#gonna flip my shit

[dirtytransmasc]

mild rant, cause hotd TikTok is insufferable.

so I saw an edit, with the scene of Viserys on his death bed, calling Rhaenyra his only child...

these were some of the comments...

how dense do people have to be to say this shit, as if the abuse/neglect Aegon, Helaena, Aemond (and Dearon) faced, is the reason they are the way that they are????

aegon turned to his cups so young because he had to face the fact that his father didn't love him, his mother had... complicated feelings towards him (he was her first, born of marital rape that destroyed her life and childhood, and she loved him no doubt, but part of her hated what he represented in her life. all of which is Viserys and Otto's fault). not to mention the abuse he faced from Viserys and Otto (focus on Otto, cause he did what he wanted, since Viserys wasn't around enough to thoroughly abuse his son himself and wouldn't punish Otto for doing so). his drinking and need to self destruct to escape a life he doesn't want, turned him into the destructive, drunken bastard he is.

aemond was permanently maimed, an injury that very well could have killed him or hindered him greatly in life, and was ignored by his father, who then supported such an obvious lie instead of protecting his own son (aka, treating the greens and the blacks as equals and not playing favorites, they're aren't asking for miracles they asking for bare minimum). he suffered so greatly and his father couldn't give less of a shit. so on top of everything else, he had this anger boiling in his chest for years and years, stoked by his father's willing negligence. not to mention the fear it cause his mother (who was being manipulated by Otto) that Rhaenyra truly was a threat to his livelihood, which only targeted his anger.

Helaena, on a direct/surface level, was the best off, in terms of her father, but the ripple effect he caused on her life and those around her caused her to be married to her brother, who she didn't love, who didn't live her, and brought her suffering to some degree. it was the war Viserys practically created (tell me he didn't, I dare you) that sent her to madness (amongst other things *ahem* blood and cheese).

like, this man destroyed his children, directly or not, everything he did broke them down and apart, until he died, leaving them with a war that would end them all. his actions made them (Aegon and Aemond) into the people they were, but of course, that doesn't matter, apparently.

[gunsatthaphan]

uhm wdym my 2020 otp secretly filmed a BL in Japan and didn’t tell me about it???!!?????!

[shima-draws]

S. So I saw this figure of Gear 5 Luffy online that also had a built in lamp so I. I bought him and I finally got him in the mail and

HE’S BOOTIFUL….

[bull-shit-suji]

actually no i need to talk about the green witch arc. ciel and his band of merry fools go to germany and learn that this forest is haunted by WEREWOLVES and in it is a village full of WITCHES with cursed amulets and potions and whatever

and the immediate vibe is "lol what a bunch of bogus" which is really just batshit coming from the kid with a demon butler

and then woah big reveal! it wasn't werewolves or witches it was a covert military operation REPLETE with radar tracking (not a thing until wwii) and electronic displays (most likely crt screens, which again weren't fully developed until the 1930s) and TANKS. for reference the first "tank" was put together by a guy in 1899 who mounted a machine gun to THIS

absolute paragon of engineering. the panzer (the exact model of tank in the arc) was not a thing until wwi.

and. and ciel and ESPECIALLY the Demon Butler in question are like. ohhhh yeah that makes more sense. the amulets were just transmitting our exact locations through technology that won't exist for another three decades. whew glad we sorted that one out. man wouldn't it have been CRAZY if it really was werewolves.

[allastoredeer]

And here is Vaggie questioning her entire life.

[dykedvonte]

Mini rant below and in the tags, the only time I’ll talk about this and my personal take on it.

The way people talk about hypothetical male Anya on Twitter and the idea of how Mouthwashing would play out if the genders were swapped makes me remember how people still don’t take sexual assault and rape with male victims with the same gravity, especially when the perpetrator is female.

[circusclownproductions]

I hope every arcane fan who posts something like “omg jinx showed symptoms of bpd and schizophrenia when she was still powder so she was always doomed to be a bad person 😱” dies one million terrible deaths especially after the alternate universe episode where she’s obviously still struggling but doing better since she has a better support system. Jinx showed symptoms when she was powder so she was always doomed to have her divergency taken advantage of and have her life turned into one big episode/spiral

[littleguy-pi]

ehhhh???? Something about Ethan Hawke’s face is IMPOSSIBLE for me to draw right so I’ve been trying to study him. Here’s some Todds I guess?? (and a Neil I used to hide an ugly drawing bc RSL is incredibly easy to short hand (just add the cheekbones and eyebrows then he’s done))

[twinknote]

i’ve made a terrible mistake. i recently got an emulator to play animal crossing on my phone (which is great). but i accidentally left the app open on my phone earlier and it closed the game. and part of my childhood lore is that i was an Extremely nervous and easily frightened child and i was Terrified of mr. resetti. having him pop up out of the ground and berate me for closing the game without saving was like the world’s worst jumpscare to me, to the point where i would have Nightmares about that stupid little mole man. i know i am an Adult Man who needs to just get it over with so i can play my silly little game but God at what cost

[khali-pap]

I have some horrendous ass psychosis and unfortunately my trigger for that is very unavoidable, but a weird thing has been helping me that the moment a delusion, hallucination, or whatever dawns on me, I immediately imagine Ganondorf repeatedly in my mind, but not like Ganondorf as is but like specifically THIS png of Ganondorf and it pops up like those ERROR.EXE tabs that overlap a bunch with that ding-ring-ring-ring sound when your computer crashes, especially old windows, except it's Ganondorf repeatedly and me repeating that name in my head

It weirdly helps so thoroughly and makes my mind clear, but I find it so strange, sure I could imagine him in any other way but it is ALWAYS THIS.

