#so I’m posting the girls at least

[dunyun-rings]

Velma and Daphne in That ‘70s Show inspired clothes

[ropes3amthoughts]

This is such a mess but do you guys get my vision

[elineedscaffiene]

Core four if they were in Teen Titans 2003 and BTAS

these are okay sketches but I usually draw what I post at like 1am and my sleep schedules way too crazy for a full drawing 😭

[ursamajori]

god i love being SOOO obnoxious about my ocs everyone should be 50% more obnoxious about their ocs right neow

[throwawayasoiafaccount]

When I see stuff like this I kinda want to bash my head into a wall:

To start off, I’m not sure whether this person was commenting on book or show Cersei, but honestly, it doesn’t even matter because she’s so much more than the ‘ambitious villain’ or the ‘murderous girlboss’ tropes in both the book and show.

(Of course, I do have my issues with the way Cersei was written in the show like most people but this is simply a rant post so I’m not going to go through the differences of Show vs Book Cersei)

Cersei is a female character who was shaped by her environment, who’s insecurities were created by her environment, and she’s a woman who’s idiotic mistakes can be traced back to how her environment shaped her. She’s much more than a murderous girlboss, she’s both a victim of the system and also a beneficiary of it, while also acting as an agent of it to keep the status quo while also desiring what the system denied her.

Cersei is NUANCED and complicated and even now people hate that about her and want her to have been a purely evil woman handcrafted in a vacuum, ignoring the context of her life because readers would rather not engage with Cersei’s victimhood and nuances because that ruins their idea of: She Was The Problem and Always The Problem. (People would rather say that she deserved her walk of shame instead of interacting meaningfully with the theme of systematic gender-based violence that is so prevalent in Cersei’s story. The exploration of patriarchal violence in Show Alicent’s story is done so horribly in comparison.)

And what really pissed me off about these tags is that this person has clearly decided that they don’t care to interact with the nuance of Cersei and are fine with flattening her, and yet they shit on others for not liking Alicent.

Because of the way Alicent is written in this show, she almost always has a ‘woe is me I can do no wrong’ attitude, which of course drives people away from the character (woe is me I deserve to take a child’s eye 🥺). However, what actually annoys me is how she’s made out to be stupid, foolish, ignorant, and inconsistent due to the horrible writing of this show, all of which are deviations from her book characterization. Also, I despise it when people want me to support writing decisions and changes made in adaptations that are downright misogynistic and are meant to attract the male gaze.

But what pisses many people, including myself, off is how the changes made negatively impacted many other characters. Alicent’s terrible characterization is like a black hole that distorts and warps the whole story! It’s annoying af!

So when people like this say: ‘She’s nuanced and people just can’t handle it 🙄;’ I say: No. She’s horribly written and a different character from the book and people have a right to be critical about these changes that stripped a female character of 1) her agency and 2) her intelligence!

And the thing is, there was little reason for the writers to have made all these changes to Alicent’s characterization! In the book she is an interesting character with clear motives and understandable reactions. She’s cunning and ambitious and acts the way a noble lady who became queen would. And despite her clear ambitions and dislike of Rhaenyra, she still makes a comment wondering about who would protect the Princess from Ser Criston, and yet she then takes Cole into her service after his falling out with Rhaenyra. That’s a perfect example of nuance! Show Alicent could never compare to book Alicent’s clear moral values and consistent disregard of said moral values in pursuit of power.

And because of this, Book Alicent isn’t easy to stomach. It’s hard for most people to come to terms with a character like her and it’s even harder for people to feel sympathetic for her at the end when she went mad with grief.

On the other hand, Show Alicent was designed in a way to garner pity, and when the writers felt like her current arc wouldn’t be enough to garner the specific reaction they wanted they would then throw in a time skip and suddenly she’s completely different and yet still Thee victim. She’s designed to be as sympathetic as fucking possible! The camera angles, the background music, and the lighting is set up in a way to make sure you the viewer feels pity or sympathy for her! Cause that’s her role in this series! She’s thee Ultimate Victim!

But too bad for the writers as many people are fed up with this kind of inconsistent writing. Even when the writers created a whole new challenge for Alicent where she’s shitted on by the green council and forced to face the beast she helped to raise, I and many others could never feel any satisfaction as it was clear that once again Alicent was being made to be Thee Ultimate Victim who was just led astray by the patriarchy and was a victim of it and was only just realizing it so don’t you pity her don’t you feel sad for her and now she’s trying to do the right thing so pls pls pls pity her 🥺~ So it shouldn’t be surprising that many people are annoyed by these eNLiGhtEnEd changes that have led to a complete deviation from the source material.

