#sorry i yap so much

[afurtivecake]

with the sunshine court i liked the insight into the ravens and them individually + as a very fucked up whole

any opinions/comments about the ravens, nest, and tetsuji and all of that?

ooh yes i very much enjoyed the bits about the ravens in tsc as well.

and god yes. the thoughts i have on the ravens are...many.

my main comment is that we can't underestimate how much the whole collective punishment thing fucks people up and how much resentment it breeds. being made responsible for the actions and behaviours of someone else, for example, child being made responsible for their siblings, is something we know can mess people up. and the ravens basically take that concept and built it into their institution. the ravens are set up in a way that mimics a familial power structure. you have the coaches at the top as the 'parents', the ravens as the children. also keep in mind that raven pairs consist of an older raven and a younger one, which mimics a older sibling/younger sibling dynamic. (it reminds me of how yakuza hierarchies are built around familial structures using terms like parent/child to describe boss/subordinate relationships and brothers/sisters to describe a relationship that's on an equal footing. but that's perhaps a different discussion for another time)

so what you have is an older raven being made responsible for the actions and behaviours of a younger student and a younger raven who is reliant on the older student to teach them how the nest works and how to survive being a raven.

this would mean that the older raven would be suffering punishments they know they don't deserve because their younger partner is just not going to be as good yet. it would be on their shoulders to correct their partner so that when they get in front of the coaches, they're not going to be a shit-show. can you imagine the resentment that creates?

i can easily picture a situation where they both get a scolding for something the younger raven messed up on and then once they're alone, the older raven berates their younger partner again for getting them into that mess. like, don't they want a place on the lineup? don't they want to succeed? then stop being lazy and start get their fucking shit together because they both know which of them really deserved to be called 'worthless' by the coach back there. and the younger raven can't do anything about it because they know they're not as good. they know they have to do better so that this one person who's been helping them through every confusing aspect of raven doesn't get punished for things they don't deserve. but neither of them will blame the coaches even if they know in the back of their minds that it's really the coaches' fault.

by the time the older raven graduates, the younger raven would be in a position to receive a newbie as a partner and guess what? the tough love that trained them up to that point worked for them so that's how they would treat their new partner.

of course, this is just one possible form a raven dynamic can take, but like, isn't that so incredibly fucked up?

of course, it's not all bad. raven partners clearly do look out for each other and probably comfort each other when they can. but just because they care for each other, doesn't mean they're any less violently angry with each other for the roles they've been forced into. there's so many more nuances to this than i can talk about all in one go.

and the thing is, they don't even need to be violent towards each other for this sort of thing to take a psychological toll. and like, having grown up being made responsible for a younger siblings' behaviour, i know it's all about the feeling that no matter what you do, you're not going to be good enough. it's like, if you're not better than your sibling (raven partner), you're a failure and will be treated like you're lower on the hierarchy. but if you are better, then you're still a failure because that would mean you let your sibling (raven partner) be worse. like i spent a lot of time resenting my siblings for being the reason i got shouted at and also for not coming to my aid when i needed help or comfort, even though i know they couldn't have done anything and it wasn't their role to have done anything anyways. i even spent a long time feeling bad for how hard i was on my siblings and feeling guilty that i wasn't as kind as i ought to have been. that i should have comforted them more. and the real kick in the teeth was them telling me that they were grateful for what i had done for them. that my hard attitude had gotten them through a lot and helped them get their shit together. and fuck, that made feel even more guilty. i wanted to shake them and be like, 'no! don't you get it? i should have been kinder! you should have felt supported no matter what you did!"

and i think about this a lot in relation to riko and kevin. i think about how being made responsible for each's success and failure might have tainted their relationship as brothers, how it might have introduced an element of anger and resentment to what could have been a supportive, caring relationship.

(as for tetsuji, well. i just picture him as the amalgamation of every hardass asian father i've ever known, turned up to 100. and uh... ha.ha. it's unpleasant, is all i'm going to say to that. )

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the whole point of this, "ask me for an opinion and i'll tell you why i have it," exercise is to examine how my personal biases and background impact how i view this work. which parts of the work do i pick up on and relate to due to my own experiences? and i think this question about how i see the ravens exemplifies what i've been trying to do here. i'm not saying that my interpretation is any more correct that anyone else's. i'm saying that we all read things a certain way for personal reasons and that it doesn't matter what our opinion is, it's all part of interacting with and enjoying a piece of media!

so if anyone has opinions they want to hear from me, please ask! or go forth and share your own opinions!

