#especially when they're this young

[sukibenders]

Me, watching some YJS fans justify what Shauna did to Mari by using clips of Mari and Jackie giggling in s1 (normal teenage girl things), or Mari speaking the truth and trying to take Jackie's jacket (even though it was the middle of winter and the group were already sharing clothes), with said fans saying that they've would've done worse to Mari in response, acting like that makes them any better:

[reo-bylerwagon]

"Skull Rock" existing in the Stranger Things universe opens up a whole gold mine of parallels

how do you get to Nederland again?

what happens in the same night as their skull rock meeting?

the kids get interrogated like tiger lily-- specifically max.

side note: the inside of skull rock reminds me a lot of the tunnels.

[aberooski]

Respectfully?

SOBBING 🥹

[lulu-draws-stuff]

do yyou think you can share any transmasc lili or transfem raz design ideas you have

Ok ! I didn't have any designs planned out yet, so I took this ask as an opportunity to try my hand at it :] maybe I'll line and color this later, idk

(Any pronouns for Raz and he/they for Lili here ok)

[lem0n-a1d]

transfem Kon holds a special place in my heart you all just don't get it

[whorefordarlin]

iwfilwyoaoa thoughts but it's David and Darlin' this time

[matteoberrettini]

bringing positivity for once: today at work i was told that my coworkers said i'm good at tutoring 🥹 and yesterday one coworker sent me a message himself thanking me for my tutoring 🥹 and then my therapist told me the others in this group thing i'm taking part in all like me 🥹😭😭

[corvidaerook]

I'm trying to piece together my Rook's age + Viago's age + when Viago took him in + where Eight Little Talons fits in and man none of these numbers play nice with each other at all.

[jayparked]

oh!! and another thing i wanted to mention but forgot to add in my last ask ^^;; (you don’t have to post this, ofc it’s your choice! i’m just afraid it’s gonna cause an uproar)

i was going through your blog and your reply to one of the asks regarding riki smut was just 🤌🏻. “it’s not about your age, it’s about his”. THANK YOU. if 18 and you’re comfortable seeing/presenting yourself in that way, good for you. but don’t do it to someone else… (i’m ~5 months older than him and even then the thought of someone sexualizing me in that way right now gives me shivers. like, it doesn’t matter whether you’re older or younger, please don’t think about me that way!!!!)

the amount of times i’ve had to block blogs that post niki smut (and usually it’s while i’m scrolling to find enha fluff too SMH) and i’m still not safe… (or like those moan videos of him?? i thought it was a prank at first…)

from now on, this is going to be my response. thank you for your wisdom, all mighty snail lolol

i love being outspoken on this topic because it helps weed out the weirdos from my blog so here are my thoughts expanding on yours and my previous ones!

someone who is 18 can write/read smut. that's not an issue because they are legal and they can make that decision for themselves to consume that content. they are actively deciding to consent every time they proceed with those warnings

riki is someone we don't know. he's a real person out in this world. he's not here to consent to this stuff (and i know the other members aren't either but for this sake lets just talk about riki) that's why for me i dont want to read/write nsfw content about teenagers. let them have their childhood

is it wrong for someone who's 18/19 to write/read nsfw content about riki? no. but that's not the point. i've stated that i'm not comfortable with it and the majority of my followers have agreed with me/supported me with that stance and i'm really thankful for that! it's always made me uncomfortable when people wait for an idol to turn legal to start writing smut about them. even when i was 18 in the fanfic community i found it weird and had preferences to read smut about idols who were already in their 20s.

at the end of the day it really is about him and not us. "well, they're legal so..." is such a gross mindset for someone to have. literally just imagine yourself in his position, it wouldn't be a good feeling. at least wait like damn 😭

i've had moments of inner conflict where sometimes i'll feel really guilty for writing smut about celebrities but then i remember that i just use them as face claims really. all my stories are just characters and i take basic parts of their personality to enhance my characters. i have no clue how they are in real life and i would never project my written characters onto their real person. and i think that's what separates me from quite a few people 😬

[margridarnauds]

It feels like...so many directors are scared of actually engaging with period dramas (or they're afraid of engaging with the budget of a well-done period drama). Like they're afraid that a modern audience can't relate to people who wear different clothing and use different vocabulary. So you get Teen Queen Period Dramas (which, don't get me wrong, I do like them) with modern pop music so that they can be Relatable or modern AUs that have next to nothing in common with the OG or whatever the fuck was going on with the Netflix Persuasion.

