#yes I understand the theories

[starlite-sin]

"Blumhouse forgot to give Afton a motive" y'all gonna flip your shit when I tell y'all that techinically the games don't give one either

[strawberrybyers]

stranger things broadcast channel… count your days fr do not play games with me because immediately my brain went to: THIS IS A HINT THAT WILL IS STAYING AT MIKE’S HOUSE BECAUSE HE DOESN’T HAVE A HOME.

WILL AND MIKE SHARING A BEDROOM TRUTHERS RISE 🧎‍♀️🧎‍♀️🧎‍♀️🧍‍♀️🧍‍♀️🧍‍♀️

[moongothic]

You know when I originally suggested that maybe Dragon is the one who gave Crocodile his scar and/or took his left hand --if only because [Dragon not recognizing the big scary man with a baby when he was supposed to go see his wife, assuming the worst and acting accordingly] would make for an A-Class tragedy and great fucking drama (something which I would expect to see in One Piece)-- I wasn't fully convinced with the idea, I just considdered it just another option on What Could Have Happened between those two to get us where we are ...But the more I think about it, the more I've started to kind of believe it. And for two key reasons, first being kind of everything we know about Whitebeard, and the second being the basic logistics around the suggested scenario to begin with

By which I mean; if Dragon had indeed gone to see his wife so he could deliver their newborn baby to Garp, but instead came face-to-face with a man he had never seen before but who just happened to have the exact same and very specific facial scar as his wife and/or the same god damn hook... Like I can't say he SHOULD be able to recognize Crocodile instantly, but also, surely either of those features would make him stop for a moment think and/or talk before he'd jump into action, let alone if the man had both the scar and the hook. Of course, there is an argument to be made that maybe Crocodile had a smaller hook originally that no longer fit on his wrist after getting jacked so maybe Crocodile just wasn't wearing any hook at all, and a missing limb isn't an unusual disability on its own, at least not enough to faze Dragon. And who knows, maybe the two were supposed to meet on a dark and stormy night, in which case between the low light and the rain it could've been hard for Dragon to see any scars on Crocodile's face from a distance. These are both reasonable arguments, absolutely. But, as I have mentioned a few times before, sometimes the path of least resistance might be the most likely option as far as story speculation goes. If Crocodile had both his hands and no scar on his face, then Dragon wouldn't have had any way to immidiately and instantly recognize Croc (aside from his fashion sense) as he would've been missing (what we would now considder) his most distinquishing features. Which would it much easier for Dragon to jump into action and attack the strange man without a second thought.

And then there's Whitebeard. Whitebeard, who was kind of famous for stomping rookie pirates only to invite them to join his crew as his "sons", but who also had a weird thing about not having women in his crew (his nurses aside), because he believed "women do not belong on a battlefield". For one, that actually kind of supports the "Crocodile is openly trans" theory because, again, how the fuck would Croc have been pre-t AND stealth as a Wardlord getting his shit kicked in by Whitebeard? Like it's not impossible, as we have discussed many times before (and that is not the point of this post!!), but once again it would be easier to just assume Crocodile was still living as a woman at this point in time. And indeed, that could answer the question of "why would Whitebeard not invite Crocodile into his crew to be one of his children like Ace and everyone else?". If Croc was still living and presenting as a woman at this point, Whitebeard would not have even wanted him in his crew. (Sidenote but since Whitebeard seemed to have no issues with Jinbei hanging around the Moby Dick despite being a Warlord I don't think Crocodile's Shichibukai status should've had any impact on WB's ability to invite him to his crew. To be fair though, Jinbei did join the Shichibukai much later so it is possible WB could've just changed his position on the subject over the years) And that leads to this question; if Whitebeard has that kind of views on women, then would he ever go as far as to severely injure and scar (someone he viewed as) a woman right on their face? With an attack that could have very easily chopped Crocodile's entire head in half like a god damn burger bun if he weren't careful? Do you think Whitebeard would have chopped Crocodile's left hand off and left him permanently disabled if he viewed him as a woman who shouldn't be a fighter to begin with? Yes, to be fair, we do not know the circumstances under which Crocodile challenged Whitebeard into a fight and what kind of a pirate Crocodile had been up until that point, what his reputation had been and if he had done anything in particular to invite Whitebeard's wrath (much like Kid and Barto with Shanks). Like for all we know he could've done something truly heinous and fucked up enough that Whitebeard thought teaching him a lesson was justified.

Just, looking at all of these notes together, I can't help but to feel that it's actually very plausible Dragon could be the one responsible for one of Crocodile's injuries if not both (if Crocodad Real).

[jonsnowunemploymentera]

As far as character progression goes, I'd argue that the most important aspect of the RLJ reveal isn't just Jon learning that he isn't Ned's son. The most important part is him learning that he isn't Ned Stark's bastard son. He's spent all his life chasing after Ned's shadow, trying to prove to himself and to the world that he is worthy of being Ned Stark's son, "let them say that Eddard Stark had fathered four sons not three", “he was not a Stark but he could die like one” and all that. He's internalized the shame of being the one stain on honorable Ned Starks' reputation

“But it’s a lie,” Jon insisted. How could they think his father was a traitor, had they all gone mad? Lord Eddard Stark would never dishonor himself … would he? He fathered a bastard, a small voice whispered inside him. Where was the honor in that? And your mother, what of her? He will not even speak her name.

So it's important for him to finally stop chasing after that elusive shadow. It's important for him to understand that Ned's dishonor was a deliberate choice that he made by himself, and it's thus no fault of his own. Once Jon internalizes that, then he can finally move on and ask himself, who am I? What do I want for myself? What can I be in this world, just as I am? So far, he's been unable to do that successfully because he still has an incomplete (and false) understanding of who he is.

