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Nico Robin and Suicide Ideation

Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:26:41 GMT

Posted by: malymin

"I Need to Talk About Nico Robin or I Will Lose My Goddamn Mind" by tyrantisterror

In high school, one of the parts of my life where my suicidal ideation was at its strongest, I was told on a couple of occasions by people that they admired how confident I was in my sense of self, and how honest and genuine I seemed to be. It was baffling every time, because I lived in my brain, where I knew for a fact I had no confidence whatsoever and hid as many of my feelings as possible. What they saw as confidence was just… apathy, a disinterest in how people reacted to the mask I’d composed of the few feelings and thoughts I felt were shallow enough to express without fear. I got exceptionally good at hiding the toxic mess of self-hatred I had festering inside my brain.

I truly believe there is no greater suffering that can be inflicted on a person than this kind of self-destructive despair, because once it takes root in you, it never leaves. It is an enemy you will grapple with your entire life, never fully relenting no matter how hard you struggle against it. It never, ever fucking leaves, and anyone who actually gets to know you will know this in time, and you’ll always wonder when they’ll get sick of dealing with it and abandon you like you deserve to be abandoned.

I bring all this personal shit up because Nico Robin’s story is about suicidal ideation, about self-loathing, about despair. And, in the nature of melodrama, of emotional truth, it takes what it feels like to hate yourself to this extreme and makes it literal. Suicidal ideation makes you feel like the World hates you, like your existence is a crime. For Nico Robin, that is literally true - the World Government wants her dead, and her existence is literally a crime in its eyes.

This is just one meta, but it's one that I liked enough I want to highlight it with a quote from the introduction section. I've never watched or read One Piece, but maybe one day I should... even with how excruciatingly long it is. It's hard for me to come by an honest, earnest character manifesto in this day and age, and this is a good one.

Side recommendation: Tyrantisterror also wrote some meta pointing out that Mina Murray is effectively the true protagonist of Dracula on their website back in 2017, four years before Dracula Daily created a big burst of Dracula (1897 novel) fandom popping out meta and re-assessing the characters' original depictions vs their flanderization by adaptations and pop culture. There's other interesting articles by them on Horror Flora (largely focusing on fantasy, horror, and kaiju media), but the Mina one is perhaps my favorite.

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Movies, TV and Characters

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:50:03 GMT

Posted by: yourlibrarian

annavere posted about comparisons between Buffy and Teen Wolf characters

A piece on Henry Jenkins' blog about what makes F1 a controversial Oscar nominee

Also I have a new review of How to Get to Heaven from Belfast

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March Meta Matters Challenge 2026

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 20:00:26 GMT

Posted by: yourlibrarian

March 1 is just weeks away, so that means the kickoff to this year's March Meta Matters Challenge will be taking place soon! The challenge involves locating and copying over meta you've created to a second site in order to ensure its preservation, plus there will be some prompts for creating new meta.

Feel free to ask questions here about the challenge, locations, etc. Otherwise subscribe to marchmetamatterschallenge and look for our opening post on March 1!

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Wed, 04 Feb 2026 07:27:10 GMT

Posted by: fred_mouse

chesh-cat-runs opens with Today I understood why Mr Bingley is important for Pride and Prejudice; taradactyls adds a long and fascinating commentary

marley-manson has commentary about Due South

locuas642: One of the things that makes the family conflict in Lilo & Stitch work narratively is that Cobra is correct in that Lilo and Nani's current situation is non-sustainable

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A short one from Tumblr, on the subject of "headcanon"

Mon, 02 Feb 2026 17:55:35 GMT

Posted by: malymin

Original post is by grendelsmilf, original post is here but behind a login wall.

