#or is subtle and overlooked

[tumblweeds-omegaverse]

This is very true! I think it's easy to forget, sometimes, that physical strength isn't the only power that matters.

(and doesn't that say a lot about the stories we've been brought up with, what our societies values are, how strength and heroism and courage have been coded for us!)

If you know you can't win in a head to head battle, what sense does it make to fight that way? Instead, you'd come up with other methods.

And you would choose your battles very carefully...when you only have one chance, it has to count.

So yeah, omegas that know very well how to make themselves look harmless. Omegas who play up the stereotypes in order to be underestimated. Support groups of omegas who take what they have control over and use that as a shield.

Does the society wave off certain aspects of life as "just for omegas"? Are things that are for omegas are seen as weak or lesser? Are there entire parts of society that are basically ignored?

Then that weaving or quilting circle is full of wisdom that never got recorded, but still was spread. Those songs aren't just songs, they're messages of hope passed down from one generation to the next. That book of recipes wasn't just for next week's dinner.

(of course it isn't the kind of world one should aspire towards. when people know better, they should try to be better. but depending on where you are in history, it might still be a long trip ahead)

And, cornered animals fight back. Even creatures that don't normally eat certain things might try, if it's that or starvation.

So an omega that's pushed out of fawn or flight and into fight? Absolutely should do some damage, even if they can't win a fair fight.

(can't be a fair fight if the scales were against them from the start! so why expect them to play at it? go for the junk, throw sand in the eyes, sucker punch and then run)

Give your omegas the secret tricks, the clever escape routes, the poison slipped into a strong tasting drink. Or give them the sharpest teeth, the most deadly claws, a long history of consequences for underestimating them.

But the group who carries the young, who protects those too weak to run for safety, should never be entirely helpless. And if they can defend their pups, why not themselves, too?

(the view of "sure omegas aren't physically the biggest, but they are the most deadly, like 'could literally tear the throat out of their prey with their teeth as a hunting technique' dangerous" was one of the things that made the omegaverse worldbuilding gears start turning for me! so I'm very biased)

lol i had more to say here than i thought i did

I need people to understand that omegas are NOT helpless 😭😭

The whole omegaverse thing is a biological exaggeration of male and female stereotypes/standards, so sure, omegas are expected to be soft and sweet but damn, do they fight dirty. Alphas are all brute strength and punches and kicks, but omegas are scrappy and clever. The usual high school fight between girls, turned up even more vicious: hair pulling, scratching nails, knowing all the spots that’ll hurt like hell. Oh—and biting.

Sure, an alpha will probably overpower an omega in a 1v1 boxing match. No duh. But omegas will latch onto you and gouge your eyes out, rip the cartilage of your ears. Grab your head by your hair and bash it into the ground over and over and over again. Especially since they’re fast, and quick, and there is most certainly force behind agility. Besides, you think an omega would leave their alpha behind in a fight? They’re not diving for safety; they’re tag-teaming by ripping flesh from bone.

They are not helpless.

And of course, that’s talking outright physical fights. I’d like to think omegas have protected themselves from alphas in other ways, as women in real life have for millennia—support systems, omega-only safe havens, and when necessary, a little poison something-something to get away from an abusive alpha.

[whiteknightinblackarmor]

Shen Qingqiu, wanting Luo Binghe to come comfort him after the Systems punishment. ❤️🥺

This chapter here is another development for Shen Yuan. I said in one of my previous posts, after the Abyss arc is when he finally realized this isn’t a game, and these aren’t just characters in a book anymore.

This chapter, it seems to finally click in his head that the OG Luo Binghe and the one he met in this world are 2 different people. He’s being torn apart by Bingge, and his thoughts go to his own Binghe, knowing he would never hurt him this way. And he thinks “don’t do this, not with that face”, the face he’s come to adore.

Moments like this are why I’ll never understand the people who come to the conclusion at the end that Shen Qingqiu felt forced to stay with Luo Binghe in the end.

He points out differences in Bingmei and Bingge, admits to himself that half of this was his own fault, for assuming his Binghe would be the same as Bingge. He says that he’ll give Luo Binghe the benefit of the doubt from now on, and trust him. And he does.

[dykedvonte]

If I was in charge of casting voice actors to Mouthwashing, I would play around with how the game make the player believe that Curly is the one who crashed the ship by casting an actor know for constantly playing villains as him, while Jimmy would be cast with an actor who constantly play heroes.

While I think this is interesting I think a point of the game is that Curly looks and acts like a guy who you couldn’t imagine doing what he did initially.

You get the glimpse of him in the past and while it does give some reasons why he might of done it, you can tell he still wouldn’t. Inversely, while we chalk Jimmy’s behavior and its deterioration on the stress of the situation we learn he’s always been kinda “unpleasant”. I think having like actors that portray that would make sense as it’s the whole joke and deconstruction of the “untwist”. We begin to mistrust Jimmy but we don’t have proof he crashed the ship until near the end.

