#this is a very kind reaction lol

[minaabitaa]

“Neve is so mean after Minrathus”

… is she? Regardless of the fact that Rook had to make an impossible decision, anyone would be upset/angry/etc. People getting executed left and right, her neighborhood, where she grew up, in SHAMBLES….

I feel like I’d be inconsolable. Her reaction is pretty mature. She’s just not in the mood to talk for a while.

[vaguely-concerned]

thinking about not only the specific people lucanis pulls in to represent the 'locks' in his psyche, but the storytelling that happens in the structure/order of them. the underlying ideas are presented something like:

the lucanis who went into the ossuary never came back out again; he died down there (the boy caterina raised is gone forever) -> you're putting yourself in danger doing this (by being close to me), you should leave because I can't bear it if you get hurt because of me -> it doesn't matter even if we do try this, it won't work anyway (again because of me) ('you know what he's like, you can open the door but he won't walk through it' :'( oofie doofie) -> what if the real secret is that there was never anything but the monster in here from the beginning. you should leave, there was never anything here worth saving in the first place. (implicitly: what if I deserved what happened, all along.)

it runs pretty cleanly from outward-oriented attachment anxiety ('caterina won't even want me back like this, she won't recognize me (the same way I no longer recognize myself)) and gradually deeper inwards until we reach self-image and self worth. or you know, the harrowing basic lack of it lol.

"careful -- they'll know we're not right," spite says in one of their first scenes... but clearly, some very deep part of lucanis has feared or suspected for much longer than that that there's something inherently not right at the core of him, way before any demon entered the picture. and the voice he gives those lines to is the person who should know him better than anyone in the world, who he has loved more than anyone in the world -- and who deliberately chose to hurt him so horrifically anyway. 'It's better if I'm just a monster and deserved what happened than it is to allow for the idea that the brother I love doesn't really exist and maybe never did'. it's better if he's fundamentally flawed in some way that needed fixing to help him survive, and that's why caterina chose to hurt him again and again -- out of love. (this one I think he might have a very sad wakeup call on one day if he ever ends up with the responsibility and care of a child of his own in some way and realizes just how alien the idea of ever intentionally hurting them for any reason is to him. oh buddy. also interesting that he keeps caterina as the outermost lock -- there IS a distance he keeps there that he hasn't with illario. he doesn't resent her 'anymore' he says, but he also keeps her carefully further away from his deepest self.)

as far as I could tell the only note in the mind prison that's fully hidden and needs to be uncovered is the sad painful helpless stupid little truth that even after all this, even knowing what happened... he still loves his brother. is there anything illario could ever do that would make lucanis completely stop loving him, do you think? sometimes the trouble with unconditional love is that it is, well. unconditional, even when some terms and conditions probably would have been in order haha.

that's the pattern you see there again and again; he would rather destroy and abandon and imprison himself at every turn than let go of love, even when it's just scraps, even when there's only ever enough of it to hurt him. it's only when rook shows up and as it were takes his hand and walks along with him that he can entertain the idea of changing the story of what walking out the door might mean in the end.

[toneelspeelster]

the way your body feels to me

[uhbasicallyjustmilex]

that’s some… interesting body language there alexander 👀

[normalbrothers]

TOMMY: Arthur, Frances was right. Linda was here today.

[pens-and-paperbacks]

Nosferatu (2024) is just as sexually charged as everyone said it would be and as much as the crew intended.

This one is for the budding monsterfuckers, I think. Like, you haven't seen a lot of monster/human stuff but you're interested.

For those of us who have been around and seen more of that, I feel like you'll still enjoy it. Mostly because all of us are spooky aligned in our likes and the movie is a perfect gothic horror in mood and cinematography.

I personally feel like Count Orlok wasn't given enough screen time but the way Bill Skarsgård played him was so good that his presence was absolutely overwhelming (in a good, scary way) every single scene he was in.

The whole cast gave it 100% and overall it's truly a fantastic movie.

[missstar489]

So my collectors edition of the game came in this past week and im going to turn into living song and slip into the cracks of the moon in delight

Pin that i love is atached to my favorite hat already the stand is right next to one of my favorite dragons the stickers poster and thick fat art book is being kept safe in the biiiig box and now that its my day off i finally have the time to play a few levels in this game and fall into ALL THE PITS !!!

[korrolrezni]

John: *Asks Arthur to do something*

Arthur ( randomly) : Yes, my king.

