#freedom is the ultimate choice

[stuckinapril]

Going to get into the habit of carrying my journal everywhere w me bc I truly want to soak up every snapshot of this transitional period where I’m just a 22 year old girl finding my footing and the only thing I’m tied to are the decisions I make and the path I carve for myself

[newspecies]

"the vast majority of legal persecution against early queers was focused on men" ARE YOU INSANE

[lovegrowsart]

interesting that some ppl think that osha going dark side was too fast or didn't make sense when i thought it was pretty clear she was heading that direction from episode one 💀

[lilshitwayne]

Dante's hyperbolic, queer coded existence being a deliberate choice to contrast against Dom's hyperbolic masculinity, thus implying both are a performance is something that is soooo personal to me

[dragon--sage]

Help me to decide Help me make the most Of freedom and of pleasure Nothing ever lasts forever Everybody wants to rule the world There's a room where the lights won't find you Holding hands as the walls come tumbling down When they do I'll be right beside you Holding hands as the walls come tumbling down

✹ SHIP SONGS SERIES ✹ ASTARION X NYANA

[kyouka-supremacy]

What's p/p?

Ah, I meant to say, pp, Psycho-Pass. I usually add slashes to avoid unprompted rambles to show up in main tags, sorry if that resulted confusing.

I love Psycho-Pass. I already made a post about why bsd fans might find it enjoyable, but honestly, there's so much more to it beyond what it has in common with bsd.

The prompts for reflection this series offers are just wonderful: on the relationship between citizens and government, on pervasive systems, on freedom of choice and free will, on safety vs. freedom, on discrimination of minorities and creation of scapegoats, on propaganda and brainwashing, on the increasing and treacherous presence of technology in everyday life, on how government uses technology to control and manipulate people, on fighting the system from the inside vs. fighting the system from the outside. I should watch it again too. It's crazy good.

Akane Tsunemori - the coprotagonist of the first season, the protagonist of the second season and overall the true core and heart of the franchise - is one of the most complex and beautiful characters I ever met. Her growth and character development is truly amazing: the way she starts off as unknowing and naïve, and grows so so much from there; how her writing finds this perfect balance between becoming more mature / hardening and staying true to her beliefs - even when everyone, the system, the people she relies to, the people she looks up to - tell her that there's no other way, that it can't be. It's breathtaking. She is a breathtaking character. The way alone that no matter how conscious and aware she becomes of how cruel the world is, how unredeemable people are, how beyond saving the system is, she still keeps believing in humans… It may sound cliché by itself, but believe me, it's wonderfully executed, and her character is truly amazing. Not to mention, the way she mirrors the coprotagonist Kougami is fabulous, but this is not really about him; she's an amazing character of her own right, and I will die on this hill.

The female cast in general is all amazing honestly. Don't get me wrong, the male characters are just as complex and multilayered (and I LOVE Gino and Kou, how couldn't I), but that's… Something we're more accustomed to, while finding well written female characters is objectively much harder. Female characters in Psycho-Pass aren't written as female characters, they're written as people, just as much as their male counterparts are. They have their fears and hopes and strengths and weaknesses just like any other character. I love Yayoi for being strong and coolheaded. I love (LOVE) Shion for being her fabulous self, kind and flirty and confident and with an heart so big, and for her subverting the trope of guy in the chair by being a glamorous woman who's also incredibly competent at her job of analyst. I love Akane's friends and I don't like season 3 but Mai is genuinely awesome and a joy every time she's on screen. I love Risa so much I could die, I love how strong and independent she is, I love the dilemmas she had to face, I love her choices and how they might have been the wrong ones and how it still haunts her, I love the tragedy of her character in general, I love the doomed friendship that used to be between her Gino and Kou. I love love love Fredrica, I love her being bossy and confident, diligent and determined. There's just a lot of… Strong and independent women in Psycho-Pass, and it's not just a way of saying, they really are.

