luckyladylily asked: Thought you might like this, in my head you are "That animorphs person". You made me get back into the series from when I was younger. Gradually making my way through the series again now. I Love your rereading comments.
This…this is it…this is the pinnacle of my life….
I was just wondering to my friend the other day if I qualified as an Animorphs Person now or not.
accepting that nobody will ever be perfect, educating the people who are willing to listen, and encouraging them to grow and learn from their mistakes, is IN
Look, this is my litmus test: I pretend I am the original Earl of Sandwich. I have asked for non-bread foods to be brought to me inside bread, that I might more easily consume them one-handed while gambling.
This does not enable my wretched regency habits. This is not what I asked for. I do not deign to grace it with the name of my house.
This is it. This is the new and perfect litmus test.
Litmus test accepted
Perfect.
From “first of all how dare you” to “fuck yeah, toast those responsible like a grilled cheese sandwich.”
me, an intellectual: video games provide tactile and visual stimulation and are designed to have a balance between reward (for completing your goals) and challenge (in difficulty of the game) with music designed to motivate the player without being distracting. all of these components work together to create a positive feedback loop that adhd people are more likely to be engaged by and enjoy compared to longer tasks with relatively smaller payoff like chores or even something like maintaining the focus to complete long books and projects
#but ah yes#Mutant And Proud: Unless You Are A Telepath Because Then You’d Better Not
CHARLE
THIS
like, I have intense anger toward Erik and Raven about this, but also anger toward the writer/director/etc who seem to want us to feel sympathy for Raven here; seriously, people, yes, Charles can be an utter arse for other reasons, BUT DO YOU NOT SEE THE BIGGER ISSUE
ALL OF THIS !!
This is so strange to me, because my feelings are so different from the previous commenters! For one thing, in this particular gif set, it’s very clearly a scene where Charles is intending to sneak in to Raven’s mind without permission. That’s not Raven being paranoid, and it’s not her attacking him for, say, naturally picking up on surface thoughts without specifically making an effort to intrude. That strikes me as a super valid thing to be upset about, particularly in the larger context of Charles’s paternalistic treatment of her.
On a more general note: I honestly don’t think it is inherently hypocritical to be pro mutation and also have boundaries and limits. Your abilities, no matter what they are, are justifiably limited where they infringe on another person, right? Charles purposefully and intentionally reading Raven’s thoughts when she doesn’t want him to isn’t the equivalent of Raven being in her natural form; it’s closer to Raven transforming herself into Erik and talking to Charles without him knowing who she is.
(On a side note, I’m not sure where Erik comes into it at all? There’s a theme in a lot of XMFC where Erik is afraid or anti telepathy and I’m not really sure where it comes from, because I don’t really see it in the movie. The helmet is pretty clearly not him being against Charles’s telepathy for its own sake, but just because he doesn’t want Charles to stop him from doing shit he wants to do. There’s also the conversation outside the CIA base, but that line seems way more about Erik’s theme of thinking himself a monster and his mind so dark and awful, etc, than being against telepathy, especially considering how he seems to have no problem or hesitation with Charles’s mutation the rest of the movie.)
The thing I find frustrating about Raven and Charles’s relationship vis a vis his telepathy is that Raven asks him not to use one of his senses on her, and then holds it against him when he’s insensitive toward her– and never seems to see the contradiction there. If you ask someone who relies on their vision never to look at you, they aren’t going to be able to understand what you convey with facial expressions, and you have to be aware of that when you communicate with them. If you ask someone who relies on empathy/telepathy never to use it on you, they aren’t going to understand your emotions, and you have to be aware of that when you communicate with them.
Raven has every right to tell Charles to stay out of her head and to expect him to respect that. She is wrong to tell him to stay out of her head and then expect him to understand her when she has closed off one of the main ways he understands people. And yes, all this is complicated by the fact that Charles is chauvanistic, controlling, and patronizing toward Raven, and that’s on him. OTOH, we have no way of knowing if he would treat her differently if he was able to perceive her fully with his mutation and understand her better.
