#but I might be able to be convinced

[writeouswriter]

Why are college websites sooo stingy with their details, I just want to know what the course actually entails, like what are the concepts they're actually teaching, and they're like oh we're too cool and aloof and mysterious, we can't let you know that, teehee, now sign up for my email list that just redirects you to the home page, boy.

[ladykyriaa]

I think one thing I'm gonna say to the people who are, in a way conflicted and/or waiting to watch the series is that you're honestly gonna have to be okay with grey areas. That's literally it.

KnH isn't going to explicitly show nor tell you how good/bad things are. it's an incredibly realistic story set in ancient China tackling its many issues; starting from societal problems, political, norms, gender roles, and so on. What might be problematic now isn't necessarily something the characters are going to think about more than twice.

I think a slightly controversial example would have to be abt the pedo emperor. YES, an incredibly horrible person and deserves to die in the most painful way possible. But KnH also tackled the issue that he had been human, all too pathetic and pitiful to rightfully rule the empire-never had the spine to talk to proper women thus resulting in him only talking and being attracted to (gag) little girls. You're not gonna see the characters talk ill of him more than necessary, they know its fucked up and frankly weird, but there's nothing to be done but to live with the consequences of his actions.

(Why I set this as a grey example is because I've seen people expecting the pedo to be this horrid-abusive person-and he is of course- but they certainly weren't expecting him to be depicted so pitifully and hurt, like he himself was a literal child still in need of protecting.)

don't also expect the characters to do one good thing after another just because you expect them to. Under different situations, different feelings, different place, their choices vary from one another depending on what's necessary. Don't even expect their relationship to be one linear from start to finish, thinking you can guess which way its gonna go.

in fact this is what maomao says when Jinshi questions her explicitly about their relationship

and i just think this genuinely applies to the series as a whole. Natsu Hyuuga isn't going to outrightly spell it out for y'all what Maomao nor Jinshi feels for each other, what the empress dowager feels for the pedo, what Ah-duo feels for the emperor and vice versa. She expects people to understand and come to their own conclusion.

She pieces together puzzles and expects you to fit them together, if you somehow got a different result from the way she intended then, well, that's on you I guess.

don't expect a "yes" or "no" answer to whatever questions you're about to ask. There's always gonna be a "but" and "however" to it, I think. At least from my experience of reading the novel and questioning the choices they've made.

People in this fandom throw away the word SA so easily, TOO easily I'd say. from here on out you're gonna read a lot more "problematic" things that other characters have done that they think are more or less for the good-whether that be their own good or other characters' sake.

The anime honestly does paint the series in a lighthearted way, and compared to other series it's certainly not as "dark". However I do think the strength of this series lay in its realistic choices and stories, how the characters feel so utterly human, not just driven by plot.

[blueskittlesart]

i’m experiencing real life dramatic irony

[teh-nos]

u know what though... i don't think this facepalming is for the witnesses in the room, but i also don't think it's an "oh no, thor's so stupid" facepalm, i think it's a "why the fuck did i do that?" one. i don't think loki especially wants to invade jotunheim, he just thought it'd be a laugh to get thor to do it, but then oh shit thor is actually going to do that so now he needs to sabotage it somehow (telling the guard) but also:

"shit, i've fucked this up, haven't i?" it seemed like such a good idea two minutes ago. couldn't help himself. wouldn't it be funny if? but now they have to go to fucking jotunheim and he could so easily have just not done that. oops! facepalm time!

[afrsconp]

What does this mean 😭 is it a tease 😭 will Nigel be in another episode soon 😭

Also look at his fucking FACE, you guys. JUST LOOK AT IT. That is not the face of a man who is 100% ok with just being friends.

[persephoneprice]

i hate the idea that annie is a weak person just because of her trauma and mental health issues. i would love to see everyone stop completely infantilizing her just based on her reaction to trauma.

yes, she is vulnerable and clearly deeply impacted by everything but that doesn’t mean she was always just a weak little girl. she still could have volunteered. she still could have chosen to go to the games.

yes, losing her most significant support system after everything was another layer of deep trauma. that doesn’t mean she couldn’t have still found joy in her life afterwards.

people can have significant mental health issues and still be capable people. people can have significant mental health issues and still have lives worth living.

adults with significant mental health issues are still adults and shouldn’t be reduced to their trauma and pain.

