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So I read Christian’s comment and I don’t think he’s saying he doesn’t care about Vi, y’all.
I think it’s very clear from the creation of the show that Vi is loved and admired and well cared for in these writer’s hands
Everyone was
I think what he was saying explicitly was, the story overall is called arcane. It’s about the waking of arcane in PNZ. And parts of Vi’s story intersect with that. And you can only show so much in one 9 one hour episodes.
Arcane wasn’t Modern Family or Abbot Elementary - those shows are an ensemble but there’s really one or two driving the story. And they’re character pieces where we explore a single individual’s growth or experience.
I think of arcane as an environmental story.
It’s more, “here’s how this thing came to be” aka hextech AND the arcane - to build toward a runeterra that is accessible and understandable for the general public to promote a video game. I don’t think that cheapens characterization nor storytelling. But informs overall story direction WHILE giving us character moments of exploration and growth and pain and love.
Do I wish we saw every minute of Vi’s existence and Caitlyn’s growth? Yeah. Of course. But was that the full focus of the story? No. And that’s okay. That doesn’t mean vi got shafted or hated or ignored. It just means that the story served a different purpose. And recognizing what kind of story we’re being told is a hard task. And it’s a really big lift of critical thinking we as an audience gotta do.
Some folks decided we were getting a character piece and they were wrong. Not their fault. Expectations being set for multiplayer games vs single player games will do that to us. (We as an audience tend to hyperfixate on individuals rather than the overarching story. It’s why folks remember the odyssey, but not Jason and the argonauts as much. The odyssey is about Odysseus. Jason and the argonauts - it can be argued - is about the journey and ensemble)
All this is to say, I don’t think these writers hated vi or ignored vi or sacrificed vi for the story. I truly don’t. I’m so very satisfied with the growth we got of vi. The butch who loves too hard. Who tries every time to do the right thing. Who fails. But gets back up and loves again. Loves some more. Who really is just a traumatized kid in a grown up suit still trying to deal with that using her fists, her street smarts, and her big. Giant FUKKIN. Heart.
I don’t think the arcane team hated Vi AT ALL. On the contrary, I think they loved her so much, they made conscious choices to not depict certain things SO THAT the fandom could engage. Could fill in the gaps. Could interact.
Fan art and fan content is such a strong nexus for iteration in complicated lore like this, I would bet money on the fact that they decided not to show specific things so that we could create it for us. (Ekko and jinx decorating for battle, CaitVi reconnecting immediately after Cait looses her eye, Tobias apologizing to Vi for snapping in his grief. Etc. etc. etc.)
And one could argue that is lazy and exculpatory and not how stories should be told.
But I disagree vehemently. I think stories serve a purpose. It’s why they have a title that tells you what it is and what you’re gonna get.
And this title was Arcane. The arcane woke up. PNZ are forever changed. Machine Herald was formed. Champions rose. And fell. That was the story of this show. The rest is up to us. 🫂
And I for one, think that’s really neat. And a triumph. In storytelling, characterization, and world building. 🥰
But that’s just me.
All that said, I think you’re allowed to be disappointed and sad you didn’t get what you expected! But being a jerk about a misunderstanding isn’t something Vi would do (or at least she’d feel really bad about the misunderstanding after and apologize. Big time).
But let’s not twist words and be cruel to a storyteller (or any storyteller) who clearly has so much love for this story and these characters in their hearts.
Give good faith, get good faith, y’all. Let’s be like Vi, big Hearts, let’s be like Vi and build to the next moment. Love big. Love hard. And do our best to be kind. C’ept for when folks don’t deserve it. 💞
#caitvi#arcane#caitlyn kiramman#violyn#vi arcane#vi#arcane vi#arcane league of lesbians#arcane league of legends#christian linke#piltover’s finest#but mostly about vi#storytelling#storytelling intention and exploration#art critique#art criticism#fortiche
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damn you for your chuuya being a literal heated blanket hcs because all I can think about now is how lovely of a cuddle partner he's gonna be and just the idea of melting into that comfort every time you go to bed aghh. Of completely suffocating him as you wrap yourself flush up against his body at every opportunity you get just because you can and no, he is not getting away, sorry babe
ma'am i am not okay, thanks for this
a heated blanket/heater chuuya ceo here !! hehe we all here loooove heated-blanket-slash-walking-heater chuuya because why not make a fiery redhead a literal walking fire as a cheery on top?
about the every opportunity you get— oh i bet he's already expecting what he's gonna have to endure once you start teasing him about his warmness and cling to him every possible moment—he's absolutely fine with the latter though.
