#esp when they're not doing anything wrong

[grayisatorturedpoet]

some of y'all are annoying asf on here im sorry but 😭😭😭 yapping and yapping abt 'I hate how this character is portrayed' or 'I hate when people do this with this character' and its perfectly fine and not problematic in the slightest. like just BLOCK AND SCROLL stop acting like the people enjoying/making that content are the spawn of satan jfc

[bloodebayou]

i don't want anyone to get upset by this because that's neither the intended reaction nor really the appropriate one. i'm also not talking about anyone specifically, and i don't think i even have mutuals who do this (and if i do i haven't realized it so rest assured i'm not talking about you), but.

if you have 10+ muses (or even less, really), and they're aaaaaaall white... why? i assume at least a chunk of the time people don't realize they've done this, but i also feel like that's unlikely, honestly, as much as diversity comes up, even just in general within the rpc. i also just can't imagine how you wouldn't realize. idk, just maybe consider why you do this, and think about how internalized racism plays into it. then, maybe do better.

[moe-broey]

Every day I wake up, I'm full of inspiration and ambition, I lollygag a bit, I kinda skirt around it, I actively avoid The Thing I WANT to do. Then I just kinda give up and do something else.

[miserye]

i got forced to go to a social event yesterday and it looked like i was being a (slightly) uncooperative bitch (i was) but that's just how i normally am at social events when i am outnumbered by people i don't know

[llycaons]

my parents are the poster children for things that can be fine but are STRONGLY discouraged in those parent classes. we all slept in the same bed. I was a home birth (midwife was supposed to come but never showed up). we just wandered around outside when we were young. like, adults were around but. ehh. we also did rock scrambling when we were like 5 and nobody ever got hurt but telling our city-born aunt that she looked like she she was about to faint. but like we were FINE it's just about being careful

[thankssaragorn]

oddly specific and incoherent howling commandos headcanons:

ages: hugely important for vibes here. mcu wiki does technically have ages for them but not all of them are real to me. to me, steve and bucky and peggy and gabe are like in their mid-20s and the rest of them are 30s and 40s.

gabe and morita are dummy smart like went back home after the war and got phds smart. they also worked on all of the civil rights movements.

^ just because morita is dummy smart does not mean that he carries brain cells.

morita-dugan-dernier get into jackass level hooliganry. its the combo of 'morita machine smart' and 'dernier explosives smart' and 'dugan down to clown'.

like technically steve is in charge but i think theyve got more of a community thing going on esp when it comes to day to day life. steve makes the battle plans and reports to the brass but everything else is a group effort because they're family.

bucky has that annoying big brother energy he's like messing with people and repeating the same phrases and singing all the time.

bucky and steve together are super annoying because they can communicate without speaking and everything they say is an inside joke and they have no idea how to interact socially with anybody but each other.

^^ when peggy is around this is worse. the three of them are insane and should never be put in charge of anything ever.

morita is full of rage (as he should be). dugan regularly exploits this.

dugan and bucky are bffls - if they were grade school students in the 2010s they'd exchange silly bandz and pass notes via paper airplane. i have no textual evidence to back this up other than that i believe it's true.

dernier can understand and speak english fine but he thinks its a stupid language so he makes them all learn french in order to communicate with him.

monty and steve have a similar vibe as dugan and bucky but like not as grimy and rowdy bc their personalities are different. but like monty is steve's no 2 after bucky and they do "high brow shit" like talk about art and books and political theory and nerd things.

^ in this similar vein, steve and gabe have a similar vibe as steve and natasha. idk how else to elaborate on this i just feel its true. gabe holds a large percentage of the group's overall brain cell, and he's clever and has a dry humor and when steve comes to him saying "i want to try this" he shrugs and says okay.

gabe is jacked asf cuz he carries the machine gun around like he's super strong, he and steve regularly exploits this.

dugan is like so indiana jones about his hat and they're all so annoyed about it. howard bulks it up though, makes it sturdier in case it gets shot. it's dugan's pride and joy.

james howlett (wolverine) joined up with them for one (1) mission and.....never again. don't ask what happened, just, never again.

^^ this becomes hilarious in like 2015

peggy went on a few missions with them but that got shut down real quick. it's not that they weren't successful, but the peggy-steve-bucky Circle of Stupidity (TM) makes the howlies drop productivity by at least 25% so they unionized and said no more sorry we love her but when she's here you three act like dumb idiots.

when steve goes on the azzano mission with peggy and howard, colonel phillips is like "i did not make it through the great war just to be put in charge of the stupidest idiots in the allied powers" and then when steve comes back and puts the howlies together, phillips gives up. he tries to resign, eisenhower wont let him.

the thing about peggy-steve-bucky is that all three of them think they're the level headed rational one of the group and all three of them are wrong.

