#but those are just my thoughts

[willow-p012]

Little Red Riding Hood

!!TW FOR MENTIONED S/A!!

Because it's impossible to talk about Little Red Riding Hood without mentioning it at least once.

Q: Tell us your family structure. A: Grandmother, father, mother, older brother.

Once upon a time, there lived in a certain village, a little country girl, the prettiest creature who ever was seen. Her mother was excessively fond of her; and her grand-mother doted on her much more.

Kotoko mentions her Grandmother in her family structure, and yet we have no mention of her Grandfather, just as in Little Red Riding Hood. This could be for many reasons, such as perhaps simply dying of old age.

This good woman had a little red riding hood made for her. It suited the girl so extremely well that everybody called her Little Red Riding Hood.

Once she gave her a little cap made of red velvet. Because it suited her so well, and she wanted to wear it all the time, she came to be known as Little Red Cap.

One of Kotoko's most worn outfits is a red jacket. In most versions, the outfit has a hood, except for the brothers Grimm version in which it is "Little Red Cap", but you can probably still get the idea. Kotoko wears a red hood, just like Red.

Her prison outfit also notably has a hood on it.

As she was going through the wood,

she met with a wolf, who had a very great mind to eat her up,

I am surprised I haven't seen anyone mention this yet, but this is very much so a parallel to the Little Red Riding Hood story. Kotoko goes into the woods, where she is surrounded by wolves, but notably there is a wolf that runs with her, it's not like the other's, who cannot keep up, but it doesn't eat her when she stops. No, it looks at her, and it tells her to do what it does, to bite.

"Grandmother, what big teeth you have got!"

"All the better to eat you up with."

And back to her Grandmother. The wolf shows her it's teeth, it could eat her, even if it does not jump up like the wolf in the story. With the Little Red Riding Hood parallels, it's not a far reach that the wolf may be representative of someone talking to Kotoko in her Grandmother's name.

Moral: Children, especially attractive, well bred young ladies, should never talk to strangers, for if they should do so, they may well provide dinner for a wolf.

I say "wolf," but there are various kinds of wolves. There are also those who are charming, quiet, polite, unassuming, complacent, and sweet, who pursue young women at home and in the streets. And unfortunately, it is these gentle wolves who are the most dangerous ones of all.

It is these gentle wolves, the ones who do not bite immediately, who are most dangerous of all.

Most of the time in dreams, the wolf is a representation of the male sexual predator. As in fairy tales, the wolf is a lover of fresh flesh (Little Red Riding Hood). Its presence in a dream can then mean that the dreamer has been exposed to disturbing, abusive and/or pedophilic sexual behavior.

While I do not believe it is known if Kaneshiro was a sexual sort of predator or not, a lot of people have theorised it so, either way he is one of the most common things the wolf is used to represent: a male predator. He is a 'lover of flesh'. Obviously, there are themes of young women being abused within Kotoko's story, specifically by these men, these 'lovers of flesh'.

[raddest-laddest]

i find it a bit strange that gutsy opted to make toffle genderless in this adaptation… i find it even stranger that they cut out miffle entirely

[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

[uncanny-tranny]

I think so many people are so deeply alienated from themselves that they have no clue how to exercise their free will and autonomy. For some, this alienation runs so deep that they are afraid of their own autonomy and humanity. It is completely understandable why one would have those feelings, but it can be worrisome.

I want to help others who feel this way, so here are small things I have done to exercise my free will:

Add "guilty pleasure" songs to playlists and actually listen to them (I have a ton of late 1990s-early 2000s music I listen to now proudly that I never listened to in the past out of shame)

Getting the décor item, bath set, bed spread, ect. in the patterns you like, even if it's "childish" (I got a dinosaur-themed wastebasket from the kids' décor section and I adore it)

Taking a new route to get to a place you go to often

Eat dessert first

Celebrate well, and often

Collect things that are "odd" or don't seem like an "acceptable" thing to collect (somebody on my "for you" page collects dandelion crayola crayons and it was so cool!!!!!!)

Incorporate one new piece in an outfit you wear frequently (e.g., a new chain, a necklace, ribbons, bracelets, ect.). Challenge yourself to add onto the outfits if you feel up for it.

Sing along to songs without worrying that you sound "good" or your intonation is completely accurate

Read a book from a genre you weren't allowed to read as a kid (comics, thrillers, mysteries, anything!)

Walk without having a specific destination or goal

Pick up a new craft without expecting yourself to master it or to ever be "good" enough. Get your hands messy.

I don't want to shame anybody for not feeling as though they have free will or that they are exempt from exercising it. However, I wanted to give ideas so that you might read this list and find your own ways to express your intrinsic autonomy and will. You deserve to be a person, to feel alive, not just living. That is what our lives are for.

[egophiliac]

IF YOU GO NOW TO SILVER'S PROFILE IT SHOWS "SILVER VANROUGE" I AM!!! NOT OKAY!!! WAUGH

OH MY GOD 😭

like...it wasn't even just "oh we'll call you Silver Vanrouge now", they just straight-up made the adoption official, under the statute of Malleus Says So. he's legally recognized as Lilia's kid! I'm so happy for them!

this may take some getting used to though

[wishfulsketching]

Season 1 Silco, my beloved

[zombie-bait]

Larian modding animation + Legends of Avantris Chuckles animation held hands to bring him to life folks

[turtleblogatlast]

Leo learns something about himself 🏳️‍⚧️

Based roughly on this old post.

Bonus:

[Leo is taking the fact that he was born biologically female simultaneously very well and also not so well but overall he’s mostly coping with the fact that it was Draxum that just essentially gave him the turtle equivalent of ‘The Talk’.]

[wickedcriminal]

Oh that's where he went

[hinamie]

in spite of everything, I had fun <3

[adorethesmiths]

i cant go to school i cant go to school i cant go to school i cant go to school i cant go to school i cant go to school i cant go to school i cant go to school i cant go to school i cant go to school i cant go to school i cant go to school i cant go to school i cant go to school i cant go to school i cant go to school i cant go to school i cant go to school i cant go to school i cant go to school i cant go to school i cant go to school i cant go to school i cant go to school i cant go to school i cant go to school i cant go to school i cant go to school i cant go to school i cant go to school i cant go to school i cant go to school i cant go to school i cant go to school i cant go to school

[boobilby]

Gone fishing, be back in a month or so

[blackkatdraws2]

[Toon x Mobster] Only he can make him laugh like that...

Jack Desmond is the silly guy. Gavriel Huffman is the scary guy. They come from different worlds that has contrasting genres, one more cartoonishly comedic and the other much dramatically darker.

It's kind of a running gag that Sir Huffman is unable to laugh without looking absolutely wicked. Both in the cartoon world and his own world.

That doesn't stop Jack from being completely smitten with him though, his voice is the most mind-melting thing he's ever had the pleasure to hear

[AUDIO USED:] Men I Trust - show me how

[keferon]

THE NEW CHAPTER OF MISTAKES ON MISTAKES UNTIL IS OUT AND YOU ALL KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS~~~~~~

Spoilers for ch 74 below >:)

Head in hands. And then they all happened to be self sacrificial idiots.

Infinitely delighted by the fact that Optimus automatically decided to catch whoever was falling and only look who that was afterwards. 100/10. Peak Optimus writing.

[teaboot]

Okay so I may have been struggling under a miscommunication issue

[chloesimaginationthings]

FNAF Phone guy was wild for saying that to Michael..