#i wonder if they did that intentionally?

[57sfinest]

Are there any particular scenes in the game that REALLY stick out to you that aren't talked about much online?

i feel like all the big scenes are talked about enough but like... maybe the payphone with dora? just something about it hurts me

the fact that dora picked up and stayed on as long as she did. harry had her *mirova* number so deeply ingrained into his muscle memory he could do it with his eyes closed after getting his brain wiped. how did he even get that? did she let him have it? was there a telephone book? did he have to do some borderline-stalking to get ahold of it?

the fact that no matter what you say to her initially, as she wakes up her response just amounts to "oh... not this again." again. how many times have they done this? how many times has harry, unknowingly or uncaringly, gotten drunk or high or both and called dora in the middle of the night (in her time) to hear her voice, and what has he said? does he beg her to come back or get angry?

idk there's just so much resignation and patience on dora's end, or at least that how it feels to me. she's isolas away- she can afford to be patient now. this clearly isn't something she wants to be doing, but she doesn't hang up on him, just lets him talk until the payphone runs out of money or he hangs up on his own. he broke her heart and made it all about himself but here she is, sitting on the phone at 4am when she's got work in 2 hours, listening to him ramble on about god-knows-what. and she's got to be worried. every time he hangs up she wonders if it will be the last time, and if so, why will it be the last time? will it be because he grew up and got over it, or because he finally killed himself? it's not her responsibility to worry or care anymore, but things are never that simple. of course some part of her will always be a little bit concerned (or at least morbidly curious) about how he's doing. as awful as these calls are, they must reassure her a tiny bit.

[mail-me-a-snail]

as someone who was in the mines of "drawing a characters robotic arm from increasingly difficult angles" before, i yearn for those times. so heres my take on blu engie's gunslinger, based on modern prosthetic forearms

its worth noting that, before he cloned himself to create red engie, he had the original gunslinger, ie he was only missing his hand. he decided to upgrade himself not only bc he had the means to, but bc he wanted to differentiate himself from his clone so that he would always be distinctly the original, even if he would be the only one to know that

inspired by vi's hextech gauntlets and ofc, johnny silverhand's arm. i miss drawing johnny every day of my life

[theshinysnivy1]

Professor Layton when you start the series: what a nice puzzle man. Lovely puzzle gentleman. Does the silly point thing and solves the mystery. Funny guy :)

Professor Layton at the end of the series: is there any aspect of this man’s personality that he didn’t construct out of grief, carrying on the legacy of those he loved even at the expense of his own identity? Even his name is a fragment of someone loved and lost. He’s a walking coping mechanism. What the hell.

[kirby-the-gorb]

[crumb]

matt johnson in his underwear from nirvana the band the show s02e03 save me.. matt johnson in his underwear from nirvana the band the show s02e03 save me matt johnson in his underwear from nirvana the band the show s02e03..

[stopper-my-heart]

Nothing like Heartstopper S2E8 removing some of Taylor Swift's "seven" lyrics just so that the singing can specifically come back in at "Or hide in the closet" while Isaac is processing difficult emotions related to the book he's reading (i.e., Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen).

Did I mention "Or hide in the closet" hits just as the camera focus finishes shifting away from Isaac?

This is fine

[heniareth]

Morrigan's comment towards Alistair, the "So you have finally decided to rejoin us, have you? Falling on your blade in grief seemed like too much trouble, I take it?" is such an objectively nasty thing to say but also. Also!! This is Flemeth. This is Flemeth's brand of "humor". These are the only jokes Morrigan has ever been exposed to and the TONE SHE USES HERE!!! Morrigan I love and appreciate your attempts at bantering please please let me give you a crash course in jokes that will make everybody laugh

[13eyond13]

omg okay so he's aware about it at least

[subsequentibis]

every now and then while ass deep in someone's fargo tag i find that gifset again where someone in the tags is going "i wish more shows would hire native asl speakers to play deaf/hoh characters this guy is doing okay but [various nitpicks]" and i just go. oh. russell harvard? third generation deaf actor russell harvard? he's just doing okay? gotcha

[spaghetti-taako]

I'm sure I'm not the only one who got overly attached to these characters, and i wondered which one of these people consider their favourite/most memorable. btw I excluded Madame de Pompadour because I had a feeling she would sweep and wanted to give everyone a fair chance (probably should have taken out Sally as well, but that's already too much meddling)

also it's not about whether or not they'd even want to be a companion just that they deserve to be one so don't come at me for putting Joan there, I love her dearly she can do whatever she wants forever.

[et-excrucior]

So I’m going to highlight something I’m not sure people who like skeletons and curiosities think about often:

the human skeletal remains you see for sale in oddities shops were invariably grave-robbed.