[basicallykiyotaka]

My favourite thing to do: talk about Endeavor

My least favourite thing to do: explain why I like Endeavor

[starbuck]

Was thinking earlier about “People are not stupid, Ives.” “Really?” and how Ives’ self-centered misanthropy is so important within the larger thematic context of American Imperialism. Imperialists prioritize their own interests over all others since they believe that those they have deemed “others” are unworthy of human consideration. On an individual level, this comes down to believing that you are better than other people, more worthy of life and happiness. 

This is how Hart ends up working with Ives as a willing coconspirator… Even before Colqhoun’s arrival, Hart clearly looks down on the other residents of Fort Spencer. He describes them so uncharitably to Boyd that it isolates Boyd from everyone before he’s even met them. Hart hates his job and the life he lived that got him there and he copes by believing that he is, at least, a superior type of person to everyone under his command. 

In that way, Hart killing his former comrades in cold blood doesn’t come out of nowhere. It’s the logical conclusion of his superior, misanthropic perspective pushed to the extreme. He’s better than them, so why SHOULDN’T he kill and eat them? Don’t you understand? You have to KILL! to live! You have to KILL!!!!!!! 

[butchhamlet]

Hello I wanted to say thank you for your kenneth branagh hamlet posting it’s been so validating for someone who never liked that movie very much

my gripe with kenny b doing hamlet is it always struck me as a fairly self centered piece of cinema. specifically ken b is so focused on the fact that he’s Playing Hamlet that he barely pays any attention to caring about the other people in the room, which is just antithetical to some of the most fundamental rules of acting. because I believe hamlet (the guy but also the play ig) just doesn’t WORK if hamlet isn’t deeply invested in what happens to claudius/gertrude/laertes/ophelia/horatio/the ghost. and this is how we ended up with the final sequence of the movie being the norwegians putting up a massive Kenneth Branagh As Hamlet statue while hamlet and horatio have their final conversation standing ten literal feet apart.

Anyway all this to say I’m so glad you also thought that something was fundamentally wrong about that movie. when I was in high school my english teacher taught us the play from that movie and I was in such distress

OH also i THINK??? just based off the costumes of the background actors that this is meant to take place somewhere in the 1870s-1880s. bustle period 👍

PRECISELY!!! PRECISELY!!! the way i've been describing it (to people who didn't ask but i'm pissed off) is that branagh seems to care way more about hamlet as a cultural concept (the idea of hamlet as a famous work of art, the intellectual capital hamlet carries, the prestige of hamlet as a demanding role) than he does about the play itself. because pretty much every directorial choice in that movie is, like, the first and easiest choice you'd think of. and the easiest reading isn't always a bad thing, but the fact that NOTHING new is being put forth here goes really badly with the way branagh plays hamlet the character, which is that he seems to be using the role as a vessel for him to flex his Shakespearean Acting Voice and to look very dignified and brooding on screen than... to communicate any of the characters of hamlet. just like you're saying, none of the side characters have any real depth--i mean, for fuck's sake, it doesn't even seem like any of them are FRIENDS? that was the driest polonius-and-laertes-lecture-scene i've ever seen. kate winslet is doing her damndest and derek jacobi has never missed ever but they're not really given much to work with innit

and this is also why i think kenneth's performance in itself fucking blows even if he is a fairly decent actor on a craft level. because he doesn't care about the CHARACTER of hamlet. i simply do not think you can play a good hamlet without looking undignified and out-of-control. like, even his antic disposition is very. i don't want to say "sheldon-cooper-esque" because that sounds like fucking nonsense, but the framing is such that i think the viewer is meant to laugh WITH his hamlet and see his hamlet as running mental circles around everybody else. and, again, that's not ALWAYS a bad thing, but the fact that we never really see him wrongfooted or humiliated or even pathetic... as if hamlet isn't experiencing events that would make the most stoic person in the world curl up in the fetal position and scream and rip out their hair. SHOW SOME FUCKING FEELING! STOP TRYKNG TO LOOK COOL! THIS IS A PLAY ABOUT GRIEF WILL YOU FUCKING CRY ABOUT SOMETHING

