#the doomerism of it all...

[borgialucrezia]

THE BORGIAS (2011) x THE CARNIVOROUS LAMB (1975) "The grave awaits us all." (insp)

[kneelanders]

the optimism we need

[ganondoodle]

fascinatingly horrible to watch everyone on bluesky and tumblr yell about not complying in advance, red mirage etc etc while the entirety of twitter is all screaming about everything being lost; not trying to judge, twitter is made for that, but it is .. a sight.

[yarrowdraws]

Discotober 9. - "maybell"

One day the sun, too tired to shine Slept in the deep, green sombre lake And in the darkness, the world did ail Until she came, for all our sake Oh that girl with pearls in her hair Is she real or just made of air I know she'll wait for me She will set me free

[faerygardenparty]

also I apologize for my doomerism but I’m getting real sick of seeing “you survived through last trump election you can survive this one!” posts because motherfucker thousands of people did not survive and it’s privileged as hell to be able to say as much

[gxlden-angels]

Do not let the Protestant Work Ethic Beast in your head win!

You are not alone! You are not the sole difference between death and life! You are a person who will at some point need to take a break!

That is why there is community! That is why there is organizing! Do not despair because you, alone, are not currently boots on the ground fixing things! Do something, but do not let that something be collapsing!

[rose-void-789]

Look, I know a lot of you are frustrated about Izuocha being the central discussion because she was just crying over Toga, and the fandom is tossing that aside just to talk about a potential romance. But having calmed down, I think most of us are just scared of where Ochako's character will go. At least I am.

But we need to remember that Izuku and Ochako started the war on that cliff overlooking it and made a promise to save these children. And they both lost. For all that we want to talk about, Katsuki pulling Izuku and making him talk he can't understand Izuku pain. And this thread needs to end with Izulu and Ochako. They need to talk about their loss. That's why he tried to reach out to her first, and that's why he realized exactly where she was in this chapter. That's why he has to reach out. And it will be a beautiful and amazing conclusion where they both will finally greive and open up to the feelings they have been hiding from the rest of the class. And maybe then Izuku will be able to finally face his own heart because that's the last thread of his arc. Control your heart.

I'm just scared that after that beautiful scene, after they grieve together and relish in the pain they both share, he will confess, and she will accept. Because then, what does that say about her whole arc? About giving up on her love for him and becoming a stronger hero because of it. What will it mean for all her pain to have revolved not on her but on him? How will that recontextualised her character? And that, more than the harassment and harsh voices that will continue to come to us harder than ever, scares me.

[sunlight-shunlight]

also i think it's kind of underrated that prior to dai, solas straight up murdered felassan mid-sentence, for just implying that his plan needed to change, despite them being Comrades In Rebellion for however many thousand years

but then in trespasser, he actually says "i would treasure the chance to be wrong, my friend" to a friendly inquisitor who says they're going to prove that he doesn't need to go through with his plan. even with a hostile inquisitor he's like "yeah whatever, i hate your ass but i'm not going to kill you 🙄" despite this being the most likely person to be able to interfere with his plans, and logically he should really take them out if he wants to guarantee success. that is Growth.

[deadmaidclub]

an awesome day to wake up as a transgender american

[plantsucc]

ever feel a creeping dread about living next to a massive country with a fascist government with a leader that wants to take back areas that used to be the soviet union??

like yknow lol, we just got marriage equality here in Estonia. I am a trans man, I'm on HRT and stuff. all this is illegal in russia. soooo if they invade, me and my friends are kinda dead lol XD

and the US just sided with russia against Ukraine and wants to pull all foreign support

and the rest of the world still doesn't rly know or care that the Baltics even exist. anyone who learned geography from that Animaniacs song doesn't know about Estonia, Latvia or Lithuania. any average person outside of east Europe who learned geography before the 1990s doesn't know

idk. I should draw and post more, so foreigners would at least mourn an artist, not "some civilian casualty from a country that I only just learned existed"

[gen-is-gone]

This is perhaps bitchy and uncharitable and certainly almost a year late to really be complaining about but fuck it, we complain anyway.

