#anyways take this w a grain of salt

[kroosluvr]

welcome to the phantom express (?!)

[thevoiceofdesertbluffs]

I have just been hit w the sudden realization that Nikignik and Marolmar, if you squint reeeeeal hard, is radio host x scientist

[fuedalreesespieces]

one thing that always gets me whenever i read inuyasha modern au fics is that inuyasha is supposedly "the slacker" or the guy who doesn't try hard on anything academia related, and that always struck me as odd bc you're telling me inuyasha wouldn't be competing with, say, koga for rank 1? that he wouldn't study his ass off in the subjects he's actually interested in? that he wouldn't pour his everything into extracurriculars he cares about? he has his aloof moments in canon but ultimately he's a hard worker and i think that trait should be reflected in aus!

plus if we're thinking about the setting here, inuyasha's canon behavior is greatly influenced by his upbringing (and later lack thereof). putting him in an environment (modern au, lack of youkai discrimination) where his talents are cultivated instead of looked down upon would give us a very different character. it's always interesting to me whenever i see canon-typical inuyasha behavior in an au where his mom is alive because it suggests that his mistrust and gruff behavior are just part of his personality and not largely a result of childhood events. i feel like modern aus are an opportunity to see how he might have grown if not for the death of his mother + father & the consistent threat looming over him as a child. what would his personality be like then? how would his first meeting with kagome go considering that? his dynamics with his older brother? his goals? it's something that could be explored in a fic taking place in the feudal realm but it's kind of difficult to just subtract the discrimination aspect that comes with that setting...just things to think abt ig!

[myymi]

unpopular opinion but like. i kind of don't want amy to be in the third movie

it's not because i think she shouldn't be. she's my second favorite character in the franchise and i love her to death. she should've been introduced before shadow, honestly.

however. with the third film being marketed as shadow's movie, i don't trust paramount to be able to give amy the focus and development she deserves. they couldn't even manage a half decent balance between knuckles and tails debuting in the same movie which would be a million times easier than balancing shadow and amy.

we got to watch knuckles' growth play out. we got to see a glimpse of his past, we got to watch him learn to trust sonic, we got to watch him finally fulfill his destiny to guard the master emerald.

we didn't get to see anything with tails. sure, he helped sonic learn a bit more responsibility, but any character could've been used for that role. tails is just there. despite the marketing for the second movie being more tailored towards him, he doesn't have any sort of huge impact on the story. sure, minor details would've changed if he wasn't there, but there's no reason the second sonic character to ever exist should only change minor details. he deserves better than that.

if amy is introduced alongside shadow, she's 100% going to get sidelined and i don't want that for her. it sucks to see a major character get cast aside because a different one is the fan favorite.

if they really want to bring in more game characters they need to stop the movies at a trilogy and move to a full tv show. there's only so much time to share between a cast in a movie, and with their obvious bias towards human characters there's not much left to give to sonic and co.

[superfluouskeys]

forget me not

Stray Gods || Grace/Persephone

She can’t bear to face anyone since she dropped out of college.  She had to talk to her parents, obviously, but it’s been almost a year since they spoke.  She was expecting them to yell at her, tell her she was wasting her life, tell her she’d never get anywhere without a college degree, that she was almost done, so why couldn’t she just wait it out another couple of years and then at least she’d have finished something? But they didn’t yell.  They both just seemed…sad.  Tired.  And that was so much worse. It was like they had given up on her. Grace doesn’t know how to explain.  She still hasn’t quite managed to explain it even to herself.  Would anyone understand?  Freddie never demanded an explanation—she loved Grace no matter what—but Grace was sure she wouldn’t get it.  Freddie was passionate about so many things.  Freddie was the sort of person who would probably go on to get a Master’s and a Doctorate or maybe two or three, because she just couldn’t decide what she loved the most. And Grace? Grace barely even felt like a person in college.  She tried to do all kinds of things, join clubs, meet people, take classes she thought might be interesting.  She tried to distance herself from Freddie, even, and she was not gentle.  She tried to destroy herself over and over again, and make something entirely new.  She tried to forge herself into someone interesting, someone worthwhile. But in the end, the truth always came crashing back to her.  She can’t escape herself.  She can’t escape how utterly unremarkable she is.

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[cinnamonsikwate]

this interview of foudeqush saying ludwig göransson asked her to write con la brisa as if she was describing the sun to someone who had never seen it (time stamp 08:25 — sub "él me dijo escribe una canción como si tu quisieras explicarle a la alguien que nunca ha visto el sol como es el sol") gives so much more depth to the song than i initially thought (and i had a lot of thoughts lmao)!

when she sings:

it has the intensity of your eyes

it burns more than fire and it reflects on broken glass

and

amongst the shadows, my love, you are the brightest sparkle

how beautiful, how beautiful

that's why, my love, you remind me so much of it

the "it" she's talking about is the sun! the "you" are the talokanil!* and that just adds so much more gravity to k'uk'ulkan bringing the sun to his people in the depths of the ocean 🥹

despite the horrors he encountered on the surface the day he buried his mother, the beauty of the sun and the sky is still seared in his mind. it breaks his heart further that he cannot share it with his people, but he is a god, is he not? he will create a sun for his people, a promise, a hope, that one day they might — without fear — behold the sky with their own eyes, feel the breeze kiss their skin, no matter if he has to burn the world for it.

