#im talking about a DEEP DIVE

[allastoredeer]

TONIGHT'S A WORLD-BUILDING NIGHT! WHO'S READY TO DEEP DIVE INTO PENTAGRAM CITY AND ALL THE COMPLICATED SHIT THAT MAKES IT RUN!!!

EDIT: First bit of world-building has been shared, see post here: World-Building, Character Analysis, and Lore Dumping Part 1: The Hierarchal Power Structure of the Pride Ring.

[abd-illustrates]

I might’ve spoiled the plot of Natlan | Genshin Impact THEORY

In which I read so much lore that I gained the power to see the future (maybe) This ended up being a real challenge to make - but it was also really fun! Please do lemme know what you reckon of these ideas, and whether y’all wanna see me pattern-recognition my way into several corkboards worth of theories about any other topics sometime down the line! (^^)/

(also: HAPPY NEW YEAR! 🥳🎉 Here's wishing y'all every good thing for 2024)

[featheredmoonwings]

Here's a thought.

Sam has been irrevocably changed since his coming back from hell (and jumping in of course). So often I find myself looking at later season's Sam, a Sam who's not a firey rebel against what the world wants of him, a Sam who would fight for himself. This is a quietly submissive Sam who can't stand to disappoint Rock No.1. Someone who takes on pain again and again and again because he's so used to it.

Sam from the first seasons it's not the same Sam as the later. This is a broken, traumatized man who excels at being high functioning and I am SO sure of it.

He LOOKS resigned and tired a lot of the time. And it reminds me of hell!Sam begging himself not to remember. hell!Sam knew what he was talking about and what we're seeing in later seasons is his reflection.

And let me throw in a Silmarillion reference because why the heck not. Like the souls of elves go to Mando's halls, Sam's soul needed to go to heaven and heal from all the years of hell he suffered (earthly ones and hell ones). He was not ready to be reembodied in earth and now he's come wrong.

Like 5 different entities warned us about Sam's shredded to ribbons soul. To me, that doesn't sound like a soul that should've been put back in a body.

[vogelmeister]

i understand the whole “joost’s sudden popularity is so weird and wild to watch as a dutch person” perspective but its also kinda wacky from my perspective in the sense that im not a dutch person, but i became interested in the netherlands pre joost. however i am still looking at the netherlands from an outsider perspective, so its like when i look up his lyrics i understand some references he makes to his dutch upbringing but obviously not all. even then i have had experience with suddenly having an interest in a country and because its the netherlands im almost going. been there. done that. but i see you

[comphetkoncass]

i was logged out for a week and life was so peaceful. i read books by and about women. and when i read comics, i only read comics that prominently featured women. and they were fun!

then i logged back in and ventured beyond my peer reviewed 'i swear on my life that this has women in it who matter to the plot' bubble and. well. can you guess what i found. or rather. who i didnt find. can you guess

[evevoli]

girl if i click on one more long video essay about a show/movie i like and it turns out to be a plot summary i'm gonna end up on the news

[mediawhorefics]

hey friends, i know i haven't been online on this blog in literally forever (sorry 2024 kicked my ass in every way tbh) but can we do that thing where y'all tell me what books you guys are reading atm ??

[thechosenanubis]

Nina is actually a better person than people give her credit for. Like at the beginning of S1, I had the same scenario with Patricia happen to me: new girl at a new school, trying to make friends, and this other girl in my class didn't like my ~vibes~ or whatever and started saying nasty stuff and trying to isolate me. (thankfully in my case no close friends were kidnapped by secret societies in search for eternal life 💀 ) So not only i can sympathize with her situation, but even relate to it.

And what I don't see talked about enough is ( or if people did, I haven't seen those posts) calling out Patricia's behavior for what it really was: bullying. Keep in mind here, that I understand where Patricia's behavior is coming from, since she's being gaslit like crazy. But that still doesn't make her behaviour towards Nina acceptable or excusable.

And I wouldn't have blamed Nina if she refused to accept Patricia's apology, because is not a victim's responsability ( only their choice) to forgive their bully.

Still, Nina forgave Patricia because she's good like that ( and probably didn't want to break the already fragile ecosystem of the house with more hostility even if it was within her right to keep a grudge and refuse Patricia's apology. )

What i'm trying to say, Nina is a good person, flawed but good.

Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.

