#english bitter

[cubbyhole-for-flea-bee]

Once the theatre monkey discovers angsty broadway musicals its all over y'all

or: I got a new personal project I'm workin' on! I'm at the first pass on the animatic rn! I forgot that 'generate matte' is a thing you can do in SB Pro for a whole hour!! I'm suffering!!!

[rosielefay]

Arthur is spiteful and bitter and vengeful and these awful qualities are my favourite parts of his character, truly.

I've spoke in the past about the lucifer comparisons: the fair hair and skin, angelic; interrupted by the burning green eyes, wherein behind lies an insatiable, desperate greed. He's this demonic, terrible thing that no matter how many times you put it down its always tapping away at its enclosure come morning, hand reaching out for its lock.

He's the outsider of Europe but always at the centre of their conflicts. His best is the worlds worst - most at home in battle, in conquest, and in the gaping abyss of the great seas.

And the best part about him: war erupts and economies are crippled, his fellow nations are on their knees in defeat - and yet he's waiting and begging for a round two.

Its like some sort of destructive impulse - snapping jaws serve a hungry mouth, and he's a starving, skinny thing.

But then there's another angle to relentless, spiteful character, for it is also represented through his longevity.

And Arthur has one hell of a legacy. Language, history, culture, the new young superpower of the world - all his. Even in nations: memories of him and his empire are still points of affection and hurt alike.

He's a rotten core that can't be purged. In the people and places and everything in between. (there's a tragedy there too, about blame and redemption and wounds that will never really heal).

Yet one cannot ignore the positive side to him: hope. Throughout so many wars he's been the saving grace, the spiteful last addition to a losing cause. WWII, and he's the last good man standing. Half of Europe has fallen and the only one left to protect it is its staunchest, most bitter adversary.

Arthur is a clawing, evil thing, but he also represents persistence/hope. In combat and history, but also as an individual - it colours all his relationships.

+ I pair this view with my headcanon that Arthur looks really young. I really don't fw the whole nations are old and ugly and miserable thing. I like my pretty boys pretty sorry!! Arthur is younger than a lot of his European peers, and he canonically looks 23 but even then I think he should have a bit of a babyface.

It just suits his spiteful, somewhat immature personality. And he is immature - he non-stop argues with France and he still plays victim regarding the American war of independence.

Also, it works with his origins. Seen by Rome as the sort of 'back-water' of Europe, he's always been a little neglected. So he's skinnier, and smaller, and really nothing but a scalding pair of wide-green eyes looking up at his fellow nations in resentment.

(see: Alexandre Cabanel's 'The Fallen Angel) - how apt for a fallen Empire. Time really is a flat circle!!

(and I think it looks really cute with all his new world children being so much bigger and healthier. Australia, America, candida, new Zealand - they're all a lot taller and stockier.)

[frenchiepal]

3.11.23 🍂˚ ༘ ೀ⋆｡˚☕️

i thought i was done with my assignments for the day but the moment i moved to close my laptop my prof sent a mail with the biggest reading assignment ughhh

[mr-payjay]

hi can i,bgg he he

what the fuck was that my keyboard just had a seizure. ok. i was trying to ask for tacojay content i guess my keyboard really didnt like that.

you dont have to draw tacojay thoug but can i get a hello (i think you’re really cool n stuff and your art is awesoms)

smiles nervously

i hope you don't mind if it's evil tacojay where she's trying to kill him

og meme^

thank you so much also :) im really happy you like my art, i always super appreciate asks about it like this!!! very kind and makes my day <3 so Hello to you rottkitt i hope you're having a lovely tacojay day

[sincerely-sofie]

Doodled some Cult of the Lamb while waiting for my brother to finish the testing we were doing!

[separatist-apologist]

what are your thoughts on this booktok drama https://www.reddit.com/r/RomanceBooks/comments/1i1i05p/your_thoughts_on_kallmekris_booktok_drama/ a lot of people were offended by the video (it was removed from this person's youtube channel, but internet is forever and someone uploaded the 37min video on tiktok). i get why people were upset, especially since this creator used clips of people without asking for permission and i think the OG title was T'hese Viral TikTok Smut Books Are Really Gross' which pissed off a lot of people. i just don't know if people are being overly sensitive or not to the content of the video.

yeah she makes fun of some of these popular booktok books, but people do that all the time. trash gets published so much in the guise of spicy romances so i'm not quite sure if people are conflating this creator talking shit about the books with her talking shit about them or maybe i missed something and she actually did talk shit about them. i know you have hatersbookclub (which i love, i find your commentary super funny) so i was wondering if you had a take on this drama since it's been blowing up all over tiktok and now reddit.

Okay I'm gonna be real and upfront- I'm not gonna watch the video because I don't want to be pushed anymore booktok content. However I do have general thoughts about the culture, which I am, once again, putting under the cut. blah blah blah read at your own discretion

Obligatory not all of booktok.

Without watching the video (so I lack context), one of the things I find wildly frustrating about booktok is the performative outrage. The CONSTANT performative outrage about EVERYTHING. Maybe the video was offensive but I'm betting it was a mild, but mostly fair, criticism of the culture over there and they are allergic to any nuance, and take even constructive criticism as a personal attack.

