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[cosmossoleil]

“Jegulus doesn’t make sense!”

It’s fan fiction, it’s not real. It won’t hurt you.

“Harry potter wouldn’t have existed without jilly!!1!”

He still can. It’s called co-parenting.

“Lily is not just a incubator/surrogate for your gay ship!1!’

We are not doing that. YOU ARE. YOU ARE MAKING HER ONLY THAT.

In all of the jegulus fics i had read, where harry would exist, he is still lily and James’s biological son. AND SHE LOVES HER SON, THAT DOES NOT CHANGE.

STOP MAKING LILY INTO ONLY HARRY’S MOTHER.

we give her aspirations to travel, or to become the best healer, or want other things TO BE MORE THAN JUST A MOTHER and you all throw a bitchfit that shes not playing house with James. With jegulus and whatever lily ship you perfer, harry ends up gaining so much family and being so loved by multiple people compared to the sad canon that exists.

Just admit you hate the gay ship and move fucking on and go read your own fics.

[lotus-pear]

rewatched madoka magica again today bc i fucking hate myself and to absolutely no one’s surprise i went through all five stages of grief in a single evening

[kerryweaverlesbian]

Cas stitching up his trench coat in one of the motel chairs while Sam and Dean are asleep and quietly talking to Jack about how to him the coat feels as part of himself now as his blade is. That it reminds him that he wasn't always aware of just how deeply humans could feel. How deeply angels could feel. How putting care into something can make it meaningful. The stars were mere pricks of light before humans decided to name them. The more he cares for his coat, the more of his perspective and memory gets sewn into it. The more it becomes his.

"And the pockets," he confides with a deep wink, "Are good for keeping snacks in."

Later, when Dean is asleep again, drooling over an open book of research in the bunker, Jack watches as Cas tucks his coat over Dean's shoulders and sees how he hesitates for a moment before brushing his hand softly through Dean's hair. Dean is transformed, through Cas’s careful attention, from the man who was the gatekeeper of acceptance and goodness to just a man, vulnerable and in need of care.

Jack wonders whether Castiel cares for everyone like they are a precious object. And he wonders what Castiel would transform him into, if he had to be repaired. Jack isn't sure that he likes the idea. He already has a hard time understanding his own morality, how can he also be expected live up to the idea of himself in Castiel's head? The object that Castiel loves? Does he need to be changed in order to become his?

"I could get him my pillow?" Jack suggests, swallowing against the cold mass in his throat when Cas smiles gently at that. He does like it, then, when Jack acts against his own interest.

"That might wake him. We should let him rest."

"He's precious to you."

"He is." Castiel reaches out and puts a hand on Jack's sleeve, expression sincere, "And so are you."

"Right," Jack says, then, "thanks," and holds his smile until Cas wanders back to sit perpendicular to Dean, to watch him until just before he stirred. Castiel and Jack, both, were good at pretending not to feel what they felt.

Watching the angel watch the man, Jack feels like a star. Immense and powerful but also distant, removed. Not special until a real person decides that he is. He is between angel and human. Person and object. Precious and disregarded. He is the blade and the coat, and Jack doesn't know which is worse.

[moeblob]

son boy raccoon trash can man suffering in a dnd au as a cleric bc his warlock will not stop committing murders and he has to keep coming up with reasons murder is valid to convince the gm its fine and under control

[pluralhottakes]

willogenic systems are 100% valid and not faking! Most of us don’t even claim to have DID/OSDD,so yh

-💗🌸/🩵🎀

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[lesbianfakir]

Talking about fakir with fakir fans: while fakir is a fun and genuinely likeable character the show dropped the ball on recognizing and holding him accountable for how he behaved towards mytho in season 1. The show has an element of fairytale violence to it—not meant to be taken too seriously—but fakir has been downright abusive towards mytho for YEARS and that leads to some genuinely uncomfortable scenes that are not treated with the gravity they deserve. The show could have benefited from either toning down the extremity of how fakir’s actions or taking the time to create a proper resolution to his and mytho’s relationship. As it stands, the nonchalance with with the show treats mytho’s abuse is, in my opinion, one of its biggest flaws

Talking about fakir with the mytho heathens: YOUR HONOR IN HIS DEFENSE FAKIR WAS JUST GETTING A LITTLE SILLAY WITH IT

[sorenphelps]

muse

a quick sketch inspired by a very old fanfic about Remus writing poems about Sirius' bits i just randomly remembered today... unfortunately the fic (more like a poem collection) was in Hungarian only and it's so old that it's now lost forever🤷🏻‍♀️

also tagging @plecotusauritus to help her preach the freckled Sirius agenda

[agenericplaceholdername]

Taking all this information at face value:

The Serpentine came from Chima*

The First Spinjitzu Master created the Serpentine**

He did so at the time as when he created Ninjago**

Then when the FSM created Ninjago, he incidentally created Serpentine deep below the ground of Chima? And then they came to Ninjago??

