#pomegranate rant

[spacedkey]

didn't know in that clip -but found out in a different walking into the mirror session- if you're crouched and wiggle your mouse fast enough, jackie just goes into a gun holding pose for some reason. maybe instead of having no guns be the default animations, they made the sections where he doesn't have guns after so they had to remove the guns. idk. and i can't find out bc there are like no working mirrors outside of the mansion. and no-one has done thorough glitch documenting.

[naarlar]

I don’t get akeshu / shuake at all.

Like I get it from a typical “fandom loves the enemies to lovers trope” perspective but in all honesty I don’t get the insane brainrot the persona 5 fandom has for this ship.

Like do I think Joker cares for Akechi? Yes.

Do I think he was genuinely conflicted/tempted by Maruki’s ultimatum? Yes.

Do I think they have a genuine relationship and see a lot of themselves in each other and actually somewhat understand each other? Yes.

That being said, I really don’t see how anyone can look past the fact that Akechi tried to kill Joker. And okie fine enemies to lovers, fandom’s favorite ship aside, I don’t see how Joker can actually want a full on relationship (like romantic) with this dude when Futaba, Sojiro, and Haru are like right there?

This may just be me but I reallllllllly wouldn’t be friends with someone who is friends (hell forget even in a romantic relationship) with someone who horribly hurt me.

And I don’t think Joker loves Akechi more than Futaba, Sojiro, or Haru. Especially Sojiro and Futaba. Those two are like his family, and Akechi is responsible for their suffering.

Like… it’s kind of one or the other. Joker can’t be friends/dating Akechi without horribly betraying Futaba, Sojiro, and Haru. That’s just how I see it (but I’m open to hearing other perspectives!)

[faaun]

we sang in the aeroplane over the sea tgth ☆

[satosktty]

i hate when people are talking about satoru having negative traits and how flawed of a character he is and bring up his desire to stay strong and also be loved and have people understand him; like ik you all don't go outside and stay with your asses glued to your beds kicking your feet over artificial intelligence calling you babygirl but wanting human interaction is not a bad thing, wanting to be understood isn't a bad thing, it's not a flaw in Satoru's character it shows he's human, that besides his strength which a lot of 'gojo stans' ( who center him around geto ) try to make him out to only be... ur doing opposite of one of the only things that gege made clear in this clusterfuck of a an animanga; being self-interested does not make one exactly self-absorbed. Satoru is shown to more than want a relationship with other people but work to build and uplift that bond; he does it with nanami and utahime ( even without realizing she dislikes him ) he does it with his students. also he let them use his body after his death?? that's the literal opposite of selfish.. once again this is just an issue of dont mess with us jjk fans we don't understand anything else you shove it in front of us and yell it twenty times

[m0ther-of-p3arl]

reblog for greater sample size if you want :3c

[quibbs126]

One thing I’ve been thinking about for the past couple days, but something I’m not the biggest fan of with Kingdom is how the majority of the Cookies of Darkness are played more for jokes than they are for serious. And thus in doing so, the CoD itself doesn’t feel like that much of a threat

Like yeah, I like seeing stuff with the CoD just doing silly stuff, and I don’t need them to be super dark and serious 100% of the time, but like, of the Cookies of Darkness, the only characters that are consistently treated like an actual threat are Dark Enchantress Cookie and Pomegranate Cookie, though even then sometimes she’s part of the gag. And sure, some of the characters in the main story may be treated like a threat, like Red Velvet (despite his one appearance) and Affogato, but then also you’ll have them in a boy band or chilling at the rock festival, totally incognito

And again, it’s not that I don’t enjoy this stuff, but it’s just, how am I supposed to take the Cookies of Darkness as a serious threat when you’re putting them in boy bands and school AUs? Especially when more often than not, it’s the jokey route they use with them?

It’s part of the reason I don’t really see why we need all these Legendaries and Dragons and armies to fight Dark Enchantress, because 80% of the CoD are a bunch of silly little guys. I know realistically DE is powerful and has her Cake Army, hence why they need all that power, but that impression that they’re actually a threat doesn’t typically come to mind for me. But maybe that’s a me thing

And like, honestly I’d say Ovenbreak does it better when it comes to having the CoD seem like a threat. Sure I haven’t seen every event with them involved and I know they only show up like, once in a blue moon, but they usually cause actual problems, and if anything the fact that we see them so little makes them feel more significant, and like Dark Enchantress is more of a looming threat

I dunno, that’s just how I feel

[dailhia]

here to say that i peeled a pomegranate the other day and all i thought about was dahlia <3

[nasutchi]

You bitches be like “I love pomegranate x licorice they should kiss!” But are actually horrible ass people

[god-complex-12]

I’ve been thinking about the pomegranate trend going around lately. I first just saw some of it and kind of understood, but then someone said pomegranates represent cannibalism in English literature and I felt like that wasn’t true.

