#(in a fodder sense)

[shesmore-shoebill]

in general the amangela closeness and physicality in the entire end segment has me. facedown. on the floor. etc.

[deadmegumi]

Madara is the realest character in naruto because if I could drop meteors on people you would never find me not dropping meteors on people. They'd have 2 call me meteor guy on account of the amount of meteors id be dropping all of the damn time

[bucksboobs]

God at this point I hope Buck fists Tommy in the loft kitchen so y’all stop making this exact post every week.

[sunnysideaeggs]

one of the worst things of the race bend of the velaryons, once again: a black show character getting a worse treatment than their white book counterpart. book rhaena going to the vale as a cherished and welcomed ward, living in comfort and enjoyment. show rhaena? well, she gets some eggs and her stepmother’s kids to take care of. a nanny. a nanny of white children. while she’s a kid herself. i can’t

[bonefall]

ougghhh everyone’s talking so fondly about lionpaw and his new friendships made by the ripwater event but all i can think about is his mention of ashfur’s comment. and how lion probably thinks it’s just a little joke but ash might actually mean it :(

There's this little pearl of a theme hidden in the Ripwater Episode, if you look carefully; abuse acts on people in insidious but subtle ways.

It's Mistystar who's defensive of asking for help or admitting a problem, thinking of what she did to Leopardstar and also repeating cultural sentiment that once victimized her herself.

It's Squirrelflight shouting at her daughter for acting like she used to, because she's spent some years being yelled at in a similar way

It's Hollypaw who isn't allowed to enjoy her achievement of saving Otterpaw's life or lean into how much she has in common with Lakepaw, because she's ashamed of how she did something "wrong" by snooping

And lastly, it's Lionpaw, who's starting to believe the vicious comments that Ashfur says about him. I referenced Willowpelt partially for the sweet little irony of him teaching her recipe to her unknown grandson, Ripplepaw, but ALSO because Ashfur is starting to isolate him.

Willowpelt is the Head of Hunting, currently, a position that Lionblaze is going to succeed her in. I don't think Ashfur is playing 4D chess quite yet, but there's a couple of little motivations knocking around in Ashfur's heart for why he's nasty whenever Lionpaw interacts with her;

Ashfur hates Willowpelt, because of the events from Ferncloud's Parting. He isn't aggressive to her directly, but he does spread rumors and slander whenever possible, happy to remind others of her exile.

Lionpaw getting close to Willowpelt will annoy him. Ashfur both hates and resents his apprentice, but also feels POSSESSIVE of him. He feels like Willowpelt will "steal" what's his.

A simple but hard truth; Ashfur wants Lionpaw to hurt. Maybe Ashfur sees it in his head like "telling the hard truth" or "toughening his apprentice up," but when he makes those malicious little comments, makes him recoil with hurt, it feels righteous.

Maybe in the next draft, it should actually be Ashfur, not Blackclaw, who comes to growl at Lionpaw for bonding with Lakepaw over the spears. Maybe have Willowpelt come in to show them how to properly use one and that's actually what set Ash off. Like he just used xenophobia because it was convenient in that moment.

[tolerateit]

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[trees-of-valinor]

[hey-heigo]

makoto naegi as fresh-faced & hopeful co-leader of future foundation on the outside but grizzled and exhausted adult on the inside. he's still 5'3" and has a babyface but when there's no cameras on him he's smoking cigarettes like that ben affleck photo

[the-girl-with-too-many-ideas]

I've been playing Alan Wake 2, and boy, has it been a trip so far (I don't think I'll ever be over that entire musical segment, lol).

Anyway, while playing, I had a thought. What about a crossover with SVSSS where the reason PIDW ended up as it did was actually due to the interference of the dark presence. It manipulated Airplane in an effort to create its own little world made in such a way that it can be easily invaded. That way, it can essentially use the PIDW-verse as a focal point to invade other small little worlds. Allowing it to slowly and steadily grow strong enough to finally invade the Alan Wake world.

