Prompt in Memes 4

Another prompt, but in memes because trying to gather my thoughts is hard sometimes lol.

take a body, maybe your own, and dump it gently.

Eve, How To Get Away With Murder

watching fictional queer couples being intimate while my mother spews the most vile homophobic comments, unaware that her daughter is a closeted bisexual who finished writing fanfiction about said queer couples just minutes ago is a WILD experience

Everyday I think about the fact that Kalim clearly lied to his and Jamil’s families about the reason why Jamil overblotted to protect him 

Everyday I think about the fact that Kalim defended Jamil against people who wanted to throw him out and took responsibility for being a contributing factor in Jamil’s overblot.

Everyday I think about the fact that Kalim had an inkling of a thought that Jamil was using his signature spell on him, and even under Jade’s spell, he didn’t reveal it was Jamil. 

Everyday I think about the fact that Kalim was very willing to just believe that he was blacking out and Jamil wasn’t manipulating him if Jamil just said so. He’d rather believe a lie he knew wasn’t true then acknowledge that the one person he thought he could trust was doing this to him. 

Kalim does not play when it comes to Jamil. 

Title sequence designs inspired by the real-life shows Martha Wells based Murderbot's favorite shows on.

when i hear "found family" in relation to an ensemble of fictional characters in media there's two different things that could be happening here.

often it's what i think of as forced family, which is like "i found myself in a situation with these people" but a key part of the trope is that, like most families of origin, they're stuck with each other and can't leave without taking extreme action. voyager's "found family" is a forced family. i'm watching m*a*s*h now and it seems that way too. in both cases there's an outside constraint where you literally cannot escape these people and so grow to love them as a result, often in a codependent or unhealthy way but you are closer to them than you will ever be to anyone who did not share this experience. you would sell some of them to satan for one corn chip but god help any outsider who tries to break you up or even understand the situation. sometimes you get lucky and there's a person or two in there that you would choose to spend every day with regardless of circumstance (but would you really? can you even tell for sure??). but also it's "i will never ever speak to you again as long as i live but i'm really bored so can you give me a ride to the 7-11 first."

meanwhile chosen family is more like star trek the next generation where they are placed in this group at random but there's no hostage element to it. any one of them could request a transfer at any time, but they never will because this community and group of people have become an inseparable part of their identity. in both cases they'd saddle up and risk their lives to save each other forever at any personal cost ("not to me, not if it's you") but forced family also contains the element of "i'll fucking do it but christ alive." not every ensemble fits into one or the other but i think it's fun to distinguish as a concept.

How much can you change and get away with it, before you turn into someone else, before it’s some kind of murder? • Richard Siken, War of the Foxes

Taika Waititi as Edward Teach OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH (2022)

tbh i need to read something with truly profoundly problematic and strange women. im talking rodion raskolnikov if he were a girl. daniil dankovsky but he's one of those toxic femmes who thinks other lesbians oppress her for her conformity to heteropatriarchal female beauty standards. lucy liu as hannibal lecter. i dont know why all the male characters im naming are eastern european but do you understand what i mean here

lover, don't touch me // leave, i am a danger to you // but ooh, i hunger for you