#oh the article “the” is in the name

[everchanging-cryptid]

just started watching Umbrella Academy ( I’m on episode one) and I have 3 things to say

Klaus is very gender

5 is a mood

I hope to God nobody simps for the army knife guy, he’s a jerk

I Will return with more info later ig when I watch more of the show

[thedrowsydoormouse]

I’m starting to think award shows are intentionally causing drama around nominations because they know the headlines around the backlash will just make more people watch. I think they’ve crunched the numbers and decided it will draw more eyes than they’d lose from a boycott.

The worst part is performers of color are basically being punished for the sake of rage bait. Not to knock Sam Reid because his nomination is very well deserved but season 2 was carried by Jacob, Delainey, and Assad and the fact that none of them are being recognized for their amazing work is kind of maddening! And I get some categories are more stacked than others but the omission of all 3 feels intentional. It’s almost like they took a look at their list of potential nominees for leading actor in a drama and decided they only had room for one black man from the UK and Doctor Who is a bit more “ advertiser friendly” (again, not knocking Ncuti, Doctor Who is my comfor show and I think he is on track to being one of the best Doctors of modern Who). I’m not saying they should automatically win because they’re POC but the fact that none of the 3 main characters of the season were even nominated is very telling. I hate that bigotted rage bait has become so profitable.

[svnflowermoon]

y'all go from being feminists to tearing these women down within seconds oh my god it's 2024 can we please stop viciously tearing one woman down to bring another up i don't care what side you take but saying vile shit about either woman and their music is disgusting, please grow up

[typenull]

While the climax of Dunmesh [here’s your warning for spoilers] gives us an extremely thorough look into Laios’s psyche and his own desires, we don’t actually know that much about Falin, despite her “death” kicking the entire story into motion. The only bits of Falin we get to see are through the lens of other characters, who inherently show us their own biased perceptions of her. I’d go as far to say that Falin is actually the character in Dungeon Meshi who’s true desires we know the least about!

We know with absolute certainty at least a few things: Falin is gifted with powerful magic, wants to follow behind and travel with her brother who she deeply respects, loves her friend Marcille, likes fruits and creams, loves insects and is curious about monsters, once again like Laios… most of the things we learn about Falin are things that she has in common with her brother, but what does SHE want, deep down? How does she feel about everything? I don’t think we’ll fully get an answer to that question before the manga is over. This is definitely on purpose though, and has even been hinted at in the text (which I’ll get to later).

In my opinion the main difference between Falin and Laios is that Falin doesn’t want to hurt anyone besides herself (for the sake of others, and she barely knows who that self is) and Laios wants to hurt anyone who he “doesn’t like” (anyone who endangers him and those he loves). Both of these feelings stem from the same shared events of their childhood where they both began to feel “disconnected” from humanity so to speak, but they reacted to it in opposite ways.

Where Laios stubbornly ran away and refused to deal with being hurt and surrounded by hurt, Falin, who we rarely see making choices based on any desires for herself (staying in the academy for 8 years after being sent by her father despite not thinking it’s for her, nearly agreeing to marry Shuro just so that she doesn’t have to deal with being asked later, etc.), doesn’t object to anything she’s subject to because the only person being “hurt” in these scenarios is herself, which to her is acceptable. She accepts the fact that she’s considered “othered” extremely easily, and this reflects openly in both her behavior and in the few things we know about her: she connects with and cares deeply for spirits despite being ostracized, admires insects and monsters like her brother, and is even fine planning to take on a job that’s revered in her hometown. To Falin, being “othered” is more normal to her than the alternative

The only people in Falin’s life that make her feel like *more* than just an outsider are Laios and Marcille. As a result Laios and Falin end up with similar sounding mindsets on the surface; "As long as [the people I love] are okay, I don't care about anything else" — but underneath, they actually manifest completely differently! Where Laios “doesn’t care about people”, Falin cares deeply about them despite barely being treated as one.

The only *active* decision from Falin we see that most obviously reflects her deepest desires is her choice to die for those she loves, which I think says a lot about her.

I think that if Laios is “a human who wants to become a monster” because he hates humans due to his past, the most obvious foil to him is Kabru, “a human who wants to destroy monsters” because of his past in Utaya (and feeling like a monster himself). Thinking of them as two ends of a spectrum, in the grey middle ground of this is where I think I’d put Falin.

