#He should hurry up

[through-the-eyes-of-fakino]

Just listen to us on this. It's fine.

"They're right"

"Just calm down, take a breath, because you'll get to psychosis (I know you already)"

Fakie: "Mhm"

Gray: "I probably won't get used to it for a long time"

Fakie: "You are all so kind to us... I haven't felt this for a long time..

Gray, I'm sorry..."

[zoe-oneesama]

So what exactly is stopping Gabe from just saying that Nathalie aided him with his schemes?

Her calling him a liar? Where's his proof? It's his word against hers and HE'S the one who got caught with magical tools that helped him terrorize Paris for almost a year, while she, as far as the public knows, is just another victim of Hawkmoth, having her moment of weakness exploited, and has been nothing but cooperative in the aftermath. She handed over the grimoire, after all~ 🙃

Even if she's looked into, what will they find? If there was footage of her in his lair becoming Jackal or even footage of her returning to hide the Peacock, you think she wouldn't have access to that footage and wouldn't have removed it? She could even make a sentimonster to fake footage of her being akumatized into Catalyst! This is outside the scope of a police investigation.

Honestly, Gabriel can shout until he's purple in the face that she was an accomplice, but as long as she denies it and there's nothing to support that theory, who would believe him?

[pup-pee]

bart having 2 learn how 2 run again would ruin me

[momentomori24]

[This has been sitting in my draft for a while lol]

When it comes to Curly's failings, I always see people bring up his obvious failure to protect Anya and him prioritising Jimmy, who was the rapist in that situation. Which is completely valid btw and we should rake him through the coals for that alone even more. But I also see too many people saying that Curly "didn't enable Jimmy" or playing softball for his actions. And I could maybe see where that comes from if that incident was the only thing we had to point to-- but that wasn't all he did, is it? Curly being indifferent or not taking Jimmy's mistreatment and belittlement of Anya seriously was hinted at so much earlier than that.

Namely, the very first time we play from Curly's point of view. Let's just skip the fact that Curly was putting everyone in danger by not taking his psych evals seriously and simply giving the same answers to pass them even tho he was shown literal minutes after this scene being clearly not-sane, and go straight to the point I actually wanna get into. Which is this:

These scenes in isolation wouldn't be that bad. From his pov, it's played off as comical and it is. Jimmy being a brony (not really lmao) and getting playfully dragged over it is funny. But unfortunately this is the first example out of many for Curly's complacency. Anya is complaining about Jimmy not taking his psych evals or her seriously, which is easy to believe considering how much he rags on her for "not being a good nurse" (she kept Curly alive on hopes and dreams how dare you). So he keeps making her do silly and inappropriate reports she clearly doesn't wanna do, which is kinda shitty (also borders on harassment). But rather than actually saying something about Jimmy's behaviour or even acknowledging how it sucks he says this:

Mate, that's not a good thing 💀 He's clearly aware that the problem is Jimmy's lack of respect for Anya specifically. He knows that if he, his friend and a man in power, were the one doing the evals Jimmy wouldn't try that disrespect. But it's Anya, a meek woman who ranks lower than him so he thinks he can get away with it (which he DOES), and Curly's shown as comfortable in knowing that. He doesn't chew Jimmy out for making Anya uncomfortable nor does he reassure her that he will do something about it. All he does is take it off her hands this once and helps Jimmy power through it to get a good diagnosis (even tho we know he's DEFINITELY not sane either). He doesn't even mention Anya's discomfort or confront him on his inappropriate behaviour, just teases Jimmy in good fun instead because he doesn't think of it as anything serious. It's subtle and pretty minor in comparison to everything else, but I think it's worth pointing out. Especially because this convo takes place after Jimmy had assaulted her, which makes this so much worse.

If you need any more evidence of Curly being an enabler you need not look further than Anya herself. And I'm not just talking about the way he failed her here-- I'm talking about Anya's own view of Curly and the way said view influences her actions.

