#skellietoonz

[annebrontesrequiem]

context: Jorogumo and her boy toy trapped Watanuki in a gay time loop

RIP Watanuki for being unable to catch a break. Also, good for her <3

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

dude way if we pees form butts

i don't know what this is a reply to, but i have just learned something new about the human body

[noritaro]

here have this assortment of xxxHolic OCs I have yet to like, actually draw

(used a picrew and that AI that makes 80s dark fantasy screencaps respectively)

eating this up!! love seeing xxxHolic on my dash cause of you btw, idk anything about that animnga but my dash is missing without it

can't wait to see you draw them :0

[happyfunf3tti]

4 and 10 for the OC asks

Rose🌹

4. How do they act around a crush?

She would probably act really giggly like she normally does

10. What is a weird quality that they have (ie their hands are always cold, they’re always hungry, they snort when they laugh, etc)?

When she's upset one of her eyes repeatedly twitches (she inherited that from Gladys)

[annebrontesrequiem]

1, 16, and 24 for the ask thing

Thanks for the ask!

The character everyone gets wrong

There are a couple of characters I think that this could apply to, but I think the ones that grinds my gears the most is Heathcliff (from Wuthering Heights). Oh Heathcliff...

I really, truly don't understand why people read Heathcliff as a romantic (romantic as in love not as in the romanticism movement) figure. He's, not. He's so much not that if you didn't get the memo in the first part of the book, the second part of the book is just Emily going "look, look at this man. Look at how much he sucks. He's abusive. He's destroying his dead lover's son. He sucks."

This is pretty explicitly saying that Heathcliff sucks. So how are people out here romanticism him as a dark, broody hero (looking at you Stephanie Meyer specifically). Really I think it's cause adaptations cutting out the second half and because most people haven't read Wuthering Heights and only know it through cultural mitosis. But I'm still annoyed about it.

16. You can't understand why so many people like this thing (characterization, trope, headcanon, etc)

One that I don't think most people actually like is a shoujo protagonist who is just so passive as to decide nothing for themselves. This is especially annoying when the shoujo story itself is a compelling one. Two of my favorite shoujo (one is actually technically shonen but shhh) are like this, and it drives me nuts cause I adore the series themselves.

One I think is pretty popular is the yan-dere archetype. I just don't get it. Like I do get the idea of exploring taboo subjects in fiction, that I get. It's why murder ballads are a thing. It's why Lady Chatterley's Lover and the Red and the Black and the Scarlet Letter and like... Outlander are like that (yes I've read three Outlander novels; the first two are the best). People like the taboo. But like... every yan-dere fic I've read has just made me wish someone would shoot the yan-dere and relieve me of my misery. The only yan-dere done well is in fact not a yan-dere but a subversion of the genre... Shion Sonozaki (my beloved). Like... I don't get it.

24. Topic that brings up the most rancid discourse

God, so many topics. I think out of all of them the one that drives me the most nuts is people who are like "classics suck" or "I only read YA because all other books are problematic". Shoutout to the YA authors who were like "School literature like the Great Gatsby taught me being creepy about the woman I love is okay.

Like... genuinely y'all never read any of these books because what the actual fuck. The Great Gatsby explicitly shows how Gatsby's obsession with Daisy ruins his life. He fucking dies at the end. How is that supporting Gatsby's outlook on life? Nick says that Gatsby turned out alright in the end but Nick is an unreliable narrator and no Gatsby did fucking not.

Now don't get me wrong. This book - and most classics - has very real issues. Fitzgerald's antisemitism is very explicit. He was also, racist and homophobic and this is even more explicit in his other works (especially his short stories). It's important to discuss this when discussing these books, especially in class. Fitzgerald's works are flawed texts, as classics often are. A great deal are fundamentally flawed (holy shit Lovecraft) but they are still influential, and must be acknowledged as such.