The only reason the SVSSS-verse exists is in an effort to rewrite PIDW to prevent such a thing or, in the worst-case scenario, have another world in between to weaken it or at the very least slow it down. Airplane isn't just trying to survive. He is quite literally trying to save multiple worlds by undoing all the mistakes he made in his writing. The system is an outside entity trying to stop the dark presence. Shen Yuan is brought into the narrative not just by the system but by Airplane as well. His brought in for the sole purpose of being a conduit and catalyst to change the story for the better.

Essentially, Airplane and the system are playing 4D chess with the forces of darkness for the sake of multiple universes, and Shen Yuan is an unfortunate bystander dragged into it to serve as a narrative tool and nothing else.

[mirrorballmika]

I'm reviving this blog because wasn't the henry danger movie meant to revolve around him hunting down drex? even if drex appears in the movie and is secretly behind everything (which I wouldn't put past them), for now the movie seems like such a jump between what was teased and what we're getting.

[moreespressoformydepresso]

I want one of the mentors to realize their family doesn’t make them happy because of the 10th Hunger Games. Their tribute, a complete and total stranger who has every right to hate them for being complicit in what the Capitol is putting them through, makes them feel better than their own flesh and blood.

So they decide they’re not gonna lose that and overthrow society in the name of perserving the one unquestionably good thing that’s happened in their life. Maybe they take down their family in the process, maybe they overtake their family instead. Either way they get to break open the cage door in the zoo and free the tributes who are Very Confused as to what is happening but not complaining in the slightest. Their tribute now has a rich friend to solve all their problems ❤️

[danzainosolitude]

Once again I read fanfiction that seems to have been precisely written to deal psychic damage to me.

[petrichorium]

nyla here asking this from my main account buuuut have you eaten a devil fruit? or did you decide you enjoy not being immediately ko'd by water?

Def not LMFAOOOOO for a few reasons,,,,,, one being realistically I am just not the kinda person who Would (bc I love the ocean yes but more importantly I would Worry Way Too Much LOL I simply do not want to have to worry abt devil fruit issues I fear) but the other being thematically shanks just. Doesn’t have devil fruit users on his main crew so I don’t like breaking that pfft

I do get proficient at using haki tho!!! It’s pretty heavily hinted at imo that the red-haired pirates have insane haki skills (not even counting Shanks who is easily top five in the world at least) so I kinda stumble into the greatest team of haki tutors on the ocean 🫣 I do not. Get anywhere near their level I’m afraid even in the one piece universe I do not see myself being a Good Fighter™ but I can certainly hold my own against the average New World marine and more importantly have good enough observation haki to know how to Avoid most fights LOL. I think they probably gift me a pistol (or maybe two?) and Shanks gets me a dagger in case of emergencies; in general if I’m ever in a fight the strategy is “hold off until someone (probably Beckman) shows up to save my sorry ass” KDNDKSNKDNE which. Typically works out fine they r not the type to run into skirmishes at random 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️ for stuff like that meeting w whitebeard or showing up at marineford I stay on the ship or get dropped off at a nearby island for safety…

[unsiredtribrid]

I feel like they didn't explain enough why Inadu was able to keep getting followers when she literally slaughtered them for no reason. Like the first thing she did when she had a body again was murder her acolytes for no reason so why are they still over here busting their pussies doing work for her I'm crying

[angelfevr]

hmm might write up a carlos zero escape analysis soon bc i dont think ive seen any . like hes not even my fav but like. theres smth to be said re: his morality plus his dynamic with akane + their similarities but thats neither here nor there

[erumai-maadu]

you know, i think tenten will also give them good luck charms for protection like how she gave her tsunade-sama one in sd.

she totally would, with her penchant for fortune telling, she’d handcraft three good luck/protection charms and give them to each of them.

