#that should be a warning sign??
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Man I’m always up for ace/aro head canons and it’s awesome when writers actually intentionally portray a character as ace/aro - BUT.
When a major film has an otherwise obvious hetero couple miraculously not hook up, this is always my first question:
Is it an interracial couple?
Because here’s the thing; head canons are one thing, racist bigoted studio intent is another…
A lot of the time platonic hetero relationships in media just ~happen~ to be interracial. I’m not saying those characters NOT hooking up is by default racist. I’m just saying, what’s the more likely intent by the actual creators/producer/studios?
Sometimes I see glib praise of this kind of characterization without the slightest consideration that maybe, just maybe, certain platonic hetero dynamics in fiction are racially motivated and should be judged as such, instead of welcomed warmly as supposed ace representation?
It’s just giving too much credit to an inherently, systemically problematic industry, y’know?
Pacific Rim was cute, but would the leads have not kissed if they were both white? A big international blockbuster NOT bringing the main characters together romantically does have precedent - providing of course that those characters are not the same race. Friggin’ Star Wars, literally Finn at first shows interest in Rey but who actually gets to have a nauseating semi-romance with her? Main white guy Kylo-Ren. Also female character of color Rose shows up with the apparent sole purpose of falling in love with Finn…
At least the Pelican Brief starring Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington was made in like, the 90’s! That movie infamously had obvious chemistry between the mains, but for ~~some reason~~ their relationship remained a bit ambiguous.
Again - I am 100% PRO platonic hetero bros and ace/aro representation in media! But I’m always skeptical when the supposed examples are almost ALL interracial dynamics in high profile blockbusters.
TLDR; let’s not call rather obvious racist dynamics positive representation for ace/aro/platonic relationships…
#racism#pacific rim#Star Wars#I’m just saying guys#at the height of these franchises’ popularity#ppl kept calling it such a win for representation and#listen if you’ve almost NEVER seen the same dynamic when the couple is the same race?#that should be a warning sign??#when all the examples of supposed wholesome platonic love are interracial#red fucking flag ok
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for anyone too young to know this: watching The Truman Show is a vastly different experience now, compared to how it was before youtube and social media influencers became normal
before it was like, "what a horrifying thing to do to a human being! to take away their autonomy and privacy, all for the sake of profits! to create fake scenarios for them to react to, just to retain viewership! to ruin their happiness just so some corporate entity could harvest money from their very humanity! how could anyone do something so evil?"
and now it's like, "ah, yeah. this is still deeply fucked up, but it's pretty much what every influencer has been doing to their kids for a decade now. probably bad that we've normalized this experience"
#the truman show#sbs rambles#I keep thinking about how children on popular youtube channels should probably have laws to protect them#social workers assigned to them maybe#I dunno#they did not sign up to have their lives sold for profit#but here we are#tho#I guess none of us signed up for it#and our data is harvested more than ever#god#high-tech capitalism sucks turns out#OH WAIT because tumblr is bad at getting context sometimes#let me specify:#I am not saying that the movie The Truman Show is bad or that it normalizes this#like all good sci-fi (because it is kind of sci-fi) it's there to warn us of what the future could hold#and it did that in a very good way - it's a beautiful movie#I could see someone with a bad faith take assuming I meant that it was part of the problem#it absolutely wasn't. it didn't normalize this; we did#youtube did and social media#it's us that's the problem#or more specifically: big corporations and a lack of regulation#that's the origin of most modern problems
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picture of dorian gray but dorian and basil are brothers and it's modern.
phantom of the opera but it's a ya version with franchise potential.
wuthering heights but it's margot robbie and jacob elordi.
#reposting bc i made the meme#don't want the don't need them netflix persuasion should have been a warning sign for all#the picture of dorian gray#dorian gray#basil hallward#phantom of the opera#wuthering heights#margot robbie#jacob elordi
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#need this on a neon sign that floats above me with arrows at all times#i don't have the t word pass. someone should make some glitters like#“give that tr*nny money” 💰#we should be treating rich people like pinatas at this point its fucking dire#f slur#f slur reclaimed#gif warning#glitter text#bloggif.com#all caps
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Gentry, I low key be shipping AFO and Kurogiri in Anyone. How much to make them canon? Or at least to imply they're a thing.
