#who would have guessed

[oneeyedoctogod]

Start a fic with a very simple premise. Promise yourself: "This will be a short one." Write. Realize you haven't planned enough, and the fic is growing much longer than anticipated. Panic (optional but recommended) Keep writing, sobbing because why is this so long? Finish the fic (!!) Celebrate (mandatory). Start a fic with a very simple premise.. Promise yourself: "This will be a short one." Write. Realize that something feels familiar. Panic.

[maskednerd]

[oldmemoria]

guys what if the song creep by radiohead is a trans allegory specifically about how trans men are held to an impossible standard where we're either delicate little flowers or evil evil men who are evil and are men and are treated like creeps. weirdos. we ask ourselves what the hell were even doing here. exclusionists dare i say think we dont belong here because were "just women" and the second verse is about dysphoria/ lack of gender euphoria some of us ha WOAG gets dragged to turbohell

[sandersstudies]

Can’t ever beat the “typical American” allegations because there’s a Mexican-American drive-thru a few blocks from my house that serves burgers that I eat like I’ve been dying of starvation in the desert.

[annmariethrush]

Have we considered that the success of supernatural largely rests on just how damn freaky and hot Jensen and Misha look covered in blood???

[johnrossbrrr]

I don't get it because when Rae gave Claire the amulet Claire was confused because she believed Rae truly has feelings for her but in this week's episode she's back to not believing it?

Hi, thanks for the ask anon. Happy to provide my take. Hope you're ready for a long post.

I guess we have to start with how our two girls are flawed as characters. Claire has two big things that she has to work through. First she lives in a pretty rigid world, and she has been raised a noble, and is expected to act like a noble. While she has a high standard for what she thinks a noble should be, this world view has only started to be challenged and her truths aren't really being truths anymore. When Matt the commoner got badly hurt by Yu’s attendant and she saw how that unfolded the cracks started to form. To her that was wrong, nothing about that should have happened like that but it did. I’ll be spoiler light to start, but going forward her assumptions about a lot of things are going to be challenged and change doesn’t happen overnight. So what does this mean for Rae and her? Well in short they are incompatible in her mind, and even if she wanted something, that doesn’t matter because she has to be a proper noble and proper nobles do not get together with commoners. Factor into that that she has expected that she will do what a proper noble lady will do, and that is to marry a proper noble man. As I mentioned before Claire holds the idea of being a noble to a very high standard, to her it’s an important role and carries a lot of responsibility and she puts a lot of her self worth into the idea.

So we get this line, ‘I’m me and you’re you. I’m a noble and you’re a commoner. Nothing more, nothing less.” Honestly I love this line, cause it's why Claire is tragic. She won't allow herself to act on her wants, and the thing is, even if it takes her a while to come to terms with it. She does want Rae. It’s why she never lets the amulet go, and we will see it again. There is a reason it's part of the closing credits. 

Now secondly, and this sort of feeds into the previous point, a part of Claire believes she can not be loved, and that she deserves it. She does not think that love fits into the ideal of a Noble, and while she gushed at Thane at first, I think that it mostly because she was acting in a way that she thought she was expected to. She is a very high ranking noble, and so she should aspire to the best wife possible. I’m not saying she didn’t have a crush on, but I do think these expectations she placed on herself put a lot of weight into that crush, and if we pay attention to what’s going on between these two? Thane spoke against his father to help them in court and save Lene’s life. Afterwards what did she do? She was with Rae, they celebrated and she never brought him up. As we saw in her flashback, Claire lost her mother at a very young age, and the last thing she told her mother was that she hated her. This is the root for her self value, and when Lene is exiled it’s like opening an old wound for her. Claire thinks she is unkind and unlovable.

This is a huge source of self doubt for Claire, and there is a part of her that thinks she will drive away everyone in her life. There is a part of her that blames herself for Lene leaving, that if she had paid more attention, tried harder, been better things would have turned out better. So how does Rae factor into this? Terrible, at least from Claire’s initial perspective. Rae comes in, being incredibly silly, and spouting what’s to her is nonsense, about being in love with her. It puts her guards up because she has this self doubt, she thinks she is being played, used. It doesn’t help when Rae seemingly changes her father’s mind by dropping a single name. And it really doesn’t help that Rae never explains anything to her and so rarely acts genuine. Claire is perceptive, she knows how to read people and play the social scene. We see it when she comes to Rae’s rescue in the cafe. She knows something is up with Rae, and she isn’t going to figure it out until Rae tells her.

So let's talk about Rae now. Rae, narratively speaking is misleading, from the beginning she set the expectation that this is going to be silly, as a series (and it is) but then we get more serious moments, like Misha asking if she is gay and then we start to see the depth to her. So We have this moment.

