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I've drawn Ian so many times now and every time I reach a point where I go a man????? then I add his goatee and I go Ian the man????????? anyways I'm going insane goodnight folks
Now that I think about it, Tobitaka getting selected when he sucked at football just because Hibiki saw his potential for the WORLD CUP is absolutely insane. Like he took the spot of a player who probably dreamed about this opportunity for years, which I’m guessing would’ve either been Someoka or Sakuma since that’s who they picked when two original members got injured and had to be replaced
I love that all the body parts used to repair the creature in Lisa Frankenstein were things that hurt her when attached to the living person they came from. Like, Lisa's stepmom never listened to her, so creature took her ear and always listened, that guy whos name I don't remember tried to assault her with his hand, but creature took it and touched her gently with it, and that other guy whos name I also don't remember fucked her stepsister with his dick, but creature took it and fulfilled Lisa's dying wish with it. Idk, it's cute to me and I want someone like that.
IT IS GOOD FOR ME TO CLEAVE UNTO GOD AND TO PLACE IN HIM THE HOPE OF MY SALVATION!!!!!
For the monster fucker vertical limit Tim joke post that I love a bit too much I offer meh quality meme
Treating those posts like "reblog in 4 nanoseconds or you die instantly" like a card game. Sorry but I saw the dog of protection which cancels out that post
Y’all are so annoying—
Zemo, a literal terrorist and the reason that Bucky was a murderer, danced one time at a club and y’all are suddenly fangirls?
But then Captain Marvel, who never gave up for what was right for her, and continually helped others with the powers she was gifted, says one rude comment and people say that she needs to die/get raped/get fired.
Shout-out to proshippers/darkshippers like me who partake in the dark media we consume, not because we've been through the abuse/trauma depicted, but because what we've already been through doesn't feel "valid enough."
I promise you, you aren't bad for having an urge to go through "worse." It's a natural response your brain has when your pain and hurt doesn't feel validated enough. I can guarantee you that whatever you've been through- even if "small"- isn't something to simply be ignored or treated as lesser.
You were hurt, and you deserve the acknowledgement and support for that like any other survivor does. Sometimes people and society just tend to overlook trauma that isn't on the extreme end, even if all trauma is just that no matter the "degree": trauma.
I know it probably doesn't mean much coming from a stranger on the internet, but I'm proud of you for finding a coping mechanism where you don't go out and hurt yourself. Personally I'd rather have you, or anyone in general, consume your darkfiction, than go and seek out abuse in real life.
educated feminist bokuto proving all of us wrong
atm the only thing I want the most is buck to break up with taylor,,,I don't kno why but their relationship makes me claustrophobic, it feels suffocating..I liked Taylor's character when she was first introduced because she was kinda reminding me of buck and I loved all the cockiness she was radiating it was hot,,but they just don't work together...like??? The relationship they have feels forced I can't just stand it anymore!!!! I genuinely believe they'd be such great frens??? i honestly don't know what the season will bring but I want a bucktaylor break up soooo bad let me breatheeeeee
yeah idk how to describe it but something about the direction they chose to write the relationship this season felt so Off??? idk if it's because it was so isolated from the rest of the characters (like taylor only interacts with them briefly in 5x10 and buck nEVER talks about her before 5x09 which is Huge contrast to abby)
and again, in comparison to abby, i have has No Idea how buck feels about this relationship pretty much at any stage of the season season bc he's!!! not!!! talking!!! about it!!!! and their dynamic is notably different to the one they'd established in s4. it's just- a bit draining to watch tbh??????
the fact that it hasn't been mentioned basically at all in all the bts stuff (besides the huge wrench comment) has also made me lowkey forget it's even still a thing, to the point that i legit only remembered it again the other day lmao. so yeah, idk what they're gonna do going forward but given how much they'll have to make up for lost time with madney and the fact we know eddie's getting a big storyline, i'd be surprised if it's dragged out for too long
the thing that gets to me about buddie posts on here is that people will be like "look at them! friends don't do that! there is no platonic explanation for that" and well. friends do do that. their relationship is deep and beautiful and intense but their actions alone aren't exclusive to romantic partners. what — to me — makes buddie romantic over platonic boils down to their intentions. someone making their best friend their child's legal guardian isn't unheard of. but eddie did it and kept it a secret. eddie thought "this is the only man i trust with my son. this is the only person in this world that will hold my heart gently." and then eddie didn't tell him. that makes me crazier than the actual legal document. a normal friendship would discuss this. it'd be an open conversation. the fact that eddie can't bring himself to say it because he knows that what it means to him is too much to look in the eye? because he knows that telling buck about his decision would be the equivalent of bleeding all over the both of them again? that's what makes it romantic. eddie frantically chasing after buck's limp body after the lightning strike isn't necessarily because he's in love with him. plenty of really close friends would do that for each other. it's when eddie desperately tries to pull buck up to him instead of lowering him that makes it more. because eddie didn't climb the ladder to get buck down to safety, eddie climbed up the ladder to get buck to him. the desperation, the intent behind their actions, the way they can't look at each other when they're hurt because it's impossible to deal with even the idea of living in a world without each other says so much more than any of buck's acts of service alone. a best friend would help you take care of yourself and your kid after you have a mental breakdown, if you're physically injured, if you need help. it's the fact that nobody asked buck, it's the fact that he's the first person chris called, it's the fact that bobby didn't bat an eye, because of course buck's there to help eddie. it's a given. who else in the whole world would it be? because they're everything to each other. in a way that's just a little too much, a little too codependent, toes the line of friendship and lovelovelove a little too carelessly. they're not buck and eddie, best friends, they're buckandeddie, one word. and not because of any of action. because they're in massive stupid head over heels gay love with each other.
proud to say that I have never once in my life figured out the whodunit in any crime story I've read or watched. I just let the facts and clues wash over me, absorbing absolutely none of it. I am the audience they think of when they throw in red herrings, in case you've ever wondered "who would fall for this obvious false lead". it's me. I am the idiot viewer/reader. not once has an obviously framed clue revealed anything to me. my head is completely empty when I consume these stories.
