#Is this even coherent

[jacks-the-flower]

tell me you know nothing about the culture you're capitalizing on without telling me. colonialism perpetuating piece of shit.

literally the whole point of a tomb in egyptian culture is that it is the deceased's resting place in the afterlife. it is meant to house their spirit. no one is meant to step foot in these sacred places and its actually avoided at all costs.

but go ahead, offer a people perpetually kept in unrest a huge sum of money- it's only at the cost of their very culture! literally no one is going to refuse the amount of money he probably offered up, certainly not those who are in power. say less of the actual people - who were honestly probably volun-told to agree to it or maybe just informed after the fact - who have been made to be so dependent upon the whims of western "philanthropy" that they would barely be able to refuse to begin with, volun-told or not.

and to tie it into orientalist stereotypes and "pharaoh's curses" let's talk about Tutankhamun - or King Tut - and HIS tomb which was one of many of its like that was broken into, "lawfully" looted by westerners, and then made into a display that was disrespectful to the idea of a tomb itself. its even funnier when you consider some of what we know of his tomb: how shortly after Tut was laid to rest, there were a few attempts to loot it of treasures. the looters did grab quite a few valuables, but were intercepted by guards. the valuables (notably a bunch of chariots) were then very quickly tossed back into Tut's tomb, almost haphazardly compared to the presentation of the rest.

why, you may ask? because the guards felt very uncomfortable being in Tut's - a pharaoh whom they greatly respected because, well, he was a pharaoh - tomb and put everything back as quick as possible so as to not disturb his spirit.

and now his burial mask is on display for the whole world to see. kind of a violation don't you agree?

now this fucker is going to put the forbidden aspects of a wonder of the ancient world on display for people around the globe to gawk at just to get some views on his video and money in his pocket.

kind of a violation don't you agree?

I hope this guy fucking dies because

A) he's Mr Beast

B) he has WAY too much money if he's renting out the PYRAMIDS OF GIZA????

C) renting out actual historical landmarks that have already been desecrated and destroyed over thousands of years for a goddamn youtube video is actually disgusting.

idk if you think that they're "just the pyramids", they're the ONLY remaining wonder of the ancient world!!! Not to mention!! they're TOMBS!! sure, the people who were inside are long gone, but like?? idk, maybe i'm oversely sensitive, but being a white dude and desecrating an ancient burial site (for profit) and thus disregarding thousands upon thousands of years of history and culture is probably Up There with the scummy stuff this jackass has done

[istanchan]

Maybe a hot take but in my opinion the nc scene between Great and Tyme was perfect. Honestly my only issue was that it wasn’t long enough🥲

Like I have no words they were so soft and sweet and I know people were expecting something a lot more fast paced and extreme just because of every other nc scene in the show and also probably because of kinnporshe. BUT I feel like because it was the complete opposite the scene felt so much more impactful.

We’ve seen how sex in the show is used as a device for power. Primarily we’ve seen how Korn uses sex to assert power over Tonkla. And in turn Tonkla does the same to Win. And while she had only a few mins of screen time the sex scene between Fasai and Korn really portrayed their power dynamic as well.

But the intimacy between Great and Tyme isn’t as calculated. The scene is just so sweet. Tyme playing with Great’s hair and kissing him on the forehead first made me melt. THE NOSE KISS/BITE?!?!

They way they interact makes it seem as if they’ve known eachother forever. It makes us as the audience forget that these two characters are practically strangers and know nothing about one another.

And that’s where my issue comes in. Their scenes are so short. And there’s so much left unanswered. Like did Great not question Tyne about how his parents died? Does he not question Korn about what business he’s doing? How is he going to explain anything to his family and Korn?

I definitely think this is purposeful though. If this is Great having an out of body experience and just seeing not living everything happening it makes sense for the scenes to feel that way.

And the scenes between him and Tyme make sense. In his past/present timeline he must have loved Tyme so much that the love transcends time. (Haha)

I do hope though going forward the show focuses a bit more on Great and Tyme because there’s only 4 episodes left and there’s a lot that needs to be addressed.

And kudos to Jes and Bible for bringing these two to life.