I worked with human remains in an academic research context in the US for more than a decade. One of the first things I tried to teach my students was respect for the remains in our collections, not only because they were people, deserving of dignity in their death, but also because most of the skeletal remains in academic teaching collections were not donated voluntarily. In most cases, we have no idea exactly where they came from or to whom they belonged.

Historically, there has been a huge international trade in human skeletal remains for teaching medical students. The trade reached its peak in the 19th Century and continued for much of the 20th, and while ostensibly the practice was banned in India in 1985, it does still exist illegally. In the US and Europe, most of the remains in teaching collections were sourced from India through bone traders. Bone traders were (are) lower caste people charged with disposing of human remains—often by cremation, but also by interring in graves—but instead of doing so, sold the remains on to medical schools in the US/Europe through the intermediary of anatomical and medical supply companies. These anatomical specimens are the remains of people who were, unknowingly and without consent of their loved ones, denied their humanity in death to satisfy the appetite of the West for anatomical specimens, despite the remains of their own people being considered largely sacrosanct.

Which leads me to my next point: this practice originated under British Colonialism in India. I hope I don’t need to draw this point out, but objectification of these remains by medical students and researchers is a furtherance of the Western colonial project and othering of people of colour. As medical students, we’re trained to divorce ourselves emotionally from the remains we learn from in the name of professionalism. Medicine can often be confronting, and it serves patients and doctors alike to be able to continue working calmly and objectively in the face of those challenges. But in a world where empires and scientific disciplines have been (and continue to be) built on a legacy of scientific racism and dehumanisation, it behooves us to consider exactly how those teaching specimens were acquired—and how they came to be for sale.

Any human skeleton or human bones you see for sale in oddity stores are invariably retired teaching specimens, or were otherwise originally purchased through an anatomical specimen supply company that leveraged bone traders for acquiring their wares. In other words, those remains were grave-robbed, or stolen from funeral pyres and morgues. It is vanishingly unlikely that they are remains of known, ethically-sourced provenance like informed donation. If they were, they would not have been relinquished to the general public to be sold for profit. There would be contractual obligations that dictate how those remains would be managed once they need to be retired from teaching/decommissioned.

Please keep this in mind when you see human remains for sale in oddity shops. Buy plastic or ceramic teaching models instead. Don’t unwittingly continue creating a market for stolen human remains.

[handsomegentlebutch]

My 3 little cousins were baptized today. "Triggered" is kind of a strong word but being in a catholic church again... I'm a little fragile rn ngl.

[hylianengineer]

The fun thing about living with a theatre major is that I get to be the rubber duck for art projects and literary analysis. This is great because I love literary analysis but don't get to take lit. classes anymore.

[dopepoisonivyoncrack]

Some days I hate the "For you" page so much, it turns into a Free Blocking List. Also if people gonna draw Cazador and Astarion as a ship, especially in a sexual context, the LEAST they can do is TAG IT! ffs

[lexreadsdiversely]

Pet peeves: when someone reads, for example, a YA book about characters who have been chronically ill or deeply traumatized their entire lives and complain that they act younger than their age. There's never any reflection as to why the characters act "immature" for their age, even though the answer is right in front of them. This then turns into "the author clearly doesn't know how to write YA characters" rather than "the author is writing traumatized YA characters who spent some of their most significant developmental years in survival mode and that's reflected in the characters' thought processes and behaviors."

You see this with the way people talk about adult characters with chronic illness or trauma under their belt, too. Especially characters in their twenties. You get "this character acts like they're in a YA book, they're so immature and they make awful decisions." Idk maybe it's because I'm in my thirties now and I can look back on myself and everyone my age, but people kind of act like twenty-somethings are supposed to be beacons of Adult Maturity and make the best decisions in any given circumstance. That's so not realistic. Besides, the bad decision-making is often a key point of the story, and the author is trying to say something about the story or character. Characters who are working from Trauma Brain, or those who are sick and/or in pain constantly, aren't always going to make the best decisions. Non-traumatized, abled people don't either. This isn't unique to us, it's a pretty human thing.

Like it's cool if you're just not meshing with the character, but them being "immature" isn't inherently a sign that the writer doesn't know how to write for this age group.

(And this isn't even getting into what the average person thinks age appropriate maturity levels are, and the biases and ableism that often accompanies these ideas. It's also not getting into how sexism and racism force girls and children of color - and doubly so for girls of color - to grow up faster, take on more responsibilities than they should, and generally prevent them from having a regular fucking childhood.)

Rant over!

[frogathy]

childhood was spent thinking i’d go to hell and men would not love me if i swore so now to heal from that i am swearing as much as i fucking can until i come to my own fucking conclusion about how i feel regarding the usage of such crude vocabulary