#old adage

[summerwages]

s t o r m y . . .

March in like a lion and out the same..

[sapphicdalliances]

Lotta takes that are like "Jiang Cheng didn't change his behaviour at all in 13 years, that proves that he doesn't want to grow as a person" and it's like, sorry but why would he change his behaviour when the information that would recontextualise Wei Wuxian's actions and thus lead him to rethink his own reactions was deliberately kept hidden from him? From his perspective, his brother broke all his promises for no goddamn reason, picked a different family over him, lost control of the evil energy he swore he could control, and in doing so caused such a catastrophe that both of Jin Ling's parents were killed. We know that there's more to that story, but he doesn't, and it would be impossible for him to find out on his own because again, everyone involved was lying to him and hiding the relevant information on purpose.

He's told about the golden core transfer like three hours before the book ends, and frankly processes it faster than most people could reasonably be expected to after 13 years of grief and loneliness! "He had chances to improve his behaviour and didn't" HE LITERALLY DIDN'T HAVE ANY CHANCES BECAUSE WWX LIED TO HIM!! His behaviour was completely justified from his perspective and when his perspective is changed, and he realises that what he did was wrong, he's like, SUPER upset about it!

[bidonica]

You might say that hitting subscribe on a fic that hasn't updated in four years from someone who apparently changed fandoms is a fruitless and delusional endeavor, but I have been waiting for The Winds Of Winter for thirteen years now, my faith in the human spirit is indestructible

[changbinseource]

~💙~

[ky21]

So happy my girl got an alt finally, wish Gerik had made it in

[hypogryffin]

i dont think i can describe the things i want her to do to me without getting my account marked as nsfw for life

[self-aware-sawtrap]

curled up into a fetal position sobbing because I just thought of a john & amanda glass coffin au. one where john realizes that amanda’s not following his method at the end of saw iii but jeff doesn’t kill either of them, so they both survive but amanda’s not an apprentice anymore. but she’s already an accomplice and she can’t return to normal life, so they they just continue separately, with john continuing to “test” people but unwilling to make hoffman his new apprentice in amanda’s place. and amanda continues with her rigged traps, targeting people that have wronged her. both of their murders are attributed to “jigsaw”, with the public unaware that they’re no longer working together.

&they still care so much for each other but john cares more about his “”legacy”” and he struggles to come to terms with the fact that now, amanda as an individual and his legacy are two separate entities. & he can’t keep letting her “ruin” his work by putting people in rigged traps but he obviously can’t go to the police and hoffman won’t help him which means he has to stop her himself. so they have this cat and mouse chase just like hoffman & strahm did in saw v (but like. lesbian daughter and unsupportive father version). and he still has to dig up information on her past like strahm did for hoffman, which forces him to confront the life that he told her to leave behind for the sake of their work.

&the entire theme of the glass coffin being trust, so when amanda’s asking him to enter the glass coffin she’s asking him if he can still trust her, if he ever really trusted her in the first place. if it’s too late for him to ever trust her again. he said he trusted her to carry on his legacy, but can he trust her to save his life?

&just like in saw v, he throws her into the coffin & makes her watch him die

[ladyofvoss]

And the Warrior of Light said- 'Challenge accepted'

[tea-and-secrets]

There’s a commercial I’ve been seeing again for Nugenix(sp?) Total-T, it’s some kind of testosterone infused protein powder or something, idk and idc about whatever the product is. What I do care about is the commercial.

It is set in “T-Town” for men over 40 who take testosterone, or wanna take the product due to low testosterone. It’s a perfect set up; the whole commercial is supposed to be like, a set up to attract “a man’s man” and has former big time athletes sprinkled throughout the commercial, and they say that “T-Town” is for all men. My secret is that I feel like it’s a perfect set up in such a way for a horseshoe theory type idea where they’re advertising “T-Town” for these “manly men’s men” and yet… it’s giving HRT for FTM trans folks and other masculine type genders.

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[wormstar]

im not even that much of a hollyleaf guy i literally just like frances the mute and it is literally about hollyleaf

[sad-daddy-long-legs]

So I went to the Hozier concert on Friday, and it was lovely for all the reasons I wanted it to be of course, but at the end, Andrew spoke about the US voting against the ceasefire in Palestine. You can find a clip someone posted here. He said, truthfully, that the only reason Ireland knows peace is because of the intervention of the international community.

