#argue with the characters

[tariah23]

White people are miserable, racist losers period. They’ve even been getting mad at Japanese people for correcting them about Yasuke as well.

[paynewriting]

Now, we went back and forth a bit on if we would be posting this, as it was confrontational, and isn't covered well in the text, or at all. But we will for posterity and will cover some of our thoughts as an addendum. Heads up, there is a content warning for misandry, discussion of forced gendering of children, and the mutilation of their genitals to enforce it. So, lets start with what was said:

Charlie (Asker):

This question is for Passantra: how was life like as a queen?

Passantra:

Good. I finally had the family I had always, I got to see them prosper all around me. It was delightful. The latter years we coloured by the increased efforts I had to go to to protect them. But I wouldn't have changed that at all, because they were still my family and brought me so much joy, even if their existence was not as carefree as I would that it was.

Charlie (Asker):

I’m happy to hear that but this leads me to my next question for you. Why continue to allow the castration of dragon blood males? I’d figured you being unable to have children of your own wouldn’t allow to have others share the same fate as you?

Passantra:

That practice primarily faded along with the births of males after a few centuries of the Krinaale on Dentre. When Karthil was cast out and Astrorus left the 'male' birthrate plummeted and took the practice with it. Though I cannot bear children, I would dare you to say aloud the unspoken part of that where you imply I am somehow less of a parent for it. There are many in this nation who have raised children, who have been incredible parents, but did not bear, nor sire the children they raised. The practice of castration is not about denying those individuals a family, it is about giving them their rightful place in our family and our culture. Without it we would not have the Kas En, we would not be as strong a nation as we are, and we would lose sight of the covenant on which this nation was founded.

Charlie (Asker):

Giving them their rightful place? So the only way for them to be apart of your “family” is to be unable to produce one of their own. Gods do you even hear yourselves or are all you Old Bloods so desperately trying not to see your pathetic existence as nothing more than a blight on this world?

Passantra:

This is no small part of why the tradition was born. When the Mothers Unburnt gathered and the Pact of Kith and Kin was sworn we created a nation born of dragons, and this was how we ensured that. We also created a nation safe from the violence of the men who viewed every dragonblood and every dragon as a slight upon their world. When the Mothers Unburnt came to us for protection it wasn't from people who had philosophical objections to the Old Blood and the existence of dragonbloods, it was from men whose visceral fear at no longer being at the top of the pecking order had festered and become violence. I saw no place for them in my nation. That was our culture. And if you didn't want your place in that nation, with those practices you were more than welcome to leave and bear male children elsewhere.

Charlie (Asker):

Figured much. Honestly doesn’t surprise me one bit of your view on men. Do you even love your male children? Apparently you don’t because you are fine with your women to go off and have a family but your men can’t because of your barbaric tradition.

Passantra:

Men, as you would think of them simply do not exist within Krinaale society. We do have some visitors from the mainland, but that's it. As for our children, we love all of them, and raise them with support and care regardless of their birth. For those who were castrated some chose to take Inktooth and develop as women, and some chose to let their bodies develop more neutrally. Likewise there are female born children who chose that third path. But regardless of their choice they are children of this nation, they can earn their Ink, form families, train as warriors, create art, or do anything else that a child of Dentre can. Though the Green Palace princesses, the closest there is to my immediate family, are presumed by most to be all women by their name their have been a number of princers among them, they are named simply for their majority.

Charlie (Asker):

If you love them then why castrate them?

Voidsung (Moderator):

I'm going to ask that this be the last question on this vein, as this is a topic that hasn't been covered much in the written text thus far and it should be handled there rather than through this means.

Passantra:

When the Mothers Unburnt came to me to protect them, when a pact was sworn to make them our family, to strike out and forge a new nation, that was not done lightly. I had very few terms, but if we were to create a nation born of dragons, without the violence that they had asked for protection from, this was one of them.

