#Man From the Equator

[ourfanthings]

Man from the Equator (2012), ep. 07

[teratomatica]

you always land on all fours

[harmonysanreads]

Anaxa : Stalking? I was just... educating myself on your lore.

[waitineedaname]

"Shen Qingqiu's interest in such strange creatures was equivalent to the average Zhongdian reader's interest in the hundreds of flower-like maidens, each more beautiful than the last" how am I supposed to take this to mean anything other than SQQ being a monsterfucker

[yandere-daydreams]

Need to see more Yandere! Batman content from you. Everyone is so delightfully weird and unsettling. Tim and Dick in particular, what a duo of freaks (affectionate + derogatory)

i just covered dick but fjkdlsjfkdsjfks jkl tim drives me crazy in a different direction,,, i think most of bruce's orphan collection would be fairly good at hiding their freak flag until they've got you more-or-less trapped, but not tim. he's bugging your phone day one. he's got cameras in every room of the apartment mysteriously offered to you by the wayne enterprise affordable housing initiative. he's leaving board meetings without warning to watch live footage of you masturbating and wishing he was your hand. and it never occurs to him to actually talk to you until jason pulls him aside to be like 'i know i'm a criminal drug lord but this is felony shit dude'. his greatest desire in life is to stare at you unblinkingly from the other side of a small room and unfortunately that rarely ends well for you.

[hadesoftheladies]

it's bleak how most of the things people think will assuage and temper men are the things that embolden them. "prostitutes exist so men don't rape us" the human trafficking industry that is prostitution is an ever-growing industry that produces propaganda that enables men in society to rape MORE not less. by objectifying women and children, it puts all our heads on the chopping block. "he just needs to settle down and get married" most femicide, rape and domestic violence are committed by husbands/boyfriends. "if men just had daughters/sisters they'd see women as human" as a daughter and sister, i can confirm that we're extra caretakers of said men, and that our kindness is taken as proof that "good women" are subservient and domestic helpers.

if you want to de-radicalize men, you have to actually just stop tolerating misogyny in any form no matter what woman it's done against. stop trying to dialogue with men and start socioeconomically punishing them. people want to act like "separatism doesn't solve anything" when governments and companies only started paying attention when they saw birth and marriage rates drop. it is not women's job to save men from themselves and some feminists still don't get that. pandering to men always results in LESS rights for us. we have to become radically INTOLERANT.

[foggyinphx]

How did Vanessa know Foggy needed to be killed soon??

Foggy didn't even consult with Matt about his strategy on the case and hadn't filed his motion for dismissal yet. The DAs office was equally clueless, based on Kirsten trying to needle the information out of him. Foggy put Benny under protection because of threats.

So where did the info come from?

[swan2swan]

Kenji's getting his groove back.

[petrichormore]

tr!Bad and tr!Water need to have a conversation with each other a million blocks out where no one else can give input tbh. There’s a lot of “I need this and I’m not getting it ” from both sides - which is helpful in communicating - but there’s not enough “what would you have me do”

The question “what would you have me do” could clear up whether or not the friendship is salvageable pretty quickly I think. They’re not really understanding each other currently even though they are trying to communicate, and that question could break through all that. If Bad asks “what would you need me to do to save this friendship” and Water says “isolate yourself from everyone besides me and spend more time with me than anyone else” then that’s. Well that’s it. Bad is unwilling to do that (as of right now) so that’s the end. Problem solved.

But Water might, with the question “what would you have me do” be able to elaborate that it’s the ‘favorite’ portion of Bad having friends that she dislikes, not the ‘having friends’ itself. At least, that’s the vibe I’m getting. That still might be too much for Bad, but maybe there’s things he can do to prove to Water that others are not his favorites without ever verbally choosing a favorite specifically. Maybe actions can speak louder than words in this instance, and neither of them have even explored that because they’re not asking what they should do. They’re not discussing what they want a potential friendship to actually look like, in practice - they just have a nebulous concept that neither of them agree on.

The same goes for Water btw, but I feel her asking the “what would you have me do” question is less applicable because she’s the one trying to sever the connection, while Bad is the one trying to salvage it. Not to say I don’t think Water wants a friendship, she clearly cares (even if she doesn’t want to care), but if someone is going to take action first it’s probably going to need to be Bad, leading by example. The question needs to come from him first, and then he decides if he’s willing to do what Water suggests. If he is willing to at least try, then Water can follow up with “so what about my scenario isn’t ideal for you? what would you have me do?”

I say all this like I think they’d actually talk out their problems healthily even though Water is apparently perfectly aware of what boundaries are in regards to a relationship, and that they’re healthy - she just doesn’t want them. Which. I mean. That’s kind of a red flag, isn’t it. Not that I or Bad or any holywater duo fans care.

