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I love my job I’m not gonna quit my job over a tv show I love my job I love my job I will not turn down this trip I will not I love
#catch me on the SS Impatience#no that’s not the actual vessel it’s just what my state of mind will be#sorry for another digression#I bring a sort of ‘marine science’ to the fandom most people don’t like
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so there's this post that talks about how people call jason's curved knife a kris but it's not a kris 'cuz why would he have a southeast asian knife? and op's tags say if you're gonna give him an 'exotic' weapon at least make him malay or something. a later reblog adds a filipino kris as an example, and then i was like, 'omg, jason in a barong tho.' SO i tried designing a bat-barong inspired by his hood logo, for a filipino jason haha. and now here we are! 😊✨️🇵🇭
#jason todd#red hood#batfamily#batfamily fanart#dc#dc fanart#i love barongs SO MUCH i used to think they were just a boy thing but my mom and i found a barong dress for me to wear for graduation ✨️✨️#i was so happy lol#i am posting a lot of lil doodles rn cuz i finished some big involved pieces for the zines im in and this is all the energy i have left rn#anyways i made him white-passing bc comics but like.#it should track that he looks a lil asian too cuz he thinks lady shiva might be his mom right??? so he could feasibly be half... 🤷🏻♀️#i like thinking he's a lil filipino but only cuz im all the way filipino (except for all the ways im not hashtag immigrant kid life)#I DIGRESS#here's another extremely niche jason todd post from yours truly 😌✌️✨️#sorry if the knife isnt to scale it's only occuring to me now that i just *assumed* it'd be longer than a man's forearm oops#ugh barongs are so pretty. idve tried designing more if i had the patience to do the detail work rn 🥲 mb in the future who knows#he's wearing a sando underneath!!!!
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I keep thinking about Lewis' review of The Hobbit, because he claimed that the main thing contemporary reviewers compared it to was Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Was fantasy in that poor of a state that Alice was the closest thing they could think of? Comparing that chaotic fever dream to Tolkien's intricately crafted world? Lewis does specify that the comparison is that both books are by an "Oxford professor at play", but they're otherwise so different that putting the two in the same category baffles me.
#books#tolkien#the hobbit#c.s. lewis#alice's adventures in wonderland#(i just reread alice because the nicely-formatted bookbinding pdf made a nice ebook)#(thought i'd give it another chance after seeing how foundational it is (mentioned in so many other works))#i think there's an unbridgable cultural gap somewhere#i can't fathom how anyone can read this and become invested in wonderland as a world#it's so random and so chaotic and everyone's a pun and no one's a character#and yet somehow there are books upon books upon books that try to turn it into a dark fantasy world#it doesn't make sense! it's a world that's not supposed to make sense!#and yet they try to treat the government as legitimate and the queen as a real threat etc.#okay sorry for the digression#but my point is that it's odd that there was nothing else in that seventy-ish year gap for them to compare it to#the only thing coming to mind is peter pan#i suppose george macdonald and e nesbit both had their own brands of popular children's fantasy#maybe the real shocking thing about that comparison#is that i'm so used to seeing it compared to narnia that putting the hobbit in a category with any earlier fantasy work seems weird
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whats your fav aspect(s) of jadekat?
anon im sorry but i had like 40+ notes prepaired for my thoughts on jadekat but i lost all of them proof-reading it and this is all i got
they are the ultimate yuri to me
#jadekat#rgtxt#there was also tags that were like#karkat did not get the outcome he wanted with jade#he punished himself (slapping himself isnt that bad but i digress)#for well finding pity in such a “stupid” human#and it was obvious to him she hated him#(before the apology)#he wanted to troll her but got red feelings for her and did not like it#like i feel like if youre nice to jade she would be nice to you but with how karkat was being an ass he just got into more shit lol#like another thing is that they bicker a lot#like in the old couple way but also like...#a highschool couple shipped together by their school but they do not like eachother that much#like that probably isnt a real trope but its a trope in my head#but its like 3am sorry anon my thoughts are jumbled and i dont remember much right now soz#but in the sense of bickering it was more like opposite trolling#mainly with the passwords#but karkat was just trolling himself with that hugeass paragraph with just... i dont want to think about it hes just fucking weird#i am referring to page 3972#i think the whole “you turned it into this overdramatic thing” is a good way to dumb down their relationship#most of her actions are just poking fun but then he will make a whole entire soap opera#she would do a puppet show he would do shakespear#and thats funny as shit
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someone said amen livius hours??
