#this is wrong in two respects

[dickensianenglishbulldog]

Jeeves: “So you mean to say that you are the semi-childminder valet for your employer?”

Bunter: “Yes indeed! A delightfully loquacious employer?”

Jeeves: “Why yes, delightfully loquacious yet mentally negligable?”

Bunter: “Yes, a mental negligence that serves in fact as a front disguising a finely tuned mind and sensitive nerves?”

Jeeves: *mentally reviewing his time in Wooster’s service*:

“…”

Bunter: “Is that where we differ?”

Jeeves *thinking of The Inferiority Complex of Old Sippy; The Ordeal of Young Tuppy; The Indian Summer of an Uncle; every entrance of Aunt Agatha; Aunt Dahlia as a whole; Claude and Eustus in general; drainpipes; swans and every second of time since he entered Bertie’s employment*:

“Yes Mr Bunter I do believe that that is where we differ.”

[hinamie]

congrats on your recovery n all yuuji but unfortunately for you I thought the scars were cool >:/

[erinwantstowrite]

« dick is a playboy » no he is not if you want one you have bruce right here

REAL! he says so many times that he's not a fan of hookup culture and that he's a very monogamous person. they think because he's pretty and other people have an attraction to him, that it makes him a player?? and don't even get me started on how the fandom treats him a lot of the time. in that one art i made a few months ago, that was directly referencing this very thing about his character, someone complained that i needed to take the bandages off his chest. like guess what babe you missed the entire point

[vaguely-concerned]

having seen at least the rough outlines of all the romances now I have to say that I think emmrich's is probably objectively the best in terms of coherence and completeness of story arc (with the understanding that ultimately the 'best' romance is whichever one makes YOUR heart sing anyway so objectivity is a silly thing to claim that way, it just felt like it's the arc with the most well-paced focused content and the least dangling threads)... but lucanis' is my favourite haha. just. the whole kneeling before your beloved full of reverence but without any of the distance that usually implies??? his complete undramatic certainty and calm in every scene with rook after this, having spent the whole game caught between fear and longing???? mr. lives in a pantry but it says nothing about my psyche don't worry about it it's purely for tactical reasons that I keep myself contained in a small dark room not entirely unlike a cell, love among the parsnips -- finally coming to rook in their room and it's so comfortable and comforting???? after all the times rook supports and comforts him through the game he's finally able to return the same to them when they need it while being so calm and steady and it's so fucking sweet and feels so effortless and with no price attached?????? he basically assigns himself the role of your bodyguard and he WILL stab a god over it??????????????? the turn to protector (which was in his heart all along longing to get out and find a place) of it all????? he sounds like he's found himself unexpectedly stumbling into such a soul-lightening state of revelatory existential relief, full on 'you only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves' mary oliver style, and he goes and he shares that with rook and protectively envelops them in it when they're hurting??????????????????????????? hello for the maker's sake hello can anyone hear me?????

[jinbedreams]

It's been so fascinating to see how strongly people react to Toshiro in Dungeon Meshi. When I first read that scene I didn't feel hurt by Toshiro's rejection of Laois at all, I was more shocked at Laios raising a hand to him in anger because Laios had always felt like a man free from such anger and aggression. Although it was very powerful to see that Laios was capable of feeling such a way. I felt the scene was very emotionally charged and an important moment for both characters.

So when I started hearing about how hurt other people were at seeing Toshiro lash out in frustration towards Laios, and seeing people express discomfort towards Toshiro I was surprised but not confused. Honestly I was more surprised at myself for not having a similar reaction because I have also been subject to being led on in "friendships" that the other person secretly despised (or at least did NOT feel the same). It can be very hurtful to discover that someone has built a resentment towards you but never made any attempt to clear the air with you until a point of crisis.

I am autistic and I struggle a lot with relationships but in this instance I didn't see myself in Laios' shoes (although I have been there) instead I found myself relating to Toshiro. A man trapped by social expectations, rigid rules of engagement hammered into him from a young age, only to discover that there is someone who does not follow these rules at all. Even more bizarrely they seem completely free from any of the consequences that would befall Toshiro if he ever deviated from his carefully cultivated mask.

I can say from experience it is confronting to try and unpack your own high masking trauma while also feeling compelled to support the low masking autistic person in your life. Even if the other person means no ill will and has not truly done anything wrong, having them unknowingly walk all over you can be enough to push you to a breaking point. There is an intense frustration that comes with seeing someone else get away with not following the social rules you have beaten yourself painfully into shape to fit.

Yes Toshiro could have chosen any moment to correct Laios on his name, or clarify his discomfort or his personal boundaries, but that is operating under the assumption that Toshiro feels safe enough to do so. He is a stranger in a strange land, and often in that position it is a safer choice to subject yourself to a level of discomfort simply to keep the general peace. Where my fellow high maskers at? We make biting our tongue a fucking art.

[rpmemegraveyard]

PSA: This RP Blog is firmly Anti-AI.

