#For Whose Advantage?

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Xentrix - Desperate Remedies

[minniiaa]

i am writing kidnapper law and stockholm syndrome luffy and no one can stop me from somehow making it actually kind of sweet and not the most fucked up thing i've ever written.

[dimension-20-every-introduction]

Everyone Introduced in Dimension 20's Fantasy High: Junior Year episode 20 (finale)

[blackknight-100]

I'm absolutely obsessed with how mythology portrays parent-child relationships, especially when at least one divine party is involved. I've talked about Karna and Arjuna's relationship with their fathers, and how it might tie up to their characters and situations, and the Mahabharata as a whole, but they're not the only ones! Speaking exclusively about father-son dynamics in this post, and we have a lot of them!

You have Yudhisthira, whose father Yama/Dharma shows up in his son's mortal life twice (iirc), gives him a 20 min quiz each time and then tells him that no son, we don't allow dogs in heaven (which, how dare, but we all have that one parent). This is so in line with Yudhisthira's arc, poor man that he is, having to spend his whole life finding answers to questions about righteousness and honour, losing his friends, brothers, wife and children in the process.

Rama-Dasharatha and Ganesha-Shiva are pretty straightforward - there's plenty of mutual love and respect despite the horrors ™️ , but then there is Rama and Luv-Kush. If you're counting the Uttar Kand, then these boys literally saw their mother die because there father could not stop questioning her honour. That has to mess with your head. There's no way it's a happily ever after story.

Another man who interests me greatly is Yayati. Like sir... what were you doing. Who grows old and thinks, "You know what would be great? Me borrowing my son's youth" and then curses them when they refuse? What were you thinking. What were your kids thinking. I need to take your heads apart with a scalpel, this is so incredibly insane. A father should give to his children - the only thing this man "gave" was to spare Puru from his curse.

You have Bhishma and Shantanu, another wild story. I understand that Bhishma chose to give up his birthright to make Shantanu happy, but can you actually tell me Shantanu wasn't at least somewhat interested in the plan? Shantanu is Bhishma's father, it's his job to stop him from doing things like this. I feel like pulling my hair out everytime I think of this. You can tell that Bhishma was afraid for his father's well-being when he made this decision, and that so... unfair.

On the other end of the spectrum are Krishna and Vasudeva, who are wholesome to the point of despair. Vasudeva giving up his everything just to get his boy out of prison?? Waiting years and years for him, but never lamenting or cursing Krishna for not coming fast enough??? That's peak fatherhood (Shantanu take lessons). And Krishna honours that sacrifice!! He comes from idyllic Vrindavan, slays the tormentor of his parents and rips the bars of their prison!!! And that old married couple trapped within those dank, dreary walls, with no one except the other for company, watches their godly son turn up to free them and show them the sky for the first time in more than a decade - the thought of it brings me to tears. Possibly the only part I like about the change from baby!Krishna to adult!Krishna is his reunion with Vasudeva and Devaki!

Oh, and last but not least, our favourite problematic pair: Jamadagni and sons. I'm slightly terrified by how Jamadagni was like "kill your mother for me she's sinful >:(" and when four sons refused, he actually killed them. HIS OWN SONS! Admittedly, in some versions he asks Parashuram to do the killing but like... those are his brothers. Who probably swaddled him and rocked him and fed him and played with him. And all this is presumably happening right in front of Renuka. And then Parashuram has to kill his mother as well, unless he wants to be a heap of ashes.

(In some versions, including the one I've always heard as a child, Parashuram is said to be "aware of" his father's immense power, which just seems to me a really polite way to say that Parashuram knew disobeying his father had consequences ™️ that weren't always right or rational)

Worse, after the killing is done, Jamadagni is so pleased he offers Parashuram a boon, presumably with the remains of the rest of his family still nearby, and when Parashuram asks for his mother and brother to be revived, Jamadagni is all like "ooh actually I got really angry, I think I'm going to renounce rage forever. Dw btw your brothers and mother forgot you killed them you're welcome <3"

Sir??? This is what you got out of the whole issue???? No wonder Parashuram killed a whole bunch of kings, this couldn't have been healthy.

[bestcadaverinthejujutsumorgue]

All the clans are clearly mentally ill, that’s the trade off to being hereditary aristocracy clinging to antiquated power, you get the brain demons. The cursed techniques come with curses. But whereas the Kamo keep their embarrassments locked down tight (curse wombs secured, possessed old patriarchs symbolically folded back into the family tree, illegitimate children assimilated) and the Zen’in have the sort of of simmering rot-in-the-walls, sprawling gothic horror disease that only rears its head once every few generations, I think the Gojo have been having public breakdowns since the Meiji era. It would go a long way to explaining why everyone reacts the way they do to Satoru, and why his family is so invisible in the narrative. Oh, a Gojo having manic episodes, saying unsettling things, making vague grandiose threats, and exhibiting eccentric behavior? A likely thing for him to do.

