#i dont even know what to tag this really

[monalisaspears]

i was thinking about this before bed the other day and idk i wanted to try and articulate the thought as best as possible.

mona lisa and rebellion are two sides of the same coin, but i feel like mona lisa is the commercial version of rebellion.

like think about it like this: that 50 second snippet of rebellion that's out there and that one pap clip of britney driving off while playing the intro are DARK. they're gritty and they're eerie sounding. if we actually got rebellion on blackout, im not sure if it would have been a single or just an album track/cult favorite. like of course, a lot of things would have needed to go differently for that to have happened (i.e. the cship) but i really can't see rebellion as a track for radio. whereas mona lisa has a similar (albeit not the same) message and is more radio friendly, sonically speaking (besides britney literally leaking it to kiss fm herself). and honestly? it's prophetic too. not that im saying one track is better than the other, but GOD mona lisa predicts britney's future to a T and it's scarily accurate that i can only imagine what the final sound of rebellion was. even with the alleged confirmed lyrics that are online and the snippet we have like that does not read as a radio single in the slightest, that feels like a cult favorite album track.

and another thing: it is SO bizarre to me that mona lisa was included on the singles collection. like yeah, it's on chaotic, but that was released in 2005 and at a point where britney was as free as can be. for the cship team in 2009 already two years into the nightmare to allow mona lisa to be released again as a part of the singles collection is so wild to me. like i don't know if it's just me but it almost feels damning for them to approve it. like maybe a misdirect, like they assumed we wouldnt see the cship as a bad thing if they willingly allowed this song that's so self-aware about how the industry (and her team specifically) did not want to see britney succeed on her own terms. like a hiding in plain sight thing? but even still, wouldnt it make more sense for them to try and bury it? continue with the narrative that original doll never existed and Britney went rogue one night by herself and turn the narrative on her? it just confuses me. not to mention the prior use of the mona lisa moniker in do somethin' which was also pre-cship but after mona lisa the song was played on the radio. like it's all so confusing how these are all connected and yet such isolated events.

it's just all so interesting to me. like i wonder about if we had gotten rebellion and mona lisa was the lost track and if the demand and intrigue would be the same. i think because there's something darker and sinister almost about the way rebellion sounds and how stark of a contrast those lyrics are to anything else she's released there's a reason it's so sought after. and it's not like mona lisa's lyrics arent telling, they are, but sonically that darker grittier tone to rebellion is something unique compared to the instrumental of mona lisa like that instrumental comparatively doesn't feel as heavy, charged, and loaded as the snippet we have of rebellion. i think if the situation went exactly the same but with rebellion being the leaked KISS FM track instead of mona lisa it would have been silenced by team con AND wouldnt have been looked at twice by the GP.

i dont know what this is supposed to accomplish or justify but it's just something i've been sitting on for a while in my brain. the what ifs of life always get me especially with rebellion and britney's life and career. rebellion always intrigues me with all the baggage attached to it including but not limited to the death of one of the song's producers (may christopher "notes" olsen rest in peace). it fascinates me still that of all her songs that have leaked over the years that rebellion never has, despite someone allegedly having THE blackout demo cd that has the full song on it. it's just something i find fascinating that i wonder about a lot from time to time. 2007 could have gone in a COMPLETELY different direction and rebellion is the barest proof of that against all that's happened since.

[peanutseagle]

bro will master art just for her

[mirrorhouse]

I have what you're looking for. High quality. Befitting a man of my tastes. I have a room over on Divisadero, not too far a walk.

[gunstellations]

clouds

[afterthelambs]

I'm not sure if I believe the "Wakaba Isshiki did unethical experiments" theory in the fandom, but I do think this is the biggest proof of it in-game:

Because how the hell would she know that?

The first explanation is that she did experiments by sending people into palaces and then testing what happens to them if the palace collapses. Which is messed up for obvious reasons.

The second explanation is that she did NOT test it, meaning she was just making shit up. Which is funny but also would make her a terrible scientist. This explanation is less believable because everything else about her research is too accurate.

There's also a theory that Wakaba did unethical experiments on Akechi specifically. I'm not sure I believe that, since the evidence for it is pretty shallow (like the featherman game scientist experimenting on grey pigeon). But this scene is once again the biggest argument you could make for that theory. The researcher in the image above refers to palaces by their correct term 'palaces', which they say was based on Wakaba's research. But that's only something you would know with firsthand experience of the metaverse. And the only person they know who could access the metaverse was Akechi (that we know of, but i dont think Shido would rely only on Akechi if there were other options).