There's been somebody (or some people) using anonymous messages going around certain RPC's threatening people that if they don't become less selective and write with them, they'll use their writing to feed an AI so they can write with that instead.

Not only is this weird and blatantly creepy, as people are allowed to be as selective as they please and threatening someone only looks bad on your end. Even outside of the broad debates about AI, AI generated work has no place in the RPC, a collaborative hobby between artists and writers to engage with another human being.

This blog will not engage with people who openly use AI to generate writing, graphics, or whatever the machine coughs out with stolen work. AI's are well documented to scrape different places for data. You are using stolen work. AI generated content, writing especially, goes against what the RPC stands for. End of story.

[shiraoyagi]

"i'm wxs's number one fan" yeah, only if kohane azusawa is found dead in a ditch any time soon

[yandere-daydreams]

what is your opinion on one piece?

i understand that as a life-long fairy tail stan this is the most hypocritical take i could have, but you will never see me sitting through, like, a thousand episodes of a show where the women all have g cups and waists that would break under the weight of a strong breeze. it simply does not sit right with me.

[al-luviec]

juvie buddies

[kristybluebird]

Kozue accession as one of many surprises in an anarchic last year of operation at Ohtori.

In my freshman year of highschool there was a group of kids who spent 8th grade as the last class of students at a middle school that was to be decommissioned. The teachers were all either waiting to jump ship or retiring, a lot of work went undone, alot of student cruelty went unchecked. The upkeep was dismal, the roof leaked, light bulbs that extinguished themselves were not replaced, the students were only allowed in certain parts of the school. There seemed to be a liminality to the experience, spending most of your days within walls that would be torn down that very summer.

That's how I imagine Ohtori without Anthy and her power, a strange dwindling thing still shook by the conclusion of normality and humming with anticipation of the deathblow.

Anyway, Kozue Co-prez!

[declawedwildcat]

I understand why Towa and Aoba get lots of fan content together, and I can get behind that, but really the sets we need are Towa+Akira and Aoba+Konoe. Pairs that have enough in common they would get along a little too well

[undead-moth]

I know I've been on about this for a while now and I'm being a hater but you're telling me SydCarmy was "always meant to be platonic" even though there are two seasons of writing making use of tried-and-true explicitly romantic tropes, themes and writing signals, and SydLuca is going to be romantic because...he was nice to her on screen for a few minutes?

I don't even care if people ship SydLuca, or if they just prefer it, but you can't honestly tell me that you believe Carmy was always meant to be a friend but Luca is an obvious love interest.

Just because Syd and Carmy haven't kissed or confessed their love to each other doesn't mean that isn't very obviously the direction this show is going. The Bear has already shown you who is endgame. It has shown you every episode of the show so far.

Honestly I really don't think The Bear fanbase understands this show or cares about these characters or the story being told here, which is unfortunate because this show is shockingly well-written in comparison to most shows right now, and we should be so grateful for it but all we're doing is complaining that the writers led us on by not making a ship canon fast enough. It's just. Sad.

[historicallyaccuratecheese]

i’m never getting over how shovel knight decided to make a love story about a socially anxious mad scientist plague doctor bird guy trying to impress a hot goth girl by crafting a potion of unlimited power and then it ended up being the greatest romance ever conceived.

please play these games.

[sonknuxadow]

my reaction to that information

[rabid-catboy]

Trying to read whipping girl. Fascinated by the world Serano lives in where butch dykes have never been called traitors for their masculinity. "Female-bodied" people are never forced into feminity and cis women are brave for wearing makeup and skirts to work in her world, I guess. Wish I lived there. (Also, the idea that men being weird about purses and lipstick is somehow evidence that feminity can be more fierce and dangerous than masculinity is absolutely bonkers. Why are we defining fierceness based on men's reactions)

Oh, nevermind, apparently trans women are ridiculed for masculinity and only trans women, no one else. No other group woman or person seen as such has faced that

But wait! To ridicule masculinity would require questioning it, I thought 🤔 I guess that logic doesn't apply to trans women, though, just everyone else, for some reason (choosing to ignore the phrasing of "*perceived* masculine tendency" because the word perceived there literally changes nothing. all masculinity is perceived masculinity)

P.S. I believe those are called "personality traits" and the categorization of them into a gendered binary is perhaps artificial actually

P.P.S. These quotes are not necessarily in the order they are arranged in within the book, but, given they were written by the same person, and the context and order of them in the book doesn't make them any better, I do not feel that presenting them out of order is deceitful

[thelastharbinger]

I love how each episode of loki has set aside built-in time for loki and mobius to banter. The show is self-aware enough to know that regardless of ships, they are the primary relationship in this program and that their showcase of chemistry is what audiences want to see. And boy do they know how to dangle that carrot. Is it necessary to stand so close to each other while you bicker, boys? Huh?

Aside: cancel your disney ploos subscription. just pirate the show.