#I'm still torn up about it

[northwest-by-a-train]

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[fisheito]

my princess nonsense is being encouraged watch ouyt imabout to be eneaabled

OK WHATF ATHAT'S SO CUTE I HAD TO MAKE IT i know realistically there's little to no chance that rei DOESN'T know how to work heels 🤣 BUT IMAGINE.....ING.... YAKUMO GENTLY GUIDING REI IN HEELS, WEEKS BEFORE THE BIG GALA AND HAVING NONE OF HIS NORMAL FEAR OF PHYSICAL TOUCH BC HIS [TEACHER MODE] IS OVERRIDING HIS INSECURITY

[thebirdandhersong]

lads it is mostly my fault (was sick, didn't tell healthcare until it was Dire, was sentenced to bed rest for the rest of my time at camp) that I literally can't say goodbye to these 100+ people I've come to love properly before I leave. I'm not permitted to participate in any singing, dancing, communal joy, any event that's remotely fun (that's nearly word for word what they said) here at camp. and I'm leaving EARLY, am still miserably sick, and have a four hour commute back home on top of that, because there's no one available to drive. literally cried my eyes out over everything just now and am This Close to crying my eyes out againnnnn

[whogirl42]

Is it bad that my first thought after total shock seeing that Alicole scene was man, that'll be great to use for Rhaenicent manips?

[sylvies-kablooie]

trying not to be too torn up about it because as far as homophobic microaggressions go, my dad changing the radio station (while being in the passenger seat of MY car) the minute he heard the opening riff to katy perry's "i kissed a girl" is pretty hilarious

[coffeebanana]

Oh my God, Marinette just wants to be happy.

And she gets her silly little date with the boy she loves. They get to be love-sick idiots and they get to dance like fools, and I love them for it. They get to kiss, and for a second she probably thinks it's going to work out. She thinks finally, I love someone who loves me back, and I get to be happy. Then the fantasy shatters. "I'm so fed up that everyone else keeps deciding what's good for me!"

In that moment, the one deciding for her is Chat. But it's also Alya who's been trying to push her back towards Adrien. It's Monarch, who in some ways controls her life almost as much as he does Adrien's. Maybe it's even Fu, because his decisions are the ones that sent her down this path in the first place.

And I'd bet she's probably a little bit mad at herself, too, because deep down she already knew this was a fantasy. She knew she couldn't really let her guard down while Monarch is still at large, but when she fell for Chat she also fell into the idea that she could. Much in the same way Adrien's obsessing over his feelings for her, she latched onto her feelings for Chat because she needed something good in her life. But now she's reminded she can't have it. "Why don't I get to to be happy?" she asks. "Why don't I get to love who I want to?" That to me is the most heartbreaking part of this episode, because it shows how tired she is of everything falling apart. It's that moment where her feelings--her pain, her heartbreak--are too big to understand. It's not fair. She can't do this anymore.

So yeah, it's no wonder she nearly gets akumatized after that.

It's no wonder giving up her Miraculous seems like the only option moving forwards.

Damn it, she just wants to be happy.

[thedreadvampy]

btw about Neil Gaiman I periodically agree with the 'Neil Gaiman is annoying' stuff bc I feel like both he and Amanda Palmer seem like people who I would go insane stuck in a room with bc we have very different ideas about art and suchlike. and I also do think that the career trajectory he's on lately is cynically redoing his greatest hits and pretending that was the dream all along when it clearly was not. which is at best meh.

having said which

as far as I can tell by far the most common complaint about Neil Gaiman is "Snow, Glass, Apples is problematic/gross/it's got incest and rape and frames the child as the aggressor"

which strikes me as a weird complaint to pull out of a 40 year body of work tbh when that short story is pretty clearly coming from a place of 'how far can I push this'. like you don't have to like the story. I don't really like the story. but it is. a horror story.

like and this is the thing with particularly 90s alt horror right? a lot of the interest is in transgression and sitting in the worst possible perspective and seeing what happens if you pull those strings. like I really like Clive Barker for example but there's a good chunk of his short stories that I'm like I'm not picking up what you're putting down Clive this seems Kinda Off. but that willingness to write some trite or Bad Message horror fiction that doesn't land is imo a side effect of being willing to try writing uncomfortable and unpleasant fiction at all. which is what horror is for, among other things, it's for creating discomfort as a form of catharsis or engagement.

