#it simply is not relevant to me

[weirwoodsugar]

i have this bit i like to do irl where i pretend i don’t know there was a game of thrones show made like any time someone mentions got i’m like oh did they make an adaptation good for them i hadn’t heard :) anyway i’m going to start doing that on here when my funny little text posts break containment and people start talking about sean bean this and season 8 that in the tags i’m just going to be like wuh?? huh?? i don’t know what you’re talking about. idk

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Lan Wangji Goes To Lotus Pier AU: Part 5: Flip Slip.

(Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 4.5)

[technicalthinker]

inspired by this post and others that have pointed similiar things out: the thing about sang-woo hunting the narrative in squid game season 2 is that he does it in two different ways

like first of all: gi-hun takes on the role of sang-woo. he does things that sang-woo did. he brings up the voting, informs about the red light/green light situation, but he also just acts more like him. gi-hun is more subdued than ever, and plays his cards closer to his chest. when his cheery friend from the outside world runs up to him he is not like himself. the friend notices but sticks to his side anyways. towards the end of the season, he gets into the "we need to make sacrifices" mindset. they need to win the game no matter the cost, the idea of winning is just different.

but also: in-ho takes on the role of young-il, who is not only similiar to sang-woo, but he's also sort of who gi-hun wished sang-woo was. intentionally or not. like they're similiar: collected, steady and focused. sort of the same hair and physicality. but young-il is also easier than sang-woo. he opens up about his situation unprompted. he'll apologize for stepping out of line. he states clearly how much he trusts gi-hun. he is the one who initiates teaming up. he asks for gi-huns opinions and plans. when young-il suggests something he checks if it's alright with gi-hun. he risks his life for others, especially the ones considered weak. young-il shares a lot of traits with sang-woo, but ultimately is not burdened or guarded in the same way. so young-il is both a stranger and something familiar to gi-hun. but also young-il is not real. not in the perfect way in-ho tries to present him. beneath it all there is that flawed and cold complicated person. gi-hun hasn't discovered that person yet, like he once discovered that side of sang-woo.

but sang-woo is still dead. he's haunting it in two different ways but also kind of a third one, which is arguably a combination of the two: he's simply a dead man and gi-hun wishes he lived. gi-hun has nightmares about his decapitated head. he looks after sang-woos mother. his money might as well be covered in sang-woo's blood. gi-hun looked up to him and admired him (feeling like he never could be as good as him, but maybe hoped). sang-woo failed and betrayed him, but was still redeemable (there was a good well-meaning person underneath but it was ripped away from him by circumstance). sang-woo was real but now he haunts the narrative and haunts gi-hun and haunts us all. but he's still dead.

[lucalicatteart]

 sculpted a strange shimmery two headed snail, speckled with wild flowers on it's shell~

[presiding]

assassins hate him! learn this one weird trick (🧱).

also relevant to newest ch. of swan song

[mossible]

happy birthday to ink theory and bottom feeders! you guys are 6 years old you're in 1st grade this year!!! yipee!!! big guys!!! to celebrate, i'm releasing the assets for a little project ive been cooking for a bit; hero mode/text box sprites for EVERY splatbands character! (yes even including ω-3)

AND THAT'S NOT ALL!

ever wanted to make something like the splatoon 2 octo expansion relationship chart, but with these guys? now you can!

all of these assets are 100% free to use, as long as credit is provided and they're not sold/used for any commercial purposes!

downloads to individual assets in multiple software formats (psd, mdp, csp, kra) are linked in the replies!

[aroaceleovaldez]

do you have any 75% god ocs?? like, children of demigods who have a godly parent

i imagine that it wouldn't be a common thing at all but mixing all of this ancestries it's really fun i love doing it, even if they end up kinda op,, sometimes that's the fun of it yknow

I would prefer to not refer to them by any percentages, because that feels extremely uncomfortable, but yes I have oc legacies who are also direct descendants of deities. I talked about Anton in a previous ask (legacy of Mars, child of Ceres), and I have a legacy of Summanus kid in the works who is also a direct descendant of a wind god, but I haven't decided who exactly yet and I only have one doodle of them because they are a Literal Baby and that one doodle is them as a toddler being tiny and babey.

So let's talk about some rogues I've been working on!

These are my waterfowl lesbians. They are born out of me learning that in some myths, the Graeae can turn into swans and I thought it'd be fun to make an Enyo & Nemesis duo who can both turn into waterfowl, plus I also wanted to make an Enyo & Lua combo kid who can just telekentically throw weapons around, because that's cool. Also just playing around with Enyo kids having fire eyes/demigods with nonhuman traits, because Yes Please. It's just fun. Knives ended up with an Odile/Black Swan theme, just cause I thought it'd be neat and I wanted her to look cool. Anser has some swan Valkyrie theming kinda sprinkled in there just for flavor, ergo the Thor legacy (also just fun for her being super loud + a personal hc of mine about Norse rogues being more common) even though she's a goose, not a swan.

