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higuchisora · 3 days ago

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Maddie Nolen always being a Noxian spy COULD'VE made sense if she wasn't also supposed to be a rookie enforcer. Because plenty of countries IRL have sent spies to other countries, even if they weren't planning to go to war with them. The problem was just how quickly she ingratiated herself into foreign law enforcement when they presumably know she's not a native Piltovan. So it would've been way more interesting if she'd been introduced prior to season 2, as a normal person (perhaps a passing acquaintance of Jayce's prior to his apartment blowing up) who maybe moved there for education or some other cover story.

Like, maybe she was supposed to be a student at the same academy Jayce or Caitlyn goes to (idk if they went to the same one), as, like, a transfer student or on education visa or via scholarship etc. So they know she's from Noxus, but since they're not actively hostile and she's not really being suspicious, no one thinks twice about her. Then, maybe she graduates after act 1 and by act 2, she's now living there for "work"/she decided she liked Piltover so much that she wanted to stay. And again, no one thinks about it because, well, Mel Medarda is Noxian, and she's a councilwoman! What reason would they have to be worried?

So by act 2, she's somewhat-friends with Caitlyn, and maybe pretends she's "inspired" by her to join the enforcers. They're not best friends or anything, but Maddie's persona as "Caitlyn fangirl/admirer" leads to everyone- including Caitlyn- to sort of overlook her. After all, she's been here for YEARS and hasn't seemed to do anything. I'd imagine as a trade port, Piltover has a decent amount of immigration every year anyway. I'd think a good chunk of their population are first-generation immigrants, so they don't think twice about Maddie joining the enforcers.

Then by season 2, she's not necessarily "experienced," but she's been on the force about as long as Caitlyn has (and has known her for even longer), so when Caitlyn pulls a dictator, Maddie ends up as primary advisor and first pick on the strike team. It would also make Caitlyn rebounding with her make more sense- they're not super close or anything, but there's a level of trust there already. It could also help mitigate that power imbalance. It's still there, but this time it's more like "being messy and fucking your friend" than a strictly professional line being crossed (because being friends means they're already past professional).

This way, she doesn't have to be super relevant to the plot prior to season 2, but she doesn't feel out of place, either. You might wonder how and why she'd spy for that long without switching sides/going home/etc., but honestly IRL countries have done weirder shit, especially when it comes to spies. Many have years-long missions. It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest.

Anyway, that's what I think would've made the "betrayal" REALLY stick the landing. Because it wasn't just "my side piece- who I inexplicably trusted for some reason- SHOT me, can you believe it?!" But rather, "Oh, I did NOT see you coming. Et tu, Brute?"

#arcane s2 #arcane #arcane critical #maddie nolen #the criticism is soft on this post but yk. to keep angry fans away #i just think 2 weeks is too soon to join the enforcers and then an ELITE STRIKE TEAM

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rabbitindisguise · 2 days ago

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many of us got the X marker for this very reason. You think protesters just wander around aimlessly until they end up in one place together? No. If no one used them then there wouldn't have been a case for them, and then there wouldn't have been a demand to ban them. They're important and a civil right and the folks walking around with X markers like mine aren't doing it out of gullibility. Because like, if they're going to use it to make A List, we're all screwed together because they can just tap social media and every out trans person with "trans" in their bio is caught. Thinking you're safe because you didn't get one is a false sense of security. Though yes, we know we were putting ourselves in the line of fire- but so isn't everyone on HRT and medicaid right now.

Remember: they didn't ban trans people from bathrooms until trans people started advocating for equal bathroom laws. Should we have not fought for it? They didn't ban gender affirming hormones until we fought for and got them into federal funded programs. Should we have not fought for that? For gender affirming surguries? For switching M to F and F to M?

Non-binary people are not a frivolous afterthought. Our needs matter. X markers matter because M/F markers can be more dangerous for us in some cases (they will just stick with their bigot assumption, rather than go through Cissexism Rage when they make one and get an answer that doesn't mesh with their worldview). The TERFs that harassed my inbox before I blocked a decent chunk of them were more aggressive and threatening when they knew my AGAB than when they didn't. Insurnace wise, if you want hair removal and T, then it's- in theory- easier to get approval if they don't have a gender on record. That's just two of the many problems that get solved by implementing one thing, and people were demanding we wait for them to fix the whole surrounding system when there was one more direct fix. There are practical reasons for this.

Also I'm not M or F so why should I have to lie about it just to not get punished for it. Next thing you're gonna say is everyone should go stealth or detransition and no one should go to protests. That's just not feasible. It would probably kill more people than the admin would manage.

nbc news interviewed an "expert, who asked not to be named to speak candidly about the executive order" who (among other important things) said the following:

The lawyer also said transgender Americans — especially those who have X as their gender marker on federal documents like passports — should exercise caution when they leave the country, as they could have challenges re-entering the United States and could even be held in detention by border agents.

