#but yes this a correct take lmao

[junkosblunt]

Junko: "The most despair I have ever felt in my life was killing my sister."

Mukuro, in the afterlife: "JUNKO LOVES ME MORE! SUCK IT, YASUKE!"

no because i know mukuro’s weird ass was lowkey thrilled when junko murdered yasuke because it was one less person to steal junko’s attention away from her 💀

[blupengu]

Man, I’ve been reading through the Commission Handbook, and while overall I think it’s just kinda neat, the few notes we get from Founder Five kind of break my heart. Some quotes from the Founder’s notes for those interested:

(Referring to a commission agent who keeps trying and failing to save her son using the briefcase) “She reminds me of how badly I want this crazy experiment to work. I want to go back desperately.”

“… Reading your thoughts on the Commission and our cutbacks has made me feel empty inside.”

“… I’m forced to consider if all of this energy, pain, and suffering is worth it. I’d like to think so, but currently the prognosis doesn’t look great. But you have my promise. As long as I breathe, I will keep fighting.”

(Referring to Five’s profile) “The way you write about this boy… or man, I’m not quite sure. It reminds me of someone I’ve lost… I think about the first time Five traveled through time. There he was, just a child, blessed with a power that was spellbinding. But when he used it, he was lost. Stranded in an apocalypse nowhere near his family.”

“If I’m being honest, I don’t remember my own name, it’s been too long. Now I’m the Founder, and that’s enough. Everything else has fallen by the wayside.”

“The Commission was a failure. Not for lack of trying, might I add. Golly, we did try, didn’t we? … In truth, we never stood a chance… Thank you for trying to save the world with me.”

Like damn, now I understand old man Founder Five we see in S3 who’s given up 😭

The person who wrote this book would’ve done a much better job at writing S4, this characterization of Five is much more accurate to the one we know and love lmao

[throwawayasoiafaccount]

god tywin lannister deserved worse

just remembering elias death and i wanna puke and the way tywin talks about elia and what happened is so damn gross

but rip tommen and myrcella we all know what’s about to happen in the next book :/

the cycle of violence just keeps spinning and damn you tywin for beginning it

(i got a bit crazy in the tags 💀)

[iamthemaestro]

am I really at the point in my life where I’m having to decide if 8+ instruments is too many to bring to school…

[stephantom]

I’d need to watch it again to confirm this, but I’m pretty sure that Thomas Becket is the only character who independently initiates touch with Henry?

There are plenty of people whom Henry touches, and it’s almost always possessive or threatening: the villager woman in the first flashback scene, the Saxon peasant girl (and possibly the old man? I think he prods at both of them with his riding crop), Gwendolen (holding her shoulders/neck), the French prostitute (kissing, leaning over, sitting on, slapping her butt), his sons (pushing and kicking them), the bishop (strangling), his barons (clutching onto one, tapping one’s head to indicate his vapidness), and Thomas too—(clasping his shoulders when he realizes Thomas is hurt, holding his hand to put on the chancellor ring).

Interestingly, I don’t think we ever see Henry touch or be touched by his mother or his wife. There’s the moment when he grabs/kicks their needlework, and later on he knocks all the plates off the table, possibly vaguely in their direction—so there are two physical interactions which are violent but still sort of… distant? And still the direction is just Henry to them (in terms of physicality, anyway—verbally, they do initiate conversations/fights with him).

Does anyone touch Henry? There are the monks who whip him in the end, but Henry has ordered them to do it. Likewise, there’s the servant/valet/page who begins to wipe him dry in the bath scene, but again, that’s someone performing a duty. Thomas Becket though, cuts in and takes over the drying, and the dialogue tells us explicitly that he’s not expected to do this, and doesn’t have to (“You’re a nobleman—why do you play at being my valet?”) but Becket seemingly wants to do it, and he knows Henry likes how he does it: enthusiastically, confidently, warmly, and freely (“No one does it like you, Thomas”). He towels Henry’s head, helps Henry put on his boots, and then casually uses Henry’s legs to push himself up to stand.

