#utter bullshit post

[20sturnedmeemo-punk]

Admittedly, yes, a lot of men suck.

But I hear that just comes with being into oral sex, so, genuinely, I feel like they should suck to keep things fair and equal.

[gonnalosemydougdimmadomedamnmind]

I deserve financial compensation every time I have to read a post that posits that Jason is actually the good big brother that's there for his siblings and Dick is the big mean golden child that can do whatever he wants and turns his siblings away when they need help. I'd have like a gajillion dollars now.

This bothers me so much specifically because it's the exact opposite of canon, in Dick's case anyway. Ain't nobody going to Jason for help in the first place. I really can't get past the backwards logic of it all. No, the utter lack of logic. Like it's the Exact Opposite.... The Exact Opposite!!! How did you come to this conclusion???

Well, I mean, I know- you don't read the comics AND you take everything at face value. I get it, when I first entered the fandom- the way people talk about Dick and Jason and Tim and Damian? They'd have you believe that Jason and Tim were delivered to Earth by angels with a chorus singing in the heavens and a light following them everywhere their delicate, innocent feet went. Everything they do is either Justified or Morally Correct. Nothing is Ever Their Fault. They deserve your sympathy and awe, and nothing short of worship is an attack on their character. They'd have you believe that Dick is a Monster, that Everything is his fault, that he's an inherently bad and selfish person because He Tried but He Didn't Devote Himself Entirely to Jason and Tim and Thats Bad and He Deserves To Be Punished For It and that Damian is a Demon, that he's always going to make the choice that serves himself and hurts others, that even though he's a 10 year old boy with a complicated, abusive upbringing, Everything is His Fault Entirely and He Doesn't Deserve Understanding or Mercy.

That's what you see and hear when you enter this fandom. And unless you actually read the comics or do the research by looking through blogs with meta commentary on the comics (with panels provided) or interact with fan media that is based on the comics And Not The Fanon- this is the false opinion that remains.

It drives me crazy that people refuse to engage with the actual canon of something they claim to be a fan of. What are you a fan of if you have no idea what you're talking about? It drives me crazy, because theres so much of this fanon content, you have to literally dig and dig and dig and dig and dig and dig to find the truth. And the truth is so Unbelievably, Undeniably

Not That.

In fact, in most cases whatever you read- the opposite is what actually happened. Or what you read is Entirely Made Up to make one character, (Dick and Damian), look bad in order to prop up the other character, (Jason and Tim). Then people get angry when you point that out, for ruining 'the fun' or their false perception of their fave character. Well I'm angry for having to do it in the first place.

[chaoticbuggybitchboy]

Tics sound so made up. Like yeah. I will repeat things until I’m out of breath. And twitch and stuff and snap my fingers weirdly. Can I control it? That seriously depends on your definition of ‘control’ because it’s somewhere between an itch and a compulsion and literally completely out of my control. I routinely yeet my pencils. But I can play bass guitar and you would absolutely think I should be kept as far as possible from sewing or something like welding but actually that’s when I’m in the most control of my body. The most common treatment/accommodation is to literally just ignore it and distract yourself with fine motor tasks. Tell me that doesn’t sound fake. This is a made up thing but it’s not. This is a real thing it just sounds so made up.

[autisticrosewilson]

So do you guys actually think that Jason's entire story, relationship to the others, and philosophy amounts to him being a rebellious teen who wants his dad's attention? Like are you 100% serious? I thought you were joking about that but too many of you are saying it with your whole chest.

And what the fuck is this "Bruce antagonizing Jason is fanon!" Shit I've been seeing? You guys are aware that a parent can love their kid and still be a shit parent right? I know you guys don't want to fathom the thought that maybe your blorbo might also occasionally have to face responsibility for consistently endangering children but let's not start being delusional now.

Bruce does love his kids, that doesn't mean that he hasn't hurt them. And I'd also argue that for the most part he feels in the right for it, and he's said multiple times that he believes it's for their own good, so you can't even argue that he's sorry about it. It's okay for you guys to admit that your PERSONAL INTERPRETATION of the character wouldn't do that but don't sit here and pretend that it's not a facet of the source.

