#it was actually super cathartic

[bloomeng]

i love stizzy but i don’t care for the tropes where stede— for lack of a better term— domesticates izzy

it feels too much like he’s trying to change izzy into a more palatable version of himself. not saying izzy couldn’t stand to be a bit nicer but the thing is they need to come to a compromise. after all izzy’s concerns are valid even if he’s doing a shit job of communicating that and stede did choose to become a pirate.

i get it tho as fans we want to give izzy nice things and have stede be nice to him, i just personally can’t get behind it when stede takes it too far bc it feels less about izzy being comfy and more about stede being comfortable

one thing i actually really liked about s2 was how izzy decided on his own to change and stede did as well and they met in the middle with this acceptance of who the other person was and made strides towards actually being friends

[atlas-hope]

we are going through it fellas

[beescake]

yea i very much agree with ur take on sollux in his relation to older technology, u get it

please id love if youd share some more of ur analysis on his character (as well as ur art bc that shit is 👌👌👌)

either way, thanks for feeding my brain worms

im glad it resonated!! :') always happy to explore his character, he contains multitudes!!!

i think i may be out of sollux analysis for now, in the sense where i don't have anything new to add that hasn't already been covered in these posts? (please add if there's more...)

why i like sollux (lackadaisicallexicon, 2014)

comprehensive sollux status guide (syblatortue, 2016)

bioware machine (lime-bloods, 2016)

fridgestuck (LaureledEevees, 2017)

mary sue (3d-gla22e2, 2019)

favorite sollux trait (3d-gla22e2, 2020)

doom-bound static (gendertrickster, 2023)

however i will say there's another thing i really like abt him:

his Range!

he has a v flexible face.. even with his neutral expression, you cant help but read a tinge of melancholy/pensiveness to it.

he deters people from getting too comfortable with him by acting crude, but no matter how unapproachable he looks you can't help but wonder if he's ok. seems like he's never content with himself.

just like karkat, anger gives him purpose = something to care about & react to. without it he can appear aimless/uncertain.

it's especially interesting when you compare him to aradia, who despite having endured a lot of shit, ends up enjoying the freedom of expanding her worldview, riding the unpredictable tide of the narrative and observing the changes. sollux... doesn't.

he doesn't like watching major things progress in a way he can't predict. the lack of certainty actually overwhelms him.

and it's pretty clear why; imagine the only reassurance you get after unknowingly killing ur gf is that "it needed to happen". the only way to appease that sort of emotional turmoil is by intellectualizing those events as inevitable and out of your control.

(hs, A6I5)

when you’re just a tool for the author, trying to sit out is just feeble self-preservation until you’re needed again. if you’re not called on stage to help/assist in some way, it feels like your presence spells doom (either you or someone else will get hurt). so you avoid Events as best you can.

[godblooded]

honestly i know it’s gonna be fucking hard but. i think to be able to handle this… i have to watch markiplier’s that dragon cancer playthrough.

[perenlop]

pokeani moments that exist purely to make Me miserable:

the line where they call ash's oshawott a throwaway pokemon in the unova league so they're just flat out saying they think it's a worthless pokemon

to thine own pokemon be true (extra angst points for me bc ambipom was my second favorite on the team at the time)

the granddaughter of the guy who trains gliscor calling gliscor pathetic and weak to her face despite gliscor being an extremely sensitive pokemon

pretty much everything about that gible

blue episode (favorite color but they made it a fetish somehow and also dewott and brionne and meowstic are all there and its so bad)

boxing heracross immediately. also that battle frontier episode where it's literally the only returning ash mon (barring torkoal i think but i dont count it bc its native to AG) to get humiliated onscreen

pidgeot returning but gliscor didn't even show up in the miniseries despite being an Actual Character

[thewintersoldierdisaster]

having an absolutely heinous mental health day so i’m gonna go home and just make friendship bracelets and dissociate for a couple of hours ☠️

[neige-leblanche]

one of the reasons i love twst book 5's ending so much is because. rookvil is lowkey built up as this hamlet and horatio achilles come down toxic devotion elevated yaoi type dynamic that a lot of fandom people including i myself LOVE. and then the ending snatches that out from under you completely.

rook and vil are two separate people. rook has motivations other than his love for vil, arguably all of which are presented to the player even before the reveal. while vil IS forced to rely on others to break his overblot, he isn't Saved by one person, much less have his years of damage undone by one person's wholehearted support. if you want rookvil to be a couple, they have to choose each other, and stay with each other, and live their own individual lives by each other's side.

