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I am down in the gutter of yet another ship, folks.
Give me your recs for Garashir fics, I'm a Sucker for hurt confort, heavy angst and the whole sadness ordeal, but I'm not interested in smut.
Important note: I am autistic - therefore insane about Julian Bashir
Give me something cuz I'm eating ao3 whole right now.
#I am truly going feral over the inherent sadness of them#The obfuscation of them#The false nature of their most truthful dialogues#I just love them your honour#garak#elim garak#julian bashir#dr bashir#deep space nine#ds9#Star trek#fanfic#ao3
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middle-aged opposites
#pokemon masters#pokemas#pokemon#gym leader larry#gym leader kabu#elite four rika#gale shitposting#[rika voice] why tf you lyinnnnn? why you always lyiiinnnnn?????#she just wanted a truthful answer larry not this obfuscating BULLSHIT#''can't really say'' my ASS you two are goign on hot springs lunches that you are WILLINGLY leaving work on time for#you are getting along SWIMMINGLY#rika just wanted to congratulate you on making friends outside of work larry. why are you like this. (i love them all)
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Thoughts on the incident?
#06 stream gaming server immediately getting out of hand#for the uninitiated that arent heavy browsers of the sonic wiki as i have recently come to be:#the sonic wiki like never uses the fucking game titles when talking about stuff that happened across the series#instead they make up these like completely arbitrary ''incident'' names to refer to them#like its not ''during the events of sonic heroes'' it's ''during the neo metal sonic incident''#it's so stupid and infuriating it's like completely inaccessible if you don't already know stuff about a given game#the POINT of a WIKI is to make your information ACCESSIBLE!!!! stop obfuscating it in your dumbass coded terms!!!!#what the fuck is ''the newtrogic high zone incident''!!!! just call it knuckles' chaotix!!!!!! oh my god!!!!#ive PLAYED knuckles chaotix and i don't know what you're talking about!!!!#and they get SO STUPID with the names. fucking sonic R is 'the world grand prix' incident. HAVING RACES IS NOT AN INCIDENT. SHUT UP#one of them [i literally dont even remember the game] is 'the death egg mk II incident' except there is no listed first death egg incident#sonic adventure is 'the chaos incident'‚ which. 'chaos incident' could refer to practically fucking anything that happens in this series#it goes on and on.#msab#off-art#this isnt the ask i was working on but it was time-relevant and quick and easy to just shit out since it's been a bit
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and also. having read the first book armand turning daniel on a whim Kind of makes sense to me in hindsight. I guess? I don’t know exactly how it fits into his conceptions about vampirism being a curse - which is what ticks me off the most - but what we do know is that in the books he finds daniel in lestat’s house chasing vampires soon after he leaves louis, where he’s possibly once again perceived as louis’s ‘leftovers’, maybe an object who had access to louis and his sympathy in a way he envies. in both iterations of the story there isn’t any significant period he goes through alone, and we see him attach himself to louis even with the threat of not receiving any love in return hanging over his head, hoping that the love will manifest eventually. now that he’s irreparably bound himself to daniel (fathered him, even) it’s not a stretch to anticipate him developing a very unhealthy attachment to daniel.
#I refuse to accept that spite was his only motivator… you can’t cheapen his betrayal of louis for turning madeleine by calling it spite…#there’s probably some recontextualisation coming but the need to have that recontextualisation NOW is driving me crazy#can you believe he was willing to let louis leave him in paris with the coven. but the moment he decided to turn madeleine he decided to#kill him.#text#iwtv#armand#loumand#dubai trio#and specifically the flavour of daniel being one of the very few people who manages to see through his lies/personas/obfuscations#like louis manages to discover his vulnerability despite his projected confidence is kind of delicious. I love you dubai trio…#they balance out each other’s personalities so well. I’m going to really miss them next season.
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actually so evil how much of hal's internal world gets obliterated with the rewriting of his relationships with jessica and martin.