I... Well... I... Listen. While I will admit this would be one hell of an explanation as to why Kurogiri is taking AFO's side instead of Izuku's, Kurogiri is still one of the most responsible members of the group and while he has made a lot of bad decisions in his life (seriously, a lot of bad and dumb decisions), he has his limits.
Kurogiri is the man who has been AFO's taxi service AND bartender since he was 16. He saw all the petty and dumb things that motivated AFO to go from point 1 to point B quickly. He has heard AFO's unfiltered opinions on too many things, including his little brother. And that's before meeting Yami, because let's be serious, anyone getting with AFO also get Izuku in the deal, no matter how much Izuku disagrees with it.
Kurogiri simply doesn't have so little self worth and urge to self destruct to hook up with a yandere nuke who holds grudges like it's an Olympic sport and who will smother anything he loves until they die, unless said something has a quirk about as strong as AFO himself and is willing to murder him.
#It's different with Inko because she married him without knowing everything about him.#There were red flags that should have been inspected. Some giant warning signs. But AFO hid a lot.#Kurogiri cannot fall in love with AFO not only because it doesn't fit his characterization but also because it's like falling in love with#the storm that is about to kill you or the crane that was just dropped on you. That's a force of destruction right there.#And if it's just attraction... No. Because no matter how good it could be it is NOT worth it.#But thank you for making me realize that anyone wanted to get with AFO might be deterred by the perspective of having Izuku as adopted son.#anyone fic
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finally started p5 royal ‼️‼️‼️‼️
expect some royal trio art soon they are my dearly beloveds (minus akechi i hope he dies in this reality too)
#love that ren got the sad boy kdrama fit#also no idea how akechi survived i want to shake it out of him so bad why are you gatekeeping stupid bitch#idk if this is just him w/o the pleasant boy facade but he seems so much more exhausted and cruel#like everything he says is verbal irony bc he’s patronizing everyone. he hates being a team player sm it’s insane 💀💀💀#he’s so withdrawn and short tempered and actually mentally unstable. like sadistically so#i think these are all warning signs#if he dies again i’m ending it all. you didn’t come back from the dead just to die on me again#also sumire….i love her so bad…..my sweet girl….my baby ☹️☹️☹️☹️#sumire yoshizawa they could NEVER make me hate you#she reminds me of a fawn 😭😭😭😭 with her big soft doe eyes and how she’s so curious and eager#GAAAAAHHH every time she comes up on screen i want to give her a headpat SO BAD…..SHES SUCH A FUCKING CUTIE#i feel so bad for ren bro he’s literally stuck babysitting the new kid and simultaneously keeping akechi on a leash 😭#poor boy needs a break. we should go to hawaii again that was fun#anyway yeah that's all#hopefully i’ll finish the game this week i’m sick of this. i want to move on
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Something that I've used to judge my health, in more ways than one, is what I call the need-to-pee test.
When I'm sitting, wasting time, and I need to pee, healthy me will just get up and go to the bathroom. That's normal behavior.
Sometimes, however, elements of my health will make that very basic task difficult. When you recognize that you need to pee, but you have to have an internal conversation with The Vampire of Despair about if you needing to pee is a failure and a judgement on your worth as a human being, you need to reach out to someone about your mental health. Being too depressed to get up and go pee is a sign that something in your mental health is very wrong. It's a sign that it's "bad enough" to really need some help.
When you recognize that you need to pee, but you don't want to get up because your body will be in pain, that's a sign that your pain is "bad enough" where you should do something about it. If you've been sitting around your house telling yourself that shit's fine, but you also procrastinate on the basic duty of going to take a pee because doing that simple task is going to cause you so much pain that it's not worth the comfort you get from not needing to pee, your body is fucked, and shit's not fine.
