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@ruby-red-inky-blue asked: jyn + girls against god by florence and the machine
one detail about star wars that i find INSANELY underappreciated is that jyn erso's theme was built off of a couple of notes from the original movie's score when luke decides to join the rebellion. which is very cool.
As much as I love Andor and it's storytelling, with the way the world is right now, I don't think it's as 'teach people progressive lessons' as it seems.
What I see people talking about is the very obvious, no room for misinterpretation, no need to think for yourself, the lesson is spelled out in bold, simple lettering.
The Empire are *Nazis* - did you catch that? They said ~kinderblock~ which is a *German* word and they wear *Nazi* uniforms. They are the *bad guys*
Bix and Brasso are *undocumented farm workers* - did you catch that? They are the ~good guys~ being harmed by the obviously *evil* empire who are going around tormenting the local population and rounding up *illegals* by checking visas. They even try to *rape* Bix! They are BAD. Our characters are GOOD.
When the show does attempt nuance, I've mostly seen people dismiss it - like with the rebels Cassian runs into who are terrified, just escaped a massive attack (the guy's brother 'went back to check for survivors'), they're hungry, they're average people with no military training who are just trying to fight back against the Empire. They're not ~bad~ people, nor are they perfectly ~good~. They're nuanced.
They're trying to be good, but with the situation they're in, clashes of personalities and the expectation that since they're rebels, they have to be strong and hardened hyper-masculine heroes so the accusation that the guy hid while the attack took place leads to a wounded pride they aren't equipped to deal with in a healthy way, so it comes out as violence to 'regain honor'.
It's messy, it's complicated, it's nuanced, and I don't think the narrative is trying to make it clear-cut and 'obviously this is how you need to feel about this group' like they do with the Empire or Cassian and his friends. And people are missing it and just getting annoyed with the nuance. They want a clear cut - obviously bad guy and obviously good guy - and if they're good, they better be competent or else they aren't actually 'good', I guess.
People are so quick to praise Luthen as 'always justified' because he's on 'our side' even though he's an incredibly nuanced, self-important character whose actions definitely should be questioned. But people have decided he's one of the ~good guys~ so no nuance needed, if he made the decision, he must be right.
So what I'm saying, is I don't think Andor is teaching anyone anything new. It's just reaffirming what people already know and anything new isn't being clocked because people are too busy being proud that they see the parallels between the Empire and our current governments.
Which is why they didn't understand the Acolyte. The Acolyte wasn't interested in making the ~good guys~ and the ~bad guys~ super clear to the viewer. They expected the viewer to use their brains and figure out which ACTIONS were good/bad not based on one side using *GERMAAANNNN* words or wearing *Nazi* uniforms or raping people.
It wanted you to recognize seemingly on-the-line actions (breaking into a group's home, interrupting their religious ceremony, insisting they take the children to test them, questioning the children without a guardian present, becoming violent when it looks like they won't get their way)
and the other group's response to on-the-line actions (children having to be raised in isolation due to oppression, children going through a ritual that marks them, a mind-trick done to scare someone who broke into their house, using magic someone isn't familiar with, holding weapons at the ready when their home is invaded, a child trying to keep her sister from leaving her forever)
And have to actually think about the morality of the entire situation.
Andor is a mirror that reflects our world in a crystal clear, morally obvious way AFTER the fascism has taken root. The Acolyte urged us to recognize the first steps of fascism before it's wearing Nazi uniforms.
The Empire IS the Republic. There was NO 'growing' period after the Republic fell and before the Empire rose. THAT was one of the lessons of the prequels. THAT was the lesson of the Acolyte.
I'm not saying Andor is bad or that type of storytelling shouldn't be done. We NEED to document what is happening - but it's a shame people are claiming Andor is the height of nuanced 'real' storytelling and praising it so highly when The Acolyte is right there with just as much nuance and 'real' storytelling, but those watching need the good guys and bad guys to be wearing labels or else they can't understand a story.
