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[ozzieinspacetime]

Trevor Hills being Pathetic Blorbo #1 and your enjoyment of him being said Pathetic Blorbo #1 just adding on to the games pre-existing meta commentary is,, so good. They made him as miserable as possible and god it really worked.

[lbhslefttiddie]

youve heard of sex flowers get ready for the flower that makes you into a celestial shoujo herione complete with particle effects you cannot turn the fuck off and creates a wifebeam so powerful it can incapacitate and maim and keeps making you burst into tears and fall on your ass which makes the wifebeam More Powerful and you also cannot turn this off either. and is also still, sort of, a sex flower

from one of my favorite fanfictions, Celestial Afterglow by elanor_pam, a fic that defies description in the best possible way

[baihujun]

I was honored to draw the cover and a page illustration for the Nightwing volume of @nightwingzine A beloved hero, and the beloved hero enjoying a soft, peaceful morning for once

[tcfactory]

The Original Goods (New and Improved Edition) and Shen Qingqiu Lite

Inspired by @mysteryteacup's wonderful MoShang fic (go read it, you won't regret it) where they get Shen Jiu back as a MoShang kid by the end, memories included.

Sorry Cucumber bro, in a few more years everyone will know that you can't hold a candle to the OG, but they love you anyway.

[copper-dragon-in-disguise]

Get to know tag

tagged by @sunn-kist!! thanks!!

last song: brooklyn's here from the newsies soundtrack

favourite colour: purple & green!

currently watching: an EXTREMELY unhelpful video on how to measure sleeve length on yourself. I finished the most recent season of doctor who like last week though

spicy, savoury, or sweet: sweet or savory! I have no spice tolerance at all and it's embarrassing, but I really like combining savoury and sweet (plain potato chips on ice cream my beloved)

current obsession: minecraft and sewing

tag 9 people who you want to get to know better (absolutely zero pressure!!): @gr3y-heron @amethyst-aster @ihaveneverhadaclue @another-white-void @liveandletrain @spades1360 @sidebyside-withafriend @chainsaw-raven @hermitcraft-my-beloved

(oh and these are all the prompts in one bit so it's easier to copy & paste)

tagged by; last song; favourite colour; currently watching; spicy, savoury, or sweet; current obsession; tag 9 people who you want to get to know better

[eddiehashands]

robin buckley saying "why are you friends with so many children?" but then becoming friends with so many children herself is something that can be so personal

[fuckyeah-bears]

i genuinely genuinely love when someone sends me an ask on bearotonin telling me about katmai fat bear week

[drivingsideways]

The Matchmakers (2023)- Review

A funny, smart youth fusion sageuk? Rowoon- whom I swear to god I would not have been able to pick out of a lineup of idol actors 2 weeks ago-  making me CRY in the year of our Lord 2024???? You could knock me over with a feather right now. 

Writer Ha Soo-jin and PDs Hwang Seung-gi and Kim Soo-jin did not drop the ball even once over 16 episodes- a true feat in kdrama land. More than the actors, it was the impressive lock-step of the creative/production team that got me in this one. I'm trying to put into words the oddness of it after: apparently I can be persuaded to buy a product (heterosexual romance kdrama version) that I would usually avoid, as long as it crosses a threshold of custom-made-for-me features.  I know I've been had, but it's done with such sly charm and madcap energy that I'm not even the least bit angry about it. 

This isn't to say that the drama isn't thoughtful: it is, very much. In an era when falling birthrates and fascism are making governments across the world decide that women have probably had too much freedom and are actively enacting policies that violate women's fundamental rights over their personhood, The Matchmakers is a tongue-in-cheek response that's deadly serious about its fundamental idea: that women are individuals who will and should act to preserve the sanctity of that gift of life.  

At the start of the series, its main antagonist- Park Ji young in an arresting role and performance- says "If a Nation is a tree with deep roots, then those roots are its WOMEN." Of course, this is a delightful statement on many levels- starting with the sheer brazenness with which the joke that sends up one of the most acclaimed and beloved sageuks is made; it also situates the character in opposition with the morality of Confucian-era Joseon of the series where women were to be kinda, sorta seen and definitely not heard etc. and makes us instantly- in our post-feminist complacence- sympathetic to her. But wait: as the series unravels its many, many, many threads, we begin to see the sleight of hand. For this Strong Woman Character ™  is, after all, preaching an old and well-worn moral code: for the woman, The Family is Everything. Unless you’ve been under a rock for a few years, it might have come to your notice that this Idea ™ is being repackaged and tik-tokified up as neo-conservatism and fascism gains ground once more in our feral capitalist hellscape. The show is full of women who've had to or are making choices for the Family (survival, honour, future)- at the cost of their own happiness and identities because that is their Fate. Even Madam Park, widely acknowledged as the most brilliant mind in Joseon- is not exempt from this; taking- limited- control of a system designed to grind you down doesn’t mean freedom, only fear and eternal vigilance. For me, it was the perfect choice and characterization of the villain that set this show apart from the others of its genre- that told me that it had something to say after all.

