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I think it would be really funny if fashion trends in ghost city mirrored the style of their beloved shapeshifter chengzhu’s most recent appearance. Whatever he wears? That’s what’s IN right now. It would also be funny if they always got it like. Slightly wrong. Chengzhu is wearing a long coat today! Long clothing MUST be the most fashionable. If your coat isn’t down the whole block, it isn’t in! The longer the better! Chungzhu is wearing hoop earrings today? Of course big rings are all the rage these days. Put them on your ears, your nose, your fingers, hell put them on your whole body! On your house! On your dog! The bigger the better! Look, he even gave a ring to grandunc—I mean his wife!!! If you don’t have one, you’re gonna look SO last week. Chungzhu’s wearing black today? Of course that’s the best color. Didn’t you know? If you aren’t wearing black, you’ll probably explode by at least tomorrow I think. That’s what I heard, anyway. Is it what? True? Hey don’t shoot the messenger, that’s just how it is. “I thought he was last seen wearing white and a ponytail” where did you hear that? And they heard it was blue? Black was last week? That can’t be right! Whatever….both is fine. I’m not taking any chances and you shouldn’t either.
#they’re terrified of him but they’re also obsessed with him#it’s over the top enough that you wouldn’t really notice or understand unless you’d been there a while or asked someone#the correlation I mean#it also goes by rumors and nobody ever agrees on what’s true and also nobody knows what the truth actually is#so they all wear different shit hoping to be trendy but from an outside perspective you can’t notice a pattern#if Hua Cheng told them to stop they would do the Exact Opposite and go over the top in whatever he WASNT wearing#which is somehow even more work than the first option#so he just ignores it like a king#tgcf#heaven official's blessing#tian guan ci fu
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the hill that i will die on is that cas would have never said he loved dean if he had to deal with the consequences of it afterwards, meanwhile dean (who was SUPPOSED to tell cas he loved him in the original crypt scene script) would have eventually worked up to saying it without external pressure
#listen#LISTEN#i know there's a bunch of takes out there that basically amount to dean being too emotionally stunted to know what he's feeling#but dean's problem has always been being TOO connected to his emotions and being unable to process that#meanwhile cas our sexy avoidant king and chronic ghoster would rather die than acknowledge something that big#like are we forgetting that cas's big move after fucking everything up was to go insane and basically not deal with the problem#meanwhile dean is trying to have a heart to heart with every family member love interest and pseudo adopted daughter every six seconds#ANYWAY yeah#if cas hadn't have made a deal with the empty and if that deal didn't ultimately conveniently correlate with saving dean's life?#cas wouldn't have said shit#FREAK <3#mean while dean winchester (WHO HAD MORE TO SAY IN PURGATORY!) would have eventually worked his way up to it#and im not saying he'd handle it well bc he'd probably drop it and then be weird about it forever#but he's more likely to be the first to acknowledge it if they weren't being pressured by outside forces#dean studies#cas studies#im so fucking normal about them#dean winchester#castiel
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this year my challenge for everyone is to unlearn the association between love and morality. love is not something that is inherently morally good, and the absence of love is not something that is inherently bad. sex without love isn't morally bankrupt, it's just an action. people without love aren't less kind or less good, they're just people. when we can get past this false (and often unnoticed) dichotomy of good love/evil lovelessness then i think we are going to be able to take leaps and bounds in sex positivity, aro advocacy, certain discussions of mental health...
#and also. not the direct focus. but love doesn't make things good. you can be in love and do terrible terrible things.#people do bad things in the name of love and in despite of love all the time.#but!! imagine a world where people could exist as people and not be demonized.#sex positivity means being cool about All sex. reexamine your internal systems of moral judgement.#this goes for sex workers. for aroallo people. especially aroallo men. for aro people in general who might enjoy sex.#and frankly i think it can easily bleed into discussions about mental health disorders around 'not feeling' certain things#especially demonizing ppl who don't feel as much empathy. i think there's definitely a correlation between that and the emphasis on love.#our support needs to go out to Everybody and i think these things are all structured together in one way or another!!#it might not be immediately obvious but when i tell you it all leads back to amatonormativity..... little bit wild.... large bit wild....#anyway. horror movie psychopath 'oh he can't feel emotions or love' damn alright. well. let's take a closer look at that.#silly that there's an association between lack of love and Murdering. feel like that might affect some stuff.#love is just an emotion/a feeling it doesn't mean anything about you one way or another#same with empathy. you can feel it all you want but it doesn't inherently change the actions you choose to take#anyway. thesis statement. there is a socially constructed link between love and morality. unlearn that.#kiss kiss (<— lovelessly)#aromantic#aromanticism#arospec#talking#aroace#aspec#sex positivity
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Happy Fakie Friday! Today I'd like to talk about my personal definition of what makes a toy a "fakie", as I've had people bridle (hee hee) at some of my Fakie Friday picks in the past.