There’s the scene in Henry’s tent, after the French prostitute has left and the two of them are sitting on the bed: Becket sort of leans in and briefly clasps Henry’s arm where it’s lying in his lap, casually and warmly.

There’s also the getaway horse ride, where Becket is holding onto Henry, arms wrapped around him, and they’re both laughing and smiling. Henry’s shirt actually falls open a little and Becket’s hand winds up on his bare torso.

And then there are the thwarted attempts at touch, after the split: the two scenes where Henry accuses Becket of not loving him. Both times, Becket moves toward Henry and reaches out to touch him, and both times, Henry moves away and tells him to keep his distance.

They’re quick little things, but if they are actually the only instances of anyone touching Henry affectionately (or even of their own volition) that we see over the course of the movie, it does support an impression of Henry as fundamentally isolated—maybe there is truth to his claim that Becket is the only person who’s ever loved him.

What’s tragic is that 1) Henry doesn’t really know how to express love himself (see: Henry expressing nothing but violence and entitlement to everyone else around him, and even to Becket for the most part), and 2) Becket’s love, albeit huge in Henry’s world, is conflicted and unfulfilling—for both of them.

Becket might be the only person who’s dared to reach out to Henry and meet him on something close to a human level, and Henry loves him for it, but why does Becket do it? Part of it may just be an instinct of Becket’s to fulfill a need where he sees one, if he can, and if it benefits him. I think it’s so interesting that Henry seems obsessed with the question of whether Thomas really loves him, when it seems the truth might be that Thomas actually doesn’t know; maybe it’s an unanswerable, even nonsensical question to him. Like, what else could he do? I don’t know. “Insofar as I was capable of love, yes I did [love you].” But the fact that his last words, unwitnessed and private, are, “Poor Henry.” Fuck me up.

Ok, that last paragraph got away from me and now I can’t stop. Tempted to draw comparisons to “Beauty and the Beast” (this is a sad version where no magical transformation happens… unless you take a particular Catholic stance and consider that both of them maybe took real solace and meaning in Thomas being made a saint and that Henry maybe found real absolution through his penance).

I also want to compare all of this to “The Lion in Winter”, where it feels like, rather than a story about one lonely monster in a castle full of people he sees as objects, it’s a whole microcosm of traumatized and power-hungry people, reaching out for power and security and love and stabbing each other in the back, over and over. (Like, of course his mother and wife and kids have complex feelings for him—some of which involve love!) I think that depiction is better and less myopic, more true to life and probably a more accurate portrait of the historical figures involved (even when it comes to Henry and Becket—Becket was of that world too, after all), but I think I’ve rambled enough about all of this, so I’m going to end this post now. I’ll just say that there’s something nevertheless appealing about the boiled-down fairytale melodrama of “no one else ever loved me but you!”

[peonycats]

do you know nation being thing? it is a webcomic series on tapas which way more popular in instagram and they have canon Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates there so you might want tpo take a look

Oh yeah I'm aware of that comic! Although I was under the impression that lullindo was no longer into country personifications media...? I used to follow lullindo on twt and when i did my yearly check in on twt i saw they deleted most if not all their nation being content?

[bananasfosterparent]

[rubixpsyche]

the implication that only skinny people go to hell

[hyperfi]

Inuyasha showed in every way he could he wasn’t over kikiyo and kagome had to watch the entire time,,,, he was all in for kagome once kikiyo died. I’d be mean to his ass too

God forbid he can't get over the traumatic death of his first love, who he was going to become human for and settle down with. Oh what a crime! He is loyal to his first love while Kagome can't figure out how she feels and refuses to be straight with him.

So terrible of him. He should definitely be ridiculed and punished for such horrible behavior.

Never mind that he and Kagome are not a couple, except when it's convenient for Kagome.

[farfromdaylight]

genuinely amazing to me how many people can skip part or all of a story and then think they have a worthwhile opinion on it. no, actually, no one cares what you think about a story you didn't actually watch

[saenora]

doing your finances is such a headache like 😭

[axolotl-from-space]

On Terminology for gender stuff

So I read this tweet that was like “my afab body” in regards to a person lamenting the effect of his first puberty. Since some words are actually TERFy in origin, sometimes using the wrong ones can undo a lot of the work the community did to separate from the idea of “biological gender” (which is so wrong for reasons I’ll maybe detail in another post). 

