#misinterpretation of everything

[thewritingautisticat]

Y'all ever just be writing characters and be like, "the fandom is gonna misinterpret this relationship so bad"?

[bobbysdeath]

[makishimu]

Just some observations I made about Megane's latest Rota Fortunae crumbs after going back to it over and over again (if you haven't read it yet, go check it out first). Maybe you'll already have noticed most of it, but hopefully not everything. Either way, I really just feel like rambling.

First of all, this is clearly set before their trip to Sunday's shelter. In fact, it's most likely the earliest part of the timeline we've had so far. It's noticeable through the fact Aven just got the glasses and doesn't appear to have the earring he has on his ref sheet and during the animation.

About the earring, if you look at this panel:

You'll notice that Human!Aven (let's call him that for now) has a peacock feathers earrings. It's not exactly the same Android!Aven has, but it's a similar style. Now, there's two conclusions you can make of that: either Android!Aven bought it himself because it fits his style and he most likely subconsciously remembers his past to an extent, or Ratio gave it to him because it reminded him of the one Human!Aven used to wear.

Now, onto this Human!Aven if you will, because how do I know he's human? It's somewhat easy to guess, but there are still some signs: first, his eyes. As an android, Aven's eyes become magenta and cyan when behind glasses, but here it's a reflection. It would seem his human appearance naturally had the Avgin eyes (if Avgins even exist in the Rota Fortunae lore). But there is a second sign that this Aven is human: his wrist.

If you look at this panel, you'll notice Aven's wrist has a joint (weirdly enough, there doesn't seem to be any joints on his elbow, but it's hard to see so maybe Megane just didn't feel like drawing it?) that isn't here on Human!Aven. Now, how did he go from being a human to being an android? We can only speculate on that, but the general guess seems to be that Aven died and Ratio transferred his consciousness in an android body. I love that theory, but only time (and Megane) can tell how right it is.

But I'm not done with my observations! Let's talk about Ratio! Though, I'll keep aside all the speculations about why he refuses to repair Aven himself. It's most likely out of guilt, but we can't know more than that for sure.

Just a silly little thing I noticed about him is that his hair curls when wet. It's such a small detail, but it's really adorable.

But what I mostly wanted to talk about is his tattoo (or whatever it is) because there's something really interesting about it. Let's take these two panels:

If you look closely at how far the tattoo reaches up his neck in the second image, you'll most likely notice that it doesn't appear to be there on the first image. Of course, maybe he just had it tattooed later, and it's a plausible explanation. But there's just something odd about the way Ratio uncovers that specific shoulder in that scene:

Maybe I'm just over interpreting. It's entirely possible. But the way he uncovers his tattooed shoulder like that kind of makes me think that it might be uncomfortable to keep covered. Kind of like when you have a healing scar and you don't like the sensation of the fabric rubbing against sensitive skin. In that case, maybe it's more than just a tattoo? Maybe it holds more meanings in relation to the Android rebellion? After all, there are some laurel symbols on the walls of wherever they are in that scene:

It's most likely linked to a faction such as the Intelligentsia Guild or the Genius Society (I'd lean more towards the former) as Megane suggested in the comments of that thread, but it's still interesting to note that tattoo wasn't there before the rebellion.

Now, a final observation about Aven and his eyes and it's that the brightness of his pupils seems to change depending on the situation:

Funnily enough, it appears to always brighten whenever he looks at Ratio (smitten much) at the exception of that one panel where he plays with Numby. This leads me to believe it might be some sort of emotional response (bright red eyes mean positive emotion and dark red eyes mean negative emotions. If I recall, the androids in the Rota Fortunae animation had dark red pupils) and it's just kind of cute to see how differently he looks at his Doctor.

Anyway, that's enough rambling for now (if only I could come up with that many words when I write my essays). I was supposed to be writing my fanfic's next chapter but I guess that won't be for tonight lmao. Of course, credit for all the images used in that small analysis goes to Megane. Go check out their work if you haven't already, it's definitely worth it.

