#I'M BEGGING YOU

[stackofsnakes]

Whenever there's a "do you pronounce it x or y" post they never use the IPA and it irks me. Now, i know why they don't use the IPA but it still irks me. I mean, why did i even learn it? Why did people put in the time and money to create it when it's not used for its most applicable mainstream use? Why do you insist on leveragin the relationship between english its outdated, unrevised written representation to create a sort of ad hoc phonetic spelling system when there's a perfectly good one right there? You're clanking rocks against each other in the hope one might gain a sharp edge like some sort of neolithic proto-toolsmith while there's a tool box waiting for you in your garage.

[theactualsunshinechild]

[bludragongal]

It's been a little while over at the webcomic site. Any chance for an update? Not of the comic, just of what's going on in your life, so readers know you're not tied up in an evil mastermind's lair or something...

I'm not at a place to share many details yet but yes, basically, that is metaphorically what is going on at the moment. I'm working on it. Once I am fully extricated I will be back with news about what the heck I've been up to over the past few months.

Thank you so very much for your patience.

[laismoura-art]

Ok so...

Twice now i’ve seen people approach @elsa-fogen about a take that is “Alastor is in hell because of Voodoo” (the latest one basically saying he is in hell solemnly because of Voodoo”) and I can’t help but feel there’s reeks of religious intolerance from his take (even if it’s not intentional) cause let’s not forget, Voodoo is a religion (main one in places such as Haiti and Gana), and it’s often stigmatised and viewed through the wrong light. So you all can understand how a take like this could rub someone the wrong way and be deemed as religious intolerance.

But as I know this fandom is PAINFULLY stubborn and probably will want to keep exploring this take even if it makes some people uncomfortable (take the people who refuse to acknowledge Alastor as aro and the people who refuse to stop calling Alastor a wendigo for instance) I would like to offer an alternative take: 

See, I’m not from Voodoo and it’s not that big of a religion here in Brazil, however, we do have two other religions here that are similar/derivatives from Voodoo (Candomblé and Umbanda) and face similar prejudices, so I’m making this based mostly on these two but know that it also applies to Voodoo. 

In Umbanda, we have a higher god, the Orixás (entities that provide guidance and protection) and we have spirits, these spirits divide in different groups and offer advices and guidance to all types of people, there are spirits that look after women, children, grieving parents and even the lost (such as drug addicts).

But as we have good spirits, we also have bad ones. they are popularly known as “espiritos de porco” (pig spirits) who are usually mischievous and even ill intended spirits that might loom over you if they feel a bad energy coming from you or if you are spiritually unprotected and they will start to cause you misfortune and even make you feel weak and sick.

Some ill-intended people use these bad spirits against people they want to harm, the bad spirits may guide them in performing a ritual or maybe the spirit will loom on this targeted person. 

It’s (partly) due to people like this that these religions have such bad reputation, but these people basically perform their religion in a corrupted way! Umbanda is a religion that connects you with nature and guides you spiritually, it’s deeply connected with healing practises (mentally, physically and spiritually), but as I said, like EVERY other religion, it can be corrupted and used to harm.

I think the best use of “corrupt vs proper use of religion” I’ve seen comes from Disney's The Princess and the Frog. People usually remember Dr Facilier better, who used Voodoo against his enemies and to harvest power (much like a certain deer man we all know and love) but we also had Mama Odie (which is a real figure in voodoo, mind you. Also present in Umbanda, a Mama Odie is sort of a priestess of the religion) notice how she is a much more accurate representation of the religion, she lives in contact with nature, she performs her rituals and prayers in the wide while dancing with a very positive energy around, and she wears white (which is the most recommended colour to wear during rituals, as it’s a neutral colour and pleases all Orixás). 

So as you can see, there’s good voodoo practicants and bad ones, and in the end it’s all about how you use your religion, if you use it as you were taught, with pure intentions, seeking guidance and protection of good spirits and Orixás, or in a corrupt way, surrounding yourself with bad spirits and helping them spread their bad energy. 

So what I am hoping with all this is is that people put a stop to “Alastor is evil because he uses Voodoo” and adopt the “Alastor is evil because he does malpractice of Voodoo” which is a much more accurate to reality and respectful take. 

