#embrace forgiveness

[somereaderinblue]

We all thought Odysseus was gonna become a monster amongst men.

Never did we consider that he'd become a monster to a god.

[veggiesforpresident]

thinkin about how aang is zukos first-ever friend.

like hear me out, ty lee and mai are azulas friends primarily. in flashbacks zuko is only ever shown with his mom or his sister and her friends. even when zuko and mai date its like... it feels more like a proximity/being a Good Son thing than anything else, at least on zukos end. and he doesnt really have many meaningful on screen interactions with ty lee?

which i think is why aangs "do you think we couldve been friends?" moment is so impactful for zuko and its when he really starts to doubt what hed been taught growing up, bc this kid who he was supposed to hate and subjugate... is offering him friendship. something hes never had before, except in the weird proximity-friendships of ty lee and mai.

and tbh, i feel like aang never really lost that faith in him or their potential to be friends, even if said faith was shaken a few times.

and then by the end of the series zuko and aang hug and they declare themselves to be friends, and this feels like the first time on-screen we see someone declare zuko belonging to them in some way.

basically their friendship is so beautiful and i cry about it.

[starliteonearth]

I swear the funniest thing antis will do is say "how can you ship Ghoulcy when he did xyz to her" and then in the next breath will turn and be like "anyways he sees/treats her as a daughter and he's gonna be her father figure." Oh I'm sorry, The Ghoul? You mean the same person you were just saying was so horrible to her? That Ghoul? You're cool with his actions now?

Like the things he did only get brought up when we ship them, as if it's not the same person they champion as her new dad. I understand if personally you don't like it when one half hurts the other in a ship (or when both do), that's completely fair, but I'm pretty sure no likes it either when a parent/parental figure does the same to their (surrogate) child, so like what's the math here 🤨

[loveyourlovelysoul]

I realized that asking myself why am I doing something often makes me see and understand my possible triggers and issues. Whether is eg. commenting on something in a certain way or behaving in another, especially to please/follow others (without realizing, we do search for confirmations/validations, acceptance, salvation and love more often than we realize and in the smallest things; it's not bad per se at all, it's human need, but we have to be aware of it all and accept it, so to search for it in the right places while not neglecting too much our own beliefs and values or at least, we need to know that we're just momentarily saving ourselves by acting that way on our triggers/fears and not entirely renouncing to who we are and forgive ourselves). And this is helping me change my perspective on myself too, on how I can help myself more in particular. I'm not doing this to criticize myself more, at all: that cannot be the point. I'm trying to be kinder with my younger self as they only wanted to feel safe and loved as much as I do now. I only want to accept myself more, even the so called "bad" sides (they're just hurt sides, and they cannot feel better if I keep pushing them away).

Ofc done too often and too much only leads to stress and hyper vigilance which is not good, therefore I ask myself this question when I find out I act on autopilot, when I get stressed out, when I have a sudden *emotion-based* reaction that soon after I don't agree with or leaves me confused cause yes, triggers yk... And it often works looking at others too, seeing their triggers and reactions. And removing from those any possible meaning about me, just in case. Anyway, this way I am learning more about *my* emotions too and how I can accept them and feel them, allowing them some space to just be without judging them (and myself) too harshly. There's no perfection, no perfect way to act or be, and no way we can close off our emotions (and all the triggers) from our life... so we may just live, try to not worry too much and hug ourselves often and well. We're doing our best, and that's enough. The world is already harsh, let's be a bit more forgiving... with ourselves at least.

[gremlin-pattie]

the thing is that jedus fans are like “vote jedus because it’s silly! wouldn’t it be funny if they won lol!!” meanwhile phannies are like “pleeassee vote phan. phil wants to win. they are actual soulmates, next to each other in life, ancient turtles, a ranch metaphor. they made me believe in love.” and not to take a tumblr.com rpf competition too seriously, but i hope true love prevails over a meme.

[aroaceleovaldez]

Something something Jason feeling like he doesn't quite fit as "Greek" or "Roman" as a metaphor for bisexuality, particularly the semi-canonical bi-coding in his half of experiences during the Cupid scene and how Favonius and Cupid speak to him in parallel to the scenes confirming Nico is gay.

Something something the camps as metaphors for traditionally acceptable forms of relationships and Nico living as a rogue outside of them, rejecting expectation (ergo in himself representing a metaphor of queer identity and living outside of boxes and defined/usually hetero-allonormative/binary ideas of what love/relationships should look like) versus Jason struggling with the expectation to conform to a label and even discussing with Nico both of them remaining at CHB together.

Something something the inverse of Jason shifting away from the camps after he breaks up with Piper, feeling lost and unable to find a place between the camps as he begins to explore his queer identity properly for the first time versus Nico only remaining at CHB because he has entered a relationship. In this essay I will-

[rickybaby]

Genuine question as I am curious — I know it’s pretty obvious with his expressions/ body language that Daniel seemed shy/insecure(?) about having his braces, but has he ever outright said anything about feeling that way with them? Just out of curiosity as I am new around here!

“I feel very different in terms of looks. Fortunately, experience also bought me better looks. I’m not really too fond of showing people photos of me when I was younger”

[hecatialapis-lazuli]

i feel like I've talked about this before but I wish blazblue dipped more into the horror of the situation. Whether you wanna go cosmic or existential both kind of work, though I guess the theme is a bit more despair than horror? Those two feel like they marry together pretty well.

Like. Think of CS. You have Noel, becoming what she always was, something inhuman. Literally screaming and crying after having the truth of the world and the PFDs revealed to her. You have Ragna, also learning the truth, and that he has tried so, so many times and failed every single time. You have Terumi, relishing in the hopelessness that should cause, yet being just as stuck as everyone else, and painfully aware that if he wants out of this hell, he has to claw his way out.

Idk, I just think there's a lot of stuff in blazblue that lends really well to horror. There's already themes about loss of autonomy, just play a little more into that, emphasize the helplessness before the Master Unit, and then the satisfaction of finally being free.

Hell, the Master Unit/Origin still is sympathetic in this interpretation. She's suffering, she's not doing anything out of malice, she just wants to be a person. Not even the Origin is immune to the horror of being a thing, strung up to watch and desperately try for another ending this time. This time, it'll work.

[kissingagrumpygiant]

"Won't anyone save Lavellan from the horror story that is her romance with Solas? Where's her friends and family? 🥺"

Lavellan: if you see me become the dread wolf's controversially young gf DON'T save me and delete the callout posts. I'm exactly where I want to be and you're not going to ruin it for me

[in-tenebris-et-in-solitudine]

[juvinadelgreko]

no further comments at this time

[orangechickenpillow]

Actually you know what I don't want any more seasons of the sandman I can only go through that ending once and I barely survived the first time

[trentcrimminallybeautiful]

in which trent and roy make up earlier in a slightly less public setting and then make the completely hinged decision to use this opportunity to fuck with everyone

[alltheglowingeyess]

saw someone on twitter talking about the final moment in the recent pjo ep and percy realizing he can breath underwater and i just have so much to say about it omg

until that moment, percy's instances of tapping into his powers inherited from poseidon were purely accidental. they all came in moments of self-defense and he never made active moves to try and understand them. until that moment, he had rejected his father and any title as the son of poseidon. so this is the first moment we see percy accepting his powers and, to a certain extent, his identity as the son of poseidon.

[weenie-kun]

beau is three years old and ive forgotten his birthday every single time