#i say inadvertent

[juanabaloo]

BTVS inadvertently trans-ish canon quotes:

So, Ampata. You're a girl. Yes. For many years now.

(part 1 / ?) from 2x04 Inca Mummy Girl

[guardian-angle22]

This or That: Tarlos Edition -> Babe or Baby

[casualavocados]

Learn from who? Learn from you?

Chen Bowen as CHEN YI & Chiang Tien as AI DI KISEKI: DEAR TO ME (2023)

[kindaorangey]

something fucked up about english (speaking from a british english experience; idk if this applies to american english) is the tendency to use so many qualifiers that your meaning becomes almost incomprehensible/inverts.

things like "i would agree", meaning "i agree", rather than "i would agree, if it weren't for xyz..."

and "i tend to prefer", meaning "i prefer", rather than "i tend to prefer this thing, but in this instance i don't"

another example would be something like "i like a brighter blue", meaning "the brightness of this blue is to my liking", and not "i wish this blue was brighter".

idk. i think a lot about language and the stupid complexities of english and this one has been on my mind recently.

[corvus-frugilegus]

Illario's grab for power is so emotionally complicated I can't stop thinking about it.

Like there's the favouritism and the loneliness and the need for love and connection that I think the title has come to represent. Because favour is maybe as close as the Dellamortes come to talking about love.

(Love is still there, it's fucked up and twisted in a lot of ways but it's there. It's hard for any of the Dellamortes to acknowledge this. But they're family and that means something to all three of them. Family is important to them).

But also for so much of his life Illario hasn't had very much power or agency either. He doesn't get to make big decisions for himself much like Lucanis, he doesn't have a lot of influence on the trajectory of his life because of Caterina's influence. Lucanis is the favourite. In that family dynamic Illario probably has the least power of the three of them.

So taking the reins of his own life and cutting that deal with Zara? The cost of losing Lucanis breaks his heart, but for the first time he's the one deciding the terms in which he lives his life in a big and meaningful way. It's not just small rebellions. It's reaching for what he wants and for once in his life feeling like he's the one in control. He's the one with the power.

And honestly? I can't fault him for wanting that. For not wanting to feel like he's at the bottom of the Dellamorte barrel anymore. For wanting his life to mean something, if only to himself. He isn't wrong to reach for power. There's nothing wrong with wanting to change the imbalance he's lived in.

It's the hubris of it that sets him up to fall into Elgar'nan's hands. Lucanis is back. But Illario can't go back. Illario can't give up what he's sacrificed so much for. Can't go back to being Dellamorte the lesser with no say in his own future. So, of course he doubles down, kidnaps Caterina, and makes a deal with Elgar'nan- the way he sees it he's backed into a corner and has no one but himself. And at this point in the story he's not wrong. He has no idea what Lucanis has become (Other than not dead! Which was the plan!)

It's interesting to me how what I think is Illario's own desire to live on his own terms is... In a very horrible way the thing that ultimately leads to Lucanis also beginning to ask what it means to live on his own terms too.

Having Lucanis killed was heartbreaking and terrible. But it's also the very thing that breaks the cycle the three Dellamortes are living in. Illario is the one who, in a way, decides that what the three of them are doing is unacceptable and starts them on a new path for the first time in roughly 30 years.

Illario having the ambition to reach for what he wants, is what sets both cousins free from a long-standing cycle of abuse. It's just also a profoundly twisted and cruel process.

[skitskatdacat63]

Vettonso complaining about each other not respecting schrondinger's track limits on the radio compilation + Seb's commentary that made me a bit feral

Must include these sexy ass pics okay, it makes me feral how hard they race each other.

Also SO upset that we got this vid and there's also pictures(and presumably a vid out there somewhere) of Fernando, back then, ALSO debriefing this race. And yet we never got them together?????? Evil. Fucked up.

Imagine seeing them complaining about each other but also having to (begrudgingly if you're Fernando) compliment each other IN FRONT of each other. Maybe its a good thing it doesn't exist, bcs then I'd have a heart attack.

[starry-bi-sky]

pouring one out for luo binghe in my disciple SQQ fic, poor guy has taken a backseat here. we're nearly 30k words deep and he hasn't even shown his face once. it'll be much longer before he even actually talks to Shen Qingqiu.

(i say im pouring one out but in reality im sitting in my director's chair chewing on a cigar and wearing a beret as he tearily and unsuccessfully pleads with me for more scenes with Shen Qingqiu)

[volvosandvampires]

If you’re sensing a theme to my posts, I have no idea what you mean 👀

[ofswordsandpens]

I'm sincerely very happy for anyone who is enjoying the show but every time I see takes that the show has improved the book characterizations or that the book characters are underdeveloped in comparison to the show...

[rottenapplefae]

tried my hand at the disney style because the illusion of an animated series of Willow helps me cope

[front-facing-pokemon]

[oroniel]

Since everyone seems to be in some kind of uproar (again?) about Celeborn, I just want to say that I think Galadriel can have as many husbands as she wants.

I am so interested in Galadriel's dynamic with Sauron, and I'm so supportive of Galadriel having a lovely Sindar prince husband who takes care of things at home, does diplomatic stuff when necessary, and generally supports his wife's ambitions.

I'm also interested in the sometimes weird undertones to Galadriel's marriage to Celeborn, and to the implications of fighting so hard against something that your relationship to that thing becomes an intrinsic part of your identity, often to the detriment of your relationships to those you love.

I don't see why people being interested in Celeborn and Galadriel and people being interested in Sauron and Galadriel needs to be framed as mutually exclusive.

[discoonthegrass]

They were so insane for this honestly

[hozukitofu]

idk what's weirder for iruka: konohamaru becoming a jounin sensei or shino becoming an academy teacher and both of them are his colleagues now instead of former students. one is a reformed prankster carbon copy of naruto and one spoke maybe four words to him during the entire time he knew the kid. imagine running into them in the staff room. i would need to leave immediately.

they also refuse to call him without honorifics or if this is a modern AU - mr umino/sir/sensei. iruka tries so hard to make them comfortable and feeling like they're his colleagues, to no avail. they got as far as 'iruka-sensei' and then promptly faltered.

all the little students look up to iruka as a superhero. their teacher's teacher. none of that silliness where they don't respect him - his disappointed face is lethal

[louisaguy]

it’s so frustrating when you see a post that you totally agree with and then you get to the end and OP is like “so that’s why im smart and everyone else is stupid” and it’s like well. i was with you up until now but now i don’t want to engage with this.

[daily-hanamura]