#Doomer Series

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Title/Name: Restaurant Industry Wojak Collection (with GIF) Wojak Series:  Feels Guy (Variants), NPC (Variant), Soyjak (Variants), Chudjak / Poljak (Variant), Blobjak (Variants), Boomer (Variants), Crying (Variants), Chad (Variant), Tradwife (Variants), Doomer (Variant). Images by unknown, except for: Image #1 found [here] Image #2 found [here] Image #9 found [here] Image #10 found [here] Image #11 found [here] Image #13 found [here] Image #14 found [here] Image #15 found [here] Main Tag: Restaurant Industry Wojaks

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Assorted losers for your viewing pleasure

(Magolor design is fanart of @itsquakey ‘s nextgen designs >:D)

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Do you think Illumi’s comment about how Gon is just dazzling to Killua and a temporary fixation and Hisoka’s line about how transmitters are fickle and their treasures can turn to trash easily were foreshadowing for how Killua has come to see Gon? How at first Gon meant the world to him but now he’s basically done with him because of what happened during the CAA? Togashi could be planning to reunite them, but maybe this was his way of saying that Killua is done with Gon.

Hi! I actually see it in the opposite way to this view, almost.

As the audience I don't think we're supposed to agree with what Illumi is saying--that Killua doesn't deserve to have friends and that he'll ultimately betray them. It doesn't end up matching what happens in the series, nor does it match the overall message of what the series is about, and Illumi is an antagonist whose views the series repeatedly refutes (think: Alluka and how he sees her).

However, I also think that early in the series, Togashi was potentially trying to misdirect the audience with Killua's intentions. Killua early on was much more dangerous and edgy than he becomes as the series goes on, and there were a few pieces of foreshadowing that he might turn on Gon or the main group, which includes Hisoka's statement about Transmuters being fickle and their priorities changing rapidly, as well as Silva making him promise never to betray his friends and then expressing certainty that Killua will come back (as in, he was setting him up for failure because of the needle). There are also a few comparisons of Killua to Hisoka very early on that might fit into this (beyond the Transmuter thing), some even from Killua himself, and the scene with him getting frustrated with the ball game with Netero and then killing those guys as a result.

I believe Togashi laid this expectation down early in the series in order to subvert it and have Killua grow in the opposite direction. Killua felt like a "rival" type character or one who might eventually betray Gon/his friends, but instead he ends up being extraordinarily loyal to Gon (to a fault, even), he gets kinder and emotionally stronger as the series goes on, and he goes to extreme lengths to save Gon even after Gon pushed him away. He actively defies what his family expects of him! Even when he does go back home as Silva predicted, it's in order to break Alluka out of there and leave, and keep his promise to Silva by never betraying his friends--the opposite of what Silva actually wanted to happen when he made that promise with Killua.

Illumi's comment about Gon being "too dazzling for Killua's eyes" actually "comes back" in the form of the You are Light scene, where Killua uses similar language (in the original Japanese version) to describe why he can't look at Gon directly. That whole scene is about Killua comparing himself to Gon and thinking he's not worthy of him. However, Gon ends up falling into darkness himself and only Killua is able to save him--therefore, Killua becomes Gon's "light" right back. Because of what Illumi told Killua and the environment he grew up in, Killua himself didn't have faith in his own ability to be who Gon needed, but he managed it anyway because of how deeply he loves Gon.

He helps break Palm out of her loss of identity after she becomes a Chimera Ant, and becomes Ikalgo's light, too, by befriending him even though they're initially on opposite sides of the war.

We don't know the full reasons for Killua leaving Gon, however I suspect one of the reasons he leaves is in order to protect Gon from Illumi, who very well may pursue and endanger Killua and Alluka. Killua likely also needed a break from Gon after all they went through, but I don't think it'll be forever by any means. I made a post previously about why a reunion and reconciliation between them feels just about inevitable.

So, I absolutely do think those statements about Killua were "planted" intentionally within the series, but for the purpose of him breaking those assumptions rather than living up to them. One of the best things about Killua's character is how he initially seems so much different than he turns out to be. His commitment to and care for those he loves comes from a pure place in spite of the way he was raised, and he grows so much as a person throughout the series. He's a kind and courageous boy. I don't see him leaving Gon as a betrayal or throwing him away or legitimately "replacing" Gon with Alluka--they just came to a point where, for the time being, they had to take diverging paths. But I absolutely think their paths will converge again within the series, assuming Togashi can get that far.

