#kind of a rant

[brookesophelias]

peeta and the rebellion, with even more nuance (:

post continued from @posthungergamessyndrome; their post here

In The Games training , Peeta preferred to hang around the Camouflage, & it ultimately became his saving grace in Book I. Creativity, to most tributes, doesn't compare higher than physical prowess in significance. In Catching Fire, we see the D6 Morplings go to Camo first.

Peeta Mellark allows himself to be known as Loverboy to almost everyone in the 74th arena, which is him defining himself by emotion. Mostly because that’s what Careers, who D12 tributes hardly ever team up with, called him

Peeta decided to kill himself, even before the Nightlock idea, because he refuses to die at the hands of the Capitol. He seriously felt remorse after killing Foxface & had Katniss explain it to him. Killing others wasn't supposed to be something these tributes felt accountability & care about. "...wanted to hold them accountable, if only for a moment... For killing that little girl. (CF; 238)

Yes, Katniss says to eat the berries on 3, though it's Peeta Mellark who tells her to out-stretch her hands so "...everyone can see." (THG; pg. 338).

Peeta refuses to hold a knife when he could hold a paintbrush. (Katniss replies to Haymitch that 'if he wanted babying, then should've asked Peeta.' His fellow Games Victor called him soft & he just offers her bread [again]). Even in the actual war, he felt so hurt when he killed others.

He has a vivid memory for the horrors of The 74th Hunger Games, to the point where Katniss says she "hates" his paintings. He’s not even offended he just lets her hate on them because they are gruesome.

He always looks out of windows at other people [Katniss on the bakery lawn], places {districts while on tour] as well as the Capitol. He also takes people's baked goods home to evaluate. And doesn't stop.

He also sees the elder from D11 get shot in the head & doesn’t let himself be touched by Peacekeepers after he said he & Katniss would feed Rue & Thresh's families.

Peeta refuses—so vehemently—to drink the beverage to purge his meals. He tells Katniss that maybe they shouldn't squash the Rebellion.

He is the second person to volunteer in years in D12, & at all & he, too earns the highest rating in the Quarter Quell. Before the Mockingjay ever existed, the mockingbird & Jabberjay had to meet. If Katniss is the Mockingjay, Peeta embodies both qualities of both birds individually. Peeta is wholly himself, at his best. When the Panem screams conformity, Peeta doubles on individualism.

[multiversemittens]

I have incredibly mixed feelings about The Owl House finale.

On one hand, I'm excited to see how the story ends and I hope they all live happily ever after.

On the other, it's a reminder that it's the last episode ever and we could have had so much more if it weren't for a few Disney execs.

[chacharealsmooth07]

Something about love being hurting for all the characters.

Edwin w his array of mfs, getting hurt and used snd Charles doesn't like him back.

Charles' only experience with "love" was his parents. His abusive father, and his bystander mother.

Crystal and her parents, and David.

Jenny with the librarian.

Niko with losing her father.

All of the characters and loving themselves.

Esther with her ex husband.

Smth smth love hurts them all, but love is also the only thing that can heal what they've gone through. The bandaid is the same sharp blade that cut them in the first place

[hopelessgayartist]

Silly Random Rant

GUYS GO WATCH LUCA IT'S SO FUCKING GOOD.

I love the characters and it's such a heartwarming feel good movie. I just re-watched it for the first time in two years and I am SHOOK.

And like....

I want a sequel. But also, the story is so contained to the movie that a sequel would just seem like a money laundering tactic, so here is my proposal:

Make more stuff in the universe.

I wanna know WHY Giulia's father originally hated sea monsters, and what's the situation with Giulia's mother? why does she live in Genova. Did she and the father get a divorce? Does she need to be there to do her job?

Or a story about Luca's grandmother's life- and/or why her daughter grew up to be such an overprotective mother.

There's so many characters with incredible opportunity for expansion on their backstories, even Machiavelli (the cat)

It's such a fascinating world in that movie and I want to see more of it!