[antispopausandstuff]

SPOP and Arcane made me feel even more strongly about the necessity that toxic // abusive siblinghood, especially sisterhood, should have more awareness. for pretty much the same reasons.

collectively, SPOP and Arcane, though, largely their fandoms, had a problem with viewing the youngest sibling as incapable of real harm, at some point in the story.

the eldest ( Adora // Vi ) can do everything right. do their absolute best to keep their loved ones happy and healthy, no matter what it costs them personally. but the moment they make a mistake, even if it's one they heavily regret seconds later, or even if it's not a true mistake at all and just makes the youngest upset, they're considered villains and face constant backlash.

but the youngest can do everything wrong, no matter the intentions, and be praised for it. it's people like that who make me question if Azula, for example, really... should have a redemption to begin with. yes, she's a child, i get that, but that meant she needed help.

Catra isn't seen as solely in the wrong because she thinks Adora abandoned her, when she has absolutely no reason to believe that, and even said plenty of times herself that she made her own choice to stay with the Horde, that she didn't want to leave.

she isn't seen as in the wrong for her inhumane, sadistic, objectifying abuse towards Adora ever since they were children because she's considered a product of her circumstances ( when apparently no one else is ), doesn't know what she's doing ( despite making it clear multiple times she does ), sees Adora as She-Ra ( she almost never uses "She-Ra" when referring to Adora, no matter what form ), etc., etc., etc. she's a girlboss who can do what she wants until she suddenly does something unforgivable, then it's not her fault.

Jinx isn't seen as in the wrong, partially or otherwise, despite the show's intentions from the very beginning, because Vi made a huge mistake in a moment of weakness after realizing her little sister, accident or not, killed their entire family.

she isn't seen as in the wrong for abusing Sevika, obsessing over Vi, which led to her stalking and kidnapping Caitlyn, bombing an entire bridge, killing dozens, if not hundreds, of people ( esp the one that reminded her of Vi, that's not a red flag at all ), etc., etc., because she's evidently mentally unstable and needs help.

and, strangely, she becomes a... hero to Zaun? i'm gonna be blunt, i don't even remember why. instead of her health declining even further after accidentally killing yet another family member, with his last words literally telling her she's done nothing wrong, she feels almost like a stranger in comparison to how she was in s1. there were very few things that didn't set Jinx off, but she feels like... Harley Quinn-esc in s2? if that makes sense?

what i'm trying to say is that i don't feel like people take sibling abuse as seriously as they should, especially not in media.

one of my favorite films of all time is Prince of Egypt and that's largely because it centers around the shifting family dynamics between Moses and those he loves, including Rameses. it adds a lot of depth to terrible people, one's mistakes, how that makes them reshape their whole world and self view, or how it makes them dig their heels deeper in the sand.

Ramses and Moses never had an abusive relationship. at least, not in the beginning. it was clear as day they loved each other. Moses was quick to defend Rameses when they got in trouble with their father, and Rameses was quick to defend Moses when he killed a man.

and, even despite their complete and total differences, with Rameses not being able to see the Hebrews as anything more than objects, slaves, and Moses being a Hebrew and needing to free his people, their love was still there.

it only became hate, from Rameses' side, after it was clear that Moses wasn't able willing to go back to how life was before. but even in that hate, he was still trying to reach his little brother. until his son was in the midst of it and eventually died.

he blamed Moses, when it was him who was at fault for not listening and not freeing the Hebrews.

Prince of Egypt is a beautiful film, artistically and in its writing, and i highly recommend those who haven't seen it to do so. but this is what i mean.

this film held Rameses accountable. Moses held Rameses accountable. and he didn't even hate his older brother, he still loved him, and it pained him to bring the plague to Egypt, his home.

i think it's easier, in some ways, because Moses is the youngest of the two. society generally tends to think that younger people either don't know any better or can lead to better futures. but they're just as capable of bad as anyone else, and people still don't understand this.

it's why, whenever you hear stories of an older sibling being abused time and time again by their younger one, families will excuse it over and over, constantly giving benefit of the doubt, instead of just holding the younger sibling accountable for their actions.

the same issue applies to SPOP and Arcane. it doesn't fully acknowledge that Catra and Jinx are in the wrong for hurting // abusing Adora and Vi, let alone anyone else.

we need more stories that show all possible truths in families. and one of those truths is that the youngest can still be bad and abusive to anyone, just like anybody else.

[moe-broey]

Down time...