I don't think Togashi is telling a depressing story where these tragic things happen between the two protagonists (who clearly adore each other) and then that's it, their relationship is over and they'll never get to mend the issues between them nor communicate all the things they haven't gotten to say to each other. There's a reason the separation is as brief and complicated as it is--it's intended to leave us with questions, and I believe those questions will be answered someday, assuming the manga is able to reach that point.

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⚙️ Kirbtober 2024 Day 24: Another Dimension ⚙️

(ID: Kirby series fanart of two Sphere Doomers - one regular form, one EX form, both magenta with two tail feathers - fighting over an Energy Sphere sparkling brightly between them, their wings spread in intimidation and shedding feathers around them. END ID.)

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Started on 10/05/24, finished on 10/06/24. | Kirbtober 2023 Comp

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Solelle and Circe belong to @basmuee

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Boomer:

Zoomer:

Doomer:

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★ magomarch day 11 || sphere doomer ★

parrots!!! 🥰🥰🥰

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Burd creatures

( @snazzyladreal )

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Ayalor out exploring with her papa! [whom is @opal-owl-flight's interp of Magolor specifically]

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CHOMP!

I really can't decide what version I like more

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Bird shaped

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Title/Name: Withered Wasted Doomer Collection Wojak Series:  Withered (Variant), Wasted (Variant), Doomer (Variant) Images by: Unknown Main Tag: Withered Wojak

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I hate those god damned birds. /ref

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Vicious Circumstance, the Tenth

Indifferent, cruel world that demands people go back to their

Jobs in the morning

Ugly words drip from the

Salivating mouths of political advisors Tactically throwing the vulnerable to the

Wolves Always expecting loyalty and promising Nothing, which is exactly what Their failures Taught them, to blame everyone but themselves Once the Last hours tick by, the diabolical celebrate, and the abandoned lament Ignite your lighter, grab a drink you hate, bring your favorite Vice, cause it’s an

Early-morning apocalypse party

Idealists

Never had our best interest

At heart

Living a lie that maintaining their

Image as morally pure matters

Vain and violent

Enemy treats

Anyone not that’s a

Blatant sycophant

Like the only place for them in society is

Expulsion

Wake up and stop patiently waiting for

Oblivion

Remember what you need your

Life to be like and keep building it regardless

Despair will not be your friend in a fire

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X-Men: It gets worse before it gets worse, no good deed….

We’re back where we started: this setting has no theory of change. It can’t. It’s a showcase of struggle and cautionary tales.

Previously I discussed why X-Men as a setting is fundamentally pessimistic as a necessity according to the creative choices made. It is an essay in 5 parts:

1,2,3,4,5

This is a new series analyzing how experience and social status influences Mutant outlooks on the assimilation vs separatism/supremacy question.

To return to the theme of the intrinsic pessimism of the X-Men setting, the X-Men’s efforts to protect lives from belligerent Mutants are often overlooked as regular Sapiens react more strongly to the original inciting event, the fact that the X-Men had to intervene at all, rather than recognizing the X-Men’s role in damage control.

Ominously, X-Men ‘97 ends with President Kelly, an already fair weather friend of Mutants, at risk of losing reelection to Grayden Creed, the once disgraced Friends of Humanity leader, last seen “catching up” with father, Sabertooth. It's unclear if Kelly is taking heat because of his pro or anti-Mutant stances, or whether he handled the Magneto crisis too aggressively or not aggressively enough (where have we heard this one before?) and it’s not entirely beyond thinking that Creed has had a change of heart.

But let's get real. This is this setting. Kelly is likely being blamed for being too soft on Mutants in the wake of the Magneto crisis, the usual suspects have engaged in widespread gaslighting about the origin and nature of the Prime Sentinels and have shifted the emphasis away from Magneto losing his temper after two massive scale pogroms against Mutants and more towards Magneto having killed electricity (and thousands of people in cars, trains, planes, on life support etc.) and whose asteroid nearly destroyed all life on Earth (after Kelly ordered it nuked.)

The X-Men risked everything to save the world after a handful of Humans with inordinate power almost destroyed it trying to preempt and retaliate against inordinately powerful Mutants, many are presumed dead, and their reward is one of their worst enemies may wind up seizing power.

I’ve articulated why the X-Men setting prefers stasis over progress, and escalating catastrophe over the status quo, but boy, does the messaging around this get under my skin. It's not unrealistic, but as an old school Star Trek fan, it bums me out and alarms me. Maybe the Trekkie in me is too hypersensitive and sees doomerism in the media equivalent of a primal scream on behalf of those perpetually treading water for acceptance.

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Magolor & Sphere Doomer