[valmathog]

I'm sick of people dismissing the struggles and issues of teenagers as 'hormones' 'a phase' 'they'll grow out of it'

I'm sick of people dismissing young voice because 'they don't know what they're talking about' 'they're too immature to really understand' 'they'll learn when they get older'

I hate when adults downplay the pressure a school may be putting on their child because 'try working a job, you'll miss your school years'

I hate when adults ignore children until they do something drastic, because all else is just them making a scene.

Who care if it's caused by hormones, the feelings and pain is real. The confusion, depression, insecurity, chaos is fucking real.

Who cares if it's a phase, they have a passion, they're excited about something, they're exploring their identity, stop fucking dismissing it just because you might have grown out of it. Just because you might think they'll grow out of it. So what. A life without phases isn't a life at all, and no phase is 'just' a phase, they're part of fucking life and treat them as such

Yeah they're young, might be inexperienced, but actually listen. They have opinions, be proud they feel comfortable outing them to you. Nowadays so much information is available. You can't tell what they 'don't know' by just a few words, talk to them.

A child can notice when they experience injustice, they can recognize when it happens, they experience the effects. No one is too immature to experience injustice and discrimination.

Someone's age should never justify their voice being ignored.

Someone's age should never mean they're not equal to you as a human being.

To adults, you're not better then children. To children, adults once knew the struggle don't lose hope that they've forgotten.

In less then a year I'll be 18, the number means nothing because humans are always growing and you can't put a number on how valid someones voice is. You can't put a number on the importance of their perspective. 18 can be such a different stage in every life and I'm fucking tired of it's simplification.

No one is too young or too old to have an important voice.

Children are not objects, the elderly are not a burden, those of middle age are not immune to pressure. Fuck ageism in all it's forms and those who dismiss it as a silly thing that has no merit.

[brits4gerardway]

btw 😁 somebody else's body/weight is NOT a conversation for anyone else to have about, nobody owes an explanation for how they look and it's just weird to discuss generally??? okay that's all

[theecholegend]

TIME TO OBSESS OVER THE UPDATE EVEN THOUGH IT’S MIDNIGHT!!!

Hah! I’m glad one of the letters turned out this way. Poor Twi, I understand how you feel. Can’t miss those sales!

Wonder what that letter is all about…

Poor little Sky :( he misses his girlfriend so much

That face 😑

AAAAHHH HE LOOKS SO CUUUTE!!! Wonder who he was thinking about

Epona is so happy to see him they have been reunited!

YES! BE OVERLY DRAMATIC AND LEAP OFF OF BUILDINGS! GIVE INTO YOUR LINK INSTINCTS!

Absolutely not Warriors. None of you are normal. Though, I guess Wars is the only one who hasn’t done all the same weird things they have

Guess Legend still believes Wars is broke. I love how goofy Legend has been these past few updates. He’s just so happy! And Warriors face in the third pic is marvellous

So long town! Off to new wacky adventures!!! I love their group photos so much

Idk why but it makes me really happy to see these two talking. I don’t think they have chatted one on one all that much. Could be wrong but whatever.

This update just made me so excited I had to make my own rant post! It really does feel like this is only the beginning and from the sounds of things it is.

All credit goes to @/linkeduniverse go read the new update now!

[thecampmeister]

My relationship with gwenvid is so uniquely bizarre to me. It's weird cause I've never, EVER shipped something to the point of legitimately enjoying seeing it.

Sure I drew characters in love as a kid but like. It was just whatever. I found some relationships cute. But i never, EVER though of myself as a "shipper". Gwen and david reached through my screen, grabbed me, and never let go!

[f0xgl0v3]

Camp Half Blood Schedule

As of now I have 14 pages for the schedule and describing stuff and activities and it’s all mush, my brain is mush and please I want to go home and see my family 🥺😭😭

In all reality this is a combination of procrastinating reading Tower of Nero because all the characters I really care about have been drop kicked out of the narrative and I’m at my grandparents house. I have nothing to do and I have a horrible sense of time so let’s get into this (plus sometime down the line I’ll go over HoO re-imagining like. Camp Jupiter processes but I’m reading some books about the Roman legion so I’m gonna, tough that out and then report back lol)

Disclaimer!! I don’t know what time is, time is something that eludes my brain and the only summer camp I’ve been to was a Christian one with a foster family because I was bored that summer and I said why not (I’m not Christian but it was funny). Also I like completely forgot if there is anything in the books that actually have schedule lore. I forgot most things with CHB to be honest.

