirely convinced is an ENTP and no one is going to be able to change my mind on this, the guy opens up too many different projects and hasn't fully completed any one of them which shows to me Dom Ne at work but anyways. The way I see it is that an INTP internalizes what an ENTP externalizes much like how an ENFP externalizes what an INFP internalizes and why I often say that ENFPs often say what we INFPs think, it is much the same with ENTPs and INTPs.

Also one last thing, INTPs are a lot more reserved than ENTPs and they don't have as many open projects on the go due to their indecisive nature which happens to be a bottleneck for many INTPs, there are many ways in which they can go and until they have all the data and patterns they will have difficulty deciding what to start. So in that way an ENTP is also often far more Entrepreneurial than INTPs are, heck even INFPs will get more done than an INTP when it comes to their goals and dreams sometimes. An ENTP doesn't need all the facts in order to start, they start and figure it out as they go along, INTPs? Not so much.

Anyways hope this relatively shortish essay was enough brief information for you.

[bluebunnyears-08]

Oh, this is wonderful! Thank you for answering my questions! If you're confused about why I posted this when the rest of the episodes haven't been out yet I wanted to see how people's view of Nine and the show would change or become ironclad as the next batches of episodes come out. So I will post this again when the second batch is out to see how and if your answers change and again on season three and so on!

I also agree with your answers so far! These might be long tho (I tend to ramble and over-analyze things.) Number five is VERY long!

I agree that Nine would be furious at whoever "made" (because this is a hypothetical situation if Sonic CHOOSE to sacrifice himself) Sonic do that, be it himself (which he'd most likely develop a self-loathing) or another person, and would also be mad at Sonic for leaving him. Unlike going through the stages of grief in a healthy manner I can see Nine snapping and being furious in the anger stage and most likely never accepting that Sonic choose to do it. But I can also see him becoming emotionally shattered if Sonic died, based on how emotionally attached he is to the blue blur. Anger doesn't last forever and when it subsides, it'd most likely lead to an overarching and hopeless depression nobody would be able to save him from as he'd hold a silent and tired resentment and stronger hatred toward the cruel world for taking someone so kind and naive. And whether or not it really WAS because of him that Sonic sacrificed himself Nine would most likely still loathe himself for letting it happen in the first place due to how hyper-independent and confident in his abilities and goals he is.

I also see Nine going on a complete war path if Sonic was killed. He WILL hunt that person down in a broken rage if they were responsible for taking his only hope and kindness from him. He would most likely lose all sympathy and mercy for that person because in his eyes no matter if it was necessary or not, that person is a horrible murderer who killed an innocent person he was latched to. As for him being protective/angry at the idea of someone hurting Sonic, I also agree that we don't know if he'd be protective due to whether he feels Sonic betrayed him due to his unknown feelings towards the matter.

I agree that the bond of brotherly affection Tails and Sonic holds can never be shattered or broken no matter what (stated by Ian Flynn, their bond and love is a COSMIC TRUTH) but in a way, Nine's choice to become attached to Sonic is based off a selfish goal and reward. This is stated outright by Tails as Sonic is going through the ShatteredSpace, possibly meaning that that bond will be tested in something HUGE in future seasons. I also agree that Nine does show affection and love towards Sonic (no matter how conflicted he seems while doing it), but it's also based on a sort of obsession over a world where he can be happy and cared for and can possibly spiral into something much, much darker. I'm interested in where the writers/creators take this as well!

I agree that Nine has been through so much, and I'm sad to say that that isn't going to end soon considering his position at the end of "season 1" (aka Netflix being greedy a-holes and splitting a season up just so they can make bank WHICH IS STUPID!) with him being in the hands of evil dictators who ROBOTISIZED somebody and most likely did worse things. Also, I too root for Nine more than everyone mainly because his goals are ones I want to see succeed more than the others (my boi just wants to live in a happy world and be loved by somebody!) and ones I could understand if it did turn and spiral into a desperate obsession because if I was in his situation I would do whatever to make that dream a reality. Like the other hims HAVE people who love and care for him while Nine has NOBODY and NOTHING who cared for him before Sonic came. I'll CRY if it isn't succeded!

I do disagree slightly with this answer. I think that he doesn't need someone to protect him since he's a bad bitch who can protect and care for himself. But I think that he NEEDS Sonic in a more emotional and love-starved way and he has a justifiable reason why he THINKS he does (because he actually does). He can develop this if he bonded with the others but due to the fact that he met Sonic before he met the others (unlike his other selves who had people before Sonic came), it wouldn't be the same. It's a long reason as to why, so please bear with me. I think he feels he NEEDS Sonic because he has been ALONE all his life in a cruel oppressive dystopian world where people look out for themselves and was abused (not to mention the fact that HE stopped the straight-up abuse himself and the implications that the abuse went uninterrupted for YEARS makes it understandable and even WORSE that he would latch on to somebody different from everybody else), and how he was emotionally neglected during that time, he genuinely NEEDS SOMEONE to lean on and pour out his pent up emotions too and in his eyes, Sonic came up to him and offered that on a silver platter. So naturally, he'd do whatever it takes to ensure he never loses that. While he doesn't outright state this and while it's not obvious in the first watch, the way Nine acted before getting captured by the Council, towards Sonic was odd and complicated. While he originally thought of Sonic as a nuisance like the others, as his natural bond with Sonic reforms he starts to see Sonic more as a person not quite capable of taking care of himself due to how naive and impulsive he is. In Nine's eyes Sonic is viewed as a sort of sacred treasure, a person who for some reason cared for him that needs to be protected, who was too precious to lose, who offered him a hand of hope and needed Nine to protect him not being capable of doing so himself due to how ignorant he was. Before Sonic met him, he only cared and watched out for himself in the cruel and harsh dystopian world he was cursed to be in, a world where he had nothing and nobody to live and fight for before a blue stranger broke into his lab, calling him what was a cruel slur in his eyes, setting him off. Then when he was about to be hit by a train due to his own act, they saved him. This greatly confuses him because why would this stranger save him when he once called him a cruel insult, when in this world it was everyone for themselves? His answer was that this stranger saw him as SOMEONE else, someone who was nothing like him, not truly, but was given a life he longed and fantasized about for years: A life where he was loved and cared for. Remember Nine is a very hyper-independent and selfish person, so naturally, when Sonic offered him something he needed and wanted, that selfish concern would be extended to him, whether he wanted it or not.

Anyway, thank you so much for taking the time to answer my questions! I wish you a fantastic day/night and a Merry Past Christmas <3

Sonic Prime Nine Questions For Y'all

In one word, what do you think Nine's state would be if Sonic were to die from his (Sonic sacrificing himself for the world or Nine's) own choice for the benefit of others' safety? And why do you think this would be his reaction or state?

How do you think Nine would react if Sonic were killed or physically threatened? And why?

Do you see Nine's affection for Sonic as growing brotherly love or a growing obsession? Why do you think that?

Why do you think Nine deserves to win?

Does Nine need Sonic?

Just Prime questions I wanted to put out to see your guy's different opinions and viewpoints of Nine <3