#The Great Undoing

[luckybugsdiary]

I didn't know I would be crying on the train listening to The Great Undoing. My heart has cracked.

[miomediator]

Just watched [S] Cascade again. Still awesome. Still breathtaking. The transitions, the music, the art, the emotions, top notch. Couldn't stop thinking "here comes the best part" several times during it haha Granted there's some flaws (had to reload the flash cause the music was desynchronized and I wouldn't have it) (drop of sound quality when the Green Sun appeared) but hey it's cool. It's still perfect and add to its charm. Also watch it with the unofficial Homestuck collection, cause I'm pretty sure a Youtube video won't do it justice, especially for the ratio change.

[alsamara]

Book Review

The Great Undoing Daisy Haite By Jessa Hastings

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Listen up, sugar pups. My heart has been ripped up, out and fed back to me about a million times in this series. Julian > BJ 4ever.

Ummmmmm… February 13th can’t come soon enough.

[manonblackbaek]

019. playlist: daisy + christian (magnolia parks universe)

[bixels]

Now that Ghibli's new movie is coming out soon, I've been thinking about anime films and wanna talk about my favorite animated movie ever, Tokyo Godfathers.

TG is a 2003 tragicomedy by Satoshi Kon, following three unhoused people––an alcoholic, a runaway girl, an a trans woman––who find a baby in a dumpster and set off across Tokyo to reunite her with her parents.

If you like the sound of that, go watch it because the rest of this post is spoilers and I have FEELINGS about this movie.

URGHH, the fact that only two moments of true kindness, generosity, and care given to the three protagonists without any expectation of reciprocity are given by a Latin-American immigrant couple and a drag show club full of trans women. The fact that, despite her loud and dramatic personality, Hana is the glue that holds the team together and the heart of the whole movie. The fact that this movie pulls no punches at showing the violence and inhumanity committed by "civilized Japanese society" against the unhoused. The fact that Miyuki craves to be loved by her parents and ends up seeing Hana as her true mother. The fact that Miyuki starts off accidentally using transphobic language against Hana, but slowly begins calling her "Miss Hana" out of respect. The fact that, according to Kon, Hana's role in the story is as a mythological trickster god and "disturb the morality and order of society, but also play a role in revitalizing culture." The fact that Hana so desperately wants to be part of a true family, yet is willing to sacrifice her found family so they can be with their own, and is rewarded for her good deeds in the end by becoming a godmother. The fact that, throughout the movie, wind and light have been used to signify the presence of god's hand/influence (this movie's about nondenominational faith––faith in yourself, faith in others, faith in a higher power. Lots of religious are referenced, such as Buddhism/Hinduism, Christianity, and Shintoism), and in the climax of the film, as Hana jumps off a building to save a baby that isn't hers, a gust of wind and a shower of light save her from death. The fact that god saves a trans woman's life because she proved herself a mother, and that shit makes me CRY.

[animatedjen]

Aftermath | Jedi Survivor

[utilitycaster]

I've mentioned I don't care for the implications of Reincarnate for FCG but to expand briefly, I think there's something that sits very ill with me about a character's final realization - that they are truly alive despite being a constructed entity and that they have agency - coming back as an arbitrary organic being with no input into who they are.

[memesmadefullmetal]

On the topic of Riza and conqueror of shamballa:

I think both riza and roy were ooc, and the main problem was that their story had already ended at episode 57. There wasn't really a reason for them to be in the movie except for a brief cameo.

So I guess my hot take is that they shouldn't have been in cos at all.

Anon, you make a great point! 👏🏻

Roy and Riza’s character growth is definitely detrimentally impacted by their participation in Conqueror of Shamballa (and they only get about five-minutes of screentime!) 😔

When we leave them in 03, their story has come to a natural conclusion. In amongst the bleaker landscape of the 03 series’ ending, they’re also probably the characters with the ‘happiest’ end

They actually reach a point where they’re ready to explore their relationship outside of the Amestrian military so when we see them in Shamballa, it undoes a lot of the excellent groundwork which the 03 series laid down: it rips up the script for a “cameo” which could’ve been removed and had no overall impact on Shamballa’s story 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏼‍♀️

- Mod Mustang & Mod Hawkeye 🔥🦅

[shou-scribbles]

Murder? I barely know her!

