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Piggybacking on one of your recent posts, they did worse than just give The Guide nothing to do and the MAGA speech, they turned her into a prop for the needs of male characters.
That was her entire purpose.
Offering insight about Nandor and his romance struggles and being a love interest for Nandor to underscore that if The Powers That Be wanted Nandor to be physically attracted to Guillermo and making intended, overt romantic statements, he would be acting towards him as he does The Guide, but he doesn't, so get your minds out of the gutter, their love is more profound than that.
Then because the Monster is horny, all of the vampires INCLUDING NADJA are completely okay with decapitating The Guide - A FELLOW SEVERAL HUNDRED YEARS OLD VAMPIRE - with or without her consent, and attach it to a frankenbody to be the Monster's sex doll.
Lazslo literally sneaks up on her with an electric saw.
That was it. We never saw her actually working with Jerry, just blink and you miss it moments.
(Also please try to imagine Season 1-2 Nadja, who actually cared about other women who were being shat on enough to turn her into her baby vamp and take her under her wing reacting like this and tell me her character hasn't been assassinated and that this show didn't fly off the rails.)
Wow, never gave the Guide that much thought (mostly BECAUSE THE WRITERS DON'T EITHER) but now I'm so viscerally pissed about it. You're 100% right. I mean, don't quote me on this, but this show got so distasteful regarding women and minorities when SF (a woman of color, btw) became less involved and left. She was still around in season 4 but didn't even write an ep, and mind you, up until that point, her eps were the only ones where Nandor stated the possibility of the love of his life being a man, after being confirmed multisexual for a while.
Marwa should've been a guywife and this is the hill I'm dying on. You can't make a middle eastern man take a middle eastern woman's agency away and ultimately turn her into a white man. The implications are unfortunate to say the least. Like, they were smart enough to have Guillermo be a man even when making him a woman was considered too (can you imagine having a Latina as a mistreated servant to a middle eastern man? The way that would've offended everyone lmao). This is such a gross and easily avoidable oversight, YOU LITERALLY GAVE THE DUDE MALE SPOUSES
Also comparing a brown man to an orc AND NOT SUBVERTING IT in the subversive show (I was so sure they were going to reveal the orcs were actually super hot at the end, because that's what early seasons would do). Just the fat jokes last season and the obsession with making it clear again and again that Guillermo is not wanted sexually by anyone in the horny monster society. I know the fandom thinks everyone's all over him but I genuinely believe this is collective delusion (affectionate) or fanfic brain because I can't remember any of this being backed by canon aside from the Guide's crush (also ftm sexual harassment is funny, I guess). Please correct me if I'm wrong. They changed their tune so many times it's hard to keep track.
Like, not to be that friend that's too woke, but when you have a diverse cast (except for black folks smh, though I'm glad they never went there) you need to be a bit more careful and responsible with what you put in their mouths. Come on!
Went on a bit of a tangent, sorry. My heart breaks for Kristen. Good for that main cast paycheck, but imagine having your character become a regular just for it to... Not be a regular? And be disrespected every second it's around without a satisfying conclusion? They seemed to understand back in the day that seeing a character be exaggeratedly mistreated constantly is only funny for a while, but they forgot, both with her and Guillermo.
I never liked the Guide. I found her entertaining on her first appearances but thought she changed the general feel of the comedy a little too much. To be honest, I always found it hard to care about her and Nadja, because the writers themselves never seemed that interested in them. But this is so annoying and makes me want to write sapphic fixits lmao
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The great thing about the White Collar OT3 is that at no point does the introduction of Neal into El and Peter's everyday lives never feels like a threat to Peter and El's marriage.
Like from the moment Neal shows up at their house in episode one he and El hit it off.
Within the first 5 episodes Neal and El have figured out they have similar knowledge and interest in the finer things, they're sharing looks over how Peter talks about and will react to things, El is telling Peter to trust in Neal a little, Neal is helping make sure they have a lovely anniversary, and El is calling Neal in to mediate/help prove her point in mini arguments to make Peter do stuff.
They also work really well because while Peter, El, and Neal might all be slightly different flavours and intensities of hyper competent adrenaline junkie weirdos, all three of them are intensely loyal to "their people" so the second El and Neal recognised that they both trust Peter as someone who will always try to do the right thing and respect them they were like "oh green flag."
