#Posting about my girls with no more context whatsoever

[aiza-luna]

AIZA OCs RAMBLES - PART 1

So... Yesterday I was playing with some height chart of my Main Characters (funnily enough with redm3tal 's post timing 😭), and I placed all my girls side by side...

I'M- JSGAVDIVKVKJLDBJK 😭

THEY'RE EITHER BIG ASS LIGHT POLES OR SMOL HYDRANTS 😭🪦

(Niara being the shortest of them while her sister Kamaria is a fucking titan I'm-)

I also did their heigh difference with their Love Interest and things were... Interesting khjfjgjkk.

Niara x Alone - Nilone (Anime: Saint Seiya The Lost Canvas).

THEY'RE SUCH A SHORT DUO AND I LOVE THEM FOR THAT GHDHFJJKK 😭 They literally fit their Fox and Bunny morfit like crazy, They're such a cuties 🥹🤏🏽 (that are sick in the head-)

Aquarius Dégel x Kamaria - Dégaria (Anime: Saint Seiya - The Lost Canvas).

MY TWO SWEETHEARTS THAT DON'T STAY TOGETHER I LOVE THEM 🥹🤲🏽💚🩷

Yes, I love their dynamic and how he thought her about being her own person again after she suffered so much (cofcof slavery cofcof), I love how she appreciates him not for his position or reputation, but for who he really is... How they both love each other, not just romantically, but in a way they knew that transcended time itself 🥹💚🩷

My two tall babies, I love them 🙏🏽

Aquarius Camus x Pictor Hannah - Cannah (Anime: Saint Seiya series).

My two emotional mess that has more issues than a comic series 🥹🩵💚

I love how I developed their romance, their dynamic, how she admired him to hate him for a choice he made for the greater good, how they had to know each other much more deeply to understand their actions and their world-philosophies, challenging each other's world-view about themselves.

Love these two very much too 🙏🏽🩵💚

(End of part 1)

[am-i-the-asshole-official]

AITA for implying my sister’s a transphobe?

For context: i’m a nonbinary girl and at the time had recently broken up with my trans girlfriend of a year. I also have very different political stances than my sister, which historically makes me very frustrated (she’s a liberal so very into making sure people have rights but never acknowledging the structural problems that cause minority hatred/prejudice).

So my sister and i were playing a videogame together and having a great and fun time. We were switching the game and there was an add for Hogwarts Legacy on her home screen, which we both saw. I genuinely don’t remember who commented on it first. Either i said something like ���ugh, please don’t get that godawful game” or she said something like “oh i wanna get/play this game”. Knowing me it was probably the former. A throwaway comment for sure. Either way, that started a little argument between us.

More context: my sister and i both grew up as avid potterheads. I was even more obsessed with it than her, as a lonely middle schooler with no friends, harry potter was my favorite avenue of escapism and basically my main coping method. Which is why i was so devastated when, in 2020, i found out about all the terf shit jkr had been posting and supporting. It felt like losing a close friend, and so it’s a subject around which i have a lot of pain thinking/talking about. But my sister (cishet) usually thinks I’m overreacting. She doesn’t support jkr’s rhetoric but doesn’t think that supporting her or her work monetarily is a bad thing whatsoever. Mainly she believes it simply won’t make a difference to her bottom line.

Anywho, we were arguing about Hogwarts Legacy and how i think that she shouldn’t give jkr any money regardless of how closely she was involved with the production, since she’s getting profit from it regardless. Sister brings up that she’s seen trans people who want to buy and play the game, and that i’m not the authority on the issue. I tell her that the people saying that are not the majority of the community, and that maybe she should listen to the person who’s actually trans and sitting right next to her. She disagrees, and i say “then just don’t call yourself an ally”. I don’t quite remember what she said, but the argument didn’t last long after that.

We continued playing whatever videogame, and then i excused myself to have dinner. When i came back k stopped by her room to share a fun fact, and she confronted me about how much it hurt her that i said she wasn’t an ally. She told me that she had put in real work by taking an intersectionality class in college, and by attending trans rights protests — all of which i’ve never done (mostly because of mental health issues i won’t get into). She was crying and upset, and i told her i was sorry for having that conversation at a bad time, and for how i phrased my thoughts, but that i didn’t take back what i said about her not being an ally and to say i was would be lying. I didn’t say much more because i saw how upset she was and didn’t think that was a good time to argue about my opinions - so we decided to talk about it later when she was calmer.

I still haven’t started that conversation because i haven’t decided if what i said was unnecessary and made me an asshole, or if what i said was justified and she needed to hear it. It’s been a few months now and we’re both back in college and living hours away from each other in different countries.

So, tumblr, AITA?

What are these acronyms?

[cookies-super-secret-blog]

something something grow a pair and state thoughts on ai?

So, funny story, I made a post about this before, whenever the topic tag for it was trending. And like, I still stand by that, sans the part where I call the AI itself a form of art under my definition. A little bit after that, I saw a post, while definitely not in response to my own post, made the point that while we should hate AI art for the rampant theft of jobs and content, that its somehow bad to dislike it as Bad Art or Not Art because "gatekeeping art is baddd". Which like, in the context of someone drawing stick figures or painting giant blocks of color, is valid; we shouldn't gatekeep art from people. I still think AI doesn't deserve that privilege. Like, not to try and define art again, but, like hold on ket me grab something.

This is an ai generated adoptable from deiantart. Now, I have to ask, what's being expressed here- besides "cute girl in big hoodie (despite the one on the left not having a hoodie)"? Like it's easy to take these apart mechanically, but conceptually? It's somehow easier. Like, part of character design is visually communicating stuff about the character. There's nothing here besides anime girl in big outfit with minor armor details maybe? Like nothing else here is coherent! Like she looks sampled off of genshin and honkai characters but that's it. Like the cutains are just blue, and its dull and boring because of it. Why is the jacket neon green? The prompter wanted it that way. Why does she have the shoulder pieces and the case she's holding? Because the prompter likely put "battle girl" and/or "solarpunk" into the prompt. And it's not bad to have design elements for the sake of it, but the ai can't do anything but that, and the content it generates suffers because of it. There's no artistic value there, imo.