Pomegranates main symbolism is love and vitality because of his vibrant flesh insides. And then I thought, well that’s how they could be seen as cannibalism. When you eat it the insides, it represents feasting on flesh. And of course Shakespeare representation was innocence and purity.

Back to the poem, the poem I read (which may not be the poem people are referencing) is wrote by @pearl.r.dark on Tik Tok. I really don’t think this is the one, but I know this is at least inspired by it. I have searched for the poem and I can’t find the one people are referencing. But the poem I’m referencing is this one:

“Pomegranate juice seeps

From my mouth

But I do not taste sweetness

It tastes of blood

His fingers slide into my mouth

And I try not to swallow it’s seeds

I think of Eve as I stare at the walls

I see her in the Garden of Eden

An apple on Adam’s hand

I wonder

Did the apple taste sweet?

As it was forced upon her lips

Or of blood?”

This is a beautiful poem, I loved reading it. But back to the whole pomegranate thing. It also means that you need to be patient and caring for a love one, just like a pomegranate.

It’s of someone who longs for a gentle and caring lover who will be patient and soft, but instead getting a rough kind of love.

You can manipulate the symbolism of pomegranates to reference cannibalism, but I wouldn’t say that’s their whole point.

With all this cannibalism talk, I started to wonder why cannibalism is so romanticized? Why make light of something so sickening? But I guess it could mean a longing for something or maybe even lust.

Using cannibalism as a metaphor for love is disgusting. No one should romanticize eating human beings. Don’t daydream of it. However, representation of it in a darker light is a good form of writing. I don’t think you should love the idea of it, I think you should love the art of it. Love how that’s the representation of it, but not the actual thing. Don’t fantasize about eating your lover, but appreciate the writing of it.

Some people say it’s used to show how people can’t figure out gentle love so they have to eat each other to express it and so they’ll always have a piece of them.

I like to think of it differently. I think it shows how one will go to any lengths for what they want. If you truly want to eat someone, then you’ll do it. You know you are hurting someone in the process. And if you are somewhat normal, you’ll drive yourself insane with guilt. Knowing someone had to die so you could eat. So if you put that into a love sense, you will push everyone away for the person you love even if they are hurting you too.

[dudaddd]

Pomegranates being compared to cannibalism nowadays is kind of interesting because I will always see them as in reference to the Hades and Persephone story so to me a pomegranate symbolizes a last stitch effort to make someone stay with you out of loneliness for no reason. Forcing someone who was already gonna stay to stay out of fear they wouldn’t

So I’ve been a tad confused by the pomegranate TikTok’s lol

[m1ckeyb3rry]

I really don't want to be annoying but when is the next glass princess update coming?

Have a nice day btw 💕💓

it’ll come once i write it

[spacedkey]

if you ignore the fact that i'm not making a comic in the vertical scrolling comic style, me doing almost nothing but reading webcomics all day is research 100% for sure

[naarlar]

the sad reality that we as the player/audience know Melinoe’s family better than Melinoe

[suspendedinbush]

hiiihihihihi hiii youuuu simmy my beloved loml you i juuust watched howl's moving castle for the first time tday (ik appalling srry) but the entire tim i was thinkinng abt you my beloved and now i want to know abt yr r/s au <33 as much details as you dont mind saying pls <333 bc i was thinking like it would actually!! work sooo well for them ike r being not that conventionally attractive , and growing old w/a big nose while s still finds him just soooo pretty and also being dramatically vian himself AND swallowing! a STAR! and having a heavy heart that belongs to remus like itys sooooo it fits sooo well, but Also howl being a welshman is making me think it could work either way too! esp w/the turning into a crow thing paralleling werewolf tranforms and sirius instead being the son of a mother who would sell him out like sophie im!!!!!! i also know yr basing the au sorta on the book so im wondering which roles ud see fit instead! but aah im just my brain is so abuzz im so excited for whatever u plan to do however u plan to do it! this got wayy too long srry love u MWAH

