#Putting them in places. And situations

[silentwalrus1]

They’re stuck

[knockknockitsnickels]

I think this is one of my favorite lines from the Wraith route because of (imo) how much the meaning changes depending on if you got there via Spectre or Nightmare. For Spectre, it honestly strikes me as a genuine question. Why are you doing this to her? If you're on the Spectre route, you presumably already know the Narrator can't really be trusted, since you had to reject his reward to get here. What are you hoping to gain from continuing to hurt her? For Nightmare, it honestly just makes me sad. As the Shifting Mound describes her, "She desires only companionship, but the only thing she knows is how to hurt." This line feels like a plea from someone who genuinely doesn't understand why you keep rejecting her. She wants to be with you, but she just can't understand how to do that in a way which doesn't hurt you.

[mamawasatesttube]

tim kon cassie trio on the mind today. not a love triangle, not a polycule, but a secret third thing (when a gay man, a lesbian, and their pet bisexual freak love each other very much...)

[snekdood]

"if we make america worse and more of a dictatorship that will be even harder to unravel and make it the way we want the country to be, maybe then everyone will join our Glorious Revolution!" bb girl you cant even be in the same room with someone who thinks you should vote, how in tf do you think you're gonna unite people to fight in The Revolution with you? it's gonna be you and your 5 friends, i hate to break it to you.

[jesuis-assez]

↠ Tim & Lucy ↳ 2x10 - The Dark Side

[novelconcepts]

In watching more interviews with Liv about Van and the escalation of Van's pragmatism to such dark degrees, I find myself genuinely baffled that anyone could ever think Van the bad guy. I mean, I'm perplexed at finding ANY of these girls The Bad Guy. The bad guy is the situation. It's being lost. It's freezing. It's starving. It's being scraped down to the barest bone of being alive. They make choices that might be snippy, or cruel, or hard-headed, sure--Shauna refusing to just hash it out with Jackie; Jackie being too stubborn to come inside; Taissa refusing to discuss her situation plainly; etc--but by the time we reach the end of season 2, it doesn't even matter. Petty bullshit doesn't matter. Jealousy doesn't matter. Those things are still going to be present and complicated, because--for all their choices, for all the distancing they're trying to do--these kids ARE still human beings. But it isn't the point.

The point is survival. Plain, simple, straightforward. Van's pragmatism is survival. It is the difference between living another day with blood on your teeth or dying pretty. It is the difference between fighting forward through the fire and the snow and the hell of it all, and laying down to die. Van knowing, in watching the ritual violence of Shauna beating Lottie nearly the death, that they will be killing and eating one another soon. Van coming up with the cards for the hunt. Van not blinking when the moment comes, Van choosing a weapon that doubles as a tool to bring the body back, Van refusing to apologize for staying alive--it's not evil. It's not Bad Guy behavior. It's purely about survival, because there is nothing else left to her--or to any of them. They can play the pretty little Sweet Angel Girl game and die, or they can get dirty, bloody, horrific and fight. Van chooses the fight. Van chooses to fight for herself, for her lover, for her team, even knowing not everyone is going to make it out...because the alternate path there is that no one makes it out. Van knew the baby wouldn't live. Van knows the rest of them won't, either. Not unless they start making the hard choices.

And, honestly, the fact that Van sees this narrative coming. Comes up with this plan. Brings out the cards. To me, that is the opposite of Bad Behavior. That is as close to justice as anyone can find in the wilderness. If someone else came up with an idea, maybe it would have come down to voting--but that would have had such a human element to it, with bitterness or hostility or whatever ultimately petty shit always comes of humans selecting who to Other. The cards don't leave room for that. It isn't fair, because the situation isn't fair, because Man vs. Nature isn't fair, but it's as close to a just system as they could possibly find. It's the kindest solution to an unwinnable game. Not to bring it back to American Gods again, but all I can think is "it's easy, there's a trick to it: you do it, or you die." Van gave them that.

[dykedvonte]

I think it’s so ironic that the Pony Express escapes a lot if not all blame in discussion. I can’t even say I am excused from it but it’s just how hard people circle back to the characters alone without considering the environment they were made to be in.

Why would they design a ship where only two of the rooms lock? Not the bathroom? Not the sleeping quarters? We assume that all the companies in the universe are this shallow and careless to their workers but we explicitly know the Pony Express in extra vile. They are fed processed slop pack they can’t even really cook and the ration of those pack is meager at best. They hired and made people with a plethora of conflicting demeanors and beliefs work together on a mission where cohesion is important if not an outright necessity and punish them for not being happy about it. There’s no social protocols, not chain of command other than Captain’s word/choice and the only way to enforce that is with a literal firearm. They don’t allow them to celebrate freely and even took away leisure activities that would make them less stir crazy. They are only allowed a few hours of sleep despite their being no other real responsibilities or work on the ship, no matter the position or its importance. With any crew, with any level of synergy, this was a powder keg waiting for a spark.