[youling-the-ghost]

I hate being gullible so much because people often think it's funny to fuck with you just because you'll believe it every time. There's been so many times when people who know I'm gullible would purposefully say incorrect facts or make absurd jokes just to see me believe them and laugh in my face. I get it, it's amusing to see me believe the most asinine statements ever, but please at least try to see how this is incredibly degrading from my perspective. My gullibleness symbolises my trust in you and your words, and it genuinely hurts when you make fun of that. And yes, it is "just a joke" but it's not about the joke itself, it's about what that joke represents.

This especially pisses me off when people point out how gullible I am and it's like, I get it I believe in every absurd statement that you throw at me now please leave me the fuck alone. I'm not a zoo animal for you to jeer at, I'm a human being with thoughts and emotions and all I want is for you to understand that stating increasingly absurd facts just to laugh at me when I believe it is humiliating to me.

[crossbackpoke-check]

yOu'Re gOiNg fOr a LiTeR? | "Habs react to Quebec Maple facts", 10.22.24

[kurooscopy]

imane khelif get behind me

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Xentrix - Running White Faced City Boy

[kingbuffy]

I love that Nero is a total wifeguy, but I wish Kyrie was an actual character. Why is her personality just love interest

[vimbry]

I'm so uncurious about the post editor. I've only ever bothered with settings I need, like sourcing, make unrebloggable, edit text sometimes. and then when adding a source link to a previous post, I Just registered that the date part says "set a publishing date to a time in the past" but thought, there's no way that actually works right. and it does. what the hell lmao. why can you do this. I still don't know what add custom url does. does anyone use that, is it basically the same thing as tagging ?

[fairydust-stuff]

Black Lagoon: Mr Chang, Sing Soo Ling

Balalikia watches coldly as her comrades pummel each of the insolent little brats. Sing sits there near tears protesting. 

“ For someone who claims to care about their men, you certainly didn’t hesitate to drag them into a hopeless situation” Chang said smoking his standard cigar. 

“ What was I supposed to do let Shorter go unavenged?” 

“ See, I don’t think this is about your dead cousin at all. If you were that devoted to vengeance. Then why ally with Ash in the first place?” 

“ It wasn’t Ash’s faul!” 

“ You know There’s nothing I hate more in this world then hypocracy. And you New York criminals seem convinced your shit smells like roses” he pauses  “ Your just a little boy chasing his idol around. Its not about justice or revenge.” 

The brat goes quiet as the truth is thrown so casually in his face. 

“ You gang members are so obsessed with your symbols” Balakilia taunted. “ Your guns and your leaders as these invincible gods” she lets her contempt bleed through. 

“ I was just trying to free Ash!” Sing protested  

“ What did you think would happen if word got out the Lee family couldn’t even control their own gang? Mr Chang asked him 

“ But that guy was destroying Chinatown thanks to him. Citizens couldn’t even walk safely in Daylight!” 

“ I’m sure that had nothing to do with you and Ash turning New York into a war zone,” Balalikia said sarcastically. “ You create chaos and the vultures crawl out to prey on the civilians  in the wake of the destruction… especially in a city already weak from destitution.” 

She pauses 

“ What do you think would happen to Chinatown if The Lee family got wiped out?   If you were luckily you’d get over run by one of the other gangs. If you weren’t it would be as if you and your boys had never existed”  

Sing blanches. 

“ Starting to get it are we?” Mr Chang asked him 

“ Sir please kill me if you must be spare my brother, Sing is still young he wasn’t aware” Lao comes forward and bows. 

“ Noble sentiment but your not my concern, Yut Lung will decided what to do with you” Mr Chang said. 

“ He’s going kill us” one gang member whimpered. 

  Balalikia grabbed the gang member by the throat and slambed him to the ground “  

“ Han!” 

Sing yelled he sprang up  just as Balakilia suspected . She smiled as she kicked him straight back down to the ground and grabbed him by the hair. “ You don’t deserve mercy” she said with a quiet mence 

“ You backstabbed your own leader, and nearly put him in the crosshairs of every twisted pervert in New York! ” she paused  “ If it were me, i’d have you choose which half of your guys die. You’d pick out every name and look them in the eyes, as my comrade's bullets found their  marks” 

Balalikia emphasized watching Sing’s eyes fill with terror. 