#chirping wren#white collar#white collar ot3#elizabeth burke#peter burke#neal caffrey#its wild that peter is considered like Just Some Guy compared to them both#cause like he sorta is#he tries so hard bless his heart to just be a simple man with simple tastes and a simple life#and like he kinda succeeds#but also the dude's brain is always going#he stalked his wife prior to asking her out#he has an insane level of attention to detail when he chooses to apply it which is what makes him a brilliant white collar agent#he just struggles with connecting facts to emotions sometimes#el and neal both treat him as like their rock because he is so straightforward and upright#but also the man will leap into the most batshit situations at the drop of the hat if either of them asks him with big wet eyes#like sir that is not normal plain simple guy behaviour#so glad this show came across my dash again and got me on a rewatch#they are all so blorbo shaped and by god do i need that rn
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how do you think arthur and eames would take in other slowly growing old.. I donât see either of them as characters being insecure about themselves but how the other person would see it is kinda a mystery and exciting.. so how do you think it would go? hugs xx
Oh my goodness I love this question. I agree on them not being overly insecure in themselves - not much, or too seriously, at least. They may lament a thing here or there but nothing that would take up too much mental space.
I know it sounds a bit cliche, but overall I think they'd fall more in love with each other, tbh. Growing older is a sign of survival against an often unkind world. Of experience. It's the sexiest fucking thing in the world to see your SO earn those signs of age alongside you, to say you made it, you keep making it, despite everything life has thrown at you, you are strong enough to survive.
Though, at first, I can see Arthur having a sort of existential crisis about it.
Not because he finds Eames any less attractive. On the contrary, he loves Eames extra padding, the changes in him; the very real markers that signify that they both have survived and they are experiencing this very real privilege to get older and to do it together; that they get to share a life, full of good and bad memories - to trust someone with who you were, who you are, and who you are going to be.
But in that same regard, I can see it finally hitting Arthur in a very real way (kind of the way it hits all of us); oh... our time here is actually limited... isn't it.
Perhaps it's when they're no longer in dreamshare, risking their lives, but it occurs to Arthur in a strange, sudden sense that some day the world will go on without them. That they are in fact, mortal, despite cheating death so often in their dreams and in real life too.
Arthur might be having this crisis at 35 or 45 (probably has it every ten years after his mid-thirties tbh) and he has literal decades ahead of him, but their own own mortality really hits him. He knew, intellectually, and with Mal and Dom, and with others in his life, that nothing is guaranteed. It's just... he feels like he has earned this life with Eames, after all they've been through together and personally, and it's not even that they're geriatric or "old" by any means, but the signs are there - they are not getting younger. They are visibly growing older. There's the greys, and the aches, and the weight gain here, the fat loss there.
The fact is plain and simple with life: there is no turning this car around.
Time is a real thing. One day it starts tick-tick-ticking away very loudly in Arthur's brain, like a bomb about to go off, setting off the same kind of panic in Arthur that says do something about it -- but there is nothing to be done about it. That's the worst part. It's just life, and not even Arthur, point man extraordinaire can mitigate it or stop it.
So Eames unearths the source of Arthur's panic after Arthur takes up three new languages, asks Eames for the fiftieth time if he's sure he won't regret not having kids, dyes his hair to get rid of the greys, takes up trumpet lessons and books them a cruise or seven - and then Eames is utterly bewildered by Arthur's heightened state of existential panic because he's not even fucking old, they've never been better or happier.
At first, Eames is like, "Calm down, dear. Complain to me when we have liver spots and we're both using walkers to get around. Old is just a state of mind."
Arthur, in the midst of frantically planning a new diet for them both sans-alcohol, is not amused.
So Eames asks him, "What are you so afraid of?"
"I don't know... losing time, I guess." Arthur replies. "Or... not making the most of it."
To which Eames asks plainly, fondly, "Aside from spending your days panicking, what are you gonna do about that? What do you need to do, at the end of it all, on your final day, to look back and say 'I regret nothing'?"
"I..."
"Ask yourself: what does your life without regrets look like?"
Arthur thinks, and after a long pause says:
"I... need us to live... exactly as we are now."