I’m not saying characters that made mistakes didn’t make huge ones, but I think part of the horror is that at least for some (this is targeting Jimathan) those mistakes are partly made by a force of the hand. There’s a running theme of lack of choice and being forced into something and the very nature of how The Pony Express expected them to function plays a big part.

[asteria7fics]

Ngl gang if I see one more person say that Kyle is "just as bad as Cartman" I think I'm gonna lose my fucking mind.

And I'm not saying that those two aren't similar. I've said before, many times that they are, but let's be more specific about what ways, please.

They're both stubborn and hot headed and driven and, yes, total jerks sometimes.

But Cartman is on a different fucking level than Kyle.

Kyle is a fallible kid that picks on his friends about as much as you would expect from an 8-10 y/o kid. Immature at times, and certainly can fall victim to group think and manipulation, but he is not the same kind of jerk that Cartman is.

Cartman is self-centered, self-serving and downright cruel a lot of the time. Cartman is more often the manipulator and instigator than not. Cartman has knowingly gotten people killed and shown zero remorse until he was informed that those people were actually connected to him, and that their deaths impacted him in some way. I could literally sit here and list all the reprehensible things he has done, but we'd be here all goddamn day.

They are not "same prick, different pants". Kyle is an average sized prick while Cartman is a world record level one, and he keeps fucking flashing people in public with the damn thing.

[spacedlexi]

maybe if i just put these screenshots together youll understand why i think their relationship just Works so well as it pertains to the characters and themes of S4 in general

neither of them know what theyre doing, but theyre figuring it out Together. the old ways are dead. and together theyll build a new future thats worth fighting for

[krikidilly]

akagiyuu… akagiyuu..

Akagiyuu... akagiyuu...

When the guy you're suppose to be revenge battling is actually kinda....aleetle..

[storm-driver]

from here

[starbuck]

See, Ravenous is really fun because it is so perfect that I would never actually want the story to go any other way, but the characters are so fun and interesting that I also feel encouraged to make a bunch of AUs where different groups of characters survive the initial Colqhoun situation just to see what they do…

[solradguy]

I do think Sol has every right to throw Asuka into a wall as few times but I also ask for your proposed reason for why Sol would be making a big ass rocket to vist him. /gen

Oh, you know...

I genuinely don't know what else Sol could possibly be planning to do other than finish what he vowed to do at the end of Begin and at least once in almost every game release before and since haha

[uncanny-tranny]

It's just... odd to me, I suppose, going from "what is in my pants is completely irrelevant to most anybody else's life" to the expectation that you must be completely open, essentially, about what is in your pants.

I think a lot of people understand the general idea of why it's bad decorum to demand people offer explanations for private information like this, but they don't analyze exactly why it's bad besides, "asking directly is just rude" and not "asking in any way still enforces the often violent nature of gender and sex, and putting people in the 'right box' is a part of that violence."

It's especially odd when seeing other trans people enforcing the idea that "what's in your pants?" is a genuine, good-faith basis for interacting with others.

[miss-rum-hee]

These people are an absolutely STUNNING example that the whole "antizuonism is not antisemitism!!!" thing is complete & utter horseshit. Literally purity testing a Jew on their 1st date about Gaza, but yeah OK that's not antisemitic because [insert bullshit reason here]. I hope none of these idiots ever get a date in their life.

Also, gotta love the idiots in the comments trying to cosign this shit using their identity too 🙄 This definitely won't backfire on them anytime soon

@not-antisemitic-receipts

[beanghostprincess]

Sanji meets a little mouse that has made his way into the ship and he befriends the lil guy. To the point where he speaks to him all the time and Sanji ends up confessing all of his feelings for Usopp to the mouse thinking he won't say a thing because- Because he is a mouse.

But it turns out the lil guy is also a little shit and he's a gossiper at heart. So he tells Chopper. Chopper is so nervous about this new information he ends up telling Robin. Robin mentions this to Franky because she finds it amusing and Franky is pretty much one of the closest to the sniper. He makes a comment about it to both Jinbe and Brook even if he tries to keep the secret because he is too dramatic and it's an accident. And since Brook loves to gossip too and has no filter either he talks about it with Nami. And if Nami finds out about a gossip, Zoro will too. And Zoro tells Luffy everything because they are basically married.

So now everybody knows Sanji has the biggest crush on Usopp because his pet mouse likes to see the world burn.