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codacheetah · 7 months

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Which one will you vote for?

#codacheetah #my art #isat #in stars and time #isat loop #isat siffrin #isat mdp #isat mal du pays #isat act 6 spoilers #two hat spoilers #vaguely. probably more than vaguely actually #isat au #I GUESS #based on a silly silly conversation.... that's my mal du president.....#somehow. not the first time ive drawn loop about to hit siffrin with the steel chair.#loop as presidential candidate is so important to me by the way. they're like a shitty boy king that eats peasants and has never stepped #outside of the castle in terms of their ''policies''.#they want to build a moat around the white house and make babies illegal and give rats legal rights and abolish taxes as a concept #purely because every time they say some inane shit the vein on siffrin's forehead grows a little larger and they have not been dropped #from the ballot list yet.#the people love them and by that i mean their other options are a scary weird ghost (horrifying) or a progressive (abysmal)#like to be clear im not talking about a president of vaugarde thing im talking about THE U S OF A 🦅🦅🦅💥💥💥🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸#none of these people are eligible to run. none of them would ever want to. too bad.#also. i really just wanted to draw loop in a shitty suit tbh it quells my desire to draw loop as saul goodman.#if anyone in the world is reading these tags ill do it if enabled. but im holding back.#anyways though srry to talk about loop so much my scrunkly my scringus my horrible cat the whole basis for these drawings was a convo on md #but im not an mdp understander i am merely an mdp nation citizen #one of the commoners......#i thought about queueing this but you get it now i know this will be a flop post its ok #this scenario appeals almost entirely to me despite having no substance or basis or progression

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rawliverandgoronspice · 19 days

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I don't get why people hate the timeline so much, its not like you can't pretty much completely ignore it when you play the games. The only time it even approaches mattering to the story is when there is an explicit sequel like botw and totk or zelda and zelda 2

Hey sorry your ask got lost in the sauce of my broken tumblr, but: yeah!

I mean, I get why in some sense. It's been a heated point of debate and I think some people understandably resent the space it has taken not only in fandom discourse, but in how people began to understand the game and its narrative aesthetic choices. There is such a thing as over-rationalizing everything to hard logic, and sometimes it's just not the fandom for that --especially when you begin to forget it's all just fan theory and start to forget what the games are supposed to be like and evoke beyond just strict facts displayed in a linear way.

What I think bugs me with TotK in particular is that it both evokes and relies on continuity and the idea of a timeline, of archeology, of history itself, while being so loose and vacant with it that it both is doing Timeline Shit while also completely failing to understand why some parts of the fandom were invested in Timeline Shit to begin with.

But that's just my two cents of course!

#asks #tloz #timeline #totk critical #thanks for the ask!#I do... feel two ways about that myself #I think pure evocation is genuinely one of zelda's greatest storytelling strengths #that mood is sufficient and enough in itself and doesn't always need justification #it is the way the games center story --and that's genuinely wonderful and a strong take on narrative in games #as something freeflowing and accompanying gameplay rather than the opposite #and to ignore that and focus on hard facts all of the time kind of misses the point of the games' stories to a degree #BUT #I also get quite annoyed at the weird condescencion towards fans that do decide to engage with the stories more factually #especially since this is either revelatory regarding some of nintendo's choices #(that the aesthetics of evil are so tied to The Desert TM while taking so many inspirations from european fairy tales for example)#(it's not neutral even if we ignore ingame “lore”)#or just a great fodder for creativity and narrative play #and it is a part of the IP too!! just as much as dungeons and items and musics and curiosity-driven exploration!!#I do have beef with people not resonating with that aspect thinking others that do so are just stupid or childish #and that you can only have an enlightened relationship with zelda if you like it “the right way”#(which is somehow always mechanics/logic-driven which is. interesting to me.)#(or in a completely passively aesthetic way as in “I like fairies they're pretty”)#but you know it's the weird Triforce Shirt Dude stigma thing #that notion that you can (and must!) Love Zelda Deeply and Defensively #but you cannot be *passionate* about Zelda #then it's weird and immature #I don't know I feel like there's a lot to analyze in that arbitrary dychotomy #anyway sorry for the mega novel in the tags!!

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123pixieaod · 1 year

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Inspired by this godly post which unlocked a part of my brain I didn't know existed, and solidly gave me complete and utterly brainrot until I wrote something

A thousand thanks to Lily for her wonderful help :))

"Does Kelly not mind you spending all your time with me?" Daniel asks, because she's Daniel and once she's thought something she can't keep her fucking mouth shut, even if she knows it's trouble.

