#SURELY THIS TIME WE WILL NOT BE WRONG

[azurityarts]

PMD fans how we feeling about tomorrow's Presents

[onlyfangz]

ive definitely talked abt this before, but i literally cannot relate to the posts that are like "ohhh you guys ship them romantically when theyre soo much more interesting as friends". i contain multitudes. i think they are best friends. i think they are lovers. i think they are soulmates in a way that cant be categorised. these statements dont conflict.

edit: reblogging privileges revoked because im sick and tired of people misunderstanding what i was talking about + the constant "you should be friends with your partner" comments. the fact that youre conflating real and fictional relationships is concerning 👍

[puraiuddo]

WAIT

WAIT

WAIT

(sjabhdhsjdja fyi i've retracted this post, but it was fun while it lasted lmao)

[violentdelightshavevioletends]

“Dain is just an imperfect 21-year-old kid who trusted his dad, and is a little over-protective telling his chronically ill friend to sit the fuck down.”

[scriblesandbits]

So god created us in his image, right? And that’s cool and all but what if it turns out god, like, hates his own image??? What then????

[werewolf-artfriend]

stay cool 🍨

[gingerswagfreckles]

Gentiles will see a post where someone justifies murdering a 4 year old Jewish child for liking Batman under the argument that it is "cop propaganda" and write a paragraph about why Batman isn't cop propaganda instead of why murdering Jewish 4 year olds for any reason is bad.

[violetsorengail]

She doesn’t like anyone but Xaden, and she only tolerates me, though I’m growing on her. Like a tumor.

fourth wing - ch. 36

iron flame - ch. 65

onyx storm - ch. 62

[aetsiv]

"wylan almost got away with lying to kaz" this "wylan stood up to kaz" that. WHAT ABOUT MY GOAT KUWEI??! HE LITERALLY ACTUALLY LIED TO KAZ AND GOT AWAY WITH IT (pretending not to know kerch)!! LIKE KAZ LITERALLY NEVER KNEW, THEY ALL THOUGHT HE WAS THE POOR INNOCENT KID WHEN HE'S LITERALLY SO SMART AND SCHEMING!!

[khaotunq]

Khaotung Thanawat as Bison (The Heart Killers, 2024-2025)

[callsign-coolsquirrel]

The General's Daughter

@g-backto505

[im-smart-i-swear]

coming back home.

@barrenclan

[meanderingstream]

Eliot at peace with being Damned

One of the things that makes Eliot hard to write for in-character (but also such an interesting character to explore) is that he believes he is damned to Hell and he is at peace with that. He has a lot of guilt, oceans of guilt, but it's not so much the tortured, anguished catholic guilt à la Nate or like, Daredevil. 

He has done monstrous, unforgivable things. But, on his own, he came to a realization of what he had done, and pulled away from that world. On his own, he left the worst person he ever worked for, and stopped using guns, and stopped killing. On his own, he switched from wetwork to retrievals. This all occurs before we ever meet him, so while there are many hints and inferences, the specifics of how that happened, how he came to those decisions, are left up to the audience’s imagination. 

Eliot wants to make the world a better place, and he works everyday with the team to help people, and he genuinely enjoys helping people and the work he does on the job. But he does not believe that he can be redeemed. (Not my own personal belief about him, but it is what he thinks). When he dies, he will go to Hell for his sins, and there is nothing that can possibly be done to change that. He doesn't need to angst over it, because it’s just a fact. It is what it is. There is no point agonizing over whether his soul can be saved, because he knows it cannot. This is both a keystone of his character, and also something he doesn't spend a lot of time thinking about day-to-day, because it’s a settled matter. 

And as much as we love Eliot the character, he has a point that lives are not tradable for equivalent exchange. If he killed a specific family 25 years ago, that was snuffing out the light and potential and future of those particular parents and children. The surviving extended family lost those particular relatives. Saving a family now does not balance that ledger, because each person is a unique life and not interchangeable for another. While I may have different beliefs about Hell and redemption than Eliot, I still want to acknowledge that he has a point. That changing now doesn't necessarily help the people he hurt in the past, and unlike Harry, he can’t work down a list of making amends, because almost all of his victims are dead. There is no atonement to the dead. 

