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"Light Spinner" was honestly the most heartbreaking She Ra episode I've seen so far
Catra constantly insists she is nothing like Shadow Weaver in any way, but the parallels between her journey and Shadow Weaver's as Light Spinner are not even subtle. Shadow Weaver even says they are similar, that she reminds her of herself. And as much as Catra insists she doesn't want that, of course she wants that. She wants them to be similar because she thinks that Shadow Weaver will finally love her and appreciate her if she's another version of her, only better, if she doesn't make the same mistakes, if she comes out on top. She hates her so much but she also wants to BE her, but the thing preventing her from following in Shadow Weaver's footsteps is the best part about her. It's her capacity for love and kindness. It's her lack of selfishness and greed. She never wanted to rule the hoard or be second in command, but she feels like she has to be even as her own nature rebels against it.
#it astounds me when people say Catra wasn't well written#look at this#its right in front of you#she wants love but the only way she knows to get it is power#I am going to cry#I already have but I'll do it again#and shadow weaver can go die in a hole with no one to love her for doing this to catra#catra#shadow weaver#spop#she ra and the princesses of power#catra meta#spop meta#I'm still only on season 2 but I feel like I sort of know where this is going#DIE shadow weaver DIE#why shadow weaver deserves death: a saga
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ACTIONS.
I can only lead you to the truth. I can't make you believe it.
#The universe speaks#pay attention#are you listening#the universe in alignment#the truth#its right in front of you#and there you have it#the truth itself
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ultimately i think my insistence on aro positivity honestly is as much a political stance as a personal one.
when i say aro positivity is crucial and that i dislike doomer-ist posts that express sentiments like 'I hate being aro so much I wish I was dead instead’ it's not because I don’t think there can and should be a space for negativity and acknowledging self-hate, or the many ways being aromantic can really suck sometimes. i find that to be very important!
that being said. there is smth here about how self-hate posts are sometimes just arophobia that we inflict on ourselves. and when we put that out into the ether it (intentionally or not) can become arophobia that we inflict on other members of the community. i think there absolutely needs to be a place for negativity and the expression of anger and frustration and self loathing even - these are all good things to talk about because these are things that we experience. that being said, it can also be genuinely upsetting and triggering to people to have what is essentially arophobia shown to them and then have that be validated by other aspec people. your personal thoughts can affect your wider community on a level you may not anticipate. and i understand it i truly do! it took me so long to be able to recover from accepting being aroace - it threw my entire world off kilter and made me question everything about my place in the world.
but my insistence on aro joy and positivity is because ultimately i do believe that building is at the core essence of it all. that ultimately discussions and the purpose of community should be about construction, not destruction. and this is both a personal and a political stance. talking about how much you hate yourself and cultivating online discussions/spaces where negativity about aspec identity is the main and only theme is destructive - if that’s where we let the conversation end. these thoughts can and should be used as a vehicle to look for a path forward!
joy and positivity create a space where the focus can become on forging a path forward, on construction, on community building instead of tearing ourselves and others down with negative thoughts. it’s not productive or healthy when it stops at a place of negativity - it becomes actively destructive to the essence of community.
and i do think that this is especially poignant considering the fact that being any kind of queer, but especially aromantic (and/or asexual) means forging a path for yourself and making your own happiness where there is no obvious way forward. our communities exist mostly online (right now, anyway), there is little recognition of our existence in the real world, the effects of amatonormativity are both pervasive and actively dehumanising, and there are legal, economic and social structures in place actively making our lives more difficult. yes that all sucks! it’s good to acknowledge that. we need to in order to change it. but more importantly, that’s not the end. we are still here and our happiness, our future is for us to determine. even if we can’t change the laws or society, loving yourself and understanding aromanticism as a political identity (as well as personal), as a radical worldview, and as a protest against amatonormativity is essential for both community and personal well being. the personal is political.
tldr. i guess my point is that as a community, we should focus on building, improving, and nurturing ourselves and each other (construction) as opposed to destruction. we should recognise aromanticism and asexuality as political identities as well as personal ones and rely on community and self-love in the absence of anything else as a form of protest and political power. destruction (the recognition of everything that is wrong) is essential as a starting point - but where do we go from there? we rebuild.
