#i knew she was a girl btw

[righteousdelusions]

i tried to watch the dub but nah. Like, I don't buy people think she's a boy in korean either, but listening a female voice in Spanish saying "i am a woman!" and not being believed really throws me off

[butterflysonnets]

yes i'm rooting for m*leven breakup because byler is neat but mostly? i'm rooting for m*leven breakup for the sake of el and mike.

to me, their romance was always a puppy love born out of a combination of social pressures, naïve curiosity, and a lack of true understanding regarding intimacy and romantic love and what it really is. it was real in that they do truly, deeply care about each other and they are close friends, maybe even shared an attraction, but a maturing romance is so much more than that. they've grown up and out of being boyfriend/girlfriend, and that's okay! i think television/film needs to show more often that most of us don't have definite "soulmates" or first childhood loves that we spend our whole lives with. it doesn't mean these relationships meant nothing and didn't impact us, it just means they've run their course and that something else is in the cards, and this is part of life!

i've always felt el was at her best and most confident self when broken up with mike, discovering who she was and what she liked alongside another girl her age instead of just relying on mike for mentorship on how to live in the real world. she deserves more of an opportunity to find herself, her autonomy, and her independence, and to love who she is, and she's made it clear she's felt insecure in the relationship with mike because she isn't being loved and understood the way she wants, needs, and deserves from someone who is her partner.

also, it's okay if mike doesn't love her in "the way he should". he is not obligated to love her romantically and stay in a relationship with her just because she's a girl, because she "needed someone", or because he cares about her a lot. he shouldn't be pressured into a romance if it's not truly coming from his heart. he deserves freedom to find out and honour who he is, too, instead of just staying in his non-functional first relationship — one he got into as a child, essentially — and defining himself that way because it's what's expected when a boy and a girl are close. he loves her in some way, yes, but it's okay if he doesn't feel comfortable or secure being her boyfriend anymore, for whatever reason that is. he's felt insecure too, and that's valid and it matters.

they are their own people and are steadily growing and changing every day. they need time to figure out who those people are, and it's become clear (at least in my opinion) that those people aren't meant to be a couple at this stage.

they deserve freedom. they deserve to grow up and be authentic to themselves and not feel like they need to lie for the sake of a relationship. they deserve to move on from this version of their relationship that isn't making them happy and rekindle the best part of their bond: their strong, beautiful friendship. they don't have to be a couple if it doesn't make them stronger and better and happier people.

i think it would be healthy and wonderful for a show, especially one consumed frequently by young adults, to show a relationship starting, progressing, and ending on good terms in this way. sometimes things don't work out, and that is okay.

[hauntingblue]

Rewatching act 2.... yeah ISHA WATCH OUT FOR THE CYCLE ISHA!!!!! NOOOOO

[valzhangism]

see i wonder how, if at all, frank being a girl would have affected the relationship with grandma zhang. would she have been even harsher on her granddaughter, knowing women have to work twice as hard, run twice as fast? held her to even higher impossible standards? or would she have seen her daughter, frank's mother, in her... and maybe been softer, more affectionate?

[yourlocalsewerdragon]

revisiting this site every now and then to reminisce in how much it shaped me as a person and defined me as a literal child

[literallymikewheeler]

if katniss everdeen has a million fans, i am one.

if katniss everdeen has 5 fans, i am one.

if katniss everdeen has 1 fan, that fan is me.

if katniss everdeen has 0 fans, i am dead.

if the world is against katniss everdeen, i am against the world.

[morganafayes]

the thing that bothers me most about the whole exile arc isn’t even that arthur exiles gwen necessarily (though i maintain that the way it was done was still absolutely unnecessarily cruel) but it's more so the way that the narrative presents it. like the narrative framing the writers chose to go with is essentially that what he's doing is wrong because WE, the audience, know that she didn't actually cheat - therefore he’s overreacting about something she didn't do. instead of it being that a) regardless of whether she cheated or not it would STILL BE WRONG for him to exile her even if she did - because she’s a commoner without status and a single woman being thrown out of the only home she’s ever known without provisions or a place to go on the pain of death, and that he’s abusing his power without realising it. (like what happened to all that about class equality... ok!!). and also that b) regardless of whether she cheated she would still be sympathetic and that one mistake doesn't define you and that relationships are messy and people have flaws. idk it is just so ridiculous to me that she’s not allowed to make even one mistake before he exiles her after all that talk about how he would give up his kingdom for her. its a choice!

like ultimately regardless of whether she did it or not. how he responded was still wrong and it really bothers me that that ENTIRE arc (which did nothing but traumatise her!!!!) is made to about arthur and him deciding to take his mistake back and realising he regrets it. like SHE GETS EXILED and somehow the story is still only interested in arthur…. like truly what the fuck. they just put her through trauma and then discarded it all without ever giving it the space it needed to be processed either by her or the audience. it’s the way her pain and trauma are just sooo constantly sidelined by the show's narrative in order to better serve arthur and his 'character development' or whatever. im just so done !

[xxplastic-cubexx]

s4 xmen evo charles stronger than me cause i could not imagine my evil ex husband who i still have feelings for being sent to the color dimension in the wake of an ancient evil being Awakened one week and then The Entire David Situation Happening the next like truly he gets kudos for Not deliberately confronting apocalypse earlier and getting himself sent to the color dimension

[walterdecourceys]

shoutout to that time i told my bible survey teacher that it was a fairly common interpretation that moses had some kind of speech impediment and she 1) had somehow never heard this before and 2) straight-up did not believe me

[uncaught-coolfish]

a medal for every time I win in this bitch

[comfied-chriterature]

college prompt for anhane week had me wanting to share this SO college anhane au where they are bad at communicating and break up and go their separate ways after the events of vbs. BUT then they reunite in college and go on their exes to lovers journey with a lot of bitter feelings and fear of abandonment and admiration intertwined with jealousy and inadequacy.

I think it's one of those cases where kohane leaves after they "over rad" to pursue a career in singing (the same way nagi left an. the same way everyone will part and an will be alone again.) an is unable to articulate how much she'll miss kohane and how she fears she'll never be on the same path as her bc kohane is the brilliant star and an still doesn't have a name for herself outside of her relation to talent lionized by the public (at least that's what she thinks). kohane knows something is wrong with her an but can't get her to tell anything, and she feels hurt that an isn't supportive of her, even after trying so hard to prove herself to the girl who found her in the first place.

their partnership that used to taste like bright, sweet fruit and smell like the blossoming of trees has rotted and decayed and the grime still clings to them after all this time apart.

years later, an and kohane meet again in college (maybe the singing career didn't work out for kohane or she's taking a break). they can't help but be drawn into each other's orbit again, yearning for the moments of hopeful words and warm touch in the quiet glow of sunset. it takes a lot of inner reflection and help from exhausted friends to rediscover that passion from their youth and encourage them to not give up on their dreams, or each other.

[roseband]

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[quatregats]

Okay hear me out. What if Hornblower and Lady Barbara but they're high school math olympians and also have a crazy psychosexual rivalry with each other

[cosmicrhetoric]

i know there's like other things happening in this scene but did hancock seriously put up a giant poster of luffy on the front of kuja palace. down bad queen of all time <33

[skid-the-mighty-poet]

[klutzytomb]

Sometimes I remember the people I’ve met irl over the years and I’m just like. Oh. Wow. I have odd taste when it comes to the people I choose to be around