#having thoughts....

[faultyalchemy]

working on my alphonse post-promised day fic and Thinking...

he's like 15 when he gets his body back, right? and like. ik the canon kinda skips his recovery, but i'm assuming he would be in/near some children's ward in the hospital. which is so important to me because he would be treated like a "child" after being in the armor for so long.

[pinayelf-archive]

okay maybe kind of a hot (lukewarm?) take...I know a lot of female characters are written to be incompetent (usually by male but sometimes female writers) so she can be saved by the male lead or just because it's a shallow way to further the plot (not good writing)

but I do wonder when and where this critique begins to become misogyny. because there's no lack of posts that talk about how strangely endearing pathetic male characters are, how we love them even if they repeatedly fuck up or are a fuck up

idk maybe sometimes a female character IS incompetent and it's part of her character. maybe she's weak and inexperienced, and while people can find this endearing in male characters (and will write meta on said character) it makes that female character unpalatable to people bc people's idea of an "acceptable" female character is only when she's competent, a badass, but nice all the time

you're not supposed to like a character all the time. sometimes they're supposed to infuriate you, you disagree with them, and you get mad that they do something wrong. that makes them well-rounded. if you can accept all that in a male character, you should too for a female character (doubly even so if she's a woc)

[freakin-nightmare]

[mechowow]

Ok ok ok weird question, so u know how monogamous the suffix -amous (i assume) comes from amor or some form, basically breaking the word monogamous into One Love or Singular Love. Same with polygamous, basically meaning Multiple or Many loves. But the key point being the word Love!

If you got really technical with it, could trolls use another possible variation for each quad? Like one meaning they're polyam in pitch? Idk! Just fun to think abt!

[martinmynster]

i think the final shot of Teh's butchered textbook is so heartbreaking bc after what his mom said you truly realize how studying is the only language he knows how to express himself in. he made himself physically sick studying for years bc that's the only way he thought he could matter or shine in his mother's people's eyes. he's been pouring everything he had in it for years. along his worth he put the most intimate parts of himself in it (see: the obsessive writing of words he cant get out). you realize (even more plainly) everytime he tried to reach out he went for studying. (boat scene ep2, beach scene ep3, last scene ep3, street confrontation ep4, etc.). it's his comfort zone, the only thing he feels he's in control of and at the same time the only way he knows how to access the most vulnerable parts of himself.

that's why when i say he gave (not 'sacrificed' i really dont think it's this way) everything he had, i mean it ! i completely understand Oh-aew's side but Teh tried his best, is completely alone in this and i know the despair must be bottomless.

[night-or-blucher]

Ennard as a metaphor for plurality

[roguedallas]

mmmmm thinking about layers to dallas' suit... variations, even...