#but also. nobody care her :(

[inkskinned]

you know, you know. no gods, no masters, no kings on pedestals. everyone is fallible. death of the author. you know! you are balanced about your intake of media - you allow the wiggle room, the grace, the gratitude, the skepticism. nobody above criticism.

but still. a weird gut-punch feeling, something akin to betrayal. you read the article. surprise! an author you love is actually: a serial fucking predator.

well, shit. what now. no, you knew he was a person (all people are), but now you're wondering - what have i overlooked by accident? what messages have i internalized that are strange and cruel? and also, like, what the fuck?

his actions lay a thick glaze on top of everything. like each place is now ruined, opaque in a new way. but okay, fine, you've done this before. you knew better, right? you've been betrayed by many a cherished childhood author.

still, this stickiness. fuck. can you pick up that book again. will you read it to your children. you've recommended it to others - will you ever do that again? and of course, of course, no parasocial relationships. you were theoretically above this kind of sentiment. but the artist informs the art, right.

so it's not something as clear-cut as feeling he owed you, specifically (a stranger) better behavior - just that you kind of, in a distant and odd way... sort of trusted him to do better. it's not like a real trust or something speakable, just the faint hope that the product (good books) was a thin representation of the soul. now it feels like the product (good? books?) was a mask. in some small or insignificant way, your previous support of this person lent them power. your money and your time and your laughter.

and the thing is - you have this terrible, echoing sensation. how many times will this happen? over and over. you find out that the singer you love is actually a predator. you learn over drinks that your favorite high school english teacher is in jail for what he did to her. you listen to the news idly and suddenly discover that a woman you used to idolize has been abusing her kids for an actual eon.

what can you touch without the static melting off. you can't even really complain about it too much (you were supposed to know better, and besides, you don't want the same re-split "it's not your fault, love what you love" basic advice), but now it's here. somehow, it feels like - you let him into your life.

it's not that things need to be pure or an artist has to be like, endlessly perfect, mindful. demure. it's more just this terrible truth that has been replayed through your veins so often it feels criminally vain. power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. did you want any one person to be worth that power?

it's just that he wrote books where he seemed to understand that. he seemed to know about hierarchies and unfair systems and bigotry and privilege. you thought they were books about what it means to struggle. you thought they were about having power and still using it for good rather than for control. he spooned you a narrative of being a good guy, a kind soul. you fucking bought what that fucking monster sold.

maybe that's why they were fantasies, after all.

[puppmeo]

Okay so im watching Hazbin to have something to talk to my little brother about: Why is all the content im seeing NOT about Charlie and Vaggie. They're so neat

[myokk]

70s au

[trinketstar]

hey if i posted a really ooc sappy schmaltzy "kinger adopts pomni" doodle comic do u promise not to call me cringe and throw tomatoes at me

[saddest-girl-in-the-whole-world]

maybe a bit of a weird thing to post during alectopause but honestly I'm a little excited about the fandom after the series is finished for good. Maybe it's just because of how I engage with most fandoms on this site but there's something to be said about a ""dead"" fandom, yknow?

Being able to discuss a story in its entirety, critical analysis (and loving a story despite whatever flaws you find in it), tamsyn writing a different book and the more personal interactions within a fandom past its peak are some of my favourite things about getting into fandoms on this website, it's great!

But hey, maybe I'm just a weirdo that's a bit too much into a dead body

[oceanwithouthermoon]

"they dont have any chemistry in canon-" WHAT HAPPENED TO SHIPPING CHARACTERS JUST BECAUSE YOU THOUGHT OF A SCENARIO THEY WOULD FIT INTO ONCE? what happened to "i saw it in a dream"? what happened to "i just like them so i put them together"? huh? huh? make shipping fun again

[wowieeitsisa]

HELLA OVERDUE AvA doddles. THESE ARE FROM LAST YEAR AAUUUUGHHHHGGH

These were made around a week or two after AvA 11 released, it’s me, getting used on how to draw Mitsi ^_^ as well a little AU, where Mitsi lives the explosion !

I really like following canon most of the time, however I deeply dislike how Mitsi’s character simply dies, it would b really awesome if she was the mastermind behind the rocket corp, and Victim being the one who does the Dirty Work™️ so yeah, it’s that ^3^

[elviraaxen]

I'm probably not the first to admit this but goddamn was I a narcissistic prick when I wasn't on stimulants

[linka-from-captain-planet]

I've seen a sentiment of "it doesn't make sense for Briala to take Celene back in WHWE" often but imo, it makes perfect sense because it's Briala and Celene we're talking about: a pair of codependent weirdos who have been obsessed with each other since childhood, who are still delusionally in love despite nuclear levels of mutual betrayal. They are birds of a feather, peas in a pod, either side of the same coin, a terminal case of the matched freak. Yes Celene did all that, but she did it to the one (1) person in the universe capable of understanding at the sub-molecular level and coping with it.

What Briala needs from Celene at that point isn't a time machine, but reassurance that things will be meaningfully different this time - no Game, no pussyfooting, no relegating Briala to the shadows to do the dirty work while Celene moves chess pieces a millimeter at a time when nobody's looking. And when given a slice of an opportunity, Celene immediately, and enthusiastically, and openly shows up for her in a huge way. Realistically they probably would have taken a much flimsier excuse to crawl back under each other's skin, but they actually manage to resolve their main conflicts and lay a foundation for something approaching a real life together

[marzipanandminutiae]

nah for sure the most problematic thing in crimson peak is that they're fucking in their childhood home /j

where they were children :/ just seems Icky to me :/ (not the incest part. just the Childhood Home part)

(I have to admit, I would have a grudging respect for anyone who pointed out that, since they were already doing sexual things at 12 and 14 years old, Lucille technically committed statutory rape under the Offenses Against The Person Act of 1875, which raised the age of consent in Great Britain and Ireland to 13. I disagree that that would make her ~a groomer~ or ~totally a pedo~ given the close ages and the fact that she probably didn't even know what Age of Consent was as a concept and they were both just trying to find intimacy and an outlet for burgeoning adolescent sexuality, but. I would admire this person's dedication to 19th-century legal code research)

[jinxie-117]

STOP DESCRIBING THE TSH CHARACTERS AS AN AESTHETIC OHHHH MY GOD THEYRE PEOPLE AND TERRIBLE ONES AT THAT COPE HARDER

[smile-files]

a happy-go-lucky darling who also happens to possess a lust for blood... being a magical girl gives her the best of both worlds!

[whippedcloudsofcream]

Cobra Kai making such a big deal about Kwon’s death is so funny. No one gave a single fuck about that guy 😭

[loverboybrightsideghost]

one of my favorite clark headcanons that i have (that is completely unsupported by canon) is that he's transgender by kryptonian standards. martha and jon kent raised him as a boy and as he grew up he never had any reason to doubt it at all, he was like yeah i'm a boy, makes sense. and then he gets to the fortress of solitude for the first time and it turns out how Gender works on krypton was just Different enough that clark doesn't really fit the kryptonian standards of whatever he was supposed to be. bonus points because this makes him feel like even more of an outsider as a kryptonian, even if he's the last one left.

[weavingwater]

holy shit i just got a "jesus saves" lecture from the lab nurse. took me by surprise because i've seen her many times before and she was always very nice and only asked a few respectful questions about the whole trans situation. like geez maam i thought we were cool!!

[ceemi]

found my old slider phone from when i was, like, 11 so i gave amy one of her own because i think she'd love it

look at how little it is