#i feel like i make sense

[bluecounter]

i cant stop thinking about this line which mirage said at the start of the movie

this line really says a lot about mirage because

1. him wanting to be a real boy was a hint to show that he wants to live normally on earth and experience earth’s culture because he’s tired of the war

2. he’s quoting someone that said that line to him. so now im wondering who did and how was it brought up in conversation?

so here’s my delusional theory:

Bumblebee (2018) was set in 1987 and Big was released in 1988, which could mean that when bee finally regroups with mirage, arcee and optimus, he was keen to share earth culture with them.

But very obviously, optimus would be against it because of how this isn’t their planet and stuff. so one night, bee brings mirage and arcee to the drive in theater with him (they are so siblings to me) to watch Big.

now this is where the line comes in. i think mirage would be in awe while watching the movie and said something about how he wished he was a real boy to go through the same experiences. now this just feels right to me, but arcee would be the one saying “Mirage, big is just a movie. you would never be a real boy” because shes the logical ‘older sister’ in the group while bee probably had the same wishes as mirage but did not say it aloud.

so ever since then, mirage has been hung up about it

[artsymeeshee]

Felt a need to draw hugs (thinking about sea grunks has made me extra emotional :’))

[linktoo-doodles]

resurrection is sort of romantic, isnt it

[scramratz]

My hottest take (and I genuinely do believe this) is that most trans women pass perfectly well. They just don't pass as supermodels. Every "nonpassing" trans woman I've ever met looks like your average midwestern cis woman.

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

Dunno how to put it properly into words but lately I find myself thinking more about that particular innocence of fairy tales, for lack of better word. Where a traveller in the middle of a field comes across an old woman with a scythe who is very clearly Death, but he treats her as any other auntie from the village. Or meeting a strange green-skinned man by the lake and sharing your loaf of bread with him when he asks because even though he's clearly not human, your mother's last words before you left home were to be kind to everyone. Where the old man in the forest rewards you for your help with nothing but a dove feather, and when you accept even such a seemingly useless reward with gratitude, on your way home you learn that it's turned to solid gold. Where supernatural beings never harm a person directly and every action against humans is a test of character, and every supernatural punishment is the result of a person bringing on their own demise through their own actions they could have avoided had they changed their ways. Where the hero wins for no other reason than that they were a good person. I don't have the braincells to describe this better right now but I wish modern fairy tales did this more instead of trying to be fantasy action movies.

[makowcy]

12yo me would've loved these wolves

[oobbbear]

I want to post this here too because I’ve seen it happen a few times

Please understand that there are cultural differences and language differences, if you see this happening let the person clarify what they meant, that person might just not be familiar with words the western side of the internet use

[chloesimaginationthings]

Michael and Vanny had wild teen years in FNAF

[justarandombrit]

I don't know

[ruporas]

need to exist in your warmth (id in alt)

[rhinestonesox]

Half-foots are highly discriminated against in the world of dungeon meshi.

They have a difficult time living in places outside of their own territories because places where larger races live aren’t built for their size and crowds can be dangerous.

they’re the least valued race by long lived races because their life spans are the shortest out of all the races. this means that they’re dehumanized and often considered disposable. their superior senses make other races use them as “lures” when hunting succubi/mermaids (usually dying in the process).

They’re often mistaken for/treated like children because of their appearances, and because of this they have a difficult time getting jobs because it’s assumed that they’re immature/can’t handle it.

Because of this, when living outside of Half-foot territories they’re forced to get money by any means necessary (often resorting to crime), so other races stereotype them as “cunning” “greedy” and “manipulative”.

On top of that, members of long lived races who tend to fetishize them.

Even the name “Half-foot” is discriminatory.

Ryoko Kui does a fantastic job at world building.

But even after all of that, im not gonna stop talking about how bad i wanna put Chi Chi in my pocket.

[starbuck]

reading and watching “classic” books and films is such an interesting experience because, before you get into them, when you only know them by name and maybe the vaguest plot outline, they’re intimidating and stuffy and up on a pedestal, but then you finally take the leap and check them out and realize that almost every story that’s achieved such a legendary level of popularity did so because something in its emotional core reached out and grabbed a lot of people by the throat and you are NOT immune.

[toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account]

"we want more protagonists making flawed decisions!!" no the fuck you don't you guys can't even handle aziraphale without convincing yourselves he was drugged

[danlous]

I feel like many people have a fundamental misconception of what unreliable narrator means. It's simply a narrative vehicle not a character flaw or a sign that the character is a bad person. There are also many different types of unreliable narrators in fiction. Being an unreliable narrator doesn't necessarily mean that the character is 'wrong', it definitely doesn't mean that they're wrong about everything even if some aspects in their story are inaccurate, and only some unreliable narrators actively and consciously lie. Stories that have unreliable narrators also tend to deal with perception and memory and they often don't even have one objective truth, just different versions. It reflects real life where we know human memory is highly unreliable and vague and people can interpret same events very differently

[paintedcrows]

Holiday Classics

Been thinking about Ford watching the 70s Animated Lord of the Rings Movies... (companion comic to this post!)

[humbuns]

please never go away