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[athena-xox]

What if I said darings destiny isn’t the beast from beauty and the beast or at least him turning into a beast is more than just destiny magic

What if what if

Because hear me out. In a wonderlandiful world everyone is turning literal. Apple turns into an apple, Faybelle turns into a bell with wings, Raven into a raven, etc etc.

And instead of turning into a log of wood cedar turns into a real girl. Because of the truth curse placed on her it kick starts that magic.

And daring + Dexter turn into beasts. I’d say maybe it’s destiny magic turning them into beasts but Dexter too?

That seems like it’s family oriented. Almost as if it’s a family curse

(This is from dexters diary)

So when the jabberwocky uses its magic it does the same thing to Dexter & Daring that it does to cedar

Also like think about it. Why would the snow king curse daring to gradually turn into a beast?! Like not even a penguin or snow related animal. And everytime the snow king got mad he turned his servants immediately.

So his magic must have affected the family curse.

[shouldprobablybereading]

Hot take of the day is that I think sanderson not letting adolin murdering sadeas have any real consequences killed like 95% of interesting debate on the morality of it

[thomas-jefferson-miku-binder]

i feel like a douche for saying this because fandom spaces are for fun and you can do whatever you want in them. but man it sucks a bit how star trek has so much to praise and so much to be criticized for yet all i see is. ship talk.

like i love spirk just as much as anyone else but it feels a bit… frustrating, wanting to talk about the symbolism or the writers’ prejudice and how this series makes you hope for a better time while not actually offering it…

yeah i did like domestic spirk! but is that seriously all you have to say about the city on the edge of forever?

[switch347]

Video Games and I (Working Title)

So video games. They're fun, right? Let's discuss.

Any reblogs of this post I make will be short and simple reviews and experiences about video games (either individual games or entire franchises) I feel fond of.

[reginrokkr]

To bite my fist and resist the urge to give a honest opinion about something or let hell loose, that is the question...

[asbestos-11]

i've seen a lot of t/b discourse on twt the past few days mostly pertinent to ship names. as much as this is a sfw space, i'm still a fixed shipper.

iirc i made a post a while back asking for my avntio art not to be tagged as rtrn and that is because i dislike that certain dynamic. i don't enjoy the portrayal of the characters in it and i have the tag muted. i'm not gonna hark on it too much because we'll be here all day but tl;dr i dislike ratio being turned into a cold alpha mae and aven being woobified. i know a lot of people don't particularly care, but double tagging makes it a lot harder to find content. so by respecting my tags and not tagging my art as reverse/ double tagging, you'll be helping me and the people who don't want to see avntio content 👍

that does stand for other ship art as well, because frankly i don't want my art seen by people who dislike the dynamic portrayed.

yes i know that some of you don't particularly care and think that this ship name thing is total bs, but to me it isn't and i would very much appreciate it if you could respect my wishes ^^3

now back to our scheduled programming

[phoebebridgay]

Y’all know that tale of Sisyphus, forever doomed to push a boulder up a hill? Anyways unrelated I wonder how macdennis shippers are doing

[clonehub]

someone in the tags of that meme said they dont understand why tbb stans take criticism of their shows so personally. while i have a range of theories as to why, in general, fans of a show cannot just let people not like the show, the tbb stans in particular seem to....idk, think the bad batch is Doing Something? i did literally see someone say that you cant criticize the show because the animators work so hard on it, and they conflated negative feelings about the series with a lack of desire to see *any* aspect of the Bad Batch, like "yeah youre complaining but look at these nice visuals do you not want those anymore???" which was a false equivalency.

and of course there's the whole fandom-as-identity and stan-as-personality and a lot of people's growing inability to take variegated and holistic approaches to the series. even the ones who admit that the show has flaws regarding how they write wrecker seem to be unable to realize/point out that wrecker's writing is problematic because it is racist.

racism as a factor in the poor quality of the writing is one that ive noticed gets ignored almost COMPLETELY. i and others like me who do not like the bad batch are able to point out the stereotypes and poor optics and everything else while talking about the writing. people who love the bad batch cannot. i guess because then, admitting that the writing and animation are inextricably racist would make them look a little silly for loving the show so much, because you can say the character development was slow but you still love it. but you can say "yeah he's a racial stereotype and there was a weird reverse racism thread to their back story and they do make efforts to prove these white characters are better than these nonwhite ones--but i still love it".

but in general, since ive deviated a little, like....i remember when uwwtbb first came out and it was *incredibly* difficult for people to separate themselves from what they were consuming. people complained about the racism in the show and they complained about the more or less explicitly racist fans of the bad batch and you had other stans (who often had to bring up that they were poc, but obv not always) saying "well im not a bad person for watching the show" or asking if they could watch it. like i cant control what you watch. me passing judgement on you specifically makes no sense. although one does have to consider how much they're willing to tolerate, praise, or brush aside for the sake of their own personal entertainment. i am watching season 2 of the bad batch to keep track of any other racist developments that happen (which, thankfully, have been minimal). you are watching because you find joy in it. we are not the same. we dont need to be.

but connecting to what id said earlier about tbb stans i guess not understanding their own "buying power", so to speak--if criticizing a show means criticizing the people who watch the show, and if a lot of people who watch the show definitely don't care about the whitewashing that much, then there is no sense in acting shocked when the by products of a racist show are racist. the confusion over tech's 1/6th model as if he doesn't look like a boring white man in the series was irritating. you asked for this. you can't say tech is hot and you can't spread whitewashed fanart and you cannot implicitly and explicitly support the racist design and then turn around and be surprised when you are given exactly what you asked for.

[hillbillyoracle]

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[tam--lin]

I think it’s wild that, if you give it even a cursory google, everyone agrees that yeah, you should probably take a week long break every 2-3 months if you’re regularly lifting heavy. And yet, genuinely, this is the first I’m hearing about it.

[billskaarsgard]

Andrew Garfield talks to Elmo about grief and the passing of his mother

[mangosteen]

[cunning-and-cool]

idk man but something about Stanley "taught himself extremely advance physics/math/probably many other things while running a relatively successful business" Pines and Stanford "is wanted in almost every dimension with a judicial system of some kind" Pines is sooo fucking funny to me

[yeepof]

I understand that tall men are our POV characters, but surely being like a foot taller than everyone around them would have some occasional consequences

[gabrielora]

When I was younger and researching the autism diagnosis criteria and symptoms, I thought “oh I couldn’t POSSIBLY be autistic.” Because when I read “takes everything literally” I thought it literally meant EVERYTHING and I was like “I don’t take EVERYTHING literally, just most things!” And I just realized the other day that it didn’t actually mean EVERYTHING and that was an overstatement.