"That's good."
"Maybe tell you I love you more."
"And I will do the same."
Arthur takes the deepest breath he's had in days.
Then Eames adds, "By the by, I hear that not being on your husbands back about folding laundry is the key to a long, happy life."
"Nice try," Arthur rolls his eyes, taking his beloveds face in his hand and kissing that cheeky smile. "Speaking of which. I hear helping your husband fold the laundry does wonders for longevity."
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The press of his lips against Eames and the quiet laughter between them in that moment, is one he never forgets.
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Later, once all the laundry is folded and they're enjoying a glass of wine, Eames will Arthur that he is wrong. They are not losing time - that every day is more time they gain together.
Arthur will concede that Eames is right, sometimes.
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As for Eames, well. He has all the pride, heart growing with love, etc etc, but you best believe he has several canvases and sketches and papers with a timeline of every iteration of Arthur, a visual chronicle of a beautiful man, drawn by Eames, over time, in varying mediums.
Not to say Eames has never felt strange about growing older, or Arthur growing older. But he's very much at peace with it, and earned the ability to be at peace with life - and himself. He's not afraid, not when there is so much to look forward to, and so much to learn.
And so many more versions of Arthur to appreciate and adore; on paper, and in person.
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They both take the other ageing as something wonderful, something to be cherished. We only get one chance to get old, after all, but we get near endless chances to grow older. They don't get it right every day -- that is to say that sometimes life is an alarm clock that you get up and get on with on first ring, and sometimes in life you just press snooze and both is okay -- but they get it right often enough that they can call theirs 'a life, lived'.
So, yeah, they fall deeper and deeper in love with all the signs of age on each other -- it's all the time they've had, and all the incredible time they still have to gain.
#is that an edith piaf reference yes it is#but its also something i personally ask myself so#there you have it#you can't stop Arthurs brain from Doing The Thing#but Eames is always going to make it better#or ameliorate the worst of it#because they are a team#damn i didnt mean to get so sappy but here we are#and here i am#having feelings about two dudes#as an aside i'd like to think as they get older they swap their dress sense#it just makes sense to me#inception#arthur x eames#eyy what good is your otp if not for making peace with your own mortality
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Oh, and happy 23 year anniversary (October 21, 2001) to "A Broken Heart," episode 4 of season 1 of Alias, the episode that was apparently pivotal to my life when I watched it live in my dad's lap after waking up from a nightmare. đđ
I found the TV show years later in middle school (that's a whole other story), binged it, turned it into my very first rot, and realized I had a deep love for father-daughter relationships in media.
Jack and Sydney Bristow, you may not be written as top tier as Coulson and Daisy, but dang it, you'll â¨always⨠be famous to me. Forever. đŤśđť *Esp Victor Garber and Jennifer Garner's actual relationship. They're still sweet friends after all this time and she still calls him her spy daddy and I'm v đ abt it.
#alias#they were my very first brain rot and i will always be grateful đ#i always thought i was literally insane because they occupied my mind 24/7 in middle school/high school#it wasnt until later when i found out âhey. tumblr is the place for brain rotsâ#although the alias fandom was non existent in terms of rotting over j&s#maybe one day...#if not thats okay#c&d are top tier and theres plenty of ppl that go insane over them#and theyre also a MUCH healthier relationship than j&s đ#if youre interested tho... alias is like a dumpster fire version of agents of shield#but its the rot that brought me here today so it can do no wrong in my eyes... but jj abrams on the other hand đđ¤đ#dude doesnt know how to make a cohesive plot that makes a lick of sense#oh well
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Having a crisis over whether Joshua Hong is prettier than Dick. With this hair and outfit IâđŠ.
#that man joshua is pretty af#and he's one of my comfort kpop boys#dick is also pretty... BUT... he's not always drawn that way depending on the artist#so hmm hmmmm#joshua is funnier than dick though and that definitely gives him like attractive points if you know what i mean#my brain is cycling through 4 different fandoms rn and it's hard for me to focus#like i need to return to my hongjoong and seonghwa videos rn or i'm gonna combust#but joshua dude freaking joshua. and then dick and donna.#dick and donna are on the brain as well#but also i want to go look at my fav leo and mikey fic but no i don't but yes i do#and then lip and ian are there and what if dick and jason were like lip and ian if jason never died y'know#so anyway
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Not to sound like an anti intellectual or anything but the constant philosophical analysis of media is exhausting after a certain point. And this is coming from someone who enjoys media analysis.