the term headcanon can be useful to describe a very specific phenomenon but is largely conflated with simply reading or interpreting the text in a way that leads to some degree of extrapolation. gonna use dungeon meshi as an example (i first tried using hamlet because i figured it’s more universal but as it turns out i have way too much of a stake in shakespeare scholarship and we don’t need this post to be a million words long). “kabru would be a psych major” is technically a headcanon, but it’s also one that is grounded in the text as it relates to kabru’s fascination with human behavior and their psychopathologies. “falin would listen to joanna newsom,” on the other hand, is not in any way grounded in the text (that i know of), but rather something i nonetheless believe because she has good vibes: it is a headcanon. “marcille is in love with falin,” however, is not a headcanon, but rather a coherent interpretation of what is explicitly depicted in the narrative. sure, there is enough plausible deniability that you could argue “they’re just really good friends who have a deep, sisterly bond,” but that is also a reading. do you see the difference. if something is not explicit in the text but nonetheless can be extrapolated from direct textual evidence, calling it a “headcanon” rather than an interpretation, reading, or even extrapolation, is actually just reductive. i’m sick of making posts that directly cite multiple textual examples to ground my claims being tagged with shit like “cool headcanon.” when i said chilchuck would smoke from a fanciful contraption of a bong, that was purely conjecture, that was a headcanon. actually employing direct quotes from the text to guide a specific reading of it is not a “headcanon,” however, unless literally all analysis constitutes “headcanon” since it’s the canon that exists within your own subjectivity. but that would make it far too broad and nebulous a term to ever be useful. so let’s not kid ourselves here, and let’s refrain from conflating genuine analytical work with self-indulgent fancy. both play key roles in how fandoms and engagement with fiction operate, but there are degrees to these things, and i think those distinctions matter.

I'm sharing this post today because it mirrors frustrations I've felt about trying to articulate a difference between "a conclusion I've made that isn't explicitly canon, and may not even be intended, but can be considered an analytically sound reading about the text" and "chosing to personally believe something about a character just because it's relatable, funny, cool, sexy, etc" (and any of the in-between spaces, like OP's psych major Kabu example) in modern fandom spaces on social media. When one wants to have conversations about readings, subjective but nonetheless analytical interpretations akin to the writings of accademics regarding "serious" texts, the current connotations of the word "headcanon" feel like an outright barrier to communication. It sort of flattens everything.

Has anyone felt this frustration?

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Sun, 04 Jan 2026 12:06:35 GMT

Posted by: fred_mouse

white-hole-station on how much of Outer Wilds is a game about grief

bijoumikhawal on Real world influences on Cardassian fashion- Natima's dress and the Edwardian era (long, will trigger the log-in screen)

thethirdromana on how Andor and Rogue One in combination reframe A New Hope so it’s crystal clear that the Empire sowed the seeds of its own destruction

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Sat, 03 Jan 2026 09:36:23 GMT

Posted by: fred_mouse

My collection of these links has got a little out of hand; hoping to clear out the folder in daily small chunks rather than one long post. In the interests of Getting This Posted I'm not sourcing the original links, just the reblogs I have saved. Please let me know if there are any glitches I've missed.

On comparisons between Kate Mulgrew's tux in episode "The Killing Game" and Marlene Dietrich's in Blonde Venus

star wars: explaining Naboo

the roots of the Country House Murder Mystery genre

why you should not see the live action Lilo and Stitch

something that I think is about Gideon the Ninth

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Sat, 14 Jun 2025 09:31:22 GMT

Posted by: fred_mouse

Today's selection hasn't been quite as rigorously checked as usual, please let me know if there are issues (options were perfect or done, and I've chosen done).

kindness-richochets: Thinking About Gender Performance via Eliot in Leverage…

centaurianthropology: Murderbot as a ‘Cringe’ Litmus Test for the Audience (a.k.a., we are culturally the Corporation Rim), response from chibisquirt. This is about the TV show specifically.

cipheramnesia: I finally saw Sinners and I come down firmly on the "best movie I've seen in years," side of the experience.

whetstonefires: One thing I really like about how Murderbot relates to gender is how like–no wait, two things, in order. - this predates the show, but while it is ostensibly about the book, I believe it is more general

hardwareabstractionlayer has a post about sex puns in Nirvana in Fire names, which because it is labelled mature needs to be logged in to read.

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Wed, 21 May 2025 05:16:50 GMT

Posted by: fred_mouse

A somewhat random assortment that has been sitting around a while. I don't think any of these are duplicates, but I'm making no promises.

overthinkinglotr - I really LOVE Boromir’s costume design in the PJ films, we’re gonna talk about so strap in., with added commentary by freenarnian

dancing-with-the-madmen - The other day I was babbling to a friend about OFMD, as I am wont to do, and casually mentioned cPTSD and the different types of trauma responses Ed and Stede employ in stressful situations, .... - this one is long enough to trigger the login popup, about 2 paragraphs from the end

headspace-hotel - that-gay-jedi requested that i talk some about material conditions and their effect on worldbuilding so here's something I'm thinking about

elucubrare - ok i think what gets me about the kind of post that's like '[children's media] has child soldiers, where are their parents!!' is that those stories really and truly aren't for people who'll think about that, - there's a lot going on in the comments of this one.

