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#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)
#one of the worst feelings in the world is unrequited love#i don't nesserarily believe romantic love equals growing up#because where excatly does that leave aromantic and asexual people?#peter did love her deeply#even to some extent in the book#(the film does deviate from the source material in that regard and makes wendys love more requited in the adaptation)#but its true that he would never be able to express it in a way that wendy would need or would like#not unless he gave it all up#which also he would never do#this scene is so beautifully bittersweet! you can see it on both of their faces.#as i say alot of the time about this movie#peter would never give up youth to leave#and wendy never give up growing up to stay#for that they have to part ways forever#it makes me cry on the inside#peter x wendy#peter pan#film
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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.
#stone. miki. three. to some extent ART.#stop stop i get it i understand i don't need any more hints or reminders#the murderbot diaries#books of the raksura#murderbot#moon of indigo cloud#intimacy#vulnerability#my posts#f#i don't know that 'love' is really the right word for mb. maybe respect...value...some degree of understanding...#a kind of intimacy and care that may or may not be 'love' (whatever 'love' even is)
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this is so cute... omg🥺💖
#THEM#they're stargazing...#gosh this anime is so kind i- 🥺💖💕#btw i was wondering why Lion wasn't there for the whole princess Ozma adventure#but he's here now! that's neat! 💖#scarecrow's last line here reminds me a lot of the last lyrics of his song “if i had a brain” (from the extented version of the song)#it goes:#Then perhaps I'll deserve ya / And be even worthy of ya / If I only had a brain#oh the wizard of oz my beloved... 🥺💖#after watching oz no mahoutsukai i plan to read the book#which i've heard there's some wild stuff happening in it haha#it's from ep 34 btw!! the series is all on youtube too!#oz no mahoutsukai#the wizard of oz#video
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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.
#i'm not mad about it it's just very funny to see the contrast#WOT fans will be tagging the stupidest shit as book spoilers Just In Case#meanwhile i don't think the idea that show-onlys might not want to know future info yet has ever even occurred to any ROP fans djkfjg#though it IS also different with ROP being a prequel to a very famous story while WOT is not#so obviously there's a lot of Future Info for ROP that even the general audience would know or be able to guess#and thus silly to be spoiler-policing to the same extent as WOT#still. it does take some audacity to read a fic where the author said they don't know the source material#and then tell them all about future things from the source material in a comment on said fic 😭#it was a very good & thoughtful comment that i loved reading and all the info was things i'd already been spoiled on anyway#but still the audacity! lmao
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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.
#I think it is in fact pretty unambiguous tht she is a trans woman even tho the text doesn't acknowledge that#But fine whatever to some extent fine. I think it sucks but fine. But fucking putting ''she'' in quotes?#When the fucking book just calls her by the corresponding pronouns when she's presenting as a woman?#You're gonna fucking put it in quotes? Die
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genuinely can't imagine how kevin even got through his first few months at psu
#my posts#my aftg posts#aftg#kevin day#the foxhole court#all for the game#he grew up captive in a cult that operated in darkness toxicity and 16 hr days#there was unimaginable pressure on him since he was a child and by the time he was 19 he was playing on 4 teams#and then he watched riko undo it all in a heartbeat. and you can't tell me there weren't some feelings of betrayal#because there were lines riko wasn't supposed to cross. they were supposed to be in this together to an extent#and imagine being kevin in that moment. knowing you won't survive if you stay but they might kill you if you leave#and then having to get used to a completely different lifestyle when you barely had an idea of the outside world before#honestly. i think it would've made sense if he was even more terrified and anxious and rude and caustic through the books#of course the people around him can't know the full extent of it all so i can't fault their attitude either#but come on??? it's insane. i can't even wrap my head around it
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...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.
#wondla#the search for wondla#besteel#redimus#dorceans#just...I saw some Besteel clips and I'm getting through the book#and I know Redimus doesn't officially appear until book 3 but in book 1 Besteel and Zin and the Taxidermist gave hints at what was going on#and if Redimus isn't in this I am going to be so sad because um...HE UNINTENTIONALLY SET OFF EVERYTHING?!?!?!?!#AND OVERALL HE IS A CINNAMON ROLL AND A GOOD BOY WHO DOES SO MUCH TO HELP EVA AND IN EXTENT MADE BESTEEL INTERESTING#also the whole 'even wicked people have people who love them and who they love'????
