#the audacity to say that tho

[mvrcetune]

me when i see some hannibal fans saying that silence of the lambs was unmemorable and not that interesting:

[hyakunana]

"Were you even listening? How many reports, Ikora? How many times did I tell you what I saw?"

[guccigarantine]

tfw when you're giving the performance of a lifetime but you're also the ttrpg facilitator

[audio transcript under the cut]

Austin [as Jesset City]: This is what you're signing up for.

Austin: He says to Levi.

Austin [as Jesset]: It's this. It's tears forever. You don't get to win. You just have to keep trying, and losing people. [Becoming choked up] You just have to see it go bad over, and over, and over again. It gets close. You get close. Over, and over again and then they take it from you. [Sniffs] You compromise. You... you mess up. It's... It's a vow. It's a vow to fail. That's what it means. Are you really ready to follow people like us? To do this?

Dre [as Levi]: I don't know. I'm not thinking about that and maybe I should and maybe that's gonna be my problem to deal with later. Right now i'm thinking about someone that I've heard a lot of really good stuff about is trying to throw their life away.

Austin: [Speaking normally] Roll the dice. [Pause] We got 1, 2, 3 for the Opposition. Plus... I don't think "Aggressive Squaides" is coming in here!

[Ali snorts]

Dre: No.

Austin: You didn't bring anybody here with you! [Ali and Jack laugh] I vaguely think "Mistrust from Cause Leadership" does in the sense that that mistrust makes this a harder case for you to make in your own head, you know what I mean?

Dre: Mhmm

Austin: But, hey! You convinced Wakeful to help, you're not gonna convince this fuckin guy? C'mon.

[Ali laughs]

[loveme-anyway]

WHY WOULD HE SAY THAT--WHY DOES HE LOOK LIKE THAT!!!

[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.

[notmoreflippingelves]

Wardrobe Appreciation

↳ Esteban Flores (Elena of Avalor)

[skin-slave]

It makes me crazy when ppl discount the ways other animals communicate with us.

"He only pushed the 'hungry' button bc he wants more food." Yeah, that's what that word means. Is he differentiating between an emotional desire, a craving, an expression that it's mealtime in his schedule and he wants to do it on time, and physical hunger? Idk. Maybe he doesn't need to in order to live his life, so that's just not a thing. But even if it is, he doesn't have the tools to communicate that. There's one button. That's it. He's doing great.

"She doesn't know what a friend is, she just associates that other individual with positive interactions." How else would you describe a friend? Srsly, explain to me how a person I associate with sharing good experiences isn't a friend? We play, we relax, we spend time together, we get along, we're excited to see one another... That's a friend. She understands the assignment just fine.

"It would stop using the words/symbols if everyone stopped reacting." Me too, buddy. If a behavior doesn't give the expected result, we eventually stop doing that. How many times are you gonna ask for a hug if you know you aren't gonna get one? Oh you wouldn't? You'd recognize that it's a wasted effort and stop? Imagine that.

"They're just mimicking what they're being shown." You mean they're learning. Doesn't matter what the language is, that's how we learn. We pay attention, imitate others, and gradually get a clearer understanding of what those arbitrary and unintuitive sounds and symbols mean. That's how learning works.

Other species already have their own language, in which they are fluent. They're learning a second language that consists of sound combos they prob physically cannot make and symbols they may not physically be able to reproduce. We drop them some tools they can use to bridge the gap. And, despite the fact that we're basically just pantomiming instructions, they learn how to use them. The absolute gall to categorize that as a brainless parlor trick.

Idgaf if it's simple. If I gave you a 20-word vocab, you'd speak simply, too. That doesn't mean that's all you're capable of. It means you only have so many tools to use.

Idgaf if it's imperfect. Everyone crunches the marmoset and stutters when learning and using a second language. It's fine. The listener/reader does their best to meet you halfway. You can do the same, esp in an interspecies situation with so many additional obstacles to fluency.