John:

[ndostairlyrium]

I read a text post about a character and it had super surface level shit, but it was presented as "look at Frank from this angle", and it was just

frontal picture with one focus perspective kind of deal. It described information that was given blatantly in the game, however the post presented it as a revelation of some sort? Where's the angle?

But then I thought that maybe not all people are into said character, or maybe their focus was elsewhere while playing, or whatever. And like,

That's so not a big deal, I can't blame others for not getting something on the go, why should I go to my friends and laugh about them for not getting something that I saw and they didn't? Also, I may not even be right about Frank. How about that?

I remember back in the ME fandom people reading way too much into a beloved character, and when some of the universally accepted analyses were brought to their writer, their answer was "you're reading way too much into this".

Imagine asking something very basic to an expert out of genuine curiosity because you're not seeing what their trained eye sees, and their reaction would be laughing in your face and call you stupid. Except that nobody is an expert and you're asking for help on how to make cutouts

Isn't the most important thing that we're passionate about the same thing? Because like, the more I thought about my instinct of just, wanting to roast that post (and consequently the person) with my friends, the more I remembered seeing the same attitude around, frequently, and lately it's so severe that it prompted others to make polls on feeling stupid for enjoyed things (the number of people picking yes, holy shit, that was heartbreaking)

I like Frank, they like Frank, maybe we should focus on this rather than bringing out the pedestals, and I'm talking to myself first because I tend to do this when I like something so intensely that my perspective becomes The Perspective(TM). And it isn't.

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tl;dr: feeling superior on something to the point of wanting to shame others for approaching the same topic in a different way isn't cute

[angorwhosebabyisthis]

honestly it's been really healing being back to actively contributing things and writing out thoughts on tumblr the last week or so, because while twitter tends to be easier for me to write out Thoughts on without getting overwhelmed, the environment in the twitter fandom circles i'm interested in is not only infested with antis but cliqueish in a way that is caustic to the fucking soul if you try to express a thought that's more than three sentences long--a hundred times over if you're autistic in slightly the wrong way--and it's incredibly reassuring to come back to an environment where the very kindest and most inclusive people toward you are not clearly thinking the r-slur the entire time they interact with you lmao

[the-moogle-of-your-nightmares]

one thing i really deeply wish is that i'd had access as a kid to the plural community and information that are more easily available today, instead of my first experience with plural community which both took it seriously and was nonjudgmental having been 10's era tul/pa.info lmao

[gayofthefae]

Tell me I'm not the only one whose first instinct was that he was oggling Monty.

[tj-crochets]

I want to be working on making the goat in a dress but I am recovering from a moderate allergic reaction and should sit still for a bit, so instead, please send me asks about sewing or crocheting! Or ask for pattern links if there's anything in particular you are looking to make, I love finding plushie patterns

[deus-ex-mona]

flashtag ✨ignored✨

[microsuedemouse]

so, halfway through my shift today, I learned that it was a beloved coworker’s 20th birthday (she’s a wee baby). I also learned that she was spending it writing an exam in the morning and then working 2:30-10, which is kind of not a super fun way to spend a birthday, if we’re being honest.

however.

I have been learning to crochet.

Facebook quickly figured out I’ve been learning to crochet, and keeps showing me posts from crochet groups. One of the most popular beginner amigurumi I keep seeing in these groups: a snake.

I thought it would be fun to try crocheting a snake.

I also happen to know that snakes are this coworker’s favourite animal, because in December I asked a bunch of people at work their favourite animals and made them little keychains featuring said animals as holiday gifts. (except for the one guy who thought I asked his favourite anime, and therefore received a jujutsu kaisen keychain, lmao.)

therefore,

I am crocheting a little baby snake for her.

it’s so cute already. I can’t wait to give it to her tomorrow

[carefulfears]

Explain what you said on Twitter

assuming that you're talking about when i said that imo the conversations around "scully, you're making this personal" aren't aligned with the intent/impact of the scene (actually i think what i said was that the scene is very serious but y'all never talk about what's serious about it so you loop back around to being unserious) and tbh i can do a post on my own feelings about the scene sometime when i'm feeling more with it if y'all want but i just meant that people bitch about that line every single day talking about how it's hypocritical and how infuriating it is and how much you hate mulder in s6 etc etc but i literally never see anyone even think about like...the actual meaning of the scene and implications of the line and the context and where they're each coming from. it's all just a very shallow and reactionary discussion in my experience

(i ended up talking more in the tags lol i never shut up in the tags)