#be exemplary

[happypeachsludgeflower]

Okay okay okay.. but listen. What if Shen Yuan had a harsher System and was forced to convincingly play Shen Qingqiu, making Luo Binghe detest his existence, but when Luo Binghe returns from the abyss to enact his revenge and has Shen Qingqiu on trial at Huan Hua, unfortunately for everyone (and fortunately for us), they drug Shen Qingqiu with truth serum and accidentally spiral Shen Yuan into fanboy rampage of epic proportions about how great Luo Binghe is.

[sophsun1]

It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia – 11.05: Mac & Dennis Move to the Suburbs

[agapi-kalyptei]

The whole of Ace Attorney summed up

[inchidentally]

needed to make an edit of this bc the video is good but cricket is terminally boring to me - I needed to grab Lando's parts bc he was an absolute terror while Oscar was a masterclass of form, execution and sportsmanship

Lando trying to psych Oscar out with the coin toss but then needing Oscar to tell him if it's heads or tails

telling Oscar to bowl nice and easy for him and following it up with a threat to run Oscar into the gravel at the next race

Lando shrieking and making a dramatic dive and then boasting about "blood everywhere" bc of the cuts on his elbow

Lando taking a ball to the crotch bc he refused to wear a cup

"yeah you like that?" peacocking around in front of Oscar

"I'm just worried about Oscar, I heard he's a silent killer" followed by "it's only Lando bowling so I'll be alright" critical damage !!

Lando's turn to bowl and complaining "Oscahhh!" loudly all the time bc Oscar is equally good at bat as he is at bowling

Oscar's aggressive "yeeuhh!" is ummmm very hot

Lando pretending to be a bad loser but smiling and applauding Oscar's win

I may have had to include that extra bit at the end bc Oscar adjusting himself w his glove is… yes

[lonelyslutavatar]

Looks like someone with a lot of free time is combing through my posts and flagging anything that might be considered mature.

[leefi]

alright guys in order to transcend mortality we’re gonna have to put on the best damn talent show entropy has ever seen

[dinosaurwithablog]

Simone Biles!!!!! Those two words inspire fear and respect in anyone who had ever seen her do her thang. At 4'8", she can jump over 12 feet!!! Her balance, timing, and athletic ability are beyond compare!! She's going for her 6th gold medal 🏅 at the Olympics. I believe that what she did on this video is part of what's gonna win her that medal 🏅 she is only 27 years old, and she has already achieved a lifetime of glory!! I love watching her. She's a great athlete, a great team member, and an amazing human being. I'm glad that she's on our side. 😉😁😍 Let's go, USA, and let's go, Simone!!! ❤️🤍💙

[bearotonin-international]

Nikita’s keeping an eye on these guys to make sure they know it’s Wet Beast Wednesday

[dragonwysper]

Just finished Mouthwashing, after hearing all sorts of snippets of fandom drama about it. I'd stayed away from all that because I didn't have the context, but now I do! So I'm blasting you all with my thoughts.

Long post. Be prepared. Spoilers for Mouthwashing and CW for in-depth discussion of SA below.

So the biggest aspect of the drama side of the fandom that I've been seeing is how the game handled Anya's rape. Some people think it was devastating and properly showed the awfulness of Jimmy, and feel Anya's trauma was portrayed accurately and handled well. Others think Anya was somewhat one-dimensional; she was given a stereotypically female-specific trauma to match the different pain/traumas of the other crew members, and feel the subject wasn't given enough weight and respect.

After having played the game (while also going into it with the knowledge and expectation that it would be about SA), I can see both sides. Though I think my thoughts on everything come from some core details.

Firstly, the core theme of the game is not SA. It's karma. Jimmy is a terrible person who doesn't care about the pain he inflicts on others, as long as he gains something from it. The game follows him as he destroys the people around him, and treats them like fodder to fuel his own goals. We see all of this catch up to him in the end, and he's sortof divinely punished, or overcome with guilt, or whatever it is, because of it. Each person's harm is unique and everybody has their own micro-themes, but the core theme of the game is overwhelmingly karma.