Just some VERY messy quick doodles. But it's soooo important to me.... bite bite kill kill bite chew gnaw chomp kill maim murder

+ some extra expressions I like enough to post (but please look away this is private........... like you don't really See Anything/it's cropped out, just suggestive LMFAO)

Mostly just bc of Moe tbh. I like how silly it is LMFAO

[astrophileblogs07]

Astro Observations pt.21

Back with some very random Astro observations 😁

⚫ Saturn aspecting the 7th house actually can dislike 9 to 5 jobs or corporate office jobs. They are better with freelancing. Its coz they can't take orders. Sorry not sorry. 💀(Ig that's a Saturn 7H thing 😆)

⚫ An interesting thing I observed: Among two siblings, the elder one has Leo rising which means Scorpio 4H and the younger one has Scorpio moon. And their Mom is a Scorpio moon too. She's a nice lady though but is such a control freak. (I know I am one too, but like when I met her the second time that "controlling" vibe just hit me like a big yellow school bus 🚌😭😭). That was so funny lol😂. -All the more her birthdate is a single digit 1.(these people are the alpha type, always lead and never follow and hence are dominating, one to have the last say) which is cherry on top. -She is fiercely protective of her kids. Can't emphasize enough on "fierce" part. Very strict. Rules are to be followed very religiously. {She can't stand any one of them doing anything without her knowledge. She even monitors whom they interact with what they do on their mobiles etc.(from what I suspect)} (obv Scorpio moon mom traits) (sometimes Leo moon moms too){nothing unhealthy here, just Mom's way of showing they care 😂}

⚫Saturn and Workout: -Workout 🏋️‍♀️requires CONSISTENCY. Saturn LOVES consistency. -In fact the best remedy for Saturn is sweating. JUST SWEAT by hard work. No matter what it maybe: workout, walking, jobs, cardio, sports etc. 🤸‍♀️🚴‍♀️🏋️‍♀️

⚫ Whilst on the topic of Saturn, people who follow a time table for literally everything the planet doesn't harm them much during its Dasha (even if its your worst one). I mean obviously you played by the rules 🤷‍♀️

⚫ Magha is the only nakshatra for which you don't need in depth compatibility match. They get along with everyone.

⚫Scorpio Venuses/8H Venuses are paranoid. They notice and suspect everything (sometimes things which are not there/imaginary). (For eg, me, who thinks that someone is peeping thru my curtains even when nobody is there and all my curtains cover my windows properly. 🤣).

⚫Also as a basic Scorpio Venus behavior: while writing chats/texting, I always think- "what if someone else reads it?"..so I just don't give much details in texts. (Gosh, sometimes I think somethings wrong with me 😭😭)

⚫The proven way to hurt a Leo moon: compare them with any other person and tell them that the person is wayy better in a certain thing esp if it's a triat that the Leo is proud of. 🤣 (P.S don't do that, its mean and the Leo will hunt you, which you don't want 😀.)

⚫Why do Aries moon men have a bunch of good friends for life and Aries moon women struggle with having at least one good genuine female friend for life? (I'm jealous)

⚫ Maybe its becoz they get along more with guys than gals so the girls are jealous of them...so hence no good female friends. 😢🤡 Aries moons are the best-est people for friendships you'll ever get.

⚫ People born on a Saturday look melancholic.

⚫ You can NEVER mislead a Leo rising. They study litreally everything: what you say what you do, and why you do so. Similar to Scorpios

⚫If you see a person having graceful and "royal" way of walking or behaving, they're are sure shot to have a Magha Ascendant.

⚫Connecting the dots here: as I said in one of my previous posts that Maghas get framed even when they have done nothing, what I interpreted is that Maghas are actually the definition of royalty. They literally have that ✨grace✨, that kinda magnanimous personality and similar struggles to a monarch. Totally King/Queen typa energy here. So with that, the usual consequences in a Kingdom is conspiracy against the king, which the Maghas face. (Enough with Maghas ig, started observing them recently so..✌🏻💀)

That's it for today, until next time! (like,comment and reblog loveliesss❤❤😘)

[moonsglare]

imagine r preens kjsr's wings while kjsr preens the kids wing. the wings are probably a lot more small and delicate so she is def scared at first. her men just seeing the so-called cold hearted general hold a small baby while giving orders, and the kid just running around while they are training. feel like she might be the best parent to open up to? maybe im wrong but like kjsr would love her kid as easy as breathing. she can be strict though esp with training, her kid thinking she will go easy on her but no she went to general mode!!! she'd be so #proud going for if her kid won any compeitions. she'd be a huge worry wart during r's pregnancy and the few months after birth, always worring over the newborn baby and r. im a firm believer that she loves to spoil her kid cuz she got the crow brain wired in her. she'd have a whole self dedicating to parenting and pregnancy books since she starts to panic of how theres even a slight chance of being uneducated on anything. also imagine the kid wants to connect to their tengu side and i think it might even compell to make kksr connect with her tengu side also, them both going to mountains so they can learn to fly together.

