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Caitlyn and vi being overshadowed by the hypothetical het ship and the nonexistent white man ship is. As unfortunate as it is predictable
#arcane#arcane spoilers#arcane critical#even when we win. we lose#i know amanda lost a lot of writing power in s2 but man#the major shift in who got attention is unreal#i thought arcane was a show about family dynamics and the relationship between two sisters during a war#but turns out its about two guys that worked together and a fanfic about a situation that never happened#to be clear i wouldnt mind either if so much time hadnt been taken away from the main plot to do them#but s2 is like 10% actual relevant plot and 90% fanservice for jinx and viktor stans#and the writers ignoring how important vi was to both powder and ekko is. criminal#she was a big sibling to both of them#like essentially a parent to them#why were they so utterly unphased about her dying in that au
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At your side [End of Season 2]
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#poorly drawn mdzs#mdzs#wei wuxian#lan wangji#wen ning#jin ling#wen qing#jiang yanli#a-yuan#It may have taken a year but we did it! The end of season 2!!!#(Granted: this season was nearly twice the length of season one.)#It's been a really fantastic season to draw for. So many iconic moments! It was a lot of work but I had a blast B*)#I also enjoyed experimenting more and more with my comic style. I'm growing as a comic artist bit by bit!#There is even a little bit of shadowing in this one for next season. As a treat. All the fun (and not heart breaking) scenes to come!#Comic talk time: Recently saw 12 angry men for first time and I love the coincidence of the themes aligning here.#They both touch upon the horror of judicial systems - in which the most persuasive argument wins and the truth is a nuisance.#All it takes is one person to stand against the crowd and say 'I do not know what is true. And that is reasonable doubt enough.'#When the majority is for condemning someone guilty - that in itself is persuasive enough.#One will set their mind to what the 'truth' is and refuse to see it any other way. That their perspective is the only correct one.#No one is born with a monopoly on the truth.#Everyone has biases and agendas. Some care not for the outcome - only that they can be on the convenient side.#Lan Wangji is putting everything on the line to say 'I'm not going to go with the majority vote.'#And that is a huge deal in a story that is so politically focused as MDZS is. Everything is a careful chess move to these sects -#and to not play the game is basically sacrificing everything you are and your families name. For some it is unthinkable.#And there is no doubt in LWJ's mind. He would stand there and lose everything if it means upholding justice.#More importantly - these two have each other's backs. The bond is unbreakable. This is the most ride or die I have seen two people be.
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Uploading all my Tomgreg art at once from the past few week before season 4 hits, who knows in what kind of mental state i'm gonna be once it does :')
#tomgreg#succession#dont even talk to me i started watching this show when i had nothing to do at work and now i watch it with averiel my good friend averiel#and we are going to watch s4 together and i feel physically ill from bein so excited#so ya thats what ive been up to... anyway. i love these idiots they desever nothing but the worst (affectionate)#im also a tomshiv lover btw. im the one who yells 'THIS IS HOW TOMSHIV CAN STILL WIN' while they are actively losing on screen#thats the kind of person i am#dont look at me (lying on the floor)#okay i was not going to say stuff in the tags and let the art speak for itself but i NEED to point out details in the wine Painting..#i put a lot of work into that one. thinly veiled metaphors and symbolism yknow..#greg is gripping the stem of the wine glass with his full fist. tom and greg are dressed in the same outfit (sock garters included)#greg look appalled but he is not doing anything about the spill. tom is fondly pouring greg more and more wine. he is doing him a favor#i colored the red wine the same way i would color blood :) oh and tom is not really touching greg#only holding the chair in place. greg is making himself look smaller than he is like usual#oh and @ the person who said that it's the inverse of the tom and nate scene i love the way you think. i did not think of that before#but god. yeah. i actually thought about the scene change from when roman uhh.. christens his office in s1. the one with the coffee machine#i always go insane at that cut. this is not exactly the same since it's more.. about emotions but yknow.. it can be.. the same...
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Being a Loumander while also being a Loustat endgame truther while also being a Devils Minion addict WHILE ALSO being an Armandstat enthusiast. I literally can’t lose. I bask in the excess of my riches daily.
#don’t even get me started when we get human Lestat and nicki onscreen for the first time#I didn’t include Danlou in this because that’s only for truly seasoned souls#I win even when I lose it’s crazy#iwtv#the only downside is having to read everyone’s piss poor analysis about the ships they hate#louis de pointe du lac#lestat de lioncourt#armand#daniel molloy#Loumand#loustat#devils minion#lesmand#armandstat
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I just remembered that up until 5th grade, all of the sports teams I was in weren't separated by gender. I played basketball and baseball with boys. And we did just fine.
