#don't take anything i say seriously

[lillybearrie]

"Can I rip your shirt open?" -art about today's lore

Guys new Crack ship just dropped Fen x Ick /j /j /j

[saurix5]

1.07 Arthur's Red Eyes Symbolism

Good morning, class. I am here to talk about the glowing red eye effect from the episode The Gates of Avalon. Low-budget effects or hidden symbolism?

Magic in the show is associated with the color gold. Whenever someone casts magic, their eyes glow gold. Yet here, it's red. You could say that it's because Sophia is a Sidhe, so things are different in Avalon. However, she and her father got cast out of Avalon and put into mortal bodies, so they have to play by our rules.

Why show Arthur's eyes turn red when she casts her enchantment? Of course, it's to show him being under her spell. But they could have just shown her eyes change colors and have Arthur's demeanor change before following Sophia out. Clearly, it's to symbolize something.

What does red usually get associated with? Evil. What does it also get associated with in the show? Camelot. More specifically, the Pendragons. But we're supposed to root for Camelot. Arthur isn't evil. To us. To magical people, probably so. After all, he raided two Druid camps (we know the context, but the victims don't, or don't care). He also likely helped capture some sorcerers, which led to innocent and guilty dying alike.

Maybe some don't see Arthur bad as an individual. But he is a Pendragon, and the Pendragons are enemies to the Old Religion. Uther started it, and Arthur continued the persecution (less uptight about it, but ppl still had to hide their magic). Sure, Arthur seemed opened to changing his views multiple times. But he kept reverted back to Uther's views after a tragic event or because Merlin said magic has no place in Camelot.

Therefore, Arthur's eyes turn red because in the eyes of the Old Religion, he is evil. This may be considered foreshadowing how the ban on magic will remain for the rest of the show. Anyways. This has been my Ted Talk. Thank you for coming.

[shoulderscars]

me: don't blame your emotions on your period. it's not right. just own up to it

also me: *literally crying because I don't know what I want to read on ao3 and I've already read all the comfort fics* it's just cause my period is around the corner in crying. I'm fine.

[averygayplant]

haha, nice

[muppetminge]

wow i love twitter sm.

on a serious note - i think it's funny to portray women not wearing make-up as silly and childish when you're the one apparently caring so much about what other people are doing to their faces.

ask yourself: why do you find bare faces not appropriate for formal events? why does it bother you to see a woman without makeup? how does it effect you? why do you think it effects you?

you're so insistent that there are no societal pressures at play, that women are doing this exclusively for themselves and for the joy of it - then where does this urge to force it on women who don't find joy in it come from? why does it annoy you to see women in their natural way of being? it's a choice, but also there's a right choice, apparently, and anyone stepping out of line shoud be promptly shamed into submission. right?

"a little (whatever) never hurt anybody" okay and neither does a bare face. grow up.

[cool-person-yey]

kill me for this but i love dr stratt. like yes she's an horrible person in a lot of occasions so what. girl saw that the sun was fucking dying and that no one was going to fix it and said " fine. I'll do it myself". committed multiple crimes and the most unethical shit ever. girlboss.

[welcometogrouchland]

(ID in alt) I literally said I was gonna post this month's ago and then never had the wherewithal to describe it and so I didn't Lmao (said with pain). But since I'm thinking of opening my commissions I figured I should remind ppl that I. Yknow. Can draw.

Lots of Steph here (I had major art block making all of these and my brain worms for her kept me going) + some sprinkles of stephcass for Cass nation to enjoy!

[sergle]

yall are about to piss me off by not having any PASSING basic knowledge of the way the u.s. military manipulates its recruits into joining by typing up one of your uninformed, unresearched, unempathetic, individualistic, unbelievably annoying posts about how 100% of the people in the military ended up there because they just Love America So Damn Much! they're extremely mature and informed at time of recruitment, they can totally leave anytime they want, they totally had tons of other avenues in life they could've taken, there was no rush at all to get income as fast as possible, and everyone in the military also totally is part of the combat divisions and personally enjoys being IN the military very much, big believers of violence. everyone in the military is shooting guns all day, that's how that works. they LOVE BLOODSHED. also I love the "amewicans haha" twang to this type of shit because you're actually TOTALLY stealing our Thing, which is turning systemic issues into Individual Issues. Instead of talking about the powers that be, it's so Personal Choice up in here. It's, "well you shouldn't have done it then. I totally wouldn't because I know better." you don't wanna talk about the military industrial complex as a whole, and you don't want to talk about recruiters, you just want to pin the blame on Specific Individual People one-by-one, as if they're responsible for the system that they're being ground up in. someone was in the military? bad person, no matter what. it's easier to believe that, I guess, than to acknowledge that Normal People (with high school educations) are manipulated and incentivized into joining a system that is Bad. at like age 18. but yeah no that 18 year old should have just been smarter lol haha anyway here are some screenshots for no particular reason

side note this reply of someone going "umm just get loans and go into a high paying field it's easy XD" as a direct response to someone trying to explain how most americans joining the military are being funneled in that direction out of a need for money.

and another person who Decided that americans join the military just CLENCHING their teeth thinking of other people, and not thinking completely selfishly about their own selves and their own income/housing/healthcare.