#hal jordan#empyrean posting#ok going in the tags because im not actually v confident in my understanding of his character. i read all of his 80s/90s stuff but forgot#90% of it but ANYWAY.#so much of him just does not make sense with how geoff johns characterises him and his relationships with his parents particularly the#parallax stuff simply because of how much his relationship with the guardians and their apathy/'betrayal' is influenced by hal's original#relationship with his dad. like at its heart it's pretty much the same dynamic in how hal blindly trusts and sort of idolises the guardians#despite their repeated infractions in hope of... something in return just as he had with his father and the abuse he suffered at martin's#hands. that's what makes his anger at the guardians make sense when it does show itself because the relationship parallel didn't stop there.#as with martin hal gets nothing for his devotion. he gets nothing for doing everything that's asked of him and more and it ends the same way#too: with a man in the sky burning like a newborn star. and you lose so much of that nuance and intrigue behind that if you just make#jessica the 'bad one' because!!! you cheapen it!!!!#the whole idea of hal is that he has his father's face but his mother's scars#(to me). in the sense that they both reacted to martin the same way with that cognisance of who he was as a man yet inability to pull away#because... love. both the love they had for him and the conviction that he did or could love them too. and jessica arguably did eventually#but also she didnt did she? because she held onto that notion of love till the very end. the few scraps she had she ballooned outwards until#they became the whole. but hal didnt have even that and he spent his whole life chasing it & running away from wanting it at the same time#like i think there's something so interesting to the fact that he had to be convinced that flying was what he wanted to do. how much of that#was touched by his father? the fear that he was already too much like him than he could bear to be? he already had his face now he had his#dreams and longing for the sky. how much more could he have before he began repeating the cycle?#and at the end he even had his father's death. burning in the clouds. like there's so much there and that's not even touching on how it#impacts his relationships with other heroes. not just in the sense of why did kyle clark and diana get to keep their close yet complex#relationships with their moms when hal had to lose his (although yeah why did they) but also just how he lets himself come across to them.#because it's on purpose right? that he lets them think his reflection of his father is born out of unadulterated love for a man worthy of it#? he has his father's job he wears his father's jacket he smiles his father's smile. what else are they supposed to think.#and isnt that interesting!!! that this man who is so committed to being good & just can lie so casually to people he thinks of as friends!!!#can you see how that might be his mother through and through!!! in how she might have glossed over the abuse to other people and herself!!!#can you see how in spite of it all he might want to be perceived as his father that paragon of masculinity and resent that he is not!!!#do you understand how everything he loves has been poisoned!!! im thinking of that scene where he tells bruce about watching martin die &#wouldnt it have been so much more interesting through this lens. how he is both revealing & obfuscating at once. i hate the change sm
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#plagiarism#james somerton#hbomberguy#just wanted to give it its own post#it was kinda lost under the absolute unit#(of good commentary and a much needed summary of the More Absolute Unit that is the video in question)#of lrb#i was conflicted abt this dude for a while like. i wasn't A Fan Subbed To His Patreon right#but the way he 'said' some really insightful shit and also dropped some really nonsensical rancid comments randomly in the middle of it.#yeah#guess it's because he Wasn't Fucking Saying Anything But The Rancidity Himself HUH?#nomás que eso fuera 😹😹#& like i'm laughing rly hard at the audacity but also it's really fucking sad & infuriating to have had the actual authors of the commentar#that i enjoyed obfuscated like that. and obv not just bc of the individual enjoyment or insight i might've gotten from them but#they were fully robbed of an audience#or just fucking. recognition of their memory in the case of the people whose words were stolen who died from fucking aids#like????#yeah i hope this fully ended this man's whole career for good#but more importantly that the authors of the works he ripped off get the attention they deserve#it's the fucking soulless business major of it all innit#/j#viitalks#gayplagiarismgate
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ngl, mentioning one of my hyperfixations does not necessarily activate my trap card. mentioning a book or media that I LOATHED, on the other hand,
#dieselpunkd informed me she also hated station eleven and OHHHHH MY GOD#station eleven book 🤝 annihlation movie: critically acclaimed stories that FUCKING SUCK ASS#I only do not have opinions on station eleven show cuz I refused to even look at tumblr gifs of it. I loathed the book that much.#'omg this book is so preSCIENT!!1!1!' it literally was NOT#and it was also just. bad. it was badly written.#it felt like it did not actually believe that a reader would take its premise and stakes seriously#which severely undercut my ability as a reader to take them seriously! like bruh you gotta believe in yourself!#stop using hollow sensationalism and obfuscation to convince me that your stakes are high! just tell me how it is and let me believe it!#too many people write for cinemasins dumbasses and that is the HIGHEST cinema sin of all actually#like if you don't believe in your own premise why the fuck should I.
