#that i rarely see addressed

[aroaceleovaldez]

i have suddenly become obsessed with a theme that HoO established but never proceeded to extrapolate on, which is:

You are Percy Jackson, and you have been swapped with a boy who was allegedly everyone's favorite person, but they have decided to replace him with you. They just met you. You stand next to his best friend and the people he's known his entire life. In his home. In his cloak. In his place. They stopped looking for him.

You are Jason Grace, and you have just found out you have a long lost sister who completely replaced you in her life with this girl you just met. Your lives and personalities are mirrors. She is you, living the life you were robbed of.

You are Annabeth Chase, and you have just become starkly aware that you have been inhabiting the void left behind by your best friend's long lost brother. You and Luke were just replacements for him. Now you have to look him in the eyes when he has nothing and know you took that life from him.

You are Piper McLean, and you have just found out your relationship is fake and built entirely on the memories of Annabeth Chase. You have been given a boyfriend when hers has been taken away. You have no idea how much of it is real or not but regardless you feel like if your relationship isn't exactly in their image that you have failed.

You are Leo Valdez, and you have just learned that you are the echo of your great-grandfather. You are not your own person. You just exist to be a mirror of him. A doppelganger. An actor and stunt double facing all the danger he never had to but wearing his face. To be there for his best friend decades later simply because he couldn't. You are playing a role. A seventh wheel and a pawn for a goddess who carefully sculpted your entire life for her own purposes.

You are Hazel Levesque, and the only reason you are alive is because your brother couldn't save your his sister. You are a consolation prize. An apology. Your existence here is misplaced in every way but you inhabit it anyways.

You are Frank Zhang, and you are a shapeshifter. Inhabiting your own body feels strange and clumsy when you could be literally anything at any time. You are anything and everything and live your life with the simple certainty of knowing exactly how you will die.

[yoroshiu]

Isn't it funny that most of the games in Kingdom Hearts end in tragedies, or very bittersweetly, AT BEST. And even the handful that are technically happy endings have the underlying pressure of the upcoming battle, so nothing is ever truly "outright happy."

[sergle]

(re: sssniperwolf and jacksfilms) It's laughable that she escalated it that hard. Don't get me wrong, I'm pretty sure stalking him like that is illegal and it's terrifying regardless, but Jack said in a stream (can't remember which one) that he wasn't about bringing up past controversies of hers or cancelling. And now she shows up outside his house (wtf!!!). Like he was willing to only call her out for stealing and freebooting but she's gone and stalked him and Jack doesn't seem like the type of guy to take that shit. Actual WTF moment from her part. wild

