#for all its many. many. MANY. flaws

[semiotomatics]

idk abt yall but im still not over the fact that the internet lets you communicate w ppl literally all over the world, ppl you'd never have a chance to talk to otherwise. its just so cool to me!! i absolutely adore talking to ppl abt their cultures n their homes n their lives n getting to share mine in return. i know that as our online lives have gotten more complex the "internet culture" has kind of superceded a lot of ppls irl ones, at least when interacting in online spaces, but i rly hope we dont lose that desire to share pieces of where we came from w others. i think doing so not only enriches our own lives, but enriches our relationships w others as well.

[smile-files]

even if we each are nothing, i can still feel your hand holding mine... and isn't that worth everything?

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

He was just being a silly little guy!

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[spiralghoul]

Batfamily fans don’t mischaracterize arrow characters to prop up bats when you’ve very clearly never touched an arrow family comic in your life challenge IMPOSSIBLE EDITION!!!!!!

Like I so desperately don't want to come off as one of those asshole comic fans cause like I so genuinely want people to know these characters and this wonderful story telling device. This industry which has a lot of problems but is so fascinating and has such a rich history, like I really do want more people to get into comics. I literally keep a beginners list of comics that's digestible stories that aren't like a list of random issues which can be kinda intimidating to new fans. I try to keep it updated for characters and if I don"t have the character their looking for I'll go find a few ppl that do and like do a quick vet to see if they seem to know what they're talking abt and give that to them and if anyone is interested in that pls hit me up let me know I genuinely love introducing ppl to this world!!

Its just so frustrating watching your favorite characters get constantly mischaracterized to such an extreme extent by other people in the fandom and then have that be the general consistence of what they're like when its so far from how they act in the actual comics that are about them!! and then get told that I'm wrong even tho i can literally back up what I'm saying with panel proof from multiple runs! Its not even contained to the fandom IT HAPPENS IN BAT BOOKS TOO!! Bat book writers constantly change arrow characters to fit their story lines and make the bats look good and I get it that's how it works these are paper dolls that have been used for over 80 years and have had hundreds of people use them. They're meant to be molded to fit the current story the writer wants to tell but its frustrating cause then people will ignore all of the books that center them and just take batbooks as being word of god for all characters.

[alastair-1205]

Saw this post by @chebyshevptera and didn't think this was related enough to put in reblogs but.

Do you think it keeps Jay up at night? The fact that before Skybound he really was pretty disrespectful of Nyas boundaries. Do you think he ever thinks about it and feel horrible becuase he had to be tortured into being a better person instead of just getting better. Do you think he wonders if he would have stayed the exact same way he was if it wasn't for everything that happened? That he thinks maybe he's not a good person at heart and that he needed/deserved to suffer to get to where he is? Do you think he'd be fucked up about that?

Because I do. If I'm thinking about it then the most panic-prone one of the group probably does too-

[bride-of-hemlock]

"Trust me. It doesn't happen."

Hearing these words said by Astarion in act1 with such pain, about a vampire giving their blood to their spawn (=one they sired), only to - once the relationship becomes deep, and he genuinely falls in love - in act3, let Tav drink his blood during night of turning, is such a beautiful and romantic subversion of expectation.

Every replay I see the pain with which he says it - the idea of making "a competitor"... Yet, upon Ascenscion, Tav isn't a separate, you/me. It's "us", "ours", "we". (I probably should replay UA route despite how sad, as I don't recall if he also uses "we" so much - or if he still separates as before confession, pretending...) He clearly sees things differently than Cazador, breaking from such cycles - Tav is his beloved, not "other, competition". One-ness. It is such good narration through vocabulary choices.

