#also ignore the bad perspective.

[miraacleworker]

candace theme song takeover screencap redraw because the flynn-fletchers are AWESOME!!!

[crumboatt]

lmfaooo imagine eating bugs what a loser

the line art bc im really happy w how it turned out!!

[biblically-accurate-dca]

@vanweek2024 day 6 - spare

vanny goes bowling !

[funshinebf]

valentines day may be over but lovecore is forever so i can post cupid vash all year long

[ssilverswanss]

Wouldnt you be angry if you grew up like Jason? It feels ignorant to not allow a child to be angry. That’s just MY opinion though.

i dont know if you want a kind response out of this but please go fuck yourself

im not saying jason shouldn’t be angry but if you READ the previews (please see the ss below! i provided it for you just in case you didn’t bother to take a look at what i was talking about for context!)

in jasons old run as robin he was a happy ish kid. he is mr “robin is magic”. to change his characterization from ROBIN IS MAGIC to a vengeful “i am a weapon” edgy kid is ODD. there are plenty of threads on twitter explaining why the change in characterization is classist. im not dumbing it down for you. there is a large difference in children being angry and a kid saying “i am a weapon”

i grew up around kids like jason. i KNOW kids like jason. its easy to see how fucking problematic this is if you have a brain. do not come into my anons like this ever again lmao

[fish-popsicle]

Sebastian finds Buddy a little weird and annoying for choosing to hang out with the expendables, but accepts it's gifts nonetheless.

[sirbird]

Things definitely got a little sandy 🧍‍♂️

[medicalunprofessional]

flood

~♫

[anto-pops]

Ominis being sad but wanting justice but also turning slightly into his family that he tired SO hard to not be is so but makes so much sense 😫 ILY FOR BLESSING ME W THIS STORY

HE'S DOING HIS BEST !!!

Attending Hogwarts gave Ominis the space he needed away from his family, and the Sallow household doubled as his home away from home. Him losing the security Anne and Sebastian gave him AND being shunned by MC after everything has definitely left him feeling some type of way. The events of his fifth-year shaped him and drove him to want to expunge dark magic as a whole (hence the Auror position), but since I imagine he had no choice but to go back to living with his family for a few years after everything, the lines miiiight be a little blurred. Sebastian has made it so that Ominis sees things in a more black and white scale, so now it's less about "policing dark magic" and more about "stopping dark magic at any cost".

The poor guy is definitely going through it... pouring one out for Ominis rn ;;

[aliusfrater]

that transcript made me remember this post where someone added a still of a sam and dean scene in front of the trunk of the impala while it was open and circled sam and dean's respective belongings in the blurred background as like a gotcha for that thing they love doing where they flip sam and dean's characteristics around to say see! dean's the real Clean One! and i think it's so interesting how this works because like it's so based on the recontextualisation of a single entirely decontextualised shot out of this one scene unrelated to the topic of neatness that's unimportant for the actual context of both the content of the scene and its implications on both character's characterisations. and then intentional choices made for sam or dean's actions whose contexts are used specifically to attribute these characteristics to these characters are ignored. like i remember the post didn't give an episode name or number for the cap they edited and included (lol) but i had identified the shot as one that happens in a scene where within the subject conversation, they drop their stuff in the trunk off camera (we see the action, not the trunk) then do not interact with or acknowledge their belongings beyond that

[writeouswriter]

Certain other party members have been a bad influence on our young kenku's vocabulary.

Or: *most innocent, non-suspicious, non-threatening little child NPC possible approaches most paranoid person in the world and hands over undisclosed random key before saying "bitch" and running off back to the party members he usually interacts with, much to her (probably but not entirely) unwarranted terror and confusion.*

Or:

Ahoy: *hands over random item*

Aris, immediately: This child is trying to lead me into some kind of trap. He prays on my downfall.

[thedragonsfate]

FHJY thoughts under the cut bc I gotta sort my brain and can't be succinct to save my life

I think there's something interesting in acknowledge like

of COURSE Kipperlily underestimated the bad kids.

She's hated these kids from day 1. I know a lot of people want to acknowledge that it's not unreasonable for Kipperlily and the rat grinders to think the school is run unfairly (and you're right! it's a fair conclusion)

-- but we also gotta consider that this is something that took root in her VERY EARLY. Before the bad kids got really very good. Two bad kids die on the first day of school, they spend a significant amount of their second semester freshman year just. In Prison.

