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skullbowz · 8 months ago

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Booiiiiiii y u s0 Skibidi 🤣😂🤣🤣😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

They both smell like wet dogs + emo-maxxing and haven’t felt a day of comfort in their lives!! They are obviously inlove!!!

Also funny lil thing w the brothars ever :3

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poorly-drawn-mdzs · 4 months ago

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Who is this sassy lost child?

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #lan wangji #a-yuan #A-Yuan knows how to to utilise his big wet eyes to get treats. What a little legend.#The crowd comments about LWJ being 'daddy' and WWX being 'the mother' are a little too 'fan-service bait' for me.#So I am personally reimagining it as another layer of 'misinterpretation of a more complex situation' commentary.#I like how the different styles of interacting with children WWX an LWJ exhibit say so much about their own childhoods.#We - human beings in the real world - take two lessons from how we were parented: What we valued and what we wish we had.#LWJ leaning into indulgence is him pushing back against his own childhood of asceticism. It's something he didn't have - so he gives it.#WWX on the other hand has been *so* defined by his drive to indulge. And here he is the restrictor!#It takes a bit more to see what's going on here. The factors are not singular.#but to keep it in theme with LWJ; I'd propose it is partly his way of establishing structure when he did not have it as a child.#Both approches are a way of saying 'I didn't have this and I wish I did.'#With LWJ it's pretty obvious why...but WWX? What is at your core? What is your regret towards a lack of restriction?#Or...What benefit do you think it gives this child to learn the harsh lessons of going without?#Did it make you strong when you were a child? Do you think it is just the nature of the world and we all must learn it?#How we interact with children is such a fascinating topic to delve into our psychology and neuroses.#In a more light hearted turn of topic:#WWX confirmed to be 'person taking the car to the drive through to order one black coffee for himself' on the triangle spectrum.#LWJ is saying 'we have food at home' as he is opening his wallet ready to order for everyone.#(Technically this is comic 213 but yippee! We are in the 200's now! Thank you all so much for reading and cheering me on!)

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deadpoetsandlivinglegends · 20 days ago

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Results are in:

Scrooge outfit: Neil, Todd, and Cameron

Heart Boxers: Knox, Charlie, and Pitts

Pink robe: Meeks and Keating

I will forever be indebted to anyone who draws fanarts of them in these outfits

#I will give my life for anyone who draws mittsie in these outfits; like please can you imagine someone banging on their door at odd hours #and Meeks answering the door in a flowy pink robe; sleep not fully out of his eyes as an equally sleepy Pitts is seen behind him in heart #boxers like poets don’t even say anything because they know if they do Meeks can verbally destroy them so they don’t even attempt #plus they value their grades so they try not to piss Meeks off; but like dude the mittsie fanart would go crazy in these #and anderperry both dressing like an old Victorian couple to go to sleep is so funny to me like I can see it so clearly #and the side eyes both Cameron and Charlie would give each other at bedtime every night and before they got into bed but also I could see #them just never bringing it up until like they get in a fight in the dining hall where Cameron is trying to tell Charlie to stop throwing #his dirty clothes into Cameron’s hamper so Cameron will wash them and Charlie is denying doing this and Cameron is like ‘dude you and I #both know those are not my boxers’ ‘how do I know you didn’t steal them’ ‘you literally wore them two days ago’ ‘how do you know that’ ‘you #literally rarely wear pants around our room what do you mean how do I know that’ ‘well who knows; might’ve been yours to begin with and I #stole them so I was just now returning them’ ‘I would NEVER buy boxers that tacky’ ‘exCUSE YOU our boxers aren’t tacky’ ‘your boxers that #I’m not washing’ ‘it’s like you don’t even love me’ and then rumors start that they’re gay and both pull a face of disgust like ‘you think #my standards are THAT low; I do have some dignity’ they say in unison before turning to the other like ‘what’s wrong with me?’#and then Knox would be over there by his lonesome cause he had some random roommate rather than one of these boys as a roommate so he #doesn’t get to see any of them in these outfits nor them him in his heart boxers #keating would be in the teachers wing and they would all have to rush to a scene in the middle of the night and they would all be giving #Keating a side eye like wtf is this grown man wearing ‘John. you look… that robe’ ‘yes; what a better way to appreciate the every day but #making the every day extraordinary; sometimes we must treat ourselves to truly understand life’s meaning’ ‘and that pink shit does that?’#‘well of course; its silk Kevin.’ ‘right.’#dps #dead poets society #gerard pitts #charlie dalton #richard cameron #neil perry #todd anderson #steven meeks #knox overstreet #mr keating #the poets as…

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youandthemountains · 10 months ago

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it probably is insane how much I wish I could express the thing about spones. the vibes about spones. Like there's the joking fun fandom vibes and I love them, I love to play with them, of course of course. but the THING. the CORE to me. i wish i could capture it and share it.

