#okay rant over lol

[i-love-def-leppard]

[a-tale-of-legends]

I remember having the idea that Naomi ( and probably Leon and Hop by extension) have scottish accents. i looked it up and postwick is based on Windermere, Cumbria. Much like how Postwick is right next to/borders the Crown Tundra, Cumbria also borders scottland irl ( just from my quick basic research to be clear!) Just from what i can gather, the dialect there isn't exactly scottish, but take influence/ share vocabulary from there. Maybe that can be the postwick trio sound like.

[dreamings-free]

The girl of the videos doing the shots with him said he was with his friends

yeah okay I assumed as much I was just curious which/how many friends or if it was just oli but yeah who knows.. anyway it seems they were in a club at the same location that used to house louis' teenage haunt 'the priory' so full on nostalgia with hometown friends and all.. aww

1/1/24

[the-haven-keepers-collective]

CW because this might seem a bit vent-ish, I'm not sure.

We're out as plural in almost every social situation we're in. We... really lack the fucks to give to mask anymore, and our plurality is included in this. So we've been working on coming out in the social situations we can- all but one, actually. Everyone who knows us, except one group, knows that we're plural.

It's great! It's... still a bit isolating. Even as we acknowledge that we're different people, in most spaces we don't bother asking people to remember our names and pronouns as individuals. Most of us haven't bothered to introduce ourselves, especially because we're fictive-heavy and struggle to remind ourselves that our names are okay even if someone recognizes them. (After all, if we're not up to explaining fictives, we can just lie. Singlets "steal" names from characters all the time.) We're sure that that has, in part, contributed to the lack of individuality we feel in social situations.

Ultimately, we're not sure it would go away even if we tried to introduce ourselves as individuals, and that's... well, it makes us feel very unseen. The spaces we're in have been so incredibly accepting to us, and yet, here we are. Still feeling invisible because while we're open as a collective, we're just that. A collective. Not one of us have bothered, yet, to try and be an individual publicly. Just "us."

We consider ourselves privileged in the sense that we have people who do see us. Our mom, and our friends, shoutout to them, who truly make a point to get to know us on an individual level. Hell, sometimes they notice differences between us that we wouldn't had they not pointed them out. And yet we still feel unseen. We're painfully aware that, in the average social situation we're in, even if we're out and making jokes about being plural and saying "we" and all... They're just going to see our identity host.

I think this post articulates it incredibly well. I won't deny that there's a unique pain in terms of not being seen by close friends a family- one we're lucky enough to not experience. We relate to this post nonetheless, because so often we find ourselves choosing between being convenient for others and sometimes even ourselves, and being actually ourselves. I think this sort of post is really important.

We spend most of our time loving our plurality; and we still do even now, when we're thinking about how much it can hurt. But that doesn't take away the fact that, sometimes, it can fucking hurt.

-Albedo

I usually try to be a little more positive on these topics but I think it's worth talking about one of the more difficult parts of plurality-- how invisible it can make you feel.

I'd like to preface this with the fact that my system is pretty open about it with our close friends. Quite a few people know about us but that does remarkably little to get rid of the loneliness and lack of perception and I think it's worth discussing.

In our experience, we can interact with the world as much as we want, form close friendships, have our own individual relationships, etc etc but the vast majority of these people don't even know who we are.

I love my mother. She can never know I exist.

Even among friends who do know about us there is always this overwhelming sense that I am not being seen. The eye contact that is being made with my face was never intended for me and I have to take that in stride. When I tell people about us I am treated like a stranger by my closest friends simply because my name is not the one on my birth certificate and that must mean they do not know me.

I love some aspects of being plural, believe me I do, and I don't mean to sound so defeatist but it really can be crushing to be completely unseen.

It's incredibly isolating, in a sort of ironic way, to be many. My closest friends in the world live inside my head but they completely stop me from being truly seen by anyone outside. It's a little funny in a way. Being many keeps us isolated even when we have close friends. Having many names keeps us from having a single one that feels true. Being strange and visible keeps us from being seen.