If a Customs and Border agent can't enter a person's X gender marker into the system to allow the person back into the United States, that could mean the person would remain in Customs and Border Protection custody "until they can work with the Department of State to get an alternate ID issued," the lawyer said.

see the below article for more discussion on what effects trans (and intersex, though the article failed to mention the intersexism in these changed) people should be wary of

#politics #transphobia #cissexism

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livefromthedas · 1 day ago

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Surviving Purely Out Of Spite

By ClickClickBoom

(Also here on AAO3.)

Chapter 8: Making it Weird in Rivain and Talons in Treviso

“Lucanis, duck!” Shouted Taash.

The battlefield ran red, buzzing with a swarm of furious Deep Stalkers, but the assassin, as ever, was incredibly fast on his feet. Lucanis dropped back within seconds of an enormous chunk of granite whizzing by his right ear. It immediately lodged into the skull of another rampaging beast.

“Nice one, Taash!” Dellamorte hollered with a fierce grin.

“Pack leader on your left!” Yelled Rook over the din.

Spite’s wings erupted from Lucanis’s back and he launched skyward at an impossible speed. Within seconds he had landed on the muscle-bound beast, a dagger lodged into its skull. Even dying, the furious creature lurched and bucked, desperate to get free of its attacker. Lucanis hung on like a champ, and a second dagger to the eye sent the beast clamoring to the sand in a heap.

Rook fried a trio of the creatures in succession with bombastic bolts of lightening. They too crumpled to the sand, sizzling with smoke.

Seconds later, Taash gored the final two beasts with their gleaming golden axes, one in the head, the other splayed fully across the gut.

The battlefield had fallen silent. Rook and Lucanis both wavered where they stood, panting from exertion and sweating buckets beneath the scorching Rivaini sun. They’d been traipsing around the coast since well before sunrise, and at barely past 9, the day was already becoming a scorcher.

“How on Maferath’s left nut does anyone manage to run into a horde of deepstalkers within twenty minutes of chasing off a dragon?” Rook joked between pants. They had barely caught their breath after helping a couple of Isabela’s Lords of Fortune flush a lightning-belching Northern Hunter from one of their more frequently traversed caves when an ambush of three Deepstalkers quickly became many times the problem, “I am really starting to think one of us is cursed.”

“…Was that a demon joke?” Lucanis deadpanned, “That was a demon joke.”

Rook quirked an eyebrow and snickered, “Good? Bad?”

“Workshop it.”

“Uuugh,” Taash complained. Their Qunari friend waded through nearly two dozen bodies to retrieve a sword, “is it just me, or have these damn things gotten juicier lately?”

It was a fair question, given the state of them all. The beach was riddled with deepstalker corpses and soaked through with blood. Taash, Rook and Lucanis hadn’t faired much better - Rook was quite sure blood had soaked through every layer of clothing she had on… it was deeply unpleasant.

“It’s the numbers,” Lucanis assessed, trying and failing to wipe a dagger clean on his thigh - his pants were just as bloody as the blade, “You cut open anything in numbers greater than three, you are going to have one hell of a mess.”

“Well, it’s gross. This is gross,” Taash grumbled.

“Death is gross,” Rook noted. She squint against the sweat in her eyes, “But, I mean, aren’t dragons super bloody to kill? I’d think you’d be used to this kind of mess.”

“Yeah, but it makes sense in an animal that big,” said Taash.

Lucanis had given up on his daggers and worked to peel off sticky, sodden gloves instead, “Universal rule - Generally speaking, most bodies are the same. All are basically just bags of water and farts.”

An unseemly snort escaped Rook - a sign of success, judging by the Crow’s grin.

Taash, meanwhile, balked, “Aaugh! That’s worse! You just made it worse!”

“Tell me I’m wrong.”

“Oh my god, seriously though?” Rook’s attention was quickly pulled to the fact that her hair - waist length and curly as it was - was also matted with blood. She could feel it sticking to her back through her clothes, “I don’t think I can make it all the way back to the Lighthouse like this.”

“See?” Taash insisted to Lucanis, jabbing a finger at Rook, “Exactly!”

The assassin looked unphased.

“In which case,” Rook pressed, “Two questions. One, is that river nearby decent freshwater?”

Taash shrugged, “Technically, they all should be. They’re all coming in from the mountains.”

“Good, then two,” Rook bumbled a bit, trying to pull a boot from her foot a sickening squelch, “Think you can handle a couple of naked human asses while we try and get some of this mess washed off?”

Taash laughed, “Yeah, whatever. Doesn’t bother me any.”

It was a surprisingly time-consuming affair. Every scrap of clothing, and every weapon (which, by Rook’s count, hit nearly 15 between Taash and Lucanis alone. So many knives!) had to be soaked or scrubbed through.

An hour later, accoutrements of all sorts were splayed across granite boulders, baking beneath the sun. Taash ducked back beneath the roaring waterfall just up the way, making sure they were free of any more errant bits of deepstalker.