So anyways, actual meat and potatoes

7:30- wake up and get ready. Yes 7:30 sounds reasonable to me. It gives the kids 30 minutes before breakfast and campers can wake up before the ‘official’ time.

On Fridays we have cabin inspections, dictated by the arbitrary ‘one day we picked someone to do it first and now we’re on a rotation’.

8:00-8:30; breakfast time, yes you only get 30 minutes for breakfast we have things to do and does it take you more than 30 minutes to gobble up breakfast? (No judgement it took me 2 hours to eat lunch one time) but If I ever let the other 13+ pages of notes come to light they’ll be more in depth stuff about. Everything, but breakfast time includes

- one cabin setting up the Dining Pavilion

-Everyone offering to the Gods

-Morning announcements!

-yum actually eat food

-plate staking/cleaning up the tables

8:30-10:00; the first activity. The activities are your going to the arena, or the forge, all that jazz. Uh, there’s a board in the Big House where counselors set up the schedules (as in signing up for activities n stuff and coordinating) I’ll get into it someday. Maybe.

10:00-12:00; Activity 2/downtime. Because pinky swear just chilling is an activity. Downtime is important. I wrote down that cabins can sign for the same thing back to back if they so wish. Also the rules are looser than the words clinging onto my brain so really anything happens. It’s CHB they laugh in the face of a rule.

12:00-12:30; Lunch time. Nothing special about it. Uh ,:3

12:30-2:00; third activity. Action packed days for the win!

2:00-4:00; fourth activity time. Also probably when most of the campers start cabin revolts. No one agrees on a schedule most of the time.

4:00-4:30; actual specific free time. Some moments to gather round and chill out. You’ve already spent most of your day, doing something.

4:30-5:30; activity 5. Most of the time this can just be a continuation of the free time.

Don’t ask me what those extra 10 minutes are for no one really ever knows

After 6 o’ clock no one is allowed on the lake. Sorry man

6:00; also the beginning of Dinner. Dinner goes as planned, usually with some Camp wide event happening because of course. Can’t have good stuff here at camp/j

7:00; Camp Sing-a-long times!

7:30-8:00; your stuck in the Cabin circle but at least you get those last few minutes to hang out without the threat of harpies later in the night.

8:00; all campers enter cabins for like getting ready to go to bed and stuff. Get your last conversations in

8:30; official curfew is in effect. No one can leave the cabins except for counselors who need to plan the next day because they aren’t planning their full week on Sunday.

I have notes also on like. Everything else ,:3 Chiron gets lessons and the Cabins have to do those and stuff. Sorry I haven’t been, posting long posts like this for a while lol. I’ll probably get some HoO re-imagined Camp Jupiter content out once I finish this one book I’m reading and have my CJ notebook (yes I do have a whole notebook dedicated to CJ there’s my fun fact). Also, at some point I’d like to introduce Charlico (Chiron’s WIFE) to CHB if possible. Love you Charlico/j

Okay ,:3 I think I sound a little delirious, tomorrow I have to get on a plane and after that I have to go stay a week at someone else’s place. I’ll see all of you soon to talk about the forge or something. Or maybe I’ll finally get my master lists all sorted out and stuff lol.

[rigby7997]

I'm so normal about these 2 and how I see their relationship

Grr I see them as friends who act like siblings despite all the Mordecai x Benson stuff I see on here waah [I dont hate the ship. I ship it myself at times but it gets a little much popularity out there/overrated-ish imo]

I also drew this with Benson and Rigby.

Lol this is a Spongebob ref from one of the earlier seasons [one of the classics] and I just drew this scene cause it suits Benson and Rigby's character.

