#entirely disconnected from me

[spock-adoodledoo]

feeling officially aro for now

[lorebird]

In which Ford struggles so badly to relate to other people that he wonders if he’s really human at all. The more isolated he becomes, the harder it is to reconcile with his own humanity.

[moghedien]

love that I can front a post with a long ass disclaimer that I'm not justifying anything or telling anyone they're wrong or trying to change anyone's mind and also not engage in any of the discourse going on around it otherwise and I still get blocked and accused of weird shit because I did an analysis of the scene

[vynnyal]

This is a pretty good point in the wip to share this, methinks :]

Map part for the hole dwelling map, starring... Not my ocs! I wanted to use ocs, but I don't have any-- so I just used the characters from a fic I was reading at the time 😂

Turns out, the symbolism was so much fun to twist into the 11 seconds I had to work with, I ended up going way more complex than I meant to. If you wanna read the fic this was based on, please do!! And tell the author I said hi! :D

[charlesemersonwinchesteriii]

And the thing is. Speaking on a meta, Doylist level now. In actual Inuit shamanic practice, cutting out one's tongue (or any other body part) is not a real thing, at least not that I can find reference to anywhere. In fact, actual angakkuit have their own secret verbal language that they use to communicate with spirits (including their tuurngaq). Plus, shamans serve very important interpersonal functions within their communities, so removing their ability to speak would be worse than pointless.

So why is it a thing in The Terror? Well, the most obvious purpose is To Be Scary And Gory because Horror Genre. But fabricating a random "barbaric" practice (that doesn't even make any sense) to assign to indigenous people for shock value would be quite a choice for a show that punishes its characters for believing such lies (DON'T YOU KNOW THEY KILL CHILDREN EDWARD. CAN YOU IMAGINE. WHOMST COULD EVER DO SUCH A THING—), so I have to believe something more is going on here. What that something is, I'm not knowledgeable enough to say.

But I know it must be something. Because the following is an excerpt from an oral history series published by Nunavut Arctic College, Inuit Perspectives on the 20th Century:

In this chapter, the elders talk about shamanism and how one could become an angakkuq. In most cases, angakkuit did their own recruitment, identifying interesting potential candidates and offering to turn them into angakkuit (the person was always free to decline), [...]. The selected candidate would start to see their tuurngaq. In some rituals, the person becoming angakkuq was stabbed (they would not bleed) or shot (their tuurngaq would intercept the bullet).

Might the fact that the tuurngaq in The Terror failed to protect Silna's father in the first place (and failed to protect the Inuit family later as well, in both cases only attacking after the damage had already been done) imply something in itself? Plus the fact that Silna is very clearly not free to decline becoming an angakkuq...... plus the fact that her people banish her, yet allow Crozier to stay, another needlessly cruel and impractical act, just like the tongue-cutting...... It all feels like a deliberate statement. What that statement is would be the task of someone smarter than me to decipher.

[beastking-golion]

Saw a fic about vastaya Viktor and if you ask me he’s definitely a bird (or salamander if you wanna super angstify him- cough cough Rio cough).

[slingbats]

I've been thinking a lot abt ivy in the long halloween and. whatever the hell the attempted reboot of the dcau did to her and how mangling that entire story affected her in particular

this didn't start out as a panel redraw, but then it kind of morphed into one, and then it kind of got away from it again, but we'll say it is one anyway for simplicity's sake

[10yearsofdnp]

March 12, 2015: 10 years ago today, the ear tint was born. Happy anniversary to the icon, the myth, the legend that is DAN AND PHIL BLINDFOLDED MAKEUP CHALLENGE! 💄😂❤️

[jettreno]

there obv IS a prevalent and aggravating trend of stories having an antagonist who correctly identifies a flaw in society and aims to fix it but also commits atrocities along the way that the narrative claims to undermine the entire goal and then when the hero defeats them it is in the name of the status quo - but people sometimes point to legend of korra as an example of this which is so annoying bc like man how can you not understand a show written for children. every single season ends with korra defeating the villains and then saying "they had some points tho!" and then changing the status quo to address the flaw the villain identified

[mays-random-fandom-reblogs]

I love you Goku Gohan and Piccolo. "Too alien to be human, too human to be alien" trio of my heart

[sotc]

every time i come across some lines where my male mc jozsef is written shorter than the other guys when he's probably of equal stature and height to ais

[ancreneriwle]

also i think i needed to be sober and medicated for the entirety of lent so far to realize i need to leave the anglican church lol

[delyldia]

Sometimes the reality of childhood CPTSD hits you like a truck. You've shoved that core truth down for so long, not even able to consciously consider anymore that what happened in your life actually happened. It's so fucking scary how you can go through things not really there and only when you're lucky/unlucky enough to have revelations about it, are you able to even consider getting help. No one can convince you that you actually need help when that reality is so deeply buried in your mind in a really weird convoluted way. You just say "I'm fine I'm fine I'm fine" all through life, for years (or most of your life) while your health deteriorates. And it's all because you never learned to trust yourself to feel correctly. It's something that's SO common sense, like "uh, yeah" to the people around you, but you don't feel it in a viscerally, coherently internal way that often. And when you do, it's so unpleasant. Idk. CPTSD is something that I think is so hard to directly talk about and it's much easier to just. Point to things that are related and speak the truth of it by association. Guess that's why storytelling hits so hard and why I've always wanted to be able to express myself in that way, at least. I think storytelling of that sort is entirely self serving, but it's side effect of making others feel less alone is a fortunate and worthwhile consequence.

[kickasstorrents]

this is what it was like when i did so much LSD & smoked a lot of weed & it made me i had new senses felt like And the. yea

[wellnoe]

gilda is like. a perfect incredible movie if you stop watching it ~10 minutes before it ends. if you watch it all the way through it becomes a baffling wild experience.

[wolvndmouth]

how i feel all the time always my whole life and into the next rn

what i am 100000% sure would cure me