#Maybe just out of caution...

[wakraya]

"Oh, since I'm finally playing Armored Core VI, I'll probably end up drawing a lot of mech stuff. This will be good practice to do mechanical designs!"

Nope.

It's all Puppygirl 621.

[breadandlottery]

I don’t mean to be contrarian but it’s a really frustrating to see s3 takes that are like “maybe you don’t like it/don’t understand it because you don’t realize it’s an analogy”. I think almost everyone realizes that. It’s actually incredibly obvious.

Like— that the games are a metaphor for capitalism or “we voted democratically and decided you need to die” is supposed to represent our governments or the focus on the outcome for the baby/children represents how we should be making decisions with future generation of humanity as the primary focus or wow man look how useless cops are— are all very obvious and clear to pretty much everyone I’ve ever interacted with about this show including casual viewers and children and people with dementia.

I also don’t think a show with a message along the lines of “we are all human, and we are all suffering under this oppressive unfair system that tricks us into fighting each other instead of fighting the ruling elite” is ALSO saying “except all you viewers who have opinions about the show— you’re not representative of the players who are good or bad or neutral but ultimately just humans and all victims of the systems— YOU are the passive spectators, representative of the evil controllers of the system itself.”

Yes there is a loose analogy of viewer/common man to VIP but I don’t believe it’s as simple as “they’re us”.

I don’t think HDH did a bad job writing or directing AT ALL, I don’t even really have qualms with how Gihun’s story ended, and I’m not hating on him. I don’t even not like the season. But I do have, and have seen, legitimate constructive critiques about the narrative structure and storytelling. Because it’s a tv show. And I am watching it for entertainment. And there are rules and structure to creative writing and entertainment just like there are rules and structure to everything else.

It’s possible to get the point and like the show and still say “wow I noticed all this buildup and tension devoted to these subplots that never paid off in any narratively satisfying way that’s kind of a bummer and I’m disappointed.”

Junho could have failed to have a meaningful confrontation with his brother in a satisfying way. Gihun could have failed to have a confrontation with the frontman in a more satisfying way. Inho could have tried and failed to share his backstory in a more satisfying way. The plot points wouldn’t have had to change for the narratives to pay off.

Idk man everyone can have their own opinion OF COURSE but it’s so condescending to be like “maybe you just didn’t get it” like man the metaphors and analogies weren’t hidden they weren’t hard to see, we got them.

(And like yes sure the ppl saying “damn I wish Gihun threw away the baby and lived like a king with his double winnings” missed or rejected the parable of it all but most people did not.)

[strohller27]

Okay okay so listen. Hastings? He Brings Poirot some pajamas and a razor for his stay, right? normal stuff. yes. normal enough.

aagh and look at their hands touching!

and this little look as their hands touch??? EXCUSE ME LADS?? ahem sorry what anyway

But Poirot is staying in the room someone was murdered in

AND HASTINGS. BLESS 'IM. HE'S. WORRIED ABOUT POIROT

AND HE LINGERS FOR A MOMENT. EVEN AFTER POIROT ASSURES HIM THAT EVERYTHING'S GONNA BE FINE

Listen, Poirot. Hastings isn't just there saying stuff about worrying about you because he's afraid of ghosts. I mean. he *is* afraid of ghosts. But the man walked into a room with a gun earlier ready to protect his friends because he's pretty damn fearless. POIROT, LISTEN TO ME. HASTINGS IS TRYING TO TELL YOU THAT HE'S LONELY AND HE MISSES YOU BUT HE CAN'T THINK OF HOW TO SAY IT BECAUSE ALL HE CAN DO IS BRING YOU PYJAMAS AND TELL YOU TO BE CAREFUL OKAY IT'S ALL HE KNOWS HOW TO DO

but of course Poirot has already decided that Hastings doesn't care for him like that so there's nothing for him to read into but LISTEN POIROT I CAN SEE THE WRITING ON THE WALL I KNOW WHY HE STAYED

I'm losign my mindhggfajhgkjagslkf

[clumsypuppy]

man

[waitineedaname]

Do u have any transfemme Jiang Cheng headcanons you’re willing to share 🥺 every time you bring it up it makes me unreasonably happy so I would love to hear more about it 🫶🫶

AHHHH no really major headcanons, it's just something I like to rotate in my mind a lot! transfemme jiang cheng is. so special to me. I guess I have a few thoughts

