#THAT IS A LITERAL GREY AREA
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I've been watching The Last of Us and I had already seen the game, so in the era of just venting, I hear SO many takes about how the Fireflies or the scientists with them wouldn't have been capable of making a vaccine and so it's justified how Joel acts, because even if he decided to sacrifice Ellie for a vaccine there was no guarantee of a cure. IM SO TIRED OF YALL
#last us of us spoilers#last of us#YALL SO READY TO ABSOLVE JOEL OF SOMETHING#THAT IS A LITERAL GREY AREA#YALL AINT EVEN READY TO CONSIDER HOW HE WRONG#ellie never got a choice#that's the whole thing ellie doesnt want to see in the moment#she doesnt want to see the person that she FINALLY let in#made such a HUGE decision for her and potentially denied her a decision SHE WANTED TO MAKE
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when i say i love racetrack higgins i do not mean whatever the fandom did to him over the years. i mean the racetrack higgins who was abandoned at 2 years old. i mean the racetrack higgins with a serious fear of abandonment because of that (spoiler alert a best friend who constantly says he wants to leave for santa fe isnt good for him). i mean the racetrack higgins who is quick with a joke because he feels he has to be. i mean the racetrack higgins who tries to mimic jack and be a good leader for those kids when he can be. i mean the racetrack higgins who is trying his hardest to sound smart. i mean the racetrack higgins who gambles because he knows hes good at it and to him at least hes good at something. i mean racetrack higgins who smokes because it calms him down. i mean racetrack higgins the little tough guy.
#newsies#racetrack higgins#i love that guy so much.#but i hateeee how hes reduced to ‘spots blonde boyfriend’ so bad#hes actually got so much room to be so interesting theres a reason hes a weird grey area of ensemble newsie or not#hes literally cool as hell#mr just two years old!!!!!#no hate yall have fun but thats not MY racer
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Magnus attitude towards Ty's necromancy will never not be a little funny purely due to the fact his whole friend group are the last people who can pass judgement about raising people from the dead. his own husband felt his parabatai bond break and then restore itself right around the time Clary apparently didn't ask Raziel for favour and said nothing like come on now 😭
#idc if the books don't touch on it it still happened lol#also everything regarding Sebastian is lowkey their fault because they all refused to accept Jace should be dead#even if none of them did straight up necromancy like Ty it was very much still in the grey area#literally so many people died so Jace could live 😭#bella talks#tsc#the shadowhunter chronicles#the wicked powers#magnus bane#alec lightwood#jace herondale#clary fairchild#simon lewis#isabelle lightwood#ty blackthorn
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My post about Anya is making like a little ruckus on Twitter and I think it’s crazy how many people like have a problem with it.
Like you don’t have to agree with how I characterize Anya and her actions but it’s more like, why are you focused on only one aspect of her character? Why are you removing nuance from the situation? I don’t see it as giving Curly the benefit of the doubt when it comes to doing better for Anya, but as exploring his character and hers relationship with a the very little authentic facts we get about them. In truth, there’s a lot more I wish Curly did, even if it wasn’t pragmatic but I realize the issue there.
The first psychological horror game in a while that’s real intricate in its storytelling and makes you need to really need to address the morality of intentions and its already getting torn asunder smh 😔
#I don’t know if it’s the case of people who hate curly and think he should’ve just killed Jimmy won’t accept anything else#but I really am trying to get the idea that they were stuck for over a year in space together on a ship barely kept together with wildly#different and conflicting personalities who also got more hostile because they know they are going home to unemployment#it sounds heartless to say and he should have prioritized her more but in his head that’s not the only thing he has to manage and he has to#fit the necessary actions to take in his head with all that including his perception of them as a friend vs as a boss#idk I just don’t believe Curly was comforting Jimmy with the intent of helping him get rid of Anya. he wanted to help both of them he went#about it horribly like the game is literally about realizing how misguided you can be and that responsibility#and how to be responsible look different even if there are better options like it’s just weird just block my ass dawg#also I think the argument of how could the situation be worse if he stopped Jimmy is stupid cause it’s under the guise that Curly would#assume someone he trusted would just try and commit murder suicide or he’d get degloved and all his crew directly#or indirectly killed by that friend like sorry if that’s a reach statement like adding#your supplementary thoughts is how analysis is born but adding facts about events we don’t know happened and treating them like character#truths is lame is a cop out from actually engaging with parts of the story that adds grey areas to characters you wants to see in black#this is just a stupid like thing to me but it makes me sad cause I don’t even hate seeing depictions of Curly as more aware and#accommodating to Jimmy purposely but I need you to understand he thought he was doing the right thing for both his friends and his closest#friend but the key point is he thought he was doing right for both of them like what game were we both watching???#mouthwashing#like just block me pls like Anya would not share ur mindset or hold ur hand like do more than just pity her if you like her so much
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now's surely not the time but i really truly do feel like in a lot of the circles discussing social progress, along the same line that we get people arguing about gender markers on official documents when the actual solution is to remove gender markers entirely because they serve no practical purpose, i feel like we have a lot of arguments surrounding sexism and expectations in relationships and marriage equality and equity and financial abuse and marriages of convenience that are almost completely inaccessible if you're any variant of asexual/aromantic/aspec or polyamorous. what if this isn't how any of that worked. is that so crazy?