Max looks up, pausing his set of weights, and blinks at her. Daniel feels her cheeks warm. One day, that mouth of yours will run you straight into trouble, young lady, her mum used to tell her, voice firm. Good girls know when to keep quiet. Daniel used to just laugh at the warning. Her laugh is loud and the opposite of quiet, but she used to know that everyone always loved her laugh.

"No," Max says after a beat and then continues lifting. Daniel hates the way her gaze tracks over him, lingering on the movement of his muscles, the ease with which he lifts the weight. Tawny hair brushed out of his eyes, cheeks dusted warm from the exertion. "Of course not."

"Why of course not?" Daniel asks. She wants to sew her mouth shut. This time, Max didn't look over as he answers.

"Kelly's very secure, she's not like other girls. And besides, she knows you."

It's strange. When Daniel was seven and Michelle eleven, they'd gone rock pool fishing. Michelle had been crouched over a shallow pool of water, her finger delicately brushing the tentacles of the anemone. Daniel had been scaling the rocks, wanting steeper, taller, more.

She'd found the shark first, nestled high at between the rocks, and for a beat she hadn't known what she was looking at. Just details, but nothing collective. Rotting smell. Shrivelled holes where eyes should be. Scales of silver lightning. Rubbery fish picked clean. The flash of bone, pearl white.

Then she realised what she was staring at, and screamed. Her father held her while her mother scolded her. I told you not to go climbing! It's too dangerous, Daniel. Why can't you just be good like your sister and stay by the shallow pools?

And then, later, ice cream. Her dad, beside her, explaining the horror away.

It's just nature, Dani. The waves wash them up, and they get stuck there. They can't get back to the sea, and then the sun dries them out.

They drown on air, Michelle helpfully pointed out, her feet kicking happily as she licked her 99. Daniel just just nodded, ice cream untouched. Every time she closed her eyes, she saw the sunken holes, the rotting flesh.

She hasn't thought about that moment for years, but suddenly it washes back over her. She feels simultaneously both. The child, staring at the carcass, frozen in shock. The shark, burning up in the sun, chocking on air.

"What does that mean?" She asks, and somehow her voice is normal, is fine. She's fine. She's not a girl or a shark. She's stupid and a fool and a gawky, ugly idiot, but she's fine.

Max manages to shrug, even with the 50kg weights. "You know. Just that Kelly knows you. She knows what you're like. And she knows me too, of course."

Daniel swallows. She nods. She hates everything about herself.

"That's sexist," she forces herself to say lightly because if the silence stretches anymore, Max might notice and set his weights down and look at her, and Daniel can't bear that. She doesn't want his eyes on her, taking in every blemish and imperfection. The boyish, ratty clothes she works out in and her curls gone frizzy with sweat and her inked skin, so different to Max and Kelly's pale, perfect complexions.

"What's sexist?"

"Saying she's not like other girls," Daniel tells him, setting down the weights she been doing. Instead, she goes to grab the skipping rope, just for something to do.

Max laughs. Daniel's glad she's turned away. Her cheeks are burning again.

"It's the truth. You, of course, Daniel, are not like other girls either." He says it lightly and ends with a chuckle, as if it's all just a joke. Daniel drags a sweaty hand over her cheeks. Burning, burning, burning.

Apparently, in Max's mind, she and Kelly are the same; both not like other girls. Kelly, with her faultless makeup and wonderful daughter and classy dresses and perfect feminity. One end of the scale. Daniel, the other. Barely even considered "a girl." Always one of the boys, only woman in f1 for a reason.

"Thanks," Daniel says. She wants to make it sound humorous, like she's in on the joke too. Instead, it's too cold; muttered as if she actually gave two shits about the conversation anyway. She has an F1 season to prepare for, she's too busy to care about stupid shit like this.

There's a beat of silence as Daniel stretches out the rope, feeling the plastic flex and give. Then, Max exhaling, the gentle bump of his weights against the floor, the workout bench shifting as his centre of gravity changes. Daniel keeps her back to him, ignoring it all.

"I did not mean it as insult," Max finally says, stubborn. Daniel forces a laugh, turning to give him a smile, all teeth.

"Of course not Maxy. I get that." Voice light and blithe. One of the boys.

She thinks he'll drop it, but instead, his frown only grows. Pinched brows, thin lips, cheeks growing blotchy. Blue eyes regard her, intense and unyielding. She burns from the inside out.