So that's all that was said at the time. And we most confess to feeling stressed over it all, and mixed. The Old Blood are not 'good', they are problematic, and morally grey and for every good thing that they do they are terrible ones you can point to. They are not simple characters. This practice is not one we expect anyone to be comfortable with, it is born from a misandric place and maintained by 'tradition' and a lack of self-reflection in the leaders. But it is also meant to point to the fact that we have similar practices occurring in the world where children are circumcised for all sorts of reasons, from cultural to prophylactic healthcare, where intersex children risk everything from stigma and pushing into one of the more accepted genders, to infanticide with a whole host of medical interventions aimed at normalising the children in the middle. In effect, we have forms of these same practices that the nation of Dentre has, we simply target a minority of marginalised individuals and not men in general. In whole, this is barbaric, and we agree that you shouldn't be comfortable with this or approve of it. But if you feel that way, there are real world practices that should bother you too, this is hardly a unique evil that has been created for Passantra. It also likely informs where we are coming from that neither of us has a simple relationship with gender, and Alexis, being trans in particular has a perspective on having your gender assigned and your body develop in ways out of your control that isn't the majority one. But we will leave that there, we are definitely thinking about how we approach and frame the difficult topic that we want to write about, but we wanted to give some context here for something that was mostly presented without.

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

main take aways from Halloween (1978) rewatch:

michael myers is canonically 21??? this bitch should be at the club

*sees tiddies* ***MURDEROUS RAMPAGE NOISES***

that's it that's the movie

outside of the fact that everyone who has sex is murdered by the narrative, this is a surprisingly chill portrayal of female sexuality? these teen girls are horny and actively enjoying Getting It On with their boytoys. no pushy boyfriends sneaking in through their bedroom windows--these ladies are taking the initiative to sneak out and GET SOME. one of them gets laid and then immediately orders her boyfriend to get her a beer. (yes she gets Slashered soon afterward, but so does the boyfriend so honestly, gender equality.) yes the Final Girl is the only one not having sex, but she's not bullied for that, nor are her friends slut shamed except possibly by being murdered by the narrative

actually the only character who is shown being morally condemned on-screen is michael myers. specifically FOR his violent overreaction to other people's sex lives. (people he is spying on). metaphorically, the villain is American Puritanism sticking its judgy nose into other people's business.

aka Michael Myers Is A Republican

but actually the real villain is the doctor. guy's a judgemental, shaming, pathologizing asshole. and he's been in charge of michael's care since he was SIX YEARS OLD? kid never had a chance. i'd go on a killing spree too

also the parents. where are the parents? it's halloween night and all the teenage girls are home babysitting their younger siblings? come to think of it, michael's first victim was his own older sister, whom he killed while she was babysitting him. teen girls are really shouldering a labour burden here. maybe parentification is the true villain

side note: mike commits his first murder wearing a clown costume...which is never referenced again? his 'iconic' costume is a generic mask and wig and jumpsuit, when we coulda had a Killer Clown Michael Myers??? travesty

i like how the Final Girl and her friend casually smoke weed in her car. yeah she's an honor student and her friend is the sheriff's daughter. yeah they smoke weed. so what it's 1978

(to reiterate, mike is 21 and should be at the club. im not saying he shouldn't be rampaging, im saying it's sad that he broke out, tasted freedom for the first time in his life, and immediately snuck back into his childhood home to go rampaging. let's have a remake where he goes to a nightclub and has a few beers. maybe some slutty dancing. then rampage)

oh no he's hot

[havenshereagain]

DPxDC Idea

Danny working at Wayne Enterprises as some sort of engineer, uses the in-house app for all his blueprints and stuff

He starts getting notes from a coworker in-app, and assumes its this annoying older guy in his department who constantly undermines him because of his age, despite his education and past achievements (i feel like in this AU the Fentons react well to the reveal and they work together on a number of non-lethal ecto inventions that have Danny's name attached to them)

Except one day his coworker mentions never using the app, and Danny suddenly realizes there's only one other TD he could've been arguing with in the notes of the app

[chloesimaginationthings]

FNAF Pizza sim’s plot is just the Afton’s fighting

[drenched-in-sunlight]

i will raise hell to the bitter end.

