#even to some extent in the book

[filmmakerdreamst]

#bro and shes got tears in her eyes cause she Knows deep down that he will forget#cause peter can never learn from any mistake or admit to any wrong doing#nor can he express any romantic feeling toward her or show self awareness#bc if he did any of those things he wouldnt be a child anymore via @dukeofdelirium

Peter Pan (2003)

[coquelicoq]

martha wells loves to do this thing where she takes a character who has to hide and pretend to be something they're not so that they aren't shunned and hated by everyone around them, and then introduces a new character who is also whatever the main character is hiding being but who is not a damaged broken liar about it because they have people in their life who know about it and love them. and then she makes the second character and the people who love them experience trauma. and she makes the first character observe this and fear that love at the same time they long for it. and above all she makes me have emotions about it. she's constantly doing this. thanks a lot for that.

[lucdoodle]

this is so cute... omg🥺💖

[markantonys]

the main difference between WOT and ROP fandoms is that if you tell WOT fans you're a show-only and don't know anything about the source material, they will go to extreme lengths to protect you from even the most inconsequential of spoilers such as a joke mat told on page 157 of book 1 which will never be relevant to the show in any capacity, whereas if you tell ROP fans you're a show-only and don't know anything about the source material, they will take the opportunity to give you a full-spoiler education on the history of middle earth whether you asked for it or not.

[adhdo5]

Guh. Listen ik there's various takes on SQX's gender situation but can we agree that if you put "she" in quotes when talking about her you should go fuck yourself and never post again.

[foxstens]

genuinely can't imagine how kevin even got through his first few months at psu

[dracocheesecake]

...Ok, I've only seen a few clips of the show, and someone please tell me they didn't do what I think they did. I will be so sad.

Please please please tell me they didn't remove Redimus. Please tell me they didn't get rid of my baby boy Redimus please someone I don't care about spoilers but please. Please.

[themyscirah]

Ok game time which 3 series would you just DIE to get a run on ? I'm talking full creative control, can be as a writer or an artist + plotter if that suits your vibe best

My 3 are

Suicide Squad

Wonder Woman

Green Lantern Corps/Green Lanterns

(in that order)

[camzverse]

made my ocs in the sims lalalalaaa

[ldlingsomewhere]

>looking for a new queer female comic book character >ask the writer if their character is a queer woman or a girlboss >they don't understand (pull out an illustrated diagram explaining what a queer female character is and what a girlboss is) >they laugh and say "it's a good character" >read the comic >it's a girlboss

[the-monkey-ruler]

I was reading The Monkey King's Daughter (you can read the whole book for an hour) and apparently the protagonist is also Guanyin's grandchild? Can Guanyin be shipped?

I mean I can’t say like what are like the moral implications of shipping GuanYin itself cause that is so not my place but I’m still going to answer this cause it kinda of interesting when it comes to modern media. First off saying that like I have never really seen romance done with GuanYin. At least in a serious way. But if I had to take a guess it can be seen as 'possible' as much as like shipping anyone in Chinese mythos, in that isn't really taken seriously at all. In a lot of modern fan spaces there are a variety of crack ships for more humorous or hypothetical situations like I have seen literally the Star of Venus shipped with Jade Emperor just cause. But I don't see much with buddhas or bodhisattvas in either post-modern media nor in fan spaces. At least that isn't Wukong or Sanzang since they are both Buddhas. And I have done a whole thing about how Wukong for decades wasn’t seen as a romantic figure until like there was a huge character reconstruction, but that isn’t usually the case for most characters.

I would say that the most mainstream instance I can think off the top of my head is The Lost Empire (2001) where it had the main character has a romantic plot with Gaunyin herself. Of course, that wasn't really a masterpiece within itself but this was considered like a 'bad choice' more so that it was just a very strange and awkward romance at that.

Funny enough I think I see more romantic for humor's sake on Guanyin in comic books or games as likes gags at most. Like in Westward comics (later a tv series) Guanyin has a celestial-turned-demon trying to pursue him that he always rejects. Another is more play for laughs but Guanyin in the Fei Ren Zai where people just don't know it's Guanyin and think she is so attractive.

