#god i could rant about this for DAYS

[stagandthestar]

GOD did NOT create you to HATE on an ENTIRE GROUP OF PEOPLE!!!! GOD TOLD YOU TO LOVE AND ACCEPT EVERYONE!!!!! AND TO BE PEACEFUL!!!!! AND HE CREATED US TO HOW HE SAW FIT!!!!! FROM HIS MOLD!!!! AND THAT HE WOULDNT MAKE SOMEONE "WRONG" OR "BROKEN" OR "ILL" AND THAT WE'RE ALL FROM HIM!!!!

[yaralulu]

thinking about the tamcien betrayal again (when am I ever not) because narratively speaking that shits SO good. Like to have a character like Lucien, whose most vivid and reoccurring trait is his fierce loyalty, turn around and betray the person he’s undoubtedly the most loyal to is just so??? Insane??? And what gets me even more is the way Lucien continued to stand by Tamlin’s side and even got mad on his behalf even as he was actively betraying him by fleeing spring with Feyre. Like his loyalty to Tamlin is almost instinctual atp (insane behavior btw).

On the other end of it, to have Tamlin, a character whose very closed off and doesn’t let anyone in, get betrayed by the person he trusts the most and is literally the closest to is just so…..Inject that shit into my veins RIGHT NOW.

[hexbaiting]

Do you know what absolutely kills me?

Mobius doesn't often let himself get rattled. He usually lets things roll right off his back, no matter how chaotic things get. Two out of the three times we see his calm demeanor crack, however, are related to Loki: Once when he feels as if Loki betrayed him for Sylvie, and the other when he figures out that Loki will be sacrificing himself to save everyone. Even during the time that Brad goads him, and causes him to lose his temper, Loki is right there for him, to help him calm down again.

Loki really is the center of Mobius' universe, and the one thing that is able to break his composure, is the thought of losing him. 😢

goddd yes thanks for this because it kills me too!!!

but okayyyy let's talk about it because wtf is this??

he's so hurt!! betrayed!! look at his face!! owen wilson you owe me money!!!

and the jealousy fueled spectacle he puts on right after. "It's breaking my reality right now!" oh, baby, we know.

and this

this look on his face?? literally brings me to tears. he's scared and confused and loki's out there!!!

and my personal favorite

it's the clenched fists that really send me over the edge, because he's trying desperately not to break down, not to lose his cool. he just needs to hold it together until loki gets back. he'll make it back. right?

but godddd that look of pure anguish on his face. it's like his life is flashing before his eyes but it's all just loki.

(why yes i did make gifs specifically for this ask, i promise you i'm very normal about all of this)

another scene where mobius loses his cool (that i just really love) is when they get separated at roxxcart. mobius is energized by the fact that they're so close to finishing this, but also that he and loki were gonna do it together. loki was the one who figured it all out and mobius was so proud and just,,, "you're gonna take my job if i'm not careful." and why did he have to say it like that???

anyway, the last thing mobius wants is loki out of his sight and he has a conniption about it!

"of course he's a threat [...] that's why i want him with me." and yes of course mobius knows better, because no one else knows loki like he does. but i'm also very endeared and amused by it. mobius please take a breath.

i also love loki's soft, "mobius, it's fine." just end me please.

AND YOU WANNA TALK ABOUT MOBIUS BEING AFRAID OF LOSING LOKI WHAT ABOUT THE ENTIRE FIRST EPISODE OF SEASON 2

THE CLUTCHING??? THE MANHANDLING???

i will never be okay again and it's because of THIS EPISODE.

"loki's here? where?" "i need a loki who remains." the look of horror on mobius' face every time loki timeslipped "he'll make it back." "give him more time! he can still make it!"

season 2 really is where mobius just falls apart and the crisis of faith fully sets in. of course his worst nightmare is losing loki; he's the only real thing mobius has left. "everything you've been doing is wrong, and all your gods are dead." and poetically enough, not all of mobius' gods are dead. loki's there. loki made it back to him.

and they're whole conversation in the automat after brad chipped away at whatever was left of mobius' defenses. of course mobius doesn't want to know about his past life. his past life didn't have loki. he likes his life at the tva because loki is there with him.

it's why he leaves once loki is gone

ANYWAY, this kinda got away from me oops i'm done fhdgfjsdg

[withered--s0uls]

uuuhhh so the ADHD has been ADHD-ing...

I could rant like. A lot about the HPD & BPD coding here, the very obvious codependency (especially on Capochin's end for that one) but I'll leave that for another time / see if anyone would be interested in that ... I do think they'd qualify as pretty decent rep for untreated / undiagnosed for that

Anyways - GGG fandom, this is my application to join y'all /silly

I have a hyperfixation on trauma & mental health too, and will likely dive into that with them at some point. Analysis and stuff. I mean I kinda already did in DMs to someone but shhhhhhhhh, I'd need a proper script to make a post about it.