#aromantic#aro positivity#aspec#aroace#aro#aromantic joy#arospec#when i saw its important to 'love' yourself - pls understand i am in no way trying to exclude loveless aros from this#that was just the easiest way to express what i meant! when i say 'love' i mean positivity/respect/happiness. etc. i just used that word bc#it works for ME which is why i said it. but feel free to replace it with whatever works for you! <2#also sorry if not everything im saying makes total sense i tried my best#this is something ive been thinking about for a while and have been struggling to articulate#i maybe should have read some theory for this abt community building but im too tired + overwhelmed w school reading right now so sorry.#if anyone has additions on that front though please do add them#also ngl im kinda scared to post this. i hope i explained what i mean well enough. like i get wanting to vent and express self hate BUT.#there is nuance to this and it is not unilaterally healthy i think. also i dont see any other online community fostering the normalisation#of selfhate the way the aspec one does! which makes me feel weird abt it especially.#anyway. this is basically my personal philosophy towards aromanticism#mossy posts#⚙️
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Gavin mentally: wait... that doesn't add up........
#detroit become human#gavin reed#rk900#because you guys have been so supportive i managed to pull through and actually draw a silly comic thing#also drew some of it while watching my favorite movie the incredible movie clue (1985)#and honestly i think the dynamic here is just like mustard and wadsworth going#are you trying to make me look stupid in front of the other guests / you dont need any help from me / THATS. RIGHT.#but anyway the take here is that hi i liked a lot of fics where (as i said before with mutual pining) nines finds gavins looks appealing#like wow hes so not perfect i am enamored with him hmmmm surely thats not mutual#while being v handsome himself so yeah!#it IS technically from the incorrect quotes generator but also! it fits i think#well fits enough for me to get away with#guys i like mutual pining too much and i like processing power of like wait a sec... supercomputer calculator brain cant do math what#while nines is like well if i cant do math then its no longer condescending so i win on a technicality in this conversation#because who doesnt want to win a conversation on a technicality when there isnt actually a competition#wanting to win conversations is so normal i love winning a conversation#(authors note - i failed a conversation today)
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continuing the brandon montour shenanigans....
so so affronted with the knowledge that some of his teammates drink soda... like utter disgust on his face. mans cant fathom the idea and will not tolerate it
#seattle kraken#brandon montour#bm62#nhl#ice hockey#so monty not a soda enjoyer in the rink#his personality is actively judging his teammates#i believe teammates = forwards in this sense given its always the forwards#the dmen united in the no soda front#monty monty#why do i always see you in such state#aka#exhibit 1: no shirts for me#and#exhibit 2: i refuse to wear a shirt the right way because im allergic#kidding aside#ilysm monty#but i think i have to check my sanity
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And some days, I just wish you wouldn't look at me at all.
#ffxiv#sketch#wol#meteor survivor#zenos yae galvus#adventurer zenos#oh no#its the consequences of his actions#everything is fine until the only man on the star you care about looks at you with the same contempt your father did#(Meteor's not doing it intentionally- its a reflex after he comes back for quite a bit)#and zenos is getting bodied because its been a while since... you know... him being able to really feel anything at all#and no- its not him regretting anything that had to do with varis- just him regretting the thought meteor could look at him like that#little does Meteor know he's emotionally bodying the man he's trying to be cordial with#its a little okay because in how I write adventurer zenos this serves as one of his main wake-up calls to make some changes#and realizing both the mistakes he's made with meteor and that meteor hating him in any way is actually -not at all- what he wants#but not okay on the end that every time meteor does this he has to watch zenos actively dissociate right in front of him#until zenos just kinda autopilots and walks away#the second time (or perhaps third) in the last 11 years that zenos has felt regret to any major capacity-#on meteor's end I just enjoy seeing the progression of the WoL through subtext#and why meteor is willing to even entertain the idea despite how much he hates zenos- his decisions and the path he's walked#is the realization that there is high chance that he could actually be a direct catalyst for zenos' growth#and the realization the wol has that they were the only one zenos has ever genuinely reached out to#besides- i just like the idea of having your equal other half fighting back to back with you- or being able to handle threats you cant#and i find their dynamic neat- of meteor not forgiving zenos but giving him his last chance- and growing to enjoy being around him#and zenos being able to work on moving past being the weapon or the monster- finding the connections he's longed for#and giving himself purpose to finally truly just live- for him to learn to experience and have the freedom to find what he enjoys#(and curiously him having estinien's brand of accidently helping people even in StB gives me ideas...)#but enough tag ranting- ill get to zenos' actual adventuring in another post lol
