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So you know how the handmaidens donât have last names technically cause of the whole anonymity/security thing? Would they use the queenâs name as a âlast nameâ if they needed one for something (like travel documents or whatever)? I still need to read the PadmĂ© books but itâs also not mentioned on wookieepedia so maybe thatâs just not a thing but it definitely adds an interesting layer to the whole depersonalization/separation of self thing that they have going on. Just some thoughts Iâve been having.
these ARE interesting thoughts. iâll admit im not super up to date on padmeâs beyond-movie lore either: iâve looked around at the books and comics and i think thereâs some cool stuff in there, but also part of the appeal of padme for me is that when people try and reinterpret her, they typically end up transforming her. they make her infallible; they make her the Worst. sheâs a character who itâs very easy to get wrong, as evidenced by 90% of fandom making her the Girlboss and moving on. so when it comes to filling in the gaps for padmeâs lore i usually return to the movies, no matter how disinterested in padmeâs heart they are, bc watching comic writer #56 waffle between her and anakinâs relationship as Toxic or Domestic is pretty tiring. (i know theyâre doing their best too ! itâs just not fun)
if iâm just sticking to the movies when thinking about this, iâll say itâs pretty obvious the handmaidens enter into this arrangement expecting to live their whole lives around padme. they are the shadows in every room sheâs in, they die for her, they speak for her, they surround her. any and all handmaiden characterization we get in the movies is through their interactions with padme. even when theyâre dying, they only speak of her and their duty. you talk about âtravel documentsâ but itâs hard for me to imagine a reason a handmaiden might need to travel independently from padme, or why theyâd need legal identification other than âhandmaiden of nabooâ. even with the handmaidens supposedly going on to have lives after padme, thatâs not how theyâre represented in the films. even if they do have political careers, iâd imagine theyâd get into the naboo system by being known as a handmaiden, not a new identity.
i think the devotion of nabooâs handmaidens, who chose to forsake their lives and names at 14 until they die, is a solid parallel to the jedi, especially in a trilogy so obsessed with duality. thatâs really where iâd start with questions of names and depersonalization. think of the jediâs monk levels of isolation for the sake of the Cause, but the Cause in this case is a fourteen year old girl, and you are also fourteen. and even when you are an adult with grey hair and supposedly moved on, you will still bear the mark of being fourteen and having served and loved this girl.
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I do think Blazing Saddles handled its one depiction of native americans very poorly, and the full extent of its representation of chinese workers on the railroad is they were literally just there. not even one single speaking line. unclear if this is worse or better than the redface.
it's fucking phenomenal at lampooning antiblack racism though. extremely blatant, extremely funny satire, which is constantly and loudly saying "racism is the philosophy of the terminally stupid at best and morally depraved at worst, and we should all be pointing and laughing at them 24/7"
plus the main character is a heroic black man who has to navigate a whole lot of bullshit but is constantly smirking at the extraordinarily stupid racists and inviting the audience into the joke. the one heroic white character is a guy who was suicidally depressed until he met the protagonist and they just instantly became buds, and he's firmly in a supporting role the whole time and happy to be there. the protagonist saves the day with the help of his black friends from the railroad, and uses the position of power he was given to uplift not only those friends, but all the railroad workers of other minorities too, in an explicit show of solidarity.
anyone saying "Blazing Saddles is racist" had better be talking about its treatment of non-black minorities. it had better not be such superficial takes as "oh but they say the n-word all the time" or "they have nazis and the kkk in there!" because goddamn if that's the full extent of your critique I very seriously suggest you read up on media analysis. there is too much going over your head, you need to learn to recognize satire.
