#Respect and Recognition

[melanatedmedia2]

Dear America,

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As we step into Black History Month, I reflect on the profound significance of this time—a time meant for remembrance, celebration, and acknowledgment of the Black community’s profound contributions to our nation and the world. During this month, we honor the triumphs, struggles, and resilience of those who came before us. However, I feel compelled to express my concern over the recent actions…

[vaguely-concerned]

I really really like that lucanis reaches the 'there must be some way through this' realization 'off camera', so to speak, while presumably looking at rook explaining the situation to spite. it just. hits right. he gets that moment to himself after 'this place is a nightmare, why would I want to stay here' to come back into focus, to gather himself and think it through in peace, outside of the demands of anyone’s gaze (including the player’s!), while rook takes care of spite’s confusion and urgency and distress as he can’t himself in this shattered state. they're inside his soul, but he still gets that moment of privacy, with rook and spite there and supporting but not intruding. idk there's just something so good and right-feeling about it. rook's presence in lucanis' mind at its most vulnerable and frozen could have felt SO invasive if the quest wasn't written as skillfully as it is, and I get skeeved out by that kind of thing incredibly easily so it's a testament to how well it's done that it always feels safe and supportive. lucanis has had both his bodily and psychological (slash spiritual/existential) integrity and autonomy violated so brutally and repeatedly, and having even the way the camera perceives him here grant him the dignity and respect and privacy of soul he hasn’t experienced in a long time… it’s a whole thing huh. No wonder it’s taken me a while to put it into words lol 

(also what a contrast to what solas and rook have got going on, and what a sly way to slide the point of comparison in there to build to the thematic whole. the solas version of this IS of course wildly invasive and skeeves me out but in the intended delighted horror movie way. solas, too, was let into someone’s soul through the cracks in the wake of a traumatic event, and he IMMEDIATELY sought to turn it to his own benefit and use that trauma as a weapon against them fhdsja I’m sorry but it’s just such a character-revealing instinct for him to act on without hesitation and I love how terrible he is, it’s all so unforgivably premeditated and consistent.

rook acting out of the desire to make sure lucanis is ok vs. solas going ‘well. When life gives you oops killed my friend, make dead friend poisoned lemonade and make his loved ones drink it. this sunk cost fallacy isn’t going to perpetuate itself’ is such a neat contrast and it’s not in your face about it but it’s still there, deep and solid down in the thematic narrative. rook doesn’t do anything to or in lucanis’ mind, really — they negotiate their way through the layers of defense and are let through, and they help him make the whole thing more explicable, but they never exert any force or go rooting around for anything that doesn’t present itself to them first. solas goes about gathering ammo for when he's going to nothing personel kid this person from like the first moment fhdskh doesn't waste a second before he's on that gaslight gatekeep girlboss grind. the fact that the game goes out of its way to show there IS a respectful, non-selfish and kind version of this process makes what solas is doing even more deliciously awful (glee) and rook and lucanis’ relationship (platonic, romantic, whatever it might be in any given playthrough) all the more moving to me)

[yeonbam]

love that zhuo yichen is literally canonically bing yi and ying long's child like he is by blood bingyi's descendant and ying long gives him the last remaining physical part of him to form his demonic core... like that's as close to direct parentage as one can get without actually being physically birthed by the pair

and if we see his demon transformation arc as rebirth then it involved the mixing of bingyi's blood (frequent metaphor for sex in literature btw) and ying long's bone (do we even need to explain) and if both of those things did not have enough sexual subtext, immediately after the whole ordeal we have The Most Uncalled For Mpreg Joke™

like ... how the fuck did this show even pass censorship

[aseaofquotes]

Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

[momentomori24]

I'm trying to crack the code at the bottom but I can't get away from Ford and Bill being bitter exes XD "Leaving you on read" Bitch I know what you are

[too-many-rooks]

Reminds me of someone.

Istvan Toth + respecting Henry during 'The Storm'

(+making these I had a little moment of realisation because. Does Istvan even know Henry's fucking name? He and Erik usually refer to him in relation to Radzig, but I can't remember if they ever actually call him Henry?

[girlrandomstuff]

You know why i think Haymitch only leaves Effie to dress him and prepare him for all the events they have to attend as mentor and escort? Because there's not way Haymitch would pull this really nice outfits and since Cinna (and probably Portia too) are new by time of the 74th Hunger Games, then we only have Effie left to dress him up

[warpfactor9]

hey. can anyone hear me. did anyone else reach part 2 chapter 2 of A Stitch in Time and get gut-punched by Garak receiving a crumb of support and affection from his distant father (a gardener who has dedicated his life to lovingly raising flora in harsh areas where it struggles to survive) and saying that, in that moment, he felt like one of his plants. is anyone out there. oh my god.