Leftists have been warning Americans about this for a long time. We've been trying to get others to recognize fascism even when it's not wearing a red hat but has a blue 'D' next to it. Let's be a little less reactive only after it's obvious a dictator is in power and a little more proactive when the people wearing the 'good' uniforms start doing fucky shit.
another thing about the unsubtle Nazi German/SS coding (which, to be fair, was not an Andor original, that was always in Star Wars - the uniforms, "stormtroopers" etc.):
There is something so telling to me about how Gilroy has mentioned the movie Conspiracy as apparently his main touch point for the Wannsee Conference when asked about inspo for the Ghorman arc (1). He references the actual history, but just has to bring up the glossy hollywood movie about it first thing (that movie did get a lot of it right, so some very salient details like the fact that the genocide meeting comes with catering were ported over). Also the way Ghorman was extremely French Resistance coded visually and linguistically - but not because Gilroy actually went deep into that topic or explored it as a narrative shorthand or allegory, but because he saw a show about that that he liked, and imitated the aesthetic of it (2).
there is so much lazy coding in this season where it's like "look! World War! Nazis! War crimes! Buzzwords! ...depth?" that's really just retreading oversimplified Hollywood takes on that history (that are often well researched, but by necessity streamlined for entertainment purposes). And it's unnerving how many people will point to that and tell you how great of a representation of Fascism it is. Almost like they don't recognise it unless it kind of reminds them of Kenneth Brannagh in a grey uniform.
(1) https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/andor-creator-season-2-episodes-1236190457/ (2) https://www.lepoint.fr/pop-culture/andor-est-un-hommage-a-la-resistance-francaise-21-04-2025-2587844_2920.php
pourquoi du pain est masculin mais la baguette est féminine....... la baguette est transgenre ?
je vais laisser la communauté parler:
la baguette, icône trans?
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"Jyn Erso is a poorly written female character because she is defined by her relationships to men" And were those men not defined by her? Cassian doesn't question his orders for no reason, she is part of that reason. Galen doesn't sabotage the Death Star just because he believes in some nebulous idea of freedom, he does it out of love for his child. The whole film is filled with reciprocal relationships, fuck, all of Star Wars is about love shaking the stars, but I guess some people would prefer women be isolated from feeling and motivation and relationships and just stand there like a cardboard cut out in a sea of personality-less cardboard cut outs of female characters that were written like some #girlboss "not like the other girls" joke instead of as a person.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dua Lipa and Callum Turner London, England (May 31, 2026)
Had the urge to draw her again. After many years. Now I need to check out an acutal image to see if I still got the costume right.
not every mutual fits neatly into an archetypal medievalism but there are some mutuals that im like yeah addressing you as “my liege” would come strangely naturally
what mutual is prev
my liege lord
my loyal knight
my wise wizard
my evil advisor
my brother in arms
my lady muse
my wild mermaid friend
my fellow alchemist
my dashing rapscallion
my monstrous foe
ruminating on some undercooked theory about the fact that the mutuals around me that are most pissed about the full character motivation/background retcon of Cassian Andor aren't from the States
Rogue One is a war film, very much in the tradition of WWII films - ensemble cast, heroics focused on the grand scheme of things instead of individual victories or closure. Plot-wise a story that could be mapped on a lot of European theatre war situations (occupied cities, trying to get local resistance movements to cooperate, infiltration, sabotage) but then the final battle sequence visually giving Pacific Theatre pretty specifically - even with big "naval" battle vs. brutal squirmishes on the islands, and, of course, the big nuke allusions at the end
The Cassian we are presented with in Rogue One is much more in line with the war hero archetype I've encountered in post-war Europe - the committed Resistance hero. A person who usually believed very strongly in something before the conflict even started, was (almost always) already involved in the struggle against a different oppressive regime before the Nazis came, was a devoted part of his collective until the (usually untimely lethal) end and wasn't so much known for individual heroics as for dedicated work within their organisation where they were part of some notably brave operation. Plus, for example in the later mythmaking in Germany about movements like the 20th July plot around Stauffenberg, there are notable stories of people either playing along with the Nazis for a long time before acting against them or actually being part of them and then turning against them (depending on your verdict on Stauffenberg and company) that still get positioned as ultimately heroic in the public narrative.
