#do not percieve this btw

[bluberimufim]

My nemesis, college, has kept me from writing the ending of DoS when I am literally one scene away so, out of spite, here's a snippet of the thing (derogatory) I have to write for my history of contemporary architecture class:

Colour is an often neglected theme, but one that is undoubtedly necessary in architecture. It is intrinsically linked to the expression of a work, being, sometimes, a recognizable characteristic of a style or language of architecture (some obvious examples would be the modernist architects and their use of white or the great presence of gold in many Baroque works). It is a theme from which it is impossible to escape, even if one does not make the active choice of painting (as an example, Giorgio Grassi said to have only chosen materials which already had a colour of their own, like brick, to rid himself of the decision) - all materials have colours and textures that will, inevitably, affect the reading of an architecture project. Fernando Távora was an architect of great influence in the realm of portuguese architecture, in regards to his writings and his built projects as well. His work is marked by the search for an architecture capable of combining the best aspects of modern and traditional in a new style adequate to his ideals. Much of this search involved the use of different materials and, of course, colour. Colour, on its own, means very little. What matters is the context in which it is found: the placement, the language, the material. For example: the residential neighbourhood of Ramalde, the convent of Santa Marinha, and the tennis pavilion in Quinta da Conceição all utilize white stucco on their exterior, but it would be erroneous to claim that this colour should be read the same way in these three works - something which, of course, will be explored in the present essay.

Fuck u. I wanna write about my two codependent besties having a terrible time in a fantasy land. And you force me to write about a guy I barely care about. Why u gotta make me do this?

[suffarustuffaru]

I don’t speak Japanese so I’d LOVE to hear more about the differences between the English and Japanese Re:Zero fandoms

yeah sure its very interesting to me now that ive noticed it more lately :o !! though ok disclaimer - i dont speak japanese either hah so if anyone is seeing this and does speak japanese + is familiar with the japanese speaking side of this fandom please add info if youd like!! and of course ill be mainly speaking from the english side of things bc im more familiar with that yes (sorry anon again im not a japanese speaker T^TT so sorry if i tread on info you already know!!). but yeah im speaking from my own experiences given the Topic at hand. ive been in this fandom since... 2019?? which is so wild to me aljsdfljsd.

anyway so - i think the big difference is mainly that the english fandom and many english speaking people that engage with rezero are. to put it bluntly, misconception runs Rampant to a very Interesting degree. to the point where it seems like the english speaking side of the fandom is More. Aggressive. than the japanese fandom. not that the japanese speaking side of the fandom is perfect - also bc what fandom is ever perfect 100% of the time, tbh - but that the louder people in the english rezero fandom are. well its a Very low bar. Very low. and from what little ive seen and heard so far, the japanese fandom tends to understand rezero and its characters better than the english fandom. which ig makes sense bc you know, rezero is japanese media, and also im sure cultural differences come into play here as well (im not familiar enough on this to speak about it in depth but the cultural differences feel Pretty Clear even though i cant 100% put my finger on what they specifically are).

but also bc yeah. its not That hard to beat some of the english fandom when it comes to media comprehension. misreading rezero is unfortunately Extremely common, both in and out of the rezero community. its Everywhere - youtube, myanimelist, ao3, ff.net, reddit, twitter, various rezero discords - and from what ive experienced, rezero tumblr basically kind of feels like finding an oasis after crawling through the desert for days on end lajdslfjs. which is probs bc rezero tumblr is Smaller and also a lot of us seem to be lgbtq+ in some way or be allies, so you dodge a lot of the misogyny and homophobia that happens in other rezero english circles. its why you see a lot of openly queer rezero-related posts on here while its a bit more. barren. in other rezero english places yes. bc its more safe to post queer rezero things on rezero tumblr rather than rezero reddit for Sure.

im not sure how the japanese fandom is with that exactly but theres some interesting differences between whats popular in the english fandom vs the japanese fandom. i mean as an otto fan ive been noticing how hes more popular with the japanese fandom—and on top of that, ottosuba is Way More popular in the japanese fandom too. reinsuba and julisuba seem to usually be the most popular mlm subaru ships in both fandoms but ottosuba is like A Little Up There in the japanese fandom. not sure if its on the same level as a ship like reinsuba but ottosubas Definitely loved as a ship. from what little ive seen it also seems like ships like vichisha are more acknowledged by the japanese fandom? im not entirely sure on like—Complete differences regarding what the japanese fandom finds interesting that may differ from english fandom, so ill really have to look more into the japanese fandoms fanart and fanfic when i can bc im pretty curious too. in general though, it seems like the japanese fandom has a bit more variety…. you can find fanart on So Many characters in rezero (which already has a very Massive cast full of very fleshed out characters) there. not that you cant in the english fandom bc theres a Bit of variety too, but id more so contribute that a little more to the Big Cast and less to having actual variety in fancontent. and of course im not saying that the japanese fandom may be a bit barren in some areas of fancontent—bc inevitably when u have a big cast of characters, side character content is gonna be more sparse compared to the main characters, but to me it does feel like the english fandom lacks variety in comparison. (and also yeah. seems like the japanese fandom acknowledges gay ships more in general tbh.)

