#also sorry if i piss someone off

[spcebarr]

i hate that everyone makes everything with nepeta with EQUIUS. same with the other way around (equius with nepeta) THEY HAVE THEIR OWN LIVES. NOT EVERYTHING IS ABOUT MEOWRAILS (a amazing ship but OH MY GOD. SOMETIMES ITS JUST THERE FOR NO REASON??? LIKE PLZ JUST HAVE THEM ALONE DOING THEIR OWN THING OR SOMETHING)

EX:

amazing song but correct me if im wrong; SHES SINGING ABOUT EQUIUS???

WHAT,,..

yes, i know shes a lonely kittycatcaveshippergirl and is moirails with equius but OH MY FUCKING GOD SHE SHOULD BE SINGING ABOUT KARKAT. (NOT JUST BECAUSE OF KATNEP!!) WHY?? BECAUSE SHE LOVES KARKAT AND KNOWS HE MADE MISTAKES AND SHIT BUT DOESNT CARE. SHE WILL ALWAYS BE THERE FOR KARKAT. AUUGHGGHGHHG

ALSO!! in other media, EQUIUS IS ALWAYS MENTIONED WITH NEPETA LIKE OMG JUST PLZPLZPLZ JUST MAKE NEPETA HAVE HER OWN LIFE (WHICH SHE DOES HAVE, HER OWN LIFE) NOT EVERYTHING IS ABOUT NEPETA AND EQUIUS BEING TOGETHER (JUST MAKE THEM SEPERATE). THEYRE TWO SEPRATE CHARACTERS.

like if anything, MAKE EQUIUS WITH GAMZEE.. (yaoi?..)

AND MAKE NEPETA WITH KARKAT. (her karkittyyy)

PLZZZZ JUST DO THIS.

[remcadll]

Wow crazy how it’s been two months since mha ended. what the hell was that btw

[stiffyck]

Saw a post that made me furious yesterday so if people STILL don't understand this:

Aspec people are queer.

And no, it's not our love that makes us queer, it's our LACK of certain types of love that make us queer.

There is of course aspec people who are queer both because of their love and their lack of love, but being aspec is queer because of the lack of love.

Saying "but aspecs love too! Their love is also important! Aro and ace people have love and their love is also important!" is not the support you think it is for a lot of aspec people.

My love for my mother isn't what makes me queer. My love for my friends isn't what makes me queer. It's my lack or romantic love that makes me queer. Yea love is important to me, especially platonic love, but that is not what makes me queer.

And let's not forget about loveless aros.

For the love of god stop going "but aros love too!" just so you can relate to us somehow or just so you can include us. We don't need love to be included.

And because some people are going to take this as a personal attack: no, there is nothing wrong with being gay. There is nothing wrong with love is love. Love is important to a lot of people and I am not saying love is bad.

Happy pride everyone

[asgardian--angels]

keep fighting the good fight against this weird misconception that vik is somehow stoic and unemotional, bestie 🫡 cause idk where the hell people picked that up lol

thank you!!! fandom is always gonna fandom, reducing characters to two-dimensional tropes to make them mix-and-matchable. it's especially unfortunate when the characters we're given in Arcane are so rich and nuanced. the best antidote is to go back and rewatch the source material imo lol.

thanks for enjoying my tags also!! I used to write actual meta many years ago but at some point lost my nerve or lost the time. now it lives in the tags. I don't know many people in the jayvik fandom here, it seems mostly active on twitter, but I'm glad to be noticed by at least a couple people here :) your blog is great!!

[antiparticular]

I feel like people hcing tmagp gerry as being pastel goth have completely missed the point. the point is that you don't have to dress colourfully to be happy. dressing in black ≠ depressed. and he was never goth !!!!!!! I'm sorry I keep saying it but it's true. he was never goth he's a metalhead and he still dresses the exact same.