he pledges just as much in the following lines:

i will give my whole life

to get you out of the gloom

i will break with your penitence

in this world that's falling apart

give me a little bit more time

'cause my last breath i will give

to show you the entire sky

in the clouds, with you, i will [lie] down

and

i promise one day you will open your eyes

and you will appreciate the reddest tones the sky has to offer

and perhaps, to the talokanil, the afterlife is not the underworld — after all, are they not already living in it? — but in the sky, in the wind, in the breeze. their battle cry "líik'ik, talokan!" ("rise, talokan!") — when their whole lives have been spent in the depths, being pushed further and further into the dark and the cold by the threat of discovery by the surface world — thus ironically takes on a heavier meaning.

and we blend in with the breeze

and we sail with the wind

the mentions of the breeze and the wind in the song may also be in reference to zamá (aka tulúm, the ancestral lands of fen's people) being home to the temples of the god of the wind (el templo del dios del viento) and the diving god (el templo del dios descendente) — both associated with kukulcán.

bonus!

this excerpt from miller (1974) gives us a glimpse into the worldbuilding that went into talokan:

"the incredible green blue color of the sea off the east coast symbolized rebirth" — the talokanil "died" and were reborn, one physical manifestation of this being their blue skin.

"representations of umbilical cords attached to newborn figures are prominant (sic) at tulum"; "the diving god shown prominantly (sic) in the inner building if structure 25 is also shown associated with the cosmic umbilical cord" — the film does focus quite a bit on the umbilical cord during the birth of k'uk'ulkan (the diving god).

"round structures are associated with kukulcan" — and what else is round? 😉 (the sun. i mean the sun. also, as far as i can tell based on repeatedly pausing the con la brisa movie clip, talokan appears to be built like a hollow globe, with the talokan sun rising from the bottom center point.)

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* i'm using the official english translation for accessibility and bc the original spanish is more vague about the "it" and uses the singular "tú" for "you" and its associated conjugations ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

[wellnoe]

Why did the Phoenix choose Jean Grey?

because jean was desperate, and needed it, and didn't want to die. the secondary implication here is that the phoenix was drawn to jean regardless of the shuttle crash, that they were made for each other, that the title of phoenix just IS jean's. this is pretty much classic x-men's stance. its one i like, bc its really clear phoenix is changed by jean and defined by jean. and also bc i tend to read 'now and forever' as being like. prescriptive for both the future and past.

some other x-men comics, including grand design, have stated that phoenix, as fire and life incarnate and as something very closely tied to death, was drawn to jean after jean's reaction to annie's death, where jean tried to pull annie back from death telepathically, and subsequently fell into a coma. i kind of like this idea, and i think you could pull in inferno as evidence if you wanted? like one of the very significant memories maddy gets from phoenix contact is annie, so much that its the one she tries to hold onto as her own to claim her personhood.

like i said i like this idea bc it ties into the jean baggage i'm interested in, and it also gets into the ways phoenix muddies the division between life and death, and also bc its kind of a transgressive thing i can see jean being attracted to?

[hotsugarbyglassanimals]

whenever i bring up my research project to someone who's a bit older and entrenched in the academic spaces i have to hold back from being like "i dont think hormones have anything to do with it to be honest. for example, I have been taking testosterone and-"

[elegyofthemoon]

SCREAMS

[lee-sanghyeok]

I've said it once and I'll say it again but I get the feeling they don't just draw inspiration from movies, series and books for their songs, but that Riwoo's unspoken rizz has got something to do with it. He's shy, sure, but he for sure had girls after him in high school and/or at the dance academy.

[yakultii]

I was listening to an aussie podcast and they briefly proposed the question of whether it’s time that aussies (and other nations) should be able to have some influence over America’s presidential elections/voting because as allies there is a flow on effect which really does impact us in many ways and honestly (american)politics is not my special interest or nothin so maybe idk things and could be missing something but also maybe in such a globalised society this wouldn’t be such a bad idea

[puyotism]

thinking abt how everyone calls patty lagnus's girlfriend even tho smmg just states that shes crush nd a childhood friend

[cheemken]

Naliligaw at malayo ang tanaw

Pinipigilan na ang pusong pinipilit ay ikaw

Kung di rin tayo sa huli (if we're not together in the end)

Aawatin ang sarili na makita kang muli (I'll stop myself from seeing you again)

Kung di rin tayo sa huli (if we're not together in the end)

Aawatin ba ang puso kong ibigin ka? (Will I stop my heart from loving you?)

Naliligaw at malayo ang tanaw (my view is lost and distant)

Pinipigilan na ang pusong pinipilit ay ikaw (preventing my heart to keep yearning for you)

Take the translation with a grain of salt I really did try to translate that as best as I possibly could, and I don't trust Google translate enough for it, but like yeah, that's the closest I can get to it

Any other Filipinos out there, feel free to correct me bc yeah, Tagalog isn't my strong suit sorry chdndb hahah

[catgirlkirigiri]

I am once again posting furry satosugu

[starlooove]

If ur already gonna make the whole Jason thing completely irrelevant or ooc for batjokes I feel like u should just go the whole way and make it so it never happened or joker didn’t do it

[soggypotatoes]

having a dissociative disorder is so fucked up and confusing

like, I feel like that's obvious, but no... once you know you have it, once it's confirmed, it just gets so much more confusing than it was before