#Did any of this make sense

[yawningawning]

i think its way more interesting to think clown doesn't tell tabi everything and all she knew when going to the sword civ was a) the eternal sword is on the diamond level, b) need to team up with another sword to get there and c) there's a sword with the respawn power. and like thaaat's it and she didn't know about evbo at all and didn't spare him because she knew who he was because i do think tabi is like evbo in how she's sick of living in a world where she constantly has to shed blood to live but the difference between them is tabi's made peace with that fact and goes on anyway and tries to the least harm she can so if she doesn't need to kill to move forward then she won't but if she absolutely has to, she will.

anyways yeah, i don't think tabi knows what clown's whole plan is. maybe he told her some vague idea or straight up lie on what they're gonna do with the eternal weapons when they all get it because after the princezam fight, they're just gonna have all of them now except unless there's an eternal shield that's either needed to go forward with whatever they're gonna do or be used to counter whatever they're gonna do. either way, i just don't think tabi knows the full picture and clown's purposefully withheld that from her. meanwhile, i think tabi reports to clown a la soldier to soldier or something, they both presumably have the same mission and goal so she shares all the info she knows to be useful to the goal but she doesn't tell him everything-everything, a "my feelings are irrelevant to the mission" kinda gal, she's a little emotionally repressed dw about it <3 i just knowwww she didn't tell clown how she killed evbo with her axe last minute instead of the eternal weapon but clown definetely knows she spared him anyway.

because again, i think tabi despite living in a world where she has to kill to live, wants to do the least harm possible. compared to clown, i don't even think tabi likes fighting. to her, fighting is just the same as breathing, she has to do it to live and well, she's gonna live meanwhile clowns a little freak who likes fighting, who wants this dog eat dog world where only those with the will and strength to survive get to live and all that. i feel that she definetely thought she had to kill evbo for good since she sees swords as a threat to their existence and evbo is basically an immortal because she immediately assumed clown killed evbo when he saw him either because she told him about evbo and his respawn power and she thinks he likely sees that as a threat or she knows clowns kind of a freak that just kills to snuff out the weak, something like that.

anywho, either clown thinks tabi's way of action and having that common 'i just wanna live' mindset wouldn't exactly help his endgoals or something if she knew the full picture and he liklely thinks there's a good chance tabi won't agree with him, something like that and i think clown just thinks tabi is interesting to study or something. i sure do.

[screechingfromthevoid]

The wilderness baby haunts Callie like Gabe haunts Natalie from next to normal. But at least Natalie has the privilege of knowing why her mother is like that. Callie is so desperate to connect to her mother in some way and she can't understand why Shauna keeps her at a distance.

It's only after she finds out about her brother that she finally starts to understand her mother in a way that helps her understand herself a bit. They bond over blood and guts and Callie finally gets to feel that closeness with her mother by reaching into something she was trying to hide for too long.

Shaunas worried about Lottie corrupting Callie but she doesn't understand that moment of bonding she had with her daughter did more than a heart shaped gold necklace could ever do

[scuorge10]

Seeing Eurymachus being the mastermind of the group and Antinous being the dumb one in the Odyssey Mini series and then Antinous being the mastermind and Eurymachus being some random dude in EPIC is like whiplash 💀

[goshdangronpa]

Does tsumioda fit under traditional sun/moon dynamic? Or do they fit under an unconventional way?

Welcome, anon! Thanks for asking about my favorite ship, it's always a pleasure. I reckon that tsumioda only seems to fit that dynamic. What I love about Danganronpa characters is that they rarely fit so neatly into such a simplistic framework!

Consider Ibuki. Always excited, often peppy, likes to cheer people up. If anyone's the sun, it's our neon-haired rock star! But if you take out the concert lazers and pyrotechnic displays, you get a lonely girl on a darkened stage - which is, after all, our final image of her. Her death is a feigned suicide, made possible after she's been stripped of her distinctive personality and reduced to a mindless, obedient husk. This seems intentional on the writers' part, but what does it mean? I think it represents a deep-seated loneliness inside Ibuki Mioda, implied in other parts of SDR2. She accepts her weird and quirky self, she won't change for anyone else's sake ... but I think she wishes for someone to accept her, too. The sun can shine on its own. Ibuki is clearly not void of joy, but she still needs to rig her own lighting.