like I am not a huge fan of the type of sex-horror that pops up in a lot of Gaiman's work and other contemporary horror writers - to me I don't find it upsetting or horny it just ends up feeling kind of edgy and tryhard - but I'm also a bit like. it does seem like a lot of people's beef with Neil Gaiman is that In The 90s He Was A Horror Writer

and this approach to Problematic Horror in Snow, Glass, Apples I find kind of microcosmic of how The Discourse often approaches art in this kind of 1:1 way. if you write a story which seems to line up with rape apologia it can only be because you agree with it. if you write a story about transphobia you're a transphobe. if you write a story that makes me genuinely uncomfortable you're attacking me.

but artwork, especially art like horror that's not necessarily trying to provoke enjoyment as its main response, is necessarily hit and miss. and if what you're shooting for is discomfort then whether it works, falls flat or goes too far incredibly depends on your audience. and making good art - as in art that makes its audience think, art that opens the audience up to discomfort and catharsis and sticks with them and changes them - requires the space to experiment and tbh the space to fuck up. like they aren't all going to be winners and they certainly aren't all going to work for you as a singular audience.

personally I don't see the appeal of Snow, Glass, Apples, less cause it's nasty and more cause it's hack. ooh an edgy monstrous version of a fairy tale where there's lots of rape and cannibalism? you're soooo original Neil. but like. that's fine. I don't really vibe with like 70% of Neil Gaiman stuff I've read but I still like Neil Gaiman because the stuff that works for me really works for me.

idk I think there's a lot of folk on this website who shouldn't interact with horror cause they clearly aren't interested in being horrified. that's not everyone who dislikes Snow, Glass, Apples, but it's a real undercurrent to a lot of the criticism and tbh this kinda vibe is shit for art. making standout art What Is Good also requires being ready to make art which stands out for the wrong reasons. sometimes they'll be the same art to different people.

[y-rhywbeth2]

Who decided the drow should have so much fucking lore anyway.

('I should've been a drow.' You can't fucking stand Cazador or your 'siblings' you would not fucking want to be a drow. Although I guess Astarion would make a fair Vhaeraunite.)

[riddlerosehearts]

figured out how to edit the game files and combine some mods so i could try out different things with gale's earring because i have a lot of thoughts... also gale's earring should really be positioned lower but i'm having an issue with one of the mods, oh well

[corin-tuckers-left-one]

Such devastating. So grieving. Wow.

[lilrobotman]

Shout out to the IDF for making a "warning" video to the people in Gaza, telling them to move out. Wow how thoughtful of them! Except it's in English and Gaza's internet has been cut off for the last 24 hours! It's almost like this is to save face to Isreal's allies :]

[omgcpausandstuff]

That post about how Shitty must be freaking out when Jack and Bitty come out to him kind of annoys me, because the rest of that update is about how they all already knew. The next update shows that Shitty has known for a week.

The real Kill Bill sirens moment probably happened here:

When he was alone with Jack in his apartment, finally reconnecting after months of feeling insecure in their relationship. He is probably a maelstrom of emotions: joy at two of his best friends finding happiness together, guilt over the ways he's made it harder, curiosity over how it all happened.

And he can't react! He can't really apologize to assuage his guilt, or show his support for his friend. I'm fully convinced he spent the next twenty minutes in the bathroom processing his emotions.

[hide-your-bugs-away]

My first ever issue of Record Mirror has arrived... and ohhhh it couldn't be more of a perfect specimen... 🥹

(Record Mirror, October 10th, 1964)

[esleep]

genuinely belly laughed at a work email today. its over for me. is this what thirty feels like

[feh-alt-battle]

Hi again! I want to say thanks so much for tagging me on the Takumi vs Shinon VS battle poll. Honestly, the polls are really interesting and fun! I also want to make a suggestion, and I'm not sure if you have ever thought of this but:

Have you ever thought about doing an "Original vs. Resplendent" and/or even "Original vs. Fallen" alts?

No problem! Sorry I forgot about yours 😅

As for your suggestion, I'm not quite sure, because I'm not quite sure what the end-goal would be, and it'd basically be a repeat of just the alt polls but now just two instead of all of them. As for the resplendents I think it goes similarly, so probably a pass this time around

[ardate]

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