#but that’s a different post

[amber-laughs]

thinking about benjen walking up to lord commander mormont like “🥺🥺🥺 can my nephew please keep his magic killer wolf?? his father made him sit in the back at dinner 😞”

[thesorcerersshadow]

“you have to show everyone that you were right and they were wrong.”

i’m so fascinated by what gwen says here because there are ways in which it feels almost antithetical to a more surface level reading of her character (that does, at times, feel like the one the show wants us to engage with.) she doesn’t say that exposing valiant is the Right Thing To Do or appeal to a sense of honor or justice in the broader sense, even though i’m sure she does think that and believe those values apply here.

what she says here is… so self-interested, on merlin’s behalf. she believes him pretty implicitly (she asks once if he’s telling the truth, he says yes, she doesn’t question it) and her main reaction is “you have to do something to prove you were right.”

and i think part of that comes from just, like, really liking merlin right away / seeing the good of humanity in him (something i will maintain forever is mutually a big part of what they see in each other) and being offended on his behalf, feeling that he’s been Wronged. so like, justice is at play in her mind here, but it’s on a far more personal, intimate level than just being about Doing What’s Right.

and i also don’t think it’s a reach to say gwen might be doing some projection here. it might not have been on the same level/with the same stakes, but how many times do you think gwen had to bite her tongue when she knew she was right about something? morgana is kind to her as an employer at this point—far kinder than many nobles would be to their servants. but there is still and uneven balance to their dynamic, and even if morgana is willing to hear her out about certain things, in front of other nobles, in front of court, in front of uther—gwen knows her word doesn’t count for much, either.

[buggachat]

I always find it weird when people say/imply something akin to “Adrien’s favorite thing about Marinette is how delicate she is <3” both because I don’t think it’s an accurate description of marinette at all (yes, even pre-reveal-specifically-not-ladybug-marinette), but also because Adrien is pretty explicitly most attracted to strong wills.

Like yeah, Adrien would love her just as much if she was having a bad day/feeling insecure, but you think that’s Adrien’s favorite thing about her? Not like,… how she overcomes it? Just the insecurity itself? Not how she stands up so strongly for her values? Not how she’s weird and unique and so herself?

[daloy-politsey]

One of the reasons I became an anarchist is because as an anti Zionist jew, I know what happens when even oppressed people are given a state

[shadowed-dancer]

Of course Izuku will want to save Shigaraki, that sort of theme has been ingrained in the series since the first chapter.

When we think about important moments in the series (and especially chapter 1) we often think about "you can be a hero" and "my body moved on its own". But think about it; what prompts both of those? What is the single moment that spurs the entire series into action?

It’s Bakugo being in danger and Deku rushing to save him.

Deku, a quirkless kid who has been relentlessly bullied for the past 10 years, rushes into a life-threatening situation in order to save the boy who bullied him. His instinct is to save a person he has every right not to save, but he does it anyways because that’s who he is. He’s a HERO (not the profession, simply a true, good hearted hero).

So yeah, I think it’s very poetic that 400+ chapters later, Deku is once again faced with a character he has every right not to save, but he decides he has to anyways because this person is in pain. This person has suffered and needs help.

And Deku is a hero.

[chlothequeen]

Honestly if Adventure Time keeps getting more spin-offs I’d love to see one specifically about Simon and Marceline’s time surviving the mushroom war. We’ve gotten glimpses of it during I Remember You, Simon and Marcy, Stakes, and the new episode Simon Petrikov, but I feel like between Simon and the crown, whatever was going on with Elise and Hunson, and the vampires apparently having known Simon, there’s a solid premise for a series there.

[ladylightning]

the thing that bothers me most about dabb era supernatural is that he treats the audience like we’re stupid. he makes the brothers caricatures of themselves so this brother is SMART and that brother is STUPID and this brother is RIGHT and that brother is WRONG. the moral lesson of every episode is spelled out for you a hundred times in giant blinking neon letters that you must B E L I E V E in YOURSELF and TRUST your FAMILY. the audience is incapable of reaching any conclusion about what they just saw without being handheld so characters are constantly saying “well what does this mean for us” “what happens now” etc.

like sure kripke thought we were stupid but at least he invented new ways to break the fourth wall and tell us that to our faces. dabb patronized us, which is somehow worse.

[orangememesicle]

getting ahold of a book that might be a little too mature or complex for you as a kid is important. like, developmentally.

[cosmicgnome]

I’m rewatching campaign 2 and it makes me so deeply angry to remember the difference in ways Marisha and Liam were treated by viewers for their commitment to their characters.

Liam’s decision to stay true to Caleb despite what he knew as a player during the episode at the Sanatorium nearly got the whole party arrested by Ikithon, forced Jester and Veth’s family to go on the run, and literally got Veth’s son KILLED, and people praised him up and down for his commitment to Caleb and his acting (which was of course well deserved he was incredible).

But when Marisha stayed true to character when Keyleth confronted Raishan in Whitestone after Raishan killed nearly an entire TRIBE of her people, people lost their fucking shit at Marisha for putting the party at risk like that. Despite the fact that those same people had spent like an entire year shitting on Marisha for “metagaming” and for not sticking to character (which was always bullshit), and then when she did exactly the thing they had been complaining she WASNT doing, they threw tantrums over basically her…not metagaming and playing her character well?

There was never a time where I thought any of the criticism being levied against Marisha was legitimate, but I remember watching that episode in C2 and just feeling this deep, seething anger over the massive hypocrisy in that moment. Marisha has always deserved better.

[godsprettiestprincess]

Being vegan I think is one of those things (like having sex) that makes sense for a human au of an angel but not their canon existence. I’ve definitely made a post about how canon lucifer is virgin but human lucifer is a slut because of the way their respective scale and experience in the world affects how their Issues™ present themselves and the same thing applies to not eating meat. If you apply lucifer’s vaguely ecoterrorist views (an important part of his character) to a human it definitely makes sense for them to be vegan or vegetarian! But if canon lucifer wants to make a change in factory farming he’s not going to change his consumer habits he’s going to flatten the building. Hence, killing things with his teeth.

[chill-byers]

Lack of media literacy and unwillingness to engage with a text on anything other than surface level are huge issues but so is literary elitism. “I don’t understand this book so it’s obviously trying too hard to be meaningful and symbolic” “of course you think that; you only read YA fiction.” Can we all just start by accepting that not everything will be to our personal taste and said personal taste doesn’t determine what is objectively good or bad? Everyone should read as broadly as they are able to, and being a dick to people about what they read is not going to encourage them to branch out. It’s a good thing to challenge yourself with what you read. Sometimes that means picking up that impenetrable literary classic and doing some extra work to decipher the symbolism, and sometimes that means being open to the premise that genre fiction or books written for kids can be well-written and meaningful.

[ehghtyseven]

in my search for positives: I do enjoy seeing rusty with his little suspenders ☺️

[werewolfetone]

[paper-mario-wiki]

in case you're wondering what the greatest AMV of all time is, it's this one from 2008.

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

[parientou]

big brother duties are never over