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Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:13:52 GMT

Posted by: fred_mouse

mayhaps-a-blog: You know I do think it's interesting how strongly Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) makes the point that bringing someone back from the dead is inherently selfish

thebreakfastgenie: I completely seriously think For Want of a Boot is one of the best episodes of MASH in terms of delivering the show's original intended message and also general writing quality

drop-of-infinity: I don’t think we talk enough about how the entirety of Wicked is built on the irony of No One Mourns the Wicked - lots of thoughts in the comments

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Mon, 03 Mar 2025 07:08:20 GMT

Posted by: fred_mouse

General access

tryslora - Disability in fiction

aspiringwarriorlibrarian - Arcane and the myth of the silver bullet - extra commentary in notes.

autismmydearwatson - I’m actually going to start killing Wicked fans if I hear one more person say Elphaba should have "always" been played by a Black woman, with follow up by strive-to-be-human

stammiviktor Honestly part of what makes yuri on ice such a masterpiece is the complete 180 Yuuri and Viktor’s power balance does over the course of the show, from the audience’s perspective

katakaluptastrophy, response by biracy I keep seeing people complaining about the memes in TLT as some kind of crappy authorial impingement on the narrative - also with extra commentary in the notes.

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apologies, no spoons to find accessible outside tumblr reblogs

dabwax, with response by stripedroseandsketchpads Man. I'd love to break down why I think Lestat is telling the truth more often than not without people thinking I'm saying his abusive behavior was like, cool as fuck or something.

dabwax Hi, nobody told me Conclave has Actual INTERSEX Representation, nor that the Intersex Character is a main character who is a celebrated hero of the people in the end. And it ends so nicely. Wow. - minor spat about whether or not this counts as spoilers in the reblog chain.

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ST: DS9 Meta

Wed, 12 Feb 2025 02:29:21 GMT

Posted by: yourlibrarian

Came across two posts with some interesting thoughts:

Is there a star trek version of postwar tiki culture?

Gay Characters vs. Queer Worlds: Why Deep Space Nine feels more queer-affirming than Discovery

I think the latter is an interesting take given it compared a long completed closed canon show to a newish less developed one which changed a good deal during its run.

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madoka video essay exhibition!

Tue, 11 Feb 2025 04:24:53 GMT

Posted by: catgiri

I've recently come across two wonderful Madoka Magica video essays, one of which has even become one of my favorite works of meta I've read (seen?) so far. They're both very well structured in a way that's easy to follow, make their points clear, make every point presented cite the canon as well as additional sources, it's just an excellent work of research and articulating of one's thoughts altogether.

I haven't seen 'meta recs' exist in the same degree other types of fanwork recs do, so I thought I'd get that ball rolling by sharing them here!
~~it is my understanding from seeing other's posts that posting (credited) other's meta is allowed? i can take this post down if it's not and i got confused!~~

On Werther, Faust and Love: an analysis of Madoka Magica through the works of Goethe is a video essay detailing all the ways the anime Madoka Magica seems to be inspired in Goethe's oeuvre, both through Madoka's plot beats and scenes mirroring those found on some of Goethe's works, as well as sharing narrative themes, primarily with his novel The Sorrows of Young Werther and his play Faust (as the title would imply). Taking these similitudes into account the author also attempts to predict the plot of the upcoming new Madoka movie, Walpurgisnacht: Rising.

And while you can enjoy it perfectly on its own, I recommend watching the author's other video essay first: "Beyond Good and Evil" - Encomium Homura (on Nietschze, Camus and love), their Homura character analysis / videoform blorbette manifesto. It lays the groundwork for the author's interpretations of Homura's psyche and her actions, both of which are discussed at lenght in the essay above.