#like. the constancy. like the friction matters because it's hand in hand with the steadfastness you know? and it doesn't preclude tenderness #also climbing into the mind of the person you've been obsessed with understanding and being understood by.#and the fact that it's lifelong. and the teasing. and the fact that the growth is in the allowance of imperfections #allowing that imperfections exist in who you love allows you to love them allows you to love yourself #and i always love people knowing what you believe and bolstering it when you feel lost even when it's not their philosophy #(bones asking spock hope? isn't that a human failing? and him not allowing that #spock losing himself to emotion in all our yesterdays and bones reminding him how antithetical that is to him)#but even with all that seriousness - the TEASING. the plain fun. the constant reaching out regardless of their moods #the constant seeking each other out. the almost - given nature of the relationship.#it's not in some ways as dramatic as a Simple Feeling as the When I Think of You I Feel Shame.#it's bones growing into old age the human way one day at a time with spock #when people are like oh spock just put his katra in him because he was there - yeah. and he was always going to be the one who was there #this is why the earth moon sun metaphor works for the triumvirate so much better than sun moon stars imo #bones is the earth spock is the moon kirk is the sun #'the captain was indispensable'#the sun - a distant lifegiver to them and many others. they do revolve around it. have unique relationships to it #the earth revolutes the sun which brings it life. the moon has a face it only shows the sun #and the moon revolutes the earth. their gravity shapes each other. they reach out to each other. they formed in a collision outward #in some ways are entirely different but have the same stuff in them. spin the same.#idk it just makes so much sense for them all.#but even just getting back to them. again just the obsession with each others mind.#'i will never understand the medical mind' 'mathematically perfect brainwaves'#and then complimenting each other always so startlingly out of the blue with their own fields -#'you have a good bedside manner spock' 'perhaps if they had your ingenuity they would have'#the seeking each other's advice out even if it's just to argue with it lmao. the motif of their last words always going to each other #even wrath of khan - we know spock was talking to bones in his head. i do always wonder what was in their tsfs reunion scene #that shatner didn't want to happen.#I don't know and even this isn't the heart of it.#there's the families and the way they fit into each other's conception and value and weight of family #do i even tag this spones. this is just crazy rambling.

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undead-moth · 9 months ago

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I know I've been on about this for a while now and I'm being a hater but you're telling me SydCarmy was "always meant to be platonic" even though there are two seasons of writing making use of tried-and-true explicitly romantic tropes, themes and writing signals, and SydLuca is going to be romantic because...he was nice to her on screen for a few minutes?

I don't even care if people ship SydLuca, or if they just prefer it, but you can't honestly tell me that you believe Carmy was always meant to be a friend but Luca is an obvious love interest.

Just because Syd and Carmy haven't kissed or confessed their love to each other doesn't mean that isn't very obviously the direction this show is going. The Bear has already shown you who is endgame. It has shown you every episode of the show so far.

Honestly I really don't think The Bear fanbase understands this show or cares about these characters or the story being told here, which is unfortunate because this show is shockingly well-written in comparison to most shows right now, and we should be so grateful for it but all we're doing is complaining that the writers led us on by not making a ship canon fast enough. It's just. Sad.

