I was going to write an in-depth analysis of how The Giggle approached the Toymaker's yellow face past/origin by neither brushing it aside nor going for a lecture in intercultural relations, but instead recontextualising it by having him cosplay a handful of other doll-like national stereotypes (the German shopkeeper, the French mime, the napoleonic era English soldier, the American pioneer pilot), thus going even deeper into the concept of play-element of culture, essentially presenting nationalities (or all other distinctions used as ways of discriminating against others) as fancy chesspieces, which goes along with the Spice up your life scene being about the "fun" of fighting others because you're the only one who's right, and there might have even been a tangent on how the Doctor's strategy of dealing with the Toymaker was to use a game's rules against itself, while the Master's was to tip either result in their favour-
But my brain said, nah, you're going to spend the rest of the evening incapable of thinking of anything else than Neil Patrick Harris and a series of Neil Patrick Harrislings dressed as stereotypical babushka matryoshkas
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so cool that fanfiction won anne rice’s war on fanfiction
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the kind of chemistry these two have is very entertaining
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the post i reblogged about how there are mature 23 year olds that have degrees and children is so bad. like we have to acknowledge the wealth inequality that leads to these twenty-three year olds to be able to run their lives like that in the first place, they don't have their life together for no reason, they almost certainly had the money and support to get to that point. maturity based off things like kids, college, mortgage is just a thinly veiled echo of capitalism's skewed view on success in life. there are plenty of young poor people with children who you'd just as quickly throw into the immature category
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[ cw: death mention / strangulation mention / stabbing mention / blood mention / self-sacrifice / codependency mention in tags / ]
I think a lot about how common it is for Raph to be the one to have direct focus put on him when Leo gets into all his near death experiences.
Like, when Leo is thrown off a building, it’s Raph who’s right there jumping after him, not even thinking about the consequences to himself when he does. When Leo almost gets skewered by the Krang, Raph’s right there to take the blow and send Leo to safety without a second thought. When Leo’s being strangled to near death, it’s a Krangified Raph doing the job, doing exactly what Raph would never, ever want to do. When Leo is telling Casey Jr to close the portal, it’s Raph who tries desperately to convince Leo otherwise.
Likewise, Leo is consistently very single minded when Raph gets forcibly separated from them. Both when in the sewers and by the Krang, Leo is dead set on finding Raph first and foremost.
I also think it’s interesting that during each of Leo’s near death experiences, the lightheartedness of his words during them goes directly hand in hand with both how close Raph is to him physically and how much danger Raph is also in in that moment. From a literal “I told you so” as Leo’s falling away from Raph to a soft joke about how “hero moves” are Raph’s style - both of these are on the more morbidly carefree side and both of these notably take Leo farther away from Raph and, in turn, have Raph not in immediate danger.
On the other side of things is the apology from Leo, heedless of the danger he himself is in as he seriously and genuinely speaks to a Krangified Raph face to face. Then there’s Leo’s freezing and desperation as Raph takes a hit meant for him and sends just Leo to safety, leaving Raph himself behind. Both of these involve much closer proximity and Raph being directly harmed - these together make Leo much more vulnerable in his words and actions, something not even the threat of death can make him.
These two care about each other so much, and they’re way too much alike for their own good.
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i would give anything to watch a full movie on how the entirety of brooklyn came to be "spot conlon's territory". half of the brooklyn newsies are practically grown ass men, and they answer to this scrawny blond fifteen year old??
like come on
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drew this and then forgot about it. why you so grease 1978
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just woke up, half awake and started to draw wavewave (ship artist goals ig >_<)
Shockwave and his daughter, Ravage (based on my shockwave as a cat lover/dad rambling post)
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I just realized that Jiang Fengmian and Jiang Yanli’s last words (that we hear in the story in his case) were directed at Wei Wuxian and not Jiang Cheng
Tbh I’d never get over that if I were Jiang Cheng lol at least he has Madam Yu
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In my Zeus bag today so I'm just gonna put it out there that exactly none of the great Ancient Greek warrior-heroes stayed loyal and faithful and completely monogamous and yet none of them have their greatness questioned nor do we question why they had the cultural prominence that they did and still do.
Jason, the brilliant leader of the Argo, got cold feet when it came to Medea - already put off by some of her magic and then exiled from his birthland because of her political ploys, he took Creusa to bed and fully intended on marrying her despite not properly dissolving things with Medea.
Theseus was a fierce warrior and an incredibly talented king but he had a horrible temper and was almost fatally weak to women. This is the man who got imprisoned in the Underworld for trying to get a friend laid, the man who started the whole Attic War because he couldn't keep his legs closed.
And we cannot at all forget Heracles for whom a not inconsiderable amount of his joy in life was loving people then losing the people around him that he loved. Wives, children, serving boys, mentors, Heracles had a list of lovers - male and female - long enough to rival some gods and even after completing his labours and coming down to the end of his life, he did not have one wife but three.
And y'know what, just because he's a cultural darling, I'll put Achilles up here too because that man was a Theseus type where he was fantastic at the thing he was born to do (that is, fight whereas Theseus' was to rule) but that was not enough to eclipse his horrid temper and his weakness to young pretty things. This is the man that killed two of Apollo's sons because they wouldn't let him hit - Tenes because he refused to let Achilles have his sister and Troilus who refused Achilles so vehemently that he ran into Apollo's temple to avoid him and still couldn't escape.
