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Nico di Angelo and Ethan Nakamura are two sides of the same coin.
Nico and Ethan were sorted into Hermes's cabin because their parents hadn't claimed them,and Hades and Nemesis didn't had a cabin in CHB. Both of them were also never claimed in the traditional way,since Hades never claimed Nico and Percy recognized his parentage by the usage of his powers,and Ethan personally met his mother while he was away from CHB.
They value a lot balance,and both of them did whatever they had to to achieve that. Both of them have connection to the Underworld and don't shy away from killing if they have to. Both of them lost their way for a while before coming back to their senses. Both were important for Percy and his wish at the end of TLO–when he asked the gods to stop neglecting their children and to have cabins for the minor gods.
And let's be honest,if Nico didn't had a golden heart and Percy trying to look out for him,he would have become 100% like Ethan. Ethan is literally Nico during BotL,when he decided to ally himself with the wrong ghost,but he didn't had a Percy to help him out of it. The fact that the only time they ever interacted was during the Sword of Hades short-story,and Nico literally pinned him down with is own sword,is criminal.
They literally parallel each other.
#percy jackon and the olympians#heroes of olympus#percy jackson and the heroes of olympus#the last olympian#battle of the labyrinth#the sword of hades#nico di angelo#percy jackson#ethan nakamura#hades#nemesis#underwold#kronos#kronos's army#ethan and nico are two faces of the same coin#nico would have probably ended up like ethan if he didn't had someone to help him#and ethan is literally like nico during BotL#they are similar#and value the same thing#have a couple of things in common#the fact that they interacted only one time is a waste of opportunities
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trans women are everywhere and are so eager to be seen and heard but only if they feel safe around you. if you hardly ever have trans women interacting with you, especially online, then consider there might be a reason for that and you should address it
#the same thing happens with black people#black people are everywhere! especially online! black gay and black trans people!#but when your community is suspiciously devoid of them then theres something wrong and you need to acknowledge it#even if its not intentional you need to think about how theres minority groups who do not feel safe around you at face value#this is why loud and outright support and solidarity is so important#black people and trans people and etc minority groups will assume you are unsafe unless you explicitly state otherwise#you can't just sit there and say 'well they didnt approach us so its not our fault for not including them!'#like did you TRY to get them to approach you??#cy texts
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the degree to which magic in bbc merlin is an allegory for queerness is insane. what do you mean people with magic hide in fear for their lives because it’s illegal. what do you mean merlin’s mother sent him away to the big city bc she was afraid of what would happen if their small town found out he had magic. what do you mean merlin is taken in by an unmarried old man who used to practice magic but can’t anymore. what do you mean morgana was morally on uther’s side until she realized who she was and that he was wrong for wanting people like her dead. what do you mean anti-magical propaganda spreads misinformation that all magic is evil and everyone who practices it is also evil and should be killed. what do you mean there’s a recurring underlying theme of magical being solidarity
#what do you mean everyone merlin tells about his magic is a hot man and/or a twink#what do you mean merlin flirts with every (male) sorcerer he comes across#what do you mean morgause shows up acting like a whole lesbian#what do you mean the druids are forced to live outside society and are seen as lesser than and to be avoided at all costs#what do you mean magical beings are hoping for a better life once arthur becomes king bc he doesn’t share the#same anti-magic values as his father#i’m only on season 3 so i’m probably missing a bunch but even atp im flabbergasted#but damn this is hitting hard#i’m sure this has all been beaten to death but i’m new here sorry#bbc merlin#merlin#merlin emrys#uther pendragon#morgana pendragon#gaius merlin#em saying things
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On autonomy, and what it means to be Obliged to Help.