The anti-intellectualism floating around the space is deeply frustrating. "I just read for the vibes" "its a brain off read for me" "its not that deep" "let people like things" "no one ever says men are consuming too much porn" ""good" is subjective" alongside the weaponization of like, feminism and other progressive language to silence ANY critique is exhausting.

No one is saying you shouldn't be allowed to brain off read 700 books written in an hour that aren't edited and actively uphold the very patriarchal, white supremacist culture you swear you want to dismantle (only when it's time to cancel someone, though, and never when its time to do the uncomfortable internal work that forces you to ask why you only consume books in which women are referred to as "females" and are subservient to men in overtly domineering roles, though).

What people are often saying is that its frustrating the way these POORLY written (not subjective- thats an objective, measurable standard), copy cat books are peddled and often shielded from criticism under the guise of "feminism means you can never criticize anything women enjoy ever" or how if you're offering up book recs, a deluge of "Is there spice" floods the comments. Books are being marketed on fanfiction tropes rather than a PLOT, of which there very often is very little to none of.

I've seen people GENTLY try and discuss, like, the lack of media literacy and booktok is always there arguing why any reading is good reading, wholly ignoring that, often by their own admission, they ARENT reading (brain off reading means....what? You didn't absorb any of it? I don't even know what that means and I honestly don't want to), or that its good for your brain to actually pay attention to what you're reading and then THINK about it. Even your dark romance trash is saying SOMETHING.

Booktok is addicted to their own victimization.

[doomdoomofdoom]

deutsch tumblr, was sind eure überlebens strategien für morgen?

sowohl die wartezeit als auch das ergebnis

[muffingnf]

need dteam’s new hispanic friends to qrt tommy and tell him to die in spanish

[einaudis]

Remember how a European man made a movie about a Latin American (historical) event, and took his time to do some good research, contact the people involved and craft the movie with respect? And The Academy pretty much ignored him AND the movie? Ahhh, but LSDLN wasn't racist and didn't portray latin Americans as criminals, so it didn't cater to Hollywood's "let me say I care about latin Americans without actually taking my time to CARE for latin Americans" performative side.

Now tell me those Oscars Emilia Pérez will sadly get are not the ones La Sociedad de la Nieve deserved. Come on, I'll wait.

[vroomian]

Hi ✌️I read bitter waters and I became interested in what other people think about YRZ? In one of the chapters we see that the other students are quite friendly towards him and even seem to respect him. But these are only Qing Jing's disciples. What about the others? PL? Especially considering the events of the last chapter. Will we see their point of view eventually?

(Sorry if there are any mistakes, I don't speak English and use Google)

he's a highly respected head disciple and a lot of people think that he should've been the head disciple of the first peak and therefore the next sect leader. yrz and yqy both know how to put on a show so most people don't know how much they dislike each other lol.

yrz is good at his job and his shidis trust and look up to him a lot. he's never unfair and he takes the kids seriously so the all like him. the qing jing shidis all brag about their perfect shixiong so the other peaks all know about yrz. his reputation is a devoted and hardworking cultivator. everyone agrees that it's a shame that his master is sqq, but they all know not to say anything to yrz about it.

we won't be getting any outside pov, or at least i haven't planned anything at this time. who knows with me lol.

[manjushagep]

Sweden send something in Swedish challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)

[ladyluscinia]

All the interviews about S2 are still not great, but I do want to grab a quote for us all:

Looking back at Izzy’s arc over the two seasons, Jenkins said that he doesn’t see Izzy as a pure antagonist in season one because on some level… Izzy was right in his hesitations about Stede. “His boss is falling for this manic pixie dream girl, and he’s got to keep his boss safe because that’s his job,” Jenkins explains. “And then he has to get this ship to operate like a normal ship would operate. And they’re all weirdos. So he’s got the worst middle management position. And on top of that, his boss is a lunatic.”

David Jenkins from this Gizmodo article

The man may have lost the plot, but he's still holding strong on his stance from S1 that all that toxic discourse that people projected on Izzy was mostly just shit they made up. The weird vibes-based mentor / father figure pivot has NOT canonized calling him Edward's third abusive dad. They gave him a redemption arc and killed him off, but Mr. Jenkins did NOT deem him the horrid villain that was ruining Edward's life.

It was all still just a souring workplace partnership and a lot of jealousy.

[mafufuu-2-with-cheese]

“ dear mother, can we both agree that i have grown up now? “

[cyberslasharpie]

Thank you cross duel for giving us two drastically different Kaiba responses to loosing in a duel with Ultimate Blue Eyes. 😂 😅

[dandelionjack]

just gotta wait 16 years, hang in there 🤞🤞

[capriszn]

personally i loved arcane s2 more than the first, it was so so beautiful and memorable and visibly crafted with love!!!!! i cried constantly throughout eps 4-7 and held my breath for the final episode and yall can complain about pace and unanswered questions all you want, i don‘t really agree that these were actual issues.. and then it got gayer too so ofc this show is going down in history now as the best animated series since avatar but u didnt hear that from me ig