#medium long but still

[charrfie]

Oh I meant the ones in your discomforts!!! Sorry I should’ve specified. I just thought it may come off as intrusive / rude, I’m glad it didn’t bc it wasn’t supposed to

Thank you for specifying!! <3 I can answer, but with some I may not be able to fully go into detail for personal reasons. Since you in your first ask you specified fandoms, thats all I'll be covering!

Without getting into the details, ow*ri no ser*ph and m*stic m*ssanger (censoring not bc the name itself is a trigger but bc I don't want my blog showing up under ANY searches with this) are things my abuser really loved so I can't really bear the thought of them or see pictures from them :^/ not that there's anything wrong with either series (I don't... think? I was never too interested in finding out ANYTHING about them really) but I prefer people to not interact who enjoy them for that reason. Just. For distance's sake (distance between me and the source material that is)

Alien 9 emulators is a different story though! As you may know, I'm a HUGE fan of alien 9???? Like?? Duh??? I feel like it's all I use tumblr for sometimes, just for alien 9 content. That being said alien 9 emulators Fucking Sucks. Basically any alien 9 content that isnt the original 3 volumes/the anime sucks (like alien 9 next, etc). I wrote nearly a whole essay about it one time trying to explain my viewpoints on it so it's hard to simplify my reasons but I'll try (tw csa but I'll do my best to skim over it). Basically: I feel like it's undeniable that a large part of alien 9's story is about children becoming victims of whatever kind of abuse the adults in the series perpetuate. This *includes* csa. That is an INCREDIBLY prominent aspect in the story, and while it is most obvious in kasumi's arcs, it's present in every arc, every character. Granted, it is ALWAYS through metaphor. Leaving you to put the pieces together, as most of the series does even with other topics. So, to quote my essay: "Emulators takes all of those intricately and gently crafted metaphorical plot points and turns them on their heads." The victims break from the healing they were doing, continue the cycle to become abusers themselves, and (though a petty gripe compared to the rest) it retcons SO many things to make way for these twisted fucking metaphors and careless storytelling??? It doesn't even fucking BOTHER to provide some sorry excuse as to WHY it is doing this. THAT is why it's on that list in my carrd

Tldr: alien 9 emulators is horribly disrespectful (and arguably actively harmful) to the very people it originally wished to uplift

[sioster]

Ooh what a scary guy!

[antirepurp]

the way jolyne breaks so much convention as a jojo protagonist from not being introduced as an inherent badass and having to earn the right to be called that over the course of the story to her life being over from the moment that story begins while still not painting the events of it as a soul-crushing tragedy but rather a journey through which she reconciles and finds new meaning and purpose to herself as a person. i love jojo stone ocean i wish women were real

[filmnoirsbian]

[piyo13sdoodles]

day 5 on chapter 15 of Hands of the Emperor:

He played until the full moon sailed high above them, his last song one of the endless longing of a poet who had fallen in love with the Moon. [...] "It is nearly the eclipse," his Radiancy said in a quiet voice, and Cliopher realized that he probably knew its coming far more intimately than any of them.

[a-casual-egg]

Beatrice pulling out the coin has so much more significance after we learn about the courting rituals in the order!! Especially after Johnny says "You would recognize this well." and Happen says "You kept it.". It's the coin they flipped to see if they could get married!! The coin that betrayed them, at least betrayed Beatrice. And she still wants to flip the coin after the last coin flip hurt her so badly!! Also, we never learn the results of the coin flip, so it's possible that Beatrice was gonna help Happen no matter what side came up on top. She just wanted to make him remember and possibly hurt a little/feel the nervousness she felt during the coin flip for their marriage.

[coffeebanana]

i love how optimistic i am when outlining long fics it's like "oh wow if i just plan this all out and then Follow. The. Plan!! it will totally be SO EASY. i mean i can have it all done so quickly!"

...ignoring the fact that this has never once happened 😂

[repurposedmeatlocker]

On one hand, I agree that there should be a more diverse field of subject matter utilized in "adult animation". Not all "adult animation" should be used as an excuse to revolve around shock content and gratuitous potty humor. At this point in time, stuff like this being seen on prime-time television is no longer out of the ordinary. And, from my observation, is done well even less frequently. There should be more films that treat themselves seriously and explore an array of topics rather than just comedy with a middle-school idea of mature subject matter.

