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strawberriesshi · 1 year ago

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happy 16th to hatsune miku :))) ive been a vocaloid fan for about almost 4 years now and have to say a lot of songs by various producers have helped me through tough times and also opened me up to so many more music artists that i love

kinda surreal to see miku become her canonical age ngl, also reminds me too that im somewhat growing up given i was also born in 2007 (june 1st tho, im older than miku so thats a flex i suppose)

anyway setimental post but i predict a lot of vocaloid fans getting a bit setimental today. happy anni miku!

#as a fun detail technically there are 16 mikus in here #the two main ones obviously #then i duplicated the line art 8 times to create 16 #hatsune miku #miku #vocaloid fanart #vocaloid #miku vocaloid #hatsune miku 16 anniversary #miku 16th

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biggest-gaudiest-patronuses · 1 year ago

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i vote that next year instead of reading Dracula we do a Jeeves & Wooster Book Club. those two never got the rabid tumblr shipping fandom they deserved (disqualified for the sheer technicality of being published a century too soon). we must correct this injustice

#jeeves and wooster #i want to watch tumblr go rabid i want to watch ao3 overflow with jeeves/wooster fanfiction #yes obviously the fandom EXISTS but it's a cozy little neighborhood #a handful of talented artists and writers doing their best to keep their charming little village going #but i'm tired of cozy i want this fandom TRENDING #I WANT TO SEE THIS ON MY DASHBOARD PEOPLE #i swear to you if they made a shiny new tv series tumblr would absolutely obsess over these characters. good omens levels of obsession #it's just such a great dynamic! the good-natured overly-trusting bumbling idiot in constant need of rescuing!#the stoic all-knowing genius who quietly masterminds mayhem in order to protect this one moron he's devoted himself to for some reason #jeeves as a morosexual is just such a beautiful interpretation of the original text #wooster as a happy-go-lucky himbo who stumbles his way into a relationship with a protective caring and supremely competent mastermind #the angst and social complexities of a same-sex cross-class relationship in turn-of-the century london!#oh AND half the stories are about jeeves helping wooster get out of engagements/desperately avoid marriage #two men who live together constantly scheming to maintain their bachelorhood. this is quite literally the main plot point #the gay subtext is there! the gay subtext is there and very ripe for picking!!!#this thing is LOCKED AND LOADED we can pounce literally any time

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benevolenterrancy · 4 months ago

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("Always. Continuously. With increasing apprehension, and decreasing hope. I will love you if I never see you again, and I will love you if I see you every Tuesday. I will love you as a corpse loves the beak of the vulture. I will love you no matter what happens to you, and no matter how I discover what happens to you, and no matter what happens to me as I discover this." -- paraphrased from The Beatrice Letters, Lemony Snicket)

#svsss #bingqiu #luo binghe #shen qingqiu #lbh #sqq #i've been working through the series of unfortunate events and somehow that series has paired really nicely with svsss #the themes of cycling violence and what's justified and what isn't and what can possibly be done differently #and how trying to bring love and honour into the midst of it really changes nothing but also changes everything #it's just *chef's kiss*#i don't know how i can quite do my thoughts justice but i've spent the past few weeks quietly going between the two series (and mdzs and tg #as well if we're being honest they all hit similar questions and themes) and just reveling in the pain and ambiguity of it #everything is interconnected and it means you can never know what trauma and pain and necessity has shaped a person #each story goes too far back to ever ever EVER possibly see the full extent of it #at that level even communication itself is nearly impossible.#and because of that it's almost impossible to change anything. beat yourself apart and the outcome is the same #and yet ATTEMPTING to change things ATTEMPTING to do the kind thing the honourable thing is absolutely critical #because while you can change nothing you also have the capacity to change EVERYTHING #aaaaaaah i don't even know what i'm saying #but i read the beatrice letters today and the love letter just. killed me.#(obviously i cherrypicked some lines because it's three pages long but those ones felt right)#''i love you like a corpse loves a vulture's beak'' i just. can't get over that line.#to be completely changed. altered. destroyed. redeemed. purified. desecrated. reduced to nothing yet entirely necessary for another's life.#what a FUCKING line #anyway i was either going to blow up from thinking about it or else i had to exorcise it via art from an entirely different series #i've already done svsss and discworld why not throw a series of unfortunate events into the mix #i'll be honest folks i did not expect svsss to be the mxtx series that would fuck me up the most about the main ship #bingqiu is something else. i don't even know how to begin to approach my feelings on it. impossibility and necessity all at once #bizarre #my art

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aingeal98 · 2 months ago

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More Jason and Cass thoughts (sorry but also not sorry) but if I was magically given full control over DC and could write what I'd want obviously I'd make Cass Batman but I've been thinking of what sort of reaction and role Jason would have in response. I think I'd write his version of "Congrats on the new job!" as a test, involving the Joker and civilians and gangs and Red Hood and a ton of explosives. Bruce failed me, and now he's given up. You're his successor, let's see how you handle this dilemma that freaked him out so badly he threw a batarang into my throat rather than let me avenge my own death in front of him.

