#That's probably valid

[letthelightshinein]

My hot take of the day, even though I haven't watched the episode and only the clip, is that I'm glad there is no forehead flicking!!!

During the first case, Julien, Pei Su said that a tap on the forehead is typically something a person of a higher status does to a person of lower status, like a parent to a child. It can be playful and cute in the book because ZhouDu don't have that dynamic, but in the show, Luo Weizhao has been demonstratively more 'dad'. And, unlike for ZhouDu, it's been a big source of conflict between them. Luo Weizhao has also realised this and he no longer refers to himself in a 'father figure' kind of way. Even when joking around he's now pitching himself as a Gege - someone who's older and protective, but he is putting himself at the same level and status as Pei Su.

They are equals and partners now, so a flick on the forehead is not quite right anymore. It would be a bit of a step back to have Luo Weizhao treating Pei Su like a child again and be reprimanding him in this way.

Also in the episode 13 water drinking flashback, we can see that Pei Su was frightened of Luo Weizhao trying to flick him. I think Luo Weizhao remembered that he doesn't like it because he never does do it, even if he's been tempted a few times including before they reconciled. He pats, prods and pokes but as far as I remember, he never taps him on the forehead.

They also don't have that much skin on skin contact generally - it would be really out of place that one of the only times they really touch is when he's 'hurting' him. He's ever only touches Pei Su's face in a gentle way, like in episode 13 and 15, even in episode 6! He manhandles him but he touches his skin softly.

It's actually very difficult to properly develop intimacy, it matters where it 'peaks', and you want it to have an impact. If anyone's familiar with the Kiera Knightly Pride and Prejudice movie would know what I'm talking about. In this show, a flick would be out of step, especially when they've been actually careful and controlled about managing the peaks and troughs.

The best example of this is in episode 13 where you know Luo Weizhao must have carried Pei Su into the house but we don't get to see it. They save that intimate moment for Luo Weizhao cradling his face on the couch. Because especially at that moment, you get to experience it at the same time as Pei Su. It's doubly climactic. It also means that when Luo Weizhao holds him in episode 15, that's the first time he has ever held him, making it more heartbreaking.

It's frequently not done well, even in shows with no censorship. It takes real restraint to not give in and give the audience what you know they want.

Yes I am actually writing this because I am currently rewatching episode 13 and this is a stealth post about how great that episode is - surprise!!!

[jekyll-hatepage]

I will forever be obsessing over Laios imaging himself as a wolf (a dangerous animal, and one that is [albeit falsely] associated with loneliness) and Marcille imagining him as a cute dog. It shows how negatively he thinks of himself after his fight with Shuro, and how even if he worries now that he's a nuisance to people/can't fit in, NOBODY PERCEIVES HIM THIS WAY. HE'S JUST A SILLY GUY. MARCILLE ASSOCIATES HIM WITH THE DOG BECAUSE HE'S LOYAL AND LOVEABLE.

[egophiliac]

WAIT when did he get FANGS

[onionninjasstuff]

carrying each other :з

[four-eyed-floozy]

Some shitty transparents of the anniversary gaku and gumi. Yeah, it's got shitty upscaling, but I really wanted to see their outfits, and I didn't want to wait for the full pngs so I got lazy

[bottombaron]

The scarest thing about Nandor being actually smart in all things Guillermo is that this is the reason why he'll never make the move to be with him:

Nandor already knows how he feels about Guillermo.

He's not even repressing it. He's just made peace with it. Because Guillermo was never an option.

Guillermo is human. He'll choose to stay human. He's fleeting. He'll always leave in some form or fashion. Nandor doesn’t choose to act on his feelings for Guillermo for the same reason why he never turned him. It would just be a curse.

[audreyfan]

chicory related art dump, mostly from 3 years ago! such a lovely game, i painted the entire map and 100%d the game. whats with greg being so good at writing gifted kid burnouts?

[perdamian]

hey guys… we all know that it’s okay for mithrun to have a caretaker for the rest of his life, right? that even after he heals and potentially regains his desires he will probably still need support?? that the goal of healing is not to become a “normal person”, but to build skills to navigate the world in a way that accommodates your disability??? that relying on the people around you is not a failure, but proof of your desire to live????

[ontheoutside-lookingin]

Some chronic pain memes for extra hurty times

[lilacsandlillies]

I was going through the anti Jason Todd tag because I hate myself and want to understand where people who dislike him are coming from and one thing I kept seeing was annoyance at Jason fans who claim that Jason is female coded and realized that the term “female coded” might not be the best term to describe what we mean.