I would also would have doodled Patty bc I love them a ton, but I'm NOT confident enough yet in the way I draw these lil guys. Patty will get a proper artwork when I figure out how to translate the Bizzyboys into my style in a way that I like. I swear.

[sludgekludge]

I'm all for opposites-attract friendships but I can't understand what a woman like Lute, who is described as cut-throat and no-nonsense, very self-assured and independent, would possibly see in someone like Adam. It makes 0 sense to me.

A confident and skilled woman who commands respect, deferring to her bestie boss that calls her demeaning nicknames constantly? And that's just...everything about her character? They gave her nothing outside of Adam but I can't wrap my head around why she would like him in the first place. If anything, the way she's set up, I'd expect her to be resentful that an unprofessional slob like him leads the army.

I want to say I'm sure S2 will elaborate on their relationship outside of 'Lute big mad', but honestly, I don't think I can trust the show to do even the barest minimum.

"Vivziepop, please give lute a personality and character outside of the misogynistic man she's inexplicably attached too" I beg on my hands and knees. Vivziepop descends slowly from the heavens and hands me a scroll before ascending once more. I open it. It is a picture of a cock. She has written 'fuck' underneath it. I weep.

[rhaenin-time]

No, House Targaryen is not inherently "doomed" by the very same flaws (and themes) that doomed the civilization that they left.

No, they're not fated to succumb to the Doom that they survived specifically because of the foresight that set them apart from everyone else who perished. Not only would it be terrible, simplistic writing, it would also endorse a terrible, simplistic worldview.

People choosing to make House Targaryen a representation of and thematic successor to not just the civilization that they differentiated themselves from, but the power structure that they chose to leave, literally divested from, and actively worked to prevent from rising again in another form... really rubs me the wrong way.

Why isn't this projection and generalization done for any of the families that come from the cultures that are not coded as other? Why is it only the family that's been separated from their cultural context? Why do the other families each get to be unique, complex manifestations not just of different aspects of their cultures, but of their own specific histories?

Why is the foreign degenerate family both a representation of everything wrong with the culture they come from, and a scapegoat for everything wrong with the system they assimilated into? How is it they represent everything bad about what they left behind, and also everything bad about the land they came to? Even though all those flaws are not only shared by the system as a whole, but are flaws that predate their arrival, that they were punished for resisting, and that they are demonstrated to be incompatible with. Why is it always both?

It just rings so familiar to the way so many people view the other in real life. Because the Targaryens are overtly, and intentionally written as the other. It's the reason so many people identify with them, and it's the very same reason that other people vilify them. They're not just the in-universe other to the 'default' culture established in the text, but they're also given characteristics that we, the reader and audience, can recognize as other and even sometimes anathema to Western Christian culture.

Perhaps the old tales were true, and Dragonstone was built with the stones of hell

A Storm of Swords, Chapter 25, Davos III

I want you to ask yourself: Why is the idea of "fire and brimstone" evil?

To paraphrase the annoying people that love to cite Ramsay when they feel like it: If you look at a morally complex family surrounded by other morally complex families in a morally complex world in a story that's famed for seeking to challenge your underlying assumptions, and think that their association with fire and brimstone is meant to signify their singular satanic evilness, rather than say... challenge that very Eurocentric assumption, you haven't been paying attention.

This vilification mindset where the Targaryens are the singular evil of Westeros is so common to people who seem to want to consume ASoIaF without engaging with the criticisms of the Eurocentric worldview of history at the heart of it. And they end up using the convenient “others” to project all the wrongs of that world onto so they don't need to examine it any deeper.

This is the part where I so often get crucified!

This is the take that so often gets me crucified for "trivializing real world bigotry" in an attempt to "moralize interpretations of fiction" by an onslaught of people with troubling ideologies who then ironically steer the onslaught to moralizing their interpretations of fiction in a way that seeks to either mask or justify their troubling ideologies.

The worldbuilding of ASoIaF is an almost unparalleled projection of the Eurocentric worldview. That's what makes the world feel so rich. That's why GRRM and even the readers and audience are able to craft so many details that feel intuitive. But that also means that how you choose to interpret that world is often driven by underlying biases and ideologies that relate to that worldview — especially if you're not willing to challenge them the way George RR Martin does and encourages you to do.

It means that certain potential biases and ideologies people might balk at outwardly expressing in the real world are recontextualized in a way that feels more comfortable to indulge in.

There are countless examples from countless parts of the narrative. Honestly, you could fill books on the matter. But the one I'll point to right now is how the vilification I pointed out earlier is so emblematic of how the Eurocentric worldview often seeks to project their own flaws onto the other or choose scapegoats for systemic issues.

It comes from the same place with how someone pointed out that the baffling bastardphobia that would have medieval peasants giving the side eye is so often people jumping at the chance to “cosplay” as bigots who base their arguments in misogyny and bio-essentialism. Because it's an acceptable channel to indulge in that mindset in a way that they'd often otherwise question, or at least hold back from expressing out of caution.