The better interpretation of this is that the FSM created Serpentine in Ninjago based on the Serpentine in Chima, who I guess ended up going to Ninjago or dying out before the events of Legends of Chima. Even though Tommy's original tweet implies that his theory is that the Serpentine all came to Ninjago. Not to mention that the original impetus for his tweet was the fact that Pythor had a blue crystal in his chest, so maybe that's where he would place a chi orb.* But none of the other Serpentine (including the other Anacondrai) have that. Maybe Acidicus is just wrong when he says the FSM created the Serpentine (very possible) but Doc's post*** implies that he is still telling the truth.

But this is why you don't do canon changes by tweet/BlueSky post, because it will very likely end up conflicting with established lore. In this case, we have no reason to doubt what was established over a decade ago except for posts on social media. (the same thing happened with Lloyd's elemental power btw until Roby called it "life" - until then the names "power" and "energy" were equally valid) Also Tommy (who worked on both shows) never even canonized it in the first place**** so I don't even know what's going on here.

Don’t get me wrong, if lore inconsistencies are needed in service of a good story, then I’ll live with them. But in this case, I think it’s a better story that the Serpentine were created by the same person who created humans and both races come from Ninjago. The story of the Serpentine over the whole show is that despite their conflicts, by the end, they and humans have learned how to coexist and even become friends. Having the same origin hammers this home - they’re truly not so different.

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*Tommy's original tweet, which is in response to a question about Pythor's blue crystal

**Serpentine were created when Ninjago was according to "The Curse of the Golden Master"

***Serpentine came from Chima but also the FSM made them according to Doc Wyatt

****This was never even canon in the first place according to Tommy

[isbergillustration]

Illustrating scenes from books and fundamentally getting every visual wrong is my strong suit

[gothicprep]

big fan of this because tumblr didn’t exist in 2006

[curedigiqueen]

In my opinion Precure is at its best when it incorporates the communities that the girls are protecting into it.

This of course stems all the way back from the original Futari wa. That shows main premise is "Ordinary days and people are important", and is by nature a normal slice of life whose drama is highlighted by the lengths Nagisa and Honoka go to protect it. As such, the girls have an extensive supporting cast, and the climatic battles often feature some level of emotional support by the supporting cast, even if they're not literally physically present. The girls are the vessels through whom humanities collective will to live is channeled. We spend our time witnessing this will within the people in the girls communities.

I've mentioned before how big a theme of community is in Fresh. There are a ton of minor side characters who make brief but frequent appearances to help flesh out this bustling city. In the end the girls reveal themselves to their community.

Princess and Heartcatch make great use of the victim of the week format to help build a strong supporting cast, understanding the motivations of these characters, who in turn help support the Cures in some way during the 11th hour.

This is part of what makes Happiness Charge and Doki Doki fall relatively flat to me. Their supporting casts aren't as fully developed. There's more one off victims. But there are still moments where this aspect shines, to me in Doki Doki in the involvement of the girl's families. The moment where Mana shouts her identity as Cure Heart is fantastic to me, I can practically see the gears turning in the family member's heads. The Oh Shit of it all.

While an identity reveal isn't a prerequisite for a strong sense of community it certainly contributes to the feelings. Both Futari wa's manage to have a strong sense of community, despite their final fights taking place when earth is reduced to a barren wasteland devoid of people, the fact they still take place on earth helps them make heavy use of the fact that despite being currently devoid of life these are places where there are meant to be life, and where life can exist again.

It's a big part of why while I love Suite, I feel it's objectively weaker than it's two predecessors despite mimicking them in so many aspects. In fact it's probably tied with the futari wa's for my favorite season. But I don't think it's nearly as good as it could be in part because of the lack of community compared to its predecessors. But what we do get of Kanon owns majority real estate in my heart. The entire town is so goddamn weird, and just down for whatever. If I could add an identity reveal to any season it'd be this one. I struggle to believe that no one in this town doesn't know (though that might be because they all are so oblivious). I'd take it away from Healin Good and Doki Doki if I had to and I love those seasons reveals.