[arminsbf]

6, 9 & 28 🩵

MIAAA THX 🩵🩵

6 - what are you excited for?

i think i’m just excited to live my life… there have been some hard times but i’m doing really good now and i’m excited to be able to live my life to the fullest and enjoy myself!!! i’m just glad to be alive yk :3

9 - is confidence cute?

yes absolutely!!! in dating men, i don’t mind if he’s a little bit shy but… confidence is really important 😓 if it’s not obvious enough… i’m always gonna be the more submissive or like… docile (??) one if i’m dating a guy so like… i don’t want him to be super shy 😭 with women it’s different because it’s not like i’m looking for some type of dominatrix to take care of me,,, but confidence is always great to see as long as it’s not too much!!!!!

28 - what was the last thing that made you laugh?

so i’m staying in a hotel with some friends right now, and we were all very tired after flying. last night, i woke up at like 1 am half-asleep. i really needed to pee, but, for some reason, i felt like i couldn’t use the bathroom in the hotel room. i guess in my dream world it wasn’t there or something. so i get up and try to leave the room… and the door is locked. so i get back in bed super angry. my friend wakes up thinking that i let someone in the room or something, then he sees me all angry in my bed and he’s like “dude what,” and he laughs, and then i’m mad at him because he’s not taking me seriously. i’m like “i have to piss and i can’t get out!!” all annoyed. he tells me the bathroom is literally right there next to my bed, so then i finally go and get back to sleep.

we just laughed about in the morning because i was so mad over nothing, and tried to leave the room for no reason… we were talking about what would’ve happened if the door was unlocked because i would’ve just been wandering the halls looking for a bathroom 😭 i think i was just delirious from the jet lag and all the flying… but i was definitely embarrassed after all that 😓😓😓

[lunaliart]

theyre sick of your shit sonic

[heartorbit]

figure skating set right now please. thanks

[tatretot]

hellooo danandphilgames buddies!! happy belated 10 year (more like 5 but shhh) anniversary :-)

[wardingshout]

clown 1 and clown 2

[elysiuminfra]

i want to talk about walmart for a second. if you haven’t worked or known someone who worked for walmart, you probably don’t know how bad it is. most people don’t, so i want to talk about it.

there’s a points system for absences. if you miss work, and can’t cover it with accrued time off (because you don’t just Get time off - it builds up over time. it takes about a month of straight work to get a day off.) you get a point. five points and you’re at risk of termination. all managers - team leads, and above them, coaches - have the power to excuse points so that you don’t get fired. some do, so you don’t lose your job. most don’t. five days, that’s it.

if you miss more than three shifts of work due to a medical issue, you have to go through a third party company (which isn’t really third party.) to get a medical exception so you don’t lose your job. it is hard to get this. they need a lot of documentation to prove that you somehow deserved to miss work. they don’t accept regular doctors notes. this is somehow nebulously legal. you are also forced to work while sick and infectious. flu, strep, covid, doesnt matter for all departments except produce and deli. even then, they only send you home if you throw up *at work* or have food-related illnesses. every other department you’re not allowed to go home. more than likely you are being exposed to someone who’s sick at walmart, because its either come in sick or get fired.

i work hard. everyone *has* to work hard. you are on your feet 8 hours a day. you can’t sit. there are no surfaces to sit on. some departments are harder than others. i worked in OPD, the online grocery fulfillment department. i would walk, bare minimum, 7 to 8 miles a day, hauling sometimes over 200 pounds of groceries. every day. now i work in the deli. you are constantly moving. this is very typical for the deli - you are given too many tasks to perform in one day. most days i can barely get enough done. i know people don’t take their legally entitled second breaks. I know people who have to work off the clock just to get everything done. my department - as is *most other departments* - is understaffed. i cook, clean, work the slicer, and dispense food at the same time. and trust me when i tell you the standards of cleanliness in my department is high, but in practice it is very, very poor. simply because there is usually only one of us working back there, and we just can’t do everything right all at once.