"I've upset you," he says, in that blunt, genuine way only he can do. Daniel barks out another laugh.

"Don't be stupid. You're not important enough to ever be able to get under my skin." She gives him another smile with only teeth. She feels insane. Her mother tells her good girls stay quiet.

"I'm sorry," he tries again, growing frustrated now, "I did not mean -"

"I told you, you didn't upset me," she drops the skipping rope without actually using it. "Anyway, I'm bored. Wanna get lunch now? Or are you still trying to pump those muscle with more testosterone?"

Max gives her one last, searching look before standing. They're almost the same height. She wants to shrink to nothing.

"That is not how testosterone works, Daniel," he says with the air of an overworked teacher. He looks at her with a smile, uncertain but genuine. She laughs, allowing him to move the conversation on.

She walks out of the gym first but holds the door for him. He grins, relieved. His fingers skim hers as he takes it and she lets go. A chill runs through her. Cold like scales, cold like ice cream untouched.

Follow up here!

#whole lot of internalised misogyny to unpack here #in my head Daniel is looking like Tash Sultana in the music video for “Jungle”#Max just meaning :))) Kelly knows you and she knows me :))) and she knows we are both two good people who would not cheat :)))#while Daniel just going into an existential crisis of #:((( Kelly knows Max and I :((( and I am zero threat to her because I must be utterly undesirable :((( and not Max's type at all :(((#maxiel #girl!Daniel #for the first time ever lol #my fic #ending involves the tension between them growing and growing #and Kelly watches them share a podium and sees the way Max wraps his arm around Daniel's shoulder and hugs her tightly #and the way Daniel laughs so happily and loudly everyone can hear her #and suddenly Kelly realises she had been wrong and Daniel was a threat #and basically gives Max an ultimate to choose one of them and stop all contact with the other #somehow Daniel finds out and just locks herself away from the world during summer break because it's not even a question who max will pick #and their story ends with Max knocking on her door with looking annoyed with a bunch of drooping flowers #and before Daniel can even say anything he's stepping into her apartment and getting a vase from her cupboard #while complaining about how he ordered the flowers that morning but the florist fucked up his order and of course the flourists in the #Netherlands are much better and soon he will take Daniel there and pick proper flowers like tulips for her #she stares at him in pure disbelief and then starts to laugh. and Max looks over and laughs too and they're still smiling when they kiss #:)))))#apologies but I'm a sucker for a soppy cliched ending lol

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discjude · 4 months

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Yeah this is about right (as always my thoughts are in the tags so there's actually kei content there lmao)

#Hester I adore you they could never make me hate you. Seriously the first chapter in 6 (bad candy) is like my favourite opener #Kei they could NEVER EVER make me hate you. did nothing wrong ever. rhian when I CATCH you #its so funny how my two favourite characters just like. hate each other. like japeth literally kills him #sad cause they're so SIMILAR. theyre both victims of Dog Metaphor its so sad that kei does Not like japeth in the slightest #personally if they had a good long discussion about their emotions at like 3am they could've probably stopped TCY from happening #but alas. Aric. somehow its all his fault again. why do I have an aricposting tag but not a keiposting one.#Hester easily has the best overall characterisation arc I love love love the way soman writes her #I remember when I read 6 for the first time #before japeth insanity happened #I used to anticipate her chapters over like everyone else's. Hester the 1 lesbian in the series you are deeply loved #I could write whole essays about japeth and kei's characterisation it is so sad that soman forgets kei exists #like he's meant to be rhian's eagle. that's his job. that's what he's spent a Long Time anticipating becoming #but rhian refuses to acknowledge it. instead he calls Japeth his eagle in book 4's ending #He eventually falls in love with Sophie #he only ever cares about the crown #how he GETS to the crown #and bringing his mother back. he lies more than japeth #and never once does he get to be the eagle. There's only three spaces - lion/eagle/snake - and he doesn't get to be any of them #dont even get me started on how he dies. surrounded by white swans. being purely good #god rhian II try not to fuck EVERYTHING over challenge. and also Aric. its all arics fault as well #keiposting #japethposting #actually not really jposting. didn't do it that much #sge #tsfgae #school for good and evil #the school for good and evil #sfgae #the school of good and evil #as much as I adore Hester I dont think I will talk about her much in detail ever so no hesterposting yet

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effable-as-f · 1 year

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I've been trying to figure out the best way to word this and I think I have so bear with me

Aziraphale loves Crowley. That's plain as day, he loves seeing Crowley happy, he loves receiving affection from Crowley. But I don't think he particularly likes making sacrifices or pushing himself out of his comfort zone, when Crowley has shown time and time again that he's willing to do the same for him.

