#which got my interest AND my attention
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whenever i hear people talking about tian guan ci fu it’s all stuff like “the greatest love story ever told 🥺” “xie lian suffered so much but he’s still so infinitely kind 🥺” which is how my mom talks about the bible. and i’m sure it’s a fine book, but there’s just not enough gravy in the pitch for me to invest in something of that scale. after all, there are so many greatest love stories ever told, but very few stories have, for instance, whatever the hell guan yu and cao cao had going on
#part of it is just optics obviously#everything i heard about erha before i started was like ‘i love a classic tale of love at sixth or seventh car crash. maybe eighth.’#which got my interest AND my attention#but part of it is just that tgcf seems to primarily resonate with people who interact with literature very differently from me#and have different priorities in a story#which suggests that it shall not resonate as much with me#which is a shame because it’s one of very few chinese books at my local library#ryddles
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“Haven’t You Noticed (I’m a Star)” from Steven Universe works so ridiculously well for Leo
#rottmnt#rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles#rottmnt headcanons#rottmnt leo#rise leo#listen it’s morning now and I haven’t slept so bear with me for the sudden unwarranted lyric analysis haha#a lotttt of the lyrics work so well for him#not even just the overall theme the words just work great#first lyric is literally ‘I can’t help it if I make a scene’ which is one to one with ‘Leo’s makin a scene’ from the rottmnt opening like-#‘I’m turning heads and I’m stopping traffic’ -> Leo has not made it a secret that he values his looks a LOT#-not just his looks but also his ability to get people’s attention#‘when I pose they scream when I joke they laugh’ -> I feel like this speaks for itself#-posing and joking for the crowd and himself#‘I’ve got them dazzled like a stage magician’ -> works both with Leo’s canonical love of magicians and his aptitude with tricks in general#‘well everybody needs a friend and I’ve got you and you and you’ -> I just think it’d be cute to imagine his friends here just as his bros#‘I got you and you and you’ = ‘my brainy guy my smashing guy and eats peanut butter with his fingers guy’#‘haven’t you noticed that I’m a star?’ -> Leo loves attention and especially loves when his feats and efforts are acknowledged#+ he loves glam rock and sci-fi and being a champ and - listen he has a LOT of star symbolism with him#‘haven’t you noticed I made it this far’ - Leo is well aware of how dangerous situations get and thinks himself only a part of a whole#-so hey it’s notable that he’s survived this long yeah?#‘now everyone can see me burning’ -> self-sacrificing with his family bearing witness + all his star and flame symbolism in general#+ how attention naturally goes to him - including bad attention where his mistakes are highlighted and burn bright#also even the limo lyric-#obviously this boy has never and will never own a limo but one of his main secondary colors IS pink so even that#okay that one is just a joke but he would#(on that note though I think the other colors the boys gravitate to outside THEIR color are fun to notice)#I don’t actually know too much about Steven universe beyond the songs and some eps but I like the music#and this just came to my tired mind so here you go anyone who’s interested#may draw something with these lyrics dunno yet#it’s a good song in any case even though it’s super short
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Nyaha~! Caught in my electroweb! ♡
#pokemon#iono#nanjamo#bellibolt#pokemon sv#aquanutart#iono gives me this vibe of 'i've sold my soul to chasing love and attention from thousands of strangers who will never know me'#but with an edge of self-awareness and i like that#i love hyper over-the-top performer personalities! i think she genuinely enjoys performing in her cutesy persona#and i definitely think it's a huge part of herself that she enjoys expressing but she has another side too#that worries about numbers and holding people's interest and getting the attention and validation she wants#she's an in-universe internet content creator! she's got a gig and she is WORKING it!!#i swear she makes me hear death by glamour#ALSO SHE HAS A FROG!!! i have no choice but to stan#btw you get a bilingual bonus if you can read this (and i get a weeb award for using romaji and katakana in the same picture)#how else though can i convey to english audiences that she uses boku (i love it)#her catchphrase 'your eyeballs are mine' does kinda creep me out though#i find it less creepy in japanese which is just 'your eyeballs (are acted on by) electric net' but that may be because i understand it less#i don't know japanese well enough to guess exactly what it's implying rofl
