#that can't be a coincidence can it

[d4rk-x-w0lf-17]

i'm fucking sick. i just remembered that each time that n reached out to the girls that he loved, asking them to let him help them and it just got him hurt in the end

[chiropteracupola]

He started back as quickly / And staunchly swung aside / With all the woe in the world / He turned to the wood to hide...

[a gawain for @mortiscausa's 'march to camelot,' for the prompt 'hunt']

[mutantfactor]

Fangs of Fortune | Zhuo Yichen & Zhao Yuanzhou 𓆩 .˚⋆ Darkest Night ⋆˚. 𓆪

[bowenoke]

you'd think a timeloop of mouthwashing would go so hard but unfortunately i think to remain true to the source material. the crew member stuck in the time loop WOULD have to be jimmy

[whitestnoise]

[anistarrose]

My current version, of my ever-evolving theory, on what constitutes "aromantic stories" is that first off, there's absolutely a wide spectrum between 1, "this is explicitly undeniably about aromanticism," and 2, "there sure is a noteworthy amount of aro subtext, but representing aros clearly wasn't the author's intent." But the spectrum is best completed not as a straight line, but as a triangle, where the 3rd point is "the story probably wasn't created with aromanticism at the forefront of anyone's mind, but was created with subverting particular expectations related to romantic relationships in mind." And in my experience, a lot of juicy aromanticism-related experiences that are underrepresented in their own right can lie in that third option, regardless of whether the characters are aro-spec or allo or kind of whatever you headcanon.

So, what does make a story on this spectrum "aromantic?" IDK, I wouldn't necessarily include all or most of the firm 2s (unintentional subtext) under the aromantic story mantle. But when you get into the gray areas that inch a little closer to 1 and 3, let alone the gray area between 1 and 3 where intent is ambiguous but ultimately may not matter, it makes sense that different people will have different takes.

[beevean]

I know this isn't unpopular at all on tumblr but also for the unpopular opinion ask meme: casca was fumbled character writing-wise by having her become elaine after the rape

strongly agree | agree | neutral | disagree | strongly disagree

I think the core of the issue is not Elaine in herself, but just how much time she spent in that state.

I can buy the idea that being raped by a devil, who used to be the man she worshipped, in excruciating pain beyond words, after all the trauma she witnessed previously with the entire band being gruesomely killed to protect her and everything, would shatter her very soul and turn her into a shell of her former self. I like the idea that Guts abandoning her for two years worsened her mental state, and almost allowed her trauma to "take root" and radically shift her personality.

The issue is that for decades in real life, Casca stopped being a person and became a plot device.

Is it fridging? I don't know, I think the situation is a little more complicated than the usual "Woman exists only to be killed and make Man sad", because Casca was an important character with her own arc and the fact that she was not killed meant that eventually, she could be helped.

But I feel that Casca's current state is almost like a... second attempt at writing trauma. Casca is lucid, although she has repressed her memories. They are triggered by Guts himself, who reminds her of all the violence she experienced, or even by talking about her lost comrades like Judeau. She can't have a relationship at all with the man she loves, even if she dearly wants to.

Doesn't this sound like a much more realistic portrayal of trauma, one that still causes a tragic conflict, than "woman loses memory and regresses to toddler level of intellect", which is not only far more fatalistic, but also shifted all of her suffering on Guts? And it took us 22 years to get here. 22 years of Casca's development being essentially stalled, as she became merely Guts' own motivation - to get revenge, to fight, to protect, to get to Elfhelm.

I honestly wonder how Miura would have handled that plot point had he written even 10 years later than he did.

[not-aurii]

Sozin really made homosexuality illegal in the Fire Nation after Roku didn't agree to Be Gay And Colonize The Entire World together huh

Really said "If I can't have my avatar twink male-wife Roku, no one else can"

[youling-the-ghost]

hi yes I'm alive :D (unfortunately)

to anybody who cares, I'm currently suffering from what I can only describe as "glorified mental torture wrapped up in a cute little bow of academic validation" (also known as exam season) which is why I haven't been as active on tumblr recently. unfortunately exam season is not yet over and it seems that the world hates me because every important guitar recital that I have coming up somehow overlaps with my exam seasons which is like...how??

anyway, that's just a long-winded way of saying that I probably won't be on tumblr at all (and if I am it'll probably just gonna be small reblogs/likes) so uhm. yeah. please excuse my inactivity ^^"

[dennisboobs]

to be completely honest, I don't want macdennis in this finale at all. i want den's plot to stay his own. i want the gang to understand just how much they rely on dennis, and how the pressure is finally wearing him down. dennis' inability to escape these high expectations from all of them. of the responsibility that he hates so much. this has been a part of his plotlines for years, and now he can't even take a day trip to the beach without the gang calling him for dumb shit. he's expected to be there to help the gang whenever they need him, but will they be there to help him?

[yappacadaver]

my guard dog has anxiety

[killjoy-prince]

DAYBREAK MENTION FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 65 CHAPTERS!!! BABYGIRL I MISS YOUUUU

[compil]

2ND USER STOPPED TALKING BECAUSE IZUKU DID FIND IT. KATSUKI IS HIS ASSURED PATH TO VICTORY. I AM CLAWING AT THE WALLS OF MY ENCLOSURE

[atreeisatreeisabook]

Does anyone think Lady Mowbray's dogs are her former victims, like Circe from the Odyssey? I don't necessarily know that it fits the themes, but it would be a fun mixture of the flesh and the hunt, and a continuation of how she first figuratively turned chef boy into a hunting dog and had him tree his employee.

[thechosenanubis]

Nina and Eddie seeing the school for the first time parallels.

While the camera shots are taken from different angles, both Nina and Eddie are standing in the same spot

I'm pretty sure this is purely coincidental, but i'm going to indulge my delusional self and say this is actually the first osirian hint. :D

[silvexus]

I wouldn't even know how to explain to people that 'dude can't be gender neutral' is a TIRF dogwhistle the same way TME/TMA is, or like how 'asexual people aren't queer'/'queer is a slur' is a TERF recruiting tactic, but boy it sure is. How the fuck can you tell me you're a gender abolitionist but get offended at a word that has regionally been gender neutral longer than you've been alive