#i will say it unashamedly

[did-we-imagine]

Tbh i like zutara but i think it s a writing problem more than a pairing issue.

I honestly don't even care whether she ended up with any of the guys in canon or not. The arc itself was 🤢🤮, and it's not her being wife of X that would have changed anything. It's the writers fucking up a feminine coded character because in their mind "nice maternal responsible girl becomes house waifu and career/achievements/relevance in society is ONLY linked to her marital/parental status now, she's standing on the sidelines supporting her "more important" husband 🤢." (This shit could have happened even with zutara if one does not know what they are writing !!)

Compare and contrast what they did with Toph who is more of a tomboy (she didn't get a great conclusion either but her badassery was still respected 70 years later).

In a similar vein, girls who fit neither role (not particularly caring/maternal nor specifically tomboyish/memorably powerful in a masculine~ish manner were completely left out : Suki, Ty Lee, Azula...) [PS: They are fucking powerful, but aside from maybe Azula and Kyosho, yeah nobody's overhyping them/summarizing them as a basically extremely OP powerhouse].

Nothing about Ka/taang precludes Katara being Chief of the SWT…

which is why it pisses me off even more that Katara didn’t get to have a role of any political importance whatsoever. It wouldn’t change anything about LOK’s storyline, and it would be fully in line with her character.

There’s a common anti-Zutara argument that Katara wouldn’t want to be Fire Lady, because she would want to rebuild and lead her own culture. I am sympathetic to that. Based on her canon characteristics, she might want to be a United Republic Councilwoman, Chief of the SWT, or just generally the Waterbending Master / Matriarch of the her tribe, which would be easier (though not impossible) if she weren’t married to the sovereign of another nation — I get that.

but the thing is…she didn’t get to do any of that, even though “wife of the Avatar” doesn’t contradict those roles. All the things that would be difficult for her to do if she were married to Zuko, she still didn’t get to do as Aang’s wife. She didn’t get to have a career the way her husband, or her brother, or her friends did.

so it’s extra hypocritical when Ka/taang shippers are like “but being Fire Lady would disempower Katara!” when Ka/taang canonically disempowered her! And KA fans are fine with that: they bend over backwards to justify why Katara doesn’t have a statue, or why she wasn’t there to protect Korra from the Red Lotus, or why she wasn’t at Yakone’s bloodbending trial. Yeah she got to live in the SWT — eventually, I assume, because in the comics she just follows Aang around — but what else did she get to do? Fucking nothing, apparently. Because to some people, the greatest honour for a woman is to be the hero’s wife.

[blossoms-phan]

many people are afraid to be real lovers. dan and phil are not

[a-spacecadet]

Topher plays guitar!

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(Not really, his uncle just gave it to him)

[i-cast-zone-of-truth]

Everyone who says Wen Xiao and Zhuo Yichen each offer a different and balancing kind of love to Zhao Yuanzhou is so right. I raise you: the Li Lun we saw at the end offered a third different balancing kind of love! Comforting/peaceful + challenging/unflinching + unashamed/empowering!!!

[aggressively-selfships]

Okie sooo I highly recommend making/buying a piece of jewellery that represent your f/os. I made one for Helmut and I haven't taken it off and it feels like I have him with me🥺

[unicornsaures]

im so confused why i even listen to MSI because within the first 20 seconds of a song you will hear 4+ slurs, the whiniest vocals to exist, and some of the most out of pocket lyrics to cross the face of the planet all sung by the worst white man ever

[rodentblood]

bruhhh not the second top post in the king candy cybug tag being like 'umm dommy king candy is cringe don't draw that'

fuck off if people wanna give king candy/turbo abs and a chiseled jaw line and make him a dom fucking LET 'EM people online 'mischaracterizing' him isn't gonna hurt nobody and posts like that are just gonna turn people off from just having fun draw him dom, draw him bottom, draw him as an Egirl, draw him goth or pastel or as a fucked up evil bastard or uwu precious cinnamon roll who did nothing wrong, draw him being redeemable or irredeemable, draw him crusty and disgusting, draw him submissive and breedable

do whatever the hell you want

that's the fun shit about fanart and fandom as a whole you can do ANYTHING and don't let someone ruin your fun cause you're 'doing it wrong' cause there ain't no wrong or right way to have fun

and if you don't like someone's interpretation of a character? you feel like they're doing it wrong? first of all never tell them that, block them if you're that annoyed by it honestly then pick up your damn pencil/tablet pen/apple pencil/whatever and draw it your fucking self

[therainingkiwi]

Little details I noticed in the PJO TV show (episodes 5 & 6)

Hermes' keys have a little cadeuceus on the keychain. I wonder if it transforms into the full sized thing?

