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hotspace39 · 11 months ago
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I’m visiting Ianto’s shrine tmro AGH! AGH !
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clonehighdoublehelix · 1 day ago
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The world if people stopped applying their understanding of "conservatism" and "religion/christianity" through a very modern, deeply American view onto Death Note (a manga from the Early-mid 2000s which is very much set in the cultural and societal context of early-mid 2000s Japan and all that entails):
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#death note#fandom wank#i just be ramblin#listen I get it there's christian imagery#it's not bad to go over what that entails and whatnot. fun even#but beyond some potential parallels and symbols you have to understand that this is a japanese story set in japan in the early-mid 2000s#(and later an imagined 'future' from there)#you are not understanding the story if you're placing the characters on a political spectrum of beliefs based on what conservatism looks#like to you#you're superimposing your personal modern experiences and your country's societal/cultural state onto Death Note and it's characters and#calling it 'a reading'#I genuinely don't know how many more times I can endure people acting like Soichiro Yagami and Teru Mikami have the exact same set of#beliefs and religion and standards as a Southern USA republican/ultra conservative super christian#Or hell. People assuming that Light Yagami can't ever be relatable because someone like Light looks to them like a teacher's wet dream of a#perfect student who is always working hard and studying#when the truth is that while Light is the top student in Japan at one point‚ everything he is doing is within the realm of expectation for#'good' Japanese students. Not exceptional or supernatural or beyond dedicated. Good.#This is a manga where the time period and the setting and society at the time are deeply important#And you will never hope to have an understanding by forcing it to conform to what 'normal' society looks like to you#relating to character's experiences can go beyond relating and end up in territory where you're superimposing your experiences onto their#fictional reality and calling it canon#edit (because people put some good tags on this post): even though I was kind of vague about it this also goes for assuming that#christianity is the only possible religion any characters could be into#the options aren't either athiesm or christianity. there are other big religions in Japan#and in the same way Christianity colors American society and experiences even for people who have never practiced‚ so goes the way society#and people's general beliefs are influenced by Japan's major religions#the person in the tags who mentioned Shinto gets a cookie
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batfambyval · 1 year ago
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Okay here’s the thing I’m really annoyed about concerning Tim Drake:
He didn’t remain CEO in more than name. He let Lucius take care of everything he just used the position to create his Neon Knights initiative. He isn’t running WE. He is however running NK. He’s traveling around the world setting up NK locations in cities with lots of at risk youth. He’s not running a Fortune 500 company he’s running a non-profit charity organization dedicated to protecting kids and getting more people on a stable path earlier in life. He isn’t out here dealing with rich, white, assholes so he can make money for himself! He’s doing it to better the world, he’s doing it for education and a safe environment for kids around the world! And he is facing a lot of resistance from the rest of the rich and powerful. He is endearing himself to no one in the business world because his ultimate goal is to dethrone them all by fixing the wage gap. He wants people to have choices so the rich and powerful can’t exploit them as easily.
Tim Drake is not a business man. He has the skills, the ruthlessness and the determination but not the desire. He uses his status and money to help people in need. And it’s a more realistic way of helping the world. You can’t just throw money at problems and expect them to go away. Donating money doesn’t help nearly as much as using money to create systems that help people get the skills and opportunities they need. It takes dedicated work and meticulous oversight and it’s not something that can be done casually. It’s a commitment, not a hobby. The world is to fucked up for any easy fixes. But Neon Knights is a great idea, a long term solution if done correctly. I’ve always thought that fixing education and making sure everyone has equal opportunity from a young age would fix a lot of the issues in the world. More educated people making smarter decisions, more diversity because everyone’s success in entirely merit based. Anyway I’m getting off track. Point is, Tim isn’t some business man with charitable contributions here and there. He’s dedicated his civilian life to the long term benefit of society. He’s not a slacker or a full time vigilante. He’s out there building an entirely new system, a global network of people and locations dedicated solely to helping kids have better futures.
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thesongthesoulsings · 1 year ago
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I had to...