So obviously Cass will overcome the traps and the puzzles. That's the fun part to show how competent both of them are and sprinkle in little character moments as we go. But then we reach the emotional crux of the matter, probably laid out as some sort of saw trap because it's Jason. Here I am, a victim of murder. You say nobody dies tonight but I did, and I want the man who did it dead. Not only did Batman fail to avenge me but he failed to stop the Joker from going on to create even more victims. What right do you have to stop me from getting justice for myself? What right does this man have to life after what he's taken from me and from countless others? I'm not trying to kill a random stranger, I'm specifically demanding justice for my own death that I never got while I was gone.

There are two ways this could go. The straightforward route if I knew my time on this run was limited would probably be a pyrrhic victory like the ones Cass's og series was so fond of. Just like Bruce in utrh, she acts on instinct and saves the Joker (and Jason this time) . A win technically, but she fails the test. Jason is once again vindicated but with nothing to show for it. The story ends with Cass sending the Joker back to jail and going back to the batcave, where the old Robin costume looms judgementally, highlighting her failure. It would be the most fitting end given their character molds, all tragedy and conviction and unstoppable force meets immovable object etc.

However... I think the option I prefer would be a little different. Cass levelling with Jason, a killer talking to a murder victim. She has no right to stop Jason from getting justice, she has no love for the Joker but she knows any death she allows to happen like this would devastate her, just like that death row inmate long ago she tried to break out but ended up letting go once the family of the victim talked to her and demanded justice. I think... In this specific situation, she'd just be honest. Morally she has no right sure. Personally she just really really doesn't want anyone to die. Give her one chance, please. Let her try it her way. Not demanding, not lecturing or insisting, just... Please. Don't do this. Let me try another way.

And then what? Jason asks.

In the end a deal is struck. Cass will take the Joker and lock him up, ensuring he never harms anyone again while also trying to rehabilitate him. But the second she fails and he gets free, Jason kills him and she won't stand in his way. It's the kind of deal that leaves both of them mildly disgusted and dissatisfied with themselves, neither of them naturally creatures of compromise when it comes to this specific topic. But Cass is willing to do anything to avoid death and Jason did not expect the new Bat to be so... Flexible? Kind of? Of course maybe she won't actually hold up her end of the deal and when the Joker gets loose she'll try and stop Jason from killing him and he'll get his miserable vindication, but right now this is something strange and new and he's mildly confused and curious about where it will go. He doesn't believe in her ability to contain the Joker forever but he's willing to let her try because her reaction to that future failure interests him. She's given him a sword of damocles to hang above her head and he didn't ask for it or expect it. It's the type of power he never thought the Bat would just... Hand to him.

The conflict ends with neither of them fully winning or losing. They both don't really know what to feel about this.

The thing is, the second Cass let's Jason kill the Joker she's hanging up the mantle. She's staking the Bat on this, because it's always go big or go home with her when it comes to saving others, even someone like the Joker. In this magical universe where I have unlimited power, Cass would lock the Joker in a secret bunker and have Leslie Thompkins talk to him daily, mostly because I think her pacifism speeches and debates in the comics would make a fun contrast to the Joker's evil sadism. (But what about his rights? Doesn't he deserve a trial and to be held in a regular prison? I'm going to be honest I think Cass would be very comfortable bending the rules on this specific situation. Morally questionable but I'd have fun with it. She's going to let Leslie treat Joker like her personal pet project to save his soul because yes she wants him to change but also she's got a city to save every night so go crazy Leslie, have fun.)

And the Batman series would continue with Cass as the lead, new challenges and new antagonists and every twenty issues or so for the first hundred we'll cut back to the Joker briefly if his chats with Leslie can help highlight some thematic element of the current arc. But bit by bit he'd slowly fade away onto oblivion, maybe getting referenced every hundred issues or so until eventually no one remembers or cares about him because there's so much else going on. Meanwhile Jason's got a good thing going as Red Hood, primarily based in Park Row and a tentative ally on the occasion when their vigilante work aligns. Unlike Joker he's a much more frequent character in the comics, and after say 10 years (this is my magical fantasy universe Cass's batman run is going to last for a very long time alright) when people think of DC characters they think of Red Hood long before they think of the Joker.

