#but the phrasing was better this way

[prezaki]

This is my favourite Phoenix scene in the whole trilogy.

He's just spent a whole scene absolutely terrified of Viola's coffee, convinced she's a poisoner, but the second he hears of her relationship struggles, of her desire to believe in the love of a man who is merely using her... Suddenly he sees himself in her, and suddenly he knows exactly how it feels to be her.

So he picks up the coffee he's been avoiding so fearfully and drinks it right down. Viola is still a mafia princess. She's still dangerous.

But in this moment, he understands Viola. And because he understands, he decides to believe in her. He decides to trust her with his life.

[maculategiraffe]

usually my parents pick the baby up from preschool and play with him till my sister gets off work but if they have a scheduling conflict I am the designated pinch hitter caregiver

so I had picked him up from school and we were making cheesy rice at my house and the baby suddenly sighed deeply and said "I love making cheesy rice with you. I wish nana and granddaddy had to go to a funeral every day"

[chungledown-bimothy]

the show's absolutely not avoiding percy's struggle with his identity. but my favorite representation of that, one of my favorite things about the books period, is people calling percy perseus.

perseus is The Hero, both past and present. the people who call him that are chiron, gods, monsters, etc. people whose primary/only interest in him is as this forbidden child who is going to save or doom olympus.

percy is the kid, the actual person who is being manipulated and traumatized at every turn. who literally carried the weight of the world on his shoulders and went through hell.

perseus is poseidon's son, percy is sally's. that seemingly small thing adds so much to any given scene, and i miss it.

[royalarchivist]

Ludwig: He can't keep doing this thing where he speaks with a cute French accent and you let him off with murder. 🙄

Etoiles: I'M NOT CUTE! I'm not cute! I'm just myself.

Everyone: ['Aww's over him] You are cute!

Cellbit: Yeah... Fofo. Fofo, fofo.

Etoiles: [Talking to his chat] He said "fofo" [Laughs] He said "cute" in Portuguese.*

[a-dragons-journal]

How exactly is being otherkin any different than being transracial by idea? I’m not pro-transracial, but I can’t really formulate an argument on where the difference is and why one is okay while the other isn’t

The difference, in my opinion at least, basically comes down to the fact that race and ethnicity are things other real people deal with and which have big cultural impact for a lot of people; species is not. You can't hurt theriform wolves by identifying as a wolf because wolves are not people and are not aware of any of this. Dragons may be people depending on the dragon, but they don't exist physically in this world to have an opinion. You can, however, hurt people of color by identifying as transethnicity and approaching it in a disrespectful way.

And I say it that way because if I'm honest, transethnicity is one of those transIDs where I'm... a little torn on it. I can understand the feelings and experiences they're describing, but I struggle to find a way to engage with the idea of being transethnicity that isn't going to wind up being racist in one way or another. And while I haven't exactly spent a ton of time in radqueer/transID spaces, when I've gone into their tags and such to do a little research on them, I have overwhelmingly seen transethnicity people being kind of if not extremely racist about it. The experiences are not inherently harmful, but it's really easy to slide into engaging with those experiences in a way that's harmful.

And yet... in this community we have, for example, fictionkin whose fictotypes are a different race than them all the time, and sometimes that's very important to who their fictotype is and how they view the world. And that works out fine. I think the primary difference is that fictionkin are generally expected to acknowledge that they're not a part of that group in the present and can't speak on the group's issues or experiences as if they were, whereas the minute you put a trans- label onto the word, the expectation is that you should be treating a trans[x] person as if they're [x]. (And if it's not, then... why are you calling it trans- anything to begin with when that's what trans- means in an identity context?)

So, I do genuinely believe that they're having these experiences, but... idk, there has to be a better way to frame and engage with those experiences. I don't know what that is, but it's got to be out there somewhere, though it may not be a one-size-fits-all answer. (And maybe there's a transID community out there that's found it, I don't know.)

Anyway, open invitation for POC to give their thoughts on this, since they've probably got better-constructed ones than me; if I'm honest, I haven't spent all that much time thinking about this issue. I think about it on and off here and there when it comes up and then it gives me a headache so I move on.

[pwurrz]

i see a lot of people* who advocate for trans unity are just using a different term to hide their transmisogyny.

it’s not ‘trans unity’ if you can’t acknowledge that trans men aren’t the center of the universe and that trans women and their issues matter just as much.

it’s not ‘trans unity’ if you believe that trans women should kiss the feet of trans men and beg for their forgiveness for their alleged ‘misandry’ while completely ignoring the very real and very dangerous transmisogyny present in the trans and outer lgb community.

it’s not ‘trans unity’ if your idea for fixing the rift in the trans community is for trans women to shut the fuck up and do all the work.

it’s not ‘trans unity’ if you can’t even allow trans women to talk about the harm terfs do to them specifically without barging in and silencing them because “terfs are mean to us too so-!”. that’s not the point. trans women talking about their oppression isn’t hurting you, and it’s definitely not an invitation to fight them about it because you want to turn it into an argument about who has it worse.

it’s not ‘trans unity’ if your idea of trans unity is to have a community where trans women are just submissive and obedient, silent about the mistreatment they face either because they were silenced or because they never had a voice in the first place. you are already a part of that community. you already surround yourself with likeminded people who believe the same transmisogynistic things that you do. you don’t need to push a false idea of unity among trans people, it’s very clear what you believe in already, and we don’t need the entire trans community behaving like this.

