#tell me ur opinions

[anaalnathrakhs]

polycrue ship chart at the suggestion of @arnold-layne

additional notes under the cut if u to read my ramblings about. i dunno. rpf character studies i guess. i can elaborate on literally every single point of this btw ask if u want additional additional notes.

I think it's difficult to answer the pronouns & sexuality question when 1st we're already realitybending to make the ship happen, and 2nd beyond they wouldn't be caught dead having pronouns or identifying as anything. Also why the individual relationships graph is all unlabeled. Anyway so.

I think they'd pretty much all fuck with being called it to some extent (im not projecting shut up), given the part they tended to play up, to appear scary and cool in the media, on stage, etc. I think it works with Mick's alien shtick, it works with Nikki and Tommy's wild partying habits, it even works a little with Vince's similar party aura as like, a kink thing, though less for him than the others. A kink thing for all of them really.

My personal opinion on their orientations is that it's not gay if it's in a band. At a certain point, with the obligations and limitations of it (touring, working together, making ART together, etc), being contractually stuck together for years, also denotes of and builds close relationships that can't necessarily fit a strictly emotional and interpersonal model. It's like buddy movies cop duos, it's always gay but not gay as long as it's on the clock. So while I do think there's some genuine bisexuality in the mix for some of them, I think the preexisting relationships trumps the dick-first approach to dating they have. Also see: every individual relationship is unlabeled. These bitches are not communicating godbless.

Honestly this chart isn't strictly about one or another way they could live a polycrue scenario, it's not a domestic AU, it's not a full queerplatonic reading, it's not a realistic drama about how it'll never work cuz they are the way they are, etc. We're assuming it happened in the first place, and it's not TOO far from the real setting otherwise. No idea if I make sense, but yknow. you see the vision.

For everything else, I'll have to say it's really difficult to summarize any parameter cause there's like, forty years of very different situations and potential situations to pick from. It's never static, but same thing as above, we're assuming they have their heads out of their asses enough to sort of be poly together in whatever way it might be meant, and nothing much else changes. So this is like, a "things are pretty good on an average day" still. Though if there's something that's really not your interpretation I'd love to hear about it (and anyway Rory's going to post his own version of chart so there's gonna be discussions lmao)

[starrypawu]

Memories filled with flowers and empty spaces

[milkbreadtoast]

idk how i want to draw him yet and not ready to make a srs attempt but here's a bad kdj phone doodle lol🚶🏻

[nappingpaperclip]

y’all we r not beating exorsexism and misogyny by calling every transmasc that pisses u off a ‘theyfab.’ Idc if they are annoying or have dumbass opinions, literally using someone’s agab as an insult is wrong and treating transmascs as annoying little afabs is deeply misogynistic and transphobic. What happened to just calling people fucking idiots

[singerorpheus]

Hadestown - West End - 26/05/2024

Dónal Finn (Orpheus), Madeline Charlemagne (u/s Eurydice), Melanie La Barrie (Hermes), Gloria Onitiri (Persephone), Zachary James (Hades), Allie Daniel (Fate), Bella Brown (Fate), Beth Hinton-Lever (u/s Fate), Lauren Azania (Worker), Tiago Dhondt Bamberger (Worker), Lucinda Buckley (Worker Swing), Waylon Jacobs (Worker), Christopher Short (Worker)

Do not share outside of Tumblr.

In honour of Dónal leaving and Madeline becoming main Eurydice <3

[bunnyheritageposts]

bun poll bun poll 🐇🐇🐇

[atopvisenyashill]

every few weeks someone posts their take that ned would have handed lyanna and jon right over to robert had lyanna lived through the tower of joy and that’s a take i think is so silly i can’t even explain why i hate it rationally. once again, i think you guys read this series with your eyes closed.

[cherry-bomb-ships]

I need opinions. Reblog for larger sample size plz

Feel free to leave nuance in the tags

[macdenlover]

My fucking god. There is so much to take apart.

This episode gave us a peak into Dennis’s mind and it’s the closest thing we’re gonna get to putting him under a microscope like a little bug and studying him in a lab. It isn’t what I expected from this episode but man oh man am i glad to have it. There’s a few things we need to establish first that’s gonna be the basis of my analysis. Dennis is angry, but he ultimately uses that anger to mask fear, pain, and every other emotion that he doesn’t allow himself to feel. Also, the entirety of the episode— every little detail was intentionally conjured by Dennis’s mind either consciously or subconsciously so none of it is off the table to dig into.

There’s two big things at play here— one, his desperate need for control; and two, his instinct to self sabotage. This episode did one hell of a job at showing how woven together the two are.

The essence of Dennis’s character is this impenetrable shell he’s built to protect the vulnerable part that sits at his core, and we finally got to see HOW he builds that shell piece by piece. This is the pressure-cooking of the diamond— if you apply enough pressure it’ll harden the shell.

Everything is thrown out of balance when Dennis learns about his high blood pressure, but what really bothers him about that is the inevitability of aging— something we’ve seen him be insecure about for many seasons. But what’s different about this episode is that while his usual fear of aging comes from vanity, this time it’s combined with Dennis being so afraid of the world around him changing and leaving him behind. This follows the thematic trajectory of this season— all the characters struggling to cope with inevitable change. 

