#vehem

[horseimagebarn]

horse engaged in what seems to be a shouting match with a young bandana wearing child the two adversaries though they likely differ in opinion are alike in the rage they express at one another by opening their mouths in a yell to experience the catharsis of letting another know what they did to rile such stereotypically innocent creatures like ponies and children yet do they realize that it does nothing but make both their opponent and themself feel worse one on one arguments between two who will never agree is but an ouroboros around the heart that tightens and tightens and i hope one day this child and this horse will escape it yet i know solemnly every mortal creature is plagued by such a parasite as long as they remain in this mortal coil

[kyouka-supremacy]

Akutagawa thinking Chuuya looks good no matter what he wears and explicitly telling so to his face with increasing passion is doing things to me

[randomness-is-my-order]

complicated feelings on jiang fengmian aside, i think the reason i don’t buy into the whole “jfm favoured wei wuxian much more than his son” and tend to agree with wwx’s words to jc that of course jfm would be more stern with jc because jc’s his son is because—my asian parenting experience has been somewhat the same (and i actually think this might be a bit of a universal experience regardless), not in the exact way mxtx portrays this relationship but in that my parents and parents of every single person i have ever known (mostly; there are always a few exceptions) show this pattern of being sweet and cordial and generally non-disciplinary towards kids who aren’t their own and being way stricter and more stern with their own children because they are the ones they are parenting. there’s almost this mutually known boundary that you don’t go and yell at another’s kid to correct bad behaviour, rather the impetus of imparting important values and lessons is reserved as your right for your own kids. that’s how i’ve always read jiang fengmian’s dynamic with wei wuxian vs jiang cheng. he was stern with jc because that’s his son and heir, someone he cares for very deeply. on the other hand, he does care for wei wuxian as well but he has never crossed that mental boundary from uncle to father figure in his head and his interactions with wei wuxian have never read as paternal or favourably partial over jc to me.

[adivinationwitch]

"What else can we do?"

[fishcemetery]

It's not that Isaac is really into this stuff, but he loves figuring out schematics and has some insane hand coordination for a guy of zero body skill.

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It looks like things have died down on the PSP gay battlefront once again, but let's just have one more shot for good measure, before I'm off to do whatever I do when I'm off.

For something that I've whipped up largely out of ancestral contrariness, these two click together in quite an intriguing way. Maybe I'll think about them a bit more in the future. Maybe not.

(me and you, and you and me, just us, and your friend Steve the Watcher)

[shinelikethunder]

they called. the episode. SLASH FICTION. those leviathan doppelgängers were out mugging for the camera on a mallory-n-mickey bonnie-n-clyde pumpkin-n-honeybunny crime spree... for the express purpose, not only of painting a target on the winchesters' backs, but of vilifying & embarrassing them to the world. and the show didn't even have the INTEGRITY to end that cold open of "sam" and "dean" shooting up a bank with a nice lingering shot of them tongue-kissing for the news cameras?!

commit to your own fucking BIT, spn. you gift-wrapped yourself an excuse to one-up the outrageousness of your previous wincest bait and then you walked away and blueballed us? do you just NOT FUCK now. is that it. is this the exact episode that clinched your terminal diagnosis of Does Not Fuck Disease.

you called it SLASH FICTION and i'm suing for breach of contract, because what is that title if not a threat/promise to show us your plausibly-deniable plot-device simulacra of the brothers winchester rounding third base just out of frame. kripke era would've done it, and called us slurs the whole time, and none of us to this day would be able to decide what kind of hate crime it was. but s7 apparently is full of COWARDS.

[oatmealcrisp-freak]

not to be a raging queer but i love how

Okay.

Mean Girls 2004.

Cady's POV.

We're shown Cady's crush on Aaron Samuels in a few ways. Lingering close ups, like she's memorizing his features. The camera follows him throughout his day to day life, as though she's watching him closely and appreciating the little moments where he's simply doing his thing and being himself. I really appreciate how we're shown the romantic attraction there, and that it's not just taken for granted.

I appreciate even more that the same thing goes for Regina George but dialed up to eleven.

In addition, Cady talks even more about how she wants to appeal to Regina more than she wants to appeal to Aaron. She has a crush on Aaron, Cady does, absofreakinglutely, but he's almost there as a by-product of Regina.

