#'i never blamed you not once'

[priceofreedom]

FF7 Rebirth 26 / ?

[prlssprfctn]

I've been brewing this post for far too long in my drafts, but I need more doomed!Bruce and Jason throughout universes. And it is not even always about the same Jaybin, dying in the warehouse scenarios!

Sometimes Jason is just a kid, who died in front of Batman, who maybe jumped in between Batman and the villain recklessly, to keep him safe, and whose blood stuck under Bruce's nails. His face haunts him in nightmares, still.

In other realities, Bruce meets Jason as a teen, and they never even get to become father and son officially - but they slowly get into each other's lives, until something awful happens, leaving a ghost of a smirking kid stroll behind Bruce's hunched figure for the rest of his life.

Or maybe it is one of these realities, where Jason crawls out of the Alley Crime himself, and manages to become famous in Gotham; the one, where he opens a charity fond, dedicated to people, who fight with the drug addiction. Bruce Wayne is sympathetic of a kid he meets during some of the events, and as they slowly start contacting each other more often, getting closer, he promises himself to protect him. Expect, Batman is late to save Jason Todd from the hands of yet another villain.

It could be the priest Jason Todd that meets bleeding out Batman on the stairs of the church, and who helps him out, for what he later pays with his life. Or they are not really vigilantes in any of these universes - just father and son.

And in some of these universes, they reconcile. In one of them, some of the medics connect the dots that a catatonic boy, who is covered in dirt, calling for his dad, for Bruce is Bruce's Wayne dead son, and try calling him. In another, LoA!Jason with his memory still being in a haze, crosses his path with Batman, before getting dipped in the Lazarus Pit.

But the point stands.

In all of them, Bruce Wayne is too late. In all of them, Bruce Wayne fails to save Jason Todd.

[sharkylad]

Thinking about the fact that Mabel and Dipper didn't know they had two great uncles.

Yeah they are 12 and at 12 I had a shotty understanding of my family tree- But really? Nobody brought up their great uncle? Stanley? Especially since they'll be staying with his twin brother, Stanford?

Shermie never went to Stan's fake funeral, which to me means the twos relationship was strained on some level. If Shermie is older that means his view of Stan was poisoned in some way, that even as kids they weren't close. If the Shermie is younger then he never even got to meet Stan and all he knew about him was how he failed his family. Hell, people probably barely mentioned Stanley TO Shermie.

The fact that Stan had become a black stain upon the Pines family name makes me so vividly upset. Stanley faked his death and the family just- seemingly decided to strike him from the record. To pretend he didn't existed to spare themselves the sadness and shame.

Stanford and Shermie Pines. The only children worth mentioning of Filbrick and Caryn Pines.

It was never Stanford that was lost to the world. It was Stanley, ever since he had to leave New Jersy- it was always him that had to be struck from the record. Change his name, change his state, change his affiliations, destroy the remains of ghost that was Stanley Pines. Kill him so the family doesn't bring him up, doesn't ask questions, stops asking "Stanford" about his twin.

I just keep thinking about the fact that since the day he made one single mistake all the way up until Ford walks out of that machine- Stanley Pines was killed and did not exist. And Stan himself had no one to blame, he had to play the part in his own demise- He is the only one who ever knew Stanley was alive and has been for decades.

He lives in the multitudes of every personality he's ever taken, all in the hope that he himself can stop being Stanley Pines.

[tagarilaghost]

I SWEAR CELEBI'S THINGY IS COMING SOON BUT I REALLY WANTED TO POST THIS ALRIGHT

yeaah... future trio got me too...

and Darkrai is there too, because of course he is.

hey look i drew a cute Drifloon :D

...ignore the rest

whatever started at Darkrai doodles ended in brainrot of future trio + darkrai and I'm blaming @scribz-ag24 for this

[aerithisms]

the little scene we got of team rwby talking about ruby's outburst was very telling with everyone's reaction.

blake didn't say much but she was sympathetic, and it makes sense - she's no stranger to depression or to lashing out and running from the people you care about. and she was still playing the leadership role in ruby's absence, mediating yang's frustration and keeping everyone together.

i think it's fascinating that yang was the angriest over it. yang loves ruby more than anything, but i think there is truth to the idea that the nature of her relationship with ruby as her big sister and protector made it harder for her to understand this side of ruby, because to yang ruby has always been her happy, brave little sister who she protected from the horrors of the world. and now she must be hating herself for that blindness (though of course it's not her fault).

and weiss seemed to understand ruby best. she got that ruby felt isolated, and put on a pedestal, and that she didn't think she could talk to them. and i think she gets it because as ruby's partner she feels responsibility over it. since volume 1, weiss has only ever wanted to be a good teammate and a good partner to ruby, and now she must feel like she failed.