and this is where i get the feminist undertones from. as much as i love fiction where one person's unyielding devotion can singlehandedly heal a damaged person, that is ultimately just fiction; real people are more complicated, deserve better than that, and, of course, are responsible for their own recovery & behavior. and the ending really asserts that rook & vil are real people that way

[hptrash-lookaway]

Okay I’m gonna try to articulate my beef with the “Dudley is magical or his kid is magical” trope

(disclaimer first, obviously I don’t think there’s anything wrong with people creating/liking that trope, this is just my personal issue with it)

So like I’ve mentioned before, I was raised in a similar way as Harry (better in some ways, worst in others) where I was fostered by relatives who had their own bio kid who they adored and spoiled rotten while I was left with hand me downs and the barest bones

And coming from that similar background, I just,,, I fucking hate that the only way for Dudley to apparently ever really try to patch things up with Harry is if he experiences it himself, because once again, everything has to revolve around Dudley, god forbid he try to reach out to Harry just to know how Harry’s feeling and show some concern for him!!

Also, in my experience, one of the things I was hated for was being obviously autistic, and then the relative I was raised with had an autistic kid, and suddenly everyone’s fine with autistic people!! Cause it was actually just me they hated!! And they still do!! So “Dudley’s kid being magical” just makes me think that Petunia and Vernon would fucking just decide oh they’re cool with magical kids now, while still insisting Harry himself is a freak, because it was always just Harry and who his mom was that was the problem!!! (Truthfully I think they wouldn’t actually be like that, but then again, I didn’t suddenly expect my “family” to suddenly be okay with autism)

Also I just think the Wizarding World should be a safe place for Harry, maybe it’d be fun if Dudley visited, but Harry should never have to suffer Dudley or his kid having access to it any time they want

[hiyori-ii]

...

[phoenix-flamed]

Okay, finally pulling myself away from arting to go grab something to eat. In the meantime, I leave you with a still-very-heavily-WIP ... WIP lol

I'm still fussing with everything, and the hands are going to get an overhaul -- I just needed to BS them to have an idea of where things are supposed to go.

Also if their expressions seem odd, I promise it'll make sense once it's finished and colored!

[astranauticus]

genuinely so much of my motivation (literally my ORIGINAL motivation) for reading the orv novel is just that i have a lot of really interesting art ideas but i need to make sure they wont get siked by a later plot development before i draw them sdjkfshkdfjhksj

[hella1975]

Oh Hella your DM sounds like a good one! Hope you have fun and that coin is amazing should we add practice the coin trick to your schedule? /gen

ACTUALLY YEAH PLEASE

[perenlop]

ash’s sinnoh team is so good (mostly) and im fond of the core six and then you look closer and you remember that only half of them were treated all that well

[the-girl-who-cried-wolf]

EMMA, HI! YOU'VE WATCHED BARBIE!!! i cried like a BITCH during the ruth/barbie scene at the end, like full sobbing 😭 it was an ✨experience✨ - barbie felt like an almost cultural phenomenon? i took my younger sister with me and it was really nice to see all the representation and know that she's getting to grow up in a decade with representation like that in media for girls, just really inspiring tbh. also seeing every one dress up and all the smiles and happy faces, and people helping strangers take photos before or after the movie - it was just so filled with humanity, it made me all mushy inside 😭

(sorry for the mini rant - hope you're well! love you heaps <3)

HI AMBER!! YES I'VE FINALLY SEEN IT!!!! i was crying literally during the whole movie, like there were moments and scenes through all of it that brought me to tears when i least expected it. i just constantly had tears streaming down my face it was an AMAZING experience.

yeah seeing everyone dressed in pink and so excited to see it was so sweet 🥺 it was genuinely a beautiful moment of humanity for everyone that went and im so happy i got to see it <3

and you're so right! barbie really has turned into a cultural phenomenon! it's really amazing to finally see a movie made specially for women, that explores the complex experience of simply existing in this world, as a women. it was a really beautiful. annnd it makes me happy to think that more girls are going to grow up being able to watch a movie that can help empower and inspire them 💜

[nineofhearts4]

Actually kind of starting assuming that only a few people read It Was Only a Kiss because it only got two comments vs the five comments that the fic I posted like 8hrs earlier [A Terrible Idea] got, which makes sense because the first fic was 10k and SAD vs the second fic which was like 500 words of fun but actually the hospital one has significantly more views.

So either that's because it took longer to read so it double or triple counted people, people stopped halfway through, or people would rather comment on fun stuff rather than the deeply sad fics.

[uncaringrose]

Why did I ever think I disliked poetry