#sorry for rambling op lmao

[garf-reblogs-things]

Everyone in the tags saying "it's because she didn't have a white coat!" Is really smart and they all deserve a cookie and a star sticker. Good job.

However...

I just don't think that's it. I think Ken has had his views changed. When he lived in Barbieland, all the Barbies had jobs, and the Kens did not. But when they went to the Real World, suddenly everything was topsy turvy. "Wait, men can have jobs? And they're paid more than women? And are generally treated better? Oh, okay then! I guess this means only men are doctors!"

Like the poor little clueless puppy he is, he believes everything he sees. And unfortunately, that just happens to be the male-priority world we live in.

This is also interesting when considering the shot of the Barbieland sign from behind, which now reads "Kendom". The Kens will revolt. There will be anarchy.

And Barbie must return to take her rightful place on the sparkly pink throne. Or... perhaps share it?

God I'm so excited for this movie

I will say one critique for the Barbie trailer. Ken doesn’t believe that the woman he is talking to is a doctor which makes no sense, in the Barbie universe the doctors are all women and it is the Kens who do not have jobs. It should’ve been him talking to a man and not believing that a man could be a doctor and asking to talk to a woman. Thank you for coming to my ted talk

[reineyday]

so happy they included rengoku in this shot!

[tumblezwei]

Sometimes I feel like I'm being too harsh on the HSR fandom for it's poor reading comprehension

And then I go on twitter and see a post with thousands of likes and rts claiming that Argenti's hair was originally white and that it was dyed red from being soaked in his enemies' blood, all because of this line in his characters stories

And it's like. No. That's not what this is implying. You can't just say that like it's true.

[witches-dream]

oh my god i remember after writing this when the trailers started to come out and i was scared his motivation was gonna be mostly about "survival of the fittest" sorta thing (which, i sorta just despise the concept itself), but i unexpectedly hit the nail on the head with the second one. and i said that this is because this kind of motivation is difficult to make interesting. cuz if a villain's motivation doesn't feel like it's "enough", the villain doesn't just become unsympathetic, they also can very easily become unlikeable, and you DON'T WANT THAT for a game so heavily focused on its character writing.

when thinking about a villain whose motivation is a desire to escape boredom, i primarily thought of Junko Enoshima, actually, who, out of all the characters that i've seen, is the only one to have this motivation, or at least have it written this well. in short, and this is based on memory cuz i haven't played those games in a while, she was too smart for her own good, and, when everything became predictable for her, she built up that great plan to plunge the world into chaos, and to then INTENTIONALLY lose so she could feel the rawest despair imagineable, just because that was the only thing that could excite her anymore. there's a really good scene in the anime where she assembles this bif puzzle, only to break it immediately once she finishes it.

and honestly comparing that spawn of satan to burning spice makes him look like a saint somwhow 😭 he was sent down to earth with a divine purpose, only to fail at it again and again, for thousands upon thosands of years, at which point he gave up, which led to boredom, then a desire to destroy as the only way to feel something. both characters were cursed from the very beginning just by virtue of who they are. and then his desire to hunt down golden cheese specifically comes from the knowledge that she is the only one who can match his strength, no, she may even be stronger than him. at the end of the day, both character's deepest innermost desire is to be destroyed themselves, to become free of their miserable existence.

so what can i say? i was scared it was gonna be the 2nd option, but it was that that made me fall in love with him as a character even more. my own ideas for him included a desire to destroy what he cared about before anything else can get to it, to avoid the pain of losing by taking the act of taking it away into his own hands. i still incorporate that desire into some of my writing (as you will see... hehe). and the 1st option is... sort of, kind of, vaguely also there? he WAS dissapointed with the way the world was, and he did for a split second consider to "nurture a new cycle" only to be made sick by the mere thought, which, to me, is the final point in which he gives up and decides to destroy, destroy, destroy, cuz there's no meaning to the world either way.

basically? awesome character. there is not a single bit in me that is dissapointed, even though his story is so far from the one that i imagined that made me fall in love with him in the first place. cheers, devsis writers, you've done it again 🥂 keep impressing us with your amazing stories!

Well I am a woman of word.Here are some of my burning spice updates predictions(take note most of these were made before the trailer and it ain't much)

I hope we get to see golden cheese get close to becoming a beast similar to Dark Cacao Cookie was.

Awaken Golden cheese form is based on a phoenix bird because that would be so cool and fitting in my opinion.

Burning spice is or was some sort type of warrior general(and there's small chance it's true based on the trailer).Burning spice possibly killed his army and maybe brought the kingdom to ruin...and so without a kingdom or army,he decided to make his own so speak. And if that's the case,I can totally see him using this to get Smoked cheese on his side. Like"Hey,I used to be like you.We share similar goals,I can help achieve yours and you can help achieve mine.Let's team up"

My prediction for his motive is that he uses destruction to bring about change so speak.He wants earthbread to change and what better way to do that then drive it into ruin.So eventually it would be able build itself back up again.

And that's it for now,I will add more when they come to me.Anyway,feel to tell me your predictions and things you hope to see.

[genuinebozo]

I don't watch/read all that much stuff, but the way one piece presents queer character is very special to me (the most important person on earth, btw)

Because it feels like in media written by straight/cis authors there's two ways queer characters are presented: Vague enough to keep your ratings up but just present justtt enough to get you goodie points, or very blatant but with very little nuance.

While the second option isn't that bad, It makes me so happy that one piece bypasses these choices almost entirely by having characters that are simultaneously very queer and very proud, while also having their exact identity vague.

I love being able to project onto a character, and it's just so easy with characters like Bonclay, you can easily justify plenty of things about his identity-- He could be bi gender, non binary, cis gay who does drag, or just plain ol' GNC, but no matter what he is he is queer.

