#for something that is ultimately NOT MY FAULT

[angryraptor13]

It's been a long while since I last saw the whole movie, but IIRC, Lena was very much not a villain! She was a beloved actress who excelled in her field, until suddenly her job requirements radically changed to include something she *could not do*. She tried *so hard* to add singing and speech to her repertoire, but it was simply outside her ability. She was about to lose her job, through no fault of her own, with little warning & likely no fallback plan. The poor woman was rightly terrified.

The voiceovers were Don, Cosmo, and Kathy's idea, not Lena's. IIRC, Kathy's voiceovers were uncredited, but that would've ultimately been the movie studio's decision, not Lena's.

And when the public put Lena on the spot to sing, Kathy offered to cover for her, and then Kathy's friends publically embarrassed Lena by exposing *their* voiceover scheme. That was mean.

I've been laid off twice now (and it sucked massively both times), but not from my field of employment changing to the point where I was no longer employable. Frankly, if losing my job meant I would have to find an entirely different *kind* of job, I have no idea what I would do. I really feel for Lena there. If she was suddenly no longer qualified to be an actress, what would she *do*?

Moses Supposes

[maladaptivewriting]

something that will always fascinate me is the general loyalty that the character severus snape inspires. i mean, since the beginning of this fandom at large, snape has always had a constant (if ever changing) group of extremely loyal fans who will worship him like a god.

i'm not even exaggerating. think of snapewives - people who believed snape was a real god who told his story using jkr as a conduit, who could transcend universes and possess people to interact with his followers, who could affect our real world just to teach his followers lessons.

to this day, if you look up severus snape tags on any social media website you will find a plethora of rabid loyal followers of severus snape who are willing to fight with any other group in the harry potter fandom.

just yesterday i came across a snape account who spent all their time writing poems about how terrible james potter, lily evans, and all the other marauders characters were because of their relation to or treatment of snape.

there is just something so specifically odd about it.

like i'll see them going head to head with jegulus fans, claiming that ship belongs to them in some way, as if their connect to snape transcends the nature of another ship. i've witnessed them fighting jily fans for years and years, very sure that james potter is a monster who cannot be redeemed and lily is either a helpless victim to him or a equally evil person who was set out to hurt snape.

they are both incapable of acknowledging snape's character flaws and of seeing any positive trait for any other character. even people who love other morally gray or questionable characters seem capable of examining their faults, but not snape fans.

i once made a post defending snape's treatment of his students, albeit in a joking way, and a snape fan found my post within minutes and began to harass me because they did not believe snape's treatment of children qualified as "wrong."

i can't stop myself from wondering what it is about this mildly interesting but ultimately benign (in my opinion) character that inspires such allegiance.

[robotlyra]

More Amazing Digital Circus Episode Six Thoughts today...

I spent some time chatting with a friend on discord about the Issue of Jax, and i think there's something that's being kind of overlooked. When Pomni asked Jax "do you think this is maybe what makes people abstract?" Jax jumped to statements like "ARE YOU BLAMING ME TOO? EVERYONE ELSE WAS DOING WHAT I WAS DOING. BESIDES THEY WERE UNPLEASANT TO BE AROUND ANYWAYS" right away. Pomni doesn't know what makes people abstract yet, and so her asking what does is justifiable curiosity. And if she doesn't know, she doesn't have any reason to suspect Jax might be partially responsible for it happening. But the fact that Jax IMMEDIATELY leapt to defensiveness regardless is very revealing . Most people are zeroing in on "people who are about to abstract are unpleasant to be around" as the key to deciphering who is going to break next, and that's fair, but I think the point that's being overlooked is how much it sounds like trying to defend his bad behavior around Imminent Abstracting Residents. He tries to play off that he doesn't really care, and that he enjoys being malicious, but for some reason, he couldn't let the potential for being blamed go uncountered.

Which leads to why he kept urging Pomni to backstab him, and why he refused to fight back when she attacked him. It wasn't because he "cares too much to cause actual harm, and is trying to self-isolate to avoid grief." It's because he needs someone else to do what he does too: to act like an "archetype" instead of a person, to be mean because it's fun to be that way, to behave like nothing matters at all because they're in a game. He needs someone else to maladaptively cope in the same way that he has, because if he's the only one that does it, then ultimately, he has to be responsible for it. "Shoot me in the head, I don't give a shit about anyone" isn't just self-destructive nihilism, it's "please validate that it's okay to be misanthropic. Confirm that someone else would be abusive because it's funny. Verify that anyone else would do the same as me in my place, because if no one else does, then that means that I always had a choice to do otherwise. I need someone else to refuse being a genuine, vulnerable person, because if they don't, that means I'm the only one who refused. That means it was my fault."

[badgersprite]

The Iyo, Rhea, Kabuki Warriors (avec Judgement Day) story is the best thing in WWE right now. I know I’m biased but also it just is

Just some notes on what happened this week

* Asuka apologises but doesn’t mean it, Kairi has pretty clearly spent all week talking her into saying sorry

* Iyo is a consistent character and by nature she always wants to fight her battles alone unless she has no other choice, she was (mostly) like this even when she was a heel in Damage CTRL

* Iyo drops a line about wanting to be like Asuka and do things Asuka did, showing she looks up to her and respects her, this hints at Asuka’s jealousy that she’s the one who paved the way but now she feels outshone and like she lives in Iyo’s shadow

* Iyo is a smart babyface and proves she can handle herself without help, she sees the interference coming and deals with it

* Rhea makes the save when Iyo gets attacked post match. Kabuki Warriors are nowhere. Rhea consistently proves through her actions that she’s Iyo’s real friend by respecting her wishes not to interfere in her matches but also by being there when she needs her. Asuka isn’t Iyo’s real friend, she interferes in matches when Iyo tells her not to, and doesn’t have her back after the match is over.