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velarisdusk · 14 days ago
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i know i’ve been radio silent for almost a week now but school and work do that anyway i just got a feysand anti under one of my posts this is like a milestone of some kind isn’t it :D lmao do i reply it’s really funny
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harbingerofsoup · 1 day ago
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i do think when we’re discussing iwtv not getting the respect it deserves (from both the industry and mainstream audiences) it’s important to note the interplay between race, queerness, and genre
like i see those three things talked about separately to different degrees depending on what circle of the fandom im perusing through, which is important don’t get me wrong, but often these conversations feel incomplete due to how closely these factors work together in the show and therefore how that plays into biased perceptions of the show
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really feel like fandom needs to get more comfortable with ambiguous dynamics, and how that ambiguity can be a feature not a bug! i notice this everywhere in fandom now, but this post is about sydcarmy the bear cause that is my current hyperfixation lol. sitting with ambiguity is the lifeblood of so many (all?) queer ships (also, importantly, my real-life queer experience) but i think it’s often relevant for straight ships too. no one is making sydcarmy antis ship them but to say ABSOLUTELY NOT because the nature of their relationship at this very moment is not easily defined is missing so much that is rich and interesting and sexy about figuring out what the dynamic is. *especially* for fan content (which is what a lot of us are here for actually!) using fic and meta to explore what certain words, body language, editing choices, music choices, etc mean is what makes our brains light up! (mine at least)
tension between two characters is the sexiest thing and ambiguity heightens that tension imo! whatever happens or does not happen with them in the future, at this very moment in time the undefinable quality of their relationship creates the space for shipping. this used to be a rather basic concept in fandom that seems to have gotten lost in the past however many years. i guess the primary anti response to this would be that the dynamic is *not* ambiguous—it is platonic—but like, i am with @eatandsleepwell who just included the following in this excellent post today:
and the thing about syd and carm being friends is that. they’re not. or at least not yet. or at least they need more to be friends. friends know your mom is dead, they know what your relationship with your parents is like. friends can easily hang out with each other after work. friends can be apart without the sense that the separation is akin to devastation. 
i don’t really think they’re friends! they are a weird third thing that is so delicious to me, and every single day right now very brilliant people are writing hundreds of words on this website attempting to interpret what that thing is or could be. this is the lifeblood of fandom! and the demand or expectation that ships have neon signs above them that say ROMANTIC to be valid romantic ships is just very odd to me. syd and carmy are weird and intense about each other in a way that is not easy to parse but once you decide to try and parse it, it’s such a satisfying experience as a fan. they had some major blow ups in s1, and in s2 managed to largely avoid them with the asl sorry but clearly were in unspokenish conflict much of the time (that they managed to diffuse just barely; mostly by syd walking away!) besties is not the word i would use to describe them at all. besties do not struggle this much to communicate. there are so many wonderful complicated bonkers things going on there and the purpose of this post isn’t to get into them but just to point out that they’re there.
anyone who thinks it’s easy to reduce them to any one given thing right now isn’t paying enough attention. and not being able to categorize them easily isn’t a bad thing for me. it’s the constant thrum of what is this? what is this? what is this??? that makes fandom great and i wish that didn’t feel like a hot take right now.
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rainy-day707 · 5 months ago
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Mute Allison Hargreeves (The Umbrella Academy AU)
I was rewatching Season 1 and reached the episode where Viktor(at the time going by Vanya) accidentally slit Allison’s throat. when she recovered, Luther said she shouldn’t use her vocal chords for the time being as to prevent further damage. For the rest of Season 1, Allison uses a notepad to communicate with the family. But then my HOH brain had a thought, what if she stayed mute and had to use ASL to communicate?
“How would she know ASL?” you may ask. I have a few hypotheticals.
1. Reginald had all the Hargreeves children learn ASL. Maybe he wanted them to know it in the event of deaf hostages, maybe to practice hand coordination, or effective communication in stealth missions, etc.
2. Grace taught them all sign language. In one of my ASL classes, there was a guy who had a pretty bad stutter. He was going through speech therapy but he still wanted to learn another form of communication that wasn’t writing. I mention him because diego had a stutter as a kid, maybe Grace taught him sign language so he could communicate when speaking got too hard. She taught the rest of the family so they could understand him. Although I imagine Reginald would be too stubborn to learn
3. Allison learned ASL for a role
“Would she still be able to rumor people?”