"love her kid as easy as breathing" absolutelyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy like at first she's definitely terrified out of her mind but when her kid is actually in her arms she learns loving isn't that hard, you just gotta let it happen. even the idea of being anything other than loving to her kid physically repulses her. it'd be such a huge wake up call to just how badly she was treated herself as a kid :((( anyway, not to dwell on angst but the preening chain is real !!! it's convenient that r is human and doesn't have wings in need of preening so they can sit furthest at the back and care for sara's wings. it's a very intimate bonding activity for sara's little family; it's probably how her kid learns to read, sat on sara's lap as her fingers parse through soft, downy feathers as she gently corrects her kid's intonations and reading. and if the kid gets sleepy they can just lean back and doze off in sara's arms, the safest place in the world for them.

i don't think sara would bring her kid to training, especially as a baby, since it's so loud and she doesn't really want her kid to hear her with her voice raised. but once they're older, if they show interest in swordsmanship or archery, sara would definitely be quite excited to teach them. she won't take it easy on them or let them take shortcuts; it'll be hard work from the ground up. as long as they put in the effort and the hours, sara will always support them, guiding them whenever they need it. i think she very much values her kid figuring out what they want to do in this world and letting them choose that if they want, yk? she wants the kid to have the opportunities to discover who they are; the opportunities she never got. her kid having an identity they're sure in, that gives them true joy, would be so important to her.

she's definitely a worrier during r's pregnancy. unlike arle or mavu i think she'd be very noticeably worried, wings fluttering nervously whenever r exerts themself even just a little bit. she gets as many housekeepers as she can on payroll, the best dietitian in inazuma, and in the final weeks she has a midwife stay on the estate. when r's water breaks she probably very nearly passes out. one of the nurses supposed to take care of r has to help her lie down and do breathing exercises, all while r is there kinda just cruising through the contractions. sara, who should be used to blood, completely passes out when the baby is finally born in all their slimy, bloody preciousness. r and the baby are completely fine but this poor general is just absolutely out cold, it's embarrassing. and when she wakes up and gets to hold her baby she cries immediately. r definitely teases sara about it in the years to come and even though it still embarrasses her to remember how much of a wreck she was when it wasn't even her giving birth, she still doesn't regret a moment of it. she doesn't regret feeling that love so strongly in her heart it brought her to true tears.

learning to fly together would be so sweet............... heading to mt. yougou or chinju forest to practice, and she brings lavender melons and other assorted snacks both for her kid and for the demanding tanuki in the forest. sara gets a little protective if miko shows up, wings fluffed up a little reflexively. for all that she knows miko wouldn't do anything to her child, miko is still a fox and her baby is still a hatchling. her instincts are a little strong at the moment. miko finds it all very amusing and teases her relentlessly about it.

[iwannascreameurekaa]

as someone who has diagnosed autism and a slight oral fixation (that sounds bad, I'm sorry in advance do not take that the wrong way please) Im putting my two cents in for the Jason has autism and wolf traits and therefore has an oral fixation thing

Here's a couple things that I have experienced due to the oral fixation thing

-nail biting. I am a chronic nail biter and they had never been longer than the tip of my finger and usually they never get to reach that either. I've read that this is very common for ppl with oral fixations bc it's just easier to bite ur nails since they're close and you don't have to worry about having nothing to bite or whatever so that's also my head canon that Jason is a nail biter

-the weird urge to bite anything that comes near your mouth. This will happen with things hanging from the ceiling (common in my household, don't ask I don't have an answer), with people who put their fingers in my face, and with any objects that are being handed to me. If I'm comfortable around people I will make a little chomp at it but I'm usually joking although yes I have bitten random things but I haven't but anyone (at least in a while) but for Jason I think he would be biting people affectionately (esp Leo and piper since they're closest to him) and yes someone needs to get him one of those autism chew necklaces I had one it's fricking awesome

-the constant mouth movement. That sounds weird I'm sorry 😭 it's mainly clicking my tongue or running my tongue on my teeth. Really it's like the constant movement thing of cycles and shit idk how to explain it. It's like a fidget basically and ik talking could technically count as this but it's not just the movement it's the texture or friction or something seriously I'm bad with words when it comes to describing my own shit

it would be awesome if we could show more about the oral fixation thing in a non sexual manner sometimes :) not anything against that smut love that too but seriously give my boy Jason more autistic traits I love this

[joejhang]

my aftg hot takes

most of these are pretty lukewarm but i'm gonna get flamed for them anyway but whatever. spoilers ??? ahead ??? idk read at ur own risk

i don't think andreil ever say i love you to each other; i feel like the discourse about this is virtually endless ever since nora said it but honestly her explanation was so valid??? they're such a show not tell couple it just makes so much sense for them to show the "i love you" in their actions than ever saying the words out loud. esp bc neither of them have ever really heard those words and have them mean anything real or true or actually loving. personally i think their little percentages and the "i hate you"'s and kisses and keys mean more to them than an "i love you" ever could. i'm not a purist on this tho i do think i could visualise it happening maybe somewhere along the road i just think nora's explanation for this is very very in line with canon andreil.