Rook, meanwhile, sat chest-deep in the river’s frigid crystal waters. She leaned back, thoroughly relaxed, as Lucanis helped gingerly work the carnage from her hair.

“You nearly took an entire deepstalker home with you,” he teased.

“Can’t have that,” said Rook, cracking one eye open against the sun to watch the Crow’s endearing concentration over the task, “Between Assan, Manfred and Spite, I’m pretty sure we’re full up on chaotic tag-alongs.”

Lucanis’s eyebrows rose humorously, “No doubt… Ah,” he managed to detangle one last fleshy bit of something, before nodding, “There. About as good as we’re getting without a decent soap.”

Rook dunked back beneath the chilly currents, quick to re-emerge with a sputter, “Shit this is cold!”

Lucanis, meanwhile, float back to submerge up to his collarbone and was eyeballing her with a chuckle.

“What?”

“Nothing,” he teased.

“I’ve got that whole ‘kinda looks like a drowning rat’ thing going on, don’t I?” Rook joked knowingly.

Her curls had run straight under the water’s weight, and a usually full, bold head of hair ran lank and incredibly long. She was familiar with the effect - it always looked absurd.

The Crow threw up two hands in a mock defense, “Your words, not mine.”

“Uh-huh.”

Lucanis quickly found himself dodging splashes and trying to catch the hands that launched them his way, cracking up the whole while.

“Heeeyy,” they only calmed down when Taash’s voice sounded from closer nearby, “You two leaving enough room for the Maker over there?”

“Oh, I have not heard that one in a long while,” the assassin laughed.

“How we doing with the drying?” Rook asked.

Taash had waded over to everyone’s gear, giving their own tunic a good shake, “Eh. I think half of Lucanis’s leather’s gonna need overnight and some conditioning. The rest? Wet, but good enough.”

“Good enough means lunch soon. And I am starving,” Lucanis replied.

Rook was already making her way for their gear… smartly out of reach of the Crow before turning back to tease, “Yeah, vehnan. Come on out, let’s see just how cold that water really is.”

“Making it weird,” warned Taash.

Lucanis, meanwhile, half-scolded, half chuckled, “Ohh-ho …Rook.”

He tore after the elf, grinning after her ridiculous squeal and laughter, just as Spite chimed in, “NICE one. Rook!”

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They were still tracking drops of water onto the stone floor as they arrived home through the Vi’Revas. Rook suddenly found herself shivering. After hours boiling on the coast, the Lighthouse’s cool underbelly felt frigid.

“Chioccolata Calda?” Lucanis offered at the sound of Rook’s chattering teeth.

“Oh yes please.”

Boots squelched wetly the entire way up the stairs.

“Did Rook take another surprise trip to the bottom of a lake?” Neve mused from her perch on the Library’s couch at her teammates’ soggy appearances.

Taash snickered, continuing their damp trek to the second floor.

“Oh, come on,” said Rook, “A gal falls into a lake once—“

“Thrice,” Lucanis correctly playfully, “We really do need to teach you how to swim.”

“If we could ever find the time,” Neve mused from over her quill and a fat stack of notes. She then looked up, adding seriously, “Your baby Crow is in the Dining Hall, Lucanis. Apparently, whatever news he has was too important to write down.”

Lucanis went shock-serious. He spared Rook a glance, before quickly making for the door.

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“Ser!”

Valentín scrambled to stand from a casual slump at the Dining Hall table the moment he realized just who, exactly, had entered the room. At just the right age where long legs and big ears hadn’t quite caught up with the rest of his growth, the teenager somehow looked even more reedy than usual. Quickly adding to that was the look of genuine nerves that seemed to have struck ramrod up his spine at being found slouching by one of the heads of his house.

“What do you have?” Lucanis bit coolly.

“Movement from the Talons,” said Valentín, “All of them. The staff… houses De Riva and Cantori… Treviso Crows only just found out this morning as they started to arrive.”

The boy blanched, looking a bit baffled as Rook walked right up to him. She had placed hands upon his cheeks and was giving him the hairy eyeball.

“Baby, you look exhausted,” she noted warmly, “How long have you been here?”

“I…” he squirmed, casting a cautious glance at Lucanis.

The senior Dellamorte sighed as he watched the little woman fuss over details that he had brushed past entirely. The knot in his brow unfurled a bit as he thought better of himself.

“Sit. There is nothing that need be said that cannot be done over food.”

Before long, a solid spread of meats, bread, cheeses and fruit sat before the boy, and he was quick to dive in. Rook beamed at the steaming mug of chocolate that Lucanis placed before her before taking a seat of his own with his coffee.

“According to Viago, the third Talon said he received an invitation weeks ago,” the boy continued unprompted, “It seems much the same for the others. And all sworn to secrecy about the meet. The Villa has been scrambling - Food, preparations. We’ve a dozen extra security from Teia and Viago alone… and for some reason, the entire staff has been forbidden from the east wing. Tia Alma has been furious.”

