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hello starlight...
#steven universe#pink diamond#pink diamond su#pink diamond steven universe#steven universe fanart#drawn in the likeness of her voice actor susan egan#pink diamond fanart#su fanart#my art#digital art#shes so fucking beautiful i cant breathe#i may just be off my meds but i kept crying while working on this. (dw i just got off track im alright now)#my 12 foot tall 20000 year old bisexual space goddess....#oh shes looking at pearl in this btw#ship art? not sure#valid if you interpret it like that#might do rainbow quartz after this??? you never know#art#artists on tumblr
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I also mentally edit that weird part in TLO where Luke asks Annabeth on his deathbed if she loved him however I do find it funny how prevalent the notion seems to be in the fandom that Luke canonically was not asking Annabeth this in a romantic sense... like RR (unfortunately) could not have made it more clear that Luke was referring to a romantic love because Annabeth's response would not need to clarify to him that he was like a brother to her and that she didn't love him... like don't get me wrong, I too do NOT want to believe that a 20-something Luke had suddenly developed romantic feelings for a 16 year old girl and in MY canon he doesn't!!! but in RR's canon... 😬
#I take it back the interpretation that /Annabeth misunderstood Luke on his deathbed/ is valid and funny#because the idea of Luke looking for comfort in his final moments#and Annabeth being like /clearly him asking if I loved him is a reference to the crush I used to have so NO I DONT LOVE YOU/#and then Luke dying like seconds later#is the perfect coda to his life
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not to be the friend who's too woke but I genuinely feel that the only reason the fandom has such a visceral reaction to people calling Vi and Cait's situation domestic violence is because Vi is butch. yes, DV is more than just physical harm, it involves repeating patterns of abuse, all of which can be found in their relationship. Cait is Vi's only access to safety and food, she's isolated, she has to constantly prove her loyalty to Cait and renounce any ounce of lingering feelings she has towards the only family she has left, she's left in constant state of anxiety because of it.
#arcane#arcane s2#jinx#vi#cait#btw this is NOT me making a definite statement such as “it IS dv”#its just me pointing out that the patterns of abuse do exist in canon and as such the interpretation is more than valid#no one wants their ship to be “tainted” by something like this i get it#but other people are also allowed to call it how they see it#just as you are allowed to find comfort in the inherent compelling nature of their conflict
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The way we discuss prophecy in fandom is genuinely fascinating. GRRM spends so much time showing how different characters have different interpretations of the same thing based on their own cultural contexts. He says that prophecy is tricky to navigate through multiple characters, showing that even the most careful practitioner can get almost everything wrong and fall victim to their own fallacies (see Mel). So tell me why the main takeaway for large parts of this fandom is “prophecy stupid, it doesn’t matter”. My brothers and sisters in R’hllor, GRRM didn’t invent multiple characters (three of whom are main POVs!!) who can see the future for this to be the conclusion. This is a FANTASY series. Please I’m begging, let us be serious 🥲
