#I'm such a smart ass

[demodraws0606]

Hello. I'm not moving on from how fucking sus Whit was in this entire trial

Ok I'm very much sick and tired /pos of Whit always ending up being fucking sus. Because I just realized four things that makes me glare at Whit in the context of this entire trial.

-Whit was the most addament that the secrets didn't actually matter (outside of his weird call out of Levi). In fact when the secrets stop being a subject he complains about it.

-Both of the things Whit was weirdly stingy about (The letter and David's secret) were both things that didn't actually matter that much in the trial. Without either of the information there would still be the decisive evidence of the tape and rubber band being used for the murder which would've always lead to Ace being proven as the culprit. David's secret only ended up causing the cast to believe he did it and the note ended up making people get the time of death wrong.

-Whit actually ends up giving the biggest push in the trial that would lead to Ace being discovered as the culprit which is him helping Teruko discover how the murder mechanism needed to have worked. This is the one time where he's weirdly extremely useful and vocal in the trial.

(I'm fucking glaring at you mf)

-Him fucking saying this shit

I will not take "oh you're just overthinking it, it's not that suspicious" anymore, this motherfucker makes me want to chew rocks.

[akemi-snow]

KakaIru + Those Four Guys From Naruto

I'll assume you've seen the original versions with the canon couples. (I'd link it but have no idea what the OG really is). Now it's the gae version.

[zzh3]

I swear I'm so sane about him and about this

[tvckerwash]

you know, an interpretation of ct that I don't see that I personally really love is that she's a fuck up. like yes she's cool and she has some good fight scenes, but a huge part of her character is that she makes mistakes. the mistakes that she makes are ones that on their own aren't the end of the world, but she keeps making these little mistakes, and they eventually add up until she's out of room to make any more.

a really good example of this phenomenon in action is the actions she took leading up to her final confrontation with carolina and tex.

strike one, she thought she saw something in the water, but when asked by the leader what it was, she brushed it off as nothing when even if it had been nothing, it would've been smart to tell him what she thought she saw.

strike two, she didn't sense or notice florida's presence when the leader did, and she looks at the leader twice, once as she pulled out her magnums, and again after she did a scan of the room, almost like she was looking at him for guidance before he finds florida and takes him out with one good axe throw.

strike three, she couldn't convince the leader to leave when they had the chance to get away, and her cheap tricks were not enough to hold off either tex or carolina in a fight. they were only good for incapacitating her opponents enough for her to get away, which doesn't work when she has no escape.

ct is not tex, or carolina, or south. she is not a one woman army who can get herself out of trouble when she's stuck in tough situations. she needs people who can watch her back, she need a team who can cover her when she does mess up, and the leader and his team were not those people. she couldn't bring herself to trust them, and they couldn't bring themselves to trust her, and that cost all of them their lives.

[statementlou]

forgive me if this is too serious for an anon ask.. feel free to ignore it..

but this week shook me in ways i didnt see coming. i wasnt a one direction fan growing up.. tbh im still not, i listen to only a few songs. im same age as louis. so, i found one direction through him.

i have great affection for all of the boys though. and even in my short time in fandom, i've always been surprised and saddened by the bullying liam has gotten.. he just always seemed like a good person with really poor communication skills. to understand his point, you had to give him some space and context.

but this year has been a constant worried watch over liam. it was so plain things were desperate.

stan twitter got to me so bad that i left twitter the day louis' tour ended. so i was very peripherally aware of his recent harassment, but i did worry.

and now the unimaginable has happened, i am just at loss. not just in the sense of how to make sense of this loss, but also the complete lack of empathy for him still? even for other boys' fans.?? after they've seen how all of the boys' are hurting?

and just in the bigger picture.. how is this real? what loving god/higher power/whatver has allowed this to be the state of the world? he was so kind, so generous, just a boy. JUST A BOY. just trying to find a place to fit and feel safe. why was he dealt such cruelty? just while he was pursuing something he loved? something he was gifted with? in life and in death?

im just at loss. heartbreak doesnt even begin to cover it.

for me I've felt it was a constant worried watch over Liam for many years now, but other than that, yeah. It's hard to feel hope or faith in the face of so much senseless cruelty and pointless loss; all I can say is I would hope the millions of people who are shocked and saddened by this take away something lasting both about the fact that there are real people on the other side of the computer screen and cruelty has a real impact, and that addiction can afflict anyone. Nothing can make this other than tragic and regrettable forever; but I would love to see the amazing power of fandom mobilized to support programs for addicts and to fight stereotyping and dismissing of people who use drugs in Liam's name. To see people use this as a realization to really understand that it wasn't strange or exceptional that someone talented and worthwhile could succumb to addiction and ultimately die of it, but rather a plague that our society is allowing to run unchecked because of stigma. IDK, maybe I'm just grasping at straws trying to find something remotely positive that could come out of this situation but what else can you do? It's just so sad.

[seasidewanderers]

why are we in the year of the lord 2024 still comfortable calling survivors liars and fakers? seriously. why are we still doing this. syscourse has learned nothing from the past 5 years or so. it's an endless cycle.

[mispatchedgreens]

they should share cigarettes and shave each other's heads and go to slam poetry nights. (file name: baob3i)

[pixelpaladin24]

[winteriron-trash]

rdj the (whitewashed) electric boogaloo

This is a reminder to everyone who's excited about RDJ's casting as Doctor Doom that this casting is whitewashing. Victor Von Doom is a Romani character and has been a Romani character since his introduction in the 1960s. (Fantastic Four Annual #2 [1964]) Not only that, but his Roma identity and the persecution he and his family faced due to it is integral to his character, it is what forms his identity. (Books of Doom by Ed Brubaker) Even if on the off chance this casting is meant to not be Victor but instead be some variant of Tony or whomever else becoming Doctor Doom, it is damaging to the character to rob him of that important cultural background. Doctor Doom does not exist without that history. Fans have been pushing hard to cast Doom as a Romani actor for years, especially since the MCU has whitewashed other Romani characters. (Wanda, Pietro, etc) This casting is not a celebration moment, it's fucking heartbreaking that the MCU repeatedly ignores the important and nuanced cultural backstories of characters.