Either way, when Astarion is at his best, most powerful - subverting the trope of "vampires don't make competition", is extremely good writing for romance genre route; to show his character growth and deep, vampiric love - much more than a mortal's, eternal. And if Tav doesn't fall to "selfish" vampiric feelings (=being mean and asking to leave, to be "competition" instead of "one")... Well, their love - trust - to each other is one of the most beautiful I've seen in many stories . <3

[short-wooloo]

There are a million and nine reasons why I hate the "anakin has x personality disorder" takes (mostly because people treat it like it's textual fact and not just their fanon interpretations), but by far the thing I hate most about them is like 70-80% of the time the "evidence" for it (no matter the disorder whatever the armchair psychologist pulled out of the hat this week) always seems to be "Anakin gets angry sometimes"

[sieglinde-freud]

i love lucisev in any flavor its given to me but in particular i really enjoy 1) lucisev thats been together since pre going back in time and dont even remember when they “happened” theyve just always been a forever constant and comfort without having to label it or eachother until they dont have it anymore (being separated post time jump) and 2) lucisev that has never happened and its been a pining disastrous mess for years on both ends but then selena leaves for nohr and when laslow and odin ask what she’s holding herself back for she doesnt answer but they already know. when they come back home, selena searches everywhere for her and sometimes, she’s too late. lucina’s already packed up and left the world behind, and for what? no one really knows. but sometimes, she finds her again, but it’s been so long and lucina’s not sure they can go back to being the same way they used to be, not after feeling hurt and betrayed by severa’s sudden departure. but things like this take time, and selena is finally at a place in her life where she can decidedly say she has all of the time in the world.

[holdmymetaphor]

in like the second to last episode when taub was like why dont u respect wilsons wishes to die

house yells at him about how hard it has been to choose to live

and then we cut to other doctors and nurses and patients who hear him yelling this taboo thing, looking at him like hes weird and wrong and making a ruckus

ugh. houses reaction to it hurts me. its just such a clear reminder of how alone he feels/is.

[entropyofnuance]

Also also also. Let’s talk about John Winchester. Let’s talk about the fact that your abuser can love you and you can love them back. And the way Dean feels his emotions so strongly which leads him to be so full of love and also so full of anger. He is a reflection of John Winchester in this way. Dean loves his father as his father loved him and they are both severely traumatized and they are both soldiers in a war they never asked to be in and have only been taught love and anger and responsibility and failure and fear. When anything threatens their loved ones, even if it’s another loved one, the threat must be taken out. This is absolute. It’s why John was so hard on Dean. It’s why Dean is so hard on Sam and on Cas and on Jack. It’s why they yell so loud and punch so hard and hug so tightly. They are desperate men. At their core they are scared by what they have had to become strong against and a man that has something to lose is a man who should be feared.

John Winchester loved his kids. He loved them enough to want them safe at any cost, even if it made him the villain in their story. Dean knows this kind of love. It’s the only love he’s ever had. He knows it like he knows the beat of his own heart, it’s his as much his as it is his father’s. Fits him like John’s old leather coat. Dean understands the loss his father has gone through. He understands what losing Mary meant. The burdens they carried were the same.

Sam has known a kinder love. The love of his brother. His brother who would keep him safe against any monster. A love that didn’t have the weight of responsibility, and so Sam never posed a threat to the safety of John’s loved ones. Sam understood love to be stolen Christmas presents and the last bowl of cereal and a ruffle of hair during class change. Because of Dean, Sam never understood John’s love, and so he focused on the abuse. He focused on the love he couldn’t find from his father. Oh man oh man oh man. I could write a thesis on them.

Oh god I’m going to keep going. John had to leave. He had to find what killed Mary. He had to leave Lawrence and go on the road and find Azazel. But he refused to leave his kids, the way his dad left him, because he loved them so much. And yes, he would leave to go on hunts, but he always came BACK. John had been hurt before and so he taught his kids how to defend themselves so they would never go through the pain he has felt. He taught them to never turn your back on your family. He taught them how to hunt the ghosts and demons that could take from you those you love most. He was obsessive and so deeply sad and Sam and Dean are cut from the same cloth.

