#I say with all the affection in my heart

[justahufflepufftoday]

Op… how long was the Riddler tied there?

bernard: this is my theory about red hood being batman's secret love child.

riddler tied to a chair: j-just let me go-

bernard: IM NOT FINISHED!!

edd:

tim:

bernard: and this theory is about nightwing being poison ivy's secret love child-

[mercurymacaroons]

arrives 15 min late with a latte

......sup

[casualavocados]

Why do you always use that to piss me off? ...It makes me happy. We agreed that I'm in charge of the bars. But you come here all the time to watch me. How am I supposed to lead my people? Use your head, okay? Suit yourself. What's the matter? Chen Yi. Chen Yi! [...] Don't make me worry.

Chen Bowen as CHEN YI & Chiang Tien as AI DI KISEKI: DEAR TO ME (2023)

[uncanny-tranny]

Every time you think, "Oh, I don't have [x condition], I'm basically cured!" that is the devil talking. You aren't cured, you are likely going through periods of your symptoms waning. Don't cease whatever you're doing to help yourself, like medication, for instance, because it's likely you still have the conditions or symptoms, even if you aren't noticing them as frequently or severely.

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

SO. TO KICK OFF THE WEEK OF SPECULATION BEFORE THE UPDATE DROPS.

last night i had a bit of a Revelation. literally. i borderline woke up in a cold sweat with this realization. the way i lunged for my laptop to scream at friends... ough. lets get into it

so. i do believe I've made a couple of theory posts about Barnaby not being quite as receptive to his and Wally's "forced" best friendship as Wally - since the show wrote them to be friends instead of it happening naturally. i thought it might be a point of tension for Barn. i thought a lot.

YES SO I'M TOSSING (almost) ALL OF THAT OUT THE WINDOW!

the bios state Barnaby as Wally's best friend multiple times over. it had to be regularly reinforced. their colors were chosen to mark them as friends.

but Barnaby - presumably - can't see the bios, he wouldn't know the scripts. the friendship would be natural from his perspective. how would he know otherwise? even if the relationship started out synthetic, i don't doubt that it became genuine. in the context of their world and perceptions, realistically speaking Barnaby probably wouldn't sense anything wrong.

the reminders to be best friends weren't for Barnaby.

they were for Wally.

i'm starting to suspect that Wally is Barnaby's best friend, but Barnaby isn't Wally's. i think that Wally's "best friend" is Home - or at least Wally has a closer connection to them / Home is more important to Wally than anyone else is.

i remember reading this livestream trivia (from theneighborhoodwatch's doc, if you haven't their resources yet what are you even doing?):

and i assumed it was for Barnaby's side of the relationship. but it's not, is it? it's Wally's? and it makes too much fucking Sense! it fits! i can see it perfectly! i can feel things slotting together in my mind due to this shift in perspective, and i'm scared

Barnaby probably thinks the relationship is natural, just like how he thinks he's a real person in a real world. Wally probably knows that the relationship is a role, just like how he knows he's a puppet in a false reality.

that leaves me wondering how much of it is genuine on Wally's side. i don't doubt that they really are friends, but how deep does that connection go? in the interview, Wally sounded excited/proud about having a best friend, but how much came from a place of feeling, and how much came from a place of Fulfilling The Role? how much of it is performative? how much of it is a mask?

i've been seeing everything differently. Barnaby poses for Wally the most because he has good balance and is good at staying still, not because of favoritism or because he's Wally's best friend. in the 14 (15 including the hidden halloween) audios, Barnaby consistently seeks out Wally and checks in on him. Wally seems more casual about their relationship than Barnaby is.

i'm worried that Wally values Home & You/Us over Barnaby. that Barnaby is second or third place in Wally's heart. that Wally means more to Barnaby than he means to Wally. after all, only one of them needed their relationship to be reinforced on a seemingly regular basis.

i'm confident that Wally cares about / loves Barnaby, but the question is how much? to what extent?