LAYLA OMG!! firstly hi hi hi hello love <33 SECOND YOU WATCHED IT!!! ahhh having a little party in celebration also tell me everything what did you think??? (i'm running into your inbox right now just so you know!) and you thought of me…literally handing you my heart on a silver platter!! MWAH yours forever <333

also okay the au… (under the cut because minor spoilers and also this is so fucking long)

it definitely started as like taking direct inspiration from the book with a few nods to the movie (like the walking on air scene because obviously) but it’s evolved a lot in the past months mostly because i felt that my sophie-remus wasn’t remus enough and needed a more remus-like journey and destination in the story (not sure any of this will make sense with absolutely no context about what i’ve actually written), and then adapting the story to fit r/s more in tone (i.e the war, queerness, rejection from society etc) i got carried away and things have expanded a lot. i would still say a lot more book inspiration than movie, stuff like michael's character (rather than markl) and the minor details that the movie brushed over, like sophie’s sisters & fanny & the ben sullivan+prince justin story line, i’ve kept from the book but there are definitely some things that i knew i would change that directly contradict:

firstly and the MOST crucial detail for me, remus isn’t secretly pretty all along!! like this is the thesis of the entire au actually, it’s not an ugly duckling arc! he doesn’t break the curse to be young and beautiful again but with more self-confidence, he’s just not conventionally attractive full stop. he’s plain if not ‘ugly’ and in no way particularly impressive, he’s only 18 and hasn’t even allowed himself the space to start figuring shit out. sirius falls in love with him while he’s old with no knowledge of what remus really looks like because knowing that appearance just wasn’t even a factor in s desiring and falling for him revolutionises remus’s view of himself and his assumptions about who sirius is and also…

sirius as howl is not really that vain! this might be a spoiler, but i'd say one of the big theme’s in the au is that everyone is lying and no-one is who they appear to be and/or especially who they SAY they are and it’s remus’s assumption that sirius cares a lot about looks and would only fall in love with someone equally beautiful. howl’s vanity & concern for his looks makes sense for book howl and that story, but i wanted them to be more r/s than howl and sophie so in the au sirius’s flashy clothes and hours spent in the bathroom are more about self-expression, queerness and non-conformity, the contrast of remus struggling with otherness, not fitting in and his failed masculinity (poor baby is too sickly for the draft :/ ) and sirius being so extravagant, rocking the boat, rejecting expectations for his masculinity and flourishing—as in he literally builds a moving castle and lives on the fringes doing whatever he likes and running from/against authority (also should mention the working title for the au is 'Sirius Black’s Moving Castle for Misfits and Runaway Curse Victims').

in terms of roles i do feel like sirius is the natural howl but i did consider what r as howl would be like, i think there is something to work off with howl’s insecurity and one BIG trait being a slither-outer and a coward…very r if you ask me, but at the end of the day i don't think sirius as sophie works and remus-howl would change his character and role in the story by a lot to make it fit...

like howl’s personality by itself is sort of neither r nor s, there are similar and contradicting traits, the vanity and cowardice being the most un-sirius but (maybe a spoiler here) even in the book it’s up for interpretation how much these traits are really howl or instead a symptom of lacking a heart or even a deliberate front. so it was quite an easy adjustment in terms of sirius doing the same howl actions but with slightly different more sirius-like motivations, whereas for R as howl i don’t think you could get him to act the same way.

not sure that makes sense but i think the howl-sirius parallel works because his role in the story is much much more suited to S, like you could write an R-howl playing up the insecurity and the slither-outer trait but to me there isn’t really a story there, like where would it go…because howl is already very comfortable in his position outside polite society: he breaks convention ostentatiously, relishes in mainstream disapproval for standing out and enjoys and actively encourages his terrible reputation (for heart-eating, draft-dodging and other failings in his character). once you give reason for the apparent vanity and cowardice, howl as the prodigy who couldn’t care less about living up to expectations is perfect for sirius.

the thing about sophie's step-mother is that both dwj and miyazaki refuse to write antagonists without nuance, there isn't a clear villain like you WILL empathise with everybody—and with sophie’s step-mother especially, she’s worse in the book until she’s not! despite sophie being so lonely and unhappy at home, the story is about overcoming her own fatalistic worldview and internal feelings of worthlessness & inadequacy rather than an external battle. her family especially her sisters care a lot about her and do want the best for her even if it’s sometimes misguided but sophie has to learn to stand up for herself and stop putting everyone else first (hello martyr complex). AND there's a lot of repression (which goes to remus like water to a fish), even allowing herself to want things out of life, like it literally takes her being cursed to be an old woman and being so ashamed of her predicament and having no other choice for her to finally leave her suffocating home because she is so afraid of challenging the world head on (which is sort of antithetical to sirius).