Just look at her choice of wording. "What would you have done". This is in response to him saying that she could've come to him if she were feeling stressed, which she-- in his eyes-- didn't. The question itself implies that she had no faith in Curly to actually help despite his insistence that he would've, which I think is significant because it shows that she's very much aware of Curly's shortcomings when it comes to her situation AND it's one of the first (or the first time) she actually verbalised her lack of trust towards him or anyone directly. Prior to this scene she had told him about her rape and the rapist, presumably because she trusted him to handle it. And he dismissed her because the rapist was his best friend, and that evidently deeply scarred her. Enough so that she secretly took the gun and hid it someplace else and didn't even tell Curly were that was, because she knows that if Curly has access to it there's a so much greater chance Jimmy will have too, insinuated by the line "the least I can do is make sure he never gets it either". Speaking about the gun:

It sucks so bad that this perception of him isn't even inaccurate nor unjustified. That despite everything Jimmy had done to her and everything he could still do to her, he'd very likely still not allow her access to the gun for protection. Because that's exactly what he didn't do anyway. He didn't attempt to keep her safe from Jimmy, instead he just pretended that nothing was wrong and still let Jimmy's belittlement of her pass. He didn't give her the gun after the incident, because she wouldn't have hid the case if he had. Despite his desperate reassurance that he'd do anything, he did nothing but make it worse for her and she KNOWS that. It's so frustrating knowing he entrusted the axe to Swansea when he needed it but not the gun to Anya when she needed it too. Also this:

The fact that his knee-jerk reaction to her admitting that she's pregnant was "Who would you--" is so fucked, especially considering she's already told him what happened. "Who would you" what? Who would you fuck? Who would you have sex with? That choice of wording drives me up a wall-- SHE wouldn't and didn't do anything or anyone. That was JIMMY. The potential sentence implies that she had any choice or agency in her pregnancy. She didn't. And the fact that Curly had to ask "who" insinuates that he's been putting Jimmy's action out of sight and out of mind the whole time, choosing to not think about them or what happened to Anya at all. And considering he still made her do Jimmy's evaluations despite being able to do them himself and literally didn't even think of making sure she gets psych evals done too--especially AFTER getting sexually assaulted--that might actually be the case (I haven't seen anyone make a stink about that piece of info so I'm going to because what kinda colossal fuck up IS that??).

I vaguely had a post like this in mind but seeing so many people be like "well Anya did some wrong stuff too like leaving Curly alone with Jimmy but you don't get mad at HER for that so why is Curly not doing anything about Jimmy being alone with Anya so different??" actually makes me want to blow some people up. Jimmy's an abuser, sure, but Anya has no real reason to believe that he'd actually harm Curly. From her perspective, they were close, close enough that Curly would not only let Jimmy continuously disrespect her but also get away with assaulting her too. That, and she knows that Jimmy was closer to Curly than anyone and more likely to be civil around him than he ever was to her. She has barely any reasons to suspect Jimmy would harm Curly when they're alone. Curly, on the other hand, has every fucking reason on the planet to think Jimmy would harm her when they're alone. He knows he raped her (likely in her room at night too). He knows that he sexually harasses her. He knows that he doesn't respect her at all. And that was BEFORE the crash. Anya tried insisting on giving Curly his medicine, only for Jimmy to keep aggressively insisting that he'll take care of it despite her protests. Curly didn't try to keep them separate at all even though he was the Captain and had the power to do so. And this should go without saying, but leaving your rapist alone with his best friend that he was close to and enabled/protected him and leaving your friend alone with the woman he raped (and might have repeatedly assaulted given his free access to her) is NOT THE SAME and I'm going to start chucking some people down a waterfall because what the fuck is that argument 💀 Actually leave it to the fandom of the game where the rape of a woman is the catalyst for the events that unfold to use her trauma to defend the guy that enabled it in the first place. Bloody hell.

The reason why this whole Curly discourse pisses me off is because it-- from what I can see-- ONLY brings up his failures 1-0 days before the crash and the Dead Pixel scene (or all the discussion around other points are drowned out by those two). Those scenes, while important to talk about, are not the only things he's done, and focussing on those as the only things is a mistake that comes short of understanding the issue. When it comes to Curly the main defences I see for him are "he was trying not to escalate the situation" and "he was trying to keep things under control the best he can" and "he was waiting for the right time to help Anya", but those don't work when you look at the bigger picture of everything he's done.

