#I love this topic

[thatsuccessfulpokemontrainer]

Inspired by a discord conversation, thought I'd turn this into a rb game. We all have shows/games/films/songs/books that we relate to heavily to our oc's, to the point that people would understand the characters better if they were familiar with that media.

So, reblog this with your characters required veiwing/reading/listening/playing list! What media inspired your potrayed of them? What media do you associate with them? Why?

[jeniffercheck]

interested in your general thoughts on shiv’s sexuality — when do you think she started dating/sleeping with women, is it something her family would know about, is she honest with herself about it or is it just a “fun thing.” anything you feel like sharing!

under the cut bc this came out really long but tldr. shiv roy is a homosexual

ooooh love this topic. shiv is def bisexual to me, though i genuinely don't see her ever using that label. i think she would've started sleeping with women in college, maybe the first time during a threesome with some fleeting boyfriend & she realized she liked it. that's where i would actually see her pursuing the majority of her early experiences with women since that's kind of a safe place to explore it without anyone being able to make assumptions about her, and also definitely makes her a cool girl among the guys 😭

i 1000% read all of the scenes with her and lisa as having been either romantically or sexually involved (probably both) & i would imagine she had to have at least one homoerotic friendship that kind of sealed the deal for her, but perhaps if i was to read into things with lisa even more, i would guess that shiv knew she could never feasibly be with a woman, so whether it was lisa or not, i def see shiv having at least one relationship with a woman that could've been really great, but she wouldn't let herself have it.

i think after college when all of the soul searching and realizations would've been complete, she would've went back to her original framing and viewed it more as a sexual preference for pleasure, but i do think she would freely pursue sex with women without it needing to include men so like progress i guess??? it's definitely majorly on the downlow but obviously we saw how excited she was to have a threesome with tom & how happy she was to do it only with the girl infront of him so 😭 i don't think she'll deny herself the knowledge that it please her, but i think she DOES ignore the fact that it makes her gay. because shiv roy cannot be gay<3

on that point i think: roman knows (snooped through her aol chat one christmas break), kendall doesn't care enough to question it, connor wouldn't even think to guess, and logan would never even let himself think it. caroline probably figured it out the second shiv came out of her<3

[misswoozi]

Now don't get me wrong, Jeongyeon will forever and always be the dominant one in the relationship, but sometimes she simply wants to lay back and get eaten out for an hour or watch her partners boobs bounce while they fuck her, but if theyre not doing a good enough job she will take charge and force them to do it right 🎮

MAAAAAN. I'M TORN.

YES. I can see her wanting to lay back and get eaten out for an hour.

YES. I can see her wanting to watch her partner's tits bouncing but!! I feel like she likes that best when SHE'S being ridden. (I'm not of the belief that Jeongyeon enjoys using a strap but she would if her partner wanted her to,,, most notably Mina)

But here's where I run into trouble. I can see Jeongyeon as a dom who is willing to sub. Bottoming is tougher. I wrote an AU once in which (soft dom!top) Jeongyeon was drunk and sad and let an older (and slightly more dominant) female partner fuck her with a strap BUT LIKE EVEN AS I WROTE THAT INTO THE AU, I was like "this is very out of character for Miss Jeongyeon!!!"

not all hope is lost though!! because I DO have this concept that Mina (Mina is a recurring theme in my headcanons for Jeongyeon lmao) is really into penetration and, therefore, very into straps and 90% of the time, she wants Jeongyeon to top her. BUT THAT LEAVES 10% OF THE TIME WHERE (usually drunk) DOM!MINA COMES OUT AND SHE WANTS TO FUCK JEONGYEON but even then....... I've never imagined it as with a strap. A toy? sure. but for whatever reason, my brain sees Jeongyeon + bottom + strap = INCOMPATIBLE

[bixels]

me too, luna.

[chimaeraonwards]

John Cusack, the voice actor for Dimitri in Anatasia (1997), shared his statement on Palestine 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸

P.S. He has been a Palestinian supporter for years

[egophiliac]

still ruminating over Lost In the Book With Spooky Skeletons Part 1, so here's a selection of some of my favorite little bits! (...some more loosely paraphrased than others) (I just feel like Idia has no room to criticize in general, okay)

anyway, I'm sure we're just going to have a fun time celebrating Halloween and nothing bad is going to happen whatsoever! :)

[atinymexicanbird]

in which shadow cared !! (again)

[mokeonn]

"But if college was free, then people would abuse that and get useless degrees" hell yeah I would! If I could go to college without debt I would make it my job to get a degree in every little thing that interested me. I'd get a doctorate in film studies. I'd have a bachelor's degree for every science I like. I'd try to learn at least 5 languages with varying results. I would learn something "useful" like coding and then follow it up with a ""useless"" degree like art history. I'd be the world record speed run holder for getting every degree possible.

But I can't afford college without going into massive debt, so instead I spent the last 5 years trying to figure out what I am passionate enough about to consider going into debt over, because unfortunately being passionate about everything is extremely expensive to pursue.