[promises-of-paradise]

OKAY HEAR ME OUT:

All of these edgy science fiction / fantasy novels about overthrowing evil empires and then becoming the very thing that you sought to destroy and the main character ending up as bad as the regime they overthrew and all that, you know?

You could very easily make a dramatised version of the life of Napoleon Bonaparte, transplant it into generic fantasy evil empire world, change the names of the historical figures to fictional names, and all the tumblrinas would eat that up.

Picture this: Napoleon Our protagonist is born the second child in a large family on Corsica generic fantasy island, is sent to a military academy in France evil empire, and begins to rise through the ranks of the army. A revolution occurs, in which the French evil empire monarchy is overthrown, and our protagonist, a supporter of the revolution, fights for the revolutionary government against royalist uprisings and the first coalition other evil empires. Along the way, our protagonist becomes increasingly powerful, as well as being an absolute slut. After a series of military campaigns, our protagonist, seeing the corruption of the directory new evil government, stages a coup and becomes first consul generic fantasy leader. However, over the course of the book, our protagonist has acquired a huge ego and lost many morals, and ends up themself the emperor of France fantasy kingdom. "Morally grey" shenanigans ensue. (Of course, our protagonist would have many many love interests, such as Josephine de Beauharnais hot milf, Jean-Andoche Junot hot best friend, and Tsar Alexander I enemies-to-lovers-to-enemies-again.) (Main character would be characterised as being the most pathetic little person to ever exist who is frequently bullied for being quirky and not-like-other-girls)

[raiiny-bay]

the kids released a new album

[thequeenofsastiel]

The things so far that I've put together that makes it clear to me that Armand and Louis were still in a 24/7 D/s relationship in Dubai:

The fact that in 1x02, instead of saying a simple yes or no when Daniel asked if Armand and Louis were together, Armand took it in a completely different direction, saying "I serve a god. It is my honor to serve."

In 1x05, when Armand was getting sassy with Daniel about the fact that Daniel was doing the interview, Louis said sternly that Armand was choosing to share his opinion despite the fact that it was "unsolicited". And Armand in response lowered his eyes, even though he wasn't facing Louis. Then Louis told Daniel about Armand's diet, and offered Armand's blood to him, without bothering to ask how Armand would feel about it. And when Armand began to get sassy with Daniel again, Louis simply interrupted him, scolding him without actually scolding him. And, while Armand looked salty about it, he still fell silent and didn't speak again. Louis then proceeded to discuss Armand's body and routine with Daniel as if Armand wasn't even there, and then possessively called Armand "My Rashid", in a low purr.

In 2x05, when Louis was talking to Daniel about their lives in Paris, he said that he and Armand had established their "proper roles", indicating that those were roles they still inhabited, otherwise he wouldn't have called them their "proper roles".

And of course there were the whips that we NEVER GOT TO SEE(istfg I'll stop being bitter about that one day, really):

I'll add more if they come to me, but I'm pretty sure that's all of them.

[rocketbirdie]

thinking about how zack was such a fighty angry kid at first in crisis core, and how he learned to bottle it all up because nobody took his feelings seriously.

i bet zack died on that cliff resentful and enraged and covering it up with a thin layer of heroic cheer, just like he always has.

he was so close. he was so tired. he tried to be a hero and it turned him into a monster instead, slaughtering hundreds and hundreds of infantrymen, all to protect just one. and it didn't even matter because they still won. shinra still fucking won.

zack lost his entire sense of self and identity to SOLDIER and shinra, and now they're taking his life too, right when he was this close. not just to physical freedom, but mental freedom too. and he copes with the indignation the same way he always has: he's so Nice about it.

and so he dies as a friendly nobody, instead of what he really was deep down: a scared, angry, exhausted kid.

[add1ctedt0you]

What a plot twist you were. [x]

[bluebobatea]

if sasuke was the main character then he probably would've been a LOT more sympathised with than he is now (which is to say rarely). like the narrative wouldn't even need to change to show his pains or 'his side of the story', bc it does that plenty. it's just that he is not the main character. and idk what it is about our human minds but we tend to sympathise with main characters automatically (unless ofc you go off the rockers insane and do something like obliterate almost everyone from the planet *cough* eren yeager *cough*)

an instance that comes to my mind where this does happen is with lelouch from code geass. while i don't agree with his character motivations, people generally do sympathise with him as he is the mc and as viewers we know he isn't inherently evil. sasuke's goal towards the end is slightly similar but ofc people love to hate him so they don't even try to understand where he is coming from.

my point is, most people while engaging with the naruto story don't read between the lines and so don't see how traumatised and in pain sasuke is and hence don't understand his character motivations. heck, they don't understand a single bit about him and so they automatically hate him, as he is supposedly going against the main character's goals.

which is really sad given all that he has been through.

[menlove]

also me being a historian is objectively the funniest thing about this blog. like either it makes my beatle yaoi trutherism more credible or it makes my degree less credible. either way it's funny

[torchickentacos]

girl help, the pokemon youtubers are calling Battling The Enemy Within one of the worst pokeani episodes