[fagus-sylvatica-beech-hedge]

she we knows on my you know until I fucking die

[disorganised-bagel]

that bit from mean girls that's like "i spent most my time talking about regina, and the rest of it waiting for someone else to bring her up so i could talk about her more" except replace regina with. ride the cyclone

[pepperyhoney]

COLLEGE END TERM EXAMS ARE KILLING MEEEE but

I saw someone saying that he is blaming himself for something that is not his fault completely because he always does (re: AM retirement), and that katsuki is showing how much he is a soft person at heart. And how he is not to blame for this. But i have a slightly different interpretation from this.

i think Katsuki was not a soft person. and I think that here was not a show of how much he loves to blame himself. it is stated again and again how much of him is brash and callous and arrogant, and like his mother and himself said, he is given too much praise and never really tasted rejection or failure—except from himself. and even then, he never dwells too much on it and just keep having the mindset of improving and one upping everyone including himself. the sigma grindset, if you will. Even though his outward theatrics shows how explosive he is and how he gets so agitated at many things, he has shown that he has more emotional control in battle than even Midoriya-I-Will-Go-Berserk-Over-My-Endangered-Lover-Izuku. like he even has to remind Izuku to not dwell on things lest it kills him.

Then he came back from the dead.

The death itself is a significant factor. "Can I still catch up to you?" as one of his last thoughts, was something he now consider his reality, his acceptance of himself and Izuku. He reframed the way he tasted failure and rejection of what he thinks the way he is - of how he perceived Midoriya and that what he rejects about him in the first place then came to reject him in return-into something that once again motivates him to win and to always have a goal, his newborn northern star.

When All Might retires, he blames himself because all might is the symbol of peace and people around the world now lost it and there's a new imbalance that he feels are a part of his responsibility. But truly, regardless of anything, all might will retire anyway due to his injury. It is not his fault. He just hates the feeling of "failing" to save himself, that he needed to be saved. He doesn't want to accept that.

Then we get a narrative of how quirk is viewed by the world, the sides of it, and the darkest part of it. Izuku is shown to be affected by this too, while relying on his own belief that stems from all might idealism (the vigilante era). But then his class shows how much that idealism is no longer sustainable, and repeating the same things aren't going to do anyone any good. Katsuki, despite the lack of narrated inner thoughts, is a part of crowd who instill it to izuku as well. Then he apologized. He knows that Izuku is this self sacrifical because of him. That he thinks he can't truly save anyone without giving a part of himself. Which circles back to how he accepted izuku as a rival and a partner. He now see him as he is and accept the part of it was his fault. Katsuki went on with life because he thinks that now Izuku can always change for the better, like he always do, and he will be there on his heels, to be with him and to accept his hand, and i quote, "for the rest of their lives".

When izuku has to give up OFA to try save Tenko, when he really showed how much he is willing to give up anything- even the greatest gift and his raison d'etre that is propelling him to this point along with Katsuki himself (because you know, izuku extend his hands to everyone and that starts with his extension to Katsuki), That is really what hits home to him. That they're so interwined with each other, that izuku has always been a hero to him as much as he is to Izuku, that the extended hand he swatted all those years ago, is the same hand that still give a part of himself away to tenko shimura in an attempt to save him. Izuku was always a hero because he will not hesitate to save anyone.

Now that he saw Izuku as a rival, and saw izuku as what he is, he truly sees how much saving is tied to the act of being saved, that everyone has to help each other to truly win, that to protect someone, you have to be willing to be protected to save yourself, too. Now, the hand he rejected all those years ago, the person he rejected again and again, is unable to save himself from fate, and the worse part, he can't protect him from fate and himself. He saw how much his actions truly meant, he saw how apology only grazed the surface wound of the consequence of a childhood ignorance. Now he truly understands that all he wanted was to protect Izuku; that it was all a misdirection of what he truly wants, to be a hero that protects people. that misdirection in turn bites him in form of losing his hero that saved him from himself. So, with tears of realization too late, "no... just what the hell did i do to you?".

the despair he feels is because he has so much respect for izuku and that bittersweet feeling of knowing that izuku choice is going to change everything, as well as knowing he has a part on it. He can't take back anything, and izuku has to live with it, and how does it truly feel to see the one you now saw as your equal, goal, northern star, to rise and dim because of you?

Katsuki was not a soft person. he is, now. Because he is saved by the people around him. Thats why his wish was to save izuku, too. He wishes there was another way, he wishes that the fate izuku has didnt have to enforce izuku's already self sacrificing beliefs. He wish that he is saved from the fate. He cries because he knows he is inseparable from it all-even if it wasn't truly his fault. He loves and respect him and knowing he is inseparable of what makes him love and respect him is making him realize the gravity of the situation. He changed so much from the brash and arrogant kid he was, that now instead of being angry and challenging at fate not going his way, he yearns for them to change so that the person he truly cares about is saved. His admittance and heartfelt confession is one hell of a leap and show how much he changed, and reducing it to him blaming himself for something not his fault is kinda redundant and insulting to his character development.

