#yoyo rambles

[bitchvania]

One of tbe brilliant things about mlp:fim is that the main cast aren't wayward children or highschool students they're just a bunch of young adults. Like. Twilight is a postgrad forced by her supervisor to go find friends. Apple Jack has responsibility of gaurdianship of her little sister. They're all employed. They pay rent and taxes. Fluttershy has to deal with her deadbeat underachiever older brother who can't seem to move out by himself when she visits her parents. She also has anxiety she hasnt grown out of since high school. Rainbow Dash spends most days getting high and goofing off on her minimum wage job. Pinkie Pie has a culinary apprenticeship and lives with an older couple after she left her small mining town when nobody there was as into psychadelics as her. Rarity balances running her slowly growing etsy fashion bussiness with going on tinder dates with the worst men you've ever seen. They all vote. They have to pick up their own medical perscriptions. These are 26 year old girlies going through first quarter life crisises. So, yea, that fanart of Fluttershy smoking forever weed is highly accurate.

[sunlit-tickles]

Ngl I find it funny that my upload schedule is pretty slow but then I like so many scenarios and headcanons that @nstsumep gets like...2-3 per day LMAO

I joked that I'm a subscription service for brainrots and I just find that funny until now--

...I can totally leave daily brainrots on people's askboxes if they asked like the daily newspaper and that sounds fun tbh AJDBDKS

[rg11]

theyre so Yaoiful

[lilyliveredlittlerichboy]

Like as a biomedical scientist this literally just makes sense. Our bodies evolved to hold on to any calories we could get cus starvation was a common problem in early human evolutionary history. Our bodies are genetically programmed to not want to lose weight and be happier gaining it - especially after times of starvation. Being able to hang on to calories via body fat has been a massive factor in our evolutionary success.

And our modern human bodies simply cannot tell the difference between starvation by not having enough food available, and starvation by deliberate deprivation. Your body cannot tell the difference. All it knows is that it is getting less nutrients than it needs, which means it will create things like cravings for high-calorie foods and an amped-up fat storage system. It's normal. It's natural. It's what your body is supposed to do.

Dieting doesn't make you healthier and it doesn't make you thinner. Chances are the moment you break your diet, you'll gain everything back and then some. Yoyo dieting is bad for your body and your mental health, especially if you're already suffering from poor self esteem due to your weight. "Failing" your diet (ie your body doing literally just what it has evolved to do) is not going to be good for you in any way and lead only to guilt and shame and further dieting attempts, which will damage your body and mind further.

It just makes SENSE. From a biological view, an anatomical view and an evolutionary view. Starving yourself puts pressure on the body, which the body is programmed to counteract.

Fat isn't bad or inherently unhealthy. Our cultural obsession with thinness has been deliberately planted by life/health insurance and fashion industries. And massively reinforced by a $$$billion weight loss industry. Dieting does nothing other than make some rich asshole more money, and wreck your body for no good reason. If you look at the science or have even a basic understanding of how the body works, you'll see this as well.

Thanks for coming to my Ted talk and please read Big Fat Lies by Dr Gaesser.

[oscill4te]

i love clinging to cartoons. i want to make a drawing of all of my comfort characters or at least compile a PNG of all of them and even include ones from my past that I obsessed over as a kid/teen. but it would be a lot of characters.... even if i limited it to one character per franchise, i just love so many cartoons/used to game a lot, it would be so many. i just love being a loser cartoon woman (endearing). i need to watch more cartoons. yes.

[melody-everbelle]

The only Hallmark Christmas movie I care about.

[sage-reads-things]

Pretty panel time! I gotta say, Futaba's design may be my favorite of the Yozakuras—the frilly white dress, the puffy bows, and the crazy ojou ringlets bring it all together into an elegant but grounded design.

[yoyo-inspace]

So here’s the thing.

The loudest fan discourse regularly exhausts me, but something I’ve found very interesting to see over various social media platforms is that the most vocal supporters of each “team” seem to think that the show is favouring the other side. Plenty of self-proclaimed Team Green who calls the show pro-Black, talking about how they’re making Rhaenyra way too sympathetic, and plenty of Team Black who do the same but for Alicent. I’ve also seen them talk about how the show chooses not to have the characters do certain things that were in the book and they’re usually disappointed their faves (or the ones they hate) are getting painted in a more sympathetic (or less sympathetic) light. I find that thoroughly fascinating, and at the same time I can’t help but ask myself - wasn’t this the point? 

