#and just to be clear

[giveamadeuschohisownmovie]

What reading DanDaDan feels like:

[bibuckaroo]

do you also hate the fact that there are so many people standing there and the only person bam called out for was khun?

and khun's 'why were you not answering me? do you even know how worried i was?'

then endorsi herself pointing out that they forget about everybody else when they're talking to each other.

this arc keeps on feeding me.

[artrcrry]

luv that instead of leading by example, the caps decided on the fun fresh strategy of trial by fire for the rookie. showing that fr we sometimes play like old, anemic, but rabid dogs, and YOU leno in fact not only have a place here in the big show but we do actually need you and uh heres a bunch of responsibility, go.

and we are actually going to lead by example in terms of taking penalties, but that is not smt you need help in whatsoever anyways so we're just going to hang out in the sin bin as bonding

[jasontoddsno1simp]

So like...

When does it stop being "write what you want, screw the haters" and start being "writing this is incredibly irresponsible"?!

When does it stop being "we're exploring alternate characterization and narratives" and start being "this is blatant mischaracterization"?!

When does it stop being "this made me uncomfortable so it's not for me" and start being "this made me uncomfortable, it's blatantly problematic"?!

When does it start being that deep?! When do we start interrogating our biases and blind spots?! When do we start considering the impact of what we're putting out into the world?!

There's a time and place for just about everything under the sun in fiction. I'm not here to ruin anyone's fun or be the morality police. But when certain things turn into trends that get picked up as the Gospel Truth by the majority of the fandom?!

Yeah, that's when I start having a problem.

[raddestrose]

I know Im like super late to this but

KACCHAN BAKUGO??

Bro should’ve just said were having a spring wedding and it would’ve had the same effect

[cecropiacrown]

November Writing Goal

Hey, y'all! As some of you may or may not know, I've really been struggling to write for the past couple of months. Because of this, I know it's not feasible for me to participate in any of the nanowrimo alternatives taking place this month.

However, I've really wanted to do something writing-related, so I've decided to set myself a more attainable writing goal instead!

I'm going to write every day this month.

No word-count requirements; no pressure to publish anything - just write - even if it's half a sentence.

To anyone who may be struggling to write recently or anyone who may find these other writing challenges too daunting: I'd love it if you joined me!

Like I said, there's no pressure at all to post anything you've written, the goal is just to write something every day. But I thought it might be nice if we banded together to support and encourage each other :) so if you feel like doing this with me, just send me a DM and we can cheer each other on!!!

Best of luck to everyone in their writing endeavors, whatever those may be, and congratulations on making it to November! <3

[vulto-cor-de-rosa]

A thing that really infuriates me in TMA is how quick everyone is to blaming Jon for what's happening. I love Melanie, Basira, Daisy and Tim as much as the next person but they really get in my nerves sometimes, especially Basira. Jon had as much control of the situation as they had, if not less, but they still blamed him for everything. The only person who had a reason to hate Jon as much as they did was Tim and maybe Melanie. My brother in Christ, you have Elias/Jonah right there to blame on everything, why go for the guy who's also suffering

[gretaglasses]

feeling curious about people's fic reading habits. how many people who follow me are keeping up with Kickin Up Dust?

[insertgoodnamehere]

I love the way mihoyo handles the " you can choose their gender" debacle because it's so diverse!

The travelers are two different characters that due to fate can end up walking the same path while being separated due to these same circumstances.

Caelus and Stelle are two different bodies that the same entity can become. Their looks are irrelevant as their core is fundamentaly the same.

Wise and Belle are siblings who work together to help people. You are just choosing which one to control.

The Dreamseker likes to be a guy sometimes... Why IDK? Are they genderfluid? Is Jonhonkai their drag king persona? Who knows! And now it's gone! Gotcha! This was a narrative choice all along! ALL HAIL YURI!!!!

So yeah it's pretty good.

[curry-and-gunpowder]

Okay so I have some stuff to get off my chest, might get a bit heated, but I mean no disrespect to anyone, just expressing my genuine confusion and frustration and trying to make my stance on some matters clear.

Clearly I ship Odazai. But that does not mean I reject other interpretations of their relationship. Be it platonic, queerplatonic, brotherly, it's all lovely to me - I genuinely just enjoy their unique dynamic.

However, I am constantly on the brink of losing it over hearing them referred to as a father/son pair by so many people in the fandom. And I'm gonna attempt to break down why this interpretation bothers me so much.