Of course what follows I'm sure spurs that hatred, but she all but declared Riz to be her nemesis with Jawbone freshman year.

She's probably got some good ideas of how stuff should change, but also she saw this random Goblin boy with a briefcase in rogue class and decided she Hates Him, for a reason none of us can fathom when several of the other bad kids give off worst first impressiona

She's a teenager, a kid, with anger issues. As much as their can be important nuggets at the core of her motives, she's a teenager without emotional regulation skills. That combination is BUILT to breed resentment and feelings of entitlement. and it's built to actively ignore any evidence of a different perspective.

We talk about how she doesn't understand them, takes Kristen as entirely uncaring, doesn't expect the bad kids to do so well in the Last Stand

and OF COURSE she doesn't. some of this because she of course is not privy to all of the bad kids interactions that we are as an audience. but a lot of it is probably because she's a teenager who's decided she's being slighted and as a result is never going to take the bad kids actions on good faith. she's doubled down and while I have a feeling she's extremely perceptive, she's also in an emotional place that means she probably is ACTIVELY ignoring any evidence to the fact that maybe the bad kids are just ALSO working very hard, and that the school itself may also work against them sometimes.

Add to that a god corrupted into rage (negative in this case) and conquest, and a nefarious faculty member as a potentially directly manipulative adult in her life trying to make something big and destructive happen. Kipperlily strikes me as the kind of person who knows she's smart, and knows she's clever, but is so blinded by her emotion that she is probably missing some of whats clearly in front of her as far as all the Jace business goes. She certainly is about the bad kids.

Jawbone can only do so much to help her in her sessions if he's being actively worked against. Emotional regulation is hard to learn from zero AS AN ADULT and she's probably coming from the negatives if my impression is correct, and is doing so as a teenager.

I guess what I'm trying to say is like

In a vacuum? Sure augeforts comment about trying being stupid or whatever does seem like another slap in the face for Kipperlily, one that justifies some of her feelings.

But not about the bad kids. and not to the extent she has taken them.

And to take that at its word feels weird to me because. To anybody paying attention? The bad kids are and have been trying SO SO hard in class. Them having to take the last stand in the FIRST place is specifically because the school system is treating Kristen unfairly DESPITE her best, GOOD efforts. I'm certain the rat grinders are on some level aware of Gorgugs EXTREMELY uphill battle with schoolwork this season, even if it's just Maryann catching part of a convo with Porter or Ruben hearing about it from his uncle. I HIGHLY doubt that Oisin was oblivious to the way that Adaines academics were affected by her not having the money for the correct materials - she still was able to excel mostly but the effects of that roll being at disadvantage for so long are still THERE. Jawbone pinned down and mentioned to Riz his similarities to Kipperlily within maybe 2 seconds - there is 0% chance he hasn't brought something similar up in Kipperlilys sessions. She may not like it, she may not have the emotional intelligence to see it this way, but his efforts almost certainly mirror hers in a way that makes them equally hard workers, absolutely determined to keep themselves afloat despite it being an uphill battle. Something that she feels she deserves to be rewarded for, and to an extent implies that if just a few circumstances were different she would be able to see equal value in his work.

And sure you can say she may be able to see that and be angry that their work is rewarded and hers isn't, but we see time and time again that she and her party don't always put that same level of work in? Mary Ann at blood rush, absolutely uncaring but doing well specifically because she's got some magical enhancements. The suspicious circumstances of Kipperlily finding the Rogue teacher. Even just the natural advantage of Oisin having more than the funds he needs to excel in wizard class.

But even regardless of that, she seems to refuse to see that any scenario in which others are praised for the same thing she's done, while she is ignored etc, is the sole responsibility of the school here. the bad kids are not her enemies in that fight - augefort is. The bad kids are not going around being consistently given advantages from the school, they're earning the things they get and hitting their own academic road blocks, and they aren't acting better than other people in a way that goes beyond like. Teen stuff. And yet her sights are trained so unblinking on them.

I can see Fabian and Kristen's popularity and personalities coming off like it supports that they're being treated better or feel some superiority. And it's teen stuff to quietly hate those ppl at your school! it's p normal!