“Everything you’ve done, you’ve done for love”

(I also just want to clarify: I am not condoning John’s behavior. He 100% abused his sons and that was not okay. I also recognize the differences between him and Dean and how important they are. However, I wanted to point out that the static “villain” title for John Winchester is doing a disservice to understanding the beauty and complexity of Sam and Dean both, and his love, however painful, is just as important to the plot as his hate is)

[ananke-xiii]

i gotta say that "mr. robot" really is IT.

i'm so happy that, thanks to one of my dear mutuals @raffaella-cerullo, i decided to re-watch it bc i realized i must have stopped watching it somewhere in the middle of S3 or i have blocked out having watched it until its series finale (possible bc from 2018 to 2020 i went through one of my many I Don't Remember ShitTM phases).

but, like, "mr. robot" really is IT in terms of character development. first of all, like someone said on here, elliott is not your blorbo, YOU are elliot's blorbo and this alone is a crazy concept to pull off so elegantly.

but also, like, this show is not afraid to Go There. And it goes there in a way that's both so fucking surreal AND so painfully real that you're left, like, woah. what did i just watch but also: yeah, OF COURSE, i knew it, this is what the story was always about and it was never a secret. except it was.

the title is so intentionally childish and the plot seems so robin-hood-esque with what would seem, at first, just a surface-level reading of world inequalities but it cuts so much deeper it goes straight to the roots and pulls, pulls, pulls. and it fucking hurts.

i can't give away what the story is about because that's one of the joys of storytelling. to know what's next. the anticipation. the thrill. but then again, don't you know? it's always about one thing over and over and over again:

who are you?

[dukeofthomas]

"Angry robin" "violent robin" "misbehaving robin" shut up and accept my alternative; spunky Robin. Determined and head strong, can out-stubborn the Batman, has a strong moral-backbone and does what he thinks is right regardless of what anybody else says, Robin. Jason who was sassy and quippy and made crude jokes with a smile on his face. Jason who hid in Bruce's cape and whispered gossip to him. Jason who, if Bruce refused him something, could keep bothering endlessly until Bruce caved. And also dramatic Jason. If Bruce tells him no, it becomes a whole theatrical show; a monologue, a narration, embellishments, and falling onto the floor in his grief upon the fact his cruel father has denied him once again.

(Jason who has suffered through abuse and homelessness and poverty and starvation, who is the Fight out of Fight or Flight, who's built up defenses and walls and when pushed and triggered responds with the thing that's always protected him; anger. He's sweet and kind and funny, and when he sees a pimp hitting a prostitute he gets furious and responds with violence.)

[yaraanderson]

Something that really got to me about the Salt Lake Crew scenes so far is that they don't feel like friends. Yeah sure, they have some issues, mainly the Love Triangle Trio, but they are longtime friends. They are Loyal to each other above all else rn. They were in this decision to come after Joel together, even if Abby was the main motivator. Abby didn't convince them to help out of hierarchy or fear of her, but because they wanted to. Because they cared about her and what they all lost. She doesn't order them around as if they're subservient.

Without something similar to Owen and Abby's playful-then-difficult conversation, we don't get a feel for them as people. All the righteous justifications in the world mean nothing for swaying an audience if it's isolated; just words from a strange and hateful mouth.

[lyss-sketchbox]

Does anyone else find it odd that there isn't another Pyro character from Natlan? Like yeah Mavuika is cool but, each nation has other characters of the archon's element. And I mean playable characters that lady from the Springs does not count.

No because pyro characters only sells when they're dpses and they refuse to make anyone that even BEGINS to threaten their perfect god queen Mavuika as the bestest pyro dps ever /HEAVY SARCASM

[whoviandoodler]

'isn't the whole point of the show that love transcends severance??? but then why didn't imark go with gemma!' yes but the whole point of the show is also that innies are no less human than outies, and that the relationships they form are no less love than the relationships their outies form. what imark did WAS irrational and impulsive and ultimately doomed, but it was also very human of him! it was as much mark to take helly's hand as it was to agree to a basement floor surgery so he could see gemma again. he's proven many times that he will make reckless and selfish choices for love even while he's trying to be a good person otherwise, and there's no reason to expect imark to suddenly deviate from that by sacrificing his bond with helly just because we wish gemma happiness.

[cornpickerart]

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