Thanks for reading!

[sygneth]

I have had a lot of thoughts on the original story after listening to the Sherlock&Co "Gloria Scott" and a new headcanon just dropped.

Chapter 1: part 1 - part 2 - part 3 - part 4 - part 5 - part 6

Masterpost (Index)

AO3

thoughts, if you're curious:

As far as gay Victor Trevor absolutely got me, I don't think there was anything serious between him and Holmes. This all comes down to my reading of Holmes, who is (to me) too aroace-spec to get involved in a regular relationship (althouuuughh about Holmes, his sexual and romantic orientation and him discovering it I have had so many thoughts I could write a whole essay). He likes to have a default person though, someone who will take him as he is, and maybe even admire a little - now that's Watson, earlier it was Trevor.

And yea I think Victor got a crush straight away after their first meeting, maybe they even talked about this at some point. Maybe Holmes said that he won't be able to reciprocate this affection but if Victor is fine with keeping things as they are, then he is too. I like to think they stayed pen friends even after Trevor's leave.

I feel like I should emphasize this? My intention in the comic was to make Trevor visibly flustered because he didn't expect a young attractive boy (he's hopeless in my head), while Holmes simply didn't expect to see someone his age and so sincerely sorry.

[luthientinuvielss]

I think fandom tends to strongly misinterpret Nancy Wheeler's character as a whole, but right now we'll focus on the fact that drive for being a journalist is not because she wants to climb that job ladder to the top by any means necessary, but because she genuinely wants to use the medium as a means to help people tell their stories and be a voice for people who aren't being listened to/taken seriously.

Her first taste of investigative journalism was in season 2 when she was seeking justice for Barb, trying to find solid evidence to use so she could take down the lab for covering up the death of her best friend.

In season 3, she was the only person at the Hawkins Post that took Mrs. Driscoll's complaints seriously and followed up with what was happening even after she had been humiliated, laughed at, negged by her boyfriend, and fired from her job at the newspaper. Getting to the truth, helping Mrs. Driscoll, and protecting the town was more important to her than being popular at a job.

Again, in season 4 she was the only person who truly listened to Wayne Munson and believed that there had to be another explanation for what was happening. Every other reporter in town was more interested in selling the Devil Worshipper turned Murderer! headline, but Nancy treated Wayne with care and respect - because she knows that the truth is often something more complicated to be uncovered, and that the people involved are more important than simply an easy sell headline.

In closing, being a reporter may be Nancy's career path of choice, but she chose this path and sticks to it because of how deeply and personally she cares for being a voice for people who don't have a voice anymore or are otherwise not taken seriously - as she has been in their same position before with the death of her best friend. She cares about people.

[slimeysodaa]

mods are asleep, quick, post the redemption au sketches for pitch from rise of the guardians

literally none of this make sense without context so; years ago, i started developing an au where pitch black from rotg would go through a redemption ("but thats boring bc hes evil-" consider the books and also that i want this man happy for once, ok). This au follows pitch as he attempts to grow as a person and learn more about himself, while also trying his hardest to distance himself from what he once was and right his wrongs.

for design, the reason pitch's hair is longer is due to his power draining massively since his defeat at the end of ROTG, and his robes are gone bc he choose to rid himself of them since they just reminded him too much of what he was.

TLDR; its found family bc i think they all deserve to be happy and to be one big family. a family can be a fatherly old russian, an energetic hummingbird woman, giant rabbit, floating pile of sand, ADHD Frosty and just a mess of a man.

[twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat]

Is gojo truly selfless? Most people think he does it for an ulterior motive and for his personal beneficial reasons & it’s kinda calculated. Like he can gain benefit out of it exp: saving yuuji from execution and saving megumi from his clan, to make his vision/dream of transforming the jujutsu society come true. So it’s kinda selfish more or less?

see . the thing about gojo is that he’s constantly walking on the fine line between ’extremely selfless’ and ’extremely selfish.’ the reason i often call him selfless is specifically in regards to how i see him acting when he’s in love — i think that if gojo loves you, what’s most comfortable for him is to distance himself from you and watch you be happy with someone else. even if it it irks at him. he would do it because he believes it’s best for the both of you.

but you could also make an argument that it’s very selfish because he’s ignoring what he feels for you and what you feel for him, making a decision that’s less paralyzing for him but making it for the both of you — etc. that’s kinda why it’s difficult. at some point selflessness and martyrdom spins back to selfishness; but either way i think gojo exists right at the gap between them. he's an extreme case.

relationship aside though, i’d call canon gojo selfless for very similar reasons — because his entire goal centers around the idea of everyone leaving him behind. i agree that gojo is calculative, and that both saving megumi and yuuji was apart of his dream to nurture powerful allies, but i also think you’re ignoring an extremely important part of gojo’s character by implying that’s all it was. gojo’s main character motivation is the preservation of youth — and another point that’s important to him is personal autonomy. he wants kids to be kids, and he wants people to get to choose how they live their lives. both of these motivations are more important to him than his selfless/selfish dream of being surpassed.

so, basically — i think gojo is very logical and calculative at his core, and he doesn’t do what he does out of the kindness of his heart — he does it because it’s important to him. protecting youth is important to him. being a mentor is important to him. he does what he does for himself which could be called selfish, but he also deliberately does things that bring him more pain, and more isolation, which could be called selfless. so it’s tough. overall i think it’s wrong to treat gojo like a saint but also wrong to treat him like some mastermind — gojo does what he wants, and he mostly wants things that are good.

[ghostface-knight]

insane comment on a melvin post

[lukaskyle-moved]

i just don't think anyone - shauna included - ever actually spared a thought towards ben after the labor/believed he was in any way at fault, because, as has been made clear multiple times, they did not see him as an authority figure. tai brings it up solely because she knows it's a surefire way to a) get shauna to go off, and b) it's an easy way to question his character and make him seem like a villain. you can see the look of surprise on shauna's face, very briefly, and then she sees what tai is doing - weaponizing her trauma - and offers her approval of it because it gets her closer to her goal of killing ben. you could almost think it's coordinated between them because shauna being able to recall the exact words ben used while she's in the middle of a traumatic labor is just a little difficult to believe but i don't think it was. anyway the point is i really don't know why people keep acting like THAT'S the reason she hates ben when it's not. she did not think of it until that moment. personally i don't think she even really cares about him burning the cabin. her issue really is that he not only represents a link to Civilization and Authority (like jackie), but he also represents the possibility that they could maybe have survived another way, since ben did (and so did javi).* she says, very clearly, "he's not one of us." THAT'S why she hates him.

*and i think this is a very important point, because while the cannibalism they've committed is technically survival cannibalism, they do turn it into ritualistic cannibalism. they made an active choice to do that. taking away their agency in the matter makes the narrative far less compelling imo

[heartcircus]

i really struggle to understand kab because so much of what she says and does is contradictory. like sooooo much. she says she wants anarchy but then hates when she's the one taking the brunt of it; she wants a (somewhat) healthy team but then becomes distrustful when they start setting boundaries/expectations; she hated mawn for the reason that mapicc was a dictator but then essentially tried taking it over for herself. it's like she doesn't truly know what she wants?? it's so confusing to me?

[thevalleyisjolly]

*takes a deep breath* No but you see, there is no conflict between "Do or do not. There is no try." and "Remember this. Try." They're both getting at the same thing, just from different angles. Yoda tells Luke the former because Luke thinks the training is too difficult, that he's been trying and he still can't do it so he'll never be able to do it. What Yoda is saying is that there's no such thing as a halfway attempt. He's not saying "Succeed in doing this or fail, there is no in-between," he's teaching Luke that you don't start doing something and then just drop it when the effort becomes too much. You do it, even if you fail, or you don't do it. Meanwhile Nemik's manifesto is saying the same thing - no matter how impossible something might seem, it's better to try, you have to try. Both characters are exhorting others to step up and do something, even when it's difficult, especially when it's difficult. There is no dipping in and out, maybe I'll try it out a little and then when it gets too hard or unpleasant, I'll give up and move on to something else. Do not give into despair. The road is not easy and you do not know what lies at the end of it and you may not succeed, you may never succeed, but you must make up your mind and commit to taking it nonetheless. Do it. Make the attempt. Try.