Like, yes we live in a capitalist hellscape. Yes weâre constantly being marketed to. Yes nearly every piece of media you see is meant to sell you a â¨product⨠and yes that sucks ass. HOWEVER, I think itâs absolutely possible to understand that and still want to engage with that piece of media regardless. I donât necessarily think knowing all of that removes all value from it or even that it means it canât have artistic merit.
âThis piece of media is promoting a brand or productâ and âI still think it has an interesting story to tellâ are thoughts that can coexist. They arenât mutually exclusive.
We should absolutely continue critiquing media. We should continue working to ensure that original stories get produced and promoted to larger audiences, especially those told by marginalized voices. But imma be real with you, sometimes I get tired. Sometimes I need a temporary break and escapism via âsuperficialâ media. Sometimes I just want to have fun for a bit. And yes there are no apolitical actions in society and yes my ability to engage with this type of media at all comes from a place of privilege. But goddamnit sometimes I just want to watch the Barbie movie or wear makeup or watch dumb anime and it doesnât always have to be that deep.
#media analysis#Iâm tired yâall#saw a post going off about how the Barbie movie is just a commercial for Mattel and like??#sure I agree with that to an extent but also jfc sometimes I just want to turn off my brain and watch a silly pink movie#have you ever been around someone who constantly feels the need to analyze everything around them and always find the deeper meaning in it?#itâs fuckin exhausting dude#and low key kind of a depressing way to live#thereâs beauty and worthwhile stories in even the most mainstream media#because at the end of the day that media is made by individual people who put their hearts into it#not to be that guy but sometimes u gotta let people enjoy things#and fr I do agree with a lot of the points that post made but to straight up call it a commercial feels misguided
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sometimes i think about the type of media i was into from 2017 to like mid 2020 & i genuinely want to throw up
#& itâs not even like ânoooo cringe past meâ type shit#bc i also found out about gunnm at the time which is still one of the main universes i go to#also i still love stuff that i loved when i was like 9 (aka. hunchback of notre dame) so yea#but jesus christ what the fuck was i on otherwise#at least i had the mental capacity to stop watching game of thrones 2 episodes into season 8#like wow congratulations u realized that hate watching stuff is a complete waste of time!! cool!!!#but ig sorry 2 scott pilgrim & half of the dc universe i canât fuckin stand this shit at this point#((partially sparing teen titans here bc they actually had some good concepts in the show))#& alien was actually always the best movie in the series & if u say âWELL ACTUALLY ALIENS IS OBJECTIVELY BETTERđ¤â#ok????? go & suck james cameronâs dick some more or sth fuck off!????#((like most 80s action movies r so cringe to me like shut the fuck up predator is genuinely ass & thereâs not a single enjoyable moment))#+ marvel was always mid & i donât understand how i manipulated my brain into liking any of the shit they made#also not even gonna talk about music here oh my god dude
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i should learn to make hash browns
#just me hi#the diner style is my favorite :>#that and sonic tots. i love those sm#oh and there's a gas station that makes these little fried potatoes with cheese in the middle! 15/5 would recommend !!#potatoes...#also i wanna learn to make alfredo pasta#love it v much but the restaurant i liked it from filed for bankruptcy and thus exploded hfbsh ;w;#that and chicken pot pie#the frozen ones you can just pop in a toaster oven are GREAT#but i don't want to company to explode one day and i be left chicken pot pieless. it would be utterly devastating hfhs#and in that vein - menudo as well. best food on the planet nothing else to say nothing else to compare#i always put So much lemon in though hfsh - one day i'll just be eating lemon juice with some seasonings thrown in lmao :)#anyway can you tell i'm hungry. i'm hungry hfbvshf#//but in other news oh my lllllllaaananndndnsnssssjhdhbshf#fighting for my life against my lack of motivation for anything rn#poking my brain with a stick. with another stick. and another stick. and another. and another#maybe if i use more sticks it'll start to do somethin i dunno lol#i COULD be drawing. or writing. but.. i'm not. ? ?????#why? that's the big mystery baby !!! :D [<- slowly dissolving into a goop (not the epic kind)]#i'm not feeeeeeeeeeeelin it and i think that's. it's. it's SILLYYY#it's just ridiculousssssssssssssssssssssssssss#preposteroussssss wwahauhauha#and my head feels a tad weird. is that a symptom or a cause? i will investigate further and gather more clues [<- will wait for it to go#away and then not think about it again] :3#really though i hate how i get halfway through something and then Stop#like ?? hey ?? i was still using that ?? what's up ??#and my software will go 'oh this :) no yea i see that :) but it breathed around me funny dude :) no yea yea it's going into the#fridge (it won't return) :) yea nice chat dude see ya :)'#criminal. absolutely criminal. it should be the deaths sentence for this ! who's with me !!!#/lol but yyyea
