#Some thoughts

[restlesskeychains]

The ideal astyanax lives au is where Andromache actually listens to Cassandra and starts to believes her after she prophecies the death of her husband and it actually comes true. She would then go and ask her what will come of the rest of them and she sings the fates of the rest of Troy. Griped by fear, she collects her son and things for the road and escapes Troy (somehow) and IDEALLY she ends up on Ithaca and like, Penelope sees her and takes pity on her, and then Telemachus and Astyanax become brothers and it’s really cute

[ceasarslegion]

Coming from a multi generational family of professional educators (parents are both high school teachers. My nan was a teaching nurse. My great uncle was a high school teacher. I was a classroom assistant for a while and tutored as well. As an extension all of our family friends are also teachers) the whole "parents rights" shit really grinds my gears. I kinda took it for granted being from the family i am that most people understood that parents are not professional educators who specialize in the topics they go on to teach to kids. But in recent years people really do think that just loving them the mostest in the whole world means that they're better at teaching them things than someone whose whole career is to teach people things.

My parents are history teachers. They never overstepped into other topics with me because that was not their area of education. They don't know shit about how to teach math, or chemistry, or English, so they didn't, that was those teachers' jobs.

I told my mom recently about how the parents rights crowd are currently stepping on sex ed in alberta and she did the text equivalent of banging her head against the wall and said "im sorry, but parents who couldn't tell you what a quadratic formula is if you put a gun to their head about it don't get to step all over health class just because they don't agree with the material. You don't get to force the science teacher to teach creationism just because you're a young earth Christian."

[ketchuppee]

Something I keep thinking about from TBOSBAS is just how consistently Dr. Gual’s worldview is proven to be wrong. For all her and Snow’s talk of “this is who people are when released from control,” all three of the games we see in the series prove that wrong time and time again.

Lamina mercy kills Marcus to save him from further pain and suffering. Reaper spends his whole time in the arena — to his dying breaths — honoring the dead around him. Katniss sings to Rue as she dies and openly, publicly mourns her death. Thresh saves Katniss’s life, not for his own benefit, because arguably she is one of his biggest threats still in the arena at that point, but out of love for Rue. Mags volunteers for Annie. The Morphlings sacrifice themselves for Peeta and Katniss.

That is Gual’s “humanity unmasked.” Even when their own lives are at stake, even when they are pitted against each other in a literal fight to the death, these children’s love and compassion and humanity still finds ways to come through. Because Lucy Gray is right, there is an inherent goodness in us all.

[yuki2sksksk]

Head empty, just thinking of that yes, Mitsuri is the first woman Obanai learns to love, but consider this; Shinobu being the first woman he respects.

Imagine Obanai still not a Hashira yet, going on a group mission with Shinobu leading and he's like "God how come she became a Hashira when she can't even behead a demon most girls in the corps are weak and they don't take this whole things seriously smh"

Then the demon comes and Shinobu only stabs him once and the effect is tremendous, leaving what was once a strong demon to be a writhing, agonizing creature choking for air as his skin turns dull and the scent of wisteria poison lingers in the air, almost like some kind of warning to other nearby demons.

And the unbothered look on her face? The absolute no hesitation??

Good leadership + able to remain composed + smart and strategic + doesn't let her weakness define her capabilities = worthy of respect.

Mitsuri is Obanai's first love, and Shinobu is his first lady friend that he actually genuinely respects and likes.

(bonus that Obanai would trash talk about Giyuu with Shinobu and she constantly shuts him up cause she wants to befriend Giyuu and Obanai has no freaking clue why and what she sees in him. Judging friend but with concern intent).

[girllookingoutwindow]

Posting the scene again but with some thoughts:

This is a presentation of both characters and it's a good comparison.

Colin, in the background, he can read the real intentions of Cressida like we do. Maybe, because he knows both well enough. But, it's his reaction what's really important here:

He finds an elegant way to make Cressida feel uncomfortable. He has an heroic gesture (speaks of his character) but more than anything he makes Pen feel better, because Penelope feeling sad is something that Colin can't deal very well.

So, this scene is presented to us to make us understand the dinamic between them. It's easy like Colin after that. He's being kind when she was bullied, and in the end they danced together.