[gayofthefae]

Another thing also: El is convincingly good with being broken up with Mike? Like 75% of anti Byler disappear immediately

Reminder one more time that I was a Milkvan shipper in 2x09 and I was flexible as of the end of 3x02 because she was happy. An impressive turn around I will always commend - they know how to do this. 2 episode convert could have been bad and sudden, but it felt earned and logical. I went from hoping they never broke up to objectively predicting they would get back together but as long as Mike was okay, not really caring that much.

El is believably FINE and equally if not more capable of a happy ending

People are made to feel like they called Mike being queer

I honestly think that's pretty much it. I mean "Will's too good for him" disappears with the inherent explanation of Mike's queerness so that doesn't even need to go on the list, it's really just those two things. "I want El to be happy, I don't want to feel stupid". And we're golden. Everyone else had much more personal attachment to either a ship or homophobia and they qualify as outliers.

We're good. All set. That's it, guys. We can go home.

[katsdynam1ght]

thinking about shouto todoroki and this line from season five of miraculous ladybug: “the love you have for your friends isn’t divided; it’s multiplied!”

i think as someone who grew up without friends (much like kagami) that line and that revelation overall would hit very hard for him. i imagine it’s difficult sometimes for him not to view love as a nonrenewable resource, but. time and time again, his friends prove that it isn’t. they love him and continue to love him no matter what.

[sayidsjarrah]

while i absolutely believe that sayid did love nadia… i think the idea of equating his love for shannon and his love for nadia as incomparable or otherwise the same is a rather shallow interpretation of his character and…. disrespectful to shannon. at the end of the day shannon was a main character, she’s not just a love interest, she’s not a supporting character, she’s not a plot device. She was on the island for a reason. She was a character from conception with a purpose and a personality and a backstory.

It feels disrespectful to equate shannon’s epic romance to somebody else (specifically a guest character off the island) and just shrug and throw your hands up and say hey, she’s just second best because it had to be the island afterlife so, sorry shannon, you’re just here because you have to be :/ he wishes you were nadia… and thats a criticism of the writers as much as it is the fans. but to not look deeper into sayid's arc that was obviously failed by the writers on many fronts and say these are two seperate romances that are completely independent of one another and cannot be compared is a disservice to storytelling. everything exists for a reason. the answers may not be in your face and easy to comprehend but sayid's storyline has never been blatant but overly subtextual.

His off the island look in The Economist is never explained but it's purposeful – otherwise the hair and make-up team wouldn't spend 4 hours straightening naveen's hair, would they? The writers make purposeful choices at the end of the day. The same can be said for other parts of his storyline.

It’s also a shallow interpretation of Sayid to believe that he just happens to love them both equally and it’s no deeper or worth comparing and these romances that are so intrinsically part of his story actually mean Nothing. Sayid gets nothing from the island. He doesn’t make close friendships, he sometimes gets to play hero and he doesn’t find his purpose. All he finds is Shannon. On the island. In the island show. It doesn’t mean nothing.

Plus, Naveen explicitly said that if Sayid got the island he would bring Shannon back. He said that the idea that Nadia was Sayid's true love is "conflicted and slightly complex" because of Shannon. Yes, he has his own biases and opinions on the story but that's probably because he understands that Maggie was his co-star and not a supporting actress. He's going to value her presence in the story a lot more because on a completely objective note – she was a main character who had to bring something to the story and that couldn't just be incest and a week long romance with a man who moved on to a supporting character that people like better because she doesn't bring conflict or personality or flaws to the relationship because she's not three dimensional. It's disrespectful to Shannon's character, it's sexist and it's shallow.

[homewrecking]

There are 10,000 holes that could be poked into this argument but ultimately this is just like. One of many examples of the fact that these same people thatre vying for the elimination of transmascs/masculinity online do not go outside and interact with real life trans people. It’s just an echo chamber of nothingburger takes.

[10-dutchies-12-bicycles]

was feeling like absolute shit like i slept awful im hangry as fuck i burnt my food im on the verge of crying and nothing is going right and then i kid you not i see the sentence "If you name a knitting technique after yourself [...] you are doing exactly the same as some colonizing slaver naming bird species after himself." and that immediately knocked me out of my slump like HELLOO???????? im laughing so hard bc hey. uhm. i dont think its That Deep........

[thepanopticon-is-just-azkaban]

Interesting thing I noted while re-reading The Ember Knight is that the "central continent" does not borrow from any typical fantasy setting. Usually, you'd see a clear, medieval Europe type setting in these manhwa, which is mainly reflected in the clothing and architecture.

We haven't had many chances to see the latter since like 90% of the story takes place in either forests or in training grounds. The villages or interior of buildings we see are pretty basic, no medieval (or east-asian, even in the "eastern continent") flare.

But that's all secondary, I started writing this post because of the clothing. There doesn't seem to be a clear inspiration, either from the west or the east, and some of it looks kinda modern as well. Qilin, Marsha and the galaxy style users all seem to be wearing athletic wear and I think there were hoodies as well.

In general, it's all very cohesive, and all the characters look like they belong to one place. There is a consistent style to the jackets and capes and all which I think does a lot towards that end.