#blazing saddles#finx watches tv#finx rambles#I recognize that I'm saying all this as someone who's not black#but I am also saying it as someone with a basic understanding of race relations in the usa#and a basic understanding of sarcasm#bc it really does not take more than that to recognize what they're doing in this movie#it is NOT subtle#and it is very funny#mel brooks movies are kinda hit or miss for me ngl#men in tights is great if a bit too crass for my taste#spaceballs has great jokes but the central story lacks any real heart so it doesn't grab me#history of the world was just kind of unpleasant and then I switched it off#but blazing saddles? phenomenal#I could not stop laughing the whole way through#and the central story DOES have heart bc it's the friendship between bart and#whassisname#jim#the Kid#plus bart working out how to succeed at an impossible task#also frankly cleavon little just grounds the comedy really well even before gene wilder shows up and we get their chemistry#bc he's cool calm collected and constantly inviting the audience into the joke#but the character's not too cool to ever mess up or ever be silly#he makes bad choices and gets into bad situations and then has to get himself out of them#but it's.....oh wait duh there's a term for this already#he's the straight man#he grounds all the zany nonsense by being in strong contrast to it#and he does a great job of it!#anyway#point is I deeply enjoyed this movie and I'm glad I finally watched it
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[Abandoned by the Lightners, his heart became cracked with hatred.]
Hitting a lil' too close to home?
#junie art post#ink sans#error sans#utmv#errorink#implied. but yea not the focus#this has been turning around in my mind for quite some time. im glad to finish it lmao idk if my ramblings make sense even.#so like listen. do you ever think about how similar the function of the utmv is to the dark worlds in deltarune.#in a meta narrative to fandom sense? idk the word#we are making exaggerated expanded worlds of the ordinary tools and entertainment of the real world and make it into something more#isnt that very very interesting?#and we explore every sort of possibility in that creation. both good and bad#and when all is said and done. every possibility found and the entertainment and secrets has all run out#we put it away. abandon and leave it behind#what is left? what happens to the world and characters we have created? can it sustain without us?#what of the ones left in the dark?#idk if yall saw me a few months ago but i reblogged comyet's old post of ink begging us not to leave him alone and to keep creating#yea that never left me#and seeing exactly THAT SCENARIO in deltarune made my brain iTCH#imagine an ink in King's position.... wait isnt that just underverse#mmmmmmm. darkner ink.....#also error is here too. not just for errorink or that i can't separate these two to save my life#but error is also one of the few people to be able to GET IT?? he can hear the creators too. ink cant#but hes pretty much programmed himself to avoid having a mental break down to this via reboot memory loss.#and ink has his own internal coping mechanism (hooray for short term memory loss)#these two idiots will do anything but confront truths lmfao#ahhh my favorite idiots. never change#mmmmm#deltarune
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they should've been at the club(infertility treatment centers)
#like guys. be real with me. how many options did you even try before turning to dark magic#nothing about the situation called for all thatđ#in my mind they're like 22 and 25 here which makes it all even funnier#guys please just adopt a dog or somethingđ#nothing about either of you screams ready for parenthood#im so happy adrien agreste exists but the circumstances of his birth are so ridiculous#there is so much gabe and emilie couldve done besides this. they could have done anything#honestly knowing them(<-girl who believes she knows them) im not even convinced the infertility treatment wasnt working#I think they just both were so allured by the concept of a magic baby#they were like six months in and hadn't gotten pregnant yet and were like. well. I guess we're out of options! dark magic it is!#and made it everyone else's problem forever#these two wanted to be doomed by the narrative SO bad#honestly though being a 22 year old girl I kind of yet it. sometimes I see a cute baby and want one so bad maybe I too would use dark magic#maybe emilie agreste was just a girl.#anyway. sorry adrien that your parents were Like This but it is so so funny#anna rambles#ml#gabriel agreste#emilie agreste
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interesting lore moment with the francophone yesterday (as in, it personally gave me brainworms) ft. qĂ©toilesâ horrible, no good, stupid (lack of) self-preservation . subs in English, transcript below the cut
All spoken in French â translated into English subtitles
[Video transcript:
Etoiles: And, actually, I have a theory. Basically what happened is that Iâve just returned from a mission from Cucurucho.
Antoine: And what was the mission?
Etoiles: To do a dungeon, and to recover something from the dungeon.
Antoine: And what was this âsomethingâ?
