#it's reading without comprehension

[allegriana]

Can't wait for the immersive and emotional experience of that TikTok computer voice narrating an entire book

[p3rry-pi3]

Sometime After Weirdmageddon—The Saga

Mabel was soon informed of the moth via dipper and they both watched as Ford fed it

[actual-changeling]

i LOVE crazy meta posts and wild speculations, i write unhinged interpretations myself, and fandom is first and foremost about having fun.

but i am very, very tired of seeing serious theories that constantly call the final fifteen fake/a conspiracy/a magic trick/etc. retconning that scene would take away the ENTIRE emotional weight and the importance it has for both their character archs.

[whateverthought]

Also, anyone saying the Targaryens are not the bad guys in most if not all of their history, that their Dynasty is not Rotten, is wrong.

What about the Incest, the Blood Purity ideology is not clicking? What about Aegon the Conqueror 'Going West' does not scream COLONIZER?

Do you honestly believe George R.R. Martin wrote these books with the intention of, these people who view themselves as Gods with a Divine Right to Rule, are right? These dictators and colonizers who ride the fantasy equivalent of a Nuke, who use them to burn down villages and towns and commit War Crimes, are the good guys?

Be For Real

[himehomu]

“Homura can't stand the idea of moving on. So she's isolating madoka from everyone who's ever cared about her.” Are you fucking stupid? She literally rewrote the entire universe so that Madoka could be happy with her parents and her little brother, so that Sayaka could have another chance with Hitomi and Kyoske, so that Kyoko can have a life with Sayaka, she literally revived Mami and Nagisa and gave them a life together. What the fuck do you mean she's “isolating Madoka from everyone who's ever cared about her??”

The only person she's isolating Madoka from is herself because she knows Madoka will regain her godhood sooner ot later and she knows that her desire for Madoka and her friends to be happy will directly rebel against Madokami's rules that require Madoka to die to maintain order to the broken world that traps Magical Girls in their cycle of hope and despair, even if maintaining order means making hard choices and sacrifices, which in this case, is Madoka sacrificing herself again and again not only because she cares so much for others but because she cares so little for herself whilst Homura is the only one who can see that she's so much more than her sacrifice and that she shouldn't reduce herself to a means to an end.

She took Madoka's immortality for herself to spare her of anymore loneliness in Heaven as a trapped Goddess. She literally gave Madoka and the rest of her friends a second chance at life and you people have the audacity to just blatantly fucking lie on her to justify hating her for how she reacts to the psychological torture of having to watch the love of her life and her friends die for 12 years worth of time loops then to live in a world where no one remembers the girl she loves but her. Let something like that happen to you at the age of 14 and then come and talk to me about Homura. Idgaf that she's a fictional character. If y'all continue to treat her like a heartless monster that deserves to be “held accountable for her actions,” then I'll defend her like the traumatized 14 year old child that she actually is. Fuck off and stay away from Madoka Magica. It clearly isn't for you.

[youkaigakkou-tl]

hii! i hope youre having a nice day, and thank you for chapter 125! i was wondering if, by any chance, you have a compilation of all the credit pages you typically put at the end of each chapter? i love reading the extra info or translation notes you sometimes put at the end and i saved a couple of my favourites that i thought were really interesting, but i never thought mangadex would get nuked </3 i was hoping to find your credit pages in the gdrive folder but i couldnt find them :( thank you!

AWWWW IM GLAD SOMEONE ENJOYS THEM 🥹🥹🥹 i do spend a good bit of effort coming up with something interesting for them

also i deleted the ones before 115 off my pc at some point to free up storage space (bc i was saving them as pngs and they were taking up 10mb each LMAO ive since switched to saving as 200kb jpegs lol)

so i had to go to manga sites to scrounge them back up LOL

anyway theyre now uploaded to the gdrive enjoy o7 (ch 90 to 125)

[thatscarletflycatcher]

"Everything went wrong after David Bowie died" "everything went wrong after the Reformation"

Me, whose Metaphysics studies and medievalist interests have been heavily shaped by Dominicans: everything went wrong after Ockham et al. sustained the primacy of Will before Good in the nature of God.