i don't hate thea muldani; i've made a post abt this but basically my thoughts around her are literally just: she's a human being, and she's never gonna be perfect. i also find it very...interesting how the fandom likes to flame thea (an explicitly stated woman of colour) for being "problematic" and a "terrible person/character" when she doesn't act all that different from andrew, neil and kevin (white men) ??? idk it seems a little strange to me bc she seems pretty on par with them on whatever moral compass this batshit crazy fandom has decided to impose on these fictional and very much morally ambiguous characters. anyway go check out my post i go a lot deeper into thea's character and why she does a lot of things wrong but i don't rlly think she's deserving of the insane amounts of hate she gets in the fandom.

i don't think andreil ever get married; this MIGHT be me projecting bc the idea of marriage is just a very complicated and rough concept in my mind but also just i feel like there's something so beautiful about andreil never really putting a label on their relationship??? like they never define it by calling the other their "boyfriend" or "husband" they just are. they have nothing "concrete" binding them like a marriage certificate but they choose to stay with each other through everything. idk it's real to me but again i'm not a purist people can do whatever they want.

i've said it before but i'll keep saying it till enough people hear me: the aftg fandom mischaracterises literally the main fucking characters; i'm mostly talking about andrew and ESPECIALLY neil here bc neil is not a sweet, sunshiney, oblivious, blushy softboy and andrew is not a cold, unemotional, stoic, "conceal don't feel" stone. since i've already bitched on and on about neil's mischaracterisation let's just talk about andrew for a sec. i think andrew is actually a deeply emotional person and is fully aware of the feelings he experiences. does he vocalise or express them often? no but more often than not they show themselves anyway. him crashing out after neil was kidnapped, letting himself get walked like a dog by neil for three books straight, choking allison for slapping aaron, idk i could go on. but yeah you get it.

i don't actually think neil is that oblivious; before people come at me like "but nora said!" or whatever yeah, i know she said he's as dense as a brick when it comes to people flirting with him. considering how much of the ec the aftg fandom likes to disregard allow me to disregard this little bit of it, yeah? this isn't me tryna impose my own projections onto nora's characters, this is lit just me tryna explain how i understand neil josten (he's my bsf btw). he literally clocks his feelings for andrew in trk (after his deep convo™ with nicky) but he just files it away for later bc he doesn't consider attraction or romantic interest anything to be thinking about considering he's got the mafia and his serial killer dad on his tail. i also don't really blame him for not catching onto andrew's feelings earlier (tho doesn't he get pretty fucking close during that one convo they have in exites in trk???? someone correct me if i'm wrong but) bc dude andrew was out here sending fucking mixed ass signals like bro was saying "you are a pipe dream" and "i hate you" in the same fucking conversations like??? neil has always taken andrew at face value and he's not about to question him now. he's also never confused or uncertain about nicky or marissa and what their comments about him meant, he just genuinely does not gaf about them so he doesn't acknowledge them or pay them any attention in his narration. i truly truly think his dismissal of all the advances made upon him in aftg were borne out of indifference, not obliviousness.

have already said this in detail but i don't think andrew's actually a misogynist; the wording doesn't feel right. i'd probably describe andrew's distrust of women (esp. those in motherly/mother roles) as a similar ingrained wariness that neil has for older men. this is something borne out of trauma and shitty experiences that takes time and trust to unlearn. nora says a lot of things the fandom disregards and for me, this is one of those things i'm a little iffy about. misogyny actually isn't reflected in andrew's actions at all, i'd say. does he respect women? no. but he doesn't respect anyone unless they've actually earned it. and among the people he does respect and care for there are women (renee, bee). he doesn't treat women any differently and obv doesn't think they're any weaker than men are (considering renee wipes the floor w him their first sparring sesh). andrew's an equal opportunity hater and i don't think he actually has any sexist or even misogynistic tendencies. i think what is there is just a slightly biased worldview of disliking/mistrusting mother figures, given his bad experiences w tilda and cass (they've left him w more long-term emotional damage that's probably rlly difficult and complicated for him to work through esp considering cass did love??? him and he did want her enough to be willing to suffer dr*ke to be close to her; there's more to it but for the sake of word count i won't go into it) but honestly it doesn't actually show that much??? if people wanna say he hates women, sure, but for one, he doesn't hate a lot of things he's just very indifferent to them and two, he holds a pretty similar apathetic distaste for most people and things, so it's not like a very big distinction. i also think the whole "no girls" thing w aaron was very much a personal thing, and his mistrust of katelyn probably came from aaron's past (apparently negative) experiences w other girlfriends and friendships in general. and if i remember correctly the deal wasn't even "no girls" it was just "family only" which is why aaron didn't make friends w the rest of the foxes either. i digress but i don't think saying "andrew isn't a misogynist" is robbing him of any nuance as a character.

i like nicky and honestly feel similarly towards him as i do about thea; he isn't perfect and never will be and i think while the way he acts towards neil and others (see: matt, kevin) is pretty untoward and inappropriate, i also do see where he's coming from, esp after aaron's explanation of it. that it's a defence mechanism coming from someone who's experienced a lot of prejudice and harm because of his sexuality. obv i think everyone can agree his assault on neil was fucked up but i think nora was right in saying that nicky was high and drunk and not rlly in his right mind at the time, and he does apologise and i'm pretty sure she also said he and neil work it out privately anyway. he's a messy character and definitely not perfect queer rep but again, he's pretty realistic, and i think he's honestly a rlly well-written and complex character.

