#and it obviously isn't her call

[qqueenofhades]

Have to give the "I do like this job and the university, but I am WILDLY underpaid considering the amount of work/level of responsibility I have and if the university is serious about fostering a positive/supportive culture for faculty and staff, they need to give us all a serious raise" speech to my boss tomorrow. Uh, wish me luck?

[welcometogrouchland]

I understand that literature nerd Jason Todd is kind of overblown in fanon compared to it's actual presence in canon (a few issues during his pre (and post?)crisis Robin tenure that highlight it) BUT consider that I think it's hilarious if the unhinged gun toting criminal has strong opinions on poetry

[galactic-rhea]

[ID: Screenshot of a chat that says "just leave my queen alone, she's already suffered enough. She wanted a life with her malewife murder monk pilot mechanic racer and you should respect her for that!]

It's Padmé defending's hours for me

I have been seeing more negative (with very weird connotations, tbh) posts about Padmé on my dash lately, and while I'm a firm believer of the "scroll past it" rule, it really irks me a lot because MOST of these takes sound a bit mysoginistic to me and also (to me) shows a lack of trying to understand her as a character, not in a "you don't get her" way, but in a "you don't even try to understand the character and her context in the damn story just because you wanna sound holy than thou" way.

I'm all for accepting takes about Padmé's flaws or having a slightly more privileged/closed view (and that makes sense, she's aristocracy) but these people are SO WEIRD whenever they wanna talk about her 🤨

I'll forever mad that George eliminated SO MANY scenes with Padmé in the movies, but I feel like even if we had those scenes, people's complaints would be exactly the same.

But also i think half of the time people fail at understanding Padmé is because they're also failing to understand Anakin's as a character, idk

[alongtidesoflight]

i swear my stepdad is so illogical AND stubborn it hurts

[yuichiroswife]

{ Happy 26th birthday to me. }

[whitestopper]

I feel like another disadvantage of Elle's new school is that it's one without school uniform for Sixth Formers (Y12-13, or 16-18 year olds). For anyone who wasn't sure, there are three varieties of Sixth Form dress codes in the UK:

Official school uniform (possibly different to younger year groups)

Smart/smart casual - one friend went to a school where the students had to wear blazers/suits but outfits could be personalised from there

Non-regulated - basically from a suit to T-shirt and jeans, it was free game (usual 'avoid showing skin' rules typically applied)

Elle clearly has type 3 in contrast to the other characters, who have type 1. And while Heartstopper is better when it comes to Dawson Casting than most other shows (Brown was the oldest of the squad at 22 when S1 filming wrapped up, and Walser was an exception at 26), Elle's fashion is usually more mature with her showing more skin than what is usually considered 'acceptable' for her age (Elle's mother even says so in S2E2) - in fact comparing Finney's Instagram page to comic!Elle, who often opts for looser clothing and rarely shows her shoulders let alone her midriff, it's hard to deny that Finney's image didn't influence tv!Elle, especially when you compare S1 vs S3 (consider her larger, less form-fitting coats in S1 to her crop tops and tighter dress in S3 - she dresses warmer for Charlie's indoor birthday in April than for some of her outings in December).

All this is not to shame teenagers who show skin or to claim it is unrealistic - I was a teenager who owned a crop top and so did many of my peers (though a smaller proportion actually wore them at school). It is complicated having a developing body and trying to reconfigure your relationship to clothing and self-perception, and this doubly applies for trans teenagers, nearly of whom have to deal with gender dysphoria.

However, it can be hard to remember that you are meant to be watching Elle and not Finney herself, and I think this slightly undercuts how insidious the radio interview actually is. Because it's not just 20 year old Finney who's skipping uni or clocking out of her job just to be subjected to transphobia (which would be horrible on its own), it's meant to be 16/17 year old Elle who's missed school for this. I think having her in school uniform would've helped emphasise that this is someone who isn't even an adult having to defend herself against transphobes with no warning.

