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[vynnyal]

Stuff I've made on my phone, I guess? Of varying levels of "quality"

[mayasaura]

not to throw another coal on the discourse fire but the overwhelming whiteness of the tlt fandom and the series itself being clearly white written makes me particularly averse to certain people reading the whiteness as john's fault. "if john is so indigenous, why is the series classically themed 😏" nevermind all the immediate answers to that (and the immediate optics of that when you have white people questioning people's indigeneity based on their education and background, which happens all the damn time irl, and especially since those same bloggers do it to real indigenous bloggers who disagree with them LOL), do you know how CORNY it would be if white as driven snow muir was like here's my protagonist… Hinenui o te Iwa

Zjdhdg okay but hold on. That. That is a very good point.

Hinenui o te Iwa taught the Cohort haka, reinvented tāmoko, and organized the peoples into waka instead of houses. He summoned the heirs of each rangatira to Kurawaka to become atua. Which are of course identical to lyctors except in name.

[leahdrawsstuff]

I get people not liking Toradora or even not wanting to finish it, but the way it’s become VERY popular online to openly bash it or call it the worst anime romcom is very…… weird

the thing is… Toradora is not a shoujo. the story isn’t meant to be fluffy and perfect. Taiga as a character is EXTREMELY flawed. And I think she’s a little too flawed for the average romcom anime watcher.

Firstly, no I am not defending how she likes to hit Ryuuji, and that behavior in a real life person obviously wouldn’t be ok, but Winry of Fullmetal Alchemist regularly throws a wrench at Ed’s head for comedic effect and I very rarely see that being held against her character. I don’t like it either, but it’s a fairly weak criticism of Taiga specifically since slapstick was pretty par for the course in early 2000s anime comedy.

But other than that, she’s basically just… annoying and mean. And pretty quickly you learn that this is because she’s a spoiled brat who simultaneously lacks both parental guidance and attention. And they address this head on, and she eventually acknowledges this and tries to change it. The way her story arc is handled is actually pretty interesting. Just because the female protagonist isn’t an uwu perfect shy nice girl doesn’t mean it’s a bad love story

I feel like I have way more to say on this but in conclusion if you really couldn’t stand Taiga then Toradora isn’t for you, and that’s ok, but that does not make it objectively bad. There are absolutely aspects of it worth criticizing, but there are also a lot of really interesting story elements with complex exploration of both romantic and familial relationships. It’s definitely worth a watch if you can handle a 16 year old girl being an asshole

[tinypi]

[somehowmags]

ok mega disclaimer that this is not shipping discourse and i really do not care if you ship gelphie or fiyeraba do whatever you want im not your mom but my controversial opinion on wicked is that i like gelphie as much as the next person which is to say i think its a fun ship but the thing is even if All That hadn't happened i don't think a relationship between them would have like. lasted very long. glinda is at her core a coward who upholds the status quo because it benefits her, and elphaba is a person whose existence challenges the status quo. like that scene where glinda announces that shes changing her name to glinda as like, a protest against the treatment of animals is so telling about her character because it just does not matter. changing her name is not a political action. it doesn't effect any policy. it does nothing to actually help any animal. it has no effect on anything other than glindas personal life, and in the following scenes she still defends the wizard even after hearing that he and morrible are the ones spearheading the discrimination campaign against animals. she doesn't even do it for good reasons (in the movie at least ive listened to the musical but ive never seen it in person) she does it because fiyero and elphaba are bonding over something that she has very little idea of or experience with and she wants to look good. elphaba meanwhile must challenge the status quo whether she wants to or not. her skin color will always mark her as the other and she sympathizes with the animals because she is in the same position. unlike glinda she does actual activism when she and fiyero save the lion cub. unlike the name change this actually helps someone- the lion cub is able to speak and live freely because they save him. and unlike the name change its from a place of good intentions. glinda cares about looking good, elphaba cares about doing good. fieryo is also interesting in this respect because he comes from the same shallow, self centered place as glinda does, but unlike glinda, he changes as a person after witnessing what happens to the animals. glinda saw dillamond being harassed, she saw him being arrested, she saw the lion cub in the cage, and she still decided the status quo was more important than the rights of animals. fiyero also saw the arrest and the lion cub, but seeing that and helping elphaba free the lion cub changes his worldview completely. hes no longer dancing through life, he realizes he should use his privilege to help others. ultimately fiyero and elphaba get a happy ending together because theyve inspired each other to change and grow as people, and glinda doesn't because she realizes her actions have caused harm too late for her to be happy with elphaba

[nixotinix]

YOWZA WOWZA it's been a while! My MH spark died down for a bit in favour of my OCs and goddamned Papa Louie if you can believe it, but my monster high hyperfixation eventually came back and came back swinging! It definitely helps that I recently got some new supplies that Ive never played with before... paint pens! They're so much fun to use and I've been cranking out art at an absolutely ungodly speed because of them. So here's some of that art!