It wasn't until 6th grade when they segregated it by gender. It didn't make sense to me. I was now in softball instead of baseball, because "softball is for girls" and "baseball is for boys" (which confused me bc my dad was on an adult softball team).
Now, my brother's all-male team didn't win a single game. My all-girls team won every single one.
They presented the boys' team with this HUGE trophy, and if you wanted replicas of it, they were $30 each.
My team was presented with a very small trophy. Extras were $5.
That's when I decided gender-segregated sports were bullshit.
#my mom went off on my brother's coach for that#said that it wasn't fair that my brother's team got to celebrate more than us despite actually winning#(it was through the same sports program)#she said she wasn't gonna pay $30 for a trophy whenever he was a horrible coach#bc the boys he had when they were on my team with my coach did just fine#their coach was this horrible egotistical guy who would scream at tbem for not doing good enough#when he didnt even KNOW HOW TO PLAY and was just there bc his kid was praying#my coach was this cool ass dad that was very calm and gentle with us#the coach was like ''oh so you don't think your son deserves to celebrate?''#my mom was like ''he should but he needs to learn that he can't be rewarded for losing while#my daughter is barely rewarded for winning and i don't want to teach him that gender inequality is okay''#(my mom is cool af sometimes)#we both quit playing after that
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*during a gym spar session* MC: I win Sylus: I'm literally pinning you down MC: I know Sylus: oh Sylus: *smirks*
#even when we lose we win yknow#incorrect quotes#sylus x mc#sylus#l&ds sylus#lads sylus#lads#love and deepspace sylus#love and deepspace
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anyways ive decided if deku doesn't get his ass over to bakugo's corpse in the next 2-3 episodes im gonna cave and just read the manga. bc im sorry but i do NOT care abt any of these other fights right now 😭
#mha#bnha#my hero academia#boku no hero academia#mha spoilers#bnha spoilers#izuku midoriya#bakugou katsuki#bakudeku#bkdk#once again my posts abt the two of them will always actually be abt bkdk#also THE FACT THAT WE DONT EVEN GET AN EPISODE THIS WEEK???? SICK AND TWISTEDDDDDDDD#admittedly i do kinda rlly care abt the toga x uraraka fight. and im lowk hella curious abt the whole heteromorph fight that's gonna go dow#HOWEVER. i srsly do not gaf abt any of that when bakugo and deku are RIGHT THEREE#also i have officially lost my patience with the endeavor vs afo and shoto vs dabi fights. oh my godddddddd#afo pls go kys. and dabi im sorry but i actually don't care abt u anymore#i was a HUGE todoroki fam drama enthusiast back in 2020 but now... pls im so done with it 🥱#also we JUST burnt dabi to a crisp and finished that battle WDYMMM he's back and the villains are now WINNING???? WRAP IT UPPPPPP OH MY GOD#anyways. all that's to say im gonna lose my mind#in the wise words of user makeste:#if their names do not start with baku or deku then idgaf what's going on#thank u for coming to my ted talk gn ✌️
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No bc you guys are all “body positivity” until the skinny girl who wants/needs to gain weight to be healthier is struggling
#Jade speaks#DONT CAREEE#I’ve had an unhealthy relationship with food ever since the dickwad of a man who decided to hit up my inbox one day#’you need to get some meat on your bones!’#’stop complaining you’re skinny’#how about I blow you up and you die#I’m not even ‘conventionally’ skinny either but then when I do manage to gain some weight I’m supposed to lose it again#I’m so serious when I say women can never win#and fuck you to women who are putting other women down. why can’t we all just love each other regardless of our body types#and I’m not sorry for this post and I’m not deleting it
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is it actually statistically possible for me to be responsible for changing the course of a poll with over 200k final votes I gegnuinely don't care bitch!!!! NOBODY pulled as hard as me in that race okay. I'm claiming that shit like reigen and the slit-mouthed woman.