I hope I'm not alone in thinking that this season has been showing us all the ways that Aziraphale and Crowley's relationship is sort of... inequal--Aziraphale doesn't respect Crowley's wishes about making changes to the Bentley and only stops once Crowley threatens to treat his belongings the same way, he's dismissive of his concerns about Gabriel, he's too distracted with his ball to listen to Crowley's warning about the actual small army of demons outside their door--all the while Crowley's TOP priority has been Aziraphale and making sure that he won't be harmed, by Gabriel, Heaven, or otherwise.

I mean this in the nicest way possible, because it makes perfect sense for his character, but I think that Aziraphale has always been portrayed as kind of selfish and hypocritical, and I think that's on purpose and it's something that he needs to work through before he'd ever be ready to take his relationship with Crowley to another level. I think he's started to take for granted that Crowley will always be there for him, and that what makes him happy will always make Crowley happy, when that's not the case. He said it himself: Crowley goes too fast for him. Despite all the progress he's made, he's still stuck in his desire to go back to a fantasy of "the good old days" that never existed.

#good omens 2 #good omens spoilers #good omens meta #aziraphale is so traumatized and so brainwashed and he wants so badly to feel like he's doing the right thing #and he's so sheltered and naive and thinks he can fix everything on his own #but crowley just wants them to be able to REST and be FREE and HAPPY and TOGETHER #because it's not their responsibility to try to fix the system that fucked them both over #part of me wonders if a big source of their conflict #is the fact that crowley SAW the cold casual cruelty with which gabriel tried to send aziraphale to his death #and aziraphale didn't #because deep down in his heart he STILL somehow believes Heaven is on the side of pure good #and he wouldn't see michael simply providing the holy water to execute crowley in the same way #because he's been taught to believe that simply ALLOWING bad things to happen is not as bad as doing it yourself #the demons are the ones doing the actual killing their hands are still clean they're still holy #WHOO that felt good #I haven't done a long 'essay' type post like that in a WHILE

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paperlovesadness · 2 years

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Ugh, sometimes I look into Miles' comment sections and feel so bad for him.

I don't think I need the disclaimer if you know my blog - but just in case. Yes, I love TLSP. As a band - they're in my very top of favorites (next to a bunch of dead people bands). As people - I'm fascinated by them both apart and together.

But I can't bear seeing the amount of people who ignore Miles himself and his solo stuff to just shout "GIVE US TLSP3" / "DO THIS SONG WITH ALEX" at him. Lord, get a grip people. If you love the band so much - be nice and considerate to one of its actual frontmen.

He's talented in his own right. Very. We need more respect and appreciation for that.

#I think it's the worse on tiktok #They should also give Miles' stuff a thorough listen because he's smazing and they're somehow missing that?#Yes as a duo they make pure magic #Tlsp is a few levels higher to me than any other modern-day music I've stumbled upon up until this point in my life #So I get the need I do #But AM and solo MK especially need their own seperate level of appreciation (cause they're both amazing)#It's kinda like Lennon & McCartney (here I go again with the parallels ) -their stuff together was magic and couldn't be beat ever #But John and Paul had/have some solo bops too and we should always aknowledge their seperate talents too #Miles Kane #Rant #The last shadow puppets #my posts

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biborispavlikovsky · 2 months

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hacking my baby brain by literally putting anything that can distract me out of sight and magically not being distracted anymore

#diary #somehow 99% of the time if i can't see the thing it's no longer distracting #have to use it to my advantage so it's not purely an annoyance #also makes it immediately clear how the things that distract me aren't actually that appealing to me they're just more appealing than work #but that the work isn't actually that bad if i can just get over the immediate discomfort of not wanting to start #the curse i must bear from my dads side of the family but at least i can use it to help me sometimes

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glindyupland · 5 months

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I just think it’s silly that so many people complain about Villain Amaya as “wasted potential” and that “we were robbed” like-

My pals, post canon fan fiction is right there. The desire to free her husband is right there. Either by touching an evil book while being too eager to remember the obsidian oil, or being possessed by contact (ie what she believes is true loves kiss) when trying to reason with him in the dungeon.

We don’t need a rewrite, we can have a continuation. Both can be true. Amaya is a complex character, she can handle it.

