#kind of unavoidable

[rookflower]

cant get behind mutual thrushblue not for any disdain for thrushpelt but it gets on my nerves when a guy's romantic advances towards a girl he likes are rejected/not reciprocated in canon and then in a weirdly gendered way everybody goes "aw but he's nice :( so here's my au where she does like him back" bitch what's even the point then!!

[crescentpaws]

“fitz was so mean for paying keefe to paint a gift for sophie”

okay so we’re hating on the idea of commissioning artists now???? would you rather keefe have painted it without being paid????????? literally what is your point here

[serpentface]

Classic nechoi spear-hunting scene.

One of the few activities Hibrides and Janeys do alone together entirely of their own free will is hunting.

Hunting is a common pastime of nobility, most significantly in the form of extravagant multi-day social events (of which the hunt itself is only a partial component) carried out by men and dozens of dogs and attended by their wives, children, servants, as well as musicians and cooks. These hunts have functions in social networking and political maneuvering, showing off wives and dogs and khait and wealth, forging ties, maintaining allyships, and slighting rivals (particularly in the division and distribution of any captured game).

Janeys periodically attends these hunts when invited (it's rude to decline) and Hibrides is obligated to come along, and both are rather private people and not particularly fond of these high pressure, highly performative events in the public eye. Janeys DOES like hunting in of itself and frequently goes out by himself, and Hibrides often comes with him. Bringing her along started as a way to make going out alone look more normal (ie 'you bring your wife along on hunts that's what you do I'm not just going out by myself because I'm intimidated by other people this is a normal activity'), but it’s not really about that at this point.

Hibrides likes being able to get outside far away from her day to day life, being both away from the home and away from other people. Janeys just doesn't like being around most people but hates being alone. There's also a level of catharsis for both of them in doing an activity that would normally require tremendous amounts of social performance on their part, but instead being able to be completely straightforward and real with everything: their marriage is bullshit, they don't like each other at all, and they DO both like the killing of mid-sized animals with spears. In this specific situation, both of them kind of Do enjoy each other's company (in a sort of complicated way).

(Hibrides is also fairly certain that at some point Janeys is going to get maimed or killed while trying to take down boar nechoi alone, and would love to be there to see it.)

[thatneoncrisis]

i really do despise the proof of concept argument for the "dire wolves" thing. like oh they have no actual ecological function like the company claims. theyre just some vanity object for billionares so the company can get more funding to work on REAL conservation deevolution projects that will actually do something!

alright so barring the fact that they can just focus on conserving EXISTING endangered species instead of bringing back ancient animals with no place in the new world. what kind of life are these placeholder hybrids gonna live. they wont be domesticated like dogs, they cant go free in the wild they're just the circus freaks of the animal kingdom. the way their lives are being treated as a necessary sacrifice to progress is kind of horrifying

[aliusfrater]

[cryptidjeepers]

My youtube is absolutely flooded with these cold ass take drama clickbait its fucking insane. Their apology (from what i saw) was well received. The entire situation wasnt even that big of a deal after things got sorted. Why are these wannabe drama channels so obsessed with such a nothing issue. "Wild apology"???? They gave REFUNDS and free access to patreon supporters. They agreed they fucked up??? And changed their plan accordingly. They still have things to fix but jesus christ move on already 😭😭😭 just saying, there are literal youtubers that were accused of grooming that got treated better by the drama new cycle than a youtube channel that just wanted more income. Im so tired of hearing about it now

[middleschoolfursona]

i miss you tomorrow today

[qoldenskies]

it was time to take this out of the hands of fate and into that of free will KINDA OBSESSED WITH THIS

(context for people who dont read my tags)

THANK YOU THANK YOU //I SKETCH A BOW

[vaguely-concerned]

there's a self-help/mental health adjacent post that's going around and it seems to be really helpful for a lot of people which is very good. I also personally hate it with all my fucking heart

[lichqueenlibrarian]

I am going to be staring off into space for the foreseeable future while I process Yield Under Great Persuasion by Alexandra Rowland.

[gothicastles]

MORE THAN GOD LOVES THEM!!!!! GOD!!!!!!

