#im rambling ..

[starrynyx]

i wanna talk about this portrayal of sally jackson and how it feels notably younger than the 2010 movie or even the musical. obviously her age is never explicitly stated there or in the books, but mama was sitting on the fire escape in the rain listening to olivia rodrigo and thinking about her ex. she's giving big 30-something millennial energy and i think that's so important in the context of HER story as a young mother alone in the world just trying her best. i think percy paints her as this angelic, caring, gentle presence that can do no wrong but the pov shift in the show lets us see her rougher edges, the places where she wasn't always perfect. and maybe im reading too far into this but if you reframe her and percy's relationship within the context of her being that young, of them reaching this quasi-gillmore girls space of "you are my baby but you're also my best friend and all i have in this world" idk it just feels a lot deeper somehow, like they're giving sally more dimension and development earlier on and i'm so excited to see her arc progress in future seasons

[bunubunss]

victor, you'll always be loved ♡

[arainaizevran]

wyll insists that it's HIS choice to make the pact and to leave the city. bc owning it as his choice means he can rationalize some sort of control over it. acknowledging it as anything else would mean that he was forced into it. that it's not actually his fault. that it's mizora's fault (which he does acknowledge) but more importantly that his father did him wrong. and that idea just Does Not Compute. so. rather than realizing and accepting that his father is human and made mistakes and hurt him, wyll would rather just take all the blame and make it his choice.

and being on the road constantly fighting battles meant he probably never had to sit down and think about the Implications of what happened to him. add the fact that he literally could not speak the truth for seven whole years. he had to fill in the gaps. more and more rationalizing to make it make sense to others and to himself. it's free emotional repression

[reagan7200]

i think regressing to your middle school self in college should be more normalized. im meant to be listen to mcr and playing undertale while neglecting my finals!

[serenedash]

kill them with kindness? WRONG. illustrated kairi EX medal

[outdated2014tmblrcontent]

society if movie reddie fanfic writers stopped tagging their fics as IT (1990) on AO3 (its so hard to find reddie fics actually written as miniseries reddie,, like wym only like 15 out of the 15,000 reddie fics on there are actually '90s reddie ☠️)

[marylily-my-beloved]

"ARE WE STILL FRIENDS? CAN WE BE FRIENDS??" but it's Sirius to Remus after the prank.... but it's Bellatrix to Narcissa after she tortures Alice... But it's Regulus to Sirius after he runs away..... but it's Peter to all the marauders in the afterlife.... but it's Mary to Lily after she marries James.... but it's Andromeda to Narcissa and Bellatrix after she runs away.......

[redacted-cryptid]

I’m just thinking about how satisfying it was to have a kids show say “no, you aren’t as bad as the villain even though you may have done similar things because it’s not just about what you do but why you do them” For King’s dad to tell Luz that they are different from Belos because they were acting out of love and care versus his pure hate is such a nice change of pace in a kids show? The actions were still recognized as harmful, but there was recognition of intent and a grey area in why we do the things we do. Idk i’m sure if i took the time to sit down and think through my thoughts I could say plenty more about how this speaks to different schools of ethical thought and why many argue that it is not just the result of actions but the intent of the actions. but also how intent does not make the harm disappear. and the importance of recognizing the nuance and circumstance of individual acts rather than trying to apply a generic formula to judge how ethical a given thing is.

[ivanttakethis]

So like………………. what was the point of Round 6?? 🤨

[afsosville]

Spreading some Shen Jiu positivity coz I need it lol.

You know what's so great about Shen Jiu? It’s that we don’t have a clue what Shen Jiu would’ve been like if he had a chance to heal from his trauma or was equipped to deal with it. (That includes learning coping mechanisms that don’t involve lashing out on other people and getting the TLC he deserves.) We have already seen him at his worst, I wanna know what he’s like at his best!! The world nerfed him with trauma and angst coz it knew a Shen Jiu with mental stability would be a force to be reckoned with. He embodies the quote “Jupiter was meant to be a star but failed.” This is why I love Shen Jiu fics so much (at least the ones where he heals and all that). No coz I'm not getting over the fact that he used a powerful sword flying technique during the burning of the Qiu manor without practicing it first and only saw it once before just straight up pulling it out of his ass like- Or that he become a peak lord despite every fucking disadvantage thrown at him. Also! I'm pretty sure his spirit roots and cultivation talent was equal to, or even greater than Yue Qingyuan as a kid before it got ripped away from him LIKE WHAT- 

Everyone has their own interpretations of Shen Jiu’s character and it's nice to explore. Ofc I don’t like the way he is in canon. If he was a real person, yall would hate him too. I like Shen Jiu for the potential he had as a person and who he could’ve been. And I like coming up with AUs and ideas for how things could've gone differently for him because, for me, there's something so therapeutic about seeing/writing characters break cycles. Shen Jiu not having done so in SV had a narrative impact by emphasising how people display problematic and violent behaviours in response to trauma. That is why the protagonists and male leads of MXTX novels are written the way that they are, to contrast the villains. Characters like Xie Lian, Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian are examples of people coping with their trauma positively (semi positively if I'm being honest but the point remains). So excuse me for making Shen Jiu the protagonist in practically all the fics I'm working on lol.