I like to think she gives them to each of her team at different times.

Lee gets his first, after Tenten overhears him telling Gai-sensei about how he has almost lost hope in his dream to beat Neji.

“Perhaps just hard work isn’t enough,” he sobs to Gai-sensei as Tenten walks away, her heart heavy. She hands him a little good-luck charm at training the next day, a carved dragon, quietly telling him that he should never lose hope.

Neji may be a genius, but Lee is a genius of hard work, and she will protect his boundless hope until he achieves his dream. Perhaps it comes from a place of selfishness. After all, Tenten is no genius herself, and Lee’s hope is her hope too.

Or maybe it’s not selfishness, but relatability.

Whatever it is, Lee thanks her with a huge hug and many, many tears. Tenten protests loudly, but deep down, her heart swells.

He always keeps it in the hidden pocket of his jumpsuit, and never forgets to take the charm out before washing it. He shows it off with pride to everyone, much to Tenten's chagrin.

Gai-sensei receives his next, after both Tenten and Lee end up in the hospital after the Chunin Exams.

After Tenten is healed, she finds her sensei standing over a sleeping Lee, tears rolling down his face. He immediately puts on an act when Tenten walks in, but she knows what she saw, and it weighs on her.

The next day, when Gai-sensei pops into her physical therapy to check on her and offer some good old Gai-sensei encouragement (motivational shouting), Tenten pulls him aside. She hands him a small charm she’d made the previous night, a little wood turtle carved with the symbol for luck.

“Don’t worry sensei, the people you care about will always be okay!” She smiles brightly at him as she sets the charm in his hand. “It’s for protection—”

Gai-sensei’s thanks is also in the form of many, many tears and shouted declarations of his sweet lotus flower’s kindness and compassion. Tenten’s response, as usual, is loud and embarrassed protests, and a secret smile muffled in Gai-sensei’s broad shoulder as he hugs her tightly.

Gai keeps his charm in the safest pocket of his jounin vest, going as far as to ask Genma to give him a seal to make sure it never breaks or gets damaged. After all, his lotus gave it to him so he could protect her and her teammates, and he would rather die than let her down.

Neji is the last to receive his charm, after his fight with Naruto in the final round of the Chunin Exams. He sits in the hospital room and tells her about everything, his clan, his uncle apologizing to him, his restored faith in the future.

"I will change my clan," he insists to her. "I will better it, for all of the Hyuuga."

The next morning, through the rubble of a torn-apart and betrayed village, in the wake of the Sandaime Hokage's death, Tenten walks to the Hyuuga compound dressed in her mourning clothes and deposits a small carved phoenix charm in his hand.

"What's this for?" he asks, turning the charm over in his hand and studying it.

"Good fortune, protection." Unlike the rest of Team Gai, Tenten always keeps her stories to herself. For some reason, she finds the words tumbling out of her. "My mother used to make them for me. They were for protection and good luck."

Neji nods. He runs a thumb over the carved bird's wing. "Protecting what?"

"My hopes, my well-being, whatever it was she thought needed to be protected."

Neji finally looks up at her, understanding filtering through his gaze. Tenten turns around, ears burning. "Come on, let's go. They'll kill us if we're late to the funeral."

Neji stows his charm in the pockets of his clothes and jogs after her.

Several years later, when Lee surpasses everyone around him, his taijutsu a shining beacon of his hard work and dedication, he is ever aware of the wooden dragon in his pocket, the way his hope is a reflection of Tenten's. He vows to work harder, to prove to her that she can do it just like him.

He will protect her hope too.

On the battlefield facing down Madara Uchiha, Gai quickly moves the little turtle charm to the pocket over his heart. To protect the village, to protect his precious students, he can do anything.

"Eighth Gate of Death, release!"

As medics work to stabilize Neji in the emergency tents, they find a blood-soaked phoenix charm clutched in his hand.

His full recovery is nothing short of a miracle.