he very quickly learns you like the mix of the heat and the cuddles when you start walking into his office at home when he's still working late at night and drowning himself in some reports he has to get reviewed rather urgently and just wrap yourself over him like a literal koala (he absolutely starts calling you his little koala every chance he gets to tease you back), making yourself careful on his lap with your face buried thoroughly in the crook of his neck with your arms around it in a circle from which he has no way out—and from the entire hug as well. not that he ever wanted an out, of course. he just makes sure to move your hair out of his face to be able to read the documents clearly and promises himself—and a sleepy you in his lap—to finish quicker so that you two could continue the cuddling already in bed. and this one particular position of a koala around him gives him the best opportunity to sense when you've loosened your hold around him and all in all relaxed, signalling that you've dozed off to sleep—it's like a mental clock to him to wrap the work up and carry you to bed so you two could continue cuddling there.
it's better when it's winter. you don't need extra layers anymore when you start living with chuuya—and it's absolutely not because of his floor heating. you can just absorb his heat by literally walking beside him—it's like an aura that radiates off of him. you're there, curled into him when you two watch the tv, cuddled on the couch—you don't even need blankets anymore, because right beside you is the best heater that ever existed.
it's worse when it's summer. summer in yokohama is humid and unbelievably hot, with sweat already rolling down your face and body and infecting your lightest clothes in the view of wet patches on your back and armpits, and during that time you actually try to somehow stop the cuddling for a while, as unfortunate as it may seem, because if during that heat you were going to hug an equally hot redhead living with you, it would actually be the end; like betelgeuse exploding and going supernova.
the withholding doesn't last long though. you're back at hugging chuuya by the time the temperature is down by a few degrees—it's not an exactly sensitive change in weather, but you can bear with it as long as you have some iced water by your side.
you genuinely don't understand how chuuya doesn't sweat in all these clothes he always wears. for as long as you remember him, he's always had layers and layers of clothes—an undershirt, a shirt, a harness, a vest, a cropped jacket, a coat and gloves on top of all that. in all honesty, you do not understand the man. you're pretty sure he could be walking outside in only briefs when it's -20C° and not be bothered a single damn moment.
well, at least it's convenient, not only for him but for you too.
#can you tell i love him#can you#chuuya x reader#bsd x reader#bungou stray dogs x reader#bungo stray dogs x reader#nakahara chuuya x you#chuuya x you#nakahara chuuya x reader#chuuya x y/n#chuuya headcanons#bsd headcanons#bsd x y/n#bsd x you#bungou stray dogs x you#bungo stray dogs x you
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Re-skimmed through a bunch of Dune Messiah last night because why not and now I am having thoughts:
The thing that sticks with me most is the tone. It's melancholy, it's eerie, it's unsettled and weird. Cannot think of a more pitch-perfect director for it than Denis Villeneuve. He's gonna nail it.
There is...not that much...actual story? Denis has referred to it in interviews as "a small book" and I'm like my guy it is 350 pages. But there are actually not that many plot beats. It's just that every. single. scene. is WILDLY overwritten. The real challenge of adapting Dune is not the giant worms or the dense complicated worldbuilding or the fact that actors have to say the name "Duncan Idaho" repeatedly with a straight face. It's that there are pages and pages and PAGES of internal monologue that have to be externalized somehow for film.
After a re-skim my gut instinct for "how much story goes in a feature film" is that if you just wrote out the dialogue and action that happens in every scene in the book in screenplay format you'd end up with...maybe about an hour of material? Which is great, actually, because it means there is room to add stuff. Like a whole new independent plotline for Chani if they decide to do that.
It may seem insane to add things to an adaptation of what's notoriously one of the wordiest series in classic sci-fi but it's worth remembering that they added quite a bit to Dune Part Two. Most of the first hour of the movie--almost everything before the worm ride except for Jessica drinking the Water of Life--is stuff that isn't in the book. And it's the best part of the movie essential to making the movie work as well as it does. Yes, they also cut elements from both parts (the dinner scene, the whole plotline where Gurney thinks Jessica is a Harkonnen spy, Thufir Hawat's fate, Leto II the Elder, murder toddler Alia) but I understand why each of those elements was cut or changed in the service of cinematic storytelling.
There's an interview (can't remember which one) with Jon Spaihts, the other co-writer of the scripts along with Denis, where he talks about how Dune is like a stage play, with so many of what would be the big action set pieces happening off-page. I kept thinking about that comparison while reviewing Dune Messiah because in addition to the scenes that do exist being wordy and internal as fuck, an absolutely insane list of major events/reveals/emotionally significant moments happen off-page. The list of things that we don't actually see in the main action of the story, that we're only told about after they happen, includes:
Chani finding out Irulan has been secretly dosing her with birth control for YEARS
People trying to capture a sandworm and take it off planet
Chani and Paul finding out Chani is pregnant after 12 years of trying to conceive
Paul flying an ornithopter carrying his extremely-about-to-go-into-labor partner while blind
CHANI DYING (first time reading I did NOT know this was coming and damn near threw my Kindle across the room at the way the information was delivered)
Alia executing a bunch of people including a Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother
Paul walking into the desert at the end
You could add all these moments into a scene-for-scene film adaptation of the book and probably still have room to add more material.