Is any of this realistic? Right now of course not. It's why I'd go with the pyrrhic victory if I actually got the chance, because it would be the best way to tell the story in the larger context of the Bat narrative. But it's my fantasy DC editor and writer daydream and I'm going to dream big. They're never going to be normal happy siblings, their personal demons will never fully let them be free and the looming possibility of losing everything they currently have narrative wise if Bruce comes back as Batman will always be there. But it's maybe the closest to peace they'll ever get. Unsatisfying and tame compromise that probably violates several laws and ethical codes but whatever. Cass has never read the Geneva convention and Jason's not going to shed tears over the Joker. Let him die relevancy wise if not physically.

#dc #cassandra cain #batfam #dc rambles #Jason Todd #In terms of the larger meta narrative ultimately whether the Joker dies or gets locked up is irrelevant #But Cass will never be willing to just let someone die without trying to the very end to make her case for their life #And I think it's entirely possible Jason would reject her proposal and we're back to square one #But I think the two main reasons to me that he'd accept is one. Cass betting her career on this. She doesn't need to do that.#She could save the Joker and fail Jason's personal test and that would be that. Her actually reaching out #Being willing to risk something precious just to try and compromise with Jason. It would be more than he expected #From a family that he understandably believes he does not matter enough to #And secondly is the long term consequence of the Joker fading into irrelevancy while Jason maintains his prominence as a character #A reverse of his death where he was turned into nothing but a footnote and a memorial for Batman angst #While the Joker went on to gain even more narrative power as Batman's Greatest Enemy #Now he is nothing. And Jason is alive and a solid part of the mythos #It would take time obviously but ultimately from a Doylist sense to me it's the most satisfying resolution #Maybe after like 10 years Cass can die again briefly the Joker gets out and Jason gets to kill him to give Maps some fun Robin angst #But ultimately it's very important to me that if Cass becomes batman the Joker must become irrelevant #He's just not useful enough thematically to be worth his current narrative weight when she's running the show

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thatswhatsushesaid · 1 year ago

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psa that the day there are no jgy stans left on tumblr dot com is the day i am dead

but rest assured i'll go to my grave exactly as i lived: obnoxiously proclaiming to everyone within earshot how great lianfang-zun is. narratively, metaphorically, spiritually. sexually, too, like why limit myself. i like to keep my options open

#the spirit of su minshan possessed me for a minute there but like. i'm fine with it #jin guangyao #he did crimes??? good for him 😌#editing this post to add that while the tone here is clearly joking #i really am fundamentally still engaged with this fandom #and with this book #almost exlcusively because of my enjoyment of jgy #even xiyao is secondary for me like i love it and i'm ride or die for it obvs #but jgy as a character is the main draw for me. and he would have me by the throat even if there was no zewu-jun #(tho i think jgy's life would be more depressing for his absence obviously)#but he is just. /clenches my fists!!!#THE most compelling character in the story and i cannot stop thinking about him!! cannot will not!!#who else in this book has his range? who else can be the doe-eyed idealist AND the spy with blood on his hands who ends a war?#who else is two different greek tragedies and at least two separate shakespearean tragedies rolled into one antagonist #an antagonist who but for the POV of the novel could very easily have been the protagonist #whose moral event horizon is so deeply entwined with his own trauma and abuse that there is no way to meaningfully separate #the violence he does to others from the systemic violence that was done to him for his whole life?#who else in this book manages to get five separate sect leaders utterly obsessed with him no matter how you choose #to interpret that obsession?#no one!!! that's who!!#ain't no one else in the jianghu doing it like lianfang-zun and that's just a goddamn fact

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ratingboomercomics · 8 months ago

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So I wanted to post a gay comic for pride month but when I looked up “gay boomer comic”(and I cannot emphasize enough)the only results were either homophobic or furries(idk what this was about but there was so much furries). Luckily Gary Larson came through. My friend in trying times

I gotta give this one 9/10 I think, I love Gary Larson obviously, it’s a solid pun, and I love the cow lesbian bar, that’s iconic(I always get a kick out of the cows)but it’s not the best Far Side out there. The best one is Cow Tools obviously

