#but i guess that's a normal reaction

[hunsa-jars]

Howdy peepers, I've been feeling pretty down lately but I think I'm on the right path to snap out of it!

See yall on monday hopefully

[ssaalexblake]

I'm past wanting to smack my own head against a wall when I see an idiot take that 13 is one dimensional in s11. Now I wish somebody would smack the heads of people saying it against a wall.

I love how we suddenly lose our ability to see a character putting on a front and to analyse their actions when they're played by a woman. Truly. It's so much Fun. It's not like she's trying to live up to what 12 tasked the next doctor to be I.e. laughing and kind and happy. It's not like she's clearly not spending half her time getting bad guys alone to be a threatening terror of a being where the humans don't see bc apparently doesn't count if nobody sees her doing it. It's not that she's clearly only holding onto her temper by a thread multiple times. It's not like that, when she no longer has the emotional bandwidth to lie through her teeth about her virtuous nature, she became a grumpy, reclusive git who annoyed her companions to the point they wanted to bash Her head against a wall.

Gosh it's almost as if they expected the audience to waste a shred of thought on, god forbid, a Woman.

The audacity.

[14dayswithyou]

sending ren a kiss!! (I love him sm) how would ren/redacted react to an angel who just kinda appears behind people whenever they talk about her. Whether she was there previously or not no one knows but she just appears and integrates herself into the convo. (I love the demo sm! Especially the smaller details like rens heart tattoo)

✦゜ANSWERED: Conancore lmao /pos

Honestly?? I think Ren would take advantage of this situation and just... constantly keep mentioning Angel in hopes of having them turn up ^^; He's really trying to manifest them into his life hsgjshdj

[yeonbam]

a lot of people are insisting on viewing jack and joker purely as romance for some reason and getting upset that it is not... and as a result their opinions are so disturbingly disregarding of essentially the whole show because the society as portrayed in it is so so important to jack and joke's relationship and background like do you think the whole four horsemen lore was just for fun??? do you think the temple and the people it houses is just some insignificant nonsense? do you think Suphanimit is just where tattoo lives? do you think Jennie's death was just a silly shock value???

do you think it's a coincidence that the main leads include a rich kid who steals for the poor and a poor kid who is strongly against theft???

romance is OBVIOUSLY difficult in their circumstances like have you met the average economically underprivileged gay person in an underdeveloped part of a developing country??? it's a love that inherently becomes 'different', stitching within it the social 'other'ness of the main characters. that's what people just can't digest. being used to seeing things as this or that, black or white, good or bad, has choked people out of the ability to perceive flawed individuals learning to love and choose their families despite not knowing how to love or protect in the right way, despite the world constantly closing on on them, despite the impact threatening to rip them apart.

[lemonynuggets]

being fictionkin can be so stupid sometimes. Yeah I don’t eat this food bc this fictional character that happens to be me went through horrors that had to do with this food but now I gotta make up an excuse to explain why I don’t eat it when people ask me about it.

[eikichi-supremacy]

okay maybe an unpopular opinion but i think shiori shouldn't actually like hiei that much

[kindchenschema]

when rachel slightly misbehaves (like when she randomly flipped over her bowl of oatmeal lol) i'm literally like. omg omg girl are you fucking stupid cuddy is going to KILL you she's gonna yell for 3 hours about how exhausted she is and how much you inconvenience her and how ungrateful you are etc etc but cuddy just smiles and puts the bowl back... like damn okay... didnt know yall rolled like that i guess they do make moms without bipolar too

[realbeefman]

vogler arc chase v tritter arc chase is such a funny contrast. house finally trained his dog <3

[padfootastic]

i am so tired of female characters being inherently written as ‘terrifying’ or ‘scary’ w no respect to their characterisation.

for one, it feels so fake. i know so many women irl (i am one!!!) and there are very few, of any, that i would categorise as ‘scary as is’. heck, even if we go by tempers—the numbers just don’t match.

but somehow in fics, every single woman is a terrifying force of nature bc that’s…somehow…the only way we can think of women? idk?

