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Not over Cait threatening to throw some guy in prison in front of her gf who was wrongfully imprisoned and tortured for a decade
#arcane#i see people discussing and debating caits terrible actions but i havent seen anyone talk about this???#girl you know the prison system is fucked they beat the shit out of your girlfriend#in season one you could excuse her for being privileged and sheltered from the reality of the world#but girl you saw what happens to prisoners you saw it#she knows what shes doing is horrific and shes doing it anyway#arcane vi#arcane caitlyn#caitvi
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I like to think that Leo one day decides to really play around with his portaling and teleportation abilities and see the full extent of them.
Like - continuously throwing one sword and teleporting to it while throwing the next one immediately and repeating this as long as he can to see how far he can keep it up without stopping.
Making little portals in the air that lead right up against the ground so he could potentially just stand on the portal in the middle of the sky.
Ultimate storage system - anything anywhere at any time is available if he knows where to get it (personally my headcanon for why he goes from two satchels to one in the movie.)
Phasing to avoid attacks - like, he could lightly toss a sword a single centimeter and teleport to it, and in that short amount of time he can completely avoid hits.
If they ever do go to space and end up on different planets, with enough training he can just…go there, whenever. Not only would this be great for being well traveled and having more places to go in general, but this also opens up more room for connections and allies that could assist them the next time they need help against a grand foe.
Leo can easily remove injured team members from a fight and get them help without having to account for transportation times.
On that note - Leo’s teleportation in particular acts on a particle level. It’s quite literally breaking him down into particles and remaking him every time he uses it. Both for him and for anyone he uses it on. Who’s to say it can’t be used for healing? At least for basic wounds.
None of this even touches upon the offensive potential of both portals and teleportation. Leo’s abilities flourish more as a support main, but that doesn’t mean those abilities can’t easily be used as weapons - and I don’t think I need to get into how exactly they can be. Portal chopping alone can take on a very different meaning…
Furthermore, I gotta wonder if he’ll always need the swords for this, or if he could one day be able to achieve the same results without them.
My point being - teleportation and portals are super OP. Even with the abilities Leo has in present they are so unbelievably adaptable and so fun to think about in terms of basic mechanics.
#rottmnt#rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles#rottmnt leo#rottmnt headcanons#rise leo#I LOVE teleportation and portals and it’s one of the things that instantly latched me onto Leo#man I didn’t even touch upon how cool the potential for combining the bros abilities would be#that would be another post entirely#but yeah portals and teleportation#ESPECIALLY teleportation are so crazily adaptive and can be used for an insane amount of things if applied correctly#all the boys’ abilities laugh in the face of physics and reality#now I’m wondering if teleporting with someone else and THEN going through a portal WHILE TELEPORTING would mess with both of them#like…the Krang right?#Leo teleported them both through an open portal#wonder how that could mess with them on a particle level hmmmm especially considering the place the Prison Dimension is HMMMM#EDIT: YEAH SOMEONE ELSE MENTIONED IT#but yeah them being hesitant to rely too much on these abilities in battle after the Krang makes sense#BUT#out of battle…now we’re talking#ngl out of battle mystics can be even more fun because they’re just pushing themselves and not being life and death about it#okay I’m gonna go further but consider the potential for transporting massive objects like VEHICLES too#like he could teleport the whole turtle tank or more in that case#and just think of the potential for space travel that could have#okay I’m stopping now#ACTUALLY NO IM NOT#consider Leo being able to stay in the in between of a portal#making it a little space he can access and stay in if he needs a moment alone#the dangers that could amount from it too tho like#godddd the possibilities#I don’t have enough tags to ramble as much as I want to :(
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i don’t know if i’m ever gonna write the fic but i’ve been thinking abt like. the eternal stockade. the implications. lup, a lich who was trapped in a dark featureless cell for a decade completely isolated with nothing to keep her sanity but her own mind. she has to put people in the eternal stockade. how many liches does she see herself in. how many liches started out just like her. how many liches are truly too far gone. and the only liches we ever see other than her and barry are edward and lydia. they’re certainly evil, but mad? they seem pretty sane. they’re not, like, tattered echoes of souls, they’re definitely still people. even as much of a grudge as lup surely has against them, wouldn’t they remind her incredibly strongly of herself? do they deserve to be trapped just like she was? for eternity? isn’t eternity what turned john to existential despair in the first place?