Oda definitely isn't perfect at writing LGBT+ characters, but god do i connect more to Bonclay and Ivankov than I do most other queers written by non-queer authors.

[nugatorysheep]

Reposting this because OP disabled the reblogs and I want this post for myself

[paradife-loft]

I feel a bit ridiculous about this, but despite the fact that the framing device plot for SuperS (i.e. Pegasus and Chibiusa and the whole ~beautiful dream~..... thing.....) is by far my least favorite (...hence why I stopped watching partway through said season), the other half of what's going on there, which is to say the thematic underpinnings of the Circus/Nehelenia/Amazoness Quartet stuff, is so good and makes me absolutely unhinged thinking about it

like it's all about. the seductiveness of reveling in an immature self-centered set of priorities. but also how those priorities emerge out of fear about what you might have to give up if you start taking others into consideration. and how a lack of support from others around you, a lack of anyone to help inspire you to care about anything else, is part of what narrows your concerns down, and feeds those fears, in the first place.

others wanting things from you but not supporting you, turns you inward to only relying on the indulgence of your surface-level desires to feel anything positive at all. and so then anything threatening that is an intolerable obstacle, because it's threatening the very shaky sole foundation you have for yourself - and how dare others demand anything of you? fuck all of them, they should serve what you want, and all that matters is being able to preserve your ability to get/do/have those things you want. having responsibilities toward others, much less wanting to have responsibilities toward others, is a ridiculous, cheap trap to fall into if you're not one of the lucky ones who gets to stay young and beautiful and carefree forever.

and ultimately. the self-sabotaging nihilism of it all. the way the Quartet thinks Ami is nuts for being excited to grow up and become a doctor to help people, because not only is helping people dumb, but she's also willingly giving up being able to avoid consequences for screwing off or being a dick* by virtue of ~only being a kid. the way they've come to rely on their Amazon Stones as (supposedly) the source of their magic power, and the thing keeping them young and beautiful and able to goof off and do hedonism all day, when they're actually siphoning their powers and feeding them to Nehelenia and the rest of the circus. the way Nehelenia accepts being sealed away in her loneliness in the dark once again because it's better, she thinks, than having to face a future where she loses her beauty and gets old - the codependency between her loneliness and her obsession with being perfectly beautiful to make up for it, and how feeding one only strengthens the other until she's trapped in needing both to function.

they're such internally and externally destructive disasters, and each facet of that is inseparable from the other, and I love them so much, they're subletting my head rent-free right now ;___;

*it's interesting to me, actually, that this is one season where we distinctly don't have the "find me our arc macguffin quickly or I'll kill you and send in your next replacement!" dynamic going on with the themed henchmen of the week - notable particularly as I'm halfway through Stars where that's very much present - and I feel like that choice reinforces the frozen-in-time, abdication-of-responsibility theme in a way that's pretty neat

[starwolf53]

hey btw if you have beef with me can you just. block and move on. please. be an adult

[otogariado]

ramble rn sorry.

having an existential political crisis rn bc of a convo i had at lunch today. once you start listening to stories it's not hard to realize how insidious politics can get even at a very small localized level. at the barangay level there's already shit like hoarding insulin (firsthand account from my grandfather only recently receiving his months worth of insulin) + at the mayoral level you already have political dynasty stories that sound like some mafia type of shit but are Really Real. and some of the horror stories as recent as like, three or four years ago. and we even had our own mayor assassinated just fairly recently! while that info alone isn't enough to dox myself (there's a lot more mayoral/mayoral adjacent assassinations that happen than you would think. i checked) i won't talk abt my proximity to the site but like It's Real. politics is terrifying. sometimes you realize really one of the only ways to incite change is to let the old fuckers finally die off so the power keeping their opposition threatened no longer sticks around and they can finally be replaced in whatever seat of power they used to hold. mahirap patayin ang masasamang damo etc etc. like i don't wanna be cynical but we are kinda fucked.

[asherasgayagenda]

HI i'm the creator of the kohaai twibbon! tbf finding another chibi didn't even pass my mind but i'm so glad to see someone using it skjwjdh i might remake it later

glad to find more kohaai fans on tumblr too!!

HELP HELLO KOHAAI TWIBBON CREATOR (im sorry i slandered you on that one post... how did you even find it) im glad to have got your attention? !!

same tumblr has been a little starved for kohaai for a while but i do think recently we've been winning a LOT more (thank you ynk cover and aira fs2 and--). anyways always glad to meet another kohaai liker on this website.!! the community is growing aaa <3

[intrpspection]

Unless you are EXTREMELY passionate about whatever field you plan to go into (and it’s decent paying) with a bachelors+ degree, it is not worth the debt in the US.

On the other hand (if you’re interested in the trades), AND there are no decent apprenticeships in your area, I would recommend getting an associates degree in that field.

Not having a traditional job or plans to get an education will have people asking you things like so what is the purpose of you staying alive?

[pezpenser205]

me being largely nonhuman/antihuman and a lesbian, therefore being forced by my brain to be attracted to humans has actually allowed me to fully understand how men attracted women who say they wish they were lesbians are real and based and do not deserve the hate they get. like girl i get it thats literally how i feel about you.

no offense to the good humans out there #notallhumans <3

[evilpenguinrika]

nothing will ever hit harder in the nostalgia feels than the OPs and ENDs in Naruto and Naruto Shippuden for me

[quantumxwoody]

I can't believe me seeing a tweet dismissing azusa kido's work in persona's writing get 300+ likes was the tipping point of me deactivating my account and removing the site off my browser history like omfg the persona brainrot is so real

[akuma-tenshi]

did it!!

surprise! it's a sudoku puzzle

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[dbphantom]

Why the fuck did my queue post the same thing 3 times in a row? It was only in there once!