#undertale#sanssweep#we were at 45%. 45!!!!! people were joking in the replies. about years of seeing glowing blue dicks. but that didn't matter bc it wasn't#about having a fair fight it was about the bit of reigen winning#when they started to point out the even funnier bit of reigen losing? that was the turnabout of the entire tournament#that was ME!!!!!! i shouted that shit from the ROOFTOPS#''the perfect three story arc for the perfect joke'' they were quoting ME!!!!#it wasn't about rallying for fresh votes although i did that too on this side of the battlefield.#it was about convincing the ones who would've voted reigen#to vote sans instead because it would've been funnier. THAT WAS ME#mp100
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Thinking about Elizabeth Woodville as a gothic heroine is making me go insane. She entered the story by overturning existing social structures, provoking both ire and fascination. She married into a dynasty doomed to eat itself alive. She was repeatedly associated with the supernatural, both in terms of love and death. Her life was shaped entirely by uncanny repetitions - two marriages, two widowhoods, two depositions, two flights to sanctuary, two ultimate reclamations, all paralleling and ricocheting off each other. Her plight after 1483 exposed the true rot at the heart of the monarchy - the trappings of royalty pulled away to reveal nothing, a never-ending cycle of betrayal and war, the price of power being the (literal) blood of children. She lived past the end of her family name, she lived past the end of her myth. She ended her life in a deeply anomalous position, half-in and half-out of royal society. She was both a haunting tragedy and the ultimate survivor who was finally free.
#elizabeth woodville#nobody was doing it like her#I wanted to add more things (eg: propaganda casting her as a transgressive figure and a threat to established orders; the way we'll never#truly Know her as she's been constantly rewritten across history) but ofc neither are unique to her or any other historical woman#my post#wars of the roses#don't reblog these tags but - the thing about Elizabeth is that she kept winning and losing at the same time#She rose higher and fell harder (in 1483-85) than anyone else in the late 15th century#From 1461 she was never ever at lasting peace - her widowhood and the crisis of 1469-71 and the actual terrible nightmare of 1483-85 and#Simnel's rebellion against her family and the fact that her birth family kept dying with her#and then she herself died right around the time yet another Pretender was stirring and threatening her children. That's...A Lot.#Imho Elizabeth was THE adaptor of the Wars of the Roses - she repeatedly found herself in highly anomalous and#unprecedented situations and just had to survive and adjust every single time#But that's just...never talked about when it comes to her#There are so many aspects of her life that are potentially fascinating yet completely unexplored in scholarship or media:#Her official appointment in royal councils; her position as the first Englishwoman post the Norman Conquest to be crowned queen#and what that actually MEANT for her; an actual examination of the propaganda against her; how she both foreshadowed and set a precedent#for Henry VIII's english queens; etc#There hasn't even been a proper reassessment of her role in 1483-85 TILL DATE despite it being one of the most wildly contested#periods in medieval England#lol I guess that's what drew me to Elizabeth in the first place - there's a fundamental lack of interest or acknowledgement in what was#actually happening with her and how it may have affected her. There's SO MUCH we can talk about but historians have repeatedly#stuck to the basics - and even then not well#I guess I have more things to write about on this blog then ((assuming I ever ever find the energy)#also to be clear while the Yorkists did 'eat themselves alive' they also Won - the crisis of 1483-85 was an internal conflict within#the dynasty that was not related to the events that ended in 1471 (which resulted in Edward IV's victory)#Henry Tudor was a figurehead for Edwardian Yorkists who specifically raised him as a claimant and were the ones who supported him#specifically as the husband of Elizabeth of York (swearing him as king only after he publicly swore to marry her)#Richard's defeat at Bosworth had *nothing* to do with 'York VS Lancaster' - it was the victory of one Yorkist faction against another#But yes the traditional line of succession was broken by Richard's betrayal and the male dynastic line was ultimately extinguished.
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“My letters to Rhaenyra has there been any answer?”
“In retribution for the death of her son”
Mirroring Alicent in the sept with Rhaenyra at Luke’s pyre.
“Rhaenyra is a CUNNING SPIDER. Long ago she DREW Alicent into her WEB, INTOXICATED her.”
“She holds love for our enemy”
Rhaenicent as always stays 🔛🔝
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This is literally one of my favorite strive dustloop captions. It's so perfect it's exactly correct. If the Axl you're fighting starts hitting this button you're doing something right and they're Fucking Afraid. This is the "Somehow they are getting in on me with JUMP INs and I don't know why I can't stop them please fucking help me" button. Trying to confirm this shit into Mantis is like trying to thread a needle like "I KNOW I can get this in there I've done it a million times and once I pull it off we'll get started on knitting this scarf" fucking. I love this normal. It's literally so fucking important and it's NOT A BAD NORMAL but I hate it so much sometimes. Counterhit 6K into Aw fuck oops I didn't manually time the fucking half circle forward correctly because of where I hit you there my bad. At least you're still over there I guess. It's ok since they're making hitting rensen off it more consistent next patch but so help me god if that's all they did...