Getting up and going to pee is a thing that should not take effort or be unpleasant. Having difficult getting up and going to the bathroom often means that your problem is actually pretty bad. If you've been ignoring the problem, it's a very good sign that you should stop ignoring the problem.
Needing to pee but not being able to get up and go pee because the cat is sitting on you, however, is normal operating procedure. How dare you move the cat for something as selfish as your basic bodily functions. You metabolized and you didn't even get permission? The cat does not approve.
#that last paragraph was written by a cat#other “not going to pee because” that could be concerning:#forgetting that you need to pee multiple times#getting up with the intent to pee but being so distractable that you keep forgetting#your body going from “i kind of need to pee” to “holy shit we're peeing right now” with no warning#you got up to have normal pee but then you had A B N O R M A L pee#you got up to pee 10 times in 10 minutes#peeing should be routine and effortless and if something is impacting how you pee then it's a sign that it's a big problem#probably
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a fun idea in sweetpea is that a serial killer's worst nightmare is a person who has a crush on them, because they're going to be naturally observant of everything they're doing and more likely to notice slip-ups
#sweetpea#when aj noticed rhiannon was wearing the same clothes as the night before she should have realised she was in trouble#that should have been her warning sign that his crush on her was so strong it had basically turned him into columbo
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#polin#luke newton#bridgerton s3#hot 🔥🔥🔥🔥#Instagram#Happy first day of Polin Week!!!#this should come with a warning sign
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I officially start as an apprentice at a tattoo shop today!! Yippee!!
i've been drawin on myself and others since I was a kid so i guess this was only natural! I'm very excited and also Very terrified!
I can't help but think about the election coming up and how drastically different my future looks depending on who wins. Nobody's gonna want to get tattoos when they can't afford to live in the even Worse hypercapitalist hellscape trump would turn this country into should he get reelected.
How could i escape a potentially dictatorial country when I've been apprenticing and all my savings are gone? What would happen if he succeeds in banning my existence as a trans man and i'm forced to detransition in the eyes of the law? I really don't see anything being sacred when it comes to human rights for this monster and until we know once and for all that he's out, I will not be able to relax.
Alls I can do right now is make sure i VOTE. That's the one thing that will save us. Vote blue. Vote for the future and our potential to improve things under an imperfect but not outright fascist government. Overwhelm the numbers to where there can be no argument as to who won.
please. make sure to vote.
#nat chats#sorry i didn't mean to turn this into a psa#but i'm seriously considering moving if trump wins#i keep thinking about all the people gettin the hell out of germany when they saw hilter rising to power#trump is turning into more of a fucking nazi by the day#and i'm caught between wanting to believe it won't be that bad even if he does win#and fearing the state our country will be reduced to should he declare himself dictator#he said something about his base not having to vote anymore should he come into power once again#and it was super fucking ominous#i'm supposed to be looking forward to a lifetime of making cool art but how can i focus when i'm trying to ignore#all the giant flashing signs saying#WARNING fascism incoming!!#i'm just going to do what I can and try to do my best to make whats in my reach a better place
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i got stuff from the csp asset store and i wanted to play with it so this is a mess but i did have fun and i kinda dig the vibes
#andreil#aftg#the foxhole court#all for the game#i just thought the lil computer window borders were so cute#also okay listen my vision:#lmao i just wrote college au and completely forgot the canon story is in college pls#but like alt where neil does the photos bc he gets a camera#art majors????#idk what's going on my vision is gone i am blind now#it was like a we pass each other on campus and a double take with warning signs is happening#i just thought the warning signs looked kinda cool#i also wanted the wavey thing to be a heartbeat w a skippy in it but i didnt know how to make it look nice it wasn't cooperating#and honestly i was getting tired of trying to figure out what should go in the space#i am not an aesthetic person idk how people do the fancy lil edits all the time#i draw i dont do graphic design i dont have the frog within necessary#myart#anyway im running away now bc idk how i feel about this bye
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sonic as a distorted mirror of maria. someone who has so much love for the world they live in (that twists and turns bitter as they're taken away from it). someone who will do what they deem right regardless of what others think (whether what they're doing is the right thing in the end). someone who protects those they love at any price (be the cost their own life, the life of someone else, the Order of things). bravery (to the point of foolishness), care (to the point of destruction), naivety (that gains notes of cynicism as they mature), sincerity (that turns into lies meant to spare those around them from a truth that hurts).
