#if i make one wrong move

[wishingprince]

Okay i took off work next Friday specifically to work on finding a new PCP so i can start readdressing my insulin processing issues and hopefully that will remove the major brain fog.

floating around with zero ability to concentrate or even like realize, really, when I’m spacing out is just not the business.

[gingerswagfreckles]

It's weird how in the past 5 or so years the left's understanding of decolonization devolved into some kind of weird Nazi era eugenicist thing about how people's "true places" are something encoded in their DNA and no one in the history of the world should have moved anywhere and anyone decendent from people who moved at some point should be shot.

[clouvu]

Nothing in the world belongs to me But my love, mine, all mine

[b6d11f]

at my best, I'm a sacrificial lamb at my best, I am something you could handle

[meamiki]

mira !!! :]

[mishy-mashy]

Toga: Someone who wanted to be happy

Uraraka: Someone who wanted to make others happy

And also,

Toga: Someone who wanted the world to be easier to live in

Uraraka: Someone who wanted to make the world easier to live in for others

[technically-human]

Love how you keep turning people into sonic fans with the stobotnik fics

I honestly can't believe it keeps happening. Such an honor

[itzphynix]

Yeah, so while I was on my "I'm going to read into Vanny/Vanessa as much as possible" journey, I noticed an odd quirk in her animations in how she moves. At first, I thought it reminded me of a ballerina, 'cause she's kinda tip-toeing, & she has this way of keeping her head & chest in one place as she moves, but I looked again & realized --

That's not ballet! She's doing a tight-rope act. Like, look at this one:

This is like standing up on the wooden boards before you do the actual tight-rope walking, & the ring leader is hyping you up as you do some fun movement for the crowds. &, then, these:

These are all instances where she walks with one foot directly in front of the other. In that third, she's doing the "woaaah" wiggly-ass balance movements & everything, as if she's swaying up at the top of the tent, even though she's down on solid ground.

Idk, I feel like the way her feet are placed isn't accurate (pretty sure they should be pointed left & right, not both forwards...) doesn't make this 100% correct, but I like it. It also connects back with her first SB teaser, wherein she's up in the rafters.

[lgbtlunaverse]

The women Jin Guangyao uses to kill Jin Guangshan are NOT from the brothel he grew up in

Except for Sisi, obviously.

But, crucially, Sisi MOVED brothels after her face got slashed.

That's why Jin Guangyao only recognized her after Jin Guangshan was already dead. If he had sourced the women from the brothel he grew up in, you think he wouldn't have made sure beforehand that they wouldn't include the one woman who was explicitly nice to him and his mother? He couldn't bear to kill her even after she was already a witness, but that meant he had to imprison her instead. Not exactly an ideal scenario! You think he wouldn't have thought to avoid that?

Well, that's all hypothetical anyway, because he couldn't have sourced anyone from the brothel he grew up in anyway, because that brothel had already been burnt down. By Jin Guangyao! This is the order he gives Xue Yang at the end of the villainous friends extra, which also contains Xue Yang meeting Xiao Xingchen and Song Lan. Which means this is way before Xue Yang kills the Chang clan, Xiao Xingchen eventually catches him, and Nie Mingjue kicks Jin Guangyao down the stairs which leads to his death 2 months later. And Jin Guangshan doesn't die until after Nie Mingjue is already dead, so while this is definitely where Jin Guangyao starts planning to kill his father, it's well before he actually executed that plan. By the time he does, that brothel is ash.

I say this because there's been several time now where I've seen people attribute Jin Guangyao using sex workers to kill his father, and killing them aferwards, to some kind of revenge scheme? A way to get back at the other women in the brothel who mistreated his mom at the same time as he gets back at his father. But all those women died when it burned to the ground. We see their ghosts in guangyin temple! Every single woman Jin Guangyao uses to kill his father and then later executes was a complete stranger to him. It has nothing to do with who they are and everything to do with what they are (older 'ugly' sex workers) Whether you think that makes his actions worse or better or generally has no moral impact i'll leave up to you. But it's important to remember that while the violence he enacts on his father is deeply personal, what he does to the sex workers is not.

[asparkinhereyes]

look, i’m not even a stem major, but there’s just something about bruce wayne that makes me want to dissect his brain and study it like how i had to dissect a pig’s heart in high school biology

[saetiate]

one thing about me is i see love as worship. devotion and care. deserving of an altar. deserving of respect and homage and time and energy.

[recurring-polynya]

lol. LMAO, even.

[milkywayes]

I'm curious how you feel about Shepard(s) wearing Garrus' colony markings? I have a feeling I know and that we share the same opinion, but I'd love to know your thoughts if you're willing to be put it out there

oh dear LOL. well without trying to yuck anyone's yum or be the fun police, you're completely right assuming i'm not into it. i don't read fic that includes the trope and i don't reblog art of it either.

stop reading here if colony-markings!shepard is your favorite thing, thank you.

romance genre is saturated with misogynist tropes and i don’t think that this is the worst offender by far even in shakarian fandom… but it’s still on the list. i don’t think enjoyers of it put much more thought into it than “it replaces wedding rings, how cute,” so i’m not trying to accuse anyone of anything here, but that doesn’t make it not misogynist to put a male character’s visual characteristics all over the female character’s face, oftentimes permanently, to show belonging (ownership). it feels too much like brand-marking cattle. i already hate that a woman was ever expected to take her husband’s surname, and this is that times twenty. it’s viscerally uncomfortable to me. marriage is a patriarchal institution, so tradition in the context of it is often… well, exactly that. we can step away from those traditions and make marriage about sentiment and equal partnership instead, but many still romanticize all the sexist flavorings that come with it. i think this is just an expression of that tendency, again.

that’s my biggest reason for avoiding it lol. but it’s not the only one.

as someone who really likes world building, it just doesn’t make any damn sense to me either. as you said, they’re colony markings. canonically, they show geographical origins. holdover from the unification war, yadda yadda. they are not clan markings, and there is nothing in canon that indicates that turians have family clans at all or would consider them important—that’s the krogan. turians are a meritocracy, and what that means is they value an individual’s contribution to larger society, and they really, really hate nepotism. you don’t get family clan mentality without nepotism or showing excessive pride in something that has nothing to do with an individual’s achievements towards the betterment of turian society. 

while the unification war did reveal a tendency towards tribalism, this was about entire colonies rather than lineages, and about a unit of people brought together by working tirelessly towards the same goal (betterment of the larger social group, again. contributing to the colony. one for all and all for one.) the issue was simply that this social group had shrunk from “all of the hierarchy” to just “all of the people where i live.” a natural consequence of a people spreading out from their homeworld all over the galaxy, i think: it’s easy to lose loyalty to something abstract that you cannot see (the Hierarchy) in favor of what you do see and can directly affect (local community.)

family clans don’t really mesh with what we know about turians. garrus’ colony markings don’t have anything to do with his family line. they’re about where he’s from. to quote a friend, shepard would be getting her partner’s zip-code tattooed on her face. 

nothing about any of that is romantic to me. and well, uh. i also think it kind of looks really bad. so there’s that.

[idiosyncraticrednebula]

I like the fact that in the original The Little Mermaid, Ariel is the one engaging in approaching and attraction, whereas Eric is the one who prioritizes an emotional connection. Not that either did not want the opposite of what they were pursuing because they obviously wanted the other part as well, but I'm appreciative of how the dynamic was inverted in a way.

[front-facing-pokemon]

[sysig]

Sims 2 has played Clinical Trial, it all went by the exact same beats