The other thing that jumps out is that Paul doesn't really...govern...much. Like there's this whole subgenre of post-Dune/Dune Messiah-era fic that's just some combination of Paul, Chani, Irulan and sometimes Feyd traipsing around the palace having feelings while vague politics happens in the background, but I forgot that Dune Messiah is actually kinda like that??
There is a whole thread of Paul feeling kind of abstractly bad about being Space Hitler but he does not, in fact, actually do anything about it. And like yes both bureaucracies and religious movements can grow to have a life of their own that seems beyond the control of any one person. But also my dude you are the Emperor of the Known Universe. Someone is signing those space checks for the Endless War budget. You are not powerless here.
The one thing that really, clearly drives Paul to actively do things in the plot is not feeling guilty about having unleashed catastrophic religious war on the universe. It is protecting his family. Chani, Alia, his unborn children, and you could probably throw in Duncan by the end. That is what motivates him to act at key moments, and to want to hold on to power. And hey, y'know, if I'd experienced almost everyone I'd ever known getting murdered in a single night, I would probably get a bit intense about that too! It makes sense from a character point of view!
I'm very curious to see how these threads interweave with each other in the film, because the Villeneuve films put a lot of emphasis on Paul's agency and the fact that he may be constrained by shitty circumstances thousands of years in the making, but he still makes choices within that context. I can't see the narrative allowing film!Paul to get away with the same Poor Little Dictator routine as in the book. There are a few ways they could play this but I think the most interesting one is kinda the way they started going at the end of Part Two. Which is that as soon as you start reaching for that kind of power, then power becomes its own end and you will end up doing increasingly horrific things to maintain it. I think it would be quite interesting if the film shows us Paul not just being like "woe is me" but actively choosing to make the world worse because his trauma-driven fear of losing the people he loves makes him cling ever more desperately to power for its own sake.
If they went this route I think it would make Paul's decision at the end hit even harder. FWIW I actually really like Paul walking off into the desert at the end of the book. I think it brings things full circle with his relationship to the Fremen and creates this beautiful arc going back to the duel with Jamis. He first won a place among the Fremen through respecting their customs even though he really did not want to fight and kill someone he had no beef with. And by respecting the Fremen custom of the blind walking off into the desert, he proves himself to be fully Fremen and protects his children not by making them heirs to the throne but by making them Fremen.
And yeah, to a modern audience here on Earth it can look like "Paul conveniently fucks off and doesn't have to raise his newly-motherless children." And we can have a whole discussion about the unexamined ableism of the idea of someone who's gone blind voluntarily choosing death so as to "not be a burden" on their community. But neither of those readings is really the point here. Within the logic of Fremen cultural values, where the survival of the group as a whole is more important than the life of any one individual ("your water belongs to the tribe" etc.) Paul's choice is a willing and intentional self-sacrifice (see also: fedaykin) that wins him huge respect. There's a line in the book about Paul that's like "He would be one of them forever now" and damn if that didn't give me shivers. Like!! The political-symbolic implications!!! Which maybe I'm particularly attuned to because I just wrote a whole fic about what does it mean for an outsider to become Fremen but hmm something something Paul's final* act not being an exercise of Imperial power but an expression of kinship with an oppressed group and that being the thing that's needed to keep his family safe even if he is not physically present with them...IT IS RICH SYMBOLIC TERRITORY.
(*Yes yes I know about events in the next book. Shush.)
This kind of stuff is why I tend to think Chani may start out in a very different place in the story but the end will still be pretty close to what's in the book. It's too thematically powerful and tragic to go any other way.
But also...if they change things around enough that she is still alive at the end of the movie...I won't be sad about it.
#dune#dune messiah#story structure#adaptation#paul atreides#chani kynes#umm#dune messiah spoilers#i guess??#is this really necessarily for a 55 year old book idk
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I saw your Jegulus post about them not being the typical teenage romance and can I just give you a double high five in agreement! I then HAD to find one of many moments I've written for them which exemplify this and share it with you. And this one is the one I settled on. Remus' POV, year five for the Marauders, year four for Regulus. Context is, this is the first time Remus has spent time with James and Regulus together after discovering their secret relationship. It's James' birthday and Lily wants James occupied all day so she can prep for his party. Lily also knows about James and Regulus BTW, makes contextual sense in the story (Sirius does not know, doesn't apply to this scene though).
