#these people are supposed to be RICH!

[haldanare]

the costumes of HotD arent Bad per se, but i really wish they had given it its own visual identity instead of leaning so much on the GoT aesthetic. like if there ever was a time to lean into like a byzantine aesthetic or the like, it would have been here

[dreadfuldevotee]

"The Vampire Chronicles characters are exercises in the cycle of trauma and abuse and how they are capable of complex emotions and receiving and giving love and empathy alongside all the horrible shit they do to one another" and "Anne Rice herself was a bigot and had some shitty personal beliefs and just because the genre is Gothic Horror doesn't mean you ignore the way those ideas bleed into the writing. Not all commentary is good commentary" are two sentiments that can and SHOULD co-exist, what the fuck are we doing.

[bixels]

The idea that uni protesters are "elitist ivy-league rich kids larping as revolutionaries" on Twitter and Reddit and even here is so fucking funny to me if you actually know anything about the student bodies at these unis. Take it from someone who's going to one of the biggest private unis in the US, 80% of the peers I know are either from the suburbs or an apartment somewhere in America, children of immigrants, or here on a student visa. I've heard about one-percenter students, but I've never met one in person. Like, don't get me wrong, the institution as a whole is still very privileged and white. I've talked with friends and classmates about feeling weird or dissonant being here and coming from such a different background. But in my art program, I see BIPOC, disabled, queer, lower-income students and faculty trying to deconstruct and tear that down and make space every day. So to take a cursory glance at a crowd of student protesters in coalitions that are led by BIPOC & 1st/2nd-gen immigrant students and HQ'd in ethnic housings and student organizations and say, "ah. children of the elite." Get real.

[yeah-thats-probably-it]

you guys ever notice how in his dialogue when he's in bertie's presence, jeeves uses quotations and references constantly, but in his THOUGHTS during "bertie changes his mind," he doesn't use any? this is obviously because he doesn't care if we the audience know he knows shakespeare, but he will languish and die if he doesn't get to dazzle bertie with his wit and knowledge every five seconds

[respectthepetty]

The way I be watching Jack & Joker and Peaceful Property every week

[eliounora]

saw a video claiming that having two cars makes one upper middle class and a bundle of thoughts occurred to me that I'm struggling to word elegantly but it's something about how people can't tell between middle class and the upper middle class and the rich, and therefore don't realise just how rich actual filthy rich people are and how poor actual poor people are. also something about poverty being deemed a virtue, which makes it harder for people to recognise and especially admit their own privilege and luck, resulting in well-off people insisting they are poor and middle class people getting called rich for arbitrary things.

[fromtheseventhhell]

I love how people are only ever interested in defending Arya's right to be weird-looking. It's never defending her intelligence from people who claim she's incapable of thinking for herself, highlighting her importance to the plot and refusing to see her as just a prop, acknowledging how much of her story gets stolen and given to other characters, talking about her trauma or how often it gets erased and overlooked, seeing her as more than just an attack dog/bodyguard, etc. Nope. It's just a "why can't people let Arya be ugly/unconventional looking? :(" post every other week because people are, for whatever reason, obsessed with how Arya is visually perceived. One of the most misinterpreted characters yet the issue is only ever with her being portrayed as "too pretty" or the wrong "type" of pretty. This fandom will entirely rewrite a character's motivations, values, and role in the story to the point that they consider references to canon "hate" but! The true injustice to canon is we acknowledge that she is described as pretty several times. Arya simply existing as her pretty, important, and non-conforming self is too complex and confusing for people to comprehend 😔.

[statementlou]

Tbh i am not surprised that a person who openly talked about having drinking problems since 1d days, because of how crazy 1d worked has been agressive. What surprises me is people being surprised (they never seriously saw drunk person?). But i am also confused about this whole book. Apparently Maya said that that book is not fully bout Liam but compilation about her exes and some of the worst parts are not about him. But recently she said that the book is “ofc about him” so what is true then? Or did she meant it that ofc some parts are about him or that whole book is about him?

