#SurfaceLevel

[masonhasbean]

This has probably been said and I've never had an original thought in my life but William Wisp losing feeling in his fingers FIRST above all else is really important to me, actually.

SPOILERS FOR S2 EPISODE 15 AND UP=

The discoloration and loss of sensation in Wills hands begin at the place people use to feel most things. I can imagine having full feeling in your limbs as a hero is very important as to not lose them in battle. Ontop of probably being inconvenient to Will, it also kinda.. reflects his mindset on hero society a bit?

To Cantrip he says his hands are beginning to numb right before an arc where in a way looses touch with the world around him and his role as a Prime Defender. The greyscale arc, or as I like to call it the 'fuck you David Bell' arc lol. His views on the work they do and the people that surround them has been slowly deteriorating, just like his hands. Will litterally asks Cantrip about her views on things are run moments before she asks him "What are you?"

Then comes his: "I've been feeling less recently" Which I don't think specifically only refers to his hands but like.. they're talking about burns because of Jade's devices so yk.

The very person he tells this to however, later dies because of him as a result of him 'loosing touch' and his view of things washing into greyscale.

[isabelopaque]

the sunny s7 finale makes me so crazy because its such an interesting delve into every characters thoughts about themself but specifically the way it portrays charlie and mac makes me so unwell. aside from the kid nicknames, and the teasing, and the always being together in the episode, the moment that really gets to me is not nearly the most emotional from the eps. its the scene where adriano is handing the marker to charlie to make fun of him and theres this immediate sense of urgency from mac that wasnt there before. because "theyre adults charlie" theyre safe from this crap now. and in the script of mac running over before charlie even was supposed to smell it like jesus christ. mac looking at adriano with such a genuine anger when he says charlie doesn't have to, almost threatening in his stance before adriano makes fun of him too. the childhood devotion and loyalty is so clear, more than usual, and it makes me so crazy. you can so clearly envision these two in this exact scenario as helpless kids. they were each others escape from the world and first unconditional loving friendship and in that moment you cant help but picture two scared little boys holding hands in the school yard. it really solidifies them holding onto those pieces of still being just ronnie and dirtgrub, small and dirty and hiding from the world together

[sunsetconcert]

anyone who thinks ranma 1/2 is about martial arts is stupid

ranma is a martial arts series in the same way that 100GF is a harem series - as in, the surfacelevel genre is just a framework the author can abuse to do stupid gag comedy in. the actual genre of ranma is comedy/romance/drama and everything else is built to support that.

literally 80% of ranma 1/2 is about characters being irredeemably stupid. ranma will meet a guy who dresses like woody from toy story who practices Martial Arts Cowboy Tricks and he will see this guy do a cool rope trick and the FIRST THING IN RANMA'S HEAD will be: "This man is clearly aiming to seduce Akane. She won't be able to help herself. Nobody can resist the allure of a cowboy doing cool rope tricks. I must defeat him in the ring of honour to ensure that Akane doesn't leave me behind forever for this Obviously More Attractive Man." and then he will put on a big ten gallon hat that everyone makes fun of him for.

and if you treat that at all seriously then youve missed the point as to why ranma is a gag series

[you2018]

ignore that this is literally a letterboxd ad but this shot in the substance really does go crazy i thought the same thing on monday. the way elisabeth and sue are the exact same here in their opposing wasys... (entirely surfacelevel observations but i dont care to elaborate further)

[desiretooinspire]

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[moreweightplease]

playing 1000xresist and i was trying to NOT make surfacelevel comparisons to Everything Everywhere All At Once but COME ON MAN

[pirata-jack]

I have to assume that the pmoon writers have thought about both heathcliff and ishmael alot and came to the same conclusion you did where heathcliff sees himself in ishmael but ishmael doesnt see anything in heathcliff that isnt surfacelevel, hence why ishmael has barely anything to say in canto 6. She sees him as an aloof braggart at first and maybe she notices how empathetic he is after canto 6 or maybe she doesnt. Even if she did it wouldn't change anything between them aside from a respect she has for how heathcliff does things but they arent practices she would adopt for herself. The most they would ever be is maybe friends but most likely just coworkers.

I'm going mad actually

Born from twitter discourse, here’s my analysis on the fandom’s interpretation of Heathmael, one because it's all over my feed which ... Ugh, but secondly, the fact that none of the sides state all things clearly and it just ends up being a bunch of misconception regarding the ship.

Let it be said that, in all honesty, I find this drama really annoying because I genuinely do dislike the ship overall in retrospect, buuuut to contextualize, this was all born from the post "ship so ass you have to mischaracterize the characters for it to work" and somebody mentioned Heathmael. And obviously a lot of people found that baffling, but is it true?