She’s simultaneously a human made subhuman, a monster made to follow Thistle, a “ghost” of her former self haunting Laios and Marcille — she really IS the absolute epitome of a “chimera”.

The Lion cursing Laios was the “hinting in the text” I talked about earlier: forcing his deepest desire into something seemingly impossible to achieve, a chimera. The surface level conclusion when reading this is that Falin won’t be revived, but I seriously don’t think it’ll be that simple in the end. After all, a chimera is multifaceted.

My hope for the final chapter of Dungeon Meshi is that, *if* by some chance Falin is revived, she will finally have to grapple with not only having to look deep within herself to answer all of these things for her own sake, but also with having the one opportunity in which she chose to use any sort of agency to act upon her deepest desires not only be completely reversed, but also hurting so many people in the process. When Falin is revived in the Red Dragon arc, she doesn’t even remember sacrificing herself for her friends — but she promises Laios to never do it again, falling back into her typical submissive obedience. How would she react the second time? Will we even get to know? Something tells me, probably not.

[raisinchallah]

i did read a really delightful fic where it was like uber reincarnation shit with like gabrielle as an academic and researcher trying to dig up evidence of the xena scrolls being mentioned in medieval france and getting help with this research from like repressed nun xena and it was like intercut with like stories of a legend of a woman warrior marrying a local princess and the songs told about them and the seige of the town and such which was so my exact shit with like ridiculous nesting concepts of xena history it was genuinely so cute and soooo obsessed with someone u know hashing out like deep level academic research beef and whatever in fic form…

the fic if u are interested :3 [languedoc]

[apocalympdicks]

real photo of me when i hear people bitching about the american psycho 'remake'

i have multiple feelings theyre going in the tags but the most important one!

ITS NOT A FUCKING REMAKE OF THE AMERICAN PSYCHO MOVIE W/ CHRISTIAN BALE

[ratatatastic]

do you ever think about the difference between headlines and that eng articles say "[the] Panthers"/"with Panthers" meanwhile the esp went "his Panthers" like barkov and his panthers... he had a special night in tampere with his panthers... his...

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

okay listen i do think the scene is very adorable and i would not change it but i AM a pedant and a definite article is like by definition not a pronoun is it

[rgr-pop]

i finally got a plat with the location where my jewish family farmed in the 1920s because of a new map initiative at the state archives. i had narrowed down the location based on census approximations and a hunch that it would have been next to the only other documented jewish farm in that part of the county, which was proven to be correct. it turns out that the two jewish farms in springfield township were also the site of one of the first superfunds in the state of michigan. the shindler farm had been sold this guy who used it to illegally manufacture whiskey, but when the feds cracked down on him for that, he pivoted to selling dumping access on his property. you see this often enough with superfunds but usually it’s like a local paint company or something. in this case it was ford and chrysler. paying this guy to let them dump barrels of toxic waste on his small farm. it’s all very umm yiddish novel, very me.

[atdawn]

the confusing google alert i got two months ago was actually about colin in a new show WE WON

[overalledfrog]

THIS IS A REAL ARTICLE OH MY GOD/POS

[solradguy]

If I don't lose motivation for it, there's going to come a point in Interlude where Frederick, who has since been nicknamed Badguy by like the US government or whatever for blowing up Gear research facilities, introduces himself as just "Badguy" to someone, somewhere, and I'm going to have to contend with the fact that he very probably said it with a straight face and full, unblinking, eye contact.

It's so silly. He's got to know that's a silly name to go by. "Yeah I'm a bounty hunter and I blow shit up because I'm a real Bad Dude™️." Come on... But also... Sol does have a really dorky sense of humor so... Maybe that's the joke. He knows it's goofy and he's forcing everyone else to use it but then he used it for too long and the goofy factor has long worn off except now he's stuck with it

[cuteniaarts]

@katkastrofa: *writes a single throwaway line in one chapter of Lost and Found that is never referenced again*

Me, completely randomly and with no prompting: Alright, bet–

[yggradisillbuthot]

Anyone else have their mom ask if Dungeons and Dragons was their new religion, or that just me

[max1461]

if humanities professors could see whsat the tgirls are up to on here. it would rock their world

[echotunes]

kind of love Cellbit going "é o... a Liz" every time in combat because it's the exact same vibe as someone going "ähhh der-die-das [name/word]" when unsure which gendered article is the correct one because they don't know whose name or what word they're about to say yet