Sorry, just confused

I also am not surprised- we've learned so much more about the real stories of things and about the guys' actual lives over the last years, and the story that has unfolded around Liam has been totally consistent throughout if you've been following it, and so the information Maya is telling us is shocking and upsetting but not difficult to believe. I got an anon yesterday saying they were worried about getting similar revelations about the other boys, like "if Liam could be doing this we just don't know, any of them could", and while in a way that's always true I guess, anyone could be doing anything in private like... that doesn't really concern me. Because none of these Liam revelations are coming out of nowhere, there have been many MANY steps along the way leading us here if you've been watching, and he has talked openly about both his mental health struggles and his addiction issues. So to answer that anon... to find out something similar about Louis would in contrast contradict everything we know about him and no I'm not worried about it. Is he probably very irritating, absolutely, but an abuser or a loose cannon, well that news would shock me. But anyway as for the book I don't find it strange that she was nervous when it came out and treading lightly and later decided, fuck it. In the absolutely on point tiktok she dropped today (YES👏GIRL👏FUCKING TELL THEM👏) she even mentions attempts to keep her from publishing the book, presumably by Liam's team, that I am riveted by and cannot WAIT to hear more details about actually- like I said I don't find it at all strange that she was nervous and downplayed it a bit then. But if she says now that it's just about Liam, well, I would say it's been clear from the beginning that the book is their story. Maya herself brought up the parallel of songs being written about stuff and I think it's the same thing; it's true (she was in an abusive relationship that involved certain kinds of events) but maybe not 100% literal (I'm sure details were changed to make the story work, it's not like a word for word timeline of their interactions or whatever).

[francy-sketches]

'why does show joffrey look like that he's supposed to be handsome' no sorry there's so many ugly/not conventionally attractive characteracters being prettywashed I think the rare cases of deyassification are based as hell. I like his weird little face ❤

[alexturntable]

ScuderiaFerrari As vending machines go, this one is pretty cool 😎

[saccharii]

You know I wonder how big a golden enclave is. El says that it’s significantly smaller than a modern enclave (“modern” … I think the spells were invented thousands years ago) and she says that it’s barely enough to tuck your children in. However I think that that second statement is somewhat hyperbolic. The modern enclaves are MASSIVE and can fit skyscrapers and giant parks and I think one of them had a monorail?? In comparison almost anything could be described as dinky.

Liesel has her tiny room in London that’s smaller than El’s yurt, but if the higher ups of London would have been even a little less greedy she could have had a much nicer apartment. On the other hand El does comment on a room the size of a prison cell that was the typical room size for an enclaver way back when.

But what is the average size for a golden enclave? I’m sure that it varies based off of how many people made it. Is it the size of a mansion? An apartment complex? A high school?? Maybe if you got enough people together you could make one the size of a college campus. That’s pretty big but still nothing compared to the size of a modern enclave.

El does comment that the planter Aadhya makes as her senior year midterm assignment would be perfect for a golden enclave, and it’s 15 feet long. Presumably you’d have several of these to help feed everyone.

I’d like to think it’s the size of a medium large apartment complex, with modestly sized apartments for each family/resident, and a few sizable common areas.

[intermundia]

Hi! Since I know you love Stover’s ROTS novelization, I wanted to ask you what you thought about that part of the novel where Obi-Wan is holding back tears at the thought of betraying Anakin’s trust? I’ve seen some people call this passage OOC because Obi-Wan wouldn’t get so emotional when doing what was required of him as a Jedi, but I thought it was a sign of how Obi-Wan’s relationship with Anakin was so strong that it was the one thing that could come close to making him second-guess his Jedi duties. Did you have any thoughts about it?

Yeah definitely, I think canon Obi-Wan is a deeply human character, who exhibits the full range of emotions over the course of the saga, and those emotions are why he's such a compelling figure in Anakin's tragedy. We see him crying multiple times, notably during the climax of the Kenobi show, as he is especially emotionally vulnerable to Anakin. He cares so deeply about his brother-son-student-friend, and that love is trapped in circumstances beyond his control.

