#critical! that's your warning!

[cursedwithgloriouspurpose]

Gotta love when you don't know how to talk about a piece. So, a few weeks ago I drew this: the duel scene between Alanna of Trebond and Dain of Melor from In the Hand of the Goddess. I hadn't posted it, yet, because this is also the first piece for my new youtube channel, MouseWorks, where I post book discussions and art speedpaints/tutorials. The first video launched yesterday, which covers both the full, step-by-step of creating this illustration, and also my thoughts on the first two books of The Song of the Lioness by Tamora Pierce. Link in the source for anyone who is interested.

[oddthesungod]

they're a little bit fucked up and i love them a lot 🥰

[ladykeyleth]

Filed under: improvised lines that rewired my brain chemistry.

[kthulhu42]

the post:

the profile:

(I'm shaking in my boots)

[cemeterything]

okay fine i'll read homestuck. whatever. i've cracked i can't take it anymore i need to fuck around and find out.

[blood-orange-juice]

You are all going to block me but I just realised that I do low-key ship Aether/Lumine.

Hear me out.

It's the plot of so many myths. The best known is, of course, Izanami and Izanagi's story (the whole reason why siblingcest is so popular in Japan. same level of cultural importance as the madonna/whore complex for Christians), but there are also Fu Xi and Nuwa, Sun and Moon gods of the Inuit mythology, a bunch of Greek gods, a bunch of Egyptian gods too iirc.

Old cultures that had god-kings (some dynasties in Egypt and, as we discovered recently, Ancient Ireland) considered marriages between siblings a norm for them specifically and something to be frowned upon or at least unusual for everyone else.

You can't convince me the twins were not god-rulers in some faraway world (they also found it so boring that they don't do it anymore. actually, I'll stand by this headcanon even without shipping them).

Celestial beings that already are one and the same in some sense. Twin stars.

The symbolism just does something to me.

I wish I could say this is not about boring human sex (they are interstellar eldritch beings anyway. merge your photons my funky little sibcons, as Ray says) but nope, I think their interactions can easily take the form of boring human sex too.

(it's just not the main thing they have going on)

I'll show myself out.

P.S. there's also a bonus: all Traveler ships are now threesomes

[revengebian]

ok so this post is gonna be soooo self indulgent, it's about my favorite show revolutionary girl utena. it's pretty niche, but there's a fandom for it on tumblr, and i love the theories i see circulating here but the thing that irks me is that no one actually "headcanons" the main character utena as a girl. she's always non binary and/or trans masc. utena is like, the most insane butch lesbian representation you can ever get in a 90s shoujo, and one of the reason i dislike these trans headcanons is i guess selfish cuz i relate to utena so much and i hate the pipeline of gnc girls being trans, but also because the show is literally ABOUT dismantling the system of gender + patriarchy.

without spoiling (because i highly encourage people to watch it, this show rocks) utena's conflict is that she wants to be seen as a prince who saves other girls, but because she is a girl herself in a super sexist society, no one takes her seriously. she wants to be a prince but, as the show progresses, it becomes increasingly clear that becoming a prince doesn't actually help the people she cares about, because the system she's fighting is built on the idea that people can be princes at all. i think it's a really good allegory for how gender in modern society works; despite saying they want to abolish it, people just swap different boxes on and off.

unfortunately i can't make a full analysis on this show because it would require me spoiling the end, which i just can't do. it's okay though because im just glad i got some of this off my chest; i feel strongly enough about this show to talk about it on this blog where im still not sure how much of myself i want to express.

if you're a rad fem please watch revolutionary girl utena and tell me what you think lol

[midnightsunnyday]

So, I've been thinking over this, and I'm really not trying to come across as rude or offend anyone with my take, but...

What exactly does this fandom want from this game and its characters?

Do y'all want a game featuring good, uncomplicated human men who live by good, uncomplicated human standards and never do anything wrong but with tails, horns, and wings?

Or do y'all want a game about the literal lords of hell and whatever that may entail?

Because I can't be the only one who finds it ironic that the characters who act the most like demons are widely disliked, while the characters who act less like demons are widely liked, right? In a game about dating demons, being demonic or showing any kind of character flaw isn't attractive, and those of us who actually do enjoy the darker themes, when we do get them, are treated as having somehow failed morally for liking it. It makes no sense to me.