whats focused in fancontent makes it easy to tell what may be popular in a fandom in terms of how fans perceive the source material and what fandoms want to do with the source material, if that makes sense. and its very easy to tell that with the english fandom if you just hop on rezero ao3–or even better, rezero reddit given theres a fanfic ideas thread thats usually pinned right at the top of the site. again i havent looked at japanese fanfic for rezero yet (bc i dont know where to look oops ajdndn) but when it comes to the english fandom you can tell that theyre generally more focused on the female cast both in fanart and in fanfic bc. theyre women and many fans on say, reddit or various rezero discords, are cis straight men, so inevitably… well lets just say you can tell when a man makes content for this fandom o.o theres also the. very weird reaction fic trends and trends following popular fics in the fandom, the two biggest being the watching him die again and again react fic and re:forgotten, the former of which includes a harem plot with subaru and the main girls of rezero while the latter is one of those subaru gets tortured by his ooc friends and then he gets revenge on them fics. which i suppose says something about the english fandom too.

of course on ao3 its dominated mainly by english fics (of course not all fics on there for rezero are in english— big shoutout to all the non english fics on rezero ao3 ur doing great <3 — but the majority are in english). and while yeah ur occasionally gonna find stuff like queer content or side character content or rarepair content, its definitely not that big in amount and also comes with the risk of. Hate. if anyones reading this and remembers the lone star stuff. (if u dont know—lone star was a julius x emilia fic where they NTR subaru or some shit and then it got bombed with hate bc of the ship? yeah.) so yeah english fandom is very cis straight oriented, ironically with the nastiest people being the very people that rezero criticizes. though this is also my personal experience, i do know several people personally whove been in this fandom for a while or were here for a while and yeah english fandom isnt very welcoming at times???? and it seems like at the very least the japanese fandom is A Little Less Aggressive than the english fandom is.

otherwise. yeah im very very curious about more of the differences in popular content between the japanese vs english fandom. i mean the english fandom’s main focus on the female cast for. Interesting Reasons other than their actual character depth is… interesting. and the astreas being popular in general vs otto + ottosubas popularity fluctuating is also very interesting to me (but i have several guesses as to Why that is), among other things. yeah id love to know what else the japanese fandom likes about rezero and see more of their content. i also have to wonder if characters like emilia and subaru are hated less by the japanese fandom…. T^T well that and the english fandom and many english speaking people engaging in rezero have this interesting pattern of either hating subaru No Matter What, wanting subaru to Not Be Subaru (ie using him as a self insert almost or attempting to change him into virtually another character), or putting subaru on a pedestal and ignoring his flaws and mistakes and that he Can do wrong. like theres Really not a lot of nuance there. so i wonder if the japanese fandom is. A Little more chill when it comes to character opinions like this too.

[remxedmoon]

whahat the fuck

[bitterdayheartbeats]

Let out the most Tom and Jerry scream of my LYFEEEEE

Also go follow them they have such great headcanons of Shou that Shou is basically their oc now

[swordbreakerz]

AUSTIN: Apokine reminds you, in that moment, that there are no only children. Not in Apostolos. Who’s up?

yesterday, three years and change since i finished counter/weight, i finally got the tattoo that has been living in my head ever since austin said there were no only children on apostalos. this podcast means a lot to me, it's brought me closer with a very dear friend, gotten me out of creative slumps, and fueled me through long stressful work shifts, and originally i was gonna say more sappy praise but being vulnerable on the internet gives me hives, so i'll let the tattoo speak for itself from here. much love to the cast for making a fish planet that i havent stopped thinking about for three straight years, keep up the good work

[selfcontainedunivcrse]

cvp has bpd so blatantly and i care it. I cannot articulate rnnn but :points: Em

Seren is also about bpd probably a bit more obviously which I feel . unsure abt because only certain things are considered thru Vwoop's lense, when I am usually talking about him, and don't necessarily want to #PerpetrateStigma but He's my little guy. Consider. He is very scared

[pillowenvelopchair]

Grits teeth

[blusilurus]

A Trio of Doodles ft. KayaXDamian mostly abt when they find out when they're having Daichi and a bit after! (Excluding the Wedding and Sensual/nsfw drawings tht tech went with these LOL) I like drawing the lil I guess slice of life stuff?? I lack any comprehension or will to make proper comic layouts though sorry this is how my mind makes puts together lore comprehend it if you desire! (2022)