I've seen some games that have Guanyin as like a pretty boy/girl but otherwise nothing even close to a romance plot. Those are more just for like aesthetics of making every character look overly attractive to sell it.

The best I can say is that is just kinda strange and a little strange personally but I can't say that it can be taken seriously. I mean Wukong is supposed to be a Buddha by the end of the novel, so if The Monkey King's Daughter has it that a buddha can have a daughter then there wouldn't be anything stopping the author from having a bodhisattva having kids.

[coquelicoq]

you reread raksura after reading murderbot and you realize that the kethel in the last book is murderbot from an outside POV. like they don't have the same personality obviously, but if the murderbot books were told from the perspective of, say, eletra from the corporation rim, she'd be talking about secunits the way that all the protagonists of the raksura books talk about the fell. which i feel really conflicted about. you write a five-book series (plus two books of short stories) with a biologically evil race and in the later books start deconstructing it and being like "hey maybe our narrators aren't exactly reliable on this point" but by then it's kind of too late imo. idk. she's doing something interesting here but i don't know if it works.

[elinaline]

There's a thing I like about space operas which is that because the characters tend to jump from planet to planet but spend most of their time in the immense emptiness of space in between you're forced to reconcile two scales that are infinitely larger than you, but one is also infinitely larger than the other and so while traveling it's like. Planets are so small right. There's only one, maybe two clever species on it and you get their culture easily. But then you set foot on real dirt soil floor and you're like oh fuck this is big. This is real fucking Big. There might be hundreds of different cultures here and I will never get to see everything on that planet within a lifetime. And then you take off again go back to your spaceship and jump to another tiny green dot on the black of space and realize it's actually just as big and rich and varied. And you repeat that. It's like an existential vertigo and it's really nice when well done.

[wishesofeternity]

“Throughout Henry’s exile, Margaret (Beaufort) seems to have been a faithful correspondent, keeping her son abreast of affairs in England. Though none of their letters from this period have survived, it is highly probable that they contained sentiments similar to those she expressed in her later letters to him: she often gave him her blessing, and on one occasion, in a reflection of her affection towards him, she assured Henry that ‘I trust you shall well perceive I shall deal towards you as a kind, loving mother’. At this time, however, Margaret was clearly considering the possibility of bringing about his return, though she also recognised that this would take time. As her standing with Edward IV improved, so too did her confidence to effect a reconciliation. If she could continue to win the king’s trust, Henry’s foreign exile could potentially be brought to an end.

By the beginning of June 1482, her efforts appear to have produced some results when Edward agreed that Henry could receive a share of his grandmother the dowager Duchess of Somerset’s lands to the value of £400 (£276,500) if he were to return ‘to be in the grace and favour of the king’s highness’. Edward signed the agreement on 3 June, attaching his official seal. A draft still survives and can be found among Margaret’s papers. The groundwork for Henry to return home had been laid. Edward’s grip on the reins of power was unchallenged, and with two surviving sons, his dynasty appeared to be assured—Margaret’s son was no longer a threat. Thus it was that, on an unknown date, Edward—curiously, using the same piece of paper on which Margaret’s second husband had been created Earl of Richmond—drafted a pardon for her son. Margaret began to hope that she and Henry would soon be reunited.”  

- Nicola Tallis, “The Uncrowned Queen: The Fateful Life of Margaret Beaufort, Tudor Matriarch”

[blujayonthewing]

the thing is I know the good and healthy way for me to deal with 'people are going to bizarrely misunderstand you and your feelings and intentions no matter how desperately you try to make yourself clear' would be to go 'then I guess I can should and must do whatever I want forever and not worry about what anyone thinks, as long as people are gonna be Wrong About Me no matter what'

but my heart and soul are stuck sitting on the floor wailing 'I DON'T WANT THEM TO BE WRONG ABOUT ME!! I JUST DON'T WANT THEM TO!!!'

[autism-disco]

hello gamers it’s me mr fantastic welcome back to another sick minecraft let’s play. this time i thought we’d try something a little different and see if i can beat the game WHILE SLEEPING??!! WU-OH looks like someone didn’t get enough sleep but that sick minecraft grind never stops am i right gamers? …gamers??