Now, not to toot my own horn, but here's my take on this design:

This is still a "cute girl in a big lime green jacket", but there's more to it. It's a high visibility jacket, with stripes reminiscent of construction vests. In the other doodles on the page, this high visibility theme is expanded to a theme of her being some kind of rescue personnel, and/or an angel (see; the halo in the bottom right). While it's fairly easy for me to point these themes out- it is what I intended- I'd still argue an obersever would be able to point out similar, or other themes and motifs that bring this character together.

No ammount of prompts and generation models can recreate that. Even if the prompter had the exact same intent I had when making the og ai content, that intent doesn't come across whatsoever. Because AI cannot replicate human intent and artistic processes.

These image generators register to me as the miserable end point of the sad, art-illiterate belief that art only is, and is only meant to "look pretty". Every time modern art is decried as "ugly and pointless", another prompter gets validated in their shameless attempts to assert their narrow-as-fuck vosion of what art is.

Art is human. Art is messy, art is intricate, art is sloppy, art is beautiful and art is ugly.

No machine on earth can comprehend or replicate that. And the ceasless attempts to commodify and capitalize on art have made some people forget that fact. The kinds of people who prompt really only see art as a gimmick product, pretty knickknacks that will make them rich quick.

For lack of better terms, the dehumanization of art itself is disgusting, and so like hell am I going to consider AI's mass-produced, slot machine-esque, drivel as art.

And I will not be guilted by other people on this hellsite who think its a moral failure to call mindless content what it is because its dressed up in distorted frills and anime girl boobs.

Art is human, and AI is not human. And what a sad world it is, that we're automating and strangling human creation, instead of letting it thrive.

Thank you for reminding me to share my thoughts.

[tomwambsgans]

that gay brother/little sister post you reblogged was soooo juicy so now i wanna ask your thoughts on gay roman (i’m absolutely a gay roman truther)

so i'm not attached enough to roman to have TOO many pre-formed thoughts on this but i'm gay enough i can't not have thoughts, so. another disclaimer, due to my lack of attachment i'm not whatsoever married to the notion of either kendall or roman (or shiv for that matter) being gay as opposed to bi. however i have eyes and a brain so i know they're all not straight, like that much is basically textual.

but anyway. when it comes to any of the roy siblings and homosexuality, i'll say my very first thought is this monologue from Angels in America. not that they would necessarily have that exact ideology about it, but those notions would greatly inform their attitude about themselves. imo roman, with his inclination toward fascistic masculinity in particular, would be the most likely to overtly think these things, and i do think he kind of does. roman knows that he's unable to get off with normative sex, but he also explicitly derides "liberal butt-love" and implicitly (sometimes explicitly) all the non-conforming and gender-bending stuff that goes along with it. that's at least partially because he's talking about a category of people that he does not belong to, due to being far above it. it's often the case for those who are rich and powerful and condemn the same "deviant" practices that they themselves engage in, whether it's gay sex, or just generally non-normative sex, abortion, etc. it's okay for me, but not for you.

but that's just one piece to roman's puzzle because there's also clearly shame wrt masculinity (logan's masculinity) and also some sexual trauma involved. i think kieran and/or one of the writers has said something about not wanting to pin Why Roman Is Like That on anything in particular, like not wanting to definitively say that something happened to him as a kid, but honestly i think it's extremely unlikely that he'd be like that about sex if nothing did. maybe it was very complicated and it not any singular event, but there's got to be something. some sexual depth to his childhood abuse that never got explicitly touched on. other people much more invested in roman than i have done really good meta on the roys' relationships to their bodies (like w the Summer of Competetive Eating Disorders), so i'm not gonna try to rehash those other ppl's thoughts, but in short that's the sort of thing i think of when i'm trying to imagine what the fuck happened to roman. like just over-arching themes of The Boot throughout roman's life, the lack of ownership over his own body in a way that reflects femininity and strips him of manhood, whether at home or at military school, etc.

i mean, we (as in the audience) are definitely at least supposed to wonder, like when it's implied that Mo's pederasty wasn't exclusive to girls (Don't Get In The Pool With Him), but also, if anything of that nature happened to him and informed roman's relationship with his sexuality, i have to also think that roman doesn't actually remember. his whole thing in austerlitz where he jokes to connor "i'm gonna tell them you diddled me" gives me the sense that maybe roman just kind of wishes it was that cut-and-dry, because then he'd have something specific to blame his whole deal on.

anyway. this is about roman being gay, not specifically sexually Weird - i just think the context of all that is relevant to how he'd conceptualize himself and any gay feelings he has. and i do think that if and when roman has ever had sex with men, he probably does lump it in with the fact that he can't have Normal sex. i think roman would have to undergo a lot of character development to ever consider it normal sex. honestly, simply recieving a handjob from his personal trainer was likely "wrong" enough for roman to get off despite how the average gay man would see it as extremely vanilla compared to roman needing to be degraded or fantasizing about necrophilia. growing up with logan "i didn't figure you for a faggot" roy would have, of course, really reinforced the ideas about that being Wrong.

(speaking of logan dropping the f slur, i think it's interesting that despite how roman acts anti-woke in front of others, he's shocked when logan says it. it's clearly crossing a line even for him, almost certainly because he's been abused with this word throughout his life. :'/)

so yeah i don't think roman would ever call himself gay (or even bi or queer) even if he is. and as for the matter of if he is, like as in, if tabitha and gerri are exceptions... i honestly don't know, but i don't think roman knows either. i think the relationship he has with love and sex, his own body and others, the very concept of desire and the love and affection and closeness he seeks out... are genuinely so gnarled and complicated, and wrapped up in all the aforementioned shame and abuse, that figuring out where gender factors into it would - once again - basically require years of therapy on his part.

it's definitely very plausible to me that kinky, non-normative sex is something he only needs in order to get off with women because he has no innate desire for them even when he loves them (and roman definitely has a lot of love inside of him that he will bend over backwards to give and recieve). but it's just as plausible that roman's association of feelings of wrongness with sexual pleasure is in fact unrelated to whatever gendered desire he has or doesn't have. his attraction to men is, funnily enough, more undeniable to me than his attraction to women is, but i do think that how it's portrayed in the show emphasizes roman's role in the world more than desire he holds inside of him. i always think of that one tweet that's like "whenever there's a guy that needs to be seduced, instead of shiv or some other hot woman they send roman." and his role as the Desired One (aka Practically A Woman) is likely a sort of spite factor in him wanting to deny overt homosexual interest too, since it's kind of imposed on him before he has a chance to say anything about who he is.