ON THE OTHER HAND. I don't think there is ANYTHING wrong with animated movies and shows with lots of drugs and boobies and sex and gross jokes. I think cartoon characters having freaky sex is funny af. Both have the right to exist together. Art should not be pigeon-holed through a lens of "respectability" in order to be taken seriously. Demanding adult animation be "palatable" for an "adult" audience ultimately strips it completely of what makes it a unique medium for expression in the first place.

[tosahobi-if]

I miss Iseul 😔

just for you, anon!

[maximusboltaqon]

nothing like looking directly at maximus references to realize just how much longer i draw his hair 😳

[sysig]

Wake up somewhere better, maybe (Patreon)

[sqlmn]

Lightning, water, and fire! Like forever before the plot starts. By the time the plot starts, the lightning and fire deities have been subjected to punishment by the two gods that picked them.

Oh (the fire deity) is first to be punished. They basically decide that since they're going to live for a long time, gotta set some long time goals! And they opt to be the wrath of the gods since most of the other deities are too 'soft' in their opinion. So Oh just. Smites humans. This isn't really a /good/ thing and in their defense mentally, they do it to help Ymber since he's the softest of them all. So their punishment by the gods is to be split in two, effectively halving the power of one into two. (Now they are in a male and a female body and use both male and female pronouns apart since they together make they but apart it feels weird to be they. But prior to the split they use they/them. Also the split bodies go by the names Ohiwe and Ohime.)

Fulj is the second to be punished. She falls in love with a mortal woman and that is a crime according to the gods. Mortals and immortals are not to be together and it will only bring suffering to both sides. So her punishment is her memories of the woman are stripped and her body basically broken to the point she can't remain physical all the time.

Ymber, unfortunately, is the one who blames himself for the discoveries and punishments. If he had only tried to restrain Oh more then maybe they would have chilled out and stopped before being punished. If he had only tried to persuade Fulj to not continue seeing the mortal woman so often perhaps she wouldn't have been punished. So he's just increasing the guilt on his shoulders every day that he remains unpunished since the elder gods have both laid down to rest. They can't enforce their laws anymore and none of the deities are keen on harming one another at this point. They just want to continue existing in peace.

[doyelikehaggis]

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[tj-crochets]

The purple baby quilt that had been hanging in front of my messiest set of shelves for a few months is finally going to be mailed to a baby, so the rainbow chaos scrap quilt is now hanging there!

I love it I get art in my room and also can ignore the mess on the shelves behind it lol

[anghraine]

I don't normally have much of a sense of humor about the LOTR movies or Certain Choices (all the choices) made with Faramir and Denethor.

That said, I do find it a little bit funny that, in the attempt to make Faramir sympathetic in ROTK, it leans so far into poor teary-eyed woobie Faramir who is regarded with undiluted tragic(??) contempt by his awful and also incompetent and unhinged father. A lot of the rationale for the choices made in TTT came down to "Faramir is too perfect and invulnerable for film." But book Faramir is at his most vulnerable in ROTK, and arguably his most flawed.

He's scared when he rides towards the Ringwraiths (more courageously in the book, to be sure) and contracts the Black Breath. He's still vulnerable, but also far more assertive with Denethor especially (who is far more formidable in the book), to the point that his restraint with Denethor eventually snaps and he lashes out, effectively blaming Denethor for Boromir's death. That could easily be played as a pretty brutal moment that highlights how tragically far their relationship has devolved, despite their pained love for each other. It's not in the movie at all.

Faramir essentially insists that he's opposed to the defense of the river crossing (not a suicide mission in the book! a planned retreat that inflicts major casualties on Sauron's armies!) and will only go if explicitly commanded, maneuvering Denethor into a position where he has to back down or give the order. It's not even certain in the book that Faramir was right in opposing the tactic; it bought the time needed for the Rohirrim to reach Minas Tirith.

Film!ROTK is pretty much uncritical of Faramir (his choice to lead a bunch of men to their deaths on a pointless doomed mission because his terrible father doesn't love him is mainly treated as sad for him). The Faramir of the ROTK-the-book is still treated as deeply admirable, but he's messier, more aggressive, yet still very vulnerable at times. And there is something vaguely funny to me about going from "oh, he's too perfect in the book to be recognizably adapted" to papering over nearly all complexities and flaws in his character.

[that-one-poison-trainer]

4 and 5, stupidest injuries you've ever gotten and given

stupidest injury I've ever gotten? Probably when I chipped my baby teeth on an Oreo? Does that count

As for the stupidest injury I've ever given that has to go to me accidentally giving @lostlornghost minor bran damage back when I was a medium because how the fuck was I supposed to know that would happen?!