Lucanis managed a chuckle at that, for all of his pensiveness otherwise, and it was little wonder why. He had regaled Rook of more than a few stories of Tia Alma. The shrewd, matronly little woman had overseen the entire staff of Villa Dellamorte for as long as Lucanis could remember, and she was nothing if not incredibly skilled at ruling that particular roost when Caterina was busy with business as First Talon. She was also, apparently, an exceptional cook. The one area she and young Lucanis had bonded most over was food, and over the years she had taught the boy everything she knew on the subject.

“Illario and half truths are to be expected,” Lucanis noted, “Though I suspect Viago and Teia are less than pleased about discovering the inventions second-hand.”

“However mad Alma may be,” Valentín agreed sheepishly from past a healthy bite of ham, “They are much worse. Especially Teia.”

“Si,” Lucanis mused evenly, before cutting to the chase, “But you are burying the lead.”

“Aye, siento,” the boy winced and was quick to explain, “It’s bad, ser. Illario has everyone expected to gather in the Opera House by dusk. To discuss his succession as First Talon.”

Rook froze, mid-gulp, and watched over the lip of her mug as the color completely drained from Lucanis’s face. His temples twitched as he bit down hard, and she swore she caught a flash of violet light in his eyes. She carefully placed her cup back on the table. Valentín, meanwhile, kept his gaze fixed silently upon his food. Both Rook and the boy, it seemed, knew Lucanis quite well enough to gather when he was genuinely, deeply irate, but doing his damnedest to mask it.

“Forgive me,” he said quietly as he stood, “A moment.”

Rook and Valentín watched in silence as the senior Crow strode for the pantry and shoved his way inside.

“You’ve got a shit job, kid,” Rook whispered apologetically to the boy, a hand patting his forearm.

Valentín watched the open doorway for a moment, clearly trying to gage his own safety, before a sad little smirk crossed his face.

“Believe it or not,” he mused quietly, “I have had worse.”

Rook tittered a chuckle of her own, “From what that one has told me of his own training, I believe i—“

There was a violent flash of purple light and a plume of unctuous black smoke from the pantry door. Rook scrambled to catch Valentín by the sleeve of his coat as he leaped to his feet in a panic.

“Nonono,” Rook whispered quickly. She was glad the kid was smart enough to listen, less he make an already tense situation much worse, “Sit. You focus on your food, I’ll…” she had stood up as the teenager reclaimed his chair, still unable to tear his wide, worried eyes from the door.

“But it…”

“Eat, sweetheart,” She said, patting a hand upon a scrawny shoulder as she rounded the table, “I’ve got it.”

…She hoped. Rook strode cautiously for the open doorway, the scent of ozone and sulfur tickling her nose the closer she came to the room.

“Lucanis? Are you…?”

She blinked owlishly for a moment, trying to gauge what she was seeing upon stepping inside.

Violent streaks of char and ash streaked the walls, fanning out from center in vicious tendrils. But not just streaks - the singe of two white-hot, furious wings - at the center of which, sat huddled upon the floor, was Lucanis.

“Oh, Vehnan,” Rook whispered softly.

Lucanis sat, his knees pulled up nearly to his chest, elbows upon his knees. One hand laced into his hair, his eyes glassy with tears.

Rook doubled back, and quietly shut the door - Privacy between them and the stressed out teenager at the table.

She sat right down with him then, face to face, a gentle hand brushing his cheek. He couldn’t make eye contact at first, thoughts trapped in a painful, grief-stricken spiral. The moment he blinked tears, Rook pulled him into a tight hug, “I’m so sorry, Vehnan. There’s nothing about this that mustn’t hurt like hell.”

Wickedly tense shoulders relaxed just enough to wrap arms around her, pulling Rook as close as he could manage, anxious, furious trembling be damned. She held him quietly, breathing slow and even - breathing he struggled to ground himself to once again.

“How are we doing in there, Spite?”

“Hurts,” was all the demon could manage.

It made sense, Rook thought. She knew from experience that few emotions stole words from tongues more completely than the sting of betrayal.

Lucanis closed his eyes against fingernails that brushed softly through his hair, hot tears warming the damp fabric at her shoulder where his face had hidden away. It was only once the Crow had managed a deep, shuttering sigh that she let him go - and even then, only enough to sit back against the wall, looking deeply miserable.

“I have to be ready for this, mi amor,” he said quietly, admitting, “I do not feel it.”

“Lucanis, I don’t know how anyone could,” Rook replied. “This… this is a lot. For anybody. But I also…” she mulled carefully over words, a hand rubbing idly over where his heart thrummed a war drum in his chest, “I cannot imagine anyone more capable. Or more brave. And who will absolutely not be doing this alone.”

He caught that hand, and pulled it to his lips, leaving a kiss upon the soft, delicate underside of her wrist, before holding it warmly back over his heart.

“Then… We deal with this tonight,” he agreed. He slowly wrestled back his calm with that small scrap of composure, one breath at a time, “The three of us.”