[rarepears]

So...

Because of your fantastic fic Tywin/Jinwoo I'm watching House of Dragon (I'm going to watch GOT later) and just trying to imagine Jinwoo in this situation (first season, but I don't mind spoiler if you have a idea)

Here, we have dragons, a lot of dragons.

I don't think he'd care about all the royal drama, maybe if he likes one of them (?) but he looks like the kind of just ignore and ends collecting all the dragons like they're Pokemons

If he ends with someone, who would you do? Personally I like Allicent (I love her, she was just a victim of her father and king😭) and maybe Aegon but probably you had other idea.

(Daemon... Well, in my opinion he loves power more than anything, his love is conditional so maybe he'd try to seduce Jinwoo if he could but Jinwoo probably would reject it, but hey, people say Twin isn't nice and you make me love him)

Anyway, toughs?

AHHHHHHHHHH

Thank you for the lovely and very long comment.

The funny thing is... I couldn't watch past the first episode of HoD. It just didn't click for me for whatever reason.

Also there's no such thing as drama when Jinwoo is around, right? He just walks in with all his powers and what he says is law... right?? (Meanwhile in the background, all sorts of political intruige pops up but Jinwoo is too oblivious slash "he has no time for this, literally, since he's still gotta pop back to Earth to do other things" so he's not aware of said drama. Plus his policy is to beat up people he doesn't like first, then make friends.)

You know, I think it would be hilarious if Daemon tries to seduce Jinwoo for a fuck and alliance and then Jinwoo is like, hm, hot one night stand but I don't do one night stand so then Daemon thinks they are more fuck buddies and Jinwoo is coming around with treats for his grumpy mercurial friend that he happens to fuck...

Daemon doesn't catch the hint of this dating thing btw since he's used to formal announcements of courtships (also guys aren't marriage material) plus he's too busy plotting to grab the throne. He's like "thanks babe" to Jinwoo's offering of cut fruits and eats off of Jinwoo's fingers while furiously writing hatemail to Otto Hightower meanwhile Jinwoo doesn't even think about helping fulfil Daemon's goals in life because he's too busy clearing gates and ignoring Korea hunter politics, so uh

Yeah, two terrible boyfriends.

Daemon: I NEED TO MARRY MY NIECE FOR THE THRONE Jinwoo: I'm not happy with that statement. I'm not sure why - oh, it's probably because of the incest issue. (Spoiler, it was not just the incest issue.)

[rainintheevening]

Notes for Jurassic World fic(s) I will never write:

Gray and Zach are so close now.

Zach is... obsessive about knowing where Gray is, and keeping an eye on him at all times. This results in his girlfriend quickly dumping him. He honestly doesn't care.

Gray has some troubles sleeping, but Zach has a really rough time. Unless he can hear or feel his little brother near by.

Gray's habit has always been to study whatever scares him, 'knowledge not fear' is his motto. He is torn in the case of the dinosaurs. Sometimes he never wants to think about them again. Sometimes he devours another book about them, and can't stop spouting facts at the supper table.

Zach is all in on studying the dinos. He reads everything. He learns to roll with Gray when his little brother is getting overwhelmed with it and doesn't even want to hear the word 'dinosaur'.

Claire and Owen come to stay for a couple weeks after the initial crisis.

Karen instantly clocks that Owen is only person Zach trusts to watch Gray without him.

Gray is out in the back yard learning survival skills from Owen, and Zach falls dead asleep on the couch.

When Owen is there Zach stops being the 'dad' and just acts like a teenage boy. Both kids relax around Owen like they haven't since the island.

Especially after their parents get divorced, they both stay in close contact with Owen, even after he and Claire break up.

He shows up out of the blue for birthday parties, and then stays for a week. He also vets all of Karen's man-friends and is right every time.

Zach takes a gap-year to work, and because he's not sure what he wants to do. He and Gray are still super tight, and he's reluctant to leave his little brother to the wolves of high-school (especially a genius nerd who has already skipped one grade and is on the cusp of skipping another)

It's all over the news the morning after the world as they knew it ends (again). Dinosaurs loose in America. Gray goes white as paper. Under the table his hand finds Zach's. Mom turns the TV off.

