Tr: "Every single time someone talks about yumihisu, even well-meaningly, like it's implied and not explicitly romantic in the text it makes me feel like the goverment is subjecting me to a psyops, there is no subtext! It's just text! It's in your face! You want queercoded? You want queer subtext?? You want interpretations the author probably only intended to half-assedly??? KENNY ACKERMAN IS RIGHT THERE!"
I must not respond to the bad take. Responding to the bad take is the mind-killer. Responding to the bad take is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face the bad take. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the bad take has gone there will be nothing. Only I (and my good takes) will remain.
immortal witch riding hood for WIP Wednesday please
WIP Wednesday Game
Can do! And thanks so much for asking!
Then a bumbling woman with bright gold hair (like the yellow flowers, but thicker, if yellow could be said to be thick) and a protruding stomach that she covers with her hands in a protective gesture waddles out of the house. “Arthur!” she exclaims. “Where have you—” But her voice cuts off as she catches sight of you, and her eyes narrow. “Who is this?”
last semester i wasn’t doing well in a very important class i needed to pass in order to graduate so i was working my ass off writing essays and shit and every time i started slacking i would bring up this image and i’d say “ah fuck you’re right vash i really need to keep working” and then i’d write for another two hours and i actually managed to pass and graduate and i honestly don’t know if i would’ve been able to without this picture. thank you vash
goddd the episode's premise does such a good job of setting up potential "justifications" for lindy's micro-agressions.
she immediately blocks the doctor? well, he wasn't on her friends list, of course she would! she's shocked that the doctor is in the same room as ruby? of course she would be, everyone here communicates through the bubble, not face-to-face!
her racism ISNT subtle, the episode just guides you (ESPECIALLY if youre white) to overlook it up until the reveal at the end! it SHOULDNT be a surprise, but for some people watching, it IS, because theyve been unknowingly making excuses for her the entire time!
What if when Michael got Distortioned he/they/it/(?) had just kept showing up to work? Imagine Gertrude comes into the archives and finds a bunch of paperwork filled out in yellow highlighter and folded into impossible shapes, and then Michael-Distortion just walks into the room door-style and sits down at his work computer so it can email Gertrude a phishing scam.
so. i understand where the sentiment "listening to an audiobook is the same thing as reading the book" is coming from - i mean, yes, the bottom line is you are taking in the same words in what is possibly a more accessible (or maybe just more enjoyable) format for you! and i'm 100% in agreement that "book snobs" who say "no you didn't really read it" if you listened to the audiobook are full of shit. ofc you should engage with stories in whatever way works for you, there is no moral or intellectual superiority to reading words off a page vs. listening to them
but it also is different? an audiobook is a performance. choices a narrator makes about line readings can drastically influence the meaning of the lines. even just different voices, accents, etc. - there are creative choices being made by the person delivering the words to you, and that affects your experience of the story in a different way than if you were making those choices in your own head. it might even change the way you visualize what's going on!
this isn't a bad thing it's just An Actual Thing & i think it's worth talking about. it rubs me the wrong way when people act like accommodations (and for many people audiobooks are an accommodation) always result in a completely identical experience, or even that they should, & if you suggest that people accessing media in different ways are having different experiences it's somehow ableist
anyway on rare occasions i really enjoy audiobooks but mostly they are much less accessible to me than words on a page (i need to be able to reread, flip back and forth, go at my own pace) & i also just really strongly prefer to encounter a text on my own before hearing someone else's performance of it, if possible! again i don't think it's "better" to read a physical book i just think it is a Distinct form of experiencing a story & acting like the two things are entirely the same is sort of doing a disservice to both
good evening, tumblr user @morning-st48. or should i say... bad morning? because i think you are the one spreading misinformation about my big beautiful daughter.
but i will not hold this against you. i am a big man with a big daughter, and i would like to use this as a teaching opportunity.
A recreation of the time my brother and I were in co-op and he decided to test the capabilities of Furina's E skill by water running from Liyue all the way to Inazuma, while I stood by the docks of Ritou village
Men will never ever like romance the same way women do because it shows them the way they have to act, it shows them that they can’t be scumbags and not abuse a woman.
Therefore they make fun of it, and women (sadly) feel ashamed of it, making them stop looking for men who might actually treat them well and instead go for the men that belittle them.