#she is my favourite protagonist

[being-somewhere-else]

maomao- happy to eat some poison- smh- The apothecary diaries

[riyo-soka]

Watching Omega become so indignant when she learns that the clones (her people, her brothers) have no representation in the senate, give crosshair a speech about how none of the clones held at mount tantiss deserve to be subjected to Hemlock’s experiments, single-handedly break herself and Crosshair out of there, and then immediately start planning a way to go back and rescue the other prisoners, i can’t help but be reminded of Fives: who died trying to prevent his brothers from experiencing the fate she now wants to save them from. I think he’d be proud of his little sister for trying so hard to help their family.

[isbergillustration]

[weedle-testaburger]

there's this kind of youtuber i lowkey really hate who aren't overt bigots or anything but just do this thing where they seem to try stupidly hard to look for reasons to hate media that just so happens to have a lot of marginalised rep in it. especially if it has a thematic point that would involve acknowledging politics

[river-of-wine]

Marguerite Baker is my favourite ever portrayal of womanhood in horror and I’ve never quite been able to put my finger on just what about her is so compelling to me, but I think a huge part of it is that nothing about Marguerite and what happens to her is ever expected to be pretty. What often bothers me about a lot of modern explorations of the horror of womanhood, of having a female body, of being seen as a woman, is that it usually centres around young, skinny and usually white conventionally attractive women. There’s an expectation of attractiveness still on the women at the centre of the horror. Of course, there are exceptions to this, but they’re few and far between, and I’ve grown so tired of sanitised horror about the grotesque parts of having a female body.

Marguerite Baker is in her 50s she looks it. She’s got wrinkles and back pain, her hair is grey, she’s not super thin. She has two adult children and an equally aged husband. She’s a woman past her middle age and you can tell. And yet, her horror is entirely focused on her body, her physical form being twisted and turned against her. The infection that makes Jack inhumanly strong and able to regenerate from even shooting himself in the head has made her a walking bug hive, constantly birthing insects, perpetually pregnant, and eventually her own reproductive organs rip through her body. Before the infection Marguerite had no real identity beyond being a wife and a mother, and though she seemed to like that life it has been just as warped as her body has become. Her husband has become incredibly physically violent and directs that abuse at both of their children as well as her, the meals she provides them are made of the meat of their victims, and all the while there are bugs crawling inside her womb until she lays their hives, a process that we hear causing her agony.

There is never a moment where what is happening to Marguerite is expected to be palatable, let alone attractive. She’s a gross older woman who eats people and has a centipede that’s crawls up her throat, she kills people, she’s a cannibal, she spends most of her time in a filthy flooded house full of bugs that is falling apart, she gives birth to insects, and it is treated as disgustingly as it is. So much of what makes her an effective threat and a frightening character to be around is the fact that she is so completely unappealing from a sense of attractiveness. There is nothing pretty about what has happened to her, and the game doesn’t try to make it anything else.

Marguerite’s horror is such a unique exploration of the typical monstrous feminine that I have seen in recent memory, and even though the game is from 2017 she is still my favourite example of it. It is done so well and so frighteningly that I don’t think anybody is forgetting it any time soon

[vitalp0int]

I keep putting it off but I figure I'd post all my favourite Shizukas I have haha. If you can't tell already I love her.

[p2ii]

parents Wil blame social media for 'turning' their kids trans but it's was actually her

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[junii-moony]

[jakeperalta]

I'm so excited for emily henry's new book nobody will be allowed to speak to me for the entire release weekend

[bluberimufim]

Had a eureka moment for DoS when I was stuck on a part and what I came up with makes complete in-universe sense, expands the worldbuilding, AND sets up two huge Chekov's guns for the latter half of the story

Forgive my language but HOLY SHIT

[dullahandyke]

the thing is even as my version of the ace attorney universe is heavily modified to fit the themes of the characters within it, idk if thats even the right choice for the place to put them in bcos its not quite working. but also sooo much of it plays on aa status quo that id have to entirely reinvent parts if i wanted to preserve that effect

[clemclamclam]

heather mason is so real. her straight up refusal to touch anything gross in the other world, just like ‘no. i’m not doing that. fucking disgusting.’

[neon-angels-system]

only one 999 ending to go (true end (+ coffin end by technicality)). anyway.

[dirty-bear-rick-sanchez]

Rewatching Inside Job and I forgot how much I love Reagan

[gladfang]

i'm hesitant to call farah being quieter when she's alone and more contemplative her 'true personality' because her energy and enthusiasm isn't untrue, it's just once she's alone she doesn't feel like she needs to be lifting everyone up around her. a lot of it is she enjoys people labelling her as someone who doesn't let anything get her down and who cheers others on because then she can believe it about herself when she's struggling on her own. it's not really until act 2 that she lets herself be vulnerable and there's less of a seperation between her public and private selves

[rubyneo]

just blocked someone for having an opinion on salem that i disagreed with ❤️❤️