Then there's Mikan. Seemingly the picture of a moon type, down to the deep purple shade of her hair. But moon types are usually gloomy, right? She's anxious, easily driven to tears, frequently miserable ... but "gloomy" doesn't quite fit her. Her hopefulness and eagerness for positive social interactions is an underrated aspect of her. It's sad that she gets so much out of a simple good morning from Hajime, but her smile is still pure and adorable and radiant. Maybe she could be a sun type if certain people would just leave her the heck alone! After all, aren't sun types often nurturing figures? Like nurses? She may not have the most selfless motivations or mindset for her chosen career path, but when disease strikes in Chapter 3, only a literal and magical reversal of her personality can stop her from giving everything to aid her affected friends.

So tsumioda can't really be a sun-moon dynamic. I think it's greater than that. Not to totally dismiss an apparently popular type of ship, but doesn't it seem a bit like a one-way street? The moon reflects the sun's light - wonderful! poetic! - but what does the sun get out of it? The pleasure to shine? Ibuki seems to find fulfillment in helping other people, as we see with Hajime in her FTEs. But who'll help her? Who can show that she can be accepted, even loved, for who she is?

I believe Mikan would. She knows all too well what it's like to not feel loved or accepted. She knows loneliness, and the struggle to hold strong against a world that wants to pin her down. She'd never want to dim Ibuki's light, the way so many others dimmed her own. Anyone could expect Ibuki to be the sun in Mikan's sky, banishing the darkness that's long defined her life. My view of tsumioda has always been that Mikan would see through the artifice of Ibuki's light, then nurture a light great enough to brighten their world.

This dynamic shines both ways. When one is in a moon state, the other will be the sun. Yin and yang. That's love, baby.

.......... But that's all just my opinion, based on my own reading of these two characters!

[slutdge]

Listening to my favorite blues songs from the 1920's and 1930's makes me feel... strange in a way I can't really articulate well. The audio quality is awful by today's standards and these people are all long dead. How these songs would sound in person like the audio quality we have today, being performed by the people who wrote them, is lost to time forever. They'll never be heard the way they were meant to be heard ever again. Adjacent to that are musicians like Henry Sloan who tutored other legendary blues musicians like Charley Patton, there are many accounts of how innovative the music he made was and that he was a pioneer of delta blues music and how much people responded to his music, but he left no known recordings. Theres not even a known photograph of him. It makes me feel a weird brand of sadness.

[amgerhlo]

Thinking about how Fuyuhiko and Byakuya are kind of foils…..how both were raised in wealthy households by powerful fathers, and have some issues with arrogance/status, but the thing that differs is corruption. Byakuya’s Togami Corporation is probably used to keeping dealings on the down low, putting up a veneer of propriety. The Kuzuryu clan also deals in the shadow, but they’re obviously a Yakuza family.

From my understanding, the point of the yakuza being a group is that it’s a trusted network of people that have loyalty to each other. Everyone is expected to support the idea of the collective, the family, and everyone is paid in kind. In a business that’s reversed, you are expected to support the business, but with no guarantee of recompense.

While a crime syndicate sticks together no matter what, a business cuts its losses and does whatever it takes to survive. A syndicate circled the drain because it’s trying to hold onto everything, no matter if people want it or not. A business will suck you dry and has no such qualms about loyalty.

Fuyuhiko holds onto Peko, seeing her as a member of the family, while she cares for him but can’t be her own person because she’s programmed to support the family as a whole, not her own individual wants or interests. Even if she can’t be with Fuyuhiko, she can make sure he’s safe and that he’s near her.

Byakuya seeks others as means to an end. He scoffs at notions of friendship as childish, whereas in a yakuza family those are the most important thing. Byakuya doesn’t have a relationship with any of his siblings, save for Shinobu, and even that is a little unhealthy. When he asks Naegi to work for him, he says that it wouldn’t be a standard job, implying that he values Naegi’s abilities and the only way he can think to spend more time with this random person, this lottery-selected, baffling, ordinary person who has somehow intrigued him, it to try and fit him into what he knows—the system.