I don’t think Messmer visits the jar clinic in his Keep often… they remind him too much of his Mother.

Btw, he wears a golden ring on the middle finger of his left hand…

in Palmistry, that indicates responsibility, balance, justice. usually it’s sth the head of the family wear, but no other characters wear sth like that. he’s truly the sole heir to all of Marika’s happiness & all of her pain.

[keferon]

I’m so fucking insane about them you have no idea.

Listen. L i s t e n. My headcanon is. If only Optimus was there when Prowl got mind controlled by the Decepticons. If he was there he would be able to tell the difference. Every other bot just looked at Prowl and went …oh well I guess this asshole is evil I’m not surprised and never liked him anyway. But Optimus would see it. He fucking would

The comics I took these screenshots from are “Optimus Prime” and “Combiner wars”

[hinamie]

congrats on your recovery n all yuuji but unfortunately for you I thought the scars were cool >:/

[tinkkles]

I really do love the fresh take on the dead wife aspect in scavengers reign like. She didn't die in some terrible accident or at the hands of an evil third party, she died because of you. Because of your ambition and carelessness and because you didn't prioritize her enough to even look for her as the ship was going down. You will carry this guilt for the rest of your life. She will haunt you forever. Pray that her ghost is enough to change you for the better.

[viwifey]

ARCANE 2.06 - “THE MESSAGE HIDDEN WITHIN THE PATTERN”

[egophiliac]

Hi it's just to let you know that the official romanization of Revaan's name is Raverne ! Also they have romanized Baul's name to Baur !

Twst coming back at us again with the least expected romanization! thank you everybody (oh god my inbox) (no it's great, I literally asked for this and the reactions have been INCREDIBLE, thank you all!)

I do like Raverne though, I think it's got a nice fancy sound to it! (I had kinda suspected it was going to be an R instead of an L, so the fact that it's SO close to Laverne except for that is hilarious to me personally.) and Dragoneye Duke is honestly probably the best translation for his title, I wasn't envying the localizers that one. :') Baur instead of Baul I was NOT expecting, but in retrospect I think his name's supposed to be a reference to the Bauru crocodile, so that actually makes way more sense!

someone else also said Meleanor has become Maleanor, which is the REALLY weird one to me, because I was so surprised it was written as Mel instead of Mal in the first place?! oh god no I can't decide which one I like better. 😭 (I wonder if they might change it to Mal...they have made romanization changes before) (like I remember House of Distraction being corrected to House of Destruction in Playful Land) (I did check and she's still Mel for now, but I dunno, they might Mal her up and some point and save me from having to make a decision about which one to use) (HECK I CAN'T DECIDE)

uhhhh thank you for letting me ramble about anime names, let's just say MONOGRAMMED SWEATERS FOR EVERYONE

[morganbritton132]

Eddie’s just trying to show off his new guitar picks on his TIkTok account while in the background, this conversation is happening:

Steve: Want some m&ms?

Robin, holding out her hand: When I was a kid, I would assign each of my family members a color of m&m and then eat them in order of who I liked the least to who I liked the most.

Steve: Who did you eat last?

Robin: My cat, Lucy. She was the brown one. I would swallow them whole so I wouldn’t hurt her chewing.

Steve: Makes sense

Steve: What color would I be?

Robin: Blue

Steve: *fist pumps*

[crumb-crumblet-s-crumbington]

sick of twitter discourse pitting these guys against each other they would laugh at each others jokes and kiss and love each other i think

[mwvwv-sims]

[francy-sketches]

Whenever people talk about lack of media literacy they always bring up people who think a character doing bad things=the author endorsing said bad things which are very annoying but I feel like we're ignoring the opposite, equally annoying side of the discourse who think if you criticize the inclusion/depiction of dark/sensitive topics in any way it’s bc you’re a dumb baby who can’t separate fiction from reality. and it's like no I know I’m not supposed to clap and cheer at violence against women I’m criticizing how much of it there is. Idiot

[houseofheroesau]

Just two brothers living for the chaos and confusing people

Source: this post

Don't tag as LU, please.