#mine#taz balance#taz lup#lup#like idk i think lup’s down to kick necromancer ass but when it comes to being like. WARDENS of a PRISON. would that not be uncomfortable??#but like taking the job is the only way to avoid HER being thrown in prison??#idk the raven queen being a cool & chill goddess boss is definitely fun but when you actually think abt it#i don’t think i’d agree with her. i think if i lived in that world i’d think she were sort of evil#which like also to get into the hunger vs authority its not very explored because its not at all the point#the hunger is meant to be nihilism and despair and dissatisfaction its at its core an emotional story about joy & love#but like john starts out rebelling against laws. laws of the universe; except that it turns out a being wrote those laws (jeffandrew)#so the hunger is also sort of a force of rebelling against unjust constraints in the pursuit of freedom?#and the heroes end up preserving the status quo and saying you just have to find joy within those unjust limitations#which again. like. the point is that life is unfair and you can find joy and meaning despite it. which is true to real life.#i’m not saying the hunger was right or that despair is the only way or w/e like#yk like taz balance is not a story about society its more about. philosophy i guess#the point is that life’s really hard and you find meaning anyway and that’s preferable to despair and death#thematically for the audience we understand these are standins for ways of viewing reality#and in the real world reality is what it is. its just the world. there’s no authority that writes the laws of nature#like its not a ‘man vs authority’ story its a ‘man vs nature’ story#but IN UNIVERSE nature IS an authority. jeffandrew and the gods. regardless of how much joy you can find in an unjust world#if i lived in it i’d want to make it more just! but anyway like yeah barry & lup working for the raven queen#is kinda an extension on that idea of preserving the status quo#although i guess you could say gods are just forces of nature. theyre not PEOPLE theyre just personifications of existent natural laws#and it ties in w istus and fate as well#although fate is like a comforting guiding force rather than restricting & horrifying#^ pay no attention to any of this i don’t think it really means anything i’m just like. writing thoughts as i have them#not like a hard stance i’m taking just exploring some ideas#any ways#THERES A TAG LIMIT??
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I need a million more AU’s where Ian and mickey meet again in their mid thirties when Yevgeny’s a teenager
#shameless#mickey milkovich#gallavich#ian gallagher#mickey is back in Chicago (or near) for a night because him and Svetlana are dropping yevgeny at college perhaps??#and ian and mickey end up at the same bar….#buuut they’re both married to other ppl or smthn maybe??#kinda love those one night then we part ways ambiguous ending type of stories#one night of nostalgia then waking up in reality sort of thing#orrrr just one where neither of them are with other people and they find their way back to each other#mickeys had enough time to make peace w not being w Ian#but ian who thought he’d moved on and had avoided thinking about mickey takes one look at him and says well he must be mind again#mine*#bc like. inevitably they are going to be different ppl when they’re that age#like there would be many parts of them the same but no one is in their mid thirties acting exactly like they did as teens y’know#this would be in the world where mickey never went to Mexico tbh and stayed in prison then when he left he goes to live wherever#Svetlana and yevgeny live
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not anon pretending that the systematic disenfranchisement of disabled poor and black Americans is “anti Biden propaganda” and not just a lived fact for many people
#remember how in Florida they threw a bunch of people back in prison for voting while being felons and NOBODY EVEN TOLD THEM THEY COULDNT#remember in the 2020 elections how the FBI and a federal judge had to intervene in conservatives efforts to strip voting rights away from -#- disabled voters by making it LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE for them by banning voting by mail#stop acting like the lived reality of other people is some big lie/distraction and engage with us like fucking human people for once#yall are so full of shit for pretending that other people being disenfranchised is about your FUCKING FEELINGS?????#YOUR fucking feelings????#like anyone fucking asked you in the first place???