#like azor ahai has different interpretations and different candidates based on how you certain interpret events#you either do it very literally (dany) or very figuratively (jon) and the interesting thing is that both a very valid#same with tptwp being two people at the same time!!#is the stallion that mounts the world dany or is it drogon?? how does that affect how people navigate dany’s campaign?#how does that affect how DANY!! navigates how own life#how does being born solely to fulfill tptwp prophecy affect rhaegar’s entire personality? his sociopolitics??#prophecy is very real and the important part is how our characters navigate a very real phenomenon#but then there’s also the very aggravating conversation among those who do take the prophecies seriously in fandom#because so many of them have a shallow level of engagement with the genre and how it’s reflected in the text#so we get “oh grrm is subverting fantasy so the boy cannot be the subject of prophecy because that’s cliche!!111”#but I’m too tired to get into that today….#asoiaf#valyrianscrolls
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Not to rehash this discourse so close to his birthday but genuinely what other mysterious unnamed trauma of Jason’s is Bruce referring to in bftc if not csa? We know that:
It’s something that happened to him
It’s something that happened to him pre-Bruce, so it presumably could’ve happened while he was an extremely vulnerable unsupervised homeless child
It’s something associated with secrecy and shame: Jason only told Bruce about it and freaks out about Dick playing his hologram talking about it
It’s something that affected him profoundly, Bruce says it left him “broken” (ugh side note: hate this language) and he seems to get retriggered by it being brought up again
What other trauma is coded like this besides sexual assault? Like genuinely I have yet to hear an answer that fits as well or better
#Jason rehashed Mia’s entire storied history of abuse and assault and ended with ‘u just like me fr fr’ brother WHAT do you mean by that??#people get mad about this headcanon like people just pulled it out of nowhere for Jason whump but I’m sorry to tell you that Judd Winnick#and Tony Daniels did that first. It’s just a valid interpretation of the text I fear 🙈. And as far as headcanons go I think the backing is#pretty solid#Jason Todd#dc#I’m not saying that you have to adopt it into your headcanon I kinda go back and forth with it myself I’m just saying that the evidence is#there. I think some people just don’t have to stomach to think about it (fair I guess) while others act like you’re only allowed to be a#victim if you’re a Good Person (lame). And I mean Jason did specifically name rapists on his shit list when he was talking to Onyx in utrh#which could mean anything 🤷🏾♀️…#Csa mention /#csa tw /
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A Scene for a Scene: Kieta Hatsukoi Episode 1 (2021, Japan) ♥ My Love Mix-Up! Episode 1 (2024, Thailand)
#kieta hatsukoi#my love mix up#my love mix up th#mlmuedit#boyslovesource#asianlgbtqdramas#my gifs#my edits#mine: kieta hatsukoi#mine: my love mix up#mine: kh4mlmu#semiregular reminder: if u don't like then don't reblog :)#i'm ok with getting 0 notes if that's the case plsss#spend literal hours making your own gifsets to hate on it <3#spiderman has 5000 adaptations and nobody's out here saying u can't love toby if u love tom#i enjoyed kh. i enjoy mlmu. are either of them the most groundbreaking thing in history? not for me personally#they're both very silly very over the top shows i'm sorry to break it to anyone#that's not to detract from anyone who adores kh. that's 100% completely valid you are allowed to stan and stan hard#but stop expecting kh when ur watchin mlmu lads it's an adaptation from a manga not a remake of a live action#hhhhhhhhhanyway breathing out i just think the little parallels are cute.#you can see the differences in interpretation and i love it#anyway i can't figure out if i fixed my mlmu colouring or made it worse :v
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★ Kirbtober 2024 Day 5: Royal ★
(ID: Kirby series fanart of Shadow Dedede, standing with a confident lean and smiling fiercely at the viewer, one hand propped cockily on his hip, the other holding his great mechanical hammer over his shoulder. Around him, red stars drip darkly. END ID.)
