#damn what a turn of events

[sysig]

maybe you should doodle however many or few starcon/helix/damned characters as you like (in human or alien form) in cute halloween costumes! imagine... ZEX dressed up as Ariel thelittlemermaid...

Day 26 - "I hadn't realized humans also had aquatic subcultures!" "Oh, well, uhm..."

[thoughtfulfangirling]

I have only two or three episodes left of Ted Lasso, and while Keeley is my favorite, I find myself thinking so much about the men in this story.

Because they are such good examples of positive masculinity!

In the end of bell hooks's book The Will to Change, she calls for more and better representation of masculinity in media. She says men need to see other ways of performing masculinity, ways that don't rest on a need for power over others and the ability to oppress.

Elizabeth Plank, in her book For the Love of Men speaks to a need of rediscovery of what manhood looks like now that gender roles are not at all what they used to be. Masculinity is no longer defined by being the sole income for a family. She speaks to women redefining womanhood and what can fall under the idea of femininity, and she bemoans that lack of exploration among men and how that's an exploration desperately needed.

Ted Lasso seems to be a show built on an idea of doing that exploration. There are so many different depictions of men and masculinity in this show, and most of them are positive, rooted in how to be a good and valuable member of society, in making and maintaining connections, in supporting each other and others.

And genuinely the show doesn't seem to be mocking any of its depictions of men. Even Rupert they're coming around to show that his own adherence to oppressive masculinity is rendering his life lonely and sabotaging him. He's not being redeemed so far or anything, but he's the most 'traditional' man as defined by hooks, and he's arguable the most miserable.

Nathan is on the upturn after trying his hand at that form of masculinity and it's so clear how much that kind of manhood doesn't suit him, his needs, or his search for happiness.

I spent some time after reading The Will to Change trying to think of media that offers new models of masculinity, and Steven Universe definitely came to mind. But I wanted to think of something for adults too.

Ted Lasso. Ted Lasso is the show I would pick for representing new ideas on healthy masculinity in a world that wants to let everyone live authentic lives. It's not that the men in it are all healthy and perfect. Far from it in fact. Some of the most beautiful depictions is in their striving for growth, healing, and their will to change and fine love.

[dawnthefluffyduck]

Sunday doodles

[yakny]

Knight Bobo, wearing some of the patterns I drew :D!

[bisaster-energy]

Merlin but Merlin loses it when Arthur dies and instinctively starts a time loop and every time Arthur dies it automatically resets...for angst purposes it could stay tragic..no matter what he does to change the past kilgharra was right. no one can change their destiny nor can they escape it. or by starting this time loop at all he's doing is preventing the rise of the once and future king so by staving off Arthur's death he's actually preventing anyone from ever really living again. a never ending story with one character aware of the narrative but powerless to change it. a puppet with a brain but no autonomy to put it to use. A tragedy of his own making instead the one prophesized

[qqqqqqqqqqq0]

i did a thing

[altruistic-meme]

*crawling out of february covered in dirt and soaked in blood*

i finally finished my event fics <3

[anthropomorphicbeancake]

Atrocities happening to innocents that are a part of the oppressor state or group, is still the fault of the oppressor, not the oppressed for using the same tactics in their defense.

[seariii]

The weird mix of being stressed out, happy and exhausted... Gonna have to organize once more to get all of this sorted

[randomnameless]

I know you love to call sothis the worst mom but I can't help but feel the only reason her (byleth too to a degree) gets shoved into never being able to take stance on anything is due to edelgard.

The multiple route systems and the devs trying (and failing) to make every side "have a point/reason". We can't let byleth (who sothis is stuck to) make choice by default to go against edelgard. Few characters are allowed to get pissed and stay that way with edelgard in both games. They shackle both byleth and sothis to "any route can be canon" so they don't get to react or remark to anything. No matter the route in hopes its the same for them. I wish they just committed to having byleth/sothis be the main villain protecting their family in hopes but they needed them both for marketing.

I don't see either character truly bad due to being underutilized and stagnant. The multiple-route system has to have them agree with all the routes regardless of whether it makes sense or not.

Of course anon!

That's the Doylist answer to Sothis being, well, nothing more than a plot device who has to follow the player's choice to side with X or Y, even when Y sides with Agarthans and swears to obliterate her kin.

Tru Piss is basically "fuck Sothis" route, but with a greater emphasis on Rhea because red herring and because "Rhea BaD", even if Supreme Leader is barking at the wrong tree!

And yeah, ultimately, all those characters are written in a doylist POV to fit with what the devs intended.

However, even if the Fodlan continuity is rife with, uh, writers and devs wanting to convey one thing but doing it in the most roundabout way possible so no one actually buys it - time and time again they could have written Sothis as a character who gives a fuck about her family, but doesn't.

Voice Line Anon (tm lol) is kind enough to provide me with a translation of her lines in Nopes, but basically yeah, the writers had her actually interact with her fam in an AU of an AU with NG+ on top.