So yeah this scene is very sus. It's most likely the writers didn't think too deep about the implications. There's no way they wanted Futaba's mom to be sketchy, right? But even if it's not intentional, the scenes and their implications still exist. So in conclusion those theories make sense, I get it, and I don't blame anyone for headcanoning them and having fun. And tbh anyone involved with cognitive psience was portrayed as some degree of unethical (maruki for example), maybe this is just on-brand

[soup-child]

The fact that Adaine "i don't know if im asexual im 15" Abernant and Riz "why is everyone so horny im definately aroace" Gukgak both being in the same show is incredibly important to me

[uravitypng]

dabi's talking about you to shigaraki while you're still in the room but he's paying no attention to you, treating you like you're not even there. you would typically call him out on his behaviour but right now he's telling shigaraki how much you're a good girl for him in bed and you freeze up and get flustered and it's hard not to when he's telling your boss how well you follow orders. "come here doll," he calls barely looking at you. you're confused and nervous but you start walking over to him. shigaraki smirks at the display. "kneel." your supple thighs expand as you immediately drop to you knees, realising that dabi is showing off and if you misbehave it could go very badly, you're in a room alone with two of the most dangerous people on the planet, granted dabi is your boyfriend but that's never stopped him getting angry at you.

dabi just pets your head laughing before turning back to shigaraki and carrying over the conversation. "i didn't have to train her or nothing, it's kind of pathetic really as soon she joined the league she did everything i asked trying to get my attention." you look up at him slightly frowning, he just pushes your head back down. "sometimes she'd look up at me with these doe eyes trying to be all innocent like, asking if i needed help on something. after awhile i gave in and fucked her like the whore she is. she's desperate, always trying to please, it really is pitiful."

"can i see?" you hear shigaraki rasp but you don't realise what he's talking about until you see him gesturing towards your soft body.

"what's in it for me?" dabi casually replies, you can't help but tense up, you don't know what shigaraki wants with you but he's never been one to sit and watch when he wants something, he takes. and right now with the way he's looking you've never been more scared of him before.

"whatever you want."

"okay."

your heart drops.

[gobstoppr]

Tetris Fanart.

I've been playing tetris while listening to horror podcasts. and yeah

[randys-ranch]

I get kind of dysphoric seeing Kabru being the only one to get depicted as a trans man in all the dungimeshi fanart, he is short, effeminate, cunty- its weird, why is your first assumption the feminine short man is trans? What exactly do you think is inherent to the afab body that makes it such a immedianet thought?

You cant really ..tell queers just by looking at someone.

Why is it never Laios or Senshi? Its uncommon to see transmasc art of them, and i know why that is.

Theyre "traditionally masculine"

Which isnt true entirely, Senshi was described as effeminate for a dwarf, but he adheres to Our standards of masculinity, so he doesnt appeal to the inherent idea people have of trans men- and people think trans men are women.

So. Yknow. Think before you trans i guess. Youre actually perpetuating some bad ideas by not having any range in your depiction of transgender men.

If you only ever draw short, cunty, pretty, effeminate, snappy yet subby men as transgender men...

You...are doing a poor job at spreading transmasc positivity.

Even if you yourself are transmasc you are still susceptible to perpetuating the idea that trans men are inherently weaker, softer and more feminine compared to cisgender men.

Yes gnc trans men exist, its important to depict those in art aswell, but unique gender presentation doesnt equate to your personality.

The problem with trans Kabru is all the art im seeing of him "mothering" Laios' children, taking on a "female" role in the ship art, adhering to a status quo because of his vagina..

There is just a lot of shitfuckery and i think you need to give it more thought before deciding the femmy subby man is a transgender man.

And i've NEVER seen a transfem Kabru- oh but everyone LOVES transfem Laios, theres probably more to unpack about transfem Laios being so prevalent but its not my place to do so.

[dailyloopdeloop]

DAY 71: shy

[starrysharks]

hotel manager

[cobaltfluff]

so i started playing persona 4

where are the QoL features

[moeblob]

What if I straight up didn't explain myself? What if I just said trust me on this? Would you?

[lunarharp]

if i just told you i love you would this world change

[meamiiikiii]

[reverse entry AU]

so glad the work week is over!

no more meetings!

what do you mean its only tuesday.

[arom-antix]

As part of a two-part reverse bang-bang, here's some more Valentines art to which @probablytoooldforthis wrote an amazing fic, Sweets for the Sweet! Please go check it out, I promise you won't regret it, and keep your eyes peeled for the second chapter - and artwork, of course - coming out on White Day aka the 14th of March!

Also, I this is an unrendered version, the finished version will be posted within about a week's time (hopefully) since I don't have access to digital drawing at the moment YuY