#either interpretation is valid

[kabukeo]

colored this thing for fun

[jon-sedai]

The way we discuss prophecy in fandom is genuinely fascinating. GRRM spends so much time showing how different characters have different interpretations of the same thing based on their own cultural contexts. He says that prophecy is tricky to navigate through multiple characters, showing that even the most careful practitioner can get almost everything wrong and fall victim to their own fallacies (see Mel). So tell me why the main takeaway for large parts of this fandom is “prophecy stupid, it doesn’t matter”. My brothers and sisters in R’hllor, GRRM didn’t invent multiple characters (three of whom are main POVs!!) who can see the future for this to be the conclusion. This is a FANTASY series. Please I’m begging, let us be serious 🥲

[rawliverandgoronspice]

anyway to end the series on ganondorf tp's writing, my take (which isn't canon but arguable as a valid "death of the author" read imo) is that he is at his most iredeemable AND that's because he has zero things left to lose and no community left and his goal doesn't even make sense anymore he is parasitic and a ghost and pathologically obsessed by his own godlike legitimacy because that is the only thing he still has and it has prolonged his life in a horrible diminished state in a nightmare dimension so SURELY it must mean something right right RIGHT

[sneep-snorps]

I'm very curious about something... I've seen a lot of individuals interpret Snape's feelings towards Lily as platonic, and platonic only!

Since I've always seen them in a more romantic light, I'm now curious as to how their relationship tends to be viewed by others

I'm asking because I've seen people be surprised by a more romantic interpretation, which confused me at first, as I always thought him being in love with her was "canon" to some degree.

It only recently dawned on me that his feelings towards her have never been specified, lol

[witheredgardenparty]

I've been seeing a lot of posts lately in which the op will complain that people are wildly mischaracterizing their favorite characters.

I feel like it bears reminding that "as long as you can back up your arguments with evidence, there can be multiple, and even conflicting, valid interpretations of the same text" and "just because the interpretation is valid, does not mean you have to internalize it into your understanding of the text" coexist.

[sunsetzer]

I'm playing with the Immersive Elliott Wedding mod installed and I absolutely love that he uses Scottish Gaelic terms of endearment for the farmer and references being from an in-universe equivalent to Scotland, it's all the author's own headcanons as far as I'm aware but I love thinking about this exact kind of thing for characters- where did they come from, what might their culture be, what traditions do they practice. Also I can't not picture him with a Scottish accent now and I'm fine with that.

[zoruathemageknight]

Meet the Heroes trans pride Kurashikis, I swear I’m on time for pride month

[lord-squiggletits]

A tangent from the tags of my previous Pharma post (and I just thought about this so bear w/ me if it's hastily reasoned) is that the Autobots being generally sanctimonious is actually sort of a reason why I find a lot of IDW Optimus interpretations to miss the mark, specifically the accusations of calling him stuff like self-righteous, caring more about principles than people, etc. And I know that sounds really ironic, but out of every Autobot (and almost every character period), Optimus is one of the few people who has a very forgiving/humanistic perspective on life or at least has a political approach of "if we don't stop fucking fighting we're going to be at war forever and eventually just kill ourselves."

He very explicitly wanted a diplomatic end to the war and not a military victory/conquest. He extended multiple offers to Megatron personally to work together and end the war (Autocracy trilogy, which was pre/early war, and Chaos Theory, which was late/end war, so from this we can assume Optimus' stance was consistent the whole time). When ppl hated him so bad they rioted he removed himself from the planet rather than argue or fight to justify why his actions were the best he could do. Sandstorm starts murdering Decepticons and Optimus solves the murders and then throws Sandstorm in prison bc sparing one of his Autobots the consequences of his actions is less important to Optimus than keeping the peace and making sure anyone who threatens to ignite wartime hostilities is punished for it. There are multiple characters throughout the series that other people give up on as too far gone or too cowardly/evil/damaged to be worth helping where Optimus alone is the person who says "I think they can get better/they did bad things but they're still people" such as the Dynobots, Blurr, Prowl (despite how OP's patience with him hung by a thread by the end of it), Shockwave, and, yknow, fucking Megatron of all people.

And on top of that Optimus' internal thoughts most of the time revolve around feelings of guilt, responsibility, anger, hopelessness/barely hanging on to his ideals, and so on. Bro regularly has thoughts about how the entire Autobot-Decepticon war was his fault and is depressed to the point the thought of dying/martyring himself makes him feel relieved. So like. Idk guys I don't think those are the personality traits/actions of a self-righteous person who thinks he's correct about everything and everyone who opposes him or fails his moral standards is just evil or whatever.

[ahfucknuggets567]

The fake Peppino post did well. Sooo, how about some pizzafaces? Most of them are old.

Also, you guys wouldn't be mad at some crackshipping, a little rare pair that I concocted. 🥺👉👈

[cybertron-smash-or-pass]

Beast Wars Cheetor

[sewer-dwelling-cryptid]

i thought about this forever ago already but it's still wild to me that Carrie Mark will have the ONLY song with lyrics in petscop directly associated with her, and it has these words:

"I got a new life, you would hardly recognize me, i'm so glad."