#The Bear #SydCarmy #I was like a casual fan of this show two days ago #and now seeing how little respect this show gets from it's fanbase I'm losing my mind #I mean I shipped SydCarmy before anyway but now it means so much to me #it means so much to see such a realistic and purposefully well paced romance take place #so many shows portray romantic relationships and their beginnings in ways that just don't really happen in real life #and this show very purposefully said no. These are characters who are strangers. who are working together. Who are in a tense environment #and each of them has problems - one of them the type of problems that makes developing new relationships pretty difficult #these two would not get together right away. It would take a long time. And there would be ups and downs.#And even when that's the case. Even if when it takes a long time and doesn't go smoothly and is hard -#it can still be beautiful. It can still be romantic. It can still happen and here's how #and I'm just so inspired genuinely. It is so difficult to write romance without being cliche and so difficult to write it in a way that #could actually happen in real life and I really do hope I can write something half as good some day #and then to know so many people have no appreciation for it at all #because they prefer the shows that have characters make eye contact a few times and then confess their love for each other like #it's just fucking sad. So sad that so few people have any appreciation for good writing especially the difficult of romance writing #like I really just don't even know what to tell you. In real life these two would not have confessed to each other yet. They would not have #kissed yet. They would not have even realized they have feelings for each other yet because those feelings would still be developing #and I also want to point out that given the disparity in power between Syd and Carmy in season 1 it wouldn't have been healthy for them to #get together much sooner. He was her boss. He was also her idol. Before they can even get together that needs to be balanced out.#And then on top of that don't you see the value in Carmy realizing the dream girl he's romanticized in his head - Claire - isn't actually #what he wants? Don't you see the beauty in him being disillusioned from that? And realizing that Syd is what he wants?#Don't you see the beauty in Syd having an idealized vision of what Carmy The Great Chef is like realizing she was wrong and that he's human #and flawed and then realizing - she loves him anyway? She loves him more for not being on a pedestal and for having his flaws?#Are you telling me that even thinking about this doesn't move you? Doesn't make your heart ache a little?#And again - ship and let ship - but what is Luca? What is Luca if not just what she was hoping Carmy would be when she wen to The Beef?#What is he if not just another man who she has not seen under pressure yet? Not seen reliving trauma yet? Not been her boss yet?#It's easy to look at him and think he's better than Carmy - and that's the point. That's the point The Bear is making.#It is easy to want someone you don't know. It's hard to want to someone you do know. But that's what love requires and that's the point

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snobgoblin · 5 months ago

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thinking about the ring thing and the hat thing and the grief and the things people we love leave behind as reminders of the absence of their presence etc etc. sigh

#ask to tag #snoobgoobles #apprentice danny #the disrupt in the routine... the... urggghh... the reminder #the things they loved and did every day are your burdens to bear now. do you get me. screams #and especially someone who valued his possessions like Danny had had a very distinct presence #the rings he wore every day. the dents from his chewing habit #the hat he wore every shift that wasnt part of the uniform but he insisted it made him feel more professional #the uniqueness of him. gone. you know #fun fact about me i am always grieving idk if you can tell #Julian... holding it close to his heart. because his beloved apprentice died who he held so dearly #Asra holding the ring far away. Danny had always been a mystery to them. he feels like he never got to know him properly #ughm...... not to be dramatic

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cassiskurocorner · 14 days ago

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Art for @echoshunsnarcissus 's fic Skyward Symphonies. I heard you were working on the next chapter 0:) please use this as more motivation!

Alternate versions under cut!

#kuroshitsuji #black butler #黒執事 #my art #fic fanart #sebastian michaelis #Skyward Symphonies #i have. so many things to say. if you opened the tags bless your heart.#number one. please acknowledge how hot and sexy that violin is. and gorgeous the shading on his knees are. i worked hardest on those #secondly. please notice the vast difference in the style between this post and my last one.#this is due to giving a shit about the stuff i make for others #thirdly. he doesn't give up much for his hands back. he just adopts a kid tbh #i use these tags as a diary ngl #originally this artwork was going to be monochromatic so i could get better at distinguishing values. but. i didnt do that 0:)#thus the monochromatic images below #the flower in his breastpocket is blue because his son... made it for him??? idk. ciel is blue. i had to include him #if you guys want sebagni art feel free to request it. it will take 3-4 business weeks to get it. but you MIGHT inspire me #i prefer more dynamic poses. something mid motion (which is why i struggled so hard with the last post)#just in case you care what im more likely to pick #i can. draw other things. but i like sebagni a lot rn.#even though i dont even like sebastian #is that wrong to admit? that if he were an ant i would crush him beneath the heel of my boot. that i would slam him with a brick that I wou #is this perfect phone background sized? it looks like it would be