[sleepyvib-es]

should be sleeping but im up thinking about ethan and how he wanted to know the love of a mother. im up thinking of his devotion to her. im up thinking about how he wanted the gods to respect her. thinking that if his mother had her own cabin, he would've been claimed sooner and not had to reside in a crowded cabin full of unclaimed and unwanted kids. i'm thinking of him trusting what his mother told him enough to let her take his eye so that he could one day gain her the respect he felt she deserved. what must it be like to go to the lengths he did, to defend her name in the way he did, despite never really knowing her

[quotelr]

Love springs from the inside. It is the immortal surge of passion, excitement, energy, power, strength, prosperity, recognition, respect, desire, determination, enthusiasm, confidence, courage, and vitality, that nourishes, extends and protects. It possesses an external objective - life.

Ogwo David Emenike

[paintsplash1712]

Something little I love about the OG Lilo and Stitch is that it's credits Chris Sanders as coming up with the idea for the movie.

That's something you don't see with a lot of movies especially ones made by big studios like Disney do who usually don't care about the creative teams behind their films.

I wish studios did this more.

[cultkinkcoven]

You mentioned that a sign of being unwell is being in dangerous situation and maybe not realizing it or not caring. No one can take your experiences from you because whether they are from a mental illness or not they are still something you experienced however, you really should be more cautious in your practice because there are entities that will pretend to be deities and most deities will not get overly possessive and try to use you as some sort of vessel. The fact that this entity that you were claiming is Lucifer is trying to isolate you and tell you that you can't interact with other beings until you've become some perfect vessel is a huge red flag that I really feel you shouldn't ignore. Especially because you mentioned in your practice you do some things that do have the ability to be dangerous if someone doesn't know what they're doing. I know you're kind of set in your ways but really, for your own safety don't ignore red flags out of pride

I work with other deities , worked with Lord Hermes this morning.

Lord Lucifer asked me not to reach out to Asmodeus, a single specific spirit, right now. Didn’t prohibit it, only said he would prefer I didn’t. He suggested I reach out to Belial instead, Belial has lessons for me that Asmodeus does not at the moment. If I want growth, and I want to continue to grow what I have with Lucifer, Asmodeus simply isn’t the destination right now. Lucifer doesn’t isolate me, doesn’t prohibit me from working with others, nor is he telling me I can or cannot do anything. He’s expressing a preference because he has a planned direction for our work that could be warped by the wrong influences. I respect his direction and boundaries. I’m not going to violate his trust for the sake of proving I can.

“Most entities will not…”

Lord Lucifer is not most entities.

“You do things that have the ability to be dangerous if someone doesn’t know what they’re doing.”

Yes, if.

What you consider to be red flags with the wrong context I consider to be strange and atypical elements of a strange and atypical relationship with a strange and atypical God. I’m very capable of enforcing my own boundaries, and I trust in my God to respect them. And in return, I will respect him, including his wishes.

[thelostgirl21]

One thing I really want to see happen in Season 4...

Valdo Marx: Nice to see you again, Joseph!

Jaskier: *Heavy sigh* That's -

Yarpen: *Stepping in front of him protectively.* Julian Alfred Pankratz to you, you dying sounding beached whale! Only his friends call him Joseph!

Jaskier: Ah, actually, that's Jaskier.

Yarpen: *Dismissively.* Yeah, I KNOW.

Jaskier: *Getting all teary eyed.* I know you do.

[tifa-simp]

I just want to praise John Eric Bentley for delivering an absolute incredible performance in Rebirth. His fight with Dyne made me sob uncontrollably at 3 am. It was amazing. Thank you for being an outstanding VA.

[snazzycryptid]

Since Mycology Qi’s unique fungi seems to be a Pilobolus—aka hat thrower/dung cannon fungus because they launch their sporangium (black tip of the fungus) at high speeds as a spore dispersal method—and they act sort of like assistants in her research, I think it would be funny to imagine them shooting spores at her teammates to keep them from disturbing her.

She wouldn’t even have to turn around or acknowledge them, Qi could just be focused on reviewing an experiment report before Frederick enters the lab tent to talk to her.

Frederick: “Miss Shiyi, I-”

*Pop pop pop SPLAT*

Frederick, still standing in the doorway with his face & uniform now splattered with spores: “…I’ll just come back later.”

Or one of the sporangium hits him in the eye and he screams in pain which only then gets Qi’s attention. Either way, he learns not to intrude while she’s working. Or at least wear eye protection upon entering just in case.

[dykedvonte]

Swansea also has like blueish grey eyes and I've talked about their faded nature compared to Curly's and how Curly's are similar to the mouthwash.

But the point is I think he has those like intense grey blues that make you just as uncomfortable as Curly's harsh crystalline blue eyes he just frowns and squints a lot so you cant see them.