I LOVE women loving other women, canonly, on screen. The confirmation may be delegated to a small moment in the last episode of the first season, but the fact that it's still there nonetheless, and how it confirms that all the previous moments and exchanges were indeed moments and didn't leave it to ambiguity… It's nice, to say that the first season of Psycho-Pass came out in 2012. And you might have to wait eight years, three seasons, five movies for it, but the phrase “I just want to go outside, dine somewhere nice, and go for walks with someone I love” may make it worth it.

And I LOVE how all the leader positions are filled by women. It's a little funny, honestly, in the best way– despite what I made it look like so far, the Psycho-Pass cast is still men-dominated (or at least a pretty equally split 50/50?); yet all the leader positions are always filled by women: Akane and Mika and Kasei and Frederica and Karina, it's always women.

Also, Mika is a brilliant character. Of course I love her. I'm so so sorry for how much hate and criticism she gets (over being a purposely annoying character! Insane! When Dazai exists!), when she does really and excellent job at conveying “look! A fucked up brainwashed individual in a fucked up brainwashing environment! I wonder how that could have happened!”. Not to mention that her growth, her long and devious way to admitting that the system is flawed, is truly well made, too. Unpopular opinion, characters with big flaws, characters who are unsufferable and make lives impossible to everyone around them, characters who mess up again and again, are actually great to watch.

Again, don't get me wrong, I absolutely adore Gino and Kou too ahah. They're both great!! But that you can probably see by your own. Gino in particular used to be my favourite, how his character does a total 180° turn. I love to see men admit their mistakes and make the choice to be better tomorrow.

About that, the relationships between the characters are AMAZING. Especially the main trio Akane / Kou / Gino, all the combinations within it are beautiful and deep and brilliant, so so enjoyable to explore and with their fair share of canon content, while still never straying to romantic territory (I mean, Akane/Kou may be going in that direction, but if that's true, that's the slowest slow burn I've ever witnessed in my life).

What's more. The world building / general premise - a dystopian world, where your predisposition to do crime can be measured and the government makes use of such technology to monitor and control the population and guarantee everyone's safety - is genuinely interesting and compelling. The aesthetic is genuinely cool (AH, now that I think about it, I've got my unfair bias for people in suits, and pp has a LOT of people in suits… ). The opening and endings feature great artists like Egoist, Ryo, Who-ya Extended and Cö shu Nie, so you're sure to love them!!

(Also, Psycho-Pass is something I used to spend entire nights talking about with a friend, and I'm always thinking about her and hold her tight to my heart in every moment so. That's worth mentioning for me, pfffttt. I love my friend so much.)

Finally, because the other Psycho-Pass post I made here keeps haunting me for the lack of trigger warnings, please be aware: Psycho-Pass DOES have trigger warnings. Pretty much for eveything you can think of. Sexual assault and gore and body horror on the top of my mind, but it's quite dark and gritty at parts in its entirety, so please please keep that in mind if you decide to pick it up.

Well, this is the end of my Psycho-Pass love letter for now. Please give it a chance if you can! I'll go rewatch it now. General watch order, in order of release, is season 1 → season 2 → movie → Sinners of the System movie trilogy → season 3 → First Inspector movie → Providence movie. I don't really like the third season or First Inspector movie (the characters are still great tho, even the newly introduced ones), and I've yet to watch Providence. The first season later came out with an extended edition of added scenes between episodes, and they're quite nice, so if you can't get ahold of it, you might want to look up for a compilation of the missing scenes still.

[2c75ff]

((My sole contribution to any of the themes invoked over the course of this particular day is the fact that Seventeen is very weird now, for many understandable reasons, about the prospect of being outclassed to the point of helplessness; and that his figurative wires, when it comes to the thought of submission, have found themselves subsequently crossed and fried in some interesting and occasionally rather Cell-shaped ways.))

[swordmaid]

big fan of shri'iia's first decision (after committing to the Oathbreaker role) is to fucking raid, loot and wipe out a creche - a place that's used to raise children - acting exactly how lolth expects her followers to act. but considering that since she's no longer following lolth, she's not going to get the praise and approval she would've gotten, instead, she will get scorned for it and rightly so!