And no this is not me saying "haha product of time it's fine". No that's a shitty argument. Brushing off flaws of classics is as bad as condemning all classics for those flaws.

Cause these books do like, mean something. Just because you don't like a book doesn't mean you can claim whatever of what it did, even when your claim directly contradicts the text. And classics should be looked at holistically. You can cherry pick the worst things from a great deal of them. You can also cherry pick them to be perfect and without flaw. And guess what? Both of these approaches are shit from an academic perspective. And from a viewpoint of the world. If you can only exist this way, your world must be so small.

Like, I dislike Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man. The misogyny in it is at times so overwhelming that reading it was genuinely difficult. But I cannot sit here and say it has no important qualities. It's one of the most influential novels written by a black man in America. It discusses black nationalism, communism and race, various schools of thought amongst black activists, police brutality, the running of activist groups by white people and how an organization that may say they care about black people ultimately is indifferent towards their suffering. It also discusses the role white women have in upholding racism, in a way different from white men. Ellison's portrayal of women made me deeply uncomfortable, but I cannot in good faith say it's only because of his misogyny (which, to be clear, there's a lot of misogyny). Sometimes the truth is uncomfortable.

Invisible Man is a strange, surrealist, and at points beautiful novel. It's important, it's so important. I am glad that I read it. I don't think I'll ever like it. But I'm glad I read it.

Classics are like that sometimes. Most are imperfect, but I hope that one day our books now will be seen as old, outdated. It means that we will have progressed. Just reading YA because classics are flawed is ridiculous. YA can be good, YA can even be great. But no one should only read YA. If you care about a topic, read about it. Read theory, read nonfiction. Read more. Just read more, and more variety. Widen your world. A narrow lens is always a poor one to experience life.

Anyways, yeah. Classics are important. Their flaws should never be ignored, but neither should their strong suits, why they have survived the test of time. So stop acting like Hugo's misogyny means Les Mis is automatically not worth reading. I promise if you read it you'll find a critique of our worldview so poignant it will be moving. Even if you don't like it. (Which nooo plz don't dislike one of my favorite books lol <3).

Yeah... I think that's it. I rambled so much.

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

Do you remember the Onceler?

I remember the Onceler, but I haven't read The Lego Movie. (Nor have I seen it. My wife and son watched it one day while we were out of town.)

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

Have you ever had a dream that that you um, you had, you'll you would you could, you do, you would you want you you could do some, you…you'll do, you could you, you want, you want him to do you so much you could do anything?

Yes, in fact I did. It was a very strange dream, and it involved the phrase "did you see that episode of Psych, where"

I don't know how to describe the content except by saying that there were two guys who had a really close relationship -- they were friends? They talked about doing stuff together but then kept getting distracted? And one of them ended up being gay (or at least bisexual) for some reason, which made him upset because he didn't want anyone else knowing this secret

This all happened while we were watching TV on my couch -- my dad was sitting next to me talking about something unrelated, and at one point I looked over and saw that his face had become . . . yellow-ish or green-ish somehow? (It was an effect similar to what happens when someone is shown in old movies with black-and-white film stock.) This seemed ominous so I turned away from him quickly

Then the show started again and the guy started making out with another man (who also lived nearby?) and I found myself thinking "wow, why am i attracted to this guy huh? (I actually think this was meant as some kind of commentary on what straight men would be like if everyone could magically read their minds, although my subconscious failed to make much sense here. In any case, the other character was played by Shawn Spencer, not James Roday)

[HINT: THIS IS A FANFIC IDEA]

When I woke up I thought to myself that I should write a fanfic based on this dream, featuring both characters meeting each other as adults and realizing they are both closeted trans people. However, I cannot remember any more details about the plot beyond that, even though I spent weeks daydreaming about various possible scenarios after having the dream

(Incidentally, this was long before I came across Psych)

[happyfunf3tti]

I LOVE your Billy and Mandy AU! And your art is so nice!

Thank you so much!!! I'm glad you really like my AU!