[nenoname]

me: oh i totally get it if some folks dont jive with same coin theory, plus it's strange to conceptualise at first--

me when i see people call it lame:

[cozage]

Morning headcanon

You tell Law that you like listening to heartbeat while you fall asleep. The next time you have to separate for a mission, he literally gives you his heart so you can still fall asleep to it’s rhythm.

[uncanny-tranny]

I was always enraged at the way capitalism has devalued some of the most important labour in human history, but now I'm even more angry since I have started getting more into crafts.

So many people are alienated from the world to such an extent they don't realize how fucking important textiles and construction and art and culinary labour is, because its all ubiquitous under capitalism: it is all profit, and if it isn't profit, then it is worthless. People don't realize just how revolutionary all of the labour was, how important it is, and was, to our survival. And that enrages me.

[robinsteves]

nancy wheeler against god

[albino-parakeet]

What my coworker has to deal with anytime I pass by this silly display.

[thetardisisnotourdivision]

Ok I find it incredibly amusing that people are still reblogging my "Susan Foreman is The One Who Waits" post because it's officially redundant, but I'm calling it now that I was right about Mrs Flood.

Like the “slightly bumbling autistic person who is sometimes accidentally sinister and knows stuff she shouldn't” is… that's the whole plot of An Unearthly Child. That's the exact reason why all this started in the first place - because Susan being like that weirded Ian and Barbara out so much that they followed her home and got kidnapped. Also, Susan was telepathic, so she could have sensed Sutekh's presence.

I'm also still convinced that she's Ruby's mother.

Interested to see where they go with this!

[simplydnp]

Unpopular opinion im not brave enough to post on main: dan looks so much better with shorter hair :( also the slight shaved sides are so hot 🥵 obvs not the dystopian daily shaved sides those were awful lol

anon you've come to the one place where you're not swinging a bat at the hornet's nest 😂

i think his hair is at its best a little shorter than this with the slightly shaved sides too 😔

[strawberrybyers]

when karen goes missing in s5. when nancy and mike discover they’re related to the creels in the process of trying to find their mom. when el discovers henry is her dad because the lab secretly impregnated terry. therefore all of this putting another nail in mikeven’s coffin 😌

[cemetegee]

Why can Cavs and Necros Use Each Other's bodies? | How Could Palamedes Use Babs body?

Why can cavs and necros use each others bodies? We see that cavs and necros who are connected by Lyctorhood can use each others bodies without many problems. Gideon uses for example Harrows body at the end of HtN and Pyrrha uses G1deons body. That seems to be a special thing, because Pyrrha says in NtN:

Usually it apparently takes a lot to acclimate a soul to a body it wasn't born in, if that original body os around for it to miss. (Or maybe even in general - Wake-in-Cytherea seems in fact not to be very acclimated.) But it seems to be different between Lyctorhood partners, since they apparently have a special connection: Pyrrha says for example that he can't use Babs body as well as Ianthe, because it's her body to make a revenant of.

So why can partners in Lyctorhood use each others bodies? I insist it is connected to the permeability of soul, but maybe we take a look at the facts.

The key to the answer to the question seems to be Palamedes try to control Babs body... What does he need to do that? Apparently he needs to know where Babs soul is.

That means that the soul of the cav or necro is important for the body control of Lyctorhood. The souls of cavs and necros are connected (that's why necros can use the abilities of their cavs) and since The Unwanted Guest, we know that they even melt together with the time.

So the reason why cavs and necros can use each other's bodies is, that they overcome the need to be born in a body because the soul of the non-in-the-body-born-partner is inseperable connected to a soul that is born in the body. That's (in my opinion) the reason why cavs and necros can use each other's bodies so easily, even if they are not born in the body of their Partner in Lyctorhood.

What also means that Palamedes needed to know where Babs soul is to make a (obviously weaker) connection to it (soul siphoning? Lyctorhood Light-Light?) so he could use the body...

(Does that mean that a part of Paul is Babs?)

[royalarchivist]

ElQuackity: Thank you so much. Roier: It was a pleasure guys, it was a pleasure. I know, I know. Yes, I know. ElQuackity: Thank you so much Roier, we appreciate your time, we appreciate your passion, and The Federation loves you. Roier: Thank you.

[bthump]

This is quite a broad question, but how do you define masculinity and femininity?

A set of culturally dictated traits which reflect cultural biases and social dynamics, and are forcibly assigned to men and women (and people perceived as men or women) through social and even institutional pressures.

Femininity and masculinity are in no way innate to women and men respectively, they're categories that exist to reinforce patriarchy, heteronormativity, cissexism, and even less directly associated power structures like white supremacy.

And as a sidenote, I don't think there's anything wrong with identifying with femininity or masculinity - they're all just collections of traits and there are positive and negative and neutral traits in both categories (though generally more negative feminine traits for the reasons described above lol.)

But I think that in an ideal world masculinity and femininity would not be coherent categories of traits, even if men and women are still coherent categories of people, and I think trying to redefine or reinterpret femininity or masculinity more positively rather than interrogating the reasons traits like passivity or objectification or irrationality are considered feminine and traits like anger, dominance, and violence are considered masculine misses the point. It's much more valuable to fight against gender essentialism and dismantle the categories of masculinity and femininity entirely than to attempt to redefine these categories positively while still associating them with men and women imo.

But also since we don't live in that ideal world it remains useful and interesting to analyse the portrayals of masculinity and femininity in media, and as a gender nonconformity enthusiast it's one of my favourite things to do lol

Thanks for the ask! It's always good to actually define terms, especially politically loaded terms like these.

[tleeaves]

I'm really bad at law school 🧍‍♀️