#At least with the spinoffs

[raifuujin]

Me: -about to start seasonal retail, my annual stress pressure cooker that I have mixed feelings about doing, but get paid I guess-

Also me: And now for my same-time annual burst of energy to work on something, so. -spins the wheel of stuff to do- ...Cleaning special scans even though no one is doing anything with the series it is!

[sanyu-thewitch05]

I was so looking forward to this series. I even hoped I might see Tiana with her natural hair out like in that one commercial. This is severely disappointing.

@queen-shiba

[vinelark]

first wipwed of the year!

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“Car, buddy,” Brian Harrow says from where he’s almost hanging off Carmichael’s shoulder, a glass of something that certainly has more alcohol content than a Shirley Temple sloshing half-finished in his hand. “You sound like you wanna get kidnapped.”

“I’m just saying, it doesn’t make sense,” Carmichael continues. “Like, okay, Shelley moved to Gateway, so I get why she was off the table, but even you would be a more obvious choice if this guy was picking from the original kidnappees. So I just want to know why it was Drake. The only noteworthy thing he’s done recently is be gay now. No offense, again,” Carmichael adds to Tim.

“You know I have veto power on, like, all of these gala invitations for the foreseeable future, right?” Tim says.

“Man, be cool,” Brian tells Carmichael. “It’s totally fine if someone wants to kidnap Drake, you know, love is love and all.”

[habitual-truant]

as a persona fan. i HATE atlus. like, theyre always SOOOO close to having really good social commentary on like, pretty much anything in general i guess. but. they pussy out and it has the opposite effect!! like, biggest example that i actually have well formulated thoughts over is persona 4.. i wrote a long ass essay type thing that id honestly like to rewrite now that my thoughts are more solidified on this but, tl;dr… :

kanji isnt gay and naoto isnt trans. kanji’s story is about accepting that hes got feminine traits and learning to stop internalizing what everyone says about him to be true. naoto’s is about accepting that she is a girl, and she IS everything that people look down on her for, and learning to stop rejecting herself just so she isnt disrespected and dismissed by others.

kanji isnt gay and naoto isnt trans, but they should have been. being queer is very obviously a theme in their stories, and without looking deeper into the characters and their arcs, on the surface level, the story is saying that they’re learning to accept that they ARENT queer. which is pretty clearly homophobic and transphobic.

the entire game is about accepting yourself for who you truly are. for the character that is EXPLICITLY stated to be gay and for the character who EXPLICITLY lives socially as a male despite being born a girl to both have their true selves actually be “normal” is… counterintuitive. while it does fit within the theme of accepting yourself, it’s saying to accept yourself as “normal” and “correct”, not as someone who doesnt fit into societal norms. it undermines the idea of being true to yourself. it’s SO close to being a great message that anyone, no matter who they are, can relate to, but it singles out the unusuals, the people who really need to hear that it’s ok to be whoever you are. i could go on and on about how it’s honestly impressive that the writers managed to miss the mark by such a small amount that it ends up completely undermining the entire thing, but it would be redundant (just like my use of the word ‘undermine’ within two run-on sentences..), and i want to take this back to my original point

the writers at atlus are very, very skilled. its amazing, i really really respect them. but at the same time, i think that their ability to write amazing characters and themes and weave them together into a universe with such inconsistent rules is exactly what makes this so infuriating. i KNOW they’re 100% capable of not being misogynistic in their portrayal of women, i KNOW they’re capable of not being homophobic, i KNOW they can take topics like misogyny and homophobia and transphobia and explore the reasoning behind why people are close minded and hateful, and how it affects people who are at the receiving end of the hatred.

but they dont, because either the writers themselves are prejudiced, or what i think is faaaarrr more likely, the executives think it’s too “risky” to talk about and criticize bigotry, and that they want it to be as palatable to everyone as possible. unfortunately that means no gay people, no trans people, no “controversial” minorities in general.. sure, we can have a few complex and well written women as a treat, but they either have to be fanservice or largely irrelevant to the rest of the plot.

no conclusion paragraph this isnt english class

thanks if u read my 11:00 pm hyperfocus fueled rant i am sending you joy and happiness and good things

[bisclavret]

eoin macken deserves so much more credit for consistently playing gwaine as if he's always choosing his words carefully around merlin or biting his tongue altogether so he doesn't say something that might jeopardize their relationship

[theinfinitedivides]

sigh. Emmys are too good for you king they can't handle your balls to the wall 0 to 100 earth-shattering insanity of a performance

[s-darling-art]

When you’re just a flight attendant but your ex got you possessed by a being composed of “shadows older than the sun” and are now also tied to the magical Blood Blade so you gotta go on adventures now ig

[bonestrewncrest]

meredil cant really engage with altmeri traditions and holidays anymore because of a deep seated trauma and because hes considered a societal outcast, so he lives vicariously through arvintaro who very happily introduces him to breton traditions. here i am imagining they are attending a waking day party and getting to dress nicely for once in their lives

[front-facing-pokemon]

[nosakamihos]

Day 4: Capsule Master

I do not remember the win conditions of capsule chess

[glasskoi]

As the admiral was about to order the the marines to swing their axes, he was knocked out by a man in a top hat yelling, "Leave my brother alone!" Random thought that popped up when u mentioned needing an ace fix

im so tired i forgot who sabo was for a second but listennnn ive thought a lot about sabo showing up at marineford & honestly i think it wld be really fun in a bad way because i feel like ace wld only deteriorate further seeing his supposedly dead brother trying to rescue him. also of the two scenarios (ace lives vs dies) i feel like it wld be a fascinating way to introduce sabos character into the story by having him have to now take aces place as luffys (living) older brother. buttt in that case i think the backstory flashback wld have to wait like u very quickly solve the mystery of aces tattoo & start to put together his backstory & then hes dead & u have to get it from his brothers instead… very tragic idea that u never get to hear it from ace himself u just have to put together the pieces from the people that knew him.

on the other hand in a fix it au i think ace wld either shut down completely in a genuinely horrific way or he would absolutely lose it & try to push sabo away in the same way he self sabotages at marineford. i also am very partial to the idea that ace wld immediately attack or provoke sabo into a fight if they ever met again which wldnt work well at marineford but could happen immediately after LOL

[receding-tides]

I guess margin's second helicopter-flying experience isn't going any better

[tokyo-daaaamn-ji-gang]

Ah so Kazutora and Kensho bonded over having absent parents in their lives

[phantajam]

I kept noticing Shion downplay Haru's work related skills and compliment his domestic skills and I was like "damn this guy wants a malewife so bad" and then I entered Shion's apartment and went "Ohhhhhh..... damn this guy NEEDS a malewife SO bad"

[its-no-biggie]

easily the funniest thing restoration did though was hand us a perfect explanation for why it isnt canon. like oh, epsilon ran hundreds of simulations before he destroyed himself, and even he doesnt know if this one is real or not? well then, obviously. it isnt real. you would know how easy it is to write something off as not canon, wouldnt you? uno reverse motherfucker, i do not accept your fanfiction as canon. this was clearly a simulation and not even a good one

[meganechan05]

Sword Lesbians💛💜

They fight with swords.

They're (enby) lesbians.

✨️Sword Lesbians✨️