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hate when i see a youtube video that's like 'analyzing why [thing] is bad!' and you watch the video and they just say nothing for twenty minutes
#random thoughts#watched a video on why a specific character was poor representation for survivors of assault#and it was such a nothing burger of a video#'this character is bad because children might see them and think their behavior is okay' okay?#i learned how to block out memories from finn adventure time but that doesn't mean memory suppression shouldn't be addressed in media#plus hazbin hotel. i'm talking about angel dust btw if that wasn't blaringly obvious. is an adult cartoon. for adults#adult cartoons shouldn't have to restrict their subject matter because kids could see it#and angel dust being a male queer SA victim using hypersexuality as a coping mechanism could be good!#and the fact he hits on other people despite it making them uncomfortable isn't exactly a problem a la his character?#it could be a control thing. i used to do something similar (pushing other people's boundaries and complaining when they pushed back)#because it made me feel some kind of control over my life#it could start off as a really shitty joke and then grow into 'oh god is that why he does that??'#but anyway their second main point was that the songs were bad? and that poison being an upbeat song makes it bad#like despite listing many other songs which are upbeat with heavy lyrics. but somehow poison is the exception because it's a cartoon?#like again that could be a character thing. angel dust using obfuscation as a coping mechanism to distract himself from his shitty life.#｡･ﾟﾟ･the lyrics are upbeat to distract you from how dead i feel inside･ﾟﾟ･｡#and their reading of the second song seemed really mean-spirited?#like as 'everyone has problems so you're not special because you're a whiny baby' rather than 'you're not as alone as you think you are'#and like if op wanted to just complain about a show they watched then yeah go off i do that all the time#but don't parade it as character analysis???#and they say 'oh reading it as a feelgood you're not alone message doesn't work because these characters' struggles are not equal'#but like. sometimes rape needs to feel like it's not some special trauma. it's not unique and you're not uniquely fucked up for it#two characters' traumas don't need to be directly comparable for them to bond!!!#and im not like. defending hazbin hotel btw. never seen it not going to see it no thanks#i'm just complaining about a mediocre youtube video that i'm going to forget about in a week#god i hate that brand of youtube video. where they just complain about things without going into depth about why they're bad#especially if their complaints are shallow and don't have to do with like. the actual structure of a character or story#like it's so easy to say 'this character is bad because theyre a predatory stereotype' but like. go into some depth at least#i think i hate these videos so much because they're fueled purely by hate. no love for the source material or even a desire to learn#or a love for storytelling even
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I can’t believe I must live in a world where the French Romeo and Juliet musical is considered a ~controversial musical adaptation when Wicked the musical is right there
#romeo et juliette#wicked musical#wicked book#romeo and juliet#i never thought i'd see the day where i would use these tags on one post#“but musical wicked isn’t controversial - ” to me it is#so long as you visit my blog#it could’ve been a lot worse i’m sure#i don’t hate all of it#at least some of the darkness of the book is retained#but honestly all of it just obfuscates the really shallow and vapid musical comedy script#“but you can’t compare shakespeare to maguire -” oh can't i#i’m not saying that both of them wrote about a depressed royal misfit who wears all black and rebels against their world’s tyrant#while struggling with their own depression and wrestling with philosophical ideas about good and evil#while also in love with beautiful people who meet their tragic ends while most of their fandom ships them with their best friend#but yes i am saying that
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anthy’s glasses and touga’s hair have incredibly similar functions send post
#hey girl check out how hard i can obfuscate my True Self through a mask of gendered sensuality onto which you can project whatever#or something idk (normal about them)#rgu#shut up daisy
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this might be unbearably obvious as an interpretation to some, but i was thinking about mikage’s little hands and how interesting they are as a framing device and specifically a very imposing framing device, and i was like wow. i actually really feel as though those hands are in service of his own perceptions and understandings as he struggles to make his way back to them/relearn/remember them. they’re very different to the ohtori academy certified rose frames in the sense that they beep, they’re kind of mechanical or automaton-y, they are literally pointing and drawing your attention to things much less subtly than a silent, spinning rose. idk, i don’t have much more to say on this one atm, im just rotating the show and its various perspectives in my head a lot atm
#idk! i like those hands a lot i like how they confuse and muddle and contradict#they dont offer easy answers youre not sure why theyre pointing at what they do#theres a subjectivity to them that just boggles my mind. 22 my best friend 22#dais.txt#obfuscation abventures
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I did a transcript of all the Stranger of Paradise Final Fantasy Origin mission descriptions for lore reference so I wouldn’t have to keep opening the game. You can look at it too, if you like. 👊
#stranger of paradise#final fantasy origin#SoPFFO#look at my dlc2 transcript too. strangers.#interesting that the mission description pronouns and voice lines that u hear on picking up the memory orb don’t match for 3/7 of them#translation error? memory fuckery? in universe authorial obfuscation? idk
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Sadbot, tell me the saddest thing? "They made a show by and for star wars EU nerds and those nerds are too upset about the casting to enjoy all the stuff it canonized"
#the wise#the bleeding#the No No Crystal#you got all of them!#plus the complete integration with the high republic#you would be so happy if you only had the ability to be normal about black women doing literally anything#HANDFEEDING you legends-to-canon tidbits but you're too busy hate-jerking it to eat#Star Wars: the Accuride#Star Wars: cool biceps still murder#Obfuscated tags to prevent spoiling folks too much#if you know what the nono crystal is you're probably aware it's in there ykwis?
