[pennie-umbra]

Info post

(It took me long enough to do this but better late than never)

First of all some personal info: my name is Penumbra or Victor, you can use either one, I use all pronouns and I’m an adult

DNI if: you’re any form of bigot, obviously, but especially if you’re a terf. Also if you ship remrom get the fuck out of my blog, thank you. Actually if you're a proshipper in general GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE

This is my ao3 account, I don’t have that many fanfics published yet but I’ll get there

[fishinspacey]

i need them both slain

[professional-rat-eater]

It’s not even that people think Louis is a liar that’s a problem. We know Louis lied about certain things.

It’s the fact that they think he’s a malicious liar. That they are so eager to call him a liar. It’s the glee with which they say it. The entire two seasons were nothing by fanfiction.

Or it’s how excited they are to degrade Armand or flatten his character or insult him. Or to insist that every lie Louis told was implanted by him and Louis is utterly helpless and by extension, less complex. Or he’s lying about being abused as a child, or about Lestat ever being attracted to him.

Or how badly they want Claudia to have made up everything bad she said about Lestat. They were so quick to assume she made everything about the train up because Lestat said she did.

It’s this desire to strip away all the complexities of the POC characters to pretend Lestat is just inherently more interesting than they are. It’s the completely different set of standards they are held to compared to him. The willingness to believe him over them. The completely different vocabulary used to analyse them. He gets grace. They do not.

A lot of the time it’s not what you’re saying but how you’re saying it and the fact that you’re only saying it about certain people. That’s what makes it racist.

[hiitspussyhands]

You know when there's like, a straight show and everyone's like "it's full of queer subtext between the main straight dudes, and this character is obviously autistic and they really meant to say trans rights"? And then there's a queer show and all of a sudden it's "no but they weren't sensitive about this character's trauma and the queer sex scenes are too short and they're all problematic as fuck, i can't even watch"? And then our shit doesn't get renewed, and we hated on it the whole way for not embodying the perfection we'd never dream of demanding from the straight show?

Yeah, something like that

[starlitsequins]

i dont mean to victim blame but why do these vampires keep talking to daniel molloy when they know he's daniel molloy

[cucurb]

hey guysss so unfortunately the rumors are true and im leaving the narrative. Buttt the good news is my absence will create such a gaping hole in your lives that it will become a sort of presence itself, and so in a way it will kind of be like i never left! But i am. Leaving just to be clear.

[zoesupreme]

Christopher Nolan almost allows colors into his mythical epic shot on 70mm IMAX film. thank god they stopped filming in time.

[kheru-post-randoms]

Sir the METEOROLOGICAL SYMBOL OF HOPE just invited itself over the Castle where the Hero Finally Comes Home After Way Too Many Trials And Tribulations

And you just.

Said no????

It's free symbolism and you said no because it's a rainbow and it's not gritty enough?????!!!!?

[lifebloodblue]

The goddess Iris herself offered to make an appearance in your Greek mythology movie and you dare deny her??

[arbitraryappellation]

Thinking about parallels between Misa and Light. Both of them present themselves as these conventionally attractive, ideal archetypes of people: Light is the police chief’s well-mannered son, a popular student at a prestigious university. Misa is a beautiful model, singer, and actress (and oh, does she act). The idea of either of them being a mass murderer is incredibly dissonant with their presented identities, and they’re able to come off as less suspicious the more they perform.

Kira stuff aside, they've been performing since before the Death Notes got involved. Not covering up murders but putting a lot of effort into editing their personalities, exaggerating desirable traits and hiding unflattering ones. Light played the role of a good-natured student when he was really arrogant, annoyed with his classmates, and disillusioned with his life in general. And as a woman in the entertainment industry, Misa constantly has to present a version of herself that is altered to be more cute and palatable. I think it’s safe to assume she does this outside of her job too, especially when it comes to interacting with men who underestimate her or trying to make Light love her.

And then there’s the way Light holds on to self preservation—he refuses the eye deal over and over because he wants to last as long as he can in his new world—while Misa cuts her lifespan in two again and again. (and still manages to outlive him, and still decides to jump off that building.) They take opposite actions that come from the same core desire to be part of something meaningful, something that can fill the voids inside themselves. Light wants something he can live for, Misa wants someone she can die for.

Misa devotes herself to Light wholeheartedly while Light doesn’t care about her beyond being able to use her. Misa is willing to destroy herself for the pursuit of love, while Light is willing to destroy the parts of himself that crave love. And sure, you could argue that Light was never going to love Misa in the first place (especially if you read him as gay or just uninterested) and that his lack of feelings for her isn’t due to repression. But in chapter 30 Light thinks to himself, “I can’t develop feelings. That’s how most idiots screw up.” I’m thinking of this restriction he gives himself, rather than the absence of feelings he has for Misa in particular, when I talk about Light not allowing himself to love.

Speaking of love, L and Rem die at the same time. Light loses the only person who’s ever fully known him, while Misa loses the only person who’s ever shown her unconditional love (not counting her parents since we don’t see them onscreen). They’re left with each other: two people chasing after ideals that they’ll never reach. Light will never love Misa the way she wants him to, and Light’s new world will never come around. And maybe they don’t even truly want these things; maybe they just tell themselves that they do.

[magicalgirlypop]

when i say "misa amane deserved better" just know i mean it in the "misa amane deserved to have her personality, backstory, and internal monologues expanded upon just as much as her male counterparts and shouldn't have been written as just an extension of light" and not in the "misa amane is a poor baby angel who did no wrong" way.