Hope you enjoy. :)
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There were people who loved each other, like Remus loved Sirius. He would have handed Sirius his body, heart, and soul. He loved him with every ounce of his being. And yet… There were people who loved each other, and then there was James and Regulus.
Remus could think of no other way to describe it. They weren’t two hearts beating for each other. They were the void between heartbeats. They occupied the infinitesimal moment as an inhale became an exhale. They were two people, who shared a single soul. And being around them was both intoxicating and strange. Remus felt like if he breathed too hard in their direction he’d mess with their air, which was exactly perfect between them as their breaths mingled. For surely two people so melded would only breathe the air of the other. And then they would poke fun at each other and their aura would brighten, literally bringing each into sharper visual focus, before it blurred again as they melted back into each other.
They didn’t even have to be touching (though they nearly always were) for this phenomenon to take place. And for half the day Remus thought he was merely groggy from the Pamoja wielding. He thought his brain was sending him confused signals as he watched James and Regulus be James and Regulus.
But a massive lunch, plenty of teenage goofing off, and exploring the surrounding forest left him with a very clear mind and the same mental signals. At which point Remus decided James and Regulus were an exhibition in their own category of relationship, absolutely unique to them. Love was not the word he would use to describe them. It was so much more. They filled the spaces no one else even noticed. And it merged their existence into a single organism.
It was fucking intense.
After they parted ways, as James and Remus continued up to the castle together, Remus said tentatively, “hey, so is it always like that?”
“What do you mean?” asked James absently.
“Er, do you really not know.”
James glanced over at him. “It’s always like that, yeah.”
“Bloody hell.” Remus couldn’t get a good read on James’ face for they were walking side by side, but he thought James might be smiling. “I knew he had to be something special and way more substantial than he looks to withstand your affection, but Godric James. I don’t even know what to call that. I’m not sure it’s physically sustainable.”
“He’s my star.”
“Mate, he’s your fucking universe.”
James playfully threw out an elbow and definitely didn’t look at Remus.
“What can I say, we are infinite. Don’t look so scandalized, you and Sirius aren’t so different.”
“No, we are very different. We exist in the physical world James. You two are already way out there in your own orbit.”
“See why I can’t lose him.”
They took several paces before Remus spoke.
“James, I’m scared for you. That kind of connection has to be dangerous.”
“Want to stop and have a smoke?”
“Took the words right out of my mouth mate.”
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JUST REMEMBERED I HAD THIS IN MY INBOX FOR AGES I AM SO SORRY IT TOOK SO LONG TO RESPOND TO THIS
But honestly it's one of my favourite things about them, the poetic quality makes it feel like they're finding each other again just when they need it at the same time as we're finding them when WE need it, you know?
That's so real though, the idea of the two of them being able to almost spiritually feed off of each other's presence is so true. Like existence is centred around them for a moment. They take over everything.
And it's probably bad in the long run but it's so beautiful that the pain is okay. Because without all of the painful bits, were the good parts really all that valuable?
Also I love your style, it feels real and almost factual if that makes sense? Even when you're describing metaphysical aspects the certainty gives a strong feeling of truth and rationality. I like it.
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anti-psychs are fucking idiots
and i find it really REALLY hard to believe that they're mentally ill because anyone i know who is mentally ill would do absolutely anything to get better and there's no better solution than psychiatric care.
Don't get me wrong, society is absolutely fucked and that involves psychiatric care. Even in Australia it's not affordable (I pay way too much for mine) and it's not easily accessible either. There ARE problems but the problems are within the industry not the industry itself.
Let's talk about delusions and psychosis for a moment. They are absolutely fucking terrifying and every second you want them to end. I remember I couldn't walk a 5 minute walk back home because I was too overwhelmed with fear so I waited for what felt like hours sitting in the sun praying my wife would find me and take me back home.
I didn't like being involuntarily admitted due to my psychosis and I sure as hell didn't like the antipsychotics they put me on. It was hell but what I had been through was worse and I just wanted to be okay. I don't blame my wife for helping me be involuntarily committed because psychosis is scary for the people that love you too and I was making serious threats about hurting myself. She was only one person and I wasn't sleeping, she couldn't possibly keep me safe alone.
With everything, you take the good with the bad. In the psych ward I had met a nice older man named Carlos who got thrown in the psych ward by his mother every time he got too annoying. He didn't deserve to be there and he didn't deserve to be stripped of his choice and his rights.
To have constructive conversation and to fight for change there must be nuance involved. Fighting for an absolute while demonizing your opposition is going to get you absolutely nowhere.