[danadiadea]

You can love Snape, but as a fan, I think it't undeniable that he had mouldy underwear and was so neglected that he likely overlooked many hygienic habits in childhood and adolescence, maybe even later on. You lot treat the fact that he was extremely poor and suffered the consequences as something that could never possibly have happened to the precious one lol

I have a whole ass meta on why him being unhygienic is not just "deniable", but highly unlikable and inconsistent with how he is portrayed. you are welcome.

also, the idea that all people who grew up in significant poverty are automatically unhygienic as adults is ridiculous and disgusting. saying this as a person whose mom grew up in Snape-like conditions.

[ebonydark-nessdementiaravenwayxx]

is this satire

NO!!! WHAT EM I, A POZER?!?!! FUCK OFF MAH BLOG EF U CANNT TELL DAT IM AKCHUALLY DA MOS GOFEK PERSIN ON DIS WEBBSIT!!1!!!!11!!!!!

[changingplumbob]

Having some issues...

Started writing gen 2 of SBL this afternoon. I gathered some Byron pictures and decided I'd start off by him looking back on his growing up over a few posts and commenting his perspective. That seemed to work fine and I could write. The problem was when I came to the pictures from his teen into YA birthday. Normally I like to write SBL in first person for the founder/heir, but regardless of who I'm following I'll try write in the past tense. E.g. I walked, instead of, I walk. But trying to explain who is in the pictures with Byron has thrown me.

For example I want to say "Will is my best friend" but if I'm being consistent with using the past tense I ought to say "Will was my best friend". But in my brain as I read the second one it makes me think "okay Byron is Will somehow not your best friend now"? Am I overthinking it? Do I need to keep it all past tense to make sense? Will y'all just assume if I say "was" instead of "is" that what I'm describing is no longer the case? Because in my mind, apart from the break from first person at the beginning of generation one, I like to write as if my founder/heir is recalling events that happened to them...

[lovecatsys]

genuinely one of the most annoying things about the mcu moon knight fandom is the fact that singlet fans cannot seem to conceptualize marc and steven's relationship without seeing them as brothers or romantic partners. those dynamics CAN exist in systems but that is really not how i would read their relationship at all. They're headmates, they're like THE headmate relationship in mainstream media and that is its own dynamic that exists separately from brotherhood and romantic partnerships. They share a body, they share trauma, they share their life and their time, they literally HAVE to be with each other all the time like thats one thing about headmate relationships that especially informs them is you CANNOT avoid your headmates forever, you are stuck with them as long as they exist and that's literally the plot of the goddamn show! Marc cannot keep shutting Steven out because it's actively harmful to Steven's basic functioning, he can't sleep or rest or do his job properly which could be fucking solved if Marc wasn't so self loathing to think that Steven is better off in life without him, their whole arc is about accepting that they have to share a body and a life with each other, and that their life and functioning becomes so much smoother and happier when they accept each other. This is a textbook, BEAUTIFUL representation of a headmate relationship and trying to put them under the lens of being brothers or boyfriends instead of headmates makes me so fucking pissed off lol. Its a rare representation of an extremely unique dynamic

[theetwinkleboy]

and another member of the lov gets what they thought they wanted but at what cost. spinners has been the most interesting to me so far because it parallels so neatly with izuku’s. both of them feeling powerless and accepting a quirk because that’s what they thought they would need to be powerful and change things. both of them sitting across the table from each other, scarred and broken by the quirks that they accepted. spinner realizing too late that it wasn’t a quirk he needed to save his friend—it was just him. and maybe not accepting those quirks in the first place would have put him in a better position to save shigaraki (but all for one didn’t want him to save shigaraki, so). shigaraki’s murderer and his best friend. hm.

but also, to have it come back now, to have spinner say this now TO izuku, in the same chapter that izuku is like ‘how can we stop this from happening again (how can we stop the next person lashing out before they get past the point of no return)’ and tsukauchi is like ‘we can’t without more heroes’ like NO! that’s not the answer! spinner told him the answer. it’s not in a quirk or in more heroes. it’s being willing to reach out and see someone for who they are.