[not-kamenx]

Beyblade X Episode 39: The Greatest Blader

This episode was ONE heck of a ride that’s what I’m going to say (pretending like I’m not shaking in my boots right now)

Okay so you guys know when the episode starts, Robin says the title out loud, right? When he said it, it sounded lower and more… I can’t quite pin the feeling but, it was like a suspenseful sort of tone, if you get what I mean. I might be reading too much into this but I really liked how it made me just cling to the edge of my seat just ITCHING and waiting to see the battle

ALWAYS ALWAYS love to see family interactions and especially Bladers when they were tiny, LOOK AT BABY TITUS HE’S ADORABLE!!! I love that his launch form here implies he’s been keeping it until the present (because it’s the same in the present), he looks like a lion cub trying to be intimidating but not quite enough

And the way Quinn doesn’t hold back in her battles even if it’s against her own grandson, she’s making sure to teach him everything there is which is GAHHH it’s nice to see

Then…

I LOVED HOW THEY DID THIS. 100% SO CLEVER THIS IS AMAZING. X can mean a LOT of things, and here, it’s the variable in Quinn’s equation. She thought she would know the outcome, but it turns out X can be a lot of numbers… and in this case, numerous results and numerous X-treme Dashes. X can be ANYTHING. Jaxon is pretty much unpredictable and he doesn’t fit in Quinn’s equation because he’s X.

And when she started to realize Jaxon isn’t anything or anyone she’s seen before—

He just outright says “Tell me this Miss Quinn. Of the 9 that won against you… were any of them like me?” IN A SHAKY VOICE, BUT WITH THE WAY THE LINE IS SAID, YOU CAN TELL HE’S SMILING AND LO AND BEHOLD WE HAVE ANOTHER UNHINGED JAXON EXPRESSION!!! I kind of wish we had another unhinged laugh accompanying this, but I think the face was already too much 😭 JAXON WHY ARE YOU SMILING LIKE THAT I DROPPED MY PHONE WATCHING THIS EPISODE SEEING THIS

anyways Jaxon did win in the end with an X-treme Finish with ONE hell of a hit that freaked me out, I wish we had a more drawn out battle but I guess Jaxon was so hyped about battling her he forgot to tone it down (I do think he tries to battle people at the level he thinks they’d perform at sometimes so it’s fun for him. He still confuses me quite a bit…)

Special shout-out to Multi who hugged Robin on screen they’re adorable, I LOVE WHEN TEAM PERSONA CELEBRATES CUZ THEY ALWAYS HUG AND STUFF but seeing this made me smile wide. (In the volumes of the manga I’ve read so far, Multi isn’t as affectionate to Robin as she is with Jaxon instead. Studio took some creative freedom and I’m glad their dynamic is like this in the anime)

PACKUN WAS SO SALTY AT THEIR DEFEAT BUT QUINN GAVE HIM A TALKING TO AND I JUST CAN’T UNDERSTAND HOW HIS BRAIN WORKS, HE HATES THE MERE SIGHT OF ROBIN SMILING 😭 YOU CRUSHED HIM WASN’T THAT ENOUGH??? YOU MOCKED HIM AND INSULTED HIM AND NOW YOU’RE MAD SEEING HIM CELEBRATE WINNING WITH HIS TEAM? Packun is just. Man.

But before that, Quinn talked about how each of the Bladers she lost to were the same as Jaxon, “enjoying Blading openly and earnestly, giving everything they had. Though there was one exception.” And I am positive that this silhouette is Chrome there is no way it isn’t him. But what I’m REALLY picking at is how Quinn is talking about how the Bladers were the same as Jaxon. Except Chrome. Each Blader enjoyed Blading openly and earnestly. Except Chrome. I think that Chrome and the “X” in his heart— I think this is implying that Chrome wants to be like Jaxon. He wants to be the same as him. But someone like Quinn points out that Chrome won’t be and isn’t the same as Jaxon. He won’t be able to truly be like the “X” he’s chasing to be. I’m still confused about Chrome’s motives, but I’m thinking he wants Jaxon to come back and stay in Pendragon. Well now that I look at it, Sigrid was told by Chrome to leave Jaxon alone so I’m not so sure about that— he does seem focused on getting strong though, that’s for sure.

We saw Pendragon getting interviewed and I started laughing nervously because:

Chrome seems to have no interest in Team Persona being the next possible team to battle him and Sigrid. In the earlier episodes he was smiling and saying he was going to battle Jaxon for certain, but now he seems disinterested. I don’t think it’s a facade either, we saw him slipping with that during his match with the bot on live TV

Sigrid looks so annoyed by this. I DON’T KNOW WHY SHE IS BUT IT MADE ME LAUGH BECAUSE SHE LOOKS LIKE SHE JUST WANTS TO GO BACK TO HER ROOM AND RELAX BUT ALL THE REPORTERS ARE BLOCKING HER WAY OUT

anddddd

yes Blader Y is getting his own post I have much to say about him.