[sosuigeneris]

luxury things that plebs think are luxury but are actually not luxury: a series

any brand that has "luxe/ luxury" in it. if it is luxurious, you wouldn't have to tell me that. or if their website uses the word "luxury/ luxurious." run. away.

name dropping brands, nice places like they're a big deal. luxury is my default so I don't get why me wearing a certain designer or staying in a certain place is luxury to you if you're not already used to it

being decked out in designer when real luxury is having customised apparel

taking pictures or worse, CALLS in first/business the second they land that are obviously not work/ imp calls.... I wish I could run away. ive experienced this twice and thats two times too many.

instagram aesthetics. genuinely wealthy people dont gaf about maintaining one, no one has the time for that nor has the mentality of being herded by the masses

talking about every purchase, experience, procedure. experiences are exempt but counted only if you can focus on how it made you feel as opposed to what you spent and where you stayed. wealthy people dont care about brands if the experience is bad. if the ritz does me wrong tomorrow or gives me a bad experience I dont care how nice their properties are, im NEVER going back. my worth is greater than the ritz

"iconic" things are actually 99.9% not

whitewashing ethnic outfits with European brands.. esp if its a jewellery brand (this is grade A crime in my book)

not doing anything in life because thats the dream. wealthy circles WILL look down on you. no wealthy family wants a daughter in law or a wife like that (upper middle class is not considered wealthy. im talking about the 1% of the 1%). you dont have to work a 9-5 but you need to have some purpose in the form of a hobby/ small business/ charity/ art form such as classical music dance etc etc otherwise you will have no respect or standing.

fame

[mrros-e]

and they're right.

Eli has felt his own kind of societal disenfranchisement, disillusion with his own family, frustration over lack of knowledge and agency. He understands power, he understands filling shoes he doesn't fully like.

But Eli's always had a Shane's perspective. Thinking of the world as a whole, what's best for everyone. He was allowed, encouraged, to listen to his inner morality. That's Shane's privilege; they are well-known and well-resourced. Eli's been able to tap into societal and even political power his entire time down in Slugterra. THAT'S where Eli differs from both Twist and Tad - these two had only their fathers and their legacy. They did not have a worldly, holistic upbringing, so their ideologies (and young emotions, esp. for Tad) are as narrow-focused as their lives had encouraged from them. I have no doubt these two can be good, they are good sometimes. But they've been taught to be self-empowered, to see the injustice lying in their dad's not being there to make their lives easier, to place their survival and peace of mind respectively above the good of the world, of the world that let them down (including the Shanes). They constantly tap into the angered feeling Eli's been taught to suppress, and that's why Eli's so perplexed why they would turn bad - he doesn't know what its like to be a little fish, having been growing to be the big one his whole life. AND its why these two are infuriated w the Shane after their respective conversations: Eli bows to the world's politics that caused their families' ruin, and doesn't even recognize it, or worse - he does and it is not the priority. He "lost his dad too", but in their perspective, seems to care far less about it. He took out Blakk, but won't use the same energy to right Will Shane's actions in the past? Twist knows nothing about the Burning World - he sees a kid who is side-by-side with his Dad, who refuses to see the man he was really raised by (and is twist really proved that wrong, after Eli learns of Will's bad actions later on?). Tad saw Eli not searching for his father, despite them KNOWING hes alive. And that angers them, deeply, which churns right in with their already-there dislike towards the Shanes interpersonally.

eli is good; when he sees evil, he takes it out. He really is trying his best, and even Twist and Tad see minimally that this inaction stems from trauma moreso than any real political stance.

Once it has to do with his dad, eli...sorta becomes a bit of a centrist, especially to these two. he doesn't know how to toe that line; how to save his dad, to love his dad, but move on from his actions, to right the Shane's wrongs. so the Shane stops gangs and individuals - even corporations! - but he wont do anything that systematically helps the caverns.

thats my reading of ItS and A New Kid pt 1+2 that makes sense to me.

