#-> being a FUCKING COWARD about EVERYTHING

[idolomantises]

If you could change some things about Arcane's writing what would they be? Oh and do you consider Vi a butch woman bc I also see alot of differing opinions on that. I'll understand if you don't want to answer tho

Vi isn’t butch, though she’s more masculine presenting. That said I think these kind of debates are silly.

In terms of changes to arcane’s writing

-just fucking scrap Mel and Sky as love interests for Viktor and Jayce. I don’t even know why they even bothered doing that if they were just going to go “oh by the way neither of them have romantic feelings for them” at the last minute

-Caitlyn should have been the main villain, not Ambessa. I love Ambessa but she does not work as a main antagonist because she has no connection to this location other than wanting power. But Caitlyn had a gradual and believable villain downfall. You believed she truly was doing things for the greater good and it made more sense than Ambessa blindly trusting some guy just because he promised to supply her weapons.

-Vi and Caitlyn didn’t need to be a couple and just… remove that sex scene

-don’t bring Vander back

-Don’t???? Have Jinx fake her death and run away? I really despise how they basically pulled the “reformed villain dies at the last minute” card with her character. I can’t see Jinx entirely being good but her just abandoning everyone and everything really sucks. Especially since Jinx was like “I should die to break the cycle” and Ekko was like “omg no don’t do that” and then she just… fakes her death. I feel like they just reaffirmed her belief that her death would be for the better

-remove Isha

-remove that damn witch subplot

-the “teaming up to defeat the bad guy” angle did not work here and I honestly felt kind of sick watching a bunch of abused and oppressed people put on cop gear to help a city clean up their own messes

As I’m typing this I realize like. This entire season just needs a do-over. There’s not a single decision they made that I like… except Singed winning I honestly love how him being a two faced coward paid off.

[anosrepasi]

So after thinking about it a bit, I think Zara's project on Lucanis failed because she made one huge critical error.

She chose the wrong Dellamorte.

Lucanis was supposed to become an Envy demon. Which. Makes a lot of sense, especially for DAI players who did the Champions of the Just mission and dealt with an Envy demon in that game. Those things are scary and have the potential to do a lot of damage when used strategically.

Now comes the biggest issue... Zara was never going to get a Envy demon from Lucanis. Despair? Pride? Rage? Yeah, he could have become one of those. The rage one in particular I think would have been a real problem, he hides it really really well but Lucanis is hella spiteful in general and lets rage direct him, especially when it comes to the quest with Zara.

Meanwhile, all she has to go off of what Lucanis is like is what Illario tells her and what she can piece together about Lucanis based on Illario himself. And Illario is incredibly envious. Zara probably saw that and assumed that Lucanis would be similar, that the two cousins probably were mutually antagonistic to each other and coveted the others position—Lucanis as the favorite, and Illario as the spare who could do pretty much whatever he wanted.

So Zara does the logical thing and thinks, this is an opportunity to create a demon of exceptional caliber. That's why she bothers to gloat over Lucanis so often, and make a point of letting him know that everyone thinks he's dead.

She's expecting him to get angry over it, to turn the blame on his cousin and the Crows for abandoning him, to start resenting them moving forward with their lives while he's in a prison getting tortured and rotting away despite him being the supposed favorite grandson.

The flaw in this, all of this, is that Lucanis loves his family and wouldn't think to blame them.

Illario though? If the roles were reversed? Illario would become an Envy demon so fucking fast.

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Also sidenote pondering, but I think Zara would find it really interesting that there is a moment in the game where Lucanis is on the edge of actually becoming a demon if the Devs weren't cowards and wrote the game with some stakes in line with the previous games:

When it's revealed that Illario was the one who betrayed Lucanis the whole time via Zara corpse whispering, and Lucanis responds to the question about what he's going to do about Illario? "I'm going to take everything from him."

We've had rage and pride demons before, and Zara is noted in her codex on demons to talk about wanting the prison to plumb the depths of emotions that demons could be made from. We haven't had a Wrath or Retribution demon before if I'm not mistaken and yeah. Lucanis would have made on hell of a difficult Wrath demon to deal with.

[stuck-in-the-ghost-zone]

the ONLY reason i have not written a william wisp fic yet is because he activates such a specific emotion within me that i cannot accurately put into words without exposing all of my own mental health issues

[sulky-cabbage]

I miss ep 1 Sukuna my crazy wife

[shannonsketches]

like why did they change where Vegeta was when Cell announced the cell games in the anime

why did they make this vegeta starting shit with yamcha instead of chillin in the lab with his family? why did they take Bulma out of the lab? Why'd they say she was Out while Dr Brief was repairing 16? Why did they change Bulma working on advanced robotics to running in late with her baby?

it's the same scene except: - Bulma's actively at work being a scientist - Vegeta's not being rude to her (or anyone else!) - Vegeta waits for Trunks instead of leaving the room - Cell interrupted the airwaves, which means Trunks and Vegeta were just hanging out with Bulma and Dr B while they were working

Those are all Great Character Details!! That the anime rails against!!

[best-enemies]

I've reached season 5 on my CSI rewatch and I'm a few episodes past "Swap Meet", where a woman is murdered after attending a swing party with other couples from the neighbourhood. Near the end of the episode there's a moment that made me jump from my seat:

(Grissom walks up to Sara and takes the seat next to her. He's holding two cups. He hands her a cup of tea.)

[INT. POLICE DEPARTMENT - BRASS' OFFICE]

Erin Brady: Everybody fantasizes about other people. (She glances at Grissom.)