Gray is fumbling for his phone (Zach insisted he have one after the island), calling Owen.

Maisie, Claire, and Owen come to visit for a week or two, so Maisie can be around other kids who know a bit about what it's like to be attacked by dinosaurs.

Gray and Maisie really hit it off. They get up to mischief and annoy the heck out of Zach and snuggle up to Owen on the couch so he can't get up when they fall asleep on him. (Claire takes pictures.)

The boys promise to visit at the cabin (though they know Mom will probably never let them, just because she still hasn't let them travel alone, but three more years and Gray will be 18, so they can do whatever they want).

Zach teaches Gray how to drive.

And this is from 1 and 2. Still have to see 3 a second time. Will have more ideas then, no doubt.

[bizlybebo]

god does anybody think about dakota and the concept of forgiveness.

he holds these grudges that seem so strong but he drops them at the slightest possibility that he may lose the ones he loves. he clings on so tightly and forgives rather easily because he’s already lost people before and deep down i think he’s still trying to “earn” some kind of forgiveness or redemption himself.

just. don’t you ever need to punch a wall whenever you think of the way he was unsure whether he’d ever be able to fully forgive william for doing what he did in the greyscale arc and then lying about it. and how that was all dropped immediately once william was torn in half and how dakota himself said through tears how he’d forgive him for everything else but never forgive him for dying.

of course he isn’t an unconditional forgiveness kind of guy. he still has his doubts in certain people and he sure as hell can hold a grudge even when teaming up with somebody (cough. mark) but i just.

don’t you ever think about how fucking clingy this kid is, no matter how much he refuses to admit it. don’t you ever feel ill when you think about him. don’t you ever think about how he’s the most reluctant member of the trio to call tide his dad but he ends up needing tide the most in ep39. it’s so dark in here

[chaikachi]

Hey radical spicy hot take but Trapdoor is 100% a ruby song. And. Trapdoor is 100% a oscar song. They are a mirror to each other. They are put on the same pedestal. They bear the same weight. They occupy the same space, simultaneously, impossibly. Do you see my vision?

anono... how does it feel to have such a big brain. all songs are rg songs if you try hard enough. 😤

Yes, Trapdoor is first and foremost a Ruby song, but her and Oscar are 100% mirrors living such similar character arcs. I could talk about all those parallels in a post all their own (one day), but for now a really good example is actually comparing Trapdoor to Sky is Falling (thank you @greenteaandtattoos for pointing it out first).

I'm gonna ramble a bit

Trapdoor is a song about the weight Ruby has been carrying. How she has tried so hard and how it's seemingly done more harm than good. It talks about how she doesn't feel seen or heard or needed, let alone wanted. How she's losing herself. How she feels like a trapdoor, part of the floorboards being walked on and unnoticeable. How one more step is all it might take for her to break and fall further into the depths below. And simultaneously like a trap that will lead all her friends to ruin.

And Sky is Falling (in my opinion) is a song about the weight Oscar has been carrying. How he's struggling with moving forward in light of everything he's been through and everything they've lost. The song itself is cited as referencing the original Henny Penny (aka Chicken Little) fairytale since it's a story that uses the song's title as a cry wolf for fearing the end of the world. But that feels a bit like a red herring to me. Or at least not like the whole picture.

The original myth of Atlas and the weight of the world isn't actually about the god holding the world on his shoulders. It's about him holding up the sky. So whether you read it as Oscar struggling with what to do given Atlas is falling... or struggling with how to move after Ruby falls, (Ruby, who was holding Atlas on her shoulders. So when she fell, so to did the city in the sky) is up to interpretation.

Some examples of how the songs mirror each other a bit tho:

Trapdoor

Though I try to keep the hope alive

Sky is Falling

Lost all my hopes and dreams

Trapdoor

Watch it all Unfold As I Cascade below Frozen In the darkest moment I can't bear the weight I hold

Sky is Falling

Starin' at the casket, hopin' to move past it Knowin' things will never be the same, and that's it Cold soaked as I'm standin' in rain Feelin' nothin' but pain until I see you again

Both of them struggling to hold onto hope. Both of them struggling with the cold of grief. The water imagery in "cascading" and "rain". The feeling of drowning. How to keep moving in the face of it all.