Technically you can’t even say Shen Jiu is OOC for these kinds of SJ fics, coz, again, we don’t know what he’s like if he actually got the help he needed. There's this fic called Residing Over Autumn Leaves, where Shen Jiu’s personality is so malleable that he completely reflects the environment he was around in his earlier years. He suffers through a Qi deviation that actually erases his memories and he becomes a white lotus Jiumei. It’s because he was in Qing Jing peak most of the time and all his disciples and martial siblings protected him. And then there’s fics like The Hidden Flower, and the Memories Remembered series. Those speak for themselves. I'm assuming yall read them coz they're pretty much the most popular Shen Jiu fics on AO3 lol. 

Btw, I am NOT looking to argue with anyone over smt like this. Like YES I know what he did, and made sure I had that info (coz the spreading of misinformation is wild).

But I hope it's at least undeniable that he deserved to heal for what the Qiu's and Wu Yanzi put him thru??

[booksandothersecrets]

Dedication of Maurice by E.M. Forster // Sappho // The Well of Loneliness, Radclyffe Hall

[a-whispering-echo]

you know that custom that monsters spread dust over the persons favourite thing? do you think Dust, after killing Undyne, would take, like, a piece of her armour or her eyepatch or something to put in Alphys' dust when he kills her? do you think he ever goes back to put Alphys glasses in Undynes?

You know how Sans is canonically the guy who kinda knows everyone? do you think Dust would want to do it for EVERYONE, when he realistically doesnt have the time, but that he make the exceptions for the people he was once close to? do you think he puts the cinnamon bunny monsters dust over her bun, because its so close he can manage that one? or the librarians on their books? do you think he feels guilty for the ones he cant manage? do you think he thinks of it as doing a good thing for the people he lost, or has he deluded himself into thinking that way, when in reality, it comforts him more than them?

[yiifune]

hi guys sorry i havent posted in awhile i was REALLY EXTREMELY BUSY!!!!! (slept 18 hours a day the entire month)

i wanted to say thanks for 200+ followers on twitter and 100+ here on tumblr :3,,, it means a lot i read every single comment / reblog i get and they all mean the world to me so ty!!!!

[unknownchoatic]

Handplates Dust is such a neat concept for many reasons, one being that he now has a reason to be wearing those gloves- bc srsly no hate but what kind of freak is just wearing gloves 24/7??

but then also i rlly like the parallels between Dust and Handplates!Gaster. like Gaster made 1-s and 2-p in an attempt to create artificial human SOULS to break the barrier and free monsterkind. and like along the way he developed this mentality that he was the only one who could save them. It was his responsibility, only he could do this.

and this can be seen in how he ignores Alphys and Asgore, instead working on his experiment. and this mentality also gives Gaster a way to justify the experiments (which in some cases were basically torture, not to mention the emotional and physical abuse 1-s and 2-p went through)

And that part of Gasters character is actually pretty similar to Dusts.

Dust killed everyone in his AU as a way to stop the human- he needed to get stronger. but as the resets go on Dust starts to view himself as a savior. in his mind he is saving the monsters of his AU by killing them. he is sparing them from the human (even if either way they’d be dead)

and like both Dust and Handplates Gaster have this weird savior complex going on. in Gasters case other people could have actually helped him with the issue. BUT STILL, they both use this mentality of “im saving them, i need to do this, only i can do this, it has to be me” to justify their actions.

and the really messed up part is that 1-s and 2-p dont really remember Gaster. like they have flashbacks, but its more that they feel like something is familiar than actual memories. and so later in Handplates when Gaster returns and Sans and Papyrus get those memories back, the way that Sans reacts would actually be ironic in this situation.

because if Dust were a Handplates Sans (if he was 1-s) then if he could remember Gasters actions he would be disgusted and appalled. but he didn’t remember Gaster and actually ended up taking a similar path to him.

idk i just think that this is kinda neat. and yk smth about repeating the actions of your abusers and the cycle of trauma

[serenedash]

I'm like those guys who are obsessed with world war 2 but I'm gay so instead I'm obsessed with the keyblade war

[annymaght]

Chaos Theory Season 2 Junior Novelisation...