[sunshades]

MC Heath's chatter line about being able to move his arms weirdly while he sounds genuinely happy makes me sick he is so dear to me

LET'S ALL APPRECIATE THIS LINE HE IS SO ANNOYING GOD BLESS

there rly is something so bittersweet about this ID... that little self-esteem moment about his career in uptie chatter 2, then this one with that pride he shows at times about his body & strength... and at the same time that feeling that it's all for naught. the second of hesitation when he thinks abt what in his mind could POSSIBLY be worth returning to... you need someone to share it with. even if the person who loves you isn't here you can at least show your manager who has been trying to be your friend... argh!!

[layton-heritage-posts]

Psa: Don't send your shitty callout posts into my askbox please???

[cuubism]

why are they all so memeable

[lerudan]

I'm waiting for tests to run, and my brain came up with something even worse than Morlund's Montgolfiere.

Now, I don't think the three would leave Hidden Ember, but imagine, for a second here.

Avad wants to repurpose the Sun-Rings. Not every Sun-Ring can become a memorial. And the Carja populace is missing their entertainment. But how do you do entertainment without killing people? So he sends out messages to get ideas. And Morlund, Abadund and Stemmur come up with a parcour. Something between Ultimate Beastmaster and Takeshi's Castle (narrated by Stemmur, of course).

Maybe in the Sunring at Sunfall? Anyway. Shortly before construction is done, Aloy comes along on her way back east, and he asks her to test-run things, because, of course he does, and she does it. And it's not trivial. But she manages it. (maybe even in a timed manner? would be quite a fun side-activity like the machine races).

And Abadund instantly realized what a great marketing opportunity this is, because now the challenge is not only "can you manage the parcour", but also: "Can you best the Saviour".

Things get a little difficult, when the first Nora encounter this thing, because, that's just a version of the proving. Without the Grazer Hunt at the start. Why would anyone not manage that. And the Carja remember why there were so many scary stories about the savages of the east.

[utterhomestucktrash]

e1 with jennifer drips for the outfit meme

Wanted to draw her bald so bad but here u go

Outfit meme here ! 🧥✨💞

[acapelladitty]

steeling my wee heart against the fact that I know the Cooper/Lucy fic I just posted is gonna be a flop despite it being one of my favourite things I've written in recent weeks

[justicewasserved]

sick with the implications of "when has your guilt ever actually stopped you from doing what [the eye] wants" so as an avatar you can have the best morals in the whole world and it literally won't make a difference. choice to be a good person gone ig

[huellitaa]

🎀 januaryyy~

🍰 mental!

• self reflection everyyy friday?

• use my phone for PRODUCTIVITY

• read over goals, motivation and affirmations every day!

• treat myself as i would someone i love

• surround urself with things u love always

• remember to check in with myself before mindlessly pouring everything i have into helping someone else

• breathe deeply & stay present

• dont take criticism from someone you wouldnt take advice from

🐻 physical!

• no skipping skincare. non negotiable.

• exercise often! pilates 4x a week ~~

• wash hair every 3 days? figure out what works best bc my hair is a pain in the ass

• drink lots of water always !!! aim for abt 4 bottles a day

• pls try fix ur sleep schedule. it is HORRENDOUS

🎀 academic!

• Stop Procrastinating and Do The Thing

• it isnt embarrassing to participate

• homework the day its given always

• aim for 85%+ on pretty much everything (and dont beat yourself up over it if you dont)

• focus on yourself and your grades

🫶 overall

• dont let stupid people bother u

• practise self discipline more

• read at least a page every day

• dont give up on your goals!

• understand myself more

i love you !!! so much ,!!!! lets do this!!!! all aboard the january hype train!!!!! 2024 is the year!!!!! 🩷🩷🩷🩷

[void-tiger]

…sometimes I just. Think about. How literal siblings get stuck with rumors they’re dating, and m-f friendships often don’t get a chance to truly start or develop because of the strain those assumptions and pressure causes…

…while literal same-gender and aspec-affirming couples get slapped with “like siblings” this and “just really good friends” that.