That said, I don’t think The Matchmakers is particularly radical or subversive- here’s where the perfect commodification of kdrama and the show’s chosen genre blunts it-terrible things happen in families and to women in particular, yes, but we’re never allowed to contemplate those things too long; we’re being distracted by the next flourish in the shenanigans-filled plot. Heterosexual marriage is reconfigured but never seriously rejected; queer people exist but are not happy. Perhaps it takes a Jeong Seo Kyung (Little Women, 2022) or Lim Dae-hyung/ Jeon Go-woon (LTNS, 2024) to smash that particular barrier- but in its defense, The Matchmakers does what all love stories  set out to do and does it well- which is to reaffirm our belief in Love as the ultimate liberation; both the weapon and balm of our fragile lives. And it does, very firmly, plant its feet on the side of liberating the women who each find their courage to reassert their selves as the most necessary and valuable possession in a society which only sees value in their uteruses.

Tl; dr: watch it for its delightful women, its Wodehouse-ian shenanigans in regency romance/sageuk aesthetic, its quietly moving love story about letting love and life surprise you over and over again, and yeah, I guess you should also watch it for Rowoon being a “disgruntled pelican” as correctly described by @elderflowergin.

[hiwelcometothemonstersancturary]

What does Angel think of The Prototype shrine and getting a first glimpse of the seemingly final obstacle of their long journey? Do they interact with it at all?

I think it’d be cute if, since they find it so scary, they put a little non-sentient Catnap plushie next to or somewhere on it (one they happened to pick up on the way) in order to make it less threatening…not knowing that the shrine to the facade of a God has now become a memory of what once was…and a premonition of what will happily be once again!

I was going to make it so that Angel only sees it more at a distance and we have one scene of them properly interacting with it, but Angel putting a Catnap plushie next to it, foreshadowing how they'll help Prototype and Catnap make amends? SCREAMING.

[bloobluebloo]

WIP Meme

Tagged by @rawliverandcigarettes. I am currently working on my wip so seems like a perfect time to share it. Tagging @hot-flippin-mess @saphoblin @ro-blaze @doomed-era and whoever else is working their butt off on a wip. Share please I wanna see 👀 (but of course you don't HAVE to, I am but a nosy internet butt)

This is the first paragraph of a series I have called "Ganondorf is Annoying".

Rauru had gotten into the habit of inviting Ganondorf to the castle gardens for breakfast on a regular enough basis when he was not preoccupied with other matters. It was one of the few moments that he could be alone with the Gerudo chief, allowing him to observe the man without the impediments that came with the Hyrulean court life. He hoped that, being in relative solitude, he could break Ganondorf's stern demeanour, catch a glimpse of the violent man beneath the silent stoicism he often wore, punctuated with knowing smirks and calculated remarks.  Yet, Ganondorf seemed as unshakable as ever, picking out three lumps of sugar to drop in his tea before taking a sip of it. The king of Hyrule still made it a point to bring the best that Hyrule had to offer in terms of pastries and fruit to the table, even though Ganondorf never partook in it. At least he wasn’t eating all the sugar lumps anymore, after it became clear that the Gerudo chief had simply been trying to get under his skin… He did still put an excessive amount of sugar in his tea, however.  As Rauru sipped on his own tea, ruminating on what he should do to get Ganondorf to drop his calm facade, an idea came to mind. He almost slapped his forehead at how simple it was; how had he not thought of this before?

[grilledcheeseandguavajelly]

I have been seeing a lot of discourse on certain tags lately about fanfiction and writing fics that are “out of character”. And I don’t like conflict, so I was keeping my nose out. But now I’ve seen some things that I just can’t let go, and as the self-proclaimed fandom mom, I feel like I need to step in and state this loud and clear—

Fandom is for you.

The whole point of fanfic and fanart and cosplay and anything fan related is for you, the fan, to take a work that has already been created and have fun with it. Make it your own. Dive in and explore and do what you will. Fandom is meant to be a creative outlet where you can share ideas and art with other people who have the same interests as you.

