#It’s kind of incoherent

[determinate-negation]

another news article from a nepo baby about the alleged terrifying “antisemitic” atmosphere and perils of supporting israel at the most elite and expensive private schools in the country that cater to the every whim of the children of the bourgeoisie and petit bourgeoisie lol

[arcane-gold]

my pookie bear <3333

[your-royal-momoness]

Zuko, hungover: please tell me I’m imagining that I claimed I was the king of all the turtleducks

Sokka: I would, but then I’d be lying to the King of All Turtleducks

[suncaptor]

Like I think Feferi and Vriska are SUCH good contrasts of both people who fundamentally want to be strong markers of change and good while growing up in a fundamentally violent society. I also think they clash about it as well, why Vriska is one of the few people to bristle about Feferi.

Because like. Vriska is completely consumed by the violence and strength and markers of heroism. She is not lacking of empathy or desire for good, and she genuinely seems to resent not having another way to achieve these well set desires inside her. She is also incredibly abusive and violent, and these traits have been forced into her. If she did not kill as a young child, she would die. Feferi on the other hand needed to engage in violence too in order to prevent mass death, but she did not and instead that fell onto Eridan, in part because him & Vriska did take that responsibility up, but also because she cannot stand the violence. Vriska is also groomed into violence again which leads her to the killing her friend. It absolutely devastates her, and it was NOT her first impulse. She just wanted to hide when Aradia tried to get her back with ghosts. Vriska is incredibly sensitive, incredibly full of guilt, and is utterly in conflict with her role in the world she grew up in. Even if that doesn't dispel the incredible violence she entertains. She wants to change things, but she is trapped in the rules of how things are.

Feferi on the other hand is specifically put in a place where violence is expected of her, but she does get out of the demands. She wants to change the way her society works, and she's got enough privilege to entertain a world she is not placed as some complete victim of. She hates the violence around her, and she has this entire colonising violent galactic empire on her shoulders. But she also does not hesitate to be willing to kill one of her old best friends. She does not hesitate to cut things off with him as his moirail when she doesn't need him anymore either. She has an instinctual capacity for violence she refuses to entertain, but it does exist within her. She is not made of the same sensitivity and empathy, and this often makes those sort of things tricky for her. But it doesn't stop her deep desire for actual real change to make her society better. She wants to be sweet. She has had the opportunity to know kindness, and that's what she wants to make of things. She's too privileged to completely understand, but she knows what is happening is wrong, and she wants to change the rules of how things work.

And they're both so very young too. These things inside of them and ingrained into them are in some vacuum of traumatised youth circumstances to high stakes in the game. Being a kid and growing up is hard and no one understands. Especially when you die before you get the chance.

[awsok]

shin hati — season one character study

introduction in the odyssey, emily wilson / ahsoka, 'master and apprentice' / ahsoka, 'fallen jedi' / so we must meet apart, gabrielle bates & jennifer s. cheng / ahsoka, 'far far away' / between dog and wolf, rené-xavier prinet / ahsoka, 'far far away' / ahsoka, 'dreams and madness' / ahsoka, 'dreams and madness' / camp damascus, chuck tingle / ahsoka, 'the jedi the witch and the warlord' / the sun is also a star, nicola yoon

[egophiliac]

We ARE going to bring up Captain Amelia. You have good taste! GOOD TASTE I SAY! *aka I just rewatched Treasure Planet and got hit with, "Oh yeahhhhh... that explains a lot!"*

honestly, the Meg/Jasmine/Amelia trifecta tells you 90% about me as a person. (the rest is covered by Sailor Jupiter and Sailor Uranus and, uhhh, I'll stop baring my soul to the world now)

and speaking of Amelia, this is tangential, but like -- there's one Twst comic I have been kicking at for a while where I needed an RSA sports/flight teacher and, uh, well

someday I will wrangle this stupid comic into coherency and she'll get to make an appearance (in the background of a single panel, half-obscured by a tall hat) (but I will know she's there and that's the important thing)