Eliot’s redemption is in seeing the light at the end of the tunnel, and helping others get to it. Particularly the team, and particularly the pair he’s going to protect until his dying day. He will stay down there in the dark forever (he believes), but getting the others out is his redemption. 

I do not believe that Eliot will actually go to Hell when he dies, but his belief that he is damned is fundamental to who he is as a character, and he is going to believe that for the rest of his life. It can be really challenging to balance that when writing his POV, particularly when delving into events that dredge this stuff up for him (which we writers love to do because it’s so delicious). Eliot doesn’t exactly have a low self-esteem. He knows he has many skills and is exceptional at them (cooking, fighting, grifting, guitar, sports, etc). He pretty much knows his teammates love him, and care about him, and want him to stay alive for them, and spend the rest of his life with them. He has professional pride, and he will argue when he wants something. He is certainly not a doormat. However, he also believes he is fundamentally and irrevocably a bad person. Balancing between him not being too self-deprecating in normal situations / about his usefulness to the team, with his inherent belief in his own moral depravity can be a thin blade to walk without falling to one side or another. But it is also one of the biggest aspects of his psyche that makes him such a fascinating and complex character to explore.

[timothyslucy]

something... something about angela taking time out of her busy schedule as a loving wife, and mom of two, to hangout with her bestie at his house and get him to spill the tea on what's going on between him and the woman he loves.... oh i already know this scene is going to be everything, i can't wait. 🥹🫶

[ywpd-translations]

Ride 808: The jerseys competing for the lead!!

Pag 1

2: Onoda-san, now the lead have all left and entered the downhill towards the sea!!

3: Yeah!!

6: Do your best!!

Naruko-kun!! Imaizumi-kun!!

Pag 2 / 3

1: The men who are staring at the Inter High's first day's victory!!

(Congratulations!! 17 whole years of publication!!)

Pag 4

1: We're all here!!

Five teams, ten people!! These are

4: the jerseys

Pag 5

5: that are aiming

7: for the Inter High's first day's finish line!!

Pag 6

1: Let's go, Ninoshima!!

2: But be careful!!

Don't worry, Higashimura-san!! Downhills require courage and will-power!!

3: Don't leave any space!!

Those people are skilled!! The opposite lane

6: of the road, that we don't normally use and was closed for this race.....

7: Don't worry!!

Pag 7

1: They're using every inch of the inner side of the opposite lane!!

Ah!! There's only a small gap between them and the guardrail!!

Pag 8

2: I was bravely thinking of running as close to the guardrail as possible, yet in that tiny space on the inner side they....!?

I even moved before them exploiting the moment when Kyofushi and Gunam were talking... and yet!!

5: Downhills are all about “choosing a line” and “weight”, yon

Pag 9

1: Gunmaa!!

Yon

While taking the curve.... he gave me advice!!

2: Calm down, Ninoshima!! Just cling to them!! Follow me now!!

Dammit, and what was that about “choosing a pine” and “fruit juice”, Higashimura!!

…. no, he said “weight”*

(*NdT.: the words for 'weight' and 'fruit juice' sound the same in Japanese)

3: Ah, really

4: If in road racing downhills are all about choosing a line and weight, then it's easy!!

Pag 10

1: Sonomoto-chan

2: In MTB, on downhills there are so many bumps and trees' roots

3: Tires lose their grip, and you're busy trying to get traction and grip

4: In road racing, though, the tires are always on the ground!!

5: It's too easy, road racing

It even makes me

Pag 11

1: want to “play” a little!!

Pag 12

1: Uh-oh

4: What the hell was that just now!? Did their rear wheels slip!?

Did they let them slip!?

5: Huh...

7: Don't make such sudden grip turns

Sorry, since it's you I thought you'd get it

I did get it, but still (haha)

8: Kakaka, a friendly performance right before the Inter High's finish line!? You sure are confident, Gunma.san!!

9: Puku, what was that, so cool....