Also just on the topic of them being mirrors, it's interesting how many of these songs can so easily link back together. Trust Love's "open up your eyes" to Sky is Falling's "cover up your eyes". Then Sky is Falling's direct parallel, Touch the Sky. In my opinion, this song talks about both of them. The first verse is very Oscar "Little Prince" Pine, but especially this part:

I'm soarin' like I never have before Flying self-assured and free And I somehow feel I finally feel like me I looked in the mirror and I gotta say It's been a long, long time since I felt this way Right now, I'm just a bit surprised 'Cause I feel just fine and I might just touch the sky

And then directly towards Ruby's ascension in the second verse:

Open doors and so much hope in front of me Full of confidence, every challenge crushed My heart's electric, racing endlessly Feeling like the stars have all aligned Illuminate the darkness that was blinding me Now I'm positive that it's my time to shineI will explode, you'll see me rise You may not even recognize I just can't wait for this reveal

But also... very strong argument can be made that both verses apply to both of them. Finally feeling like themselves, the people they've wanted to be, the ones they're meant to be. These kids and their identity issues... But especially cause, um, Ruby isn't the only one that explodes.

So to summarize, Oscar looked in the mirror - not the mirror that showed Oz's reflection, but the mirror he sees in Ruby - and he became more like himself. Influenced by the hope she inspires.

And Ruby, like Alice, fell through the looking glass. But in the Ever After the only Oscar that was there to stare back at her wasn't a reflection of hope, it was was one of fear.

So she had no choice but to fall further and looked inward. Until she found the hope that was always inside her. The hope Oscar always knew was there because he sees her.

And the fact that Ruby's hope, her motivation, has always been "the people she hasn't lost yet". And how Oscar is the only living companion Neo 'kills' to hurt her. I'm getting so off track here but...

The Parallels. It's CINEMA.

They make me UNWELL.

Edit: I ended up just talking a bit about how they're mirrors through song and not so much Trapdoor from an Oscar lens. It is so strongly a Ruby song to me that it's hard to apply to him, even if it does fit him in some ways as well. All alone in crowded rooms and all that.

[xunkun]

this is not meant to be that serious, and im not trying to express any negative feelings towards antyhing or anyone. im not that pressed about the results, i just want to talk about why rei is even unit leader in the first place

my minds kinda fucked right now but if i remember correctly, he was put in that leader position so that he would have something to ground him in a single place and not keep running off to do other shit. and he needed the unit and a place to feel and call home. koga also did a buncha shit so that rei could be "resurrected" bc he was in this huge burnout era

[shsl-writer]

I adore Pekozumi but in a tragic one-sided way.

Peko grows to admire Mahiru and her talent and through Mahiru’s photographs learns the power of smiling and joy. Mahiru’s talent literally inspires Peko to strive to find happiness herself and spread it to others. Mahiru is so strong and confident, she refuses to answer to anyone but she is still so kind underneath that and so dedicated to recording people’s joy. She literally represents everything Peko wishes she could have for herself.

I love Pekozumi in a: Peko was in love with Mahiru but at the end of the day her duty came first, her role as Fuyuhiko’s tool would always come first no matter what, so even though she didn’t want to kill anyone, and definitely didn’t want to kill Mahiru, she still swung the bat.

[rosegoldenatlas]

Hey it kind of late for me right now so maybe its the half awake braincells finally connecting and everyone else figured this out already, but that one post of like three screenshots of smallishbeans' Twitter got me I've two thousand notes in like a day. I swear with smaller fandom's that have been around a long time like with Joel.. I guess its like lighting a match when you put up an appreciation post. And y'all were like fucking moths to the flame of all hail Jeremyism.

[bish-plz-haha]

I got bored and, since I'm rewatching BSD, I made an edit.

[lilacmuffins]

finn's parents' backstory is actually gonna make me die HE JUST WANTED TO CIRCLE THE ISLAND!! AND COME BACK TO HIS WIFE

HE WAS A BETTER MAN!! A GOOD FATHER!!!!

[citrine-elephant]

thinking about leon asking chris to help him with recovery and to get on his ass about his alcohol consumption

and he just wakes up in the middle of the night to see the silouhette of chris fucking redfield right outside his bedroom shouting "you better just be pissing, kennedy" as he's trying to get out of bed

and leon just starts fucking screamin

[lefthandedvegan]

longing so desperately to have him throw me around before spitting in my mouth and forcing me to eat him out. choke me against the wall just to push me to my knees and grind his cunt against my face while I desperately try to keep up. shove me into the mattress with his hands around my neck and in my hair while he gives me instructions on how he wants me to please him. Good toys do what they’re told, right?