Pen is happy. We're happy. Cressida lost.

Cressida does the same thing here.

But Deblin can't see what's really happening here. He's kind. And in the surface does everything right, but Pen still doesn't look happy.

And he leaves, giving us to us the impression that Cressida won this time.

And in the end is a description of his character: he's okay, but he's not the right one for Penelope. He doesn't stay. He would never be, specially because we saw the right thing to do first. The situation is familiar to us, and is easy to feel that something was missing.

It was Colin.

[angelofpearls]

i don’t have crushes i have victims of the enormity of my desire and yearning

[scrimblyscrorblo]

Some Edgar Allen Poe (BSD) Headcanons:

[mr-culper]

For many, that scene with Aemond in the brothel seemed strange, or inappropriate, or even stupid. I've seen opinions as though he wasn't sorry for the murdered child. He didn't come to Helaena, he didn't react in any way to what happened. It seems as if he is not grieving at all. But that's not true. Aemond has a heart. He grieves as much as anyone. Aemond is just clever enough not to share this grief with his problematic family, members of which have the total inability to support each other emotionally.

He abstracts his mind from the situation as much as possible. He had already let himself go off the rails once during the murder of Lucerys and regrets it now. It's not his act that he regrets, but not being able to control himself. He understands he cannot fix the situation by grief, so he doesn't break things and doesn't scream, as Aegon does, he doesn't weep, as Helaena or Alicent do, he doesn't commit rash acts, as Criston does. Aemond simply abstracts his mind from all this and goes to the place where he can think in peace.

As we can see, the brothel looks very clean, the girls there are elegant, and the atmosphere is calm. Aemond doesn't drink wine because he probably knows alcohol won't do any good. He doesn't even drink tea. He chooses milk because there is in this an element of something domestic and secure, something safe, something peaceful. Such an atmosphere just what he need to gain strength for a retaliatory strike.

And while the madam pats him on the head, and while the audience thinks how pathetic he is, Aemond is actually planning to uncoil Daemon's guts around the country. Honestly, it's a very scary scene. Not stupid and not pathetic, but scary. Because Aemond plans something terrible in cold blood, and does not act impulsively, as he's done in the Shipbreaker Bay. Aemond is up to something his enemies won’t like. And the softer that scene in the brothel looks, the more ruthless his future actions will be.

[nemesyaaa]

some obx writers here are too good, let them be the real screenwriters please 🫠🫠🫠

[writerofstuff]

Thinking about how Edwin says I was traded to another demon, how he runs through hell trying to escape the spider, how the doll house is where he returns to because that is probably the last place he was trapped in and how, if he was traded multiple times among multiple demons, it was not where he was supposed to be in the first place.

He was dragged to hell on a technicality. When his demon got bored, he was dragged through worse.

Thinking about a sixteen-year-old boy running from punishments that were not his to bear, nor deserve, nor fear, nor escape. Thinking about him at the end of everything, crashing into Charles, confessing so quiet and stunned, I do not have the words.

Thinking of his awe at finally escaping what should have never haunted him in the first place.

[rioagatha]

anyone else here just getting tired of the hate that The Marvels is getting? I’ve seen so many haters just nitpicking this movie so much. It doesn’t deserve the hate it gets.

I will defend The Marvels forever.

Reblog or like to get a sword to help defend The Marvels: ()xxxxx[[{:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::>

[ceasarslegion]

Ive noticed recently that my generation has... no concept of what the various economic classes actually are anymore. I talk to my friends and they genuinely say things like "at least i can afford a middle class lifestyle with this job because i dont need a roommate for my one bedroom apartment" and its like... oughh

You guys, middle class doesnt mean "a stable enough rented roof over your head," it means "a house you bought, a nice car or two, the ability to support a family, and take days off and vacations every year with income to spare for retirement savings and rainy days." If all you have is a rented apartment without a roommate and a used car, you're lower class. That's lower class.

And i cant help but wonder if this is why you get kids on tumblr lumping in doctors and actors into their "eat the rich" rhetoric: economic amnesia has blinded you to what the class divides actually are. The real middle class lifestyle has become so unattainable within a system that relies upon its existence that theyve convinced you that those who can still reach it are the elites while your extreme couponing to afford your groceries is the new normal.