And it would just be, annoying but okay-ish if a certain character's entire arc - as we're supposed to believe per the writers - is about meeting her again!

Mind you, even in SS (or VW), we don't see Sothis, fully aware, react to Rhea giving the most important infodump of all infodumps - answering one of Sothis's biggest questions after she woke up - and in the worst S-Support of the game, we're told they, uh, spoke while Rhea was flying in her half-berserk state and told her some words that made Rhea wonder if she should be happy not to have died.

We're not even in "any route can be canon", because Felix can be recruited to other routes than his own, but at least in AM Felix has plot relevance, has words for Dimitri and reacts to his dad's death. SS could have been the route where Rhea's despair, crying or begging for Sothis just to hold her once again, would amount to something... but no.

To give a parallel, the devs deliberately wrote Dedue as unrecruitable, but who participates in SS/VW to take down Supreme Leader. The same devs wrote Hilda as unrecruitable in Tru Piss - even if in Nopes she dgaf about Supreme Leader anymore and can join her team.

But the devs never bothered to make an event, less a line where Sothis talks to her children - especially to her heartbroken daughter - save for Nopes' AU of an AU. Heck, even in FEH they dance around it, and she looks even more callous because F!Rhea in her FB pleads for Sothis's presence and just wants to see her (even her lvl40 quote!) but Halloween!Sothis refuses to see Halloween!Rhea - when she knows she's the progenitor god!! - for some reason, and I'm pretty sure it's not one that is only tied to Supreme Leader.

Ultimately, yeah, I agree, Sothis is underutilised and stagnant, but both her apparition off-screen in SS and her S-Support in Tru Piss (any routes but Tru Piss takes the cake) really makes me wonder, did the devs really intended her to be a mc guffin but unconsciously wrote her to be the worst parent of the franchise - heck even Sonia looks better - ?

Nopes's NG+ lines really made me reconsider because gfdi she has lines she could have acted/reacted in the game damn it, they even got a characterisation for her regarding each of her relatives... but no.

At times I really wonder if the main crux of the game isn't the corollary to Hresvelg Tea - everyone should love Supreme Leader, of course, but "Rhea BaD" because if she's not "BaD" then what is the player even supposed to be/do? And as sad as it is, Sothis - in general - was used to fuel the "Rhea BaD" pyre more than, imo, the "Hresvelg Grey" uwufest, even if indeed, the two are closely linked.

[fearcicada]

Jonathan Sims and Aromanticism as being disconnected from and unrelatable to other children, As never being romantically interested in someone during your school years because you don’t have time for that nonsense, you’re focused on your studies, you don’t like spending time around others. As no one being romantically interested in you until college – at that point, do you even know what romance is? What it feels like? As dating someone because they like you – You might as well date Georgie, she’s interested in you, and you like her well enough as a friend. Is this what love is? As not being interested in sex either. What is there to define the difference between romantic and platonic feelings that doesn’t involve physicality? As going into asexual spaces and always seeing the “we may not like sex but we still love people and want relationships like anyone else!!!” takes. As already being closed off, rude, an acquired taste for most. When it’s already hard for most people to want to be your friend - romantic relationships seem even more unrealistic. Already having a lack of personal relationships in your life - not exactly helped by not being interested in most people’s idea of “romantic relationships.” As being less aware of things like flirting and romance than most (because of said lack of personal relationships your entire life). As being completely unaware of someone else liking you for months/years even when it seemed like, really really obvious to everyone else. As having less and less people around you who don't hate your guts or are dead and having the one person who doesn't hate you, wanting to date you? Like romantically? As feeling inhuman. As questioning your humanity. As trying to define your humanity through romance. As being green themed and covered in eyes and becoming the lynchpin of the apocalypse<333

[chaotictomtom]

truly want to create a brbasona and it's just a lil guy who has nothing else to do/needs the money badly so starts to work for gus by trying to get mentored by mike but it like dies the first ep he's on and by a bear trap in the middle of the street or crushed by a piano or smth. haunting the narrative not by a traumatic death but by a goofy stupid silly one. "hey remember..that guy....yeah weird. anyway"

[icybloggss]

I really miss the old tumblr xo

[cetoddle-archive]

oh fuck. i have to go 2 bed. i have errands to run tmrw

[savage-rhi]

Fuchsia? 😂

[leamilea]

absolutely so fucking interesting how for 9 months so called "leftists" have been screaming "free palestine/congo/DRC" and pledged they're not voting for biden in the fall and want nothing to do with the collegiate voting system. but when biden finally drops out and kamala is running the stand, these people suddenly rush to the "vote blue no matter who" defense and collectively gaslight others into voting as the "better option." pretending as if this woman didn't build her career jailing people for misdemeanors, extending jail time for said people even when proven innocent, jailed trans women in mens' prisons, will continue to partake in the genocides--this woman will not save you or anyone.