[chigirisprincess]

hate to see so many hotd fans forget that rhaenyra was literally groomed to have the exact same fate as her mother and every other targaryen woman. she was taught from birth that her only purpose in life was to have as many babies as she possibly could so that house targaryen would be plentiful. she was raised to believe the best thing about her was her womb!!! idk i just, i could never hate her. like i'm sorry her having a couple of bastards because her husband was gay is not as terrible as people make it out to be. she was a stupid teenage girl who believed that she as heir to the iron throne deserved more than to be a baby maker and deserved to have sex with whomever she wanted and did not think of the consequences BECAUSE SHE TOO WAS A CHILD WHO WANTED TO PLEASE HER FATHER. idk i just. u need to watch hotd thru a feminist lense or else u will not get the nuance of rhaenyra or alicent's characters. they're both victims of the patriarchy and while they've both done horrible things for their own self preservation, it does not mean that their trauma is suddenly invalid or inconsequential.

[problemswithbooks]

BNHA ch. 378

All I can say seeing Nagant and Gentle back on the good side is ‘to little to late’.

I like villain redemptions--I wanted and expected the LoV to get redeemed when I first started reading and watching this story. The only reason I’ve soured on it is because it’s so poorly written. It feels forced and unearned on both sides.

Ch. 378 only makes that even clearer. Nagant and Gentle are helping the Heroes now--coming right out of left field to do so. Besides their more sympathetic framing and LaBrava being a prefect counter to Skeptic there wasn’t really much foreshadowing for this reveal. They’re just here so we can get the obligatory ‘saved’ villains that show us that the bad guys can be turned good, even if very little effort was put in to show how these guys had a change of heart. 

Izuku did talk a little to Gentle and he did feel bad during their fight, but that was hundreds of chapters ago. Later Lady Nagant told him her backstory and he just told her ‘hey, maybe look on the bright side of life’ and she changed her tune instantly.

Plus, none of the villains actually did anything that bad. Gentle was a youtuber who essentially pranked people--it’s laughable that he was a villain in the first place. Nagant did kill a lot of people but no one we knew, and it was all before the start of the main story. She joined All for One, but she barely gave Izuku any trouble. She also felt immeasurable guilt for all the terrible things she did.

These two pale in comparison to the LoV who have helped level Japan and killed with glee for the entire run of the story. They never feel guilty or bad for hurting other people. They have targeted the kids and wished to kill them from their very first introduction and have never changed their minds on that. Besides being pals and having sad backstories they don’t really have any redeeming qualities. The only reason they will being redeemed is because Hori said so.

And it’s not like it makes any more sense form the Hero side either. Izuku didn’t care about Overhaul even though he was clearly in major distress and mentally not all there. He tried reasoning with Muscular for 2 seconds before deeming him unsavable. And now Tsukauchi is praising and believing in the changed villains even though the last time we saw him he was being really harsh to Aoyama--a kid forced to work for All for One.

So, yeah, I guess it’s nice that the villains are going to be ‘saved’ but it won’t really mean anything or have any impact. It’ll be as underwhelming as this Nagant and Gentle reveal was. Something I read and go ‘if you say so’. 

[nogoodnikolai]

preaching to the choir obviously but to rob people of a personal choice out of the ostensible fear they might come to regret said choice is a thousand times crueler than allowing them the freedom to do things they might ultimately regret

[scottguy]

We men will be right behind you in line also kicking on your behalf.

[computercreature]

something i see a lot in the dungeon meshi fandom is attributing izutsumi's personality traits to her being a cat. and while ryoko kui definitely gave her cat-like traits intentionally, she's a talented enough writer to also give her a backstory with reasons for those traits. for example, her tendency to only do and eat what she wants.

izutsumi's character arc revolves around freedom. she grew up caged in a circus. and although she was fed enough to survive, this was only because a living catgirl attracted more customers than a dead one.

[id: first image is izutsumi as a child framed behind bars and standing on all fours, making it clear how skinny she is. a hand in the foreground holds out a bowl of what appears to be kibble. narration says “thrown in a cage and given food every once in a while… is that what you would call ‘being raised’?” in the second image she is now sitting on the floor of her cage and eating a rat. end id]

look how skinny she is! we see her eating what appears to be... kibble? oats? and then a rat that she possibly caught for herself. she had no choice but to eat anything she could.