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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)
#last one may wiggle around but i think thats mostly it. others i would want to do but if were talking full runs then this would be my picks#there are other things id ofc want to do though. a wonder girl (cassie) mini in addition to the ww run probably some superman stuff too#although idk him as well i do love him. maybe a mini there or even a prestige format book if i go crazy#would love to do a quick something with cass cain too ofc (me and the rest of this site lol). could probably figure out a plot to smth#longer if i thought abt it but would love to guest write a standalone issue or two for an ongoing of hers#what else would i want to do.... the sui sq and wondy are rlly the big ones bc ive thought abt that the most. glc ive thought about too but#to a bit less of an extent. ooh there was that bleez mini i plotted out during lunch once last year. think i had some sketches laying around#for that too.#who else would i do.... those are rlly the main ones atm. books i would write vs books i would read are definitely different though. there#are some pitches i would throw out but wouldnt know how to write at all i just know it could be done good somehow. like ik nothing abt#aquaman but i think its possible a wonder woman/aquaman story could slap#OR NO A WONDER WOMAN & SUPERMAN ONE I WAS JUST TALKING ABT THAT. dont call it that though ofc they should get a duo name in the same vein as#world's finest. and ofc 72848274 issues of bro time. anyways <33333333#also a not abt the rankings sui sq is higher than wondy which may seem crazy from a wondy blogger but 1. i do love them and 2. they need me#so much more. this subject is such an egofest for me bc ofc i think i could do everything perfect but like they need a good run soooooo bad#whereas id LOVE to do wondy but ik they would survive without me. anyways yeah <3#anyways on a totally unrelated not at all adjacent topic.... my askbox is always open btw 😘#also idk if my green lantern corps book would be called glc. may just hit the green lanterns vol. 2 bc who is stopping me really
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made my ocs in the sims lalalalaaa
#cam.txt#im having such a. fun time. so joyous#slashGenuine#i need to draw my ocs😓 i want to but my mind blanks when i try to even just doodle them. i cant even doodle this is dire#how do you come up with drawing ideas agajn#actually i had some ideas but those are for much bigger pieces than im willing to make rn#Omg anyway. time to use the tags to talk about my day. i watched this amazing video essay today#like for fun. instead of doing my work. jk i didnt have work. so i spent my asl class period watching youtube while practicing signs yk#anyway the video essay was so well written (/spoken??) and thoroughly researched it was just so good#it was about booktok and anti-intellectualism and critical analysis and to some extent oft about capitalism. also went over book bans#(FUCK book bans!!! i could go on and on about Just book bans and how horrible they are but i wont i suppose)#anyway. idk. does anyone want a link to the essay i feel like i have to share it it was so like. intriguing. also made me realize i need to#-read more. i signed up for goodreads bc of it lol#anyhoooo
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>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
#genuinely this is how reading recently released comics feels ngl#and tbh this goes for all female characters but i feel like it's especially prevalent with queer female characters#ex new betsy. arguably carol. kitty even got got to some extent#comic book#dc#marvel
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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.