Yes, I am still unreasonably upset about Sutekh clinging to the side of the TARDIS since The Pyramids of Mars, and upset because I was sort of foolishly hoping we might get some actual characterization fallout from that addressed properly this series, which of course isn't going to happen. And the reason I'm upset about it while it seems fairly few people care all that much is because it's a litmus test for the degree to which any given person sees the TARDIS as a character in her own right. And it's fairly obvious now that rtd doesn't, or at least, only does when it suits him.

Because the thing is, if the TARDIS is a character, is a person, then the manner in which Sutekh uses and usurps her, and the ambiguity in whether it was consensual ('seduction' vs 'coercion') becomes extremely important to the Doctor and the TARDIS's relationship, and the TARDIS's characterization as a whole, both going forward and echoing back. Like bearing in mind that what actually happened is so ambiguous, what Sutekh being 'there the whole time' even fucking means, that trying to pull a point out of it is almost an exercise in futility from the jump, but to borrow some wildly inadequate or perhaps even inappropriate language, it's the difference between whether the TARDIS has been cheating on the Doctor for more than half the length of their entire relationship, or whether she'd been being (sorry) raped that whole time and the Doctor just hadn't noticed.

And yeah, evidently it was too much for me to hope that there would ever be any kind of real emotional or plot-relevant followup about that, because, again, that requires you to see the TARDIS as a character whose choices and emotions and relationships matter beyond their immediate relevance to the plot. And this isn't new by any goddamn means. This isn't actually the usual split between the traditionalist and the avant-garde camps. The TARDIS's sapience and autonomy do not begin with The Doctor's Wife; this is established (more or less) in The Edge of Destruction, the third ever serial in the history of the show, all the way back in nineteen sixty-fucking-four.

And y'know, yes, it would still be a big deal if Sutekh jumped on in Wild Blue Yonder (as would make way more logical sense) rather than Pyramids; the ambiguity of consent that the show either doesn't care or lacks the stomach to address would still be a blow, but it wouldn't have the unutilized capacity to fundamentally alter the relationship between the two longest-running characters in the franchise if it was the span of a season, rather than thousands of years in-universe and nearly five decades in real life. And not to be conspiratorial or assume categorical bad faith on rtd's part, but yeah, it's hard not see that particular unnecessary detail as a petty response to Moffat and Chibnall's own continuity-and-paradigm-altering retcons, and an attempt to get his own shot in.

And it's just. Never gonna get talked about, huh. 'Cause it doesn't actually matter, right? 'Cause it's not like the TARDIS is really a person, right?

[what-have-i-unleashed]

i am not in the correct mindset to do a ship chart right now (too fluff-infected) and idk what ship chart to use anyway 🙂🙂🙂

[thirdwheelravi]

I want to believe in buddie canon but based on why Ryan's said abt not wanting to play Eddie as gay, the new interview with AH after her directorial debut, the way the bt hookup scene looked a lot like tarlos..I don't have hope :( unless they do it from an unreciprocated pov but I think that'd just be worse.

ok 👍

[multifariousmayhem]

chapter 20 of comeuppance is live!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/61816408/chapters/164197207

we are still in the bday arc, a lot of bday party to go through!

hope everyone enjoys the chapter, specially the end :)

[sweaterkittensahoy]

So, apparently JFK's grandson is telling people they should boycott the Met Gala because there's too much serious stuff going on right now, and we shouldn't be paying attention to things that aren't fucking doom and gloom.

Response #1: I'm not saying he is doing this with intentions to be or look racist, but to be an incredibly rich white man from a long-standing important and influential white family saying people should boycott the Met Gala the year the theme is Black Dandyism because there's too much "serious stuff" going on sure is a stupid fucking choice.

Response #2:

Response #3: Any person implying you're a bad person for taking a fucking breather needs to be rearranged by a wood chipper.

[fldx2]

ignoring that last tally to ask who has the steve spott what does he even do meme