[id: part of the dungeon meshi manga. a slightly older izutsumi is tied to a post and tade sits next to her to say "we've got a roof over our heads, beds, food, and clothes. they've got everything here. is there someplace nicer than this out there?" izutsumi thnks for a moment and says "i hate that someone's already decided what i'm going to eat tomorrow. my name, the clothes i wear, where i sleep, where i go next... here, all of that's been decided by another person... even though, come tomorrow, i might want to eat something else instead. that's why i'm leaving." at this, tade cries out in shock. end id]

when she's taken into the nakamoto household they begin to treat her much better. she's on about equal footing as tade, who also had a rough living situation before being taken in, and tade loves it there! they get healthy and tasty food and they're not sleeping in cages. but izutsumi still isn't free. she can pass off her chores and vegetables to tade and disobey in any way she can but she can't leave. maizuru even put a collar on her, further dehumanizing and trapping izutsumi.

when izutsumi joins laios's party, she's finally 'free', but it's not the kind of freedom she wants. she has to eat even more food she doesn't want or else she'll starve. but the difference now is that she's can leave at any time, and if she stays, she's treated as an equal. they're not feeding her monsters because they see her as inferior. they're all eating the same food so they can reach their goal(s). and this is part of izutsumi ultimately learning that in order to do what she wants, she has to be willing t do the things she doesn't want to

[astronlogia]

Astrology observation #2

Astrology offers insights, not certainties. These observations highlight tendencies, not rules. Use them for reflection, but remember that your choices and experiences ultimately shape your life.

Also keep in mind that they are general interpretation. It can resonate with some people and not with others !

Venus in Fire Signs (Aries, Leo and Sag) : Seeks excitement and adventure in relationships. They want to feel alive in a relationship it like they want to live in a romance movie, its importante for them to to chase and win over their lover ;). They are (mainly Leo) the true lovers of the zodianc signs tbh.

Mars in Libra: Harmony in love is the big theme, they often avoid conflict but have a big struggle with making decision. Also Hygines is very important for them i notice they dislike bad odors it give them THE ICK.

Moon Conjunct Venus: Big lovers they are nurturing and affectionate, they seek emotional security through warm, supportive relationships. They are the lover who give you a hug after a hard day.

Venus Retrograde in Natal Chart: unconventional love relationship, they of people who can go bakc to ex's, they should focus on self-love it can be a big theme in their life time it also give karmic relationship (my aunt with a venus retrograde had 3 divorce with the same man...).

Juno in the 7th House: i never seen someone with this being single for more than a month ? they always have options and people but are the type of people who will stick to one love relationship.

Venus Opposite Uranus: They are afraid of commitement , can change their mind very quickly. The type of people who love summer flings, can be interested in poly relationships, they value their freedom and have the Grass is greener syndrome.

Mars in the 5th House: Passionate in romantic pursuits, enjoys thrilling, playful love affairs. A lot people with this placement are serial daters.

Venus Square Pluto: Experiences intense, transformative relationships with potential for power struggles and deep emotional connections.They can become possessive in love, they give me Pearl(Mia Goth) Vibe or Love in You. They need people to match their freak tbh.

Neptune in the 7th House: A LOT OF IDEALISATION, they seek spiritual connections but must guard against unrealistic expectations in love. They can be lost in a relationship and not seeing things clearly, wich can lead to manipulation.

Venus Sextile Mars: There is a balance between love and desire, expressing passion with respect and consideration in relationships. not as strong as a conjunction but a sweet aspect.

Saturn Return: you will know nothing until you pass your saturn return, this period can be though but it will help you define the next 30 years of your life, what can be done to more true to your life path.

[regallibellbright]

[ID: A twitter post by Lebbertoxd @InsaneLetterbox reading: “You have an Avatar-sized budget to adapt ONE (capitalized) video game into a movie. What game are you adapting?” End ID]

yoinking this from twitter cause i want to hear yalls opinions!