“We absolutely do.”

#dragon age #dragon age the veilguard #datv #lucanis dellamorte #dragon age veilguard #lucanis x rook #rookanis #rook x lucanis #dragon age fan fiction #veil jumper rook #rook aldwir #jynn aldwir #taash dragon age #Taash #taash the dragon hunter

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sonknuxadow · 1 year ago

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I think the funniest dynamic with jet having a crush on sonic is jet is always like. hyping up himself and sonics relationship he's like "Yeah i'm basically sonic's greatest rival. yeah he doesn't know what to do without me. he's obsessed with me." and its like hard cut to sonic and they're like "sonic what are your thoughts on jet the hawk" and sonic remembers all of jet's little smug shit remarks in the riders game and does the excalibur face. much love to jet.

LITERALLY . never forget the tailstube clip where tails mentions hardcore sonic fans and opens this image

#also the picture on the wall in jet's room that obviously had sonic cut out of it #jet thinks about sonic way more often than sonic thinks about jet #asks #its not just jet Tbh i think the idea of most of sonic's friends and rivals who are around the same age as him #having at least a small crush on him at some point is really funny. idk why i just do #not ALL of them. but a decent chunk of them

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ceaseless-watchers-special-girl · 7 months ago

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thank you @pippalovestunabrick for tagging me!!

last line challenge!!!

Juno shrugs. “We’re clearly not getting anywhere with this. I just—" Juno pinches the bridge of his nose and sighs. “Yeah, no, this isn’t working, and I’m tired of trying to make it work. Can— I—” Juno pauses to drag his hands down his face. “Can we just agree to be civil? For Rita?”

oooooo the boys are fightingggg

@smidgen-of-hotboy @one-joe-spoopy @ananxiousgenz @urjover please :3

#i rifled through all my wips trying to find a decent line lmao. most of them consist of random chunks which aren't in chronological order #so the last lines don't make any sense rip #tpp #the penumbra podcast #jupeter #juno steel #peter nureyev

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lananiscorner · 2 days ago

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Perhaps I was not clear enough in my original reblog, but I think you may have misunderstood several points of my post.

I was not trying to invalidate anything about the OP or miss its point--I was adding onto it, because for some adults who enjoy media for children, nostalgia is part of the appeal. I am sorry that the nature of your childhood meant that this could not be the case for you, but that doesn't change the fact that it is a factor for some, including for me. Your experiences are not universal, and neither are mine.

Personally, I occasionally rewatch cartoons from my childhood because they take me back to "simpler times". I occasionally watch shows or movies like them, designed for kids, even today as a grown adult long out of childhood, because there is something comforting for me in enjoying a well-made show/movie that focuses on the core messages we try to instill in future generations in terms that nobody can miss: be brave, be understanding, be kind, make friends.

The reason why I went into the second topic of my post (the stigma around adults consuming media for kids being puritanical panic around the potential of adults corrupting or hurting kids if they engage with the fandom) is because this is precisely the reasoning I see flung around most often by other people as criticism of adults who are in fandoms for child media or who enjoy media for children.

Gonna repeat that again: BY OTHER PEOPLE. I do not agree with that take.

I cannot count the many times I have either received asks myself, or have had mutuals receive asks, saying we should not be in fandoms X, Y, Z, because a grown adult enjoying stuff for children is creepy.

I was pushing back on said argument, to state why it is, in fact, beneficial to have people of multiple age ranges enjoying the same thing, precisely because it is the argument I most frequently had people try to wield against me and my mutuals.

I WISH I had no need to bring it up. I WISH that sentiment (that all adults who enjoy stuff for kids or are hanging out in fandoms for said media are creeps) did not exist, but it does, and so I decided to address it, before anybody tries to jump into my ask box and go "hurgh, hurgh, that post you reblogged about how we shouldn't shame adults for enjoying media for kids--do you not realize what massive creeps you are?"

You also grossly misinterpreted what I meant by "not every". "Not every" does not automatically mean "a good chunk" or "most". It means "not 100%". At no point, did I make any statement about how many percent of adults who enjoy kids media or enjoy hanging out in fandoms about kids media may be abusers, but I did acknowledge that they exist, because they do. They do exist in kids media fandoms, as they do in any sphere of life where kids may be present. So let me state this clearly for the record: In my experience, it is an incredibly small number, but it is not 0%. It is also not 100% though, which is what some other people like to assume.

There are plenty of people who are into children's media or part of those fandoms for entirely normal, healthy reasons:

They enjoy the simplicity of it.

They enjoy the quality of the writing/animation/music/various other parts of the work.

It helps them work through trauma or tough times.

It gives them nostalgic comfort.

They have loved ones or friends who enjoy it and want to be able to connect with them about it.

[Insert probably around half a dozen reasons here that I cannot think of at the moment.]

I do not judge anybody who likes media for kids for liking media for kids. As long as you are not harming anybody, you do you. Have fun, live your best life, enjoy the things you enjoy.