Etoiles: And the âsomethingâ was a book that sorta says that Iâm a test subject.
Antoine: A test subject?!
Baghera: Whatâs up with your arm? Youâve got a coded arm.
Etoiles: Uh, itâs from holding the shield, basically.
Baghera: Ahhh
(Pause)
Antoine: Watch out that it doesnât contaminate you, or else youâll turn into a code, man.
Etoiles: Thatâs impossible, man, I canât be a code.
Antoine: Thatâs what the old codes said before becoming codes, you know.
Etoiles: Noâ well, weâve never spoken.
Baghera: Maybe you shouldnât be using the shield as much then, no?
Etoiles: Well, as it stands, Iâve been using it for a really long time, and my mind is still healthy, honestly. And the proof isâ
Baghera: Well, half of his face took the brunt of it instead.
Etoiles: Yeah, but itâs not all there is, you know.
(Pause)
Baghera: Let me worry, Etoiles, right now.
Etoiles: Youâre right. Youâre right! But everythingâs going well, Iâm doing very, very wellâ
Antoine: Itâs true that you look a bit sick.
Etoiles: Uh, yeah, for the past seven years, itâs a chronic illness, it happenedâ
Antoine: No, but not this one, the otherâ you seem even sicker, still.
Etoiles: Yeah, okay. Yeah but no, Iâm fine. No, no, itâs fine, honestly.
End Video Transcript.]
#qsmp#etoiles#baghera jones#antoine daniel#Ă©toiles#hereâs a game see if u can spot the colour coded subtitle i fucked up#sorry if the editing is bad im trying my Best .#jay rambles#jay clips#ccetoiles going âhey it could be fun if i played a codeâ looms ominously in the background#also shoutout to people who often do translations like these fr fr#this one wasnât too hard 4 me (fluent in both langs) but it can be difficult to translate#the implicit meanings in certain sayings between languages#i took the liberty of translating the little affirmative âquoiâs at the end of sentences#as âhonestlyâs and âyou knowâs since thereâs no real equivalent#21/09/2023
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no joke but what I really want for Buddy Daddies as a fandom is to make fanart and fanfic post present time ep12 where Rei wears an arm orthosis when working.
I think varied disability aids being represented would be fantastic, and personally would write Rei as someone being deeply proud of something he's done for his family, but also understanding with time that using an orthosis also helps him at work and in raising Miri. with a giant portion of mobility/motorics aids being represented by prosthetics, seeing more variety and exploring it in fiction would also help making a step in normalising disability treatments.
#that's my personal opinion and i just thought about how understanding more about physical disabilities#and how to help people with those aids in case something happens and they ask for help#has furthered my understanding and might even help me in the future if i were ever to experience that#Buddy Daddies Spoilers#Buddy Daddies#Suwa Rei#(again. i want to write Kurusu Rei SO BAD)#text post#Varya rambles#also drawing an orthosis would be real complicated for an animated work so i understand why they chose to hide the arm#but i really like the headcanon of Rei using it sparingly đ„ș not everyone uses them all the time#+ it's also not healthy if worn all the time. looking @ people who'd let their characters sleep with their prostheis on. smh#and this is also NOT a 'you HAVE to do this'! just something I think would be fantastic#...also I'm like. apparently looking @ a start of a fic where Rei uses it?? is my writer's block finally over?!#here's a hoping đbuddy daddies such a good anime. not perfect not extremely beautiful. but GOOD in HEART#1k
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you ever just have a lot, a LOT of feelings all at once about a character and not even remotely enough words or brainpower to FORM the words to describe everything you're feeling. so it feels like you may explode. yeah
