#lots of history attached to it

[fairytwles]

read that stranger things 5 has officially wrapped….

[archiveofliterature]

that one line about ramy's bangla being rudimentary made me absolutely sob (i'm bengali) and i wanna talk about why

there's so much to it both contextually with ramy's character as well as historically. contextually because ramy is fluent in 6 languages, an insane number of languages for one person but none of which are his mother tongue. he's described as a performer, one who knows he can't blend in so instead he stands out as a means to escape as much of the racism as he can. he gets lost in it that he almost forgets who he is; this is reflected in his language ability too – he gets so lost in his linguistic academics he just barely remembers the native language of his home place that he adores.

and honestly, you can't even really blame ramy for it at all when it was induced. it's the british who saw urdu, arabic and persian as more valuable than bangla, it's the british that make ramy put on this act so he can literally stay alive. and when you know the historical relevancies between urdu and bangla, it hurts so much that ramy was forced to forget bangla

very brief history context: after the partition, where british india was split into india, pakistan and east pakistan (now bangladesh) bangla was seen as inferior to urdu due to its hindu connections. bengalis experienced so much shit because of this (and bengali muslims are still dealing with the internalised cultural racism today honestly). pakistanis tried to make the official language urdu, even though literally everyone in east pakistan were bengali and spoke bangla, so bengalis fought back against it. we still celebrate that day today (feb 21)

so to have ramy be in this position in the 1830s where urdu was seen as superior to bangla, especially when ramy is a bengali muslim, is just extremely accurate?? and maybe it's bc we don't have much western literature where we talk about this but it's just so nice to have it acknowledged

the bangla language movement didn't happen until around the 1950s, over a century after babel's timeline, but the seeds are always there. while i do think it comes with both this islamic superiority tendency a lot of asians have (arabs i'm looking at you) and britian's imperialistic racism, i just love how it all makes sense

[verycharismaticdragon]

Started watching I'm in Love with the Villainess and it reminded me of an old bingjiu plotbunny of mine... where Luo Binghe is a transmigrator from the modern world, more ge than mei personality-wise, kind of an edgelord, and, crucially, has a rampant villain kink - so SJ has a big storm comin'. This was about all I wrote down in my doc back then, but this bunny has been getting meatier throughout today...

[normalbrothers]

wip / something about tommy and arthur conveying the same codified homoeroticism as a leyendecker piece or whatever. certainly the thing knight intended

[fertbutt]

i love cowboys as much as the next transmasc but brothers it's getting a bit romanticized. like. these were (and are!!!!!! cowboys farmhands and ranchers still exist!!!!) often black or brown blue collar workers doing hard labor for a meager living in a country that hates them. I dont want to gatekeep but do we not feel maybe that its a bit weird for white 14yo middle-class lesbians in vermont to be fantasizing about this. IDK! IDK! i get a lot of gay ppl find some silly comfort in it and its not that big of a deal for most people but!!! idk.

[bikananjarrus]

another thing! they literally did it AGAIN where they’ve mentioned sabine’s previous training but absolutely failed to mention that it was KANAN who trained her!!

[kakusu-shipping]

(Same anon)

hfgjshskfhdjakafk oh my god yes!!! :O please talk about your s/I and Nightmare Fredbear!!!!!! 👀👀

THANKYOU SO MUCH FOR THE AAAAASK!!! Nothing brings me more joy than being asked about my Self Inserts <3

This S/I I've had for a while now sense I finally toughened up and watched Markiplier's playthroughs of FNaF despite my fear of them, I just never talked about it because I don't know how to talk about it, sense it's the very first Kin self insert I've ever had.

Usually when I ~Vibe~ with a character I'll call it Kin, but this was a very different feeling and it took a while to figure it out. Once I did I kinda fell into imposter syndrome about the whole Kin thing sense I'd seen a lot of people take it a lot more seriously than I ever did, so I just.. quietly added the Nightmares to my F/O list and left it at that.

But now I'm finally here to say!!! I am the Crying Child!!

This Self Ship's funny to me because even in the FNaF Universe the Nightmare animatronics aren't Real so Nightmare Fredbear is still a Fictional Other fkgjfdkg

The entirety of the self ship happens while in a coma after the bite of '83, which you all know as FNaF 4. It's wasn't actually as scary as the game made it out to be... Well I guess at first is was.

The whole thing takes place in my house, but wrong. Like, my room has two doors and they won't latch, and all my toys look weird, and it's always night, and my head hurts all the time, and of course, there's animatronics in the hallways.

For a really long time I was super scared, I thought they were gonna eat me! But I spent a long long time with them and eventually became less scared. And then not scared at all eventually!

Sometimes I'd hear my dad or brother talking, but it'd be echoey and distant. Fredbear told me not worry about it too much. He's my best friend, so I trust him of course.

And, I mean.. That's it. It's not a very interesting self ship, just a child slowing succumbing to his wounds, comforted by the nightmares he had for years and years before.

The Ghost version is the thing that that Haunts the Narrative. It's as real as the Nightmares, and only Micheal and my Dad ever see it. I don't know what it is either, I just know it looks like me to them.

[ultimateinferno]

So I've been doing some art research before doing a portrait of one of my OCs because she comes from very Prim and Proper Victorian Nobility and wanted to really study those kinds of paintings from the era which... there's a shit ton of etsy ad facsimiles out there that really corrupt the pool of references, but Wikimedia has a collection of portraits that are actually from the Era and let me tell you, a lot are just great

I Know'd It Was Ripe by Thomas Hovenden

This kid's smile is just infectious.