#boomer cartoons #boomer comic #9/10 #I do adore this something vaguely back to the barnyard about it I can’t quite explain #I feel like that show would’ve done this joke I guess #remember how the main cow was accidentally trans rep #one of the funniest things ever to me #I love Gary Larson and generally think his stuff is like 15/10 #I still remember before I could read ‘reading’ the far side and just loudly saying my own made up captions #I didn’t know what sex was obviously but I knew the word and I remember I just kept trying to make the captions sex jokes #my dad and older sibling were present for this and I got the sense I was saying something wrong because they were just looking at me like 😐#I remember one of my captions on a picture of two cows looking at each other: ‘we should have sex’#’why?’#’because we’re stupid cows!’#I was a comedic talent from a young age #gary larson

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factsilike · 3 months ago

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One of the things I very much hate about modern AUs in MDZS is how the fic writers Americanise everything about the characters until the only thing Asian about them is their name.

#mdzs #I think the no of fics that properly research their cultural background and history and I've actually loved #I can count on one hand #no because really why is WWX is speaking in American slang and why is everyone forgetting that #They. Are. Chinese!#they will be most of the time be speaking mandarin thank you very much #I do hate the Straight boy Wei Ying fic writers make him out to be #come to think of it #this happens in most fandoms #I took a peek in the first few fics in omniscient reader's viewpoint fandom ao3 #and what do you know almost all of them have Kim Dojka as an oblivious dumb idiot #like people will really erase all the complex aspects of a character in order to idiotify them for the 'dumb oblivious idiot' trope #and have all of their friends and family be there for the sole purpose to be exasperated with the main characters being oblivious about each #others' feelings #because obviously they know better about these two people feel and their relationship than the characters themselves #not that these can't be done well and asking for relationship advice is nothing out of the ordinary #but when it's like the characters have to be hammered over the head with “he likes you!” like they can't figure that out themselves is..#very annoying #wei wuxian #lan wangji #mxtx

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aroaessidhe · 1 month ago

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2024 reads / storygraph

What The Woods Took

YA horror

a girl and boy are both kidnapped from their beds and taken to a wilderness program, to hike across the wilderness for 50 days with 3 other traumatised teens

when their two adult counselors are gone one morning, they aren’t sure if leaving them alone was part of the program - or if something more sinister is going on. especially when they start seeing things that cause them to turn on each other…

butch lesbian mc

#what the woods took #courtney gould #aroaessidhe 2024 reads #sapphic books #this is a good YA horror about survival and trauma #some interesting characters and weird and freaky horror situation - though honestly I would have loved a bit more about the mimics.#Though obviously the focus is definitely more on the interpersonal relationships and their own personal journeys with their shit #(csa; foster care; addiction; abuse) which I felt were handled sensitively #it absolutely makes sense that a bunch of scared teens with various traumas would make dumb decisions in the wilderness #but it doesn’t make it less frustrating when they split up AGAIN haha #though I have to say why does it take her 3 weeks to read this diary she found that might have info in it.#bro surely you can skim that in a day or two???#I liked the hate-to-love development of the sapphic relationship #the kinda fucked up nature of the other thing was interesting too.#love the cover too as always #also as I said I would - this is a SMP book and I donated a book cost to a GFM (latest one I reblogged)#it’s f/f and also m/f but the sapphic one is like. the main one #also she's butch in that the word is used once to describe her i think but not like an active regular identity word. if I remember

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chinzhilla · 1 year ago

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We're like a family here.

#middleman's love #middleman's love the series #asianlgbtqdramas #boyslovesource #userdramas #usergooseras #tuseralexa #minhyowon #*#*mml #as should be apparent given my choice in url. i love a quality friend group #also i hope the not ordering the same thing resonated with everyone else as much as it did me #cause the goal in my family is always to Win At Ordering so obviously two people can't order the same thing #anyways. maybe one day i'll actually gif the main couple from this show

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wavesalwayscrash · 29 days ago

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I've been listening to the spotify playlist and have been wondering, if each mainish character was a song, what would each of their songs be? Or maybe less what song would they be and what would their favorite song be? Any on the playlist or are those more story based songs instead of character based songs? Love the story and I'm excited to see more of it!

The songs on the playlist are just any song that reminds me of the character or the story. A lot of them are specific character songs or like. Character dynamic songs. (and also I love talking about songs that fit my ocs so here ya go)

Lain: Ptolemaea - Ethel Cain (I would like to make a lain video with it someday but it would be. a lot.)

Mariner: Amen - Amber Run

Canary: The Sea is a Good Place to Think of the Future - Los Campesinos! (makes me cry when I think about Mariner and Canary too hard.)