it's funny bc roman is the one male character where like... i simultaneously like the idea of them being gay and enjoy their relationships with women. he's just so complicated that he kind of exists outside the constructions of sexual orientation? like not in the "he's closeted and he's never coming out so even if he's gay, he's also not" way, but "this guy would not be able to figure out how to define attraction or desire to begin with." gerri being the love of his life and the notion of him being gay are not whatsoever mutually exclusive in my mind, because he's just that complicated.

finally i wanna say, again, that i'm not extremely attached to roman. nowhere near to the degree that i care about tom and greg. which i say because yknow.. i want to kill and maim when i see anything implying that either tom or greg are anything but gay. idk how you feel about it but i'd totally sympathize if you were the same about roman, lol. and i wanna emphasize that it's very likely the only reason i'm not necessarily a gay roman truther is because i haven't thought about it enough. i'd love to see anyone else's gay roman meta if they have it.

[penultimate-step]

Oshi no Ko 145 Reaction

Live Crow Reaction

I debated if I even wanted to do a chapter react for this one, I did for the last two and this is a series I generally have a lot of thoughts about, but perhaps I was spoiled by how those chapters were deeply concerned with the character arcs for Ruby and Aqua, some of my favorite parts of the manga.

This one instead focuses on our mysterious crow girl, Tsukuyomi. Which is good, she has desperately needed some fleshing out, but....hmm. It feels very strange to go from essentially net zero information to having her whole backstory and thoughts about the other characters dropped on us all at once. The fact that the backstory is so completely out of left field just makes it worse. Like. Okay, so crow girl is....an actual crow? sure, let's go with that?

Would I be taking lethal amounts of copium to think this might be some kind of metaphor? I don't think it is because that would be too misleading for what OnK usually does but like. what is this development here.

I think the main reason this bothers me is because it feels incredibly one-sided. The hints that crow girl's previous life had a connection to the siblings was interesting, and spurred speculation on what the nature of that relationship was, but the actual answer here seems kind of...the least impactful way to go about it? It would have felt Weird and fanfic-y to suddenly introduce a random OC who was important to both Gorou and Sarina in their past lives, given that their isolation and loneliness were kind of key to their characters. But introducing a literal animal in the role feels kind of like a cop out. You want a character who could be seamlessly inserted into the character's backstories, without changing the trajectory of their arcs whatsoever? okay, she's the stray bird they met that time. In essence, it means Tsukuyomi gets to have a connection to Ruby and Aqua, but they don't have one with her. It's one sided.

Which, if I'm being charitable, could be the point - another way to explore the themes explored in previous chapters of people having different views of others. A crow viewing the pair from a distance without even being considered a peer could be an interesting counterpoint to previous thoughts on placing idols on pedestals - a god looking down at people condescendingly, even more so.

By the fact that she sees them as kids, even Gorou, who was in his thirties, it's clear that her view of them might be divine, but it sure isn't objective. But that's getting back into the supernatural elements of the series that I don't have any explanations or context to talk about.

I don't know, I can find explanations and ideas that make me think this could be cool when thinking optimistically but when speaking honestly I'm not super enthused by the execution in these few pages. And this is meant to be a reaction, not an analysis, so even if it isn't super professional of me I'll leave my conflicted thoughts up in the post.

This isn't a terrible revelation, I don't think this ruins the manga forever or anything, but it does feel like a bit of a wasted opportunity right now. makes me feel a little down about the chapter. But this is a serial, there's still time to make this all come together, in many different possible ways. Who knows, maybe in a few months after this arc wraps up I'll be talking about how crow girl is my new favorite character.

[bbs-backlog-challenge]

Fin or Bin: Final Fantasy 10-2

This is the last Final Fantasy game on the backlog (and at June 2016, the game that has been on there the longest), and I’m going to miss talking about the series’ nomenclature at the top of every post. This one must surely be the most egregious, being Ten Two, distinct from Twelve; a very rare direct FF sequel to a game which had a satisfying if bittersweet ending and did not in any way need a sequel at all.

This game is bad. I’m not going to pretend otherwise, and that’s not a spoiler for the end of the review- from concept through to execution, no part of this product is good. Two years after the events of the first (or, uh… tenth?) game, Yuna finds proof that a certain someone might still be kicking around, and so becomes a Sphere Hunter to follow that rabbit hole as deep as it will go. For those lacking the context, this is the Final Fantasy equivalent of going around garage sales buying up old VHS tapes to hopefully find someone who taped that lost episode of Doctor Who.

Honestly the whole package feels cheaply made and rushed and really just like it only exists because someone at Squenix realised graphics technology had become powerful enough to believably render girls in bikinis and they needed an excuse to do that. It’s flimsy and naff and feels like a Wish knockoff of the original game, using just enough of the same assets to ape it without directly infringing on the copyright.

Gone is the entirely bespoke Sphere Grid method of levelling characters, replaced with a… completely bog-standard Lv1-100 system that has almost no customisation whatsoever. Rather than strategically choosing the best character to swap into battle in a given moment, all three characters are functionally identical under the Dress Sphere system, which acts like a mid-battle class change. You can put monsters on your team now! I don’t know why. Battles are somehow active and hectic but also a sluggish mess, no longer the tactical style employed in the original title, now favouring a return to the old ATB system with added faff. New girl Paine (who I suspect is only here because they couldn’t convince anyone that Lulu would hop around in a swimsuit) is instructed to use the Power Break ability when her turn comes up, and then… proceeds to stand still for another twenty years charging it up before she can use it, even though it was already her turn.

All of the music has been entirely remade from the ground up, with not a single track carried over from the original. Series composer Nobuo Uematsu was not involved at all here, citing his work on other projects as a conflict in the schedule. Running around familiar locations with music that is somewhat similar but not quite right REALLY adds to the knockoff feel, and I suspect his conflicting schedule was ‘holy smokes I will work on literally anything else so I don’t have to waste my time on this’. The music is honestly awful, technically competent but tonally disastrous, and I hate it.