"For so many years, I've wondered who you are"

"Living without you, I've left you, oh-oh-oh"

"But where do you belong?"

it's such a good song and it fits super well considering everything but also, i feel like when/if Paul ever finds that song again it will give him a horrible attack of some sorts. million yard stare while the funky pop song plays

[vulturevanity]

I feel like SV girlies haven't seriously considered "codependent mutually obsessive JuliNemo" yet and that's a shame, really. I've seen a lot of wholesome ChampionRank (really cute but a rehash of every wholesome yuri I've ever seen, not much original content here and that's okay) and one-sided obsessive yandere!Nemona ChampionRank (REALLY do not like the villainization of Nemona's neurodivergence but eh, you can do whatever you want forever) but not as much "these two get on like a house on fire. and boy, it's dry season" ChampionRank.

Where is "battle-hungry socially starved trainwrecks who have no one but each other" JuliNemo. Where is "oh god these two exacerbate each others issues into the stratosphere and this can only end in disaster but I can't look away" JuliNemo. Where is "bringing out the worst in each other and scaring the hoes" JuliNemo. Where is "you two are perfect for each other. Never change, just never involve anyone else in any of this" JuliNemo. There's so much potential here. Toxic codependent yuri save me

[weaksspot]

happy wincest purgatory ! there has been contention in the fandom recently regarding deans characterization in relation to wincest. the main two being the mommyfication of dean (nurturing sam, spoiling him, reprimanding him, etc.) or the wife beater allegations (abusing him, controlling whose hes with, etc.) and theres probably some more tropes, but thats the ones i picked up on. where was i going with this. . . what is your preference, if any? also i say "contention" as a joke because wincesties are very nice to eachother even if they cant agree. and for me the variety is probably my most favourite thing about the fandom

happy wincest eternity sweet anon <3 this is such a good questionnnn thank youuuu :D

you can probably tell from my posts i don't especially love either of these readings of him, not because i think either is wrong or bad* but i just personally don't get much out of trying to slot him in to an archetype outline like that. if that makes sense. i think he has traits of both those things, but i don't think either fits him completely.

perhaps one of my most controversial opinions in this fandom space is that i don't really see dean as ever being sam's parent. i think DEAN sees himself that way sometimes, definitely, and it is indisputable that he was given far too much responsibilty for looking after sam and i definitely consider it parentification to a degree. but i don't think their relationship ever really shifted from brothers into a parent/child dynamic, maybe in part because their age gap isn't big enough, maybe because john WAS very present, even if we were mostly shown times that he was absent. that is part of it as well, like, i think the show gave us a lot of "here's what happened when john wasn't there" but that doesn't mean he was never there. and i think his influence was always very strong, i think dean was almost always working under "what would dad want me to do" in a way that was very much Big Brother.

i do also feel that gender comes into this in a way where my feelings on it differ from popular fanon - i can't see dean in a "mommy" or "eldest daughter" role because him being male makes the dynamic very different to what it would be if he was female.

as they get older though i think the parenty vibes fade a LOT and they really... honestly do settle into more of an old married couple type dynamic. lol. but it's a BROTHERS dynamic before it's anything else. like when they fight, say when dean scolds sam for something, it is so sibling fight-y. i can't really think of an example where it's like a parent telling off a child. TO ME at least. in the flashbacks as well, like the infamous lucky charms scene, it's purely siblings. idk, i don't know how to be succinct about this lmao, it's all feelings and very little logic 😭 sorry. i'll think about it some more.

the wife beater thing i have talked about a lot already dfkgjhdfg i just don't see it. i see shitty, sometimes even cruel, older brother and that's it. i definitely do think his behaviour can be abusive, but i don't think he is Sam's Abuser in the clear cut way he's sometimes portrayed in current meta.

please DO NOT misinterpret this as my feelings on any real life abusive relationships, but regarding THEM SPECIFICALLY, to me that would require more desire from sam to get away from dean and dean preventing that from happening. and when people talk about sam being ground down by dean to want to stay i just do not see that at all lol. i don't think dean coerces him in a general sense (in specific situations, maybe sure), i actually think most of the time he is very upfront about what he wants from sam - which is for him to stay and be alive, basically - and leaves it in sam's hands whether to do that or not.

in my mind i always go back to scarecrow where sam leaves and dean lets him. sam makes the choice to go back to dean and stay with him after. if there's anything forcing them to stay together, it's their external circumstances, it's not dean. i just do honestly think he loves sam and wants him to be happy more than anything else in the world and i think he demonstrates that consistently throughout the entire show and i don't think that's a facade, just because he is not normal or healthy about it much of the time lol. neither of them is normal or healthy. sam was willing to frankenstein them both forever. sam fights to keep them together just as much as dean does.

so yeah ummmm. sorry i'm sure that's all totally incoherent. but ultimately i think they love and need each other in equal measure. there are a lot of things i fucking hate about dean if we're being really honest but the way he treats sam ON THE WHOLE is not one of them <3

[utilitycaster]

Queueing to make it clear this isn't a one-time thing or vagueing a specific person and more an irritating trend, but: if you have speculation or a personal wish for a story, that is always totally cool and you can and should post about it to your heart's content but it is pretty irritating to post it on other people's theory posts unless you can construct a logical argument and relate it back to their theory.