(I’d also question whether in these gifs Charles is really trying to ‘sneak in’ to Raven’s mind considering he makes his telepathy gesture of fingers-to-temple, which we know he doesn’t actually need to do in order to read minds, and would therefore refrain from, if he was really trying to sneak? Also am I wrong, isn’t he asking ‘Why not?’ telepathically, so really not concealing the attempt? I thought he was just automatically/unconsciously lapsing into telepathy because it’s the most natural way for him to connect and he’s out of practice curbing it because he’s been without it for so long.)
The films themselves are unclear about how Charles’s telepathy subjectively works for him and what his normal, passive level of psychic perception is, but I suggest that canon movieverse Charles, who spent years concealing himself and Raven, probably habitually used a level of telepathy that we would consider ‘active’ or ‘invasive’ out of hypervigilance, making sure no one thought anything was out of the ordinary about him or Raven.
Also, while XMDOFP tells us Charles’s telepathy emerged when he was 9, in the comics he was psychic from birth, and I think splitting the difference, it makes sense if Charles has probably been empathic his whole life but only learned to interpret his telepathic perceptions as thoughts at nine or so. DOFP also shows that under some circumstances, Charles has trouble keeping other minds out, suggesting that his natural passive level of perception may be total openness to others’ thoughts.
Upshot being, telepaths would be, very literally, neuro-atypical. For Charles in particular, there’s reason to believe he might rely very heavily on or require his telepathy to function interpersonally. (He’s without telepathy by choice for part of DOFP; he’s also not really functioning, what with the constant drinking and reclusiveness etc.) People around him may not want him to read their feelings or thoughts, and they have the right to their boundaries. But they should understand that if they ask him to close his eyes to them, he might accidentally trip over them sometimes. Raven tells Charles to close his eyes to her and then blames him when he stumbles. No accommodation or allowance for how his mutation affects his perceptions. To me, that’s the part that seems to contradict ‘mutant and proud.’
I’m still so bitter about how old the marauders looked in the hp movies
Like such a big part of the tragedy of their murders was that they were 21 year old children fighting a war
Lily and James were 21 years old when they sacrificed themselves so their son could live
Sirius Black was 21 when he lost his best friends and was thrown in Azkaban without a trial
Remus Lupin was 21 when he lost everything and was forced into solitude for the next decade
These were not adults in their 30s and 40s who had lived and were trying to settle down while fighting a war on the side
These were teenagers who were fighting for their lives full time and were tragically murdered before any of them could reach 40
Anonymous asked: Okay, my queer little heart is almost hilariously into your swole af Diana (and also I laughed until my chest hurt too much to breathe at your hc about how she carried Bruce that one time, it made my life so much better) and I was wondering if you had any further headcanons to share about Wonder Woman.
idk about headcanons but here are some ideas that either already have made it into fics or probably will in the future (have I posted some of these before?? i feel like i did but i can’t find it, fuck):
Historically Amazons were probably Iranian or the historical equivalent so ayyyyyyy
Despite my temptation to make her swole but tiny I kept her 5′10″ which is the exact same height as Dick Grayson and four inches shorter than Bruce Wayne and eight inches taller than I am jesus christ how is that not tall enough for some people that is so fucking tall and she wears heels sometimes goddamn
She’s like three hundred years old but she spent most of her life in her techno-utopia home so lots of things are still totally new to her and she keeps getting confused by all the stuff that isn’t a thing anymore (sometimes her slang… is so old…)
Everyone in modern comics wants Themyscira to blow up and go to war and shit?? what gives??? Sorry but I want a badass techno-utopia island of immortal women whose primary conflicts are philosophical and essentially boil down to “but what about the prime directive”
The flag motif for costumes started in WW2 because it was a convenient way to let people know she was there to punch Nazis and chew bubblegum and she still had plenty of bubblegum but she’s a good multitasker here comes bazooka joe motherfucker
