#STOP MISUNDERSTANDING MY POSTS

[lawyerkin]

why is there so many posts abt who's "wingmanning" narumitsu ??? they already did that. they wingmanned themselves phoenix literally saw miles in the newspaper and sent him letters and became a lawyer just to see that stupid gay face of his again. does this sound like like a couple who needs to be set up ?? ??????((!?!!!!

[arcade-confetti]

Being someone who read Under The Red Hood and came out with the firm belief that, for Jason, it's not about killing Joker, it's about Jason wanting proof Batman would choose him over the Joker (bc shelia chose the joker). Makes seeing any other media where it's all about just wanting the Joker dead is a teeny bit frustrating. to be honest

Jason could've killed the Joker himself, really, really easily. Jason kidnaps the Joker before the confrontation. I can't open my comic for a reference right now, but it felt like he had the Joker for quite a bit before the confrontation. He had him. He beat him up with a crowbar. He had every single opportunity to kill the Joker himself, but he didn't because that wasn't his goal. Make no mistake, he did plan for the Joker to be dead by the end of it, but do you see what im trying to say here

Edit: If I knew this post was gonna get 1000+ notes I would've tried to word it better or something, this was a rant I made on the way to the grocery store 😭

It's not about making Batman kill either. When Batman says he won't kill, Jason adjusts and goes, 'Let ME kill the Joker or kill me to stop me' instead. The test is all about Batman choosing him. The whole final confrontation is Jason's first death again. The parent, The Joker, and the explosives. It even ends with Jason unable to move as a bomb goes off right next to him again because the parent didn't choose Jason. And instead tried finding an option that'd benefit them and (consequencely) letting the Joker walk, again, lol, lmao <-in agony

[dailygihun]

day 6 || this era lasted like 2 minutes but i love it anyway

[dukeofthomas]

"Jason just needs to see things from his family's perspective and understand how much they love him (despite them never actually communicating or showing him through their actions)" is out. "The batfamily putting a single bit of effort into understanding Jason and reconciling with him on his own terms" is in.

[clumsypuppy]

my stardew farmer ^_^ he doesnt have a green thumb for shit so he keeps animals and does mining

some tidbits i came up with while playing hehe

reclusive and doesnt really go out of his way to talk or visit people unless its an errand. but he also doesnt try to befriend others to get something out of it, so he has a very easygoing approach to making friends. on good terms with linus and sebastian since he runs into them most often.

if he respects or takes a liking to someone, he'll greet them with miss/mister (name). if you get close to him he starts using first name basis. if he doesn't like you, he'll refer to you by your title without using your name. only a few people have caught on to this.

the farm he inherited, Milky Way Farm, was the site of a meteorite crash and sometimes you can find shards of meteor debris littered around the farm (i picked the hilltop farm bc of this lol)

lost his sweater and pants a long ass time ago and doesnt have the time to look for them, so hes been working in his sleep clothes ever since

isnt actually grandpa's real heir to the farm... ;)

[llycaons]

'never complain about anything on ao3 because it's tagged' as if 1. the inescapable racism actually gets tagged and 2. as if fanfic writers are inherently exempt from criticism for the shit they put out there anyway? are you fucking stupid?

[gingermintpepper]

I have finished the book. It was not a very good book at all. My preliminary thoughts are as follows:

Prose is the best part about it but also one of the worst. Evocative and lovely language was used for what I can only describe as manipulating the reader. In a different book by a different writer, perhaps that would be the mark of a good unreliable narrator but this is not that kind of book and the writer, I fear, is not clever enough for that kind of narrative.

The characters - I do not think of them. Trapped as we are in Alcestis' head, she is a passive, dull thing who I do not know any better at the end of the book than I did at the start. I couldn't distinguish where her voice ended and where the author's began and it is through that haziness that all other characters are observed. Admetus is an objectively phenomenal husband but his kindness and regard is made bitter because he loves Apollo not her. Apollo is no more than a ghost haunting them both. Hippothoe and Phylomache exist as images of what Alcestis could be - a woman who dies of illness or children - and Heracles is awkward and small, quiet and passive in the way everything is in this book. Persephone and Hades are perhaps the only characters of some interest in here, but Persephone is a volatile mess of power masquerading as empowerment while Hades, like all the men in this book really, is small and passive and really only becomes worth something when out of Persephone's massive shadow.

The romance - What romance? There is no romance in this book. Alcestis imagines that what occurs between Admetus and Apollo is a romance but we do not get to see that story. The obvious regard and kindness Admetus holds for Alcestis would be romance in any other book - but in this it is described with so much apathy and loathing so as to make Admetus' actions seem unremarkable and lacking. As for Persephone and Alcestis; Alcestis wants nothing to do with her until Persephone forces her. She assaults her, like Hades assaulted her, while speaking the words of that tale into Alcestis' flesh while Alcestis rejects her and somehow this becomes the catalyst of their 'love'. There is no romance in this book.

The queer themes - I am not sure how one makes a story so easily given to a queer imagining biphobic, lesbophobic and not poly but it sure did that. Alcestis' ideas about love and sexuality and how it might possibly have different forms and fashions is unchanged from start to finish and homosexuality, for all that it is what she blames her ruined marriage on, is never explored past a few fleeting, derogatory descriptions and quickly brushed over allusions.