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generally this is how I imagine the twins are when theyre older
#if Niamh and Tiara got that old shoujo mean girl type thing going on then Phaedra's the crossdressing prince of the cast#meanwhile eranthe is just my lil eepy girl#she's gonna read a book in the corner maybe take a nap and also go feed bloody sugar cubes to her vampire horse#i imagine that most people Phaedra meets are a little in love with her#like Eranthe got all the shapeshifting skills while Phaedra is just oozing a supernatural level of charm#which is great for her cuz she loves attention even if she's not particularly interested in romantic relationships#vampire debutante#eranthe and phaedra#my art#my ocs
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WIP Wednesday 💌
I've been slowly inching my way through this one the last couple of weeks, but on the bright side I feel like we're nearly there (except for the fact that it is looking to round out somewhere around 10k instead of the initially estimated 4k but what's new, really). anyway, here, have this tiny snippet for today.✨
“Tommy, wait.” Buck blurted out in a sudden panic, prompting Tommy to stop in his tracks and turn back from the doorway.
“Yeah?”
“I—” The words were hanging off of the very tip of his tongue, sticking to the roof of his mouth as he swallowed and tried to push them past his teeth, but the seconds were ticking by and he just stood there with his mouth agape, no sounds coming out, until: “Call me. W-when you get there, just- just call me.”
For a moment, there was a flicker of surprise flashing across Tommy’s face, before his features melted into a gentle smile.
“Of course. I’ll call you every day, alright?”
“Uh, y-yeah, alright.” Buck fisted the metal in his hand a little harder, trying to ground himself as he watched Tommy wrap his own hand around the doorknob, ready to leave.
“Goodnight, Evan.” His voice was soft like a caress against Buck’s skin and Buck had to close his eyes for a moment as it washed over him — by the time he opened them again, Tommy was gone.
“Night.” He breathed into the large, empty space of his apartment.
✨I have been tagged by and am tagging the wonderful @sunshinediaz @spagheddiediaz @jeeyuns @exhuastedpigeon @bidisasterevankinard
@diazsdimples @honestlydarkprincess @watchyourbuck @actualalligator @bucksbignaturals
@loveyouanyway @glorious-spoon mwuahhh 💛
#it's only missing about 2k and the editing#but my attention span is just not interested in getting anything done#including but not limited to writing or work or chores ugh#anywayyy#one step closer to buck saying those three little words 🫶#which is luckily the part i got written already#phew#bucktommy#911#911 abc#wip#buck loves tommy
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What was Sauron doing through all the years since the fall of Utumno though?
#Like I had a fanfic idea in which Maedhros was to say that Sauron's attention was worse than Morgoth's#because Morgoth was at least straightforwardly 100% pure hatred#and Sauron was very open that Maedhros was the most interesting thing to happen to him since the War of the Powers#but it just got me thinking#What do you mean he just waited there for four hundred years of the trees and nothing happened#my post#not tagging it for reasons#(reasons being 'I feel weirded out enough by being fascinated by what Sauron was up to as is')
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Having watched MAWS S2, your "Coddling Colonizer Guilt" essay flashed through my mind repeatedly alongside "Oh man, this crew is nowhere as smart about this as they think they are, and fans are going to applaud them regardless". At the same time, my brother and I were laughing at how blatantly bad the writing was, especially in the finale; but seeing people on Twitter unironically praise the writing was weird, especially when they're usually more critical of mediocre DC stuff.
YOU! YOU GET ME!!
asdfaf I can think of a couple of reasons why that essay in particular is on your mind for S2 and I don't doubt the crew would fumble hard on that subject. But yeah, it's frustrating how most people just aren't engaging critically with this show like you said.