If you can't even pronounce the words on an ethnic restaurant's menu, but your dog knows a bunch of commands, keywords, and other vocalizations, Rover is more linguistically accomplished than you are. And yeah, that includes sounds that aren't actually words, bc if they have a consistent meaning, they are words to him. If *heavy sigh* always means, "I'm stressed out and need a hug," and he gets that, it's language.

If you give him a handful of speech buttons, and he manages to use them productively, he's going from translating your word to the general approximation in his own language to translating his own language to a general approximation in yours. That's phenomenal. The Duolingo owl should personally present him with a diploma, and you better frame that bitch. He deserves it.

[burning-academia-if]

How would each of the ROs react if they heard their assigned song (crush stage)?

This got a lil long (can you tell today was a coding day?)

Rook:

Is this the end of the moment/ Or just a beautiful unfolding of a love that will never be or maybe be?

He takes a breath. He doesn't pay attention to lyrics, usually. For him it's the sound, a way to drown out the world, his thoughts, anything. But it sticks to his chest, a deep longing he'd promised to never speak out loud. To take your hand and run. Does he really exist, in space your not in?

He exhales. The thoughts are shoved aside again. He changes the song.

Beck:

Aquí estoy a tu lado/

Y espero aquí sentado hasta el final

He vaguely recognizes the song. It's something one of his older cousins used to listen to. The moodiness of the instruments, paired with the declaration of love the song is about, fills up a specific space in his heart. He's also been seen as the sun, but maybe you are, too. If only to him. If it's you, he thinks, everything will be ok.

He gives a soft smile, and let's the song play.

Rhea:

Taking my time to be perfectly honest/ I can't explain all the reasons I'm stuck in love

She doesn't automatically associate the song with herself. It's a cute song, something to listen to while she works. She keeps her head down, typing away, headphones in. Stuck in love? An image of you flashes across her mind. Her hand stills for a moment. Is she? Truly?

She shakes her head, not wanting to let her thoughts drift. She has to focus for now.

Zoe:

I wish I was/ Brave enough to love you

They've never done well with people, or feelings. Their solitude meant more to them then a connection outside of it. You, who exist outside the world as well, yet still entrenched in it's chaos, makes them hesitate. They stand on the edge, lingering on the space between.

They groan and lean back. What are they doing? It's just a song. It isn't that deep.

Lars:

I hate your touch, I hate your mouth/ I can't stand every single word that falls out/ But you're all that I've been dreaming of

He changes the song immediately. It isn't his vibe, and it's easy to move on. Even only half played, a flash of your face crosses his mind. Of all the people to have an ounce of feelings towards, the source of his current problems, wasn't ideal. Still, as much as he wanted to turn away at first, he can't. He'd rather deal with your problems then not have you around at all.

He presses his lips together, and ignores the implications of that.

???:

Was it me you wanted when you said/ You wanted something more than what you knew

Music is a novelty sometimes, and they have a fondness for dissecting it sometimes. This one, though, it's hard for their thoughts not to stray towards you. The two of you shared thoughts and sights and lungs. Their is no joy in the circumstances between you, but how can they feel sorrow when it's the reason you two found each other?

They close their eyes, and pray for a flicker of hope.

Obligatory joke bonus since I mentioned it: F!???

I could be a better boyfriend than him/ I could do the shit that he never did/ Up all night, I won't quit

"Hey MC, you know what this song reminds me of?"

"What?"

"That [RO] sucks and you deserve someone better. Like me-"

[faunandfloraas]

do you have an ult bias, ult biaswrecker, and/or ult "lives rent free in your head"? 🐨

I identify as bias fluid. Ignore all my posts and behaviours ☝️

[blubushie]

Watching Mavis contemplate the idea of herself possibly being on the path to becoming an alcoholic is strangely cathartic after how she treated me for being an alcoholic. I'd say I wouldn't wish the shit I've gone through on my worst enemy, and that's mostly true. I wouldn't wish the shit I've gone through in full on my worst enemy.

