#i will never claim he's perfect

[heretherebedork]

In Be My Favorite, I just can't with how everybody thinks that Pisaeng is absolutely perfect and Kawi is the only one with problems. Like, Pisaeng ALSO has so many problematic characteristics! (And so I'm sorry because this is sooo long!!)

Pisaeng's negative trait of being conflict-averse and not taking action until he either gets a mighty kick in the butt or it's actually already too late and he's standing at the altar led to many problems, especially in the original timeline.

2. This negative quality of Pisaeng is very well reflected in the original timeline and has led to, among other things: (A) That Pisaeng never approached Kawi and shared his feelings for him, (B) that he never sought a conversation with Kawi to clear up the misunderstanding at the Buddy Story, (C) that he never (officially) came out, (D) that he never had the clarifying conversation with Pear and (E) on top of that marries her (because he probably also wanted to avoid a conflict with Pear here, which doesn't sound so unlikely after episode 7).

3. In another timeline, Pisaeng accuses Kawi of why Kawi didn't realize he had feelings for him for over 10 years. Whereby I wondered how Kawi should know that, because Pisaeng wasn't completely honest with Kawi in this timeline either and sent him completely different signals here, too, by being about to marry Pear. I can understand Kawi, who was completely perplexed and surprised at first.

4. Kawi didn't know about Pisaeng's feelings for him in the original timeline, the feelings which started much earlier than we assume in the first episodes, and Kawi only learned about it in timelines three/four, (from his point of view, the encroaching kiss from Pisaeng at the end of the episode).

He just cowers away from conflict so much, until everything is about fall apart (sometimes even after everything has fallen apart, he says nothing.)

No one is perfect and, frankly, no character needs to be perfect.

Sometimes, they just need to be likeable.

Added because I can't give short answers

Look, Piseang is conflict avoidant and learns better and starts standing up for himself and coming out and finding Kawi and confessing to him and taking to Max.

He is not perfect and I definitely prefer him that way. Perfect is boring, see Pob from Don't Say No who genuinely was perfect.

Piseang is plenty flawed but he is flawed in a way that is answered by visible growth that takes time but is seen again and again and becomes increasingly more selfless.

Did he literally assault Kawi in a timberline that no longer exists? Yes. But we've also seen how that future will never happen now because his choices and growth keep in going the more time he spends around better people.

Now, why he would never have spoken to Kawi in the original timeline makes the most sense since he did so exactly what he said he would which was wait for Kawi to tell him what he wanted and then stepped in to save him all without ever speaking to him and, honestly, probably had no idea how much any of that meant to Kawi since they never spoke.

But yeah. Piseang isn't perfect and I like that about him.

Only Max is perfect.

[incesthemes]

"their relationship is romantic" "their relationship is familial" "their relationship is platonic" you're thinking too narrow. their relationship goes beyond labels. the family is inherently queer. their platonic love is romantic. the erotic is familial. each one is the other and the other is them

[oh-no-its-bird]

I have an idea for a sort of silly light novel writing project I'll probably never actually write but is fun to just think about

But like. Cultivator set up, wuxia world w a slight blending of different cultivation genres, a guy wakes up in a forest with amnesia. (Wow classic I know)

So the first few chapters he's hearing about all these big famous people who have gone missing over the years, right? And he (along with probably the reader) is like, "Heh. That could be me,,," (smugly)

But the names keep piling on, and he comes to a realization: important and unimportant cultivators alike go missing and lose their memories or whatever else at an alarming rate. He is not special. (Coughs up blood)

He probably runs into other amnesiacs more than once, and I'd have a running theme of like, he keeps bumping into main character coded characters just left and right. There's so much happening in this world, so many stories being told, he's really not special. But also he is bc hes our main character

But just like silly mostly self contained stories told from this guy just wandering around this absoloute cluster fuck of a world, often running head first into really interesting stories that are clearly like in the middle of a 5 arc novel their own

It'd probably gain a real central narrative along the way like all things inevitably do (the mystery of how he lost his memories and the fall out of what happens when he learns the truth) but for now I have fun just thinking ab his dumb adventures

As for the character himself, hes is like, obnoxiously laid back. SUPER chill, takes everything with a sigh and a smile, very lazy, takes a lot of shortcuts and goes "Ah but that's fine, right?" As everything explodes around him. If he's alive, then all is well in the world 👍

He'd cause so many problems just because and also probably have absolutely shit luck that gets him into even more problems (my favorite genre of character)

I also have like. A slowly but surley growing list of characters he'd run into like uhh [checks notes] evil lesbian mirror demon and the very angry woman she trapped in a mirror and stole the face and life of (the demon hate sex goes crazy).