I’d even like to offer a headcanon of my own: 

That Alastor's mom was from Voodoo (maybe even was a Mama Odie herself) and taught Alastor all she knew and he corrupted her teachings and started using them for evil (perhaps even to aid him in his killing) and THAT, that corruption, was what sent him to hell, and true redemption for him would not to give up his powers/forsake his religion but actually to go back to his roots and use his powers for good (perhaps in a way that he ends up healing/saving someone (hopefully Charlie or Rosie)👀

[sarascamander]

What if, just what IF, Lila and Five travel through the timeline but instead of Five falling for Lila (since the showrunner wants Five to have a love interest so freaking much), he actually hallucinates Dolores again and we as viewers saw her from Five's pov (as human) while Lila was seeing Five talk to air the whole time and increasingly worry of him)

(and their platonic relationship increase bc she's trying to understand him and why he hallucinates Dolores therefore unpack all those underlying trauma he had and maybe they can talk marriage. Since Dolores and Five are married. Remember that Steve???).

And Five found the way home but didn't tell Lila bc he didn't want to lose Dolores again and back to the endless cycle of saving his family and the world. He wanted peace. And when they get back home, Five's heartbreak and moody ass can all be because he's so fed up with everything and losing Dolores (or maybe he and Lila figured out the implication of Dolores existence as a coping mechanism and it broke his heart to realize it, or maybe Dolores herself say it to him).

Wouldn't that be great?? Why couldn't they do this instead??

[tending-the-hearth]

"no one mourns the wicked" but from glinda's perspective, she's not singing that elphaba is wicked, but that she herself is.

at that point, glinda fully believes her best friend is dead, and the only other friends she had from schiz are scattered around with no intent to see her again.

glinda blames herself for what happened to elphaba, she lost everything the moment nessarose died. she lost fiyero, she lost elphaba, she lost the two people she loves most in the entire world. elphaba and fiyero run off together, and glinda is left behind to pick up the pieces.

she is so convinced that she is the villain in elphaba's story that her singing "the wicked die alone/it just shows when you're wicked you reap only what you sow" shows her knowing her own choices led her to this moment, where she is so utterly alone. she has fans, she has supporters, but she has absolutely no one who truly knows and loves her.

[bloodashre]

For the love of all that is ineffable, please STOP asking Neil Gaiman about season 3!

[vaspider]

You're right. Nobody wants yet another show that puts right up front the idea that Jewish women are shrill and unlovable harridans, Judaism is sex-negative, Jewish men are spineless and henpecked, and Jewish mothers are the worst of all.

At least you got the name right, Netflix. Nobody Wants This. We've seen it already. A hundred fucking times at least. And while maybe the show is magically somehow better, the trailer is supposed to tell me what I'm tuning in for.

I ain't tuning in for this, and I'm low-key embarrassed for every Jew involved.

[dingodoodles]

Hey is it okay to cosplay Rooster even if it's the ugliest, cheapest cosplay ever? I just have cardboard and a glue stick but I will try my best if you give permission

I'mma answer these both: Cosplays are totally fine! Please show me >:3 by tagging me! It's my dream to have people cosplay things that I helped make. All/everything is fair game!

[never-enough-novels]

Can Nara Smith make me grayson davenport hawthorne from scratch?

[gremlin-boah]

Live footage of Dutch with his mangoes:

Damn indeed.

@chubbiestcow I think that's a lil bit too much of mango.

Dutch, you got mango on your shirt.

Told ya.

[thegreatgremlingang]

*Rage post may delete later*

just went and saw a meta about Jiang Cheng being underappreciated for getting Wei Wuxian out of the Xuanwu cave and stuff and I was scrolling through the comments being like "awwwww" "yeah that's right" 'damn straight" "yeeeheeahhhh" and then I just saw this FUCKING COMMENT being like "eeerrrmmmm that still doesn't excuse what he did to wwx he's such a nasty ass human being omg" and idk why but it just flipped some sort of mental rage switch in me and HRRRRRNGH like the little smile was WIPED OFF MY FACE and my intestines crackled from the sudden rise in blood pressure and like jc antis can you PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE chill and leave us the fuck alone

