#LET THIS DIE

[hellslilteaser]

I know something you don’t know and it’s to do with niiiiiiicky

This is STILL going on? Come on y’all 🙄

[coffee-system-uwu]

I stab you, you stab me, my names Andrew minyard-y. For Halloween I want to be a witch, no one likes a red head bitch. JOY TI YHE WORLD THAT JOSTENS NOT DEAD. IM GOING TO GIVE HIM HEAD, ............what about his body.. he's not much of a hottie..but he respects boundaries, he can just wear handcuffies,stick em in his pockets an-

[lastoneout]

I just love it when video games let you do really stupid shit that kills you immediately. I love being like "oh this is a terrible idea" and being able to do it and then die. It's good game design.

[gregoriahlover]

one of the most heartbreaking victims of anti culture (for me personally) is thegreatrogue, aka the creator of the babtqftim comic and a lot of undertale comics as well if i’m not mistaken. babtqftim was the biggest influence on my art style that i had growing up and it was my biggest inspiration for art and writing. i loved indie games when i was about 11 or 12 and babtqftim was like a huge mashup of everything i loved and i loved thegreatrogue’s art style and i literally would spend hours tracing her art trying to make mine look as close to hers as possible. you might notice if you google thegreatrogue and look for her drawings of bendy and then look at my doodles of gregoriah that the shape of the horns is very similar (very angular and kinda blocky)- yeah that’s all her influence. point is she was my biggest inspiration but she hardly posts now and when she does you’re given comments from people saying “i know what you did” and “friendly reminder!!! this person drew cp and rape” SHUT THE FUCK UP !!!!!!!! nothing she ever drew was harmful to anybody in any way. she made a rape joke and her stories include shit like abuse and suicide. who gives a shit. fucking scroll away, there’s this button on the upper screen of your computer on the left and if you hover over it it should say “back” or “previous”- if you press that button all that bad scary stuff you don’t like goes away 🤯 thegreatrogue isn’t my favorite artist by any means and i’ve definitely grown out of her comics but it doesn’t feel good at all to see your biggest childhood influence become a victim of purity standards when she wasn’t even hugely popular to begin with and has caused zero real world harm. antis fucking love smear campaigns, they’d rather see an artist who draws scawy stuff become a legitimate pedophile than give them the benefit of the doubt that they’re a good person, they just draw shit that’s out of pocket sometimes. it’s sickening

[sangrefae]

i love getting to see day one expac launch bugs such as "eating pizza breaks male au ra faces" and "syrcus tower now has savage level difficulty mechanics"

[naomistares]

another tlt comic, ianthe's new arm.

(guys this took me 60 plus hours... please say something nice to me..)

[hinamie]

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[nova-rpv]

death leech shadoo.....

design by @galaxylover06

[stromblessed]

Mizu, femininity, and fallen sparrows

In my last post about Mizu and Akemi, I feel like I came across as overly critical of Mizu given that Mizu is a woman who - in her own words - has to live as a man in order to go down the path of revenge.

If she is ever discovered to be female by the wrong person, she will not only be unable to complete her quest, but there's a good chance that she'll be arrested or killed.

So it makes complete sense for Mizu to distance herself as much as possible from any behavior that she feels like would make someone question her sex.

I felt so indignant toward Mizu on my first couple watchthroughs for this moment. Why couldn't Mizu bribe the woman and her child's way into the city too? If Mizu is presenting as a man, couldn't she claim to be the woman's escort?

However, this moment makes things pretty clear. Mizu knows all too well the plight of women in her society. She knows it so well that she cannot risk ever finding herself back in their position again. She helps in what little way she can - without drawing attention to herself.

Mizu is not a hero and she is not one to make of herself a martyr - she will not set herself on fire to keep others warm. There's room to argue that Mizu shouldn't prioritize her quest over people's lives, but given the collateral damage Mizu can live with in almost every episode of season 1, Mizu is simply not operating under that kind of morality at this point. ("You don't know what I've done to reach you," Mizu tells Fowler.)