[itsmistyeyedbi]

And the kiss! (in addition to this)

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I'm not tagging this because the tags are just me rambling about my thoughts on what a says here. I guess it could be t/w/c critical? But barely I think lol.

[bylertruther]

isn't mad/wheeIer like. 90% fanon 🧐

[crying-over-cartoons]

seriously considering making a ninjago AU comprised entirely of speculative biology about serpentine because their whole everything is pretty inconsistent but I really like snakes so I wanna fix it up a bit

[krikeymate]

Scream 7 concept where Sam is a Ghostface and this is revealed to the audience early on in the movie. We spend the whole movie knowing she's been killing people and hiding it from everyone around her.

Another Ghostface pops up, and originally we're left to question whether it is Sam or whether they're working with Sam, and then eventually we learn no, they're not. Sam spends a lot of the movie talking about defending her sister, protecting her, in fact it's a little suspicious because Sam is never around when Ghostface attacks until the last confrontation before they move to the final showdown.

- I think this Ghostface should be someone who's obsessed with Sam and wants them to join her, not actually knowing she's been a Ghostface -

In Act 3, we get a Sam confrontation with this Ghostface - she's not alone in the room, I'll get to that in a minute - where they're going on and on about how much potential she has if she just gives in and all the things they could do together. And Sam laughs, it's a little unhinged. And then she reveals the truth, that she's already been killing, that she's been taking out scum like them for months, and then she straight up obliterates them.

Now, back to who is in the room, Tara and... Danny? One of the twins? Or perhaps someone new introduced in the movie. This person is freaking out, Sam just confessed to being a murderer. It's one thing to act in self-defence, but the things she's talking about... And Tara? She doesn't react at all. She knew all along.

This person starts talking about how it's wrong and Sam needs to turn herself in, and then they cut themselves off because there's a knife pressed against their back. "Tara... what are you doing?"

Sam stands up and watches them, she and Tara share a silent conversation.

"Defending my sister." She pushes the knife forward, but they turn to try and grapple her, the knife slips and slices across their back/side. Sam comes up from behind to pull them off her sister, and the person slips from their grip and runs. The sisters share a quippy little seriously? moment and then chase after him.

[estrogenism]

so glad to see that transfem tumblr is as normal about intersex people as always /s

[reagan-the-saunders]

the brain rot is very real and so here I am, making my warden tabris' and alistair's hypothetical daughter since you know what if veilguard can chuck pre-existing lore out the window I can too for like 5 minutes lol

also her hair looks way too fucking brown in these shots

way too orange in this one

these shots are a bit better at showing her ACTUAL hair colour lol

she's got her dad's hair colour and her mama's eye colour

also made her an elf since teeeechnically she'd be only quarter human and fuck it I wanted her to look elfy and not like a full on human

also she inherited her mother's sad face

(we're gonna ignore that Elanareth's in-game eye colour is wrong and that she's missing her green streak in her hair lol just look at her resting sad face lol)

honestly I regret making her 🥺

there's like NO WAY she could possibly be canon what with the actual grey warden lore

(I mean a grey warden having a child is improbable enough but when both parents are wardens nah damn near impossible lol)

and cause I already have a rook (who ironically actually looks like she could be my alt warden, Tev'huna, and Zevran's child lol)

but she's just so CUTE and I LOVE her and I want to keep her around but literally CAN'T AUGH

Still gonna do a run with her regardless lol

[britneyshakespeare]

You know I have a cousin who is a trans woman who is visibly and openly trans online, and because she is my family member and I have known her all my life I think I can say on good authority that she is nothing close to a faultless person. I actually had a lot of problems with her growing up and she still often posts inappropriate and objectionable things online that perhaps make her a bigger target than just the fact that she is trans by itself. And I like know that she's quite an easy target and I see herself put herself online in ways that make me worried and concerned for the kinds of comments she gets. She has people scroll her public Facebook page and on any post, especially if it mentions being trans or queer, whether it is innocuous or not, she'll get all these laugh reacts, because Facebook transphobes are evil. But it also feels like, I just wish she'd stop posting like she does. This is not blaming her, and I know transphobes seek her out whether they at first find her saying something respectable or not. It's not fair at all. But I do very much see that she cannot resist feeding the trolls and it's just hard to fucking watch

[fussystreetlight]

(Remaking this post cause I realized I didn't want to reblog from these kinds of people even when I'm reacting to them but I think some context is necessary).