I don’t ‘develop’ headcanons. They come to me in visions and I know they’re correct.
having now seen a photo of the actor who plays francesca, i gotta say the evidence is strongly pointing to TWN’s approach to actors of color being “change their hair and eyes so they can pass for white, unless they’re dark-skinned and then let people pat us on the back for keeping their natural hair (but still make their eyes blue sometimes)” and that’s REAL fucked up, y’all. really really fucked up.
(francesca actor photo in question:
like holy shit, they whitewashed the FUCK out of her, i had NO IDEA)
(the notion that “istredd’s eyes are blue bc he’s a mage” does not hold up when plenty of other mages have brown eyes, so let’s not even start with that. not to mention it was a CHOICE in the first place, not an immutable law of reality)
The Importance of Mary Sue
When I was in Ninth Grade, I won a thing.
That thing, in particular, was a thirty dollar Barnes & Noble gift certificate. I was still too young for a part-time job, so I didn’t have this kind of spending cash on me, ever. I felt like a god.
Drunk with power, I fancy-stepped my way to my local B&N. I was ready to choose new books based solely on the most important of qualities…BADASS COVER ART. I walked away with a handful of paperbacks, most of which were horrible (I’m looking at you, Man-Kzin Wars III) or simply forgettable.
One book did not disappoint. I fell down the rabbit hole into a series that proved to be as badass as the cover art promised (Again, Man-Kzin Wars III, way to drop the ball on that one). With more than a dozen books in the series, I devoured them. I bought cassette tapes of ballads sung by bards in the stories. And the characters. Oh, the characters. I loved them. Gryphons, mages, but most importantly, lots of women. Different kinds of women. So many amazing women. I looked up to them, wrote bad fiction that lifted entire portions of dialogue and character descriptions, dreamed of writing something that the author would include in an anthology.
This year I decided in a fit of nostalgia to revisit the books I loved so damn much. I wanted to reconnect with my old friends…
…and I found myself facing Mary Sues. Lots of them. Perfect, perfect, perfect. A fantasy world full of Anakin Skywalkers and Nancy Drews and Wesley Crushers. I felt crushed. I had remembered such complex, deep characters and didn’t see those women in front of me at all anymore. Where were those strong women who kept me safe through the worst four years of my life?
Which led me to an important realization as I soldiered on through book after book. That’s why I needed them. Because they were Mary Sues. These books were not written to draw my attention to all the ugly bumps and whiskers of the real world. They were somewhere to hide. I was painfully aware that I was being judged by my peers and adults and found lacking. I was a fuckup. And sometimes a fuckup needs to feel like a Mary Sue. As an adult, these characters felt a little thin because they lacked the real world knowledge I, as an adult, had learned and earned. But that’s the thing…these books weren’t FOR this current version of myself. Who I am now doesn’t need a flawless hero because I’m comfortable with the idea that valuable people are also flawed.
There is a reason that most fanfiction authors, specifically girls, start with a Mary Sue. It’s because girls are taught that they are never enough. You can’t be too loud, too quiet, too smart, too stupid. You can’t ask too many questions or know too many answers. No one is flocking to you for advice. Then something wonderful happens. The girl who was told she’s stupid finds out that she can be a better wizard than Albus Dumbledore. And that is something very important. Terrible at sports? You’re a warrior who does backflips and Legolas thinks you’re THE BEST. No friends? You get a standing ovation from Han Solo and the entire Rebel Alliance when you crash-land safely on Hoth after blowing up the Super Double Death Star. It’s all about you. Everyone in your favorite universe is TOTALLY ALL ABOUT YOU.
I started writing fanfiction the way most girls did, by re-inventing themselves.
Mary Sues exist because children who are told they’re nothing want to be everything.
As a girl, being “selfish” was the worst thing you could be. Now you live in Narnia and Prince Caspian just proposed marriage to you. Why? Your SELF is what saved everyone from that sea serpent. Plus your hair looks totally great braided like that.
In time, hopefully, these hardworking fanfiction authors realize that it’s okay to be somewhere in the middle and their characters adjust to respond to that. As people grow and learn, characters grow and learn. Turns out your Elven Mage is more interesting if he isn’t also the best swordsman in the kingdom. Not everyone needs to be hopelessly in love with your Queen for her to be a great ruler. There are all kinds of ways for people to start owning who they are, and embracing the things that make them so beautifully weird and complicated.
Personally, though, I think it’s a lot more fun learning how to trust yourself and others if you all happen to be riding dragons.
Breathe. Focus. Try again.
what every student should hear from time to time (via stumblingthroughstudying)