To summarize: Cersei is an excellent fucking character who’s by no means easy to stomach, and because she’s not easy to stomach she’s often reduced to annoying ass tropes by dumbasses who are reading above their comprehension level. But when you actually try to understand her, you can easily see why she turned out the way she did and you can feel sympathy for her while understanding that she’s both victim and perpetrator! On the other hand, Show Alicent is a mess and HOTD is trying to make her serve a different narrative role than she did in the books so ofc people are going to be unhappy with the changes as book readers are once again faced with the annoying reality that the writers don’t give a fuck about the source material.

[codgod]

siiince i’m being less active here i’m gonna direct y’all towards my art blog again @bluuscreen-png

currently it’s a mix of dungeon meshi, game grumps/game gyaru, and oc art 👍 yippeee

[bigmack2go]

Happy birthday racetrack Higgins

[penny-for-a-ring]

I know girls are healing when they start wearing pink and stop looking for every little reason to hate Taylor Swift

[jesse-pinko]

Anyways my point w the Andrea thing is that the writers of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul are demonstrably talented and capable of writing both compelling female characters and romances and if they had any regard for their one ☝️ woc character the show would have been much stronger for it bc we actually would have had some investment in her character and relationship with Jesse and he still could have had his bittersweet ending where he has to face up to the consequences of his actions while also having his humanity and his trauma acknowledged BUT I would also like to add that it was a huge, huge misstep and a discredit to the narrative for a show with such a heavy emphasis on themes of toxic masculinity to skirt around the issue of Walter and Hank feeling emasculated by and deliberately targeting men of color as the recipients of their violence, because they resent having to put up a respectable suburban front while simultaneously believing that doing so makes them inherently more civilized. And it’s equally frustrating to me that the show never acknowledges that the reason Jesse doesn’t initially grasp the full scope of the damage he’s causing is because of his privilege and him essentially playing at being a gangster without having any real idea of what the consequences will look like bc of his upbringing, and how his naivety is a privilege in and of itself that does just as much damage as Walter’s straightforward entitlement and malice.

[hauntxd]

make me laugh and get a surprise

[justsquibby]

Made it level 120!! Just with 20 minutes to spare

Last pull.

Last thing I was doing on my side account. Nayuta and Mikage waving me goodbye 🤧🥲Perhaps I should formally reveal I record stuff for tik tok as UltimateMadokaSenpai and I spent the last two days grinding episode levels for a bunch of new girls I got, recording tap quotes, and transformations from my account progress so I can post it. I just barely got nayuta and mikages recorded lol. Like I was so stressed for the last hour recording and unlocking doppels. (Sorry lavi that I didn’t get to yours in time but Christmas girls take priority, maybe if I didn’t have to re-record Valentine sudachi I would have had time but oh well 😭) I think I’ll post them slowly over time like I used to. Just whenever I’m in the mood (or have time) to share some magia record love with the world. The game may have ended but my love for it and wanting to talk about it will continue… like I have so many stories I still need to read and re-read tbh. I will also post one or maybe two more compilations of random gameplay with no BG music on YouTube. I found out I do still have some footage on my phones that I got to sift through but there should be enough for a video or two.

But yeah magia record will live on with the fandom and see you all on exedra!

(Still sad though lol but we move forward :/)

[the-eclectic-wonderer]

There was some poll done among swifties on voting and I can't find it now, because after miss americana pulled a stunt to fight off the backlash, news are drowning in it and it's hard to search for that poll, so idk how much exactly, but something between 10%-20% swifties said that they're gonna vote on whoever Swift endorses no matter what this candidate says or represents.

Oh yikes 💀 I’m not going to form any strong opinion unless I can actually find a reliable source on this, but the fact that it’s actually believable is… not good lmao

[kaarnalaiva]

Thick thighs something something (also home office outfit)

[havockingboo]

Possible final color palette concepts for Juno. Hopefully >:,3

[juniperhillpatient]

Pip is pissing me off the first time yet. Be insane & insensitive & hyper focused & reckless all you want but going in headfirst is what makes you a compelling character what is this self doubt out of pretty much nowhere? I’m also so fucking angry that she got Ravi invested like - he mourned his brother. He wanted nothing to do with this investigation until she really gained his trust. And now that he’s all in & trying to help her she’s gonna….. back out because of one discouraging conversation? Bitch people have been telling you to stop investigating this entire fucking time WHAT 😭 Also like I do get that something is gonna snap her back into action we’re only on episode 3 clearly she’s not ACTUALLY giving up but she’s still pissing me the fuck off with this wishy washy bullshit. She’s been insane this entire time & I’ve been so here for it no matter who she hurts because she’s committed. She’s on a mission. I can’t vibe with this uncertain hesitant person where is MY Pip? 😑

[sampilled]

Hey spn cast 🔫 can you be in things I actually wanna watch? 🔫🔫🔫🔫