[everytaylorswiftsongisaboutcats]

[dxxtruction]

Louis' "You're boring!" Could mean so many things, but I think what's most apparent about that line is that Armand takes no initiative just for himself. He's not really anybody, because he never goes out and finds himself or gets attached to anyone but Louis. Without Louis as his guide he's literally just sitting on a couch picking lint! That's the thing.

He orbits constantly around what would make Louis happy, and never really fully going what would make me happy? Ultimately that drive to please Louis is what drives him to torturing Daniel, not so much that he'd care to just do it. Ultimately, not giving proper care to Louis is just a way to make sure Louis knows he has to orbit around him as well, with shoving Lestat onto him just that other nail on the coffin. So, even if he fails to figure out how to make Louis happy with him, he still knows what Armand is good for, and better than.

That dependency is what drives Armand's abuse. It really just comes down to that. Armand doesn't even realize how suffocated he is by his own dependency. This is just how life is to him. (It shouldn't be lost either that dependency is a theme considering this episode also deals with addiction).

Daniel's fascinating because he's just so driven to be somebody. He's largely independent, he seeks things because he wants them. It's his drug to poke and prod at all the things that he shouldn't. Daniel's exciting because he lets Louis in to something different, lets him in to all this potential in another person that he can also do the same with for himself. It's a real connection. A two way street. It's easy to tell how Armand can be smothering then because he's never introducing him to anything really new, and most the ways both of them connect are all painful and traumatic. It's never just fun because there's always that layer of that pain. Fun died with Claudia.

50 years on they've gotten to a lot better place, both of them, but it's still that same shit. No seriously, "How is this any different from last time, Louis?"

Well... Because Armand's going to be, at the very least, making one [1] decision only for himself - and that's to hold power over Daniel's life. Fucking sick foreshadowing.

They aren't driving each other to the brink anymore but "The vampire is bored" STILL. Maybe it's even worse, despite being in better places, because Louis' sort of just been defeated by it. (I mean, can he even really leave this either?). He's accepting the dependancy cause he kind of has to. He'd literally ended up letting all the enjoyment be up where he can't reach [The book shelves]. Armand so desperately wants Louis happiness but what really ends up happening is that Louis ends up having to give Armand all his own. He's got no one or anything else to get it from. But like an iPad and an over the top eating ritual. Two extremes of what's just more lint picking.

This whole relationship is one I find just tragic inside and out. You have to just pity it, really. There's ways in which you can find yourself feeling bad for both of them. But you can only really be mad at Armand for any of it. Armand, who isn't even 'free' in any sense, having so little concept of his own independence, but is at the same time so controlling over other's. It's a tragic cycle. It's an infuriating one.

Louis at least has the mind to know when enough is enough. If just needing that extra push to get there. Armand's too scared of it being over to even try.

[random-autie-fangirl]

Chara: I'm wanting everything to end instantly

Asriel: And I'm wanting to go on unchanging forever

🔥🔥🔥THE BEEF WITH LINEAR TIME SIBLINGS🔥🔥🔥

[eyes-of-nine]

he lived, he served cunt, he got put in a psych ward and probably some other shit but I've been too busy looking at all the domestic fluff to figure out the lore

[sanjarka]

being angry at katniss's mom for abandoning katniss at the end of mockingjay is certainly justified but judging that choice as if it was made from cruelty is not. there are healthier ways to protect katniss from herself sure but she is honestly not there yet. how can she be? what resources does she have to be healthier in a completely broken system? when did she ever have them? and saying that your mental illness explains but doesn't excuse your behavior sound does sound logical but it's not always fair or the reality of the situation.

would you blame a person for dying from a preventable disease if there was no doctor or a medic to heal them? cause that's exactly what happened to katniss mother. twice. you may think of her as selfish and cowardice and she is in a way, considering her actions at the end of mockingjay. but she is not cruel nor abusive. she was not in the right mind to take care of her daughter. she just wasn't. you being a parent, you being a mother doesn't stop you from being a person. it is possible to not be able to take care of your kid even if you want to. that there are things you can't just snap out of. what parents need, even today, is a village, a community and a helping hand. and katniss's mom never had those things.

