#it kinda exaggerates that

[cosmictap]

Eating ice cream at midnight instead of coping with the realisation that you truly cannot fall in love with people are therefore will always be missing something that everyone else has

[molathesunfish]

assorted lcb art

[dkettchen]

she would've told them unlike her canon! version who decided not to be an ally smh

[alicentsgf]

lmao im tired of people pretending like shauna wasnt already getting voted Most Likely To Bite Someone even pre-crash like she was only soft-playdough-shauna with jackie, for everyone else it was one wrong move and you got your pillow peed on. this girl got just a little frustrated over jackie at that party and immediately started a brawl just to feel something. its what makes shauna being in love with jackie so fucking obvious tbh, all jackie had to do was pout and shes got this human attack helicopter melting into a gooey puddle. no wonder no one else directly said anything to jackie when she was slacking on chores, her scary dog privileges were working overtime. especially since the scary dog suddenly had a big goddamn knife.

[beif0ngs]

C'mon heart, beat loudly again! 💓

[potatobugz]

kai is a transmasc disaster. the most cringefail guy that ever lived. do you see my vision

[ventique18]

(My) 🐉🌸 according to the whispering public:

"Poor girl, doomed to be that devil's pet. At least he seems to favor her much... She must be especially good at warming his bed."

"What are you talking about? If I get to live in luxury without having to work a day in my life, I'd even bark and roll over like a dog, haha!"

How they actually are:

🐉: "Beloved... I hear the ice cream truck."

🌸: "Alright, go get my purse."

[meowmeow1meow]

dude anytime i think of this the smell mustve been so insane

[szilverer]

y'know... for a setting that places so much importance in Language and does so many ice cool things playing with it (Correspondence/Discordance, Parabola & Irem, etc) i think there's a bit of a missed opportunity when it comes to the terms and words people use in their day to day life... like for example:

do you think radical revolutionaries would avoid words like "enlightening" in their vocabulary and flip them for LON-appropriate counterparts to signal their beliefs?

like substituting the word "light" with "blight". lol

similarly, pet names relating to light like "sunshine" kinda have a whole extra flavour tied to them, leaning into nostalgia, melancholy and/or danger depending on the people using it. irony, even

"honey" as a pet name also has extra connotations now and might actually bother some people instead due to the association with the drug...

do you think SMEN, taboo as it is, and seeking being a recognizable phenomenon even to the common londoner, would spawn swear words and insults? (imagine the weight of telling someone to Go Seek or Fall Down a Well)

the word "well" itself. well as an adverb, interjection, adjective. just. think about it. think about what it represents. idk something is happening to this word for sure

[whybirdinspace]

Every Hollow Knight player experience is either

"Lmao it was so confusing and boring I couldn't get past the first area"

Or

"This game has forever changed how I work on a psychological level and it's the best game I've ever played"

With no in between

[therealkaidertrash21]

Kai when Cinder didn't laugh at his joke:

[mostoverstimulatedgirl]

my trick is to be so silly and approachable and then when were friends you realize things about me that would get you excommunicated from several friend groups just knowing me

[moonshynecybin]

idk how to formulate this exactly but i don't think that marc was under much pressure from his parents, at least not financially. you have to remember that 1) from 2002(when marc was 9) two brothers became his sponsors and basically paid for everything that concerned racing(helmet, all the equipment, entry fees i imagine). i do think he was under so much pressure to perform and fullfil their expectations and 2) his father(idk about his mother) was still working in marc's first years in the championship(i'm not sure until when but definitely in 2008 and 2009, as marc was traveling alone with emilio). i saw some people say that 'his family depended on him since he was 15' but i don't think that's true, firstly bc his father(parents?) was still working and i don't think marc made that much(he said that he basically did first 3 season for nothing and only made real money in moto 2)

first off i didnt know some of this stuff about emilio/his sponsorship stuff, so thanks for sharing its good food for thought in this arena and lends some nuance to the situation. sick. i AMMMM going to defend at least part of my interpretation here bc i yam who i yam, but in short i think there is a pretty undeniable financial insecurity (or at least AWARENESS of financial insecurity) through marc's childhood, that i decided using my own god given right to use armchair psychology on athletes had an impact on him! i agree with you that marc's parents didnt put any pressure on him-- everyone freely admits that, like i dont think it was a thing where roser and julia sat him down and said 'you are our only shot' or anything:

BUT at the same time, theyve also all been very candid about being blue collar workers in a sport that is pretty expensive, especially when marc and alex were younger: (x) (x)

i will also admit that i couldnt find a source for them losing their jobs in the 2008 financial crisis-- i think i read that on tumblr a long time ago and assimilated it into my brain so shame on me if its wrong cuz i looked pretty hard lol... but i WILL say that even if marc was never pressured by his parents, and even if he had a lot of his costs as a teen covered by sponsors, i dont think that excludes the crux of my initial argument from being a possibility: that marc was aware of his family's less than ironclad financial status and that it may have helped motivate him to succeed in a specific way that fed into his baseline i-cried-everytime-i-lost-as-a-child-tendencies. like im not saying its his sole motivator (god no. hes organically insane) or this deep wound he carries inside of himself, more something that informs how hes moved through his career (defending his move to andorra in the thick of the tax scandal thing by saying hes a young athlete who doesnt know how long his career will last which kind of implies he wants to pay less taxes to keep his money that he earned, and not getting a sportscar or flashing a lot of his money all the time both come to mind-- granted there are other marc personality factors at play here, but i dont think it hurts my argument lol). like growing up without much money kinda sticks with you. is all i was saying. like its literally a reason julia gives for why his kids are so obsessed with each other to this day. which i think is INTERESTING IS ALLLL

[michi-chelle-draws]

inktober 2024 - day 9

[stromblessed]

pretty much all analysis naming Mel any kind of "flawed" character, villain, or as problematic in any way, is terrible analysis. which is a phenomenon that goes against all my instincts but it is so real all the energy and interest I possess leaves my body every time

the thing is, Mel is a hero, Mel's intentions in season 1 are not as pure as the driven snow, Mel benefited from class divide pre-canon and during canon, yet Mel would have benefited from war and colonialism pre-canon only for her to reject it, she is both noticeably "nice" to all the protagonists in season 2 and removed from most of the plot, she is so many things because of her story and because of her writers and (unfortunately) because of the fandom -

and these "nuanced" analyses of her flaws and negative impact on the narrative are worthless

i can't even explain it. i get one sentence in and it immediately sucks. doesn't matter how true or technically correct the words are. i would rather read my linear algebra textbook and make a fandom for eigenvectors than engage with any level of Mel "criticism" no matter how mild. it could be one sentence in an otherwise long and carefully thought-out essay and i will quit that thing faster than my anxiety medication makes me fall asleep

the fandom or the writers can call Mel a manipulator, a liar, a capitalist, a billionaire, a seductress, "benefiting from zaun just like all the privileged characters", "kind of mean that one time, she should've been more polite" - whatever anyone can dream up - as many times as they want, and it won't be anything the entire fandom hasn't seen approximately 1,000 times since 2021. and it won't be anything every person who consumes any kind of media hasn't seen approximately 10,000 times since we each took our first breath in this world - when that media has women in it

why push this same analysis over and over again. what do you get out of this. does it make everybody feel smart to point out the obvious without bothering to go even one level deeper. do you think it makes her character more interesting to equate well-recognized surface-level negative tropes with negative morality, even when all of those tropes are either actively subverted or massively outweighed by her true role in the story? (it doesn't.) no amount of pointing at and highlighting and underlining Mel's morality or lack thereof will make her any less of an interesting character worth loving and engaging with, and she is probably the most interesting character in the entire show even considering season 2. it won't make the other characters around her "better" by comparison either. nor will it make competing ships more compelling or more justified

[laugtherhyena]

Ena the freakers