The King: Why We Build The Wall - Hadestown (Original Cast)

Condor: I can't Decide - Scissor Sisters (not on the playlist bc it would ruin the playlist's vibe SO HARD but I can't deny it's the most condor song)

Warbler: Rule #4 - Fish in a Birdcage - Fish in a birdcage

Grouse: Red Hour - tart

Crane: Mother Knows Best (Reprise) - Tangled (doesn't fit the plot like .at all. which is why it isn't on the playlist, but the vibes are super crane)

#ask #ajolteonnamedsparky #obviously lain and mariner got like. a lot of songs.#given they are the main characters of the story and their dynamic is the whole plot.#but the two i picked are the ones i feel encapsulate a specific part about their characters the best.

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ffcrazy15 · 2 years ago

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I need a whole fic where the Cerritos is mistaken for the Enterprise by some type of alien with very high intelligence but very poor visual recognition, for whatever reason.

And Freeman either can't or is too scared to convince them that they're not the Enterprise, so she starts desperately assigning everyone to various roles. Boimler gets assigned as Data, and since he and Mariner are the only people on the ship who play string instruments, the captain orders them to put together some sort of "symphony" because the aliens have heard that that's a thing on the Enterprise.

And it's just Mariner and Boimler frustratedly trying to figure out how to combine her electric guitar skills and his traditional violin skills into something suitably "symphonic" (i.e. thematically trying to combine her more lax/modern way of doing things with his more strict/traditional way).

#star trek lower decks #marinler #lower decks #I NEED these two playing music together #also Stevens gets assigned to play Picard and is way too into it #goes a little mad with power and ends up being the episode's main antagonist #they forgive him in the end though #Ransom is Riker obviously #Mariner gets assigned to play Troi and has a fun time pretending to read people's thoughts and they just have to go along with it #Rutherford is obviously Geordi due to his implant #T'Ana plays Crusher on the basis that she is *technically* a redhead and refuses to elaborate further when questioned #Shaxs is Worf and insists that his nose ridges are forehead ridges #Freeman is Displeased (TM) about having to pretend to be a lower-decker since there isn't a part for her #Tendi works the duty-shift with her and ends up helping her work through her issues about not feeling respected as a Cali-class captain #basically pointing out that success is relative and that she didn't succeed according to her family's standards either #but it doesn't matter because she loves what she does #who knows maybe I'll write it one of these days

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clearancecreedwatersurvival · 1 year ago

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Never seen a homoerotic rivalry I wouldn’t ship.

#except bakudeku maybe I just never watched far enough in bnha to care but. idk. bakudeku did not spark joy #anyway I’ll just tag a couple recent ish fandoms for me #obviously since I got into one piece I was immediately like ‘oh yeah I get this’ about #zosan #I think technically these two count just based on how their dynamic works #fengqing #could tag just about any ship from haikyuu tbh but I’ll just go with the main duo and leave it at that #kagehina #the pairing that really started this for me though (and sorry to wizard book mention but I gotta be honest) was of course #drarry #now that I have added that tag obligatory: terfs fuck off okay moving on #hmmm. does griddlehark count. or are they just codependent homoerotic frenemies.#there’s some nebulous dividing line between All That and plain rivalry #I would tag harrianthe but I still haven’t finished harrow so like. I can’t confirm that personally yet.#after some reflection on another post I have decided to include these two because I think their dynamic counts #matchablossom #caitie speaks #animanga #shipping #tropes

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agalychnisspranneusroseus · 3 months ago

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LOVE the Sasha lore here. Not only are her parents divorced, but they both have new, different families of their own. Do you think Sasha ever felt like the leftovers of a past life they had no interest in anymore? Like she doesn't really belong in either family? I think Sasha is the one member of the trio with the most canon evidence for having Family Trauma. I don't think her parents were abusive, but the situation is clearly tragic on her end, if her parents have new spouses and families. If they have new children. How does her stepmother feel about her? How does her stepbrother, son of her mother's boyfriend, feel about her? Is she nothing but a reminder of a previous unloved partner? No wonder she has such distate for the idea of "family". No wonder she underestimates the importance of family in Anne's life.

#my posts #live reading marcy's journal #obviously i'm thinking about future sashannarcy and sasha making a family #a new family. all of her own. with members she chooses #not ones that come with her parents' new lives #a family she fully belongs to with the two girls she loves #her family. HERS. not her mom's and not her dad's. just her and her girls. *hers*.#*sobs* feeling emotional over sasha waybright on main

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mc-tummy-blur · 10 days ago

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Didn't expect the year of our Lord 2025 to get into Alan Rickman, but I guess that's how it goes sometimes