#shut up me#i don't like talking about being poly because we just sort of aren't there yet. but cmon now#frankly i dont tend to discuss this sort of thing except with people i am literally trying to date#its just like. sure sometimes progress is made. but being poly is just. such a grey area still#name one poly couple in media that isnt a joke and isnt subtext. i can but only because i really really care#i was also furious over people talking about changing the poly flag to 'look more like a pride flag'. like are you serious#it's supposed to be stealth. it's supposed to be just for us. this isn't safe or advisable as an identity yet. stop snitching??#you all saw what happened to ace people circa 2013 online. are you stupid or something#aces and polys are allies until the end
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people who scream 'dan heng is NOT dan feng whatsoever' yet always tag any dan feng content as 'dan heng'
#im salty#it makes me so mad when people say that dan heng doesnt need to acknowledge anything from his past because he wants to be his own person#but his whole character development IS him trying to understand his past and facing it rather than running away#because he can only move forward as 'dan heng' until he comes to terms with all of this#and it doesn thelp than this whole debate/situation exists in such a grey area#there is no yes/no answer and its SUPPOSED to be muddled but fandom can't wrap its head around it#the animated short was so fucking good and beautiful and i cried like 1000 times but god it killed the fandom's critical thinking skills hf#like. do people now know that the dan feng that dan heng was fighting was based on dan heng's own perception of the man#everything that dh knows about df was literal propaganda fed to him by the preceptors while in the shackling prison#dan heng has NO idea what kind of person dan feng was really#which is why we have his (and jingliu's) companion mission where he willingly looks into df's past#he can't be his own person and move forward until he understands his past. like. c'mon people he literally says that in the animation short#'you may be my past but you will not be my future'#be normal about this post or ill come for your knee caps (will block you)#fool on the astral express
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"Sorry, but you have a political voice and it’s your duty to use it."/"Anyway, Harris 2024." Kamala Harris is a fascist. Or do you not really understand fascism and think it just means "the people I Don't Like and Think Are Bad"? Are you just stupid, or being deliberately ignorant? Either way, you're a fucking moron. Kamala Harris is further right than Trump on the border. She is further right than Trump on the military. She supports genocide. She is not your savior.
Lol, I’m literally signing up for a call center to get people polling information and registered to vote. Harris 2024
#vote#us politics#2024 elections#kamala harris#rock the vote#you’re just giving me more spread#sorry you cannot fathom grey areas and the least of two evils#the system is not good! I’m still gonna work it#go vote#seriously go vote#don’t let me gf get her rights taken away please#republicans literally want to kill trans people
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Set during the era of the High Republic, The Acolyte will begin to unravel how an esteemed organization like the Jedi Order could be in its golden age and also on the cusp of the chaos that unfolds in the Skywalker saga. “If Star Wars is about the underdog versus the institution, [in The Acolyte] the Jedi are the institution,” Headland says. “I was so interested in a storyline where the Jedi were at the height of their power — and I don't mean The Phantom Menace, because at that point, there's a Sith Lord in the Senate that they're not picking up on.” Headland wanted to explore further back, when seeing a Sith seemed as likely as encountering a velociraptor. “Like it's a thing I've heard of, but it's not a thing that you would ever consider you'd be interacting with.” With a darker tone focusing on the duality that exists beyond the simplistic black-and-white view of good versus evil, The Acolyte asks a key question before the fall of the Jedi: “What went wrong?” Headland asks. “And if the bad guys are actually the underdog, it just seemed like a cool reversal.”
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Color me intrigued.