I feel it's a big... depends, because when they are shipped the overwhelming majority of people who ship them mischaracterize them to the point where it's very obvious that they don't ship them because they find their narrative foil appealing or that they comprehend why their relationship (narratively speaking) works or why are they written the way they are. Or if they value Ishmael as a character more than they value eye candy and a male character they can insert onto.

Rather you will normally find the typical characterization of “haters to lovers” that pushes this tsundere agenda in Ishmael which forcefully feminizes her and characterizes Heathcliff as some type of bad boy which lmao wtf.

This ship is extremely debated, compared to other straight ships in the fandom, and even though it's objectively a decent straight ship narratively speaking, most of the people who ship it are well... I hope it comes through which specific people I'm talking about.

People who frame it as Ishmael finally puts down that "bitch" attitude to warm up to Heathcliff which is just... Not only extremely stupid, but is clearly ooc for both Ishmael and Heathcliff, and Heathcliff can finally find an alternative of Catherine framing Ishmael as something Heathcliff gets.

They project their own desires on Heathcliff and treat Ishmael like the woman in the straight relationship that just ends up with this ass dynamic that enforces all that is wrong with traditional straight relationships which is a big disservice to what is actually going on with their relationship in canon.

Not only because it misses the point entirely and makes the environment around the ship extremely dislikeable and impossible for people to even like because of it, but also because it hurts to watch these two characters who individually are so much more and so deep and interesting be reduced to this dynamic that butchers them.

But in essence, their dynamic, if interpreted correctly and without any of the brain rot bullshit they are normally shipped on behalf of, is actually really really compelling, does it mean it's shippy? I feel that it just really... depends. I feel that I could only ship it if it's this very specific version I've analyzed in my head and that is not a traditional view on shipping, and is in a very thin line between platonic and leaning on angsty that overall is more a character analysis than actual shipping, but all in all not necessarily with them falling in love.

Which makes it really hard for me to enjoy it and I would need for them to be tackled with extreme sensibility and consideration of both of them to be able to work, but all in all I feel is both valid why people dislike it and even ones who say it is kinda bad, after all it is mostly filled with fics and fanart that clearly put in evidence just what kind of people who engage in their ship actually are which well makes some people who appreciate their characters not like it. If you ship them and aren't like this well (if the shoe doesn't fit… don't put that shoe on then).

But, I suppose it's also valid to ship them. I mean as much as I hate to admit it, it's not like there isn't anything between them in the game.

But I also feel however that even if you dislike it, it isn't really a bad ship, nor is it inconceivable, after all they are narrative foils and they end up a little better after because of each other.

However I wanna discuss that, it is important to note that a lot of the reasons I dislike the ship, is because of this inexistent triangle they do between Heathcliff, Catherine and Ishmael which is just... So petty and stupid.

To make Ishmael's and Heathcliff's relationship look better they frame Catherine and therefore her own relationship with Heathcliff in such a negative “she was toxic and abusive to Heathcliff” kinda light that just is stupid, because not only does it overly villainize Catherine while sanctifying Heathcliff when is clear both were the problem (in their relationship, not regarding the abuse Heathcliff's went through), but it also disregards Heathcliff's feelings and makes it seem as though Catherine didn't love Heathcliff which is objectively not true, both of them loved each other so much that they had no idea how to resolve it because of their upbringings, not to mention they were both literal teenagers living on a toxic household isolated and with clear ideologies that influenced them, but also Catherine lived with the guilt of Heathcliff's pain, the reason she even does what she does in Heathcliff's canto is because she feels that she cannot do anything else to make up for Heathcliff's suffering than to erase herself. Heathcliff and Catherine's souls are made from the same after all. Heathcliff loved Catherine and still as of now up to date on the story, is still in love with Catherine, his whole arc is that he now has the self confidence, self esteem and maturity to confront his feelings and his needs with Catherine without putting himself down. He is still looking for her to be able to "who guessed it" TALK. He is learning to express and find his own feelings as valid and as worth it as any other person, leaving behind his inferiority complex. Like how he admits out loud that he sees the sinners as family.

Heathcliff is more emotionally mature than people give him credit for, and he never hated Ishmael. Heathcliff hated himself and hated to see someone he saw himself reflected on sink down harder because he expected Ishmael to be better than him, and if Ishmael can't be, then what does that mean for himself?

He helps Ishmael because he is an emotionally empathic person who understands that Ishmael needed someone who would just listen, and it worked. He didn't save Ishmael nor did he become the reason Ishmael outgrew her own trauma.

If there's anything I learned from Revolutionary girl utena is that you cannot save anybody all you can do is lend a hand.