And this is in spite of so many posts from this fandom stating how they want their "demons to be demons." That they want complex and interesting characters. That they want to feel like they're in a realm surrounded by devils and engage with all the hostilities and angst and drama and blood that comes along with that, yet in the same breath, can't even handle characters like Lucifer, Belphegor, Asmodeus, Solomon, Simeon, and Diavolo. Characters who aren't exactly nice or fully transparent about their goals or actions. Characters who are a little or a lot fucked up. Characters who are gray at worse, but ultimately, show they are capable of being more. Even if poorly executed by the writers, they tried to show us, to some extent, exactly what we've been asking for. Now we rarely get events or chapters where the brothers so much as even swat a fly, and I can't help but blame that on the knee jerk reaction of the fandom to scream about anything less than flattering.

Which is why I can't help but wonder if Obey Me! Nightbringer does happen to touch on darker themes and characterization, than I can only imagine how well the fandom will handle any of it (my guess is poorly).

Feel free to leave a comment. As I'd really like to have some more opinions on this.

[hotjaneaustenmenpoll]

Mr. Darcy propaganda:

Listen, we all love Matthew MacFayden (2005) but his Darcy barely resembles book Darcy. He’s too unrestrained, too openly passionate. The tone of that film is all wrong and Darcy suffers for it.

Colin Firth (1995) is book Darcy brought to life. He uses tiny gestures and looks to communicate with us and Elizabeth… his struggle is so subtle but so palpable. A beautiful asshole with a creamy nougat center. Just perfect.

Mr Darcy (1995) Vs Mr Darcy (2005)

[acebender]

People still saying that Imogen is running away when we have heard from the Tal'Dorei leaders that they've lost ruidusborn people to Predathos. Imogen isn't just shying away because she's running from her powers, there is real danger there.

There is a god eater that even the prime deities are scared from beckoning her home.

Imogen is rightfully scared.

[magicalspit]

critical role ep 79-80: there's a lot of Threat Of Death in these team building exercises?? surely we don't need that for trust and communication exercises

critical role ep 81: threats of death were not enough

[actual-corpse]

Imagine a famdom so toxic and backwards....

They REQUIRE you to tag shit as critical in order for YOU to avoid hurting their feelings.

Like.... If you make other people responsible for your feelings, you're gonna be miserable.

I saw someone compare the Pilot of Hazbin Hotel to being in a COD lobby where all the preteens let you know that they know the F-word, and you know what? They were right.

It's edgy jokes for the sake of edge, and y'all really need to get used to the idea that this is a public website for everyone to express their thoughts and opinions on things (mostly media) and if you don't like it?

Block me, wuss

[guckies]

I wanna explain why I dislike q!bbh because of the purgatory event. Because personally I feel like some people misunderstand why some of us do. So warning from now if you dont wanna see q!bbh neg

Last warning this is qbbh critical and my opinion! If you don’t want to see that stuff then move on. ALSO IT IS MY INTERPRETATION OF RP DONT LIKE IT THEN TELL YOUR STREAMER TO NOT RP OR GO TOUCH GRASS.

It’s because once purgatory is over, he will find a way to blame it all on someone else and not take responsibility for his actions. And we know he will because he’s done it the entire event and before on the island. It’s as if he is playing the villain because he wants to be the hero. Yet there is no concrete evidence to match his actions it’s just what he feels.

Yes his rp can be based on his emotions but right now it’s just the same thing over and over without trying a different way it becomes so boring and barely rp since he’s the only one wanting to doing it during those times.

He excuses a lot of his actions because it’s red team and you can try to tell me someone who he does the same for but he doesn’t. Which makes him their villain, he literally even admitted to basically torturing them.

His actions are categorically top 3 shitty; he’s borderline obsessed with red, he doesn’t listen to his leader, he’s not always a team player and has ruined his friendship with others because he believes he’s right 100% of the time. This isn’t everything bc you can do your own research. Yeah that can be his rp but people can dislike his character rp.