By fighting to get rid of psychiatric facilities and psych wards you're not doing anything to the people that run society. Do you really think some rich white man who has it all is gonna give a single shit if therapy exists or not? You're only hurting those who need the service, the mentally ill that are struggling and desperately wanting to get better.
So fight for accessible therapy, fight for affordable therapy, fight for patients right to choose whether they are admitted to psych wards or not. Fight for better psychiatric care don't fight for no psychiatric care.
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#did system#endos dni#did osdd#system#actually did#actually plural#did#osdd system#osdd#syspunk#systempunk#pluralpunk#cdd#cdd system#cdd community#polyfrag#pro psych
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So I know your autistic Wild (my beloved) has Brenda and Brenda the second for soft friends, does he have any other soft friends?
Do you have any autistic or other neruodivergent head canons for the other Links? (Even if it's just what kinds of things you think they might have for special interests)
OOOOOO wonderful questions!!!!! Authenticity Wild my beloved
He has SO MANY soft friends. I also imagine Flora has a lot too, especially ones with scented things inside- they help her feel grounded when she dissociates or is remembering things related to the Calamity. Their beds in their house (separate beds in the same room on the loft) and their couch are just filled with soft friends. None are as special as the Brenda’s, of course.
I think each culture throughout Hyrule would have a different kind of most common toy and most common stuffed toy. Once everyone figured out how much Wild loves soft friends, they always gifted him one when he helped out the town. Wild loves this so much. The first time it happened he cried from overwhelming emotions of happy and grateful and feeling loved and appreciated.
Other link stuff below :D
I definitely like to imagine all of the Links as neurodivergent. When I have them rotating in my head I like to give them different diagnoses to ✨spice things up✨ and get more diversity in there. Here are the ones I usually give to each Link:
Sky: autism, dyspraxia, dysgraphia, dyslexia
^there is a series I follow of Sky with epilepsy, and I also really love that headcanon
Time: autism, Tourette’s syndrome
Twilight: depression and anxiety disorders
Wind: Down syndrome
Alternatively for Wind: FASD
Wild: autism
Hyrule: ADHD, CPTSD
Four: synesthesia, OCD, sometimes DID
Legend: borderline personality disorder
Warriors: PTSD, anxiety disorder
When I have them as all autistic, here are what I imagine their special interests are:
Time: masks (as a child, not so much anymore), cows, had memorized every dad joke to ever exist
Sky: bugs and birds :). In Skyloft birds was mainly just Loftwings, but then when he discovered all the birds on the surface it became all birds. He single-handedly catalogues and describes all the surface birds.
Warriors: battle strategizing, sewing
Wind: sailing, pirates, also characters from a storybook his Grandma used to read to him and Ayrll every single night (at Wind's insistence)
Wild: cooking, horses, cataloguing plants in the sheikah slate
Legend: magical items, jewelry (jewelry with magical properties are the COOLEST SHIT)
Hyrule: biology/anatomy, and there's a series of books they once found in an abandoned town that they LOVE. Books are hard to come by in their era so those are their absolute most prized possession
Twilight: goats, wolves. He knows every. Single. Fact.
Four: clocks, tools. Four wants collect every tool in existence, and wants to know exactly what it does. Especially blacksmithing tools, bc Four also really likes blacksmithing
#thank you so much for this ask#I welcome distractions today specifically <3#linked universe#lu sky#lu legend#lu warriors#lu wild#lu time#lu hyrule#lu twilight#lu four#authenticity#autistic chain#autism#neurodiversity#there’s so many I don’t want to tag them all
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In another existence, Selin would have immediately taken a liking to Benny. Then again, perhaps he'd be less inclined to take her brash personality or be complimentary if not for wanting to be on her good side because of their shared connection with Leyla and Billie. No, she felt he knew a good personality when he saw one. When he didn't immediately press the breaks at her intrusive question about her sister, she decided that she liked him even more. There was no denying he wasn't giving her the entire truth or every single detail about the ins and outs of her sisters life but all she needed was a brief overview and she could fill in the blanks. "Has she spoken to you about writing or anything like that?" She remembered her sisters fire to write and her adoration for it so it felt like whiplash to see her content with a life of sitting behind a counter and watching others read stories that aren't hers.. Luckily, the story of Billie occupied her enough that she didn't pry more on the subject of her sister, instead bringing the phone closer to inspect the cut. "I would have paid to be there." The fact that she hadn't heard the story when it happened left a sour taste in her mouth and was a reminder of the strained relationship with her sister.
