#so sorry if this is completely incorrect :]

[mylastmoleculeofserotonin]

Ik that this probably isn’t a new take, but I haven’t seen it talked about enough: I think the reason why so many Star Wars fans dislike the Acolyte is because the fan base is dominated by men and the genres that the Acolyte occupies tend to attract female audiences. Star Wars started out as an action-adventure sci-fi story which are genres that attract male audiences and features the Hero’s Journey which has roots in ancient mythologies and is often accompanied by the main character transitioning from boyhood to manhood. However, the Acolyte is dark romance mystery/suspense story, which not only attracts a more feminine audience, but is also (to an extent) the exact thematic opposite of the stories that men typically read/watch.

The interesting result of the audiences being used to different genres is that they identified different characters as the focal character. Male and action/adventure accustomed viewers picked out Sol as the hero of the story as he at first seems like the most heroic and likely to go on a Hero’s Journey; female and dark romantasy/mystery accustomed audiences, however, saw Osha as the main character because she resembles the classic YA Fantasy protagonist (sources: instagram posts and other random opinions I’ve come across). Episode 3 painted the Jedi in the best possible light and Mae and the witches in the worst possible light, and while female audiences immediately identified it as an unreliable narrator moment, male audiences took it at face value and thus assumed the inconsistencies of the witches’ deaths and Mae’s motives were careless writing. Then, when the Jedi’s actions weren’t painted as heroics, the criticism from male fans shifted away from the writing being poor to the show “glorifying” the Sith and breaking down the Jedi=good Sith=evil dynamics, while the female fans began getting excited for Osha’s corruption and Mae’s redemption.

So, in conclusion, this show is just a different genre than the rest of Star Wars and men need to just accept the fact that they were not the target audience.

[dukeofthomas]

I can't find it now but there's a post about suspension of disbelief and how it's broken when the story starts trying to excuse it. "character gets knocked unconscious for hours but there's no further issues from this" okay 👍 "and actually this makes perfect sense because of this and that" um no it doesn't why are you lying to me. like i am willing to ignore the holes and the discrepancies!! all you need to do is let me and not bring unnecessary attention to it!!!

and all that is my issue with the whole robin child soldier argument. like i am willing to ignore it i am willing to engage with the fantasy literally all you need to do is NOT try to convince me that Actually It's Fine Because They Want To Do It or whatever. like literally just shut up about it and i can engage with the fantasy!!

[toasters0422]

(X-Men '97 spoliers)

Can't wait for my first ramble since getting hyperfixated on X-Men '97

*deep inhale*

(I gave no clue how to due Tumblr "read more" cuts, so... sorry if this eats someone's dash :< )

Genuinely i love the fact that so many people are saying Magneto is right and that the show itself has addressed that its absolutely true,

but I hate the fact that people are saying Charles Xavier was wrong, and that Magneto was completely justified; which is just far too black and white in my opinion.

Magneto is right when it comes to the fact that Charles' methods are ineffective. Direct action is needed if mutantkind and humankind are to ever have mutual respect. But, that does not mean he isn't an extremist. Magneto's motives and intentions are morally correct, but that doesn't mean that the damage acted upon to humans did more good than harm. Fighting fire with fire may only lead to more fire, or as a favorite quote of mine: "violence for violence is the rule of beasts."

However, I don't want this to be a "Magnus bad, Charles good" fest, it's not. Charles Xavier is a human passing, ultimately jackpot ability mutant and could 100% just pretend to be human if he ever decided to. He wants to help Mutants, his motivations are moral, but they're ineffective. They rarely actually help Mutants instead of simply pushing back the prejudice they face, it took until Magneto running the institute for Genosha to even be accepted into the UN.

So I believe they're both right, but both wrong. They're yin and yang in a sense; there needs to be a balance with their methods for true progress: Action without violence.

