#no ordinary woman

[sansan9]

[newvision]

half the credit goes to my bestest of all friends, @maysthoughts <3 she made me ponder ordinary love

U2, Ordinary Love // Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You In All Your Damaged Glory // La Dispute, Woman (In Mirror) // Everything Everywhere All At Once // @bicarusgf

[the-chikyuu-times]

[underratedmhapoll]

Here me out. Women.

[seductivelight]

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐔𝐑𝐒𝐄. ☾

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐠𝐮𝐧, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐥 𝐢𝐬 𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠. 𝐈𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬. — o anjo mais lindo e o demônio mais perigoso.

❝ 𝖿𝗎𝗅𝗅 𝗈𝖿 𝗅𝗂𝖿𝖾, 𝖼𝗈𝗆𝗆𝖺𝗇𝖽𝗂𝗇𝗀 𝗍𝗁𝖾 𝗌𝗉𝗈𝗍𝗅𝗂𝗀𝗁𝗍 𝗂𝗇 𝖺 𝗐𝖺𝗒 𝗍𝗁𝖺𝗍'𝗌 𝗌𝗎𝗋𝖾 𝗍𝗈 𝖾𝗇𝗍𝖾𝗋𝗍𝖺𝗂𝗇, 𝖾𝗇𝗀𝖺𝗀𝖾, 𝖺𝗇𝖽 𝗂𝗇𝗌𝗉𝗂𝗋𝖾 𝗈𝗍𝗁𝖾𝗋𝗌, 𝗂𝗇𝖽𝖾𝗉𝖾𝗇𝖽𝖾𝗇𝗍-𝗆𝗂𝗇𝖽𝖾𝖽, 𝖺𝗇𝖽 𝗆𝖾𝗌𝗆𝖾𝗋𝗂𝗓𝗂𝗇𝗀𝗅𝗒 𝖿𝗎𝗇 𝗍𝗈 𝖻𝖾 𝖺𝗋𝗈𝗎𝗇𝖽, 𝗒𝗈𝗎 𝖼𝖺𝗇 𝗋𝖾𝗅𝗒 𝗈𝗇 𝗅𝖾𝗈𝗌 𝗂𝗇 𝗒𝗈𝗎𝗋 𝖼𝗂𝗋𝖼𝗅𝖾 𝗍𝗈 𝗁𝖾𝗅𝗉 𝗒𝗈𝗎 𝗌𝖾𝖾 𝗍𝗁𝖾 𝖻𝗋𝗂𝗀𝗁𝗍 𝗌𝗂𝖽𝖾 𝗈𝖿 𝖺𝗇𝗒 𝗌𝗂𝗍𝗎𝖺𝗍𝗂𝗈𝗇.❞ — 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐥, 𝐬𝐡𝐞'𝐬 𝐬𝐧𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲.

Here she stands fighting for what she loves in life. Proud with the most beautiful smile that graces her lips. Her heart is pure, her soul damaged. But she surpasses herself, she is strong, she never gives up. She is loyal and never betrays herself or others. She protects what she loves, she fights for her life. She doesn't always do everything right, but she tries to do better. Her actions show who she really is. She is the epitome of a lioness, graceful, beautiful and dangerous at the same time. And for her lion and her little babies she would kill. — 𝐍𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐞𝐫, 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐲.

[aud-art]

ordinary woman x mirko

[sweetbeanmacchiato]

These scenes were too cute

[lunarcrown]

A lil Smth different but we were catching up w MHA tonight and this character that was there for 5 seconds was SO CUTE….she deserves dry pjs and more fox features so I MADE IT HAPPEN

[aerithisms]

i think my problem with this dw season arc accusing the audience of fanbrain for theorising about ruby is that it both feels deceitful and isn't actually that compelling from a character perspective. the season goes out of its way to build up supernatural mystery around ruby and even invokes susan more heavily than ever before in a way that is deliberately trying to get the audience to make those connections. and then it turns around and says you stupid idiot why would you ever try to connect these dots i have deliberately tried to get you to connect.