And while I still feel like Mizu has an obvious and established blind spot when it comes to Akemi because of their differences in station, such that Mizu's judgment of Akemi and actions in episode 5 are the result of prejudice rather than the result of Mizu's caution, I also want to establish that Mizu is just as caged as Akemi is, despite her technically having more freedom while living as a man.

Mizu can hide her mixed race identity some of the time, and she can hide her sex almost all of the time, but being able to operate outside of her society's strict rules for women does not mean she cannot see their plight.

It does not mean she doesn't hurt for them.

Back to Mizu and collateral damage, remember that sparrow?

While Mizu is breaking into Boss Hamata's manse, she gets startled by a bird and kills it on reflex. She then cradles it in her hands - much more tenderly than we've seen Mizu treat almost anything up to this point in the season:

She then puts it in its nest, with its unhatched eggs. Almost like she's trying to make the death look natural. Or like an accident.

You see where I'm going with this.

When Mizu kills Kinuyo, Mizu lingers in the moment, holding the body tenderly:

And btw a lot of stuff about this show hit me hard, but this remains the biggest gut punch of them all for me, Mizu holding that poor girl's body close, GOD

When Mizu arranges the "scene of the crime," Kinuyo's body is delicate, birdlike. And Mizu is so shaken afterward that she gets sloppy. She's horrified at this kill to the point that she can't bring herself to take another innocent life - the boy who rats her out.

MIZU'S ONE MOMENT OF SOFTNESS AND MERCY, COMING ON THE HEELS OF HER NEEDING TO KILL A GIRL TO SPARE HER THE WORST FATE THAT THIS RIGID SOCIETY HAS TO OFFER WOMEN, AND TO SPARE A BROTHEL FULL OF INNOCENT WOMEN WHO ARE THE CASTOFFS OF SOCIETY, NEARLY RESULTS IN ALL OF THEIR DEATHS

No wonder Mizu is as stoic and cold as she is.

And no wonder Mizu has no patience for Akemi whatsoever right before the terrible reveal and the fight breaks out:

Speaking of Akemi - guess who else is compared to a bird!

The plumage is more colorful, a bit flashier. But a bird is a bird.

And, uh

Yeah.

I like to think that Mizu killing the sparrow is not only foreshadowing for what she must do to Kinuyo, but is also a representation of the choice she makes on Akemi's behalf. She decides to cage the bird because she believes the bird is "better off." Better off caged than... dead.

But because Mizu doesn't know Akemi or her situation, she of course doesn't realize that the bird is fated to die if it is caged and sent back home.

Mizu is clearly not happy, or pleased, or satisfied by allowing Akemi to be dragged back to her father:

But softness and mercy haven't gotten Mizu anywhere good, recently.

There is so much tragedy layered into Mizu's character, and it includes the things she has to witness and the choices she makes - or believes she has to make - involving women, when she herself can skirt around a lot of what her society throws at women. Although, I do believe that it comes at the cost of a part of Mizu's soul.

After all, I'm gonna be haunted for the rest of this show by Mizu's very first prayer in episode 1:

"LET" her die. Because as Ringo points out, she doesn't "know how" to die.

Kind of like another bird in this show:

[konakoro]

The world was so ungrateful to you...

[endlessmidnights]

I hate when people say suicide is the easy way out, they have no idea the pain you must be in to want to end your own life

[lilislegacy]

*percy controlling akhlys’ poison to use it against her and choking her on her own tears and saliva*

annabeth: never do it again. never do anything like it again. i’m begging you

many years later

*percy and annabeth’s teenage children being held at knifepoint by enemies, seconds away from being killed*

annabeth: percy, do it

[rice-pudding-slaps]

NOT EVEN A YEAR

[alicelethimeat]

DAY 4- PHO!

Edited: OH GOSH I didn't realise the Pho is not cooked properly!!! Cooked properly now....

[stealingpotatoes]

i'll never get over Leia naming her son Ben like imagine naming a child after your absentee uncle's fake ID

[jaypentaghast]

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