First, let's talk about what doesn't define a fakie.
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A fakie doesn't have to be a bootleg (though they can be).
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A fakie doesn't have to be made by an unknown, fly-by-night company. Remco was founded in 1949, Buddy L's toy division was founded in 1921.
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A fakie doesn't have to have incomprehensible or poorly designed packaging.
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A fakie doesn't have to be a poor quality or poorly thought out toy.
Okay, so what IS a fakie?
Fakies aren't about non-Hasbro horse toys being "bad" and Hasbro horse toys being "good"; it's about how impactful the My Little Pony brand is. Even in the years where the toyline was completely dormant, your average joe would look at a rainbow horse with a heart on its bum and think "My Little Pony."
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^ This horse in Hercules isn't proportioned like a MLP at all but in the Year of Our Lord 1997 everyone was talking about "the scene where Pegasus was almost seduced by a My Little Pony." (Though the pink horse was actually the bad guys in disguise.)
I love fakies! But no matter how innovative and high quality are, they cannot escape being compared to the platonic ideal: a Real My Little Pony.
So here is my ultimate test of whether a toy horse is a fakie:
Throw away its packaging. Lose all its accessories. Toss it in a baggie with random small toys and hang it on a hook in Savers, Value Village, or Goodwill.
If your elderly relative who knows nothing about toys points out the baggie and says to you, the collector: "Oh, here's one with a My Little Pony in it", then it's a fakie. ;)
#my little pony#fakies#Fakie Friday#some horses that are not fakies: Breyers; Stablemates; Schleich#if you are sculpting a horse dick onto the stallions in your toy horse line then it is not a fakie#I mean correlation is not causation#that's not WHY those aren't fakies#but that little data point does encapsulate the difference in vibe#being 'just a horse' versus being a whimsical fantasy protagonist#Barbie horse are usually not fakies either; they are accessories to Barbie#like her jeeps and boats and sports cars#or Ken
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answering this one oldschool style: I was watching westworld with my friends so this iteration of all of them is western themed, but I cant recall if anything specific from that was part of the inspo? Polly has always been the quiet freaky one to pair with Castors chattier self. They're both usually mercs/bounty hunters/hunting dogs that "answer to" Croc The polly pictured here is the Silent Sniper sort, their poncho is all fabric cut from targets clothes stitched together and with nicely embroidered/embellished bullet holes. Trophy! Here's another pic of them that I apparently never posted here?? More nicely done up
#i did NOT count the hat tallies to match the poncho so i have no idea if they correlate correctly#maybe some were just for fun#also apparently I posted this early on patreon which means i probably forgot to post it on tumblr fjhdhjg good job me#pollux#ocs#art#otiose
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Ok but we been knew Aaravos is gigantic, but I really reeeeaally love the detail that it was Aaravos's tears that filled the crater. Reminds me of a bunch of Southeast Asian myths where it isn't 'spells' and 'dark magic' per se but a bunch of giants doing regular things like cry or spilling and throwing stuff that shape the world we live in
#by sea-ian i do mean malaysian since those are the ones I know of#and I know it has no correlation to anything in the show#I just like it :)#the dragon prince#tdp#tdp s6#tdp season 6#tdp s6 spoilers#tdp season 6 spoilers
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this is my most literally just based on being a hater comics opinion btw
#esha.txt#dc#kon#Like you can do whatever you want but using kon el is correlated with actually understanding him. ahfhshjfjsjfjh#also kon el is a name with like. meaning behind it.. Clark gave him that name… i teared up that page in superboy…#the other name is permanently associated with GEOFF JOHNS in my head. so
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weird thing I noticed: a not-insignificant amount of magnus protocol episodes have inconsistent titling when it comes to official title vs. transcript document title vs. title listed on the transcript itself. the other thing I noticed (through the power of spreadsheeting) is that there is a very strong correlation between episodes having a mistitle and episodes having no audio glitches specifically.
realistically speaking I give this about a 99% chance of meaning nothing and literally just being a random coincidence. but I'm gonna point it out regardless.