And also ofc, "person trapped in a cycle of reincarnation with a curse that no matter how hard they try to be good, they will inevitably cause some great destruction or evil or plague of some kind." And just them very very desperately trying to be good even though they know it's futile

Yay!! Fun stuff

[dogwithglasses]

Is Connor Hawke a freakin metahuman or not

(I know he becomes a metahuman during ga/bc but that’s not what I’m talking about)

In 2002 there was a book titled JLA: Ultimate Guide to the Justice League of America, published by DK Publishing with a “From the Archives of DC Comics” stamp on the front. It says, and I quote, “Years studying hand to hand fighting at the ashram have honed Connor into an unparalleled opponent whose metagene enables him to have phenomenal ‘physical memory.’ Once he has witnessed a move, Connor can instantly adapt it to his own growing repertoire of martial arts disciplines.” I have NO clue where they got that info

In Robin #79 written by Chuck Dixon in 2000, Connor fights a demon but gets knocked out. Tim Drake thinks to himself that Connor is “a major league meta-human all star.” Chuck wrote that! At that point he had written more Connor content than any other writer!

In 2002’s Green Arrow #14, after Connor gets shot by Onomatopoeia, a news anchor says ““…but sources tell us that as he’s not a meta human…”

Does he have a frickin meta gene or not lol

[menelaiad]

ik you've talked about it before but tumblr blog search on mobile sucks ass so if it's not too much of a bother could you redirect me to your posts on why you dislike emily wilson?

i've never made a post on it. but, here you go:

as a translator? i have no issues with her. her translations are pretty good. so her 'work' i don't have a problem with. don't get me wrong, sometimes i think she toes that dangerous line of 'women good. men bad. feminism.' black and white line very finely. it's a lot more subtle than most modern classicsts but yKNOW.

my issue comes from her introduction to the odyssey. so it's her introduction. her own thoughts. not a translation of something. or outside influence. HER introduction. she says:

The second is piled high with newly acquired treasure, brought by blustering, self-pitying Menelaus. As Menelaus pompously declares ... we meet the beautiful and frighteningly intelligent Helen back home in Sparta, with her wealthy, blustering, and rather less intelligent husband, Menelaus. ...and the rich, narcissistic, uxorious Menelaus.

she then, in book 4, translates the original text in which menelaus is NONE of these things. the only thing he's guilty of really, is the rich thing. cause telemachus is all like 'damn bro ur loaded'. but menelaus is not arrogant about it. he's not smug. he's not narcissistic. he literally says like 2 lines later that he would give away most of his wealth if it meant those who died at troy could come home.

'self-pitying' WHERE?! he cries because he feels GUILTY. the tears are not for him. they are the for the men who died at troy. i'm not getting quotes because it's literally in book fucking 4. he is NOT feeling sorry for himself he is MAD at himself for troy. the only thing i can THINK where he even links his tears to himself is because he says something like, 'every time i think of them i cry because i miss them all' or smth like that. he's not crying for HIM.

'rather less intelligent husband' - you know my feelings on this. menelaus is not stupid. helen is just very smart. and THATS FINE. i love helen being the brains, i'm not against a smart woman and her husband not being as smart. but like. because he doesnt recognise telemachus straight away? or the bird omen? he's stupid? really. we're gonna measure his WHOLE intelligence on that?

'uxorious'. menelaus loves his wife and that's pathetic and funny apparently? tell me. does she describe odysseus this way? hektor in the new iliad translation? i dont think so. 'excessive love their wife' that's what uxorious means. oh im sorry. forgiving ur wife and building a relationship with her and trying to move on together and being nice to her .... that excessive now??? thats??? bad???????

she literally takes menelaus' shining moments in the odyssey. him feeling guilty and remorseful. him showing how haunted he is by the war. him caring and loving helen despite everything. the fact that he is a compassionate. kind. loving man (in comparison to most homeric men) ----- and uses them to insult him. and it just GENUINLEY baffles me. because she wrote that introduction. and then four books later is ENTIRELY proven wrong? im so-----

dont get me wrong. some of this is just very pettty 'you're wrong about menelaus' anger. but some of it is BAFFLEMENT at the fact that she has this in her introduction, those are HER thoughts. and then when you actually get to the text of the odyssey from homer. she is wrong. cause she can't change those greek words too much. translation is a tricky mistress, sure. but she cant go and say 'then menelaus didnt care for those men' because that's just outright WRONG. she has to translate, as faithfully as she can, whats there. and whats there is NOT what she claimed in the introduction.

[ante--meridiem]

Well. Potentially inadvisable message I sent a few days ago not really expecting a reply to did, in fact, get a reply.

