#it would be fucking world war 3

[scattered-winter]

The whole thing with henren being completely ignored by the fandom is the reason why I can't take most takes on buddie canon and buddie queerbaiting seriously tbh. So many people complain that Fox is CoWaRdLy for not making buddie canon already and that they are QuEeRbAiTiNg for simply showing buck and eddie smile at each other like two human beings sometimes do (the things friends apparently never do according to the buddie fandom is long), and i'm flabbergasted by that. wdym Fox is "not brave enough to make buddie canon" lmfao? i could see their point if the show had given us absolutely zero queer representation, but the 911 universe as a whole does have (1) henren as a canon gay ship since day one, (2) michael, his coming out, and the story with his bf, (3) multiple more canon queer minor characters and ships (coffee shop gays? the old gay couple?), (4) tarlos as a big canon gay ship, (5) nancy as a canon bisexual, and (6) paul as a canon trans man... you have queer rep! it's right there! at this point, i think they have to ignore existing queer rep because it reveals how shaky their arguments about buddie-still-not-canon are. if you cannot blame the studio or the producers or the writers for not being "brave" or "woke" enough to write queer stories because they do in fact write queer stories, you inevitably have to face the fact that maaaybe buck and eddie were never written to be gay and become a couple.

I do agree with most of your points here but I do admit that, to me at least, it very much seems like buck and eddie are heading in that direction even if that wasn't the intent at first. there have been enough instances of subtle nods to the fact that, whether it be strictly platonic or not, they're definitely seen as the other's Partner (particularly in scenes where bobby is paired with athena and chim with maddie and hen with karen) BUT I mean. it could be platonic. or a qpr. or a nod to romance. the truth is, I don't really know, and neither does anyone else in this fandom. all we have is what's in front of us, and at the point we're at right now I can see it going in either direction. but that's all just what I, specifically, am taking from it so who can say

BUT PUTTING ALL THAT ASIDE. it's sooo insane to me how the 911 universe can have so much queer rep (GOOD queer rep. RESPECTFUL queer rep. BEAUTIFUL queer rep.) like all the characters u mentioned and yet such a large demographic of the fandom is COMPLETELY blind to it because their 2 male faves haven't fucked nasty onscreen yet. queerbaiting as a fandom term is already sooo often taken out of context but in this case!?!?!? girl I don't even think we're watching the same SHOW.

(I also think it's a classic case of the idea that queer rep = romantic relationship which while its INCREDIBLE to see henren and all the other queer couples, it's also SO IMPORTANT to have trans voices (like paul). and aro voices. and ace voices. so even if there's any canon evidence for either buck or eddie being queer in some way without it leading to buddie, it won't satisfy the fandom because too often, being queer and single Isn't Good Enough)

[mohntilyet]

Personal headcanon about the "you picked the wrong dellamorte" line, I don't think illario actually likes rook outside the context of them being someone close to lucanis. Like rook on their own isn't much to him, but when they meet it's yet another person talking about his cousin (why isn't he good enough for whatever job they're hiring for?) and on top of that they somehow bring him back from the dead (another whole can of worms for illario). Now he starts turning on the charm, but whether he's actually interested or this is just one more thing his cousin has that he doesn't and it gets under his skin, who knows. Either way, rook ignores illario, the guy who lives off his charm, and is instead interested in the guy who's never even dated before and thinks giving someone a knife is how to flirt. Infuriating

NO THANK YOU !! i am genuinely sorry if i have ever implied illario is into rook like i see some takes about it and unless it like ties into your rook's personal backstory i don't seriously think he's romantically jealous. at all. my enjoyment of that line stems from illario's pathological need to make it about himself and not see his strengths but what lucanis has, and therefore what he doesn't. he's annoyed enough to try and goad you in the middle of a fight about the 'wrong' dellamorte and completely blind to the fact that the venatori are at best, a stupid fucking alliance, and at worst, a cult that will devour the crows from the inside out and illario would have been the one to give them the keys. he sees lucanis make allies, needs his own, and instead of charming the other talons/houses as he should, he (probably spitefully) picks the venatori. or maybe he just thought it would be easier. ugh he makes me want to telekenetically throw him around