I've personally had to disengage with "maws defenders" (different from "maws enjoyers" who are able to like the show but still understand my criticism of it) because I've come to learn that discussing with them is fruitless. In order to believe that maws is a well written show and defend it, you'd have to have bought into the show's short-term memory loss of its own events and contradictory writing. I found myself having to remind these fans of what happened in the very show they're supposedly a fan of. I end up recognizing that I understand the show better than they do.
Worse, I'd hate to engage with maws fans who are morally performative about defending the show. The moment Lois jumped off the building in S1 was when the writing was so transparently bad that it trended on twidder and split the fandom in half. So in order to cope, maws defenders say "you can't handle messy women" and "hating how lois is written means you're a misogynist" ignoring all logic in the show and how badly Lois' motivations were written. So the show builds that "if u hate this show you're a bigot" armor and the only winner is the showrunner(and the company)'s performative representation.
There's plot holes and contradictions in the very first scene in episode 1 season 1 of maws. It doesn't take a detective to see how bad the writing is if you pay attention.
#askjesncin#jesncin talks maws#my friends who had a passing interest in the show have all quit once they recognized the show's trite writing. who does that leave-#-as fans of the show. that leaves people who don't recognize the contradictory writing and are uncritical.#not to mention the asks I got that admit they watched the show half-paying-attention (which is fine that's being honest)
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Does this hurt? (Patreon)
Bonus:
I love surfacetable.txt <3
#Doodles#W. D. Ghoster#If it was anyone other than him.... But it /is/ him that's the thing#Backing up a bit lol - in doing some Surface Tests to make sure everything's going well (It is! No errors popped! :D) I got curious#Y'know wanting to compare to see how many animations or elements make up a surface! It's interesting! And fun!#And then discovering that certain very rare animations can be seen again without resetting or reinstalling or what have you hehe <3#I've already seen those they're not a spoiler they're just harder to come by - I want to appreciate and admire them a bit longer!#Which was all well and fine and good and dandy and not a problem until I was idly clicking through not really paying attention to what#I've still never punched Ghoster - I haven't even played with my Neutral Run in a while I just want to keep petting him#So I hadn't seen the animation(s) - haven't sought them out haven't even really looked too much into screenshot of#It was very startling! I was worried!! I immediately went to check my stats and indeed I ''hadn't'' punched him - 1000+ Pets and no Punches#But... I saw it happen#He doesn't know because it was Just An Animation - him Just A Ghost - but I saw it I experienced it I was there for it#Yes that first time it was an accident but in grabbing these gifs I did it again on purpose#(How's my cursor acting btw lol)#There's a bit of Flowey about it all - made me wonder if Ghosts could ever be programmed to ''know'' a Surface Test happened#Really - if it were any other Ghost than his I probably wouldn't be thinking about it so much - but by nature of who he is...#So yeah anyway I stopped after this - no more spoilers for me#I'll look elsewhere for reference for now - I still want to experience his routes fairly blind haha#Oh and a bonus surfacetable.txt ♥ Yay ♥ I was so excited for that haha I love renaming things!#I couldn't figure out why certain captions were overlapping for a bit - figured it out by comparing the Hunter/Smoker table lol#Picking things up in tiny little pinches! Every little step forward! Doing!