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actually people have assumed both cis girl AND cis boy of me on the internet. where the fuck are your transgender sensors
#my friends thought i was a guy and cis also for twoooo yearssssssss like why#i know i dont really use. labels nowadays but now whenever people assume Anything really#no matter ehat it is#i have to go ?!#cis guy?! cis girl?!? TRANS GIRL?!!!?? TRANS BOY#i just wonder where the perceptions come from#gender is so fake it could be anything particularly on the internet#you use too many exclamation marks and now my brain has read you as fem#you call everyone bro so youre a dude#your icons are always anime girls. Girl.#youre edgy. boy#gender rolesss are nonsenseeee it would be beautiful if it wasnt so strange and stupid
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i can't take any discourse post seriously if it says "x side is refusing to listen to survivors" because if you can't accept that survivors are not a monolith and may disagree with you in regards to your shared type of trauma then it really begs the question, are YOU actually listening to survivors? or are you only listening to the ones who say what you already thought and disregarding the rest as a) people who are incapable of understanding their own trauma and therefore can't be trusted to make decisions about it for themselves or b) outright fakers?
#i also go out of way to try and take all discourse posts with a heaping helping of salt but these ones specifically im like#conflicting access needs dude what hurts you might help another person so you need to step back and ask yourself if what they're doing#is overall harmful or just harmful to you specifically and act accordingly#theres nothing wrong with you being the problem hereâ its ok to be like 'i cant be around this' and dip#ik the word problem has negative connotation but idk ive always felt like my brain worked a little differently than other ppls w that#problem doesnt mean anything morally bad it just means somethings not working as intended and so#you need to problem solve to fix it#you have a problem that is you can't be around xyz thing while others can#and in your own spaces youre allowed to solve that problem by requesting others not bring it in with them if doable or to work together#to minimize its impact on you if you have to be around it#but in spaces where that thing is accepted and enjoyed and you are the outlierâ theres nothinf shameful abt the solution to that problem#being removing yourself from that space#you were the problemâ so you solved the problem. it doesnt have to be a bad thing yknow?#same with 'broken' ive had multiple people to me explain why i shouldnt use that word about myself but im like#no i understand abt forming neural pathways with negative words but its not negative to me genuinely !!! its just a descriptor!!!!#like. a part of my body is supposed to work/exist in a specific wayâ but it didnt. it was brokenâ it couldnt perform its intended function#it was brokenâ and we fixed it#you wouldnt tell me to call a broken bone a fuckin. 'area for improvement bone' it got broke! it dont work anymore!!#my brain doesnt produce the chemicals its supposed toâ its BROKEN and im taking medicine to fix it#i think veronica got it but i only got to see her for a few months#anyways. that was kind of offtopic but i think still follows the central theme of just. understanding that sometimes people's brains#work different from yours and they process the world differently than you#i dont call other people broken because i know that would be mean given how their brains interpret the word but i do feel comfortable#using my own version of language to describe myself#autism dialect KENFKSBFKSBFMDB
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father grimaldi: forgive me, lord, for i have sinned. constantine: â understatement of the bloody century, that is. father grimaldi: the chapel is closed to the public! who are you? how did you get in here . . .? constantine: did you know vatican city has the highest per-capita crime rate of any nation state in the world? i'd have thought a touch of breaking and entering's pretty much par for the course around here.
so #1, an undeniable slay.