#Wish #Queen Amaya #I assume I'm going to get hate for this but like #I know it's not store bought and you have to still make it yourself but also #I'm kind of just tired of seeing a lot of people sh*tting on Wish because it's not the concept art #And I'm kind of over here like how about we love it recognize it has flaws and THEN try to make something new without bashing the OG?#I just love Amaya and she definitely deserves more #but her good character is so interesting and complex #she still knows how to have fun. She still can be sassy or bite.#Like she's still Magnifico's perfect partner you know? and Magnifico isn't perfect?#A truly pure person wouldn't click with Magnifico the way Amaya does...?#I would rather build on Amaya's character than say she can only be good and boring or a villain?#Amaya is so smart yall. I know you can't see it all just on the movie but like she's read every magic book in Magnifico's library #THOUSANDS OF BOOKS.#And knows basic protection spells #She's a devoted leader.#Like.#Idk #She both loves her husband and recognizes that she has to go against him.#She doesn't /turn/ on him. She addresses his flaws and tells him that it's not okay?#She still jokes with him even though she has to put him in time out. She's complex and strong and wise and kind.#And I just hate seeing so many people so quick to just say 'the concept art was better' when like... the idea might be more appealing to yo #But I hate the level of cynicism and pretentiousness I see of people saying their personal ideas of what Wish should be-#-Is better than the piece of media they claim to care about?#Like their personal vision of Wish based exclusively off the concept art is somehow intellectually superior?#And I'm not saying stop doing your rewrites or AU's or anything! Like there's definitely beautiful creativity happening!#I just hate seeing people so negative and like honestly mean. It hurts my heart to see everyone calling Wish garbage?#It's not great but I really really dont think it's as bad as everyone is saying. Like its no like Oppenheimer but it's a children's movie..#Like I personally love the Teens and Amaya #And everyone saying they stink makes me sad... Because they're just great characters?

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disastergenius · 1 year

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thought:

movie version of Next To Normal

directed by Greta Gerwig

#next to normal #next to normal musical #greta gerwig #i just think she'd make the family dynamics hurt more somehow #they're already so complex and complicated and realistic #she would make them even more interesting #i want to see her direct a big musical with ensemble #based purely on the disco scene in Barbie 2023 #but this little show has such a special thing #n2n #next to normal broadway #next to normal london #musicals #musical theatre

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milfbro · 7 months

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now that the week is done I can finally talk about my current rewatching of the first two seasons of House (I won't watch more. Seasons 3 and 4 are my favorites and if I get to them I might just keep going through to the end and I do not have the time)

and anyway my main takeaway is that a) the fandom doesn't talk about Foreman enough. Foreman is the best character of the show. Ok no he isn't it's Cuddy but he's also pretty good he's my favorite of the team including House. Where is the love for Foreman on this website. How everybody inexplicably keeps saying he's too much like house when he literally isn't. Every day he gets angry at people being racist to him and people call him grumpy and stubborn. Which he is but like. Not like House At All. DW dude you're literally the only good doctor on the team and also you're a smug bastard I love you. How literally every single disease so far was brain-related and he's the brain doctor. What are Chase and Cameron even doing there. Their contributions so far were so intermittent

b) the way my memory of this show had completely erased Chase off of the show is so funny paired up with every single episode finding out some other unexpected personality trait of his. He's literally so bad it's captivating. Like what do you mean he was briefly a dom and was in the New Jersey BDSM scene. What do you mean he said a 10 year old with obesity deserves to die cause she did it to herself. What do you mean he had sex with Cameron when he knew she was off her tits in meth and knew this was bad. WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE KISSED A 9 YEAR OLD ON THE LIPS.

#chase is way more like house than foreman is. i said it #the only problem is that chase pathologically sucks up to his boss #and house would never do that #also in terms of caring about the patient House is better than chase somehow #fake ass bastard he is #but foreman? aggressively overcautious foreman??? who almost always refuses to take risks foreman?#who only occasionally bends the rules for his own benefit but otherwise works by the book #house is always like 'rules are for loosers' and breaks the rules almost for fun #foreman is like 'the rules are here for a reason and they're good and morally pure. let me break them rn dw it's the last time I promise'#this is fundamentally a different character from house. Foreman is a hypocrite #who acts all high and mighty but also doesn't obey the rules if he can't be assed #and he is a loner but he doesn't hate humanity like house. and house actually has 1 (one) friend #while foreman is almost incapable of friendship being so holier than thou #sorry about this rant I love Foreman he is the best and he sucks

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blueclearcloud · 1 year

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I just am really not okay right now. My baby (Suletta Mercury) is sad and broken so i have lost all hope and happiness.