[2000sscribbles]

i actually can't believe there are people on this website that can read an article where dt talks abt how his family says "i love you" to each other all the time and how that's a strange and wonderful new thing to him but like they ignore this super sweet and touching thing he's saying abt his loved ones and instead they completely laser the fuck in on him going "losing awards sucks" n then they pull out like year old screenshot from her instagram stories where georgia is like "my favorite awards loser omg <3" as evidence that she's an evil manipulative bitch who's abusing him and like it would be really funny if there wasn't a whole clique of people doing it

[halcyon-deluxe]

what do you value most in someone?

At *least* a 2x resistance to ground type attacks. My last partner died due to a 4x weakness to earthquake and it gave me SUCH an ick :/ likeeeee I haaaaate it when my partner gets one-shot by earthquake spammers. its such a turn off.

[iinryer]

i have GOT to stop “View Post”ing filtered posts. like. girl. you filtered it for a reason. we know exactly what’s going to be there and that it’s going to piss you off

[soap-is-an-artist]

I cannot even begin to express how much I unequivocally support imperium Asher's decision to kill Alexis. Not only did I hate her before, knowing what a terrible person she is in the prime universe, but finding out the ACTUAL WAR CRIMES she's committed under the imperium only solidified my support. When I got to the part where Ash started describing how she had property surrounded by walls "higher than an unempowered human could climb" my stomach dropped. It's the "The Most Dangerous Game" all over again [idk if anyone else had to read that in middle school—great book, very interesting themes about savagery and civility]. And THEN the part about how she really likes hunting families... I do not even have a fucking response.

The part that I really can't get over is that, whoever the listener for that video is, they just... don't care? This is THE MOST justified killing in the HISTORY of killing. This is the PREVENTION of slaughter. This is a takedown of a villain who's been causing misery for decades. This is vengeance and justice for so many whose lives have been taken, including two members of the pack [Darlin noooo!!!], one of whom was ASHERS HUSBAND. DO YOU UNDERSTAND. DO YOU

DAVID DIED IN HIS ARMS.

WHAT part of that don't you understand, listener? I will not-so-gently grasp your shoulders as I say this: Alexis must die. There is no other way. The apocalypse is coming. The end of the world will wipe out every non-demon entity on your plane of existence; you are planning a revolution to stop this from happening, yet you are upset that a war criminal must be removed for this to happen? There will be far more bloodshed than this. Do you seriously expect The Imperial King to just... let you take over without a fight? Many more will die for your cause, many of them good people. Alexis is not a good person and she never will be. You must set your rigid morals aside in this moment. Her just execution will be swift, swifter than the death she gave her victims; take refuge in that. But for the love of god, do not try to stop it.

And do not call Asher a monster.

[unfotp]

FUCKING DESPISE Jiang Cheng APOLOGISING TO Wei Wuxian HE WOULDN'T HE WOULD NEVER EVER

he shouldn't have to either. tell me what he did wrong. this man didn't kill him. this man didn't break any promises to go fuck the nearest Lan. Rebuilt his own sect. ON HIS OWN. obviously people helped But you promised to help and then You didn't. You DIED and when you came back DIDN'T EVEN VISIT. believed rumours about your own little brother. Refused to trust him for who is INSTEAD AGAIN CHOOSING THE NEAREST LAN.

stop making Jiang Cheng apologise he wouldn't!! and FOR WHAT ???

[hers-underwraps]

I feel like these two would be k-pop stans

(Also sorry about the shitty image I need more dashi and peso images)

[sleepy-crypt1d]

One of my favorite parts of COF that I find is commonly overlooked is the fact that it doesn't sanitized itself for a broader audience, it comes in with a message, with a story to tell that's hard to swallow with characters that are realistic and heartbreaking, and it doesn't apologize for this once.

Something interesting that occurred to me was how people who have never experienced severe mental health struggles view COF- the specific instance I'm thinking of is when I was explaining the plot to my mom, and had explained the different endings to her and how to get those endings, and what each one seemed to imply both for Simon and his relationship with those in his life, and her takeaway from the conversation was- "I don't like that the mentally ill main character becomes a killer. I don't like that he's the bad guy"

And this was interesting to me because, that's kind of the whole reason why I started to love Simon in the first place.