Sally probably read Percy the graphic novel version of the Odyssey, because graphic novels are much easier for dyslexic children to read!

At some point in his life, Percy has been to an orthodontist's office. So, either, sally has worked in an orthodontist's office at some point, or Percy has had braces. The former is much more likely, but the latter is WAY funnier. Does poor Percy have a palate expander in while the quest is going on????

The statue holding Ares' shield looks like a statue of Aphrodite (commonly depicted standing on/inside a giant shell, since she was born from seafoam).

Percy was told his dad would meet him in Santa Monica… but just like at the arch, it's not his dad meeting him. It's just an ocean spirit, one of Poseidon's representatives. Another disappointment from an absent father.

Speaking of that underwater scene in Santa Monica… Percy insists on continuing the quest, even though it's past the deadline. He does this specifically because he wants to find the master bolt. He DOES NOT do this to save his mom (and is even shocked when Poseidon gives him four pearls, so he can rescue his mom). Now that's what I call character development.

If Waterland is a water park, why does it have a ferris wheel? If it's not a water park, why is it called Waterland?

When the trio first meets Ares, Annabeth is actually the one who's hesitant to listen to him, and Percy is the one who eagerly agrees to his request. This is a really good way of showing how, after the incidents at the Arch, Percy has gained trust in the gods, while Annabeth is now much more wary of them.

I don't think I've ever been to (or even heard of) a diner that just PILES four cheeseburgers on top of each other rather than putting them all on their own separate plates.

Hermes is the god of thieves, who "exists beyond space and time." Annabeth pickpocketed him. I think this means that either Hermes let her pickpocket him, or that hat of invisibility is MUCH more powerful than we might think.

[supermarine-silvally]

if Yara had a pjo au, who would her godly parent be?

Athena, I think! Yara is very intelligent and places a lot of value on knowledge and wisdom, plus she's a skilled fighter with a strong sense of personal honour as a swordswoman. And has some of the more negative traits, too, like being quite stubborn and headstrong and always needing to be right about stuff lol

[wayward-sherlock]

chappell roan crying at the microphone during a show makes me want to kill someone actually.

[wraithsoutlaws]

you know i had a fun little vp idea i wanted to do for the cyberpunk anniversary but i haven't had the energy to even touch it recently so i'll just settle with saying that this game impacted me in ways i never thought it would when i first picked it up 3 years ago. i knew i would enjoy it, i had been looking forward to it for a long time, and despite a ~controversial~ launch, i had a fucking blast from day 1 (on ps4 no less). regardless of bugs and memes and public dunking, the story grabbed me like nothing else could at the time, and it reignited so much of my passion and motivation for art that i had lost in the clutches of mental illness and i'll always be grateful for that. it introduced me to so many wonderful people (some whom i carry very close to my heart), and maybe most personally surprising, it gave me an outlet to understand parts of myself that i had been too afraid to acknowledge for a long time, the courage to accept and embrace myself as non-binary, and allow myself to just BE without trying to convince myself i'm crazy. that's not what i expected from the get-go but it's been a really fun journey to be on ngl

[vero-niche]

now that i actually have some coherent thoughts too about episode 8 of buddy daddies can i just highlight. my absolute fave moment for a sec. when rei was sitting at the docks alone, Pondering It All™️ and i just knew kazuki would call him. then he brushes him off, sure. then i thought "man, wouldnt it be whacky if kazuki just showed up there haha" and. and then he did. reinforcing the implications that he's rei's true family. continuing to be there for rei when rei cant be there for himself. he straight up just drove there, faked an emergency to kick rei out of his slump and took him home. to his own birthday party. where they made his favourite foods. can you see why im going insane here

[mariocki]

Shadows of Fear: White Walls and Olive-Green Carpets (1.8, Thames, 1971)

"Often, a man wants a girl as long as he can't have her. Then, when he's free to marry her, he has second thoughts. He thinks he could do better for himself: no hurry, shop around. It happens."

"Just like that, huh?"

"People do what's best for themselves. I've been let down before now."

"Often?"

"No one ever did it more than once."