#by 'strong correlation' I mean that there is only one exception#to the rule of “a mistitled episode will have no audio glitches”#and that episode (008 hostile workplace/running on empty)#doesn't follow the usual pattern for mistitling anyways#leading me to assume that if there is significance in the mistitling that one was a genuine oversight#tmagp#the magnus protocol#pigeon.txt
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guys, i don’t know what GBA is planning to do with those Greek letters, but it can’t be good.
#i think posiedon’s symbol is delta#which means change in the chemistry sense#hades’ symbol is omega#which is the last letter of the greek alphabet#so it symbols end to an extent#something is going on here#and i dont trust it#so#according to my calculations#this means i need to know zeus’ symbol by yesterday#i love it when i make nonsensical correlations between content and design#asmr roleplay#audio rp#goodboyaudios#good boy audios#gba pandora#gba tyr#gba poseidon
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Genuinely confused where the idea that Curly’s covered for actions akin to rape from Jimmy in the past came from. To my knowledge all Curly said was Jimmy’s had it rough in the past and that he’s “overcome difficult things before.” Now that’s very vague, so I could see an uncharitable read where you could take that from it. But is there more that I’ve just missed?
#mouthwashing#jimmy mouthwashing#curly mouthwashing#sa mention#I use ‘uncharitable’ not as a sneer but like. objectively#its a take that characterizes curly the character in a much more uncharitable light etc#not necessarily a *wrong* characterization#but like. idk. ‘curly knew ahead of time how dangerous Jimmy could be and let him board anyway’ and#and ‘curly was genuinely unaware but failed in that once he was made aware didn’t take enough action’#are kind of. mutually exclusive takes?#but I’ve been seeing a lot of the former popping up and idk. I think#it’s less of a stretch to assume curly was talking about financial struggles (smth Jimmy canonically has) or past job security etc#and I do think it’s a little insideous if people are taking it that way#or taking it as a past criminal record#and still goint ‘curly should’ve known he could’ve been a rapist’#as if not having a job/having a criminal record inherently means you are more likely to be a rapist#it’s a gross correlation that is inaccurate to statistics in real life#but again I could’ve missed something that makes the interpretation mentioned in the post more plausible#and if so please enlighten me
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It really is a shame that the only sonic games I can think of where silver had a prominent role in the plot are arguably the two worst games in recent memory: 06 and forces
Idk much about him yet but I get the feeling bro deserves better
#“he was in generations too” as a miniboss and sidelines supporter with ten other guys#I mean actually involved in the plot as himself not as a generic part of a friend group#<- not hating on generations or that ending I thought it was all very cute#you know what i mean#btw I think this is a case of#correlation does not equal causation#just because the games he has a major role in are ass doesn’t mean it’s his fault I don’t think#I think it’s just an unfortunate coincidence#if anything silvers inclusion in forces was one of the nicer parts of the game for me!#and considering how many fans he has despite being from 06 im guessing he was pretty good there too#I hope he has a major role in a good mainline sonic game someday#or hell give him his own game!#I’m now chatting with my brother about how an open world silver game would be fire#sonic#sth#silver the hedgehog
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ive been thinking about the "trans dipper and mabel" thing.
for the unaware, theyre identical twins, so one of them must be trans, or at least they would be if biology worked the same way in cartoons) someone said that dipper clearly isnt happy with his masculinity, so he can't be a trans boy, thus mabel is trans (and also dipper will come out as a trans woman later.
while im obviously not arguing to deny someone her headcanon!!! i want to say in defense of transmasc dipper, he isn't happy with his masculinity because it's incomplete. he wishes his voice was deeper, he wishes he was taller. He's clearly awaiting male puberty. His struggle reminds me personally of the way trans men struggle to prove their masculinity, but its not a permanent struggle, or even if it was, most people would struggle even more if they tried detransitioning anyway.