All four of these men are still celebrated as great heroes and men. All four of these men are given the dignity of nuance, of having their flaws treated as just that, flaws which enrich their character and can be used to discuss the wider cultural point of what truly makes a hero heroic. All four of these men still have their legacies respected.
Why can that same mindset not be applied to Zeus? Zeus, who was a warrior-king raised in seclusion apart from his family. Zeus who must have learned to embrace the violence of thunder for every time he cried as a babe, the Corybantes would bang their shields to hide the sound. Zeus learned to be great because being good would not see the universe's affairs in its order.
The wonderful thing about sympathy is that we never run out of it. There's no rule stopping us from being sympathetic to multiple plights at once, there's no law that necessitate things always exist on the good-evil binary. Yes, Zeus sentenced Prometheus to sufferation in Tartarus for what (to us) seems like a cruel reason. Prometheus only wanted to help humans! But when you think about Prometheus' actions from a king's perspective, the narrative is completely different: Prometheus stole divine knowledge and gifted it to humans after Zeus explicitly told him not to. And this was after Prometheus cheated all the gods out of a huge portion of wealth by having humans keep the best part of a sacrifice's meat while the gods must delight themselves with bones, fat and skin. Yes, Zeus gave Persephone away to Hades without consulting Demeter but what king consults a woman who is not his wife about the arrangement of his daughter's marriage to another king? Yes, Zeus breaks the marriage vows he set with Hera despite his love of her but what is the Master of Fate if not its staunchest slave?
The nuance is there. Even in his most bizarre actions, the nuance and logic and reason is there. The Ancient Greeks weren't a daft people, they worshipped Zeus as their primary god for a reason and they did not associate him with half the vices modern audiences take issue with. Zeus was a father, a visitor, a protector, a fair judge of character, a guide for the lost, the arbiter of revenge for those that had been wronged, a pillar of strength for those who needed it and a shield to protect those who made their home among the biting snakes. His children were reflections of him, extensions of his will who acted both as his mercy and as his retribution, his brothers and sisters deferred to him because he was wise as well as powerful. Zeus didn't become king by accident and it is a damn shame he does not get more respect.
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some of you need to hate ai way more than you currently do
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Posting this because it's not getting out of my head-
OK SO some months ago, i saw a post pointing out how Wukong seems to have a thing with bows and ribbons, since almost all of his outfits include them in some way.
So i decided to look into it.
Yeah, this guy does love bows.
The only times i could find that he DIDN'T use any ribbons or bows was when he was possessed by LBD and, weirdly enough, in The King, The Prince And The Shadow.
(There are also two flashback scenes in the s4 special where he doesnt use bows, but I'm not counting them since it was REALLY at the start of Wukong's life and he probably didn't even know what a bow was. There might be more but I don't remember them.)
Now this is all cool and stuff(i genuinely think this is cool), but I noticed something in Season 4's brotherhood flashbacks.
As you can see, the other members of The Brotherhood may use scarfs and similar piece of clothing, but no one else really uses any sort of ribbons like Wukong does.
...that is, no one...
...Except Macaque. The person who Wukong seemed to be the closest to before the Journey started.
Guess who stopped using bows after their friendship turned bitter and the ties(hah) on their relationship were cut?
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listen im excited about benedict and francesca but my heart has been so set on creloise since the moment they released the first promo showing them together that it feels like my mom came back from the store and said sorry they were out of lesbians but i got you two bisexuals instead
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I love the way Flapjack just snuggles into his hair like that. 🥺
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the fact that so many ship names (especially for anime pairings and pairings from hyv games) correlate to whether people believe that certain characters top or bottom genuinely bothers me.
it really makes zero sense when the context of whatever post is sfw—whatever their sexual dynamic is is completely irrelevant, so why do ship names have to insinuate one way or the other???
just feels like totally unnecessary sexualization, and i don’t think it’s a coincidence that this is particularly the case for queer asian characters (and in some cases, real people).
personally, whatever ship names i use are based on either popularity or whichever one i heard first (and there’s no right one or wrong one)—NOT whatever i believe their bedroom dynamic to be. i think that’s really fucking weird.
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I think you all remember Legend’s original character traits:
And I’d like to bring attention to “very mature for his age; however still young at heart.”
And I want to know exactly how old Legend is. He’s one of the older teens—so we can safely assume anywhere from 16-19. That being said, I’d like to assume he’s on the younger side of the scale, perhaps 17. At 19, with as many years of adventuring under his belt, his maturity/age ratio isn’t really surprising (unless I’m also mature for my age and don’t know what to expect from people who grew up normally) enough to make note of. To top that off, “still young at heart.” He’s ultimately still a kid. And we see that in this new update:
All the adults—Time, Warriors, Sky, and Twilight are unamused. Even Wild is smiling, but not laughing, Four also quite simply does not find anything funny.
This is interesting to note because according to Time’s character sheet, he has a young sense of humor, but he’s mature enough that it doesn’t show in this scene aside from the “I don’t recommend attempting to keep up with the post man, but go on.” It has undertones of humor—but his expression betrays that he is firmly on track with the conversation and will not delay it by laughing. Legend, being as mature as “very mature for his age” would indicate, should not be laughing, either. And yet:
Thus: Time has a young sense of humor because that’s who he is, regardless of age.
Legend has a young sense of humor simply because he’s still that young.
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