[sufferingrelapsed]

some of y'all already know i currently live in turkey.

they banned access to instagram and roblox recently and people are mad about it, but i'm not too sure if the ban will be lifted despite the public outrage.

several similar bans have happened in the past, temporary or not, notably paypal (+all alternatives) and the ban of pornographic material that's been in effect for years now.

some could argue that it's for the sake of children, but i beg to differ.

there's not a single thing you can have a good reason to censor from the general public, even if it's "bad stuff", because there's no cut-off point; it was porn yesterday, instagram today, and it could be all social media access that's revoked from us tomorrow.

there's nothing stopping these people from cutting off all access to the internet and making the whole country live in even more ignorance than they live in right now.

i'm honestly kind of scared, especially because they tend to not let young people with "the risk of running away from the country" leave, refusing to give them visas or not letting them leave with bullshit excuses even if they do have one.

i'm also especially scared because i'm not cis nor het, i'm autistic, physically disabled, and i have adhd.

i'm genuinely scared for my future and the futures of everyone else in this country. i don't know what i'm supposed to do and i'm starting to doubt there's anything to do in the first place.

[chacharealsmooth07]

Blah blah, something about how Edwin chose to be "soft" after hell but what if he didn't?

The toughest thing that one can do in a mean world is to keep being kind. And he chose that. He chose to be kind. He disregarded 70 years of being ripped apart to care for a random dying boy, to keep him company. He is tough.

Blah blah, smth like choices and time being main plot points, but what about the clear struggle between good and bad?

Crystal being good now, doing good now, but coming to remember she did all sorts of (objectively) horrible things.

Charles wondering if he became the very thing he was devoting his whole life and afterlife to protecting people from, when he is (non objectively) way better than those he was comparing himself to (his father, his bullies, the two jock boys)

Edwin wondering if he can ever do enough good to be able to save himself from the torture he thinks he must endure forever? All on a technical error? (After having been back to hell, maybe he was meant to be down there. The grudges he holds have a hold on him. And if you punish yourself everywhere is hell, but if what if that's where you belong?)

Monty wondering if he can choose to be good, if he can BE good when all he ever has known is obeying to the whim of a person who is executing bad acts. Can he ever really be good if doing bad is written into him?

The cat king, and his perspective. Good and evil are the same thing if you look at them from far enough away, if you stop focusing on who you hurt and more on what you want. But sometimes he sees it, and he hates it, and he distances himself again.

Esther, being so corrupt by thinking she is the victim that she is good because she was hurt first, thinking her hurt gives her the right to hurt others. Feelings are always valid, the actions tied to them, killing countless girls, killing Niko? Those were not.

Niko, the kindest, sweetest, easily favorite of the show and fandom, she struggles with the guilt of leaving her mourning mother with nothing but her father's body and memories. She can't even mail a letter back. And when she does, she dies. And her body probably reaches her mother before the letter does.

Something about Charles not finishing stories. Something about how he doesn't read the endings, he makes his own. He gets to look back and make sure Edwin is safe, because he never knew that Orpheus couldn't. He does get out of Hell with the love of his (after)life, because he didn't know Orpheus didn't.

He found the love only myths could write off, and left off the endings. He would have love that didn't hurt, even if he had to hurt more to get to it, even if he had to die and run for it. And he would write his own endings.

Something about how Edwin knows the endings, but he goes along anyways. Because he trusts Charles to change the ending. To change the narrative. They both love each other (maybe not expressly in the same way, but it's still love) and maybe that's enough to change the narrative. Maybe the love is enough.

[somethingblu3]

I love scenes where Matt misplaces his cane where he doesn’t sit in the chair correctly when foggy has to tell him someone’s body language when the narrator on his phone is too loud when someone has to describe things for him when people think he’s lying about being blind having to ask people to read things out or not knowing what’s written down or when people feel awkward around him for just existing because that is disability.