I have genuine hope that one day these things will get easier, not just for us and others now but for everyone, for all time. I believe that progress will come and people will grow more understanding in time and with it may come a lifting in the isolation and wrong feeling that comes both with being myself and pretending not to be, but I also believe that here and now there is a crushing invisibility that comes with being plural that is so difficult to deal with it is suffocating.

Even unidentified bodies are given names. It's difficult to live without getting to be understood at least once.

[shinynewmemories]

Listen to me Suzanne Collins did not have to give Katniss and Peeta a history before the games. She did NOT have to do that. She could have just had their story begin when Peeta's name was called. She could have had them be total strangers until the moment of the reaping.

Like: "And the boy tribute is... Peeta Mellark!" Katniss: Who's that? Or she could have made them vaguely familiar with each other! Peeta's name is called and Katniss just thinks, Oh, I know that name! He's in my class, actually. Poor boy... Anyway!

Either way, SC could have written the rest of the story exactly the same! I think many authors would have done that! Because if Peeta's purpose in the book was to be Gale's competition, to be one of the 3 corners of a love triangle, THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN THE WAY TO DO IT!! But that's NOT how she did it because that's NOT what Peeta is.

And what is he? To Katniss, Peeta's someone who saved her and her family and received nothing in return except a beating. Peeta's someone she has had her eye on but has never worked up the courage to talk to. Peeta's someone she associates with kindness and hope. And all this before the start of the events of the book! Just because WE, the READERS, met Gale before Peeta and immediately felt a connection with him does NOT mean that was Katniss's experience! And that's what SC is trying to tell us!

To dismiss Katniss and Peeta's past as unimportant or inconsequential compared to whatever Katniss and Gale have in the present is to fundamentally misunderstand Katniss as a character and, as a result, condemn oneself to never fully understand the choices she makes in the future.

Suzanne Collins wrote it that way on purpose because she had something to say. And no one will ever be able to convince me that something wasn't "It was always going to be Peeta".

[ashes-in-a-jar]

I haven't thought much about Jonathan Sims for long enough that I kinda feel like I've started thinking about him a little more divorced of the emotional attachment I might have had once. Because I just saw a post lamenting his slow descent into inhumanity and losing his identity, becoming the archivist rather than Jonathan Sims, losing his friends, his house, everything he loves.

But is that true? That put upon head archivist persona he had in the beginning, was that really him? The way I see it, real life has already leached him of any identity he might have had, he didn't really have friends, Tim and Sasha clearly weren't, as we saw in their season 5 recording. He chose to make them his subordinates over beib friends, pushed away Georgie, he became so desperate for approval that he agreed to take a job he clearly has no idea how to do, let his stress over it isolate him from everyone around him, had a desperate need to assert himself in the beginning of every recording as 'head archivist of the Magnus institute london'. Forget about even having a home, he often slept in his office for heaven's sake.

The way I see it, this story is about him finding himself, finding the perfect place for himself in this already doomed world that was already strangling him and everyone around him. He became the Archivist, no longer needing to connect himself to some godforsaken capitalistic institute to identify himself. found his role, he enjoyed its power, even admitted to it. He found love. He found purpose in trying to save the world. In the end he was surrounded with the friends he made along the way (as friendly as they could be under the circumstances). He was finally allowed to make real choices, have true responsibility over himself and not be some tired corporate worker, part of a tired pointless system. Sure his choices weren't that great, and getting there was through outside manipulation and his own ignorance and he had to suffer immensely and pay an awful price of what we like to call his "humanity" but he Became and found what we all look for - his calling.

"It's still me" he says in the last episode. Because he is. He lost nothing and gained everything. Even dying in his lover's arms.

Forget about being human. In the end Jon achieves apotheosis and truly becomes Jonathan Sims

[thesassywitchofthenortheast]

Okay I googled it.

They’re so lazy. They used Melissa actual birth year and then for some reason didn’t for Eric??? But then also made Tim older than he should be?

I’m sorry this is just too dumb and lazy. Like….. how hard is it to go back and check your own timeline/storylines when writing? Also if you’re gonna be that detail oriented in set props/costume design, do it right!

Cause yall want me/us to believe it’s been 7 years since mid season 4? Come on.