[anawkwardlady]

OK, a take that crossed my mind: can we discuss how Ryukishi loves his characters so much that he's ready to forgive even the worst of them? EVEN KINZO???

First, there is no debate that he writes with love.

Also, he writes about violence, from the point of view about both the perpetrator and the victim, and without judgement. Which is amazing! He shows how violence is devastating for the victim, but he also shows how the complex mindset of the people that are to commit such acts, related to isolation and trauma.

He shows that it's possible to break the generational cycle of violence, with communication (to de-isolate) and love.

And I love how violence is not shown as a moral failure, but as a product of past violence, and as prepetrator are not depicted as monsters but as humans.

But Kinzo, seriously? Do I need to explain what he inflicted on Kuwadorian Beatrice? And his children? And the lessons I should get from Chiru is "Battler looks like Kinzo, he should be proud of it" and "Ange should remember Kinzo as a kind grandfather". HE DID NOTHING TO DESERVE FORGIVENESS, EXCEPT SOBBING AT THE FEET OF THE MOST TRAUMATIZED CHARACTER OF THE SERIES.

And finally, my hot take: the only characters who are not forgiven are Teppei Hōjō and Rina Mamiya, because unlike Kinzo, Ryukishi does not love them.

I get the point but I think it's more complicated. it's not so much a "we're forgiving Kinzo" narrative and more a "a lot of characters are trying to cope and deal with the complex feelings they're dealing with" thing.

For exemple, I don't think Chiru's message is that Battler should be proud of being like Kinzo but a mix of trying to convey what Kinzo's and Kuwadorian Beatrice dynamic was like through BATTLER and chick Beato, Sayo's complex feelings towards Kinzo's and her circumstances of birth, Tohya understanding Sayo's feelings and coping with his own situation and what Battler represented to her and Battler wanting Ange to be happy. Battler's message in EP8 was not so much to remember Kinzo as someone's kind I think, but that everything Ange experienced was the worst of everyone and therefore her view was distorted and bringing a lot of pain to her. He wants her to also remember to cherish the good they had because he wants her to be happy. He is her brother so his view is biased in favor of protecting her.

All of this will make things more gray and blur the lines because it inherently will bring some sort of romanticism. I do think theres discussion to have on to which extent it does become enabling and so on but yeah, I think it's a also more nuanced than Ryukishi telling us that Kinzo was not that bad. It's tricky! I had the same complex thoughts about the whole Ange taking some "responsibility" on Eva's abuse thing. On one hand, it's her view and way to cope with it and theres not one acceptable way a victim should react and grow, on the other hand... Yeah I left meh about the message sometimes.

And for your last part : wasn't Teppei somehow "forgiven" by the narrative in GouSotsu? (i didn't watched it all so idk) also I have to admit I always was a bit annoyed that Rena's dad wasn't seen in that same light just because he wasn't overtly physically abusive despite being extremely abusive nonetheless but thats another subject. ANYWAY

[doomdoomofdoom]

I'm legally not allowed to interact much with the Hunger Games fandom because I'm an american studies major in my 20s and would disrupt the fragile ecosystem of teenagers engaging with fictional depictions of fascist structures and just war theory.

The other reason is that I would have to immediately combust from Hypocrite Disease because I had self-insert Hunger Games OCs and engaged in shipping discourse, too. That's part of how we engage with depictions of fascist structures and just war theory as teenagers, and enabling that is part of what makes the franchise so special.

This reduces my natural habitat to 2-hour video essays about the cultural geography of Panem (x) and a few select posts, but that's a price I'm willing to pay for conservation.

[good--merits-accumulated]

i fear i am endlessly predictable (writing new dps au which is once again fantasy with Arthurian elements)

[adore-gregor]

ayyy

[illegally-blind-and-deaf]

WHY DO WE NOT TALK ABOUT PIPPIN AND BERGIL

The little banter they had when they first met ahhhhh—

And also how powerful is it that when what's-his-face (Forlong, it's Forlong) was riding through Minas Tirith and everyone was whispering about there only being 200 men, Pippin says "so ends a fair day in wrath!", clearly referring to the fear and tension of imminent war and desolation, something that a *child* (for that is what pippin is and HE SAYS SO TO BERGIL) should not even think of, and Bergil's immediate response is "So it will, if I have not returned before the sundown-bells" which is the most childlike response imaginable: the fear of getting in trouble because you've stayed out for too long.

Like this is where we REAAAALLY see Pip's character arc come into play.

[fishedeyelenz]

when there's an artist you admire and you like they're OCs of but they suddenly start to develop it into a show and you have a sinking feeling that it won't go over well