You want to see a guest character return? Okay, pitch me how this is related to my post, and why it would make particular sense within the story. You think a ship is going to happen? Great, say something other than "Um, I have eyes" on my post if you want to reply to me. You think this campaign is going to go on until level 20? Do you have an argument other than "I want it to?" Then give it, otherwise this would really be better suited to you making your own post.

You don't need an argument in your own post! I think it's wise to have one if you have any interest in convincing other people (and indeed, I tend to find that if there's a lot of MAN WOULDN'T IT BE COOL evidence- and argument-free posts in the tag for something I wasn't already inclined to like, it will make me feel more unfavorable towards it), but if you're posting for yourself and not to make a point you can and should just say what you want! You do need one when you're shoving it onto mine though because now I'm going to get all the people responding to you and I don't want them. Also when people do this and I don't care for their theory I tend to hide the reblog, or I just make the post nonrebloggable if it takes off and I'm sufficiently annoyed, and now no one can see or respond to the theory because they didn't write your own post and I'm in control! Writing your own posts is great! Please, if you are not directly responding to the content of an original post but rather going off on your own tangent, make your own post instead of getting on theirs.

[marineduo]

It’s kinda funny. I enjoy Coby and Helmeppo as just #Besties as much as I like them as a ship. But as much as I’ve recently seen people call them brothers I can’t see them as brothers. In love? Sure. Queer platonic partners? Hell yeah. Besties that you’ve got to keep an eye on cause they are unstoppable together? Absolutely. Brothers? I don’t see it. To me they are not brothers they are In Cahoots.

That being said I think Tashigi and Helmeppo would absolutely be siblings they would roast the hell out of each others’ taste in people and also argue about swords. And also have each other’s back and share gossip.

Oh actually one more thing. I know I did Cobymeppo fic recs but people should let me know if they want me to rec some fics that are just Coby n Meppo as besties.

[shiningstarr15]

Alright I’ve seen enough takes on this and while I understand everyone’s viewpoint and validate it I want to give mine bc mine is probably a very niche perspective.

When it comes to the relationship between Gregory and Vanessa, I do view them as siblings. And no not in the umbrella way, not in the “this is the only thing that makes the most sense” sort of way, I mean they have sibling energy period. And I’ll tell you why.

Bc I do not view them as being immediate found family. At all. They have too much trauma both independently and with each other. I don’t even think they’d like each other very much at first. I feel like their initial relationship would be more of a ”you saved me so I’ll return the favor by helping you out” way.

Personally. I don’t think relationships with strong bonds should immediately go into something romantic or familial (maybe it’s cuz I’m raging aroace and very platonic/queerplatonic bc I know that’s an unpopular opinion) but in my eyes, you NEED TO BUILD A FRIENDSHIP FIRST. and I think that’s exactly what they’re gonna do.

They’re gonna slowly and gradually form a friendship, one that most people would think is strange and unusual bc it’s an adult and a child but let’s be fr neither of them are what you’d consider “typical” (yes I personally hc them both being ND. Again, this is my opinion). I also don’t think they don’t really give af what people think. So why would they bother putting a label that they don’t really agree with on them? No imo they won’t do that unless they truly do mean it.

Again, this could very well be projecting. But I am personally someone that doesn’t like being given a “sister” label unless it’s actually meant. Maybe it’s my extreme sibling complex. But I don’t think I’m wrong for feeling that way. And imo, I think overtime they would view each other in the way best friends view each other as siblings. I don’t even think there would even need to be anything legal. But if there was, she would be a legal guardian at best. Bc it still gives the freedom to identify how they choose. And to me, it’s very similar to Lilo and Nani from “Lilo and Stitch.”

Bc I think two things can be true at the same time. Vanessa can be a caregiver, and have some responsibilities when it comes to making sure Gregory is ok and kept safe. But also, she herself needs someone to take care of her. Bc she can’t. And while I do like the idea of Freddy taking care of them both, I also like them taking care of each other.

She definitely has aspects that could be seen as maternal, but I don’t view her as essentially parental. She simply isn’t ready. There’s too much trauma and a bit of emotional immaturity (again not a bad thing, she’s very childlike imo). I think she sees him more equal than that. Not someone that is helpless and needs to be watched 24/7. But someone that needs a little guidance every now and then. And that’s where I think looking up to her in an older sibling kinda way comes in.

She’s like a combined playmate and caregiver. An equal partner but also someone that takes on the worst of the burden so he doesn’t have to. Even though he will do so anyway bc he cares that much about her.

So yea, that’s my take on their relationship. Again, it’s just my opinion, and I understand people not agreeing and wanting something else for them. But this is how I choose to view them, and I don’t think that it’s wrong ❤️