[nonbinaryspy]

Cheren and Roxie are so funny to think about. Imagine if you and the only coworker in your part of the region, who was also young and started around the same time, had basically nothing else in common.

I think that upon first meeting, this punk rock Poison girl takes one look at this Normal type gym leader adjusting his tie, and assumes he's going to be so stuffy and straight-laced. One step into her gym probably blows his ear drums out. Maybe he worries his only colleague won't take her battles seriously due to her more casual, less competitive nature.

Despite all that, I think they'd be friends. They're both personable in their own ways, they both love Pokémon and battles, and they can relate to juggling two jobs. Maybe they meet up at Alder's house to train, and Roxie shows Cheren around that section of Unova.

And then as the BW2 plot kicks off, it becomes clear that Roxie is very responsible, making sure to balance her two careers so nobody is inconvenienced and dragging her dad back to his job as a ship captain. Meanwhile, only a little while after Cheren starts his own two careers, Roxie checks in on him, maybe wanting to give her new buddy some support or offer his students a concert—except he's nowhere to be found.

"He's out on the mainland," she's told. "I think he said something about how it was really cold in this one town? Yeah, it was just for a second. Oh, that's not where he is right now, he's just really upset about it."

And that's when it hits Roxie that the nerd she befriended due to proximity is actually a total weirdo.

[hermanunworthy]

lincoln li wilson is genuinely such a fascinating compelling character and im tired of this fandom pretending hes not

[designernishiki]

it’s kinda funny to me how that dumb scene in kiwami 1 of majima getting shot and left for dead in the harbor was basically just added as a half-assed way to explain majima not being around for a bit of the plot, but they accidentally(?) just made it seem like start of a chain reaction where majima ended up feeling slighted and heartbroken after being abandoned like that and then lashed out about it via smashing a big truck into the building kiryu was in. and yeah that isn’t inherently a romantic thing as-is but then they go and add the part where majima grabs a hostess and performatively hits on her as in-kiryu’s-face as possible, she says she’s already in love with someone, and majima lets her go immediately, no questions asked, making a big fucking point of it just to say see THAT kiryu? I appreciate when people are HONEST about their FEELINGS. people who won’t just BACKSTAB someone who CARES about them to save themselves. is that so crazy kiryu?? huh??? anyway make it up to me get down here and fight me right fucking now

[storm-driver]

im here to remind you all that canon roxas is a sweetheart, and he's only angsty when he's being pushed to his breaking points. he may be more mellow than sora or ventus, but he literally fell off the clock tower once because he got excited about ice cream.

[room-surprise]

https://www.tumblr.com/mmikmmik/739809705034153984/kabru-is-such-a-funny-character-to-me-like-hes?source=share

When you put it like that. Kabru really came out winning this whole thing didn't he? (And also he maybe got an elf boyfriend, who knows)

Yeah, I agree with this person! Out of all the characters Kabru probably got the most of what he wanted in the end, with the fewest downsides... plus he even got a ton of things I don't think he even realized he wanted, or thought he could have, like a place to call home where he isn't an outcast.

As for the elf boyfriend part :3 One thing I think a lot of people haven't thought about is that Mithrun is one of the wealthiest people in the Dungeon Meshi world. He comes from a family of investors (bankers) that are so famous that all western elves have heard their name. That's really famous!

So if Mithrun and Kabru end up together, no matter how hard helping to run the new golden kingdom might be, how frustrating it might get, Kabru can always go cry into a huge pile of money, and get anything he wants forever.... And have a tiny macho elf as his life companion, someone who is so like Kabru but also so different, who understands Kabru the same way Kabru understands him... It's a good match in theory. They can experiment and try every new thing they can think of, I think that would be really fun for both of them. They should do hobbies together, like woodworking, or embroidery... (And if sex is something they're into, hoo boy they can try a LOT of things. No more vanilla boring stuff for Mithrun, only freak shit from here on out.)