omg long post below bc apparently I have opinions: YES!! THAT'S WHAT'S SO INCREDIBLE ABOUT THIS... Jack has been genuinely diligent about keeping things on-topic in his streams, and hasn't brought up any of her other Stuff, or anything Personal. Despite the fact that she kickstarted the whole thing by making it INCREDIBLY personal and attacking his physical appearance... His goal has been to call out and bring attention to content theft, and he's stuck with it. Dude's also cared about this for years, and she's not the first content thief he's criticized. He just hates the way that freebooting has become so accepted-- to the point where youtube praised her for "coming up with such creative video ideas"? Hey! Ew! Dude wasn't trying to get her cancelled though, there was no smear campaign of her character. He's been rallying to get her to CREDIT the creators that she relies on for all of her content. It would set a precedent for all other "react" channels on the platform for one of the biggest channels on youtube to actually give credit where credit is due. Or, god forbid, get permission first? It's not hard. It's already done the job of making some other people who do "react content" self-analyze whether or not their content is transformative, and to maybe care about crediting the creators they rely on for their genre to work. There is a way to make this kind of video that isn't so slimy. And making fun of her lackluster-at-best reactions is so far from even being a big deal. Bc she literally does just sit there and say nothing. Plus, his goal has a clear End built into it: if she started shouting out the creators she takes content from, and put links directly to their pages in her video descriptions, the job would be done! That's what he's asking her to do. Real bare minimum stuff. It legit would have been easy to steer away from the content theft and to also talk about her history of lying to her audience! her ghosting a dying kid with cancer who was a big fan of hers! the fact that she's been arrested for armed robbery! her history of transphobia! He would also get more clicks that way, which is what she claims is his sole goal- to get more clicks. I'll bring it up though! She's been a terrible person the whole time, and has kept a steady course of manipulating her audience of young children and/or, let's be completely honest, simps- into thinking that she's a Wholesome creator. (And now, into thinking she's an innocent victim.) All of the actual effort put in by her has gone toward optics, not the content she puts out. A carefully constructed online persona, for one, but also literal appearances. Jack totally can't say this, bc she already went off the handle and said the only reason he doesn't like her is bc he Hates To See A Woman Be Successful. But I can! That was a cheap shot for her to use that argument when, for once, it's not applicable! Much the opposite, even! Dudes online wouldn't go to bat for her if she didn't look the way she does. And it weakens any case she'd have against him by making baseless claims like that. She banks hugely on being an attractive woman to get her clicks/following. A massive amount of effort is put into her appearance. The makeup, the lip fillers, putting her hair in little pigtails, the chokers and tube tops, the big non-prescription Nerd Glasses, the thumbnails where she has her mouth open in That Expression?

I don't even have to say anything. But making a weird facial expression and putting your hair in pigtails aren't moral failings. Showing up at someone's real life home (whose address you shouldn't even have access to), filming the front of their house at night, doxxing them to your audience of millions of people? Because you were mad at them online? That is fully scary! Yeah girl I'm pretty sure that Jack can press charges! There is absolutely no way to take the moral highground now that she's literally stalked him, and doxxed his home. She tried to goad him and Erin (Jack's wife) out of the house, also, which creeps me out even more-- because what was she planning to do? The fact that she's been arrested for violent crime before does pop into my mind! lmao! Jack was streaming a game at the time that she was outside his home, and these clips of him, his friends, and Erin reacting in real time to what is genuinely a scary situation have been taken down in case he needs to use them in legal action. Shit is legitimately serious!

[schmweed]

[some-pers0n]

I haven't seen anyone talk about how all of the characters turned into "puppets" in arcane season 2 that we see are disabled people or those who are addicted to shimmer... it really feels like people are just glossing over that. ESPECIALLY given almost all the disabled characters in Arcane die or are in that situation Jinx is in. What do you think?

It does feel kinda iffy I will say. The whole bit with Viktor and his whole "achieving glorious revolution" is that it's a symptom of his internalized ableism. I think it was always partially there, perhaps more as a response to how Piltover treats disabled characters and a quiet, silent longing that would only surface in darker times, but it became more noticeable as time progressed and he eventually "cured" himself of his illness AND limp by injecting shimmer into himself. That whole process was more akin to rotting himself from the inside out and that boat scene is a false victory but I digress. I wouldn't have too terribly large amount of problems with this even if it is the whole "magically healing disabled character" trope since it didn't come from a place of internalized ableism so much as his degenerative disease is killing him and he wants it gone. From there though he then starts going way downhill. He wanted to then begin curing people of their ailments and disabilities. It's a quality of his character that is also present in his LoL counterpart, where he again believes that ascending beyond human form and shedding your weak flesh is the only way to live (but now I guess Arcane Viktor is canon now). He was always kinda destined to be a disabled character who eventually becomes a villain

The thing is that Viktor does indeed only heal disabled characters. I recall a character from a scene early on who was presented in a wheelchair, only for them to be shown later as being without it and walking just fine. Shimmer addicts will go directly to him and be healed and regrouped. The vibe of it that the show gives off is that Viktor is helping and healing these people who are hurting and need to be cured which....beeughhhh...... Like the show doesn't exactly frame the commune as being iffy outside of that one scene in E5 where Vitkor is possessing Salo and then being fully bad and evil when Viktor goes off the wall and starts fully converting people to weird puppet mannequin things