#the acolyte#if they actually delve into that grey area of the jedi#and no i don't mean literal grey jedi but the weird liminal space in which they fell short of their own ideals and got kind of crushed#by tradiition#then i will be a very happy camper#cautiously optimistic about this one
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why did kubo give uryu and ichigo a jace and clary plotline
#'we're in love with each other but we found out we might lowkey be related (?)' is crazy#he was foul for that. you guys think YOU were cheated when 686 dropped#my otp literally got relegated to the we-dont-know-if-it's-incest-it's-a-grey-area territory#this was after the EXCELLENT angst we got too. one has to laugh#ichiishi
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hey do you guys remember the designs I made for the Nishikikouji Siblings?
I did a full body design for Kyouri. I wasn't satisfied with the initial motifs I gave him, so I decided to do a complete overhaul on his outfit.
His sleeves are striped like the feathers on the sides of their faces. He is a hand talker and often brings his arms to his face. It symbolizes how those feathers fan out when they're courting other pheasants. For him, he's just eccentric.
He's meant to have heels, I just got lazy.
Kyouri Nishikikouji is the only introvert out of the siblings, and the middle child. He's around 40 in my head and has two children (2/3 of the little chicks drawn alongside Tohri in some pieces). He's the one who manages a majority of the misc businesses the Nishikikoujis own (ex; Nishikikouji dried goods, the sauna mentioned to be in their name in the manga). He's responsible for funneling funding Tohri's way whenever Tohri blows a hole into Golden Weekly for the ????th time.
Despite being affluent in the art of business, having numerous connections, and keeping the Nishikikouji name in the limelight, Kyouri is a loser. He is a total dweeb. He adores anime and probably freaked the fuck out when he realized where Tohri was working.
#hatoful boyfriend#hatoful#hatoful kareshi#hatoful bf#tohri nishikikouji#hatoful boyfriend art#kyouri nishikikouji#hatoful technically ocs#again im literally designing the nishikikouji siblings they're in this weird grey area where they are but aren't ocs
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COOKIES OF DARKNESS NATION WE ARE OFFICIALLY BACK 💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️
(long rambling in tags if u care)
#cookie run#licorice cookie#red velvet cookie#affogato cookie#I KNOW im late to this but i was at school ok 🙄 anyways i have a lot of thoughts#first off LICORICE UGH I MISSED HIM SO BAD IM SO HAPPY FOR HIM#his stats are so fascinating to me. i don't think anyone was expecting his strength to be that high#its pretty average but its still his best stat surprisingly#im shocked his strategy and puzzle solving are only 3. i think that's a strange decision to make them so low but I'm open to accepting it#maybe his avoidance/lack of ability to see the big picture contributes to the low scores?#his stats are so unexpected but I could get used to it. still i want an elaboration from devsis on these#i want them to show his strength in the show because i was expecting his strength to be like. 3 or 4#but anywho. i think its very funny how affo is 0 strength. i love how its canon licorice could easily kick his ass in a fist fight#i really do love affo and im SO happy to see him with the cod fucking finally all we got with him as a cod until now was ODYSSEY 😭#im so excited to see him work with the cod as an actual member. he's a very fun character for me#i cant wait for them to actually make him feel like one of the cookies of darkness its been over a year since he joined by now c'mon#im just so ecstatic that the cod are back. hopefully this is a good omen and will pave the way for more cod appearances soon#bcs u all know how i feel about the lack of cod for the better part of the past year. this better be their comeback i believe in them#😁😁😁😁😁😁 IM JUST SO HAPPY THIS IS THE BEST POSSIBLE OUTCOME IM SO HAPPY U HSVE NO IDEA I LITERALLY SCREAMED#btw ik crepe is there. but they're in a weird grey area of being a cod so i didn't post them BUT IM VERY HAPPY THEY'RE THERE TOO ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️#♦️charlie's miscellaneous
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every new doctor to their future/past self
#'im sorry you havent discovered my newfound skills in navigating moral grey areas and coping with past mistakes and being all mature and#healthy with my relationships'#'..........mature and healthy?'#dfhkghgkfhgkj#god i love carmilla so much#'ooookay :>'#'shes ridiculously easy to rile'#3 centuries of playing with her food is showing and it's sooo cute#they are such a gear shift to write btw ive been doing little scenes to see if i can get their voices but like#they will just talk about things????#i have no idea what to do with this fghkjghgjg#they will literally just bring up stuff that needs to be talked about and talk about it#and then 50/50 have sex abt it#i dont even know if i can write a scene if i cant keep the tension with all the Unsaid#like what do we DO if not beat around the bush??#so far it's been researching austrian history#carmillaposting#maybe the reason most carmilla fanfic seems to be aus is that theres so little you need to add or improve on when it comes to hollstein#for other pairings sure theres a lot of gaps you can play in but for these two they kinda did it all#so people are just rewriting the whole thing but without magic this time ghfkjghgjk
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Nico does not “know” Lewis he knew him there’s a difference.