Even you, Mr. Grissom. A neighbor, a friend ... girl at the office.

[INT. POLICE DEPARTMENT - HALLWAY]

(The door opens. Paul Brady walks out of the hallway. Erin Brady walks out into the hallway. Sara is sitting in the hallway chair watching them. She watches as they meet and kiss.)

(Grissom walks up to Sara and takes the seat next to her. He's holding two culps. He hands her a cup of tea.)

LIKE!!!!!!!

Right after Erin ends her sentence with 'girl at the office', the first time Sara and Grissom meet again, he brings her tea. This might be an innocent interaction but to me it seemed like a nod to this relationship they have where both are into each other, know about the other's feelings, but can't/won't do anything about it (although Sara has kind of given Grissom an ultimatum). I don't know if it was intentional - I'm guessing it is, because I picked it up immediately. I might or might not have squealed in delight.

[butnotbubblegum]

using the tags to vent my current emotional state into the void bc ig story feels like a bad plan for this, read at your own risk.

[theonpilled]

it's just one of those days

[frankensteinmutual]

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[snekdood]

Hey so uh.

I dont think voting is the only solution. Nor will it necessarily get us what we want immediately. And i think protest is more important and more effective.

However.

Conservatives. Would. Not. Be. Trying. To. Make. Voting. Impossible. And. Taking away. Actual voting places from marginalized areas. .

If it meant ABSOLUTELY nothing.

Hope that helps.

✌️

[lesboylycan]

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[thecherrygod]

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[lucyvaleheart]

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[mars-ipan]

currently thinking abt the despair disease and the character analysis potential it brings

[cantdanceflynn]

OBVIOUS NOTE OF "GUYS I HAVE THE MEDIA LITERACY NEEDED TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IS AND ISNT A PIECE OF MEDIA ADVOCATING FOR A BAD THING AND I KNOW WHAT BAD WRITING AND PACING IS" BUT LIKE. *JAZZ HANDS* THIS IS GONNA BE ON MY OWN TIME AND SHIT N READ THE REST OF THE POST AND BLOCK ME IF NEED BE BUT IM GONNA BE AT SOME POINT WATCHING THE H*LLAVERSE AND D*MP(CENSORED TO LEAVE THIS OUT OF SEARCHES SORRY)

ALSO IM MAKING THIS CLEAR BC IK IVE BEEN VAGUE ABOUT IT BEFORE AND I DONT WANT ANY EXTRA HARASSMENT OR FOR ANYONE UNCOMFORTABLE WITH IT TO TAKE ISSUES. UH BC IVE BEEN ON THE FENCE BOUT IT IM JUST MAKING THE CHOICE NOW. NO MORE DOUBLE GUESSING STUFF I WANT TO WATCH FEHFBSFBSSFB IF ITS BAD ITS BAD AND ILL PIRATE IT ANYWAYS AND IF IT DOESNT DESERVE ANY ATTENTION IT SURE AS HELL WONT GET IT FROM ME BUT I FIGURE THIS IS JUST. A BETTER CHOICE FOR ME TO STOP GUILTING MYSELF WHICH HAS JUST BEEN A HORRIBLE THING WHENEVER I SEE ANYTHING I WANT TO AT LEAST CHECK OUT AND IM SICK AND TIRED OF PUTTING SOME PEOPLE IVE TALKED TO TWICE OVER MY OWN HEALTH IN THE WEIRD ASS GUILT TRAUMA SPIRALS I KEEP FORCING MYSELF INTO

SO THIS IS PROBABLY THE ONLY POST ON THIS TOPIC IM MAKING BC IVE BEEN SO BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN "MAN THIS IS GREAT FOR ME" AND "OH GOD THE TRAUMA" LOL

BASICALLY THIS HAS BEEN A LONG TIME COMING AND MAYBE THISLL BE LIKE THE HORROR THING WHERE I RLY LIKE IT AND I TRY TO HOLD BACK BOUT IT BUT END UP OBSESSED BUT MORE LIKELY THAN NOT THIS IS JUST GONNA BE A HEADSUP FOR ANYONE UNCOMFORTABLE W LIKE THE TWO BIGGEST TARGETS FOR "IRREDEEMABLE MEDIA" BC ITS LIKE. VERY FAIR TO BE UNCOMFORTABLE W EM AND I DONT BLAME U AT ALL SO I WANT TO MAKE SURE UR WARNED

REPETITIVE POST IK AND IF YOU ARE LIKE. MY FRIEND FRIEND AND YOU DONT WANT ME TO LET ME KNOW AND IF I RB ANYTHING IT WILL BE TAGGED AND EVERY SINGLE DISCLAIMER I JUST. WANT TO MAKE SURE PEOPLE KNOW AND IM CLEAR ABOUT THIS FOR EVERYONES SAFETY, EVEN IF ITS SOMETHING SMALL LIKE THIS. MY APOLOGIES AGAIN, SERIOUSLY IF YOU ARE LIKE. A FRIEND FRIEND I WILL TAKE UR OPINION ON THIS DW

[mekatrio]

no cuz im not fucking crazy how do you read this and not lose ur fucking mindddd. like this is coming from seto, seto who has been characterized and shown to love all types of animals from cats dogs birds and deers and look into their minds and chat w them is talking for the first time about how he Dislikes an animal like that should already be 🚨🚨🚨🚨 alarms going off. and then a few passages later there you go the reason why seto, animal lover extraordinaire, cant stand cicadas is bc they remind him of his family and friends, CUZ THEYRE BOTH GONNA DIE IN THE SUMMER.....BWBHJEBFHJ