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to pretend that horrible people cannot make good art is another way to conflate beauty and talent with integrity and morality. the works of monsters are best examined with knowledge of the author in mind but art is not inherently reflective. human beings are creative, and habitual liars- it'd be stupid to pretend art must always be a portrait of its creator

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"kevjean is unhealthy and toxic, just let them move on" and when have I ever said I want their relationship to be healthy and nontoxic. I want them to crawl into each other's chest and be so intertwined if someone tripped one the other would take the fall,,,I want them to be put together like they are puzzle pieces and then I want them GLUED so they'll never come apart again I sure as hell don't need them HEALTHY

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why are people pretending that sex is the only axis upon which some people willingly enjoy things that hurt/scare them

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jason todd being a crier is important to me somewhere fundamental right up between my heart and my lungs.

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i have to defend fictional women who aren't good people because if i don't who else will

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No because I was so prepared for Jayce and Viktor to have a nasty ass divorce arc where they end the series despising each other on opposite sides of a war. And instead we got this incredibly complex relationship where yes they disagree for a time and maybe try and kill each other. But also they care so deeply for each other and their fates are intertwined throughout all of space and time. Where they never truly give up on each other. Where they both choose the right path in the end and do so together, hand in hand.

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It's still wild to me that Ichirou brought Neil to watch him shoot Riko and ask him if he's happy with the result. Like we could unpack so much from this scene.

It is obviously a mirror of when Riko brought Neil and Kevin to watch Neil's father cut up a man in that very same tower.

But why did Ichirou even invite him to see this, its not like when Riko did it as a message of intimidation to Kevin and Neil, Ichirou was aware that Neil would actually enjoy this. Nora confirmed that this is one of Neils happiest moments in the series until this point. Ichirou could have sent someone to let Neil know Riko was dead but he wanted Neil to see. And then to ask him if he's satified

"Ichirou stopped in front of Neil. "You have cost the Ravens their coach and their captain. Are you satisfied?" It made no sense at first, because Tetsuji was still alive. When Neil caught on he stopped breathing. Tetsuji Moriyama was stepping down—not necessarily because Neil had asked for it, but because Ichirou had been here firsthand to see what the Ravens had become under Tetsuji's guidance. Stuart had said Ichirou was cutting his losses. The Ravens' reckless violence and fraying sanity made them a glaring liability. Ichirou wanted nothing to do with Edgar Allan's tarnished reputation. Neil was suddenly wide awake. "Your people are safe, as are mine. Yes, I'm satisfied."

Ichirou's smile was cold and fleeting. "Let them call you by whatever name they like. You will always be a Wesninski at heart."

I love that Neil is such a brat that he was like : but Tetsuji is still alive 😟 oh wait he's ruined forever? OK then this is the best day ever 😊 yay ❤️

Like this whole thing man. Mafia kids are on their own level when it comes to making friends I guess.

Ichirou to Neil being all : wanna be friends? I'll kill this guy that's been bothering you

Neil to Jean being all: wanna be friends? I'll kill this guy that's been bothering you

Seriously they are like cats

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unstoppable force (me hating when i have unread messages) vs immovable object (not having the energy to text back and carry a conversation)

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neil probably never used any perfume while on the run, because he had more important matters to prioritize and because the foreign smell would probably mess with his senses

he would definitely notice other people using it but he could never wrap his head around how they didn't get tired of the scent after using a whole vial

one day, though, while shopping with allison he picked a free sample of one fragrance to try. that afternoon andrew couldn't get enough of neil and he didn't stop even after being mercilessly teased about his neck fetish

the next day neil went back to the store and bought the full bottle

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okay 3 idiots aftg au time:

jean/andrew/neil dynamic is like the 3 idiots.

jean is the scared mf always praying who tries to kill himself but eventually ends up living up to his potential. (bonus points for the younger sister he's worried about)

andrew's the one who's pursuing something he doesn't want to be pursuing because he had to join the same college as his brother. he's actually really good at photography.

and neil josten is the guy with the two names and dual personalities whose actually a genius that changes their lives and then runs away. (this fits a bit tooooo well guys)

virus is definitely tetsuji and pia is kevin, obviously

silencer is riko but i want riko to also be the guy kevin almost marries but runs away from on his wedding day because jean and andrew show up like we're on a wild goose chase for neil, yk, the guy you actually love? and kevin's like okay fuck it and leaves with them. (fuck i wanna write that so bad.)

and then they do find neil and the whole thing is narrated from andrew's pov going: neil was the best thing that happened to me then he disappeared and now i'm looking for him and i will find him, so help me god, and then i will smack him across the face. and then i'll kiss him. except it's not just him thinking this its kevin too.

i have too many wips but it had to be said eeee

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Tim has everyone's DNA but before he clones them he splices in genes from a sea turtle because sea turtles always find their way back home

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Tbh I think fandom generally needs to get better at sitting with the uncomfortable fact that a story/fanwork/meme/whatever can hurt one person and help another

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I don't know who needs to hear this

But if you go into the comments section on AO3

And type

Then replace image url (keep the " marks) with the url of a picture

You can leave fan art in the comments of a fic

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does anyone know if i can like block sites from appearing in my google images searches??? i keep getting those awful ai generated things with a hand coming out of a man's neck and just straight up not what i was looking for, because this was in a search for "curly hair in medieval paintings". it happens every time i search for anything vaguely art-reference-like and it's so fucking annoying and it clutters my search results so much. i don't wanna add specific commands to the query every time too, what i need is like a browser extension or something

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“ao3 should have an algorithm” ao3 should continue only giving me exactly what I ask for which happens because I know how to use the search, sort, and filter functions

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