#but something altogether different

[thelearnedsoldiertoo]

An incredible commission of my girl Balina Len after her redemption from the Dark Side by the impeccable @eileenwdj​! I love everything about how this turned out--the pose, the cheeky smirk, the musculature, the outfit, the colours and the background--it’s everything I was after. Tysm Leen!!!

[punkstylerecovery]

“It could’ve been worse.” It could’ve been BETTER. It could’e been EASIER. It could’ve been lovely. It could’ve been beautiful, it could’ve been fun. It could have been simple, it could’ve made you HAPPY. 

You can drown in two feet of water just as simply as you can in an ocean. Stop downplaying what happened and neglecting your feelings. Kill that idea with fire. Or at least acknowledge that what happened was bad without immediately trying to justify or dismiss it.

[houseswife]

I love how neferiously hugh laurie delivered his lines in that 5x1 scene where house is blackmailing wilson. because the dialogue could’ve been conveyed in a manner that was obviously facetious and unserious (like the way RSL was playing the scene: “You’d jeopardise a patient—? 😒🙄) but he literally chose to go “If it keeps you here😈👹” in the most deadass, diabolical tone. so the result is that we have house sounding like a genuine psychopath as he threatens to let a woman die and then wilson proving he’s an even BIGGER one by responding with, like, mild exasperation at best. 10/10 dynamic no notes

[a-s-levynn]

"A taste of the divine" A Series of Small Offerings - IV/2 - day34

[snakesinsocks2005]

New York's not-completely-lineless Line-up!

[nightingaletrash]

Chasing away the dark by frolicking in the light

[theophagie]

I generally don't find it useful to use personal feelings or experiences as basis for character analysis or commentary because there's a tendency to just Leave It At That ("Jakey does X because he's Y. I know because I'm Y and I do X too" ‾~‾ ) but just this once. Just this once. From a bailer about a bailer. It's so weird to me that some people don't like that Stolas didn't drop the L bomb on Blitz after giving him the crystal when that was one of his good calls in that mess of a conversation...... the way someone doing that with me would make me bolt out of there in .1 seconds (and the way Blitz did bolt out of there and nuke that bridge when someone else did say it to him), like I was relieved that he didn't do that. for Blitz!!! lol

I feel that in part it's because people mistake Stolas' inexperience and obliviousness for naivety, in the sense that yes he often doesn't think things through and is blind to how his actions affects others (in multiple ways), but when it comes to Blitz and feelings he'd been kind of slamming against a wall for a while (with the events of s2ep4 being a wonderful cherry on top), so like. Yes he had a script and a specific vision in mind, but to say that "he expected everything to go according his plans" or that he had no inkling that things could go wrong......... Is it not the point of Look My Way and the second half of When I see Him that he's both hopeful but also very much insecure and kind of dreading talking to Blitz

^ also not how you would find me if I was completely convinced that everything would be fine and just like in my romance novels, js

[witsserviceablesubstitute]

Loving Anders and Fenris means I'm trying to enjoy two similarly flawed characters whose trauma shouldn't have been used as a weapon against each other, nor as a weapon against the entirety of DA2's plot. At least, not the way it was. Their respective stories needed a lot more empathy and nuance. Some of that was DA2 being a rushed rough draft, but there are still certain choices that the player makes with both of them that exist as pointlessly cruel, racist, and abelist and therefore shouldn't have been options at all.

Ultimately DA2 is a story that handled both Fenris and Anders contextual oppression and meta creation poorly enough that sometimes all I see is a reproduction of their reductive feud, but in real life. I understand why someone would dislike one but not the other (and people should feel free to), I even agree with an interpretation of Anders as this particular type of biased white leftist. However, years of their constant reduction has only led to a dismissal of what they represent. The exploration of which being DA2's whole plot, the execution of which being fundamentally flawed, and the divisive reaction of which being inevitable. They needed care, basically.