[zero-a]

people will go all "just be yourself and love yourself! :)" and then go "if you don't act the way i want, you gotta reprogram your entire way of thinking then reach into the very core of who you are and what makes you you, discard it, and replace it with this better, friendlier, more empathetic version that's coincidentally far more convenient for me to deal with than any other possible compromise we can make that you can do for me but doesn't stretch your mind to nothing but thin bands of what you'd consider 'You' :))))))"

[singsweetmelodies]

just wanted to say that your charlos tags on the notp post were a WHOLE ASS MOOD

like i can't deny the chemistry because i'd have a lifetime supply of smoothies from the level of 🍓🍊🍌🥝🍇 in those c2 videos. but i just cannot indulge in it whatsoever

i can't even point to a specific moment that turned me from 'oh they have a fun teammate dynamic!' to a full-blown hater ('hater' is a bit strong but close enough) but it must've been something to do with the fans...

anyways, just wanted to express my gratitude for those tags. nice to know that i'm not alone

darling anon!! thank you so much for this ask - and oh, bestie, you are definitely not alone. you are so not alone, and i am actually hugging you rn, because it's always fab to find someone who agrees with your ship opinion 👌 sorry to the charlos fans out there, but it just can't be for us. #rip

and that third paragraph of yours - ah, man, i feel you so much. i also used to genuinely enjoy their teammate dynamic a lot (loved watching the c2 challenges, etc etc.) and i also can't quite point to a specific moment when this changed? but i do know the general themes about it, and since i had an incredibly long exhausting day at work today, i'm quite in the mood to rant about them. i will do so under the cut, though, lmao, because goodness knows i'm in a petty mood tonight.

any and all passionate charlos or just carlos sainz fans - please do not click on the readmore, because i'm not going to be terribly nice to your fav here, i'm afraid 🙃

so for me, when i first got into f1, it wouldn't have been inaccurate to say that i kinda loved carlos sainz. i loved the carlando/mclaren videos, and i loved the c2 challenges. he's funny, and he's pretty, and he has a cute dog, and he drives for ferrari... what more could you want?

the thing is, though. i am a charles girlie first and foremost. even though i liked carlos, he was never on the same level as charles for me. especially not in terms of driving - because, well, just look at the start of the 2022 season. enough said.

what started getting to me was that group of passionate carlos fans (the carlos girlies) who seemed to seriously think that carlos is a better driver than charles. they would slander charles and call him an inconsistent/reckless driver, while saying carlos was so much better. obviously, this rubbed me up quite the wrong way. and then at the same time, i was seeing carlos on my screen giving interviews where he would insist that if he'd had a few more laps, he would have overtaken max's red bull. like... i'm sorry, but that was never going to happen. in any world. pffft. (my thoughts at this point went: arrogant! he thinks he's better than he actually is.)

so that got me to like carlos himself a little less, which obviously has an influence on the ship as a whole. i mean, it would be hard to like a ship if you only really like one of the two partners in it, right? right? this is what i've always thought, anyway... except that a lot of charlos shippers seem to like carlos a lot more than charles. which is to say: in so many of their fics/characterisations, it's all glorifying carlos, while charles is essentially his arm candy with all the character depth of a rather pretty paper cutout. less than ideal...

the last thing, and perhaps the pettiest of all, lmao, is just that i'm incredibly possessive and insane about piarles. i acknowledge it. in fact, i fully own it. they are my ship, and i want them and only them to be endgame, always. now, obviously i don't expect everyone to agree with me 😂😂 but i don't particularly want to be seeing any content on my dash that features charles/anyone other than pierre as an endgame ship. and charlos usually is portrayed as an endgame ship/they're meant for each other etc. etc. well, sorry. to me, charles is meant for pierre, and pierre only. charlos is out. the end 🫶

[fortes-fortuna-iogurtum]

alright I have to say it--s3e3 of Miss Scarlet and the Duke was one of my favourite episodes so far. bringing in another character to play off Eliza and fill the position William would usually have in the narrative was really fun, because instead of once again sticking us in the endless cycle of their snark and tension, we actually got to see Eliza learning more about a new person and reacting accordingly. and also, I find Mr. Nash a genuinely fun character to watch, and I love the development of his... slightly-antagonistic-yet-hopeful semi-partnership semi-competition with Eliza?? I'm intrigued by his backstory and motivations now, too, and how they tie into why he's so captivated by Eliza. he sees something of a mirror in her, I think, but at the same time, she pushes him towards growth--both out of competition, to be better than her, and out of motivation, because she expects him to be better than he is and that makes him want to change.

anyway! I expected to be a bit disappointed at the absence of the Duke, but I actually enjoyed this chance for an entirely different dynamic. and I think a lot more character development for everyone can happen with those two separated, too. especially at this specific point in the series. (if I'm being fully honest, part of me wishes there would be more episodes with them separated, so they can have a chance to truly grow on their own. I think that would have a lot more benefit for them as individuals and on their relationship together than constantly being around one another and doing the equivalent of raking their nails across each other's freshly-scabbed-over wounds every. single. day. does)