[onenicebugperday]

Trilobite beetle, Platerodrilus ruficollis?, Lycidae

Photographed in Malaysia by nadjabaum

[talesfrommedinastation]

Agreed, and want to add something.

Notice how the member of CF 99 who gets along the best with the non-divergent clones is Hunter.

Sure, homeboy's got a mullet and a face tattoo, and his nose is different. But he's got the same face shape, Dorito build, and coloring, and hell, most clones have different hair and plenty have face tattoos, like Jesse and Fives. Give him a different nose, and Hunter's a reg.

So he shakes hands with Rex, breaks up fights constantly, and works seamlessly with other clones.

But the two who are the most isolated from the other clones? Tech and Crosshair. Who, let's face it, really look different than regs, especially Crosshair, with his underbite, triangle face, and Slim Jim build.

I don't think that's an accident by the eugenics oriented Kaminoans.

Don't want our clones with specialties getting too friendly with the regs, now, do we? Especially the super smart one and the one with a massive kill streak and an unhealthy attachment to his gun. Can't have a rebellion by these super soldiers on our hands, inhibitor chip or no. They might figure out a way to yank that thing out of their skulls, unorthodox mofos that they are.

There’s been some discussion recently about the subplot of bullying in The Bad Batch and I had some thoughts so I decided to write them out to discuss them.

I wanted to bring up some things that maybe can put together this disconnect we seem to see between the show The Bad Batch and the show The Clone Wars and maybe explains a bit about this whole bullied versus bully concept.

To me The Clone Wars paints a very different picture than The Bad Batch in a way that only serves to make the lines blurry and make the viewer think (perhaps not their intention but I think maybe they fell into this more on accident). The Clone Wars batch rolls in with a reputation that’s already not too great. Jesse even says it: it’s not that they win. It’s how they win. The batch is known for dangerous stunts that put other people at risk. They don’t always think through their decisions outside of themselves. Then we get this scene of them walking off of the ship and they are very arrogant. They show off, they talk big, they don’t exactly give off ‘approachable’.

We get into the mission and Jesse, in particular, is not a fan but it isn’t very aggressive yet. Crosshair is being confrontational - staring Jesse down, making snippy comments, and being an overall ass (I love Crosshair, don’t get me wrong, I’m just talking about what I observe in this introduction). I think it’s because he senses Jesse’s dislike of them and wants to poke at it.

We’re not off to a good start.

Where I think the batch fails in this episode is letting Crosshair insult Rex and further goad Jesse. Crosshair shouldn’t have said half the stuff he did and Jesse (and later, Rex) are justified in hitting back at him.

They’re soldiers. They’re going to get in each other’s faces if someone starts talking shit.

When Jesse scolds Crosshair - I think Kix is somewhere standing in the background but not directly involved- Wrecker steps in and turns things violent.

It’s not a moment I’m most proud of them. It’s actually one of the moments I’m least proud of them. Crosshair and Kix get into it when Crosshair shoves him for trying to help Jesse and Rex is attempting to get Wrecker to let Jesse go. This escalated quickly and I’m not sure I can say that this was justified. It seems like a big jump to me (but maybe someone disagrees, feel free to, I’d like to know someone else’s thoughts).

In this episode we’re really led down one path that says the batch and other clones don’t get along and from this limited perspective in this episode it seems like the batch are instigators. They roll in, avoid consequences for themselves, and roll out without giving anyone else a second thought.

The Bad Batch tv show paints an entirely different picture and it is definitely to make them more likable and relatable to a young audience. Every kids show has the character that’s an underdog, it’s who we want to root for. It makes the people in The Bad Batch’s age range connect with them more and I can’t exactly blame them for writing it this way - although after seeing the batch in the clone wars it does make me sigh a bit, I won’t lie.

I was bullied as a child. Quite severely, actually, so I find myself justifying the disconnect with a few things. Perhaps the batch puts up a front so they push other clones away before it can happen to them. I’ve done this. I put on a really abrasive attitude to keep people away when I was in high school and I regret it. However, I got over myself as I got older and worked through my own issues rather than blaming other people. Because you have to. It’s not alright to continue to hurt other people because you were hurt and I remind myself of that every single day. It’s the only way to move forward. I never have to forgive people who have hurt me but I can’t start using it as an excuse.

I mention this only to say that maybe their behavior in The Clone Wars was a mask built from past hurt and that could make sense to me. You build up walls when you’ve been hurt and you create behaviors based on experience. However, I still don’t think their behavior should be excused. I still think they escalated that situation far before anyone else did. In the same way I think Jesse made a lot of snap judgements about the batch and just kept finding ways to reinforce that judgement based on what he’d heard about them prior. And this snap judgment isn’t the best way to go about working with new people. It’s not an excuse, just an explanation.

I even think the batch’s behavior in episode 1 of their own show kind of contradicts some of their behavior in TCW. Particularly Crosshair. Crosshair doesn’t engage in the cafeteria until he absolutely has to while in TCW he is the primary instigator. We can try to explain this by saying it’s because his chip activated and his personality shifted. I just think it’s something worth pointing out.

