#so it’s an impossible choice really

[chrisginny]

one has to go

anderperry or chrisginny

(neither of them will kill u if u pick the other)

my answer legitimately changes by the minute but it’s anderperry week so i am NOT slandering the theater kid and his sad homosexual little friend on my blog tonight!!! sorry chris and ginny ☹️

[aethersea]

I do think Blazing Saddles handled its one depiction of native americans very poorly, and the full extent of its representation of chinese workers on the railroad is they were literally just there. not even one single speaking line. unclear if this is worse or better than the redface.

it's fucking phenomenal at lampooning antiblack racism though. extremely blatant, extremely funny satire, which is constantly and loudly saying "racism is the philosophy of the terminally stupid at best and morally depraved at worst, and we should all be pointing and laughing at them 24/7"

plus the main character is a heroic black man who has to navigate a whole lot of bullshit but is constantly smirking at the extraordinarily stupid racists and inviting the audience into the joke. the one heroic white character is a guy who was suicidally depressed until he met the protagonist and they just instantly became buds, and he's firmly in a supporting role the whole time and happy to be there. the protagonist saves the day with the help of his black friends from the railroad, and uses the position of power he was given to uplift not only those friends, but all the railroad workers of other minorities too, in an explicit show of solidarity.

anyone saying "Blazing Saddles is racist" had better be talking about its treatment of non-black minorities. it had better not be such superficial takes as "oh but they say the n-word all the time" or "they have nazis and the kkk in there!" because goddamn if that's the full extent of your critique I very seriously suggest you read up on media analysis. there is too much going over your head, you need to learn to recognize satire.

[onceintwentylifetimes]

My Boy Only Breaks His Favourite Toys - Taylor Swift

[jeeaark]

Shirtless Disaster Pt. 1

So. pretty sure the emperor cusses. just. never had the reason to say out loud. or has a filter on when they talk. Until Greygold happened. You ever try and look with the emperor's perspective when Tav makes decisions and go, 'H-how are you not ceaselessly cussing like a sailor at Tav?'

ANYWAY- HERE'S THE THING. TRULY. Always had my squinty-eyed caution on Emps. Trying to ascertain if they were for real with their words/actions/intentions or not. but. Squid buddy sharing their feelings of caring was the uh snowball that started this avalanche. Can't fake feelings huah, GREYGOLD FINALLY FOUND THOSE MUSHY BITS HUAH.

I ain't gonna let y'all wonder what Greygold's answer was, so uh. Bonus!

[withthewindinherfootsteps]

something about how both wei wuxian and jin guangyao repeatedly say they ‘didn’t have a choice’ in their actions. in both cases, it’s not literal impossibility, instead determined by their mindsets and personal conduct…. but while for wei wuxian that means he can’t do something immoral, even if it means losing all his social power, for jin guangyao it means he can’t do anything to lose his social power, even if it means doing something immoral. the other option is still there, but it’s never one they’d pick.

something about how they’re trying to walk the same path but in opposite directions: wei wuxian willingly left the nice, broad road in favour of upholding morals and debts, while jin guangyao is trying to claw onto it and stay there by any means necessary. in both cases, being parted from it so easily is only possible because this nice, broad road — full of people whose social power is unconditional, given at birth, independent of their actions — was never truly theirs to begin with. but despite how it is possible to be forced off due to nothing, as we see with wang lingjiao, the positions of both these characters were ultimately due to actions they took.

(about how no matter the similarity of the paths, no matter the narrowness of the choices, the direction you take is still up to you.)

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

I'm sorry I let down my guard.

[First] Prev <–-> Next

[celestialowlryx]

Rayla + being told how a m a z i n g she is

[albaharu]

Bad end.

[vaguely-concerned]

I can't get over how well Skyjacks: Courier's Call manages to capture the feeling of really, really good children's literature. Listening to it seriously does make me feel like a bookish eleven year old all over again, all the sedimentary layers of my adult cynicism and ennui about the fantasy genre washed away for a moment to lay my heart as bare and excitable as it was back then haha.

This podcast also has what I think might be my favourite moment out of all podcasts of all time, full stop... and it's just a snowball fight with no real narrative stakes at all, only a dwelling on the joy and the characters in that particular moment. To this day, thinking about it feels like a big smile in my chest. (To be clear it's not like the show doesn't have powerful narrative stakes or High Drama overall! But I have rarely found a story so willing to and so skillfull at lingering in delight and discovery just for the sake of it. There's such an immense generosity in that which I think is an underappreciated aspect of storytelling, and that I am really grateful for.)