my professor who assigned the movie said he likes to use it to talk about lit -> film adaptation because it makes a nice contrast to something like baz lurhmann's romeo + juliet, which is sort of compensating for the antiquity of the language by making everything about costume and background and character an over-the-top technicolor blast of passion and feeling. whereas kenbranlet 1996 is picking all the obvious/expected accoutrements--character choices, background, editing effects--so that the audience can experience and digest the shakespearean poetry without having to also think about the rest of it. this makes sense to me as an analysis but i deeply and thoroughly resent almost everything about it

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

the way evanora possesses agatha again when she says "i can be good", like she wants to prove her own view that her daughter cant be. making alice attack her evanora, almost recreating what happened in the trial a little bit, making this new coven see what agatha will do (again, not on purpose), and making them turn on her

[templeofvengeance]

[There was a flash of blue light, and two kids appeared]

Ah shit.......

Where did you take us now?

Khonshu slinks around in the shadows of the temple, having teleported here the moment he detected intruders. Every once in awhile, thieves sought this place out to search for valuables. The smart ones realized there wasn't much there, the stupid ones that tried to steal the statue of himself or ransack the place anyway were given strong convincing to leave. Or never left at all...

... But it wasn't thieves, this time. No, it was a couple of lost children. Hm.

The wind swirls around the temple with Khonshu's presence, standing off to the side to decide if he should try to reach out. They are innocent travelers of the night, and if they're here seeking shelter, they may have it.

[sleepyyghostt]

any time i remember that trump supporters are in any way associated with christianity i feel fcking insane

[mechazushi]

RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NO, BECAUSE WHAT DO I GOTTA DO TO GET THOSE BACK-BACKS ON MY DOOR STEP!!?!?!?!! DEAD ASS I NEED- NOT WANT- NEEED RENO'S! I AM NOT KIDDING- DO YOU SEE MY ASS KIDDING YOU RIGHT NOW?

AND THE SCYTHE?!?!?!? I SERIOUSLY WILL LEARN HOW TO USE COSPLAY FOAM IF IT MEANT I GET THAT SHIT IN MY HOUSE!!!!!!

AND JUST- KAFKA ON A MOTORCYCLE!??!?!?! HOT, JUST SO. FUCKING. HOT.

AND HOW IS THEIR MODELS BETTER THAN THE DAMN SHOW!?!?!?!? @PRODUCTION I.G, EVERYONE IS FLEXING ON YOUR ASS RIGHT NOW!!!!

AND DOES ANYONE REALIZE THE PRICELESS OPPORTUNITY WE HAVE BEEN PRESENTED!?!?!??! KAFKA-RENO- AND KIKORU DOING THE SILLIEST, THE STUPIDEST, THE MOST OUTRAGEOUS DANCE EMOTES.

PLEASE: TO ANYONE IN THE KN8 COMMUNITY WITH A FORTNIGHT PASS: I ASK-NO, BEG! FOR YOU TO UPLOAD A VIDEO OF KAFKA DANCING LIKE A FUCKIN' WEEB!!!!

(I feel like I should also clarify that I do not want nor can I play Fortnight. My anxiety would not be able to let me...)

[marukfe]

Please i dont have enough money to donate dont just assume that i make cash everyday im completely unemployed and rarely ever get commissions

My mom sometimes does give me allowance but its also very below from the money u ask for please stop using guilt to ask for money

I would reblog one of ur posts if it isnt for the guilt, but it makes me not want me to do so because i also dont want to guilt trip other people

[peachdues]

ok ok I’m gonna try and get Compass 2 substantively finished tonight and then use the rest of the week to edit.