the sound of an empty tin can that is my brain

theo | 19 | she/her | HP/Kuroshitsuji/Moriarty the Patriot writer

[clownakai]

Something something. Conan constantly addressing Akai-san by his real name even when the guy is in full Okiya Subaru disguise because his personal experience with having to hide his identity revolves around massive discomfort and powerful dissonance between who he is and who he has to be. He is Conan because he was forced to without warning, because it was the only option, and he yearns for each and every moment someone calls him by his real name. His fake identity is a prison and he assumes it's the same for Akai-san who has to be Okiya Subaru almost constantly. In using Akai-san's real name he is extending a kindness that he himself cannot receive from more than a handful of people behind closed doors, all for a man whose experience is actually wildly different from his. Okiya Subaru is part of the job, yes, but he is not a burden to Shuuichi the way Edogawa Conan clearly is to Kudou Shinichi. Unlike Edogawa Conan, Okiya Subaru was a choice.

[aterfish]

The culprit is... YOU!

[thestoryteller-thedreamer]

Nya has far more difficulty unlocking her Element and True Potential than the guys did.

It is absolutely be part of her arc, that she has a mental block around becoming the Master of Water the guys just didn't have to deal with.

But maybe it was something more?

I've already explained my theory about vengestone in her mother's bracelet, but that one is kind of far fetched. However, I do also think it is interesting that the other ninja had the Golden Weapons to help them. The Sword of Fire, the Nunchucks of Lightning, the Scythe of Quakes, and the Shurikens of Ice. Those weapons channelled their powers, allowing the ninja to access them without needing to unlock their True Potential or do complicated training. The Golden Weapons were almost like training wheels on a bike, establishing the movement of summoning an Elemental Power before releasing them to figure out where those powers came from in the first place.

Lloyd didn't have a Golden Weapon, but he did have the four ninja to teach him. Since his Golden Power was a combination of the Elements of Creation, having direct training from the people who command those Elements would definitely be an insane boost.

So yes, struggling with accepting and discovering her powers is part of Nya's arc. But I also think the odds were stacked against her from the beginning.

[liarsblade]

Ugly Duckling sequel where the swan is like hey it's nobody's fault and I don't think anyone did anything wrong per se but nonetheless I did feel really alienated and depressed for most of my youth and those years do continue to affect me in the present day and their mom is like, so what you're saying is that you think I'm a failure and a bad duck.

[arolesbianism]

Was flipping through my japanese text book the other day and found this funny. Eat nothing drink nothing go nowhere meet nobody do nothing go king give us nothing

[autistobrat]

I am Takeshi Takeshi is me :D

[m0oncak3]

Crossover because yes. (Did not think while drawing)

[gh0st-0f-luke]

six excerpts from a wangxian fic told entirely through ratemyprofessors reviews

[lllemonsoda]

1202

Happy birthday Akai (or something like that happy birthday Ikeda Shuichi sir). Anyway here’s this.

*Anne Sexton: To a Friend Whose Work Has Came to Triumph.

[love-rats]

get rid of tonal indicators. every time you tell a joke this fucker should pop up

[shinynewmemories]

No but the Hunger Games really said "what do you hate more- the atrocities or the people who commit them against you? Because like it or not there IS a difference. If you hate the people who commit acts of pure evil more than you hate the acts themselves, what will stop you from becoming just like your enemies in your pursuit of justice? What will keep you from commiting those very same acts against THEM when the opportunity arises? And what then? The cycle of pain and suffering will never stop. Round and round it'll go. Nothing will ever change. But. BUT. If you hate the atrocities. If you hate the vile, senseless acts MORE than you hate the people who did them to you. If you are able to see that evil is evil regardless of who does it... The cycle ends with you. No, you may never get justice. But you will never be responsible for making others, even your enemies, suffer the same crimes you have. The atrocities will never be committed by you, never by your hand. And that's the way you change the world. It's the ONLY way" and that's why I am sure it will never stop being one of the most relevant works of fiction ever created

[barneycalhounslutmoments]

u can call ur skull-head deer oc literally anything else u don't even have to change the design

[foone]

PLEASE. THIS IS A ONE INCH HIGH BARRIER: JUST DON'T USE A WORD. IT'S NOT HARD.

It's a frightening lack of respect for a group to go "hey this is our culture/religion/mythology? Please don't use that word" and apparently all the white people are like "but what if I did anyway to make my unity horror game 0.01% scarier?"

Just use a different word! Call it a deerman, deer god, forest spirit, whatever. Try to care at least a little when someone says not to use their culture for entertainment.

