#cut for length tbh

[starfoam]

HONESTY– What kinds of small lies do they tell others? What lies do they tell themselves? What is the biggest lie they’ve told?

AUTHENTICITY– What are sub- and unconscious things that make them who they are? Who can they be themselves with, and who do they wear a mask for? What kinds of social roles do they perform?  

INTEGRITY– Do they stand firm in their beliefs? Would they lie or refrain from disagreeing to avoid confrontation?

HONESTY: Honestly, 'I'm fine" is probably applicable to all three for this one, but aside from that...

The small lies are mostly about timing. She spends more hours in a day working than most - literally, because she does a lot of work in her castle, which just goes at a faster rate inside than outside. She can easily cram three hours of work into an "outside" hour, and will go for almost a full work day if she can, all while only a couple hours have passed in the "real" world. She has not ted this to her exhaustion problems.

The lie she tells herself is that like... the way she's doing things is okay. It's not. She has extreme anxiety about wanting things (especially relationships), and just exacerbates it by trying to abstain into not wanting without giving herself any grace for wanting in the first place. It's a deeply vicious cycle she doesn't know how to stop doubling down on.

The biggest lie she's told... she never told her family about her deaths, and plays it off as a "fake" death or a "quick" reset. It's not. Even if her soul never goes anywhere else, she still dies, and that's something she's going to have to contend with for... forever, basically. She doesn't want to put her family through the horror of knowing that.

AUTHENTICITY

OOF. Okay. So caring about others and trying to be "good" are the big ones, but it goes deeper.

Lo's deepest wish - more than a romantic relationship, more than motherhood, more than any of that - is community. She aches to be part of something again - because while she's still welcomed at home, there is a distinct Otherness to her now that she can't ignore, and believes has lifted a wall between her and the people she grew up with.

(There used to be. They're trying to bring it down, but she can't see it because of how high the wall still is.)

Lo wants to belong, so desperately, and the irony is she masks herself to be loved for who she is. She represses her impulses, hides her wants, and overall pretends to be a rather Stepfordian version of herself in fear that if she shows anything less than perfect, she'll be excised from whatever relationships she has.

The irony being, of course, that this just pushes people further away.

Lo wants to escape her role of being the Giver, the Mother, the Supporter, but also feels it's the only sort of role she can wear that others will allow her. Anything else is taking up space that isn't hers, intruding on the time and attention of those around her.

INTEGRITY

This is the one area where Lo has genuinely improved - she still chooses her battles, but she remains steadfast in her beliefs and practices as Luminous. And to those who says she has to kill or she's letting people off too easy, she just says fuck that. She is not here to punish the wicked. She tried that, and guess what? The wicked stayed wicked, because punishment doesn't do shit and killing means there's just another body. She focuses on helping people and fixing problems from the ground up, choking out evil at its roots - hunger, fear, desperation.

... Sometimes monsters. She doesn't kill them, either.

[old-stoneface]

ive redesigned my vetinari a couple times over the years, and he always looks basically the same, but i like this one the most. this definitely took the least amount of effort to sketch out of all my designs

[yasperapologist]

[skitskatdacat63]

2009 Australian Grand Prix - Jenson Button(ft. Rubens Barrichello & Jarno Trulli)

[padfootastic]

maybe it’s becoming less of an unpopular opinion, but Remus is not a father figure to Harry. whether he’s a ‘good’ person is debatable, he’s human, but his flaws are often glossed over and he’s definitely not the saint fandom makes him out to be. even if we ignore his abandonment of Harry for twelve years (which doesn’t compare to Sirius not being able to be there because he was in JAIL), he doesn’t tell Harry about the friendship with his father until the end of POA, then promptly disappears from his life. he then shows up in OOTP, then promptly disappears after Sirius’ death. you can argue he was grieving the summer after, but Harry gets nothing until DH. Remus absolutely deserves the verbal smackdown from Harry in DH about abandoning his son. it’s just a shame no one else thought to do the same on behalf of Harry.