I have plenty of other multi-legacy demigods as well, just not ones who are direct descendants specifically, because a.) I always find it fun to think of how powers and themes would mesh, and b.) I actually have a very specific headcanon that multi-legacies are super common in the First and Second cohorts, due to the whole their-families-are-more-likely-to-live-in-New-Rome thing.

I've actually been bouncing around an idea recently of Roman demigods who are children of lares, because there is mythological precedent for that and technically they are house gods. It's just the mortal parent is probably a New Rome citizen and that's sure to get awkward quick some way or another. There's no way a lar parent can not end up awkward, which is hilarious. I also have a fun OC whose concept is based on the idea of two mortals who moved to New Rome with their demigod partners but one way or another ended up single again and then married each other and had a completely mortal kid who just. Grew up in New Rome and joined the legion anyways. I'm just a big fan of getting really funky with riordanverse ocs.

[elany]

[bidokja]

I was joking a while back that the actor they have playing KDJ for the orv movie was too handsome for him and a friend who's read orv was like "KDJ is actually secretly attractive!!" And I just felt my soul leave my body right then

SIGHS...

Okay. Buckle in. I'm gonna finally actually address and explain and theorize about this whole...thing.

I'm not gonna cite any exact chapters cause it's like 11:30 and I've got an 8 hour drive in the morning but I'll at least make an approximate reference to where certain things are mentioned. Also, this post is just my personal interpretation for a good bit of it, but it's an interpretation I feel very solid about, so do with that what you will. Moving on to the meat of things:

There is one (1) instance in the web novel that I know of which describes specific features of Kim Dokja (especially ones other people notice). This takes place when members of KimCom are trying to make Kim Dokja presentable to give his speech at the Industrial Complex (after it's been plopped down on Earth). This is when they start really paying attention and focusing on Kim Dokja's appearance since they're putting makeup on him; I still don't think they can interpret his whole face, but they can accurately pick out and retain more features than usual. If I remember correctly they reference him having long eyelashes, smooth skin, and soft hair. These features can be viewed as (stereotypically) attractive.

Certain parts of the fandom have taken this scene and run with it at a very surface level, without realizing (or without acknowledging at the very least) that this scene is not about how Kim Dokja looks. This is, in part, due to not realizing or acknowledging why Kim Dokja's face is "censored" in the first place, and what that censoring actually means. I think it's also possible that some people are assuming the censorship works like a physical phenomena rather than an altered perception.

I'll address that last point first. The censorship of Kim Dokja's features is not something as simple as a physical phenomena. It's not a bar or scribble or mosaic over his face. If that were true it'd be very obvious to anyone looking at him that his face is hidden. But his face is not hidden to people. They can look at him and see a face. If they concentrate on his eyes, they can see where he's looking. They know when he's frowning or grinning. They see a face loud and clear. But what face are they seeing? Because it's not really his, whatever they're seeing.

No one quite agrees on what he really looks like. And if they try and think about what he looks like, they can't recall. Or if they do, it's vague, or different each time. We notice these little details throughout the series. Basically, Kim Dokja's face is cognitively obscured. Something - likely the Fourth Wall, though I can't recall if this is ever stated outright - is interfering with everyone's ability to perceive him properly. This culminated in him feeling off to others; and since they don't even realize this is happening, they surmise that he is "ugly."

Moving on to the other point about what the censorship means: To be blunt, the censorship of his face is an allegory for his disconnect from the "story" (aka: real life, and the real people at his side). The lifting - however slight - of this censorship represents him becoming more and more a part of the "story" (aka: less disconnected from the life he is living and the people at his side). The censorship's existence and lifting can represent other things - like dissociation or depersonalization or, if you want to get really meta, the fact that he is all of our faces at once - but that's how I'd sum up the main premise of it. (The Fourth Wall is a larger part of the dissociation allegory, but that's for another post).

So you see, them noticing his individual features isn't about the features. It's not about the features! It doesn't matter at all which features got listed. Because they could describe any features whatsoever and it would not change the entire point of the scene. Because the point isn't what he looks like. The point is that they can truly and clearly see these features. For the first time. They are seeing parts of him for the first time. Re-read that sentence multiple times, literally and metaphorically. What does it mean to see someone as they are?

This is an extremely significant turning point dressed up as a dress-up scene.

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P.S. / Additionally, I'm of the opinion that Kim Dokja is not handsome, and he is not ugly. He is not pretty, and he is not ghastly. Not attractive, nor unattractive. Kim Dokja isn't any of these things. More importantly, Kim Dokja can't be any of these things. The entire point of Kim Dokja is that you cannot pick him out of a crowd; he is the crowd. He's a reader. He's the reader. Why does he need to be handsome? Why must he be pretty? Why is him being attractive necessary or relevant? He doesn't, he doesn't, it's not. He is someone deeply deeply loved and irreplaceable to those around him, and someone who cannot even begin to recognize or accept that unless it's through a love letter masquerading as a story he can read. He is the crowd, a reader, the reader. He's you, he's me. He's every single one of us.