And regarding your question "How do you think about people who WORK in animation??" - In general, I think most of them are incredibly talented people. Whether they are decent people in a moral sense is something I cannot judge, unless:

A) I get to know them personally (highly unlikely).

B) They use their amazing talent to create something bigoted/hateful.

C) They publicly interact with others in a bigoted/hateful/abusive manner, or records of them interacting in such manner in private become public.

And if B or C ever happen (e.g. Rowling), I simply block them, stop interacting with their material, and move on with my life.

I like to think of people as innocent until proven guilty. I do my best to treat strangers with respect, understanding and kindness, and I say "do my best" because nobody's perfect--we all mess up sometimes and there have definitely been days when I have been physically or emotionally drained enough to be a sad ball of rage lashing out at anyone who interacted with me, and also because I am well aware that I have certain culturally-ingrained biases that I am actively doing my best to unlearn. But my default is always "assume decent person, until proven otherwise".

I will conclude by saying this: I wish you the best and I hope I made my point clearer this time.

Quick edit to add: I will also mute this post now, in the interest of not getting into any further arguments and derail OPs post even further. My initial reblog was meant to be a simple addition in further support of letting people enjoy what they enjoy.

I really have no patience for posts talking about "adults who only watch kids' cartoons," because, like...people accuse me of "only watching kids' cartoons," despite all evidence to the contrary. It doesn't matter how much I talk about other adult media I like, if I post too many things in a row about Steven Universe or The Dragon Prince or The Owl House, people come out of the goddamn woodwork to accuse me of "only watching kids' shows."

So I really can't take people seriously when they start talking about the supposed "problem" of "adults who only watch kids' shows." Are the "adults who only watch kids' cartoons" in the room with us right now, or are you basing your entire opinion of people solely on their fandom blog? Like, come on.

It makes me think of the couple years I spent volunteering in a school library. The librarian talked a lot about how it's hurtful to enforce "reading at grade-level" on every student with no nuance. Teachers would try to force their students to check out books "at proper grade-level," instead of letting students pick out whatever they wanted (even if it was "too easy"), and it resulted in a lot of students deciding books were boring, too hard, and only good for making them feel stupid. They started to hate reading entirely, because people constantly shut them down and told them they were stupid for not reading the right things. This was especially brutal on disabled students.

I personally apply the same philosophy to adults. You don't know what someone might struggle with, you don't know what someone's history is. You might think a piece of media is "too simple," but that's your experience and your opinion. People learn and grow and experience the world at different paces, and what seems to you like a "simplistic" piece of media may be the most complex, illuminating piece of media someone else has ever had the opportunity to experience. It doesn't make them "stupid" or "childish," and believing that it does is cruel and counterproductive. You cannot wield shame as a fucking cudgel if your goal is education, support, and helping people expand their horizons.

I don't think a culture of shame is helpful. I don't think a culture of "if you like 'childish' things, it means you're too stupid for anything else" is helpful. I don't think constantly making fun of children's media does anything other than demean people--and not just the people who enjoy it, but the people who make it, too.

#fandom wank #tw child abuse #adults in kid media fandoms

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mashmouths · 5 months ago

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so i started this show and it just gets worse and worseeeee not only did it lift the romance subplot directly from twilight (and not well) but they also are trying to play the forbidden love angle hard in the fantasy racism vein except it's a "cross-species" relationship between the two whitest people i've ever seen in my life and there are three people of color in the whole (first season of the) show who aren't villains and it seems that every other episode (and sometimes ebery episode and sometimes twice an episode!) there is a man physically or magically subjugating a woman and i keep waiting for the big reveal at the end to be stolen from fucking rainbow rowell

#yes i read 'carry on' by rainbow rowell in middle school what else could you have possibly expected from me. anyway she gives me simon snow #vibes and not in a good way and she's even blonde while her british vampire boyfriend has dark dark hair and just. you will never be basil.#also i hate to be that guy but the writing has made me physically recoil and the acting almost reads as silly but mostly as middling :/ and #i wanted and expected more from matthew goode bc i really liked him in downton but i guess this is a 2018 bbc modern vampire fantasty serie #like i guess.#also there's SO much shit about bloodlines and maybe i'm gay with a blood disorder amd a family history of adoption but like. who fucking #careeessssssssss it ahould not be that serious. why is it that serious.#also the fantasy racism kind of reads like it's mesnt to be? homophobic adjacent? like there's a Lot of 'love who you love' talk going on #for the single most bland heterosexual relationship i've ever seen on a screen like there is so little chemistry? so little #anyway it's called 'a discovery of witches' and i'd recommend not watching it 🫶 or if you do then watch it on 1.5x speed #it's been decent background noise for knitting bc i kinda sorta care about the plot but if miss a chunk bc i'm in the lace chart zone i do #not care and i do not have to go back to catch it bc the writing is so transparent #there was another series it stole from that's escaping me atm but when i noticed it pissed me off a touch. hmm maybe it will come back to m #a post #do not watch this show #I REMEMBERED they wanted the juliette holding diana captive moment to be joaquin's 'i want to watch you fuck her' from sense8 SOOOOO BAD bu #it WASN'T bc they were too afraid to lean into anything that would make juliette interesting at all. for being all about the world's most #special blonde woman this show does not seem to like women very much. sad! well there's other shows #OH ALSO ALSO there are 3 magical 'creature' species which are witch + vampire + femon except the demons don't seem? to have any magical #abilities that humans don't have besides sensing the species of other creatures? like witches can cast spells and vampires do their various #vampire things but demons have nothing going for them except disproportionately high rates of homelessness and suicide?? like girl what are #we doingggggggg what are we doing here !! what's their deal why does no one care !! can they do anything or no !! god this show sucks