The Apollo Thing - Listen to me so carefully. Apollo is only in a single scene of this book. One single scene and it is the wedding scene where Admetus calls upon him to save them from the poisonouse snakes. Every other mention of him in this book is in passing, an offhanded mention of a person praying to a god, or with the underlying scorn and anger of a wife thinking of her husband's mistress. Apollo is not even there when Alcestis dies. He wasn't even responsible for Heracles eventually going down to the Underworld to retrieve her. If the author could've erased him from the wedding scene too, I'm sure she would've invented a way to do it. Apollo has no relationship with Alcestis, we do not get to see the nature of his relationship with Admetus and every other opportunity which existed to show him on their side was neatly and entirely erased. Thanatos, naturally, is completely absent from this novel.

In short, this was entirely unpleasant from essentially start to finish. I was very excited when I started this book and saw the quality of the prose and also the ambivalent character sketched of its gods but things went so rapidly and extremely downhill that I am left wondering how it was possibly flubbed that badly.

Regarding this book's feminism, I will dedicate a separate post to that entirely. To this book's credit, it did not have the superficial girlboss feminism that many of its contemporaries tend to champion but to its complete and utter detriment, the feminism it champions is perhaps the most insidious kind. The sort that excludes the disenfranchised, the impoverished and the normal woman. This book's feminism is for the privileged and the powerful and it is a deeply upsetting thing.

Lastly, I would like to thank @superkooku , @konu-d and @waterlinkedgirl for cheering me on through this absolute torment. I would not have finished this without them. Take that as you will.

If you are interested in the tale of Admetus and Alcestis or just want to read a retelling, I urge you to just read @reawakened-revenant (CiCiRose on ao3)'s God of the Golden Bow series. It is captivating, enthralling, impeccably researched and so utterly submersed in passion, love and care that it is breathtaking to read. It is a personal favourite of mine and the standard to which I hold all other Admetus and Alcestis retellings.

With all that done, I am going to stare at a wall and contemplate the horrors now. ✌🏾

[jewishbarbies]

Bro I think people are pointing out how you call out people who “don’t do shit in their communities” while they talk about other happenings, but then when they do focus on their own stuff you’re still all “oh what’s the goal now?”

Is there nothing that ever satisfies you or what

who tf are we talking about? what people “focusing on their own stuff” am i not satisfied with?

i said if you call yourself an “activist” specifically, you should be willing to do activist things and have a clear goal for the change you want to happen so that other people know what you want from them. how is “be clear in your mission statement” putting anyone down? that was literally ALL i said.

it wasn’t even a negative post or a negative post about anyone specific, yall dumb fucks just decided that it did and clearly have someone in mind you’re trying to defend. this is so incredibly unnecessary and stupid. stop putting your bs on posts that have nothing to do with it. if you have questions as to what a post of mine is about, ask! as long as you’re polite I genuinely don’t mind, bc things can and often do get misread. but this approach is not accomplishing anything bc y’all literally jumped to a conclusion in my inbox like it was the last moral stand in a post apocalyptic drama.

you can tell how wrong you are by the fact I’ve been so fucking confused as to what the hell y’all are even on about, because you’re reaching that fucking far. take a break from the internet.

[starbuck]

seeing someone’s understandable, yet inaccurate headcanon in the tag and fighting the urge to break out your carefully crafted timeline that would prove them wrong, grinding their headcanon into dust before their eyes as they weep.

[karnakas]

why would you ever get a loan on a new challenger when you can do what i do and drive a ten year old paid off one that has no a/c, a droopy door hinge, and an exhaust leak?

like um *flips hair, valley girl voice* i stay winning daddy

[kandicon]

*writes the same exact headcannons in slightly different scenarios over and over again*

[barufisher]

honestly when i think back to that two month fever dream after veilguard i just get kinda sad and i regret posting and engaging with the fandom more often than not

[polarmary]

Friendly reminder that a person is only responsible for what they say, not what you think they said. If you believe something that was never actually said and instead of asking for clarification you choose to get upset about it, that's solely on you. I can't believe I have to explain this since I thought the message of that old post was clear but- here we are.

I never once said that if you didn't understand something, then you just aren't traumatized enough. That's an extremely fucked up thing to say to someone and i'd never say that. Each person has their own mental struggles and you can't compare them, you just can't. That post was never about that and never will. Just wanted to clear that misunderstanding.

[codecicle-archive]

i love charlie's new lore so so sosososoo much but also I can and will take this character away from you if you people don't behave. he's going up on the fucking shelf if you don't start treating him right. "oh my god codeflippa's corrupting him from his grief!" ✅️ yeah that's what's going on "she's evil!! / the codes are evil!!!! / codeflippa is manipulating him and trying to get him to do the code or federations bidding!!!!!!!! / hes such a horrible dad for not realizing this isn't his kid / he's always been a bad parent"

oh would you look at that there he goes.

[pinkcadillaccas]

Blog that I really liked really suddenly got into wincest and that I simply cannot abide by

[lover-of-mine]

If buddie was not been planned since they casted Ryan then why is it that the couple that shows Buck that the type of love he wants (someone who stays with you your whole life no matter what) is possible, is a gay couple?