I’d also like to add that of course the batch are the primary instigators in The Clone Wars because the clones we knew and loved in that show are technically the heroes of the episode. Of course they’re portrayed in a better light. It’s the same as the batch in episode one of their own show. Of course they’re portrayed as the ‘good guys’. It’s their show. To me it’s less of a character moment and more of a way to get the viewers of the show to root for somebody, whoever they want us to root for in the moment. The Bad Batch is told from their perspective so they are going to be the underdogs while The Clone Wars brings the batch in as outsiders to the group and gives them a more aggressive interaction to further our already beloved character’s narratives.

This was a very long way to say, I’ve always been kinda meh about the whole ‘the batch is bullied’ subplot and I tend to avoid writing it in my own fics because I think there is inconsistency with the writing between the clone wars and the bad batch and this can possibly be boiled down to a few things like different writers on the creative teams, an uncertain future, and wanting to paint certain characters in certain lights because of the show they are on. Rather than actually being a truly defining character arc it is a tool, as most writing is, it’s just not a tool I particularly care for in this story. And while I do think there are inconsistencies I can piece together some things to explain it if I really want to. I don’t think one side is right and one side is wrong. I think there are a million explanations for hurt on both sides and we decide it for ourselves because neither show truly made it clear enough for me to draw any lines in the sand. (And if you’ve been reading my stories at all you know I love a good grey area so I probably wouldn’t draw lines at all.)

I always try to be fair to everyone when I write stuff like this so I hope I’ve covered all of my points well enough. There are plenty of things to say about this topic and it has been talked about a few times recently in other posts that you can read. Tagging 1 by @laughhardrunfastbekindsblog and 2 by @gars-technician because these two posts inspired me to write this.

I’d definitely encourage open discussion here if anyone wants to chime in 😊 while I know we might all have different opinions I’m certainly willing to hear them as long as everyone is respectful.

[kendyroy]

they should release the scene where wade undresses logan

please let’s have a full discussion on this…

where do you all think wade ripped off those clothes to get to logan’s jammies? where’d he get the gloves? does logan remember any of this? how many layers was logan wearing?

[welcometogrouchland]

[ID in ALT] I've made posts before about Talia/Dick co-parenting Damian moments (will never happen but let me dream) and this came to me in a vision. Took me ages to finish for some reason 😭 and then even longer to post

[rice-enjoyer]

[tacccalb]

the worlds normalest man and the worlds crabbyest barista

♡

[livethrushit]

the notes in the comments were talking about how justin is bratty, and sexual connotations aside, this dynamic is a huge reason why they work so well together. almost everyone in brian's life indulges his 'too cool for school unbothered my way or the highway asshole' demeanor. they see him as someone who is unmovable unless he is shamed into having A Feeling.

we see this a lot with michael & ted who put brian on this larger than life pedestal. justin though? he does not give a shit lmao. where most people will go up against brian's facade and respond like >:(! justin will see the same thing and be like >:)! and i think that means a lot to brian. justin pushes the right buttons to break his facade in a way that allows brian to look and feel goofy. he has fun!! he's not seen as this big bad cool dude all the time, he gets to be taken down a few notches in a way that makes him feel accepted, not reprimanded. i dont think brian ever allowed that for himself bc no one else did. justin sees past it right away and brings out his lighthearted side without trying.

michael might be portrayed as someone who knows brian best due to longevity & bc brian breaks down in front of him. he gets emotional. justin sees these vulnerabilities too, but he also sees brian as a person who enjoys playful interpersonal interactions. he has no problem giving that to him. he sees brian the most wholly. and this is precisely bc of his bratty demeanor, which sexually is a microcosm of their overall relationship.

tldr brian & justin have a ridiculously playful relationship and that is very important to brian.

we don't talk about that brian x justin spanking scene enough as a society

[ducktracy]

there are a lot of evil people in the world and a lot of darkness in the world and so it’s very important for me to stress that now more than ever is the time to spread kindness and compassion. combat the evil by not only not partaking in it, but actively refuting it. destroy the notion that being compassionate or generous or kind to someone is uncool or embarrassing or even scary. be the change you want to see. start a chain reaction. positivity only breeds more positivity. do an act of kindness for someone so that that person who is too afraid to do it themselves can see you, realize that they’re not alone, and perhaps sheepishly follow your example. and then the next person who is too afraid but sees that person can do the same. when bad news comes out about bad people or horrible atrocities in the world it’s such an easy impulse to despair, and obviously it’s important to feel what you need to feel. grieve. be angry. be sorrowful. be empathetic. but dust off your pants and get up and be a part of a chain reaction that, no matter how small the scale, and spread compassion and love and care. all the reasons why you might not—“it’s hard! it’s scary! people will make fun of me! it’s useless because there’s too much evil!” are all grade A arguments as to why you should. you have no idea how many people you could inspire to do the same. even if it doesn’t get you anyway far, you can at least say you have the nobility of trying. please choose love and please choose life. you are worth loving and you are worth inspiring others to love