But it always brings me back to her SPECIFICALLY hating Riz. Bc Riz isn't a rich kid throwing parties that everyone loves. Hes not sniping out comebacks the way Kristen does, sometimes without even thinking. In a lot of ways he's the/one of the least abrasive of the group to an outsider. Which makes me SO much more inclined to call bullshit that this is truly, honestly rooted in an acknowledgement of any of the REAL problems that come up with their school system.

It's complex, but I feel like we can't exalt their perspective as a Truth of the world like it seems some folks do when these characters themselves do not play fairly. What is fair about the way they interfered with the exam. What is fair about what she did so easily to Buddy Dawn. What is fair about the murder of the couple that owned that farm. Depending on what happened - what is fair from them about Lucy's murder. Certainly what is fair about their hand in Yolandas.

This idea that things are unfair isn't untrue. But not in the ways she thinks, and shes moved so far beyond that notion at this point. Kipperlily probably DOES believe that she's uniquely a victim of this system, or at least that everyone but the bad kids is. But she's moved so far beyond that. Whatever divine rage magic is involved has ensured that, as well as probably some Adult manipulation, and severely underdeveloped emotional regulation skills. and for me that means like. obviously she is unjustified in her actions.

Augefort is absolutely unhinged. his school has never been run in a manner that rewards buckling down in the classroom and the classroom only. It's an adventuring school in truly the most chaotic and violence rewarding sense, and that information is given freely by Arthur augefort at maybe any turn

Saw something about the theoretical being just as important as the practical. and yes! absolutely! a very good point that I'm glad was brought up - going to the classes is important and I think this season has really emphasized the ways in which that's true at least in terms of Staying in School and Honing your Skills

I do think, in the same breath, that that STILL means that the practical is ALSO just as important as the theoretical. It CAN'T be one or the other, it HAS to be both.

and the bad kids are DOING both. regardless of what it may count for, the rat grinders xp leveling by continuing to do freshman level combat in order to excel more on paper ISN'T them really doing the practical part of what theyre learning in their higher level classes. And the bad kids do not get credit for their saving of the world REGARDLESS. Not on its own merit, and to get the credit they'd have to jump a hefty academic bar that sort of invalidates the point of practical efforts in the first place, not to mention works against students like Fig and Kristen.

The school is actively rewarding Kipperlily and her party's cheat code practical use of their skills, over the bad kids putting just as much if not more effort into their LITERALLY WORLD SAVING missions. whatever favoritism shes seeing, or that there may be occasionally, Kipperlily fundamentally takes the bad kids in bad faith. It's not ABOUT what is ACTUALLY unfair to her at this point.

from her perspective every accolade or accomplishment from them HAS to come from favoritism in order to fit how her view of whats actually unfair has been warped. for her it doesn't MATTER that they've been trying because they MUST not be trying as hard as she is. it doesn't matter that they visibly saved the world three times, one of which was livestreamed and included several party members dropping, successfully because surely it's a fluke, or they were given better opportunities than others for no reason, or they're being falsely worshipped for what MUST be a less dangerous quest than it seems (despite us seeing clearly on the first day of school that nobody is putting a pedestal up for their night yorb win)

What could have been a justified spark of frustration with a system has shifted into a vengeful sense of entitlement that to me? fully abandons the good of wanting to change a school system actively working against some (/all?) students.

idk maybe this all sounds like jibberish I just

Kipperlily in her current state is INCAPABLE of not underestimating the bad kids bc that would require some acknowledgement that they have worked and bled and died to reach the level they're at.

You cannot separate the girl who sneaks in to the Last Stand to sabotage another party's chances of passing, of staying at school, of continuing school, of one of them from potentially keeping their god alive, and of being brought back from what she assumes is certain death - from the slighted teenager running for class president to make things "more fair"

you cannot separate the girl who easily slits her own party clerics throat without second thought from the girl who thinks she's been slighted by an unjust system

What she means by unfair is inherently colored by her being that same person

Augefort can say whatever nonsense he wants, and it doesn't really justify her current frustrations at this point because her version of fair is fundamentally unfair now.

Shes a child who's become corrupted, just like Buddy. but unlike him - she's become genuinely nefarious and vengeful. Unlike buddy she is actively plotting. Harming others with full knowledge of it. We don't know how much of it comes from her on her own, or the rage baking underground, or Stardiamonds direct involvement - but I think this most recent episode should make it clear that like

Whatever truth there is to the school being run in a way that is unfair to its students, and regardless of what she says or thinks

Kipperlily Copperkettle is not operating from that grounded perspective. and I don't think she has been for a long time

[toxtricityamped]

a couple of sketch concepts for myras + angrand's fortress

I wanted to create a foreboding vibe for the castle without going the high gothic route but it ended up a bit stout... needs some work

[mxmuffin]

Five Nights at Freddy's

To the girl that introduced me to FNaF, after 7 years we finally got a movie.