oof, okay, i see we’re out for some (nice, well deserved) violence ;)

i’m sure it comes as no surprise that i strongly agree with this

it’s like—even if u say that he couldn’t/didn’t need to contact harry pre-hogwarts (which i heavily disagree w tbh) then what reason did he have for his distance during hogwarts and ESPECIALLY post-poa? like, our boy had zero family during the third task, the least he could’ve done was come see him??? but nope. remus was just like ‘i’m outta here bye 🥸’

and don’t even get me started on all the fics/hcs that fully equate remus & sirius in terms of parenting in all the wolfstar raising harry stuff. like, i’ve mentioned it before and i really don’t care what individuals write about fandom is ur playground and all that but!! BUT!! when the dominant perception becomes that remus was just as good as, if not often better, than sirius at being a parent and s becomes the irresponsible man child then that’s where it gets me fired up. like, the audacity to not just be wrong but also completely malign sirius, the one adult who unselfishly cared about harry?? ugh sorry. u can tell this is my soapbox lol.

Send me unpopular opinions!

[opens-up-4-nobody]

Why would I schedule haircuts when I know that I can wander into my bathroom on a whim and cut off 10 inches of hair with a pair of fabric scissors?

[chloelouygo]

fun fact for yall About The Blogger, I dyed my hair a few months back to the same colour as angel devil lmao

[viriborne]

It’s so crazy hearing these assholes talk about how they get their hair cut at a dresser every fucking month?? Cannot relate I literally only remember two times I’ve ever gone to the hairdresser in my life.

[newtness532]

i need to do something drastically different in my hair like right now

[quillyfied]

Was talking to my sibling about the first three eps of OFMD s2, and said something to the effect of “but I’m waiting for the whole season so I can watch it as a whole and dissect it and dig into the themes and foreshadowing and symbolism” and it occurred to me that 1. That’s the most English major thing I’ve ever said, and 2. I often fall into the pit of bitterness for majoring in that bc while I have passion for it, I haven’t been able to make it a viable career for myself, and in that existential angst I’ve been languishing for something to tingle that part of my brain that adores literary/media creation and analysis (that I can also get paid for), and. I forgot. That I’m using those exact skills when I participate in fandom. Which is why I fell so hard in love with the fandom life in the first place. It’s fun for the sake of fun, analysis because stories matter and they matter to me.

Listen I’m intelligent, I’m not smart XD

[jamesbukkakebarnes]

🦔

[hellonoblesky]

Um... I think . I might have gotten too silly with this essay (I'm about halfway through everything I want to cover)

[ID: A google docs word count, stating that the document this screenshot is from has six pages and two thousand four hundred and thirty-six words. End ID]]

[thebeautifulfantastic]

i really want to be one of those beautiful girls who always have impeccable hair and natural-looking makeup but the truth is most days i truly don’t have the desire to put anything more than the bare minimum into my appearances

[waywardsalt]

Hi! What do you think of Linebeck’s manga counterpart compared to his game counterpart? Is it about the same or do you feel different about them? Any sort of thoughts opinions and interpretations about his manga and or game counterparts?

Hi! Thanks for the ask!

I had to dig up and reread my Phantom Hourglass manga for this since I haven’t actually read it in a while, which I guess already reveals some of my opinions about it.

Off the bat, I feel differently about manga Linebeck than game Linebeck; I like the game’s version of him better, and I’ll go ahead and say that it’s probably because the manga cut out pretty much over half of the game’s plot, which severely limits a lot of stuff in the manga, as well as trashing the majority of Linebeck’s original arc and therefore making his manga arc feel very abrupt to me.