She could sense it in him. At least by the way he didn't push back when Selin began to demand some sort of explanation as to who he was and his involvement within her sister's life as if he owned her any of it in the first place. "Head low, in the dough." She couldn't help but laugh and point her frosting covered finger at him. "It helped that she was hot, didn't it? I know this sort of relationship. It's hard to keep it strictly platonic, especially when you're sharing such large moments with her and Billie." Her head tilted, holding up her hand to indicate she didn't want water before she continued. "I guess I don't really need to know." Selin was almost positive or convinced herself that if there wasn't already something going on, it all was all matter of time. "All I really want to say is that Billie deserves people who won't leave, no matter what. With that said, if you hurt them, I'll crush your best kneading fingers under my heel." Now she smiled, both teasingly but with a glint of something very serious in her gaze.
Benny laughed, throwing his head back. It was clear that part of him wanted to be on Selin's good side. Although he hadn't been completely honest about his situation with Leyla to anyone else, confessing it to her sister made him feel like they shared a special secret. He had brushed off comments made by mutual friends over the years, but exposing himself like this made Benny feel free— like he had finally come out from underneath the shade to see the sun. He enjoyed that, strangely. How is she doing... he tilted his head, contemplating the right words to say. Selin clearly cared about Leyla. While he didn't know the details of their estranged relationship, he believed that sharing how her sister was doing was the least he could do without getting involved. "She's doing good— I think some days are hard, but she's been busy and we've been laughing a lot these days. Billie actually cut her own hair a month or so ago. It was so funny," Benny laughed, pulling out his phone immediately. He pulls out a picture, showing Billie with a huge grin, holding her own lock of hair, adoring an uneven cut. "Look, they had to get it fixed so early in the morning because she had school the next day."
Her question made him pause, and his expression softened as he recalled the day Everything Goes went under Leyla's care. He hums, tilting his head as he finishes the strawberry in his mouth, reaching over for a cup to pour himself some water. He turns to Selin, tilting the cup her way in case she wants one, too. "I'm not the owner type," he chuckles, taking a few steps to fill his cup with water from the dispenser beside the table. "I do better in the back. You know, with my head low and in the dough." Benny chuckles. "Thank you. It's therapeutic. Once I got better at it and started gaining some common sense about the way pastries work, it became rewarding. I realized I liked working with my hands."
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i always forget about rhysands fucking. mountain tattoos on his knees and then i remember and i wanna cry WHY would he do that who let him think that’s sexy and iconic. was it az. i feel like it was az being sarcastic but then rhysand went full throttle and he couldn’t take it back.
#sjm critical#acotar#rhysand critical#but not really just a personal ick i have#what is next. an illyrian tramp stamp.#a hewn city forehead tattoo.#wait no. actually i changed my mind it was tamlin who told him it was a good idea#and it was during their whirlwind summer romance#and now they’re broken up and rhysand has to live with the fact that his tattoos are stupid and tamlin has a little giggle#every single time that he remembers that they exist
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can ppl in this fandom like... stop... implying that transmasculinity in hcs or (especially) canon is shallow or misogynistic or even transmisogynistic on princible, like literally just by being prescent in someones mind or in the text. like that doesnt fuckin feel good. thats kind of really nasty to imply. if its not okay to say about other trans experiences, maybe dont say it about this one either. why is there a weird little exception here. yall KNOW how much that sucks to hear all day every day. what the fuck
#my t#idk how to tell the hs fandom that every piece of trans coding in roxy in hs1 can be read as transmasc too. like transfem and transmasc#at the same time from the EXACT same reasons. its almost like we all share experiences just by way of being trans. weird i know#its almost like being trans rlly truly highlights what it is to be human and how we are all in fact at the end of the day human together#i just want everyone to stop trying to 'poke holes' in other fans trans hcs FULL STOP across the board no matter who they are#or what the hc is. its needlessly hurtful and more often than not trips into real peoples dysphoria which then#makes the target more likely to lash out. so the person poking them abt it can do a ''SEE? THEYRE ALL MEAN ONE OF THEM#WAS MEAN TO ME JUST NOW'' routine. its so obviously a 'im not touching u!!!' playground maneuver like holy fuck grow up#if you wanna fight for transfem/me folks right to just exist random fans personal headcanons is not the fuckin time or place#the XY in roxys name could be read as her having been DMAB or it could be hussie having a long running giggle about him preordering#his own transmasculinity. roxys colour being pink could be bc shes a girl or it could be compcis!!!