#the way i've been thinking about this since s2e9 dropped#incoherent babbling ahead sorry#just needed 2 get this on something before i spew out some more modern!sotcn!!#when ur words say one thing but ur actions say another....#livi was Scathing with his words in this interaction#regardless — livius tends to him still. takes his time.#it's also confirmed that he has special ointments made for amen's sensitive skin.#(theres also a point here to be made about loving someone to the point of invention but i digress)#and amen — who is usually prickly finds himself compliant to livius' instruction. to his touch.#but it's only because he doesn't want his injuries to get worse right!!! these shesmu weren't going to hunt themselves!!#(his jaw tightens when he feels the pad of livius' finger brush his shoulder)#he doesn't like to think about how his harboured animosity may be a symptom of other feelings....#he grumbles at livius' tone but he'd be lying if he weren't amused by his attitude#reminds him of someone...... maybe he has a type#could talk more but i'm so Sleepy this is all u get now
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goodxnight guys~~~
#completely forgot that there was another lxl interview back from when the [redacted] anime had just finished airing lmao#it’s from the same feature in which the [redacted] anime director outright said that thing about mona lol#(as in: the ‘mona’s a popular character with a fleshed out backstory but she’s just hiyori’s therapist friend in this loloops’ thing)#i was in such an upset disbelief about it at the time that i completely forgot about the lxl interview man… 2k22 sure was *a* year huh#maybe i’ll get to this interview on either wednesday or this weekend… i need to prepare my lxl tling mindset for the album interview lol#(im still unsure if the magazine will ship lmfao it’s been processing for a g e s [read: 3 days] since i bought it lmao)#(either way i think itll only come in earliest by this weekend bc im still waiting for my nghy impulse purchase standees too)#(and even if it does come i wanna tl the kawaikute gomen vol 1 bonus manga first [if it actually arrives])#(women’s wrongs are always top priority yk~~~~?)#(though. haha… i think i’ll have the entire hw manga collection when my next batch of purchases come in… s o b s my storage space—)#(the dolce manga exist as just ebooks in my collection thoughhhh. the dolce manga is p much the perfect mix of crack and tragedy tbh)#(like. there are scenes with girisha and his *girisha-ness* b u t there are also scenes with fuuma and his heartbreaking backstory)#(re-reading my (frankly) bad tl of ‘happy’ (shiina chapter) doesn’t make me happy at all.)#(i should really get round to reworking it these days… like the fonts and such are *atrocious*)#b u t i digress anyway lxl old interview tl (maybe) coming soon this week depending on exhaustion levels sorry for clogging the dash gn guys
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"the twins would be happier if Leia was sent to Tatooine and Luke got to be prince of Alderaan." No they fucking wouldn't.
Our first introduction to Luke is him trying to get out of chores to hang out with his friends, and you want him to be in charge of a planet?
Luke Skywalker, the guy who put his whole heart and soul into piloting and being a Jedi? The guy who blew up the Death Star and redeemed Darth Vader? The guy who risked his life to save a woman he hadn't met? The guy who chose a life of solitude to dedicate himself to teaching a dead religion? You think he'll enjoy discussing things in committee?
And you think Leia Organa, cut-throat, analytical Leia, would be satisfied as farmgirl Leia Skywalker?
The woman who called Tarkin smelly while being kept as a prisoner? The woman who resisted Darth Vader's torture as an adult and Reva's interrogation as a child? Who watched her home and her people destroyed and not even an hour later was arguing and insulting her rescuers? Who held a primed thermal detonator in her hand without blinking? Who strangled Jabba the Hutt with the chain he put around her neck?
You want that woman living in the same household as Owen Lars? They'd kill each other!
You want Leia Organa forced to stay home and do her chores instead of fighting the Empire? Be a farmer like Owen or a housewife like Beru? Never straying further from home than to Mos Eisley? You think she'd ever stand for that?
ffs, just cuz Luke likes fashion and Leia likes fighting doesn't mean they were put in the wrong families! Leia could have been a pilot or a Jedi, but she chose to be a rebel and a leader. Luke could have been General or a diplomat, and he chose to be a Jedi.
TL;DR: If we were to take Luke and Leia the way they are in the OT and switch their childhood circumstances, neither of them would thrive in each other's shoes.
