#Yes I am still on my bullshit

[shitpostingkats]

WoT book 2 babeey

[peaceloveartsnart]

[twelvelemons]

wwhag if a lawful evil abnd a chaotic good. fell in love 🥺

[s-aint-elmo]

they could have been such haters together

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[campbyler]

heads up that i will be using chapter 10.2 to promote my mike and mitchell best friends forever agenda thanks

[vaguely-concerned]

It's really interesting that Wynne actually has quite a measured, bordering on downright sympathetic response to hearing what Jowan did in the prologue -- if the mage Warden says "I still can't believe Jowan was that stupid", her answer is something like a thoughtful "Stupid, or desperate, or merely curious?". She seems to think of Jowan as a kid who got in over his head, rather than any less charitable interpretation. I do believe she genuinely is as against blood magic as she publicly expresses and as the Circle party line demands, but as a private person she clearly has a more nuanced and potentially kinder understanding of the reasons why someone might resort to it, at the very least.

(related: when she says that part about Irving telling her what happened, there's no dialogue option in the first stage of the conversation (except choosing the 'leaving the conversation' one) that doesn't net you +2 approval! no matter how the warden feels about it, she is ready to recieve it. I think that says something sweet about how Wynne conceptualizes younger mages and the honest real affection she has for them. if you didn't snitch on jowan and say you stand by that decision, though? +3 approval, apparently! what Wynne says and what Wynne thinks is not always the same thing indeed, her idea of where personal loyalty and integrity stands vis-a-vis a mage's responsibility to the circle may be more flexible than she'd have people believe, you'll be surprised to learn lol)

I have always liked wynne and found her interesting, in all her hypocrisies and her earnest care, but with slightly older eyes she's extra fascinating to me in the same ways that Iron Bull is -- seeing someone whose mind has had hollows carved out in it by the need for double-think and compartmentalization imposed by the oppressive systems and ideologies they live under, and the quiet fight of the self to still preserve vital parts of itself that the system deems unacceptable in the hidden backstage areas of the soul, as it were. (and for both of them part of that self is love and protectiveness of specific other people, beyond what their 'role' dictates is acceptable for them.) I think Wynne has managed to sneak more of her internal self through the meatgrinder relatively intact than Bull overall, but it's the same logic underlying it, for me, and it makes me feel such intense affection and compassion for them both to see how hard they try

[katyspersonal]

me: *just chilling 40 minutes in killing blue Drakes in Walley of the Drakes for their scales*

@val-of-the-north: Kat! You do NOT need Dragon covenant things for Platinum! Kat the drop rate is ABYSMAL!! Kat it isn't even a gameplay improvement!! KAAAAAT!!!

me, picking up scales: Instructions unclear, I want to be a dragon!

[bittercoldbrew]

Obviously the actual, Doylist explanation is that Anis Cheurfa is shorter than Boxleitner, but the much better, funnier Watsonian explanation is that when he ported him over to the new grid, Flynn went out of his way to make Tron shorter

[uncanny-tranny]

I promise you can speak about and denounce undesirable behaviour without attributing it to some in-born, immutable, unchanging trait that you must "civilize" away.

In this specific instance that inspired this, you really don't need to attribute bad behaviour that's done by a man with unchanging character traits. This isn't even solely about men, because doing this affects everyone, men included.

"Men needed to be civilized out of behaving this way!" Who are you expecting to be doing the civilizing and why? This is just defending the idea that women are responsible for training up men - the millenia-old idea that a man's failings are actually a woman's fault, not his.

As a man, I am responsible for my actions. You don't need to dehumanize me in order to preserve your misogyny and your need to hate a group of men. Don't get me wrong, this rhetoric absolutely is not good for men to face. It especially targets men who have experiences with marginalized identities. If you're on my page, you know that this is something I deal with personally, have personal stakes in that affect my life daily. I just also think we really need to remember that this issue exists in a context where women and other folks will inevitably be punished as a direct result of these ideas as well.

I need to make that last part emphatically clear: even if this rhetoric (somehow) only hurt men, it would still be wrong. It would still be wrong! I want to - as a man - remind people (especially those who already have decided to dehumanize entire groups of people) that nobody is safe from being exempt from punishment due to this rhetoric.

[tevintersnakes]

there we go, some quick sketches so there is something in my art folder for this month

[chairofchaos]

them: is this the hill you want to die on?

me: no, but it’s where I’ll leave your corpse

[ifishouldvanish]

Has anyone done a Nocturne rewatch for the sole purpose of analyzing in which scenes/contexts Olrox's earring is glowing vs not glowing? Or am I gonna have to do that myself?

[lostfanboyarts]

Katsuki wants to hold Izuku's hand real bad and he has no idea how to ask

[yourgamemasterthewhiterabbit]

Of my 2% capacity to be attracted to anyone, my type is like 90% women, 5% pretty men and 5% men you would swear are super fucking manly, and never questioned being straight and cis, but are now suddenly *stressed* that they can't figure out why their attraction to me [fully socially interpreted as a woman and labelled that way up until relatively recently] feels incredibly fucking gay

[heyclickadee]

I’d be more convinced that the monologue from the end of “Tribe” was a throwaway line if it weren’t for the fact that we got the weeping maya tree right before Omega left Pabu, and if the batchers on Pabu weren’t left in the present day sequences with a group of force kids whose families need to be found and who will probably need somewhere safe to be once they are.

[greghatecrimes]

okay FINE I'll aDMIT IT. I've been sold on it. I'm a foreteen shipper. I don't ship them as endgame (that's what Choreman's for babey. Plus I could write a huge meta on why they work in s5 but wouldn't work postcanon) but them in season five?? their breakup arc in season six??? I swear they put crack cocaine in every one of those scenes and I cannot get enough of it