#honestly she grew so much

[ruthlesslistener]

Seeing a white person say unironically that PK and WL are colonizers is so fucking telling that they have zero idea of what racism actually is or the implications behind it, they're just parroting the most basic bullshit to look good. Like come the fuck on that take is racist as shit and its not because PK and WL are any less awful than colonizers. It's incorrect at best but genuinely an awful fucking take when parroted for clout bc you dont wanna be seen as problematic

(It's racist bc equating a genocidal god who you have to shred apart with extreme violence in order to have peace with the pain and anger of indigenous people is. Hm. Bad!!! Not to mention the fact that Radi has a very strong Christian angel motif going on and engages in a 'holy crusade' against everyone in Hallownest INCLUDING OTHER INDIGENOUS TRIBES NOT AFFILIATED WITH THE PALE KING like how the actual fuck can you look at her and go 'oh yeah she represents indigenous people because the moths have what look like dreamcatcher motifs with the essence motes' and unironically think you're not being racist. What the actual fuck)

((Double disclaimer: you can actually write a really interesting and nuanced altcanon narrative with this concept but the problem is that almost nobody ever does, they only ever flag it as 'problematic' because they want to look good, not bc they know the implications))

[dustteller]

I think modern au Zhu SHOULD be the lesbian best friend trope to Ouyang except that its because this man is her pet project and gODDDAMIT she's gonna FIX him she's gonna MAKE him be BETTER she's going to SOLVE EVERYTHING and he will RESPECT HER (she is actively making him worse). She has a whole complex about it and everything. She has based a part of her identity on dragging this man up from his toxic funk and is fully convinced that if she tries hard enough he will eventually come to his senses and be an equal participant in this relationship. They have a terrible wonderful toxic loving codependent relationship that's neither a romance nor a friendship nor a rivalry but a secret fourth thing.

Predictably, this does not go well. The character arcs would be Zhu learning she can't fix a sinking ship and letting Ouyang fail by himself, and Ouyang learning to not be a shit person, actually, and coming out of his bubble of self-centeredness and working on himself instead of unloading his emotional labor onto the people around him. And they should both get to develop a healthier relationship with each other than what they had in canon bc queer solidarity is great and its even better when it's in the shape of some weird bullshit some gay people built out of the corpse parts of heteronormative romance (affectionate and completely unironic)

[marhvee]

it's the second princess of elusiaaa, hortensiaaaa!! 💖

[devilsskettle]

dinner in america is such a “take what you want from it and leave the rest” movie for me because i do think it’s very cute and i can buy into some of the wish fulfillment nature of the story but admittedly there are some parts that really don’t work for me, there are some parts that fall a little flat either in terms of the characters or humor, and the pacing is a bit of a challenge tbh. but it’s unbelievable what the human brain can overcome by virtue of simply Just Liking That Guy

[taegularities]

…

[mad-hunts]

[ TRANSCRIPTION: I don't understand I don't understand I don't understand Why did you leave me, Marcy? We were supposed to be together forever. Is it true that you're an angel now? ]

[mspaint-flower]

why did you first become a flower liker

OK SO UM. story is a bit tricky but i still remember it

basically like, around in january of last year there was this cover of a GHOST song and i really liked it, so i decided to check out more of GHOST's works and. there it was. appetite of a people-pleaser caught my tism and i REALLY loved it and the character, mind you i. thought flower was GHOST's oc at that time. until i decided to google her up and i was like. WHAT. WHO IS THIS ANIME LOOKING MF ABGKHJFBKSFKSJHGFSKJG AND I WAS LIKE OHHHHH she's a vocaloid. and then my autism got more into her because she's So Gender and Just Like Me Fr and my playlist is still made up of like at least 90% of flower songs now

[raiiny-bay]

it’s honestly kinda crazy to me that kel & co were literally the first OCs i ever made

[lvsifer]

Anne Rice on transgender people

Writer, actor and activist Phaylen Fairchild wrote a Medium post calling Rice her friend and “first LGBTQ ally,” recalling when she reached out to Rice in the early 2000s via the email address listed on the author’s website. Not only did Rice respond, she encouraged Fairchild’s newfound writing aspirations. 

“At the time I was a navigating difficult territory of gender and sexuality, and she was the first person I came out to as gay,” Fairchild said in the piece. 

“Anne, although I never heard her voice, felt like a safe place. … She gave me confidence to live authentically, telling me ‘Your life is a story, every day is a new page. Live a story worthy of telling again and again.’”

In 2009, Fairchild came out to Rice again, this time as transgender.   

“In typical Anne fashion, she thought it was fabulous,” Fairchild remembered. 

