#pretty privilege in action

[strangedesired]

The amount of people calling nightwing pretty boy is actually insane like

He will literally shove his escrima into someone’s ears, electrocute them, and then give em a round house kick for good measure and somebody in the distance will be like, “who’s the pretty boy?”

[recent-rose]

yknowwww there is something... deeply uncomfortable about the way mel never speaks directly to viktor in the 'build hextech weapons' scene. she really only speaks to jayce. plenty of people have pointed this out already but like the one scene they actually share a meaningful interaction and she treats him like he's beneath her. all this after jayce has emphasized how important viktor is, that hextech is theirs, together. she unequivocally ices him out, there's no other way to interpret this scene. the way it's shot too - from viktor's perspective, looking up at her, as though to reinforce the same belief in him. like he doesn't even bother expecting respect from her - or anyone from the upper echelon of piltover. he's fully accustomed to being dehumanized by everyone around him at this point. sometimes even by jayce, despite the trust they clearly have in each other.

then of course after this scene is viktor experimenting on himself. it's pretty clear that he has internalized his own dehumanization. crazy.

[factsilike]

Really tired of constantly seeing posts declaring that everyone in MXTX novels is complicated and 'morally grey' and that's what makes her works wonderfully written, and that everyone else who doesn't see that is stupid, or is 'demonising' characters and bashing them for rightfully criticising their shitty, very much unjustified actions.

And ironically it seems so simplistic to just declare that, because yes her stories are wonderfully written and complex, but not for that reason. You're clearly not reading her works and only spouting what you think her stories say. There are many morally grey characters in morally complex stories out there, but MDZS IS NOT ONE OF THEM.

NONE OF THE MAIN CHARACTERS (i.e protagonists and their male leads except for LBH maybe) ARE MORALLY GREY OR MORALLY COMPLEX.

THEY ARE ALL MORALLY RIGHTEOUS.

Just take a closer look at their actions compared to the actions of literally everyone else around them, it's not that hard to see.

Not to mention that MXTX herself literally says that WWX and LWJ are both morally ideal and that ahe hopes her readers can be like them, but people seem to have no respect for the word of authors in the name of their self projection onto the characters being contradicted nowadays 😒

(also saw someone dismissively say that HC may think that the world revolves around XL or whatever, but others don't and they're right??

First of all, did you even read the novel? HC made his judgement based on how others treated him versus how XL did when he was a CHILD. And how XL continues to treat others to this day. He is well within his rights to think the world of XL, especially since XL suffered more than every other person and still doesn't succumb to evil, despite having every right to do so, miles more than others. He all but regards XL as his moral compass, because he's proof that truly good people do exist in this world, and not ONE other person in the novel is shown to be as good as him.)

One of the reasons why I really don't like the Xianle Trio is this; neither FX nor MQ seem to regard XL as his own person with his own agency, who is capable of making his own decisions initially as HC does, and only near the end of the novel do they let up a bit when their asses had to be saved by XL multiple times. (especially considering what fools they made of themselves in that spiderweb cave lmao)

Both of them try to enforce XL ALL THE TIME ("Your Highness don't do this or don't do that or don't say this or don't go there or don't talk to him"), as if XL has not survived perfectly well on his own without them FOR 800 YEARS.

The difference between them and HC is clearly spelled out when FC asks HC about why he is not stopping XL, and HC replies that while he may not agree with some of XL's decisions, he would never force him to do what he thinks is correct, something both MQ and FX are CONSTANTLY shown to try to do.

Like please. Xianle Trio who? More like suffering XL and his pair of nuisances who think themselves to be his babysitters. And most of the time he's the one babysitting them.

Another thing that irks me is that their frequent arguments are often played off for laughs, but XL is truly a saint, because if my friends were constantly bickering over petty things all throughout our dangerous journey and giving me nothing but headaches, especially in survival situations, I'd given them the boot a long time ago.

[mollysunder]

I've been combing over the RiotxArcane light novel again to prep for some longer meta and I realised something. Viktor knew Jinx robbed him and Jayce the whole time.

Nearly everytime he mentions anything about Zaun or Zaunites he has to pause, like he needs to adjust his answer.

At the start of the game he literally almost tells you it was Jinx, but he pauses and chooses to be vague.

And then when you, the player, finally connect the dots and tell him who you think it is, he tells you it's Jinx. The funny part is we can choose, not to say Jinx's name, we can call her names like "the Loose Cannon" or even "Powder " and Viktor's the one to reveal her current name.

There's also a weird dynamic between how he treats Jinx and Silco. When Viktor finally explains to us who Jinx is, he's hesitant to associate her with Silco.

Viktor treats Silco as a genuinely dangerous figure for the player to encounter, and he's even vocally critical of Silco as a kingpin/leader in Zaun.

But Viktor is also aware how dangerous the device Jinx stole is in the wrong hands. He knows it could tear apart realities, that the magic would corrupt the user to something inhuman, and... he just chooses not to lead you to Jinx.

He could tell you find Silco and Jinx would show up eventually, or ask Vi, who's already an enforcer and sick of Jinx's schtick. Maybe even ask Sevika who's thoroughly done with Jinx too.

And Viktor just doesn't tell the player. Even the way he describes what the thief, who he knows is Jinx could get up to, downplays the threat. He uses the word "mischief", which feels almost like a cute way to describe the pretty high stakes situation Jayce and Heimerdinger were just talking about.

Then Viktor spends his last lines lowkey defending Jinx, or at least asking the player to be understanding and maybe understanding.