The most costumes of any superhero in the League because she’s old and doesn’t have a secret identity to protect so she can just do all sorts of shit, she’s strayed from the original designs of her costumes which is to say they are no longer meant to be as unmanly as possible out of spite
Wouldn’t it be great if she picked Prince as a surname to use in Man’s World because she didn’t understand that the word was gendered and just wanted to convey Diana, Next For The Throne
She figured it out obviously but Princess isn’t really a surname anyway so she kept it, fuck it, gendered words are weird
I know most of the time she has a secret identity but I like it better if she’s THE PRINCESS DIANA OF THEMYSCIRA, WOMAN OF WONDER AND AMBASSADOR TO THE WORLD OF MEN but as long as she wears normal clothes and introduces herself as Diana Prince most people let her go about her business without making the connection. It’s not a secret it’s just like if David Bowie went somewhere in the 80s wearing flannel and introduced himself as David Jones. Bowie fans would go HOLY SHIT and everyone else would go ‘someone please feed that man and take his cocaine away’
“Amazons are resurrected murder victims” what where did this even come from this is depressing as hell, why can’t they just be an island of badass Middle-Eastern women blessed by Goddesses who went out and made their own island and started accepting female refugees from Man’s World who could make it to their shores (sometimes they help people make it to their shores)
Wonder Woman and Aquaman as old friends with adjacent kingdoms hell yeah hell yeah
She’s really bad at dick jokes. ‘Balls’ is a weird word for testicles, for one thing. Plus it’s a matter of culture when it comes to genitalia. There are Amazons with dicks, sure, but there aren’t Amazons who refuse to shut up about how huge their dicks are or how small someone else’s dick is. That’s a weird cultural thing and ya’ll need Artemis.
Everyone has abandoned “an amazon who allows herself to be bound by a man loses her powers” but I’m bringing it back and making changes okay. How about just “an amazon who allows herself to be bound loses her powers” and instead of gender being the important part, the important part is “allowed” as in “she has to consent to it” as in “an amazon can only really be hurt by someone that she’s trusted”
She’s all about the power of love but also she’s competitive as hell
at eleven, was described by his teachers as ‘bright’
at the same age, according to the Sorting Hat: “Not a bad mind, either. There’s talent, oh my goodness, yes” and “You could be great, you know, it’s all here in your head”
mastered the challenging Patronus Charm at thirteen and proceeded to teach it at fifteen
resisted the Imperius Curse at fourteen and soon learned to throw it off completely, even when cast by the incredibly powerful Voldemort
also at fourteen, learned to cast a powerful Accio Charm
at fifteen, was training other students
at the same age, under extreme stress, tested as ‘exceeds expectations’ or ‘outstanding’ in every subject that required actual magic (including the dreaded Potions)
same age, cast a briefly effective Cruciatus Curse
at sixteen, became a star Potions student simply by following superior instructions
at seventeen, successfully cast the Imperius Curse on his first try, and used it repeatedly
at the same age, cast a successful Cruciatus Curse
He was able to immediately connect the dots between the package that Hagrid retrieved from Gringotts to the break in based on a news article and Hagrid’s reactions.
He was the one who figured out the motive of Quirrell when he played cards with Hagrid betting a dragon’s egg.
He figured out that it was Myrtle who died when the Chamber of Secrets was opened before and seemed to be the only one who was smart enough to actually ask her about her death.
He figured out that it was Lucius Malfoy who gave Ginny Tom Riddle’s diary (with subtle clues from Dobby) and used it to outsmart Malfoy into freeing Dobby.
He knew that Draco Malfoy was up to something (even though Ron and Hermione didn’t believe it) their 6th year. He also figured out Malfoy succeeded when Trelawney told him she heard a male voice whooping in the RoR.
He was the one who figured out that there was a horcrux inside Bellatrix’s vault judging only by her reactions to their possession of the Gryffindor’s Sword.
He figured out the connections of the Peverells, the cloak, the ring (and the snitch by extension) and the elder wand to the Deathly Hallows. He even figured out that it was Dumbledore who owned it and that ownership was passed on the Draco Malfoy and, eventually, to Harry himself.
These are only the ones I could remember right now but I’m pretty sure there were more instances that showed how perceptive he really is.