~~i would have embedded both videos for easier viewing but it seems the option is disabled for them~~

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March Meta Matters Challenge 2025

Thu, 06 Feb 2025 18:43:55 GMT

Posted by: yourlibrarian

The kickoff to this year's March Meta Matters Challenge is just 4 weeks away! As usual, the challenge involves identifying and copying over meta you've created to a second site in order to ensure its preservation. There will also be several prompts for creating new meta. ( Read more... )

Feel free to ask questions about the challenge, locations, etc. at our announcement post and then look for our opening post on March 1!

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Sun, 26 Jan 2025 23:33:58 GMT

Posted by: yourlibrarian

Weeks ago now I read this widely circulated Fansplaining article about the loss of fandom community and thought it's probably the most significant take I've seen on the state of fandom in some time. I was aware of some of these things, but not the latest stuff about AI podfics (and more than one such effort, at that).

I've also been observing community erode for some time as people either interacted on massive social media sites or else invisibly on Discord servers. The one thing both these interaction sites had in common was real-time activity. I am very used to asynchronous community and think it makes a huge difference in who can participate, because real time stuff is very time intensive and also separates people in different timezones from interacting. In the past, when people would do watch parties or live blog reactions, that was still a weekly thing. If you could catch up in a day or two you could remain in step with things.

The other commonality is the ephemeral nature of these sites. Read More

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Mon, 13 Jan 2025 07:57:02 GMT

Posted by: fred_mouse

This is as many links as I can get in the post before I have to do the next thing on my list; apologies for if we end up with a ridiculously long post, I have so many links. Also: I've checked they can be read logged out, but some will trigger the login popup (sometimes closing that will let you get to the end); tagged [long]

In reponse to an ask about whether Wei Wuxian and Jiang Wanyin are brothers, shixiongfucker gave in universe answers, and asideoftrashplease talks about the cultural meaning of martial siblings.

submalevolentgrace talks a little bit about their own game design philosophy, and then expounds on why Portal isn't really a puzzle game [long]

destinationtoast: On writing messiness, genre expectations, and satisfying endings(AKA why did I mostly like the Ted Lasso finale?) [long]

prokopetz, allogrim, and ninjathrowingstork have opinions on the Naboo political system [long]

aqueerkettleoffish: I am kind of surprised that "D&D: Honor Among Thieves" isn't getting as much [tumblr] love as it deserves

John Green replies to I've said it before and i'll say it again: THAT IS NOT A FUCKING METAPHOR, JOHN GREEN

midshipmank on the use and misuse of the Oscar Wilde quote "Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling" [long]

sigridstumb on what they learned from reading Stephen King books

thelastflowerofyourhouse has a take on the opening scenes of Gideon the Ninth

gffa has opinions on R2-D2 and Ben Kenobi meeting in A New Hope image heavy [long]

artist-issues: The Live Action Disney remakes do NOT demonstrate any level of understanding of the original content [long]

talaricula I'm seeing lots of speculation in the wake of the unwanted guest about whether absorbing Loveday's soul is what made Cytherea snap and sure, I see the theory, but personally as a cancer survivor I have never ever questioned why Cytherea snapped - [long]

stammiviktor Honestly part of what makes yuri on ice such a masterpiece is the complete 180 Yuuri and Viktor’s power balance does over the course of the show, from the audience’s perspective [long]

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Mon, 02 Dec 2024 10:13:25 GMT

Posted by: fred_mouse

sluttyquarantinetheory One thing DS9 does extremely well is showing how close the average person is to being a defector

cuntylouis said I feel like many people have a fundamental misconception of what unreliable narrator means, and then ecrivainsolitaire did a great job of articulating a number of variations.

txttletale does a great job of articulating what is going on in The Locked Tomb series

beroebluejeans said I love how Tamsyn Muir was like, in this world everybody’s totally cool about gender and sexuality, but there’s a new invented binary that’s culturally and religiously defining and dictates who people are allowed to love and/or fuck and the roles they play in society and then katakaluptastrophy took that as a jumping off point to engage with the worldbuilding.

gaysie posits the question do u think omegaverse acknowledges covid-19 and the generation of people who permanently lost their sense of smell like how are they all scenting each other now is the omegaverse economy in shambles, and then pulls out a stack of science to argue the topic.