The thing that bothers me is mainly that the show never really discusses nor talks about Viktor as in he's in a bad light for this only to disabled characters nor is it questioned whether or not to give those people accommodations as opposed to fully curing them. It kinda waved it off as being a product of his internalized ableism at the very end, but it's certainly not an overt theme. It's certainly giving off the vibes of "Yayayayy yayaay Viktor is helping the poor disabled people but NOOOO now he's EVILLL because he wants them to be erased of everything and become mindless puppets!!" while is more of a lame outlook for the show for me

The thing with Viktor in S1 was that his disability was thematically tied to how Zaun is oppressed by Piltover (namely in how it caused his disability by the Grey)(Grey? Gray? I never know how to spell it because I'm not American). Viktor's narrative was deeply woven in how he's managed to claw his way out of Zaun and reach the highest of Piltover, yet still manages to be seen as little more than a filthy Zaunite. This is displayed in scenes like where Mel, Jayce, and Viktor talk about turning Hextech into weaponry, something Viktor is staunchly against both as a caring man who loves life and as a Zaunite himself. When he tries to voice his complaints, Mel talks down to him. It's both a scene where Mel shows that she knows that Viktor is far less easy to manipulate, yet also thematically relevant as a metaphor for Piltover's higher class looking down on Zaun AND as political discussion for how able-bodied people dismiss disabled people immediately. They do not see them as being things to be concerned about. Making Hextech into a weapon for destruction would without a doubt lead to the suffering of Zaunites, especially those already ravenged by disability. They do not care, as they see their suffering as a means to keep to keep them silent and obedient

What I'm saying is that S1's writing with disability used to be better. Sure, some characters like Sevika namely have Magical Badass Prosthetic Arm Syndrome, where her arm (especially in S2) is mainly treated as a cool ass weapon than like...a proper prosthetic. I wish it was focused on more as an actual prosthetic outside of it being destroyed twice. It's still got the usual hallmarks of disability being used for cosmetic purposes (ex: Jinx's finger). But Viktor used to actually mean something before primarily just fucking off and turning into a husk of who he was character-wise and then becoming mega evil

If S2 was more coherently written, I think it would be called out more that Viktor is doing this as a symptom of his belief that disabled people need to be cured now as well as a result from Piltover leaving disabled Zaunites to fend for themselves. It shoves addicts to the depths of the area and leaves the disabled hurting and in pain without any accommodations. Viktor instead is only seen as bad in like a cartoon villain way where he gets carried away with his whole wanting to achieve glorious evolution and at the veerrrryyy end the show goes "btw this is about internalized ableism didn't you know?" without putting the effort or anything to actually display it

The majority of Zaun is disabled. They simply are. They're mentally or physically disabled, traumatized by the sheer horrors that Piltover has put them through. I think the problems arose when the story became less about Piltover and how it denies Zaun of everything and more took a "well both sides are bad!!" approach, ultimately making Viktor's narrative about how internalized ableism corrupts and destroyed muddled and not exactly spectacular. They needed a sensitivity reader or something for this season god

[llitchilitchi]

I get hating certain political systems and trying to abolish totalitarian regimes but at the same time many of them are so interwoven with our history and society they have become tropes and when I consume media with a setting where the monarchy is absolute and revered then I am playing my part and sucking that princeling off

[wilsonsmcgillsweatshirt]

It's a crime that more people aren't aware of House's prison bracelet. He wears it basically all of s8, and Hugh Laurie said that House made it in prison as a reminder of the time he served and everything he went through during his incarceration.

[fillejondrette]

there is a certain type of person who now cannot see any mention of the holocaust in a historical context without bringing up palestine in a "gotcha" way. it's so gross and antisemitic. what the government of israel is doing to palestinian civilians is evil and genocidal but it is not the same as the holocaust. things can be different and still important.