this doesn't mean that she dealt with everything perfectly and that she couldn't have explained her pain better to katniss. we don't exactly know what happened. what we do know is that she just didn't want to disappoint katniss again. to open that wound for her. and maybe that wouldn't have happen, and maybe katniss wanted her mom any way she could've gotten her. but her mom didn't want to risk it and that was her choice. katniss doesn't have to like it, or forgive it and neither do you. that's not up for debate. yes, i personally don't think their relationship ends here, but, again, that's just my opinion.

what i doubt katniss's mother biggest flaw is, is her inability to come to terms with the amount of trauma she caused katniss. the amount of shame she carries which she lets stop her from trying too hard to gain katniss trust again. she is not a perfect victim but she is one anyway. you find ability to forgive katniss for her misgivings (which largely happen as a result of her lack of self worth) but you won't for her mom? do you think that katniss wouldn't have fallen in the catatonic state she was in after prim's death if she had kids or people to take care of? that she would've fought against it? really? cause while peeta was gone she was willing to let go of everyone else if she knew he was dead. she told us that herself. the point is that that there are illnesses you can't fight against. that you not having control of yourself doesn't mean you don't care about the people you have left. that if you loved them more you wouldn't be sick. it doesn't work like that. and it's truly mean to pretend it does.

but other people loose husbands, hazelle lost her husband and she made it work. she snapped out of it. well is she was able to snap out of it, it means she never had what katniss's mother did in the first place. i'm sure nobody in d12 is in a completely good place mentally but people are different and you don't get to choose if and how you will get sick. and no, katniss's mom couldn't ask for help from friends cause i'm pretty sure she didn't have any. when she lost her husband she lost everything. if there were friends ready to help her then those would've been friends who would've checked up on her but nobody did. if peeta hadn't given katniss that bread they would've died. when katniss said nobody helped she means it. when katniss is surprised that people care about her after she volunteered for prim, the shock comes from a very real place. because nobody helped them! and no she wouldn't have send them in to a group home that katniss states is full of starved abused children.

and actually, she wasn't going to make any decisions because she was catatonic. meaning not present. meaning not in reality. meaning not neglecting her kids but herself first. and if you can not take care of yourself then no, you can not take care of a child. and you never know if that is going to be you. nobody thinks that. until it happens. we need institution that help people when they struggle, not abuse them or take their kids from them. this is something that people don't have even today let alone in a land like panem. whatever is that you feel towards katniss's mom don't judge her for something she literally can not control or think her bad choices come from cruelty and not fear.

[onceinawhilemoon]

sure, sherry. your brother would just let M walk free after he literally checked every single box under Ways to Antagonize Mycroft Holmes by: killing his agents, actively fucking with intelligence and national security operations, being a literal threat to the nation, and committing the cardinal sin of stalking and threatening to hurt an overprotective mama bear’s cub (aka YOU), a crime easily punished by imprisonment, death, or worse (see: otto richter). but sure… 

[thetimelordbatgirl]

Dream throughout that stream with Tubbo really collected the infinity stones of how to handle being accused of various things huh: weaponizing incompitence, trying to change the subject constantly, talking to the person asking them questions in a condescending way, making up more bullshit to add the already long list of bullshit, throwing the blame onto everyone while trying to act like the victim and overall being a manpuliative piece of shit.

[laeana]

I’ll just add this, but after pulling the story of underdogs as “we don’t have the fastest car” that Lando even reinforced recently in an interview, after trying to paint redbull as cheaters (which isn’t the case) to show themselves more legitimate (when the actual cheating was done by McLaren, or I guess “loophole”, but that still led to them having to change all of this rear wings, for those who still don’t know about it), now the discourse of the fia is biased toward Max and helping him! is coming out.

Of course that’s how any team can try to win the support of the public, but don’t come talking about dirty tactics when your team is using it.

[aromanticgarbage]

The whole joji - filthy frank wiki debacle.

[iamthelegman]

Carina DeLuca deserved so much more than Grey’s or Station ever gave her.

[sukibenders]

The way people are becoming anti-children nowadays is really sad. And I'm not talking about people not wanting to have kids of their own, that's fine and something that shouldn't be shamed nor up to someone else to debate. No, I'm talking about the people who adamantly hate these little humans for simply existing, wanting to ban them from spaces due to them having emotional reactions that they are still learning to understand (you know, the kind of lessons that everyone had to learn and figure out at one point). It's gotten to the point where I've even seen these types of people genuinely support children being harmed and deny their hurt under the consensus of "Well then maybe they shouldn't be there," in your average public space. Like, imagine thinking hating on children, people who need assistance and guidance, is something to be proud of.