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designernishiki · 2 years ago

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it’s kinda funny to me how that dumb scene in kiwami 1 of majima getting shot and left for dead in the harbor was basically just added as a half-assed way to explain majima not being around for a bit of the plot, but they accidentally(?) just made it seem like start of a chain reaction where majima ended up feeling slighted and heartbroken after being abandoned like that and then lashed out about it via smashing a big truck into the building kiryu was in. and yeah that isn’t inherently a romantic thing as-is but then they go and add the part where majima grabs a hostess and performatively hits on her as in-kiryu’s-face as possible, she says she’s already in love with someone, and majima lets her go immediately, no questions asked, making a big fucking point of it just to say see THAT kiryu? I appreciate when people are HONEST about their FEELINGS. people who won’t just BACKSTAB someone who CARES about them to save themselves. is that so crazy kiryu?? huh??? anyway make it up to me get down here and fight me right fucking now

#I think on another level he was sorta saying like ‘hey kiryu. you’re making it extremely clear that you don’t trust me and my intentions #and I’ve been trying to show you- over and over again- that I’d do just about anything for you and your safety #but I can’t just let my mask fall off in front of everyone- I need to keep up the unpredictable morally grey wildcard act for both my sake #AND yours. because disguising my helping you as crazy random violent outbursts and weird stalker behavior #is the only way I CAN help you. do you think it would go over well with shimano or literally anyone else if I was outright helping you out #of the kindness of my heart and fondness for you? stop being so fucking dense and look past the crazy wacky nonsense for a second and #maybe you’ll realize that all I do at the end of the day- really- is help you and put my own life and reputation on the line for you.#I am an honest guy when it comes to my real values and when I told you I wouldn’t let anyone kill you unelss it was myself- I meant it.#I’ve taken a knife and a bullet for you now. can you REALLY not see through the act yet? am I REALLY that unpredictable when you think about #it?’#that was a longer explanation than i intended but. it was difficult to put into words #I basically feel like it could be read as him implying kiryu shouldn’t backstab the people who put themselves on the line to help him #and/or pointing out that he’s never actually done kiryu dirty and has stuck to his word protecting him in the ways he can #trying to say yeah all this is a crazy act and all but when it comes down to it you Can trust me #it really makes sense when you think about it that he’d have to help kiryu/show affection towards kiryu in unpredictable convoluted ways #at that point in time because. I mean. there’s a reason he was the only person who showed up to welcome kiryu when he got out of prison #and that’s because A) he sticks to his word and his loyalty to people he cares about and B) no one else had the balls or the batshit insane #mask to wear to ward off anyone asking real questions like majima did. because ANYONE associating themselves with the supposed #patriarch-killer was a HUGE NO-NO at the time. someone important showing up for kiryu and welcoming him back outright could’ve caused #all-out warfare probably. except majima. because majima was dedicated and smart enough to use his widely-feared wildcard persona #(that everyone tended to view as incapable of having any Real agenda to worry about) to his And kiryu’s advantage #does that make sense??? I feel like it makes a lot of sense if you get it to click in your head #kazumaji #majima #kiryu #yakuza #kiwami 1 #yk1 #rambling

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longagoitwastuesday · 7 months ago

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Every day I am haunted by the fact JJK could be amazing but it will be just idk Bleach or something

