#are two coexisting concepts

[esteemed-excellency]

btw it's true that Hiram only ever seems to pay attention to information and not to people's lives, but that doesn't mean he's not interested in knowing how they're doing.

Pre-abstraction Hiram was a caring person forced by the circumstances to be distant and cold to survive the horrors (the general fl eldritchness and victorian society at the same time), the abstraction just sped up the process.

Post-abstraction Hiram is a cold and distant person who had to relearn how to care about others. He still has a long way to go but he's doing fairly well, even if he's also constantly playing his usual metaphorical 5d chess game with everything and everyone. This of course makes it difficult for people to tell if he's being nice or if he has a hidden agenda.

[demigod-shenanigans]

This is an extremely stupid crack fic concept that I will absolutely never write (or draw because I have zero artistic skill) but a while ago I was chatting with a friend about both the Jason ends up in the wrong afterlife-concept and Orpheus Eurydice AU (separately obviously) and she ended up joking about combining the two

So Leo traipses into the Underworld, and Hades tells him “I’d let you take Jason but awkward story I actually have no idea where the guy is which is odd because he’s definitely dead”

Cue series of images of Leo, who becomes increasingly more disgruntled in every picture, visiting different afterlives of more and more obscure ancient religions because he has no clue where the hell Jason’s soul ended up

[thosewildcharms]

I feel like some people think markgemma are inherently superior to markhelly because they have a "real" relationship whereas markhelly only think they're in love but just don't know any better. and while ofc it's fair to enjoy one pairing over another over subjective preferences like chemistry/vibes etc I also gotta wonder if people are just falling into the same trap that outie mark did of seeing the outie relationship as more legitimate because they had a full life - a marriage, a home, hobbies, plans - and more time together and so by contrast markhelly are just kids playing pretend because they don't have that same experience. but the point is that markhelly are restricted from those experiences by design. they desperately want all of those things for themselves and the fact that they can't have it doesn't make their connection inherently less valid or sincere. they make the most of the life they have and the comparative bleakness of that life doesn't make them less deserving. If you can understand why mark and gemma would fight to the death for their life together it should actually be pretty easy to understand why markhelly would do the same as long as you see them as people, which the show has been begging you to do since day one and what innie mark begged outie mark to do at the beginning of the episode. outie mark and innie mark are the ones that transcend severance - they're both willing to do anything to be with the person they love - the snag is that they're not in love with the same person.

[rozzywell]

Thinking about the "be good" "be serious. I'm always good, Michael, you know that" "I know that" interaction and how it was just "be good" "be serious" in the original draft. Would love to know the behind the scenes there.

[the-acid-pear]

Y'know I really feel like Harry and Dave's relationship goes highly unexplored which is a shame because there IS quite a bit to explore, ESPECIALLY if you care about shipping. But as the game stands I mean, they must be aware of each other. Harry in fact definitely knows about Dave. I don't think he'd tell the fucking weird rotten bunny his terrible boss brought in IS the number one threat against Freddy's since day 1 but even so. Dave I don't think would see Harry as much more than A Phoney™ though, which is always more of an obstacle and way less of a person. Which is usually opposite of how Jack sees his often sole employee. Like, you get what I mean? It's almost similar to 2 with the main opposing routes being Peter and Dave except the stakes are arguably way lower now.

[dennisboobs]

most annoying thing about being me is that i cannot engage with like. any fanon shit about dennis because i'm constantly on some advanced derangement and the stuff i thought two years ago when i was first getting comfy in the fandom is still the way everyone else looks at dennis but i'm like. yes but its Worse than this. you're like a quarter of the way there. this isn't the interesting bit, this is a symptom of it, keep going.

[betweenblackberrybranches]

I didnt really like the newest season of hilda :(

[amiibo-king]

call me unorthodox or whatever but i think. get this. it MIGHT be possible.... to enjoy the barbie movie.... and ALSO acknowledge that it is a 2 hour long ad for mattel. wild i know

[clowndensation]

“___ and ___ are two statements that can coexist” no they can’t. ever. and the fact you think they can hints to your pathetic centrist heart.

[rawliverandgoronspice]

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not sure it's my post to make particularly, but I do fucking hate how the concept of white guilt gets weaponized within white people ingroups to throw at each other in order to goad each other into emotional passivity, detachement and inaction, it's just so extremely not what the concept is about initially and is actually still an extension of white guilt it turns out!!! as it's still reacting to that idea and concerned by trying to sever oneself from its perceived effects, regardless of what those are and what they do and what bigger picture they exist in!!!! anyway.

[literaryspinster]

Yes I've read Battle Royale, yes I think it's better than the Hunger Games, no I don't think that means that The Hunger Games has no reason to exist.

[aoryuucchi]

Merperson who transforms into a human when they get in contact with water and into merperson when dry

[navree]

This is his dad in there, the first man he ever called Dad, at any rate, and even after everything, booze and jail and Bruce and death and then death again, there's never going to be a part of Jason that isn't gutted that he's dead. One night, a wraith in a red helmet slips onto the grounds of Blackgate Penitentiary to steal one specific thing.

Fandom: Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics) Pairing(s): Jason Todd & Willis Todd, Jason Todd & Bruce Wayne Words: 2,822 Chapters: 1/1

[littlechaoticwitch]

The whole point of the writer's strike was for companies to start treating their employees better (y'know the people who actually make it possible for these shows to exist), but things cannot- and will not- change for how these shows are made until these companies start listening to the audience (y'know, the people who are making these shows popular in the first place.

If we had more than 8 episodes, then those shows would feel more fleshed out and better paced, allowing us to care more; in fact, bring back the filler episodes that might not seem like much at first glance, but allow the audience to care more about the characters and even drop subtle hints for future storylines. If more streaming services did weekly episodes, then these shows would have more hype behind them, would gain bigger fanbases, and actually have longevity. If streaming services stopped doing these long hiatuses (which kills any enjoyment for a series because the wait is sometimes not worth it), or cancelling the good stuff in favor of shows that are "easy to make", or ignoring the beauty of animation because it's seen as "childish" (bullshit), then more people would keep their subscriptions because they would have a reason to care more. Hell, if writers were allowed to be experimental and put out stuff that makes an impact (such as, I don't know, creating shows that would have been censored or cancelled on regular networks), then streaming services would be less seen as greedy assholes and more as the "game-changers" they so claim to be.

Modern television is a mess because companies do not value the actual impact of their original shows and they especially DO NOT care about the fandoms that keep their oh-so popular shows even remotely relevant. The audience, the writers, and the shows especially deserve better than what we have been given, and fandoms should not die at the hands of corporate bastards.

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[a-little-ray-of-fantasy]

"Stolas isn't wrong for choosing his own happiness for once after years of abuse and depression"

and

"Octavia isn't wrong for feeling betrayed by her father and fearing she's been only an obligation to him"

are two concepts that can and should coexist.

[captainjonnitkessler]

"The storyline of someone slowly realizing they're queer as they fall in love with a formerly-platonic friend is an important one that resonates with a lot of people" and "It makes me, an aroace person, uncomfortable when fans of a work insist that a self-professed straight character MUST be falling in love with their platonic same-sex friend because of COURSE a friendship could never be as fulfilling or as important as a romance so why would they be showing us all these intimate scenes if we weren't meant to assume they were romantic?" are two concepts that unfortunately must coexist