Fin or Bin:

Despite all its flaws, there is still yet something compelling about the game, and I’m not talking about the bikinis. I have tentatively called Ten my favourite FF game before, and it is just fascinating to watch it be so wholly mutilated- to see the same world done in as many wrong ways as could be imagined. I had to see more, I just had to keep going, and that technically makes this a Fin- but I got as far as seeing the ruins of Zanarkand which since the first title have been turned into a tacky tourist destination, and Yuna remarks how it hurts to see something so beloved and meaningful be turned into cashgrab slop, and the sheer lack of self-awareness on display was injurious. I really wanted to get through to the end just to say I had done so, but I think I’m pulling the ripcord.

(Steam)

[hannieehaee]

Idk if this is appropriate or not (feel free if this is something you don't want to answer) but as a casual kpop stan who really only stans seventeen and listens to other kpop artists on a somewhat frequent basis I just feel as though seventeen is reaching their peak in a way that's far from satisfying. Like idk if this makes sense but to me it seems as tho the members are struggling to keep out of "scandals" with mingyu's incident last year, minghao/seoksoon being labeled as fat phobic earlier this year over out of context clips and now with Joshua (he's not even close to being my favorite member but these rumors and pregnancy stories are honestly making me so upset rn) ...as a fan who feels a genuine attachment to these people it's hard for me to be happy because while Ik the boys deserve every good thing coming their way fame comes with a price and that price is what I'm worried about. Like I get that Pledis isn't SM and seventeen definitely see themselves as family unlike NCT who view themselves more as colleagues I'm so scared that Joshua will eventually leave like Lucas or heaven forbid anything more drastic happens. It's just that I always see these "we could never save them" posts but then the same people who post them also comment the worst things forgetting that idols are humans too. I'm super sorry for the long ask but I just read that jeonghan got hurt and that made me think of the rest of the members and everything else they've been going thru. I'm not even the type of person to get attached to people I barely know but with Seventeen it's like I'm really and honestly praying for their success because they seem that THAT genuine group of people who are just trying their best. Sorry for the rambling

i get what ur saying. dont worry abt sending a long ask! ur welcome to rant abt svt in my inbox whenever! honestly i havent stanned for too long so idk how things were before this past year but i do worry for them lately :/ theyre getting injured too often and they get no rest. i dont like how pledis/hybe are managing them at all. theyve been constantly touring japan very repeatedly for seemingly no good reason at all which has obviously tired them out (theyve been dropping like flies, LITERALLY). pledis had the opportunity to promote them in ways that didnt involve constant performances but have just chosen not to for some reason. i really hope they get to rest soon (unlikely tho since theyre likely gonna have a world tour next year).

about the joshua thing. i feel sosososo bad for him. idk and idc if hes really dating that girl honestly. i do feel like it was kinda dumb of her to consistently post herself in the same places/clothes as him if they really wanted to keep it a secret BUT neither of them deserved the hate/scrutiny they got for it. not even with the pregnancy thingy on her stories. i don't think joshua and lucas' situations are comparable whatsoever since joshua has not done anything wrong unlike lucas. im hoping pledis somehow protects him better but thats unlikely. i dont think any member of svt will ever leave bc as u said, theyre family. cant rlly compare to nct tho lol bc i only stan svt so idk any other groups' dynamics like that. i do get what ur saying tho i have friends who stan nct and svt and theyve said to me that they do see a drastic difference in dynamics between the two groups but thats neither here nor there.

lastly, i have the best hopes for svt. they keep saying theyll only go up from here and i believe that. idk how that will play out with military service in consideration or with what seems to be chronic incidents that keep happening to them (gyu, cheol, and han in the past few months) but i trust and hope they'll be okay. they have a very established fanbase and a rlly good support group with one another so i only see good things for them in the future. hope they get at least a month off soon though.

[artzychic27]

I was reading some incorrect quotes for Scarlet Beetle & Ikati Black… Are the students gonna protest a dress code or something?

Talking about the first quote of this post? And yeah, I'm thinking in season 2 as a filler chapter. (Not everything needs to be about Akumas. We just need crazy high schoolers being pissed about school rules) And this’ll be a Denise-centered episode with mentions of struggle with their gender when it comes to women’s issues, that stuff

Enjoy some out of context quotes of what’ll go down

Damocles: We will be implementing a dress code.

Marinette: Dress code?!

Nino: What the fuck, dude?!

Alix: Why don't you teach the boys some impulse control?!

Damocles: That seems hard.

Kim: It really isn’t.

—

Cosette: Oh, so now you’re calling us hos?

Damocles: I-I never said that-

Mylène: That’s what I heard.

Sabrina: You literally said we shouldn’t dress in a way that catches unwanted attention from men!

Lila: I feel shamed. You have shamed me, sir!

Damocles: Wh-what I meant was… You… You ladies should dress more like Mx. Cabello.

Everyone: …

Simon: Say what, motherfucker?

Damocles: Y-yes, the way Denise dresses is modest with ankle length skirts and shirts with high cuts-

Denise: ‘Okay! Getting uncomfortable right now!’

—

Ismael: *Reading the list of unapproved clothes* No tank tops, no crop tops, no low rise jeans, no leggings, no jeggings, no short skirts, no short shorts, and no tube tops. Wait, aren't these all women's clothing?

Jean: Well, they're clothes advertised toward women. Check this out. *Takes off his hoodie to reveal a red crop top* I'm wearing a crop top! I'm breaking the dress code!... See? No sort of reaction whatsoever.

Austin T: *Walks by smirking* I wouldn’t say that, hot stuff.

—

Mme. Bustier: As a responsible adult, I should have you all abstain from doing what you're about to do… But, as a badass child of the eighties, I'm gonna encourage you all to fight the power!

—

Cerise: Sib, be honest. Does wearing skirts make you happy?

Denise: Yeah.

Cerise: How do short skirts make you feel?

Denise: Like clawing at my legs whenever I see them.

Cerise: Then who cares about what Damocles or those zorras say? You dress how you want, and don’t worry about what you’re gonna wear at the protest. As long as you wanna help the cause, then I don’t think it matters what you’re wearing.