I'll never get over how we're shown Cady watching Regina George and the camera goes into slow motion and captures every little moment and refuses to falter even when Regina blows a kiss. Yes it's a good way to demonstrate Regina's superiority in the school and single her out - iirc she might actually be the only one who gets a slow-mo shot from Cady's POV - but because it's singling Regina out from Cady's POV, it effectively romanticizes her IN Cady's POV as well.

I'll never get over this shot/reverse shot. Get you a girl who looks at you the way Cady Heron looks at Regina George.

It's the same face with which she checks out Aaron for the first time too btw. The only difference is the softer indoor light.

Mean Girls was a milestone moment for 00s era queers just with Damian's existence and how he was portrayed alone. He has a big personality, he's at the forefront for all of it and has amazing lines, his gayness is brought up several times both textually ("too gay to function") and metatextually (him singing Beautiful by Christina Aguilera, him owning a pink shirt - in 2004 him having that was a declaration in and of itself). He is not anywhere NEAR the closet except for his clothes. And he's also accepted. He goofs off with his fellow art geeks at the art geek table - it's not just Janis who's laughing at his class clown antics. Hell, Janis is the one who rags on him the most FOR being gay, and we're meant to understand that she gets a pass and her openly stating it is effectively an act of solidarity and acceptance even if she is kinda a dick about it.

But for me, the ability to read sapphism into it so freaking easily also qualifies it as that. It's not textual. It was 2004. Damian is the only 'framed as a good person battling the evils of highschool dictatorships' protagonist who isn't shown smooching a love interest by the end of the movie. Hell, he kisses Janis instead as they get caught up in the atmosphere, even though they both immediately curdle in disgust and "No, no, nope" it. So Cady and Regina can't be TOLD to have that kind of tension.

But we're SHOWN it. Oh BOY are we shown it. It even practically ends on it. In the final 'the class barriers have been broken down' scene, we're not shown Cady giving a long look at Aaron as he walks by with his team mates and smiles at her, giving her a nod in camaraderie to show that they've both made it into this new beginning and they can put the fights of the past behind them. He's literally not even there.

Who's in that scenario instead? Cady, yes.

And Regina Motherfucking George.

also please note that the final breaking point for Regina, the one that sent her flying home in a screaming and flushed rage, the one who made her voice tremble, was CADY. It was Cady's betrayal. Cady singular. Not The Plastics as a unit, no, it was Cady and her Kalteen bars. It's not The Plastics as a unit whose picture she butchers for the Burn Book. Just a picture of her and Cady, arm in arm, smiling for the camera.

One of the most common 'couple breaks up' tropes btw, next to eating ice cream, is cutting up pictures to literally cut the ex out of the POV character's life. Just saying.

Further, Regina won't hesitate to weaponize herself and throw herself under the bus (lol) to get her way. It's part of what makes her such a formidable opponent and villain. It can also tie into this inextricably if you think about it.

Mean Girls, above all, is about 'girl politics' and the way girls, especially teenage girls, flounder and struggle and assert themselves in a patriarchal society. It's about how girls are and aren't allowed to act, behave, think, even what they're allowed to look like and who they're allowed to hang out with. About what they are and aren't allowed to BE. And so it isn't only the platonic feminine bonds that suffer in this. It's everything else, too. After all, it was accusations of lesbianism, the notion that Janis was in love with Regina, that excommunicated Janis from Regina's kingdom.

But it was also Regina who brought it up, and who demanded the performance of compulsive heterosexuality in the first place.

[thecorvidrotation]

main thing i miss about actively reading the raven cycle is how the intensity of the gangsey's care for each other makes me want to chew my own arm off

[thekegelelf]

I keep seeing posts about "oh idk why people still ship radiodust it's definitely not going to be canon Alastor is ace and Angel is definitely going to end up with xyz" as if that's at all the point of shipping. Do you think I care about canon beyond using it as building blocks for my silly little fandom fun time? Absolutely not

[oneefin]

we did vehemusical this weekend! twas enjoyable. we didn't solve everything, so our stage is missing some people, but that's okay:

the hunt is pretty short and it's not too hard (with one significant exception) - optimal for a small team of intermediate solvers with a bit of time to kill.

it's clear that this hunt was "not for me", in the same way that crosswords with tons of old people clues in them are "not for me": musical theatre isn't really my thing, so a lot of the content didn't feel as cool or connected in my head as other hunt stuff i've done, but i had a good time regardless. i'm glad to have teammates who can inform me of the necessary musical trivia and also bounce or riff off of ideas i have - even if we weren't as available as we were hoping to be.

thanks team vehemence for putting this together!

