Wandering an Endless Road

Prolific writer, obsessed with X-Men, Frozen, KPDH, Final Fantasy and assorted other things-Star Citizen Referral: STAR-42HB-C6RZ Political, Queer, Trans, Bi She/Her, Black Lives Matter https://ko-fi.com/sniperct if you want to support

[sniperct]

Ascended

[lady-of-the-spirit]

I remember my first time watching kpop demon hunters, I was so worried the whole movie that they would make the demons an allegory for an oppressed class and the hunters as the oppressors and forget the whole "demons are literally killing people right now on screen" thing, and I was so glad they didn't do that. So you can imagine my disappointment when I joined the fandom and saw that they were doing it instead.

[fakelawyerbug]

I once saw a tag on AO3 comparing the Hunters to the KKK. Like just tone-deaf on so many levels.

[cal3ris]

is this gonna get me fired you think

[bird-prince-afterhours]

People always assume in a perfect galaxy Luke would either gravitate towards Anakin growing up or maybe be a mama's boy to Padmé. Wrong. Luke would be crazy about Obi-Wan. He would constantly be asking to see Uncle Obi-Wan, bothering him about the Jedi, sitting next to him while he meditates. I think, like Obi-Wan, Luke was born to be the perfect Jedi and he finds solace in Obi-Wan. Luke has too much of his father in him, and that part naturally gravitates towards Obi-Wan.

[alexkablob]

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[freakoutgirl]

It's important to have one medium you are pretentious about and another medium that shows you also have dogshit taste

[safetynot9uaranteed]

[maybe-someday-eventually]

[maid-ianthe]

I wish ao3 had a kudos button for comments :/

[woman-becomer]

imagine a goat with a hat

STOP-

what hat did you give the goat what is the instinctual hat you gave to this goat

[uglylilclown]

Erm,, I watched X Men recently oopsies,, so now imma be drawing them (just Kurt)

I have way more but they’re not finished and I rlly liked this one :33

[tossawary]

Bail Organa is barely in "Revenge of the Sith" and he's such a badass in those few moments that it's wonderful. The Jedi have been declared traitors? Better go pick some Jedi Council members up personally and smuggle them onto Coruscant to destroy the trap beacon. Yoda tries to assassinate the new Emperor? Bail Organa is waiting solo outside in the getaway speeder, giving free taxi rides for people trying to kill dictators. Anakin Skywalker has turned to the Dark Side and killed Padmé? Better adopt and raise Darth Vader's daughter with unconditional love. And after this movie is over, Bail is apparently going to go right back to work in the Imperial Senate while helping to found the Rebellion, because this superspy does not fucking blink.

[waterfire1848]

Headcanon - There was a picture that went viral when Rumi was a baby of Celine holding her while balancing a diaper bag with stains on her shirt and her hair becoming thin from lack of care. Magazines took it and used it to mock Celine for no longer being the beautiful idol she once was.

[frozenartscapes]

I like the idea of a kindly older Jeju local/neighbour who knows what it’s like after raising her own kids sees it and ends up just…stopping by. She might make up an excuse for why she ventured so far from the main road but she’s not shy in asking if Celine needed anything. Groceries, help cleaning, someone to watch Rumi for an hour while Celine gets some sleep… That kind of thing. And Celine’s too prideful to take it at first, insisting that she’s got it covered. (The disaster zone in the kitchen and living room of the house are definitely not indicators that Celine’s barely keeping it together. Definitely not.)

But the woman was a mom herself. In fact, she’s a grandmother now. Her own daughter is going through it with a three year old, so she knows the brave face new moms sometimes put on. She pushes, gently of course, but Celine’s running on about four hours of sleep and can’t remember the last time she had a shower that lasted longer than 30 seconds, so it doesn’t take much. The woman ends up doing the mountain of dishes in the kitchen.

About a week later, another woman shows up (this one under the pretence of growing too many zucchini and checking to see if Celine wanted any). She talks about how much of a handful her son had been but promises Celine it will get easier as Rumi gets older. She helps by doing a load of laundry and giving Celine some tips for making her own veggie purées once Rumi is ready for that.

A few days later, the woman who runs a local restaurant shows up with a few easy-prep meals.

Then it’s a mom with a box of baby clothes her child grew out of.

Very soon Celine has a whole network of local women to call on. And things don’t feel so daunting anymore.