#the twins are not opposite of one another!#just cuz leia is assertive doesnt mean luke is passive!#just cuz luke is stylish doesnt mean leia must secretly want to be a tomboy!#they are both angry and aggressive and kind and loyal and headstrong and fashionable and spoiled and loved and idolized and sad#theyre different people and theyre always going to be different people and you cant compare them like theyre two sides of the same coin#stop mischaracterizing them!#just cuz theyre twins does mean you have to compare and contrast every one of their traits!#luke skywalker#leia organa#star wars#original trilogy#star wars original trilogy#im sorry for the rant#just kinda annoyed about it#Realistically they are the way they are because of how they were raised#so switching them would just give you a Luke with Leia's personality and a Leia with Luke's personality (I'll always be team nurture>nature#but i digress#skywalker twins#bones' bitching hours
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I dislike Zoe's entire existence with a passion because she feels so unnecessary and her only personality trait is just "not being Chloe". Which is. Just really boring and bad writing imo.
But, goddammit, they keep giving her really cool looking superhero outfits!!
#miraculous ladybug#ml#ml spoilers#ml s5 spoilers#ml s5#ml season 5#miraculous ladybug spoilers#miraculous season 5#zoe bourgeois#ml zoe salt#ml salt#i dont remember if zoe has another last name#cause i really do tend to forget she exists until shes in my face#sorry zoe lovers i cant help how i feel#and you know what im not the biggest fan of chloe either#but at least she was a little interesting and its impossibke to forget her#i digress#i found her name#zoe lee#zoe lee salt
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DAWGS WHY AM I GETTING THES ADS ON MY BLOG
I DONT LIKE HEARTSTOPPER WHY ARE THER ADDS FOR IN ON MYYY BLOG I DONT WANT TP WACH IT I WILL NEVER WATCH IT (unless im paid hansomly) AND I DONT CAR IF THIS IS SOMETHING GAY PPL LIKE AND THAT I AM I DONT LIKE HEARTSTOPPER STOP!
#sillyposting#heartstopper#crying over here#why do yall even like heartstopper#from what i can tell it's jusy another teenage romace#sorry that i cant spell#and im not even against you gays#im one of yall#maybe i just dont like romance#and displays on that shit#yeah#maybe im crazy#yeah maybe#but i digress#i dont want these ads on MY blog#bc MY blog promotes non-romance shows/movies/media#im not ace tho#dont get it twisted#anyways#im normal#i should post more of my art#hmmmm#maybe
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#so that dotd rewrite is out and i have some thoughts on it but i wouldn't know where to put them.. maybe in here bc i don't actually feel -#- like making a whole ass text post. this is coming from me as criticism and not hate.. just some crit from one fan to another if you get m#SPOILERS AHEAD >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>#first off props to the team because this was obv a labor of love - 4 and a half years to make a feature long fan movie is hard work#and the animated stuff was a really nice touch and very commendable - you don't see them too often in big fanworks#in terms of the story well.. there are some things i like and some things that i don't (personally) again no hate#i'm aware this is a rewrite and boy howdy it IS a rewrite - though i am a bit sad that percy doesn't end up being the protagonist and it's#- thomas that has to play hero again.. like i kinda get it but what made the original dotd stand out was that percy was given the spotlight#so i spent an ungodly amount of time wondering when percy was gonna take charge or step into the main story to resolve the problem.. sigh#i liked that they tried to give norman more of a character bc a lot of characters do often get neglected in the series but it was kind of -#- hard to sell that for me? the twist in this rewrite was very creative and i do appreciate it but i guess it just ain't for me#“different” is ok and this is just one of many fan rewrites for this particular story#if there was something i enjoyed.. i guess the beginning was still kind of exciting because the set up was honestly like hype a bit#i liked that diesel and d10 actually got to interact face to face and there are clearer dynamics established for the diesels#and also. silverband's performances as d10 will always be fun he does a fantastic job voicing him (how d10 stole xmas will still be my fav)#my criticisms for this movie also derive from the pacing and the voice acting - i found it hard to try and understand tones sometimes -#- because the delivery felt so off.. like don't get me wrong not everyone in the fandom is a voice actor but if we're using static faces -#- for these fan works the delivery has to be a little more clear or else it'll sound like you're reading from a script.. sorry yall :"|#for the pacing i found it a bit hard to parse when some things were going on and how fast things were progressing#as well as the crashes.. that's also another thing bc i couldn't tell bc of the sfx and audio balancing - it could be better..