[neuxue]

Xiao Jingyan: 你一定要把自己做的事都说得如此狠绝吗？// Must you speak so ruthlessly of everything you do? Mei Changsu: 我本来就是一个狠绝之人。人素来只会被朋友出卖，敌人是永远没有出卖和背叛的机会的。// I am a ruthless person. One can only be sold out by a friend; an enemy will never have the opportunity to sell or betray you. Xiao Jingyan: 这个我信。但你可知，你若如此待人，人必如此待你。先生如此聪慧，这个道理不会不懂吧。// That, I believe. But you must know that if you treat people this way, that is how they will treat you. With your intelligence, surely you must understand this. Mei Changsu: 我明白……可是我不在乎。殿下尽可以用任何的手段来试探我、考验我，我都无所谓。因为我知道自己心里忠于的是什么。我从来都没有想过要背叛。// I understand… but I don’t care. Your Highness may use any method you like to test me, examine me; it doesn’t matter. Because I know where my own heart's loyalties lie. And I have never held thoughts of betrayal.

anyway let's just add this to the 'conversations that are going to fucking haunt Xiao Jingyan once he realises who he was having them with' list

(it's like the langya list but with more knives)

[horseimagebarn]

horses engaged in combat one horse has leaned forward in order to use its back legs to deliver a strong kick to the opposition which is another horse of a similar but not identical color to it we know the kick is strong because of the way the other horses head has been snapped back by the force of it giving the viewer a good look at its mouth which is frozen in a grimace of pain what has caused these beautiful animals to become locked in such vicious combat such is the way of nature for the world will always have good and bad and those forces shall always oppose one another even if these horses are not only good or only bad we see here a representation of the constant war of true morality

[zortartrix]

[ofweave]

periodic disclaimer that any mystra bashing on this blog is a joke and as far as forgotten realms lore goes i find her an interesting and enjoyable character. i would go as far as classify myself as a mystra enjoyer (although i do find her portrayal and presence in bg3 weak but thats not here nor there).

she is, still, the villain of gale's (back)story very specifically. i find it annoying that people who view it that way or who are critical of the relationship between her and gale (in a 'it was not a healthy good relationship' sense not in the sense that it shouldnt exist in the text because what) are labelled as hysterical and jealous mystra-hating fangirls ??? i mean ????? huh ????? whuh ????

[yutamayo]

Okay so my blog @criesingayscale seems to be flagged as explicit as a whole so idk if you guys have been able to view it (lmk if yes/no) but either way.

Yes, I'm pissed. My blog would be a year old on March 1st. Seeing if tumblr will agree with the appeal but. If you think this will stop me from making Killing Stalking and other manga content?

Think again. And again. And again. And afuckinggain.

The devil works hard, but I fuck the devil's mom on weekends. She drives to my house, goes down on me, texts and drives "I miss u :(" on her way home, and sends me nudes while she makes the devil breakfast.

I could be the Devil's new step-mommy, but I have meme blogs to run.

[reginalusus]

I do not understand the DR's fandom fixation on having the chapters be released separately. I feel like this is Reddit's issue more than Tumblr's, but when I see the reason for it being, "we need the chapters to release separately so every character and every theory and plot point has their time to shine," I think my eyes roll a bit.

Undertale was one game, and every character, secret, plot point - everything - got the love it deserved, and still does to this day. Why do people think Deltarune will be so easily be forgotten? Or, why do people act like we should forget Ch. 1 and 2 to focus on the new chapters? They're still all going to connect with one another, you know that, right? People are still going to fixate on Jevil and Spamton and the themes there and the aesthetics and everything. Why do you want to go 'crazy' again waiting on one chapter after the other? Because that's all that would happen if they were released separately.

I personally would have preferred the whole game to come out as one package. But obviously we all know that couldn't happen. This notion is just very strange to me, but I don't feel strongly about it either way.

It's Toby's baby, it's his project. Just... let him deliver it how he wants. IDK.