...Well that was good to get out of my system :D I'm probably gonna make more X-Men posts in the future, so prepare thineself >:]

[wonder-worker]

Is it true that Elizabeth of York birth celebrated like she was a son? I have seen some historians say this.

Hi! Yes, Edward IV did celebrate his daughter’s birth as though she was a male heir (“a prince”).

While we have no contemporary reports at the time of Elizabeth of York's birth, we know that Luchino Dallaghiexia reported that the birth of Edward and Elizabeth's third child, Cecily of York, "rejoiced the king and all the nobles exceedingly*, though they would have preferred a son'. Wanting a son (ie: an heir) was typical for their time period, likely enhanced by Edward and Elizabeth's unprecedentedly controversial marriage, her very unsuitable origins and his own status as a usurper. The fact that he was described as being "exceedingly" delighted at the birth of his third daughter in a row regardless does support the claim that he would have gone over-the-top to celebrate the birth of his first legitimate** child.

Hope this helps!

*Bizarrely, I have seen several historians and blogs using Dallaghiexia's letter to claim that he was bitterly disappointed at Cecily of York's birth. I don't understand how historical reading comprehension can be so poor that "rejoiced the king exceedingly" has somehow been rewritten as the...exact opposite of that. With no self-awareness whatsoever. **His illegitimate daughter Margaret (known as Elizabeth for some reason) was almost definitely born before his marriage. We don't know the birth dates of his other two illegitimate children: I think the likeliest conception date for Arthur was in early 1470, but it's unverified; and we know nothing about Grace (which was in fact her surname, not her name) other than the fact that Elizabeth Woodville seems to have been very attached to her.

[cyanide-sippy-cup]

Middle of the night but I gotta talk about some frustrations. 'Cause you know what pisses me off? The mainstreaming popularization of punk. Don't get me wrong, I love seeing it become more popular and I love seeing people discover themselves and the culture. I mean, I got into it from a young age with RATM, for crying out loud.

The problem is that when something becomes more and more popular, you get a lot of... unsavory types. And I'm not even talking about the Tiktok punks that do it for the fashion and the "cool factor" (ignore how punks weren't considered cool and actually disregarded and disrespected as a group of "radicals" and "unsightly" which is what makes punk punk to begin with) and talk about "posers" but then the moment you ask them about their favorite local band or even their opinions about the BLM protests or Drag Queen Story Hour the real them *cough* bigot *cough* comes out. I'm talking about how everywhere you turn, there's an increasing erase of the culture and history, and it's turned into yet another thing for cis white people to use to make up for their lack of culture.

Punk is based in queerness and blackness. Period. That is an undeniable fact. It is a culture started and rooted by black musicians which then bled into the equally black queer community. It is impossible, when you go through the origins, to separate the three. From the fashion to the music, we owe everything to them.

And it's just like what happened with the gay community. A massively marginalized group, technically allowed to live in society but not allowed to be our true selves. And then, like, you have super famous and historic movements lead by black activists through the 60s to 80s. And progress is finally made. Huge celebration. We're finally allowed in public, we start appearing on TV again. But then fast forward to modern day, and white people, like we've always done, we get our grubby little paws on it. And we scrub at it in all the soap we can until any instance of black or brown is gone. And then we claim it as ours. Everybody acknowledges where it started, but nobody celebrates it. In fact, we put down black people in our community. We appropriate their culture and their language, because stealing your voice is actually our way of celebrating you so you should be happy. We make movies of those movements, and we erase any evidence of them ever having been there.

And it's relatively the same thing here. The more mainstream it gets, the more people are doing it to be performative, the more we erase and cover up the "unseemly" history that makes it so beautiful in the first place.

And, like, I'm white and I'm pissed/tired. I can't imagine how black punks feel. Cause, like, think for a minute. Some group decides they want in but they don't like how it is, they want it their way. The "correct" way. So they begin to "kick out" everybody who they don't want, appropriate everything they like about it, and rewrite and recontextualize the history that made it. Isn't that, like, the textbook definition of fascism? The whole thing we're trying to take down? Like come on.

