#hashtag why am i the way that i am

[strangerhands]

raaaaa aaaaaaugh i wanted so badly to have today be the day i finally catch up with everything on here because its been A WEEK. which is very long for me. of barely being on tumblr and not keeping up with things and people. but i just keep procrastinating and spending my whole day watching youtube videos instead😭😭😭 i just think the prospect of "returning" is slightly overwhelming to me because of the way i think about things but i need to just chill the f out and hopefully tomorrow will be the day. no april fools joke. tomorrow. i will RETURN

[frociaggine]

would you be able to give examples/explain more about how race only impacts gideon in the tlt-universe? not being facetious or condescending, genuinely asking. thank you!

Hi anon! If you mean my tags to this post, I wrote

#earth conception of race doesn't impact any character in the series except the canonically brown main antagonist

By which I mean my Worstie and main antagonist of the series, John Gaius (PhD).

I don’t think TLT as a series engages with race in any especially meaningful ways. It’s set in a post-Earth society with entirely different social norms, and there’s no concept of race and ethnicity within the population of the Nine Houses. Physical descriptions of the characters are scarce to say the least, and they rarely spell out the kind of features that suggest specific racial connotations, because the POV characters don’t seem to think it’s something worth remarking upon. iirc, it takes until halfway through HtN for the narrative to confirm that Harrow has brown skin.

[See also Tamsyn’s GtN characters description post. It quotes passages from the book, and you can see how minimal the descriptions are, and she repeats several times that her characters’ appearances are up to the readers’ interpretations. It just doesn’t seem to be a big concern of hers]

Then there’s John, who grew up in twenty-first-century New Zealand and IS explicitly Māori in a way that absolutely impacted his character arc. It's not A major theme of his Nona chapters, but it’s there if you read between the lines. The boarding school he went to, which IRL had a high percentage of low-income Māori students on scholarship. The depth of his climate anxiety, his uncompromising “Nobody left behind” stance before the cryo project was halted, and his fervent hatred of ‘the trillionaires’ afterwards... these are all informed to some extent by his background as an indigenous man imo, and so was the global reaction to his developing powers. The “We were going to put you fellas in jail, weren’t we?” the way his initial attempts at publications are all flat-out ignored by the scientific community and dismissed as culty gimmicky faith healing until he leans into it.

John being Māori is just one of the many pieces of his backstory, and far from the most impactful to what eventually went down, but my point remains that he is the ONLY character in TLT whose racial background 1) affects his story arc and 2) is relatable to the audience. Everyone else is ten thousand years removed from Earth, and I’m just not very interested in using racial identifiers when exploring these characters and their dynamics, because the characters themselves don’t care and neither does the narrative.

[kindheartedgummybears]

you wanna know what??

I am

TIRED

of overmasculinized werewolves!!!!

I WANNA SEE A

WEREWOLF

WALKING AROUND IN A CVNTY LITTLE OUTFIT!!! WALKING THE STREETS!!!! DISEMBOWELING CREATURES!!!!

I WANNA SEE WEREWOLVES COVERED IN BLOOD AND GORE WHILE WEARING A SHORT SKIRT AND CROPTOP WITH HELLO KITTY ON IT!!!!

I WANNA SEE A WEREWOLF WALKING AROUND IN COTTAGE AND FAIRY AND PRINCESS CORE OUTFITS!!!!!! WITH A DEAD MANGLED RABBIT IN ITS MOUTH!!!!

AND MAKE THE WEREWOLF

D I S G U S T I N G ! ! !

[wavetapper]

wtf... real

[constantvariations]

Okay so, I like that Professor Rumpel is both Rumpelstiltskin and the miller's daughter-turned-queen, and that her weapon invokes the spindlewheel from the tale, but the guessing of the name is so utterly lazy that I could chew glass

Spoilers for Before the Dawn btw

It literally comes out of nowhere. There is no buildup to the mystery of Professor Rumpel's name; she just randomly says at the start of the fight that if Fox, Neptune, or Yatsuhashi can guess her name that she'll let them go chase the Crown

It would have been so easy, too! Just have it be Rumpel's game whenever the students want something. Late to class and don't want extra homework as punishment? Guess her name and you're free. Got caught getting handsy in an inconvenient spot? Guess her name and she'll let you off with a warning. Hell, have some of the staff lean into it for comedy and comradery

This would naturally set up why Rumpel would offer an easy out to the fight and establish how steep a demand that is for our heroes. If no one's guessed her name in the many years she's been at Shade, what hope do they have of figuring it out in the next five minutes?