Essentially, this is not a game about SA. This is a game about a terrible person getting what's coming to him.

Secondly, rape as shock content is a common gripe regarding mostly horror movies. It's a quick and easy way to create motivation, so much so that it's turned into its own subgenre of 'rape and revenge' plots. Think I Spit On Your Grave style movies. The other side of the same coin is objectifying the victim, which creates an exploitative feel. The act of the rape itself, and furthermore the shock of it, is more important than the victim and their feelings and trauma. Rape is detached from the lasting harm it causes, and is more something to justify getting up in arms about something/someone rather than a trauma.

And while we do see some of Anya's trauma from SA, Mouthwashing by and large is not meant to be a commentary on SA specifically. Again, it's about how terrible of a person Jimmy is, which makes the SA, at least in part, a tool to make the player hate him.

Ultimately, if Mouthwashing was changed to where Anya faced a different form of harm from Jimmy, instead of SA, it would still be just about the same game. You could still make a convincing game with karma and bad people getting their comeuppance as the core theme. And that I think is the most important realization to have about the subject.

Anya's SA was the first trauma, and the details of the aftermath are what kickstarted the plot, but it was, intentionally or not, a tool to make you hate Jimmy. Because the game isn't about Anya and her trauma. It's about Jimmy and his karma.

I think Mouthwashing is fascinating, and that theme of karma is not something I see done well very often. I think the style of the plot and all the little details that expound upon the micro-themes of the game are extremely well done. And I think it did handle its themes of SA better than a lot of content that discusses it. But it's not perfect, and it falls short of really digging into the true weight of it. It's not a game that makes any real progress on the portrayal of sexual trauma in media. It's cleaner and less graphic than 'rape and revenge' stories, but it ultimately still relies on exploiting the shock of rape to serve a 'bigger' plot.

It's late, I'm tired, and I'm struggling to properly word what I'm feeling, but hopefully my interpretation of nuance comes through.

[gotticalavera]

I imagine the ZukAang (with Fem!Zuko x Aang) was completely a surprise to the Fire Nation when the evidence was present.

Their relationship developed so slowly and tenderly that when the Councilors wanted to present their sons as future consorts for F!Zuko... Aang hung around the palace like it was a second home and F!Zuko always had flowers in her hair on Aang's days.

[sophsun1]

Psych − 4.02: He Dead

[skinks]

BT-7274 holding Cooper up to the rest of the militia like Rafiki proudly displaying Simba on pride rock

[tzviaariella]

@vashtijoy YOU. YOU GET IT.

[cogentranting]

The Hunger Games succeeds (and more so achieves sort of mythic effect) because it approaches dystopia through the timeless-- it (and Ballad) brings these universal ideas to a very personal lens and asks questions like "how do we begin to excuse evil in our lives" or "how do you hold on to goodness in the midst of oppression". And because it is so invested in the transcendent it lends itself to very powerful symbols, which give it that mythic feel.

Orwell's books (Animal Farm and 1984) both succeed through a very different approach to dystopia (Animal Farm isn't really a dystopia in the traditional sense but it has a lot of the elements). Orwell succeeds through real perceptive insight into the inner mechanisms of the subjects of his critiques. Orwell has vision that can cut deep into the way that things like propaganda or 'controlling the narrative' work and then, having dissected them, hold those tactics up for all to see.

And I think a lot of dystopias fall short because they get tangled up in the Idea of their story. The "what if" they've created. Either focused too much on the Issue-- too narrowly to be universal, too broadly to be revealing-- or too disconnected from anything genuine. And because they get stuck at that particular point they don't have much more to offer than "wouldn't this be bad?" And if you get a pretty good writer they can make that feel insightful but really it doesn't have much more to offer than whatever absurd YA book comes to mind first when you hear "bad dystopian novel".

[phierecycled]

this poster haunts my dreams

[yourmumsc0ck]

Princess Rizznyra Targaryen first of her name