#i wanna say. muffled voices do not substitute for a “far away”/off-screen voice bc i still can't hear it :“|#there were a lot of throwbacks and references to older thomas media/movies but some of them felt a little.. much?#if this is a dotd rewrite why are we getting some parallels with tatmr.. but i digress. at least they made diesel beef with duck a bit#there's a lot more i could say but i'm keeping those to myself. at the end of the day this fan movie was hard work for everyone involved#and you can tell some of the folks were having fun in there - props to them! i'm always glad to see more fan works in the community#we've come so far we're making feature length fan stories and rewrites that's crazy! i hope to see more in the future#fauxtrainpost.txt
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A little bit of GOS2 criticism crossed my dash, mostly of the not like the book variety (not plot-wise, obviously, only in the sense that it went away from the spirit of the book). Leaving aside the fact as a Stanley Kubrick* fan I don't find this a compelling argument at all, I'm really not raging against the fact that there are people who dislike the things I like, not even blocking anyone, that's for politics, filtering serves just perfectly. But I think I see a pattern in the criticisms original/classic material fans levy against adaptations/continuations in Good Omens (that sometimes includes the first season too), Doctor Who and Sherlock Holmes fandoms. If you bite your way through the overgrow of whatever social policy is on the menu it boils down to overfocusing on characters, and in the case of GO overfocusing on characters that aren't even strictly protagonists. And if you've followed me for a while you may have noticed that this sometimes annoys me, too. Sometimes I dress it in fancy wording of precession of simulacrae, sometimes I just bitch about TTC. So I started thinking about why it doesn't bother me, and in fact is a thing that fills me with insane feuertrunkenness** when done right - by which I mostly mean 2nd season of Sherlock, RTD/early Moffat era of Doctor Who, and the 2nd season of Good Omens. So, obviously, I started thinking of Francisco de Goya y Lucientes.
Say hello to my icon and one of most favourite works of visual arts. The simple truth about Goya is that he was an absolute genius in realistic painting. He was flexing away his way across the Spanish court with his compositions, and fabrics, and wrinkles, and light work. He was straight up academically and technically brilliant. He was a product of the European fashion of the time. And yet he could also, especially as his own health and political situation in the country deteriorated, he could also do so. much. drama. So much vision, so much phantasmagoric nightmares. So much introspection. Without even for a moment falling down the chute of sentimentalist navel gazing that the romantic era so often went down.
I don't really like periodization, good art is good art, but paradigmatic shifts are definitely a thing. And there are those amazing artists who bring the older, more established, more as Jung would put it, externalized paradigm to perfection and push it further without losing the sight of it. This is Goya, this is Botticelli, this is Goethe, this is very late Mozart, this is Beethoven. Wagner is a great example because there's this definite moment around the Flying Dutchman and Lohengrin when he finds his style without overpompousing it. And this is an extremely difficult rope to walk! Falling down the rabbit hole of overthinking your own work, and especially overthinking pop cultural phenomena is way way wayyyy too easy for anyone to walk it. The temptation to overpower them is way too strong for mere mortals to resist it.
But it is possible. RTD showed it is possible to do so for over 50 hours of material. The point be that the drama, the sturm und drung and lebenschmertz and whatnot emerge naturally from the story, rather than fitting the story specifically to make it dramatic and navel gazy. It'll be a bit mean now, but it's the difference between the self made tragedy of the last of the time lords and a literal species ready to change reality to find out the Doctor's true name, which matters, but not, but does.
And I think Neilman did hit that sweet spot in the second season. Yes, people are complaining about Aziraphale and Crowley coming off as "too important", especially Crowley***, which is completely contrary to the book, but this remains elegantly within the realms of interpretation. It's introspective and dramatic without navel gazing and tragedy for tragedy's sake. And knowing his other works I feel fairly confident he won't be falling off that rope.
And I wouldn't be a McLuhanist if I didn't mention that television is a medium naturally more likely to focus on characters because of its episodic character (stories end, banter is forever) and the fact it was the first medium where characters were literally at people's homes.
* Don't inform me that he wasn't the nicest person but was a veritable nightmare to work with, I mean his FILMS.