Firstly, it just flies in the face of my personal experience of intergenerational friendships - I'm a young-ish Millennial with many Gen Z friends. And I find it completely incomprehensible to try and force people who are relatively close in age into such a dynamic. I'm aware that a lot of bsd fans are teens or young adults who maybe don't have much social contact with people outside their age range. But as a 30+ person on the Internet, let me tell you, five years? That's nothing. The plain truth is, the older you get, the less age starts to matter. Once you get out of school, you will interact with people of all ages regularly and you will have friends who are older or younger than you and nobody fucking cares. The thought of seeing any of my younger friends as my children is, pardon my french, fucking ridiculous.

Secondly, and I've spoken about this before, the fandom's tendency to parentify Odasaku way beyond what the text ever implies. It's easy to put him into the role, considering the way he cares for his orphans. In that way, he has some parental traits - but it's only a facet of his personality, and, i would argue, one that the fandom puts way too much emphasis on, imho. I'll gladly write some more meta on that at a later time, but doing that here would make the post even longer than it already is. Just to quickly reiterate, for anyone who hasn't read the dark era lightnovel - Oda does explicitly NOT treat the kids like his children. Why then would he treat Dazai like one? Dazai, whom he explicitly invites to go drinking with him in TDIPUD? How does that track? Is he supposed to be just a shitty parent? Or could it maybe indicate that he sees Dazai as his equal more than anything?

(Tangentially, I would argue that Oda's perception of what constitutes a child/an adult is horrendously skewed, considering his own past.)

Thirdly, and this is probably gonna be the one that might get me into hot water with some people, the thing I like to call the Cope. The tendency in fandom to manifest a hard line between groups of characters that somehow should never be crossed when shipping, otherwise that makes the ship badwrongtoxic. This is a phenomenon I've observed developing more and more in recent years, and it's ngl pretty worrying, because it's generally used to present one's own ship as "superior", and all "rival ships" as less than/bad. Ships with "significant" age gaps tend to fall into that category relatively often, but I suspect very few people actually genuinely care about the characters' ages, but rather use it as a shield to justify why these relationships are To Be Avoided. Odazai is an absolute stellar example of such a ship - by all means it should be way more popular than it is, considering the themes that surround it and the way its absolutely center to the nareative of bsd. But without fail, when I look up media for the ship, be it YouTube videos or simply browsing the tag on tumblr or pinterest, I see the same mantra repeated over and over - "how can you ship them, they're like father and son!"

(I'm concerned about the relationship you have with your parents, I say to myself in response.)

And its, quite frankly, just not the case. I cannot for the life of me find any indication of this so-called parental relationship anywhere in the text. All I can see is two people who are friends who have a deep and sincere love for each other.

In conclusion, not every relationship has to fall into the category of familial or romantic. Sometimes... people are just friends. Sometimes friends are some years apart in age. It's not shocking or special or anything, it literally happens all the time.

Just let them be friends. It's fine, really, it's allowed.

[thoughtfulfangirling]

So my sister finished She Ra with my 10 yo nephew and 7 yo niece. She asked me last night for other shows like it and I can't believe I'm struggling to come up with some! She's already seen ATLA and LOK. Owl House is going to be too weird for her and insanely she wasn't interested in Gravity Falls (absurd!). Young Justice seems a little old for a 7 yo. My nephew doesn't like the animation style of X-Men Evolution so has turned that down. They did do an episode of Sailor Moon which my niece LOVED but my nephew found Usagi really annoying 😂😂

What am I missing? I think they're going to like things with story arcs and less episodic so I didn't recommend Teen Titans tho the kids might like it. They're trying to watch something altogether tho. Thoughts?

[the-nothing-maker]

Would you guys. Enjoy. Jarlaxle stickers.

[fabuladorah]

As a sweet-tooth-fluff enjoyer lesbian it breaks my heart that mainstream decided that the only sapphic shows would be the ones with cannibalism and murder I mean im kinda down for it but still

[gladsimagination]

Mixed feelings on the new episode

Im so gagged by rtd splashing that good old fashioned sci fi camp all over this episode but there were moments that felt very disney and that i did not appreciate

Like overall all good, id eat david tennant on a rock for fucks sake, but definitely a little lacking in the finesse i usually associate with doctor who

[bradshawsbaby]

I have not been this stressed and unhappy since my first couple years teaching 😭 If anyone wants to send any happy thoughts—or just positive vibes in general—I would not be opposed.