A stress-free day at the beach is a pipe dream. Happiness is something so hopelessly distant from him that he builds a fantasy about chasing it while never getting there— sabotaging the plan because he either thinks it’s too impossible, something he doesn’t deserve, or both. This is not the first time we’ve seen this from him. In The Gang Saves The Day, the rest of the gang’s fantasies revolve around them finally getting their dream ending, while Dennis’s stuck out from the others as a barely comprehendible mess of his own misery. (I’m gonna rewatch this episode soon and give you a full breakdown of my thoughts). Dennis self sabotages in his own fantasies because he can’t imagine a reality where he is capable of getting what he wants. Dissatisfaction is something so permanent to him, and Dennis Takes a Mental health day is all about him trying to cling to things that are permanent to regain his sense of control. He is creating uncertainty in his own fantasy so that he can be certain about it. He is such a broken man and it is such a fucked up cycle— one thing continues feeding into the other. “The pin’s the key to the phone, the phone’s the key to the car.” 

The primary source of his frustration in this episode was the automated systems, which I think holds place to represent more than one thing. It’s a symbol of the changing world that he can’t control or escape from, but it also represents the parts of himself he’s fighting against. He forms systems in his life that are so methodical and complicated that it gets in the way of his ability to have real human connections. They went right on the nose with it in this ep by having him spelling out his own name as an acronym in a fit of rage. Subconscious Dennis’s d.e.n.n.i.s. system is fucking crazy. 

D- “Deliver me from this”

E - “Engage with human”

N - “Nightmare”

N - “NIGHTMARE”

I - “Is this real?”

S - “Somebody help me”

If you interpret this as his frustration with not only the state of the world but himself and his perpetual loneliness it gets incredibly heartbreaking. Guys I’m really tearing up here. 

His interactions with others in this episode also say so much about him and the inner conflicts he’s experiencing. He knows he establishes control by taking his frustration out on other people, but he simultaneously struggles with that making him a bad person. He yells at the customer service workers and then APOLOGIZES and reassures them that it’s not them who he’s really mad at. He doesn’t mean to take it out on them. (Potentially wild implications for Dennis woobifiers here.) He wants to take his frustration out on people who he believes deserve it, like the CEO. He gets to see himself as a hero in this story even if he’s miserable. If happiness is a pipe dream, he can settle for second best which is the rush he gets from taking his pain out on the guy who fucked him over. But he is simultaneously the person he spent his entire fantasy craving a real human connection with. He doesn’t know how to do that. It got weird and a little sexual (he definitely wanted to fuck that guy till the room stank). he is vindicated with violence at the end, which is ultimately what he will always resort to because it gives him the sense of power that desperately needs to make the frustration, vulnerability, and weakness go away (mentally AND physically). This is his cycle. 

I’m not sure Dennis could have an episode where he breaks down and cries and has a huge cathartic moment and then goes back to his regular self the next episode the way Mac and Charlie have. Dennis is a whole other can of worms. RCG are comfortable with exploring different sides to these characters as long as they are kept in a state of limbo for the length of the show, but letting Dennis openly express his feelings (even to himself) might make it impossible to come back from because this is literally the entire crux of his character. The last time he opened up emotionally he fled to another state only come back a year later more hostile and emotionally distant than ever. They had to put a hard reset on him after season 12 because they knew that version of him didn’t have longevity in the show. I WISH so fucking bad that they would explore the vulnerable parts of him more explicitly on the show but for now I will settle for being a little vulture and picking it out of the carcass of this season. 

[utterdrip]

astarion is sooooo funny hes like “why did you trust me! that was so fucking stupid !” [affectionate]

like my love having someone trust you and listen to you is like. Your Thing™️

[faaun]

omw to see a guy im not interested in bc he has my coat

[sardonicheir]

a thing that occurs very often in media is that characters who are not in a relationship get treated as "less important" by the narrative. this is why david j*nkins thinks his show is kind to his queer characters- he regards only the queer characters who are in relationships as *the important queer characters* and yes, they did all get happy endings- but. but. now that con has officially confirmed that izzy goes through a coming out arc this season AND DIES - in a show where none of the other characters go through the same internal turmoil leading to self acceptance of their queer identities its becoming increasingly unclear how the writer himself could think this is a kind ending for queer people. and its becoming increasingly clear why izzy didnt get a love interest this season as well. if he did, could the notion that this isnt "bury ur gays" and kind be maintained so easily? its never explicitly stated in the show that izzy is gay, and im sorry but i think it was left this ambiguous on purpose. at the end he is not a queer disabled elder whos just begun to accept himself dying, he is just a father figure whos dying, plainly said by jenkins, changing the narrative completely - and we all know why

[oceanwithouthermoon]

ive been unhealthily fixated on kubosai for the past few weeks, i just have no idea how to put it into words. kuboyasu aren and saiki kusuo are in love btw

[aro-culture-is]

Aro-culture is trying to understand why society created the most ridiculous rituals and signs for romance and not finding a single answer/or that makes sense.

(No seriously, all the explanations I find are dumb. Send help)

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[unjustgalaxy]

ok so on a scale from rat to mouse...

troy lougferd

does this make sense. is this anything