[hella1975]

i cannot stand the aot fandom this is not a new take at all they are universally intolerable but oh my dayssss u are FORBIDDEN from making ANY take about the show it's actually insane to watch. 'aot is perfect' no show is perfect. 'tell me you didnt get the show 😂🫵' people have different opinions/interpretations about things. 'eren is a good guy they could never make me hate him' i think there's actually 4 seasons and two movies explicitely using him as a tool to show that no one is 'good' or 'evil' they are only trying to survive. hello. the fandom r all so far up aot's ass that they actually discredit its writing in the process and it would be laughable if it wasn't so frustrating

[engagemythrusters]

no bc a large reason i was instantly drawn to the Walmart Echo was because he WOULD be a walmart employee

all these modern AUs where the clones are cops or lawyers or whatever are missing the Big Thing about the clones in canon: they come from nothing, earn nothing, and die with nothing. They don't make money (i think?), they have very little rights, and they're fucking expendable.

You know what that is in real life now? That's the fuckin working class! That's minimum wage, no benefits, no overtime! Your front desk attendants, your cashiers, your stockers, your servers, your retail associates!

not to mention, the clones are men of colour, and a large portion of them becoming disabled (via physical disability or PTSD or what-have-you)... you think they're easily finding jobs? And in THIS economy? I hid my disability, played pretend, and I'm still makin jack squat. I've got privilages they don't have! I have a degree--they wouldnt have gotten formal educations in this universe!

in Star Wars, the clones are taken advantage of the whole damn time. you think it's gonna be any different in the real world?

now obviously people break through and stuff. some clones would, too. but by and large... society is made of working class. clones are blue collar through and through and damn its actually nice to see it.

[zeb-z]

I think Arthur Bennett and Harlem Shade should meet. They’re so similar yet so different - shadow power users with a flair for the dramatics. If you put them in the same room only one would make it out, I think

[daisyachain]

The nature of time is that (culturally) Christian Euro/Anglo colonial consumers (hereafter white ‘people’) fetishize the idea of being ‘close to nature’ or ‘primitive’ or ‘savage’ and latch on to the idea that there are groups of people in the world who are somehow bestial or who have some kind of special powers from holding animist beliefs/beliefs that acknowledge the body as opposed to the Christian belief that the body is a kind of useless appendage to a person. We see this across decades from the 19thC to today in the racist fetishization of indigenous people across the globe, particularly residents of the Americas, Australasia, and southern/eastern Africa.

White consumers use a warped conception of other cultures to live out the fantasies that the Christian soul/body stuff engenders. You keep getting told that your emotions and physical sensations are the devil’s work? You want to get in touch with those physical sensations, but you don’t want it to interfere with your worldview? Simply project them on to a convenient group of people with slightly different conventions from you. Imagine how cool it would be to be 100% physical sensation (especially those pesky violent and/or sexual urges) and no mental burden, then unleash that in a way that causes millions of deaths worldwide via the dehumanization of entire nations of people just trying to live their lives. White consumers love a Proud Warrior Race Guy.

Flash forward to the 2010s, it’s generally considered impolite to spread the same propaganda that justified the genocide and dispossession of many different groups of people. However white culture hasn’t changed that much and normal human activities still need to be explained away to maintain the veneer of white intellectualism that has been used to justify white violence for years and years. You can’t just stomp around and clap your hands and dance badly, you’ve got to project it somewhere else.

But wait! There’s a community of people considered ‘tribal’ and ‘savage’, considered violent and bestial, who were never colonized! It’s…the Norse. Fetishizing early medieval North Sea raiders can’t be cultural appropriation, see, they’re white! It’s not offensive to replace an entire culture with white (male) ideas of what’s cool if that culture is totally unassociated with colonizer stereotypes and is in fact a culture of colonizers!