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Hear me out. And really, hear me out here, but QSMP Purgatory Reality Television A.U.
Hit reality television show 'The Purgatory' produced by up-and-coming Quackity Studios introduces an entirely new aspect to reality television-live streaming the events of the show. With a cast of everyday characters stranded on an island in the middle of nowhere, fans across the world eagerly tune in every night to see how their favorite players band together, plot, and plan in order to try to win. Once every week, there will be a mandatory elimination-unless, of course, there is a special event.
'The Purgatory' is a hit across the internet from the moment that it rolls out, and while controversial among some of the more critical rings of the internet, it is without a doubt one of the most successful shows in a while. Fans especially enjoy a budding relationship between Tubbo, the youngest contestant on the island at only twenty years old, and his faceless cameraman by the name of Fred.
However, as time goes on, people begin to realize that there's something strange about the island. The contestants seem truly terrified at the concept of loss. It's as though they genuinely believe loss means death (though Purgatory fans know that the show is staged, just like all reality television is).
It's brushed off-good acting, many chalk it up to. Until it isn't.
Maybe the critics had something going for them, the skeptics smarter than your average Joe to look a little closer into the birth of Quackity Studios, and the viewers a bit dull to take everything at face value.
Maybe nobody expected a camera to flicker to life just to show Maxo shot through the head, crumpling lifelessly to the ground.
(Where is Quesadilla Island after all? Why had it taken so long for people to notice the contestants had been reported missing? And who even is ElQuackity?)
[Basically reality tv purgatory au but everybody was legit just kidnapped and now the 'contestants' have to pretend they're just having a good time on the island so that they don't just, y'know, die.]
#qsmp#alternate universe#story idea#do what you want for this idk i'm rambling#tubbo#qsmp tubbo#elquackity#qsmp elquackity#quesadilla island#quackity studios#just tagging the things I mention by name#qsmp fred#frubbo#ig#qsmp maxo#qsmp maximus#cellbit would be a random criminal just grabbed off some prison in brazil that nobody gives a crap about#and the later arrivals come in like special new competitors#you know the type#when reality tv adds in new people for the hype#not sure how the eggs would come into play#outside family maybe?
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The Book of Bill has sunk in for me and I think Bill should've been killed more than once, one time is simply not enough.
Stanford Pines deserves his happiness and family, so glad he got it at the end of the series.
#I relate to Ford very much and to see that some of the things I've projected from me onto him actually happened to him makes me sad#being held captive by someone he thought he could trust with no real way to stop it or escape it...can't sleep cant eat#Or else it will give bill more power... waking from a nightmare to another one in reality... with his blood spilled everywhere#then he falls into the portal...surrounded by danger and it's the safest he's been in weeks because bill's just a physical threat now#and not as much of an emotional/mental one when he has the plate in his head#the mental distress is definitely worse than the physical distress. At least he can run from a physical threat and hide...#I'm very happy he's safe in the end and Bill's in prison#I've got a lot of feelings about this...I love Ford Pines so much and it crushes me lol#transmitted to the multiverse
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i think the thing for me about edizzy is the potential of it all- we know they have history together, but we don't know what it is, how long it went on for, what it meant for them. there's endless possibilities there to explore, and any of them could be real! or not! but theres so much to explore with them and its so fun to imagine all the what-if's and could-have-beens of their relationship