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Started on 09/03/24, finished on 09/04/24. | Kirbtober 2023 Comp
#veins art#veins fanart#kirby series#kirby#shadow dedede#kirbtober#kirbtober 2024#day 5#royal#paintpanic#I love how this one came out#despite SD’s million-and-three tones of gray and the hell that is keeping them all shaded and separated#*shakes the Wand Tool in anger*#also y'know how I sometimes talk about putting Magolor in the microwave as a gesture of affection?#I wanna do the same to SD but as a legit threat#just... stars lookit this smug bastard. with his ship-eating grin#thinks he's better than everyone. bosses his staff around. probably pushes kids off swings and raises taxes on essentials. awful man#(... listen I’ve written him in a *very specific way* in the AU)#(so it’s probably colored my thoughts on him a little bit)#(and those thoughts are “greedy tyrant into the garbage disposal with you”)#(I blame SD's Japanese flavor text calling him “the darkness in DDD's heart” specifically)#(but hey! other interpretations are valid too tho! just like with GK)#eye contact tw#veinsfullofstars
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if im being entirely honest i gotta say, people who adamantly insist kon is clark's brother and ONLY his brother are nearly as annoying as people who insist kon is clark's son. the fact of the matter is that there are canon panels both of them calling their relationship more like siblings and of them calling it more like parent-and-child. like why are you guys all so fucking obsessed with nuclear family labels and putting relationships in these boxes? take my hand. free yourselves from the chains of the western traditional nuclear family model. relationships do not have to align 1:1 with these roles. be free
#rimi talks#like you can prefer one interpretation over another. you can say ''i hate this part of canon and i disregard it''#like that's me with the lex luthor retcon i get it!!!#but simply pretending canon only aligns with your preferred interpretation when that isn't actually true is wild imo#especially when it's about something like this that's like... you guys know you just Made Up this dichotomy right#it doesn't have to be a nuclear family relationship to be a real and valid familial bond!!!#''we love found families. this one's the mom and this one's the dad and'' 💀.
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anyway to end the series on ganondorf tp's writing, my take (which isn't canon but arguable as a valid "death of the author" read imo) is that he is at his most iredeemable AND that's because he has zero things left to lose and no community left and his goal doesn't even make sense anymore he is parasitic and a ghost and pathologically obsessed by his own godlike legitimacy because that is the only thing he still has and it has prolonged his life in a horrible diminished state in a nightmare dimension so SURELY it must mean something right right RIGHT
#thoughts#twilight princess#tp#tp ganondorf#ganondorf#sorry I am quite frustrated by the Discourse#there is a middle ground between evil bad evil bad and uwu baby!!!!!!! and it's the most interesting reading!!!! aaaaaa#even him not mentioning the gerudos being immediately taken as him not caring about them is veeeery frustrating to me#like#imo the three arguable arguments about what happened to the gerudos are#1) they left hyrule because fuck that shit (real and valid) and he would have felt betrayed#2) they collaborated with hyrule to subdue him (??? that seems weird to me but sure why not) and he would have felt BETRAYED#3) they were genocided because they stood by him#and of course we could assume he doesn't care (even if he drapes his execution sword in gerudo patternings which)#(not gonna lie is probably artists not really paying attention to motives but it's still interesting and noticeable)#but wouldn't that be like. deeply traumatic either way.#would you talk about your people to the enemies you hate. would you remind them of what they took from you#in ww they are children and he is old and had time to reflect#in tp he suffered nonstop and then rejected all connection and all community and is feverishly obsessed by what almost was#and they are not children there is no generational thing happening they are all royalties (and link!!! hi link!!) the beef is genuine#and EVEN IF he doesn't care that would at least be a massive wound to his ego#he had an ego collapse followed by a massive ego surge that's literally his canon character arc#so of course he would be weird about the gerudos!! how could he not be weird about the gerudos!!#again we are always assuming lack of interiority by default for ganondorf and that annoys meeeeeee#especially when there could be unbelievably interesting and tragic interpretations from what we get
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*looks around* Can you guys tell me where are you seeing Alpha macho Irep and soft boy Peri?
Because most of the content I see of them is just little shit/annoying clingy loser Irep and bitchy sassy neurotic mess Peri.
And there is only like 70 works for that ship in ao3 and most is them is co parenting Dev or them being bitter exes.
Honestly, why are we now shaming creators when the ones that write the "problematic yaoi tropes" are in the minority?