building up a mystery only for the character to be ordinary is an impossible girl arc redux only this time accusing the viewer of failing to see the humanity of the companion, whereas the impossible girl arc was turning that accusation on the doctor. 7b didn't really blame the audience for viewing clara as a puzzle and in fact several times spells out the fact that clara is perfectly ordinary before the big reveal to give the audience a chance to catch on. as 7b goes on, instead of laying the mystery on thicker, the audience just gets more and more affirmations that clara is a normal human being (rings of akhaten, journey to the centre of the tardis, hide). i found this approach compelling because it was rooted in character, focusing on the doctor's disconnection from humanity/the gendered dynamic of a man treating a woman as his manic pixie mystery to pull him out of grief. s14's meta approach of accusing the viewer feels both unfair, given it has deliberately led the viewer towards theorising, and personally less compelling to me because it wasn't tied into character in any way.

the thing about rey's parentage in tlj is that the reason rian johnson chose to go for that reveal was that it was the only answer that was interesting. none of the theories - rey is a skywalker, rey is a kenobi, and even the eventually canonical rey is a palpatine - were interesting or satisfying because they brought nothing compelling to the table for the story being told. the only satisfaction to be gained from those answers was a fanbrained "omg rey is important because she's related to that guy from the other movie." on top of that, rey desperately wants her parents to have been important, to give her life and her abandonment some kind of significance. so them being ordinary provided the most compelling trajectory for her character because it was the thing she least wanted to hear. it forced her to do the most introspection and growth, as well as tying into the film's themes about the capacity of ordinary people to be special. it wasn't just a choice made to "gotcha" the viewer, it was rooted in character.

i don't think ruby's mother being ordinary accomplishes the same thing. by invoking susan, s14 is engaging with the most egregious example of the doctor's streak of abandonment, which has potential to be very compelling in relation to ruby (and now also the doctor's) own abandonment issues. theories that ruby might be susan, or be somehow related to susan, or somehow related to the doctor, weren't just fanbrained "omg she's related to that guy i know from the classic series." they were theories genuinely rooted in character and the potential to explore both the doctor and ruby's issues with abandonment. and this is something the show willingly led fans towards by invoking susan so much in the first place. so for the show to turn around and act like they were shallow out of nowhere ideas when they were not shallow and were based on potential character conflicts the show itself deliberately invoked, feels misguided.

as well as that, ruby's mother being ordinary does not require that same growth from ruby as it did for rey because it is exactly what ruby wanted to hear. she never wanted her mother to be important, she just wanted to know who her mother was and have a connection with her. so finding out she was a normal woman who still loves her and wants to be a part of her life is everything she's ever wanted. it doesn't introduce interesting conflict for her the way rey's parents being ordinary did for her, because they were written as different characters with different hangups over their abandonment.

tl;dr i don't necessarily dislike ruby's mother being ordinary as an idea but compared to the things it was inspired by - 7b and star wars - it is not nearly as compelling in terms of how it relates to the characters or themes. and the meta angle, while conceptually interesting, doesn't quite work for me because it feels a little manipulative of the audience.

[cienie-isengardu]

"Shells" from Nickelodeon Avatar The Last Airbender: Team Avatar Tales

[aroacesigma]

love how transgender bsd characters are despite not being about that At All

[sansan9]

[wolfnanaki]

"Ordinary Woman" | My Hero Academia (2014)

Several shelters turned me away… no heteromorphs allowed, they said. In the end, U.A. said it was okay. But I'm lucky because that meant I could see you again. Thank you for saving me… my crybaby hero.

[the-chikyuu-times]

[underratedmhapoll]

They don't have names but they sure are an option!

suggested by @wholelottatransbians

[harumichan12]

Wait! Are they relatives or something!??