#if course it has its flaws

[starrysharks]

hotel manager

[mysticsnoopy]

i will forever think about this panel and how it shows usagi's character

[messangerforthestars]

“We need more morally gray characters” you guys can barely handle topaz and jade.

[joseigamer]

Persona 2: Homophobia Simulator (2011)

Bonus:

[queenlucythevaliant]

make your choice

Digory didn’t think much on making choices. The whole world would be over when his mother died anyhow.

Of course, this didn’t keep him from being curious or adventurous. It was exciting to meet new people, exciting to go exploring and to speculate about whatever mischief his Uncle Andrew was up to. Being a lively young boy was perhaps the best distraction from being a boy about to lose his mother.

Going after Polly was so obviously right that it might as well not have been a choice at all. What else could he do? It was easy to be righteous in the face of an evil old magician who said things like "Ours is a high and lonely destiny."

Yet once they were there in that rich, in-between place, with all the worlds there were splayed out before them— ((Make your choice, adventurous stranger)) Well. What sort of lively young boy would he be if he turned back now?

Digory could feel the bell’s magic ((strike the bell and bide the danger)) beginning to work on him. There was no use in resisting. He felt tendrils of magic sinking deep beneath his skin, laying claim to any free will he’d ever had. He said as much to Polly, but she wasn’t listening.

Polly said ((or wonder till it drives you mad)) that he looked exactly like his uncle when he said that.

Jadis’s whole world had ended. Everyone had died, and she’d just gone to sleep. She might have stayed sleeping forever if he hadn’t woken her. Sitting outside his mother’s sickroom, Digory wondered ((what would have followed if you had)) if that was really so shocking. Hadn’t he been preparing for just such an end? Were Charn and Mabel Kirke so different?

Narnia was not an end. It was a beginning.

And face to face with the Lion, Digory was forced to admit that the bell had not been magic. Nothing had caused him to strike it. Make your choice, the writing had said. Digory had chosen. 

I’ve spoiled everything. There’s no chance of getting anything for mother now.

The enormous Lion asked him, "Son of Adam, are you ready to undo the wrong that you have done?" and Digory sputtered his maybes.

"I asked, are you ready?" the Lion said again.

At that very moment, an ultimatum flashed through Digory’s mind. If I salvage your beginning, will you prevent my end? If make amends, will you save my mother? He thought of refusing, of holding his choice hostage until his future was secure. Could the Lion be bargained with? Could Digory twist his arm, as he'd twisted Polly's?

But what Digory said was, "Yes."

Jadis conjured such lovely visions of the future. His mother's face would lose its gray sheen and she would say, Why, I'm beginning to feel stronger. There would be no more morphia, no more of the terrible drawn look about her when she slept. She would rise from her sickbed, vibrant and whole ((Come in by the gold gates or not at all)) rise and walk to the door and fling it open and then Digory would go running into her arms. 

He gasped as though he'd been mortally wounded. Perhaps he had been in a way. After all, had the gate not said ((take my fruit for others or forbear))? 

Jadis ((for those who steal and those who climb my wall)) called Digory the Lion's slave. Years later, he would think back over all that those words implied. The Witch seemed to think that Digory had no will, if he was willing to subordinate himself to Aslan.

But was it not Aslan who made Digory realize his own culpability ((shall find their heart's desire and find despair)), and in the same breath gave him a way to repair it? Had not Aslan given his will back to him?

And at the foot of the tree, Aslan gave Digory his future back as well. 

He was old, but now he is young again, watching as the stars fall headlong across the black of the world-that-was. The world is ending at last, but Digory does not fear such things any longer.

[rollercoasterwords]

hey just wanted to comment on ur fanfiction that u wrote and edited and posted to let u know that ummmm u wrote the character with flaws?? sorry but did u realize that u gave the character flaws?? i don't really like this character because they have flaws did you mean to give ur main character flaws?? just wanted to let u know that character has flaws and i don't like that!!