** Sorry for the German vocab, but what can I say, they really made a point when they started splashing words together.
*** My three cents on pre-fall Crowley's archangelic status is that I still like the inversion and irony, but I liked it better when the theory was getting excommunicated as *checks notes* too classist, rather than sth you vagued Neilman about on Tumblr.
#tw: negativity#some i guess? more criticism but anyway#good omens#good omens season 2#doctor who#bbc sherlock#cultural ramblings#do other cultures even have digressive poems? think sheherezade telling a story venturing into another story venturing into another story#neil gaiman#rtd#sorry just needed to vent#long post
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What if Ruby is actually Palpatine’s daughter.
#doctor who#ruby sunday#sorry another digression#I’ll leave now#i wish I could share in your fun theories#but I lived through those sequels in real time#a part of me died with them that won’t ever come back
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Man how long was I out. I haven't posted since like April? Time Blindness without limits. Living deliriously.
#personal pulse#well. so so sorry my friends. it's been one thing after another/the damn things overlap/etc#I would like to get back in my groove though. hopefully soon. my ears finally popped like an hour ago so I think I'm on the mend#as far as the recent sickness goes.#genuinely haven't been sick this way in YEARS. like I've caught a cold once or twice maybe but of the barely noticeable sort#must say I did NOT miss coughing like this. ough. I digress
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as I clock out of work tonight I'm thinking about the time my coworker called me ableist against neurodivergent people for saying body language could be (COULD BE!! NOT IS!!) an indicator of mood or emotional state, and when I said I was neurodivergent she told me I didn't count. lol.
#she also implied I was a bad tutor because I occasionally skim read but that's another story#like damn sorry some of us read at the speed of light because we had no friends as children and read three chapter books a week#(also a very neurodivergent thing but I digress)
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“If oxys missing I think we all know who took it.” FUCK ALL OF YOU??? if you can come to that conclusion in the first place then why have you been ignoring it until it’s staring you right in the face and there’s 20 pills missing? Especially Paul and Paige-who have probably been paying the most attention to Mike and talking with him-ironically also the two people with the most experience with addicts and how they act?? Mike may be smart about hiding his addiction and problems but everybody else in that house is smart and istg, at least Paul and Paige, knew something bigger was going on with Mike and they just pretended like they were checking in with him without wanting the responsibility of doing anything even though they wanted it to seem like they were taking care of and cared about Mike. This man comes downstairs after locking himself in his room for ten days, obsessing over 47 red birds and a the V of the clock hands at the time 10:10 and obviously mentally going through it and??? Paige stands up and walks away?? YOU DID THIS TO HIM HONEY. She didn’t even have the decency to pretend to care or listen-I think patronizing/pity would be a step up from complete disregard. And Paul is just straight up using Mike’s situation to his advantage so he’s playing along in that caring role until he can manipulate Mike from behind the scene to do what he needs to do to suit his needs. Charlie, Johnny, DJ have their own shit going on but at least voice that something’s going on with Mike and the few times they do talk with Mike-it’s a real conversation and not whatever the fuck a Paul was doing with him(manipulation). Paul and Paige act like they’re taking care of him but it’s all a lie-they don’t really care. The people who actually care have been fooled-or just didn’t pay enough attention because they wouldn’t expect addiction from golden boy Mikey. I also don’t know why everybody views mike as this inhumane robot(ya know bc he’s no sentimental, etc), he cries and cares and gets scared more than anybody and he was murdered?? He left the hospital and got put back on the field earlier than he should have but they just think he’ll be okay. Maybe Mike isn’t their responsibility but they want to say there’s no secrets in graceland and graceland is like a family but then they just leave mike to fend for himself because he’s Mike. And when they try to help him- cue the worst possible intervention-it’s more like ganging up on him and then giving up as soon as he fights back. Mike is all alone in this world.
#maybe it’s bc paul usually takes care of his own shit so they expect that of Mike bc they view them as mirrors of one another#also they think he’ll be okay HES LIVING WITH THE PERSON WHO MURDERED HIM…I digress#sorry I had to type this out somehwre cjfkkdksks enjoy tua mutuals😬
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i will never draw kaz or vsnake skinny idgaf how kaz looked during that date anytime other characters talk about his body they always mention him being heavy or ‘out of shape’ even in pw
#if ur gonna have characters be openly fatphobic towards another character u should at least model them to be....not skinny. but i digress#v is just a bear to me. sorry
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