now enter shadow, who grew up observing the slow distortion of someone dressed in blue. who notices familiar patterns in this friend he's made.
#soda offers you a can#lore drabbles#i feel like im uninterested in sonic-maria parallels generally#but that might be because it starts and ends with “they're blue”#with maybe a nod to how they both love(d) the earth#but it could be interesting if taken further. if maria's state at the end of her life reflects something that could happen to sonic#a possible outcome should certain conditions be met if you will#and the only person who could ever observe such warning signs being shadow. because he's seen it happen before#(at least early warning signs. others would obviously notice eventually)#(but would it be too late by then?)
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it's as done as im going to make it tbh. inconsistent, not perfect, but done :)
i'd say "sorry about this" but if i found a silly three minute wizards city fan animatic id lose my mind so im not sorry in the least
#adventure time#distant lands#wizard city#adventure time wizard city#flashing#(briefly)#i hate tagging things pull my TEETH OUT KILL ME#the quiet parts are so hard to fill man............... sorry. for the awkward silences (part of the audio already) and weird transitions.#sorry for the fluctuating amount of shading too. who care. sorr#expodes#who fuckin knows when any of this takes place. when it starts larrys a rock but then hes fine and spaders alive#spader hardly even dies in this#hes dead in like one bit. hes alright . this is a happy video about everyone giiggling#THE STAIRCASES MOVE. warning sign. we cant make them Stop. so. watch out!#no one should listen to single mbmbam bits this many times in a row#the implication that fish wizard causes the earthquakes or those two others think he does was really funny so i left it in there#and pb Making Fun of wizards is. actuallypreatty sad! i wanted to do a silly wizard. but i couldnt think of one. so . but its funny too.#the beginng the teachers are in front of a sign that says like ICEBREAKERS: ASK US ANYTHING!#blaine went straight for the throat of course#waves at the single huntress wizard scene. hey girlie. proceeds to never draw her again#abd like 'i can use magic to clean this:) oh. nvm. mop it is.'#animated
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You let the thoughts pass by as you reach for his old bible amongst the stack of books he left for you. You pick it up gingerly, the cover tattered and worn. The spine is broken, snapped beyond repair. You're not much of a believer in pristine book collecting, but the state of it leaves you feeling an odd assortment of pity and intrigue.
The scent of him is thicker on the cover. Robust. You hold it to your nose and inhale. It smells ashy, of old cigarettes and charcoal. Pine. It makes you feel a little dizzy. The potency of it is strong, gluing to the fibrils of your lungs where it soaks, stains them with the sticky tar of his masculine smell.
The cover is made of old leather. You peel it back, and run your fingers along the inscription inside. To our boy, it reads, the scratch of ink pressing hard into the soft give of the hide. May he always find the answers he seeks.
This seems to be a hope he'd taken to heart. Blue lines bleed through the thin pages. Underlines, highlights. Sections smeared with oil and ink, blurring the words together as he thumbed across them over and over again. The margins are filled with his own notes. Doodles. Insights. He fills space with ink. Musing over his own questions, and underlining the answer he finds.
It almost feels intrusive. Voyeuristic. Had he not left it amongst the pile, you might have closed the book and put it away for the sake of his own privacy. But it draws you in. Ensnares you. His questions grow broader, the subject evolving. The answers he finds in the pages become less and less frequent.
It feels—
Lonely.