#I've seen a lot of people complaining about the fact that it's impossible to fit the ending of every unfinished arc #in the five chapters that remain for the manga to end for good #And it all just... legitimises my fear and apprehension haha #And it's a pity! It's a pity! The dynamics were so good! And yet nothing! Sukuna was so good! And yet nothing!#It was so nice how he seemed to play with the idea of transcending human categories and values but even the values of curses so to speak #Well beyond everything. Well beyond positive/creative nihilism even! He was not like Mahito #I wonder if Mahito is more a negative nihilism with a funny edge or a positive nihilism. For now it seems positive #with how he seems to have said something like 'nothing matters so we can do whatever we want and create what matters'#But Sukuna transcends all that! It could have been interesting to see how that developed in a way that wasn't just childish edginess #But no. And then there's all the idea of curses and sorcerers not being all that different #and so not really entirely possible to say one side is good and the other bad #There was the idea of the very source of powers with fear and love playing a role here in such a juicy way #And then there's the entire thing happening with Gojo as a concept and the very concepts he plays with which I could eat like an apple #but also I would let those very concepts eat at my heart as a worm inside an apple #Full of holes and rotting inside out and yet delighting at the sweetness #It could all be so good! And yet! Most of the manga is a few sketched dynamics and concepts and a very long fight with Sukuna #promising half finished arcs #WHY it could have been so good. And I don't think criticism is a matter of 'fans being spoiled! Go write your story!' or something #It's not a matter of things not going as fans would want them to be. It's a matter of not writing well #or cohesively things established by the author themselves. And I think that's a fair criticism #If we are to take manga as an art‚ which I wholeheartedly support‚#then we can subject mangas to artistic or literary or whatever you want to call it analysis. There are works that are better constructed #than others‚ and there are works that have good ideas but poor execution. And it's always a pity #In the case of JJK it's truly breaking my heart and the comments I see around about these five last chapters are not helping xD #God it could be so good. So good. And I'm not talking about in specific to me‚ which yes that too given the topics‚#but just so good in general. It could be so good. It could have been so good #And yet it's starting to look more and more like any other shonen. It truly breaks my heart haha #I talk too much #Jujutsu Kaisen #I used Bleach because I think that's one of the mangas that has been the most a let down to the friends I have who like shonen

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imminent-danger-came · 10 months ago

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I'll never get over the fact that MK trades his friends for power to save his friends. What's wrong with him

#I love you 3x03.#Good characterization/themeing ep/setting up MK's abilities/general power scaling #Truly MK is out here willing to sacrifice Mei's Sword and the deed to Pigsy's noodles. Like the heart and soul of his dad's life #Playing a rigged game....#Finding your strength...when you need it most...#''Staff's just a big ol' stick bud! It takes someone special to wield it''#Wukong what the Fuck do you know man #lmk #lmk MK #lego monkie kid #lmk rant #lmk theme: exchange #lmk game motif #I need to make a post cataloging lmk's instances of exchange theme like I'm losing my mind #We gET iT. I'd dO anYThInG fOr My FriEnDs. BuT aT thE cOSt oF tHe wOrLD #''This is Azure's utopia...and this barren wasteland is the price he paid to build it''#''Nothing comes without sacrifice. Nothing'' -> Azure sacrificing himself to repair the world #''You offer something of value to gain something of value''#''Take me- I don't care! Just let them go.'' (3x04)#Macaque saying to start the ritual for Mei's life #''You're so desperate to end me that you would sacrifice this blameless innocent child?'' ''You're leaving me no choice!''#''You would really sacrifice your own friend to save yourself?''#''We can't risk unleashing the curse into the world!'' ''You don't know- we'd risk it for sure!''#LIKE THEY'RE SO NOT SUBTLE #Tbh even choosing to go along with Wukong's s3 plan despite the risks is like. Okay guys #And then Wukong lowkey sacrificing Mei for the Samadhi Fire like #Exchange theme follows me everywhere. Truly #it's so delicious #I think the hero warrior motif is also transactional honestly #Like your the warrior and they're the hero. They're going to trade you and your relationship for power

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gurorori · 1 year ago

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haha oh no im definitely not at all disturbed by the prevalence of leftists on all platforms who are loudly 'anti-genocide' when it comes to the palestinian cause (and a couple others at best :3c) yet the only time ukraine [ʊkrɐˈjinɐ] leaves their mouths is in critique, in stark comparison to the former or in complaint about their (american) government sending aid.

at first what i saw often was pointing out the differences in western media framing [ukraine vs palestine], and that's fair (until the words and the agenda of western journalists are used to paint, as a whole, ukrainians who have been actively going through genocide as some kind of white supremacists hogging the blanket of global attention when they kinda just want to live and have the rights to their own land, culture, names and families)

but no one is even caring to do that anymore, today bitches just invent metaphorical scenarios and people to get mad at and to throw an entire ethnos away because wahhhh i decided that you care for X but not for Y!!!.... all while doing the exact thing they are condemning. the exact absolute same and they don't even hide it but do lack the self-awareness to realise