anon, i'm going to run you through something okay? hypothetically let's consider someone you know for two whole decades of your life, someone you share something common with, but like, that isn't the only thing that binds you together. what makes brocedes so compelling as a dynamic is the fact that their friendship was beyond the sport. of course the sport had laid the foundation and groundwork of their friendship, but it wasn't a whole, “ oh he likes the same sport as me and we're competitors ” type of relationship. it was a proper friendship. now when you know someone for two whole decades, you claim you know them. of course people grow and change, but what you are fundamentally is still the same/similar. so despite the lack of communication, and the falling out, nico does know lewis. or at least understands lewis. definitely 100% as a teammate and a racer (from experience and from observing and studying his racing style to understand where he- nico could gain the upper hand). but like as people, of course they've evolved and grown for the better. there's irreparable damage on both ends. so that's what i think, even if nico doesn't know lewis like he used to, he understands and sees why he does the things he does. because he was his best friend.
#you see all versions of people in friendships#the good bad and the grey areas#and when you know a person for this long no matter how much you try to erase your memory of them you just cannot#for the better or worse#it has a lot to do with their shared history and the fact that their names are literally entwined together when you mention them in f1#but i hope that answers your question#again this is solely my personal take on this as an observer!!#stella answers#brocedes
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There seems to be a lot of people who just genuinely think that like, horror movies with a ghost/spirit/entity/beastie in it are inherently objectively worse than movies with A Weird Guy/murderer, either because they haven't figured out that their personal preference isn't universal yet or, hilariously imo, they're just personally very embarrassed that they can be scared by something that Isn't Real, and that's where all the "actually, there wasn't anything supernatural in this movie at all. It was just people" theories stem from, emotionally
#anyways. the blair witch is literally real in the context of the story. i cannot emphasize this enough.#there is no grey area here. she is real she lives in the woods and she wants your teeth
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yknow. sometimes when i see anti posts i just sit here and think ‘damn. you would not have gotten Jennifer’s Body’
#billy hargrove#like. my loves… theres this thing called nuance#and that is what makes billy a complex and compelling characters whether you like it or not#someone can be both victim and villain. there is this thing called grey area and those things do overlap#and the audience is SUPPOSED to feel conflicted over the treatment of these characters#im just sitting here shaking the bars of my cage like MY LOVES. HE IS SUPPOSED TO BE THIS WAY#the duffers arent good writers. but you can practically place a 1:1 of billy and jennifer#AND THE POINT OF JENNIFER’S CHARACTER IS THAT SHES FUCKED UP AND STILL DESERVED BETTER. THAT SHE WAS NAIVE AND DESERVED TO GROW#BUT THE CHANCE WAS TAKEN FROM HER AND SHE WAS TURNED INTO A MONSTER. BILLY IS THE SAME. LITERALLY AND METAPHORICALLY#I THINK THIS IS LOST ON YOU AND IM NOT SURE THERES MUCH ANYONE CAN DO FOR YOU FROM HERE#like. good lord. ive seen people straight up deny that hes complex and boil his plot in s3 down to excusing racism and just-#NO. THAT- ITS- NO!! THIS IS A JENNIFER’S BODY SITUATION#im scratching at the walls here guys#anyway im normal again now. i just had strong feelings for a sec#anyway. jennifer’s body au? thoughts?#actually also rip billy hargrove. you wouldve loved jennifer’s body
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that post has actually shifted my perception of stupid fucking PrObLeMaTiC MeDiA discourse forever i think i need to chew on the topic for like 8 hours and decide how i feel about it then
#text#i also hate the term 'problematic media' like just say what youre talking about man. is it undernegotiated kink is it racism is it just#outdated terminology SAY WHAT YIURE ACTUALLY TALKIGN ABOUT OR IM BLOWING THIS WHOLE BUILDING UP#also its such an annoying conversation bc theres so much nuance and grey area but you cant get into it without the most annoying people in#the world getting mad at you from literally every side. also when it comes specifically to fandom/ship discourse the terminology is so#unhelpful vague and annoying that it makes me want to slam my head into a brick WALL. i have a whole like. giant post abt this in my#drafts but its like not even halfway done and already 2k words so its more 'rumination' than 'helpful' probably#ugh. anyway. tldr im chewing on this framework later
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