#2, how long do we think he was sitting in the confessional booth waiting for the guy to wake up from ellie's fake vision quest. like an hour? checking his light, practicing his Big Reveal Pose TM? he probably brought a book with him and just shoved it underneath the seat cushion when it was time to show off.
#3, knowing how intensely he studied & continues to study in order to teach himself magic at such an absurdly advanced level without any teachers to formally guide him? and how that level of dedication would absolutely carry over into researching a mark / making sure he had every corner of a confidence scheme nailed down pat? i like to imagine that the day before this meeting was spent with his severely under-caffeinated ass parked at a public library computer, squinting at articles for 'most important things to know about vatican city before you travel' or 'top 10 little-known facts about vatican city' and using the back of his boarding pass to take notes on what would be the best throwaway line to blow off all the usual questions with.
also, he probably woke up still in his travel clothes less than two hours before this scene and had to hustle to get suited up in time for his Dramatic Apparition. the demon blood was boiling so bad in that chapel that it was giving him a killer migraine. he didn't get breakfast so his stomach was growling the ENTIRE time. but all that meant was he had plenty of room to eat UP the runway and that's EXACTLY what the fuck he did.i'm
#( ooc. ) OUT OF CIGS.#always torn in half between 'john is a freaky little weirdo who just Knows Things and Picks Up Vibes and it usually works for him'#and 'john is the most Normal Dude in the whole london occult scene he just works w/ magic like a grad student prepping for finals week'#and you know what? the answer is always 'Both. Both is good.'#also on the one hand i'm truly obsessed with the idea of john just?? Always having a bunch of weird trivia available w/ his eidetic memory#like he read about the apostolic palace once in a book when he was with the peace convoy and his brain latched onto it forever#and it just Happens to become convenient later on and this happens VERY often and no one ever really knows how he does it#but there is a real real charm in considering that he's still Just A Guy beneath all the layers of false confidence and mysticism#still someone who had to work to get to where he is now and who will always have to work to Maintain as well#i like the mental image of him pacing around his temporary digs with index cards and drilling all the necessary details for the scam#or him and ellie getting blasted the night before and dramatically playing out their Big Final Confrontation to iron out all the beats#you just Know they were laughing til they cried workshopping shit like 'MY OLD ADVERSARY! WE MEET AGAIN!' and 'DO YOUR WORST HELLSPAWN!'#still trying to keep straight faces the day of the fake fight while drastically improvising to try and throw each other off their game#idk!!! i always enjoy the Strange and Off-Putting things about him but all of the Really Really Human stuff is also just. so so precious#we always get to see The Myth The Legend as shaped by the errors of The Man. but especially in later years actually SEEING The Man gets rar#all this to say that for every perfectly executed and properly horrifying loom out of the shadows with a glimmer of his freaky glowing eyes#there is always at LEAST half an hour or more practicing angles + expressions + mood lighting in the mirror going on behind the scenes#and that is very very special to me!!!!#( headcanons. ) I'M JUST LIKE THE BASTARDS I'VE HATED ALL ME LIFE.#( visage. ) AND I'M A BASTARD.#sched.
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Shicmuon really got them craziest cracked genes ever
#wait let me find more flattering ones his parents literal monsters (in reference to their power and overall everything)#so you got this reckless lookinâ actually always somehow 3 steps ahead dude with the brains and brawns of a main character#and this lady who can turn into a magical beast and got this cool ancestrial thingy magic thing idk anymore but like op as hell#and their love ended in a tragedy but holy damn#shicmuon is like the personality of both his parents at their craziest without a valve restriction thing#the parents got struggles and circumstances and each other kind of calmed the whole insane thing but i know damn well its underlining#shicmuon really got to fully unleash the combine unresticted cracked nature of the both#lanoste really went well you know i had to reign in all my life and i dont really know of fathering and griefed and disappeared to so eh#mans was like imma miss like the first several years of your childhood due to the empire keeping ya but let me just go around and through#politics and personel make a force to be reckoned with and grt ya lil boi back and then give him just free range#anyways#ranble#personal#black haze#manhwa#manhwa blogging#lanoste#shicmuon#eperia#mans a legendary crazy magician AND the heir to the archduke whose position is only under the emperial king but also is over since hes got#them pure blood and all that#not mcyt
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#normal im normal#o dioO DIOo dioO DIO#i always love how completely useless publio is in this one lmao#dude's just standing there like 'ok come on now. ok. ok come on. come with me now please. come on. ok. ok. thats sad but please can we go'#anyway. those sesto and vitellia parts interlacing makes me insane#as always. mozart scratching this peculiar itch in my brain that no other composer can quite soothe.#la clemenza di tito#mozart#opera tag#also im obsessed with vitellia she's so funny#'omg he's gonna die because of me... sad bUT WHAT ABOUT ME THE MAIN CHARACTER OF ROME'
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what people think chanukah is: jewish christmas funtime with presents and food
what people think chanukah actually is: a fight against assimilation! crush the greeks! cleanse ourselves of hellenization and return to our own ways!