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odessa-castle · 8 months ago

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Nothing Like the Sun: Chapter 20

In which things are (literally) on fire.

Fandom: Baldur's Gate (Video Games) Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Astarion/Wyll Characters: Astarion, Wyll, Ulder Ravengard, Cazador Szarr, Dalyria, Petras, Original Characters Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Different First Meeting, Slow Burn, Hurt/Comfort, Canon-Typical Violence, Intrigue, Trauma, Implied/Referenced Rape/Non-con, Ulder Ravengard's A+ Parenting, both these boys need hugs, but I'm going to be mean to them first, Unsolicited Fatherly Courtesan Procurement

Summary: Ulder Ravengard wants Wyll to enjoy more of the pleasures of youth, and Cazador Szarr has a solution: an enticing present for the young lord's birthday, in the form of an irresistible pale elf. To Astarion's surprise, Wyll is more interested in companionship than carnal pleasure. Their budding friendship sends ripples through the Gate's elite. But as that friendship begins to blossom into something more, the Grand Duke is called away to Elturel...

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #wyllstarion #bloodpact #wyll ravengard #astarion #fic #nothing like the sun #i'm on sabbatical for a little while so i have more free time #and i intend to spend a decent chunk of it poking these two with sticks #and letting them have tender moments. it's all about the balance.

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dyke-stuck · 4 months ago

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hiii i havent checked on this blog in a while, i thought you were quitting? i dont remember when but i thought you said you were done with this blog :? super glad ur still going but curious if im remembering wrong

i did quit! a decent while ago! but when the 2 year anniversary came around i was like ohhh ill open requests for a little bit... in celebration..! just till the end of the month... surely it wont be that many.... and then it was a Lot. but the current plan is to finish off my current inbox and then dip out again ^_^

#honestly the only reason im still working on reqs is bc id feel bad if i just ignored all them.#but even then theres a decent chunk i delete. u know?#this blogs more like an unpaid side job than a labor of love anymore even tho the levels of joy flunctuate quite a bit. its just that rn:#im not... into homestuck anymore? like at all? ive jumped through like 3 fandoms since this blog ended. so the motivation is a bit dead #sorry. u didnt ask all that. im just saying my truth #i rlly love the the ppl on this blog & the concept & how its been and even when i wasnt like. working on it anymore id go back through all #my old drawings of love and delight #but as it was when i stopped: i just dont have the motivation anymore. and now i also have other projects i value more that ive put on hold #for this temp revival. so.#dstext #damn i talk a lot sorry about that

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fedoraspooky · 8 months ago

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In case anyone's wondering, one of the things i've been doing freelance-wise is illustrating for a TTRPG book! I got to do a cameo of ST1X for an upcoming game based on ol' deviantART OC tournaments, so if you'd like a sneak peek of that and several years worth of other secret drawings (mostly Kilroy-related but there's other ocs too!), it's available in my $5 tier!

#promo post #jfdhs i'll never get used to making these but yeah reminder that my patreon exists and i'm still actively updating it XD ;#if subscription stuff aint your style though I also have a kofi #and I will likely be opening commissions soon! as soon as i can figure out decent pricing for them .w.;; and how to go about doing them #it has been a minute since i last had to open them up kjdfhg #freelance work has been helping with a good chunk of my rent but I also have other bills and meds for my cat that it sadly doesnt cover .w.#so i gotta make ends meet while searching for a more stable living sitch!#anyway yeah that's all! i will now get back to the funnies and oc shenanigans XD ;

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lexalovesbooks · 5 months ago

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I just realized that in the scene where everyone else is talking about their past identities, Teraeth is the one who says that he doesn’t know who Thurvishar was in his last life. Teraeth, aka the only one of them that remembers his afterlife at that point, who also has specifically said that he remembers the moment when the guardians asked for volunteers and Elana and S’arric volunteered. The only conclusion to be drawn from this is that Teraeth was so busy shooting heart eyes at the two of them that he didn’t even remotely register the fourth person who they’d be saving the world with, who also happened to be the guy that invented his job and the empire that he ruled.