This is all despite the fact he's fully aware Jinx not only works for a man he's deeply critical of, and is at the minimum complicit in Zaun's suffering, but she's pretty close to ripping realities apart at any moment.

I wonder what flavor codependent this kind of relationship will be next season.

[crashout-cain]

Thinking about Mary, raised by her black family in a community of people she has loved her whole life, growing up and marrying a white man, leaving her community and her family and her whole world. How she was so dissatisfied with the safety and security of her white life because it kept her from her family. Then her mother dies literally days before the movie starts, and that informs every single thing she does. She starts trying to reconnect with that family and her first community, and immediately another white man shows up and inserts himself into those relationships and twists her love into something that hurts her family and drags her community down into further subjugation to him. The way he literally lures her in with her grief. Just thinking about the choices she made, the choices that were taken from her, and the things they cost her. God.

[zorostitties]

i agree wholeheartedly with your opinion about s3, i just want to ask as well about what do you think about that lenore and hector scene in s3??

like i said in my previous ask, that scene was being built up the entire season. it was pretty clear it was going to happen at some point, so i wasn’t surprised.

what i don’t like about it is what happened later. lenore was a groomer and abuser, but to me at least it looks like the series still wanted us to feel sympathy for her or ship her with hector. he still felt sympathy for her when in all honesty he should’ve hated her. i cheered when hector revealed that he had been plotting against her in secret and when he cut his finger off, and honestly i would’ve preferred if he or isaac had finished her off.

but still, lenore got to choose her death in an “emotional” scene. i feel that she didn’t really face enough consequences for her actions and that was a bit underwhelming.

[the-silly-urge]

You guys ever think about the fact that Wulbren would get only a fraction of the hate he does if he was like, a drow twink instead of a deep gnome

[pilonciillo]

lol didn’t think someone giving money would give me anxiety

[acesammy]

Pretty sure it’s been said before but watching arcane when you have supernatural brainrot really is something else

[whewchilly]

Charles’ Miami. he got the point ✅

[mezmer]

Er,mm little bit of posts kind of dogging or mocking girls witj low self esteem I just saw one that’s like “you’re 20+ years old looking at pictures of attractive women saying you wish you looked like that? Get over it” Hahaha. I womt say that’s projection buuut… I literally have no control over my insecurity and I’ve tried so hard to change that. It is not within me to truly cherish my appearance as it is. (At least I’ve effectively removed all makeup besides a small tinted cream for discoloration…) Sorry if you don’t want to hear it! Sucks I know. I complain occasionally just to cope or let it out but I’m not going to sit here and go on and on, and I don’t think many women do. I think a lot of us keep it inside. I don’t want to be ashamed of my insecurity on top of it

Anyway. I’m supposed to be microdosing mushrooms soon I bet that’ll help lol

[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.

[spicypussywave]

I hope Nick's gonna stop playing That Car.mp3 from now on

[mariocki]

"We should stop thinking in terms of 'compensatory education' but consider, instead, most seriously and systematically the conditions and contexts of the educational environment.

The very form our research takes tends to confirm the beliefs underlying the organization, transmission and evaluation of knowledge by the school. Research proceeds by assessing the criteria of attainment that schools hold, and then measures the competence of different social groups in reaching these criteria. We take one group of children, whom we know beforehand possess attributes favourable to school achievement; and a second group of children, whom we know beforehand lack these attributes. Then we evaluate one group in terms of what it lacks when compared with another. In this way research unwittingly underscores the notion of deficit and confirms the status quo of a given organization, transmission and, in particular, evaluation of knowledge. Research very rarely challenges or exposes the social assumptions underlying what counts as valid knowledge, or what counts as a valid realization of that knowledge."

- Basil Bernstein, Education Cannot Compensate for Society, in Education for Democracy (2nd ed., 1972)

[hello-god-its-me-sara]

me: alright, which one of these fuckers knits/crochets because I. need. to. give. them. my. yarn. struggles.

Peter sewing 1000%

Peter knitting/ crocheting I’m less convinced on

Does he have 50 million needles and hooks along with unlabeled yarn from Aunt May? yes

Does he know anything about them or how to use them? answer still pending

Mary Jane and Gwen are also good candidates for knowing either or both

Love a good project bag that you carry around with your latest creation

I could see one of them, or both being into making their own patterns you to being in DIY in their way through projects

Also, the idea that both of them can do one thing, but not the other is cute

Because not only can they teach each other, but there is in fact, a war between the knitters and the crocheters it is very serious do not confuse the two one of them even has pointy needles to stab you with

Friendly yarn feud sounds fun to write

On the one hand, Harry knowing how to do both is absolutely adorable

God knows that at this point having a crafty hobby is for rich people because they’re the ones with the actual money to spend on supplies and they’re going to be the ones to have the time to actually get shit done

Him making everything under the sun, sweaters/cardigans scarves, hats, gloves, bags/totes

On the other hand, Harry strikes me as a person who possibly makes the gordian knot every time he’s handed yarn and he gets put on a mental list of “never give yarn to this person”

Alternatively, yarn club

You know how there’s like coffee bean gang

It’s that accept with yarn

Because Sara needs to force her neuroses upon everyone else

[flamingo-strikes]

i’m reading a bnha fic right now and i’m just like 😭💀 the writer rewrote Aizawa purposely pairing Deku + Bakugo in the exam and calling them rivals to All Might being an ass and making that decision while Aizawa is apparently frustrated and is the only adult to care about Deku’s bullying

like ummmmm canonically aizawa was the one who made that shitty ass decision and calls deku a problem child 💀