#at least that's how it resonates

[mewharley]

'cause when birds fly south it's a beautiful thing

buy a big white house and a diamond ring

leave it all behind, leave it all behind

[mbat]

i love how werewolves are a metaphor for so many things. queerness. trauma. menstruation. chronic illness. like... its the best fictional creature for a reason

[somestorythoughts]

The funny thing about Fox/Quinlan fics is that there’s a general mix of both Quinlan being a very good shadow and the Guard meeting him cause they found him in a dumpster.

I just think it’s funny.

[daemon-is-perfectly-unhinged]

some resonant twins chaos, this time atla inspired

@syndrossi

[conchfritters]

last post complaining about genshin's writing for the month Anyway i think blorbofication happening in canon is the best way i could describe a lot of the problems i have with it ex. kaeya's relationship with diluc (or klee) is almost the only focus we get on him now, other than his brief appearance in the sumeru archon quest which was just saying his backstory basically with very little actual reaction or characterization on his part OR dainsleif's (also a problem i have in the albedo homunculus reveal in shadows amidst snowstorms). i haven't done his hangout because i. don't care enough to sit through an hour for each route with the quality of content hoyoverse puts out but looking at the ending options i feel like. they missed the opportunity to expand on things we already had for kaeya in favor of Oh he babysits klee! Oh albedo is here! Spend money to pull albedo!Venti cameo! What do you mean him and amber have a complicated dynamic. What do you mean he's apparently beloved by the elderly of mondstadt and the one who wraps up all the incidents there. What do you mean bennett trusts him as an omniscient big brother according to his official cn character profile. We made him talk to diluc again isn't that enough kaeya for you? and it sucks because kaeya feels like a rubik's cube with an onion's layers and like one of their best character personalities in content where he's actually kaeya and not just diluc's brother who is sad and also pretty! we never see anything about his relationship with jean, who he is the Most Trusted Aide of, or mondstadt at large! because every day we get closer to fanon kaeya being canon kaeya and it's just. You can have canon kaeya and fanon kaeya will follow but if fanon kaeya is at the forefront you're just immediately losing all that depth and it's going nowhere

[vampirecatprince]

The fact that I've listened to Euclid HUNDREDS of times but it can still randomly hit just right and make me cry tho

[iwritenarrativesandstuff]

I usually am pretty good at hearing people say they don’t like or aren’t a big fan of a character I enjoy - I’m usually able to say “that’s fair, they just don’t impact you the same way” and move on. But whenever I see someone say they don’t really like Killua I have this momentary gut punch reaction of sheer bafflement and mild offense like

How can you not like Killua??? What is not to like??? I don’t understand????????? You’re breaking my brain here; he is extremely lovable?????????

[poorlydrawnandroids]

From the people who brought you: "Android detectives can't cook!" comes the concept: "Hank has a horrible food palate!"

He's happy to try anything once.

[mightydyke]

Watched Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind a few nights ago and I loved it so much. Obsessed with all the metaphors and the symbolism. When Kushana said she wanted to destroy the toxic jungle in order for humans to rule the world again, but we know or can guess that humans trying to gain too much power is probably the exact reason why the toxic jungle is so dangerous. And then we learn that the jungle itself isn't toxic, it's just the soil and water that has been poisoned by human activity!! And the fact that the forest actually purifies the water! And of course Nausicaä discovers this by going into the jungle and learning about it. She's a hero because she studies ecology.

I also loved the theme of the danger of violence, and also Nausicaä trying so hard to stay as pacifist as is feasible even when violence is so tempting. During the battle in the castle in the Valley of the Wind when Tolmekian soldiers are invading, Nausicaä fights them off but she's blocked by Yupa and her sword goes through his arm. My friend was like "surely if he's a master swordsman he knows not to block with his arm?" but I was like "No it shows the damage of violence and how war hurts everyone!!" Another moment that seemed really key to me was when the Tolmekian airship was getting attacked and Nausicaä goes to steal a gunship. Kushana sees her and smiles because she thinks Nausicaä is going to use this ship for battle, that she's been seduced by violence, but then Nausicaä uses that ship to save Kushana! She transforms this weapon into a vehicle of peace, when using it for violence would be so easy, she chooses a different path and that scares Kushana more than anything, which is why she tries to take back control using her gun in the toxic jungle, even though Nausicaä knows that this is only going to cause more suffering. Of course there's the ending where she stops the stampeding Ohm not by force but by empathy, taking the pain of the baby Ohm onto herself when she goes into the acid lake trying to save it, and her dress is stained from it's blood, symbolically allowing its suffering to change her so she can understand it, bringing peace by sacrificing herself, not the Ohm (honestly you could read Nausicaä as a sort of Christ-figure but that's a whole other post). For me, a big thing that really resonated with me and drove in the idea of choosing peace over violence even when it's really hard was every time that Nausicaä cried. Every time she cried I felt like I understood the frustration and feelings of powerlessness so vividly. When she tells Yupa she's going to cut off the water to her underground plants so that they die, just like how the jungle is going to die, because the Tolmekians are stronger and forcing them to go along with the plan, and I could *feel* the anger that everything she'd worked so hard for would be destroyed because she wasn't powerful enough to stop it. And this feeling of helplessness is so similar to when she tried to hide a baby Ohm but it was killed by her own people and her own father. And when she learned of Pejite's plan to use the Ohm to destroy the valley of the wind and she just cant convince these people not to murder her valley. And when she sees the baby Ohm and how much it's been injured and she says something like "I'm so sorry for what we did to you" whilst crying... I felt that so much. And all the time it's because she realises the value in all life, and she can't convince people who see life as worthless compared to their greed, but because she knows life is so valuable she can't respond with violence, but her path of always valuing life works in the end! She doesn't need any weapons when she has compassion and ecology.

