#they aren’t the only options

[tolkpopfan]

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[dykedvonte]

I think it’s so ironic that the Pony Express escapes a lot if not all blame in discussion. I can’t even say I am excused from it but it’s just how hard people circle back to the characters alone without considering the environment they were made to be in.

Why would they design a ship where only two of the rooms lock? Not the bathroom? Not the sleeping quarters? We assume that all the companies in the universe are this shallow and careless to their workers but we explicitly know the Pony Express in extra vile. They are fed processed slop pack they can’t even really cook and the ration of those pack is meager at best. They hired and made people with a plethora of conflicting demeanors and beliefs work together on a mission where cohesion is important if not an outright necessity and punish them for not being happy about it. There’s no social protocols, not chain of command other than Captain’s word/choice and the only way to enforce that is with a literal firearm. They don’t allow them to celebrate freely and even took away leisure activities that would make them less stir crazy. They are only allowed a few hours of sleep despite their being no other real responsibilities or work on the ship, no matter the position or its importance. With any crew, with any level of synergy, this was a powder keg waiting for a spark.

I’m not saying characters that made mistakes didn’t make huge ones, but I think part of the horror is that at least for some (this is targeting Jimathan) those mistakes are partly made by a force of the hand. There’s a running theme of lack of choice and being forced into something and the very nature of how The Pony Express expected them to function plays a big part.

[moonshynecybin]

please i need you to elaborate about a rosquez proposal 🙏🏻. how, when and where would it be?

rosquez proposal is so interesting to me because i really dont think reconciliation solves all of their problems. like. sepang! somewhat yes. competition! if marc’s retired sure. THAT whole awful breakup and friction sage is mostlyish (the body does in fact keep the score sorry dudes) resolved. BUT. that does not get rid of some of vale’s weird gun-shy child of divorce marriage issues that in part (in rpf world) have compelled him to push marc away as hard as he could for some years…. like sure now he knows he’s COMMITTED he’s IN LOVE he’s IN THIS he’s subsumed marc into his life entirely and he’s HAPPY ! but resolving all that does not in fact fix his various neuroses i suspect. marriage is kind of the last hurdle that he’s scared to jump because it really DOES mean there’s no easy exit ramp if he gets hurt (again he was WILDLY hurt by the betrayal he made up in his head in 2015 lmao)…. and i also suspect marc of crazybananas loyalty complex (and valentino rossi abandonment trauma lmao) fame wants to get married frankly yesterday, and every second vale DOESNT propose he gets antsier and antsier…. so i do think it’s a moment a couple years post reconciliation where maybe they already have a KID and marc (less stir crazy about abandonment post baby lmao) snaps while they’re maybe. unloading the groceries or something mundane and domestic out of fucking NOWHERE and is like are you EVER going to propose to me?? and vale’s in his khakis munching on a cheese stick eyes HUGE like. UH. and then they elope and have a big ass ranch party a bit later after he does in fact put a ring (that he’s had for a year at this point just STEWING) on it.

[valewritessss]

Say what you want about thinking Percy only remembered Annabeth because Hera left her in his memory but for the love of everything just let people have their romantic little headcanon

[zorosdimples]

happy monday! i come bearing a picrew—i hope everyone has a wonderful week <3

[arrows-unofficial-ocs]

𝕺𝕮 𝕳𝖆𝖑𝖑𝖔𝖜𝖊𝖊𝖓 𝕮𝖍𝖆𝖑𝖑𝖊𝖓𝖌𝖊 • 𝔇𝔞𝔶 8: 𝔐𝔲𝔩𝔱𝔦𝔳𝔢𝔯𝔰𝔢

⤷ Maybe you have multiple ocs with the same faceclaim, maybe you have a friend(s) who have ocs with the same faceclaim that you’ve wanted to do a crossover with, or maybe you want your oc to meet some of the actual characters their faceclaim has played. No matter what it is, it’s time for your ocs to meet their multiverse counterparts!

In which Ian Radcliffe (disney’s descendants) meets Declan O’Donnell-Lee (hp next gen era) and the two learn that just because you share a face and are both middle kids doesn’t mean that everything about you is the same. (starring kit connor as ian and declan)

[fierykitten2]

I may actually need Pokémon Sleep. These are adorable

[monsterhugger]

sometimes I feel like non-Americans expect us to like. stage a military coup and enact an entirely new system of government

[beneathashadytree]

Gentle reminder that I write for a gender-neutral MC with zero physical descriptions! Only when pregnancy is involved do I write that they’re AFAB. Other than those cases, it’s as vague as possible to make sure that everyone in the fandom feels included!