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such a firm believer that the people who don't understand byler don't understand film or cinematography in the slightest
#not hate btw#just speaking my truth#byler#byler is real#its literally right in front of you#stranger things#will byers#mike wheeler#stranger things season 5#mybreakdowns
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if you met an alternate reality version of yourself that was better than you in every single way would that be fucked up or what lol
#my art#dca fandom#daycare attendant#moondrop#sundrop#sunnydrop#<- technically its an oc but they're purposefully drawn to resemble the dca's decal art so idk if it even counts as an oc lol#i really enjoy the concept of an accurate dca being face to face with a version of themselves that isnt 'ugly' or 'weird'#the image of the person you should've been but that you can never achieve. and they're standing right there in front of you#(but then eventually you see them fall into the same tragedy that you did. and now you need to be there for them#in the same ways that nobody was there for you)#if i could write and/or had the attention span required for a comic series i would never shut up about these two btw#newmoonAU#<- haha ignore that :) smiles
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and don’t get me started on hispanics. im not black, im mexican so i just… dont say it. it’s not that hard, but for some reason a lot of them do and when people confront them about it they go “oh im latino i can say it” YOU LIVE IN AMERICA. MORE IMPORTANTLY IN A BLUE STATE. YOU LEARN ABOUT CIVIL RIGHTS EACH YEAR YOU LITERALLY CANNOT BE THIS IGNORANT WITHOUT ACTUALLY JUST DOING IT ON PURPOSE
i feel like no one really talks about the way a lot of white people that grew up in majority poc communities feel like they have the right to say the n word?? like they can without dealing with consequences.. from experience, there’s always been huge controversy in my school because “this white student said the n word” “this white teacher said the n word with the hard r” 3 students and 2 teachers so far in just TWO years alone had said it. one of them didn’t even acknowledge it afterwards and denied it. it might just be the schools ive been in but like what’s going on…?????
#it’s not even that hard just listen in class#the tools are right in front of you it’s not like you have to search things up on your own#its right in front of you#frankly no one should be saying any slurs but like if you say it and you can’t reclaim it#then people are definitely going to take it the wrong way#in simple terms if i said faggot no one would care because i am quite openly gay#and it might even be seen as “im taking back what was used against me and being more positive about it”#but if my straight friend said it simply because she’s friends with me that would be bad right?#it’s the same thing with any negative word holy shit
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percy is middle eastern (specifically lebanese) argue with god
are headcanons about percys ethnicity still cool in 2023. idk im forcing you all to look at it anyway
no way in hell would the entire fucking country look at a little 12 year old white boy and be like "yeah I definitely believe that this child is a terrorist" like they did in TLT
described as looking 'Mediterranean', tans easily
not uncommon for ppl in the levant to have the dark hair/complexion + light eyes combo
also not uncommon for (non-muslim) swana ppl in the US to have vaguely western-sounding names. his last name was anglicized don't ask questions
fun nod to civilizations like the phoenicians being seafarers, poseidon's multiple connections to phoenicia in greek myth + historically being worshipped in the area
he would use the heinous insults that exist in arabic as casually as one would talk about the weather. he doesnt even actually know arabic he just knows how to say fuck you in all its iterations.
just realized how funny this hc would be in light of that comment he made in SoM shitting on hummus LMAOOOOOO
#percy jackson#pjo#hoo#feel like maybe there might be more things in the books that could be like......stretched to accommodate this hc but i cant think of anymor#anyway. its funny that i spent years just being like “idk what he is but hes not white” when the answer was right in front of me all along#hes a little whitewashed though bless his heart <3#DISCLAIMER. i'm arab and this is me projecting. ALL POC PERCY HCS I LOVE YOU!!#lebanese percy
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(almost) all instances of water in the official 4 minutes trailer
+ fire:
#4 minutes#4 minutes the series#bible wichapas#jes jespipat#loan.blr#loan.gif#loan.4mins#once again this was unnecessary. but im sooooo obsessed with it. what does it all meeeeean?#the imagery™#okay so. its *almost* because:#(1) there is a 5 frame shot of a body of water#(2) 3 frame shot that is the same frame 3 times of water trickling on concrete maybe#(3) right after the second gif the scene transforms into them sitting in front of that... big ass window or whatever#and i wasn't a 100% percent sure it was the water reflecting them or just camera work#and also was not enough frames to make it stand on its#also you might argue that bible smoking is also kind of a fire.#but i digress.