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@murdertramp25 replied to your post “excuse me blade, sir, drioid,maam, why are u so...”:
i stg Blade sneaks up on you like that tho!! im like 'haha yeah idk blade is okay i guess' and then i see him and im like '!!!! babey! baby boy!!! WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN!!!'
i'm stuck in a slow burn with all these goddamm pnjpegs and i don't know when the oh. is gonna hit this is a neverending daymare
#WHO TF OBFUSCATED THE CHAPTER COUNT ON THIS FIC#*rotating my life at various angles to try and see inside*#imagine meeting this roster of characters and instantly being assigned a Deadline of Affection Reveal#it could be months from now. it could be years. it could be never#maybe you'll actually get the reverse of a slow burn! slow... fizzle? like?? you'll actually DISLIKE this character more as time passes?#but no. no. i'm subjected to whwatever *petulant handwave* this is#if i could describe my relationship with some of the clan members as a bobbing biorhythm#where i go thru periods of increased affection followed by moments of chill armslength#and blade was like. zero interest. i was actively not looking to get involved. FOOL ME ONCE!!!!!!!!#but idk... lately... i miss him... and i laugh eevry time i see him interact with the crew#i see a blade fan pumping out fanart of him and i nod in the corner approvingly like. yes. yes. the world needs you. beloved edroid needs u#then there was the moment i was sitting in my intimacy room menu (a week ago)#looking at all the locked event SSRs and wondering which i should unlock...#i had options. almost everyone was an option. but. i chose blade...????#WHY? WHAT IS CHANGING MY BEHAVIOUR? WHY NOW??? NOW!!???! WHY???!??!???!#SNUCK UP ON ME *INDEED*#he just plays nice with everybody and that makes me smile...#just like how garu is unstoppable with the puppy charm and no clan member is immune to his friendliness#blade has a similar ability. he'll run around and get away with things that others won't because of his adorableness#it's kuya standing there. garu nuzzling him on the left. blade poking him on the right (and calling him obnoxious nicknames)#and yet neither of them are set aflame#too powerful....ly cute........#replies
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#that's sad#why do we never see them happy?#wait don't answer that#I know the answer already!#su she is very good at saying “yes sir” to whatever JGY says#gotta love him#su she#jin guangyao#suyao#ok so what do you think? does sms not know why they are here or is he trying to obfuscate to keep the information from other people?#the first is definitely the *funnier* choice like jgy is tactically not mentioning that “oh btw we're bringing my dead mom with us”#like the mother in law who comes to live with you before you know about it except she's dead
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the one tmbg song I still can't wrap my head around being them is the lost boys one they wrote for "peter pan 2". I used to watch that movie a fair bit as a kid, and it was yet another trip when I started getting into the band and learnt which music from my childhood had been them all along.
it's not even because they don't sing on it, because their instrumental work outside their albums usually still carries a very distinctive identity (e.g. their arrangement of "the sims 2: university" theme for the freetime EP). but every time I read this credit somewhere, the information hits me again like, oh my god that was they might be giants.
#tmbg#this is my mickey mouse clubhouse#I wonder if they did a vocal demo of it... cause there's one for the scrapped captain hook song that flansburgh sings#I think it's just that the big orchestral sound obfuscates a lot of what makes tmbg feel like them#yeah those seem like their horns. especially at the start of the short reprise song that comes later#but it's still kind of surreal to me somehow?
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