So, in terms of how the manga version feels in comparison to the game version… overall a bit lackluster compared to the game? Mainly due to the fact that half of the plot was cut, so you lose the letter, the slower changes seen through dialogue, as well as losing the two sea monster battles. The fact that the manga cuts from the ghost ship right into the Bellum fight is mainly what kills his arc a bit, since he more or less start and ends in the same places as the game’s versions, but in the manga you lose most of the build-up to that change. It also suggests the idea that he actually had less development than in the game, due to losing the letter bit and cutting out a lot of the time he had to change in the game. You lose some of the smaller details.

In general, I’m not a big fan of what the manga did with Phantom Hourglass’s overall plot, and this even extends to how they presented the final boss, too, even though a lot of people like this interpretation. I do like this play on the final boss, but it feels like it just… lost what extra impact it could have had due to the plot getting shuffled around. Placing the bellumbeck fight before the fight against just Bellum just feels… wrong. In the game, the bellumbeck fight being the last thing gives it more impact and leaves Linebeck’s possible fate a bit murkier (if you don’t know what happens, of course), and I actually dislike how this shuffling of events erases a) the ghost ship battle and b) Linebeck using the phantom sword to protect link. Obviously, these have their manga parallels (Linebeck helping fight Bellum in the end; his waking up during the bellumbeck battle and that ensuing bit), but I feel like the game’s version of events do more to support his development and make it feel more meaningful.

So, my general feeling about manga Linebeck compared to game Linebeck is essentially that the manga version kinda got shafted by the story cuts and shuffling of events.

Aside from problems caused by the pacing of the manga (this thing is at breakneck speed it’s been a while since I read it and man that’s fast pacing), in terms of his actual characterization, he’s also a bit different from the game. A lot of his traits are exaggerated throughout, which has its ups and downs.

I’m just going to go through the negatives before going through what I like; I’m not really a fan of how… over-the-top and cartoonish he comes off at times. Even in the game he doesn’t really come off like that, and with some of the turns the manga takes, it makes it a little harder to pinpoint exactly what his deal is. He’s definitely treated as a joke for a majority of the manga, and he generally comes of as incompetent at points, too. It’s a little harder to track his character development since, due to story cuts and pacing, it comes about faster and with little visible warning. Overall, he’s a bit shallower in the manga, though mostly due to axing the part of the story where the majority of his character development happens.

I don’t hate this characterization, though. There are a few small details- usually things either unique to the manga or other things not really even touched in fan media- that I really like. Number one on that list is the visual detail of him sticking out his bottom lip at lot. It’s so fucking good and fits him perfectly it’s so childish and I could absolutely see him doing that within the context of the game’s plot.

I also love how awful he is in the manga. I love it when he’s genuinely terrible and morally dubious. There isn’t much of a ‘oh he’s actually good at heart’ thing going on until later and it’s great. I personally love characterizations of Linebeck where he’s genuinely kind of awful on purpose. He borders on antagonistic a few times and it’s great.

In terms of deeper interpretations… I’m not at invested in the manga, so there isn’t much, so I’ll compare notes with my game interpretation. Linebeck in the manga doesn’t give me the same general vibes as Linebeck in the game; he seems more comfortable talking to people, less affected by Ciela (less negatively affected, that is; meaning that in the manga she actually helps him towards his development, while in the game she seems to make it a bit harder for him), and there’s less evidence of autistic traits or stuff like that. I’m pretty sure that plenty of people have psychologically picked apart manga Linebeck, so I’m not really going to touch on that beyond he’s definitely got some issues, though different issues than his game counterpart, in my eyes.

[b1ttle]

So it turns out our college is having us do a junior version of the SpongeBob Musical that’s shortened so much it’s only one act long…and no where in the audition or callback process did they specify this (we literally did scenes from the full version at callbacks???)

I was so excited for this role but now I’m just pissed like wtf?? I didn’t sign up (and pay money!!) to do a version of the show that’s made for 12 year olds????

They don’t say it’s a highly shortened version in any of the promotional stuff either which means they’re expecting people to pay full price for a show on the main stage that barely lasts an hour I just…….what the actual fuck??