#it feels thematically Complete to me

[novantinuum]

it is literally So funny to me how many people are going apecrap on twitter about Ian retweeting a recent "revive steven universe" poll post with an eyes emoji like. that means Nothing, people. he is just jotting down notes of general fan interest, i am sure.

ESPECIALLY in this dark day and age of shitty treatment of animation workers- i supremely doubt that there is any secret, significant progress being made on some SU revival right now.

[madbard]

Normal person: “So, do you ship Sifloop or do you enjoy them as a freaky and fascinating metaphor for the complex interplay between self-hatred and self-love?”

Me: “…yes.”

[bixels]

The more I think about it, the more I question Arcane S2's politics and themes, which were so foundational to S1. Like, a tiny example [SPOILERS AHEAD]:

Singed wins. He gets exactly what he wants in the end. All his "efforts" are rewarded. What does that say about people who share his ideology of eugenics? He is the source of nearly every horrible thing and conflict that happened (Shimmer, the factory deaths, Jinx, Vander as Warwick, the corruption of Viktor), and he gets a happier ending than any other character. Not even a 'he got what he wanted but he has become completely unrecognizable/monstrous to his daughter' tag at the end. You can say they're setting him up and need to open his daughter to future shows, but the way you end a character's story says something about what you think about that character. What does it say when the eugenicist war criminal gets the happy ending he doesn't deserve?

[vaguely-concerned]

godddddddddddd the vibes/agonizing Cinematique Parallels & Contrasts between taash and a romanced lucanis when harding sacrifices herself are just. unspeakable. and excruciating. they keep going through the same experiences, but taash repeatedly watches lucanis get back what he thought he'd lost, disbelievingly, in ways he would never have dared to hope for in his wildest dreams if it had even occurred to him to do so or have those. while they just. don't. nothing ever comes back for them. lucanis gets his tama back he gets rook back he even gets to keep his cousin in some fashion any way it shakes out. and how on earth could you ever begrudge him any of that for even a moment, especially if you had to see his eyes every day while rook was gone. but also here you stand with your empty hands and your burned-out ruin of a heart with nothing to show for all your love but grief and ash. what do you say to each other after something that. what could you possibly say to each other. what the fuck. what the hell.

there are some incredibly painful and difficult things that can happen between all these people even when no one is acting with anything but the best of intentions every step of the way, and it's such a good theme that keeps breaking through in the writing in this game. it doesn't matter if it's true (because of course it isn't, it's just an illogical but understandable emotional reaction), the guilty feeling that your happiness is at the expense of the happiness of someone else you care about is always lurking. we are inextricably linked. for good, and for ill. joy and regret unavoidably intertwined -- you don't get one fully without the other. and taash truly gets. mostly regret, depending on what you do. jesus christ.

also this is why I don't mind the 'lack of conflict' between the main cast at all. that's the fucking point. horrible and heartwrenching things can still happen between people without active malice or harmful intentions or even fundamental disagreements ever entering into it at all. isn't that awful? isn't that painful to sit with? that you can mean no harm and still cause it, even -- sometimes especially -- to people you love? doesn't it fill you with a very specific kind of dread that actions however well-intentioned have consequences you couldn't have forseen but have to live with now anyway and you won't always be the one to pay the price; that's not under your control?

[thegreatyin]

i am legitimately tempted to let the scoundrel lose her soul. not permanently, but just as like. An Incident™, y'know. a one-off goof. a gag, if you will

[penderbend]

going back to s3 malevolent and good LORD this shit is so good. forgot how absolutely insane it is. easily my fav season (though i do love me my medieval jaunts) this just has something mixed in it thats so damn captivating

[greyedian]

MAN I'm seriously so sad about season 2. Bc I wish act 2 had the same emotional impact on me as it appears to have on so many others. But rn I'm just somewhere between unable to care and actively annoyed by some of those writing decisions. Seriously the more I think about it the less I like it.

[deadmegumi]

defending incest is so crazy i don’t care how you try to rationalize it!!!!!! nobody gaf about it being in the media but y’all creaming yourselves over a child & parent having sexual encounters is DISGUSTING. idgaf and who are you to tell victims how to fell about it ??? quickly!!!! people are rightfully allowed to be upset over incest you freak. you lot romanticizing it is ridiculous begging to see lestat fuck claudia… begging to see a child & parent have sex…. yes i actually do think you should kill yourself if you do!