[toster-da-bred]

Was reading a fic and I’ve just fucking realised.

Walburga is my favourite hp character. How am I supposed to tell anyone about this (other than you lot)?!! Literally all of my irl friends are just gonna think I’ve gone completely batshit insane. (Which I am not entirely denying)

And if I ever deign to tell them, and they ask ‘why????’ (which of course they will) I can’t even explain because it involves telling them about how I very much ship tomarry/harrymort.

So I’m absolutely and entirely fucked on conversations involving hp (which happen surprisingly often considering our entire friend group despise the author + the original books)

((Actually not that surprising we’re all prolific readers of fanfiction))

[anonforlackofabettername]

Just finding out that Hadestown west end cast record not a full show recording and I’m genuinely devastated. They picked the worst epic to keep? They cut songbird and flowers, two songs that are integral to Eurydice’s character arc?! Where is our lady of the underground? I want to be fun and jazzy before I get sucked into sobbing about act 2. Where the fuck is act 2 btw?? Flowers? Nothing Changes? How long? Chant 2? Word to the Wise? His Kiss, the Riot? The gods-be-damned climax of the show is missing since they left out Doubt Comes In. Who are they highlighting? The men? Cause they cut both Persephone and Eurydice’s solos. In fact I’m not sure Persephone sings outside of a group number since it’s not like she has a large solo in Livin’ It Up on Top. Was the audio that bad or are they waiting to drop a deluxe version with the full track list?

Just. Choices were made and they were the wrong ones.

[menlove]

maybe I am bisexual and just the pickiest bisexual on planet earth. this does not, however, impact me in any way whatsoever so I'll continue to never know that answer

[cobra-creampuff]

buffy giving spike just thee most nonsensical orders during a battle and he just instantly does every one without question or hesitation even while looking at her like ?????????

[musical-chick-13]

Regarding the whole "Fandom Is An Escape, so why should I have to care this much about misogyny/racism/ableism/transphobia/etc." thing. Idk about the rest of you, but it gets kind of hard for me to "escape" when I keep seeing people say the same vile things about characters who share aspects of my identity that I hear all the time in real life.

[potahun]

hirorei & heishin for the ship ask game. thanks !!

thanks a lot for the ask!! <3 (this is for this ask game)

a) Ship: hirorei

Ship!!

1.What made you ship it?

during the scarlet showdown in real time, I wasn't invested in whether akai was alive (i'd never clocked akai much); I was tired of GA's endless comphet and was expecting Furuya to hate Akai because of a crush on Akemi or something. It was thus such a weird "oh?🏳️‍🌈" moment for me when Akai referred to a "him" as the person he was sorry about, and Furuya showed that expression, completely losing his cool in a way we'd never seen him do before. my interest was sparked there, but i didn't dare hope much.

then all the other moments rolled in, hiro having a nickname just for furuya, GA making them childhood friends when that's like...his staple formula for canon pairs...and they just kept becoming cuter and cuter in canon.

2.What are your favorite things about the ship?

hiro got to know furuya in his rawest form, aka the baby furuya who got bandaids on his nose and wears a tank top, tumbling about catching fish and bugs. hiro domesticated that feral child... there is definitely a bond there that is difficult to rival.

also, the mutual protectiveness and the whole tendency they had in WPS to just exist in their own world despite other ppl being there. hello! you're at a mixer! why are you getting cooking class invitations from your best friend now!

3.Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship?

i'm not sure it's unpopular and i don't feel it very strongly, but i sometimes think that furuya and hiro never got together before hiro died...hirorei is like the Unfinished Symphony. The love was there, almost palpable and yet...

b) Ship: heishin

T_T I do ship. sometimes i ship it more than others.

1.What made you ship it?

I think it was the slow realization that heiji was, for a very long time, the only person who shinichi could be himself with AND be a nerd with. that, and heiji's moments of absolute obsessiveness with this guy that he'd just met, which constantly made me go🤨🏳️‍🌈?

2.What are your favorite things about the ship?

heiji's absolute, unhinged obsessiveness in the Holmes Freak murder case (he doesn't. even. like. holmes.... shinichi. wasn't. even. on the guest list...) and his undying "ride or die" attitude for shinichi.

i wish we saw more of it from shinichi's side, but i do latch onto the scene in the serial symphony murder case, where shinichi was like "no, not him..." and yelling hattori's name on the ferry deck.

also, they have a sun and moon dynamic.

3.Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship?

i think i'm pretty mainstream with these two! :3 nothing I can think of.

Thanks a lot for asking!!

[starbuck]

i am not opposed to films being very on the nose about their message, in fact, i often find that charming and fun… but the one thing that i REALLY don’t like is when they have a voiceover repeating earlier lines when they become thematically relevant. like, Ah, i see, you think i have the memory of a goldfish! you think that i am stupid!