[relampagueando]

i got asked on ao3 recently why i thought matoba and natori are still Like That when it is clear that matoba wants natori to be his side piece and natori would be more than ok w/ that. i wanted to post it here too and also expand more bc i wrote my reply like 4 min before i went to work, and i've just tweeted similar things in bursts that i should probably compile the short answer is: bc their circumstances are stupid, and so are they long answer below the cut

on matoba

as much as i love him having been clingy and annoying and blinking morse code KISS ME to natori when they were teens, i think he was still considerate enough not to do anything about it bc he could see how jumpy natori was. how easy it would have been to lose him w/ the wrong thing said, the wrong thing done. better to just have his companionship in their ambiguity and plausible deniability of just how deeper he would prefer their friendship to be than to have nothing at all. esp for someone already as much of an outsider as matoba seiji - he's the clan heir, so he's getting primed for it; he's a teen, and besides his sister who hates him, natori is the only one around his age; he can see youkai, already a rare thing; and he can see them w/ exceptional power. their imbalance was predetermined when matoba met natori it would have especially been pointless to act upon any feeling when he is the matoba clan head. while as far as i've read the manga i don't recall them saying explicitly a matoba clan head has to be matoba by blood as opposed to marriage/adoption, i think it's an easy conclusion that blood would be prioritized since seiji is a matoba by name. he's probably gonna have to have beget a matoba heir and by blood is easiest, and natori has always been a rival clan, and they're both guys... the classic trope! but it has its place here, since they Are in jpn and on top of it they are in politics, and on top of THAT it's exorcist politics where as mentioned blood is going to matter. i actually think matoba wouldn't give a fuck about liking another guy - they used to be all over that in the yr 1545, why can't He in 20xx. granted he wouldn't be skipping about at pride w/ a rainbow flag over his shoulders; jpn's history w/ homosexuality has been Complex and it would also be in matoba's little proper traditional boy head. i don't know enough about this history to have any further comment on it, just my impression that, in the end, matoba isn't losing sleep over his natori dreams. also he is a spoiled brat. he wants that boy and he will construct intricate rituals to hold his hand and then, when natori inevitably puffs up like a kitten and turns red like his real shoujo maiden heart, matoba can safely say Just kidding! unfortunately for him, the clan/the world/NATORI would give a fuck if he admitted he's not really ever been kidding not even a bit

the pointlessness of having done anything about his baby crush stands when smth does actually pull natori away. which we are patiently waiting to find out: was it 1 singular event, or was it a continuum of realization that their methods of exorcising/youkai views were too incompatible? at any rate, now it's definitely too late to do anything! matoba is suffering not from internalized homophobia but internalized resignation that his life is not his own. duty is a weight and matoba is sisyphus w/ the fuckingfng boulder. the only thing that keeps his path crossing natori's is that the exorcist world is small, they are actually more alike than they think, and that singular incompatibility was not enough to undo all their other compatibilities - and so how much they still care about e/o

on natori

for natori tho, he was so unwanted as a kid that it has really fucked up his feelings forever. and it doesn't help at all that the person he is having even more complex feelings about is MATOBA..... he's hard to read; like is he trying to piss natori off bc he likes to, or is he being flirty? (the answer is both). and why would he be flirty? they are both guys <- bl manga protag natori shuuichi, who unlike matoba is absolutely going thru it, and part of it not just bc matoba is a guy but bc matoba is a rude little princess i mean brat. natori represses what starts to feel a little too intensely to just be friend feelings somewhere he can't reach. this has not worked so well!

just on top of the crush, i think natori would also be grappling w/ if he even feels that way bc he's finally found someone who can see youkai and is around his age. bc god knows him chasing after takuma and yorishima isn't gonna do anything. matoba in shambles that natori likes older men. anyway. on top of That, too, is natori's mopey Everyone hates me and wants to leave me that ultimately haunts all his interactions, esp as a teen. even if matoba can see youkai, he isn't branded by one (except matoba's brand is the eye, the target, that he will have to wear one day, but that he was also born w/. natori just couldn't see it. i digress). matoba has an entire clan around him and natori has no one; matoba cannot possibly understand natori, and vice versa - or so natori thinks. their imbalance was predetermined!!!

their biggest hurdle is ofc their way of exorcising differing from e/o, bc tho they are both men they are first and foremost exorcists. matoba has no qualms about the means taken for the end, doesn't give a shit about youkai being sentient. natori meanwhile is trying to be #nice. matoba would have been fine, delighted really, if the matoba clan took in a woobie still unconfident natori bc it would have meant literally having him at his side, but natori is so prideful and determined to keep being alone - both for pride and his childhood fears - that he does not join the matoba clan. he has to do what he can, how he wants, and do it alone. and when it comes to matoba, he has to be strong, too, and not let himself be affected by how matoba goads him or just generally exists somewhere he can never reach. he loves matoba, but not his methods, but the methods comprise half of who matoba is. there's no getting around that. so natori has to keep the distance between them unless he starts to compromise his beliefs or dust off his repressed feelings. instead he has to wait for matoba to go away before divulging unprovoked to anyone in his vicinity, by which ofc i just mean poor natsume, Btw the way matoba likes cats. And i thought he'd wear a hat when he exorcised bc it's just one extra little safety precaution. And we're not really rival clans not anymore. And and and. then he turns around after his first delicate momence w/ matoba in god knows how long and says directly to him, bearer of the burden and curse, A burden can be shared. ok girl. what am i supposed to make of this. an olive branch offered, a hope for reconciliation and closing the distance he himself is far likelier to have put between them than matoba, who has always known what he wants but has been kept from it by life and natori's own frustrating Standing There emoji self....