#fairly oddparents#peri cosma#irep#ah yes because the biggest issue in this fanbase is the bad yaoi tropes and not yaknow#the actual fics with minors#i prefer soft boy peri to the ones where he is shipped WITH A CHILD#and i have not found actual soft boy Peri? ppl always write him bitchy#even in the kinkiest of fics#and those are not something you usually go to for characterization#Peri ends up as the most domineering partner#it just feels like making a bigger problem of something thats just the minority#and their interpretation is as valid as others#specially since its a ship mostly made by fanon we have no canon interactions#fopanw#fop a new wish#perirep#like i love to bitch about fanon too dont get me wrong#but this is getting quite big and its a small fandom
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“What do you mean there’s still so much biphobia in fan spaces? Bisexuals are like some of the most popular characters!”
Yeah, and they either get treated like this:
Or like this:
“Biphobia isn’t real” neither are your braincells
#bisexuals deserve better#biphobia tw#biphobia#bisexual#bisexuality#listen not to post this rancid post on bi visibility month but part of bi visibility month is venting about biphobia and that’s okay#long tags#bisexual characters are constantly branded as either gay/lesbian or straight because bisexuality is constantly branded as never good enough#yes harlivy are sometimes fetishized by men who want to get off on seeing girls smooch. yes sometimes these men are the writers of dc#no they do not make up 100% of harlivy content. no gross men drooling over harlivy doesn’t immediately make harlivy straight#harlivy have had queer female writers before. a huge portion of their fanbase are queer girls#just because they are occasionally festished doesn’t mean that they aren’t good bi rep#I see where this person is coming from but no. bc REAL BI WOMEN get festishized by men and that won’t make their sexuality any less valid#would you tell these real girls that they’re actually straight since ‘sapphicness isn’t sapphicness once it’s taken advantage of by men’?#glimmer lesbian content makes me sad bc it’s not even like interpreting harlivy or korrasami as lesbians assuming all wlw is solely lesbian#but also erasing her entire romance with bow. degrading it down to comphet and ignoring bow#like I can at least understand mistakening poison ivy for a lesbian but glimmer?? glimmer??!#biphobic#biphobic tw#bisexual hardships#korrasami#harlivy#glimbow#bi#fucking essay in the tags
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i can't love you in this skin
#twittering birds never fly#saezuru tori wa habatakanai#suggestive#<- jic#interpret this as you will#there's A Lot about gender and yashiro's relationship with gender and heteronormativity especially in relation to doumeki#he asks him what type of Women he likes. they only watch m/f stuff together. “i wonder if he's gentle with women”.#the anger and disappointment when he realizes that doumeki is actually attracted to him#unless he's remembering something that happened he only fantasises about doumeki with a woman and not with himself#(same was with kageyama iirc)#except for that kiss in the elevator but that's a whole other conversation. and even then there was a woman present#he even tells kamiya that doumeki is basically straight and he's just a rare exception#yashiro's is so so desperate to push doumeki towards a “normal” life#aka not in yakuza. not with him. in a normal (straight) relationship#just. a lot of self hatred and internalized homophobia#all that being said. i think regardless of the author's intent reading yashiro as a closeted trans person is also valid#the “i could never afford myself to reflect on this and i also don't care enough about living to even bother atp” type of closet#would it contradict some of the things yashiro says? sure. but he contradicts himself all the time#am i projecting as someone who will live and die in the closet? sure#i think it's interesting that the only person who genuinely asks him about gender is ryuzaki#in the same conversation where he asks him about falling in love#and yashiro's response is basically “it wouldn't change much” and “i'm fine with what i have”. are you tho#there's a lot i can say about yashiro and aoi and yashiro and ryuzaki's girlfriend but i can't articulate it well rn so whatever#the way dumeki's lie about dating a woman affects yashiro is also interesting regardless of which interpretation you go with#which is also why i'm using post time-skip for the art. the topic keeps popping up#but yeah uh. take it as you will i just have a lot of feelings about. This#art tag
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I don't want to get too caught up on semantics but I have to say I really feel like it's an unfair reading of the situation to call what Charles does in the Staircase Scene a "rejection."