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Tue, 26 Nov 2024 12:13:12 GMT

Posted by: fred_mouse

prokopetz sparked a discussion on the metroidvania genre - the last couple of replies may be off that topic, but this isn't an area I'm familiar with.

a varied group of people get into discussion of the thesis statement 'a feudal army marching through the countryside doesn't become any less horrific, abuse-filled and starvation-causing for the local peasantry just because they're the Good Guys' with reference to the works of JRR Tolkien, Andrej Sapowski, and George RR Martin. This one is long and will trigger the login in pop up.

alostcuttlefish - I think what I love about the Murderbot Diaries .... And yet it’s so full of hope.

beatrice-otter - I have been thinking about the breakfast scene in Pride & Prejudice.

threebea - I was thinking about how the Padawans being part of the war effort DOES suck and kind of bother me, but for some reason I don't really see it as an in universe moral failing of the Jedi. - several other people weigh in, and it goes interesting places that aren't clearly indicated by that first sentence.

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Wed, 20 Nov 2024 11:26:19 GMT

Posted by: fred_mouse

antianikan: I think one of the funniest things to see in Star Wars fandom is this idea that Anakin and Padme would actually genuinely be good for each other...

merakilyy: Some disorganized thoughts on Lan Qiren! - actually quite a lot more than 'disorganised thoughts', some really interesting observations and some useful context.

awildwickedslip: this is going to sound unbearable but i wish fandom read like, literary criticism. - contrasts some commentary currently being made about Interview with the Vampire with some interesting and much more nuanced comments that have been made about Dracula Edited: fixed the link text

rustchild: I am mere centimeters away from writing a full on essay about how the “goblins are inherently antisemitic” myth spawned by this website propagates misinformation... - and then replies to themself with said essay, with a lot of references to folk lore, and some to the way that fantasy doesn't actually represent it reliably.

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Hello...

Wed, 23 Oct 2024 04:01:48 GMT

Posted by: malymin

Hi! I'm, uh... new, from the Cohost exodus. I did have a Livejournal as a kid, though. The meta-writing culture was always one of my favorite things about LJ fandom, and one of the things I've found growing anemic over the past few years on the internet. I don't feel quite "worthy" of calling my stuff "meta" (to me that implies a higher quality I don't feel I've reached) but I don't know what else it could be.

The following is a selection consisting of... one post ported over from my Cohost, and several original posts. I have no idea what's considered good enough to show to people. These are some of the posts I'm proudest of, though. I'm also not sure of the etiquette of crossposting here, so I'll just link my posts below. I don't mind whether you comment on the original page or on this one.

Yu-Gi-Oh! (Technically also Nobilis/Glitch by Jenna Moran towards the end)

"The Anime Girl, Destroyed By Creation" - regarding Nosaka Miho, a character from an anime that's subject to Damnatio memoriae by its own brand identity.

Undertale

"Undertale 9th" - regarding Asriel and Chara, and Undertale as a modern ghost story.

Vocaloid/Utau/Vocal Synthesizer Fandom

"Kasane Teto: The Mimic" - regarding Kasane Teto's origins, and how they have historically impacted her characterization in a fandom subculture where almost all source material is fanmade, and thus fanon creates canon. Not my best work even a little bit (I was very sleep deprived while writing it), but provides context for the second part.
"Kasane Teto: The Cheap Lie, the Trickster, the Underdog, the Fool" - regarding Teto's characterization in songs the fan-culture has written for her to sing since her SynthV debut. This is the one I really want to link, honestly.

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Wed, 09 Oct 2024 14:35:39 GMT

Posted by: fred_mouse

demilypyro: I think Julian Bashir from Deep Space Nine, especially his plotline about having been genetically altered at a young age, is a commentary on neurodivergency.

doomed-spectacles, namaah-darling: I feel like I want to explain to young tumblr users who weren’t born yet that MulderxScully was a revolutionary ship. No, it was not queer but that is not the only way to be revolutionary

ruins-of-gods: Something that I think Warhammer 40,000 storytellers miss sometimes is the sheer scale of their setting.

bewareofitalics makes an association between Peter Pan and Treasure Island - I don’t know either of these well enough to know whether this is a stretch, or a realistic connection, but there is some reference to communication between the authors

princesssarisa Having watched most of the many adaptations of Cinderella, I've come to realize what a unique adaptation Disney's 1950 animated classic really is. - needs a login, because of length. (If anyone has tricks on how to get a no-login link when there is a ‘keep reading’ I would appreciate knowing)