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not me blearily waking up at 5:30am almost in tears bc I had a dream that Ian had apparently been making more little OK KO shorts on the side and the utter joy I was feeling as dream!me was scrambling to find & watch them only to wake up before I could........ :((((
#there were 5 of them out already apparently#the most recent one had a Ray focus to it so big shocker that that's the one that caught my attention#and dream!me was like ''oh so THAT'S why ppl have been spam-liking all my Ray posts recently!! makes sense 👌''#I actually got to se like a little ending clip for that one where like. he was wearing this stupid cloak & outfit—#—kinda looked a little Shadowy Figure-esque actually??—but apparently he was like. secretly doing hero work on the side or smth??#and then at the end he had this convo with Darrell back at the factory where he monologued about how dabbling in hero work--#--made the villainy they do feel all the sweeter or smth like that & he was all dreamy-eyed pensive staring up at the sky#and Darrell was??? drinking imaginary tea/coffee from an imaginary cup which you could tell bc he had his pinkie up#and then when Ray finished his monologue Darrell just gave him this most unimpressed smirk & dumped out his imaginary cup over the balcony#like pour-one-out style??? and then that was the end of the short 😂😂#and so dream!me was pissing her pants bc HERO RAYMOND REAL AFTER ALL??¿????#and there were some other like screenshots/gifs I stumbled across on my way to find the actual shorts themselves#(Ian apparently had a whole lil youtube channel he was posting them to lol which I only found right before I woke up)#but the only one I can remember now was Elodie doing a Big YellTM towards KO about something 😂😂#broooo there are genuine tears being wiped from my eyes rn wtf is thissssss 🤣🤣 I have work soon I need my SLEEP#but I had to document this bc it was just. so Visceral & now I am so so so soooo bummed that it wasn't actually real TwT#I think my brain & heart have gotten too inspired by how some of my other Big Fave interests have been getting sequels/remasters lately#so now my soul is Once Again I Am Yearning For Justice For OK KO.meme TTwTT#anyways. god it's taken me an entire half hour to blearily tap this out on my phone. time to squeeze another half hour of snooze before work#OK KO#shut up Wisp
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fckin. i've watched Tin Can Bros' masterpiece Spies are Forever a bajillion times. I've listened to the soundtrack a bajllion times. when my phone malfunctioned and I lost all the music I downloaded from my dad's giant folder of pirated mp3s, the fuckin Spies Are Forever soundtrack was one of the 3 albums that remained bc it was one of the only ones I'd actually bought. which means i listened to it over and over and over until I was able to get student-discounted Spotify (and tbh i do still listen to it over and over, just on Spotify).
and I JUST NOW realized that Curt's beard from the 4 years after Owen's death is a double entendre.
the only other queer person he knew in his line of work just fucking died. of course he gets a beard.
#he needs to mourn without people questioning#why he's so upset over some guy from fully another agency#so he misdirects it as general depression/hiding himself from the world#so people don't pay attention [badum tssh] to the cause of his grief#fuck man every time i look at saf it gives me more interesting subtext#spies are forever#saf#tcb#tin can bros#curt mega#original post#i should've written my intro to queer studies final paper on spies are forever#i had it all planned out and i scrapped it bc i was scared my prof would watch it and not get the full context of the nazi stuff#and i did the adventure zone balance instead#which was nice but not nearly as deep of a lasagna as spies are forever#this shits got layers for days#tagpost#if you dont know what i mean by 'beard' in a queer context#google it before yelling at me#i know its kind of an older term idk if the youths use it anymore
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I had the opportunity to make a bunch of penguins watch doctor who yesterday and didn’t, truly one of life’s tragedies
#they got to watch finding Nemo instead#but I had full acess to my supervisors Disney plus and like twenty penguins#I could have done it#they weren’t even that interested in finding Nemo#only two really paid attention and I think one of them just was interested in the tablet because he tried to steal it#the other one bit me#another one did come up and just want to be pet though which was cute#doctor who#penguins
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Dick should be Romani. Jason should be Hispanic. Damian is half-Arab. I don't know where we fall on Tim, I guess he can be the only white boy in the Robins. /shrug
Tim's upper crust New Jersey rich class, he is white as hospital wall paint. Dick just is Romani, that's straight up canon at this point, I don't know whether they've made it so both of his parents were Romani but I know that at least John Grayson has been Romani for some time in canon, which would make Dick at least half. Damian's a bit harder to pin down because DC has flip-flopped a lot on exactly what the al Ghul heritage is, Ra's I believe is half Chinese and half Arab (where exactly? who the Hell knows apparently the entire Arab world is a monolith for this people) and Talia has that and I think her mom was Arabic so Damian is at least half-Arab with some Chinese ancestry and is, in fact, brown, just like his mom and his grandpa (those ugly-ass movies that made him painfully white are the Devil's work). Jason at least needs to be ethnically ambiguous enough that he was able to wholeheartedly believe that the top three candidates for his biological mom are a Middle-Eastern woman, an East Asian woman of mixed Chinese and Japanese descent, or a blond haired blue eyed white woman. I tend to go for biracial Hispanic because I myself am the child of one white parent and one Latin parent and I like projecting, but I've seen a lot of good stuff with Jason as East-Asian or Afro-Latino that I really enjoy. And Cass is also biracial, since her mom is, again, of Chinese and Japanese descent and I don't know what the fuck David Cain is, and she should be portrayed as such as well.
