#that’s it. that’s the introduction and the conclusion.

[darklinaforever]

It bothers me when I see posts saying how hot Thomas and Ellen are together, super sexy, passionate, on fire etc. Because the reality is that Thomas does not give real sexual pleasure to Ellen and remains fixated on his own male pleasure, Ellen being for him the perfect doting wife (as the society in which he lives and was born taught Thomas).

Also, seriously, the fact that Thomas tells Ellen that she is so doting at the beginning of the film, disturbed me in the sense that afterwards I saw a lot of people bringing out this scene to show how cute Thomas and Ellen are and how much in love and sexually fulfilled they are...

Whereas what Thomas is saying in this scene is essentially that he is too lucky to have a woman who is so submissive to him and willing to please him.

Like, Ellen's pleasure is not taken into account here, and it shows as much in the dialogue as in the behavior.

You don't need to be an expert on the era to understand it.

Yes, because there are people who say that the Ellenorlok stans argument about Ellen's unfulfilled sexuality with Thomas collapses when we see their introduction, and Ellen wildly kissing Thomas at the Harding house.

While the introductory scene shows us precisely that Ellen's sexuality is submissive and controlled by Thomas, that she wants more but that he does not give it to her (but Orlok does in the end in parralele with this scene when Ellen ask him more).

And that at the Hardings, Ellen almost tries to devour Thomas through kisses which he nevertheless keeps excessively chaste (lips tight).

It's not for nothing that when Orlok literally feeds on Thomas (so devour him), he will appear briefly in the guise of Ellen and hold Thomas as Ellen held Thomas in this same scene (but in a fucking bed this time). Orlok basically does what Ellen wanted to do.

How does Ellen seem sexually fulfilled with Thomas ?

She's shown constantly looking for more than Thomas gives her, and what's more Thomas basically tells Harding that abstinence is going to be required until he has enough money to be able to have children with Ellen later !

And if all that didn't make it clear to the viewer, well the only official sex scene they have together should make you understand it, with Ellen saying that Thomas will never be able to satisfy her like Orlok, Thomas who decides to sleep with Ellen only because his male ego is hurt, keeping the act ironically centered on him, an act which is done fully clothed with Ellen who asks Thomas to kiss her on her heart which he does not do.

The fact that people saw the film and came to the conclusion that Ellen & Thomas had a thriving sexuality appalls me.

[callistoscope]

harvey’s one and only kink is being loved. Tenderly.

[fullscoreshenanigans]

The Promised Neverland 8th Anniversary Art by Posuka Demizu [Complementary piece]

[jameslongforjimshortforgabriel]

our english teacher assigned us a literary analysis essay but ive barely read any books recently so i asked him if i could do it on a show and he said yes........... i am SO gonna redo my claudia eparvier essay

[ride-thedragon]

Idk guys, the way Nettles narrative arc ends with her as a completely unbound dragon diety outside the grasps and power given by house Targaryen might be proof that she isn't Valyrian.

[blackcurrant-juice]

stem student tries writing humanities essay for the first time. instant brain anuerysm

[age-of-moonknight]

“Vengeance Never Dies,” Moon Knight: City of the Dead (Vol. 1/2023), #5.

Writer: David Pepose; Penciler: Marcelo Ferreira; Inker: Jay Leisten; Colorist: Rachelle Rosenberg; Letterer: Cory Petit

[algumaideia]

In hoo, Rick really went hard with this whole Nico ostracization thing. Everyone was uncomfortable with him, everyone thought he was creepy, everyone didn't like to be around him. And all of this with Nico simply existing. His aura of death were enough to make him constantly othered. It had nothing to do with his personality, how he coped with his trauma, or how he presented himself, all his actions were deemed as creepy just because. There was a clear lack of compassion and sympath when it was about him, the lens with all the characters looked him were always negative.

And the thing is that with most characters having those views of Nico, almost none of them going through a journey of redemption and those prejudices being treated as a thing that came with meeting Nico it becomes difficult to believe Nico would find a place where he could be fully accepted. I mean people who were nice to him and loved him, that he could find, but not an intire place, an intire community because this goes against to how Rick shows people see and react to Nico.

All of this leading to Nico's self-hatred and lack of self-acceptance. When he talks to Jason after Cupid, he talks like everything is wrong with him, everything makes him not being able to be accepted: his godly heritage, his original time, his sexuality. He sees all those things that are part of him as simply characteristics that make him more othered, only through those lens.

But the thing is that we know the characters can not have problem with this. They all love Hazel, and if it is about the Death part Hazel and Percy almost fell in love with Tatanus, we see a lot of queer characters through the series that are accepted with no problem.

Rick made the problem to be about Nico. But it is not his fault, he is not doing anything to not be accepted. In this scenario always chasing and punishing yourself for not being able to find a community, which Nico does, is useless. Nico will never find complete acceptence, most people will find him creepy and won't like him. And Nico beating himself up because of it just means the person who has no fault suffers the most.

I believe Nico accepting that it was people who had a problem and not him and learning to just don't give a damn to those people would be way better than giving him a boyfriend and shoving him into a place that made him feel unwelcomed.

Nico loving himself and understanding that most people are missing the amazing person he is and loving deeply the small group of people that love him back is the happy ending he deserved and that he could get.

[smute]

lol. lmao even. guess what my final word count was

yeah 🤡 absolute clowncore is how i would describe my original plan. as well as the quick mafs it was based on

[newtness532]

i know that graduating one semester later is not that big of a deal and i haven't made any plans about what comes next so it doesnt even make a difference. so why does it feel just so terrible

[poetryqueer]

planning document must be going well I just said the words “explaining the endurance of Platonism could be the life I’m living” to myself. Alone. At 2:30am. Because yeah. Could be.

[diamondsandtoads]

wrote for 5 hours today :))))) FINALLY FINISHED MY ROUGH DRAFT OF CHAPTER 3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[tetsuskei]

i forgot to say this like yesterday but it’s been one whole year since i official met ace in one piece 🥹

[goldenlaquer]

Wait Teito's way of texting immediatly made my think of this scene from Brooklyn 99 bjxbdjs just imagine him and Hijikata on a mission being like:

GUIEWU(FGE(GFUQW(WHF*N R*(QYHR(QY@NW@ YOU'RE ACTUALLY SO RIGHT every text reading like a business email, piss Hijikata off soooooooo bad

[moe-broey]

Was bravies and showed off some of my comics ESP featuring Moe (who I've been extremely protective of up until this point) to my family at The Gathering and received RAVING reviews such as:

"Oh this one is interesting, it looks like he's wearing eyeliner 🙂" - Auntie, about Moe

and

"I don't like the language here 😰😤😮‍💨" - Nana, @ Moe saying Fuck

[rolandkaros]

I too am experiencing the horrors while writing a final essay today and I have to say, while I'm done w/ 2 of my 3 article analysis' and you would think after finishing them I would feel relieved that some of it is done but no 😭 essays will always make me feel like I'm dying in a hole with a 500 ton weight on my chest at any given time no matter how explicit the directions are because why is writing academic words so freeeeaaaakkking hard

literally me i basically misunderstood one of my essay prompts like three separate times 😭

and the other essay has zero guidelines so im like. barely even sure if im doing it right.

but fuck it we ball and eventually one way or another it will be over. i just wish it was over sooner rather than later bc trying to force myself to keep writing is killing meeeee