and now natori is an actor-model-singer! the only other careers he could have possibly chosen that doomed him to be more cognizant of his relationships than matoba's heirdom. even w/ his burden proposal, he can't do much more than just say gay things to get matoba's and my hopes up. that's a lie, he can also act upon those gay things. and he has! not joining the clan but helping matoba out... remembering things about him... stealing him from his house and they just let him apparently....

but these still aren't the bow-wrapped conclusion they need after w/e happened between them to have the rift to begin w/. they need a bit more of a push. w/ their circumstances, it wouldn't be smart to do more; matoba's clan is still v important to him, and natori still hasn't found his full confidence/sense of self. but they want to. my god they want to

[ratlesshonret]

(This is a very long and disorganized rant. It may come off as very aggressive, but know that it is simply the way I speak when I want to ramble and not indicative of any true anger/malice)

Follow-up to my last post, it is kind of a pet peeve of mine when people almost brag about winning Limbus encounters with winrate.

Like... if you don't like the gameplay, just say that. If you want to just get to the story, that's fine. But sometimes I'll see a creator act like they're so amazing at Limbus, like "I'm so good I can win even with winrate"

But. That's not. Being good at the game? That's just letting gacha luck and the autowin button play the game for you while you take all the credit.

Idk, I kind of hate it, as someone who genuinely likes and appreciates the intricacies of Limbus gameplay. Esp when they whine and fucking complain about how a fight is "too hard" because they have to read two lines of text and then manually select a few skills instead of letting the win button carry them.

Even worse is when these people go play Ruina and complain that it's way too complicated because there isn't a single button that lets them win any fight. Hot take incoming everyone, but Ruina is really not that hard, literally 90% of the game is learning to read. And there's a difference between "ooh lmao i missed that one line when going over the passives, i can't read lol" and "i genuinely refuse to read the passives even when i am losing over and over again"

And that's the thing, some of these people literally REFUSE to read card/skill effects and passives. When they'd probably save more time reading them both by losing the fights less and becoming better at the game.

I feel like in the start, "Project Moon fans can't read" was just to describe a phenomenon of missing/misreading a line or two in the text and making a silly mistake because of it, but now it has gone to become a genuine phenomenon and almost an excuse for itself. Creators and redditors and many others literally refusing to read the text and then excusing it with "well limbus fans can't read it's fine"

And now it is seeping into the story discussion. People wanting to have the story neatly summarized for them by someone else, because they aren't willing to have their own thoughts and interpretations. I mean, what if I'm wrong guys?!?!?! What if I had an incorrect interpretation of the story that harmed nobody and only served to slightly confuse me for a short period?!?!?!

In some ways, the phenomenon of creators like ESGOO neatly summarizing IDs and their gameplay so that winrating Limbus streamers can know what to shard for to put as little effort into playing and enjoying the game as possible has seeped into every corner of the fandom. It's like: "Guys I've GOTTA know what my smart Limbus gameplay guy says about the new ID/EGO. I've GOTTA have Reddit summarize the story for me. I can't have my own thoughts about the gameplay or the mechanics or the story or anything, I need to have someone else package it for me"

I know that not everyone is a diehard fan. Some people are just casuals. It's okay to not enjoy the gameplay and want to get it over with, and to some degree it is helpful to have other people do stuff like explain what IDs/EGOs are good, and what to look out for in both your own and the enemy's skills so you can spend as little time as possible being bogged down with reading pages of text.

But when I see people complaining like "they should just put the source code in the ID skill text" or "omg this new ID is a fucking novel who wants this" it just makes me a little sad. Are we so averse to reading, what, like two paragraphs total of text, that we need to complain every time a new ID comes out that has more than two effects per skill?

And when I see people blatantly misunderstand the story, possibly now because they just skimmed the dialogue and had someone else explain what happened and then formed their opinions based on how they felt when the pretty colors were on screen, it makes me wonder what we're doing.

It almost feels like something Project Moon would tackle in their own works. A society so unwilling to think their own thoughts, so unwilling to take even the barest effort to understand the world around them, that they rely on a few select people they've just decided are smart to summarize and explain everything confusing that happens so that they can go back to mindlessly mashing buttons.

And this behavior being reinforced, through memes like "Project Moon fans don't read" and "me when I winrate the final boss" and "just spam fluid sac lmao," as well as through batshit insane plot theories and interpretations that seem like people are just saying whatever.

I don't really have a point other than that... maybe we need to encourage more actually reading? Instead of just having a semi-formed thought and going to the nearest 'expert' to ask "hey what do you think about X story thing" we actually encourage people to have their own thoughts and feelings and opinions instead of just listening to whatever the generic fandom hivemind says about the plot and mechanics.