Aside from the mental block/morals she has around her powers, I say yes. Despite the fact her powers are shown to come from her mouth, I’d say in this AU, her powers come from her head rather than her vocal chords. ASL is just another language, I think as long as she can sign “I heard a rumor”, she can still use her powers.*
Also I think she could rumor people who don’t know ASL. At the beginning of Season 2, she says “I heard a rumor, that I blew your minds” to Soviet soldiers (who presumably don’t speak English) and their heads blew up.
“What if the rest of the Hargreeves family doesn’t know ASL?”
Well if I was Allison I’d rumor them into understanding ASL. (kidding, but lord knows I wish I could rumor my family members into spontaneously being fluent in ASL.) However I believe the Hargreeves family would learn ASL. (I know they barely hang out as a family even after s1 and they die in s4 but let a boy dream)
- I think Five would know from reading books during the apocalypse and his time in the commission.
- Luther and Viktor don’t know anything but are most willing to learn.
- Diego learned the basics years ago(during his time in the police academy, or after he saved a deaf mugging-victim) but is now brushing up on it.
- Klaus barely knows and ghost-Ben is basically fluent. Ghost-Ben acts as his invisible interpreter while Klaus is learning.
Theres a separate story to be had about the Hargreeves family learning ASL and miscommunicating with each other in sign. Because it wouldn’t be the Hargreeves family without a healthy dose of miscommunication.
*note: ASL is a more direct language than english. It gets the point across quicker. Ex: In english you would say “how tall are you?” in ASL it would be “you how-tall?”
TDLR: local tumblr user obsessed with projecting himself onto fictional characters makes an AU where the main characters use ASL…again.
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aglo-no-kyojin · 1 month ago
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The Bert Hate Anon is more obsessed with Bertholdt than every Bert stan combined how are you gonna have three whole blogs dedicated to him
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shima-draws · 7 months ago
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Shima is it Coralaw 👀👀👀
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#Shima answers questions#Coralaw#NDJKASNMKJDSADSA#To be 100% clear I do NOT ship Law as a 13 year old child I ship him as an adult#They are both consenting adults!!#...At least in the context of an AU where Cora is alive!! And they reunited as adults!#Also the 13 years of separation and Law's devotion and dedication to Cora i.e. his tattoos his pirate crew#his jolly roger and his revenge quest on Doflamingo AND the intense pining got to me OKAY#No matter how you look at their relationship Law's devotion to Cora is NOT normal. That is not heterosexual behavior. LMAO#The dependency is so unhealthy and I am unwell.#At the VERY least I can definitely see it being one-sided on Law's end#Again you do not devote 13 years of your life to killing a man for someone and classify that as normal#Law didn't spend that amount of time on his parents OR his sister#It was just Cora. Squinting eyes emoji#Also I should have expected this when I made that post a month ago about them being platonic soulmates#Bc they ARE. And they could be...MORE#Anyway if this makes any of you uncomfy that is perfectly fine and valid#I probably won't talk about them in a shipping context too often anyway I just figured I'd bring it up!#You can block the tag or unfollow it's fine 👍#Just pwease no steppy#At the end of the day they are fictional characters. They are not real#Also iykyk but I blame a certain someone's amazing comic series for this. I have been CONVERTED#Listen I just want them to hug and hold hands okay. That is all 🥺#One Piece
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thewitchkingiscool-ace · 2 years ago
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fantasygerard2000 · 10 months ago
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Magnifico simps the moment people acknowledge that him as a bad guy:
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redstrewn · 2 years ago
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Last min speed doodle for my fav poor violent meow meow
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dinosaurwithablog · 9 months ago
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I think that it is cool that the TV show, Castle, has generated a series of books written by the protagonist on the show, Richard Castle. They are available for perusal in your local library. I didn't enjoy the Derrick Storm books as much as I enjoyed the Nikki Heat books. I love how they incorporated the characters from the TV show into the books. The names are changed, but we know who they are. In my opinion, that's dedication to character development 👏🏽 😊😋
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