#and its father texts

[xuciferous]

there are so many self opposing dichotomies in the bible it begins to become difficult to wrap my head around

at what point do my acts differ from acts of god if he must give me the strength to do anything? if he already knows everything ill do does it not become his act?

[thatneoncrisis]

re whitewashing in tlt spaces. i feel like id be way more chill with seeing lighter toned harrow, bc at the end of the day she IS lightskinned you can just look at the cover of nona and that whole "skin the color egg carton" this is like. fanciful and kind of strange if your mind goes to the white or grey ones but like

absolutely within the range of human skin tones. its tan but its not like a dark chocolate brown. gives you enough to work with. but on top of just making harrow incredibly pale a lot of the time she is just. drawn like a white girl. just zero indication that she isnt entirely pakeha let alone maori if you didnt already have that info in your back pocket.

and so much shit contributes to this its tazs descriptions in the book just focusing on how pointy and scrawny she is, its fanartists not really getting the nuances of how to draw poc outside of "white person" and "black person", its the fact that irl maori obviously have a vast array of different ways they can look and some of them can be white passing and that doesnt make them less maori, its that fact coming into conflict where in a book if you have a main character you say is maori but is lightskinned, white passing and has zero connection to maori culture, language, and wasnt even born on earth and its been 10000 years since that particular ethnic group has even existed. what does that mean. how would the text change if she was just pakeha

[zurdurer]

@wremms

I fuckin love this,, specifically I like the idea of Arthur being magically put in raphaellas outfit, I think it'd be really funny

|| Arthur - Raphaella la Cognizi || Oscar - Drumbot Brian || John - Marius Von Raum || Noel - Gunpowder Tim ||

Please have these too cus they're silly :))

[lapdogchase]

i refer to my mother as my mother most of the time to indicate that i have Mommy Issues

[lorespill]

nothing quite like two old men fighting over the custody of a sad boy

[borgialucrezia]

something about cesare being neck-collared by his father by trapping him in the cardinal's robes against his will instilling a deep sense of powerlessness that drove cesare to overcompensate by seeking devotion and exerting domination as he projected the controlling behavior his father imposed on him onto two people who are so different from each other by grabbing them by the neck- the submissive masterless assassin micheletto, and his disobedient incompetent soldier younger brother juan. micheletto was an ideal vessel for cesare to fulfill his need to dominate in being a skilled but obedient killer and all while juan's rebelliousness made it difficult for cesare to control him...the contrast between the malleable (only to cesare) micheletto and the defiant juan is almost highlighting cesare's drive to assert the control that was denied to him by his father...

[mintyeve322]

the age old question of do i want to fuck that fictional old man or do i want to be the daughter the narrative never gave him?

[air--so--sweet]

3x13 Pinned//8x06 Confessions

Joy

[freakurodani]

The parallel between Sokka and Tenzin as their fathers' sons.

Sokka, left at 13 as his father and all the other men head off to war. Hakoda tells him "being a man is knowing where he's needed the most" and he needs to protect his sister, his home.

Tenzin is the second airbender. He is also half water tribe, he's a man. When Aang dies, he will be the last airbender. He understands what he needs to do.

Untold amount of pressure and responsibility have been thrust upon them by their fathers. Though, I believe it is not all intentional, but the unfortunate circumstance of being the fathers of sons who take responsibility incredibly seriously.

In Sokka's case, "protect your sister" is a vague instruction. It was meant to give him purpose, to help him feel okay about being left behind, He is too young for war, his father does not want to bring his child to slaughter. But Sokka will die with purpose. He will train the children of his tribe so they will be protected, he will face a fire nation ship until his last breath. He cannot go to war, but Hakoda did not see that war was all around them. In trying to give Sokka purpose, Hakoda put their world on his shoulders.