And if DC could just remember all of this and stop portraying them as just Bruce clones physically that would be swell.
#personal#answered#anonymous#batfam#'oh but some of them have blue eyes' yeah cuz sometimes when you mix genetics weird shit happens#i have my peruvian side's hair and eye coloring because both my hair and eyes are very dark#but EVERYTHING else i got from my dad's greek side (and he's not even full blood greek he's half on his mom's side) i am startlingly pale#some of y'all did not pay attention eighth grade/freshman biology but i did because i'm smart#anyway i really wish people in editorial would remember that the batfam has a wide variety of cultures and disparate upbringings#it just makes it so much more interesting#hell even the way religion has shaken out can be fun to play with#bruce is jewish jason has been hinted to be catholic (and i endorse it wholeheartedly because again projection)#tim is at most agnostic (honestly tim is just a WASP which tracks because tim okay i'm done) christian-adjacent#and damian absolutely should be muslim or at least multi-faith but that again requires dc to remember that damian is brown#which they so often don't
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#I personally don't think he can activate it at will but it is interesting that in 4x10 he said he wanted to try to learn to control it#or at least see if there is a way for him to control it. Also at the same time Bree refers to it as ''dangerous'' which is the first time-#anyone in the show has brought to attention/stated the nature of the app#however there is an interesting tidbit in 2x09 when after Spike initially deactivates and Leo and Chase talk before Leo walks away#and Spike activates again- it almost seems like Chase willingly activates Spike out of anger because of Leo's actions#but I think Chase just got so angry that Spike immediately came back out because Spike instantly calls Leo out and intimidates him#don't mind me just passing by with one of my many Commando App thoughts#disney lab rats#lab rats#chase davenport#spike davenport#lab rats spike#poll
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LMAO so funny thing is everyone knows the whole Sonic and Shadow looking alike thing is total bullshit and I totally agree those comments they try to pull in the games and show(s? I'm not technically a Sonic fan I dunno if it's multiple) make basically no sense to me but then my Mom comes in while watching Sonic Prime and says "So what, Sonic has a brother or something?" and this whole other world has opened up to me and I've seen the truth of it all
#so to clarify I do not consider myself a Sonic fan since I have never played a Sonic game and I've never read any of the comics#and idk the lore cuz I've never really bothered to watch other people play it and I have watched some of the shows#y'know my grandma had 4Kids so sometimes I would catch Sonic X on TV#but literally most of my knowledge of the Sonic franchise is just having people talk to me about it#like when I was a kid my grandma babysat these kids who were older than me I forget how old I was like under 10 I think#and one of the kid's big interest was Sonic so I would just sit and listen to him talk about Sonic the entire time I was there#he would play the games too I think but my brain didn't process any of that so I have no actual memory of the screen#I would mostly just pay attention to him talking cuz he would talk about it while playing it was great#so that is the base of my knowledge and then after my grandma stopped babysitting them it was radio silence#until y'know people would occasionally bring stuff up in videos I'd watch and I'd look @ videos about people talking abt Sonic#occasionally and see like memes or YTPs of Sonic or y'know abridged stuff#but I literally never actually watched a Sonic game until Frontiers came out and then The Murder Of Sonic the Hedgehog#and Sonic Prime is the first Sonic show I properly sat down and watched which show is great btw I enjoy it a lot#but yeah and it was vaguely purposeful like I was keeping myself away cuz I know how I am about stuff and I WILL try to learn EVERYTHING#if I get too interested in Sonic as a franchise#oh I did play Unleashed sometime after it first came out and couldn't get past like the first fuckin level but tbf I was like 7 years old#possibly 8 years old cuz I'm not 100% sure how much later I got the game but like I was really bad @ any game that wasn't just like#spamming buttons since I grew up on fighting games lmao#but yeah I dropped the game almost immediated I do not count that for anything#but yeah long story short: all my knowledge is second hand like I still think I know a good amount for what it's worth but#I wouldn't trust my own knowledge
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for the past couple years ive been slowly. slowly learning beginners japanese and its very fun and im enjoying it a lot but also it has made me painfully aware in ways i wasnt before of how much my specific vaguely ontario accent makes me make out sloppy style with my vowels. i am going at those vowel's tonsils. i am doing things to diphthongs you wouldnt even believe.