And to the white punk/gays who read this and got confused or upset. No, I'm not saying there aren't any white punks. No, I'm not saying there weren't white gays from the get go. Nobody is saying you can't be white and punk. The point of this post is, just, be a good person. Respect, acknowledge, celebrate the culture that created this thing we love. The gay community that we know is specifically a product of blackness and black efforts. Stop appropriating them, start learning how to celebrate them properly.

[writesailingdreams]

I am fascinated by how the quarterfinals of @captainsvscaptains seems to be four match-ups of

(1) one person who is, in theory (I think) part of a structural system and get their title of captain from their status therein (Star Trek)

(2) and another who is anti-structure or ambiguous (pirates, space, taking out slavers*) and get their title of captain more (maybe?) from an acknowledge by others/by choice

*I saw this in Inej's propaganda and I know it applies to Luffy

[senshi-tiddy-holder]

incorrect quotes of ミステリと言う勿れ by me ^-^

(part 1)

[winter-blossoms-yume]

Not selfship related I’m just Extremely annoyed and would prefer to put this where ppl who are friends w/ the person in question cannot see it

Some people have desperately gotta learn that the “he would not fucking say that” mentality is for, like, privately discussing stuff with weird characterization and not for, to use a definitely random example that is totally not inspired by backreading a friend’s anxious messages this morning, leaving TWELVE FUCKING NOTIFICATIONS on someone’s “[fandom] characters sorted into [game]’s elements” explaining why you’re right and they’re wrong

[many-gay-magpies]

saw a post on pinterest and got inspired

[doueverwonder]

I re-found this quote and would just like to say it's ScotFra, thank you for your time.

[imruination]

shadow and bone fans have me screaming

[aq2003]

oh btw i get even more why brennan (like me) clocked sophomore year fabian as fucked up and sad even if some of the other pcs were like "what are you talking about dude" . it's because the basic core theses of fabian and leiland eftbk as characters are actually pretty similar

[undercat-overdog]

Here’s a random stupid question for you: If Annatar tasted ice cream and liked it, what would his favorite flavour eventually be?

Anon, I read this ask as my dog was attempting to lick lotion off my legs which is arguably tmi but it got me thinking that our evil werewolf warg... ok he's doggo... would enjoy lotion-flavored ice cream. The texture can be similar? I also watched a video once about parmesan ice cream, and cheese is appreciated by both cats and dogs.

For his least favorite flavor, since pets are occasionally tricked into eating medicine by hiding the medicine in vanilla ice cream, I'm going with vanilla.

(Actually he might find analyzing the complex taste of vanilla interesting? Idk it can be very good; vanilla ice cream is underrated.)

[histskins]

any other jew-ish guys got a grandma who's like, really weird about it, or is that another hyperspecific life experience of mine

[hacknet]

i accidentally thought about the sh two remake again sorry. How the hell are they going to introduce james as constantly on the verge of tears just looking at himself in the mirror and then have his emotional progression still make any sense.

james literally only comes close to tears once or twice the entire game (depending on your ending) and BOTH are in the last quarter of it. what are they planning to do with him. where do you go if you're already starting at "sobbing crying sentient wet paper towel"

[blacksurvivalnostalgichanges]

William:I had a short, kind-of dating this one girl, and she was the only experience I’ve ever had with an actually crazy partner.

William:She would try to tell me that my friends would talk shit about me behind my back.

William:She’d say things like... Let’s call him Josiah. She was like “Yeah, Josiah shoved me in a locker and called me a bitch.” Which was a total lie.

Lenox:Josiah would never.

William:I don’t know why I use fake names. His name’s Aiden. I don’t think he’d be upset I mentioned him. Haven’t talked to him in a while.

Lenox:I bet he’s in jail.

William:No, he’s not. I saw a picture of him on Instagram the other day.

Silvia:He’s pushing people into lockers!

Lenox:Truuuue.