He half-assed through his psych eval despite clearly not being sane (and KNOWING he's barely sane, he literally admits it to Jimmy's face). He still continued to task her with Jimmy's psych evals. He brushed over Jimmy's sexual harassment of her as a joke. He didn't think about making sure she got psych evals done herself after being raped. He gave Swansea the axe but didn't give Anya the gun despite it being for "unrest amongst the crew" (whatever the hell THAT means). He let her assault slip his mind that she had to remind him. He's literally a blond man. He took no action to hold Jimmy responsible for anything, and prioritised how his violation of Anya would affect him rather than her. He ignored her demands for him to get rid of Jimmy. He still allowed Jimmy free reign of the ship as co-pilot even after he was openly fantasising about killing everyone and had a major motive and the means to do just that. He was potentially thinking of making her miscarry to cover up what happened. He was so accustomed to her sucking up being disrespected and disturbed that he didn't even notice a difference in her behaviour until she hid the fucking gun. There's so much other shit he's done and hasn't done, and not talking about them or glossing over them makes it so easy for people to argue that he isn't actually an enabler or just minimise the severity of his neglect.

And while I'm already dragging Curly through the mud, I might as well just drag Swansea too. I've seen too many people being like "Anya should've told Swansea instead" and "Swansea was the one that actually took responsibility". Like, y'all realise he's not that much better than Curly, right? He already knew about what happened to Anya-- he admits it to Jimmy's face-- but he didn't do shit. He knew, but he still got completely shitfaced for months despite her earlier protestation to that (for very understandable reasons). He knew, but he still let Jimmy have the axe AND be alone with Anya while having it. He knew, but when Anya locked herself in the Medical and Daisuke and Jimmy asked for his help he didn't budge nor really showed any care. He knew, but the reason he finally decided to do something about Jimmy wasn't Anya, it was Daisuke. Her suffering and her eventual death weren't enough for him to take action either.

This game, on top of everything else, is a great depiction of rape culture. It doesn't just include the rapists, but the people (mostly men) that stay silent, do nothing, make excuses for and protect the perpetrator for whatever reason, and Swansea and Curly (Curly way more so than Swansea) are both active contributors to the environment that allowed for evil to flourish and continue unhindered until it destroyed them all. And while that arguably doesn't make them evil themselves or as bad as Jimmy, they are so much more a part of the bigger problem than the fandom likes to admit.

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[saessenach]

Hi there :) I saw you're doing the kissing prompts, so I'd love to see Jon and Daenerys for '28. A kiss in parting', if you feel like it? 🩷

HIII and thank you for giving me an excuse to draw something that's been on my mind for a w h i l e

here's Jon and Dany for #28 from this list

[quirkle2]

boy he's rly mobbin all over the place

[jasper-unofficial]

more silly shennanigans 🤏

[sunderedstar]

thinking about ssss makes me So mad because it was *so* beautiful, so poignant, so incredible and well thought out and then the creator went off to go make comics about bunnies being oppressed for being christian instead and like. how do you deal with that! loss of the art!

[rjnonymous]

how i think gotham vigilante's signatures would look:

[cementcornfield]

What happened to Matt Eberflus being in the hunt for a DC??

Who do you think is better out the two it seems we're getting?

Patrick Graham or Al Golden? (Unless they surprise us)

Hi Wicked <3 <3

So okay, DC updates were abundant this week!

Eberflus seems to be out of the running. Honestly the tweet that first mentioned him was so oddly worded anyway, I believe it said something like "Matt Eberflus is involved in the Bengals' DC search" and they never specified that he'd be a candidate at all. Of course, everyone jumped to conclusions that he was, but it's looking more and more like he was never even going to be interviewed 🤔 Maybe he was involved as like, a consultant? I think Zac and him have a good relationship from planning that joint practice together last summer.... it also could have been that Eberflus' agent wanted to show that there was interest in him, for leverage with other opportunities potentially? All of those big Insiders are really just mouthpieces for agents at the end of the day 🥲

And yes! Looks like it's narrowed down to between Patrick Graham and Al Golden! Love that we're quickly making progress here!