[daydreamerdrew]

Captain America (2018) #1

[thelilylav]

Some of the people in the Kendrick tag desperately need to listen to this song lmao

[bluelem0ns]

im gonna be so honest and say this trilogy altered my brain chemistry. i first finished reading it like, 2 years ago? and they still sit at the back of my mind. i love you generation trauma and mind manipulation

bisexual demi girl Violet Brown save me bisexual demi girl Violet Brown

[turtlemagnum]

when i was younger and hung out around my uncle a lot more than i do now, i remember whenever he referred to things regarding his native heritage, he always just called it "indian". called himself an indian, called the words he taught us indian, so on. since i was a little kid who didn't know any better, i didn't know that "indian" in the context of indigenous americans was a very broad, frankly bastardized term to paint a vast variety of cultures spanning two whole damn continents with one brush. it only occurred to me as i got much older than i was at the time that there'd be more than one "indian" language, and up until now since i had no idea what tribe(s) he even is i couldn't even begin to know where to look unless i found a download of every goddamn interlingual dictionary available and painstakingly checked every godddamn one for what their word for "thunder" is

the word he taught us meant thunder was hiloha. i didn't even know how to spell it until now, because he only ever said it aloud. literally just a few minutes ago, i decided to ask my grandma (his sister) if we knew what tribe(s) he belonged to. and apparently he's a mix of choctaw and makah. which gave me a lead, which led to me finding a dictionary on libgen, which led to me word searching "thunder" in the choctaw to english dictionary. it's the only word i remember him teaching us, and i'm unsure if he ever tried teaching us others. but it was his dogs name, and he was a damn good boy, so i remembered it clear as day. though, they normally shortened it to "hilo".

so, i guess what came out of this is that i now know a bit more about my uncle's heritage, and where to look for more research. so, if you're gonna have a takeaway from this, i'd appreciate it if you remembered the word "hiloha". it means thunder. and aside from being the name of a very good boy who deserves to be remembered, i think it's even more important to remember the histories, cultures, and of course the languages of all the indigenous folks who came before us and did their damndest to preserve their cultures in spite of it all.

[lizzybeth1986]

I sincerely wish we had the option to say some version of this to Damien, rather than the options we got in the cushy little Ch 15 eighteen-diamond scene where we could either excuse his past behaviour towards Hayden and Sloane, or a milquetoast "yeah go talk to them" (which, btw, he never canonically does).

To date I'm still mad this guy never fucking apologized genuinely for whatever bullshit he spewed in Berlin.

[filmfactors]

end thoughts: i need to badly go to bed and ill probably have to rewatch this movie to properly digest it but i felt it was a lil boring in that standard way, not great but not terrible, its the classics of modern doraemon where it goes on for so long and focuses on things i care very little about: which is the side characters that shall only exist for this one film. sonya has been an exception for once in a long time of new character in these movies i can care about, reminds me of riruru in a sense... especially his relationship with doraemon. just makes me miss shizuka and rirurus dynamic if i think abt it too much however?

it also does that great sin i tend to dox points for in the movies: pushing the other three into the background so it can become 'nobita + doraemon & the side characters movie' it was tolerable-ish this time around bc i understand the premise of why [and enjoyed it!] but earlier sentiments still stand

the threat of this movie aka bugification is still very silly to me, ik the guy had a bigger more dangerous plot but i cant get around bugifying. its funny.

the part i like the most is highlighting the kids friendships with each other, the acknowledgement of the others flaws and good traits- i like nobita being torn on whether its a good thing or not suneo and gian are changing like this... would have loved if that was more of the focus! but it came and went oh so quick.

[mightymizora]

I have so many feelings about the big Netflix show blowing up that are complex and knotty and nuanced but really the top level is I don’t think society as a whole is empathetic enough for a story like this now.

[bookwyrminspiration]

“my task was to hunt in shadowclan territory” noooo he is framing u bbg noooo

[tenacquity]

Barok van Zieks and Looking into Ryuu's Eyes in a Totally Straight Way (ft. his unhealthy dose of racism)

screaming crying losing my goddamn mind always tAKE ME TO CHURCH—

[tiredsadpeach]

Y’all my work place has been absolute shit to a working mother lately on top of not taking racism claims seriously and constant scare tactics instead of using mistakes as teaching moments and I’ve been wanting to quit so I put in my two weeks today because the coworker that’s been treated like shit also is quitting and it kinda gave me a push and my store manager texted me telling me my experiences are wrong and trying to make my coworker look bad 😐 said he’d forward it to upper management with his statements of proof but little does he know I’m contacting HR tomorrow with my statements of proof you’re not scaring me off