But, no. We get zero setup and the payoff doesn't even land! They guess her name and Rumpel attacks Neptune anyway. Right in front of the whole school, including Headmaster Theodore! In what world does that make sense? I get that she's desperate, but it feels contrived so Yastuhashi can do his thing and accidentally break the mind control

These books honestly read like a first draft of a story that really could've been something if more time and attention had been given. Rwby in a nutshell, eh?

[uncanny-tranny]

So I saw this show I used to watch as a kid on a streaming service, Hoarders, and it's about, as you'd assume, people who compulsively hoard.

When I watched that show as a kid, I remember how you were invited to almost... judge these people, "Oh, how could you live like that?! I'm glad that's not my house..." and I remember this shock factor that sunk you into the episode, at least in the early seasons.

I think it's a product of the attitude we have about these sorts of things. When I look at that now, all I see is trauma, people who are suffering, and then essentially being shamed on television, no less. It just feels like watching somebody at their lowest for an hour, recounting trauma, disability, loss and grief, mental illness, and so many things.

[altschmerzes]

one day my wife and i are gonna compile our enormous 'this is why this is garbage and everyone who wants to kiss this author's ass should so some serious personal reflection and also read another book im fucking begging you' review of all for the g/ame and then it will be over for all of us

[andoutofharm]

because i was checking tags on some of my other posts and saw this: please dont fucking use my posts to complain about your post hiatus 8 ball song. i am NOT sympathetic to you and in fact i think youre the worst kind of fan. Okay That Is All Carry On

[idlebug]

finding a blog that posts cool art music and fashion: 😁

all the other posts are reminiscent of 2014 "pale blogs", full of "ballet aesthetic" adjacent images, very pale thin women's bodies / exploitative model photography, childish anime girls in sexy poses with meme text over them, and text posts from op talking about dieting and skincare: 🙁

[ghoulishtomato]

Modern book readers when their characters aren't literally a clone of Jesus Christ Himself starting at Chapter 1

[cryptojuice]

take this with a grain of extremely drunk but at this point I'm my journey? now? I'm like literally the idealest person in the world and I think everyone else has something wrong with them

[itchingdreams]

first story idea is about my new baby girl, bob velseb. i saw ppl simping for him, got interested and i am now a changed man / j

BUT. my story idea for him isn’t really anything grand or special. just something really simple. the reader could just....be almost as tall as him, or even taller.

say it’s a thing where you’re awkwardly tall. you’re taller than your parents, than all of the adults in the your hometown. and because of your height, it was hard to really grow a relationship - nonetheless a romantic one - all because people couldn’t stand your height. and so you move to a different town which is a lot nicer than your hometown. yeah, people may still look at you weird but at least it’s not that bad.

next thing you know it’s halloween night. and you don’t look at the tv often so you end up missing the various warnings and news reports about the crazed cannibal murderer that broke out of prison.

yada yada yada, either bob tries to get into your house to kill you or you see him at a party or something. eitherway, you bump into the guy and boy, you sure are happy to finally meet someone taller than you. you knew there were taller people out there and lucky you, right there he is.

you are excited !! how you react though depends on the situation.

if you met him at a party, you’d be pretty friendly and all smiles ! you’d probably introduce yourself as the second tallest person in the town. maybe even jokingly ask where and how he’s been hiding from you this whole time because you definitely would have seen someone like him before. which he finds a little cute.

but if he broke into your house, with the intention of killing you, you’d be a little more... hesitant. you’d joke that tall people need to stick together and that he really shouldn’t kill you - that he should maybe drop the knife and holy fucking chopsticks why he got a sharpener. he’ll tell you a fact or two, you tell him a fact of your own (of literally anything that you remember because you’re hoping to get this guy to stop looking so menacing). after a couple minutes of staring (him staring at you while you switch between looking at his eyes and his weapon) he backs away. not before pointing at the bowl of candy behind you which you nod to, because hopefully he’ll play nice if you just give him a snickers or something - you don’t know he might be hungry.

anything else i’m not sure about lol. depending on either choice, i feel like it would just go down the path of bob being obsessive over the reader which i always find a fun read !!!! i just. idk. this idea came to me randomly and i. love it. oh my god.

[worstloki]

"Sylvie isn't a Thor variant" oh yeah? explain Alabama then.

[mazojo]

This gotta be SO embarassing for him

[mashmouths]

i was tagged by the wonderful @bourgeoix to post my receiptify for last month (link to do it here) !! i have never claimed to have cohesive taste <3

i'm only surprised that "emergency contact" made it but "hermetico" didn't..... someone's lying. (also i feel like i listened to "amsterdam hotel room" more than "china beach" but whatever.)

i'm tagging @tired--misu @callisteios @hunnycutt @caintooth @bulletsfrank @frenchsiren @sunmisbf @dustbunnyy @xanaxcake and anyone else who sees this and wants to join in !! <3

[pepprs]

in my despera (despair era)