#i miss my innocence

[st4rrstunned]

damn it!! im listening to mitski again!!!!! im crying again!!!!!!!!! everything is falling apart again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[parlerenfleurs]

It is sometimes almost unbearable to watch old media and see how the women are written. Some characters (and then, only some of the time usually) are pleasantly almost better written than one would hope for, but sometimes. Oh my god. Sometimes. The hero tries to help a group of refugees off of his spaceship and gets them to their destination on a pretty much empty planet, and then the young, pretty woman (who has three kids, mind you) among them immediately decides to go and sabotage the hero's ship to force him to stay with her, something that would warrant at least some anger, but certainly also a punch if she were a man, but since she's ~a girl~ no. She just gets to act this way with no social consequence. She says she doesn't love her companion (who asked you to???) and doesn't want the hero to leave her here alone (not his problem?????). She gets lectured by her companion (not a lover or family, just a guy she was escaping with but who somehow acts like he's in charge of her, and so does she) like an unruly child, as he tells her that the hero saved them and then she goes and does something like this to him (which, yeah!! Precisely! You'd think an adult woman wouldn't recklessly do this and expect the hero would then trust and love her and yet!! Apparently this is not a deal-breaker in and of itself since she actually ends up with this guy companion!). Then her kids comfort her (what the fuck??).

Anyway, I've seen the worst Battlestar Galactica series (the old one) episode yet, and this damn character was only one of my grievances with it, but uurggh I can't stand how they write women sometimes, I really can't.

For instance I hate how a weird guy who is obviously sus as hell enters the plot, and of course a woman will immediately be seduced/influenced by him even if he's twice her age and not appealing at all.

[iinsomaniac]

love how the moment ao3 goes down we all start acting like housewives waiting for their husbands to come back from war

[perfectionistchaos]

Woke up at 3 am

I was crying, tears on my face

Its a relief i still have emotions.

[blue-velvet-valentina]

Imagine falling asleep next to someone and not being afraid that you might be assaulted in your sleep. I would really enjoy that.

[jupiters-shortest-martian]

https://uquiz.com/quiz/DWh3dL/fanfic-purity-test

so i got 95%.....

[yaun21]

WOW Malevolent is stressing me out

[wasyago]

they have so many belts....

[arcticclimes]

Bonus:

[mangoisgay]

Anyone else notice how Eddie’s place is the only one not decorated? Just food for thought

[nell0-0]

It's been some time since I drew anything for this AU, I missed it ^^

Closer look below the cut!

[lgbtlunaverse]

While rereading mdzs I am once again shocked by how talked about the "you were the only mistake he ever made" line from Lan Xichen to Wei Wuxian is and how heated it gets some people because honestly... I don't think he actually even believes that.

Stay with me. Look at the actual line. (I Included 2 translations for comparison's sake)

Firstly, yes he is mad at Wei Wuxian in this scene. But his biggest moment of anger was actually before this. By this point he's realized that Wei Wuxian forgot what happened after nightless city (and therefore ISN'T stringing along his baby brother on purpose) so he has in fact calmed down a bit.

Secondly, notice that he starts by talking about how his uncle felt. This is not Lan Xichen making a value statement about what he thinks. When he says Lan Wangji was proper and righteous he is talking about him being a model lan, he's talking about their family and clan's perspective of Wangji. Indeed, in their eyes, Wei Wuxian is the only time Lan Wangji was ever not the textbook perfect Lan.

Thirdly, what is Lan Xichen trying to say here? What is he mad at Wei Wuxian for? It's that he doesn't know Lan Wangji is in love with him. His anger is eased by realizing Wei Wuxian doesn't remember the very blatant confessions lwj made in the cave after nightless city, or Lan Wangji fighting his own clan elders for Wei Wuxian, and so had no way of knowing the whipmarks on Lan Wangji's back were related to him. But he is still mad, he still thinks Wei Wuxian should have been able to figure it out. So what does he highlight?

The fact that the only thing Lan Wangji, perfect model-Lan righteous Lan Wangji, ever defies his clan for is Wei Wuxian.

And Wei Wuxian has seen him do this! Even if he doesn't remember this one instance. Because Lan Wangji has been doing that the whole story through. Wei Wuxian has watched Lan Wangji blatantly stand against the entire cultivation world for him, and here Lan Xichen is highlighting just how unusual that is, how much Wei Wuxian must mean to Lan Wangji that he's willing to do that. The important part of the sentence here is not "mistake" it's "only."

Lan Xichen here isn't trying to say that he disapproves of Wei Wuxian, or telling him to stay away from his brother. Remember, the thing that made him mad in the first place was Wei Wuxian saying that he and Lan Wangji slept in seperate rooms. He thought they were together! He's mad because they're not!

At no point does Lan Xichen say he individually considers Lan Wangji's feelings for Wei Wuxian a mistake. If he ever did, it's clear he accepted them regardless long ago. Mistake or not, what he wants is for his little brother to be happy.

[akai-anna]

@livmadart voice: he's like a bug

1 | 2 | 3 | 4

[biilodyfangs]

DAMN GIRL WE SEE EM

[retributory]

gx is so crazy how do you explain to someone with a surface-level understanding of what yugioh is that the series after dm features a hermaphroditic dragon-demon card spirit fusing their soul with the main character, who also has apparently been continually reincarnating for 100s of years with the card spirit's primary goal being to protect him, and when they embrace to fuse he says they shall never part again because they will forever and always from that point on be one jointed soul and body, and also he commits a borderline genocide against the card spirit race (???) and straight up kills some of his friends (they get better), and also there's a character who got his leg broken during an archeological dig and they replaced the broken bone with a dinosaur bone (???) and now he's like part dino and has fucking dino dna (?????????) and they send him to space as his dinosona to destroy a satellite that is about to destroy the earth (????????????), and also one of the teachers in the school (seto kaiba's duel school for dueling) is a homunculus and when he dies his soul (???) gets eaten by his cat and for the rest of the series he is living (?) inside of the cat's body, and also on top of all that theres a cool rival character as expected of a show targeted towards young boys who looks cool but in actuality he's lame as hell like he canonically stinks like shit cause he doesn't wash his clothes and he joins a cult and they get him out of the cult by reminding him that his real personality is being a rancid little stinky smelly bastard loser and no one likes him and he spends the entire series getting completely dunked on and also his main archetype is these things:

and then you have to concede that at the end of the day it is still an anime for a children's card game designed to sell the cards so if you ever try to explain the impact this had on your developing mind at 7 years old you'll sound sick

[tarantula-hawk-wasp]

Sacrificial Lamb

another little symbolism moment with my oc inquisitor maera modeled on 'innocence' by William Adolphe-Bougueraeu