#come and meet the letter people. come and visit the familyyy#literally like i dont mind my ontario accent coming through my japanese thats okay BUT i do care about making sure im saying what#im actually trying to say. and sometimes without realizing my vowels have left off somewhere else in the middle of my word#turning it into some manner of other word. i accidentally said picasso bought the mona lisa instead of painted it the other day <3#i dont mind my mistakes but like. i still wanna do my best!!!!#its blowing my mind though. okay as an anglophone here the only way we'll learn anything about our own language is by#1) just having a natural interest in linguistics in general and/or 2) learning a new language#much to my mothers frustration when she came here in the 70s not knowing any english. even the english speakers couldnt help her#BUT luckily i was both interested in linguistics and learning new languages so i got to learn more things after preschool LOL#but like i remember taking french throughout highschool and being like. wait a god damn minute. i understand english grammer now?#it was bizarre. learning japanese phonetics as well has made me realize what on earth i do with my vowels. actually the entire way i talk#i didnt pay much attention to it but in my head i hear everything as my voice but with perfect north american man radio voice pronunciation#which it turns out. is not what my actual voice sounds like. its not even thaaat different its just different Enough. uncanny valley accent#although the reason i specify vaguely with my vaguely ontarian accent is because#in my area half of the native english speakers say stuff one way and the other half a different way. like within the same neighbourhoods#people always giggle at the way i say bagel. in my head i do picture it as bey-gul. but the second it lease my mouth its become BAG-ul#no one in my familiar says it like that. i dont know where it came from. i cant even stop it. im forever BAG-ul. forever.
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shaved my legs so I'm a different person now
#I was impressed that my dinky armpit-hair razor actually held up to the furred terrain it was dealing with#we've had water shortages 3 years in a row so the legs just weren't a priority. this might be the first time in a year or so#exciting stuff lol#also today I got crowded into a corner in the metro by a guy who was in the ladies carriage (?)#he was a good two heads taller than me. no mean feat. and stunningly well-proportioned#like a Greek statue tbh. just someone god took his sweet sweet time on y'know?#but like we're in *ran and he wasn't even supposed to be in the ladies carriage let alone literally squashing me into the wall#so I escaped under his arm#and got my first set of non-ooh-look-an-Asian-tourist looks from the other women in the carriage#the looks ranged from /poor helpless you what the hell was he doing/ to /goddamn girl you want to get away from THAT?/#yes ma'am I'm practising to be a monk you see. and also I'm not interested in getting arrested on my morning commute.#and t h e n (adding to the confusion we all had about him) he wedged himself into a newly vacated seat in between two chadori women#and got out a crochet hook and headphones#clarifying: no room to move either of his arms where he'd chosen to sit (also he's! not allowed to sit there!). barely room to BREATHE.#and this man really goes no no the commute needs Enrichment. sat there crocheting.#two things: he was diverting attention away from me which I always appreciate bc I'm tired of getting stared at everywhere#and: am I in love with no-social-cues Adonis who I'll never see again? Have I just been away from people my age too long? wth#thought
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