I think a big part of Jiang Cheng's relationship to gender comes from Jiang Fengmian and Yu Ziyuan being the models of masculinity and femininity growing up. Jiang Cheng already relates a Lot to Yu Ziyuan, and I think if JC is transfemme, it's a big deal to her that Yu Ziyuan wields so much power. She's an incredible cultivator, a fierce fighter, and generally is a force to be reckoned with. At the same time, she's still a woman living in a misogynistic society. YZY would probably make a better sect leader than JFM, but she's a woman and his wife, and therefore he gets the final say in things

This in turn I think affects Jiang Cheng's feelings about gender and being sect leader. Jiang Cheng has a tendency to prioritize sect concerns > personal desires, and I think in this situation, masculinity is seen as a tool. Even if she knows privately that she is a woman, she would not be public about it because she's already in a precarious position being such a young sect leader. She needs all the respect she can get when rebuilding the Jiang sect, so she stays in the closet by choice. She might eventually come out years and years later, once the Jiang sect is stable and she knows she's not going to get fucked over, but that's really not her first priority

I do think she tells her siblings, though. Jiang Yanli is probably the first person she tells, and she's endlessly supportive. Wei Wuxian is kind of clueless about this sort of thing (see: not realizing he liked men until he got resurrected into the body of a gay man) but he loves Jiang Cheng so he'd be supportive, especially if he learned when they were both still kids. Of course, this makes the tragedy of Jiang Cheng losing everyone even worse. After her siblings died, there was no one who knew who she really was. Thank god for resurrections, huh? fucking hell

in a modern au, I think being a woman would fix her. She would be able to come out without all the other bullshit to worry about, and I think it would be very healing for her. I've known a number of people to go on estrogen who said the effects were more emotional than physical, and I think HRT would be so good for her. I just need Jiang Cheng to be happy goddammit. has she not been through enough

that got long. I guess I had more thoughts than I expected lsdkjflksdjf I also have a snippet from a modern au wip that I don't know if I'll ever continue/finish, but I'll put it under a read more bc I find it funny. I think Wen Qing should crack Jiang Cheng's egg, as a treat <3

Wen Qing knew Jiang Cheng too well. It was something he both loved and hated. There were very few people outside his family that could see through his blustering and read him for who he was, and Wen Qing was one of them. Hell, she was better at it than his own brother.

She didn't hesitate to call him on it either. He wouldn't be forgetting the way she'd looked at him after he introduced her to his parents and told him this explains a lot about you. Rude. Correct, but rude.

Because she knew him so well, she knew the best times to drop these bombs on him. Exposing him when he was in the wrong mood might make his temper flare, or it might make him curl into an insecure ball. Neither were reactions he liked having around her.

Wen Qing knew the best time to drop revelations on him was when he was happy and as close to relaxed as he could get, which is of course why she apparently decided the best time to bring up this particular bombshell was when he was floating in postcoital bliss.

“I'm going to tell you something,” Wen Qing said, her ankle still hooked gently around his calf. “You can't freak out about it.”

Jiang Cheng paused in the middle of pressing lazy kisses to her temple, heart rate immediately spiking. “Now?” he said, incredulous and a little whiny. 

“It's not a bad thing,” she reassured him, gently scratching his scalp. It relaxed him like a charm, though he was still suspicious. “Do you promise to listen?”

“Do I have much of a choice?” he asked, propping himself up on her chest. Her lips quirked in a smile as she looked down at him.

“I think you're a woman,” she said, direct and matter-of-fact.

Jiang Cheng jolted upright so hard he slammed his head into the headboard. Wen Qing frowned and sat up as he rolled off her. “You're going to give yourself a concussion,” she said, accusatory.

“You're insane!” Jiang Cheng said, attempting to sit upright without making his head swim. Wen Qing huffed and pushed him down with a firm hand to his chest. He could throw her off if he wanted to, but, well, he didn't want to. He rather liked it when she pushed him around and climbed on top of him like she was right now, pinning him in place and preventing him from running away from the conversation.

[driftingballoons]

Is there any media that's left a lasting impact on you?