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I know that we changed a lot the last time we met (maybe me a little more), and she probably isn't even interested in it anymore, but she paved the way for one of my favorite interests. I remember watching FNaF videos with her, trying to dissect the lore, and roleplay sister location a lot in Minecraft. She made a lot of good memories with me in this fandom, and seeing the movie was amazing.

I've been putting off making this, because I was busy with other stuff, but with the movie being almost a month old, I'd figure now would be a good time. Thank you, FNaF, I will continue to enjoy you (threat)

[blissfulrain12]

On top of this Curly is also a victim and Anya is also an enabler. I don't know why people do not want to acknowledge this but it's not even subtle.

Jimmy emotionally abuses Curly pre crash, every time he shoves unwanted pills down Curly's throat is medical abuse, the time he beat Curly cause he was upset with Anya and Swansea is physical abuse, he ate Curly alive, and then forced Curly to eat himself. On top of all of this Curly is disabled because of Jimmy's murder attempt.

As for Anya she asked her rapist to give medical care to her defenseless patient. She had other options this shouldn't have been one. Are her reasons understandable? Yes, but that doesn't change this being a bad thing.

They are both victims and unwilling enablers to the same man. Them being enablers does not cancel out their being victims or vice versa. This also applies to Swansea and Daisuke by the way.

"Know that curly is an enabler and anya is a victim" maybe for your little pea brain, but my massive, hulking cranium can appreciate fanart of them in absurdly wild scenarios while still understanding that fanart doesn’t change what actually happens in the game.

[pyrrhiccomedy]

I feel like we need a refresher on Watsonian vs Doylist perspectives in media analysis. When you have a question about a piece of media - about a potential plot hole or error, about a dubious costuming decision, about a character suddenly acting out of character -

A Watsonian answer is one that positions itself within the fictional world.

A Doylist answer is one that positions itself within the real world.

Meaning: if Watson says something that isn't true, one explanation is that Watson made a mistake. Another explanation is that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle made a mistake.

Watsonian explanations are implicitly charitable. You are implicitly buying into the notion that there is a good in-world reason for what you're seeing on screen or on the page. ("The bunny girls in Final Fantasy wear lingerie all the time because they're from a desert culture!")

Doylist explanations are pragmatic. You are acknowledging that the fiction is shaped by real-world forces, like the creators' personal taste, their biases, the pressures they might be under from managers or editors, or the limits of their expertise. ("The bunny girls in Final Fantasy wear lingerie because somebody thought they'd sell more units that way.")

Watsonian explanations tend to be imaginative but naive. Seeking a Watsonian explanation for a problem within a narrative is inherently pleasure-seeking: you don't want your suspension of disbelief to be broken, and you're willing to put in the leg work to prevent it. Looking for a Watsonian answer can make for a fun game! But it can quickly stray into making excuses for lazy or biased storytelling, or cynical and greedy executives.

Doylist explanations are very often accurate, but they're not much fun. They should supersede efforts to provide a Watsonian explanation where actual harm is being done: "This character is being depicted in a racist way because the creators have a racist bias.'" Or: "The lore changed because management fired all of the writers from last season because they didn't want to pay then residuals."

Doylism also runs the risk of becoming trite, when applied to lower stakes discrepancies. Yes, it's possible that this character acted strangely in this episode because this episode had a different writer, but that isn't interesting, and it terminates conversation.

I think a lot of conversations about media would go a lot more smoothly, and everyone would have a lot more fun, if people were just clearer about whether they are looking to engage in Watsonian or Doylist analysis. How many arguments could be prevented by just saying, "No, Doylist you're probably right, but it's more fun to imagine there's a Watsonian reason for this, so that's what I'm doing." Or, "From a Watsonian POV that explanation makes sense, but I'm going with the Doylist view here because the creator's intentions leave a bad taste in my mouth that I can't ignore."

Idk, just keep those terms in your pocket? And if you start to get mad at somebody for their analysis, take a second to see if what they're saying makes more sense from the other side of the Watsonian/Doylist divide.