We do not get to see Aang be a father (in the TV shows), but we know he had hopes for the future. All his children were air nomads, and the air acolytes brought his culture back, but Tenzin could bend. This part of their culture is one ONLY they share. I do not think Aang would hide this, he is joyous that he gets to share his culture. When he feels respected, he always is, he taught the air acolytes after all. Off handedly, he could say, "I'm hopeful for a future where there are lots more air benders," and that, which feels mostly innocuous to him, is the nail in the coffin of Tenzin's fate. He is Avatar Aang's son, and the future of the air benders. It would not matter that Aang meant a future in generations. Tenzin sees the responsibility and it's his. He is his father's only air bending child, he knows what he needs to do.

Being a parent is not understanding the way the things you say harm your children. Even those things that feel innocuous in the moment can be life altering. Especially the more the child respects the parent. Purpose and Hope for those with a broader perspective, can be death sentences to a life that could have been when expressed to those who idolize the former.

[corvidexoskeleton]

Having thought about it a bit more, i think it really could go either way on whether or not gascoigne was the one who killed his wife. Cause on one hand, you can read the situation as he went mad with blood and killed her, but you could also read it as him going mad because he found that she had been killed by the beasts in the tomb of oedon. I mean, you can summon him for the cleric beast fight prior to triggering his own boss fight, so he must have been somehwat lucid at that point. It's entirely possible that gaacoigne found viola dead in the tomb, and the things he's chopping up when you find him are the bodies of the beasts that killed her

[pppt25g]

I was thinking that Jing Yuan actually does see Yanqing as something akin to a son, but most of the time treats him as his disciple and a member of the cloud-knights; he admires his tenacity and wants to protect part of his innocence, he did seem to raise him and is so similar to his younger self, but it also comes with an arrogance unbeffiting of a soldier that needs to be straightened out, something that must happen to everyone. Plus, there's something he needs Yanqing to do for him when the time comes, even if he still can't let the kid walk completely alone.

On the other hand, Yanqing doesn't necessarily see him as a father figure (most of the time), more like a mentor and benefactor who inspires respect and some affection, his feelings on the matter could be less complex, but there's always doubt and rumors around Jing Yuan (still glad the common folk can talk so freely about him). For what plot would the general need some kid prodigy who came from thin air?

[no1ryomafan]

The thing I realized the most about Omniverse that had effect on me past the art style that was so abundantly clear was everything with Malware and Feedback.

How despite the rough edges OV has, it handle the subject of trauma beautifully, what it means to lose apart of yourself, that still holds up to this day whilst also having a compelling and threatening villain to accompany that, but Ben is able to overcome that by forgiving himself and that’s how he gets Feedback again, how is able to heal.

And I just go “yeah no fucking wonder I’m a angsty fiend obsessed with hurt/comfort and characters facing their trauma”

[jellyfishrui]

not eating for a good time actually does not even feel that bad i might do it a bit more often

[way-too-obsessed-gamer]

I need you all to understand anytime it's said that the (non canon) ye olde new vegas wedding that Kremy and Gideon had was a "shotgun wedding" I am laughing my ass off. I don't think that means what you think it means

Actually you know what I firmly believe Gricko has called it that before and nobody has corrected him

[writer-room]

I think the funniest possible way to view Astro Bot is that everything we see is how Astro Bot sees the world. By which I mean all the characters are not, in fact, little robot dudes, but the full, complete characters all from their own video games, and Astro Bot just views them as looking like bots.

I dunno about you, but I find that idea HILARIOUS. You've got Conner Cyberlife trying to analyze the shit out of John Dark Souls, who's about to get into an arm-wrestling competition with Aloy. Kratos is asking if anyone has seen his boy. Octodad is standing awkwardly thinking "they don't know I'm a cephalopod" while Ratchet is chatting him up thinking this is completely normal. Nathan has somehow fucked up everything and Fall Guy is involved. Traveler From Journey is chirping to get everyones attention on the boss appearing but nobody is listening. Apes are there. It's beautiful.

[twindeer]

Letter to His Father, Franz Kafka