#bc it is quite important

[tonguetyd]

Hi, coming to join in the conversation about IVs hands. I have-ahem- ✨slightly✨ more feral thoughts about them. I think they’d make lovely necklaces….or bracelets.

Yep.

Anyways….BYE

Rest assured, @polteergeistt left *maths* 17 more of those in my ask box, which I will be continuing to go thru, I just needed to break to work/pack 😂😂

HAVING SAID THAT with those 17 other asks, it will indeed get a little more feral up in here, and we will get into #thots-i-have territory!

But to YOUR point, he does have VERY nice hands that would make WONDERFUL jewelry of any kind, god it’s so true. They’re just so big and strong and…yeaaaaaah 🥰

[spacerockband]

Quetzalcoatlus! poised to spear her prey!

[ragingtrees]

my friend dimple

[ruporas]

[ TW: child harm ]

collection of old drabbles

[fairyofshampgyu]

BASSIST BEOMGYU BASSIST BEOMGYU BASSIST BEOMGYU BASSIST BEOMGYU

[jennyfromthebes]

If you’ve ever gone to a Mountain Goats show and waited in line outside for hours or gotten chummy with folks in the crowd, you know how deep the lore runs. It can make you feel small in the blink of an eye. Your undying love for “Cubs In Five” becomes instantly overshadowed by the guy with a tape recorder in his pocket who can recite setlists from 2004 gigs in states the Mountain Goats rarely make it out to anymore. But what’s beautiful about that scariness—even if you feel like your fandom is not enough—is that...there is such an undercurrent of love, affection and hope at every turn. At some point over the last 30 years, these people found Darnielle’s writing—be it via his boombox recordings or via the label-backed, concept-album concertos—and elected to devote a piece of themselves to loving these songs so much that, no matter what mix-and-matched setlist is thrown at them, they are ready to sing along with every note.

hey guys this tMG article is really fucking good and I think everyone should go read it

[zevranunderstander]

number #1 tactic that people use to not sound as racist as they are when they talk to black people: 'uhh so you AMERICANS need to stop pretending everything is about YOU. why should i know this im not from the us :/' (= is talking about like. a phenomenally internationally well-known black artist)

[hylianane]

Zoro isn’t dumb he’s the one who figured out how to combat Bon Clay’s devil fruit, he’s the one who saw through Braroque Work’s façade and stayed alert throughout the night, he’s the one who kept his cool and helped guide the crew when Robin disappeared and Usopp left them, he’s the first to sniff out traps like in Thriller Bark, he’s the one who can always rationalize and assess the level of threat the SHs are facing and point out where their priorities should lie, he’s the one who always starts a fight with several strategies and starts writing them off one by one the more he learns about his opponent.

Zoro’s an idiot when he was dying via being turned into wax he decided to fucking pose so he’d die looking cool, he got lost on a literal straight path and just stared at the ocean in shock, he amused himself by imitating tarzan st Skypea, “They told me to go North so I started climbing”, he is in so much debt he owes Nami his entire ass at this point, he decided training shirtless in below freezing temperatures was the best idea of all time, he arrived first to Sabaody and began ranking his crew in order of arrival. Do you get it?

[chirpsythismorning]

Mike Wheeler and Will Byers… Run.

[denkies]

Bungou Stray Dogs fans watching s5 ep 11:

[thefandomexpert]

ok. i see u complaining about how long it takes to get to shb, how are you supposed to get your friends into the fucking WONDER that is shb when they have to get through all of The Other Stuff First

I used to have this problem with Homestuck, people who wanted to skip to the trolls, or pass on the intermissions. I will repeat what I said then now:

The later stuff is mind-blowingly good BECAUSE of the setup slog. which is also fun btw, you’re having trouble selling it because you keep saying it’s a slog. it’s good storytelling! yes even arr and sb (i didn’t say it was the best storytelling!! but i’ve seen way fuckin worse!!!). You need to spend 300 hours with the characters and to watch them grow gradually for a LOT of the little character moments to even register later on, and i’m not even talking about the ascian reveals. estinien is a completely different character. thancred’s deep-seated issues have been brewing subtly since 1.0. the socio-economic political climate of the universe is SO important and SO well set up by the arr random task/fetch quests (BABY INCONSEQUENTIAL QUESTS. YEAH THE STUPID ONES IN THE INTRO PRE-SASTASHA SEQUENCES WITH THE NPCS YOU DONT REMEMBER. THOSE.) and that info is integral to character decisions made in every expansion afterwords, and is built upon consistently. the consistent build-up of the lore is, in my opinion, almost entirely the reason ffxiv’s writing stands out against other games of the genre. and it’s BOLSTERED by the fact that it’s a live service game with a shit ton of expansions you HAVE to play through single file when you start fresh. narrative games are usually 15-20 hours. ffxiv is giving you 500+ in msq alone (won’t get into how much the optional and side quests support the storytelling as well).

It’s like one of those long-running book series. you can’t ask someone to read Just the last book of animorphs and expect them to understand the narrative implications of what’s happening, or to get attached to the characters enough to care. that attachment and understanding is built by spending time and reading the other 1500 books prior. shb should not be treated as a stand-alone. in fact it’d be a bad standalone. it’s good BECAUSE there’s 500+ hours of playtime required to get there.

[beanghostprincess]

Usopp obtaining Conqueror's haki makes so much sense to me and I genuinely think he deserves it on Elbaf please please please

[silverthelovebug]

We never really got to see them hang out one on one during the events of Camp Cretaceous (except once, and they were competing to see who’s lack of a childhood gave them the better skill set so) Idk, we only get a snippet of their dynamic in Chaos Theory, I just think their friendship (especially as adults) would be pretty interesting :3

(Yes, some of these are headcanons ^^)

(Look, you don’t just sprain/break your ankle on concrete and not have lasting consequences without the proper treatment. Yaz was running on that foot on the daily !! And you can see it still affected her all the way through Season 3 !!! So, yeah, Hits her with the chronic pain beam)

( ‼️Also Major Chaos Theory Spoilers ‼️)

[astralleywright]

there's nothing orym would ask of the other hells that he wouldn't do himself, which is sort of the problem, really

[a-a-a-anon]

appreciation post for Lise Mayer!! she co-wrote The Young Ones (and The Bachelor Boys book, additional material like when they did Comic Relief, etc), which is well known. but she also wrote for other things in the alternative comedy scene like Rik Mayall and Ben Elton's comedy tour (source: BBC Breakfast Time interview)! and, something I didn't know until recently: she co-wrote/wrote for Kevin Turvey! she's not credited in his television appearances, but see below for sources.

i really loved the podcast episode she did with Alexei Sayle about TYO, you gain a lot of insight into her perspective! she also mentions misogynistic treatment like being asked to go make tea when they were doing script readings, not getting invited to a big BBC party because it was presumed she'd be Rik's plus-one, and getting groped at the BBC bar. it pissed me off on her behalf and partly prompted this post.

some specific accolades/accreditation/fun facts:

Rik crediting her with writing/conceiving the Kevin Turvey non-joke "All right, biting political satire: What do Lech Walesea and Menachem Begin have in common? They’ve both got foreign names! What do you mean it’s not funny?" (x)

Alexei Sayle in Thatcher Stole My Trousers crediting Lise with co-writing Turvey: "Lise was, like Linda for mine, a vital part of Rik’s career, co-writing both The Young Ones and Rik’s character Kevin Turvey..."

a 1987 source for Lise co-writing Turvey: "The assumption that women do not write comedy scripts was one with which Lise Mayer, co-writer of The Young Ones television series, has also had to contend. She started writing for Rik Mayall’s Kevin Turvey in the television series A Kick Up the Eighties..." (x)

Rowland Rivron (comedian who toured with The Comic Strip gang and lived with Rik and Lise) in What the f*** did I do last night?: "[Lise] also had the unenviable job of standing at the side of the stage when Rik was performing, and jotting down anything he said that was unscripted. If it got a laugh, it would be woven into the next night’s routine."

the only time i've ever seen a Rik Mayall/Ade Edmondson/Lise Mayer writing credit: for a poem called Distance which was collected in this anthology! Rik and Ade seem to have acted it out (or at least a version of it) in this 20th Century Coyote performance