[bloodraven55]

as someone who’s struggled with the exact same flaw i really like how falin’s tendency to be too people pleasing and in most cases conflict/harm avoidant even to a detrimental extent is actually treated as something unhealthy for both her and others that she needs to work through

tho i also appreciate there being exceptions e.g. her not caring about hurting others to save laios or marcille/considering accepting toshiro’s proposal despite not being in love with him bc it makes her more realistic and well-rounded than a lot of characters in that archetype

and honestly i don’t get the take that falin’s a flat or uninteresting character when there’s a lot to be said on how her presence and agency being removed by death or chimerafication reflects the lack of a true sense of self which her happy ending is finally getting to discover

like maybe i’m just projecting with that angle but regardless for me it’s just like…….. yes she serves as a plot device however so do many or even most characters in stories to some extent and it isn’t inherently a bad thing nor does it automatically make them one-dimensional

[seriousbrat]

this says a lot about Snape's character development for me. There are many parallels drawn throughout the series between Harry and Snape; obviously, they're very different characters but there are similarities too.

I think here Snape is talking about himself. The teenaged Snape we see in the Pensieve is very much like this- emotional, heart on his sleeve, easily provoked, a definite wallower in sad memories... weak. Adult Snape, though he retains some of these characteristics that do emerge in stressful moments (in PoA we see how angrily he reacts to Sirius's escape, for instance) on the whole is a great deal more thoughtful, reserved, calculating, measured.

I think that Snape at some point had to force himself to become this. I think he actually relates to Harry here, and is giving him advice based on personal experience. In my fic he begins to learn to control his emotions partially out of a desire to protect Lily; he's fully aware that she's his weakness (or really, his strength, viewed a different way) and that openly displaying any sort of emotion towards her at all makes her vulnerable to the likes of Avery and Mulciber, who will have the perfect weapon to get to him if they want to.

Severus doesn't have the advantages of his peers, he's not pureblood, he wasn't born into money. If he wants to join the Death Eaters and rise in their ranks, he needs to be subtle, cunning, careful. he can't afford to be careless and entitled like mulciber or bellatrix or even sirius. what he's got to offer isn't his name or his money, it's his sheer talent and cleverness. moving on:

When Voldemort decides to go after Lily this becomes even more important. Imo the reason why Voldemort believes that Snape only "desired" Lily is because that's what Snape told him. He lied to Voldemort's face and told him something probably disgusting tbh because that's the only way Voldemort would accept it and agree, if it was a selfish, callous request that Voldemort could understand. We can see evidence of this here:

Asking Voldemort to spare a mudblood because he was in love with her would likely not have gone over well- and as we know, Voldemort actually bore his request in mind, though obv didn't give enough of a fuck about Snape to follow through. Because although asking voldemort to spare her must have taken serious balls, Snape's mistake here was trusting someone inherently selfish to do something selfless for him.

Clearly he immediately realises this and goes to Dumbledore, which is when controlling his emotions becomes of paramount importance, because now he's working against perhaps the most highly accomplished legilimens of all time.

It's also interesting to me that Snape in this conversation is probably the character who is most forthright and informative with Harry in the whole of OotP until Dumbledore at the end; Harry actually learns a lot in this conversation. And Snape also kind of gives him credit which is interesting too:

like for Snape that's high praise lmao. A shame because if he wasn't so bitter (i.e. didn't wear his heart on his sleeve so much around harry) then he might have actually been pretty helpful to Harry and a decent teacher. Again, during the Occlumency lessons his unrestrained emotion brought up by memories of James is a hindrance. He defies Dumbledore's orders to teach Harry Occlumency because of his emotional response to SWM, as well as honestly doing kind of a shit job before that (by not being empathetic and teaching Harry in a way that would've been actually productive.)

At this point Dumbledore believes that Harry learning Occlumency and controlling his emotions is of vital importance; he turns out to be wrong about this. In Harry's case, it turns out to be his emotional nature that saves him- unlike Snape, who is the opposite. Snape's journey is about learning that some things are more important than his selfish need to give into his own emotions.

By DH Snape's learned this lesson fully; his old hatred for James doesn't stop him from doing what has to be done, from giving Harry the tools he needs. Even in the final moments of his life, he can look past James and see Lily in Harry- and, by giving Harry the information that leads to his self-sacrifice, he can let her go.