—

*After a badass protest by the ladies of DuPont*

Damocles: Girls! Get into the locker rooms and change immediately!

Lila: We're not girls! We're ladies! *Trips on her high heel* OH, FUCK! MY MOTHERFUCKING ANKLE!

[vitaminwaterreviews]

aespa - Whiplash

This is the second time that I’ve listened to three albums in one sitting, and both times, two of them were kinda mid, and one of them was by far the best. This one was by far the best. My favorite thing is when a song is so good that it makes me laugh, and that happened twice in this album. I just love aespa so much. To me, aespa are kpop. Like, they’re just the most kpop kpop group that’s currently active. They’ve carved out their concept, and they just dive so hard into it. They’re kpop royalty, princesses, heirs to the throne of SNSD, in just the same way that Red Velvet were before them. I’m not even talking about the album in this, but trust me I loved the songs so much. Armageddon (the album) was kinda mid to me, but this did not disappoint. In terms of song average, I think this is probably my highest aespa album ever, it’s probably one of my highest albums ever. Speaking of, 8.5. That’s about right, very very good.

- Whiplash

I am doing a few girl group albums today. This is the song that I have the highest hope for. Impress me.

Lol what is this bari sax

I just love their visuals this comeback

Winter is SO perfect

I appreciate how driving the song is, but I do hope it goes somewhere more than the chorus we just got

Mkay, the post-chorus is cool

I can’t read everything because I’m also typing

Color! Blue!

Well I guess we already saw color in Giselle’s hair but there is an obvious thing going on visually here

Aren’t these the Armageddon outfits?

And it’s impossible to see aespa in front of a red background without thinking of Drama

I do quite like this, I do wish we’d gotten a bit more from it. It was driving, but it didn’t really go anywhere

8/10

Kill It

Mmmm yeah

Haha okay, the chorus is funny

I’m not typing much but I was vibing SO hard there

This is the aespa song on this album

Lol the chorus, I literally just laughed out loud when it came around the second time

9/10 easily, I considered a 10 but I don’t think it’s quite there

Flights, Not Feelings

Music box moment

This song has kind of a lurching feel to it so far

SM just has such good production. If I had to rate kpop companies in terms of how much I enjoy their production, SM is definitely at the top of the list

Their voices just kinda float over the bridge here, this is pretty

Yeah, what’s going on rhythmically in the chorus here? Some tuplet or something, it reminds me of Billlie

8/10, good song

Pink Hoodie

Halfway through this song and I have no comments whatsoever

I like it

The lyrics are kinda cute, the English parts at least

8/10, good, not super inspired though

Flowers

Woah okay, a bit of relaxed guitar, not very aespa

It still totally has a creepy aespa vibe to it though

I really, really love this guitar

I wonder what “show me your flowers” means in context

Yes, thank you for ending on that lovely guitar

Actually, this song kinda reminds me of Sour Grapes

8/10

Just Another Girl

Holy shit

I am obsessed with this song

Dude what the hell

I’m only 52 seconds into the song but

10/10

[7grandmel]

Todays rip: 03/02/2024

Take You To The Desert

Season 3 Featured on: SiIvaGunner's Highest Quality Rips Volume A

Ripped by Chaze the Chat

Hi, so, uh, full disclaimer - I HAD a post almost done and ready to go for today (or TONIGHT, rather), but then I got very distracted by watching the amazing YouTube premiere of the MAGFest Rave, had the fucking time of my life screaming my head off in the SiIvaGunner Discord, and now I've suddenly been informed that I've almost missed Sean Kingston's birthday! Sean Kingston! You know the guy - from Crazy Noisy Beautiful Girls, from Beautiful! ~ Curveball of Sean Kingston, from the 11th episode of the SiIvaGunner Christmas Comeback Crisis? Yet for all that I've talked about him in those two posts, it still kind of feels like I've only barely scratched the surface - and with the scoops I only just got from SiIvaCord, I felt basically forced to properly honor Kingston's legacy today.

Before his unfortunate and absolutely-real-no-kidding Jetski accident, Sean Kingston made waves in the late 2000s with his breakout single Beautiful Girls - the kind of song that you only SOMEWHAT become annoyed by from its overexposure on the radio. After team member turdl3 of Hoopache fame singled it out as his number-one most disliked pop song of the 2000s, the SiIvaGunner team did what they did best and decided to turn that distaste into a running joke, posting more and more Kingston as part of the bit - before it reached Chaze the Chat's ears.

I can't help but assume that there was some sort of neural overlap across ´his prior obsession with Maroon 5 and Sean Kingston, but Chaze the Chat reportedly wound becoming absolutely obsessed with posting about the song and its various follow-ups. Did you know he made three separate mashup albums dedicated to shitposting about the guy?

Its something I've talked about in many Maroon 5-themed posts on here such as Sunday Morning, but even when I'm not able to be in on the joke there's just something so endearing about seeing rips be made out of such strangely specific yet evidently passionate interests - which, in turn, brings us to Season 3's Sean Kingston Day, and Take You To The Desert. Turdl3 was reportedly not alone in disliking Beautiful Girls, and the song had effectively no presence on SiIvaGunner whatsoever in its first two years of running - yet somehow, Sean Kingston Day got to occur, and the sheer shock of it all has stuck with me since even back when. It wasn't something absurdly random like Chain of Memories II Day back with Simple and Clean (Psi Mix), nor was it seemingly part of any ongoing lore developments, nor did it feel like a long-running joke on the channel that I'd simply failed to be invited to - everyone else in the YouTube comments were just as befuddled as I was as to what led to the sudden takeover. Hell, I hadn't even *heard* Beautiful Girls until that day!

And yet, I fucking loved it.