And then how this gets even more reductive with infighting like “m-f friendships can only occur when one of them is homosexual,” or aspecs picking at eachother over rep until it’s a very specific type of aroace on the aroace spectrum of the aspec spectrums (and nobody’s actually happy), and of course fanon ships pitted against gen-no-ships…

…and how everyone just ends up feeling stressed out and invalidated. Because anything—and I do mean anything—that doesn’t fit neatly inside of the heteronormative narrative of “men and women can’t be friends, men and women must be romantically involved, people of the same gender and/or aspec/any other queer identity(ies) must never date.”

And how it makes the queers and cichets alike absolutely miserable.

[ravencromwell]

Finally decided to indulge in the Siuan/Moiraine meta I've been wanting to write for ages now, musing on the differences in psychology ensuing from their significantly different arcs within the book and show and why Siuan's actions at season 2's apex are entirely in psychological sync with her show portrayal, even if they swerve wildly from the books.

Let's start with some Siuan back-story context. In the books, Tear was undeniably an unfriendly city for those with the One Power. But that translated, in practical terms, to Aes Sedai keeping their stays there brief, and girls who could touch The Source being quickly bustled off to the Tower. There were no Aes Sedai advisers, as in other kingdoms etc., but neither was there the virulent hostility of the show.

Siuan left Tear quickly in the books—the first day she was discovered to have the Power, but only because a sister was traveling through and didn't wish to delay returning to The Tower for such pesky things as sentimental goodbyes. Was that harsh? Absolutely. But the world of the books is exceedingly harsh in some respects, giving girls little to no choice about becoming Sisters, should they be discovered harboring abilities. (Much of Nynaeve's back-story involved hiding her powers precisely because she didn't fancy being ripped from The Two Rivers.)

Siuan faces a much different harshness in the show. The show doesn't do a great job explaining this, but The Dragon's Fang, which is etched onto Siuan's door before her house is unceremoniously torched, is a sign of immense contempt for Dark Friends. Within show Tear, a wary mistrust of Aes Sedai has curdled into something much more dangerous. All use of The Power is suspect, because if men's half was tainted, there's nothing to say women won't go suddenly mad, too.

It's worth remembering as well here that book Siuan was roughly fifteen when she went to The Tower. Now, I'm totally blind, and audio description doesn't give me an age for tiny show-Siuan, but if she's anywhere near puberty, I'll eat my metaphorical hat. And instead of being shepherded to The Tower, she had to flee for her life.

In her family's only means of support, I might ad. Book Siuan was by no means well-to-do, but she was firmly in the middling ranks of the working poor. Show Siuan's family are on the fucking destitution brink y'all. And she took her father's livelihood. Dying destitute ain’t fuckin pretty.

Siuan is not a stupid kid, and she clearly adores the shit out of her papa. The first thing that little girl did the millisecond she got any privileges? Wrote to her papa.

And more than likely, Berden never wrote back. It wouldn't take her long to figure out what'd happened. Moiraine is at great pains to tell Alana Jenny was not "her" support dog, and we laugh it off as oh, look at Moiraine being all adorably prim. Which in one sense, it totally is. But I'd almost guarantee you there's a deeper layer there: it wasn't "hers"; it was "theirs" because once Siuan found out her beloved papa was dead, they both needed something to cuddle.

This may seem like somewhat of a digression, but I'm maundering on because in the books yes, Dark Friends are evil. But they're evil because they caused a terrible cataclysm many thousands of years ago that killed lots of people, and they wanna do it again. There's no personal skin in the game for our beloved ladies, except they get thrust into the job through a convergence of some very complicated circumstances—I'd recommend any show-only watchers read "New Spring" because while I love almost all the changes the show has made ferociously, the way Siuan and Moiraine undertake the search is vastly more plausible as presented by Jordan there.

For Siuan in the show, by contrast, Dark Friend has _very personal ramifications. Dark Friends caused the corrosive mistrust that got her papa _killed! And Moiraine, better than _anyone, knows how that broke her.

And she _knows full well she could be deposed simply for having a relationship with Moiraine. The sensible thing to keep all the awful people from committing terrible crimes that will reverberate down the centuries to impact a little girl just as she was impacted would be to keep both their noses clean. And yet, she loves Moiraine so much that she'll take that risk to maintain not only an alliance about Rand, but a romantic relationship which could, realistically, be discovered much more easily.

