It’s not even about how hot he is (although he is, undeniably, extraordinarily hot) it’s the fact that he fucks with gender so often. It’s that if I were amab, which I so desperately wish I was sometimes, I would act like him. He is femme in the way I want to be. As a trans kid I want nothing more than to be like him. So to have him embrace it the way he has on stage and off, to have him treasure trans kids, to have him value femininity and talk about it the way he has, is so uplifting and happy. I find such joy in watching him do what he does. I just.. he makes me feel hopeful for a future where I can be like this. Femme and masc. Trans and not.
One thing that’s been scaring me though is if they do end up having Ray reach a deep point and try to unalive himself again I’ve been so scared of it we have seen him try twice (one where mew saves him the second time sand saves him) I’m scared that after the whole therapy session when he’s talking to sand and then him seeing sand with his ex would really just end up pushing him to that point again which I’m hoping we won’t see I just want to see Ray happy and healthy I don’t want to see him go even lower than he’s already am if sand does take his ex back I want the creators to write Ray reacting in a more healthy way I’m hoping that he continues with therapy, that he continues with rehab Ray has the strength and the power to get clean but he has to do it for himself and not for sand I’m excited for the last two episodes I’m praying to see Ray in a healthy way I just want him to love himself
I like playing board games with my friends
Like tryna guess how the movie ends
Like playing Mario Kart online too high
To care that I came in tenth
Like buying candles at Aldi
Three ninety nine that just smell green
Like getting take out chicken pad thai
From Lemongrass, spice level three
I’m really into sparkling water now
Like how it feels inside my mouth
Like when I’ve already cleaned my house
Like turning music way up loud
Like using my tiktok account
Like that they know my name in town
I don’t know why I’ve been spending so much time just
Hating stuff
Focused on the way life sucks
There’s an awful lot to love
Think I’ve had enough
Hating stuff ‘
Cause I like eating applesauce and cheese
Like drinking different types of tea
Like when I get recommendations
Of young adult books I should read
Like having good meaningful sex
Like having good meaningless sex
Like getting told by pretty people
That they like the way I dress
I’m really into making stupid jokes
Really into putting down my phone
Really into British tv shows
Really into yoga practice flows
Really proud that I can touch my toes
Really proud of just how much I’ve grown
I don’t know why I’ve been spending so much time just
Hating stuff
Focused on the way life sucks
There’s an awful lot to love
Think I’ve had enough
Hating stuff
I know it’s an unrealistic goal
To see the glass always half full
I’m no stranger to succumbing
To the hopelessness spiral
I just want to remind myself
How much is wonderful
And how motherfucking lame it is to always be
Hating stuff
Focused on the way life sucks
There’s an awful lot to love
Think I’ve had enough
Hating stuff
No I don’t wanna be
Hating stuff
Focused on the way life sucks
There’s an awful lot to love
Think I’ve had enough
Hating stuff
Think I’ve had enough of hating stuff
(I don’t wanna hate stuff)
I’m not gonna hate stuff
Focused on how life sucks
(I don’t think that life sucks)
listen there really was just something about how in the book, snow’s 3-page descent from hesitant lover boy to deluded psychopath happens entirely in his mind. lucy gray gives him no indication whatsoever that she suspects him, that she’s going to leave or betray him. he’s just sitting quietly in the cabin waiting for her to return when that seed of calculated suspicion, which he has needed to survive the capitol, takes a hold of him and chokes the life out of any goodness left inside him. it really drives home your terror as a reader that “oh my god did he kill her? did she escape? what happened to her? why would he even think that?” in a way that when the movie had to adjust for visualization it lost some of that holy shit this guy has lost it emphasis.
ppl who are like “there’s no way sokka’s art skills would improve, he’s ontologically bad at art” ummmm. dude. you realize that this is the mary sue of hobbies, right? this guy could out-westley westley. he would develop an immunity to iocane powder in less than a week because he’s just that prodigious. he became a kyoshi warrior who could best their leader in a matter of hours, and this was the first time he had ever trained in his life with an actual teacher and opponent. he mastered the sword in one day, if we’re to take piandao’s word for it (and considering his name is literally sword, he is clearly an expert). sokka looked at the rough schematics for hot air balloons after the eminent inventor in the world had spent who knows how long not able to get his idea to actually work like “uhhh…. this may sound obvious, but have you tried a lid???” he has borderline supernatural aim with a boomerang. he was dropped into a haiku battle knowing nothing about the form, and not only beat the leader of ba sing se’s premier haiku club, but also chose, completely unnecessarily, to make each verse rhyme. if he actually sat down and practiced drawing, maybe with some instruction from a trained artist, or easier beginner’s materials than ink and a brush (you’ve all seen my art, and I still cannot paint with ink and a brush), I think sokka would easily be able to produce a work on par with (if not superior to) the mona lisa by the following morning.
i feel like not enough ppl are factoring in the cultural clash between laios and shuro and the many micro agressions shuro faced while being in their group. literally the name 'shuro' in itself is one
his name is toshiro 😭 lets also not forget that he has his own communication issues, in the opposite way that laios does- thats literally a factor in their argument, that his envy for laios's ability to express himself sincerely manifested as part of his distaste for him.
ig all this to say like, was their fight heart wrenching, especially when reading laios as autistic? absolutely. anybody whos ever been in laios's position knows how much it hurts to realize someone you thought was your friend doesnt actually like having you around, especially when they didnt tell you and you had no way of knowing due to not understanding their cues. but im begging yall to step back and see the nuance of this situation cause im gonna be real a lot of you are kinda just brushing over it acting like everything is toshiros fault and that hes a terrible person when in reality hes an average guy who really, really clashed with laios and it led to a very long misunderstanding due to their supremely opposite methods of communication. even laios and toshiro, after letting everything out in their fight, were able to come to an understanding and start a foundation for an actual friendship built on better communication
the way crowley’s lil head bobble lines up perfectly with aziraphale touching his back, it’s as if the touch caused an involuntary shiver up crowley’s spine…
re-read the 200s and I love their awkward phase in-between animosity and rekindled friendship :) bakugo has an awkward way of expressing his interest and worries regarding deku’s quirk and deku in general it’s so funny to follow
I feel like many people have a fundamental misconception of what unreliable narrator means. It's simply a narrative vehicle not a character flaw or a sign that the character is a bad person. There are also many different types of unreliable narrators in fiction. Being an unreliable narrator doesn't necessarily mean that the character is 'wrong', it definitely doesn't mean that they're wrong about everything even if some aspects in their story are inaccurate, and only some unreliable narrators actively and consciously lie. Stories that have unreliable narrators also tend to deal with perception and memory and they often don't even have one objective truth, just different versions. It reflects real life where we know human memory is highly unreliable and vague and people can interpret same events very differently