[hecksupremechips]

My madoka magica hot take is I like sayaka/kyoko as a ship more than madoka/homura

[parasitoidism]

Also these

[britneyshakespeare]

My toxic trait is that I like how my incomplete drawings look better than the finished things

[deadmickeysart]

Joel can literally die for Midge and ya'll would hate him for it

[transbee]

Laios drives me absolutely bonkers crazy up the wall insane. I can't remember the last time a character ESPECIALLY a protagonist has made me feel so seen I wish I was able to describe what about him strikes such a powerful chord with me other than he's got the same flavor of autistic sauce as me.

[firstroseofspring]

thinking pondering to me john torres is like. what if u met a woman. with confidence and dignity and a strong moral backbone. you meet and she makes a distinct impression with her honesty and her frankness and she seems like she's always sure of what she wants and what she needs and she's so different from anyone else you know and thats exciting and she's exciting and she likes you specifically you. and you don't think much of you but it feels good to be liked by someone like that. you love her of course. you marry her. of course!

[ivipl1]

it's so fucked up that walkable cities arent a universal thing because like. Living in a place with public transport and places u can just walk to is Really Fucking Good. I just got back from a walk that was just me wandering around looking at shit. It genuinely made me feel even better and more motivated than I was before.

[bandofchimeras]

no the gay pirate show is NOT the first the last or the only gay representation. it is deeply silly to believe that. HOWever it is the first show to be ENTIRELY CRAFTED FOR METANAYLYSIS OF THE CURRENT QUEER COMMUNITY'S ISSUES AND QUIBBLES AND IDENTITY as shaped by online culture. like bro you can squeeze so much thinking juice out of this show. It's healed me in ways other gay shows haven't been able to touch. the choice to use theater and piracy as thematic tools to explore the dynamics of what repression does to queer adults, and the fact the new season MINOR SPOILER ALERT is going into drug addiction, violence, codependency, betrayal territory...yeah. it's not the best written show to ever exist. It's not the pinnacle of gay rep. But EVERYONE HERE IS FUCKING GAY. everyone in it has a relationship to queerness, every character. which is how REALITY ACTUALLY IS. straightness is as constructed as queerness. There isn't a Real World Gay Movie undefined by homophobia & isolation bc you have to create a fantasy world for that to exist.

And the lightly historical fantasy ploy enables the writers to goof around but also deeply care about their characters and their audience. It's much like what the pirates do in this show, ditching the suffocating dominion of religious heteronormativity and Boring Life on land, to create their own world on the seas (with plenty more brutality, loss, idiocy and general Troubles, of course). They're working their shit out when they can stay alive to do it. And they all have a different relationship to that sea life because some of them have to privilege to choose it -others end up there bc they have no where left to go.

On that vein I cannot wait for more Lucius developments.....totally unexpected what they did with his character but it's good shit

[hella1975]

choked up in my room rn bc i was sat in the car with my mum completely lost in thought and she out of nowhere went 'are you okay?' and i was like 'yeah? why?' bc i was totally fine i was literally just thinking and she let it go and then five entire minutes later she goes 'are you sure? have i done something?' and she sounded so genuinely anxious and i could tell she'd been thinking about it the entire 5 minutes while id been completely oblivious and i spent so many years as a child letting everything bottle up until it all burst out in a messy and ugly breakdown that took her down with me and despite that she never hated me she only ever blamed herself for not seeing the signs and she's never been able to see my signs because i keep everything to myself and it terrifies her that she might miss something and she handles things poorly when she's scared and she gets too angry but fundamentally she's trying her absolute hardest to be a good mother and it wasn't always enough and i know i have to hold her at least partially accountable but also she's my mum and im her daughter and she always just wants to know if im okay and most of the time im not and somehow that feels like ive betrayed her

[slavicafire]

thinking about the nature of the beast in dao. first, that lady of the forest is a spirit that decidedly chooses to refer to herself as her and show in a form recognisable as female to the mortals - but as witherfang, just as much the nature of the same spirit as any other, albeit forced to its surface by the curse, becomes him. and it's not a spirit from the fade but from the forest itself - another interesting if slightly puzzling idea.

and the second thought that haunts me is that this centuries long horrid bloody feud between the dalish elves and the werewolves led by the spirit - where the dalish do come of as the guilty party, or rather zathrian does, at least the centuries after the curse was cast and the warden becomes entangled in all this - is actually, you know. absolutely and fully fault of humans. again.