#including my own mother

[from-ib-to-asshai]

controversial take and i in no way wanna take away from queer brienne headcanons, but i think its actually kinda cool and good if brienne is straight and cis. i think it's important that we have masculine women characters that are straight as well as queer mascline women characters because that is real life baby!! the same way you can't look at every feminine man and call him gay for that either, because thats not how sexuality works at all.

i think there is that correlation tho due to the fact that queer people are usually more willing and open to gnc presentation due to already being, you know, gnc to begin with, but i always wonder how many more non-queer identifying people we would see presenting more openly as gnc if we stopped trying to correlate the two things (i see a lot of jokes about it on tiktok by queer people that kinda pisses me off)

anyways, back to the babygirl at hand: a worse writer would have written brienne to be cold, hard and masculine on the outside, and then having a soft, feminine inside hidden away (which is also honestly what i first thought of he was going for when reading her first few mentions) but she just straight up is not that. her "masculine" associated traits of her strength, her honor and bravery segway flawlessly into her "feminine" associated traits of being caring, kind and gentle. they coexist on the same level because these aren't masculine or feminine traits, these are just straight up her traits. it has little relevance to her how these traits are sided up since she is so strongly led by her sense of what is right. to live the life she wants to she had to give those notions up; to become her true self she had to give those up.

brienne is not feminine "in spite" of her masculine presentation, nor is she masculine "despite" her femininity: she is brienne and a fantastic human being in spite and despite the feminity and masculinity everyone else tries to force her to be, or percieves her as.

sozs if this is very rambly and not quite coherent

[lotus-pear]

free will is drawing ur two favorite characters together and making them gay

[dandelionsandderivatives]

I cannot STAND Mr. Rochester.

Personally I think he might have been reformed to my liking, had the story gone on a bit longer, but as it is he didn't get enough reformation for me to believe it fully. Trying to save his mad wife from a fire is surely a fine thing, but I simply don't feel confident that he's truly reformed. I don't, for example, feel sure that he wouldn't tire of Jane in time. Jane, sweetie, you deserve better. Better a dinner of herbs and spinsterhood than living with a man who had no qualms about marrying you bigamously without your knowledge or consent.

Finished Jane Eyre and would like to gain some general data, just out of curiosity

If none of these apply at all, you're free to abstain and tell me why in the notes—I just thought trying to sum up the spectrum of opinions usefully was hard enough without adding an easy "other" option.

[burst-of-iridescent]

seeing the same people who complained that zutara fandom adultified katara & insisted that she was just as much of a child in the show as the rest of the gaang now having a meltdown over some vague ass interviews that might imply katara is no longer taking as much of a motherly role in the live action because “it ruins her character”… funny, i thought yall said zutara shippers were just making that up?

[mishy-mashy]

3 reasons I can think of, for why the first Three vestiges were too hard to find information on

[Reason 1]

The time they were born in.

Their births, and any records of them, could just be completely undocumented or non-existent.

They were born in times where systems and governments were down, and it's everyone for themselves.

People aren't going to register their existence, especially the Metas, when they all want to stay under the radar and hide from everyone else.

If you're in the middle of a war zone that spread to where you live, and your baby brother was just born, are you really going to go [Oh no! I have to register his birth for that sweet sweet child tax!]?

Or something like that. But still.

There are more important things, like survival, than registering a baby's birth and going through hospital paperwork. And it's been explicitly stated that the first appearance of Abilities caused a Great Depression all over Japan.

The government is gone. There's no point in registering anything anymore.

Yoichi was literally born at a riverside, and never went to a hospital. By the time the first Three are toddlers / young children, Japan is already chaos and up in flames.

Children are actively avoided because they're the most likely to be Meta Humans. No one wants anything to do with them.

Chances are, the records about the first Three never existed, or were destroyed in all the strife.

Or maybe, if some did exist, Kudo destroyed them. I can see him doing that, to protect themselves from AFO or anyone else having the chance to track their personal histories down.

It makes them ghosts. Exactly what would be best for not only their own survival, but anyone affiliated with them. Like family. It makes them untraceable, and invisible to bodies of old authority.

[Reason 2]

The three were a part of the Resistance. They could've kept information about themselves under lock and key, to protect themselves.

Like how Kudo is referred to as Leader, and never by his real name. Even in the void, up to the very end, Bruce still says "Leader" to address him.

I actually HC them as using codenames in the Resistance, exactly to protect themselves from each other, and outsiders. This makes Yoichi an anomaly among them, for going by his real name. Meanwhile,

Leader, Boss = their leader

Bruce = a reference to his Quirk

Codenames about their Meta Abilities, or roles in their cause, to better remember whose nickname belonged to who.

Outsiders won't know the Resistance members' real names. The Resistance can't betray each other by selling each other out for personal information as easily, if no one knows each other's actual names.

At the same time, this alienates them from who they are, and their humanity. They have to make tough choices that would classify them as monsters. And they're locking themselves under a false name.

They're protecting themselves from everything and everyone, including themselves. At least the person committing all these atrocities is [CODENAME], not me.

[Reason 3]

Bruce, when he was supposed to pass previous information to Shinomori, couldn't.

Maybe he didn't have enough time to tell Shinomori the whole story.

Or maybe he did, and passed on the previous holders' histories, but Shinomori didn't pass those on himself.

Or maybe reminiscing Yoichi and Leader as actual people just broke him, and he could only stick to the bare minimum of the history of this Factor.