A female coded character in literature and media typically means a character that has no specified gender or otherwise does not have a gender but is obviously meant to be a stand in for a woman or female. Kind of like how Starfire has no specified race (due to being an alien) but is still obviously black coded based on the way she’s drawn and treated by the narrative.

This is slightly different than what we mean when saying that Jason is female coded. It’s not that Jason is literally supposed to be a stand in for a female character, it’s that the way a lot of characters treat him and a lot of the tropes used on him are things that usually saved for female characters, not big buff men like Jason.

To start with, being Robin is narratively (or at least was) very similar to being a woman in a story. Robin is a role made to complement Batman (who we all know is basically the ultimate male power fantasy). Robin’s role is to be an accessory to Batman. Robin can be smart, but not smarter than Batman. Robin can be strong, but not stronger than Batman. Hell, Robin is often kidnapped and used as a literal damsel in distress, a role often regulated for women as a whole.

What sets Jason apart from the other robins (except for Steph) in this regard is that they were allowed to be characters outside of Batman. Dick might not have been the “man” of the story when he’s with Bruce, but when he’s with the teen titans suddenly he’s the smart one who has all the answers. Jason’s Robin was never really allowed this.

Then we get to the most, controversial, part of Jason’s female coding. The fact the he was effectively fridged. Fridging is usually only referred to as frigding if it’s a female character, but Jason’s death checks pretty much all the other boxes needed. An incredibly brutal death that was more about Bruce’s feelings on it than Jason himself.

This is especially apparent when compared to the other Bat characters. For all the female coding, the only other Robin to actually be fridged was Steph (and we all know about the misogyny surrounding her death). Barbara was also kind of fridged during the killing Joke. The only female character to escape this is Cass (to my knowledge). When you look at it through this lens, the fact that the only other characters to be permanently damaged like this for Bruce’s story are female, it’s not hard to see where the idea that Jason is female coded comes from.

You can even find this in Jason’s origin story. Poor little orphan is saved by benevolent billionaire is a role usually saved for little girls, like in Annie.

Despite what you might think, this even continues after Jason’s revival. Jason is still used less as a character and more as a motivation for Bruce. He’s regularly called emotional and hysterical (terms usually used to refer to women).

Jason is first and foremost a victim. A role performed by women in most media. Men are expected to be stoic and “rise above” the things done to them as to not be victims, as continuously shown by the way characters like Nightwing are not allowed to be effected by the horrific things they go through. The fact that Jason is shown the be angry, and sad, and emotional, constantly, and the fact that he’s punished and vilified for it puts him in a place much more similar to a female character.

There’s a reason that so many Jason fans (that like him for a reason past “antihero with guns”) are female. For most characters, when you swap their genders there would be a pretty clear and big difference in the way their story takes place. If you swap Jason’s gender, the story takes place identically.

A lot of this is best shown in men’s reactions to Arkham Knight’s version of Jason. In that game, Jason is similarly angry and emotional, albeit for slightly different reasons. He is also still unmistakably a victim. You’d think the men playing would like him. After all he’s a big cool angsty guy with a lot of guns and muscles. Instead, a lot of men’s thought that he was whiny. That his feelings were annoying.

There’s also something to be said about how his autonomy is regularly undermined by Bruce (specifically in Gotham war) and how his decisions and feeling are constantly treated as if they’re worth less than Bruce’s, but that’s a discussion for another day.

[sobsel]

Sometimes, in my opinion, James Potter can be a little bit evil. Not ‘evil’ evil. Like, ‘teenage boy’ evil. He can be a little conceited and cynical and say mean things without thinking, as a treat :3

And that’s OKAY because I’ll love him regardless <333

[eshithepetty]

"Haha Dream BBQ is so random and incomprehensible" "did they take drugs to make this lol" "you're actually not meant to understand anything in this series it's ok" "Joel G just makes up stuff on the spot based on what would be funny" "it's just random for random's sake" "is this AI" "stop theorising, it's not that deep" SHUT UPPPPPPPPPP

[tea-cat-arts]

Shen Yuan getting transported into pidw isn't "the system punishing him for being a lazy internet hater," but instead representative of "step 1 of the creative process: getting so mad at something you decide to go write your own fucking book" in this essay I will

[magnusthepuppet]

you’re a loser, baby! a loser, goddamn, baby! you’re a fucked up little whiny bitch <3

if these two aren’t endgame then idk what is 🤷

[laddersmp3]

Guyyssss I’m drawing again

[fairylightspml]

i wonder how many times dan has read the phrase “heart eyes howell” against his will