It's always dispiriting to see things like this. And to see, imo, obvious nonsense get so much attention, more attention than fanartists that are not only talented but genuinely kind.

And I know I could ignore this and that I'm giving it more attention. But for my own peace of mind I wanted to add some important amendments :

Be as weird as you want about Skully. Yana Toboso and the TWST developers want you to (so you'll spend money but still...)

If you're a weirdo the game was made for you. Enjoy it however you want.

The game and developers are weird about their own characters (they knew what they were doing especially with the Union Birthday card groovies).

He's a bunch of pixels programmed to be set at an semi-arbitrary number that was chosen cause it made sense for the story, not because he's supposed to represent a person. It's like sleeping with an inflatable doll that was only made a year ago. It's a doll, how long it's been in existence doesn't matter. A very obvious not real character is not comparable to or representative of a person.

Again, he's not real, his "age" doesn't matter because he's an object, and fiction is not a 1:1 reflection of reality. If someone likes him it doesn't mean they'll prey on an actual teen. The chances of there being a correlation are really small. People who assume it does and try to stop people from liking a character; that says more about you than what liking Skully says about the person who likes him. It's like someone finding a chip that looks like a person and then someone else eats it. You're not going to call that person a cannibal and assume they want to eat people, this is the same thing. It's not comparable to a sexual predator. Seriously, why are y'all obsessed with predators, why is it always on your mind? Y'all keep bringing them up in situations that had nothing to do with them, making things about them and seeing them everywhere, and assuming everyone you meet that isn't a clone of you is one. Why is this always the first place your mind goes to? If y'all saw someone reacting the same way about murderers you'd realize they need some help so why are y'all so lacking in self-awareness?

The fact that people were simping for him before his "age reveal" and after it should have driven home the fact that it's simply that people like how this object looks and is programmed to behave, not how long it's been manufactured. Also his voice actor is an adult, so it's more like an adult acting like a younger person, i.e. this is more like a form of age play between consenting adults than a sign that people want to prey on teens (of course if antis looked at things that way then they'd have to face the realization that they are not the valiant heroes they think they are so they won't).

This attitude is what kills fandoms and makes creators not want their stuff to leave their country. It wouldn't surprise me if TWST one day shuts down because of all these antis.

And considering every anti I've come across liked something that does the very same things they claim to hate, are made by people who support the fiction they claim to hate, or like the very things that they claim to hate, I just can't make myself believe they really care about morals or being good people. At this point I genuinely believe antis are either just looking for attention or need professional help but are unwilling to admit it. Or they want to hurt people. But really, why this unhealthy obsession with sexual predators and finding them?? Especially when the people and organizations whose job it is to find actual predators have asked them to stop reporting this stuff because it doesn't count. The line should be drawn when real giving beings are getting hurt. No one is getting hurt by this no matter how much antis like to roleplay victims. Let people have their harmless innocent fun.

[afairerplace]

My impression of how strongly Taylor felt about Harry Styles is VASTLY different after hearing the vault tracks

[alto-tenure]

BTW, Dinah's list of possible BOP candidates:

Babs

Vixen

Grace Choi

Huntress

Lady Shiva

Talia (with a question mark)

Cheshire (also with a question mark)

Catwoman (on the list as Selina)

Onyx (I believe?)

Katana

Manhunter (I believe?)

Zatanna

Black (???) [It was suggested to me that this is possibly Lady Blackhawk, who has appeared on the BOP before]

Fire/Ice (they're a set, do not separate)