The Cassian in Andor is much closer to the US WWII war hero story, where someone had a youth largely separate of the moral and political struggle to follow, then either got randomly told to go overseas or volunteered because what they were hearing from Europe sounded pretty horrific, OR because the conflict had suddenly come much closer to their own reality than they thought it would with Pearl Harbor. Anyway, thrown into a struggle that was not a part of their lives before, hit with the sudden incredible brutality of the war, excelling in adapting and improvising when shit inevitably went sideways. Soldiers I've heard of who got particularly famous were often famous for individual acts of bravery and toughness - like John Basilone - and often (initially) famous especially for surviving those situations (Basilone did very much die on Iwo Jima, but he was famous before then and got the Medal of Honor for the action he survived, and the Navy Cross for the action he died in). Also I feel like espionage is usually not a big part of these stories, but more impromptu acts of sabotage like, say, robbing a garrison's pay, or stumbling upon an Axis massacre sound like they would fit right in.
Anyway, confused tl;dr the Han-Solo/Andor!Cassian storyline of person previously uninvested in the conflict getting sucked in and becoming convicted and recklessly heroic feels more like a US war hero story, while the storyline of the already ideologically committed Resistance fighter who works obediently within a collective (almost) all his life and is concerned much more prominently with small local conflicts and then subterfuge and logistics than main front-line combat feels like it belongs to different war experiences.
Is this anything? Insert "I have connected the dots" meme here
I don’t think we talk enough about how, despite the presence of multiple globes, PotC takes place on a flat earth, ice wall included.
I'm gonna need some elaboration here
They literally sail over the edge of it after passing through a hole in a wall of ice. They fall off. They get back to the other side by passing through the whole ocean.
But also there’s a globe on, like, everyone’s desk.
#it's like lord of the rings#it's only flat for pirates
You get it.
No, but this is actually (sort of) canon.
See, part of the conceit of the PotC trilogy is that all myths are true. Nearly every supernatural element in the franchise has a root in some real world mythology or pirate lore, although some of them are mashed together.
Another thing is that they take place at the end of the Golden Age of Piracy, and the more the map gets filled in, and the more the Royal Navy takes power, there less room there is for the mystical and supernatural in the world. This is explicitly called out in At World's End with the death of the kraken:
Barbossa: The world used to be a bigger place. Jack: The world's still the same. There's just... less in it.
The only way to access the world of the supernatural is through the supernatural itself. You can only get to the Isla de Muerta with Jack's compass that points to whatever you desire, or if you already know where its is. You need Tia Dalma's map to find the edge of the world. To access the supernatural, you need to already be immersed in it.
The pirates world isn't flat, it's round - but because the edge of the world exists in myth, it therefore exists in reality. The pirates are able to find it through supernatural means, but if, say, someone like Norrington just sailed in the same general direction, he wouldn't end up in the same place.
“Pirate” is a mage subclass fueled by word of mouth, rule of cool, The Power of Belief/Love/Friendship, and rum.
Mostly rum.
Powered by belief and diminished by science is a great way to put it, because there's a case to be made that the overall thesis statement of the last movie (of the trilogy, and the franchise as far as I'm concerned) is that increasingly, their ability to see from the right angle isn't cutting it anymore because there is less and less to see. It really *is* a Lord-of-the-Rings-esque lament for the magic leaving the world. It's the reversal of the "you better start believing in stories, you're in one" - except for this bizarre gaggle of remaining pirates, people no longer believe the stories, so very soon, nobody will be able to be in them anymore.
It's a Western, in a way! the pirates are the cowboys slowly becoming obsolete by the encroaching railroads and advancing 'civilisation' and what were once their (near-)magical special survival skills is turning into odd superstitions and backwards ways before their very eyes.
Who is your favorite Rogue One/Andor character?