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#a homestuck walks into an antechamber and asks#hey is anybody going to make this dynamic wholly deterministic and thus dubiously consensual by its very nature#ANYWAY bigger ramble below. scroll down like usual#isat spoilers#isat#isat fanart#isat siffrin#isat loop#sifloop#THATS RIGHT WE'RE STILL SHIP TAGGING IT BABYYYY#in stars and time#in stars and time fanart#lucabyteart#RAMBLE START: anyway i think loop is wrong here. they have it backwards. as-- in my opinion--#the main reason they could be called back into existence postcanon is because *their* wish for help is still not complete#they still need help. siffrin still needs help. neither of them will ever stop needing help.#they will thus uphold the wish until the end of siffrin's natural lifespan.#that said. what does it mean that loop can be so wholly forced to abide by siffrin's wants?#(assuming the dagger cutscene posession is them being forced to uphold the 'help siffrin' wish via harsh universe logic)#[as opposed to something capricious and cruel the change god did. which feels out of character for the change god to me?]#much like how the island wish and duplicate objects are neutered by simply sliding off people's brains...#is loop subtly ushered toward their wish? obviously it's not a full override (see: the bossfight). but is there any interference?#and if so. so what? does it matter? if they don't notice? is it even real if they don't notice?#and even if they do notice. the universe leads we follow. how much do either of them value their free will in a belief system like that?#the whole game is dedicated to siffrin habitually NOT excersizing his free will. doing things the same Every Time.#Loop ESPECIALLY does this. predetermined predetermined predetermined even in the FACE OF CHANGE. REFUSING. ANY CHOICE.#Maybe they'd even be comforted by having a universe-ordained purpose even if it is subservient. even if its to Him.#(though. i can't see siffrin enjoying the idea that someone is subservient TO them... then all their suffering is his fault...)#loop got into this mess via WANTING too much. no more free will. can't be trusted with it. take it away from them.#but yeah. gets my greasy detective pony hands all over this. and everyone please do remember i like to make characters Outright Wrong A Lot
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Yami has placed people in two categories: 'Yuugi' and 'Everyone Else'
#yami: i love yuugi and all non-yuugi's the same amount#kaiba is seething in the corner because he's been relegated to 'everyone else'; jonouchi tells him to stop being so dramatic#to be fair i'm pretty sure jonouchi does the same thing as yami so he can't blame he other#when i'm in the 'who treasures yuugi the most' competition and my competitor is yami:#but seriously this shows how much yami misses yuugi and how much he values him and his company#not that he does not love the others any less#its just that yuugi is yami's most precious; yami would do anything for his aibou#yuugi understands him and knows him in a metaphysical level#calling them partners is a bit redundant to describe them because what they have is so intricate and complex#they are more like two halves of the same being#they drive me insane#puzzleshipping#yami yugi#yuugi mutou#yugi motou#yugi moto#yugi mutou#yugi mutoh#yugioh#cide watches yugioh#cide watches yugioh dm#yugioh dm#yugioh duel monsters
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also. hate discourse around indigenous knowledge because it's like Yes the indigenous people have knowledge based on historical uses that should be adopted into the mainstream. But then somewhere down the line it becomes "white people can NEVER truly understand indigenous lands, their ancestors came from EUROPE" and its like ok that is anti-immigration & blood quantum rhetoric. people's knowledge do not come from their genetics Nor do they come from ancestor spirits. Why is this a left position
Oh yeah supposedly-left people on tumblr are fucking weird about bloodlines and heritage. I genuinely can't stand it.
In this case it's perpetuating Noble Savage stereotypes about how indigenous people are inherently good and pure and magically connected to the land, instead of literally just being regular people.
A lot of times people insist you need to Find Your Heritage in order to "heal yourself spiritually", which I think is insulting nonsense. And as a mutt with no real intention of finding out my family history, it's really disconcerting to be told that I can't ever really love or understand the place I live, because my great-great grandparents didn't live here. It's extremely anti-immigrant, it reeks of blood and soil nationalism, and I will be ranting against it until the day this website dies.
#if you personally find a lot of value in your heritage or family history then i'm glad for you!#but it's not a moral imperative and it's not a necessity for living a fulfilling life#understand that many people simply do not care about the same things you do
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Taylor Swift really wrote an album with the thesis “a man who tells you he loves you and lives together with you in a committed relationship for six years but never ever proposes is essentially the same as a man who tells you he loves you to get you into bed and then ghosts you a couple weeks later”
#and she’s right#no one else would have the courage to say it#and the clarity of sight to MEAN it#like it’s not just a rhetorical device#and it’s not just her protecting joe#it’s that she really sincerely sees that what they did was exactly the same#even if the contemporary world wants to see a clear difference!#wants to be able to sort things out neatly into hookups and situationships and relationships and live-in partnerships#with different value markers assigned to each one#but once and for all Taylor looks at the relationship with the lowest possible value#and the highest one that most people recognize#and says ‘you’re exactly the same’#this is me admitting I need a music tag
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NILLE BLAST
aaaa worked on these a while ago but!! i’ve got a pétronille design finally!! and it was nowhere near as daunting as i expected to be!!!! this was really fun to work on actually. don’t look at that leftmost doodle btw. it’s. Not Great (by my standards for myself at least).