#roxys desperation for a bf is from loneliness in canon but its often read as her feeling like she needs one to be a real girl#it can ALSO be read as another aspect of him struggling with compcis and comphet esp w/ his fantasies abt being 'a mother'#yknow what i never fuckin see that rlly highlights the fact that this is just a shitty 'girls rule boys drool' thing? theres like. no#discussions on the potential of roxy being any kinda intersex. absolutely none. he could be mtftm for all you fuckin know#but oh yknow being mtftm is A Shallow Read so we cant have that. hs is only for girls didnt you know we need to terf- i mean turf#out every single instance of queer mascness bc its Evil in the text didnt you know#god help the fandoms word of god token trans boy dirk strider for 'choosing' his eternal misery while everyone else is enlightened#by way of transforming into a girl. bc we must place girlhood on an inhuman pedistal of perfection and niceness and joy and rainbows#like what IS this mahou shojo brand gender essentialism???? im fuckin sick of it#can we remember that girlhood isnt & wasnt safe or joyful for everyone & that that can translate into how we curate our fandom experiences
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such is the tale of a ✨chronically online hypocrite✨
#(please forgive this old folk’s rambling for a hot min bc i need to get this off my chest somehow and in some way)#tl;dr: come and get into the hw idol series!!! we have ship discourse; more ship discourse; even more ship discourse#(yes ik people should be free to ship what they do b u t claiming a noncanon ship as canon and forcing it on everyone else is. not cool.)#yes yes friday’s mv was visually cute and ino.rin’s singing was peak b u t i feel like it has caused more harm than good in some way???#i cant b e l i e v e the jp hwtwt beef over friday’s mv is still going on mannnnnnnnn#no less than 3 separate people have made posts along the lines of#‘p l s stop using [official tags] to post about *[unnamed] non-official ships* p l s there’s a time and place for everything’#and n o n e of them even remotely run in the same circles yet they’re all banded together against a *certain* group lmfao never change hwtwt#lhy (esp yhy) shippers are always at the scene of the crime mannnnnnn#i cant see anything on their end of the naval battle (has every single lhy tag+account that i could think of blocked)#b u t it’s still really funny to witness on my twtdash against my will. i think i need to touch grass#‘kyhn isn’t canon either so why do you like it while being such a hater towards lhy—‘#great question!!!!!! it’s bc (disregarding the movie) they actually interact really well together~~~ like the honeypre event y k—#and also bc yukki treats hina really nicely all the time (even when she was being tsun and literally running from her feelings for him)#a n d hina loved him for who he truly was; even before his image change arc. and she also does her best to appeal to him and such~~~~~~~#but lhy. uh. they just bully hiyo 95% of the time and while they do look out for her bc they’re pals#they’re just pals. guys. and lxl have gone ‘uwu it must be u uwu’ to each other one too many times so shoehorning hiyo between them would.#be pretty weird ngl? esp since the ‘widely accepted’ portrayal of lhy as a trio is p much just hiyo x 2 dudes who dont even like each other#and. like. a branch of such portrayals usually seem to have aizo waft away from the ‘r/s triad’ to date mona instead which is. very weird.#some people just pick and choose aizo and mona interactions dont they. all they see is the umbrella scene and go ‘ah yes. canon’#they dont even read further to see how mona doesn’t even use the umbrella after aizo leaves (clear rejection)#a n d how aizo doesn’t even remember giving the umbrella to mona + mona’s entire existence in general after that#and that’s not even counting the grudge mona refuses to let go of even after what looks to be literal months#so for certain shippers to just casually shoo aizo out of the hiyoharem and into mona’s unwilling arms for the sake of yhy is. weird.#and like. shouldn’t he and yujiro have a say in this?? they’re more interested in each other than hiyo so just how are they being commonly#portrayed as hiyosimps in fanon? im so confused… like. wouldn’t they be equally obsessed with each other (as w/ hiyo) if they were a rstrio?#aaaaaa get this off my twtdash plsssssssss pls see this post twtapp pls let this affect your dumb algorithm im tired of the ship discourseee#as funny as the ‘lhy vs the world’ naval warfare is it’s getting. um. very annoying!!!! and now im missing nagisa more than ever s o b s#plsplsplsplsplsplsplsplspls influence the algorithm ragepost; ik big brother is 👀watching👀 so do your thing—#(pls feel free to duke it out with me too if y’all read this i need my birdsite algorithm to le a r n that i dont wanna see stuff like this)
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“The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time."
When fans are hoping this is either about Penelope and Luke or Emily and JJ and it's going to be about Jill and Rossi when NO ONE asked for this (I seem to remember we specifically asked for it not to be a thing) and Rossi does not need any more wives or screen time...