[comradecowplant]

y'know some shows just don't hit the same as they did when you depression spiral repeat binged it for the first time :-/

[skunkes]

unsure how to word this but there is something about having ocs with unsavory events happening in their past where it's like. talking about it, even when asked, seems almost gratuitous and inappropriate. and i'd much rather describe it through the oc themself and/or draw Them saying it. which is like. fitting for the subject matter? like of course its weird to talk about somebody else's business...!

and falls back into humanizing em/exploratory writing and development where u consider the impact of words said/words unsaid/HOW those words are said etc etc

[i-am-a-fan]

any thoughts on pigsy’s characterization that you’d perhaps like to share? 👀

YEAH, I WANNA SHARE MY THOUGHTS ON THE PIG MAN!!!!

Summary: He has a tough exterior, he deeply cares about those he considers his family.

From the get-go of the series, Pigsy seems to be the most realistic of the group. In the first episode, he is constantly trying to tell Mk about the responsibilities of what it's like to be a hero. Of course, Mk doesn't listen and we have to wait until the listening episode comes around for him to pay attention. (Although, on further inspection, it was Mei who kept interrupting Pigsy, not Mk.)

But regardless, it's not that Pigsy does not support Mk throughout this. When Mk is going off to fight Redson, he tells them, "You've got a lot to learn... Don't just dive in headfirst..." Pigsy is trying to teach Mk how to be responsible with his new powers, he doesn't try and persuade him out of fighting Redson but instead tries to make sure Mk is going to not hurt themselves. I mean look, that's the face of a concerned father.

I am so glad that they were placed in that father-son relationship from the very start.

Even though he dissaproves of Mk rushing into danger, he still goes to support his kid.

HELL. When Mk fails, Pigsy literally squares up against the bull clones just to try and protect his family.

In the Sweet 'n' Sour episode we see Pigsy looking at a bulletin board at the end, and on it? First, we see pictures of him and what appears to be his mother, then we see pictures of Pigsy with Sandy and Tang, and lastly, we see photos of Pigsy with Mk and Mei. It's a photo board dedicated to his family y'all. I cried. I literally bawled when I realized.

He supports and fights for his kid! I love how deeply he does care about his son as a father figure...

Not like someone else...

Counter to that, he's still not the perfect father. He constantly overworks Mk and threatens to kick him out of the business if he's late to work. And while that might be true for an actual restaurant, it still sucks to hear that your kinda-sorta dad might be kicking you out of your apartment.

He does kinda make up for it at the end of the duplication episode where he gives Mk the day off after coming to the realization that he has been overworking Mk. It's still not great, but there seems to be just some lack of communication between the two.

[bulbabutt]

no offence to people who genuinely enjoyed james somerton and feel cheated but you could kind of tell he didnt give a shit about anything he ever said. there was no passion or personable anecdotes in anything he ever made, and the fact he was constantly posting videos was crazy. like if you watch your more popular video essayists theyre always coming from a point of 1) education in a field 2) passion in a subject and 3) being open about themselves

like , this man hopped on the video essay train because of the popularity of his peers and just tokened himself into "the gay video essayist" as if so many other people werent already doing that? and the lack of care for intersectionality was obvious. i stopped ever watching him after he took it personally that some marvel show was about black exploitation in america and not about two men kissing each other, cuz it became abundantly clear that was the only experience he gave a shit about (his own)

[ghostcrows]

i'm fucking aging out of youtube or whatever target audience i used to be a part of i swear to god because half my feed now i just go i dont CAAAARRRRE i'm twenty five years old i dont CARE.

[ssaseaprince]

GOD Hannibal has truly fucked up my ability to ever consume media normally again. I was reading an interview RSL gave where he was describing Wilson as morally grey, and saying how he views him as actually a fairly dark person. And I was like, "Wth?? Wilson??? Obviously, he's not all baby TM, but dark??" Truly could not grasp how Wilson could be dark.

I was like, "So what, he cheats on multiple wives, and enables his law breaking best friend, who's drug addiction he also regularly funds and supports. Obviously, he's not a great person and does many unethical things, but that's bad enough to be considered dark?" Was literally scratching my head thinking it's not like he murders and guts and eats people. Now that's dark.

I really had to stop myself, like babe, that is not a good way to measure things. The entire show Hannibal is literally insane. Those men are batshit crazy. That's not a good gauge for anything 😭😭

[quillkiller]

my dad died sort of very abruptly on friday and ive been home with my family since tuesday (when he had to go to the ER) and now im planning a funeral with my sister. but im back at my apartment now for a few days and i think im coming back online:))

[writhe]