#sorry i got really into my feelings about mark hoffman again#the very specific version of him in my brain that i really really wish i had the time and energy to properly share with you guys#saw#well until i muster the energy to explode all of my feelings out into a fic. if you want to TRY and understand#know that my three biggest hoffman fic insps right now are as follows#your best kept secret hoffman. a series of mistakes hoffman. and rushed like a dreadful wind hoffman.#there is a very clear throughline just know i am extremely emotionally compromised rn#thinking about theee fics vs the canon path hoffman spirals down#something something the absolute tragedy of watching a man's descent into madness#the transformation of a man into a monster#and what could have saved him from himself and kramer's corruption#sorry i'm rambling so much oh my god i was just having such a crying fit out of nowhere about this#do you think he could feel it happening. do you think he was aware he was losing his mind.#the script version of him fucks with me so bad. the crazed rankings and the longer hair and him not being well kept anymore#it's impossible to think he didn't know he was deteriorating#fuuuck okay i need to either chill or write a whole longfic rn#i project on that guy so much i truly don't know if i could properly write my vision of him#until i do something more substantial the full extent of my hoffman exists for me and my boyfriend only. they get me like no one else#well ginny and jenna also get me. please read best kept secret and a series of mistakes Oh My God#where am i going with this. i like tag rambling actually this is a nice way to do it without forcing EVERYONE to read my delirium#anyways if you've read all of this i think i love you? feel free to dm me about hoffman and my very specific headcanons and aus#maybe soon i'll try and start writing my fics about this tragic man#i could never say any of this on twitter btw they'd string me up for my opinions on him as a sad wet beast who could have been fixed#if only he hadn't been weaponized first#god i'm too tired to even be as embarrassed about this as i should be. thought i unlearned cringe already#but i've been spending way too much time on twitter and they HAAATE hoffman there#rip. i know it's not that serious but i'm sensitive rn and hate feeling lonely in my thoughts#ok bye for real otherwise i'll never shut up. i might tag ramble more often bc this was therapeutic in a way i needed badly#cat chat
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*Annoying old man voice* These botw fans have it too good, back in my day your favourite npc would appear once in a vaguely obscure title and then get forgotten by Nintendo forever
#This is a goof akskdk#Nobody in the loz fandom has it good đ#Also Hywar wasnt my thing but we gotta pog abt the fact Nintendo aknowledge some characters do infact exist#Even if... It was a spin off by another studio#Man why cant albw have a vaguely bad prequel spin off game where I kill thousands of creatures with a war machine#While Mipha talks abt how gentle and pleasant the war machine is#Anybody else find that part real wack?#Anyway Im in a rambly mood today dont take anything Im saying too serious
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Sillies
#no damn clue why I posted this but silly#I LOVE how Tsukasa and Akito line up with each other and Rui and Touya line up with each other#It wasn't intentional Akikasa and RuiTouya are real I stand by my blog description#rasazy's ramblings#â touya tag#project sekai#pjsk#prsk#prosekai#pjsekai#hatsune miku colorful stage#project sekai colorful stage#hatsune miku project sekai#shinonome akito#akito shinonome#aoyagi touya#aoyagi toya#touya aoyagi#toya aoyagi#tenma tsukasa#tsukasa tenma#kamishiro rui#rui kamishiro#vivid bad squad#vbs#wonderlands x showtime#wxs#fantasista squad
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Feel free to ignore if this is intruding but I remember you posting about dealing with caffeine addiction and I hope you're doing ok <3 Addiction is really hard to deal with so I hope everything is going alright for you!
!! thank you for checking in <3333
i haven't cut it out completely (i really don't think i'd be able to) but i'm still doing much better, i've cut down from 6 shots per cup to only 2. i've also changed my sleep/eating habits so now i don't feel like i need the caffeine as much because i just don't feel as shit anymore.
it's been very nice :3
#ramble#also yes that wasn't 6 shots per day it was PER CUP#which sounds. Insane thinking about it now#also i was SHOCKED at how seriously everyone took it. bc i really didn't think it was that bad#spoiler alert it was very bad#it's also done my IBS a favour because. wow#i'm thinking of switching back to cold brew because it didn't upset my insides as much as espresso does#tl;dr caffeine addiction is a very very very real thing and you seriously need to treat it like any other drug
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you used to be such a baby.