From an honest point of view, Take You To The Desert is a pretty simple mashup between two already-good songs. Yet with all that context of Sean Kingston's presence on the channel, his development as a borderline forced inside joke and sudden takeover for a day, and most importantly Chaze the Chat's bizarre affection for the guy, it turns into something more. Just the simple fact alone that the rip uses Take You There rather than his prior discussed debut single kind of speaks volume to how deep in the trenches Chaze the Chat was in regards to this event - an event that, really, he was the main driving force behind even getting done to begin with. And though it caught us all of guard, I do believe there were many viewers just like me back then - who through the repeated exposure of the day became unironic Sean Kingston enjoyers. And hey - Beautiful! ~ Curveball of Sean Kingston is only one of the many dozens of rips made since Sean Kingston day to continue upholding the Kingston legacy, even as the hype around the in-joke as completely passed

Bizarre, catchy, ironic, unironic, Jetski driver or pop sensation - Sean Kingston is many things, yet for the six years I've known of his existence I've never been able to see him as anything but a SiIvaGunner joke. But when its one that Chaze the Chat believed in so fucking hard, one that gave us absolute bangers like Take You To The Desert, I can't find it in me to see that as a bad thing. Because with or without prior knowledge, the passion of those who ripped his music showed me why it was worth caring about.

Happy Birthday, Sean Kingston.

[agentoffangirling]

Your false moralising is disgusting. Really repugnant. You don’t care whether Neil Gaiman raped anyone as long Good Omens doesn’t get cancelled. You cynically abuse the term transphobic in order to condemn anyone who disagrees with you.

The mental gymnastics you’re doing right now to defend a millionaire in his 40s having sexually sadomaschistic & allegedly abusive relationship with a 20 year old, a man whom multiple women have credibly accused of assault to the extent that he is under police investigation — do you have ANY idea how clear-cut an allegation of sexual or domestic abuse against a wealthy man has to be in order for the police to go out on a limb? You’re disgusting. Trans people are overwhelmingly victims of misogynistic violence & heroes in the fight against patriarchy & you have no right to use that word to defend your pet rapist author. Who is, by the way, also a Zionist. You are morally bankrupt & without human empathy. Think of how alone those women and girls must feel and have felt and weigh that against your comfort show. What the fuck happened to human decency? How can you delude yourself that you’re a good person?

Hi current and future anons, before I proceed, I highly advise you to actually read my posts on these before filling up my inbox. Do you need to send the same thing four times before I get it? Don't think so

Stated in my previous posts that people who are centering Good Omens over this shouldn't be doing so. I only mentioned Good Omens in that context as I saw people on my dash talking about Good Omens over a real situation. Which, while I do understand, is not something we should be centering right now as there are more important things happening. Check your first point off

There is no proof Gaiman has 🍇 anyone. There are allegations that he may have SA-ed two women, however, this is the part where I am waiting on more clear information. Already, the fact that he was with these women is very very sketchy and weird on Gaiman's part. However, we still need more information on the nature of the relationships as the situation is quite murky, and that is what I am waiting on. I'm not going to be that person who makes quick judgement only to be proven false in the end. Check your second point off

I haven't called anyone transphobic for condemning Gaiman. I have said that the article writer is transphobic, a well-known fact, and that the article hosts transphobic content. That doesn't mean the content is automatically false, but it does mean to be careful with it as it could be misleading about the events that happened since Gaiman supports trans rights. Check your third point off

I haven't defended Gaiman whatsoever. All I've said is that we need to wait, how does that translate to "omg how dare you defend him!!" I've said multiple times that he is already in the wrong. And the only source that police are involved is from the article and not from any source, making this point difficult to prove. Check your fourth point off

I am well aware Gaiman is a Zionist and for that reason, I don't support him. I have always supported Palestine and I do not support him. Like I've said a billion times already, I DO NOT SUPPORT NEIL GAIMAN WHATEVER THE END RESULT IS. Get that through your heads. Check your fifth point off

I have also previously stated that I completely support the victims. I don't think you actually read my posts, anon, because if you did, you would've noticed that I pointed out that the victims need all the support they can get right now, and I fully support them. Where did I even suggest that I am supporting Good Omens over them? Right, nowhere. Check your sixth point off

I will be ignoring all future anons on this topic, since I have already made myself extremely clear where I stand. I am not making any future posts on this topic until more information is revealed. If you have a question, great, reread my posts on this, cause I'm 99% sure it's already addressed in at least one of those. I'm done talking about this when I've already made my standpoints crystal clear

[hnbka]

bi mike truther here to give my two cents !! (yes this is a very old topic BUT I WASNT HERE THEN OKAY)

also this is really just rebutting what other people say, i make a couple points on why i think he's bi, but i don't really want to go scene by scene.

okay so i know people say that it feels untrue to his character to be bi because its a cop out. mike can't be bi because it disproves that he "can't" be in love with el because he only loves boys.

that was a really bad explanation so here are some posts i think explain gay mike much better than i can:

BUGSBENEFIT

LESBIAN MINDFLAYER

I REALLY LIKE THESE VIDEOS AND LOWKEY AGREE WITH THEM AND THE PEOPLE ARE AWESOME NO HATE WHATSOEVER

so. onto my take.

i see a lot of people say that mike can't be bi and then immediately jump the hoop of mike being in love with el.

so let me state now: mike being bi ≠ mike being in love with el

in fact, mike being bi gives a lot of nuance to his character: why he is SO in denial about being gay-- logically he does have feelings for a girl, but perhaps he doesn't love EL the way he loves WILL, confusing him. to me that puts a lot of scenes like we're friends we're friends, triple take, et cetera in perspective

looking at mike's character arc it feels more likely he's confused HENCE weird flirting dynamics rather than just in denial.

mike's not stupid! imagine looking at women (AND YOUR GIRLFRIEND) and feeling nothing and then looking at men (plural because i am also an eddie puppy crush truther) and feeling BUTTERFLYS.

are you crazy??? mike would be SO DEEP IN DENIAL, he would be avoiding WILL, he would be ignoring him HE WOULD NOT BE AWKWARD HUGGING HIM JUST TO THEN START FLIRTING WITH HIM he would not be hot and cold he would just be cold.