Fuyuhiko, after losing Peko in DR2 and suffering grievous bodily injuries, is forced to acknowledge people outside his circle, and becomes sincerely devoted to making things right with them, even going so far as to attempt another grievous injury to show his sincerity. I’d say he considers them part of his inner circle, and his arc is really powerful.

Byakuya’s development is much more subtle. While Fuyuhiko’ sis about trusting those that aren’t immediately in his circle, Byakuya’s is about not needing a circle to live. His corporation is gone, the whole world is gone, so he has to work with the people left — who aren’t really business-types. He goes to Towa City to save the beloved friends and family of his remaining and deceased classmates.

He might not know how to directly make people happy, so he might as well bring the people they love the most to do that for him. He’s figuring it out. Fuyuhiko is definitely the mom friend tho, he will make you LISTEN.

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

[londonhigh-society]

hi, how active is this?

hi! thanks for your question! we have an activity check every seven days, so i find that it works well with muns with kids, full-time jobs, and school. but that also means that not everyday is rapid fire responses. we are busiest in the weekends. right now, we're working on getting more members, as we lost some after the holiday! we do always have a couple of people on the dash! so in summary, if you're looking for a really active, rapid fire replies everyday- this rp may not be what you're looking for. though if you're looking for a more chill vibe, send in an app!

[renewashere]

this reminded me of them

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[noodles-and-tea]

Just some more thoughts on that jayvik dbh au

[tax-ed-ea-taxus]

i've been thinking about Bruce and how he designed his suit. ive never read a DC comic ever but i saw someone post a panel from an issue where bruce melts the gun that killed his parents into a chest plate to protect his heart and thats justice or something On That Note im not sure if this is canon but i know i've read about how when Martha and Thomas got shot Thomas' jaw was shot off and the thought of Bruce using the gun that killed his parents to protect him while he avenges their memory while also leaving his jaw to be the most vulnerable part of his batsuit makes me feel things i cant articulate

[sarcastic-clapping]

LET YOUR DAD DIE: IT'S FINE IT'S FINE IT'S WHAT HE DID TO HIS DAD.

Lestat + Claudia: Patricide & The Cycles of Violence - INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (2022) - Catherine Lacy, "Cut" (2019) / Anne Rice, "The Vampire Lestat" (1985) / Anne Rice, "Interview with the Vampire" (1976)

[milo-is-rambling]

Made myself ramen noodles bc I’ve only had toast really since i got sick but I actually had standing energy today so I made a ramen noodle brick real quick and it’s raining and I’m watching all of the midnight gospel (like starting at first episode and curling into bed to watch the entire show) and I’m smoking a little bit bc my throat hurts but my body hurts more so I’m gonna smoke a little so my muscles will relax

[ninja-knox-ur-sox-off]

Chronic Sonic pt 9

1. the chaos emeralds don’t seem to be wielded that often until sonic get his hands on them and suddenly they’re seeing action every other week when before it would take ages to locate every emerald and bring them together —> Chaos users can sense the emeralds —> the chaos emeralds might be just a little bit sentient —> the emeralds react to Sonic because he’s used them so often that the link between them has widened to the point that its easier to let that energy flow than it is to cut it off. They’re connected now. They’re naturally drawn to him. They like him. He’s the favourite if you will. He’s all about freedom and running and what is chaos but complete freedom? —> its bad for him because after that link widens its like a waterfall nonstop pouring into a bowl that can’t hold it all. Eventually that bowl is gonna break in half or erode away into nothing and be swallowed up in the waterfall.

2. Shadow will go super and walk away just to keep the emeralds out of Sonic’s reach now yes it’s that bad—

[ciderjacks]

despite Laios low self esteem making him think that if he’d been eaten, Chilchuck and Marcille wouldn’t have helped Falin,

theres a small part of me that thinks the reason Chilchuck stayed with the party and went back in the dungeon in the first place was because he didn’t want to leave Laios alone. That Laios was moreso the reason he stayed.

[talesfromthecrypts]

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