[syrupyyyart]

I wish I wasn't such a flip flop!!! AAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

On an unrelated noted, I read back the few chapters of Motley I made initially and liked them more than I remember. Aaaaiarugh.

[mayapapaya33]

A Game of You/ Brief Lives

I'm seeing some people complain about Thessaly in such a way where it implies that they think the narrative likes her? Guys, she sucks on purpose lol. I am begging all of you to pay attention in English/Lit class more often. Wanda is clearly the hero of the story, everyone treating her badly are dicks, it could not be more clear. I love Wanda so much. Thessaly should die in a fire lmfao. (the parallels between her and Esther from Dead Boy Detectives are fascinating, I wonder if they ever met?) All the people giving Wanda shit are wrong; Thessaly, The Animated Severed Face on the Wall, the Moon Goddess, her family, etc.

Death, the most level headed, kind, compassionate character in all of Sandman is on Wanda's side. It's generally bad form to read the author's personal stance from one particular character, but Death is as close to a stand in for Neil Gaiman's personal opinion as we are ever going to see in a story as far as I can tell. She is always who he gives the final say to in terms of morality over every other character, very much including Dream. (We also got Barbie being a ride or die, and the disaster lesbian neighbors Hazel and Foxglove being confused but supportive, and the homeless lady Wanda helped talking about her grandson being like Wanda and how dumb it was that people were so cruel and just because some people are different it doesn't make them bad.) Go read it again.

Neil Gaiman literally talked to his Trans friends about their lives and the stuff that was happening to them and then put it in his comic in 1989! I repeat, 1989! (through to 1996). No, the terms and language aren't all going to match up to 2024, Think, please, I beg of you. He wrote Desire as non binary before that was really a thing "Well why didn't he just use They/Them" IT WAS 1989 PEOPLE!!!!!! (the concept obviously has existed for longer, I'm talking specifically about language trends).

(Characters in stories doing or saying bad things to other Characters does not make the Story Itself racist/ sexist/ homophobic/ transphobic/ etc).

I've also seen people talking about Thessaly and Dream dating, again Dream is making poor life choices, as per usual! I think he was initially attracted by her audacity and strength, and her longevity. Him sulking Byronically and inconveniently in the rain he himself creates to be more moody and Goth about being dumped is meant to contrast sharply with the scene after You Know What happens at the end of Brief Lives. He returns home to the Castle and quietly walks through the corridors, being polite and kind to everyone (freaking them out a bit in the process), he slowly washes the blood off his hands, and collapses into a chair to mourn deeply in solitude and silence. No more drama, no more rain, no more epic windswept shots of him staring pensively into the distance, just true sadness. It's almost like his earlier performance about being upset by Thessaly's absence doesn't actually matter that much in the face of true tragedy.

The first is shallow and dramatic, He's the Prince of Stories, he falls in love at the drop of a hat, but he's bad at maintaining relationships. The Drama is inherent to his being. He IS stories. But in the second situation it's more real, he's more real. The Grief is too much to bear turning it into a story. Dream is being forced to face harsh Reality. After all, like Dream said, stories are how we keep ourselves alive, "If you rob them of their Dreams, if you take away their hope, then yes, this is the truth of Mankind." Perhaps it's also the Truth of the Collective Unconsciousness of Mankind? His path forward was set from that moment on.

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

Vriska: Terezi, I cant help 8ut notice that the chocol8 chips cookies you 8rought to the potluck yesterday had 8ad vi8es.

Vriska: So I went through your ca8inets while you were sleeping and checked out the chocol8 chips you used. I mean they looked innocent on the surface, they were even fair trade certified.

Vriska: 8ut I just couldn't shake that itching sense that sometning was off.

Vriska: I infiltr8d the chocol8 company's headquarters 8y posing as IT support. and you know what I found?

Vriska: The guy who designed the la8els got a dui in 2007. So it turns out my instincts were right and you're a terri8le person.

[chopshajen]

2-5.

I am obsessed with the Trickster and will be for another billion years cuz I got to see the show again 💫 I doodled this on the plane on the way back, and as I am locked in an unending battle with the stupid nontraditional cut of the Trickster’s suit, it took some futzing before I liked it enough to post but here we gooooo

[moe-broey]

Fuck that shit I made cuffs instead 😒😒😒😤😤😤😤😤

[louisisalarrie]

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