aaaanyways. design notes and greyscale versions below!! most of this isn’t. super set in stone or anything? just Night Ramblings
in terms of colors she’s mostly just a Slightly Edited version of bonnie’s palette. the only noteworthy addition here is the blue (or. well. more like grey actually) i added to her shirt, hat, and waist wrap. no real reason here, i just thought it’d contrast well with her colors!!
i also kept her outfit pretty similar to bonnie’s! bonnie’s official ref mentions that their shirt is too big for them so! i think it’d be cute for all of their clothes to be hand-me-downs from nille🩶. i imagine she cares more about practicality than fashion, so her outfit’s pretty simple! breathable clothes she can move around in, a bag to hold her stuff, and a hat to keep the sun out her eyes.
generally went for more. blocky??? shapes here? i wanted to set her apart from bonnie! idk. not much to say here!
this didn’t affect her design That Much outside of the bandages on her hands, but she’s rock type here! it just Made Sense with her hammer. in hindsight i wonder if that influenced her design being more Square…
aaa you can probably tell i’m writing these while tired. sorry if these are even more disjointed than usual (somehow). here’s the greyscale versions!! thanks for reading and stuff!!
#marshdoodles#isat#in stars and time#isat spoilers#<- because. nille.#also yes. her hat and the bg really are the exact same value somehow#also didn’t mention this in the notes but. i Had to give her a braid#i just Had To. there’s not a design reason for that#also!! gave her sandals instead of boots like bonnie#since bonnie specifically points out how they wear massive boots. so i feel like it’s a thing they got themself#iii’ve got more thoughts but it is. 12:30 in the morning as of writing this#and this posts in like 30 minutes so i am! prolly gonna add more when i wake up tomorrow#please enjoy my nille ramblings heart emoji
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Honestly I hate the “girlboss” criticisms of feminism more and more each day. A lot of people have rightfully pointed out that feminists had/have very practical reasons to fight for women’s rights in the workplace, but I feel like there’s still an idea that a woman is deluded or morally suspect if she enjoys or takes pride in her work. It’s not just about the money; it’s about not being barred from fully participating in society just because you’re a woman. That is an unfair and degrading thing to do to someone, even if they have other means of financial support.
#you can criticize employers for exploiting the language of empowerment to paper over their shitty actions#or criticize a female professional for doing something bad#without acting like women who value their careers are heartless and selfish#idk it’s like the whole ‘marriage equality is too conventional’ thing#regardless of how you feel about marriage#no one should ever have been allowed to ban it for same-sex couples specifically
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television drastically shortening the amount of episodes for shows really is ruining what would otherwise be Good stories because i feel like most of the complaints this new season of doctor who is receiving are due to things that could've been fixed by articulation and lengthier build-up
#doctor who#fifteenth doctor#if thirteen and fifteen were given the same amount of actual time the other doctors had i'm sure people would be singing a different song#but i get that that's also to be expected. like most people aren't going to like something based on what COULD be there#they just take things at face value and the face value is that 8 episodes is almost invariably not enough for a season of tv
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AU starts here!
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Here we have just a taste of Path A - also known as “All Together Now.” If you’re confused - good! Things will make sense in time, trust me.
#prison!leo au#path a#rottmnt#rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles#rottmnt au#rottmnt leo#I considered coloring everyone in and shading them but then I decided I liked it better like this tbh?#and also I’m LAZY#but yeah here’s a touch of path a! some things may be apparent now but it’s meant to be a littleeee confusing at this point#odds are I’m gonna see stuff I wanna change when I look back on this so if you see little changes here and there No You Didn’t#I MAY go back and put in values but again I kinda like it just black and white for once#BUT YEAH this path is TECHNICALLY the happiest one#it starts the exact same way as the other two#but ~something~ happens right at the start#turtle art tag#there’s a bunch of little things strewn throughout this if people are feeling detective-y today
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pictured: dogs sorted in order of most to least amount of pigment
#also age#melis is kinda sorta maybe starting to grasp the stay for camera thing#in that she usually comes over when im talking to the shelps and like them she does stay#just usually out of frame#looks at them. looks at me.#and when the release cue comes she dives in for a treat which#she gets#because being Not In The Way is also a practiced skill i value greatly#when in front of the camera she struggles with the same as a lot of dogs ive had there -#she understands the stay but not the hold. so when i lift the camera and disengage with her she thinks shes released#its easier with this than the mirrorless bc of the live view - understandably many dogs found it super confusing that i would be#covering my face but still expcting them to engage#but its still something shes not taught and hasnt trained for. so i dont really care what she does#i love for her to participate but its not required of her
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hazel's just here to have a good time
#SHE'S AUTISTIC! SHE'S LOVELY!#THAT'S MY GIRLFRIEND!#SHE MAKES ACTUAL BOMBS AND TAKES THINGS AT FACE VALUE!#this is ridculous why does she have so many BANGER lines#my god i love her so much#bottoms movie#bottoms 2023#hazel callahan#pj#josie#ruby cruz#lover!#rachel sennott#ayo edebiri#my coloring#gif#*mine#femalegifsource#userlgbtq#im sorry i keep gif-ing(?) the same fucking scene#hazel's intro is just so fucking amazing
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the way everyone has a dislike in their profile that actually says something integral about their character. lu guang doesn't like plans getting messed up, cheng xiaoshi dislikes loneliness, xia fei with owing favors, vein with lying...