If anything I think it’s stands more to cast Curly with a typical hero and Jimmy as just some guy. A big part of Jimmy’s character is that he’s supposed to be completely average and sorta plain in comparison to everyone but especially Curly. Despite what people want to say he is designed to look average; a 5/10 mediocre and that’s his biggest issue rather than being a complete failure. He’s just moving along another part of the formation. His job a bit overshadowed even as he’s not even the main pilot. Casting an actor who plays those Everyman common roles only to turn out the reason everything is so bad fits with the theme rather than the typical good guy playing bad role and vice versa.

I think having a typical hero actor for Curly is also very important for the reason he’s incapacitated. These actors are the biggest billed, a reason people go to see the movie so having him basically be cut out of the picture and it forced to follow some joe shmoe is pretty on par for the game. If anything casting Swansea as a typical villain makes more sense as the game winds him up to be more unstable or violent when it’s just not the case, the same with the idea of casting an actress that place ditzy roles for Anya only for us to see how competent she actually is. Not to drag it on but even Daisuke as an actor in mostly silly roles only to be tragic.

I think the casting should play with the idea these are the characters under the lens of a person who fundamentally does not understand them and sees their most annoying aspects to himself vs anything else. Curly is the typically hero to him, Anya some dumb nurse chick, Swansea an untrustworthy grouch and Daisuke some kid. It’s a nice subversion to have them played by those types but not fit the role at all.

[qrjung]

For the sake of this post, I'm treating the demo as canon.

Headcanon that Kara has a deep fear of forgetting things. Even just small things. Sure, she's an android and her memory should technically be perfect but she's irrationally scared that one day she'll open her eyes and have no idea who she is.

After she escaped the Cyberlife facility, she ended up in the Williams household and must have been reset multiple times, until the day the game starts. If she gets reset again at Zlatko's it continues the trend of Kara losing her memory.

So she tries to find new ways to prevent it from happening. Maybe she tries journalling. She writes out everything about her life in multiple journals, just in case she forgets. But it's not enough—it's not permanent enough. So she finds a way to backup her memory, just in case something happens to her. It's still not enough.

No matter what she does, it doesn't feel like it's enough to protect her from forgetting.

[the-busy-ghost]

"The magician of Hanover-square!" declared Vinculus. Childermass (for it was he) nodded.

"Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell" by Susanna Clarke

[mars-ipan]

this is gonna sound incredibly virtue signal-y i fear but i have been feeling. so fiercely protective of all the transfems i've ever met lately

[witchofimber]

I’m obsessed with your take on Sirius and the black fam actually really valuing him because he’s all the things you need to thrive in a pure blood society

I want Sirius to use all these things against his family as well. A Sirius who smiles delightfully and kisses the hand of the guest arriving for the Black spring ball, and then murmurs - just loud enough to be overheard by everyone, just quiet enough for him to laugh it off as a mistake - that he was so very sorry to hear of your husband's recent arrest with breathtaking insincerity. Waltzing step-perfectly with the diamond of the season while he tells her I really couldn't marry any girl who wasn't into muggle music, you know - yes, do spread it around, it will save time. Sometimes starts a blood supremacist rant over the dinner table, and Sirius cuts them off with a cruel jab about their clothes that makes them look too ridiculous to continue. Someone tries to recruit him in a darkened corner of the party, all hints and insinuations, and Sirius just refuses to acknowledge the hints, all smile and teeth and I'm sorry, I don't quite know what you mean, getting slowly louder and louder until suddenly his recruiters look up and realise they have an audience.

Sirius is the perfect pureblood, and he is using it entirely to piss off Voldemort and his mum.

[mermaidstede]

happy birthday bee ♡

@ratboylucius, thank you thank you thank you for the endless hours of tv show marathons, tirades that introduce me to shows and books and people i know nothing about, and for always keeping me in the loop on your growing list of recognizing-500-actors-by-name. not a day goes by that you don't make me laugh my fucking ass off or teach me something new about your mysterious canadian ways. i'm so lucky and grateful that this silly gay pirate show allowed our paths to cross! i absolutely adore you and i hope your birthday is as wonderful as you are. mwah!

[topaziraphale]

I have such a fun post cooking but I need to get home first to finalize it because I need screenshots :(

[idiaa-shroxd]

YOUR WRITING IS SO PRETTY I COULD EAT IT. YOU CHARACTERIZE THE CHARACTERS SO WELL TOO!!!

thank you so much!! ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ happy you think my writing is very pretty!! and also makes me happy you think my characterization was correct.

when writing for characters always take a bit of extra time to ensure they sound good? thinking about having an actual conversation with them for a minute and what they’d do! ♧ personally a big fan of viginettes since that reveals a lot of a character more than mainstory.

Σ('◉⌓◉’) mini (huge) rant within the tags of the way of my process to understand a character!!

[neverendingford]

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[tvrningout-a]

someone: you good?

chiyo, internally: oh my gosh they're gonna hate me if i ever admit that i'm not okay even once if i inconvenience them it'll be the end of our friendship and i'll be alone forever

chiyo, outwardly: yeah ofc : )

[merry-the-cookie]

If there’s a animator in the 5sosfam I would beg for them to animate your drawings

Imagine a 5SOS animated web series that would be so sick!!

