#i have a lot of faith in this show

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Lecture tips: Be naked and wet for the most convincing rhetoric.

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[wolves-in-the-world]

the thing about eliot spencer as a character, right. the thing about him.

(and as always your mileage may vary on my analyses so if we disagree that's cool actually)

is that he is in fact a somewhat emotionally constipated idiot who is occasionally sensitive about his perceived masculinity and gets defensive about emotional intimacy around other men (largely hardison, who's much more comfortable expressing affection and embracing a softer kind of masculinity), but eliot displays enough emotional awareness and sensitivity and respect for women etc etc that anyone who's been subjected to that era of television will put on rose-tinted glasses without even looking twice.

(and he is, don't get me wrong, incredibly emotionally aware for a professionally punchy guy with enough trauma to sink the titanic. it still startles me to see.)

on top of which we have the layers and the accessories and the excellent hair with the secret braids and the way he barely has an ego and he's good with kids and protective of his team without taking it too far, and some of us never stood a fucking chance.

[hballegro]

whats that im done with my art backlog NO IM NOT!!! JOHN FAITH CONTENT!!

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HERES MY PHONE LOCK SCREEN FOR A YEAR [EXCEPT DURING CHRISTMAS WHEN I CHANGED IT TO SOMETHING ELSE BECAUSE MY BABY COUSIN KEPT PEEKING OVER MY SHOULDER AND I DIDNT WANNA SCARE HER] (and its the most recent piece of done of FAITH)

here is my first ever piece of faith, in theme with the nick valentine post;

and lastly, here is the first ever GIF ive made, by hand, in gimp

[hadesknockedupintheunderworld]

Me after finishing S1 of Dungeon Meshi: Yeah honestly that was pretty cool. A+ for the chimera Falin thing. All in all this is the kind of thing I can watch whenever an episode drops. The cooking with the hint of insanity/action

Me after reading the Dungeon Meshi manga: First of all, this manga is everything and I'm so glad it got even more "insane" as one might put it. That last arc is chef's kiss. Second of all, I understand why the people said the anime onlies aren't ready for what's coming. They're not.

[scumvillainess]

honestly i never really agreed with the popular shen qingqiu had a good shizun headcanon because if shen qingqiu actually had someone who he knew cared about him, he definitely wouldn’t have turned out the way he did in canon.

[bookishjules]

do you think annabeth gave percy the side of the oreo with more or less creme when they were in the zoo transport?

[vvitchering]

I think maybe everyone should cool it with the “weird cult” comments regarding the covert, honestly. It wasn’t that funny to begin with but now that it’s the popular describer it’s starting to become a little uncomfy. No one is forced to join, no one is forced to stay. There’s a ton of parallels between them and real world cultures and religions and I just think MAYBE we need to be a little more aware of what message we’re sending when we say “haha that group of people who are in hiding because their lives were/are at stake and who practice anonymity to survive and follow certain rules that I don’t personally understand or like are a weird cult”.

[lulu-the-bugaboo]

I love Dragon so damn much

[moregraceful]

max and i are closing in on launching [redacted sports rpf charity fest] and i am once again pondering how do i write "experience with writing form emails and manipulating google forms in ways no one has dreamed of" in a cover letter without saying "i did it for the rpf grind"...like there's no way unless everyone in this microsoft teams meeting gets really cool about a bunch of stuff really quickly. you know

[cookinguptales]

oh did paul simms say something wildly homophobic about wwdits and/or nandermo again?

this is totally shocking and not at all part of the reason why I switched to writing original monsterfucking fic instead.

[vulpinesaint]

insane one-liner to drop. imagine the world if instead of a magic venom suit eddie brock used that dream stone to put himself in magic therapy

[newvegascowboy]

Ok. Look. I can understand why people come away from Honest Hearts thinking it was "fine" and that Joshua Graham was a fine deuteragonist and that he had a fine redemption arc. Maybe Honest Hearts wasn't a shining jewel in the crown of fallout new vegas like some other DLCs, but it was "fine".

The narrative in HH presents all these things as being true. If you're doing a surface level analysis of the game, you look at what they tell you and you see that Joshua has changed his ways, left the legion, and is helping a tribe defend themselves and you think, oh, cool. He sounds great. He even has a cool animation and a cool voice, and he says cool things. Good Guy.

This is supported by the game itself. Joshua is listed in the wiki as having good karma, for God's sake! None of the characters have anything bad to say about him, except for Caesar, who we have already established as a Bad Guy.

When people come away from Honest Hearts thinking Joshua is a redeemed hero and the DLC was fine, i fucking get it. The problem comes in when your analysis stops at the surface/in game level.

Because the narrative itself presents Joshua as the redeemed hero, you have to begin to assume that the problematic aspects of the DLC come from a metatextual level, and if you are (usually!) White person, this tends not to clue in until later. (And for transparencies sake, i am also a white person so i am by no means trying to present myself as an authoritative figure on why HH sucks ass). White fans may have no desire to examine HH at a metatextual level because the racism baked into the DLC just flies under their radar. For them, the DLC was fine. This is the very definition of privilege.

Fallout has had a racism problem since the beginning. The writers of the DLC wrote a racist narrative because of their own unexamined biases. Joshua Graham is not a redeemed hero, he (and Daniel) are propping themselves up as white saviors. He is doing exactly what he did in the Legion. The game caves to the "noble savage" stereotype and has them speaking in broken english. Once you realize that, it becomes very very hard to analyze HH outside of that perspective. When indigenous fans plainly tell you what's wrong with HH, it is no longer up to you to argue.

If you like HH, then like, fine. If you think Joshua Graham is cool then whatever. But trying to claim that Honest Hearts is what it isn't is just annoying at best and irresponsible at worst. Acknowledging why something is bad is better than getting uncomfortable and refusing to engage with the problematic aspects of the game because it makes you uncomfortable.

[love-songs-for-emma]

im actually amazed i cant find this;

SPN FRIENDS HII

do any of u know where i could find a gif of dean saying the iconic quote of "You know who wears sunglasses inside? Blind people. And douchebags." from s9 e5 "dog dean afternoon"

i SWEAR i had it saved years ago but i cant find it. pls help. xoxo

[theamazingannie]

One thing I’ll never be able to understand about most PJO show haters is that, as much as I may criticize aspects of the show, my first reaction after finishing the finale was “gods I can’t wait until season 2”

[uselessnocturnal]

i just think- that maybe- perhaps- if i may dare say- please don’t come at me guns ablazing- the pacing for the pjo show could be improved

[g1ngerbeer]

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