(Of course, the woman who started it would never mention her knowledge of the legendary women who keep the island safe from monsters who stalk the night. Of how she remembers seeing Celine sneak through the shadows, vanquishing a demon who was about the break into the woman’s house. Of how she knows Celine has given everything to keep the island safe, so it was only fair that the island help her in return.)

[waterfire1848]

Okay but why is this giving….

Celine is taking care of a baby she doesn’t fully understand and gets the help of a new community and she lives out in the middle of nowhere for the safety of her and her baby. (Celine is also headcanoned to garden and Hana in the show does to save money).

On a more serious note, I adore Celine having a community of women who understand that Celine is doing her best, battling depression, some kind of secret night fighting, and raising a baby that is not hers. Shes doing her best but she needs help so they give it to her but…in a sneaky way until she realizes what they’re doing and accepts the help.

[artbyblastweave]

So there’s this Superman comic I really like called Superman: Earth One, written by J. Michael Straczynski, and I enjoy it because it portrays a version of Superman who’s believably angry about the state of the world and often has to work around that in his decision making. And as a follow-up to that, I also really, really like the comic because it directly addresses the elephant in the room about why Superman doesn’t get involved in politics.

There’s a sequence in the second volume where Superman is providing disaster relief to a minority-dominated area of a country, which the local dictator has been passively trying to genocide by denying conventional relief. Said dictator shows up and starts executing and mutilating the local populace until Superman leaves; this causes Superman to throw in with the local revolutionaries, and he subsequently storms the dictator’s palace, disarms everyone present without actually hurting anyone, and then leaves the dictator open for the revolutionaries to do with as they please. Very messy things subsequently happen to the dictator.

And this is the point at which the United States Government drops everything to begin working out a way to kill Superman, because they surmise that it’s only a matter of time before Superman does the same thing at the White House.

And then, after Superman barely scrapes out a win against the CIA’s half-baked predictably-nearly-apocalyptic plan to kill him by cutting a deal with General Zod, he goes to the United Nations and says, “Look, I can’t survive you assholes pulling out all the stops to get rid of me, but you can’t survive the fallout of a successful plan to get rid of me because anything the CIA makes or recruits that’s capable of killing me, is almost certainly going to immediately turn around and kill all of you. As this whole mess demonstrated! So how about I pledge to stop couping dictators, you stop growing evil Superman Clones, we all go home really unhappy and do our best to get on with it?”

And, you know, ask any Superman fan who hasn’t read this comic why he doesn’t fight the government and you’d get an answer along these lines! It’s not hard to intuit the realpolitik of Superman’s position on the world stage, he can’t help people if he’s constantly fighting every government at once. But most Superman comics that get political in this way either have him stay out of it entirely due to personal ethics, or have him become a crusading tyrant to demonstrate why it’s a bad idea. So even if it required a generally angrier and grittier Clark than you usually see, it was really refreshing to see a version of Superman that dipped into this kind of thing just enough to canonize the obvious answer as to why he usually steers clear of outright political violence. 

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[penandinkprincess]

sometimes you see Takes™ that make you go "mmmhmmm okay yeah i see we both interpreted that differently based on what the show gave us, but i see how you arrived at your ideas even if they're different from mine," and then sometimes you see Takes™ that make you go "brother what show did you even fucking watch"

[nitewrighter]

Ozempic scares the shit out of me. You're telling me there's a drug that takes away both the craving side of hunger and targets the brain's rewards center for eating. You're telling me it takes the joy out of eating and it turns you into a skeleton. Why did we turn The Curse of the Black Pearl into a drug. What the fuck.

[nitewrighter]

I actually want to thank the diabetics coming on this post like "actually it genuinely is a great treatment for diabetes and it hasn't affected my mood or my enjoyment of food. The real issue is it's getting abused as a weight loss drug which also makes it scarce and more expensive for those who can genuinely benefit from it." Kind of reminds me of the time my brother got permission from our family psychiatrist to try my ADHD medication and his reaction to it was "what the fuck are you on. WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU ON. WHY DO I FEEL LIKE CRYING. YOU'RE ON THIS EVERY DAY!?!"

Body chemistry! It makes a big difference in how your body processes a drug! What can be genuinely helpful for some folks is The Curse of the Black Pearl for others!

[reggiemess]

Cannot stand the trend of censoring any and all words that describe concepts that might make you go :( especially when the censoring is done in that quarter-assed way that's just 'did a lil scribble over a vowel so you know that I know this word describes a no-no."

I'm not even going to be vague about what sparked this. Do not fucking censor the word 'stole.' I'm at my fucking limit.