THAT BEING SAID: it is never. And I repeat, NEVER okay to gatekeep fandom. And yeah, I fucking hate the word gatekeep. But it’s the only way to describe what I’m seeing happening. And so I’m going to use it again—

It is never okay to gatekeep fandom. It is never okay to gatekeep characters. And to throw negativity at anyone’s work, let alone come straight out and tell them that they’re wrong for shaping a character a certain way— I’m sorry, but where do you get off? I am completely understanding of wanting characters to stay true to the source material. I am completely understanding of having your own opinions about/expectations for a character and wanting them to behave a certain way. But YOU, my dear friend (or rather, we), are not the creator of those characters. Which means that we have no right to tell someone else what they can or cannot do with them.

The whole point of fandom is to let your imagination run wild. And if that means that a typically good character leans more evil in a fic, fine. If they make decisions you don’t agree with, great. If they do things that directly contradict what would have happened in the source material, even better!!

LET. PEOPLE. CREATE.

Let them throw characters into crazy situations and analyze how they react. Let them stretch them out like putty and poke at all of the soft bits inside. Let them shape them into something completely other just to see what happens. Let them be curious. Let them explore. Let them have fun.

Fandom should be fun.

And the second one person starts dictating what is right or wrong for a character or a ship, that’s the second it stops being fun. And that’s when fandoms die.

Don’t gatekeep something that doesn’t belong to you. Because again— It doesn’t belong to you.

You are allowed to have your own opinions. You are allowed to have your own expectations for characters. But who do you think you are, to flat out tell someone (or a group of people) that the way they write someone is wrong? That the way they have imagined something is wrong? That their creativity, their expression, their joy, is wrong? Or, as I’ve seen more recently, when someone gets dejected by the posts you’ve made telling them they’re creating wrong, you have the audacity to tell them “that’s okay, now that you know you did something I don’t like, you can reevaluate your work and try to improve!”

How dare you.

Because once again, I hate to break it to you, but you’re not the creator of these characters. And I’m going to go out on a limb and say that the actual creator is probably just so happy to see the diversity of idea that has sprung from their creation. So who do you think you are, to dictate an entire fandom?

If you don’t like it, move along. Click out of the fic, find something else to read. I understand having frustrations when things don’t go as you’d hoped, when a piece of work that you were excited about crosses those outer lines of your expectations and you feel disappointed. Again. But you know what? That’s your expectation. What about the person halfway across the world who reads the same fic and finds themselves in it? Finds a small piece of comfort that encourages them to hold on for just one more day. What happens when your words completely discourage the creators of your fandom, have them second guessing themselves? What happens when they lose confidence and stop creating completely? What happens when the fandom dies, and suddenly there’s nothing new to explore— to your standards or not?

You are allowed to have your opinions. Of course you are. You are allowed to express them. But you are never. EVER. allowed to tell people that they are wrong for making art that you don’t agree with. For using their imagination in a way that doesn’t fit into your small box of approval.

Let creators find happiness.

Let creators create.

[fernsensei]

I am so curious! do you have any headcanons for gabe/v2?

oh! hm. i guess one of the things that i have in mind is that v2 tries its best to be as sweet as possible. and, since it IS a war-killing-machine, it does not quite understand what does sweetness means. it leans for kisses, bumping in gabriels helmet's gently on good days, and hitting him with all its might breaking its visor on bad day. maybe it tries to hold hands but does not know the force that it is putting into it leading to break the poor gabriel's hand. it tries not to be the killing machine like v1 is, really does. gabriel is not very fond of all this affection and is very suspicious of v2 but sometimes its warm motherplate and droning sounds just gets him, yknow. besides, it seems like v2 is the only thing in the whole damn world who understands his hatred towards v1

ON THE OTHER HAND the idea of v2 being like "i know NOTHING about this angel bitch and i want to keep it that way" speaks to me very loud. you know the idea of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" and then having some warm feelings towards gabriel for unknown reasons... UHGAHHHH THRES SO MUCH POTENTIAL!!!!!!!!!

my point is, we were fucking robbed. i rest my case

[seventies70s]

Reyner Reyner Reyner

[merriclo]

linked universe modern au where they’re a landscaping company. those guys r so good at cutting grass.

[vonlipvig]

woke up from a dream where i was back in school and they wanted us to make ads for various products, so i was doing the whole mad men thing thinking ideas and concepts and everything and everyone in my group kept ignoring me. Bad.

[freeasfishes]

Apparently there's drama in the Newsies fandom but I swear to god if somebody tries to explain it to me I'm just walking right into the river and never coming out. I refuse to care about fandom drama ever again I will bake myself into a pie and feed myself to the dogs before I care. BYE.