#anon ask#anonymous#anon#ask#sun wukong#monkey king#guanyin#chinese mythos#monkey king's daughter#Wukong is pretty self contained within Xiyouji himself so asking for a little bit of suspension of disbelief can be understood#but Gaunyin has a much longer history that is far more embedded with Buddhist mythology#She isn’t just a character in Xiyouji#and it would be limiting to her just to make it so#but I do think that might be the case in some media when it comes to portraying Gaunyin#esp since most modern interpretations of Guanyin are from xiyouji material just cause the sheer amount of xiyouji content there is#I rarely see Guanyin stand alone moves/shows and there are some trust me but most of her portrayals are within xiyouji spaces#there is a lot of conversation about xiyouji either being a reconstruction or a deconstruction of religion#and while the book is SATURATED in allegorical meaning whether in taoism buddhism or chinese lore it is also seen as satire of religion#people can take xiyouji as pointing out the flaws in humanity but also the flaws of heaven as well as it humanizes both gods and buddhas#this kinda of humanization can be seen as disrespectful to a certain extent but it is what makes these figures more engaging as characters#from a writing standpoint at least#this is me just rambling now about the interesting dycotomy that xiyouji has and has had with religion and how that can be see as today#to a certain extent a lot of directors take xiyouji plots as also their own way to show the heavens in their own way to convey satire#or humor as well depending on what their direction is aiming for#Some even go so far to make that heaven is just straight up the bad guy and that includes buddha as well which is a FAR more wild take than#just having romance in the heavens#But xiyouji does have it that we see these mythological figures have flaws#that heaven can lie or trick or they can take bribes and its up to the audience to interpretation as either satire or if it is critiquing#perhaps religion itself or rather the religious institutions since we do see both daoist and buddist monks as antagonists in the book#this as nothing to do with the ask at this point but i just wanna say my thoughts
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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.
#the first two books don't have as far as i can tell ANY hint that the raksuran beliefs about fell aren't supported by the narrative#that's too many books to spend doing that#in book three you meet some raksuran-fell crossbreeds but it's all still very conservative#the crossbreeds are okay because they're part raksura. <-doesn't actually make it better#book 4 we meet consolation but we don't really get much about her#in book 5 the kethel is there just being murderbot. and everyone around him is struggling to adjust to him#struggling to trust him even though he's helping them. being pretty clearly (to the audience) unfair and prejudiced towards him#moon keeps deliberately unpersoning him in a way that tells us that 1) he's doing it on purpose but 2) it's hard to do#because the kethel is a person and moon on some level knows that#idk because like. setting up the audience with biases about this fantasy world that they've picked up from the (unreliable) narrator(s)#that they're depending on to give them information about how the fantasy world works#and then disproving the biases is a really interesting thing for a story to do!#and to some extent i think you could say that is what she's trying to do here#but not really until book 5! that's four books' worth of the narrative basically supporting those biases#and even book 5 doesn't totally deconstruct them#books of the raksura#the murderbot diaries#unreliable narrators#storytelling#my posts
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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.
#at an even smaller scale i think citizen sleeper elicits this response beautifully#by making you interact with so many people on this lost dying spaceship#also strongly recommend the comic book frontier by the same artist as the art in citizen sleeper#to some extent internet can give you this feeling#but its not as spectacularly beautiful as soace travel
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“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”
#historicwomendaily#history#margaret beaufort#henry vii#edward iv#kinda#this is SO interesting - I wish more people knew of it because it really changed my perception of Margaret AND henry AND edward#at the end of his reign#also since I'm quoting from her book I just wanted to point out: Nicola Tallis was beyond horrendous towards Elizabeth Woodville#and uncritically repeated a bunch of misogynistic tudor propaganda against margaret of york#AND was very weird about elizabeth of york's alleged 'feelings' for the uncle who bastardized her and murdered her brothers#even claiming that elizabeth felt 'spurned' by him (lmao)#i know that lots of historians have major issues writing about historical women who aren't their Special Favs#and that every historian is guilty of it to some extent#but to write about THREE women like this in 2019? that definitely takes things to a whole new shitty level lol
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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!!!'
#I know this is an inevitable part of the human condition to some extent but#listen: when I was about eight I got freaked out about hearing 'we don't actually know [thing] about [dead person] for sure'#and I set about filling out a book of comprehensive and exhaustive facts about myself including opinions and feelings#obviously that'd be nuts even if I wasn't adhd and also 8 so I didn't get very far on that project lol but. like do you understand.#I want to be understood! I want to be understood!!#aaauughhh....#about me
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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??
#look i don’t know i don’t fucking know i’m not even that tired#the watch is telling me i got less sleep than i think i did#anyway this is t worst post i ever made#other than the hypothetical one where i started talking about horse penis in the tags#ive put some books in the cupboard feeling good about myself#also you should read this post in rtgames nerd voice#basically just plagiarising him to some extent im very sorry mr rumble tumble#man unrelated but i remember when i tried to eat a coffee bean when i was like 10 maybe?? what a tune#ezra’s real life rambles
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