Obi-Wan holding back tears in this passage dramatizes how overwhelmed he is by his conflicting desires he feels to protect and defend Anakin, and to do his duty to the Order and the Republic. He's doing his best to balance everything, and it's not going particularly well. Anakin is wounded and slipping away, and Obi-Wan's actions have contributed to the circumstances that hurt him. He doesn't realize that Anakin is dangerous yet, but he does know that he's losing his trust.

I think in this moment he's not exactly second guessing his commitment to the Order, but he does tacitly reveal that he finds Anakin's extreme loyalty to be sympathetic to some degree, even admirable, a sign of his big heart and his generous, reckless dedication to the people he loves. Obi-Wan struggles to criticize it, as he's complicit in it when it comes to Anakin. It's a flaw they share, to differing degrees. Obi-Wan is mostly able to moderate it, and Anakin simply is not.

We know that Obi-Wan doesn't deliver a coup de grace either time he defeats Anakin in combat, and you can argue about whether or not it is consistent with the Jedi philosophy or an abnegation of his duty, but his love for his Padawan is never in question. He does his duty by taking the fight to the Sith, but he also cannot actively kill him when handed the opportunity on a silver platter. He's not an emotionless repressed robot, he's a man gutted by his desire to cling to a friend who betrayed him, and doing everything he can to rise above it.

It's just important to me that Jedi like Obi-Wan cry—that they feel anger and grief and terror just as much as any other sentient creature. What they do is allow those emotions to flow through them and not blindly guide them. Yoda and Mace have compassion for Obi-Wan here, but they also expect him to separate himself from his emotions and look at the situation rationally. Obi-Wan does that, even if he has qualms and is pushing down tears. I think it's extremely compelling, not OOC.

[st4rstudent]

Various other one-sided swap doodles inspired by oomfs comments

[petrichormore]

The following is about Bad’s character not the CC!

I do wanna say that q!Bad’s insistence on wanting q!Forever to tell him he did a good job isn’t just because of any crush he has on him or whatever. It’s also because Forever is one of - if not the closest friend Bad has (tied with Baghera, or Max.)

And Bad is desperate to confirm that his closest friend/crush doesn’t just see him as a vending machine for resources/assistance/egg care. The reason he’s making such a big deal about it isn’t just drama - Bad is seriously starting to wonder if anyone on the island actually cares about him, or if they only talk to him because they need him to do something for them.

Because he told them about all the things he’d done for the island and what he wanted himself (he is saying “I will support you”), and they still elected Forever.

Because he told them he was on a vacation (he is saying “I am not okay”) and they called him crazy, and he was still expected always to be there. (With the exception of Baghera: who noticed and tried to talk to him, and Foolish: who noticed and let Bad build a roach-spawning summer home in his tower that is still there.)

Because he tells them hello and goodnight (he is saying “I miss you when you’re gone”) and they don’t do the same.

Bad is upset with Forever because he thinks he’s asking the question “Do you care about me?” and he thinks the answer is no.

Obviously, he isn’t. At least not in a way that’s easy to see - it’s not really Forever’s or anyone’s fault that he’s developed this mindset. And he is infamously terrible at communicating his feelings. But I do want to acknowledge that while “I want Forever’s attention and I’m too emotionally-constipated to admit it” is definitely part of it, there’s something deeper there too.

[milolunde]

We all know Timmy is Wanda’s mama’s boy but we need to keep in mind he’s still Cosmo’s kid too and that Cosmo would love him just as vehemently as Wanda

[discluded]

Apo really does not care the whole internet watched him notice and then ask Mile for this bright pink monstrosity, which Mile then IMMEDIATELY BOUGHT????

🫠🫠🫠🆗

Mile's face as he goes to do it. literally :D

WHY ARE YOU SO HAPPY ABOUT THIS MILE???

Not this blatant sugar baby/sugar daddy behavior right in front of our eyes 😩😩😩