So I hope her recovery goes quick. But I also hope it sucks. I hope she gets withdrawals that she recovers from, but I hope she suffers the fevers and the chills and the cramps and the cravings and the agony. I hope she learns a lesson in how she enables and encourages the way society treats the struggling, the less fortunate, the downtrodden, the traumatised, the addicted.

I hope she learns something from this and never speculates or utters another fucking word about anyone else's coping habits or addictions. I hope she learns to stay in her fucking lane and not judge people for the methods they use to cope.

I hope she comes away with the knowledge of what her own medicine tastes like, and I hope it's bitter.

[ryansjane]

lmaooooooo I just remembered that one time I was explaining to a friend that people who are TOO conventionally attractive kinda become unattractive to me bc they're too perfect & symmetrical, and I much prefer hot people who still have some character to their face. she then proceeded to tell me "oh that's why you love off. he's pretty but not TOO pretty." I WAS SO GODDAMN FLABBERGASTED ALL I COULD REPLY WAS "haha yeah..." 😭

no but for real, why do people & especially people irl KEEP coming at me with their WRONG and insulting off jumpol takes?? when they KNOW how much I stan him?? do I open my mouth when they stan the most mediocre thai actors in existence?? NOPE. just STFU thanks 🫶

[rabble-dabble]

and by the way i fucking deserved better. you came back with your hand held out and asked me to love you again like i was a fool, like you knew i wanted you to do but you forgot friendship is a two way street and i loved you deeper than you loved yourself. i heard myself in your words and i knew the answer before you asked the question because i spent a year grieving and a year growing and another two years healing and three more years forgetting and you sent me a message asking me to forgive you as if i already hadn't done so. you asked to try again and i almost became the fool that did it because once upon a time we were best friends then we weren't and i cried at night wishing you'd come crawling back to say those words to me again. and i thought of all the ways i could tear you apart with my teeth before carefully mending you back together with my sparkly glue and my shaky sowing needle.

but in reality i knew if i let you in again that i could forgive you but i'd never be able to forgive myself. i'd be looking into the past and spitting into the face of the kid who gave up everything he felt about you to become me and i needed to let you go like the sand between my cupped hands. the ocean cleans away the grit and leaves seashells in them. its a reminder that there are still things to find and cherish. i deserve to love the world and you will not be a part of it. i am not sorry for that.

[lollytea]

Willow calls Hunter honeybird it's important to me that you consider this

[mxtxfanatic]

Book of the Week: After I Died, I Became Popular Again

Author: Zuo Chuanchuan (佐川川)

Genre: transmigration, modern setting, school life, danmei

Rating: T

My Synopsis: Whether as the impoverished painter Fu Yi of the Tang Dynasty who died too early or the cannon fodder newly discovered young master of the Qi family he’s transmigrated into, Qi Linqing only wants to paint. Whether as Fu Yi’s apprentice, Liang Luoduan, or as the minor love rival for the protagonist’s affections he’s transmigrated into, Zhong Chen only wants to win the love of the master he’s pined for for 2,000 years. Don’t worry, though: their friends still ship it!

My Actual Review: The funniest thing about this novel is how much care Zhong Chen takes to not be discovered as a transmigrator, meanwhile Qi Linqing gives absolutely zero fucks about being discovered—except by Zhong Chen 😭 Most of the conflict lies in this disconnect between the characters, so it’s very low-suspense and drama. Asshole characters get their just desserts, and good characters live happily ever after. Only minor question I had was why tf does everyone hate the Chinese in this book???

Content warning for: incest (that literally goes nowhere because everyone starts to hate the original protagonist)

Translation: complete

[iftitah]

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[fecto-forgo]

yes random blog that only started existing 5 days ago n reblogged nothing but the most popular posts in the palestine tag before posting once abt your copy paste donation message im sure this ask you sent me is all very real n true