[sualne]

having a normal one with poems again.

[novakiart]

ok gang. I've got one foot in the spideypool door again. who wants to tempt me the rest of the way

[izel-scribbles]

ohhh i get it. so it will come back is jarthur from john's pov and francesca is from arthur's pov

[jokerlennon]

the thing about head is if you don't know anything at all it's an hour and a half of entertaining psychedelic nonsense good music and a kind of fucked up ending. also if you aren't blind and are aware of history there's also quite a bit of political commentary naturally. but if you know monkees history in particular it quickly becomes an absurd existential horror movie and by quickly i mean within the first few minutes when the first song references the real life career of the semi-fictional guy whose suicide the song is about . a movie for everyone except maybe the monkees tv show original core audience ❤️

[unproduciblesmackdown]

imagine...

...that some things have changed (including some marigold ventures?) and Atlas May is like uh oh both lackadaisy & i are doomed, but if i set up my own death maybe only i'll be doomed and lackadaisy might have to shutter but perhaps more so on involved people's terms, such as mitzi being fine financially, but also if she thinks it's her fault that'll be good for maintaining my posthumous Image to her, perhaps she did some defrauding again? and i'll have mordecai, my trusted & effective gunman, be the one to fatally shoot me, & of course he doesn't want to, but it's Mere Work Ethic time, what's he gonna do besides argue at all maybe, ultimately refuse? (no) and he may hate it but he's not going to want to fully turn on mitzi or anything after because then what would have been the point

[suncaptor]

I think one thing about Eridan that is underrated is how his quadrants are dependent on his job as orphaner. like the reason why they fall apart when the game starts isn't because he changed, but because of how he wasn't as needed anymore. what he can do for others via violence is how he obtains closeness.

[scarycranegame]

thinking about. transfems. and trans girls. and how cool they are.. literally if you're a tgirl or girl-adjacent transgender person i want you to know that. you are so wonderful and beautiful and kind and talented.. we need you on this site now more than ever, and im so sorry about literally everything that's happened here. none of you deserve to be treated like this; you deserve so much better, and i'm sincerely hoping that other people (especially people with power to instate significant change that affects a lot of people) will understand this and work towards making this a safer platform for all of you. please don't let anything that's happening right now on this literal hellsite make you think that you're any less than amazing; i love all of you so so so much <333 please stay safe out there!!!

[tokutaiseichan]

'Tis the day I first cursed this world so of course!! I go around and let the anime boys celebrate it with me >:33

(Spoiler warning for player birthday lines from: Tohma, Luca, Kaito, Taiga, Romeo, Ritsu, Subaru, Ed, Yuri, and Jiro! DON'T CLICK READ MORE IF YOU WANT TO KEEP IT A SURPRISE FOR YOURSELF!!)

Thank you, Luca~ You're so sweet. You're probably the only one who can earnestly say that in this academy...

You never disappoints, Kaito. Nothing less from my bestie 🫶 Thank you! Don't worry, you're still cool in my eyes!

I feel like being congratulated by a teacher or an older relative.... Thank you, Ritsu.

Please don't turn my birthday into my death anniversary, Isami-san................

Me? Reserved? Hahaha, not at all! ^_^ By the way.... the gift is safe, right? Ishibashi-san??

M-my room?! Jiro-kun, I think it's too early for that一huh? You're going to prepare some relaxing tea for me? O-oh! Thank you...

Okay, can you stop texting me with the ojisan syntax? It's kinda hard to read your text, Edo-san.......

Subaru-san............ Telling me that is okay but telling that to the Honor Student feels kind of cruel...........

IS THAT REALLY FINE, BAMI-PAISEN??? Okay, can I pleaseeeee have the torture machine? I prommy I won't do anything bad with it! ^_^ Oh, Happy Bami Day to you too, btw~

Thank you for using your precious, precious time to celebrate my day, Fico!!! I love y一eh, I'm being annoying?! NOO DON'T GO YET, FICO!!!! 😭

CONTINUED IN REBLOG BC I HIT THE PIC LIMIT!!