When it comes to terminology, this can also be a helpful guide to DEMAND better medicine: what passes for “gender medicine” these days is an absolute joke, “WoMen aRe LeSs prOnE tO CAthcInG CovId” is one take I’ve heard on state-sponsored TV health programs and the thing is, with how gender medicine research gets done, we have no idea if that’s even true. Doctors usually use only a person’s legal gender for this kind of survey (and trans people would muddle the stats anyway so best case scenario we’re just excluded from the scope), this means we have no idea if people with estrogenic dominance catch Covid less, or it has something to do with XX chromosomes. Is it having a uterus? Not having a prostate? literally being a woman (so identity-wise)? these are individual factors that get lumped together under the lazy medical category “women”, when in the real world people can and do deviate: some women have high-T, some don’t have a uterus. What about intersex and trans people, how should we interpret this data? 

Since I can’t fix years of bad medical research alone, I will instead give you a key to saying what you mean in this context: with some luck you’ll get addicted to linguistic precision and will stop tolerating this kind of crap; and maybe in time more and more people will stop standing for unnecessary lump-ins and imprecise language.

When To Say What: When you’re talking about...

How society treats you or other because of their assigned gender: AGAB (AMAB/AFAB for most of the world)

Ex:  “Being AFAB, I was never introduced to STEM as a child”

How your assigned gender influenced the way medicine cared for you: AGAB

Ex: “My doctors at first though that my T was too low, being AMAB and pretty feminine”

The way a specific puberty shaped your body and experiences: E/A puberty, E/T puberty

E/A means “Estrogenic/Androgenic”, E/T means “Estrogen/Testosterone”: the most famous hormones responsible for physical changes that are gender-coded

Ex: “My T-puberty gave me broader shoulders than the average girl”

Ex: “My voice never really drop during my first puberty, being it Estrogenic”

The way your hormonal cocktail shapes your physiology and psychology: E/A dominance, E/T dominaince, or just say the relevant hormones

Ex: “Since I’ve been blocking testosterone, and my muscle mass is decreasing”

Ex: “estradiol makes me anxious, but it gave me back the ability to cry”

The shape of genitals (or any organ really) and how it affects you or someone: <The name of the organ>

Ex: “My penis is small and cute, I like it but I’d prefer a vulva and vagina”

Ex: “My prostate has to be checked frequently for cancer”

Ex: “I don’t like having a uterus: so much drama once per cycle and I don’t even intend to reproduce”

A chromosomal set and its consequences: 23XX, 23XY, 23XXY, or just talk about the specific chromosome

Ex: “People with just one X chromosome are far more likely of being daltonic”

Ex: “Having XY chromosomes, my cat can’t be calico”

For the negative examples (what not to do), I’ll refer you to your own brain, try swapping shit around and hear how bad it sounds. Or worse, use “men” and “women” instead of what you mean: the uneasy feeling you should get is lack of language precision masking or endorsing transphobia and eugenicism/the idea of “ideal human”

Okay, just one: Men have broad shoulders do you hear the wrongness yet?

[gendervapor14]

on september 26th i’m going to start posting an old story i found in my hard drive. i’ll drop one chapter a week. it’s an old sorazon cora lives AU that is extremely fluffy and makes no goddamn sense but i reread it the other day and i thought. this is just stupid enough to post. so. i’m going to do that. don’t let me forget.

it’s 11 chapters long!! and incomplete. which is the main reason i didn’t post it. i don’t like posting incomplete works. but i think some joy can be scraped from this story even tho it isn’t “finished”.

also i miss uploading multichaptered stories… so this is my compromise.

also. yes. bell-mere is in it. hehe

[kalashtars]

the term boymoding changed me fr. it feels so gender. boymoding. i'm shifting into boymode.

[jessiesjaded]

popular fandom artists being seen as like Word Of God by other fans will always have me like No <3

[lookanartdweeb]

Why is my stupid mario post blowing up.... why couldn't my art blow up like this 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