Heathcliff is a man who wears his heart and his intentions on his sleeve, now that his relationship with Ishmael is of a mutual understanding and appreciation he wouldn't be in denial if there were deeper feelings, but there aren't, he helps Ishmael just how he realizes when other of the sinners are having a bad time, or when he accommodates for others because he realizes what they are going through.

Look how in the new Canto Heathcliff is constantly speaking up on behalf of Don Quixote because he understands her and empathizes with her enough to be one to speak up when another sinner says something negative about her.

But back to the point , does this mean that I'm saying it can't mean it could be interpreted as shipping? I feel that is just whatever, obviously it can. I'm no authority, I just feel that it's not intrinsically romantic and is not fair for it to be pushed to be so.

But I feel it was really important for me to clarify because if there's anything that I dislike is putting two female characters against each other for a man especially Ishmael who I mean... Would definitely not fight for a man in the romantic sense. Let alone with another woman 🙄. She fights for things she thinks are worth her time, don't diss my girl like that, don't make this something it's not. Ishmael is not that type of girl.

But I think it is really important to acknowledge this because Heathcliff doesn't nor did he project Catherine on Ishmael, the narrative never parallels them and in Heathcliff's canto Ishmael never is framed to be in any way similar to Catherine, because it isn't there, because Heathcliff doesn't see Catherine in Ishmael because people often don't realize that Heathcliff wasn't like Ishmael, who as smart as she was, was an emotional wreck, Heathcliff was pretty aware of what he wanted to do arriving at Wuthering Heights, so for Heathcliff it's more a thing of, I don't want you if you aren't Catherine why you dare compare to her, nobody could be for me what she was. Heathcliff saw himself in Ishmael, which is very different.

And it is really important to acknowledge that because after his Canto Heathcliff still doesn't show nor say nor do anything to showcase that now his relationship with Ishmael is more meaningful that his with Catherine. Because those two relationships are different.

With this I'm not saying you can't ship them, just that you can't ignore Heathcliff's and Catherine's relationship and how It is actually framed as.

Because it isn't fair for Ishmael to be treated as the second option, it isn't fair that she's framed as what Heathcliff settles for because his relationship with Catherine didn't work and people really do frame it like that, but if you don't frame it like that than you have to acknowledge that Heathcliff wouldn't choose Ishmael over Catherine. At least not now, and Ishmael will not just jump into a relationship regardless, she spent years with Queequeg and it is something that for Ishmael just isn't easy.

But Ishmael isn't Heathcliff's anything, Ishmael canonly doesn't have any feelings for Heathcliff and if you are gonna ship them I think is important to at least acknowledge all of this so you don't end up doing that stupid thing of putting Ishmael as the other option of Heathcliff and therefore treating Ishmael as Heathcliff's instead of an individual character brought closer to another individual character.

I also believe that a reason why, at least for me personally, Heathmael conflicts me so much is because, since Heathcliff and Ishmael are hostile in the begging, and Ishmael is a female character, shipping her with Heathcliff is almost basically an indicator of people treating Ishmael pretty misogynistically and just kinda really UHM.. it's hard for me to explain it on fully, but it's just this vision of that stereotypical men and women bicker so it means they most like each other and that Ishmael should learn to like Heathcliff because she's just so uptight and hysterical which not even Heathcliff feels at all about Ishmael so it annoys me that a lot of male shippers project that on Heathcliff to build this very specific idea of Ishmael that is so far from the truth and pains me to see given how much I love Ishmael. It's pretty ironic given how literally her whole anger in part is that nobody takes her anger seriously and her worries seriously because she's too paranoid and yeah...

Does this make sense? I hope so

Now I do wanna tackle the elephant in the room, because I feel it is also a bias I have and I think talking about it could open to more fans discussing it, but... I feel like the simple fact that it is a straight ship does make people hate it, I wouldn't say I hate Heathmael, but I do admit that the fact it's straight does kinda not make me like it as much as I would if it was sapphic, but in my defense I feel at least personally that it's more to do with my relationship with Ishmael's character than the fact it's straight in general, because as far as straight ships go, Rodion x Gregor is absolutely adorable, Meursault x Donqui can be cute and I do admit that Faust x Yi Sang has its charm, but I feel that Ishmael reads as a lesbian to a lot of the fans and tbh I feel like the lenses and proofs on the game aren't like invisible and that her relationship with Queequeg and what it means for Ishmael is too important as well.

I know bisexuality is also a thing obviously, but I feel with Ishmael specifically there is something about her and being a lesbian that there isn't in any other of the females sinners, I'm being genuine I think Ishmael is probably the only sinner I fully see as a lesbian (well maybe Outis too) and it is something that resonates with my reading of her character too much to fully be able to enjoy Heathmael, at least in the "they actually fall in love kind of way".