Cassian Andor
Jyn Erso
Mon Mothma
Luthen Rael
K-2SO
Orson Krennic
Dedra Meero
Syril Karn
Maarva Andor
Chirrut Îmwe
Baze Malbus
Kleya Marki
German Windows:
#'we are not using AI for shady reasons!'#'we just hide everything deep in settings'#'and auto-turn them on every update we force on you'#totally normal and upfront behavior via @melyzard
START aired one year ago today on FX.
"I'm bad at commenting on fics" okay, but you know you can get better at it though, right? You know you can start with something as simple as "thanks, I like this!" and you'll still probably make a fic writer's day? You do know that it's in your power to "get better" about it, right? If you want to?
Do you want to?
Also "but I want to write a GOOD comment" is a block that you are placing in front of yourself. You are creating that pressure.
The amount of writers I talk to that are happy for anything genuinely positive in this current day and age of AI slop and varying levels of awful bot comments.
Are you going to actually write that long "perfect" comment or would it help to instead focus on sending a small bright spark of happiness to a writer? To start there and build up to a longer comment later if you can? What I think I'm trying to say is that commenting can be a muscle that you train, if you feel like it. Or a habit you can form, if you feel like it. You can do better, if you want to. You can start small, too.
I see so many posts on here that are writers seeking community and/or mourning the shift in fandom from leaving feedback to passive consumption. And I really don't think it has to be like this.
This post is getting a decent amount of notes and I hope folks don't misunderstand my intentions here -- I meant for this to be encouraging to readers who want to leave comments on fics.
I've heard people say things like "I'm sorry I'm bad at commenting" or "I want to comment, but..." and I just want to respond with this: please recognize that even a small comment like a string of heart emojis or "I like this a lot" is precious these days when writers are enduring either silence/lack of responses to their work and/or an influx in bot comments that say awful things or are commissions scams. I see so many posts on my dash about the difference in fandom responsiveness to fic over the past few years. A lot of writers wish for feedback. Readers, you do contribute to fandom communities. You can help fandom grow if you participate in it. And comments do not need to be huge or detailed to make a difference.
I have a frequent reader who only ever comments in emoji hearts
I have another who always comments :DDDDD with an absurd number of smiles
I LOVE THEM BOTH SO MUCH AND GENUINELY AM FILLED WITH JOY EVERY TIME I SEE AN AO3 EMAIL FROM THEM
it's as simple as that <3
#comments are awesome to receive #and unlike kudos you can give as many comments as you want (via @encyclopika)
Hi, just want to pull these specific tags forward because I think they make a really great point, especially when it comes to longer, multi-chapter fics! You can only leave one (1) kudos on a whole fic, regardless of if it has multiple chapters -- and since more writers are locking their fics to only be seen by folks with AO3 accounts, that rules out any additional guest kudos.
I've seen posts about leaving "second kudos" comments or even "why can't I leave more kudos, AO3!!!" and those kind of comments are a delight to receive, speaking personally, because they tell me that readers are STILL HERE enjoying my chapter fics. It can be hard to know that anyone is reading new chapters, if I don't get new comments and if a reader left their allotted kudos when an earlier chapter was released and read.
TL;DR, receiving kudos is lovely, but limited!!!! And I think a nice, easy comment to leave on a fic you enjoy is "second kudos"
I hope everyone who is liking and/or reblogging this series of posts goes out and comments on fics. I saw a post today about a newer ugly AO3 commenting bot out there and I really strongly feel, now more than ever, that it is important that we support fic writers by leaving positive feedback. We can encourage each other to keep creating. I'm tired of the world too, man, but we can give each other some light.
do i always leave brilliant comments, like I want to? Fuck no, my most common comment is "I love this so much!" Was it hard to remember to start leaving that on every fic i read that I was happy to have spent time reading? Yes, but every one of those authors spent more time writing that fic and worrying about posting it than i ever did on a simple comment. There have been a few that I have gone back to, a few that I have hunted down again, and yes I have left second comments there telling them how important their work was to me. Yes, that's valuable. But what's dramatically undervalued is fandom coming to their creators and simply saying "thank you for creating this" or "I liked this" or just "!! <3"
Our creators are out there leaving pieces of themselves open for casual consumption. We need to be less casual about it. And that's a learned skill you can start at any time.