“ I think Mrs Balalikia put it best….” Chang smiled….

Yut Lung paused after his proposal  Revy and Shenhua on either side of him. 

Cain Blood looked at him  “ I don’t trust you, So ’m coming with you”  he starts for the limbo with a smirk “  Besides, I never rode in one of these things” 

Revy grinned. 

Yut Lung chuckles and opens the door for Cain “ After you Cain Blood” he replied. 

Cain slides in and reclines on the seats  “ Soft as a baby’s butt” he sighed. 

“Champagne?” Yut Lung asked as the driver offered them two glasses. 

“ You seriously think i’m going to drink something you prepared?” 

“ I think its mere tradition to seal the deal with a private toast” 

Cain sniffs and dips his finger in the glass. “ You’d have a way to mask the taste….better not risk it” he sets his glass down mournfully. 

“ Weak little girly drink, now Rum that’s a real fucking drink!” Revy exclaimed. 

“ I’m more of a cold beer guy” Cain retorts. “ What about you salaryman?” 

“ Anything you find at a bar, social drinking came with the job” Rock exclaimed. 

“ Its true” Revy threw her arm over Rock’s shoulder affectionately  “ This guy did a drinking competition against me once, straight up vodka.” 

Yut Lung nods as the driver starts the car before downing his own glass. 

“ Say how old are you?” Cain Blood asked  “ You look smaller up close” 

“ Does it matter?” 

Cain looked sad for a moment  “ No I suppose it doesn’t” 

Its not that long before they reach their destination. 

Yut Lung has one of his bodyguards remove a case from the trunk. Which he takes. 

Balalikia and Mr Chang greets him. 

“ Hello, Yut Lung you look slightly more sleep-deprived then usual,”  Chang asked  “ I see you brought Cain Blood” 

“I just want to make sure Sing gets freed, like Yut Lung Lee, promised” 

“ He has every right to be skeptical” Yut Lung interjects. 

“ Of course gentlemen this way” Balalikia leads them to Sing and his men’s cell. 

Yut Lung’s breath catches in his throat Sing is covered with purple bruises and  has circles under his eyes he’s paler then usual. His boys don’t look much better black and blue and battered. 

Cain’s eyes widen. 

“ Sing?” Yut Lung asked struggling not to ask how he is or offer ointment. He clears his throat “ Its come to my attention….that I was not fair to you and your gang” he pauses as Rock gives him a nod  “ So please accept this token as an apology” 

Yut Lung brings out the head of Dino Golzine from the steel case, ignoring the way his stomach is starting to turn at the sight of it. 

Several of Sings guys look shocked, A few turn green. 

Lao gapes  “ Is that?” 

“ I know you wanted to do it yourself. But Shorter was one of my men as well. So It wouldn’t be innaprorite for me to make this my gift to you. I’m hoping their won’t be anymore bad blood between us” he said casually. Then he holds open the jail cell door “ Your free to go Cain Blood will make sure you get…..” 

Cain rushes past him and steadies Sing  “ I gotcha, baby” he said. 

“ Cain….I think I fucked up” Sing said softly. 

“Shhh shhh its ok, lets get you out of Alcatraz and cleaned up” the older boy soothed.��

“ Before you take Sing one more thing” Yut Lung walks up to Sing and slaps him across the face. 

Lao rushes forward “ Furiously what are you…..” 

Yut Lung slaps him as well, and goes around and strikes each of Sing’s remaining men across the face.

 “ If any of you ever betray me again, especially in public…..I’ll make each of you dig your own graves…..before you lay in them….understood?” he asked feeling a bit better 

There are nods and voiced yes Sir’s. 

Then Yut Lung watches them all file out before following them….. 

[willowcrowned]

the irony of naomi novik’s books having very little fic on ao3 does not escape me. it does however annoy me a great deal

[autumnmobile12]

I'm sorry, Hector. But you were tricked by a pretty lady vampire twice.

[innanzituttoticalmi]

i'm sorry if you genuinely think bozzi and leclerc "copied the other driver/engineer's strategy" i canttttttt take you seriously

[rzvera]

okay so i needed to cope with the fact that if you have anora and cousland on the fereldan throne alistair says he was exiled in dai so i decided that it was a decision made mostly because of alistair's awareness of the dark path the husband to a ruling monarch walks. like it is bad enough to have a legitimate heir to the throne going around your kingdom but it is even worse if he's aware of all the questionable decisions the prince consort made during the blight. like letting avernus do his blood magic research or making a child with the soul of an old god