#wondering pondering and thinking

[micahthemag3]

I wonder if when Jay Ferin was a little girl she wanted to be a navy soldier like her big sister. I wonder if her father wanted her to be one too, to continue their family’s legacy.

I wonder if that ever changed, if when she lost her sister she wanted to join the navy to take down those pirates that killed her, or alternatively she took the warning of Ava’s death as a call not to follow her footsteps. I wonder if her joining the navy was the last thing her father wanted anymore.

I wonder how long it took for Jay to notice the Navy’s faults. I wonder when she and Kira promised to change it from the inside.

I wonder if Kira looked up to Ava too, if she was almost their third sister when they were younger. I wonder if when Ava died, Kira could see Jay changing. I wonder if they talked as much as they would have as little girls leading up to Jay joining Chip.

I wonder if Kira training to be a Captain put distance between them, if Jay was afraid she’d lose her too. I wonder if they fought about the good of the navy, Kira believing they could change while Jay slowly lost faith in them.

I wonder if Jay has the heart to resent the Navy even now, even knowing they may be responsible for Ava’s death despite all she’s been told. Maybe she regrets not becoming a captain like Kira, instead having to justify her new life to her own family.

I wonder if Jay wishes she’d stayed with her mother to be there for her as her health declined. I wonder if she considered leaving Chip and Gillion once she found out, even now she’s tied to her crew.

I wonder if Jay had left with the Navy (like Condi considered leading her to do), if she would’ve joined them. If she would’ve fought beside Kira and her father and crossed paths with Gillion and Chip again. I wonder if she’d be unable to pick sides again, or if she’d be so stuck in place she couldn’t go back.

I wonder if Ava ever snuck off to meet Lizzie in Featherbrook, if Jay might’ve noticed a slight giddiness as she disappeared to a quieter side of the island.

I wonder if Jay hates Lizzie or not now, if she’s upset with her for not telling her about her relationship with her sister, but also Ava for not telling her about Lizzie. I wonder if she hates her for loving her sister and keeping her away from home longer.

Jay is such a cool underrated character I need to THINK ABOUT HER MORE!!!

[04-entj-gryffindor]

[thebctman]

MAJOR SPOILERS FOR SUPERMAN

I actually think the change regarding Superman’s parents is pretty interesting. As time moves forward, more and more stories have the House of El and Krypton itself be more evil and more colonizing.

And honestly, it’s not a horrible choice and it still works well with Clark’s story of being an immigrant. Krypton is a shitty place, and that is undeniable. It is why the planet died and it why Krypton is given a bad rep in the comics.

Krypton was destroyed through generations of work and it died through its actions. My Adventures with Superman actually highlighted this in such an interesting way as well.

On a personal note, often a lot of immigrants leave their homes because they have to leave because the values that are within its government or just in its surrounding are just not good. And that creates a deep feeling of alienation in young immigrants or immigrants’ children.

And it is the shittiest feeling on Earth because that doesn’t mean you won’t miss them. In fact, you’re going to grieve it everyday. You will miss a language you can’t understand, the smell of a culture’s food and the feeling of belonging that settles right into your bones.

You will spend the rest of your life missing a place that cannot welcome you back. And you will spend your life wondering what your life could’ve been if just somethings were just different.

We tend to grasp onto the little things we have left and make a whole idealized image around it until we learn the reality of our first home. It’s a brutal and often difficult process that leaves a person adrift and stranded in their grief.

Often immigrants and especially their children/first generation have to reckon with that and that is what this movie highlights.

The movie highlights that and that immigrants and first generation are often judged on our ancestry rather than our actions.

People see Clark as an outsider due to his blood. That no matter what he does, what he says, he will perpetually be a foreigner in the house that raised him, and he will spend his life trying to change that. It will break him but he will get up back, and he chooses to do so above all. He chooses to believe in people’s capacity for love rather than hate.

It also highlights how even though we can come from shitty places, we can still be good. We are not defined by generalization, we are not defined by the actions of the past but our own actions. We take in the beliefs of the people around us and that is reflected by Clark.

Clark Kent is Superman because of the Kents, not because of anything Jor-El did.

[paper-bag-arts]

something abt mclennon and reflections

[chimerafeathers]

i love that isafrin can be the most straightforwardly romancey, wholesome pairing on a surface level and then you go one (1) level deeper and run into siffrin’s seething guilt and convoluted feelings around touch and intimacy and the extent to which they want or don’t want those things in a specifically romantic way or if he was trying to seek connection and love in any way he could once he knew that Isabeau wanted those things from him in that context, and the combined power trip/self disgust at “manipulating” Isabeau’s desires without his knowledge to make themself feel wanted and in control. and then you keep going and there’s also Isabeau’s own warped self image (still, in spite of all his changes, fearing that he’s someone that would be shameful to know), his “emotionally stable pillar” role and self-taught therapy talk masking his deep fears of real confrontation (struggling loop after loop to confess, not wanting Odile to confront Siffrin about their weird behavior in the sus quest bathroom talk) and how Siffrin’s fear of vulnerability and Isabeau’s fear of Pushing Too Hard allow both of their issues to fester unspoken long after it’s clear that the problems exist.

all this to say. duality of isafrin. makes my heart full and warm and happy to see the sweet, fluffy, silly love and connection between them (mutually romantic or otherwise). and then also. the delicious, delicious complications. gnawing on them like a dog with a beloved bone

[osteochondraldefect]

"Your pet on Earth"

cell shadingless + lines version :] and fun fact, originally i wanted to caption this with "IT HIT THE SLAY BUTTON, FLEW THE MOTHERSTROID INTO THE EARTH AND CAUSED THE SECOND CUNTACLYSM but a part of me decided against that

[hana-bobo-finch]

i love making low effort shitposts instead of properly explaining my oc’s lore 🥰🥰

[cyanbeetle]

I love her for her nefarious and tragic demeanour

[greenleaf4stuff]

TROP x tumblr text posts (screenshots via cap-that.com) (my other trop memes)

[tvpsychics]

[pounding on the bus windows] please does anyone remember the young justice 80 page giant 1890s vampire hunters au does anyone remember please pl[i am taken away]

[fivedayslater]

The thing is I love cute women with a strong moral core who love to learn about the world around them and make it a better place. I also love beautiful women who are selfish and only think of themselves and reject motherhood. I contain multitudes. I am being well fed this chapter.

[lady-lazarus-13]

okay so I don't give a shit about baseball so I completely forgot about MLB's see-through pants issue. I guess in the last 2 years the uniforms are revealing every nook, cranny, and crack the Lord gave those players as they run around.

So my first thought was...what if this issue remains for as long as we keep playing baseball?

And my second thought and most important: are these the future games Sisko is rewatching in the holosuites????? The period accurate uniforms they wore in Take Me Out to the Holosuite actually see through pants??????

[thebirdandhersong]

I am ridiculously happy right now! I shan't say why. but I AM. despite the lingering sickness, fatigue, schoolwork, etc. etc. etc. there are a lot of beautiful blessings and this new one is simply unexpected

[greyishunicorn]

[transingthoseformers]

I think that pre-war / the war is different au overtarn could be so so juicy, but I'm not sure the world is ready for that just yet /j /lh

[meowrimo]

good morning and happy fridayayayayyyyy !!!! it’s pretty much the weekend and i’m supa excited (ㅅ´ ˘ `) ! i hope everyone has a good day and you find something that makes ya smile ^_^ 🤍

aren’t they sweet ( ྀི o̴̶̷᷄ o̴̶̷̥᷅ ) . . ෆ