1. “fiction has no effect on reality” all the war propaganda we learn about cmon now, you truly don’t believe that. literally just look up the normalization effect in media

& idc what any of you say you wouldn’t scream “i love incest” with your full chest in real life bc you already know

Okay im pretty sure this is what you're pressed about which 1. It's hilarious you're not set enough in your convictions to respond to me publicly on twitter but instead had to find my tumblr and anonymously tell me to kill myself and 2. I never expressed my interest in seeing that kind of content whatsoever because I... dont interact with or want to see that content. Which I think is pretty clearly explained in my thread... in which all I did was point out that iwtv is a gothic text of which incest has been a common motif in since the genre's inception in 1764. Also pretty funny to say "you wouldn't scream I love incest irl" which like yeah I wouldn't but 7.8 million people tuned into hotd. My mom ships helaemond. Because. It's fictional

[daydreamerdrew]

All-New Captain America (2015) #4 and #2-4 and #6

[razzledazzle-pop]

10.10.2024 - Cool down sketch (she's been on my mind again the last couple of days...Felt cute, might finish it later 😋🌟💫).

[decepti-geek]

that excellent pride and prejudice post setting my brain alight has unfortunately only spiralled me back into anger at the BBC austen documentary which somehow managed to finagle the summary of Mansfield Park to make it appear that Fanny is sent away from the house for condemning the fact that her uncle is a slaveowner

[danothan]

I like to think of halbarry as two gay men who haven't come to terms with their sexuality and complete denial bc of their trauma and bullying

like what you said in flashpoint paradox where in that timeline he got the support system and no trauma I think

I think it makes sense to me them being gay than bi/pan. etc

oh this could not have come at a worse time, i’m drawing the most bisexual halbarryisms in the world rn 💔

[note-boom]

We kind of lucked out that BSD came before the isekai boom. Can you imagine telling someone that one of your favourite animangas is something like 'I rescued a guy committing suicide from the river and discovered I was a tiger all along!'?

[robotsafari]

i know riku was pointing at sora’s heart in that one kh2 scene because wordless storytelling is a virtue (and unfortunately becomes straight up nonexistent in modern kh) and like the audience already knows, they dont need to spell it out and its also just a very riku thing to do but…..

can i say something. it’s probably not canon at all but i always found it strange how riku-ansem’s voice went back to riku after the reveal that it was riku. it feels strange, like could he always do this? switch his voices back?

the way riku stays silent most of the time feels like he doesn’t even want to hear ansem’s voice come out of him. but the pointing part with sora (and many other scenes) feels like he only speaks when he finds it necessary, which doesnt feel necessary now that his voice is back to normal, because thats what we hear, and that should be true.. unless you think of it this way:

headcanon: riku’s voice coming out of riku-ansem can only be heard by sora and kairi (and by extension, the audience) after feeling his heart’s connection. (the thing where they closed their eyes and felt his heart)

i like to think that to anyone else he still sounds like ansem, including.. to riku himself. so he does the same as before, because to him, nothing has changed. he feels that hes still not himself, even after his friends know that its him now.

[shirogane-oushirou]

wah...

love to come back from an intense, angsty daydream like

anyway. baking something yummy for ren in my mind now. wrapping him in a warm blanket and handing him some hot chocolate. sjkdnfkjn.

[jasontoddsno1simp]

DC literally did this with Cheer. That was literally the fucking point of Cheer. It is insane to me that JT fans are the ones who get accused of not reading comics but people will say this with their whole chest.

I'm sorry, WHAT?

Firstly, Jason already knows this. What makes you think Jason, the kid who was a THIEF out of NECESSITY, whose father was a criminal to SUPPORT HIS FAMILY, doesn't know that "sometimes criminals have no choice"? Yeah no fucking shit.

Second, that IS what DC has been doing. All they've been doing is misinterpret Jason's morality and try to teach him 'the value of human life!!' and 'criminals can be redeemed!!' as if that's what his ideology was opposed to.

Jason Todd how misunderstood you are..