In the manga Rae doesn’t explain anything in the moment to Claire, outside of saying she is her guiding light. She doesn’t want anything from Claire expect for to be happy. In the Anime she still doesn’t explain everything but she does say a lot more, and if I’m being frank I think it runs against why it works. Without Rae’s explanation, it keeps Rae a mystery to Claire, hard to pin down and potentially dangerous, no matter how alluring or happy she makes her. And I think this is what makes a lot of Manaria, and the Scale of Love arc work so well.

Rae’s flaws mirror’s Claire’s. She doesn’t think Claire can love her, and it’s why she acts the way she does. She is ultimately avoiding being hurt, Rae is a silly person, but she acts it up and she acts it up a lot. She makes her love for Claire seem like a joke. Because if it’s a joke, then the appropriate reaction is to just laugh and not think about it. Claire will of course reject her because she was never being serious. And this way she won't reject her for real. Because that would hurt too much. Driving Claire away for real is the worst thing that could happen in Rae’s mind.

Also like Claire, her world view and assumptions are working against her. Rae grew up being gay in highschool in Japan. It’s something she talks about later and we won't see it animated unless there is a season 2, but it wasn't a great experience and she is carrying a bunch of her own baggage from Japan. She wants a relationship with Claire, but in her mind that is impossible.

And Rae’s knowledge of the world as a game is working against her for this. She is making huge assumptions about Claire because she thinks she knows everything about her, she even claims to know more about the game then the game devs do. The worst assumption is that Claire is straight, and that Claire will be happy with Thane.

These flaws are the friction in the relationship, and it’s as they both unpack and untether themselves from those flaws, their relationship grows. We have had stirrings in Claire up to this point, but to her Rae’s flaws are making it hard for her to trust her, and coming up in this arc we are going to see Rae have to start to confront her own flaws.

Before Manaria shows up, Rae is stuck in this limbo. She thinks she is happy to be around Claire, and to take care of her but it’s not going great. Lene is gone and it’s been hard on Claire. Rae is trying to use her usual methods to cheer up Claire but it’s not really working. I think this addition from the anime is stellar actually. Lindsay Sheppard nails it in the English version. 

It’s said in such a fond way, but it’s solemn. She wants Rae around, but she does not see how it can ever happen. A part of her thinks that whatever relationship she has with Rae, is doomed to end just like Lene, and her mother.

So enters Manaria. God Rae needs a kick and pants and Manaria is here to do that. Rae needs to grow for the things to happen and this is probably one of my favorite parts of the series.

That made sense right? I hope this makes sense, honestly these two have been living in head so much that last couple months.

[barbecutie]

oc: masha lugo game: cyberpunk 2077

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[teawiththegods]

Me: Im just so tired all the time and too exhausted to do any of the things I want to do! 😩

Apollo: Perhaps instead of fighting your exhaustion you should….go to bed.

Me:

[prince-snatcher]

No strings attached!

[ziphius]

twunk boyfriends

[luckycl0ve]

st. george and the dragon

i was thinking about what if you did something that was objectively the right thing to do but you had to put up with everyone talking about it and you in the context of that thing forever, would you regret doing it? is it ok to go back to a fight you won and cry over how hard it was and what you lost by finishing it? well

[mrinvenotit]

I am not immune to the good times....

[miss-crazy-rose]

If the show doesn’t end up with Steve being a stay-at-home dad with his 6 kids while his girl boss wife Nancy is a celebrity reporter then I don’t want it

[magpieddd]

i love pathetic men <3

[jamisonwritestf2trash]

Super paranoid guy watches nothing but horror videos for the past three days and is now paranoid and scared.

[goblinaurora]

it's been a little time since The Event took place, but oh do I already miss pomu rainpuff, world's strongest virtual fairy from nijisanji en first wave lazulight!

she was never a kamioshi, but I always loved her passion for her otaku interests. never again will I find another Vtuber as passionate as her about maids, idols and metal gear. her pomufication spread far and wide, and her kahen sanren mix really took fans around the world by storm, exposing people like me, who weren't into j-pop idol culture, to wotagei and chants.

what do I even say about metal gear, except that her boundless enthusiasm about the franchise actually made me consider buying the games (I didn't buy them in the end because all I have is a potato laptop😭). such is the power of a 7 cm fairy!! she always made her streams fun as hell, and brought unpredictability to many collab streams as well. <3<3<3

i didn't think I would be writing a whole essay lmao, but yes, hopefully I see her again in another universe, and even if I don't, I wish her nothing but happiness, good health and success her entire life.

her very chaotic & cute personality will always stay close to me, o7 PP fairy, we are all pomu forever!

otsuPP!