Here's a list of deer in mythology. If you have to have a mythology-based creature, you can go find one of these that's not THE ONE YOU'VE BEEN SPECIFICALLY ASKED NOT TO USE.

[mtomauw]

Alternative words/terms/names to call the creature the internet made up: -The hungry ones -The stalker -Forest spirits -The antlered beasts -Blood starved beast ((thank you bloodborne)) -Famine incarnate -They who come at night -Geoff -Anything else you can come up with Literally use the creativity you used to design your creature and give them a name that hasn't been stolen from a culture you don't understand.

[headspace-hotel]

i'd like to add that the original creature isn't even deer based, and has nothing to do with deer, the creature that has a deer skull you see in art and movies is like...arguably a different thing

[julianova44]

For folks who don’t knows what word is being talked about: W*nd*go. In addition to the above, I wanted to clarify to anybody who is confused (my understanding) of why it’s censored in the original post and why I’m choosing to censor it when interacting with above posts: I have been told that you’re not supposed to use the real name so as not to attract its attention (like the true name of the bear being lost because so many cultures called it taboo, or inverse to why many Jewish folks censor G*d/god in their writing)

While I’m not a believer in anything supernatural, it’s a pretty low bar to clear to just… not use a sincerely held cultural belief outside of its context and stripped of anything but questionable aesthetic, particularly when you yourself are not of that culture (see: yes it actually is different from all the Christian mythological “reinterpretations”)

[baconvonmoose]

I'm native american and my tribe is a subdivision of the Algonquin who first told the story of the Wendigo and you are all spreading a lot of misinformation that is very frustrating to me, it feels like an uphill battle to keep explaining this, please read.

This is like the third or fourth time I've reblogged this but I'm doing it on my other account because I don't wanna keep spamming my poor followers with the same post.

If you are not indigenous you have NO RIGHT to tell people how we feel about our stories and myths. You do not KNOW what our sincerely held cultural beliefs are. And as a matter of fact, you are painting us all as the 'noble savage' trope by assuming that we are all so cripplingly superstitious and we so deeply believe in our monsters that saying the name of one is offensive to us.

The Wendigo is a myth. It is a story. It is a legend. You can say the word Wendigo. Stop going after random strangers you don't know for saying a word you don't even understand. Stop it. Please. It has never been a forbidden word. It isn't even part of the legend that 'saying its name will summon it', you summon the Wendigo by engaging in cannibalism.

The legend itself has an important message about greed and destruction, about selfishness in the face of death and survival. It has been used to describe many variations of greed and selfishness, both in the form of other natives and from invaders. But we don't all believe in a literal evil spirit/monster that will come get us if YOU say the word Wendigo, that's infantilizing.

The language of my tribe is nearly extinct. Our stories have been suppressed for centuries by racist non-Natives. We don't care if non-Natives tell our stories as long as they get the story RIGHT by at least taking it from an original source, because it keeps them alive.

By the way the Wendigo is totally unrelated to deer and does not have antlers, that shit is just made up by non-natives, which also pisses me off to no end. Wendigo is a spirit that possess a human, so it looks like a human, it could be anyone you know, that is part of the message and moral of the story.

(btw I won't be responding to anything on this account, I've said what I needed to say)

[baconvonmoose]

THANK YOU

Look I know people mean well, I DO. I'm not saying these things to make anyone feel bad or to be angry, but if you DO want to help elevate Native voices, please understand the difference between uplifting our voices and speaking OVER US. If you want to uplift our voices then find things written by actual natives and reblog it, and ask actual natives and reblog that, interviews, native american websites and books written by natives, etc. And also don't ask one tribe to speak for another because we are not all the same. But by taking one thing you heard somewhere and spreading that around from your own mouth, you're speaking OVER us.

Even if one native told you not to say it, that's one native. I promise the majority of us are NOT overly supersitious. If one native you spoke to is so superstitious that it freaks them out if you say the word Wendigo, then don't say it around them. If you want to protect the virgin ears of everyone with a closely held belief then don't say the name of ANY mythological beast, don't say 'God', 'Jesus', or 'Satan'. (If you think only white/European/colonists believe that saying 'Satan' will summon him, I would like to point to a swath of very traditional Christian native Americans including my own grandfather)

I saw one person say like 'respect the culture and the people who are SCARED of that shit' in the tags and like, once again, that is SO infantalizing. I know you don't mean it to be, but you really think all natives are so SCARED of a story that we get genuinely distressed by you TYPING it on the internet??? And you don't see how stereotypical that is?

Again, I'm not saying this to make anyone feel bad for trying to help, but if you want to help then you will understand this.

