#subversive acts

[theeditorandnarratorcollaborate]

Subversive acts

[waterlinkedgirl]

Musical Touken Ranbu: Michinooku ~ Hitotsu Hachisu (Michinooku ~ A Single Lotus)

Here we go! Only a few days after the archive release and toumyu's ninth anniversary (congratulations!)

Michioku, or Michihasu, is a myu I have many conflicting feelings about, both positive and negative. However, I do believe that with the right amount of care in the next Mika-related story myu, the negative can still be cleared. Plus, I'm glad about a lot of things being re-established. The writer does need to step up her game a little on the plot-writing side of things, as well as the understanding-and-respecting-past-myu side of things, but as long as she does, this can still be given a proper place within what was already established.

Keep in mind that these are only the subtitle files, timed and tled to the DMM senshuuraku and the bluray respectively. The archive version will have a talk at the start, so the starting times of the subs will have to be delayed accordingly.

You can find the subtitles and my TL notes document here!

[thaempo]

Who do you think wants to kill you the most?

Kim Sung Cheol as The Pastor No Way Out: The Roulette 노 웨이 아웃: 더 룰렛, dir. Choi Kook Hee @asiandramanet august bingo: animation

[fromtheseventhhell]

Imagine being 9 years old and asking your dad about the things you're interested in doing when you grow up and he's like "No ❤️! But you can get married, have babies, and then maybe your sons can do those things ☺️🫶 "

[transfemstarscream]

i’m going to be honest: the whole thing about the best straight ships being when the man is a watered down gomez addams and the woman is a generic girlboss is boring. i’m not going to turn this into a “it’s okay to like m/f pairings” this isn’t that. i just think making things generic is not fun. i need them to drive each other crazy.

[ilynpilled]

i just think a lot of very prevalent asoiaf analysis stops at the deconstruction and acts like there is no reconstruction along with it

[silentsockfeet]

with the obvious addendum that act 3 isn’t out yet and we can’t form true opinions until the show’s officially done, i’m still really feeling like it could have maybe benefited from a third season. they’re hitting all the right plot points and those moments are full of really intense emotion, but everything in the middle feels so underwhelming in comparison and so much of it still feels rushed to me. idk

[kossithmercar]

Question for the chat: if vallaslin are blood writing used by the Evanuris to channel blood magic to control the their slaves, could you say that Solas little blood magic trick on Rook is similar to the intent behind the vallaslin? Or worded in a less circumvent way, it’s Solas blood magic usage on Rook enough to argue for the reading that Solas enslaved Rook, thus crossing a line that put him closer to the Evanuris than he ever was?

After all, he used blood magic to manipulate Rook’s will and mess with their mind, and we truly don’t know how deep the control was. Do we?

[momoemarias]

I know it’s due to my bias considering I never played early access, but I honestly love Wyll the way he is in-game? It makes me sad how many people find him boring compared to his EA self.

I mean certain aspects of EA Wyll have piqued my interest even if I only know a limited amount of things from that version of the character. But imo there's a lot of conflict and duality built into a genuinely lawful/neutral good guy who's also a fiend pact warlock. Like that is already more compelling to me than a morally gray fake hero overall.

I think I feel this way because I'm comparing him to the rest of the companions too. I'd argue that most of them lean toward neutral morality, so the fact that Wyll has sturdy, unyielding principles makes him stand out, at least in that way specifically.

It is a bummer that some of his original flavor got stripped away, but I guess hearing people act like ALL of Wyll's characterization disappeared feels wrong as well.

[asha-mage]

I think nothing exemplifies this site's commitment to bad faith takes of Taylor Swift better then fact that everyone is circulating that '1830s without all the racists' line as proof that Swift is out of touch and vapid for glorifying the past uncritically/romanticizing it, and then when you actually go and listen to the song, this is the full verse-

My friends used to play a game where We would pick a decade We wished we could live in instead of this I'd say the 1830s but without all the racists And getting married off for the highest bid Everyone would look down 'cause it wasn't fun now Seems like it was never even fun back then Nostalgia is a mind's trick If I'd been there, I'd hate it It was freezing in the palace

And it turns out that Swift is lambasting the very thing people are claiming she's doing- and talking about the experience of making people deliberately uncomfortable by drawing attention to their rose-colored view of the past, while rejecting the idea that nostalgia is anything but a fantasy we use to comfort ourselves without engaging with the reality of what it was like.

Like you don't have to like her music or this album or even her as a person, but when your playing out the 'Coolsville sucks' meme unironically, it might be time to take a step back and think more critically about what is driving your anger at this person.

[ratherhavehopewithyou]

I’m not sure if anyone has discussed this yet, or maybe they have and I missed it, but after my initial panic reading chapter 250 of Akatsuki no Yona subsided a bit, this occurred to me:

Rather than talking in the third person like he usually does, Zeno says “was I caught?” 😳

Do we think this is significant in some way? I’m torn, but I’d love to know everyone’s thoughts! Is this nothing, or is it something?

[hikaaa-bi]

the way toh started off made me think that the show wanted to break barriers and subvert cliché tropes but it ended up being painfully cliché and predictable in the end

[j-esbian]

i lost the post but i saw someone talking about how some of y’all act like being weird is a choice and like. YEAHHHHHHH.

that’s fine, it might be for you. but i just live like this and don’t know any other way. like yeah i’ve worked customer service, i can do innocuous small talk, but anything beyond that, i don’t understand what i’m missing. and it’s frustrating to see the tonal disconnect especially from people who are like “uwu embrace weirdness!!” where they’re like. dressing quirky and talking about bugs and listening to obscure music and eschewing small talk to ask Deep Questions on the first date and unlearning their tendency to not infodump. and generally have an idea of what Weirdness is supposed to look like. idk man some of us wake up and get out of bed and can’t figure out why the rest of their coworkers chitchat with each other but when they join the conversation it dies.

weirdness is value neutral. let’s stop trying to turn it into a badge because quite frankly, it’s not a choice for everyone. it’s fucking exhausting to never be on the same wavelength as other people and they’re going to react the way they do and label you the way they will without any conscious actions on your end. it’s difficult to talk about this without feeling like you’ll be dismissed as immature, a teenager whining “no one understands me” but the thing is. sometimes you don’t grow out of feeling alone and different, and there’s no good way to talk about it without feeling like people will think you’re just fishing for pity.

[fromtheseventhhell]

Fandom when Arya, who has never wanted to be a sailor or a warrior, doesn't become a sailor or a warrior

[gu6chan]

thinking about what rubs me so wrong about the writing of furiae really felt like "woman who really only has control over her own mind and fantasies, hardly unable to do anything than what's expected as her both as a goddess and a woman" and how the way the staff viewed the writing of furiae as "woman who can't do anything"

I feel like Tadashi really summed it up good in this passage here

[vintage-bentley]

The fandom crowning Crowley as like, Gender Personified confirms to me that when they talk about gender as an aesthetic, they mean a skinny white guy in cool clothes.