So infrequently are we shown mentally ill characters who do bad things yet still deserve redemption. Who still deserve to be treated as a person, because they are one. In a world that is becoming largely comfortable with the idea "bad person = deserves to die" it was insanely refreshing to see a character like Simon, who we see hurt people, who we see become obsessed and stalkerish and violent, gain redemption through healing. Through therapy and community and the belief from others that he will get better. That he isn't a lost cause.

In ending 2, one of the darker endings of the experience, we learn that Simon is alone. That his friends and family have all left him. That he's been abandoned due to his disability and general mental health struggles, and this was devastating to me. Upsetting to a degree that had me thinking about it for days afterward. Not helped by Simon's plea to Dr. Purnell to not feel bad because "not everyone can be saved". The way Simon views himself is much too similar to my own view of myself as someone who has struggled with similar issues.

As someone who was led down a path of harm due to untreated issues and still struggles with believing I "deserve" redemption.

Because I do, and so does he.

And it's always so upsetting seeing so many people who view victims as one note stories. As people who just cry sometimes and have trouble talking to people or get sad every once in awhile. Mental health is messy and hard to live with and life ruining at times, and this stripping of it's nuance is so frustrating to see happen over and over and over again.

Victims are not your savior story. They are not cookie cutter helpless children that need to be protected. Abuse and severe struggles do not make you stronger, they do not make you better, they do not magically make you more empathetic or loving and I'm fucking tired of that narrative. I'm tired of being talked over by people who've never experienced it or other victims who think they're the "good" ones because, well, they never did that which means anyone who did is horrible. I'm tired of stories of illness being sanitized for other people's comfort.

Victims can become perpetrators, that does not take away from their victim status. That does not change the fact that they still deserve help. That does not take away from their personhood. They are a human being that needs help, not a death sentence. Should they take accountability? Of fucking course. Does their trauma absolve them of wrongdoing? No. But I'm tired of people acting like cycles don't exist, like the second you act out on your trauma you're past saving.

Simon's story is perfect the way it is. A story of redemption and acceptance, of learning to live and grow and learn from past mistakes and find a way to live peacefully. To take responsibility and attempt to rekindle the relationships you lost, the ones you hurt.

Ending 4 and his admittance to the hospital, as well as his continued friendship with Sophie but acceptance of his loss of a romantic one, is heart breakingly bittersweet in a way that is hard for me to describe. Him getting better but living with what he's done, growing from it and learning to live anyways.

Another part of this is that, in his happy ending, in the ending where he does get better; he doesn't do it alone. Largely, the narrative of community is lost in these stories, how helpful a support system can be. Simon gets better because he has people there for him, because he has Purnell and Sophie and his mom looking out for him. He has his doctors and the staff at the hospital and people who know he can get better, that he's still a person deserving and capable of good.

People need people, and this seems an obvious note to me in the story of COF. Simon needs people. He needed people the entire time. Someone, anyone, to listen to him and give him the hand he needed.

And it's so refreshing to see a character like Simon still be loved and cared about and helped even when he was "the bad guy". Let mental ill characters be realistic. I'm begging you.

[moldy-flowers]

The interesting experience of being pro Sasuke, anti konoha, pro tobirama, anti Naruto ending, pro Sasusaku, anti Itachi, pro Sakura, anti SasuNaru, pro Tobirama×Izuna, anti Madara, pro karin, anti Orochimaru, pro Uchiha and anti Hashirama. And also as much as I hate the guy danzo was kind of hot when he was younger...

[rapidhighway]

"oh my old art was so cringe it looks so bad" SHUT UP ALL youre doing with that self deprecating talk is telling artists who aren't as far into their art journey and whose art may look similarly that they suck. When if you had never drawn the way you're criticizing now, you wouldn't be where you are now. The art you consider shit is also part of the way

[rotisseries]

rick riordan dickriders on here will be like "why are you complaining about the pjo tv show, go watch the movies and see what a bad adaptation really looks like" ok well listen to the musical watch it on youtube and see what a good adaptation looks like bitch. it can be done. as a fucking stage musical. what did that 15 million per episode do for disney that chris mccarell couldn't

[neverendingford]

skyglow:

(alternative title: photo dump of a midnight desert run)