[corviiids]

it's also imo an error to think of stories like death note as being a battle of wits in the sense that you should expect the characters to make optimal decisions. that's a flawed approach to any text, but death note in particular i think tricks people into thinking it's about a highly optimised game of chess specifically because the characters are highly intellectual and their game is likewise very thoughtfully planned and stepped out. however that's a misdirect. it's almost never about a battle of wits, it's always a battle of personality. the question "who's smarter, L or light" has almost nothing to do with who could reasonably be expected to win their fight. L is smarter. L can't win, not because of his intellect but because of his character. L can't win because light is his opponent and they are so well-matched in personality that neither can resist making a tactically poor move because it would be the "right" move in their game and they need to see if the other is going to match them. it's not chess, it's poker. it's a tango. it's a game of tennis where the goal isn't to score a point but to rally as long as possible. it's almost a team game. near doesn't beat light because he's smarter than light or L, he beats light because light steps up to do a choreographed dance and near just shoots him with a gun. the reason near wins while L can't is that L and light are playing each other's game to play, but near isn't playing, he's just trying to win

[ahmadsfamily]

We no longer have the strength to endure what is happening to us.

This is one of the worst tragedies in history.

Please speak up for us. Share, comment, and let the world know that two million people are suffering every day.

I’m not only trying to survive…

My father is sick, and I can’t afford his treatment. Watching him get worse while I can do nothing is breaking me.

I just need to buy medicine and food for my family.

📌📌📌Fundraiser vetted (#167 by el-shab-hussein & nabulsi), But we created a new GoFundMe page because GoFundMe suspended the beneficiary’s account on the platform, which put us in a very difficult situation.

[spirulin4]

there is a pain inside me so stupid that i'm not going to communicate it to anyone

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[mmelete]

[carby]

[voidsentprinces]

[autism-official]

[broadwaytheanimatedseries]

YESSSSSSSSSSS

[sandersstudies]

A lot of you on here sure don’t like the idea of making any kind of sacrifice for the benefit of others huh

[sandersstudies]

Some of you act like doing minor inconvenient acts of kindness is equivalent to donating a kidney as if it’s not those acts that form our communities and make the world go around.

[sandersstudies]

Return your grocery cart. If you’re able-bodied offer your seat to someone who is not. Help your friend move. Drive your sister to the airport. Make sure drunk people have a safe ride or walk home. Pet-sit for your coworker. Participate in a meal train. Volunteer in your area. That’s what friendship and community is about.

[weepingwitch]

i do wish the response to the ai water usage concern debate (umm actually the water and mineral usage is roughly equivalent to all of our other constantly growing massive distributed information systems that require enormous amounts of resource extraction etc etc etc) was less of a "haha checkmate luddites" and more of a "hmm maybe we should reevaluate our usage of constantly growing massive distributed information systems that require enormous amounts of resource extraction" but idk

[phantomrose96]

Hiromu Arakawa’s genius is obvious throughout all of FMA but her first and biggest leap of genius was in how she crafted her protagonist. 

Arakawa realized the burgeoning youth of the early 2000s wasnt interested in another plucky spry optimistic young shonen protag. Instead she gave us a short ugly egotistical asshole smarter-than-you atheist with so much money and power that people could no longer best him in arguments by telling him “dude shut up ur literally like 12″ 

Five pages in we’re told Edward’s famous and rich and powerful. Five more pages and he’s calling some girl stupid for thinking God exists. Five more pages and he’s proven right. Five more and he’s kicked an evil priest’s teeth in. And no one can tell his mom on him.

Hiromu Arakawa figured out the dream of every edgy young weeb discovering internet arguments for the first time and she cast them an idol made of gold.

[phantomrose96]

[homunculus-argument]

The Odyssey but retold as a low-stakes modern adventure of one guy out with his girlfriend leaving the bar with his buddies to do just one (1) simple thing real quick, it'll take like 15 minutes tops, he'll be right back, but then some bullshit happens and the trip keeps getting more complicated as more bullshit keeps happening while he just tries to get back to the bar because he promised his girlfriend that he'd get back and he knows that she's still there because she told him she'd wait there.

And by the time he finally gets back it's almost 3 am and the bar is about to close while she's sitting there stone cold sober, surrounded by 5 drunk guys unsuccessfully trying to convince her to give up on waiting for him and go home with one of them instead. And the guy shows up to proceed to beat the shit out of them before explaining himself to her like hey sorry bullshit kept happening, my phone fell into a storm drain and my wallet got stolen when I was trying to find someone who'd borrow me a phone so I could call and

[thekijs]

His girlfriend had been fending off the 5 drunk guys for most of the evening by explaining that even if she was going to ditch her boyfriend, she can't possibly leave without finishing her beer, which she is keeping perpetually full via careful sleight of hand where she's just pouring it back and forth into and out of the pitcher.

However the drunk guys are also drinking, and eventually she can't afford to buy another pitcher for the table so she can't keep up the ever-full beer glass trick. At this point she has to resort to setting up the pool trick shot that she's never seen anyone but her boyfriend pull off, and says she'll leave with whoever manages the shot first.

That buys her another hour or so and then, finally, her boyfriend makes it back. He looks like shit, hair down and just a mess, he's wearing an entirely different jacket that he got from an alley, and barely recognizable—especially to 5 guys who've been drunk for hours now. He lurks for a minute, finds out what's going on, and proceeds to pull off the trick shot first try. Throws the jacket off, fixes his hair with a hair tie his girlfriend lends him, finally looks like himself again, and THEN beats the shit out of them with the pool cue.

[weaselle]

yuh i was there, that's how it happened