👁👄👁 sweats in animation graduate who hasnt actually animated since 2020

thank you tho lmfaogjkajjf ty for saying my drawings look animated (in ur other ask i forgot to reply to sorry)!! 💖💖💖 thats the goal!! id love to work on something a little more elaborate at some point, but its so time consuming lol lmk if u find an animator 💀

and an animated 5sos webseries 🤔🤔🤔 it Would be sick @ 5sos what do u think, can u spare some budget 🤔 id love to see it tbh fjdjHDJS we got a preview with the podcast, pls hire me for the next one???

[lairofsentinel]

I love how this post forgets entirely that a lot of ppl are against GMO because they are deeply related to modifying food in order to resist certain pesticides that then end up in our food. It’s not because “contains genes”, it’s because contains non-biodegradable substances that pollute our lands and, by now, our clouds and rain. It’s about the chemicals that have tons and tons of studies showing they increase the development of allergies in the population, cause unusual hormone alterations, and even affect fetus in pregnant ppl. In the towns around the fields where they are spread, you have 3 times more cancer cases than the national mean, specially in kids. So, no, it’s not “mere genes”. It’s a lot more and deeper, related to sustainability and public health, which is also science that corporations ignore completely. What I found so curious is that most ppl from first world countries does not know that the majority of the GMO is not related to “make crops flood resistant”, but resistant to pesticides. Monsanto loves spreading that concept that GMO is just used to make “food have more vit A”. And ppl just repeat. Countries where we truly endure the use of GMO in our lands, we know exactly that GMO means.

GMO has existed forever, natives such as the incas practised it, it’s not “new”, it’s not “modern science”. Mexicas developed a hundred corn types over centuries with this technique. Again, it’s not new. Now we can accelerate the genetic modifications and be more accurate with the modern techniques, but it’s mostly to make them resistant to pesticides. Why do you think Monsanto was bought by Bayer years ago? The same corporation that sells you pesticides, that are, most of the time, non-controlled in their manipulations, is the same one that sells you food and then medicines because the illnesses related to the constant ingest of these [non-regulated] pesticides. And this is one of the many negatives effects. Another one that happens with GMO [even though nobody in this fucking place wants to acknowledge it] is the mono-cultive practices [non-rotation of the crops] that destroy the health of the soil, and if you don’t have a soil with rich minerals, the plants you put to grow there won’t develop properly or will be poor in minerals and vits. So, we have poorer food and erosion. Because, yes... GMO used in this way causes it. A big problem that, again, nobody speaking about GMO seems to know. We are not speaking about the erosion of the soils and how these practices are destroying entire countries’ biodiversity. 

Another great danger that specialists have been repeating over and over is that GMO usually forces similar modifications in different crops so different plants can resist the same pesticides that are sold in a big “bio-package”. This causes that weed and some plagues became resistant or stronger to this pesticide, so every few years we need higher doses or stronger pesticides that end up in our food and in our body [because so far, a lot of them are not biodegradable]. All the problems listed above become more concentrated. 

The other important danger is that it may happen a plague or a fungus that may be particularly prone to develop, associated with a similar modification that was used on different crops. This can endanger a lot of different crops with one single plague, causing potential destruction of big quantities of different kinds of food [this is also a very old concern known by natives since centuries ago, reason why they always tried to use rudimentary GMO techniques to favour a diversification of the crops, not the other way around like corporations do now]. So far we know, scientists have talked about this a lot, but one thing is a scientist talking about this issue, and another is a food-monopolised-corporation doing it, especially when corporations see more profit by just reducing the diversification in our food [less different bio-packages to develop]. 

And we can continue with the silly argument that “corporations are different to the GMO technique”, and even though that’s true “technically”, the reality shows otherwise. We live in a world where GMO has been monopolised. Hell, food industry is already monopolised, so don’t be so naive to think that we still can keep things separated. 

“Mere genes”. I would love so much this place to learn the topic properly before dismissing entire populations in this way. GMO, as it’s now, controlled and monopolised by corporations, is a big no-no. And dismissing the entire population whose children have 3 times more cancer cases than the national mean [northern provinces of Argentina, for example] because these pesticides, annoys me a lot. Never ever I've seen an integral post of GMO in this place. The topic is a looot more complex than the religious adoration of science or feeling superior because “I know science” or “I _believe_ in science”. Not all science is good, not all science is well tested before being used, corporation science is always a big question mark in many, many contexts, and science is always founded and moved by interests [unfortunately, more and more corporate interests by now]. Science is good, but don’t turn it into the new religion. It has limits and flaws, and it’s dirty to the neck with interests that few want to acknowledge. 

Funny how that works

[anotherlov3r]

eating disorder recovery is like finding joy in things that aren’t food. But also finding joy in things that are food. And also finding out how you want to live your life and just living it that way for once.

[gonzodangerfeels]

I do appreciate the undies reminders.

I admit I might be so fucked up I could forget

However; I will remember later so better dot your i's and cross your t"s