And now, Moiraine, the woman who parroted back her beloved father's words of farewell about how Siuan was as clever as a pike and strong as the tides seemingly willfully lied; seemingly became a _Dark _Friend. Even her admonition that Lanfear is "too strong" must bring up so many awful questions: just how long have they been working together for her to know that? Because from Siuan's perspective, what it looks like is Lanfear coming in, guns blazing, to save her accomplice, Moiraine.

When Siuan says that there are rules and they have to abide by them, it's reflecting profoundly deep fears—not only about what Rand could do, but the kind of hatred toward those with The Power it could foster. For twenty years, she's put those fears aside. And now it appears that her going against Tower Law has lost her Moiraine to the Forsaken, and made terrible outcomes nigh on inevitable. And people are really confused about why she looks beaten?

Hell, from her perspective, forget Lanfear's entrance. The very fact Moiraine seemingly lied to her and is now talking about love must seem such a cruel mockery: laughing at Siuan's weakness; just as, perhaps, she was laughing at her with that parting comment in The Tower: an Amyrlin Seat still so swayed by what her papa told her so many years ago. (Yeah, we know it was as close as she could come to an I love you, but how the hell is Siuan supposed to know that, given everything?) This was not willful emotional abuse on someone she knew to be acting in good faith, but a reaction to the person she loved enough to risk the fucking Amyrlin Seat for becoming a monster!

Do I wish they'd picked _any other direction for their relationship? Yes, yes I damn well do. There was plenty to play with for angst factor by having the coup go down as it does in the books: Moiraine not being there to save her when all Siuan wanted was more time together, for one thing. Moiraine needlessly obfuscating in front of Siuan and  the other Sisters in S1, when Leandrin already knew! about the Two Rivers folk. Thinking she was being canny, when all she did was get herself pointlessly exiled so she couldn't protect Siuan? Quite enough of an angst sandwich, thanks ever so, without this new development. But! if they were going to include this, Siuan reacted precisely as I would expect her to, given the context I've outlined above, not in some madly ooc fashion worthy of the tags descending into emotional abuse discourse.

[goofalicousgooberface]

Saw the musical rant:

At the beginning of the onco-la- la- la-logist song, the stage lighting is presented as red and blue. Fitting with the majorly white background of the bathroom set, it gives off the impression of emergency lights. Then, the stage is lightened into (almost) pure white. It moves the viewer from the ambulance lighting to clinic in a way that feels chronologically similar to the actual process of being admitted into a facility under pretense of emergency. Moving further into the lyricism of the song number itself, it allows us, the viewers, to truly get a better understanding of who Lawrence is as a character. He sings a line about his chronically ill father, which pulls an exemplary image of irony when instead of saying his career was rooted in the need to help because of his father’s illness, it is instead rooted in his need to feel power over the helpless. This being a stark contrast to his later character development through Adam, who is the spitting image of helpless when put in their shared trap. Lawrence is shown as a cold, callous character in this number, reveling in the pain of the cancer patients he is allowed authority over. In every way, he is shown to be unlikeable. This makes it entirely more meaningful when he develops empathy for Adam, one that turns into infatuation rapidly. His entire life, he has never understood the true meaning of loving another person, until he’s thrown into a dire situation of life and death. It ironically brings it full circle with an old, chronically ill man in Lawrence’s life starting his life as he knows it presently, and another old, chronically ill man in Lawrence’s life ending it.

[98chao]

i now have more than one hour of sleep and i should say that seeing the varying takes on sonic 3's trailer over here is interesting, but even though sa2 is my favourite game eeeveerrrrr i kinda don't take the sonic movie universe that seriously enough to be worked up over what plot elements they're using. i see shadow on screen and hear live and learn that's enough for me to be happy. the pro government stuff is unfortunate considering what series this is but i still lowkey don't care that much cuz they're not writing this into the actual canon game series.

no amy or rouge is so sad though, but on the other hand i see why it's hard to introduce a bunch of new characters and lore in one movie w/o it being cluttered .. it does lowkey feel misogynistic tho ! but like i said the movie series is not something i give enough of a shit about to be doomposting about it. after the knuckles series i just kinda stopped caring what bullshit they write lol

no shade towards anyone who's upset over it tho i get it 100% i just don't have the capacity to care abt this