From what it sounds like, Golden is the front runner, but they're waiting for the national championship to be finished before they finalize everything. (I'm technically a Buckeyes fan just via family but now I do want to see Notre Dame put up a fight defensively for the sake of my Bengals fandom 👀). Honestly though from what I'm seeing, both candidates would be solid choices for us!

Graham was the former Raiders DC, and despite them being a pretty awful team last year, their defense over-performed based on the talent available (Maxx and I think a few other of their better starters got hurt during the year). He's been known to be creative with schemes, and has spent a lot of time with the Patriots under Belichick (which can only help his defensive background!) He's also apparently well respected throughout the league and players love playing for him.

Golden is the current Notre Dame DC and he also was the linebackers coach for the Bengals during their super bowl run in '21. (He did a lot to bring the best out of Logan and Pratt that year apparently!) I don't follow college football at all really, but ND has one of the best defenses at that level and honestly not a lot of Star Freak Players (again I think some of their best talent got injured earlier this year and still they've been playing lights out on defense!)

I think the best thing about both of these candidates is that they've shown they're able to connect with young players and develop them. And the players don't necessarily have to be Stars; they can build the scheme around them to enable them to be at their best. And as great as Lou was at a lot of things, that was a clear weakness of his. We've got ALLLLL this top round defensive talent! Rounds 1-3 in '22, rounds 1-3 in '23, rounds 2-3 in '24! And so little to show for it! I think if you hire either Graham or Golden, you're going to be getting more out of the young guys no matter what and I'm excited about that!

Some more info to read up on them if you're curious!

[sereonhardware]

the ways I draw Freyja and Freyr is so funny like oh yeah that awesome warrior girl and her twink brother

[dracimexidae]

Watched the first 2 episodes and the only conclusion i got so far is that Sophie Okonedo is the real true QUEEN and i would gladly submit to her, she doesn't even have to ask ❤️‍🔥👑🧎

[cruesuffix]

Imagine 14 year old Mick meeting 30 year old Mick....

What do you think he'd say to his younger self?

Me personally I'd tell him to stay away from drugs..

that mf would lay the law on that poor boy lmaoooo like i think he’d have to write a book for his younger self cause that’s how much he fucked up on his way to the top. and then… another part of me would think he wouldn’t say anything cause he’s a sadist who wants himself to suffer before he gets his success (the weird messed up part of him would think that all his suffering built character or something). one thing i do think he’d try to impart on his younger self would probably be to stay in school. he has said he’s like incredibly self conscious about the way he speaks because he thinks he sounds dumb, so that leads me to believe the only advice he would even give his younger self is to stay in school and graduate.

(weird side tangent, but i believe there was a band that worked with someone who worked with queen and told said band that they loved working with them cause they were the uneducated version of queen and like…. that description reminds me so much of the crue. like, they kinda are the uneducated version of queen in a way. ok side tangent over!)

if it were up to me, i’d tell him to only have a family when he was fully ready to… and then i’d assure him his dreams will come true, but he’ll have to wait for it. and i’d make sure to tell him it’s definitely worth the wait.

[microwavepopcorn]

[tojisun]

https://www.tumblr.com/orotundmutt/750575032806277120/fuel-photographed-by-albinohector-with-jlojosh-and

saw this post and instantly thought biker!simon

OH ABSOLUTELY??? WHAT???? I WASNT EXPECTING THAT BUT I YELLED

biker x shibari is something i didnt know i needed and now i cant live without it hhhxhdhhbnn

sends this to biker!simon and see him go, “well. i’m not opposed to getting tied up.”

he comes home to see you watching instructional videos on shibari <33

(it starts with fluffy cuffs, it ends with him hogtied.)

[thecomet-and-themeteor]

@montygatorguy

In which I draw Mercutio and Tybalt within the & Juliet universe based off of a mix of Alpharad's performance of and my school's performance of Romeo & Juliet

I couldn't tell who Mercutio was and who Tybalt was so I just went off of colors I associate them with, I'm sorry if I got them wrong

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