Honestly I feel this might sprout some controversy, but I feel like I wanted to say something about them, specifically because Ishmael and Heathcliff individually to me are extremely good characters and the discourse is annoying, but also because I feel things are never fully stated ever and it leaves me feelings unsatisfied. I have been pondering about it for a long while.

Also I feel I should also talk more about Ishmael's side in this story, but ironically speaking Heathmael is harder for me to read because of Heathcliff and his misinterpretation, both of him and his relationship with Catherine overall.

Ishmael also to a certain extent, I feel people don't understand her a lot, or they purposefully ignore canon portrayal because she's a female character and is more exposed to THAT kind of treatment by fandom (at least that very specific side of people). But I think for Ishmael I'd just make a whole separate analysis post.

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[claranidala]

Me, if I was a surfacelevel understander with not one romantic bone in my body

God I hate Anakin and Padmes relationship in this movie. I always see the argument that "Padmè groomed Anakin" which i think is dumb because she didnt see him for 10 whole years. What I think is weird is Anakins creepy amount of persistence. Padmè tells him "Stop looking at me like that. It makes me uncomfortable" in a genuine way, clearly not flirting and in the NEXT scene with them, Anakin implies that he's in love with her and tells her that he dreams about her all the time. That's weird dude please stop talking. Like imagine after 10 years of not seeing them you start working security for someone you had a crush on when you were 9 years old and you told them that you were in love with them and still dream about them frequently. That is insane

[dasnotkwrites]

I’ve Always Laughed Out Loud

I’ve always had a boisterous laugh

And I’ve always gotten looks for it

Nobody ever says anything

They will just stare for a bit

Or look to the side, maybe

That look in their eyes

It tells me I’m annoying

Although that’s rude to say.

Maybe it isn’t as bad when I feel it

Rather than hear it?

xs

[fiovske]

wait so. caleb, who was completely like "essek is evil and cannot be trusted" right after his big emotional speech to him, is now pissy at essek for not wanting to work with THEE trent ickithon??? say it ain't so

I WISH I WAS JOKING BUT FR FR U CAN'T MAKE THIS SHIT UP THAT'S HOW IT IS NOW 😂 he mad at essek bc Essek drew the line and said "u can have help from ickython if u want but. the assembly's out to kill me. so... I can help from afar that's the best I can do if u decide to work w ickython.. sorry." and liam rolled a nat1 on that persuation lmaooo good on essek tho! my boy grew a spine maybe he can stop grovelling to this group of centrists lmaooo

[residentevil-4]

Wait who's connie, I'm so confused. What's happening? If it's alright to ask

autistic-creature got into lots of discourse because they cant keep their nose in their own business and got mad at several people for mking jokes they didnt like. including one person making a joke abt their own trauma, lol. then they said the person (who has MANY popular posts) was popular in n/zi circles like yeah popular posts will get spread to shitty people sorry. anyway they keep getting into arguments with whoever they decide to hate and would screenshot peoples blogs and continuously accuse them of an ever increasing list of bigotries LMAO

then they deleted and moved to neurodivergent-stegosaurus to i-am-a-{something idk} now hadrosaurs... they changed urls a lot. they say its cuz they just like a lot of different things but it coincided with someone pointing out how big of an instigator they are, now every single person who likes and reblogs that callout (not even a callout but w/e) gets an anon calling the OP an antisemite or an anon saying dinokinnie totally pwned them by saying actshelly exclusionists are a lot like amegaotaku

they are obsessed with drama and have that syndrome where they have to be the smartest person in the room which would be silly if not for the fact that they constantly accuse normal people of being bigots and then go on to interact with actual bigots which only exposes normal people to them. like even at one point they randomly believed some anon that said they were Undercover in an exclusionist server and that they SWEAR the exclusies were using their face as an emote/reaction image, which prompted them to call the person and all their friends antisemites for making fun of their features (which isnt what a reaction image is but i get it). all because some anon said so

they believe whatever anons have to say about people they hate OR just pin anons on ""exclusionists"" and their mutuals despite constantly interacting with bigots. again. im not saying none of the anons are the random bloggers but im just saying you cant tell who an anon is so maybe wait before pointing fingeys. and as pointed out ironically anytime someone says an anon is them or their followers they get into a tizzy

if they were just annoying it would be one thing but they literally stalk peoples blogs then claim harrassment when the person they decide to obsess over (or their friends) makes fun of them. im sure this is confusing for them because they have no friends but people tend to defend their friends. its not harrassment. also they urge their followers to block these people but never do it themselves because, again, they bask in negative attention

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