[theheirofthesharingan]

Naruto fandom: We SAW Itachi was traumatized as a kid. As a 4-year-old. Had his formative years ruined with a burden by both the village and the clan. Had to make impossible decisions the responsibility of which he took on his shoulders. Regretted all his actions. Never believed he deserved forgiveness, love, and compassion from anyone. He died in guilt and disgrace believing this was what he deserved.

Also Naruto fandom: What shitty logic can we use to contradict everything we know from canon to discard his trauma and pain and pretend he was a completely mentally stable kid/teen who made all the decisions himself with no heavy conscience and then also blame his fans for actually seeing through all of this. Also how can we defend our favorites from Naruto itself and other fandoms because..?

[sleeve-sleeve]

ok first murder drones now spooky month depression

[fandomsoda]

I have just learned that someone very important in the Xvials community has been forced to stop posting about the ship due to the harassment they are receiving.

Needless to say, I am absolutely livid about this, not only for losing someone important in a small community of mine, but absolutely disgusted that people would harass someone over a ship that DOESN’T HAVE ANYTHING FUCKING WRONG WITH IT.

Harassment is already wrong obviously I shouldn’t have to say that, but it’s ten times worse when the reason behind it isn’t even fucking valid. Even if it were, harassment doesn’t work and only causes people to either double down or become emotionally unstable and puts them in danger. Harassment is never the answer in these times.

So here’s everyone’s (un)friendly reminder that Xvials is not problematic, Xvials is not pro/ship, a lot of people just have very weird views of how the multiverse works and haven’t refreshed themselves on X-Tale in a while and let their hatred of XGaster get out of hand. It’s totally fine not to like it, but don’t lie about it.

I’m gonna quickfire debunk the primary claims I’ve been seeing surrounding Xvials, btw for those out of the know, Xvials is XGaster x Ink, sometimes romantic but usually queerplatonic or some other abstract case. Let’s get started-

argument #1: “Ink’s adoptive dads are Gasters, so him being with a Gaster is pseudo-incest!”

Alright this alone to me is just ridiculous because like, actually think about that for a second, this is implying that every single Gaster in the whole multiverse is somehow related to Ink and that he can’t have unique relationships with them and I hope that everyone can recognize that the concept alone is absurd.

argument #2: “It’s abusive! They’re just using each other! XGaster actually hates Ink!”

Did we watch the same show? Because I don’t think we did, since in X-Tale their bond is repeatedly displayed and in Underverse it’s reinforced, with tons of extra things Jakei has posted emphasizing their bond. May I remind everyone of “come back”, this teaser Jakei showed depicting XGaster being actively afraid of losing Ink? Keep in mind how Ink is shown in a bright, important light here? He’s clearly afraid of losing him, they’re genuine friends, it’s not just for his own motives, and XGaster never treats Ink poorly, other than leaving him in the dark about things that I doubt he’s intentionally hiding from him, simply not thinking Ink would need/want to know. Like I said: totally fine if it’s not your thing or you don’t like it, but don’t fucking lie.

argument #3: “They’re both aroace!”

True, however that makes it even more likely for them to have a unique bond and understanding of each other than with others, definitely not romantic but as I said before, Xvials isn’t primarily romantic and all romantic depictions are fully recognized as fanon, if they appear at all. Also when I talk about them having a special and unique bond, that’s addressed in a canon comic, remember this from back in June? A lot of the time, the two being aroace is actually a very important component of Xvials portrayals. Especially in my case, since the way I think of them is very much hazy and queerplatonic, like all my ships with Ink.

argument #4 (this is going to sound satirical but I’m not even kidding, I saw someone say this): “It’s pseudo-pedophilic because Ink is very short and acts younger while XGaster is tall and acts mature!”

I… am at a loss for words. Take a look at that, think about what you just said, and go touch grass. Obviously, Ink and XGaster are both full grown adults with somewhat ethereal ages, no one here is a child, and labeling Ink as child-like comes off as very ableist for a number of reasons. Ink can definitely be childish, any character can, but that doesn’t make them “child coded”.

ok, that was a lot, but I just needed to get that off my chest, I… yeah. I think y’all get it. Good day.