And that’s my theory on why there are so many Norse-inspired folk bands/video games/tv shows/memes/literally anything in the 2010s. VSaga not counted because that manga has been running since 2003 and is actually well-researched and comes out of a culture with a similar but distinct tradition of racism. The Euro storytelling tendencies of needing some kind of violent avatar have taken on ye anciente Norseman now that people care a little bit about the gallons of blood used to sketch other ethnic stereotypes. Done and dusted. Except the other side is that the fetishization of early medieval Norse culture is literally just white supremacist 101 and a lot of artists don’t step around that nearly as carefully as they should

[martyrbat]

hm hm hm i feel like this will be really interesting to read with the knowledge of korra and how that effected her instead.... because korra (from my limited knowledge so i could be talking out my ass here) knew she was the avatar at an early age and DID get that community. she had katara and her parents, she had her mentors, she was isolated from the real world during so and perfected the elements other than air (which i kinda recall her struggling with and how its the opposite element of earth so im excited to see if those kinda play out :3) and she was more eager to be the avatar and the excitement and significance it brought (which was a bit clouded by her being sheltered but also would have been expected more before the war impacted things)

i also remember matty saying kyoshi struggled with earth bending (which im super excited to get to and see/see her journey and how it will differ) but!!! i just think its really fun how theyre kinda off the bat setting up this expectation and new grounding for readers who have a past grasp of the avatar universe. even as someone who isnt super familiar with the lore, i know enough to recognize that oh! thats something new!! so just kudos to the writer(s?) for just setting this up to be something very different and in a natural way :3

[br1ghtestlight]

this is so funny to me actually bcuz this is 100% how i talk abt my characters ages. i know what YEAR they were born and i know what rheir ages are supposed to be at the start of the story but i dont actually know when it takes place?? im really bad at math. There was a moment where rainbow was supposed to be 23 and i somehow accidentally made her 17 lmfao

[crowcryptid]

Certified florida moment.

[arolesbianism]

I wish So Bad that I could confidently recommend lob corp and library of ruina to people because they're both genuinely rly good games and I also need ppl I know to understand the insanity that is project moon but like godddd they are a fucking Investment. Both in time and in brainpower. I generally think ppl exaggerate how hard lob corp is but it's certainly not easy and when it does get hard it gets HARD. Also it literally requires at least one day 1 reset (basically a new game+) to fully beat the game and at this point I've done at least 10. And for lor I'm not nearly as far in and I'm just scratching the surface of the real game but it's a beast of its own. Also 100+ hours and also hard as hell. Like this game does not fuck around with its difficulty spikes it will make you use your brain and it will give you a damn headache in the process. It's also one of my favorite card combat games I've ever played with mechanics that just so beautifully complement each other to create a dynamic and interesting battle system that gives it a completely different vibe and feeling than any other deck builder games I've played to the point where it almost feels wrong to me to categorize them together. But also I am not even slightly joking abt the headache thing every time I play this damn game I close it with a horrible headache and have to take a multi day break. I think everyone should experience this with me <3

[soulless-angel25]

I've been working on my doctor who fic, so I have to re-watch the episodes. And i just finished re-watching world war 3. And oooohhhh my heart. We get 9 saying "I could save the world, but lose you." And then he and Rose stare at each other.

And for some reason I completely forget the last like 6-8 minutes of the episode but that's cause the adventure was over so i was genuinely surprised at the end. Since I completely forgot that 9 actually offered to Mickey the chance to travel in the TARDIS to 'keep an eye on rose' and mickey said no and then asked him to not tell rose he said no. And then rose said he could come with them ad that they have space and mickey looked at the Doctor and 9 just said that mickeys not allowed on and mickey looked so fucking thankful.

[clingyduoapologist]

I need to know how you feel about Jet from atla

I LOVE JET 5EVER AND EVER

[zombinary]

me: oh hey that person uploaded their winter king animatic lets check it out

me: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[hauntingblue]

THEY TOOK ACE'S CUNTY BOOTS AND GAVE HIM SOME FUCKING LOAFERS!!!! THAT SHOULD GET !!!THEM!!! EXECUTED

[meggydolaon]

Sometimes I wanna talk about my silly little aus, unfortunately I am

1) not very coherent

2) feeling like I "don't have enough to show for it"

3) filled with delusions of grandeur that I will write said au perfectly and present it fully formed with aplomb

4) shy 🥺👉👈

[arolesbianism]

I have obtained a new oc and in the process I've already signed myself up for needing to make at least 3 new ocs for his story which he now has despite me initially Intending for him to be a side character for a different side character to hang out with. My townhouse has over 200 characters on it.