(If you've never heard of it before, I'm talking about the all-ages actual play podcast Skyjacks: Courier's Call, and you can check it out over here if you'd like! It also carries over and builds on a lot of really amazing worldbuilding from Campaign Skyjacks, part of which is a deeply queernorm approach, so that's another level on which people might connect with it. And if all of this weren't enough: absolute banger music at every turn, as with Skyjacks itself. Season 3 is just starting now, so it's a good time to get caught up!)

[akai-anna]

Round 5

Round: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8

[no-light-left-on]

I often wonder about the quote-unquote logistics of Corvo the Black/Emily the Butcher endings. Emily makes more sense to me, in a way, carving her way through the empire only to come back with blood caked under her fingernails and realising that she did everything her father refused to do 15 years ago. but why did Corvo have a similar choice?

what happens to the statues later? does Emily keep her father trapped in stone? does Corvo look at his daughter, frozen in the moment and considers freeing her? is he at his deathbed when he finally reaches out and cups Emily's cheek, freeing her into a carcass of an empire that he gutted for her, in her name, in the name of her mother?

when I first heard of the endings I thought that if you reach very high chaos, you are locked into this choice - Corvo or Emily tries to free the other and the stone just doesn't budge. they are trapped. the quest is over but the world knows that the bloodshed was extreme and this is the punishment they have to face

[ziracona]

Uhg I’m fucking miserable

The dialogue writer and voice actor really both performing at 1000% here. Stupid, stupid, stupid man.

His “Why couldn’t you just join us” amidst the insults and complaints, the egging you on, the insults. The fucking “he’s not angry. Not red at all. Just sad.” The fact that they had the little dark one call hostile ‘red’ since it’s the color he sees. With Pavel and the main enemy faction being reds. For the line ‘he’s not red at all. Just sad.’ Christ. Egging you on to kill him and miserably fighting to the death. Stupid, stupid man.

I hate it. His begging and calling you his friend and confused and terrified in the hell of damned souls, and begging to just be killed if you start to leave him. The using the knife he gave you when you first met and escaped together and holding it to his neck every time you fight him. The tenderness of putting the gas mask filter on him while he’s unconscious and pulling him close to look at his face and lifting and kind of sitting him up

Christ

The Pavel being saved by you when they’re going to hang him to death when you’re escaping the reich and you waking him from the ghosts to put his mask on and saving his life when you’re friends, and then putting a mask filter on his unconscious body to keep him breathing one last time, if you forgive him.

The parallel of Artyom destroying the dark ones out of love for his home and duty and fear, convinced it was the right thing in that moment, and being a mass murderer trying desperately and miserably to find some kind of redemption in Last Light, and Pavel being a red line major who betrays you and then uses a bio weapon and wipes out an entire depot of civilians out of duty and love for his home and fear, convinced it was the right thing in that moment, trying desperately and miserably to end things with you. Forgiving him, forgiving yourself, in a game about if people deserve to be forgiven or can or should or will be regardless of it. Taking care of this little baby dark one whose people you wiped out. I’m losing my mind. And that whole level leading up to it, you can or can not listen to it ask you not to kill other mutant creatures. It explaining what they’re doing and why to try and stop you from killing. And going “I don’t understand.” for the first time. “I don’t understand. He’s not red at all. Just sad.” and for the first time Artyom can so easily understand that. Because it’s a human, broken, familiar contradiction. It’s his first journal entry in the game. The sadness at being told to go kill this baby, the guilt and worry he was wrong, but going to do it anyway because of duty. Just sad.

And they set it in Dead City.

[quietwingsinthesky]

you ever just think about. “You are diseased, albeit a disease of our own making. No more.” you ever just. oh, they made him and they discarded him. it’s never going to be quiet again for him, and that’s just collateral. they let the sound rot through his whole life, his whole timeline. because that’s the kind of easy sacrifice you can make when you want to save yourself above everything else, one that doesn’t ask anything of you. you dig open a child’s mind and you bury your survival inside him and when he follows the noise back home, when he does exactly what you groomed him for, you call him ruined for it. that’s. you ever just think about that.

[perhaps-in-anotherdream]

[CN] Victor’s solo event PV + cards

“At the moment, I’m not yet qualified to dwell in the pleasure of victory or defeat.”

“When it comes to what I like, regardless of however long may pass, my preference will remain unchanged.”

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[sskk-manifesto]

Ep 6!!!

[lucky-clover-gazette]

sometimes i just kinda sit there and think about how it is genuinely difficult for me to conceive of myself being desired