#marking this for . Violence.#Uh. Ask to tag.#Been hesitant to post this and i might delete it if i get embarrassed . Whatever.#If it isn't obvious. Gordon's not really there .#I will do more rambling. Past the tags#Blood#cw blood#tw blood#violence#gore#that man has been. Brutalized. Eeeyikes !#Barney Calhoun#half life#gordon freeman#Barney's supposed 2 be a little younger here . Maybe in his 30s#something something seeing the specter of your long gone companion from a time you can never go back to judging your every move#because youre doing this because of him. Youre doing this for him.#Youre doing this for everyone. and he looks exactly the same as you get older#and your clothes become drenched with blood rhat isnt your own and why have you survived this long when others havent.#(You know why)#and then he does come back. for real. Not a ghost#not a figment of your imagination.#And he looks exactly the same#Or something. Lol#LISTEN . sometimes you get caught by a CP and they're gonna blow your cover and get everyone you love killed.#What're you gonna do.#I don't think Barney is a violent man. Far from it . I just think bad things happened. And I think he had to do bad things#WAVES MY HANDS. I ALSO JUST KIND OF WANTED TO DRAW BLOOD . and Barney is my Guy of the moment .#I think about him alot . I should talk about it more. Whaterver
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honestly the more i hear about engstars and its TLs the more i absolutely dread the inevitable release of poltergeist and what may ensue from it, bc if if the translators themselves are already invalidating arashis identity then i Really Truly do not want to see how theyll translate natsume and tsumugis microaggressions/transphobia towards her. esp since ive noticed a rise in people being comfortably transphobic towards her, and i REALLY do not wish to see natsume and tsumugi being stupid fucking morons be used as evidence to discredit her
and i think this is all the more reason why its VERY IMPORTANT for engstars to DIRECTLY ACKNOWLEDGE arashi and her gender. bc sometimes characters are STUPID and RUDE and APATHETIC. enstars is a story with NUANCED and FLAWED CHARACTERS, and when a character is being a fucking asshole youre meant to PROVE THEM WRONG. but they dont even acknowledge arashi as a girl themselves. so, if you do use engstars, please keep pressuring them bc omfg this is so bad and i can only see it getting worse
#a bit of a serious post sorreys its kinda me venting im just preparing for the worst#We should be legally allowed to beat the shit out of ntmg for what they said to arashi#i dont remember the exact quotes verbatim but tsumugi basically just expressed confusion abt her gender identity#n natsume flatout said something like shes lying to kids by calling herself a princess#so.#not good.#having characters show bigotry is not Necessarily a bad thing. but that is ONLY WHEN that bigotry gets disproven#but. engstars arent doing that.#theyre not disproving it.#they keep pretending like her gender is. well. Nothing#so i worry that this story is just gonna fuel the flames and make everything so much worse than it already is#anyway. if u play engstars please do keep pestering them for blatantly ignoring and misrepresenting arashis identity#i try to stay out of whatever goes on on that app but. Man.#she deserves better#But hey knowing them maybe theyll just fuckin cut out the dialogue alltogether to further act like trans people and their issues arent real#nat rambles#im a bit peeved as u can see sorry i just know how this fandom is and how they cant handle nuance or flawed characters#and im REALLY not happy with happyele REWRITING THE TEXT#and getting RID OF SAID NUANCE#GRHAGGRAHGRAGHHGHGH#sorry.#its like 3:30am i just needed to get this off my chest#maybe ill delete this but god.#free my girl
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Proving once again that whining about my problems on tumblr is in fact a solution- I just got sent a spare Steam Link from @hejpansk after complaining that I canât watch my computer shows on the TV.
And NOT ONLY did this precious soul send a Steam Link but ALSO some amazing stickers from @acorviart an artist I follow with delight and original bird prints! Absolutely delighted and excited and I shall celebrate by watching Over the Garden wall from the comfort of my couch!!
#ramblies#Iâll have to do my testing with it tomorrow#the booster hasnât hit me as bad as it couldâve but the fatigue and headache are very real#excited to find homes for these stickers
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Noah fence but if you can't handle thinking about the actual story of Mouthwashing and you just want to imagine silly found family scenarios with the crew on the Tulpar then maybe you shouldn't be engaging with HORROR media...... just a thought.