#'ohh i saw white people still go out to rally for ukraine' yeah have you considered they are ukrainian or have ukrainian loved ones or uh #simply have humanity in their heart to care about several humanitarian tragedies in the world?#this is both aimed at a post i saw on here and at SEVERAL. MANY. twitterians with a thousand palestine flags all over their accounts spewing #misinformation hate and sometimes straight up russian propaganda tactics because they're this fucking insane #i don't care about sounding nice anymore by the way. i know my heart lies in the right place and i have the capacity to care about more than #one ongoing genocide of indigenous peoples #removed incidents of bad actors having a ukrainian flag on their backpack doing hateful shit does not somehow okay dismissing a genocide you #so vehemently claim to oppose. they are not ukrainians who are getting bombed on the daily for years #i saw a very lovely 🍉🕊️ lady denying holodomor and using literal russian talking points while patting herself on the back for being such #a good person. i saw one of the most popular leftie accs on twitter be actively anti-ukraine and using slurs. luckily we mass reported them #and they're gone #i'm no longer being careful with my words because i don't want to be misconstrued. i know my values go beyond twitter and tumblr #if i catch you in any way undermining the genocide of ukrainians or only bringing it up to point fingers and bitch i am blocking you forever #don't care how far this post might go cuz of ppls questionable use of the search function. and i didn't care to censor anything #like. masks off. just block me if this is your rhetoric

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trislosherfan25 · 8 months ago

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I feel so much more tormented than my other trans friends ngl

#I think maybe I feel alienated because a lot of my trans friends with confidence pride themselves on a sense of attractiveness #its not attractive in the normative sense but moreso within their idea of attractiveness #there’s not really anything wrong with this that I can put my finger on #I think it’s more that I just don’t value myself that way at all #I can’t overcome my dysphoria or insecurity by thinking that I’m hot. like I just don’t aspire to that #I remember telling some friends that I wished I could just be ugly #like ugly as in a state of not trying or having to try #not ugly as in any specific image #and I told them I didn’t care about being hot like it didn’t appeal #and they said ‘maybe being ugly is your way of feeling hot’#like no you guys missed the point #but idk how to express my point #I feel like if I transitioned I could just chill for once idk #I’d rather be an ugly boy than a pretty girl #family is always telling me I’m such a pretty girl despite everything I do #I’m gonna break their hearts

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iniziare · 28 days ago

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🔥 :) Forced F a n o n

Ah yes, fanon, the thing that makes my blood boil, and my eyes seek the presence of bleach. My mortal nemesis in writing, art, and talk alike, I should make a big neon sign that says 'Go Away', in hope that'd help some. I know I sound so dramatic about it, but I truthfully loathe it to the max and then some, because I seem to write almost exclusively characters that fall victim to such immense amounts of terrible takes that then somehow become widely accepted as actual canon, even though they're either completely unsupported by the actual source material, or worse yet— outright contradicted. It drives me insane, not only are most of my female muses apparent 'dommy mommies' (kill me Tala, I hate this so much), but according to fanon— lemme see if I can remember the biggest ones: Yelan is a dominatrix who has a pain kink, Aventurine is the playboy of all playboys and is also a gay man dating one Veritas Ratio, Ruan Mei is an amoral, sociopath void of emotion, with a god complex who has the singular goal of doing whatever evil thing it takes to ascend into Aeonhood, Jingliu is evil, and was 'borderline' abusive in her training of him, Kafka is also a dominatrix who manipulates and abuses Blade on the daily instead of helping him with his mara and he acts as her literal dog (oh and in the past, fanon believed her to have mothered the trailblazer— oh and also, Kafka is a lesbian, and she and Himeko are angry exes who engage in hate sex, rawr), Jing Yuan straight-up adopted Yanqing and is fathering him while also dating either Dan Heng or Blade, and Seele's only reason for being is to have hot sex with Bronya where their overtly inhumanly large breasts are pressed together. There we go, and that's only the beginning of what I have to deal with and keep at arm's length.

