#at least in understanding contrast

[suntails]

mwah 💋

[archonoelle]

i am not immune to big beefy hairy men and i never will be

[proudfreakmetarusonikku]

like i see people say stuff like “rei is a deconstruction of the idea of like the perfect girl in a male gaze-y way” and and i'm ready to agree until they go “it’s because she’s creepy and weird and bad!” like no. rei's a deconstruction of misogynistic ideas of womanhood because they’re ideals forced upon her that damage her, not because she’s in any way “creepy”. like, the fact she’s a fourteen year old girl who was basically used as a substitute wife by her father bc she looked like his own dead wife is not something that is meant to make rei look bad like holy shit.

like both rei and asuka are very obviously like. showing fantasised and misogynistic ideas of an idealised woman don’t work irl yeah. shinji's misogynistic view of them is wrong. but that’s not because rei and asuka are bad people it’s because like. “fourteen year old who's flirty and seductive” and “fourteen year old who's a quiet obedient object” are major signs of abuse and trauma and anyone actually acting in those ways at that age clearly isn’t normal. asuka is desperate for attention in any way she can get it, even unhealthy and dangerous ways. rei is at the very least I has a weird pseudo-incestous enmeshment filled abusive relationship with her father, even if she's not actively being sexually abused. asuka is seeking support, rei is a grooming victim. these are not things that are flaws in their character the entire point of subverting the expectations is to show how those expectations are unhealthy to rei and asuka like. god.

[ups3tti]

I'm rewatching a bit of Seabound and I can't stop thinking about Wojira. Like Ninjago just casually introduced a storm spirit (storm god??) that the FSM had to have banished in order to create Ninjago, who apparently commands water and wind specifically.

Like maybe it's just me but that felt like a huge bomb drop when I first heard it? Like Water and Wind are set apart from all other elements from the start, the FSM couldn't even master them. It's also specifically noted by Wu that the combination of water and wind is incredibly destructive due to this.

I have. So so many thoughts. Like about how Nya and Morro and Euphrasia use their elements. About Nya's apparent connection to both Morro and Euphrasia. She also either parallels and contrasts both the wind elementals in ways I REALLY wanna ramble about but I also wanna keep this short hakfhskf. Like are they gonna expand on this at all??? Is Wojira gonna get brought up again? What about the shockwave she sent out when Nya destroyed her? Is Nya ever actually going to combine forces specifically with Euphrasia to show off the wind/water combo they talked about? Augghhh

[milfbrainrot]

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I feel like in the past the mix of this site being used for both activism and fandom helped contribute to a lot of unhinged politicized fandom discourse where yeah ofc there's a political tie to media but ppl used it as... a form of activism where it was given disproportionate importance compared to other activism discussions? Whereas now we're swinging to the opposite site of How Dare You Care About Meaningless TV Shows When Politics.

Like... we can have a mix of realizing there's more important stuff to focus on than shipping discourse in the world at large without also minimizing the insane doxxing and death threats behavior going on in fandom that people in fandom have to take into consideration to be able to do their hobby, esp given how those attitudes stem from irl political climates at times in ways that are telling to study. Hobbies are kinda how we prevent activism burnout also. Crazey how that works.

[iamnotlookingidonotseeit]

fascinating revelations out of my dad's professional coaching of the whole family today

my mom scored astonishingly high on empathy and caring for a woman who seemed to find it next to impossible to express that to me

my dad has done an insane amount of work to be so warm and personable considering that his natural inclination is towards strong reserve rooted in anxiety (just like me!!)

my sister shocked - SHOCKED 🙄 - to learn that she scores almost zero in empathy AND very high on manipulation

actually shocking reveal that my sister always knew she was my mom's favorite. like I kind of assumed she was mean to both of us but apparently most of the biting comments were for me

[bandedbulbussnarfblat]

having thoughts about louis de pointe du lac. (as one does)

how lestat once told him he was never cruel. how he's been having these petty, cruel moments in dubai. how he was absolutely vicious in that fight with armand from san francisco in 73. then thinking about this passage from the iwtv book that louis says to armand:

"You showed me the only thing that I could really hope to become, what depth of evil, what degree of coldness I would have to attain to end my pain. And I accepted that. And so that passion, that love you saw in me, was extinguished. And you see now simply a mirror of yourself."

[unproduciblesmackdown]

anytime there's production trivia for something i've actually seen like "& the director didn't tell any of the actors this was going to happen so as to get Not Acted Surprise, from the Actors" it's like that's so funny the way i didn't ever see that part as like wow that seemed so particularly genuine to me compared to other parts of this work or other works in general. but on the other hand there'll be scenes in something where a surprising event occurs around multiple characters and there'll be trivia like "wow the way nobody (else) knew this was going to happen beforehand, in so impactful a scene, that makes sense" and then someone involved will be like that's not true

[bogbees]

absolutely fascinating when dead characters get insane ammount of love and their ships are the most popular ships in that fandom.

this is NOT ab white boy of the year eddie munson. this is ab Rengoku Kyojouro who i still can't believe is so popular his face is on a plane. fire boy set Japan's heart ablaze and they haven't stopped caring since. absolutely amazing

[i-like-these-guys]

If you came out as trans to Don Claracutzio hed say something like "Ah, the wonders of modern medicine" and would be chill about it

[m0e-ru]

guy whose artstyle is clearly i need to get this out of my system as quickly as possible or i'll get sick inside and die. my grand drawing time was 3 seconds and this year it's 2

[circuslollipop]

listen im a goth but every time i remember how the last couple seasons of got had literally everyone wearing black im like. h

[danielnelsen]

the 'talktables' in dao and da2 are the files containing all the text ever used in the game and are typically separated into two talktables per module (in which a module is like.. the base game or a specific dlc): one in the 'module' data folder and the other in the 'core' data folder (typically sorted under 'packages', rather than 'module').

the core talktable generally contains asset text (eg, ability, item, and creature names/descriptions, most codex entries, loading screen text, gui buttons and tooltips, error messages, etc). while most modules have a core talktable, the whole idea of the base game's core resources is to be available to any addons.

the module talktable is where all text specifically related to that module is listed (eg, mostly dialogue, but also specific character names, plot item names/descriptions, plot-related codex entries, etc). this is where the vast majority of dlc text is stored (and the vast majority for the base game too; there's a lot more text in dialogue than in menu options).

[vounoura]

I was just mentioning this to a friend but it's interesting to contrast SH and the Sharran cult with durge and the Bhaalist cult. you'd expect the ego-stroking and the gaslighting to come out of the Sharrans and the brute forcing to come out of the Bhaalists cult-wise, but it's backwards.

[dragonowlie]

The more I get to know about totk's english localisation the more grateful I become that I did not play it in english

[coredrill]

feliz jueves i was fucking right