#they massacred his character

[preciouspatriots]

they could never make me hate you. even though what you was doin' wasn't tasteful. even though you out here lookin' so ungrateful. i’ma keep it movin' be classy and graceful.

[evilvalentin3]

they are bringing out something so middle school in my art

i am cringe but free 🦇

[knifetomeatu]

still devastated abt chop top but i LOVE bones so at least things worked out😭❤

[littlestkoi-n]

the rage I feel when reading Blood of Olympus chapters 45-56 is almost equivalent in magnitude to the absolute joy I experience when reading The Last Olympian chapters 1-23.

remember when percabeth was good? when they meant the world to each other but had other people they cared about (nico, for one. both of them. so much), other worries and other storylines aside from their romantic plot? and when nico's completed arc wasn't repeated for no reason other than to dump more trauma on the youngest character in the series? when background characters were included in the story not for all the unnecessary last minute romantic subplots but because they were fun and fascinating to learn more about? and were actually friends with main characters? remember when grover was percy and annabeth's best friend forever? and antagonists were actually interesting and intimidating and had compelling goals? and the story revolved around friendship and family and loyalty? and death was definite and loss was palpable and battles were thrilling?

yeah. good times.

[archiveofliterature]

that one line about ramy's bangla being rudimentary made me absolutely sob (i'm bengali) and i wanna talk about why

there's so much to it both contextually with ramy's character as well as historically. contextually because ramy is fluent in 6 languages, an insane number of languages for one person but none of which are his mother tongue. he's described as a performer, one who knows he can't blend in so instead he stands out as a means to escape as much of the racism as he can. he gets lost in it that he almost forgets who he is; this is reflected in his language ability too – he gets so lost in his linguistic academics he just barely remembers the native language of his home place that he adores.

and honestly, you can't even really blame ramy for it at all when it was induced. it's the british who saw urdu, arabic and persian as more valuable than bangla, it's the british that make ramy put on this act so he can literally stay alive. and when you know the historical relevancies between urdu and bangla, it hurts so much that ramy was forced to forget bangla

very brief history context: after the partition, where british india was split into india, pakistan and east pakistan (now bangladesh) bangla was seen as inferior to urdu due to its hindu connections. bengalis experienced so much shit because of this (and bengali muslims are still dealing with the internalised cultural racism today honestly). pakistanis tried to make the official language urdu, even though literally everyone in east pakistan were bengali and spoke bangla, so bengalis fought back against it. we still celebrate that day today (feb 21)

so to have ramy be in this position in the 1830s where urdu was seen as superior to bangla, especially when ramy is a bengali muslim, is just extremely accurate?? and maybe it's bc we don't have much western literature where we talk about this but it's just so nice to have it acknowledged

the bangla language movement didn't happen until around the 1950s, over a century after babel's timeline, but the seeds are always there. while i do think it comes with both this islamic superiority tendency a lot of asians have (arabs i'm looking at you) and britian's imperialistic racism, i just love how it all makes sense

[ultimateanthropoll]

Massacre Round 17: Cartoon Network vs An Anime Girl

Rigby (racoon; Regular Show) vs. Michiru Kagemori (tanuki; BNA: Brand New Animal) vs. Gumball Watterson (cat; The Amazing World of Gumball) vs. Nico the Catboy (cat; Adventure Time OC)

Submitters say:

"FACTUALLY the best character in all of RS and one of the BEST written developed characters I've ever fucking seen 💚" (Rigby)

"Best girl" (Michiru)

"i hope he wins because he was born on tumblr and it would be funny :)" (Nico)

[djevelbl]

"Have fun you guys!" Actually goes CRAAZYYY when you spawn a wither rIGHT ON TOP OF YOUR ENEMIES--

[chirpsythismorning]

S5 opener REAL

[anghraine]

Speaking of my TOS watch, I've noticed that the writing for Kirk in particular has gotten sharply worse overall in S3 (also for other characters, but less obtrusively), yet when it's good, it's really satisfying.

I loved both Kirk and Spock in "For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky", for instance. It's a good episode in general (maybe one of the least awful about women in TOS) and a really nice McCoy episode as well, but I enjoy how Kirk and Spock are kind of confused about McCoy's marriage but ultimately willing to support their friend. And it ends not only w/ McCoy's cool wife surviving and becoming even more of a leader of her people than she was before (and this framed as unambiguously Good) but Kirk and Spock iirc assuring McCoy that they'll figure out the occasional detour to her colony so McCoy can visit her without leaving his career behind. And while Spock was a flanderized dick in "That Which Survives" (if in a way that can easily be read in K/S terms), it's got one of my favorite Kirk moments:

Kirk [to Sulu]: Your report covers all vegetation? Sulu: Yes, Captain. All vegetation is inedible. Poison to us. McCoy: If the Enterprise has been destroyed, you know how long we can survive?? Kirk [grimly]: Yes. [pause] I don't see any water, but there must be some to grow the vegetation. A source of water would stretch our survival. Did you see any evidence of rainfall?

Shatner doesn't overplay the moment IMO, but there's a quiet weight to him being The Starvation Expert of the team given uhhhhh his personal history—and also the fact that this episode is one of few that (in a completely different scene) explicitly acknowledges other TOS episodes.

[protagonist-art]

he's dead by the time rdr2's story begins but i'm pretending he's not

[cluescorner]

I cannot imagine being a Damian stan right now. You've got both Zdarsky's bullshit (where he clearly doesn't give a shit about your boy) and The Boy Wonder (where Juni Ba clearly gives so many shits about your boy) coming out on the same day. The whiplash must be insane. I hope y'all get some nice warm soup for your efforts jfc

[autumn-foxfire]

The travesty of Gosho's writing of Toichi. He really wants the man to be the worst dad in DCMK.

Let's just fake my death and let my teenage son deal with that trauma by taking up my former mantle and putting his life in danger all the time! Father of the year!

[noeavoiding]

Charlie Kelly as Fintan McGurk || Bodkin (2024-)

[galactic-blitz707]

Gala what's your type?

My Type:

[fuck-edfrugs]

Hateeeeee the idea of scarecrow and glinda because what tf are you talking abouttttttt that's a goddess witch queen and she is a lesbian and her gf is the witch of the North and scarecrow is too busy with his pretty Tin husband and his human daughter and lion bestie who has a tiger boyfriend

Also generally hate scarecrow having existed pre oz books. That is some RPT shit

[fortheloveofkiller]

Kid isn’t always mean to Caldia.