what chanukah actually is: sike there is no actual meaning!! there is no true or pure origin that can be uncovered or 'reclaimed' for this holiday or any other!! that's not how judaism works that's not how culture works! whatever it means to you is what it really means! the hasmoneans themselves were intensely hellenized and the very idea of instituting a festival to commemorate a victory was a Greek one! but that's fine because judaism has always incorporated the practices of the cultures it existed within or adjacent to and that is a key part of why we're still here. and the fact that we resisted and retained our difference is ALSO why we're still here! [insert substituting one black and white view of history for another dot tumblr post]
me personally i see both the historical chanukah story and its subsequent presentations over time from maccabees to the talmud to the present day as a representation of this balance between integrating and isolating and the debates about it which has been one of the big questions of jewish communities for a very long time and especially today :))
#my prof is so big brained for arranging the semester so tht we cover ancient and modern jewish movements around chanukah time#they go together so well. like chanukah is actually a great way to explore the ideologies driving modern movements like reform or orthodox#in so many interesting ways! that are criminally overlooked!#there is always another layer to peel back. there is always another big brain explosion panel to the meme. w chanukah? it's endless dude#next year im sure ill look back at this and think how shallow i missed out on ten more layers of complexity#at first i was not hype about getting assigned chanukah for my festivals project bc i wanted purim but actually. it's dope#also.. getting a headache thinking abt how im gonna explain this one in my hobbit chanukah fanfic..#i might just Not tbh. but it's also a good opportunity that i wouldnt wanna miss out on#op#jew blogging#chanukah
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Anyone know if someone has edited Mestâs face bouncing around the screen like the Microsoft idle animation while âyou ruin everything, you stupid bitchâ plays in the background?
And if one of yâall decide to make it, can you please tag me
#fairy tail#mest hate#internally screaming at the screen#rewatching fairy tail for the first time in like 7 years and having a good time#my god though- Mest#I WAS ROUTING FOR HIM#I actually liked him as Doranbolt (or however itâs spelled)#I liked the whole âcounselman infiltrates Fairy Tail to spy but instead falls for their charm and joins them eventuallyâ plot line#but that whole âoh actually he was always a memberâ thing has to be the dumbest plot twist in the entire series#character growth? nah forget her- he has always actually been like this!#and then the whole him having brandish stab august thing was just character assassination#cuz it seems kinda wild to me that the dude who let 6 criminals out of jail to save the world would then go stab a dude who was down to talk#also his final season haircut is just awful. I miss the short hair#mests character writing died with lahar#Iâm gonna go try and delete the plot twist from my brain so I can go back to enjoying his character
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I've been reading your headcannons (god tier btw.) And i just can't stop thinking how P1 dude would get worried whenever someone he cares about is showing a single bit of neglect towards their health, despite not being a role model either.
Have a good day/night
OH YEAH I CAN SEE THAT TOO its almost hypocritical of him to try and tout how they need to get enough sleep when he's working off of a few hours or to not smoke when he himself was going to go smoke outside, but it's also partially cause he doesn't want them to end up like him, yknow?
But thank you very much, this was very needed after having to drag myself through excel classes!! ^^
#putting my forehead against his postal 1 dude give me strength#to do my online class work#im also just kind of stirring in more hcs running around (if youre wondering how thats going. its going and its going angst.) so i always#appreciate more fuel towards that <3 He has moved in rent free into my brain and is painting the walls.
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