[bluebobatea]

if sasuke was the main character then he probably would've been a LOT more sympathised with than he is now (which is to say rarely). like the narrative wouldn't even need to change to show his pains or 'his side of the story', bc it does that plenty. it's just that he is not the main character. and idk what it is about our human minds but we tend to sympathise with main characters automatically (unless ofc you go off the rockers insane and do something like obliterate almost everyone from the planet *cough* eren yeager *cough*)

an instance that comes to my mind where this does happen is with lelouch from code geass. while i don't agree with his character motivations, people generally do sympathise with him as he is the mc and as viewers we know he isn't inherently evil. sasuke's goal towards the end is slightly similar but ofc people love to hate him so they don't even try to understand where he is coming from.

my point is, most people while engaging with the naruto story don't read between the lines and so don't see how traumatised and in pain sasuke is and hence don't understand his character motivations. heck, they don't understand a single bit about him and so they automatically hate him, as he is supposedly going against the main character's goals.

which is really sad given all that he has been through.

[myheartisbro-ken]

Can't believe I'm gonna have to spell this out here but there seems to be some confusion about the outcome of literally kissing death.

So, a kiss of death/a kiss from death/death's kiss/to give death a kiss/to kiss death/etc are expressions or idioms that mean dying or sealing your fate towards death (not in a romantic way, again, this is about dying), so I'm gonna hold y'all's hands when I say this:

There was no other possible outcome of kissing Rio. Kissing death means dying! Once more with feeling: KISSING DEATH MEANS DYING! It was always gonna be like this, it's okay that it went over your head because you were excited about their chemistry, it went over my head too, until it happened. But it was right in our faces the entire time.

"oh but what about previous episodes?" You ask me "her behavior towards Rio changed." It did and it didn't. First of all, have we missed their first interaction once Agatha is free from the curse? That was Agatha in her purest form, bearing no fondness over Rio and hating her fucking guts, and literally bargaining with death. Another expression of sorts yeah? Y'know, from the five stages of grief, with the final being acceptance of death, a previous one is bargaining, which means making deals with yourself or a higher power, as a defense mechanism, with the intent of changing your fate/stalling death. (Which she managed to). And what about their interactions on the road? She was vulnerable and sought comfort in her ex who was the only person who truly understood her, yes, but also SHE WAS SEEKING COMFORT IN THE IDEA OF DYING! The whole situation made her vulnerable and it made her miss her son, so she wondered if dying wasn't so bad after all, if it meant she would get to see him (and before you ask, that doesn't change the fact that she's not ready to face him, both things can be true at once).

But she was flirting with Rio, was she not? Yes, she was literally flirting with death, an expression that means being reckless regarding your own safety and doing things that could lead to you dying.

And what about the time she tried to kiss Rio? SHE WAS TRYING TO DIE, PEOPLE! She was hurt, she was sad, she had her grief thrown in her face from the very first trial, and she was coming from nearly losing another boy that she came to care about that reminded her so much of her son, and then Rio talked about Nicky and she wanted to die!

This whole relationship has been a metaphor to grief and dying! She's loved by death, she's resented death for years for taking her son away from her, she's been bargaining with, flirting with, and evading death for centuries, and in her lowest points, when the pain take over her, death offers her comfort. But she's too fucking stubborn to go with her. In the end she still resents her, and she accepts her angrily, so she can stop her from taking another boy she cares about. Once more, bargaining with death to give a boy a bit more time before she takes him.

[ladylaratybur]

Fvck polyg*n fr

[the---hermit]

Not me adding annotations to a book to make it more accessible for my mom when she will read it