THAT'S what makes me really mad, people acting as if bisexual people are just in love with everyone. mike has been shown not to like el romantically at all, so it doesn't matter if he's bi, gay or anything else!

also robin wasn't even directly said to be lesbian, they didn't come out and go "i like women and only women." now i'm not saying robin isn't lesbian, but that is still an assumption we made based on the situation.

steve says he likes her -> robin rejects him and says she likes women

that is her reasoning. if she was bi, she would've said that she just doesn't like him, not that she can't.

my point being: the duffer brothers are not going to have mike explicitly say he's bi or gay. in this particular context, his love for will matters and i seriously doubt they're going to dive into his character arc and figuring out his sexuality (though i would love that, i'd rather leave it to fanfic writers lol)

and my most important reasoning: i'm bi. and i see myself in mike. and i want him to be bi.

art is made to be interpreted <3

[fiberflxwer]

"Oh, Celica! You're back! Gosh, how long has it been? I've missed you so much! Alm left Ram. Did you know that? Just up and LEFT! I'm so desperately lonely... Anyway, I thought about going after him just to teach him a lesson, but I didn't. I'd probably get killed by some foul beast out there on my own, you know? Hey, wait... Are you on a journey or quest or whatever? Then maybe I could go with you!" - Celica recruitment quote

[ setting the scene | Still accepting! ]

[ Oooo this is a crazy good one >:)

Now it's hard to get an exact solid grasp on this moment - being optional, reading nothing like an actual conversation with Celica, circumstances being heavily dependent on player action (ignoring Faye outright, ignoring Faye & Kliff, speaking to and denying Faye, etc.), but it says a lot about her general goals and mindset at the time.

Moreover, there is no goal or mindset. She just wants to get to Alm, and currently Celica is the one answer that she has.

Look at it this way: her recruitment dialogue contains next to no context to why Alm left or what his purpose in leaving is. Likewise, Faye does not push for more details on Celica's reason for travel. While it can just be a result of the one-sidedness of an optional recruit, I'd say it shows where Faye's true intentions lie in traveling. She was never in it for saving her country, the money, or seeing the land; she only has Alm on the mind.

Her hesitance to go outside of Ram is even shown here, in the line, "I'd probably get killed by some foul beast out there on my own, you know?" I like the choice of "foul beast" over something more realistic, when she should be aware that a civil war is active right outside of her doorstep. It really paints that she's in her own world when it comes to wanting to leave Ram Village.

To go back on that Celica train of thought real quick: Celica as a whole is a connection I want to spend more time working out, but this hypothetical scenario still presents an interesting base for it. This might again be a by-product of a one-sided interaction, but the way Faye delivers "missing you so much" sounds just...a little spiteful to me. Peeking into the future in Act 3 for a moment, look at (what is probably) the only other time Celica is mentioned by Faye post-Prologue:

Faye: You can’t expect Celica to understand what’s going through your head. Only someone who’s been with you the whole time could ever truly understand. Someone who knows you so well she thinks exactly as you do. [SoV Faye Base Conversation 2]

Sure the circumstances are a bit different, being after Alm and Celica's fight, but Faye's resolve is clear. She doesn't see Celica being worthy of Alm's love, as she does not understand him as much as Faye does. To her, Celica is a girl who just went up and left when they were a lot younger and nothing more. She doesn't want to even consider the priestess as worth Alm's time, seen as the focus of Alm in both the base conversation and here is Faye's relation to him.

At this moment, Celica is seen as a means to an end for Faye, one that is picked more for safety rather than comradery. Not to say that she does not see Celica as a friend whatsoever, but I doubt they have much to really talk about. Especially after Celica continues her pilgrimage. ]

[zeeckz]

All my knowledge about Liquid Snake is limited to the og Metal Gear Solid and random tumblr posts with little to no context whatsoever, but one day I came across a werewolf meme that I unexpectedly associated with him. And since that day, I have not been the same — every now and then more werewolf memes appear to me and all of them feel like something he would post or say. Bad quality and all. This continued to the point that youtube recommended me the entire discography of: Power Wolf. And, let me tell you, I listened to more than an hour but I didn't even need 5 seconds to convince myself he would totally listen to that.

He'd get mad at his parents (Bibo/Venom & Ocelot — Kaz is the cool dad), leave them with the word still in their mouths, to isolate himself in his bedroom, lights off, with his casette or whatever listening to these albums so he can feel powerful.

He's a Wolf Girl.

And I can't stop thinking about it.

[sammygender]

hi! disclaimer that i haven’t read through the entire spreadsheet (tho i have read a lot) and i’m just looking to ask about specific instances that have been left off, especially in regards to the ‘body keeps the score section’ and the ‘gender police’ section. am engaging in good faith despite i will admit i have a knee jerk of ‘wtf’. i love dean’s character a lot and can emphasise with wanting to correct canon misconceptions despite the fact i think we see a lot of things differently. that being said this is just about canon moments. this is an extremely long post so sorry abt that!!!

so as i’m sure you know it’s extremely heavily implied to the point of essentially being canon that sam was raped in the cage. 7x02’s “you’re my little bitch in every sense of the word”. 7x15’s “the rapier wit, the wittier rape”, said by sam’s own hallucination of lucifer in reference to his torment in the cage. either sam was raped in the cage or sam considers whatever unimaginable thing happened there to be rape. it’s even more evident once lucifer is released again: “top bunk? lower bunk? do you want to share”, “solid B on the tongue action” (around 11x14/12x15)…… however as far as i can see none of these instances are counted as references to noncon or sexual violence. you're also missing sam being assaulted by the woman in white in the very first episode and toni bevell making him think he's had sex with her in s12. i understand that due to personal preference/caring abt dean more you mightve just missed these so im just pointing it out!!

im also wondering about the fact that soulless sam racks sam up a LOT of negative points just by generally being a dick with no empathy. but he’s. you know. soulless. sam insists that soulless sam was him, but dean just as strongly insists soulless sam wasnt him, so who are we to believe? and i don’t think it’s far that soulless sam’s actions are being given equal weight to normal sam’s, especially considering that demon dean doesn’t rack up any infractions at all. if you’re including soulless sam in main sam surely you need to include demon dean in main dean. a better solution is probably to exclude or separate both (which i know u do make a note of when its soulless sam in your 'gender police' section, though hes still included in the general overview).