[edge-oftheworld]

when I was in high school there was a tendency whenever there was an attractive boy to simply fan over him. in a way that talked over everything he might say for himself and created a narrative that completely ignored, the fact in some cases, that he was really struggling—or if he was struggling, to pin all the blame on the girl he’s dating and completely ignore the thousands of other factors (no it can’t be mental illness or unaccommodated disability or systemic abuse or exploitation and if he is in an abusive relationship we won’t ever consider the factors that put him at risk for that)

and I’m not saying this fandom is like that. I get the need for privacy around some things and how in public conversations sometimes it’s a lot more respectful to stick to the positives (everyone who does that, I admire you) or even the struggles that are talked about publicly, show respect by not reading too far into them. there’s a time and place for that. but sometimes I feel like our only options are shitty and ableist gossip or totally ignoring the systemic and structural issues we know exist in something like the music industry until someone dies and then we’re looking for someone to blame. friends, there is a point where the respectful thing is to listen to what someone says and come together to make things better. and you can learn how to have that conversation respectfully. please do

[delcat177]

I've been looking for something I can't name and Carol & the End of the World has loads of it

[iholli]

he's cool and collected, he's powerful and brilliant, he's also an impulsive pure of heart dumb of ass guy and I am here for that.

bonus: eepy

[sweetandglovelyart]

Instead of drawing some Metadede art or Taransusie art for Valentine’s Day I’m considering drawing some art for my Kirby crack ship instead, just because I think the concept of this particular ship is hilarious. It makes zero sense on the surface, but in a weird way I think that it could actually kind of work if certain things were addressed.

I won’t reveal what the ship is right now, but if I have time to draw something for it for Valentine’s Day then I’ll reveal it on Valentine’s Day. I don’t think that anyone will be able to guess what the ship is, but I’ll give you all a hint: both characters debuted in the same game. Not saying which game in the series, but they first appeared in the same game.

[cluescorner]

There's no feeling stranger than knowing that something is bad but liking it anyways. Not in a 'it's so bad it's good' way. Because that implies that it has become good. I'm talking like this thing is just kinda bad in the normal ways things are bad, but i like it anyways.

[belethlegwen]

Hi, Belle! I'm wandering into your asks again to ask...in The Stranding, have you came up with first names for everyone? If yes, will we find out in the story or is it just something that could be shared. I'd love to know!

(I'm reading the story for the third time and realised aside from Miller, Chase and Wells, I think? I think Well's name is written above/below his reference pic., can't remember it at the moment, but yes, 3 names from...who knows how many? I'm curious!)

Sorry for rambling, once again, bad habit! lol

Hope you're doing well!

Heyhey potato-pal! Love hearing from you <3

Yes! Everyone DOES have a first name and I have a Master Document somewhere in the Google Docs vortex specifically for the names of at least everyone on the Giant Team/Idiot Brigade that includes first and last names. I feel like throughout the story I may get to mention most of them, but a lot of them simply go by last names because that's who they are/have become among their Watch family. If you call Wells "Terrance", or Fuller "Quincy", they'll assume you're looking to get your teeth knocked in-- or that they're in trouble with their Mums.

Thank you so much for the ask!

[shikai-the-storyteller]

*logs onto tumblr*

*sees the CEO of frickin Tumblr making a complete and utter ass of himself and doubling down on it*

*logs off tumblr*

[coockie8]

so do u actually like tbbt?

Oh god no lol I like maybe 4 characters, but by and large the show just pisses me off.

From an aspiring actress not knowing who Adam West is, to a supposed genius comparing having to go to an event to literal slavery, to the fact I think there's like maybe 10 scenes of Raj in total where they aren't being wildly racist to him, the show is just all in all kinda terrible.

But my family likes it, and it's in my YouTube algorithm at this point, so I watch it on occasion. Stewing in ill-concealed rage the whole time, but I watch it.