So I’m going to give two answers, one the obvious, and another bonus answer for variety’s sake :3

Pmd explorers has possibly had the greatest lasting impact on me that any piece of media ever has. As my introduction to pokemon, I felt like I was playing partly as Hero would’ve experienced it—with absolutely no idea what to expect, and no background knowledge of anything. But the way it quickly changed from “heehee creature adventure :3” to “what does it truly mean to live and how can you shine as brightly as you can, even in the face of oblivion?” caught me quite off guard. It really made me start to think about how I could try to make the most of my life, how people’s actions can be hugely shaped by their situations, and how you really can’t take even the most simple of things for granted. I played this at 12 y/o during an otherwise very disruptive/isolated time in my life, so I’m not sure if that’s partly why my brain latched onto this as much as it did, but I genuinely felt like it helped me get through it. Whenever I felt weak or powerless back then, I found inspiration from how strong hero, partner, and grovyle had to be to get through everything, and it felt like it made coping just a bit easier. Fast forward to a much better time in my life, and it’s helped me find a wonderful, incredibly talented online community and friends, and I have an absolute blast being able to interact with you guys and see your takes on the series!

The other piece of media that had a lasting impact was Allie Brosh’s book Hyperbole and a Half. I hadn’t known before reading it, but she actually had a blog of the same name around the early 2010s, where she’d post her funny comics and stories. The part that had the most impact on me was actually her iconic ‘poorly drawn’ MS paint kind of style. It made me realize that you don’t necessarily have to make professional quality art to make something worth seeing. This inspired me not only to start posting my own doodles and stuff online, but also changed my approach when dealing with a lot of daunting things. Whenever I feel like I’m not good enough/skilled enough to try something, I remember how popular her stuff was, despite looking ‘low quality,’ and it reminds me that doing something low quality is better than not doing it at all! 

[redbean-nom]

watched the first 2 episodes of acolyte and so far i like every character except for the main one lol. (also is her name osha as in occupational safety and health administration??)

[dykesynthezoid]

This may seem vaguely gender essentialist and granted it certainly confirms my own biases but one silly little belief I like to hold in my heart is that the first human to try and climb up on the back of a horse was a man but the first human to actually do it successfully was a woman. Maybe it’s bc I can’t imagine anyone but your dumbest bravest shithead cousin being the guy who goes omg stop yelling at me for feeding the wolves it’s FINE nooo that horse isn’t gonna kick me in the head and kill me don’t worry about it shut UPPP stop bringing up that time I punched that hornets nest just because I thought they might make honey like bees do YES I GET NOW THAT THEY DON’T

And the second bit is because I believe unfailingly in the sacred Horsegirl™️ bond ofc. And also in the power of a woman who’s going to lose it if we keep having this argument every generation just for another guy named Bog or w/e to die from horse inflicted head trauma

[dragonji]

stayed up too late the stabbing loneliness pains are back again👍

[wpmz]

ship making me feel so insane i’m considering writing an essay. with citations and shit. for fun. what’s happening to me

[serpulalacrymans]

i feel like part of me has died. i can't write at all.

everything i write sucks, and i wish i could have the same burst of energy i had before. i have so many ideas in mind, but when i put them into practice they don't have the same shine as i imagined.

i'm stuck in a place mentally, and i thought everything would get better when i finally had some free time. it didn't. i feel trapped, i feel empty, i feel like part of me is mentally dead.

i'm not having fun at all. i'm tired.

- i know you. you know me. you don't have to answer me at all. i just wanted to take some weight off my mind.

Repackaging your way of life can make it more exciting if that's what you're struggling with. Learn new ways to express your hobby. Try different ways to write. Be more poetic. Be more juvenile. Try it out on paper. Try a free site or app for writing. Look up online tutorials and discover new words to use... It won't fix you. But it might help for a little while.

A passion isn't a passion anymore if it feels like a chore. People change. So do their passions. I'm sorry.

[myimaginationplain]

au where Aerys & Rhaella secretly marry Lyarra & Rickard in a bid for each couple to escape their mutually unwanted arranged marriages

[quietlyblooms-gone]

the color schemes in a.tsv are so pretty but also so smart and they scratch my brain just right every time i watch this movie :' )))

[sortanonymous]

Life as a Truex fan these past 22 race weekends

[wifeguycyclonus]

Orion Pax is naive, he’s just not naive the way ppl seem to think he is

[inactive5537]

No joke, I thought it would be easier to be social after spending a year avoiding talking to everyone but two people. It really is making me suspect I might not have just NPD, but I'm also currently working on getting my body from bedbound because I could not physically walk due to malnutrition to out and about again, so y'know, maybe baby steps are okay