And there I go again. "Moralizing fandom" for pointing out that fandom is so often used as a 'safe space' to build communities that share and spread troubling ideologies that you're not allowed to criticize because those ideologies have been 'appropriately' decontextualized from their real-world parallels, even though those parallels are still very much there.

But the problem is that it's impossible to simply 'channel' bigotry and leave it in an 'acceptable' space, because bigotry doesn't work like that. It's not a static object you can carry around in your pocket to play with when you think it's safe to do so. It's a blight. A living poison that feeds and grows and spreads. And if you give it a 'safe space' and continue to feed it with 'acceptable' fuel, it will always find its way out.

[surreal-duck]

silly thing but this might be my fav one ive drawn of him so far i think :'> other doodle for scaling ignore that

[hotchtits]

one of my favorite CM fanfic details is when authors differentiate between "hotch" and "aaron" as if they’re two different people.

like every time i read it in a fic, especially when another team member notices like

oh that’s aaron. hotch isnt here right now.

i start giggling and kicking my feet because RAGGHHHH

[emloafs]

so when are we gonna talk about how the costuming for the teens in cobra kai is actually heinous

[woodlandeelf]

i want everyone to know. that like as soon as we had news of DA4 being real. sometime around may/june 2024. i had the idea for a blonde elf pc (and as soon as the faction backgrounds came out, i knew she'd be a de riva/Antivan Crow) and the name Brynnor popped into my head fully formed with like divine inspiration, i have no idea where it came from

this bitch has been with me since day one brother!!!!

[ask-pomni-blog]

DID YOU WATCH THE NEW EPISODE?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

🎲

OMG YES! I HAVE SO MANY THOUGHTS OH MY !! i just love the purpose of this episode, it was a perfect balance of humor and emotion, & i love how it was very character focused !! i feel like i have a better grasp on Pomni's personality now ! shes such a cutie omggg ! ^^

[adore-gregor]

Ooof

Looking at old posts, sometimes you just ask yourself what was I thinking 😅

[stories-by-rie]

how to feel excited about my own projects again

[persephinae]

No sorry one more thing then I'll shut up for today

I have been playing video games and watching nerd shit since I was 5. I have never, in all my life, seen such a massive drop in not only media literacy, understanding of source material and genre tropes, but also just an UNWILLINGNESS to even engage with it

These people just come in and use the media as window dressing for their dollies so they can smooch, all while NOT EVEN ENGAGING WITH THE SOURCE MATERIAL

Like I love me some shipping but at LEAST I fucking know the source material before I engage or do anything, nor would I ever dream to dictate to others that "yeah I didn't even play or watch, but I liked the vibes so I'm canceling canon because the source material talked about icky things (real world issues)"

Like wtf is wrong with you

[tanicus-caesareth]

guarana drama, damage control

[sealer-of-wenkamui]

A couple of things about Limbo and Danzou, because I am constantly thinking about those two:

First of all, a possible hint at why Limbo is so fixated on her. Kashin Koji of course is her creator, and their dialogue mentions that they have a deep respect for Seimei, and not only that, their Valentine's scene brings up that Seimei was involved in the precursors to Kashin's own karakuri, and are made from the same craft. Given Douman's obsession with Seimei and need to surpass him is the whole reason he became so twisted in the first place, I doubt its a mere coincidence that the creator of the doll he's fixated on would bring up Seimei. Combined with how he found her in a helpless state where he could easily toy with her as much as he pleased, its no wonder he was quickly drawn to her and went to great lengths to hurt her so much.

The second thing I found interesting is Danzou's line for things she hates. There's no prerequisite for this line, so she's bringing it up before her interlude and heian-kyo (and apparently people were initially confused what she was referring to by the dark sun, though of course now its obvious she's talking about Limbo, that said, it IS mentioned at the very end of Shimousa, so the connection was always there- specifically the lines "He has taken in the dark god as his own personal sun, and transformed the wicked god into his own magical energy." and "Fear the curtain of night. Tremble before the dark sun.")

Anyway, I think this was an excellent way of conveying how deeply intertwined the two of them are, her story is in part about her breaking from from Limbo who continues to haunt her. This is Servant Danzou, who is based on PHH Danzou, not Shimousa's, so there's no way she would remember him, and yet he's hurt her so deeply that she has this innate fear of his symbol, the dark sun. (I wonder if the virus he implanted in her also plays a role in that...?)

Which is also why I'm disappointed Heian-kyo kinda half-assed the end of her and Limbo's entwined arc, it has a perfect lead up between Shimousa, her interlude, and the beginning of the chapter, but falls off and forgets about her for most of the middle/end. Honestly, it should have been a Danzou-centric chapter precisely because she's the one with the deepest connection (other than Seimei obviously)/most harmed by him and while she thankfully DOES get to be the one to finish him off, she didn't really do much during most of the chapter and it feels like they barely talked.