[quietwingsinthesky]

it’s that no one ever believed him that gets to me the most. this is a society of telepaths. and yet when the doctor finds out that the drums are real, he’s surprised. the master is surprised, elated, by the confirmation that he’s hearing something that’s really there, that this thing that’s been following him and hurting him for so long is real.

after a certain point, given that the master is Really Fucking Good at mind control and such, you have to imagine that no one could just pick up on the noise in his head with a little general telepathy. he had to choose to let the doctor in to share it. and. and okay. we need to put aside him striving to be The Best At Controlling People’s Minds in the context of him having his mind violated as a child because if i think about these two things in relation to each other i’ll throw up.

but there has to have been a point before he was so accomplished that he couldn’t have defended his own mind as easily. that he couldn’t keep someone, anyone, from delving into his head and hearing the drums. which means i must conclude, because we find out who put them in his head at all and it’s the most powerful guy on gallifrey, that when he was younger, the people around him did know. they could hear the drums. they could figure out what was done to him. but they did nothing, they said nothing, they told him he was hearing things. because if the lord president wanted to use a child for his own ends, who was going to stand up and stop him? easier to sweep it under the rug. and the master lived with that for so long that finally having just one other person hear the drums was a shock to him.

[trappedinafantasy37]

I just went back over my footage of the confrontation between DJ Shadowheart and Viconia as I edit my next chapter and noticed a pretty interesting pattern.

As I've mentioned plenty of times before, Minthara and Shadowheart do have shared mommy issues and I think Minthara would connect with Shadowheart over that. Minthara also has a habit of using the word "child" when speaking to children or those that she perceives as being in need of guidance, such as Lae'zel or Shadowheart herself. One of my mutuals proposed the theory that Minthara uses "child" as that is more than likely how her own mother spoke to her.

In the confrontation between Shadowheart and Viconia, Viconia repeatedly uses the word "girl" when speaking to Shadowheart. If my mutuals theory is correct, this would draw an immediately parallel between Shadowheart and Minthara in regards to how they were treated by their mothers, and could provide some insight into Minthara's relationship with her own mother. Personally, in regards to the gods and their mother figures, Minthara can easily project herself into Shadowheart's situation, similarly to how she projects herself into Durge's situation (since Shadowheart and Durge have very similar storylines).

This is something that I do plan on addressing in To Be Free From the Gods and my eventual Shadowheart fic. But, just imagine how Minthara feels watching one of her closest allies be treated by their mother in the same way that she was when she was a child. Now, Minthara is definitely one of those people that goes, "I was beaten as a kid and I turned out fine" (when it is very obvious to everyone around her that she is not fine). However, Minthara also does label her mother as her tormentor so it makes me feel that Minthara deep down does acknowledge she was abused as a child, even if she feels that abuse did make her stronger. But Minthara is also extremely protective of those that are in her circle and would not abide witnessing one of her allies being abused in a similar manner.

I'm gonna get a little personal here, which isn't something that I do often. But, I had a parent who often spoke to me with that kind of language. They would often refer to me as "half a person", or "not quite yet a person", or "still cooking", and things similar to Minthara being called "child" or Shadowheart being called "girl". Even as I got older, the language never changed and they often did not even call me by my name and instead opted to use these "nicknames" for me. Because to them, I was always going to be a child. And that type of language made me feel so small and weak. They always wanted to remind me that I was less than them, that I could never accomplish what they could, that I would never be able to understand what they could, and that I would always be dependent on them because otherwise I would fail without them. It's dehumanizing.