and also just, it’s such a two dimensional characterisation that i only see w the female characters. all men aren’t angry and hex-happy and scary all the time. they’re affable, chill, respond to situations thoughtfully instead of always resorting to violence.

i think it also bothers me bc the anger thing flows neatly into the v gendered carefree man child/stuck up fun sponge stereotypes that so many relationships are forced into. it’s just an icky dynamic all around.

and lastly,,,i don’t think it’s even normal for a character to be latently terrifying everyone all the time??? unless it’s a specific quirk of theirs??? like women aren’t dementors bro chill tf out

[clearsighting]

woah sixty notifications anyways,

to preface arctic is my favorite character but narratively not in a “wow he’s a good person” way so let that shape your opinion of my opinion

giant fucking essay under cut i’m sorry

can anyone hear me. why is arctic portrayed in the fandom as tragic and had a negative character arc after killing those icewings with his magic. when he’s been horrible the entire time, just more subtly. he found everything in his life to be utterly tragic and boring and it all to be a big drag. he was a prince and he was expected for the animus powers he held and the offspring he’d have. arctic saw himself as an extension of diamond— which all princes are to their queens, basically— and he hated it. he had no authority over his own life and this was also enforced by the ranking system and general icewing culture.

…except that he never had any ill thoughts about that. it was always about what power his mother held over him. interesting! he didn’t care for the system and the hierarchy enforced by it, because by being an animus prince he was naturally at the top all the time and he didn’t have to care about how he treated other dragons because he was his mother’s favorite little dragon.

he detested THAT. his MOTHER was the one deciding everything for him. and he was powerless to do anything about that! how could a prince stand up to his queen and mother, animus or not, and live past that conversation. so he lashed out outside of that. he hated and ignored snowflake because she was just an extension of his mother. he describes her as “sparkly and boring the way mother likes” because he never bothered to see past what role she served in his life. she’s actually deeply complex as we can tell by runaway winglet where she’s her own pov, with an intricate and dark mind and more motivations than arctic ever had in his life.

arctic does not care, because he considers her lower than him. his mother can exercise her power on him through other dragons all he wants, but he still knows that he is severely more powerful and more important than any other dragon except her in his life. …and also, i think he has a weird complex about female dragons. hear me out,

when arctic meets foeslayer, it’s the first time he meets a nightwing. he expects them all to be boring and not of any interest to him in the slightest, but foeslayer just happens to overhear his conversation with snowflake and finds it hilarious. she laughs in his face, makes fun of him for forgetting his betrothed’s name. this is interesting to arctic. nobody has dared to make fun of him in his entire life because of his status. instead of being upset, like most icewings would, his situation with diamond shaped him to respond with amusement. what does he have to gain from laughing at himself with a nightwing? well, he gets a bit of freedom. room to stretch his wings and see beyond his mother’s (and the icewing rankings, but mostly he thinks of it as his mother) suffocation on him and every opinion he dares to hold.

arctic barely sees foeslayer as a romantic interest because because she’s charming, funny, pretty. he sees her as a way to piss off his mom. look at this dragon who doesn’t follow rules, who is starkly not an icewing noble with pretty glittery scales, who is not at all someone diamond could ever see her precious animus son with. foeslayer is crass and doesn’t think before she speaks and clumsy and not at all caring of how other dragons think of her and arctic likes that. he even gives her one of his earrings and enchants it, dares to defend her in the meeting hall by saying that she hadn’t actually stolen it and that he had given it, because he knows it’d get to his mother. he’s spitting at the ground in front of her feet, saying, “i can do more than you want me to”, “i am my own dragon”, and “you don’t decide my life”.

to arctic, female dragons in his life are a tool more than they’d ever be individuals.

obviously arctic’s rash decision to fall in love with a random nightwing is not the narrative’s favorite choices. obviously.

let’s skip forward a lot and, almost at the end here i promise, look at how he treats his offspring.

by the very start he meets darkstalker with contempt. he doesn’t like his name (because it’s creepy, and because foeslayer chose it and not him) and he doesn’t like how much attention foeslayer gives him. let me restate. arctic, the grown, married, ADULT MAN. Is jealous of his newborn son for taking up more time in foeslayer’s life. how interesting.