The story was damagingly irresponsible in how it went about pitting their two biggest in-game marginalized identities against each other, one an allegory for queer oppression and mental health issues, the other for colonialism and slavery. It has gotten to the point where I believe fenders (or rather the hopeful romanticization of Fenris and Anders) has the better idea in how to manage their mishandling than discussion that reduces them to their worst selves, dehumanizes them altogether, or dismisses their textual metaphors. Because they are flawed but sometimes all I see is a recitation of their flaws used to dismiss all they represent rather than discussion on how DA2 could've handled their themes respectfully.

This, again, is me navel-gazing. Not on the attack. Please be free to disagree, just not abusively so. Different interpretations of a text and characters are unavoidable, especially for these two (who people feel a strong personal affinity for) and in a game like DA2 (a story within a story). This is just how I feel.

[the-magpie-archives]

You know when you've been thinking something for ages and it feels normal and then you say it out loud and it sounds so odd and unbelievable that you physically wince but you have to keep going because it'd be embarrassing to backtrack at that point so you just speak it into being normal again?

Yeah I think that's what the supplementals were like for Jon.

[mbat]

jews: this thing in fiction feels jew coded to me, this character/group has several parallels to jewish people and i see myself here :)

non-jews: nah, that aint right, its clearly coded to be this other thing/youre stretching so hard to find a connection that isnt there

jews: this thing in fiction falls into antisemitic tropes, this character/group has several common antisemitic tropes that have a long history of being used against my people, and i think we should really consider not using these tropes anymore/consider if theres a better way to go about making the same point without doing it in this specific way

non-jews: nah, that aint right, its clearly coded to be this other thing/youre stretching so hard to find a connection that isnt there

just something ive noticed

[bonetrousledbones]

actually since i've broken my streak on not annoyedposting anyway i might as well get this one outta the way too. look the second i saw the "does sans actually care about papyrus dying" discourse pop back up i immediately recognized it as something very annoying that i couldn't care less about and don't want any part in whatsoever because WHO CARES that being said if i keep seeing those posts about it in the papyrus tag im going to meticulously comb through each of my aus to see how exactly i can kill sans off in every single one

[canary-song]

One of perhaps the silliest things that bothers me to this day about EWAF is that the sandman felt cheap. Like. No proper intro, bland explanation for his name, and like practically all but Doc Oc - a permanent sendoff that means no future reappearances.

C'mon man, give him something fun to work with! Like, how about, if you wanna keep it truly dark in tone, what if he buries people in sand? Or if you wanted less of a set-up for his violence, chloroform or some sort that he'd use to knock out opponents - then his inhuman strength would be a perpetual but rarely used threat that holding your breath would earn you a taste of.

[driftingballoons]

I hope you don't mind me asking two thing back to back, but for the reverse unpopular opinion ask game.

What piece of PMD lore/story just doesn't sit right / doesn't make sense with you?

Not at all! Love getting asks, thank you! :3

The one piece of lore that’s always bothered me a bit is how they handle humans in the series. Imo it’s just a little confusing and odd. Now for the positive! By leaving it vague, it really hands over the lore to the fans—how do humans live in this world? Are they common, or are you one of/the only one left? Do they tend to live side by side with pokemon, or are they more separate than in the main series? Where did Hero come from? What happened to their family? Etc etc. Plus, in Explorers, the idea of there being humans around, but you not seeing ANY in the Dark Future really adds to the oppressive and heavy nature. It helps show it’s such a harsh world that only the most feral of pokemon can truly thrive. 

[surreal-duck]

UR MIDOYUZU DOG GFS LIVE IN MY HEAD RENT FREE!!!

thank you anon!! more doggirl yuri just for you but theyre actual dogs this time (i cannot draw animals my apologies)

[toffeeapplechew]

fascinated by people calling ouyang a nonbinary icon like his main motivation is hating that people don’t see him as a man and you interpret that as him being not a man???

[ittybittybumblebee]

legitimate question. how and when do i get myself to accept that im neurodivergent. how do i let myself be that . i dont know how to. theres this inexplicable doubt in me and i dont even know the specific cause of it. i just cant fully ? beleive it even though everything i know says that yes i am