#the math always maths on some people

[devastatinglygreen]

What do you think of people who say Polin fans are just self inserting as Penelope?

i think it's funny that they think we're self-inserting but assume they ship whatever they ship Properly™.

like, no offence to them and all but if i see myself most in any character, it's eloise? maybe that's why i love penelope and colin so much? did they ever think of that?

which is crazy because my husband decided to start watching s2 (on his own too, i think he's just trying to be my hype man, ha) but it took literally 3 episodes for him to become eloise's biggest fan. if eloise has no fans, that man is dead okay?

he's still rooting for polin? he still loves penelope? is he self-inserting with penelope? or does he just like the story?

he does not like anthony tho, gotta be honest but i think that has more to do with him trying to marry edwina when he clearly wants kate and how he's spoken to violet a couple of times so far

and even if some people are self-inserting, who cares? what does that have to do with anyone else enjoying it in the way they want? if self-inserting is an issue for them, boy do i have news for them about some very popular male led and dominated media.

[smimon]

okay i know you probably have enough drawing ideas for giant k but i just had this idea invade me.

you know how in snow white (not just the disney version) she pushes together the beds and sleeps on like 3 or more of them sideways? anyway giant k sleeping on 3 beds pushed together. and now i'm just picturing giant k as snow white and everyone else as the various dwarves

Ohoho big brain!!! 👀👀👀 Big brain. I love this idea so much and not just because Snow White is my favourite fairy tale hdjsbdbdfh

Thank you!!! Of course I have to draw it and not just once, let's make it into a comic! Let's gooo

Giant K series #16: once upon a time, in a land far, far away...

To be continued 😉

[ambyandony]

every time I draw pannacotta fugo in sketches he’s always just holdin papers n shit 😭

[onaperduamedee]

I don't know if it's show bias, but I struggle to understand the reading of Moiraine as someone who is so driven by her mission that she doesn't care.

From the get-go, she flees the White Tower for fear of ending up Queen of Cairhien and as cruel a leader as the rulers in her family, although it would have meant control and power;

Getting knocked down and unable to channel, she stabs a former teacher to stop her from killing innocents who have little to do with her mission;

She rushes to the Blight to bond Lan and keep him from basically killing himself, even if again it is a gamble, and later on, the bond transfer is about saving him, albeit cruelly;

She uses her body as a shield to hold off a Forsaken in order to help Rand, sustaining serious injuries in the fight, although her sacrifice is mostly useless considering how overpowered she is;

Many times, she heals villagers, soldiers, Aiel, wolves, sometimes until she is on the brink of passing out;

She fights Shadowspawns in Tear, in the Waste just as bravely as Lan, despite not being battle Ajah and often being surrounded by Aiel who can do the job by themselves;

She tackles Lanfear, toppling with her inside a collapsing ter'angreal, effectively dooming herself and cutting herself from the narrative, to help Rand, Egwene and Aviendha.

Obviously, you could argue that each of these actions would bring her an advantage and in acting so, she was only playing her part in the pattern, without a care for the people she was helping, but that's such an ungenerous reading of the character given what the text provides.

Her mindset is utilitarian and pragmatic, but to see her ever-present doubts, her growing despair and raging hope in Rand and still interpret her as uncaring is mind-boggling to me.

Her whole speech in TSR regarding "People [fighting] for you who do not know it, any more than you know them" tells of someone who believes saving the world will require a lot of collaboration and awareness of each other, not merely machinations and control.

She is a hard woman, but uncaring she is not.

[fearandhatred]

on this episode of leanne comes up with the worst and most tragic fic ideas in existence. i'm thinking house of leaves x good omens

[weepylucifer]

started watching the new disco. oh i'm gonna miss it so much i am fucking devastated that this is their last season. has discovery frequently had its issues? yes. but at the very least i have never once been bored. i have always wanted to see where they are going with all this

[nozomijoestar]

Asuka is a tragic figure, a figure of mystery, a wild card, all because the only thing she wants in life is peace and quiet for herself and to feel in control- yet her secret heritage that may be hidden from her for her own protection and the reality that life is unpredictable and will go on with or without you keep ruining that delusion, that vision of how the world is meant to work to her, and she suffers regardless of what she wants, what she does, and how little she understands anything

She was born into a family preaching peace and balance and order while being a creature of violence, and puts a dozen mental locks and excuses over this truth to justify giving into her impulse for fighting by pretending she's justice when she does it

She keeps trying to build a place of safety but she's using sand and life is a wave that destroys, yet she stubbornly persists rather than give up, not drowned to the point of self centered suicidal loathing like Jin- there's contrast, where Jin is cloaked in death Asuka stubbornly clings to life and humanity as a normal person in a terrifying world

She's not a fucking narrative clone for Jun's own purpose, Asuka's purpose must be determined by Asuka herself

[haruspexism]

that one post hit the nail on the head I can't tell you how many times I've seen shit like "BEING TRANSMASC IS WHEN YOU LIKE DOG MOTIF AND YOU'RE A GOOD BOY" and I've just. grit my teeth bc it's just like. okay I'm not transmasc then and I actually sort of don't want to be if that's the box you're drawing

[nukenai]

People online seem very understanding about "I can't do thing because disability" until it has to do with art and then artists are like "have you tried practicing or trying harder? Have you tried dedicating every moment of your life to learning how to draw? What do you mean you have a thing wrong with your brain so you can't translate images? That sounds fake you're probably not practicing enough"

Like it LITERALLY feels like telling me to "just try walking more" when my leg is broken. Something fundamentally does not work and I can't. I've been trying for decades, sorry you don't believe me.

[anotherpapercut]

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[lurking-latinist]

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[thisismyworldyeah]

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[le-velo-pour-dru]

Okay you know what. I'll admit it. I probably don't have autism of any kind XD But I do feel a kinship with those who do in some ways <3

[july-19th-club]

me age seven being sat down in front of the school’s district child psych lady and being given strange, simple spatial puzzles to solve and then long, complicated worksheets and hammering my way through them at the speed of light while having zero comprehension what their purpose was or why i was here: this is urgent! i have to get a good grade in Weird Puzzles, Or Else, something that is both normal to want and possible to achieve,

[dkettchen]

guy who used to work in aerospace & rail that I was paired with and explaining code stuff to today: *asks me why I'm so good at code stuff, whether I practice/revise a lot*

me: Idk, man, I'm just like this

[msburgundy]

learning a second language has actually given me a real understanding of to what extent very many people actually cannot read in their native language