and then you have liu xiao, who dislikes... cilantro. and fish mint.
(shakes fist) (putting him in a glass jar and shaking vigorously) learn to be vulnerable!! tell me something about yourself!! I guess him liking movies lines up with the theater metaphors, and there's him liking chess, but that. doesn't count methinks
#mine musings#liveblogging link click#link click#okay the metaphor thing works out a little bit in that. it's on brand#70% of what we know about liu xiao are implicitly gained from other characters#e.g. how xf and ltc relate to him. how the liu family talk about him. how he thematically juxtaposes other characters like lg and cxs#the 30% are the things we know explicitly from him e.g. he's a rich kid with a sports car. he can hear heartbeats#he wants to merge the parallel lines or whatever#the rest are inferences like. oh okay no parallel lines? he doesn't like uncertainties i guess#the way he talks about friendship with xf and ltc? he values a transactional view of relationships#(maybe because transactions imply a certain level of certainty?)#he's the current favored child of the liu family but he wasn't before#he's a “manipulator” but really that's mostly from marketing stuff and implications from canon#like. we know a lot about him but at the same time we don't#the way we just know his uncertainty -> certainty thing contrasts with lg's certainty -> uncertainty thing#we know his heartbeat hearing implies he knows everyone's level of sincerity and both xf and cxs exist as foils to that#the hunter thing with ltc. why does he believe that?#lots of “bringing the darkness” lines in three of his songs for some reason#so like. i can't say that the show hasn't told us anything. they have but in circular ways#we don't know much about him from him directly but we do. know stuff. kinda. do you get me#all i want from YE6 is veinxiao friendship being shown so i can have new dimensions on how lx views friendship#and maybe like. a hint at what his motivations are. like why is he Like That#<- again funnier if he's just Like That from the womb. even if the liu family isn't fucked up he's still Like That#but that's not this show's style so probably not#lx notes#like the INSISTENCE of writing lx as a point of comparison or through other people's perspectives and very rarely from his own#is fascinating to me
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it breaks my heart when i hear people talk carelessly and say they don’t care about global warming and how their actions are causing detrimental effects to our planet
#— the honored one#like i had a conversation once with someone#and i was talking abt it with my SIL earlier#this person said that they don’t care abt global warming bc they won’t even be here when things are really bad#and i asked well what about your children or grandchildren?#and they still said they don’t care and that it doesn’t matter to them#like 💔 what do you mean 💔#i am not even the type of person that preaches abt this stuff#but it makes me so emotional#like wdym you don’t CARE ??#about our PLANET ???#our little planet our BABY ????#😭😭😭#it makes me so sad#like i am that person that gets spooked at the thought of earth being gone billions of years down the line#even though i won’t be around#how could you be so cruel 💔#like we share this planet with each other and the animals 🥲#i am going to be so honest the person is my older sister#it just goes to show that you can be raised by the same ppl and come out with different morals and values 🧍🏻♀️#sorry sis 💔 don’t mean to shit talk you 💔
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So...while looking at Near's shopping list I'm wondering, is this rate of consumerism normal for Near? Or was he going extra hard in toy and hobby purchases to deal with the stress of the Kira case?
Do we think Near has a shopping addiction, or...?
#does he ever play with the same thing twice?#the iconic L puzzle is shown (in vol 13) as his most highly valued object but it's only seen once#I like that even though he's crazy rich and didn't really have to think about the prices#Near's estimated and noted the prices he thinks is correct for each item for Rester's reference#fiscally responsible boi#I bet Rester never thought when he took this job he'd spend so much time shopping for toys#near#nate river#anthony rester#death note#near dn
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