#a chorus of dragons #thinking about what these three got up to in the afterlife has been taking up a decent amount of my brain space lately here’s what i got:#we know from teraeth that sarric wasn’t even remotely talkative or apparently doing much of anything other than staring off into space #which. understandable he was probably life half a person for a decent chunk of that time #and i think it’s also pretty safe to say that he and elana were not besties for that time when all three of them were together. like she #probably had some affection for him but she was absolutely Not giving him the satisfaction of showing it #so teraeth/atrin is spending his afterlife hanging out with two people who ignore/hate him 90% of the time #and then the call for volunteers comes and he’s so busy going I GOTTA REINCARNATE WITH Y’ALL that he completely misses #the First Emperor Of Quur also volunteering #fascinating little guy

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ezekiel13 · 5 months ago

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I hated poetry until I was 13

Do you know what made me stop?

I sat next to this girl in English. We did not get along. She threatened to kill me a few times, standard stuff.

She hated it when I recited the poems we learnt. So I started memorising them. (We did not have to. We had to know quotes for our GCSEs)

And in memorising some of the poems to annoy this girl I hated, I gained an affection for them and started to understand them

And then when I was 15 and in my English GCSE I:

1) Did much better than I thought possible because of how much effort I put in, all of which stemmed from a petty hate

2) OMG FUCKING HELL THIS POEM IS SO GOOD SEAMUS HEANEY HOT DAMN (unseen poetry)

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squisheebugdoodles · 2 years ago

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I won't lie, I've been kind of selfish hoarding a lot of the personal art I've done for the last... three years or so, because a lot of it is so important and special to me that I just didn't want to post it. A lot of it was just for me and the person i drew it with and for, but I want to share some of it now because reasons

This is a very special gift for somebody even more special to me 💖

#this person and these pieces are so so beyond precious and special to me #it's hard to share that with the public because of how special and personal it is #i still don't think i can share everything but i have reasons for trying and i am genuinely SO proud of literally all of it #so you WILL look at these and you WILL appreciate them 🔫#destiny 2 #destiny 2 fanart #destiny 2 guardian #this one took a decent chunk of time and i'm SO proud and happy with it !!!!!!!#squisheebug doodles #digital art #digital doodles

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echoofawind · 1 day ago

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Make me write - send me any of these emojis and I'll write at least 3 lines for that fic and post it.

I was tagged by the lovely @charlotterhea . Thank you for thinking of me 🥰

So uhh, all of these WIPs are ....slumbering. I haven't been writing in the past year and haven't felt very motivated to write so everything is on hold. I do want to get better at telling stories and I can't do that if I'm not telling stories, so I might try to start writing again. Maybe this will help!

🐇 White Rabbit Surprise - Severus/Hermione- Alice in Wonderland AU

🐒 Do You Wanna Know - Severus/Hermione- Severus and Hermione individually take dance lessons at the same studio before getting paired together

💌 Fake courting ritual - Severus/Harry (pretend relationship), Severus/Hermione - Severus has to court Harry for Voldemort. He needs help and asks Hermione.

🎁 Gift for Lyra - Severus/Remus - Courting Ritual, enemies to lovers

💫 Part time soulmate, full time problem - Charlie/Draco- Charlie gets assigned as Draco's parole officer. Too bad it turns out they are soulmates

🎀 The Ribboned Wizard - Charlie/Draco - IShouldBe's The Ribboned Witch where Draco is Ribboned by Charlie

🦸Clark Kent - Severus/Hermione - Non Hogwarts, same age magical AU. He calls her from a pay phone

🎥 Electric Touch - Severus/Hermione - Rock of Ages esque, they have a blind date at the Hollywood sign

💵 Emerging Omega Auction - Severus/Hermione - A/B/O, Alpha!Severus bids on Omega!Hermione

🩰 12 Dancing Princesses AU - Severus/Hermione - fairytale retelling

🗡️ Sword in the Stone AU - Severus/Hermione - Severus as Arthur

⌛ Meatloaf Songs (I would Do Anything For Love But I won't Do That) - Severus/Lily, Severus/Hermione - Severus uses his coworker Hermione's research to go back in time to chase his love Lily. Unrequited love all around

🩺 House - Severus/Hermione - based on House MD

🪙 Soulmate Artifact - Severus/Hermione- Star Trek the Original Series and Harry Potter crossover

🛌 While You Were Sleeping - Severus/Hermione - SSHG retelling of the Sandra Bullock movie While You Were Sleeping

🥂 Champagne Problems - Severus/Hermione - Preslash, He is there for her after a breakup with Ron

🪄 Clone a Wand - Severus/Hermione - they make a clone a willy

🧪 Potions Mastery Smut - Severus/Hermione - The potion she must brew to complete her mastery is known to have salacious outcomes

🎭 Masquerade - Severus/Hermione - what it says on the tin. They attend a masquerade

🦕 Gift - Severus/Hermione - Hermione takes a trip to the museum, Muggle AU meet cute

Send me something! I'm ready to crowd source my writing motivation and accountability 😎

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