#sairambles#guilty gear#ggst#axl low#I love you Axl it feels so bad when I lose but it also feels SO GOOD when we win#me and my best friend Axl Low me and my guy Axl Low me and the man who never did anything wrong even once in his life Axl Low
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y’all pls 💀 the seleção has officially lost the plot
vini is an incredibly talented player but i could name so many reasons based on the rating criteria of the ballon d’or for why he didn’t win:
- his votes were split across his other club mates (this is directly m*drid’s fault for doing bad PR and also for just putting a bunch of superstars together instead of building a TEAM whose play shows off each other’s strengths—it means vini is not ABSOLUTELY INTEGRAL to the club’s success);
- he so often DOES NOT show class on the pitch—and i’m not referring to him speaking out against racism here, bc of course he fkn should;
- and… he HAS NOT BEEN A KEY PLAYER PERFORMANCE-WISE FOR HIS NATIONAL TEAM!! as a brazil nt supporter since before i came out of the womb, i can confirm that his OWN COUNTRYMEN were saying this during the copa américa.
so why is the seleção posting this saying they’re SO PROUD of him as if he saved someone’s life or something?? did they do this for neymar every year that he lost despite being one of the biggest talents football has ever seen?? 😭😭😭 like wtf is going on in the simulation rn?????
#genuinely losing my mind at this lmao#i’m happy to be wrong if someone knows that they DID indeed make similar posts for neymar’s losses#but i don’t remember them doing so#also i just don’t understand WHY vini was just ASSUMING he would win this award#why would you ever assume that#like why would ANYONE ever assume that#messi and r*naldo included#you know what they say about assuming 🤡#it just gives me really bad vibes when i see people with this level of arrogance and ego#like what happened to humility as an appreciated value/characteristic??? why have we abandoned that#or even just QUIET CONFIDENCE#god that’s so underrated#i love love love athletes/artists/people who just let their talent speak for itself#vini pls learn from them bruh#brazil nt#real madrid#vinicius jr#ballon d’or#neymar
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lays on the floor do y’all ever think about how hardcore Goku’s transformation into ssj was from a grief born of love and how intense Gohan’s into ssj2 was from a grief born of love and how at the sight of his wife being hit but still knowing she was alive Vegeta in ssj1 was able to do what Goku couldn’t achieve in ssj3 and we have no idea what intense grief born of love would do to him but we do know that him letting himself feel unbridled joy made him absolutely terrifying
I think about that a lot
#Clasps my hands on my tummy y’all ever think about how Vegeta was so powerful he broke records when he was born#But never had a mentor or a teacher or assists or supernatural unlocks until recently#And how training on Yardrat for a *month*(citation needed) made him so powerful he didn’t even recognize himself#And how accepting help closed the gap between himself and Goku multiple times in a matter of months#And how we’ve never seen him unlock anything from losing someone he loves like we have with Goku Gohan and Broly#And how Goku joked that if they ever needed a win they’d just have the enemy hit bulma again fjdjdjd#Anyway!!!!!! Just thinking about Geets being feral#As one does at 1am#Dbtag#Just like. What if there was a threat and people had to hide in the hyperbolic time chamber and geets couldn’t sense his family#What then. What would he do.#Panic and then crimes that’s what.
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so no trending
#frankly i couldnt imagine anything more in character. even when we win we lose. alright gang let's pack it up we'll get em next year#les mis#barricade day
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Wish the party loyalist "stop making Harris look bad bc Trump" people would realize that a) denying reality is exactly what the right does and b) it is on the candidate to win votes by not being a genocide enabling sellout moderate getting endorsed by the fucking Cheneys for her hawkishness on foreign policy while promising little for people at home, not on the voter disillusioned by said issues that the candidate could rectify
#i say i'm done but seeing another one of those posts will make me roll my eyes hard again#this has been going on since 2016 and it's wild how much narrower the overton window has gotten to push these neoliberals#trump is shit but his being shit does not absolve blue team of the shit and blood on their hands#people really need to demand more for their votes#when they lose GA and NC bc of reneging on those $2K checks or saying no to giving Helene victims more aid#[and likely FL too if they follow suit with Milton swinginess aside]#the same people will likely rage at the people left to their rubble for not voting harder#like i'm sure they have at the muslims so rightly outraged at our support for the 🇵🇸 genocide that they refuse to vote for either party#meanwhile i get an email from work saying we have more payroll deductions this next year for our healthcare plans and there's been no talk#of M4A or even some mealy-mouthed means-tested version of it to win votes#and ofc there's student loans starting back up and their burning even more youth votes they were already losing with Gaza#let alone record homelessness... a housing crisis... lead/chemical poisonings... and so on#'we can push her left' they say knowing she takes money from people opposed to her going left on any policies--#and that they're going to brunch anyway#'fascism 2 is coming' *points at Dem-admin/Dem-mayor cop cities* *points at IG accounts being censored bc of being pro-Palestine* been here#anyway pre bed vent over 😴
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