the way dipper has to learn some lessons, like being vulnerable (lamb costume) and disliking someone quietly like a girl (fighting over wendy) isn't necessarily proof of transfemininity either. many men, cis or trans, who try to overcompensate their masculinity with their personality, will pick up toxic habits that are seen as stereotypically male, but do not serve them, and will need to unlearn them at a point when they're comfortable in their masculinity, and the examples above are very common. the reverse can apply to femininity too imo (like being scared of people seeing youre competent at something women are "supposed" to be incompetent at)
anyway, transmasc dipper and transfem dipper theorists, lets coexist peacefully <3 and thanks for reading
#gravity falls#dipper pines#edit: im gonna be honest i mostly wrote this post because i was feeling insecure and dysphoric about some of the ways i relate to dipper#due to someones headcanon which is kinda silly except the verdict was so definitive#and i keep falling for 'someone claiming my blorbo as trans in the opposite way to mine is giving me dysphoria' lmao#but i imagine the people who were doing transfem dipper were feeling the same just reverse about transmasc dipper#btw when i said 'someone said' i was referring to a transfem egg meme going around with i think 9 male characters and dipper was one of the#it has a few notes and the 'suffering with masculinity means youre a woman' was in the comments#and i mean sometimes that correlates but sometimes it doesnt. so i wanted to do a longer reply to expand on that in a non definitive way#and sort of encourage people to concider what is and isnt a sign that you should transition#i mean ultimately noones gonna tell you#but yea#i hate the heated arguements that keep happening so i hope this is a nice refresher of calmly explaining my point#and its an invitation for anyone to do the same because we need communication we are the same community!!!
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it should also go without saying that a Tumblr friend is not some random blog you follow, nor is it a Tumblr acquaintance with whom you have exchanged a reply or two. a mutual is not automatically a Tumblr friend.
A Tumblr friend is a friend. A kindred spirit, a fellowship. Just the same as a real-life friend, a real-life penpal.
#Tumblr#mobile#x#the chief audience I had in mind making that original post is young people—teenagers#because when I was a teenager I really clove the man in twain#such that his online behavior could have absolutely no correlation to his real-life behavior#and unfollowing a friend didn’t mean anything as long as I said it didn’t mean anything#but that’s not how man works#and#the more alien one half of our double-life is to the other the more exhausted and aimless we will be#if you manage your online affairs the same way you would manage your real-life ones#insofar as it’s possible#there will be a continuity and a peace of mind#and I certainly have not gotten there yet#after many years of being cloven in twain
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I will never be off my peeled frame shit. So, consider the following, it's basically like peeling off a big fleshy reuseable sticker. Which sounds kinda gross but like helping your chosen Hex member (except Aoi) get out of their second skin I think is kinda romantic + the satisfaction of hearing the like peeling noise. I know my Drifter jumps at the chance to peel Arthur.
#warframe#into the main tag you go#poor aoi doesn't get to enjoy the peeled life#I mean lettie doesn't either really because it legit looks like she attached padding under her armor parts where she could#which honestly makes sense for her character because she is like the LEAST okay with what's happened to her to the rest of the hex#she's also the least transformed#I wonder if those two things correlate 🤔
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i hc that nico robin and damian wayne are the prettiest fictional characters. like, in their universes ig? which canonically isn't true for either, but in my mind it is. they are just cool like that
#robin's pretty close but#oh wait sorry i mean nico robin i forgot damian was also robin#nico robin's pretty close but storywise ik she sorta can't be. she is drop dead gorgeous tho#damian's more like a feeling. there's no proof to back it up it's just a feeling.#source? i can do what i want.#yk i was thinking theres no correlation to these characters but theyre both robin and theyre both little weirdos so that's a start#someone draw nico as robin and damian as nico#i might do it but i make no promises#anyways they both have pretty privileges but theyre utter weirdos /pos#one piece#dc#batman#robin#nico robin#damian wayne#ack#text post
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I'm in a mood to go over and organize my fic playlist for the risen lamb and the fallen god so if you have any recommendations. please send them my way.
#hannah's rambles#if you havent read it but have general nari/lamb coded songs you love then by all means. pls i wanna diversity my playlist#also I am taking so long to organize it because I'm sorting them in order of the mood/scene of the chapters they correlate to lol#everything after starlight by dreamcatcher is unsorted so far
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