Rik on Lise writing TYO: "‘She discovers different things: the comedy of embarrassment and awkwardness – she draws out the cheating and stealing that goes on in the house.’" (x) (Lise also says her "favorite comedy was always the comedy of embarrassment" in the Alexei Sayle podcast)

Rik: "... Lise Mayer wrote this great scene where I find a tampon in a handbag and it's my birthday party and I think it's a present because my character is Rick, who is such a git, he didn't know." (x)

Helen Lederer in Not That I'm Bitter, writing about being on The Young Ones: "[Lise] was known to be the brains behind it all, particularly the more surreal elements…"

she and Rik chose the bands (x)

Lise: “We’d have a table read at which point we’d discover that the script ran over an hour long, and then I’d have a sleepless night editing it.” Alexei: “You did that?” Lise: “Usually me, yeah…” (she later explains they'd present the script Monday and rehearsals were Tuesday, Wednesday-so she literally had one night to edit!) (x)

facts from the blu-ray commentary tracks:

Rick's yellow dungarees in Interesting were based off a picture of Lise in a similar pair

Lise wrote an essay about the tampon joke in Interesting so that the BBC didn't cut the scene (though they still edited it)

Paul Jackson (producer) credits Lise with arguing "you are seriously telling me that we cannot refer on television to something that happens to 50% of the population for about 30 years of their life? and we're not allowed to even refer to it" to make an executive back off about the tampon joke in a meeting

Lise came up with Neil's flowerpot covering in Nasty

Vyvyan/Vivian's name comes from Lise having lived in Vyvyan Terrace, Bristol

Lise thought of the cast switching costumes in Bambi (one of my favorite moments!!) (/end of commentary track facts)

this is guesswork, but i've seen Ben Elton and Rik Mayall's handwriting and i'm pretty sure the editing/handwriting on the bottom left on this script must be Lise's, which gives insight into what/how she wrote: (x)

i feel like it's easy for people to overlook or minimize Lise's impact, something that happens to female creators far too often. i hate when women's identities are framed around their association to a man-girlfriend to Rik in this case-which was the norm whenever i saw Lise discussed in articles/books/online discussions about TYO. it's important to know she was a writer and co-creator with her own identity and (underappreciated) contributions. The Young Ones (and Kevin Turvey, and things we don't even know she goes uncredited for) would not have been the same—or wouldn't have even existed—without her!

[mikuyuuss]

I personally think that, Mitsuri was always meant to be somewhat conventionally/stereotypically attractive, except that she still isn't conventional enough by the settings standards.

I'm just basing this from my own personal experience, but from where I'm from, reputation matters, and that includes your outer appearance. It's definitely a lot looser now, but there are still times where some people have specific expectations for women. Sometimes it's not enough to be girly and feminine, you have to be a specific kind of feminine. Sometimes It's also not enough to be conventionally pretty. It definitely helps, but if people notice something odd about you, they will gossip about it.

Having natural black hair is also still a thing. Some people were very judgemental when I dyed my hair pink/red. I was also forbidden in certain gatherings bc some of them have a random policy against hair color, so much that I had no choice but to wear a black wig. Some universities also forbid dying hair in bright colors. A lot of the reasons for this is that it just looks bad to them, and it looks "cheap". It ruins their pristine, uniform image.

I think that’s why Mitsuri’s design is built around her hair. I guess some asian cultures still see brightly dyed hair as some sign of rebellion and non conformity. While my experience isn't as bad, I can only imagine that it must be a lot worst for Mitsuri. Maybe she's only slightly weird by today's standards, but she's a woman living in Taisho Era, so I believe the expectations for her might have been stricter.

That's why I think that in a way, Mitsuri being stereotypically attractive works. I think It shows that the expectations for women are just that specific and narrow, that even though she's already very feminine and checks off a lot of the list, it's still not enough. People think that, her appetite, strength and her hair already stand out too much. By their standards, She's already too weird.

I'm sure everyone is familiar with the phrase "The nail that sticks out gets hammered down."

It also makes sense why she would join the corps. Aside from her wonderful family, she must have felt so stifled by her environment. She must have felt that no matter how hard she tries, she will be forced to hide every little thing that makes her unique. But in the corps, they are fellow misfits not as bound by norms and conventions, so she joins them, because they can appreciate her just as she is.