none of the “fresh” food in the bakery / produce area is fresh. the bread is baked in store, but the dough is made and frozen elsewhere. sometimes it’s been frozen for weeks. everything is shockingly artificial. same with produce. you’re better off buying your produce elsewhere, or even locally. walmart has been fraught with recall after recall.

people are cheated out of retirements. so many people I know that are at retirement age simply can’t. there are people working here in their 70s. they are being overworked. there are a lot of teenagers that work up front. they are being overworked. I know two kids who are disabled that work the register. they aren’t allowed to sit. one had to fight to be able to get a medical accommodation and only got one when he threatened to sue, because not taking a doctor’s note for an accommodation is illegal. they do it anyways. there are so many people i know personally that are disabled, have chronic pain, have mobility issues, and can’t sit. or walk miles and miles a day. one of my coworkers recently quit because she tore both rotator cuffs in her shoulders from this job. this job disables you. it kills you. (just look up how many people have died on the job due to negligence. it is not a small amount.)

even the prices are fake. sales are fake. rollback is fake. i notice how things are priced and they rarely change, even when they say they’re on sale. it’s a scam. you are being scammed.

we are overworked and underpaid for our labor. (speaking of, wages used to be higher by several dollars a couple years ago. they lowered them. my department paid 20 an hour. it only pays 16 now. almost all other departments are at a flat 14. it used to be 16.)

wage theft, lack of breaks, overtime violations, lack of sick leave, chronic understaffing and chronic abuse from management, not terminating employees that sexually harass coworkers, and piles and piles and piles of responsibilities. all of this is to say, walmart only operates because of how much they exploit their workers, and it’s in the top of the Fortune 500 list. it is impossibly dire. and it is in EVERY SINGLE store, because that is just how the work culture operates.

all salaried management is also given guides on union busting. unionization is impossible. there was one store that they completely shut down because of successful unionization efforts, laying off hundreds of people, and blamed it on “faulty plumbing.”

one last thing - if you are assaulted by a customer, you cannot defend yourself. nobody can help you, because none of us are allowed to put our hands in any capacity on a customer. if you are assaulted, you have no choice but to run and hide. I’ve heard of a worker at my store that was assaulted repeatedly over several days from people who would come in and beat her. they weren’t banned, and she was fired for fighting back. if you fight back, you’re fired immediately, no exceptions.

all of this is to say shop elsewhere. buy locally. buy at other stores. you will get better quality items and produce literally ANYWHERE else. if you can’t, be kind to Walmart workers. theres abuse at every step of the chain. even on the supply side. walmart is a corporate dystopian monster that only makes its money off of intense labor violations.

tl;dr don’t shop at walmart. it’s not worth it

[kenchann]

uh oh

also change my yuus outfit www

[retrowitchy]

ranking lucy gray's outfits in the tbosas movie as a costume design student ✶✧

quite possibly, everything rachel zegler wears is my favorite part of tbosas. trish summerville is a big personal hero of mine, and tbosas is my favorite hunger games film in terms of costume design!!! so as a disclaimer, i love every one of these looks with everything in me, this is just me ranking them.

8. swimsuit

this really shouldn't be in last place, because crochet swimwear? brilliant. and so beautiful. and so in-universe.

i love how all the covey swimwear feels like it was hand-made by the characters themselves. obviously, nobody in district 12 is swimming for pleasure much (we learn this from the first book, and haymitch and burdie just skinny dipped lol), so naturally the covey would have made their own things to wear by hand.

7. sejanus' execution

the details of the snakes on her belt and the hand stitching/embroidery on her sleeves are so wonderful. for an outfit that never really gets a full shot in the film (most of rachel's shots in this scene are closeups from the neck up), the dedication to detail is super admirable.

6. well i'm not made out of sugar

it's such a good detail how coriolanus' mother's shawl perfectly color compliments the rest of this outfit. it's like she picked it out to match on purpose, which makes the betrayal all the more devastating. i think this scene is also one of trish's stronger uses of color symbolism- the warm, sunshine-y colors of lucy gray contrasting the stark, bare palette of everything coriolanus wears in 12. she's a symbol of hope. he's trying to end that.

5. the covey lake

huge fan of the simplicity here. it's just a dress over the swimsuit. and yet everything about this screams lucy gray and screams covey. look at those mismatched little brass buttons!! the swimsuit peeking out from underneath!! the plum color suits rachel zegler so well- it's just generally so gorgeous.