[cluescorner]

Canto 6 was incomplete

Literally why are we there? Like, we just go to a manor that's in t-corp I guess. But why are we there? We've got another Heathcliff and he's cool but he just shows up pissed off for no reason and then we leave? Weird af. Nelly, Linton, and Josephine were cool and Hindley...existed. But it's a weirdly low number of supporting characters, and I guess that 1 really important and cool one could have made up for it but that didn't happen. Even the Mili song felt incomplete, like only 1/2 of it was there! Such an odd choice to make at the halfway mark for our 12 sinners. It just feels like a lot of stuff was missing and it's really sad because I was excited for Heathcliff's canto.

[crystalpallette]

ally found someone who looked like her and then they kissed. hashtag yuri wins or... something

[tatsumi-rin]

Moral Orel doesn't seem 100% like a show I'd feel seen in if you don't know me but then I remember the episode with the special ed kids and underneath the usual satire on extremist bible belt religion it reminds me WAY too much of how actual special ed departments treated me and other kids growing up.

Like the writers must HAVE BEEN THERE IN LIFE, man. I'd kill to sit down with Dino Stamatopoulos and find out what the fuck inspired him and the other writing staff that day.

[crows-of-buckets]

Dav spoilers (mostly around taash but also around the shadow dragons quest line ending)

Okay I'll probably be making more veilguard rambles bc this game is like right on the line of "good enough to get me invested but bad enough to drive me up the wall" so I have. A lot of thoughts.

I'm still not certain how I feel about taash's writing. I'm not particularly going to go into their culture thing besides to say why the fuck is choosing one of the other what their entire god damn arc revolves around. What. Do they know you can be more than one thing... I think this is VERY odd with them being nonbinary

But anyways. What I actually want to talk about is them and their gender. Because like. I still do not know how to feel about it lmao

Because on one hand, seeing a nonbinary character be just accepted like that genuinely made me tear up a bit. On the other. This is dragon age. You know.

The previous games have set up Thedas as somewhere where homophobia/transphobia exsists and is relatively common. Zevran is more cautious flirting with a male warden, Anders asks if it's okay that he's into men. Hell, Dorian's entire fucking companion quest is "my father tried to do blood magic conversion therapy on me"

And it's just. Very very odd. Because Taash's dialogues set up the Shadow Dragons as their go to for gender problems. Which you know, makes sense on paper because of course the organization that opposes the old system of Tevinter would also want to get rid of the built in bigotry that comes with "breeding" the perfect mage. However!!! They did *nothing* with it!!! I think the shadow dragons have the most trans named/important characters in it (tarquin, maevaris, possibly also rook and maybe others? I'm not sure) and not ONCE is the fact that Tevinter is a extremely bigoted society that values bloodlines over people mentioned. Your two choices between the next archon are a gay man and a trans woman which is GREAT but not once is anything about public backlash mentioned!!! Public opinion doesn't just change overnight, blight or not! There would still be a LOT of people blinded by ignorance who would push back. And it's not!!! Fucking!! Mentioned!!!

I do love a story without homophobia/transphobia, I really do. And I think the exsistance of that kind of bigotry exists in dragon age because of when it was made. However, seeing characters thrive in spite of that? Finding love despite living in a more bigoted society? That ALSO means a lot to me. And I think they really could have done it with taash and the shadow dragons but they just didn't and it makes me so sad

[astralleywright]

oh, when Orym looked right at Imogen, days after his talk with Fearne abt what to do if she switches sides, and tells her, "I'm not worried about you." and Imogen didn't insight check him, or push into his mind; she just believed him. and I believed him as well, even though it could have easily been a lie, and then Liam confirmed that Orym really did trust her when he said that. he really did believe that Imogen would stand by the Hells, and she did. she looked her mother in the eye and she didn't waver. and it's not specifically because Orym trusted her, but his trust really does mean something to Imogen. she sought him out that night for a reason.

and now the solstice is still happening but things are so different, and Imogen is one of the most vocally opposed members of the Hells to Ludinus, and the Ruby Vanguard, and Predathos. they're bad. they need to be stopped. she'll kill her mother, kill herself, if that's what needs to be done. her questions and her doubts are gone- or at least, hidden away.

and if they are not, if she's suspicious in any way, Orym has personal orders from the wise and benevolent Tempest (and she is wise and benevolent, is the thing!!) to remove her from the situation however he sees fit. to "do the thing," in the parlance used in Orym's conversation with Fearne, a phrasing acknowledged as vague even at the time. Orym, who loves Imogen, and who shows her kindness and empathy, and who stared the fathoms of nuance and pain defining the actors in this conflict in the face and rejected it in favor of revenge just last week. Orym, who told Fearne she would have to "do the thing" because he couldn't - I always assumed it was because he knew he couldn't match up to Imogen on his own, but it could just as easily be that he couldn't bear to do to her what he thinks would need to be done. Imogen still doesn't know they had that talk. the leash has been held so loose that she didn't even know it was there.

[ladyinsertnamehere]

Sparklecare criticism. Sparklecare positivity.

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[cicadaghost]

learning boundaries