[average-emo-enigma]

The MCR fandom is freaky as HELL, I’m being traumatized

[likemosaic]

arcane spoilers. not about anyone i follow or interact with but really just a mini meta. another word that fandom has lost the right to use (alongside gaslighting and child-coded) is "fridged".

okay so. when a male character's wife is fridged for his development, we understand that the writers don't want to write her--usually due to their misogyny, or that writing an oppressed character would require research/time/effort that a regular ol white guy does not (in short, their laziness). in the case of fridging, they're using an oppressed class or person (usually a woman) to further the development of the more privileged character who lived (in this example, the regular ol guy who lives). we understand that it's an inversion of the trope when a husband is fridged and the wife lives instead, because it's turning the misogyny on its head; the woman escapes the fridge but her husband does not, and it's her story this time, not his. we understand that it's subversive to have the character who is less socially acceptable to write live. a white cis woman with a dead white cis husband is not typically considered fridging, right? for example, though it's a father-daughter relationship, silco dies for jinx's development (both negative and positive) and we can accept that. another example is vander, who dies for the development of multiple characters.

so with all of that in mind regarding the complexity of a character being stuffed in a fridge. fridging does not apply to viktor and sky. because sky is able-bodied, and viktor is not. narratively, her death is necessary in order for viktor to stop augmenting himself (though season 2 forgot about that tidbit completely but that's another post). do i think we should've had more time with that? that sky should've been allowed to do more? for sure! we can definitely criticize her minimal role in the narrative! but the fact remains that in any other narrative, viktor's death would serve to motivate a character like sky or jayce, because that's often the role disabled characters are relegated to in media: a tragic, untimely death to make the able-bodied characters sad. disabled characters are frequently fridged. we see this in media like me before you, for example, in which the male disabled character is fridged for the love interest's pain. is that reversing the trope because he's a man and she's a woman? of course not. it's ableism and the gender swap doesn't solve that problem.

what is so unique is that in viktor's case, the disabled person lives, the able-bodied person dies. she chooses to do so, albeit blindly, because she loves the disabled character and hates to see him in pain. that is subversive. it's as subversive as a wife who survives her fridged husband. except nuance no longer exists in fandom, so people see a woman who dies in a man's narrative and yell about fridging, without considering that viktor is a disabled, queer-coded character who would be killed off unceremoniously in any other story. there are many many problems with the depiction of disability in the show, but viktor being loved to the point of self-sacrifice by the able-bodied characters around him is not one of them.

tldr sky deserved more in her narrative, and an able-bodied person dying for the disabled person who they love is extremely subversive and meaningful, are statements that can co-exist!

[drag-on-dragoon]

i do truly love soulslikes in theory but i play so few of them bc nobody understands that pointlessly killing you in infinitely frustrating ways is the entire appeal like i dont want to wander around undyingly and skillfully i want to randomly die like crazayyyy and be confused and pissed off all the time forever

[nickbutnodick]

i have a strict moral code for no fucking reason at all actually

[clonerightsagenda]

Rewatched The Old Guard recently in preparation for the sequel and I enjoyed it a lot, but there's a scene right before the climax where Nile tries to leave the group because she doesn't want to be a killer. Bold statement by someone who joined the US military, but she admits that even though they try to train you to deaden your emotions, she hasn't gotten over the first man she killed. Instead, she wants to return to her family and treasure the years they have left together.

Of course, then she realizes Booker betrayed Andy, turns back, and ends up mowing down quite a few nameless baddies in Merrick's office building. She doesn't get a scene later where she grapples with that. Maybe she feels differently since these people hurt someone she knew - and there's something to be said for a film spending more time complicating the death of an unnamed Afghan man wanted by the US military than the deaths of a CEO's hired goons. (Similarly I appreciate the shot where after we see kindhearted Nile handing children candy, one of the children somberly eyes the gun on her hip.) Still, I'm curious to see whether this thread is picked up in the sequel. What's Nile's version of Andy's immortal "army" that goes beyond being a killer? How is she coping with the bloodshed that comes with it anyway?