[ghost-bxrd]

Hi!

Kinda on a 'Jason's Red Hood Return Goes Hilariously Off The Rails' phase.

Read practically everything on AO3 with the trope, now writing my own.

Got two ideas.

Dick gets de-aged to 8 year old feral Robin and is in the Tower instead of Tim, Jason's Titans Tower attack goes waaaaay off what he planned.

Jason commenting on Tim's Batman fanfic, and the resulting comment war (with other Gothamites chiming in) leads to Jason hashing out most of his issues, derailing the whole Red Hood Revenge Run.

What do you think would be other hilarious/cracky/awesome ways for Jason's Red Hood return to go off the rails and have him come back home?

P.S. I'm going with Fanon Good(ish) Dad Bruce, not the Canon version.

First of all I love the second idea! I’ve never read anything like it before ✨

Honestly there are so many ways you can have Jason’s plans go off track somewhere along the way. Personally I’m a fan of having him run into one of the family while he’s grocery shopping or something in civilian gear, and obviously they recognize him. So now Jason has the option of either running and letting them assume stuff on their own, or he can come up with a harebrained excuse (amnesia, clone, etc). ((I also love the trope of Bruce not even checking if it’s really Jason. If this is a clone, he doesn’t want to know. Nobody’s taking Jason from him ever again)).

Another fun way would be for him to have that really hardcore “I want my dad” moment. Could be he’s sick, or concussed, or just otherwise really out of it. And he calls either Dick or Bruce on autopilot because— “I want to go home. Please. I just want to go home.” And whoever is on the other side of the call has several heart attacks while also trying to keep Jason talking, trying to track the location. Because— it could be a hallucination, a trick, anything, but— but what if it isn’t—…

Or, good old “one of the Bats is held hostage by a rogue” but it’s totally a planned thing. And obviously Jason doesn’t know about it so he drops in, pissed as all hell but not willing to let any of them die, and freeing them. Which is… very much not what that Bat had planned, but for whatever reason the murderous crime lord is now fussing over them? Better play along and keep pretending to be drugged…

Those are some things that came to mind :)

[theredpuffhat]

watching some 90's moomins whilst I watercolor some Snufkins! (and a sneaky lil snufmin aswell... this can't be stopped)

I kept having repeated dreams with some of the characters, and finally looked up what these guys were from after wracking my brain... and thus, I have rediscovered the moomins!

its strange, I read the books (finn family moomintroll, and comet in moominvalley) a ton as a kid, but I remember those times more like dreams than actual concrete memories. Strange, huh? Tove Jansson's stories really do put you into some sort of dream-headspace, it's pretty cool.

anyways, without me noticing snufkin casually shaped my personality as a kid...

[peppermintquartz]

See, I can see how and why the Buddie ship took off. There's undoubtedly devotion in their relationship that transcends friendship. It's a bond beyond blood. They will put their lives on the line for each other, and they will fight for each other's happiness. I love that deep bond (reminds me of ATS S2/3 Wesley and Gunn, tbh).

Thing is, neither of them reached over that line to make it a romantic relationship. Either through ignorance of their feelings or a fear of losing the friendship, depends on how you interpret the characters.

Tommy Kinard did what neither Buck nor Eddie could. He risked the friendships, friendships that were new and fragile and that he really wanted to have, because he wants that sort of bond that he sees in the 118. No one who's blasé about making new friends will fly someone he's just met to watch a top fight in Vegas. Or spend that much time with unless he really wants to be part of Eddie's social circle - i.e. the 118.

He came in and tried to ensure Buck and Eddie are good, he's not trying to break them up and he knows they are important to each other, but he saw Buck where he is and listened to him and then - this is crucial - he courageously took the big step across the lines of friendship to see if this can become a romance. It was a risk. He could be thrust into the cold again.

But the risk paid off, is still paying off, and that's why I want to see them happy together for a long, long time. I wanna see the queer courage to seek love rewarded outrageously.

Edit: I will NOT take any character bashing in these notes and I will freely block anyone being rude.