#like yes!!! i love stizzy and steddyhands and rizzy and ouizzy and ALL the izzy ships!#but it always comes back to edizzy for me simply because of the ties that bind them#we see all the other relationships grow in canon and build off of that#but we KNOW theres more to edizzy that we simply dont know about and imagining all their possible pasts is so interesting to me#how did we get to where we are now? where can we go in the future? what underlies their relationship that we simply dont know?#were they married? unrequited love? mutual pining? never considered it until it was too late? divorced a dozen times over?#have they known each other since they were kids? did they meet on Hornigold's ship? did they meet after ed became blackbeard?#does izzy have a navy past? is that how they met? a brothel? the streets? a prison? a bar?#they could literally be anything!#maybe theyve only known each other two years! maybe its twenty!#we literally do not know and the possibilities are there and it CONSUMES me#i cant settle on one favourite reality for them because i just have so much fun messing around with all the different options#what will they be this week?#nyxtalks#ofmd#our flag means death#izzy hands#israel hands#edward teach#edizzy#blackhands#and im so sad canon didn't take any opportunities to explore it in s2#like we got a few hints that they are Something; but not even a passing comment about who they really were to each other#nothing!!#im not a writer so i couldn't tell u how to do it well but. a passing comment! anything!#a moment explaining izzys loyalty to ed after everything; talking to lucius about complicated relationship and moving on; to ed face when#hes confessing or after his leg; to Ned or to Zheng or Ricky or Hornigold or anyone! anything! Ed to Fang in the boat!!#im just surprised that wasnt a path they at least tried to explore; given how much of s2 was focused around them to some degree
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I sincerely believe that institutionalization is a deterrent for healing. The state of many institutions is incapable of handling people in acute need, and more often than not, we are traumatized from institutionalization because of this reality.
#mental health#mental health advocacy#institution tw#mental hospital tw#like i was not able to heal when i was being treated like a prisoner plus being aware that the hospital could NOT handle a trans patient#it was humiliating and i am not and won't be the only one with this experience#i may have spoken about this before but i was reminded of this so. and i'm not digging through 1000+ posts to find it#because searching for posts on a blog is so hard and i wish staff would finally fix it#i anticipate this being probably a controversial take... but i just don't think i can be convinced otherwise#before i was in a hospital i thought they were good. after i was in one i realized that that wasn't necessarily reality
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can i say something controversial. the way people (especially american liberals but that's a whole nother can of worms) act about animal testing is sooooooooooo unhelpful. like is cosmetic testing on dogs/rodents/primates harmful and unnecessary? yes, in many cases! but does that mean all animal testing - for any application - should be categorically banned? no. animal testing is a vital process in many, many medical and research contexts and is conducted under a very strict set of standards, ergo applying "animal abuse" as a blanket label to all instances of animal testing is reductive at best and shows a flagrant lack of understanding of medical ethics on the part of the population. and don't even get me started on how slippery of a slope it is to go from condemnation of animal testing to just flat out eugenics
#speak friend and enter#and nobody better fucking come at me with 'what if we just tested on prisoners.' that is eugenics#like i think the thing that a lot of people just refuse to wrap their heads around is that these animals are bred for this.#it's not pleasant to think about but it's the reality of the situation and is a much more favorable outcome for both humans and animals#than many of the alternatives.#animal research is integral to our current understanding of biology and medicine and continues to be an important phase in research#anyway i saw a video about people doing urbex at an abandoned animal testing facility and got mad. it's a bit of a hot button for me!#there's also a point in there about public refusal to engage with the unsavory aspects of science and anti-intellectualism#but im too lazy to tease it out. but you get where im coming from
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Sometimes I want to talk about my horror road trip au where C!Dream and Quackity are best friends and then I remember that au is pure nonsense