At the end most will just forget it too because that’s what they always do and not everyone is “rping” the entire event despite some doing a little or joking about it. Someone will talk about how he’s the egg babysitter, then he’ll play it up and they forget about purgatory because they’ve got bigger fish to fry. Which I don’t like, it excuses things he’s done and I would rather he have done it so that others can feel betrayed and not want to be as trusting of him, instead of it just going back to normal because then what was it for. But in my opinion those who were “tormented” by bad in purgatory shouldn’t let it go. Because with this “lore” i would 100% think about how he would easily kill or destroy someone else for selfish reasons on quesadilla.

My problem with his character now is that he’s trying to play the hero by winning the event yet majority of the time it comes with no evidence or agreement and at the downfall of others who are meant to be his friends. So yeah his actions are going to make him a villain. He has no idea who the cursed team is only a small clue that reveals not much and he’s only really discussed it about once with others. If he believes his team is the ones who need to win then don’t you think he should try to discuss it with them via their leaders yet they just give up cause of Bad’s previous actions which has doomed blue team.

Also a small thing about his rp, if he’s in rp 90% of the time especially during this event then he should be prepared for backlash. Because yeah rp can be battles and destruction but if it’s the same thing over and over with no one else rping then maybe it’s time to get meta and think about something else to do because it becomes boring for everyone. It’s just him doing the same thing and then getting shocked when red does the same in retaliation.

BUT THIS IS JUST ME AND MY OPINIONS. You don’t like, you can move on and live your life or fucking block me I really don’t care.

[morvith]

[Spoilers for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the kingdom. Also, Bad idea! Angst! Extreme angst! Tw: Death! Read at your own risk!]

I am really craving a fanfic where...

...Zelda remains a dragon forever.

Imagine Link visiting her, and growing old. (She recognized him by scent, sees him change - his hair turns grey, his face wrinkles, his hands are no longer as strong as they used to be - but she does not realise what it means.)

And then one day he does not come any more. (Does he climb a mountain for the last time, just so he can see her fly overhead? Is she the last thing he sees?)

And then the years pass, and he comes back. He always comes back. (He is different every time, even his scent is different, but it's always him.)

The one constant in an ever changing word.

[Yes, I am aware that Zelda remaining a dragon forever and ever would massively screw up the reincarnation cycle and Hyrule because hereditary powers and who the Hell is going to seal the Calamity now?!?!

Maybe that's why Link comes back so many times...]

[ningmung]

This is so insane one of my friends said she wanted to start selling mary kay products telling us to support her n yk initially i was like okay but then i was like ? "Mary kay... I heard that b4" and I looked it up and turns out it's an MLM scam and I asked her that n she just sent me a sticker pretending it wasn't an mlm scam... uhm.... 💀💀💀 like wyd...⁉️ ik she's desperate for money but she doesn't have to go thru an mlm she's gonna lose more money by doing this

[thecruellestmonth]

Normal Batman fans: I don't want to engage with parts of canon in which my fave is an abusive asshole. I choose to engage with other stories instead, and I ignore stories that I dislike.

Nasty toxic Batman fans: Ooh, Bruce is being totally gross again, don't mind if I do~

Good Dad Bruce™ stans: Yes, I fully acknowledge that every single one of Bruce's kids is deeply—at times suicidally—traumatized by his parenting failures in canon, but he is NOT a bad parent! Bruce LOVES his family. Sometimes COMPLICATED PARENTS make their children feel WORTHLESS and ISOLATED, and then don't do anything to fix it! It's totally NATURAL, Bruce is just a COMPLICATED parent! He's COMPLICATED! Bruce LOVES his family. COMPLICATED, I say! NOT ABUSIVE! Would an abusive parent put a hand on his child's shoulder in a vague display of warmth once every few years??? Hm??? Yeah, I DIDN'T THINK SO, YOU STUPID ABUSE VICTIMS!! Bruce LOVES his family. He does nice things—why are you ignoring all the nice things that he's done? He is just an IMPERFECT person, he has made some teeny tiny mistakes repeatedly with 5+ separately acquired children over a twenty-year period. Bruce is just a regular IMPERFECT human being—which means that you critics are the UNREASONABLE MONSTERS imposing PERFECTIONIST standards on a poor innocent middle-aged baby adult man! Bruce LOVES his family. How could we expect exceptionally privileged hyperintelligent parents NOT to regularly use their position of power to make 4-6 children feel inadequate, unsafe, and alone?? What ridiculously high standards! Bruce LOVES his family.