Memes (with 17x08 spoilers) to cope with the situation:
#criminal minds evolution#criminal minds spoilers#CME 17x08#Honestly with Rossi/Jill being an acceptable parallel to Emily/JJ I have flashbacks of Regina/Emma checking every single box of “true love”#as defined in OUAT and then having to watch the two of them date men when they had THIS to begin with#If we're going to have an angsty old love let's have the lesbian version not the boring straight one#and if we're going to make time for romantic relationships let's all collectively remember the existence of Tara and Rebecca#it's a vicious circle: writers neglect the ship so fans don't really care about the ship so writers keep neglecting the ship#Hoping S3 spotlight will be on the ladies and not on Rossi because how is it Emily's the chief and yet it still feels like he's the star?#criminal minds memes
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omg the fionna and cake episodes are actually so good i'm so happy
#i don't remember every single little detail from the og show but how they explained their existence checks out#also i kinda understand why simon is gonna do what he said he was gonna do but man it's so fucking sad#adventure time#fionna and cake#shitpost
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said it before and ill say it again: re4make consistently making leon so hung up ab ada’s “betrayal” vs ada not caring at all is the best part of the game
like i rewatched the boat scene and adas literally just chilling and leon is ITCHING to talk to her and when he does hes so adamant that hes different now and that he wont fall for her tricks this time! and then she just pulls the “what do you think 😏” in response to all of that like its so funny
#resizura rants#i hc that she just remembered he existed when she saw him in the village#vs leon wouldnt stop thinking about her cause it was his first time being ‘deceived’ and he couldnt fathom it#the way she shades him so much during the game i holler every single time 😭😭
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every time in read amber rage i just............................................like you cant give me that description and expect me to be normal about this man.
#like im sorry but i literally get caught on this random npc who appears for two pages every single time#this is probably my favourite official adventure for completely unrelated reasons but then i read it again and remember that branik exists#he lives & traps at the edge of the korcari wilds so like.. he probably travels a little north to sell his animals--#--i can easily say he's been to lothering and uh. met hawke. yknow.#im sorry they SPECIFICALLY called him a BEAR. like i dont think that's intentional but it sure endears me to the guy#dragon age#dragon age ttrpg#da#darpg#personal#amber rage#branik#like do i need a tag for my ttrpg husband? no of course not. there's not enough to say about him. but he deserves it#he's also the most chasind-friendly non-chasind character we ever meet so. that's something. he's pals with the leader of a nearby village#i dont mention often enough that i am Chasind Fan no.1. always need more chasind stuff#wait maybe branik isnt my husband maybe branik is ME in this game. if i were tall and grew my hair & beard longer.
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I remember watching this and thinking,
"Okay, see, this is why the Doctor needs Donna so bad: he's so distracted by the chaos that he didn't notice how absolutely, deeply fucking weird that was."
It's no wonder why she's so exasperated all the time: for being the smartest, cleverest being in the entire universe, he sure doesn't pay very much attention all the time does he.
DOCTOR WHO The Giggle
#doctor donna#seriously this is why donna is the best#nothing gets past her#supertemp#you don't get to be the best temp in chiswick without excellent attention to detail#remember all the empty time off binders at the adipose harvesting place#yeah we'd have been screwed#the doctor never would have found that#he is too Big Picture#he needs someone to help him remember details exist#and thats why the companion has to be a woman i suppose#i don't personally know a single man who is better with noticing details than literally every woman i know#which i am willing to be wrong about#seriously if you know that man i'd love to meet him#has not been my experience but#anyway here's wonderwall
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#i miss my best friend and my entire life is falling apart#literally everything has been falling apart extra bad for a year and the scars its left make me want to smash everysingle mirror in my house#its been falling apart since i could learn to speak reallymy entire life has been a nightmare and im so tired i legitimately have nothing#i have nothing. not irl friends not my health not my sanity not comfort not silence not privacy not personal space not a comfy space anywhre#not money not love not family not talent of any kind not an ability to talk to anyone for several different reasons not a body i can stand#not nice hair not nice skin not a working body not a working brain not a job not anything to look forward to that doesnt fill me with shame#for not having anything other than music in my life not an id so i cant even see half the bands i want to or meet anyone or date at all or#have my own money my dad yells at me every time we talk now and hes giving up on me entirely like the rest of my family my pop cant remember#anything anybody else probably forgets i exist 363 days of the year i cant even read bc my brain is getting so slow that it scares me and i#cry over how little i can read when i used to read a book a DAY i cant comprehend anything anymore i cant do anything because i barely feel#anything barely anything is fun or cool or interesting outside of a single 2 minute spark im just doing the motions im a ghost im dead#its just too late#i cant be anything or do anything i never will be and 99% of the people in my life will never care how much i debase myseld and divulge#traumas id never willingly do it just for the dmallest piece of attention from anyone because everyone stares and wayches silently and i#cant deal with it anymore and i want to scare people i want to make people fucking care but they never will i know that because for years id#cry at every single party alone in the corner bc nobody would talk to me for more than a few minutes and then i stopped getting invited#until my best friend who changed that and now they barely talk to me and all i can think about is relapsing#Spotify
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