I've already talked about how I think that scene's strength lies in the act of telling itself and Edwin's confession as the conclusion of his self-discovery arc. And I understand how the fact that that arc involved things like sexuality & attraction left it open to being viewed under a sort of romance-plot-specific lens, but evaluating the whole thing on that criteria still feels like a misrepresentation.
I don't think Edwin is saying "Love me" in that scene. Maybe he would've been asking for that, if this had all happened under different circumstances - and sure, generally, he'd presumably like that to happen - but it'd still be a kind of insane request for him to make right as he's being literally rescued from hell. (Especially since, even though the audience & Charles can both see the rescue as so in-character we might take it for granted, Edwin clearly didn't, if his consistently surprised confused & appalled reactions to Charles being there are anything to go by). I think he's feeling very loved already at that point, and I have a hard time believing desperation to simply have that reiterated is what drove him to speak up at such an inopportune moment.
I think what he's really saying there is "Hear me" - and as a listener and a confidant, Charles does anything but reject him. Maybe it's splitting hairs a bit, but if the distinction between "please don't turn me down" and "please understand the person in front of you" matters anywhere, it's in relation to Charles' response because he is so accepting of the confession as a confession. Not only does he take what Edwin tells him well, despite it being the sort of thing that might rock the foundation of the most important relationship in his existence, he also accepts the fact that Edwin is in such a vulnerable and worked up state that he has to do it right now despite it endangering them both. Charles would, truthfully, be totally justified in mostly ignoring it or passing over it quickly and inconclusively, insisting that this wasn't the time or place - but instead everything he says and does in that scene is geared toward giving Edwin's announcement the attention & understanding he needs so badly - and that includes responding with honesty about his own feelings, even if they might not otherwise be exactly what you'd want to hear after declaring your love for someone. Charles takes his time (perhaps foolishly, but certainly necessarily) and gives Edwin a response that is warm and familiar, while also being kind, affectionate, open, serious, and above all correspondingly worthy of the weight of the thing Edwin has just entrusted him with. That seems an awful lot to pass over simply because he doesn't also happen to be in love with him too.
Edwin's confession is so not a come-on that whether or not Charles reciprocates the romantic element is, at best, secondary to his overall reaction, and using that piece of it to call the whole thing a rejection feels like a very inaccurate shorthand to get in the habit of using as a summary of his role in the scene.
#dead boy detectives#charles rowland#edwin payne#the case of the very long stairway#sorry but i've seen the words rejection & friendzoned used and that just makes no sense to me as anything other than a joke#surely to reject is more than just admitting you don't feel exactly the same?#surprise surprise this turned out longer than i meant it to be. so im not even going near the fact that charles' actual words#can also be interpreted as leaving the door open for potential romantic developments in some future eventuality#that's a valid reading too but many have and others will make that point. it's just not the one that interested me here#like i never thought i'd be saying 'romance aside' about a love confession but i am just so captivated by the way this one plays out
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Normal fiction discourse is great bc you can interpret a character anyway you want but at the end of the day the writer wrote them a specific way and you can't interpret them your own way without losing the integrity of the character unless the author's intent was clearly stated to be otherwise. You are forced by the narrative to have humility and reading comprehension if you want to really understand a character.
The opposite of this is exactly why I fucking hate video game character analysis. The interpretation is up to the player, as opposed to the objective truth laid down by the writer. This is great bc it gives people who aren't creative a creative outlet, on one hand. But on the other hand, it leads to entitlement and laziness in readers and gamers because they've been given an iota of power over the narrative (it's never as much power as they think it is tho, and it's only power over their own playthrough) and they think they own it. Humbling yourself before the narrative of a story is a really important life skill. It teaches you how to accept defeat and disappointment and reality in real life. That's what stories are for, ultimately, to help you do real life better.
At a certain point, your interpretation of a character strays so far from the actuality of the character that you may as well write your own. But because of the lazy, entitlement (and honestly, skill) issue, people who tend to do this aren't creative or disciplined enough to create their own characters. They use and abuse the characters someone else created like Barbie dolls for their own fantasy. Missing out on the lesson of the narrative and a lesson in humility in the process.