i’m also concerned about your “gender police” section. sam expressing incredulity that dean likes kids is there, despite there being no way to prove that assumption is whatsoever gendered? meanwhile, ‘take a walk type’ (from gordon, evident from the context surrounding man’s the way he says it that it’s supposed to be mocking calling sam gay/a girl) isnt there. sam in 5x14 saying it's weird dean isn't going to a bar on valentines isnt gendered, its a brother expressing disbelief at something he thinks is irregular for deans personality. whether hes right about that or not is a different conversation but the fact remains is that hes certainly not 'gender policing' him, especially since sam isnt exactly going to one either...

sam saying "so you never even tried" when he gets back from hell and dean is still hunting isnt him expressing disgust that dean isn't following gender roles enough (and in what way is hunting Not extremely masculine anyway) its him saddened that dean broke their promises to Get Out and live a normal life. getting out is a Good Thing. hunting is an extremely dangerous life. sam didnt want dean specifically with a wife and kids because he thinks its #Normality, he just wanted dean Out and thought that was what dean wanted - in fact lisa is used in the show to show dean's ideal life inside his head in 3x10. a happy ending being conflated with a wife and kids isn't a sam-specific issue, it's just in the writing of a homophobic show. you also have sam making fun of dean for knowing about the titanic which... how is that gendered? thats just sam being a bit of a dick. and in the same episode 'making fun of him for being excited about a cowboy outfit'... cowboys are extremely masculine??? in general a lot of the lines sam says that are defined as 'gender policing' are very heavy reaches and often can be attributed to sam just teasing him/being a bit of a dick in an entirely non-gendered way. im not gonna go on and on and keep listing specific moments - im just wondering how you define what is a moment of 'gender policing'. for example, something like the fact sam is the feminised “bitch” in bitch/jerk from the very start of the show is never mentioned.

i also think youre missing a lot of moments wrt to jack's parenting (but id need to rewatch the show to check) and certainly in the insults and self worth section for things dean says to sam - an episode like, say, 4x04, is full of fucked up things he tells sam that really upset him, and it isnt even on there. i get that ur approaching it from a deangirl lens and are therefore just not as interested in sam's moments which ofc ur totally entitled to do and is morally neutral - but i do find it dangerous to portray it therefore like an unbiased examination of sam vs dean, when it's really more a lot of data on dean's treatment within the show. i really respect the effort thats gone into this however & again am engaging in good faith not as a 'dunk'!!

ever ask yourself how many times do sam & dean actually apologize in supernatural? who's more conscious of money and getting food? how sam & dean's feelings about john change over the course of the show? is sam actually more scrutinized for gender expression than dean? who most often disposes of corpses? WELL! I've finally finished my incredibly, long, in depth rewatch notes document! And it has the answers to all those questions and more!

[myalchod]

Greetings from your mysterious and evasive HEX anon! ☃️🌚

I have been incredibly busy crafting your gift but here I am leaving my workbench to pay you another visit!❄️

Today we are going to play a little game:

This or that emoji version

(Some with no deeper meaning whatsoever except for deciding the outcome of your gift)

🍵 or 📚

🌙 or💫

🌿 or 🪨

🎹 or 🎻

🍏 or 🍎

🖋️ or 🖊️

⚽️ or 🏀

🍩 or 🍪

🦁 or 🐺

And now that we have already talked about emojis:

Describe Farah, Saul, Andreas and Luna in four emojis each!

Wishing you a splendid November weekend! I will be back soon!☃️

Oooooooh, hello again, Mysterious Anon! (Mysterious as the dark side of the moon? Attempting to decipher emojis is not my strongest game, which is going to make this round of questions interesting ...)

🍵 or 📚: Looking at that first one, I can already sense that things are going to be monstrously unfair and difficuult to decide. Because the answer is absolutely and, not or. 😭 Books and tea! But if I absolutely have to pick one, in the moment the answer is 🍵, because winter is such tea weather for me.

🌙 or💫: Oh, an easier one! Because if you get a proper dark night, especially with minimal noise pollution, it's no contest: 💫

🌿 or 🪨: I need context, Mysterious Anon! Because both plants and rocks can be great, but it depends so much on the how and which kind and where and look, I am absolutely going to overthink everything, have you met me? Figuratively, anyway. 😝 But I like perching on things, and rocks are more broadly viable for that than plants so I guess we'll go with 🪨 this time.

🎹 or 🎻: I've always been more of a strings girl when it comes to music ... despite only ever really learning how to play piano. But whether it's classical or folk, 🎻 wins out for. me.

🍏 or 🍎: Unless the red apple is a gloriously tart Pink Lady apple, 🍏.

🖋️ or 🖊️: Okay, okay, I guess you did give me some easy ones. 🖋️ all day all the time, with very rare exceptions based on situational need. From the moment I discovered the tiny Japanese EF nibs, fountain pens have been my beloved.

⚽️ or 🏀: Sportsball? Meh. Neither of these forms are one I have any real interest in, but between them, we'll go with Actual Football ⚽️.

🍩 or 🍪: Oooh, tough one, because as pictured in the emoji the answer is "probably neither". I have, in the past, committed the heresy of picking the chocolate chips out of my cookie, and regular doughnuts are usually painfully sweet. But if I can pick whatever variety of that family of sweet is involved, I think 🍪 might just eke out the win (in spite of doughnuts being a Hanukkah food).

🦁 or 🐺: DOGGOS. (I know it's a wolf. But still, decision-making capacity on this one comes from that primitive human hindbrain that reads them as, "DOGGO, MUST PET".) So ... 🐺, though I will retain enough common sense to avoid the impulse to pet the forbidden floof.

As for your other question ... did I mention that I am horrible at emojis? And that I overthink everything? But let's see ... Note that this is purely on vibes and thinking too long will almost certainly have me reconsidering everything.

Farah: 🫖😑🪫📜 Saul: 🗡️🥺🥃🪵 Andreas: 🏅😏🪓⚜️ Luna: 👑😒🕯️🫧

That's a lie, I'm already reconsidering everything. But I'm going to post before I delete it all, so hopefully there's something marginally useful in there, or at the very least entertaining. (It never occurred to me that being a person who thinks mostly in words rather than visuals would be hard dealing with emoji, of all things.)

Anyway! Cannot wait to see whatever you're crafting on that workbench, my dearest Mysterious Anon, and my apologies for taking too long agonising over this answer. Leaving some cake out for whenever you come by again. 🍰💙