Notably, the OFA story is known as "All For One's younger brother was sickly and frail, but he had a strong sense of justice."

We never, ever hear Yoichi's name in the spoken history of OFA. All Might couldn't even get their names. And since AFO hides himself so easily, and birth records just don't exist for him as an undocumented birth, Yoichi legally doesn't exist even as a birth.

Bruce is the first one to find the existence of Yoichi's "unformed dud". The Factor that let him pass on his current Quirk to others. How could the information of that dud be passed on, if not from Bruce?

Somewhere, the information breaks during Bruce or Shinomori's turn with OFA.

Bruce never passed on their names. Or maybe Shinomori didn't. But their names weren't necessary to pass on anymore. All Might only managed to dredge what he could, starting from the time society started trying to stand on its feet. Exactly because that's as far as the records went.

[Reason 2] could add credence to why the first Three's names were never passed on. Bruce could've kept quiet about Yoichi and Leader's personal details, not just to help himself stay together, but to protect anything they might've left behind.

[motof1bfs]

forget to tell the world i bought a custom flag with this design, made by me ofc

[archersartcorner]

Totally understand this isn’t everyone’s thing, but unfortunately for y’all I love fucked up family dynamics, SO

[bratbarzal]

worlds nico and what would be poppy’s first Mother’s Day are just two queens coming together to maximize their joint slay (inspiration)

I always forget mother’s day in the uk is different to the rest of the world so I didn’t plan for this lmao!!!! but I have a very firm idea of how she spends her first mother’s day!!

I think she probably wouldn’t go out to europe until the end of worlds like when she was pregnant, so her and nico aren’t together - but he arranges a lot of gifts and surprises for her!!

there’s some scenes in the next chapter where he colludes with nia to arrange something for poppy so he’d do the same!!

she’ll start off facetiming him in the morning, and cos it’s an off day for him he’s there for cheeto’s whole morning routine, gets to watch her eat her breakfast and hear her keep babbling “dada” bc babies are sneaky and will just say dada for ages lmao

and then nia will arrive with a coffee for poppy so she can watch cheeto while poppy has a shower and stuff and then while she’s showering nia brings in a load of flowers and decorates the apartment to surprise her!!

and they all have a girls day together!! wearing matching or colour co-ordinated outfits and take cheeto to brunch and go shopping at the farmers market or smth or like picnic in the park bc of course the sun is shining on poppy’s first mother’s day!!

and then they’ll all go round to poppy’s parents and celebrate with her mum too!!

and as much as she probably wishes nico was there or she was with him she doesn’t feel like she’s missing out cos he calls and checks in throughout the day and when she gets home and cheeto is all tucked in, he calls bc he stayed up late for her and has hidden a gift somewhere!!

and it’s probably a locket with cheeto in or something with her birthstone to go with poppy’s birthstone bracelet bc he’s sentimental like that!!

and when she finally meets him back in europe he picks her up from the airport with even more flowers and they have another celebration in person bc he feels bad for missing it bless him

[hazamacore]

hazama’s fashion sense 🕸️🕷️

[debbie-anniversary]

So, maybe this is just a fan theory and not officially canon, but I'm 99.09% sure that the goblin Beetleglum that shows up in the Labyrinth: Coronation comics:

Is the same goblin who tells Jareth that Sarah will never give up (far left):

They have the same oil-can hat and everything! Has anyone else noticed this?

[wonder-worker]

people really do not know what they're talking about when it comes to Elizabeth Woodville's social status, huh?

[charmingradiobelle]

I know Titanic AUs are overused and extremely corny but like. I can’t help wanting to make one for SMB. Like come on Mario and Peach are literally perfect for the love story; protective lower class guy with a sense of adventure and rich girl longing for a little freedom from the high expectations. Bowser would also be perfect for the douche bag fiancé who likes to control her because reasons

[sananaryon]

Marcille as the Elf-Queen's daughter, is that anything?

[rachymarie]

Guys how do i keep missing schizophrenia + psychosis awareness day/week!! 🤦‍♀️

But to my credit I do spend literally nearly every other day of the year going on abt schizospec and my lived experience, so in a way i guess schizospec day is kind of a chance for us to sit quiet drinking our tea and hope, usually in vain, to reap the fruits (or rather lack thereof??) of our labour i.e. watch to see who of the non-schizospec/non-psychotic around us has been paying literally any attention to our (important!!) cause (of fighting against stigma and for our rights, dignity, respect, etc) and is posting/donating in our defence/being an ally

Hope it wasn't as bad/neglectful on social media as I, a long-time practitioner of healthy skepticism, am imagining it was (crickets, tumbleweed, silence, etc). Kia kaha (stay strong 🇳🇿*)

[banished-away]

feeling slightly vindicated watching an RAS interview bc keep getting this feeling from the drizzt books that theyre very italian-american (as in, i see a lot of things i recognize from italian culture in it, but influenced and changed by american culture) and he said that he based off the culture of menzo partly on his hometown and then the sopranos/godfather which confirmed it to me

also he pronounces menzoberranzan the way i used to before someone else corrected me JKNDSKJFKDS

[lessnearthesun]

I get Chappell Roan because all the women I know who are mothers seem to violently hate it and feel miserable but I can't say that without people jumping on my ass and saying oh so you hate mothers? You think mothers don't deserve a spot in feminist spaces? Point to me where I said that. Go on