#Datv posting#writing inspiration#fiction writing#creative writing#writers#writing#writers on tumblr#writeblr#video game writing#This is about the fact that Solas is straight#Solas posting#If you want to completely destroy someone else's character fandom is for you#I don't like the fact that Solas is straight either but that's how he was written#This is also why we are seeing so many people unable to cope w reality#Who think they can make fantasy real irl#Who think their interpretation of reality is valid when it's actually not#A lot of u cannot cope w reality and it shows
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u can literally talk abt ur own experiences with transphobia and people being violent or bigoted or cruel towards you because you're a trans man and people will compare you to deranged conspiracy theorists for daring to say you might experience discrimination. it's fucking crazy like what level of internet brainrot do you have to have to think it's helpful on any level to deny someone's experiences and call them conspiracy theorists because they're a trans man and "men aren't oppressed" or whatever
#text#and also telling transmascs to shut up abt our experiences w transphobia In Conversations Abt Transphobia is crazyyyy#we are trans too.#i see a lot of trans men/transmascs echoing this out of i guess like ???#idk i think it comes from combination of self doubt + being Online + wanting to not be transmisogynistic but like..#its not transmisogynistic to talk abt ur experiences with transmasc oppression#& like ur experiences are 'valid' i know thats a stupid word but yknow what i mean#inb4 'wow tmes only problems are people being mean online shut up cuntboy' -__- This post is about a specifically online problem#people generally do not act like this in real life bc theres some level of needing to be decent to other people face to face 😭#there are also other offline problems. lots of them. & im not saying this doesnt happen offline either but . YOU KNOW WHAT IM SAYING#WHY AM I ENTERTAINING IMAGINARY BAD FAITH INTERPRETATIONS OF THIS POST#anyway this is about the term 'transandrophobia truther' do not derail ��️#transandrophobia#transphobia#discourse
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I don’t think it makes sense to assume that Jason was mocking Mia’s past. At all. The thing that got jason painted as violent back in the 80s was his anger against rapists…how does that turn into mocking a victim? and that entire story was written by winick. Do we honestly think winick intended to communicate that? The same writer who made Jason’s first kill a man who was trafficking children? Who had Jason pause in his mission of madness to make sure those kids were found by the right people so they wouldn’t be in further danger?
#let’s knock on our skulls and kick our brains back into gear okay?#you can maintain that it wasn’t well executed or that the role mia played here bothers you#but you can’t say jason was mocking her for that or even seriously trying to hurt her physically#he was bsing like 90% of the story with his constant ‘we should all kill anyone who inconveniences us! speedy and GA should try to kill me#if they want to win’ like we understand that yes?#but that last part of his convo with Mia was the one serious part#he was wrong! of course he was wrong about ollie. but this was also Jason’s first time meeting ollie#it was ridiculous and unnecessary on his end and it put mia thru the emotional wringer for nothing#but that wasn’t the Intention. it was a stupid thing done by someone who never expected anything to come of it but still said what *to him*#was a way of offering advice#and as for the ppl who go ‘stop reaching abt jason being a victim and just read Mia instead’#a) there’s more to Mia’s character than her past. anyone who thinks that fits Jason’s past wouldn’t necessarily like mia bc they’re not the#same character#it’s the same way that if jason was confirmed to have been a victim of SA as a kid then all of Mia’s fans wouldn’t love him like they love#her? this is common sense. anyways stop being assholes online and just recommend characters too ppl nicely#b) more than one character can have experienced a similar form of abuse. also common sense#c) it’s not an unreasonable hc#d) it doesn’t hurt you personally. none of this killed your grandma#once again: hate whoever you like but choosing the interpretation that doesn’t make sense just to make up a#‘valid’ reason is serious loser behaviour
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