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Fri, 27 Sep 2024 14:23:37 GMT

Posted by: fred_mouse

I've had a busy couple of months, so have a huge backlog of links to post here, but for now, just the two:

sammags: due South does a main character re-casting better than any other show on TV, and they do it by playing with television's own accepted meta-narrative.

tobermoriansass: … I am increasingly bored with the conversation around racism in fandom coming back to which characters get fic and which characters get shipped… alt link which won't demand a login - thanks to osteophage

~~.. apologies, that second one needs to be logged in. I'll attempt to update with a better link later.~~ should be working without a login now.

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Mon, 01 Jul 2024 14:52:46 GMT

Posted by: fred_mouse

A mixed group talk about Sherlock Holmes and cocaine with some side details on Arthur Conan Doyle’s lived experience as a ship’s surgeon.

ariaste Apparently there was some lil drama in Good Omens fandom again about people being deeply nervous and scared of the end of Season 3, and I wrote this in the replies of one of the asks that Neil Gaiman answered, but I feel like it is deserving of being crossposted into its own post (in a slightly expanded form) so folks actually see it.

wrangletangle Yes, you can tag your dark or triggery work on AO3 with the characters and ships that are in it - from 2016

a mixed group talk about The Hunger Games, Actual Teen style! - goes into some interesting comparison of what the books talk about vs the way the movie sanitises the text.

they-bite - part of the fun of the original alien is the horror of the nostromo itself imo with response by pyreo (the notes imply the post is inaccurate; I don’t have the ability to interpret that)

multiple authors on why Lovecraft now appeals specifically to the marginalized people he hated?

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Fri, 07 Jun 2024 04:48:38 GMT

Posted by: fred_mouse

thebibliosphere Y’know, looking back through previous posts about this game, one thing I really dislike is how unnecessarily mean some folks are over Jason Todd's character design. (Gotham Nights)

withthewindinherfootsteps I think the thing that bothers me about ‘extremely self-sacrificial Wei Wuxian’ takes is that they all make his reason for helping others focus somehow on himself, when it’s the opposite that’s true. - note links to parts 2 and 3 at the end; these two are long enough that tumblr will ask for a login.

overthinkinglotr One SEVERELY underrated moment in the Fellowship of the Ring, one of my favorite subtle moments in the film, is Aragorn’s reaction to Weathertop. (image heavy)

fuckyeahpostingshiton sent an ask to frociaggine: I had this revelation that New Rho Could be short for “New Rhodesia” which would say a LOT about the original colonists of the planet (the trillionaires(?))

jessiethewitchzard, dailyadventureprompts, and vaspider in conversation about the idea that there are actually multiple completely distinct activities both being referred to as "playing D&D”

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Sun, 26 May 2024 08:37:03 GMT

Posted by: fred_mouse

Something I’ve not thought to note before: I mostly avoid putting the fandom on these links, in the hopes that people interested in the given fandom will identify it from the quoted content. I'm not always 100% sure, so have been erring on 'not being confusing'

cryptotheism made a short comment:re Aslan being Christ, maniculum discusses a bit about why a lion?

thespianwordnerd: The key to understanding Leonard McCoy is that he only ACTS like he hates everyone and everything

mikkeneko: That post about Marcille and Laios' relationship actually got me thinking about Chilchuck and Laios' relationship.

poorquentyn - It puzzles me when people cite LOTR as the standard of “simple” or “predictable” or “black and white” fantasy

grammarpedant: Rereading The Raven Tower, I see now where I didn't before why it bothers me so much when characters who are nonbinary, agender or otherwise don't fit into any human gender schema get called "technically cis,”even as a joke, for not being interested in changing their body or gender presentation to fit human norms. and i suppose the reason i didn't realize earlier is because it's a more clearly intersex experience, though it obviously has strong overlap with the trans experience.

nunyabznsbabes - Katniss is like Lucy Gray this, Katniss is like Sejanus that, and yes find that's all good and true and lovely but Katniss Everdeen is also a direct parallel to Coriolanus Snow and people NEED to start talking about this because it's driving me crazy.

chick-with-wifi Meta: Root's message for Shaw

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