4. pure as the driven snow

this outfit was one of the things about this movie that stuck in my head the most after walking out of the theater. there's this carefree, thrown-on essence to it, like the flowers in her hair are an afterthought, or maude ivory helped her put them in. i wish i could find better pictures of the vest, because the beading details are so beautiful. the reusing of her boots is a good detail too, because obviously she wouldn't have that many pairs of shoes.

3. the meadow

trish summerville did a great job at building a repeated silhouette for lucy gray. the cinched waist, blousy or sleeveless top, and a-line, flowing skirt is in almost every outfit, and i think this one is the most classic example of that look. i think she looks so beautiful in blue, and i like that she's dressed in such a wide variety of colors throughout the film- always something completely different than the last.

2. the rainbow dress

OBVIOUSLY. hand painted corset are you kidding me? i remember seeing this in the trailer and thinking truly, she could not have more perfectly recreated the dress from the book. it stays true to lucy gray's sillhouette, the ruffles feel bright enough to be a rainbow, but muted enough to still feel in-universe/accurate for 12. one of my favorite details is her boots ↓

they're old, and have a vintage feel, but something about how chunky they are also reminds us that despite the folksy charm, we are also in a dystopian future.

1. nothing you can take from me

my baby. my darling. possibly my favorite costume of any hunger games film. i am IN LOVE with this outfit.

the flower decal trimming and embroidery on her blouse, and the crushed navy velvet that feels like it was found at a 100 year old antique store. the boots are back. lacy top underneath, hand crocheted no doubt. purple in the skirt, but it's subtle- purple is her most repeated color element. it's rebellious, it's royal. the slight 1940s references in the silhouette.

DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED ON THE HAIR. ribbons and feathers threaded throughout her curls, giving her the impression of a bird in flight when she twirls??? REMIND YOU OF ANYTHING?????

this is her triumphant return moment, her defiant song against the oppression of the capitol. she's captivated the crowd....just like a certain someone will years and years later.

[ittybittyax]

When Autumn Begins

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[snoozerin]

sketches and a wip. i dont like thinking too much before posting, head empty this is the stuff i have in my gallery take or or leave it the void is nice

[queeniehostapasta]

Nothing to see here folks! Just some good old fashioned Saiyan grooming between rivals! ..I think….

Silly tail alt ^^ (ermmm erghh I can explain myself)

[0vergrowngraveyard]

I feel like that since Tails was raised by Sonic, he'd downplay his own trauma out of instinct. So much that it concerns everyone but Sonic, who doesn't notice that well since it's the same attitude and wordplay he uses. Ex: "People used to try to cut off my tails all the time, just made me fast enough to keep up with Sonic haha!" Like no baby that's badddd.

i’ve always seen tails as someone who just doesn’t even want to think about his past. he doesn’t want to talk about it, he doesn’t want to acknowledge it. it’s behind him and he has a brand new life now. a better life

i think he’d only downplay it to a) get people to worry about him less and b) to get out of talking about it.

to me, that’s partially why he drowns himself in project after project. he does love tinkering, but it also keeps his mind busy (especially after the war when he’s had six whole months to do nothing but think)

idk tho that’s just me. i think maybe he made nonchalant comments when he was younger (ex: “i learned to swim when i was pushed into a river”) but as he gets older, it starts to weigh on him more and more so he’d just rather think about anything else

[lazylittledragon]

so today was. crazy akhfdhdfhdfh

thank you thank you thank you everyone who came to my table and chatted with me you were all so nice i may have almost cried a little bit

[phosphophillight]

shes my favorite character forever… some mahiru doodles i made while i watched a show with a friend. still trying to figure out how to draw her bc theres an animatic i want to make with her rlly bad.. maybe in a few months

[causticsodaa]

furin trio as celestial bodies

Without the Sun, the Earth ceases to exist.

And in turn, the Sun gives all of its light to the Earth.

The Earth relies on the Moon to be it’s guiding light through the darkness.

While the Moon also protects the Earth from asteroids and comets.

The Moon shines the brightest when it reflects the rays the Sun provides.

Yet, the Moon is invaluable to the Sun—there must be an opposing force to complement its brilliance.

And if the Sun and Moon failed to exist, there would be no day/night cycles on Earth.