[more ranting in the tags oops]

[dykedvonte]

I really do like character design in mouthwashing

Anya is obvi inspired by Shelley Duval (who was also verbally abused by Cubric, if I recall correctly), the Shining protagonist. Curly is your typical captain America style charismatic leader, he is even canonically a gym bro (although I recall you mentioning that if Curly's pre-crash face wasn't revealed, you would've headcanoned him as black, so I am a bit curios, what his dynamic w/ Jimmy would've been. Like, I think this little piece of sht would be casually racist towards him, he is just that sort of asshole. If the story was set at our times he would've def vote for Trump and complain abt immigrants eating dogs or something equally rediculous lol. Also, his dynamic w/ Anya - being marginalised himself would've he been harder on Jimbo's bullshit? Or would that not matter at all in their particular situation? So many possibilities.)

Daisuke is a bright spot in an otherwise dull and grey space. Swansea is simply perfect, 10/10😁

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I don’t think Jimmy would be racist towards Curly or anyone for that matter.

Like I don’t see Jimmy as a misanthrope. He’s not hateful just to be hateful, he’s spiteful. All of his envy and resentment of others comes from his own projection of shared aspects he feels inferior by. I think the biggest difference is it adds a little more ire to Jimmy’s sentiments as it takes away an easy aspect of Curly’s life. I assume Mouthwashing operates in a similar social history and structure as our world so Curly likely faced prejudices based on his race in this scenario. He had something extra outside of his control weighing him down and yet he still reached that highest rung.

For Jimmy it’s infuriating. It feeds that delusion that Curly has it so much easier, that he doesn’t have to do the real work to get to that space. He should’ve struggled more, he should be more bitter but he isn’t. He’s not like him still and he’s pissed about it. He still wouldn’t understand the underlying and systemic issues Curly would’ve faced cause he can’t. He wouldn’t try to because in doing that it’s an admission he’s just not trying like Curly is. Any comments that could be seen as racist are less targeted at Curly’s ethnicity but just at him. Jimmy’s issues are with Curly as a whole, being so idealic compared to him and everything around him. It’s not just one facet of him physically, mentally or emotionally that makes Jimmy so envious. It’s why he’s obsessed, it everything about him.

As for Anya, this is no anger toward you, but there’s this perception in fandom spaces with intersectionality that sharing a minority status creates an equal understanding of what exact struggles the others go through. You can understand the feeling of oppression but certain aspects of certain systems will still be misunderstood if they don’t apply to you. Curly is still a man and Anya a woman. Perhaps she is a woman of color, it think he may have been a bit harsher to Jimmy as he would be aware of the racial factors at play when it comes to the dehumanization and sexism perpetrated towards WOC but he still wouldn’t get it as a man.

It’s like apples and oranges to where they are both fruit but being categorically the same doesn’t make them identical. I can not describe to you the taste of an apple by using an orange. Anya would no more understand Curly’s struggles being black than he would her being the only woman on board. Of course they share the similarity of being the only one but even in this case we do work off the assumption everybody but Daisuke is white. He’d inherently have more solidarity with him on that aspect than her.

[squidgirlautism]

i dont think goyim should have particularly strong feelings about what jews should think about living in the diaspora Tbh

[grievedifferent]

ive been editing my posts as i go but for josh, i finally have an idea for his sexuality and experience: a) he will always encourage others first to “go in for the kill” under the idea (and reputation) he does this all the time. there is both truth and lie to that. he is experienced, but only so far — meaning no penetration, just all the other bases. however, he definitely lets people think he’s more experienced than he is. he’s also only had sexual contact with women to the point we see him. he’s been encouraged to pursue women since puberty, so he does. he’s very flirty. but he’s also very “big bro” and just generally “bro”-coded that it makes sense for his personality. i see him as closeted bi (if he’s hiding his mental health, he’s hiding his sexuality) with a male leaning preference since women make him uncomfortable until he gets to know them. almost a demi thing. this just means, simply put, josh prefers men, but he is attracted to women. he is closeted. he is also a bit confused. he would call himself gay (to himself only) if this genuine attraction to women wasn’t present. he knows what being bi is — he’s in the industry, he’s a young guy socially aware, but he doesn’t know what him being anything means to him. he needs to pass a straight. he has a lot on his shoulders, his family’s reputation is everything, and he feels like no one would validate him — he would just be “straight or gay”, and that doesn’t really fit for him. he likes to call himself “open minded” — he’s just closeted and confused. he doesn’t even have a high romance trait, actually has the lowest, so i think with his other struggles combined with this one, the hookups at parties when drinking and under the influence, the general flirting … it’s all enough to keep him seeming how he thinks he should be.

[beebmo]

people online act like being trans is such a beautiful wonderful thing and that it’s soooo amazing that you get to become the person you want to be or whatever but i honestly can’t see it as anything but a curse for me in particular

[mechahero]

//Looking through an old info doc brought up some things I’ve been meaning to do on here but forgot or never got around to and came across a snippet that mentions that Lambda kills people but only because he feels like he’s been pinned into a corner and like there’s no other options available to him depending on the kind of person he’s dealing with.