he detests darkstalker because he also looks more like a nightwing than whiteout. we don’t see whiteout hatch (because darkstalker is off running around and being the most self absorbed guy ever, even if he pretends he’s not) but we know this about her and arctic. arctic named her, and arctic doesn’t think of her as much of a dragon and more of a pretty thing he can flaunt around until he’s done. darkstalker points this out, which is means to scrutiny because darkstalker himself is a very unreliable and rose tinted narrator, but i think it makes sense based on arctic’s track record, honestly.

female dragons are NOT anything he cares about as individuals. Loud and clear. this is not a trait that is recently developed after he finds out foeslayer ‘betrayed’ him. He has been like this the entire time.

he wants to bring whiteout to the icewing kingdom not because he cares about her, but because he wants to use her and make his mother like him again. arctic wants to go back and grovel to his mother using his daughter as a bargaining chip, because he doesn’t want to kill his offspring, that’s a bit too much for him. but he does want his mother’s attention back, because foeslayer has stopped serving the role of a surrogate caretaker to him. now that she knows better. arctic by this point has learned loud and clear that the nightwings (against foeslayer’s wishes and hidden from her but he doesn’t really care by this point) wanted to steal him for his animus powers.

that’s.. not what he wanted. in the unwilling prisoner sense AND in his fantasy of sticking it up to his mother and spitting in the face of her power over him. now he’s in the power of another queen that he doesn’t like. isn’t that great, it’s all looped back on itself and arctic realizes that he receives consequences for his actions of being a complete asshole and misogynist!

anyways yeah. he’s one of my favorites because he’s deeply complex, at least in my brain if the complexity i’ve outlined here was unintentional on tui’s part and was just a big fumble that ended up being GOLDEN. also this essay doesn’t exist to try and convert anyone into my way of thinking and as a big brainwashing scheme to make you like arctic, no, i just wanted to get my thoughts out clearly before i got cancelled for the thought crime of liking a fictional dragon misogynist.

anyways cheers if you’ve made it this far, thanks for listening to my insanity.

[somegrumpynerd]

I just realized I missed one of the head canons whoops

they are totally old senior dog(dream) and little orange kitten(swap) coded to me

That's funny, I always think of them as kind of being equal measures of both. Like, Dream is way older than Blue but he doesn't have a lot of life experiences because of (gestures vaguely at his whole situation) so he makes silly mistakes with new things and gets exciteable about new experiences. Then Blue has more world knowledge than Dream but also sometimes the knowledge he has is made up and wrong (either by him or his brother) so he still ends up doing goofy things, and he also gets exciteable about new things because he's got that positive outlook.

Actually... now that I'm reading that back I think they're both little orange cats lol

[batemanofficial]

took a b12 supplement today and thought i was having a manic episode but nope. what i was experiencing is called 'happiness'

[sherlock-is-ace]

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[kindahoping4forever]

Ash IG Story

[intertexts]

ROSWELL I COME BRINGING EXCELLENT NEWS. REMEMBER HOW. I THINK IN ONE OF THE SEASON 1 TRIVIAS. I SAID YAKKO MADE AN ASHE PLAYLIST ON SPOTIFY BUT I COULDNT FIND IT ?!?!!??!

i am like. NINETY FIVE PERCENT SURE I JUST FOUND IT .

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/22gglnwBGWkmhUMDAilPGN?si=c-XinhFuSsmRogskoNibUQ&pi=u-fOOiw-8dQbKE

I HAVENT FULLY LISTENED TO IT YET BUT FROM THE SONGS THAT R ON HERE THAT I KNOW. OAUGHGH. dragging you down to the winters family torment nexus with me kicking n screaming

ME WHEN IM ABOUT TO TAKE A NICE SHOWER AND PLAY SOME CELESTE AND WIND DOWN N GO TO BED ^_^ & THEN MAC GHOSTIEZONE COMES IN WITH THE STEEL CHAIR. JESUS FUCK DUDE IM IM KICKING AND SCREAMING AND STUFF!!

[lexalovesbooks]

Thurvishar and Senera teaming up in their footnotes has me ridiculously sentimental