Listen here. A housewife wakes up before anyone else, cooks for her husband and kids, do the dishes and laundry and then go pick up the kids. After that, feed the kid, bathe the kid, put the kid to bed and do more laundry after the husband sleeps! By that time, it’s already midnight!
Look, I know facile trope inversion is for weenies, but I still really want to see a JRPG-style game where the shouty teenage boy who gives long speeches about the power of friendship is the fragile healer and the girl with the gentle piano-and-strings theme song and self-sacrificing “must save everyone” attitude is the melee tank. I don’t think I’m being unreasonable here.
I’m not even being ironic – I honestly think it would work better that way. Like, let’s put power-of-friendship boy in a position where he actually needs to rely on his friends to get anything done, rather than just talking about how they’ve inspired him while he solos the final boss. And as for Little Miss Messiah Complex, well, tell me you can’t perfectly picture how the standard tank protagonist move where you intercept a blow meant for a critically wounded party member, facetank a fucktillion points of damage, then get back up again with one hit point and a voice quip about how the baddies will have to do better than that would play out under her idiom. You can see it, right?
People in the notes are looking at the second one saying “that’s just She-Ra, that’s just–” no, it isn’t. Gentle piano-and-strings theme song, remember? It’s essential that each archetype’s stock personality remain intact, and only the role changes.
She’s sweet. She’s humble. She wears homespun dresses and grows pretty flowers in her free time. She has that vibe that says “I’m going to die halfway through the game to make my boyfriend sad”, except that doesn’t happen, because the baddies don’t have a big enough gun.
I want to see the obligatory scene where the bad guy’s army is burning down her Beloved Peasant Village™, and she’s standing between the evil commander and a group of soulful orphans, begging with tears in her eyes for him to see that there’s already been enough death – except when he callously rejects her entreaties and moves to backhand her out of the way, she catches his armoured fist mid-swing, without even the faintest tremor of effort, and in a tone of infinite patience informs him: “You misunderstand, sir: it’s not our lives I’m pleading for.”
And then she punches people until all the soldiers run away and feels conflicted about it afterwards.
Sucks how many people were taught that “horses put their ears back when they’re mad” but then never taught the difference between “angry backwards ears,” “mildly annoyed backwards ears,” “pain backwards ears,” “concentrated backwards ears,” “sleepy backwards ears” and “just happens to be listening to something behind it.”
“Horses put their ears back when they’re mad” idk man i think it depends
These are all completely different expressions in completely different scenarios, and only two of them are decidedly negative.
Actually, I wanna talk about the third horse, the one putting its ears back in pain. Over the last 15 years veterinarians and animal scientists have worked out pain scales for most domestic animals by taking photos of the during routine procedures.
We know vaccines painful, and by comparing horses at rest with horses getting vaccinated, we’ve been able to determine how they express pain visually. By looking at horses with disorders like colic, broken bones, wounds, and so on, we can determine their facial expressions during more severe pain.
At zookeeper school we were drilled through the pain faces of the most common lab animals and livestock. Nowadays I believe this has become a routine lesson in all animal related fields, but the general public still doesn’t know that this is a thing that exists.
Here are all the pain face/grimace scales I’ve been able to find. Please study them if you interact with any of these animals on a regular basis:
Do you people headcanon her as a maia of Yavanna, Vána, or Estë? Or all of them, or just two? Sometimes she is said to be of Yavanna´s, other times Vána and Estë, but the consistency of her is that she is “alike” to Yavanna.
I just can´t see her as a Maia of Este, although I can see her waiting in Lórien for Thingol, after waiting in Mandos, and she was said to tend the gardens of Lórien once.
The grave of a beloved dog, with a life-sized statue of a huge bulky intimidating giant of a dog, and an inscription “Here lies Terry. He was a tiny thing but this is what he looked like in his own mind’s eye.”
shade very Soft and Comfort human sleep soundly put human under Manchineel Tree. Put Human Under Manchineel Tree. no problems ever under mancchineel tree because good Taste and Sweet fruit for tired hungry human. Amanchineel Tree yes a place for a human put human under manchineel tree can trust manchineel for giveing good shelter to human. friend manchineel
I think it’s worth pointing out that suicide baiting is against Tumblr’s TOS and that the people who do it shouldn’t be surprised if they get reported and banned for doing so. I mean I personally report the replies/comments of anyone who tells someone to kill themselves because I think that behavior is absolutely abhorrent and I have very little tolerance for it, yes even if I fully agree with what they’re saying otherwise. I think people forget this crucial factoid when discussing why people get banned on this site.
i block people who suicide bait even if i agree the target is in the wrong like a terf or nazi. i do not need to be seeing the idea “if you do something bad you should kill yourself instead of making amends” with my mental illness
hyperfixation please stay with me long enough to complete the project. hyperfixation do not fade. hyperfixation finish what you started for the love of god