#mouthwashing#100% gonna regret tagging it but whatever it's been on my mind a lot recently#i feel like mouthwashing absolutely should not have been fandom-ified the way it has been#I'm not saying that no one should enjoy it. I'm not saying that no one should make silly memes or hcs or fanart#I just feel like all the people who are like#âmouthwashing but nothing bad happens and everyone has a good time and Jimmy is a normal person and/or diesâ#are kind of..... severely missing the point of the game#it feels almost disrespectful in a way. this game was clearly trying to communicate some heavy stuff#and ppl are just throwing that all away to play with the characters like dolls#I mean obv it's not really my business how other ppl engage with media but scrolling through the tags I'm like. man cmon#anyway Daisuke is my newest chew toy blorbo but if I try to draw him I need to actually be put down for real#rambles#(it's too late btw I already sketched him bc I was annoyed by seeing all the fanart where he just has a gash across his face)#(he got an AXE TO THE FACE)#oops it's 5 am lol
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a lesson on good karma digimon survive week 2024 day 4: supporting characters
#digimon#gomamon#digimon survive#survive week#survive week 2024#rambling ahead. you don't have to read the tags beyond bc there's nothing that important tbh... you can just look at the art...#exhausted from being out and doing housework yesterday. then got a last-minute job with very urgent deadline today#finished everything but yeah basically i did anything but art so#irl do be like that aint it#anyway it's been a long time since i played survive and my memory isn't that good#but i always remember the part where we had to protect the gomamon#and later they showed us a path via the dam allowing the team to continue exploring#it reminded me of just how important it is to be nice and do good things whenever and wherever possible#and be mindful with the not-so-good things you do and say#be it good or bad. karma is real even if you don't know when it will get back at you#and you know in visual novel settings. whatever choice you make really determines what happens later on#yeah believe it or not i end up thinking stuff like that by helping a bunch of adorable seal mons...#mmm i'm officially behind now so i might as well take my time while also rest a bit haha ;;#this week has been fun with survive week tho fr. even though i came in unprepared (when will i change)#gotta keep surviving#png
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Okay so this is probably gonna turn into a whole rant âąïž
You guys were so accepting with me exploring my pronouns and it feels so good and so loving to be in a community like this đ
Hereâs the thing -
For years, Iâve thought about changing my name because Caroline never really felt like my name, it didnt feel like it was me.
And then at work, I was helping out at another store and people thought my name was Maya because one of the guys got it wrong from the beginning. So it became a standing joke that theyâd call me Maya.
And I started to respond to it and I just, I donât know, I canât explain it but it just felt like it was supposed to find me? Like that name was supposed to find me.
Iâm not changing it legally just yet, I want to see how it feels. But I was hoping that you guys would (once again) help me out with figuring out a new thing about me, if itâs right or not đ„ș
So for now, my preferred name is Maya đ«¶đ»
If you made it thus far, youâre a real one đ
Tagging some friends because id like to share it with yall đ©”
My angel @tizniz đ©”
@watchyourbuck @inell @underwaterninja13
@bidisasterevankinard @steadfastsaturnsrings @diazsdimples @eddiestummy @jeeyuns
@daffi-990 @wildlife4life @honestlydarkprincess
@spotsandsocks @exhuastedpigeon @hippolotamus
@actualalligator @giddyupbuck @pirrusstuff
@cal-daisies-and-briars @dangerpronebuddie @elvensorceress @slightlyobsessedwitheverything
@bucksbignaturals @bucks-daddy-issues @wikiangela @caroandcats @theotherbuckley
@devirnis @ronordmann @spagheddiediaz
#personal#i love it yall#im down so bad for this name its not even funny#im probs gonna keep caroline as a middle name tho#cause its like#its still a part of who I am#but it doesnât feel like my real name#Yall I also realized that my nickname could be MC and that sounds so freaking cool#maya rambles
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