“She told me at the time that she believed transgender people were sacred, that we possessed a unique gift of life experience that few ever would, which would allow us to see the world from ‘a view from the greatest height.’ She shared with me stories of trans figures in history that she had learned about in her own extensive studies. ‘The most fascinating figures in mythology were always transgender or genderless’ she once told me. ‘And in so many cultures reaching back thousands of years, transgender and intersex people were deified, perceived as wise and powerful.’”

“Anne Rice was the first person who made me feel that it was OK to be comfortable in my skin, and that my journey as a transgender woman was special — not because I was by any means odd, weird or different — but that I was worthy of celebrating because my very existence was ‘a remark on the magic of the complex human condition,’” she continued.

from this article.

[vaguely-concerned]

this is a great video essay that puts into words some stuff I've been trying to express for a long time around why I tend to find a lot of mainstream (English-language mainly) reinterpretations of Scandinavian folklore and Norse mythology hmm... at best tedious and at worst actively alienating and annoying, while also being fair to the realities of triple A game development and the legitimate writing reasons that the studio chose to structure the game/story the way they did. if you just want to hear some cool things about scandinavian folklore and myths and see some banging art, it's also a good time that way!

[welcometogrouchland]

What if I proposed the analysis that Belos actually has very little internal moral compass and that his veneer of righteousness has always been implied by the writers to be complete fabricated bullshit even before watching and dreaming basically confirms it.

[catoscloves]

so i googled rachel gatina's fate and.. fuck that? my girl deserves so much more

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

spot the difference

[haunted-doodles]

not really the type who likes posting their ocs much but here's a Nim :}

[onefleshoneendonebraincell]

nona is getting a reprint and that's insane

first of all, as far as i know nobody has talked about this. however, i have to admit that i'm currently blocking the nona the ninth tag since i couldn't get my hands on the book yet. so if this is common knowledge, I am sorry

Anyways, Nona is sold out. I preordered the book two weeks ago and thought that that would suffice. But nope, I am not getting it any time soon.

(Actually this is quite the complicated process since I'm currently staying in Portugal for university and I don't speak any Portuguese. Additionally, as far as I can tell, Portugal doesn't have as big a "book-culture" as my home country, so it's been a struggle.)

So, I tried to at least get the book physically at home and just read it digitally until I'm back home. But that's really difficult either. Apparently one of the big distributors (or the one big distributor) is just sold out. They don't have any copies anymore. Apparently Nona is THE book to get right now.

And while I obviously don't love not having the book here, I am honestly so glad for Tamsyn. Like I don't know whether her publishing deal is a favourable one, but I hope she gets all the money and benefits from her book being fucking sold out three days after release (actually it must have been sold out before that since I didn't even get with my pre-order)

[desiderium-eden]

(I am so sorry for this.)

"How's your relationship with Cecil?"

...

"Oh. Straight for the throat, huh? Uh... Bit invasive, don't you think? Nah. I can answer it. It's fine. Well... We just to be close."

At least she thought so.

"Brother". That's what he called himself. And while she wasn't sure if she actually believed that. But she wanted to. And it wasn't that he wasn't playing the role. Other than that one incident, she never thought he didn't care about her in some regard.

"Not so much anymore..."

He did nothing wrong. She wanted him to know that. She hoped that he knew that. He just ... went somewhere she could no longer reach.

And he deserved it. Everything good in his life, he worked for. She'd argue Cecil deserved more to make up for every drop of blood, sweat, and tears.

She wanted to be happy for him. She was happy for him. She wanted to only be happy for him.

He did nothing wrong. Of course, he'd be busier. Of course, he'd be going on adventures she couldn't even imagine, much less join. Of course, he'd want to hang out with other gods like her siblings over her. (Even though he held back because of her.) Of course, her issues were nothing compared to the apocalypse. Especially if she never actually told him about them.

Lazuli still wasn't sure what it was. The dark feeling in the back of her head that did this to her. But as time went on, she was looking for them. Any reason to reinforce the idea ... that they weren't, or ever were, as close as she used to believe.

And so ... she stepped back. Reasoned on her own that there was no place for her anymore. So rather than force him to have to kick her out, she left first. She tried to excuse it as thoughtfulness. She knew it was the opposite.

She hated it. Hated this feeling. Hated how the strain was affecting Cecil. Hated this part of herself.

She'd told herself she'd come back someday. When she got better. When she could get rid of this ugliness in her. Before it could poison things further. And with others.

But he seemed to be doing well. His family was growing. He was happy. He was doing perfectly fine. Without her. And if it was going to continue that way ... well, she supposed staying away was the only kindness she could give him.

"But I wish the best for Cecil. I really do."

But the "best" was not something she could be.