Smile I feel is far more popular than Suite, and while I enjoy smile and think it's simplicity is to its strength it's really no surprise that the episode I care most about, more than 3/4 of the season combined, is the episode where Nao sort of kind of has an identity reveal. That's also partially because I just have a huge soft spot for kids. (Muse is my all time favorite. Go, make things worse you funky little messed up 9 year old. And I am probably one of the few people who actually LIKE the baby plotlines... which makes it honestly such an accomplishment that DeliPa got me to dislike their baby). But Smile has a lot of plots that are really self-contained to the main cast, and while I do enjoy how fleshed out the girls' families are the fact that they all turn into living rocks when the villains attack really makes them less interesting to me. Same with Tropical-Rouge, but Tropical-Rouge doesn't even fully flesh out any family that isn't Manatsu's.

Maho Tsukai and Star Twinkle both have fun main characters and worldbuilding, but the fact that, like Smile, the action and human town exist sort of separately from each other really keeps them from catching my attention. I want to like them. And I do. I just don't quite love them. I really love HiroSky's cures in particular, and adore the episodes where they are part of their communities, but do wish we had more of that.

And for what it's worth the miracle lights bring this sense of community into our reality, and they used to use the side cast to help illustrate this in the all star movies. It's great.

[scary-senpai]

Rewatching One Punch Man and talking about the origin of different abilities.

Me: a lot of them look supernatural, but the origin is usually hard work. Like Saitama—

Boyfriend: hard work or monsterization.

Me: well yeah but that’s not really not what I—

Boyfriend: —and monsterization usually comes from obsession, right? So Saitama works hard but he’s also obsessed with strength so maybe he’s got all this power because he’s a little bit monster—

Anyway I think I have to go lie down for a bit.🫠

[lunacornfan2k25]

“John Juniper is just plain evil guys!”

“I just don’t understand why Juniper is so popular!”

“People only like Juniper because he’s hot!”

[simplydm]

Once again an instance of “where are you people (the hermits) finding these comments” bc xb’s latest video mentioned that ppl were saying that xb must hate iskall bc he didn’t get excited over the free coin he gave out in the mail like ??? Who even has the time to comment over that?

[parlerenfleurs]

The thing with getting a tongue piercing that I can't help but consider, is that I'm still normie-passing in my appearance as of now. My choice of dress may be atypical sometimes but I don't break convention in any way. I can blend in, and if people look at me a lot in public it's (I presume) because of my physiology and not so much how I present myself.

But if I get this piercing, however discreet it can be compared to say, any face piercing, it also feels more transgressive than a cute gem nestled on the side of your nose or a pretty piece at the corner of your eyebrow.

My beautiful boyfriend's family would notice sooner or later. The niblings would definitely notice and ask questions and be amazed because they only ever meet "normal" people who present well. I would feel even more alienated and stressed out about fitting in.

But this is also a draw for me. I want to express myself. I want to be unapologetic. I want to not care. I want to do whatever the hell I want.

[candlecove-weaintdeadyet]

Something fascinating on the Wiki, re: Poppy and Percy's relationship

I know we all like to joke here about Poppy and his shit treatment of Percy and general lack of redeeming qualities, but I noticed something in the Wiki's episode synopses that kind of surprised me because if you ask the fandom it doesn't add up:

Yeah, in Season 1, Poppy generally treats Percy like garbage (save for the ending of Percy Plays Piano, but there he had an ulterior motive (using Percy as an anti-Horace weapon)), we all know that, but in s1e7 (The New Ship) after Janice calls him out on his bs and he takes the time to think...

well first he does the unthinkable (for an early 70's kids' show, at least) and apologizes to Janice, at least, for his weirdly cagey behavior. And even though neither he nor Percy properly address or even mention their absolute mess of a dynamic, afterwards he seems a fair bit...I guess nicer is the right word, to Percy.

In late Season 1 into Season 2, whenever the two interact (which is a rarer occurrence after that point, I've noticed. Seems Poppy mostly leaves Percy to his own devices for the most part), Poppy is noticeably calmer and more charitable-in The Map and The Key he's willing to humor Percy and his (apparently unwarranted, according to the ending) excitement, he either barely notices or doesn't care that much about Percy's nervousness in A Hole in the Ship when otherwise he'd have snapped at him about it-hell, in a scrapped synopsis for Milo's Race (curse ye, PirateJet, taking all the good plotlines from us!) he states outright that he cares about Percy, and was apparently fully ready to keelhaul Milo for hurting him had the trap chest worked as intended.

We love character development (and hate stupid retcons that get rid of it) in this house.