Shadowheart is nearly 50 years old (cause remember, she's a half-elf). And Viconia is still calling her "girl" because that's what Viconia wants Shadowheart to feel like. She wants Shadowheart to feel small, and weak, and like a child. Even when she has Shar's (or Selune's) favor, there is just a brief moment, and it is really easy to miss, but for just a brief moment, that is exactly what Shadowheart feels when she encounters Viconia again. And Minthara is just standing there, watching this interaction take place. Throwing her back to herself growing into her own 50's, and then making her first century, and then getting to 200 years old, going through clerical school, becoming a paladin of Lolth, and yet still being called "child" by her mother. Not to mention, the prefix "Min" in her name translates to "lesser" in drowic. For as long as Minthara would live, she would always be less than her mother and her mother would never let her forget it or feel otherwise.

It must be so cathartic for Minthara to watch Shadowheart kill Viconia as that is all Minthara wants to do to her own mother for tormenting her and always making her feel weak.

[flickerintwilights]

on the road to hell

[roseandgold137]

Young Justice hanging out?

(Artwork or headcannons whatever you feel like 💕)

Don’t mind Kon he’s fine he doesn’t need oxygen anyways

[nellasbookplanet]

Having just read What Doesn't Break and finished watching the conversation with the Raven Queen in episode 109, I find myself thinking of Laudna. In wdb, Laudna is revealed to have started out her unlife without memory, knowing not her name or past or what she is, confused and scared and deeply lonely. When the voice of Delilah arrives in her head, Laudna has been alone for a year, is still practically a child mentally, and shunned for her unintentionally scary behavior and looks.

Time and again we see her attempt to forge connections, but a combination of her being a Scary Undead (in a world where death by ghosts/zombies/hags/vampires/etc is a very real possibility to watch out for) with poor social skills and the presence of Delilah keeps isolating her. Laudna herself means no harm, but that doesn't undo the fact that she carries Delilah within her, and Delilah is dangerous (and sometimes manipulates Laudna into being dangerous too). She encounters people in wdb who are sympathetic to her plight but in no uncertain terms tell her to leave because they can tell something about her is unsafe and they prioritize protecting themselves and their loved ones, not protecting Laudna.

This really informs her dynamic with Delilah and her unwillingness to let her go, not only as a source of power but as a source of stability. Everyone else tells her to leave, or leave themselves. You can't judge them for this because Laudna is potentially dangerous, but you also can't judge Laudna for her despair and loneliness and even resentment for being pushed away and refused help or friendship again and again. No matter how many red flags Delilah sends up, she’s the only one sticking around, and especially considering it took Laudna years to even remember who she is and what she did it’s no wonder she became emotionally dependent on her.

What struck me about the Raven Queen conversation and her words to Laudna, was how she put emphasis on Laudna's connection to Bells Hells (Imogen in particular). For those 30 years alone, Laudna had no lasting human connection outside of the woman who murdered her. Unlike other hollow ones we've seen (Jamedi Cosko and possibly Molly in c2) she’s notably more dead; it’s implied by the Raven Queen that this has begun to change, and if Laudna continues down her current path she may become wholly alive again. I believe it’s these human connections, so long denied her, that has allowed her, finally, to begin to heal.

[tolkien-feels]

Proposition: to render the Feanorian dialect in English, we should by convention have (besides the relevant changes to Quenya words) them use in third person present verbs not -s but -th. Unleash all the Shakespearean doth and eateth and drinketh

[waterlinkedgirl]

Musical Touken Ranbu: Gou on Stage ~ Satomi Hakkenden; New Edition english sub

At long long last I am able to present you the subtitles for the senshuuraku of Goumyu! After a very turbulent year, I'm glad to be lowkey picking up subtitling again. For this performance, though, I won't be able to do a tl notes file. If I were fair to myself, I'd allow myself to write my grievances with what Goumyu's plot does to what had been established for Kogitsunemaru and Mikazuki when those are relevant, but if I were fair to you all, I wouldn't give you a file that's 90% complaining and 10% actual notes or background.

Don't let my grievances distract from the performance though, it's still genuinely fantastic even if the theming choices may be painful to me. Especially Oodenta is fantastic. Goodness gracious.

Keep in mind that this is only the subtitle file, timed and tled to the DMM senshuuraku. The archive version will have a talk at the start, so the starting times of the subs will have to be delayed accordingly.

Download the subs for Goumyu here!