I don't want to die young from health complications

my entire dash was full of jc metas and ofc discourse and this fucking comment just pushed me over the edge

jc antis PLEASE PLEASE leave the stans ALONE and go drink some orange juice or something please do something productive you've got better things to do that shitting on jc and the people that choose to like him

even if he's straight up evil (he isn't) that's not your fucking problem isn't it people can stan literal villains in other fandoms and nobody cares so why do you guys have to be such control freaks

I don't see the xue yang antis and Jin Guanyao antis behave in this rabid ass sort of way just CALM DOWN and stop trying to make us argue with you on whether Jiang Cheng beats Jin Ling on a daily basis or if he puts emo teenagers in wood chippers or something

what even is the purpose of all the shit you get up to? Is it going to make Jiang Cheng hear you through the fourth wall? Is he going to drop to his knees and apologize to Wei Wuxian? NO! Is it going to make us stans see the "errors of our ways" and go hate on Jiang Cheng with you? NO! Is it going to summon Wei Wuxian so he can host a fan meetup and give you a hug and his autograph and his eternal friendship? NO!!! Is it going to drive Wei Wuxian to put Jiang Cheng in a wood chipper? NO!!! Is it going to make Jiang Cheng become real so y'all can put him in a wood chipper? N O !!!!!!!!!!!

Listen. Just like how we can never convince you to stan Jiang Cheng, you can never convince us to do whatever is your endgame. So I suggest you go to your own little corner of the fandom, stop bothering us, let us be "delulu" in peace, and get a fucking life.

phew!

Now I feel much better! Thanks for coming to my Ted talk and don't forget to tune in next time! bye bye!

[womp-womp-waa]

This has been plaguing my mind for ages.

Right so we can all agree that the recruits on Chorus are only soldiers because their parents are dead. So they're orphans and don't have any parental figure.

Now imagine that your them. That you don't have anyone to look up to and that you scared and confused while having to fight for your life. But then, this guy called Washington comes in (and let's be honest Tucker probably told people stories about Wash so they all think he's a hero) and he starts teaching you how to fight and how to survive. You no longer feel helpless in this war.

And because their all orphans they would start to look up to Wash and this is absolutely helped by all the stories they've heard of him. So I just imagine them all seeing Wash as a father figure and someone to help them when their lost.

This is the part that got stuck in my head, so they all see Wash as a father figure and I can just imagine on Father's Day they all just give him gifts. Since they're in a war they couldn't buy him anything so they all spent time making him something from scratch. Now some gifts are made better then others but that's not what matters.

And I can just imagine Wash preparing for a training session with all the recruits and he expects them to all be tired and not wanting to do the training like always, but then is shocked when each one of them hand him a present. Some of them aren't well made, but he doesn't care whatsoever. He treats them like he treats all of Caboose's drawings, he treasures each present that is given to him.

I just find this idea so cute and how after the training session he would walk out with a handful of presents as he tried to take them all to his room without dropping any.

[misskittyspuffy]

Jensen & Misha panel (JIB11) - February 26th, 2023

[respectthepetty]

There is a Taiwanese BL out there in the very early stages of development that is perfect for me because it's about colored threads tying people together!

Connecting to You

Many people have the superpower of seeing something invisible. Jia Kai can't see ghosts, but he can see the different colored threads connecting people. The more threads, the more bonds a person has.

Jia Kai has seen countless threads, but he hasn't been connected to anyone at all. He can't figure out why but has accepted himself as a loner. However, because of a chaotic incident, he meets a policeman named Da Wei and realizes that one silver-grey thread has grown from him to him, connecting them together!

Jia Kai doesn't want to lose the connection, so he takes a part-time job at the police station to get closer to Da Wei. With his superpower, he helps with cases of missing people and objects. They get to know each other better, and the thread between them begins to change color, from silver-grey to yellow, representing friendship, and even to red, representing love. Seeing these changes, Jia Kai realizes that how they feel for each other can't be hidden anymore.

I NEED THIS!

I need this to be made. I need this to be on screen. I need to witness this with my own eyes. PLEASE! I'M BEGGING YOU! This is meant for me. Give me my colors!

[ninainthetardis]

I really need that new FotA sequel to be Cardan's pov. Like, I really need that.