so yeah then with sophie-sirius not working… like it’s possible to write her family and the hat shop to imitate the blacks but the problem for me is the characters themselves are basically opposites so you’d have to abandon one entirely and it would either be a completely different story to hmc or a completely different character to sirius… (also talking about the characters i mean book howl and sophie but i honestly can’t remember what’s different/missing in the movie??)

and really remus was ALWAYS the perfect sophie to me like in the wip he’s certain that in failing to be a strong, healthy, beautiful perfect specimen of a young man who can fight for the country, instead being sick, unattractive + the nebulous but undeniable fact of his queerness means there’s some innate monstrosity or wrongness about him, and being rejected by his peers has confirmed it, so he represses, withering away hiding in the dark and it’s a mixture of thinking ‘there is nothing better out there nor am i capable or deserving of any better, this is my lot in life and i’ll make do’ that keeps him there. UNTIL he’s forced to leave and comes across sirius who has made a life for himself on his own terms and on the outside seems to have everything: beauty, talent, confidence, freedom but is very flamboyantly throwing people’s admiration & acceptance (everything that remus covets) back in their faces.

in the story sophie is quite resentful of howl in a similar way remus is of sirius (here and in canon i think) and like sophie, he ‘knows’ that he’s a nobody with no future and just expects to fail. also the hat shop is much more remus’s natural environment, exhibit service worker R: ‘he was little more than a puppet in grey felt—marionette strings binding him tightly to the shop, a little flimsy and worn through in places from dancing around for customers all day long. A walking, talking, hat-fetching piece of furniture.’

sooo those are my thoughts on the casting obviously just my opinion and personal thoughts on r/s. oh and the turning into the crow thing and being corrupted by magic, it wasn’t in the book but i have incorporated it only with a different character…and someone turns into a dog also not sirius...other quick points about the wip: peter has a big part in this might be obvious who as but he’s so fun in this one, petunia is also a sympathetic character, Hope is long dead (as per), Lyall dies in the first few sentences and Andromeda has more lines than James i think. i didn’t use the whole multi-verse plot line from the book, we’re in an approximate uk somewhere between 1910s and 40s but it’s more a vibe than a time period because magic and wizards are well integrated with the culture, politics and technology etc, Market Chipping & The Waste are in the Scottish highlands (so Scottish Remus and Lily), Sirius is not from Wales unfortunately but someone does live there (also if ur interested in the book i would highly recommend listening to the audiobook to get the full of effect of Howl’s accent). and the star swallowing/giving away his heart!! it's a major plot point so i won’t say too much about that but THAT SCENE….the one with howl in the field with the shooting stars!! yeah i’m so so excited about it, it’s sooo fitting for what i have planned and only another reason why sirius just couldn’t NOT be howl!

[navramanan]

reading this lyrically written novel by the kurdish author bachtiyar ali, the lyricism is so beautiful even in the translated german version. cannot imagine how awestriking it must be in the original sorani kurdish

[ambrosialips]

I'm so tired of love...of craving it...of wishing for it. It's tiring. I feel tired. I feel beat down, like a starved dog giving up on searching for scraps in the trash. I feel tired. I feel like my body is made for love, like my heart craves loving and being loved. I feel like as a being I'm here for it, for feeling, for loving, for giving my all to someone. I'm tired of being broken down. The pain inside my heart feels like it's spreading through my veins, like it's rooted in my core and won't rot away. These past two years I've done everything, I've said everything, I've lied every witch way and I can't go in anymore. I want to give up on everything. It feels so ..wrong but I can't go on. I've told myself that I'm content. I told myself that I'm not looking for love. I told myself that I'll wait, because when time is right it will happen. I've searched for it. I put my soul energy into it, I've don't magick for it. I prayed on my knees like my ancestors did, chanting and asking the stars to bring them love. I felt everything and I learned everything, and I'm left feeling empty. Every single scar that someone left is on my skin. It marked my tissues, it poisoned my blood and I've learned to live with it. Pain goes away, trauma doesn't. It's been two years of waiting for love, of craving to be loved by someone else. I'm tired. I'm giving up. I'm tired of having a pomegranate heart. I'm tired of being broken down just to be left bloodied, rotted and devoured. I'm tired of being hurt. I'm tired of being a lesson. I'm tired of being loved only in my dreams. I'm tired of lying to myself that I'm content, and im just waiting for the universe. I'm tired of craving love. I'm tired of feeling love. I'm tired.

I'm sorry Aphrodite. Maybe you chose someone unlovable by mistake