I know I can't change anybody's mind on whether or not you want to be excited about RDJ's return to the MCU. But I do think at the very least you should be mad that the MCU is baiting us all and destroying nuanced and interesting characters for the sake of self-referential easter eggs and nostalgia bait. Because that's what it is. Feel how you'd like to feel about RDJ's return, but personally, this is soul-sucking. I had such a deep love for the MCU as a teenager, it was obviously something incredibly formative to me, especially Tony Stark. This isn't recreating what I fell in love with the MCU for. This is turning a well-planned and artistic storyline of adaptations into cheap cash grabs and fan service. Because, I think we're past the point of being able to call the MCU an adaptation of anything. They can use existing characters' names and powers, but to say they're being properly adapted is laughable.

This is not an adaptation of Doctor Doom. This is RDJ the Electric Boogaloo because Marvel's fear of losing the interest of dedicated MCU fans overrides their willingness to tell stories that are genuine to the characters. I don't know what there is to be excited about that. The MCU has lost its authenticity and aside from a few projects, feels heartless. Every movie is a copy of a copy. This announcement isn't something celebratory, it feels like a death knell of a cinematic universe that's so desperate to cling to relevancy it's resorting to nostalgia for a character/actor who hasn't even been dead for a decade. We're not getting anything new, we're just rinsing and repeating the same song and dance.

I get it. I love Tony Stark, his death destroyed me and I to this day, rue the ending he got in Endgame. It misunderstood his arc and it robbed him of a satisfying conclusion. But the solution to that isn't dragging the corpse out of the grave five years later to whitewash an existing character with rich and interesting nuance, just to forcibly tie his existence in the MCU to Tony. Whether he is a variant or not. Why would you want someone else's fave's legacy to be destroyed simply so your fave's legacy can go on? Hell, if we were really all so hellbent on the return of RDJ and/or Tony to the MCU, we have the multiverse for a reason. There were other ways to do it that didn't whitewash and ruin someone else. This just. Isn't something to be happy about.

[notcryingtoday]

I GOT SPOILED ARCANE ARC III

and apparently

this actually happens, i just got the characters wrong

(i don't want any more spoils the only two images i've seen just made my day and ruined my life at the same time)

[dawnofiight]

I don't know shit about that hawk tuah thing but the SOUND of saying "hawk tuah" is something Asher and Guy would do.

[littlefankingdom]

History and folklore nerd has been triggered by the incorrect timeline in a comics inspired movie, again!

In Justice League Dark, Jason Blood and Etrigan have been bonded together for 500 years, so since the 16th century, the Renaissance era. However, Jason is a knight of Camelot and Etrigan served Merlin. Camelot and Merlin are not from the Renaissance. Yes, the stories were still told, but the stories had a time period, which is the 5th and 6th centuries. If Jason is a Camelot's knight, then he was bonded to Etrigan 1500 years ago. There's a full millennium between the correct centuries and the one given in the movie, omg. It's a totally different culture he grew up with.

[worrywart-ish]

"Look. If this was... If this was all just some kind of ruse... on my part, I mean, how.. base... Why would I lead you all this way? I'll level with you, yes, I, would, like, it... back. I'd very much, if you must know, but... You know what? At this point I would settle for not being wiped out of existence. I would happily settle for that."

(...)

"We're in a good spot here. A good spot. I kill you, I get my town, get the Transistor... Not bad... not bad. Or you kill me, and well, I've often wondered what it's like in there, so... in a way, no matter what... I win."

(...)

"Poor Asher. For the end, he just... He went and told you our whole plan, did he. Expecting what? Your sympathy? Your mercy?"

me, every single time:

[willowser]

bakugo acts likes he doesn't care for you when training starts and he joins the careers in the arena. you hate him so much, he's angry and volatile and meathead. but he can't help his bleeding heart. leads the careers away from you at every turn, sabotages them every chance he gets. leaves supplies and food where he knows you'll find them. when it's announced that two winners are possible this games, he can't help himself. he's frantic as he calls your name, races to find you.

if there is anyone we should be staying away from it's him LOL like. can you imagine. knowing this guy is out there, fighting to win. force field here i come like akfjruwjaihrq but omg 🥺 i do love the image of him hearing two winners are possible and gunning to find you 🥺 maybe he's even with one or two other people and he's like 😶 our alliance has ended bye 😶 BOOM BOOM two cannonballs bye bye !!! and then he's running off to find you 🥺🥺🥺 every night he's watching the names in the sky to make sure yours isn't up there 🥺 and it's really STUPID of him bc yall are AGAINST EACH OTHER AT THE START but 🥺 he can't help but heave a little sigh of relief to know you're still alive 🥺

[kennyomegasweave]

Beam's parents taking everything but the cat from Jim is direct commentary on why gay marriage needs to be legal everywhere. It's not just a piece of paper. It's legal protection in the event of a tragedy.

But let it also be a lesson to never let another person have EVERYTHING in their name, especially if it was both yours, married or not. You gotta have your own stuff y'all. There's no reason Jim should have been left with NOTHING after years, marriage or not. Unless he just let Beam put only his name down and that's not a good move ever.

[torchickentacos]

I'm reading poetry at 1 am and spiraling over like 45 emotions at once, which is how poetry was meant to be enjoyed, I think