This is 100% not canon and just silly little set pieces that no one thought we’d see. Cause if not for Mel posting it we wouldn’t have.

I will continue to believe Lucy is 31/32 and Tim is 41/42.

At least they did get the age gap of 10 years right 😂🤦🏼‍♀️

[felixcosm]

Say whatever you want about Dylan's Russian being rusty but WOE.BEGONE is like one of the only podcasts out there that has slavic characters that aren't the big bad villain.

[captn3]

fairly odd parents still infecting my brain have a redraw

og screenshot ^ im already working on stuff with backgrounds i dont need to make even more

[vaguely-concerned]

ingellvar must have so many strange off-putting little personal habits in their day to day life that they don't even realize come across as weird, especially if they haven't ever dated outside of the watchers much. in rye's specific case I think lucanis has a capacity for such immaculate 'sure my life is already so fucking weird this might as well happen' energy that I believe he'd be able to roll with the punches admirably given the time, but it really would be a situation like

(what was going on there was that rook was placing down some experimental wards, by the way, it's what he does to calm down before bed and if he wakes during the night. what with the necropolis itself being a liminal space of lf sorts on a cosmic scale, watchers take the additional liminal space between wakefulness and dreaming extremely seriously b/c they know there are things drifting through that would just love to get their foot/tentacle/conceptual spores in that particular half-ajar door that should not be allowed inside. or outside, I suppose, depending on your point of view. rook and lucanis are also experimenting with whether solid wards can help any with lucanis' weird post-spite dreams even if they can't do anything for the more mundane ptsd ones. third reason because in my worldstate they still live in the lighthouse after the game: unless gently dissuaded wisps will sometimes drift by while you're asleep and hover over your face curiously as they sense your mind doing stuff in the fade, and no one likes waking up on an eldritch sneeze with a well-meaning yet terrified wisp zooming about the room. important watcher novice 101 lessons.

blessed mental image of rye cross-legged on the floor, barefoot in his PJs with his hair down and no makeup, peaceably tracing out elaborate geometric shapes that somehow make your eyes scared when you look at them* while lucanis sits on the bed and reads out loud to both him and spite and occasionally sneaks some carnal looks at rook's fully unleashed curly hair and bare wrists & throat...... okay I think I've found the thing that will help me through the day thank you for coming on this journey with me)

*what is the paint he's using made out of and why is it such a deeply unsettling colour? don't worry about it! :) patented mostly well-meaning yet also borderline condescending mortalitasi hand wave of 'don't worry your sweet little non-nevarran head about it we both know you don't actually want to know. do not ask questions lest you learn the answers, especially if you're going to be annoying at me and freak out about it. let the things man was not meant to know stay unknown. unknown by you I mean I'm built different'

[lionfission]

Happy one year Anne-iversary to the end of Amphibia!

A fantastic finale to an unforgettable show. I'll always remember watching "The Hardest Thing" at 2 am with my siblings and crying my eyes out :'))

[sakamoto-days]

I think the official sales data makes any "The Sakamoto Days anime isn't that bad" statements null and void, to be honest. We are deep enough into the anime to see the effects and the expected boost is simply not there, even though it had such an outstanding premiere on Netflix.

I also believe that, while I disagree with any hate directed towards the staff, I do think it's absolutely correct to voice dissatisfaction with TMS and Shueisha. I do think most of the critiques are absolutely right and have a raison d'être. Clearly, the people in control of executive decisions have messed up on a lot of fronts and clearly, it has had an effect - that being, that the manga has barely received any sort of boost from the anime. This could and should have gone very differently, considering it was WSJ's biggest manga without an adaptation for a long time, before the anime started airing.

[nordsea-horizons]

da for my normcore island petrichor💛🪴

[almondcroissantsandink]

was absolutely stopped in my tracks and BLOWN away yesterday at work when a coworker called me pure; I literally haven't been called that in over a decade and there's always been something about it that rubs me the wrong way

[bread-that-draws]

The Lovers: Being at crossroads. Choices. Commitment. Falling in love. Harmony. Warmth.

The Lovers Reversed: Misalignment. Imbalance. Disharmony. Coldness.

[celtrist]

Why does Vassago already have merch, we haven't even met him yet