I only have 8 colours of paint pen as of right now bc im poor but like if anybody wanted to buy me some more ahaha just joking (unless....)

Anyways enjoy!

[nikkalick]

I have chronic back pain, have for a while. It’s not so bad now that I had surgery, but I lived with it for years. I tried to go to a doctor for it, but they just said to lose weight, so I learned to live with the pain until one morning I couldn’t get up from bed. Couldn’t move without feeling like electricity was running up and down my back, burning my spine and leg from the inside.

This had me back in front of a doctor who (thankfully) listened and then for an entire year my insurance jerked me around requiring that I try different methods to manage the pain before finally agreeing to cover surgery.

In that year leading up to surgery something inside me broke. I couldn’t do the most basic tasks. Having to learn how to move my body in just the right way so that I wouldn’t lock up trying to wipe my own ass is one of my least favorite memories. Next to it is a tie between falling at my sister’s wedding because my leg gave out and being in so much pain I couldn’t sleep for days on end. I couldn’t sit, couldn’t drive, couldn’t bend or twist or even lay down without feeling like my nerves were on fire.

Work accommodated but I felt useless. I couldn’t lift inventory anymore. Couldn’t do a key part of my job that I (oddly) enjoyed doing. Commuting the hour to school twice a week was excruciating, but it was my first year of grad school. I had to push through. My professors were kind, they accommodated so that I could be as comfortable as possible in class. But I felt like a distraction, a nuisance, a bother. It was so hard to focus on lectures and homework when 90% of the input my brain was receiving was that of pain.

I grit my teeth and bore it, my mental health hit a new all time low, and I broke down in front my my mother more times than I can count. And I did this for a year because insurance refused to cover surgery unless I proved to them I needed it. I had to jump through their hoops and play by their rules to get the procedure I needed and that my care team knew I needed. I lost feeling in my leg and foot because they made me wait.

I will forever be grateful for the doctors who listened, for the physical therapist who advocated for me, for my mom who surprisingly became my rock during the whole ordeal. But my insurance company? They can go fuck themselves.

My pain before that year was bad, but not excruciating. My pain now? It’s minimal. Sometimes I still lock up and I’ll likely never have all of the sensation return to my left foot, but I’ll take the constant pins and needles over that year of pain any day. That said, had it gone on much longer I genuinely don’t know if I’d be here typing this.

Anyways…I guess what I’m saying is IF he did it, I get it. I really really get it.

[the-final-sif]

Ik it's been ages since u spoke about it but I adore Ur protege au it's so fun

Wait which one, Protege AU c!Tommy or Protege AU c!Tubbo, I have both.

If it's Protege c!Tommy, at some point people learn c!Tommy is on c!Dream's side. because. well. c!Tommy sucks at keeping secrets. And they assume c!Dream must've done something evil and show up to demand c!Tommy be returned expecting a fight and c!Dream is just like "oh thank GOD please take him I never wanted this."

Probably not actually, but emotionally that's what he's like so he sends c!Tommy back to """"spy""" on L'Manberg, cue Drunz getting some breathing space and c!Tommy getting up to looney tunes shit doing his spying in L'Manberg and so obviously a traitor that everything thinks he's just doing a bit.

Very important to note that c!Tommy got his own Dream Mask (Vault did the little design with the X eyes), which he made himself, and he keeps it on the entire time he's being a """spy""".

If it's c!Tubbo he learns about the revive book way earlier on and instantly he's like "oh I know a perfect subject for experimenting I can totally lure c!Ranboo into a trap and then we could use him. It's perfect because he won't remember!"

c!Dream is both impressed by the ruthlessness and also stuck in a corner now because has to explain the c!Ranboo is actually also on their side. Which makes it very awkward when c!Tubbo meets c!Ranboo as a c!Dream ally later on.

[reduxable]

Posting these before i forgetttt

[gallifreywhere]

It arrived🥰🥰

[ashlynya2-0]

Old man yaoi nation rise up

[ballpit-bakery]

I've been getting into ISAT recently and I accidentally referred to myself as Siffrin while doing my math in my head like

"come on Siffrin, you have a test to pass"

this game has altered every fiber of my being :3333 < cry for help

[ink-plays-games]

Guess who played the DLC-

[shroombell]

this came to me in a vision at 3am 2 weeks ago and i have NOT been able to stop thinking abt it ARGHHGHGH

they make me fucking sick

[bucksboobs]

Is anyone actually saying that Buck’s jealousy in “Buck, Bothered and Bewildered” was only about Tommy or are certain Buddie purists making up a guy to get mad at so they can justify their 48th post about how Buck was jealous of Eddie in the episode as if the rest of us didn’t see that immediately?

Investigative Reporting may be required.

[foldingfittedsheets]

Someday I’ll get a physical disc for Baldur’s Gate 3. Someday I’ll get to play it.