Girl from Megara by Georgios Iakovidis

She's not having it!

Portrait of a Woman by Simon Hollosy

The warmth in her eyes. I trust her implicitly.

Laughing Girl by Fritz von Udhe

I think this one is my favorite. The warm lighting. The pose. Her smile. I might genuinely try to do a full study on this.

A lot of these weren't the particular style I was going for (the uptight noble portrait) but they do very much provide a window for me into this era that created the one I am making.

[whatudottu]

What would happen if Annie ever ran into argit? Would she try not to kill him or she would give him a piece of her mind for what he nearly did to her dad?

Haha, again if I don't steal Necromancer Argit from Kariachi's little 'Andreas gets killed, healed, and revived' fic (because goddamn I love it so fucking much-), Annie would - if she had found out specifically that it was Argit to get Andreas into castle crashing - absolutely go apeshit. How well will it turn out? Probably not great, Argit's got experience and WILL go off if threatened, but this is also Annie Andromeda- the girl who tried to mug P'andor EVEN WHEN his ID mask made him look like THIS!

I will say Kariachi has given me so much brainrot for alien magic that I think Argit's at least vaguely a bit better than canon in Mutants and Magic (AKA my dual use 'make even OS more magic and mutant' and ocverse AU), even if it doesn't happen specifically like how Necromancer Argit handles it.

[starrysmiling]

thinking about the au i unceremoniously dropped like a bomb in mage's dms last night but also realised could be canon compliant since it doesn't contradict anything so behold, the concept of all time:

jax and wren are twins and both of them are in love with fern

(alternatively: fern has two hands and he is going to hold both of their hands)

hear me out okay. consider that there's a boy who makes you feel alive but your love rival is your twin and the object of your affection seems to look happier with him than you. even though you're twins. welcome to the natsubane family

but like. jax, the total brocon older twin who would do anything for wren and is the generally more oblivious energetic one who introduces fern to wren as his crush...

...wren, the more serious, observant, shy younger twin with a calmer personality and definitely not jealous of the fact that jax is a lot closer to fern than he is...

...and then we have fern, who loves teasing the easily flustered jax and the pride that jax's growth fills him with and his lively presence standing beside him in the kitchen while he bakes dessert, but also the sparkle in wren's eyes as he tells fern about the newest book he read and the genuine curiosity he treats the world with and the sense of comfort he gets sitting by wren's side as they watch a documentary.

yeah eventually fern ends up kissing both of them but it's so fun thinking that how he shows different sides of himself and enjoys himself in completely different ways with each twin. jax takes fern on exciting dates and they battle and train together as rivals and banter as best friends; wren soothes fern with his presence and they play with pokemon and are happy to spend time with each other quietly doing work because he's just that comfortable with wren. fern's cheeky prankster side shows up a lot more with jax, his gentle sweet side shows up a lot more with wren, and each of the twins feel that the side fern doesn't show to them makes him closer to the other twin instead.

and don't get me started on the dynamic between the twins themselves bc i'm going insane over wren's jealousy over jax being the one with the deeper bond as well as being fern's rival as a trainer but thinking that it means fern wouldn't love him as much as he would love jax so he ends up urging jax to be the one who asks fern out despite the fact that he desperately wants to be the one who makes fern smile.

also going insane over jax being conflicted over finding out that wren also is in love with fern and his life being built on loving and protecting his younger twin that he desperately wants wren to be happy but wren's happiness would come at the sake of his own happiness with fern and knowing that for anything else he'd give it up in a heartbeat but also knowing that wren would hate to see him give things up for him.

ough. neither of them realise that fern has two hands. fern kisses jax and sees wren half pulling a pout so he kisses wren as well. they both make him happy, but in different ways so they don't overlap and don't compete. he loves them both.

also, mage dropped this earlier and killed me on the spot.

[cruelsister-moved2]

so manchester jewish museum is really cool

[noxchievous]

back at it again w more Pearl. this time her first form. I wanted to give her those little joint lines that Amethyst had in the movie, so I did !! but I made them look more like doll joints because aesthetic and the whole "pearls are objects to be admired" thing.

[im-the-king-of-the-ocean]

Hello all,

This blog is going to go inactive. It will no longer post or reblog or anything really.

I'm basically just fully migrating over to my main blog, @eddy-be-creating, where I'll continue to do things.

This blog was started to be a dedicated blog for a specific fandom, and then a generalized fandom blog when I left that particular fandom. Since I've been less and less engaged in fandom and the how of my engagement has dramatically changed, this blog no longer feels like it really fits. I'll leave it up as an archive, but the era of its use is over.

[hollow-prey]

Arc.ana app I am begging you on my hands and knees, if you are going to force me to see art of Jul.ian and As.ra almost kissing in a pop-up promo ad when I open the game, can you please at least grant me the option of muting the pop-ups for 24 hours so I don't have to take psychic damage and cover my screen while I exit out of the promos every time I log in

[leapinarmadillo]

i JUST noticed one of the newscasters in Tabloid Junkie says "Jackson's longtime friend, Donald Trump...." i didn't realize the callout in Money was explicit

[a9saga]

As head of household, it is my duty to nominate two houseguests for eviction. Chris, I nominated you for eviction this week because you forgot to put pickles on my Krabby Patty.