To people reblogging posts written by actual natives (not just mine, anyone), thank you for setting an example, it's the only thing tempering my frustration, to see some people out there spread my words without speaking for me, and learning from it. <3

(okay I lied about not responding to anything, this one just hits right)

[foone]

Important correction!

(sorry for spreading misinfo before)

[kkangkkangie]

For those of you who read Flavia de Luce, I’d like to propose a fun AU.

Maomao with a new apprentice, Flavia de Luce.

[mioxenoblade]

I love Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland but I loathe how edgy subcultures have turned it into some one dimensional thing associated with psychedelics and other drugs.

[mioxenoblade]

Like, I wanna talk about the recurring presence of logic and mathematics, the cross language (primarily French) puns, I want to talk to people about their interpretations and thoughts but everyone’s so stuck on “haha yeah she’s on shrooms” like come on there’s so much going on don’t let it just be the easiest, weakest response, you’re smarter than that

[mininecro]

It’s probably one of my favourite books and I have the exact same problem

My favourite take: Alice in Wonderland adaptations all all dysfunctional because both stories are a hellish amalgamation of victorian pop culture. 

Turns of phrase, tourism in-jokes, children’s songs, academia at the time, popular figures in media, all of these are huge contributing factors to the characters and world of alice in wonderland/the looking glass. Reading the Annotated Alice is a trip and a half. Most of it isn’t actually nonsense, it’s an out-of-the-box joke on things most people when the book came out would have instantly recognized. They’re comedy pieces. Even as a modern reader it can get me to laugh, and the more I learn about what the time period was like when the book was released, the funnier it is. Caroll’s vicious deconstruction of mathematics was simply him cracking one one amongst many.

AiW adaptations are always going to be empty products unless you’re entirely willing to either double down on the time period or update it for modern times with commentary on things instantly recognizable to the modern audience. 

AiW adaptations with modern settings are like “what if it’s a DYSTOPIA and the animals are all HUMAN and it’s DARK and FOR ADULTS” like…we still have animated movies starring animals? Kid media is more identifiable for the whole family than ever?? There’s a better way????? Turn the dancing mock turtle into a ninja turtle who paints masterpieces you cowards

[mioxenoblade]

I like this take. 

[elizabitchtaylor-deactivated202]

So what you’re saying is that Alice in Wonderland is basically Victorian Shrek

[mioxenoblade]

Actually, yeah, kinda. There’s no real way to say, it’s never been fully explained by Charles Dodgson, it’s all truly interpretation. But in the way it’s written, I’d be willing to call it a literary version of Shrek. It has layers.

[marzipanandminutiae]

as one example: there’s an animal called a Mock Turtle. this is funny because mock turtle soup- ie “soup intended to mimic turtle soup, but subbing in a different meat” -was a well-known Thing in the 1860s when the books were published. Ha Ha What If This Commonplace Expression Were A Real Animal!

but now, in many places, neither turtle soup NOR mock turtle soup are popular anymore. so readers are just like “wtf is a Mock Turtle? this must be Crazy Random Nonsense!”

[mooncustafer]

Most of the poems are Weird-Al-style parodies of specific poems children were made to memorize at the time, i.e. “You Are Old, Father William” is a spoof of “The Old Man’s Comforts” by Robert Southey

[aimlesspoet]

the urge to mysteriously expose all the injustices in my life through writing an allegorical novel that no one will fully understand but me

[largishcat]

an acquaintance told me i had the subtle guardedness of someone who “learned social skills the hard way” and i’d honestly have much preferred they took out a gun and shot me

[kkangkkangie]

I think the worst part about these movements, historical events, and protests if we don't finish are that in the end, it's our descendants, the people who come after us that will end up paying the price.

Even if everything is fought and 'handled' politically, the actions, the pain, the agony, the cruelty done by the political state will not be forgotten historically. Even if socially, we move past it and bury the hatchet, the sins we carry are passed down whether we like it or not.

the price for the cruelty to end may be our livelihoods, but it will be the next generations that have to carry on the ideal/the sins perpetrated by their political state and ancestors.

In midst of all this cruelty to other humans, this is what I find to be the most selfish part. Why do the next generations have to be born with blood already on their hands? Why are they atoning for the actions that previous people committed? Because to continue, they need to acknowledge and repair for their identity to survive.

It is not right for the victims to be told to just 'move on' just as it's not right for the descendants to be 'repairers'. The only people who aren't hurt appear to be the perpetrators—why is the system like this?

[eunoiasbiscuits]

i need to stop reading webtoon till 3 and go the fck to bed cause i’m tireddddddddddd