[tothepointofinsanity]

what are your thoughts on Madoka and Sayaka's relationship? I always thought it was underrated for how complex and tragic it is.

Madoka and Sayaka's relationship function similarly to that of a knight and a princess, so both their friendship or couple pairing are interesting to me. It seems to be intentional that Sayaka was crafted with a knight motif in mind to click with Madoka's vulnerability. The tragedy is that Sayaka was way too young and inexperienced to be shouldering such expectations in a friendship. Taking up the role of a protector at every turn because she wanted to protect everyone has always been a contributing factor to how fast Sayaka burned out.

Contrarily, Madoka's struggle with her own helplessness throughout the show was also part of the reason why Sayaka said a lot of terrible thing to her, but deeply regretted her actions to the point where she succumbed to Witching out away from Madoka. Madoka, at least in this "final" timeline, was not there to see her own childhood best friend change into something else. To, in a way, "die", and be reborn as the same monster that all magical girls were hunting after in a frenzy. Homura was right that Sayaka brings Madoka grief — it seems that in almost timeline, since Sayaka becomes a Witch as long as she becomes a magical girl unlike Mami or Kyoko, Sayaka is a consistent source of Madoka's grief. Whenever Madoka becomes a magical girl, then, her aspirations are based on Sayaka's sacrifice and ideals, except Madoka actually has the power to "save everyone". I believe Madoka loved Sayaka as Sayaka may not have been an "effective" magical girl, but she was the one who was willing to sacrifice her soul for her ideals, regardless of how naïve they were. To Madoka, who was so ensnared by her sense of uselessness, Sayaka was the closest thing to an idol or a star for the courage required to be a magical girl. Sayaka's desire to make the world a safer and justified place for people was so inspiring to Madoka that even when Madoka becomes Kriemhild Gretchen, the Witch's whole gimmick is "creating heaven on earth, a Witch content only if there is no more grief in existence". A prospect deeply held onto by Madoka that even Gretchen embodies it.

It's probably why Madoka's wish to save all magical girls would definitely sound equally impossible to he audience and the incubators, but Madoka herself says, "If someone says it's wrong to hope, I will tell them that they're wrong every time." Sayaka was often called foolish for her ideals and hopes, and Madoka was the only other person aside from Kyoko who understands Sayaka's struggles so much that she outright tells people that Sayaka was never wrong — this is how Madoka protects Sayaka. Madoka would never want anyone to say any of the magical girls' wishes were wrong or foolish. It was how Sayaka also found her peace at the end of the show: to be understood and not viewed as an object that would eventually be replaced in the cycle of magical girls and Witches.

Madoka and Sayaka eventually learned how to protect each other. Sayaka doesn't need to suffer from her own overbearing expectations anymore, and Madoka can finally be something even more to protect her angel: A God.

[explodingstarlight]

I wonder how the rise boys would react to 2012 Mikey's pizza concoctions...like the pizza shake lol

something tells me rise!Mikey isn't pleased

[mothric]

for two seasons of mp100 i've been going 'who does reigen remind me of' and i've finally figured it out. jon arbuckle

[quietwingsinthesky]

no wonder missy is insane about him. she just mindmeld trauma bonded with him and got confirmation through him that she was right the whole time about the thing that happened to her, AND then they traded life-saving moments. of course she wants her friend back. she needs him to see her again, as clearly as he did in that moment. she needs him to be like her, because among time lords, she is alone, but with the doctor, she isn’t.

[mel-loly]

Dont mind me:3

I- Tsu.. You didn't need to... But.. Yeah, uh... Thanks..😅💛

(no pressure, but if you can read the tags, I'd be happy! and that doesn't just apply to tsu but to everyone)

[aeolianblues]

it is literally not about legality, if you’re in your late 30s literally what are you hitting up 21 y/os for. Don’t you have investments to make.