Puku

Pag 13

1: Are those the skills you cultivated through MTB? You originally raced in MTB, so you're showing off what you can do

Showing off how freely you can control your bike

So cool, will you

2: teach me too?

3: Teach me....

4: Teach

5: Number 41 is clinging to him!! He's getting too close

There's a left curve soon, get back....!!

Pag 14

1: me

me

me

2: Me me me me

3: We're in a curve, it's dangerous, so could you please back down a little?

4: Me me me me

5: Why won't you teach me that cool thing? Are you keeping it a secret from me?

6: Well, it's just that

Pag 15

1: I can't feel any impetus at all in your words, yon

2: You got me

Pag 16

1: They're taking the curve while his head is on his shoulder!! What incredible balance they have, Gunma's number 181 and Kyofushi's number 41!!

3: Even though the speed going downhill is frightening!!

4: But now, I

5: understand you a little, yon

Puku? Me? You understand me?

Pag 17

1: It seems like your impetus to win is fierce, yon

2: You too, you're not just a fancy small-fry

Not a small fry!!

Pag 18

2: Not bad

Yeah!!

3: Except for Hiroshima, who unexpectedly attacked earlier than usual, this lead is just what I had imagined

4: Kyofushi and Gunma too, even while arguing are still showing restraint

5: And Hakogaku too is carefully waiting

Pag 19

1: The real movement still hasn't happened

Get ready. If they move, we step on right away!!

Got it!!

2: 8km left until the finish line!!

3: There's no one else who'll join the final race for the finish line!!

Pag 20

2: Kakaka, what's wrong, Hotshot

Did you drop the energy bar in your pocket!?

3: No.... it's nothing, I just misheard

4: Sometimes, when I concentrate too much, I hear strange sounds

Ah, that's it!!

Pag 21

1: Kuaaaa

3: I hear...? A voice... and besides

Pag 22

1: I know it!!

2: No, that's impossible!!

He has probably fallen behind a lot with his team on the mountain!!

3: Moreover... there's no way with this “lead”...!!

4: No indeed, there's no way

I'm concentrating too hard, I'm even dreaming about the buddies training camp

6: Ah, there's one person catching up, yon

Yeah, the guy who was working so hard to cling to us

7: when we left the pack

Pag 23

1: I don't even know his name... the guy from the selected team

Pag 24

1: Kuaaaaaagh

2: That's the target!! That's the target we set!!

Pag 25

1: I'll catch up!! I will!! To the lead!!

2: Sugi.... moto!!

5: Now it's... eleven people!?

6: Insect....

[skriblee-ksk]

From Someone Who Wishes to Become Love:

-

“… would he ever accept that type of love…?”

A/N: TEEHEE HI YALL!!!!!!! sorry this is less twst angst and more kiyuu’s aromanticism angst (OOPSIE). I have a whole 2nd part confession scene dialogue written down but I dunno if I’ll be able to get enough motivation to finish it tbh. I WROTE THIS DURING PRIDE MONTH ACTUALLY!!! FOR AROMANTICS!!!! I’m not an aroace who has ever felt that my lack of attraction was a problem (bc i’m non-partnering either way), but I thought Kiyuu would panic in that regards because…. like, that’s what she does regarding the people she cares about.

Anyways, something something, Kiyuu and Jack talk about it, it’s aight, they get into a healthy, communicative QPR!! Is the gist of the 2nd part. I may post it one day. Perchance. Anyways yeah JacKiyuu wins again!!

How did she not have this issue w Ryoko? That’s because she was already comfortable with her current relationship w Ryoko and knew about her orientation, so she could wholeheartedly just accept any feelings as natural.

Anyway, to all aromantics who may potentially read this post: YOU ARE VALID!! no matter what gender you may be or if you’re favorable or repulsed. Loveless aros!!! Aroaces!!! Aros who aren’t ace at all!!!! You are all valid!!!!

Taglist (ask to be added!!): @kathxrat-01 @distant-velleity @scint1llat3 @elenauaurs @boopshoops

@lumdays @ven4t1c4l @jewelulu