[shima-draws]

Me: Hehe Sanlu!!!!

Fandom: Oh but Zoro? Where's Zoro? What about Zoro? Including Zoro in this. Adding Zoro here because. Zoro tho

Me: KICKING YOU IN THE SHINS STOP THAT

[charmac]

How are you feeling about S17? I'm getting reaaal worried that it's going to be terrible. No Glenn in the writers room? A crossover episode?? Rob's gradual transformation into pondslime??? Help

Pondslime 😭Lmfao

I'm feeling more than fine about 17, really truly. I don't think anyone should be worried at all.

I think sometimes my interactions with Glenn come off a little more serious or abrasive than they really happened in real life (because we have to shout due to how loud it is in the bars), and my immediate transcription is just to get people *information*, which really doesn't convey tone.

For example, reporting that Glenn said "you don't want to know" in response to me asking for any teasers (as to plots this season) was met with a lot of "oh so this season is gonna suck" on Twitter, and that could not be further than the truth (sorry to the people I split-react blocked for saying that lol). In hindsight I get the reaction, because written out it's a response that can be easily misinterpreted and reads as potentially concerning, but know that when Glenn said "you don't want to know" he looked like this:

And when I was genuinely just asking for script information (regarding writers of individual scripts after he mentioned they had broken already) and mentioned Nina (Inflates) and Ross (DTAMHD), he gushed about both of them and then said, transcribed word for word, "It's been a good room, I'll say this it's been a great room. It's been an all-star room, it's been...like, breaking the stories this year has been really fun. [Me: Yeah?] Yeah. [That's great, that is great to hear.] It's been really fun."

So the idea of "no Glenn in the writers room" is really much more akin to Season 16 than 13/14. He was there to break stories (meaning he was in the room when they were brainstorming plot ideas and when they settled on which plots would be turned into scripts) but Rob and Charlie are taking the brunt of writing their (RCG's) scripts because of Sirens. This is the same thing that happened with The Gang Goes Bowling. Glenn's name is on the script, but Rob and Charlie wrote the majority of it while Glenn was shooting Blackberry. (I remember originally being convinced it was a mistake Glenn was listed as a writer for Bowling, lmfao). And Glenn is definitely still contributing, will be on revisions for the non-RCG scripts, and will classically change or improv whatever he thinks is best for Dennis when he's on set (see: the Risk E. Rats script).

Also, I know the crossover is concerning to a lot of people just given the nature of it, but as of what we know right now it's only on Abbott, so it's really just as if this season's The Gang Cracks the Liberty Bell or The Janitor Always Mops Twice took place on a different show instead of ours...

I promise promise promise Glenn was clearly holding his tongue for good things coming up, and Friday night very much restored my confidence that Season 17 will be good. (But..if you don't think Glenn has good contributions to Sunny or understands the agenda, then sorry this response probably sucks lmfao)

[irlwakko]

everyone being shocked by Chappell Roan’s “downfall” meanwhile every lesbian i know has expected this from the start because we know that yall hate lesbians and the second they slip up or even just set a boundary everyone will pounce in a way they never would on a man or even on a straight woman <3

[queerofthedagger]

sometimes. what i like to read or write in fic or just generally play around with.... is different and, dare i say, sometimes even contradicting to what i think the canonical reading is offering. like yeah he would not fucking say that but every once in a while i do like to indulge. sue me

[ferrouskyra]

woe haphazardly thrown together character sheet be upon ye