#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.*

[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.

[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.

[therealicething]

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.

[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.

[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.....

[one-pissed-off-child]

I don't understand people who bring up knife violence in the UK whenever we have a discussion about the rampant US' problem with guns as if people in the UK are being knifed anywhere NEAR the rate US citizens are being gunned down

[coldresolve]

themes of ownership and aesthetic dehumanization and punishment for rule-breaking just come across as so superficial to me at this point. you took the concept of sadistic control and you flattened it with a dough roller, cut away the interesting parts and served it raw. it's a charicature. none of your characters stand out to me. they don't feel alive. they feel like childish attempts to express a simplified version of a phenomenon that's actually pretty complicated.

taking control of the role of victimhood by imposing it on another.

thats what sadism is. its not 'im an eccentric villain and my sole motivation is to enjoy the aesthetics of your suffering', instead its often 'i was traumatized and hurting you is a tool i use to combat my own feelings of helplessness', or 'you did or said something that made me feel emotionally out of control and as a response i want to take that control back from you', or 'i empathize intensely with your victimhood, and the only way i can deal with that is to attribute further to it, because then it's about you and not about me' - these attitudes often are not conscious to the sadist themself, but it tends to show very clearly in their behavior. genuine sadists don't try to establish dominance for the sake of interpersonal goals (unless they're also psychopathic) - it's a coping mechanism, just like denial or aggressiveness. they are trying to maintain their own ego.

"you look so pretty when you cry" / "you're going to break so beautifully for me" / "you defied my command - you know what that means..."

you've missed the point.

[moociaoafterdark]

I had it posted on my telegram channel, so might as well post it here.

So, uhm... This is a post by Warhammer community announcing Sanguinius' JoyToy action figure and...

"...make sure you get your orders in before the Warmaster gets his hands on our beautiful angelic boy."

... That's uh... That's an interesting choice of words there, Warhammer community!

[enden-k]

btw i now understand the achievement by, you know. getting it myself and reading the description instead of having someone in my inbox blabber abt it and confuse me to no end so please dont do that again, thanku

[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.

[chiropteracupola]

Hi I am Exceedingly Curious about leg theory but tumblrs search function is the only search bar that exclusively shows you things that AREN'T what you're looking for. May I have a link to an explanation of Leg Theory?

leg theory is the brainchild of the excellent and esteemed @catilinas and in short it is A Collection of Thoughts regarding Seafaring, Identity, Curses and Rituals, Sacrifice, and a Significant Leg Injury or Incident!

notable incidences of leg theory include: odysseus when scar on leg, john franklin's / thomas blanky's / ???'s legs in the terror, john silver's leg in treasure island & black sails, a good 45% of what's going on in moby dick, and that time my dad fell through a hatch on a sailboat and fractured his tibia in a way that was quite interesting for his character development.

other and perhaps more coherent explanations about leg theory can be found here, here, and here, and for Grasping At The Vibes of When It's Leg, I highly recommend perusing the 'leg theory' tags on either of the fine blogs I have linked!