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boyfriend iwaizumi hajime fixing your posture every time he sees you hunched over and slouching—the way he holds your shoulders and straightens it by rolling it back, thumbs pressing into your shoulder blades.
he gently pushes your lower back whenever he notices you curling into yourself, runs his fingers up your spine too.
and he does it all quietly, your only warning the feel of his hands on you.
it’s almost like he has a radar for it, some posture-sense that tingles every time your back is anything but straight.
when you complain about back pain, he snorts, mumbling a ‘wonder why’ before coming over to knead out the knots anyway.
he buys you an ergonomic chair to hopefully help out, even leaves x-rays and scans of bad backs lying around to give some subliminal message of what could happen if you don’t fix it now.
and when he takes you from behind, pushing down on your lower back to give him that arch he likes, he’s teasing, telling you that you only seem to listen when he has you like this.
he’s really starting to think, should he start fucking you with your back straight?
#can anyone tell im obsessed w his hands#can anyone tell im obsessed w HIM#iwaizumi x reader#how he squeezes your traps and you take it as a signal to straighten up immediately#i think it comes to a point where . he kind of pavlovs you into it 🤧 his mere presence in the room has you straightening your back#and that’s exactly what he wants 🥺 he just wants a good back for his baby#so he can blow your back out 🥲🫶🏻#later on . tonight . eventually .#i mEAN WHAAAAATTTTT no one saw me type this#im crying 🥲 iwa hours open rn#my bf straightens my back all the time bc i have terrible posture n he always notices lmao#n he always tells me id be taller and my back would hurt less and id complain less abt how i look in photos#i tell him its hard !!!!! i have baggage up front !!!#he shuts up but continues to straighten it quietly ajsjxjsjxnnsskxk#(hes right tho… i rlly shud fix my posture)#seiwa.🤍#rated#shotorus.workbook
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it doesnt need to be said but its genuinely so funny how at-the-hip charles and erik are in krakoa like they really had the green light- the OBLIGATION- to be as obnoxiously close to each other as possible and abused that right to the fullest extent
#xmen#xmen comic#krakoa#cherik#snap chats#until the divorce of course but until then its actually so funny#how you really couldnt go a page or two without one or the other and the other one was close behind#ice climber ass duo over here. the delightful children from down the lane kind of proximity what the fuck was their PROBLEM#i feel like if one of them was teleported the other would just materialize right next to them thats how close they were#fuuuck what was the issue where sabretooth and co are in like. Brain Prison or something#and victor imagines charles but everyones like 'wait its weird if its just him where's magneto'#ITS SO FUCKING FUNNY and i NEED to know what issue that was .... to add it to my collection ....#also killed me how in immoral x-men issue 1 charles was yappin bout erik bein gone#and- God Bless Who i forget i think it was hope- was just 'can you please shut up about your dead boyfriend im begging you'#moira stronger than me if i had to deal with thing 1 and thing 2 on a daily basis i woulda snapped sooner frankly#ig when you live ten times through The Most Bullshit ever youre numb to most things but still. my god theyre so obnoxious#sorry im cackling at the bit in HoX where charles is about to announce krakoa to the world and erik's putting his hand on his shoulder#and you justs see moira in the back like dawgggg right in front of her .... can you two get a room#GENUINELY no im GENUINELY surprised they dont share a bedroom#im not even talking sharing a bed im taking my shipper goggles off im actually baffled they dont sleep in the same building#obvi id be lyin if i said i didnt love it tho To Be Real .. genuinely love seein them work together as a team .. until they werent </3#in every timeline they WILL divorce each other that's just the rule. actual canon event it cannot be changed or stopped its integral#ok ramble over. but not really not in spirit cause ill never be over this ill die before i am#im gonna go eat now i think i think thats something i As A Human has to do at least once a day
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As so many of you are filling my inbox asking about salad and why I found the fact they had two types of salad for dinner in the Buck and Tommy dinner scene so funny, I'm guessing you're new to the 911 fandom - Welcome if so! I am going to give you a very brief rundown of salad and Buck and Eddies various relationships, but @clusterbuck is actually the keeper of salad theory and you can find far more detailed analysis over on her blog than you’re getting from me here!!