* Asuka frames herself as the aggrieved party and makes out like she didn’t come down to make the save out of respect for Iyo, then makes Iyo out to be a bad friend who is holding them to unequal standards and who is putting Asuka in situations where she can’t do anything right (she isn’t, but it’s believable that Asuka could genuinely perceive things that way and why Kairi would empathise and Iyo would concede Asuka has a point)

* Iyo crashes out when Rhea and Asuka start fighting, throwing back to that aspect of her character. Iyo just wants to concentrate on wrestling, she’s not here for crazy friendship drama where all her friends hate each other and it feels like she can’t do anything right!

* Kairi is doing an excellent job of being caught in the middle. Per WWE kayfabe, Asuka and Iyo have never been friends. They only started to hang out because they both have longstanding friendships with Kairi as the Kabuki Warriors and Sky Pirates respectively. IIRC, Asuka joining Damage CTRL was never “the plan”, she joined them entirely independently because she wanted to reunite with Kairi, and Kairi came back from Japan for Iyo after she won the title. She’s besties with both of them. She doesn’t seem to bear any ill will to Rhea and is just trying to play mediator

I’m not even really going to get into how Rhea’s friendship with Iyo is also a massive Evolution of the Rhea Ripley character and how it puts her in a super interesting position of where she finally has someone with whom she’s put aside her deepseated fear of “she’s not really my friend, she’s going to betray me, I’m going to do something to fuck this up, she’ll reject me and hate me once she sees me at my worst” - no, Rhea and Iyo’s friendship has survived those tests where Rhea has snapped and taken her anger out on Iyo and Iyo is just like “that was a great fight, let’s do it again!” - but the second you have Rhea letting her guard down and really trusting her, Asuka starts instigating and putting Iyo in a position where Rhea has every reason to fear she’s going to get let down again and Iyo will ultimately choose Damage CTRL over her and it might be her own damn fault if she does

It’s good shit.

Also Rhea and Iyo are in love your honour

[sdfghjklklprty]

I was listening to 'Stick season' by Noah Kahan and it's just... so Rosekiller coded... If we're talking canon, I mean (that is, after Evan's dead and Barty's alone)

Just look at the lyrics

"Kept on driving straight and left our future to the right": Evan getting too much into the DE and getting himself killed, and Barty feeling abandonned.

"Now I am stuck between my anger and the blame that I can't face/ And memories are something even smoking w*ed does not replace": Barty blaming himself basically and picking up dr/gs

"And it's half my fault, but I just like to play the victim/ I'll drink alcohol till my friends come home for Christmas": feeling like it's his fault that Evan's dead + since his friends are all dead, trying to drown himself in alcohol (cause no one is coming for Christmas, sorry Barty)

"And I'll dream each night of some version of you": we all know Azkaban messes with people's mind so what if Evan haunted Barty there?

"That I might not have, but I did not lose/ Now you're tire tracks and one pair of shoes/ And I'm split in half, but that'll have to do": if "split in half" is not for soulmates I don't know what is.

"So I thought that if I piled something good on all my bad/That I could cancel out the darkness I inherited from Dad": this one's obvious. #daddy issues #crouch sr is a dick

"No, I am no longer funny 'cause I miss the way you laugh/You once called me "forever," now you still can't call me back": angst, angst, angst

"My other half was you/ I hope this pain's just passing through/ But I doubt it": obviously the pain is not just passing through and Azkaban will just make it worse

TL;DR: 'Stick Season' is the ultimate canon Rosekiller song, thank you for coming to my Ted talk.

[bearsizedant]

3 weeks in and I don't know if I can do this

[gingermintpepper]

Oooooooh fellow Alcestis and Admetus and Apollo fan? (this is just me nerding out bc they’re weirdly unpopular)

Hello friend!! I'm gonna be so real, I love and adore ALL of Apollo's relationships and entanglements because all of them are beautiful, meaningful and brilliant in their own ways!!

I think the devotion Admetus and Alcestis had for each other and the devotion and loyalty that Apollo extended towards them in turn is some of the most moving love in history point blank period and I do agree that they're oddly underrated, but so are many of Apollo's great loves.

Feel free to ask/yap about them with me whenever!! I absolutely love this trio and I welcome anyone who feels the same with big, broad open arms ♡♡♡

[itadooori]

its gi-hun angst hours again i fear

[heir-of-the-chair]

Lowkey hyperfixating now and I’ve come to the devastating conclusion that Jacob the main character of Water For Elephants… doesn’t really have a character arc

[maddiemuu]

oh my god that second flight was bad. like, i got through it. but it was BAD.

[luckycl0ve]

What we plea will be

A faithful end decree

Where a man will not retreat

From the defeat of his fathers

Last stand in Minrathous

So there's this game state i made up where Rook is the Inquisitor's illegitimate son he didn't know he had ❤️ and Rook's been ignoring his letters and they've had a very strained relationship throughout the events of the game until a pivotal climactic moment ❤️ yes they're both mages therefore Enchanters seems appropriate

[vanhelsingapologist]

how's the weezer-taylor swift fusion goin?

well it wasn’t worse than raditude so it has that going for it. but! being slowly pressed to death by puritains from salem massachusetts is a better experience than listening to raditude so that’s where I’m at.

[munch-mumbles]

farts

[filthesis]

Mini vent!

I made this blog for my friends, but I doubt that our friendship will persist until I'm done with my thesis. Despite being "friends" for over four months, I feel like I haven't done anything to earn our relationship. Regardless, I'm glad that I'm still giving this whole thing a shot. Even if nothing comes to fruition, this blog will be a pillar of my earnest wishes --- the want to create for other people, as well as myself.

[holyshit]

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