#the dog barks#dreblr#Quackity is reincarnated and had no memories of the dsmp#C!Dream isnt. and lives kinda... trying to keep a parallel reality stable?#everyone was reborn and C!Dream needs to deal with all the weird paranormal shit they left behind#and then Quackity accidentally drives right into it#C!Dream is just... look I dont like the guy but he's going to die if I dont help him. Hes not even the same guy!! <-ignoring his trauma#so Dream sneaks into Quackity's car. but he's kinda stuck as his prison body because he's stupid and very much still traumatized#so he tells Quackity to not look behind him. and Quackity is terrified so he doesn't#so Quackity just has SOMETHING in the backseat of his car guiding him through hell or wherever the fuck he is#anyway. yeah it doesn't make much sense and I dont explain it really well here#dreamwastaken#c!dream#... im scared of properly tagging Q#ask me about this au please
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ok i'm almost done with the new firmament chapter, i have So Many thoughts 👀
#keeping my thoughts in the tags bc it's late and this in not going to be very coherent#positive thing first: i did enjoy the lore!! i'm a sucker for lore dumps and i love to connect dots so it was a very fun read to me#that said. it was fun but also convoluted af in some points so i saved everything in the journal to analyse it#after the entirety of firmament comes out. i have Many Thoughts about the shames mention and the judgements#but i have Zero Braincells to elaborate them. they're all going in the red string board until further notice#one thing i did NOT vibe with were the christian references but you all know that about me by now#i'm just trying to appreciate the funky cosmic horror vibe here i don't need a gloria in excelsis deo reference#(i understand it conveys a specific vibe but. there are many other things that can do that)#talking from a character pov this chapter was SO PERFECT for my guy's own flavour of insanity. drowning him in violant forever >:)#also. he wasn't happy about erasing the prisoner's memories. he understood it was necessary but he didn't like to destroy them#(i ended up leaving him with Love)#speaking of the prisoner. what the fuck is going on with him. i need to study him under a microscope#(and reread everything when i have more braincells)#i'm also very glad to finally have a bit more info about the vulgate and the apocryphal realities#this chapter answered a few questions and i hope the nex one will answer even more#tldr: very cool lore even if it was Confusing AF sometimes (but we still have more chaoters to read so we'll see)#+ i love zenith so fucking much it's my favourite roof location so far!! psychic damaging memory beam city <333#anyway goodnight#fl spoilers#chitchat
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if you ever wanted to do a headcanon set about being cooper’s wife in place of rachel and then finding out he’s the butcher but being willing to “manage” and keep the appearances up because we love him (and we’re also likely terrified) id love to read it👀
i don’t know if cooper could even be convinced to keep playing as a team even if we assured him we wouldn’t betray him. or? maybe he would? and he’d be unable to believe his luck because this means he gets to keep on playing happy family with his kids? but maybe we’d both be in this weird limbo of distrust in that he could kill us, but we could destroy everything for him and he’d lose riley and logan LOL this got so long sorry for just talking to myself here hahah perhaps i’m overthinking and we could just be a supportive wife who has no problem in turning a blind eye as long as our boo doesn’t get blood on the good rug
Tbh, I think the whole we could have managed was a great bit of writing from M. Night because it really exposes how manipulative Cooper actually is.
He doesn't mean that he and Rachel could have figured it out together. We implys a team effort. He means you could have turned a blind eye. You could have let me have this, but you didn't. He's not even concerned with the catastrophic harm it would cause his wife if they did 'manage'. He only cares that she slighted him. He's angry because she's taken away what he's worked so hard to build. He don't give af about 'managing' shit lol
#its literally the best part of the movie imo#asks#I think the reality of managing with Cooper would be extremely sad and dark#like baby thats a psychological prison lmfao#I will consider#I think at that point he realizes theres no way they could have recovered from it and he's more so just lamenting about the betrayal
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That prisons vs colleges map that's going around and went around other sites like three months ago is absolutely dog shit data visualization that over-constrains its definitions in order to exaggerate a problem.
