#ppl are not understanding it though

[maggotssmichael]

just gonna go ahead and say this: frank was absolutely right & justified in telling joey to "own your fucking shit and go be a mother to that kid." and i understand the argument of 'oh he should've said it in a nicer way blah blah he was so rude about it blah blah time and place frank' but that's exactly how you need to talk to someone like joey

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

[reds-skull]

Been thinking about Farah a lot lately...

[ghostofacrow]

Dune discourse is uniquely annoying because there's a bunch of extremely obvious, in-your-face orientalism perpetuated by the main characters that's being discussed at nauseum and is very easy to dismiss and completely overshadows any actual issues with the movie, like the refusal to use recognisable arabic phrases or the hiring practices. I'll be charitable here and assume that people have a rightfully negative reaction to how those images of white people, particularly Jessica, are used as marketing material, instead of just not getting the point, and with how often concerns like this are overlooked, I can understand why they aren't receptive to "no this thing that media does uncritically all the time is meant to be bad THIS time actually trust me bro just read this 1000 page book".

Seemingly the entire film crew having cold feet about including references to real world anti-colonial movements or just normal Arabic would always be concerning, but especially given the current situation in Palestine and it's all overshadowed by the colonisers in the book acting like colonisers because every other issue is more complicated. Dune, as a text, still believes in noble savages and "hard times create hard men" nonsense. I'm really not coming at this from a "don't criticise the thing I like" angle, but debates about Jessica's outfit have made me learn nothing besides occasionally seeing really cool pictures of real arabic clothing, while reading Haris A. Durrani's dissections of the books and the current adaptation has actually tought me a lot of stuff about both the book and the real world.

If you haven't seen his Dune essays, you can find a collection towards the bottom of this page: https://history.princeton.edu/people/haris-durrani

https://acoup.blog/2020/01/17/collections-the-fremen-mirage-part-i-war-at-the-dawn-of-civilization < This blog post isn't specifically about Dune, but it uses the Fremen as an example to discuss the historic origins of the noble savage trope (Acoup is generally a cool history blog, mostly focused on greek and roman history)

I love Dune but it's so problematic, just not for the obvious reason and dissected Frank Herbert's actual politics and the strange intersection of conservatism and anti-colonialism is fascinating. You should criticise Dune, I would just like the criticism to be better, especially because focusing on the thing that is framed as bad in the story gives every chud an easy way to dismiss criticism of the text as bad media literacy

[lovewithoutagony]

i love being an artist bc if my brain demands old men kissing my hands would dive right into it and be done in 40 minutes

[puppyeared]

Once upon a time

[crookedghosts]

hold me down before I write a fic entirely on valgrace petnames because Jason's reaction to Leo calling him darlin' and Leo's reaction to Jason calling him baby WILL be the death of me

[rochenn]

man when you go all the way back to the oldest codywan fics on ao3 there's basically nothing up until 2014. but when the inhibitor chip arc came out? the girlies fucking JUMPED on the "shit he was FORCED to shoot him down?? 😭😭" dynamic sooo fast it's incredible

[brofightiscancelled]

my reality hc for why totty's eyes look bigger than everyone's else is that he tapes his eyelids which makes his eyes look bigger

[schmweed]

[daylighteclipsed]

Blaming KH2 Sora’s anger and aggression all on Roxas really downplays how ready to throw hands Sora is in KH1 and CoM.

[shoukohime]

Megumj: So I’m bi-

Yuuji: [gasps hopefully]

Megumi: -lingual. Bilingual. I speak two languages.

Yuuji: [takes a sip of water, disappointed]

Megumi: Also, I like dudes.

Yuuji: [spits out water]

[friendsdontlieokay]

This person did agree that a lot of ppl are gonna have different opinions and it's not necessary to agree with them and they respect it so instead of reblogging I made the post this way, because ppl on the internet can be a bit mean sometimes (and send hate to the person) and it honestly kinda sucks sometimes ehehe, plus the objection I have is with the thoughts, not the person anyway but the only thing I find funny is that why would you analyze this much about a person if you dislike them this much, right? But anyway

I literally went through the list like "what?" "huh?" "wait what?" "wtf?" "make it make sense please" like sure, a couple ones I do agree with but again, I believe that all characters have their flaws and they are normal, natural, in fact inevitable to some extent, we're humans duh bruh, but most of them don't make sense at all, at least not to me.

Especially the conclusion that her character hasn't developed because honestly I'm a believer that Nancy's character keeps on developing every season and that's actually one of the reasons why she's one of my favourite characters tbh, but it might just only be me then? Anyway, tell me what are you guys' thoughts PLEASE I NEED TO KNOW

[dreadfuldevotee]

It bears saying that trying to determine who is a worse abuser, Lestat or Armand, is like comparing getting mauled by a lion vs. being mauled by a tiger because at the end of the day you are still being Fucking Mauled.

That is to say: it is insane that in this fandom poor little meow meow competition, the guy who literally beat the fucking breaks off Louis and dropped him from 500 feet is widely considered the lesser of the two evils

[sleepy-hyperfixations]

lemme be clear, i love webgott. unfortunately the person who played half of webgott in bob kinda sucks and is an idiot so.

[mrgladstonegander]

i will never stop projecting on to the cousins