[icethinggigachad]

Is interesting that personality wise stan was more like his parents than ford. Neither of them seem like really bookish or intellectual types, and its a pawn shop owner and a telephone psychic.

Both parents maybe saw themselves in stan, where they couldn't with ford. The same similarity gave caryn a soft spot made filbrick feel uncomfortable.

Where he recognized and saw himself in his son, while with ford there was a disconnect, he could be detached.

Ford may have felt suffocated by being lumped together with stan as a unit. But even compared to his twin, he didn't belong as easily as stan did even within his own family.

[lgbtlunaverse]

Thinking of the Nie disciple that told Nie Mingjue it was Meng Yao who stayed behind to clean up corpses on the battlefield today.

Nie Mingjue didn't just randomly stumble upon poor lil meowyao eating bread in the novel, he was already looking for him to thank and reward him for his work.

That's what makes it so fun that nieyao's first conflict will end up being about someone else taking credit for Meng Yao's work.

And I'm sure that Nie Mingjue's actual opinions on plagiarism are a lot more nuanced, all we really get from him in this scene is "well you shouldn't kill someone over it!" which leaves a lot of room for what punishments he thinks are appropiate. But I bet that it isn't occuring to him in this moment that the only reason he knows Meng Yao at all, the only reason he got such a capable deputy, is that he noticed someone was taking care of the dead and cared enough to want to know their name. And then the Nie disciples didn't lie to him. The disciple he asked could have said "it was me, Zongzhu" to rise in the ranks himself, but he didn't. He went and asked others, who all also could have taken the credit, but they didn't. Someone saw Meng Yao working and decided to be honest about it and that simple decision is the catalyst for Meng Yao becoming Nie Mingjue's deputy.

Meng Yao can't just work hard to get results, others have to acknowledge that work. If they don't, it's as if he didn't do anything at all.

[ioannemos]

the particular bad guy of this episode, a little apprehensively: the audience wants to see me die?

nate, with more sincerity than anything he's said to anyone in her presence before: like you wouldn't believe

[ravs6709]

ALSO second instance now that ql has had info that someone would have desperately wanted, only for her to hold it in for years and years. Wonder how this fares for her learning about lg

[hanafubukki]

I’m surprised that malleus’ age is still debated/argued about?? 🤔

He’s a 178 years old fae 😂 and that’s that?? Why try to put him on a timescale of humans when…he’s not??

He’s a fae at the end of the day. Equating him to human ages/developments seems rather strange to me.

Especially when time moves different to a fae, everything related to faes/types of fae are not human in anyway so why equate it to humans??

I don’t know?? Is it just me?? Lol

Maybe I’m just too used to reading/watching/etc stuff about elves/faes/other long living creatures that it never made sense to do that to me.

Honestly I’ve only ever seen this “debate” in twst. 😆😂

[elle-p]

Ouuggghhhhh......

[front-facing-pokemon]

[spacelazarwolf]

when i say no think just vote i mean going off your gut reaction, not any internal corrections you make after the fact. it’s not a judgement poll, just an observation poll.

and again, goyim are encouraged to vote.

[royalarchivist]

Quackity: Friends, by the way, I want to give an update regarding QSMP. We are making great structural changes that are very good for the project. This is something I have been working on the past few days. Great structural changes are being made for the project. Honestly, I'm really happy with these changes. These changes have been discussed with the creators as well.

Quackity: I just wanted to give you all an update regarding that. I'll keep you updated, everyone! We're moving forward, I just wanted to give you a quick update.

[foursaints]

the idea that evan just doesn't like food always tickles me. like this little guy will return home from dissecting and running experiments on corpses to just eat... a biscuit? a little snack? before bedtime?

we're underestimating the extent to which evan rosier attends to his own bodily upkeep like a fucking robot... i think he returns home from dissecting to sit at his kitchen counter. he sighs laboriously, and then eats his beloved bowl of porridge at 11pm, then he turns to eat a handful of vegetables & protein bars which he's selected to optimize his nutrition. he hates the whole process so it looks like Deadpan Expression -> Loud Bite Of Celery -> Visible Wince -> Repeat

barty is sitting across the table absolutely Housing a burrito just watching this like Bro.....