HOTD is an adaption. However, it is slightly unique as an adaption in that it is based on an in-universe history accounts. The show-creators’ job is not just to go through the text as it is and pick which account is the most likely and then adapt that - which is what I feel that certain fans have expected them to do. It is to see past that. They’ve said it in several interviews, but their mission is to look at this “historical” text and not only say “there are unreliable narrators with stories that contradict” but also to see it for what it is: history written by men - and by victors, by clergy, by gossipers, by people in power, etc. And to look at the text through that lens and ask themselves: who could the real people behind these descriptions have been? What kind of person could this man or woman actually have been to make historians describe them like this? Was it an exaggeration? Was it a simplification? Was someone trying to villainize or sanatize or make a cautionary tale? Were they trying to set an example? Was it a straight up lie? Was it true but twisted?

Anyone who goes at the text with that kind of analysis is of course going to come away with different interpretations. That’s part of the game. But that’s true for real life as well. We can look at the figures of our history and try to imagine who they were as people. We can get clues through letters and contemporary accounts. But we can never know. 

I think that’s what’s caused some book fans to be unhappy. They had their own interpretation of who the characters behind the historical accounts were. And sometimes those characters that they imagined were exactly like the accounts described. They picked an account and deemed that to be the most trustworthy and now they’re upset that the characters they’ve imagined are not the ones being portrayed on screen. However, I don’t see that as a falling with the show. I see it as one of its greatest strengths. I’m not saying it’s above criticism, even criticism of adaptational choices. But I think some of the criticism that is presented as objective, in a way, is instead highly subjective and not necessarily what would have made the best television. 

The thing is, I see a lot of people saying that the characters aren’t grey enough. Idk if it’s just me, but I think we’re still stuck in this moralistic thinking when we talk about characters being “grey”, even as it tries to put shades into black and white. What I’m seeing is a tv show that portrays people. And they’re portraying people very well. People who do good things, who love each other, and those people being the same people who also commit heinous acts and hurt each other terribly. I see a show that is making a very good attempt at explaining why people in these situations would act like this - especially women. “I want both sides to be portrayed as equally wrong” - but even in the source material there were glimpses of another story behind. I’m just surprised that so few people who talk so loudly seem to ask themselves “what could have been the purpose of portraying this woman in history as power hungry” and just decided to go with it instead. Not because there haven’t been power-hungry women in history- there definitely has - but because the history writing is specifically what this show wants to examine. Of course they’re going to problematize it. The show has taken that story and made it fundamentally about gender and power structures and generational trauma. If your “grey characters” stop being grey to you the moment they do an act that you see as good or an act you see as bad and that completely flips the switch for you, then we have very different definitions of a so called “grey character”. 

All these people (who I know are probably quite a small part of the fanbase) are so vocally upset about characters being given more sympathetic portrayals than they think they “deserve”, or characters turning out to be shittier people due to their circumstances than fans would want, that they have to set it out as their mission to try and ruin it for others who are enjoying it, and that is where I think the real shame is. I suppose I just can’t relate to that way of looking at it. Though fans rewriting the narrative of the show and the text even when it’s presented to us, I suppose is the most predictable and poetically ironic way this could all play out. Life imitates art as it imitates life, and all that. 

[wayward-wren]

I should do a 'best Christian(/Catholic) character' bracket.... I feel like that would be fun.

Anyone interested or have any nominations?

[zhuzhudushu]

i'm trying to find a langblr vocab post that i swear i saw... it was about labels on food that says if it was vegan, vegan but with eggs, vegan with eggs and milk and then a bunch of other labels??? have you seen it around? i thought maybe you made it, but i havent been able to track it down again T_T thank you so much!!

Hmm off the top of my head I can't think of a post that's exactly like that?

I know have this post on vegetarian dishes but that doesn't fit exactly your description.

If anyone who sees this knows of this post please link it below!!

[sug4rsicle]

Hoops my beloved <3

[bitchvania]

Bitches go to see the barbie movie and leave calling it room-temperature feminism because there wasn't a scene where Barbie panneled a debate about intersectional approaches to sex work

[sunlit-tickles]

IT'S ALL CRAZY:B

HAHDOEKDKDNDKEN I'M JUST GONNA WRECK AN ENTIRE UNIT AHAHSHDHD

[ruumuf]

oh its nice to see my old hyperfixation about stickman community back from grave

[epiicaricacy-arts]

consider one of those “time loops where everyone forgets it happens except you and you have to save your lover/loved ones from dying” but with tighnari.

like. just the way he always puts himself in danger to protect others (like testing mushrooms on himself??) or just taking up tasks so that others aren’t at risk to hurting themselves (not letting collei mix the medicine cause of her illness)

so he’s just doing everything he can to make sure his loved ones aren’t killed, or else the day resets and he has to start over, but it just keeps happening and he doesn’t know how to fix it, because he doesn’t realize that he CAN’T do everything himself

i’m not a writer but i am desperate and i had to put this somewhere

[cerinelle-stellarium]

Turns out the shopping list Yoyo sent out with Mashiro in episode 1 was actually plot relevant (the dried frog)!