I was asked a while back why I make such a repeatedly big deal out of clarifying how, and why I oppose fanon, and it's literally because some of the aforementioned things have caused me issues in plotting, or even just writing. I mean just to tell you, a few months after I made Kafka her blog— so we're talking summer of 2023, I wasn't even able to mention that I shipped Kafka/Blade, because even on Tumblr, people were not at all receptive to it, and you were looked upon for even thinking about it. It was genuinely seen as a toxic ship (yes, while Dan Heng and Blade were happening right there, and highly supported), because people believed her to subject him to her SW without his consent. And only after a live stream actually clarified it (Blade's VA said he asks her to do it), could you mention it reasonably freely. But even then, for some time, it was kind of a taboo ship. I was genuinely surprised when I saw people ship it so openly last year. insanity. But that's what I mean with fanon— these presumptions are made, run with, and then give writers either actual grief for writing things accurately, or plausibly, because it doesn't coincide with what the masses inaccurately believe to be truth. And it's not always just 'hey, you do it wrong', no, like I said before, people can actively decide that you're a bad person for shipping something (but you know, Dan Heng and Blade were always fine... it's fine, I'm fine, I'm not bitter. I'm just saying, I have genuine reasons why I dislike some of these ships, because most of the Kafblade hate to this day still comes from that direction), so you kind of keep it with you, and you don't engage. It sucks.

I've had it that people accused me of 'not knowing a character' before, because I stayed so far away from fanon, especially when canon actually directly contradicted it, but it was never as bad as it been in Hoyo's community. Actually, I think it was after Kafblade was confirmed to not be the toxic ship that everyone believed it to be (which I already knew, because if you look at characters, you find information), I got really firm and intense with this rebellion against fanon, because it kept something away from me that I loved, and that I knew wasn't a toxic thing— but I let it intimate me. Never again. But along with that, comes a firm stance against fanon altogether nowadays, because all of those assumptions above are wrong. And I don't want people to come to me with the expectation that... those things are what they'll be getting from me, because it won't be. And it even pains me knowing that people misread a creator's intent for a character that badly. I don't know whether it's that people don't know what critical thought is anymore or what, but I'm concerned about comprehension sometimes.

God, I hope this is what you meant with forced fanon, but either way, here, have my salt, I believe. This may actually be what I feel most strongly about, the incessant belief of traits, and motivations that are wrong. They're wrong, and all it would take is for someone to take a moment, watch a trailer, read a character story— to know that. All you need is Ruan Mei's Myriad trailer to know that there's so much more to her, all you need to know is that her name is the combination of her parents' names to keep them alive because her character is rooted in loss. All you need to remember to know that Kafka cares intensely about Blade, is that she stayed on the Luofu to subject him to SW until he was fit to travel at risk of her own life. All you need to remember about Jingliu, is that the actions of Dan Feng and Yingxing caused her to have to kill her close friend (as Baiheng's 'half-draconic abomination' resurrected self reminded her so much of the nightmare from her childhood that destroyed her ship, that she had to cover her own eyes), and whispered 'Sorry' before ending her suffering, and seeing her die because her blindfold fell off, and then she became marastruck instantly because of it. But you know, she's the evil one, yeah. But also, listen to how sad she sounds, how wistful. My god, typing this paragraph made me a little emotional, it's fine. But this is why I'm so firmly against fanon, this is the shit people would get wrong, and I'd have to deal with it during plotting, or even worse, in the midst of writing. I'm just. I'm exhausted, but I care for these characters too much to not correct people over, and over— because I refuse to entertain those takes here. — I just hate fanon, because there's so much to these characters that are entirely overlooked by the general fandom because of wrong assumptions. Or worse yet, they're forgotten. Thanks, Tala— I really, really hate fanon.

Prompt: 🔥for an unpopular opinion. // @nvrcmplt // No longer accepting

#[ inquiries: out of character. ] they do not know what to make of me. i have kept to myself; for fear of giving them purchase to cling to.#[ salt. ] should i be quieter next time? / no. no… it's fine. children don't learn unless you shout at them.#nvrcmplt #[ my god. I JUST HAVE SO MUCH LOATHING in my heart for people's ignorance. ]#[ yes. i /will/ call it ignorance. it takes little effort to do some research on characters. ]#[ or you also can just look at your screen and take things at face value. instead of being one of the damned sheep. ]

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danger-tits-lute · 8 months ago

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{ fuuuuuuu 3rd reply in and @dick-meister is already crying man.... we haven't even started. yikes on bikes. }

#{masked}#{dick meister}#{thread comm}#{y'all do not read this memories thread if you value your heart and peace of mind}

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fishandships · 2 months ago

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Norton Nymph Prize Award Live 2D

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