I can't find gif of the actual salad moments so have pictures!!
Chris smashed salad bowl that he is making a salad in with his dad in season 4 (in Breaking point) - when he finds out about Ana being the person Eddie is dating.
We have Ana turn up at the firehouse with Chris during the black out in 5x02 with 5 - yes 5 - types of salad When Eddie has his second on screen panic about Ana - when Ravi mistakes her for his wife.
Then in 5x03 just before they break up - Eddie, Chris, and Ana are at the dining table in the Diaz house and they are eating fruit salad
Then in 5x05 we have Taylor with her prepackaged fruit salad breakfast the she has 'made' for Buck when he gets home
she is making a bean salad in 5x09 during the most awkward I love you scene in the history of television!
Then we have a caprese salad in front of Natalia during the Dinner Buck cooked for her in 5x17 - when she finds out about various aspects of Bucks past and present - Taylor on the tv and Kameron turns up
Then in 7x07 - when Eddie is daydreaming of a do over with Shannon during his lunch with Marisol they are eating a salad
then we now have Buck and Tommy eating two different types of salad (a pasta salad and a salad salad) on their dinner date
so basically it's become a bit of a running joke that if salad is involved with Buck or Eddie and one of their dates (especially in their own homes) , the relationship is doomed!
#this is only a semi serious theory - its just amusing that pretty much every time either Buck or Eddie have a salad with one of their dates#in their own home - things tend to go sideways or south prety soon after - it is very much a pattern;#Chris makes and then smashes a salad and two episodes alter we see him literally sitting between Eddie and Ana#Ana gets broken up with after bringing salad to the firehouse and serving Eddie fruit salad when he comes home#Taylor serves a fruit salad and two episodes later we see the cracks appearing in their relationship (the truth is everything) then#two episodes later Taylor makes a bean salad and says I love you and two episodes later Buck kisses Lucy#Buck serves Natalia a Caprese salad and she runs away - she comes back but two episodes later (7x01) Buck has broke up with her#Marisol and Eddie eat salad in the Diaz kitchen and two episodes later she walks in on him in the arms of another woman - who looks like hi#dead ex wife#and now Buck and Tommy are eating salad in 7x10 so maybe we need to keep an eye on 8x02 as it may well be a moment of doom for Buck#and Tommys relationship based on previous salad sightings - not saying it will be a break up but we may very well see major cracks appearin#salad theory#its laways two episodes later!#eddie diaz#evan buckley#911 abc#buddie#buddie and salad#right in front of my salad
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just thinking about how despite AtS trying to portray it as comedic bickering amongst bros, Spike actually has decades worth of reasons to hate Angel, while Angel has remarkably few reasons to hate Spike. And it should maybe be concerning that from School Hard on, Angel adopts an absolute "don't see what this has to do with me" reaction to him?
#btvs#buffy the vampire slayer#spike btvs#ats#angel the series#spike spent 100 years with a front row seat to the worst damage Angel ever inflicted#spending every day trying to fix in dru what angel tried to destroy#just to later save the world and have angel belittle his sacrifice and mock him for thinking buffy cared about him at all#with angel knowing full well at that point just how much buffy does care#and the show is like 'can you BELIEVE Spike is trying to steal the prophecy Angel EARNED by being so heroic???'#'spike needs to learn from angel what real atonement and personal responsibility is'#anyway#props to Destiny#the only episode that got it right#and then immediately forgot its entire thesis statement
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i want to think that when Pearl gets older she's embarrassed by how she would ship people she knew when she was a kid and how she was basically trying to force them together (slight projection on my part)
full look at my take of a future Pearl design here!!
#i would also ship ppl i knew and would even tell them i did but at least wouldnt be forcing them together LMAO#i am still embarrassed abt it tho. but its why i find pearl endearing bc her thing w phoenix and maya im like.#sigh. yeah i was like that as a kid. i can't blame her for that.#aa time travel au#ace attorney#pearl fey#phoenix wright#susato mikotoba#ryunosuke naruhodo#apollo justice#athena cykes#artists on tumblr#id in alt text#please dont tag as a ship between ryunosuke and susato!!#lmao w this i wanted to emulate the feeling of when you go to a family reunion and older relatives would just tell each other embarrassing#stories of you when you were a kid right in front of you
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