[yaesaras]

theres been a lot said about ei and scara being parallels to frankenstein and while i can see the reasoning behind that, i think it paints ei in an exaggeratedly bad light simply for the sake of,,, idk skrunkly man woobification? like the difference between ei and scara and frankenstein and the creature is admittedly small, but it matters because the difference between these situations isnt circumstances, its intention. i think we all need to step back for a second and take ourselves out of scara’s perspective, because like it or not he’s a unreliable narrator, and we need to see what ei was thinking when she created him, because ultimately her perspective matters too. the reason she isn’t frankenstein and the reason he isn’t the creature is because the point of frankenstein is to condemn victor for intentionally creating a life that he was unwilling to care for. ei did not intentionally give scara life, at least by her own definition of life. what ei was trying to do was create a glorified nuclear waste container – possibly one with the capacity to move and interact with others, but not alive in the same way robots and computers irl are not alive. she accidentally ended up creating a living being, with the capacity to care about itself and with the capacity to feel emotion, and when she realised this she stopped experimenting on him. i feel like this is often glossed over in discussions of ei and scaramouche, but i want to highlight this because despite how scara feels about it, ei, once she saw that he was alive, did not attempt to harm him. it was miko who wanted him dead, not ei.

and as for her abandoning him, i’d make the argument that there… wasn’t really a better option? like what else did you want her to do? her options were: a) keep him and raise him, b) kill him, c) keep him, but dont bother to raise him, d) don’t seal his power and let him go, or e) what she did in canon – seal his powers and let him go. i think options b and c are both bad for obvious reasons, and i dont think d was viable in a situation where his powers may have allowed him to harm people. the only remaining option, if not e, is then option a. and idk about you but i dont think that giving a god who is struggling with grief and trying to avoid ruling her country a child to raise is remotely a good idea. and thats not even getting into her tendency to make impulse decisions and then stubbornly stick to them even when they cause harm to others. that environment would have been absolutely godawful for scara to grow up in, and thats not even getting into yae miko. further, even if she did raise him – there’s the issue of yk. ei going into the plane of euthymia. we can’t be certain that she would still go but like. she might! she absolutely might!! and i think that would again be fucking awful for scara to have to deal with, and while it might fix some of his abandonment issues,,,,,,, idk how you’re going to deal with all the other issues that would come from ei raising him.

i’d also make the argument that ei’s “abandonment” of scara is absolutely not the same as victor abandoning the creature – the biggest reason why being, once again, intention. i feel like when we get into discussions about fictional creation of life, a fair parallel to draw is the creation of life in the real world. victor intentionally created the creature to be a living being, over the course of several months, and when it came to life, he realised it was a mistake, and abandoned it. to me, at least, it seems aligned to someone who intentionally got pregnant, didn’t bother – for literal months – to think about the fact that they would have to take care of a child after it was born, and then when the child was born, decided that they didn’t like how it looked, and gave it away. ei, on the other hand, unintentionally created scara, and didn’t even realise that scara was alive, after which she decided she didn’t want to raise him, and left him. this is more paralleled to someone who unintentionally got pregnant, didn’t realise they were until they gave birth, and then decided they didn’t want a child and gave it away. the intention behind their actions makes a difference. i’m not going to pretend that ei is somehow not flawed or that she couldnt have handled that whole situation better but she’s not, you know. victor fucking frankenstein.

i understand and relate to the sympathy and empathy that a lot of people feel for scaramouche, and i even understand how he, as a character, sees ei as the villain in his story, but i feel like the genshin fandom really needs to stop and realise that they dont need to demonise one character in order to like another. you don’t need to demonise ei’s actions in relation to scara in order for scara’s emotions towards ei to be real and valid. if you want so badly for ei to be a bad person, there is literally so much you can talk about, including but not limited to: her actions during the archon war, the vision hunt and sakoku decrees, the way she treats the puppet, the way she treated miko post cataclysm, etc. there is no fucking shortage of things that ei has absolutely fucked up. however, getting mad at ei for *checks notes* not raising him when she was in an emotionally fucked up state that she might have compromised her ability to raise him is not remotely the argument you seem to think it is.

[existencebringsonlypain]

ooooorghhh really regretting being born with standard female anatomy rn

[asiancatboy]

i love to joke i'm just a cute little tiny baby boy w my friends & mutuals but the second anyone outside of that circle jumps in or says anything remotely infantilising my asian senses tingle

[bitter-sweet-coffee]

when will people cough north americans stop generalizing the entirety of continents as one entity? europe is culturally diverse, so is south america, and asia, and africa, and all the little places inbetween like countries in the caucasus?

i’m sure it’s real easy to generalize a whole lot of culturally rich places to make your point, buddy

[autistic-evil-xisuma]

Ok. Made one specifically /r post. Romance repulsed again 💃

[hibiscus-ships]

They just HAD to add insult to injury through making the first ED for this show perfect for GaliJenni to waltz to....... 🌺

[ghoul-haunted]

ngl maybe its for the best that this site doesn't actually know anything about Scorsese films. if people en masse here tried to actually do anything with the immigrant culture themes in those films, I think I'd actually break someone's kneecaps. on the other hand, behold: it's kind of funny that everyone has opted to focus on the homoerotic and to ignore immigrant culture narrative themes, it's very on brand for this site in terms of media analysis.

also, none of this is vague posting about anyone, I have it blacklisted so I do not perceive any of it I hope everyone is having fun and a good time, I'm browsing through some blogs I enjoy but don't follow and I'm seeing the fringes of Yikes™ and also a weird amount of people who are committing to the bit too hard. like, learn when to break the kayfabe of it all, jesus.

[kadhal]

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