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An Ot3 prompt my friend sent to me.
💀 The death of a man 💀 . . Lol, in the fairy frost discord, there have been so many AUs where Tooth ends up with @aleikats OC, Jayson. Needless to say, Jack has had enough.
I don’t know if anyone has ever done this but I’m proud of myself
they turned me into a burger help
oh no that's terrible *eats your pickle*
*turns anon back into a person*
I wonder what that pickle was
*chews faster* who knows
Wait, so you’re telling me today’s the 4th? What’s next, the 5th? The minor fall? The major lift?
NATALIE SCATORCCIO 1.02 "F Sharp"
Man, can we talk about how ethari looked SO hot on s7, it's not even funny
yess he was hot in all the ways! he was totally in his element once Runaan had come back home: confident, outgoing, and warm. he's just so...comfortable in his own skin.
*smirking* you couldn't waterboard that out of me, but even if torture was an effective method of information extraction and not a futile display of state-sanctioned sadism, the high percentage of false confessions it produces would mean that even if you could waterboard it out of me, could you even trust the veracity of my statement?
#Love him
The Matriarch Isn’t the Villain. She’s the Mirror
I often hear a discourse where Celine in K-pop Demon Hunters, Alma in Encanto and Ming in Turning Red are seen as vilains. They’re the ones who restricted the younger generation, hurt them, and are ultimately responsible for their pain, trauma and self-doubt. They’re framed as the real villains of the story. But I’d like to differ.
These are stories of intergenerational trauma. They are women who survived, repressed, and tried to protect their families the only way they knew how: through control, perfectionism, and emotional suppression.
And yet, when the next generation begins to reclaim joy, freedom, softness — they become the obstacle. Not because they’re bad people, but because they’re scarred. Their minds cling to survival strategies, unable to recognize that the environment has changed.
Alma is still stuck fleeing the colonizers.
Ming is still afraid of her true self.
Celine believes that fear and mistakes must be hidden.
It’s not about hating these characters. It’s about how unprocessed trauma twists love into control. How survival, unexamined, turns into rigidity. These women were never given space to process their own pain and they project it onto their daughters and granddaughters.
And here’s something we rarely say enough: intergenerational trauma can create toxic patterns but that doesn’t always mean there was abuse or conscious harm. Even when their love becomes suffocating or controlling, these women are not necessarily “abusive parents.” They are daughters of silence, fear, and sacrifice. And they were never taught another way. It’s important to make that distinction, especially in a world that often pushes a binary, punitive reading of family dynamics.
They’re the product of a generation that was told to endure. But endurance without healing becomes its own kind of violence.
What’s powerful in these stories is that they don’t end in vengeance. They end in confrontation and transformation. The confrontation is necessary: the younger generation refuses the silence. Refuses the shame. Refuses to carry a burden that wasn’t theirs to begin with.
The house is destroyed in Encanto.
Mei accepts her full self.
So does Rumi.
And in the best cases, this confrontation allows the elder to soften too. Alma opens up. Ming listens. And I’m hoping in the sequel, Celine will open too.
Maybe that’s also why these stories speak so deeply to POC audiences. These aren’t stories about cutting ties. They’re stories about how hard it is to transform them, to protect ancestral bonds while refusing to perpetuate inherited pain. In many racialized families, collectivity, loyalty, and intergenerational duty are sacred... even when they come at the cost of personal boundaries.
And sometimes, Western individualist frameworks read these tensions as dysfunction or villainy. But for us, they’re just the difficult truth of growing up and trying to do better.
These women aren’t villains. That would be too easy. They embody the fragile, necessary work of bringing change without breaking the thread. These stories are about refusing to inherit their pain without reflection. Because love, without accountability, is not enough.
These stories show us that each generation has something to learn from the next. And the new generation must also break free from the chains they inherited while preserving what is meaningfull.
But it’s not just their story.
One day, we’ll be the older generation.
And we’ll need to be humble enough to learn from the ones after us.
So don’t be a fool.
We may be Mei, Rumi, or Mirabel today.
But tomorrow, we could be Ming, Celine, or Alma.
And when that time comes, we’ll realize how hard it is to unlearn what once kept us safe.
So let’s have compassion for all these characters.
Because these stories show us not just how the cycle of generations works, but how it can make us better, stronger, and more connected... if we’re all willing to go through the change.
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If you’re curious, I’ve written more on K-pop Demon Hunters:
A post on the mental health themes woven through the songs — right here.
A breakdown of Celine-Rumi in comparaison to Gothel–Rapunzel dynamic — here.
An analysis about Rumi, Jinu, and the danger of sinking together — here.
Some book recs for each of the K-pop Demon Hunters characters — here.
i love how whether you romance someone or not withers always has some shit to say about it
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A brief summary of the MCU
Bad guys capture scientists, thinking that these nerds will work for them. The scientists kick their asses.
this isn’t the first time the DHS has tweeted literal nazi propaganda but uuuhhhh I feel like things are going to get Very Bad unless we do something. about the nazis. who are running the US government
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THE PAINTING IS LITERALLY WHITE ANERICA DRIVING DARK, “SAVAGE”, NATIVES OFF THE LAND!!! YOU DONT NEED TO FIND DOGWHISTLES THEYRE CALLING THE POOCH’S FUCKING NAME
THIS!!!!! EXACTLY THIS!!!!! YOU DONT NEED THE FUCKING DOGWHISTLE WHEN THE PAINTING IS LITERALLY ABOUT DOING GENOCIDE AGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
Not to mention that the painting is so iconic of “manifest destiny” and celebrating white supremacy that it’s literally used as a picture for a book about how white supremacy is taught and passed through the US education system.
So. Fuck everything about this admin.
The painter Charles Hilliard created Reversing Manifest Destiny for the Indian Land Tenure Foundation (ILTF). The ILTF works with Native nations to recover their homelands. The artwork is in response to the American Progress painting from the 1870s. [source]
I just....I just learned that there's a word in the English language...for when you run into someone to hug them with all the enthusiasm and strength you have....I learned that it's called glomp.
My God, English has so many words to describe physical intimacy, I'm in love