Some people on Twitter and tik tok have decided that his decision to mention and condemn the Hamas attack on October 7th in conjunction unnecessarily “muddles” and “softens” his otherwise pretty clear anti-colonial and pro-Palestine stance and I am over it. This is not actually coming from a place of stan culture and defending Hozier on the internet. It is coming from a deep disgust with the way my fellow white leftists consume war as if it’s a sporting event and ever acknowledging the humanity and pain of the “other side” makes you suspect and disloyal.

What took place on October 7th was horrific. It was terrifying. It was an act of unspeakable cruelty inflicted on the vulnerable. The collective punishment and war crimes perpetuated by the Israeli government in retaliation are inexcusable. To do so in the name of victims, many of whom have family members speaking out against the war crimes of the state, is awful. The Palestinian children, women, and men who have died as a result of Israeli war crimes over the previous decades and in the past few weeks deserve to be grieved with the same rage and lament as the Israeli victims of Hamas. All of these things are true.

That is basic humanity. It is not a sudden condoning of the actions of the Israeli state to acknowledge this. To pretend like Andrew, or anyone else, expressing similar sentiments was condoning or softening the violence of the Israeli state is the purity testing nonsense that continues to damage and divide leftists spaces. It is also deeply decontextualized.

Most Americans—again, especially white Americans— do not know what it is like to live with the the threat of violence and war daily. We do not even have a memory of domestic war on our land. Domestic war in 1998 in Ireland. People remember this violence. It’s not hypothetical. A desire and a call to action and a call for peace is fucking bold. A call for a cease fire is a call on the behalf of the Palestinians people. It’s realistic, though we may not want to believe it, but we must remain hopeful. Hope is a discipline.

I don’t know man. I’m so tired of Twitter fingers screaming for blood they’ll never shed, never bury, never know, and condemning people for grieving for lives that were truly lost. War is not sport teams with unfailing loyalty and anything that insists on dehumanizing a side to “win,” means we’ve already lost. I desire to see freedom and justice for Palestine, and I will not apologize for this. I will grieve for every brother and sister and child who is robbed of their life at the hands of violence, and I will not apologize for this either. I will continue to call my representatives and ask that the United States vote for the ceasefire and supply humanitarian aid for the Palestinian people. I will continue to donate and march.

We may all have opinions about the different methodologies that will be used for our own liberation and the liberation of oppressed people throughout the world, but if your methods require you to close off the part of yourself that is able to recognize the humanity of your neighbor, of a child on either side of the Gaza Strip, then you will only ever reinvent violence to inflict on those who were not able to preform loyalty the way you wanted.

[weirdsociology]

one could have a very boring, reductive take on throne of glass that's basically women need a man

the actual take should be, given proper support, adoration, and respect from a man, Women Can Become Absolutely Fucking Terrifying

[gothicprep]

i know i'm very late to the party, but i watched "baby reindeer" incrementally over the past week. i liked it a lot, but IMO they really dropped the ball on teri's dialogue. it's just horrible at times.

this character is supposed to be a therapist and the protagonist describes her as intelligent. that said, half of her lines sound like they were ripped from meme-y instagram self help accounts. she says something to the effect of, "i'm here with my friends so i can break my pattern of going back to toxic men". who talks like that irl? honestly? if you want to characterize someone in your screenplay as smart, it's helpful to give them original thoughts. or original sounding thoughts, at the very least.

i was very frustrated with that part about it. she seems dumber than a box of rocks when that obviously wasn't the intention. oof.

[the-gay-prometheus]

what u just said about postbetrayal preportal billford was true and beautiful

Aaaa thank you 🥹

[gloochi]

The hardest part of getting hooked on Blaster Master is finishing the Zero trilogy and then realizing there's almost no one in this fandom, so there's barely anyone around to share my love of it with. 😭

[datubooty]

coping with the state compelling me to wake up early (jury duty) by telling myself there will be donuts and birding when i’m done (true)