#How she's pleading

[rapturousrot]

Moderato Cantabile (1960) dir. Peter Brook

[nat-20s]

[ottoslab]

Are kids still talking about those spiders

[movedtodykedvonte]

The idea that GolBetty is all seeing and inter dimensional and keeping Simon from becoming Ice King again is so *chefs kiss*

It hurts them both: Betty having to watch Simon trying to ruin himself again so he doesn’t have to deal with all the complex feeling of being without her. Simon having the guilt of preferring madness to his mundanity even though she sacrificed her complete humanity for him.

It’s a story of star crossed lovers trapped within Ouroboros and it’s beautifully eternal.

[anna-scribbles]

do you think émilie agreste knew, on the day she became too weak to leave that house, that she never would again

[naldoaxii]

[tarucore]

I’m going to hold your hand when I say this but some of you need to realize that if Devin Grayson used racist stereotypes in Nightwing 1996 writing Dick and Yoska then she was also using racist stereotypes writing Catalina Flores

the concept of an aggressive, sexually predatory Latina is not new, it’s not original, and frankly it’s tiring to see be repeated

acting like the way Catalina was/is portrayed in canon/fanworks is totally divorced from her ethnicity is how we get fics where Dick is triggered by hearing someone speak spanish (not even the specific pet names that Cat used, just spanish in general??!)

and I like Catalina as an antagonist, at least a secondary one, I think the Blockbuster arc has held up well compared to some other runs, I think that Devin is a decent writer with pretty good pacing for comic books which I can appreciate, and shockingly, I’m fine with the rape taking place in canon and the aftermath, as I know that the run was cut short (I’m a dead-dove fan and I’ve always liked any kind of whump, I can see why others don’t though and I understand that)

I also think that fanwriters need to be aware of bigoted source material, and that they don’t need to exacerbate these problems by flattening Catalina into a hypersexual, “crazy Latina” caricature which Devin even didn’t fully do in her run

I promise guys, there is a way to write her that doesn’t lean into stereotypes but still has her doing a terrible thing, I pinky swear

[griancraft]

I'm struggling to word this but I'm finally ready to talk about it and I want people to listen.

I've noticed a type of racism in leftist communities I don't see talked about a lot. I am Quarter Japanese and I am visibly mixed, but a lot of leftists see "quarter" and assume that I don't have the right to an opinion on issues that effect me. The sentiment I've gotten from mostly white leftists is that I'm not "POC enough" for a lot of discussions.

There's this weird thing in a lot of leftist spaces where your appearance and percentage, not your experiences based on your race, are considered above all.

Meanwhile, in reality, all aspects of my identity are affected by my race and my family's experience with Japanese internment. An event which stripped them of any wealth they had acquired since moving to Canada over 50 years before the war.

An event that cause the intermarriage rate of Japanese-canadians and white Canadians to be over 90 percent post internment because we viewed proximity to whiteness as safety. An event which left them in severe poverty until my dad and aunt worked their asses off to get a degree. The generational trauma goes so deep my dad didn't want me transitioning because he was worried about what the government would do to me.

Because of my race I experienced negligence from authority figures related to pretty severe racially based bullying at 12. That negligence could have killed me. I've had to deal with microaggressions and straight up racism related to my last name on multiple occasions.

One time I was out with a friend and he grabbed my arm tight and dragged me to walk faster. A man wearing a white lives matter T-shirt was standing in the middle of the path looking directly at me when I turned around.

I'm pretty sure this wasn't based on me being feminine and goth that day, I live in a city with a decent amount of people in alt subculture and my friend was way more gothed up and queer than me. I was barely passing as a guy at that point so it wasn't because I was a man in a dress. I know this is a weaker point, but it made me realize just how unsafe I am in my own community even though I'm a mixed person in a heavily multicultural city.

Obviously, this isn't on the scale of someone who is less white passing than me and/or has more compounding marginalizations. However I've found that the fact I'm mixed race has been used against me to devalue my experience and knowledge regarding what it's like to be a POC in Canada.

I can assure you I am aware of how bad it is, and I am aware of how good I have it. I also want you to be aware that it's not all sunshine rainbows and bunny farts to be more white, it doesn't make the racism go away. It often just makes it more covert and easy to explain away because I'm "not really Japanese"

[gotticalavera]

Zuko carrying Kiyi: Girl, you're heavy. You're gonna break my back.

Kiyi: I thought Aang did that last night.

Azula: HA-HA!!!

[marvels-meme]

[kazanfamily]

Starting a masterlist of ships who I always saw as sibling dynamics until I shockingly realized that the fandom shipped them romantically, and then they proceeded to become pretty much or actually canon

Sincerely, a hopeless panromantic who loves shipping but is still sick of amatonormativity in media.

-Migi

Ed and Winry - Fullmetal Alchemist

Yuu and Mika - Owari no Seraph

Catra and Adora - She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

Eren and Mikasa - Attack on Titan

[lyretiger]

New 2" stickers on my shop!

🛍️BigCartel Shop

[hoss-bonaventure]

i think it’s so ridiculous how they basically coded trevor and mike’s relationship to be like they’re scorned lovers of sorts and have harvey act like capulet-ian about their relationship ONLY to have him end up with jenny like wtf is that about???

[dirtytransmasc]

Alicent, exhausted, being forced to present her son to Viserys, panic in her eyes, hoping he is good enough for her husband:

[mylordshesacactus]

I maintain that the ultimate vengeance against Delilah would be for Imogen to, with great precision, take the exact replicable memory of Delilah’s specific psychic interplanar Sending contact information

and give it to Jester Lavorre.

[sylvies-kablooie]

sylvie screaming as she blasts magic into loki on the ferris wheel. how her shoulder slams into the door when his magic hits her, her emotions running too high to fight back properly the way she has for centuries. her machete shaking as she clenches and unclenches her fist, her voice shaking as she says this is all very familiar, isn’t it. taking steps forward and backward. she cannot let herself stay still, it is all too much, to be rehashing the same fight that drove her and loki apart from her life’s mission. the desperation in i can’t let him live. you think i want to kill him? she asks. you think it brings me pleasure? after her knees buckled underneath her when she killed He Who Remains the first time, after she realized it wasn’t going to ease the pain, why would he think she wants to do it all over again? she sticks by her moral compass as long as she can, doing what she swore she had to in order to ensure the world would have the free will she was denied, until she can’t. until she sees victor begging for his life, begging for a chance to become someone the timeline didn’t decree. and in that she sees herself, her tiny body being grabbed by ravonna and thrown into the TVA, for a crime she has yet to commit. only then can sylvie back away from her single-minded purpose that has kept her burning for so long, and she doesn’t trust herself not to change her mind. it was tactical to say get him away, because at any moment she might realize the gravity of abandoning her life’s work and change her mind. don’t make me regret this is her final warning to loki, who doesn’t bother trying to persuade her to come with him after seeing how firmly she claims to want nothing to do with him. one last lingering look between them.