#Basically it's counting anything even remotely prison-like#While counting almost nothing college-like#And as a result ending up with a way more pessimistic map than exists in reality#'but are you saying there isn't a problem with the prison industrial complex?'#no I'm saying you shouldn't lie with data to prove a case that's already well proved with the evidence that isn't fake#Very hard to see the specific choices being made to make that map and not feel like it's deliberately bad data communication#Rather than simply passive poor choice making#I don't like it when people on my side lie about shit because it hurts our credibility#And ends up weakening your case when people find out you lied to them#tbc: reposting it isn't the problem making it is although reposting it doesn't help so maybe don't do that either#But I'm not mad at you if you did just if you made that map
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all bday illustrations! i feel like something changed in my art style but it's probably just the lineart (+ shading and lighting)
#don't you think it's wild how riku was still 17 when he was first introduced and now he's gonna be 19 this year.#like it's crazy man aimi just turned 17 and akio is still 17 as well DUDE STOP GETTING OLDER!!!#and asahi is gonna be 13.. omg...#fun fact about how time works in linagram: idk how it works in canongram but here the prisoners actually do get older#but i also see it like this: to them it feels like literal months or even years have passed. they're getting older. they're celebrating-#their bdays or other holidays. but when it comes to the outside world its probably been like three days or more. like maybe a week#so when or if they manage to come back i think their bodies will go back to their pre-milgram age. sort of like they went to an alternate-#reality in some way??#if you're wondering the only reason why i decided it won't be as long in the outside world is not bc of their families or friends#SOME OF THEM HAVE PETS. AND THEIR PETS LOVE THEM A LOT. NAOMI LIVES ALONE WITH HER CAT AND THERE'S NO ONE WHO CAN TAKE CARE OF HER#(maybe some family members but do we trust naomi's family. especially her mother)#casually dropping some lore in the tags and leaving byeeeee#👑prisoner 001: miyagawa akio👑#🌸prisoner 002: hanasaki aimi🌸#💔prisoner 003: ishizu shun 💔#🌿prisoner 004: chiba naomi🌿#🍓prisoner 005: sanada kei 🍓#💎prisoner 006: yoshioka eiko💎#🍬prisoner 007: yano asahi 🍬#🎀prisoner 008: maruyama yurika 🎀#🎸prisoner 009: kuroki riku 🎸#🎭prisoner 010: himura reina🎭
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mob psycho(logical horror) 100
#Chatterbomb#There are some terrifying concepts in there they should be stretched more#That comic reminded me of junji itos The Long Dream#I’ll have to do a rewatch and write some stuff down#The mental prison stuff? Terrifying 10/10#Shigeo in fabricated world for six months is terrifying but I feel like being trapped in a static environment that only gets longer even#Though real world time has barely passed and you are all alone and you can’t escape and you can’t change the environment besides clawing at#The walls#day and night don’t pass with the sun and moon but your body is aging anyway#Nothing changes and you are running out of resources.#How long until you accept no one will come and save you? How much are you willing to starve while waiting for someone who left?#What if the world that trapped you won’t let you die? Starving for centuries without a sign of life#Thinking at some point you must have escaped. Or was it a dream within a dream? Can that happen? How many times have you fallen asleep?#How many dreams deep are you already in?#WHAT IF HE STARTED ROTTING#what if he was living in his own dead body!!!!! Would that be fucked up or what!!!!!#Something about reigen sparks a desire to see him experience pain disconnected with reality#The dreams in train hell are only getting longer. None of them are peaceful. He can’t tell if his hair is greying from aging or how much th#Dreams take a toll on him. How much time has really passed? Can he even rely on how his body is changing? Is it truly time who is#Responsible? Or is it him? Or the train itself?#What if all they found of him was a dryed up body with a beating heart and pulsating brain. Laying limp and clothing scattered#If I really indulge myself the scratched out days. When looked at from farther away. Still marking the potential days reads#Abandon all hope#ye who enter here#Which yeah that’s stretching into being ridiculous but it would be cool TO ME#Dante’s inferno you are so silly and special to me#I got really autistic here but <3 big fan of horror huge fan of suffering <333#ALSO!! taking inspiration from “heck” short film but the days might be counted by “sleeps” as time cannot accurately be measured in a place#That defies universal law#Ok I think I’m done now ok I’m normal probably
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