His despondency shows vividly when he covers the words in art. An entire page bears the face of a woman. The likeness is shaded around the eyes, in the arch of their nose. It must be his mother, perhaps. Maybe a sister. You turn the page, marveling at the artistry line in dark charcoal. A rifle. A bird. A skull. Cigars, scotch. Dog tags. A cross. Bible passages with toiling lines circled around them. Notes. Little insights stenciled into the margins.
Another page speaks about head trauma. Brain injury. Bullet fragments. Low caliber. tbi is circled in blue with lines branching out from the side of the curve. impaired thinking. memory issues. personality changes, depression.
remarkable the cognitive recovery is stenciled in between the passages over and over again, as if he was reinforcing this notion to himself.
It's jarring. Uncomfortable.
The next several pages are even moreso. It screams its loneliness into the thin paper and you read each divot until you can't anymore. Until the words run together, and stop making sense. It's all nonsensical. Scribbles, doodles, and numbers that mean nothing to you at all. Unnerved, you go to put it away—
Something catches your eye.
It's a photograph.
A younger version of Johnny, maybe. Shaded in black and white. He's barefaced, too. Beard shaved down to a thin dusting of stubble, an odd sight compared to the thick tangle of hair you're so used to seeing on him. His hair, too.
A mohawk. The shorn sides cropped as close to the skin as he could get. The top coiffed and styled for the photo. His asymmetrical hairstyle makes sense now. You trail your finger down the slope of his jaw.
You deep an indent underneath. Ink pressed tight to the thin page, bubbling up from below. You tuck the photo of him, all cocksure and rough around the edges, back into the seam before turning the page.
And it doesn't make sense. Not at first. A series of small sketches cover the page, littered across it like small pondstones leading to the bottom. Nahanni, you know. Recognise the magesty of this gorgeous park. You follow the trail, thinking distantly of your old art teacher in school and the magnetism of the gaze, and—
The bottom is a black circle. Needlepoints cutting through the curves. Sitting in the centre is woman. She sits in the valley watching a moose graze at the bottom of knoll, and in her hand sits an apple—
"What'd ye got there?"
#dundun#and then you talk Soap down from the edge and try to escape#where it branched into three cuts:#he goes to wash the blood from his hunt off and you—#a) grab his truck keys and try to run but he catches you before you can get to the door#b) stay put and try to make the best of a bad situation#c) you get the keys and get outside where you manage to hobble to the truck before you hear a noise#have yall ever been close to a bear?#well they make this little warning chuff before a bluff charge and that's what you hear#also the caribou that soap hunted is strewn around which should have been your first sign of trouble#anyway#the shotgun comes in handy but you hit your hear and soap comes to rescue you
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i officially headcanon Zane with sensory processing disorder (or whatever the equivalent is for a nindroid)
#while i dont have an spd diagnosis i definitely feel like i have signs of it (likely as a result of autism)#anyway zane has a delayed reaction to the revelation that harumi is the quiet one#it takes a solid few seconds for him to realize “wait we should warn lloyd right” lol#its not the first time nor the only time he has a delayed reaction to information BUT it speaks to me on a personal level#i do that all the time. it takes an embarrassingly long time for me to process something that was told to me sometimes#anyway#lego ninjago#ninjago#ninjago zane#zane julien#ninjago headcanon
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My health has been taking a dive again recently but it's become tradition for me to go to all of my friend's hockey games so I pushed myself out today and wound up passing out which. Okay, less than optimal HOWEVER. Tell me that isn't a perfect premise for a Style fic? Kyle stressed with school or work and slacking on his self-care and still forcing himself to Stan's hockey game. Stan sees him go down while he's on the ice and skates off mid-game to help him... sigh...
#stan marsh#kyle broflovski#do i make everything about south park?#yes.#will i take what happened tonight as a warning sign to not push myself anymore?#no.#update for healthcare coverage if anyones keeping up with that saga i should be able to request for state coverage in the month of october!
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