#SUUUUUUPER SHADY...

[lesbian-kyoru]

arata is super interesting because at first he has shifts in disposition that feel almost inconsistent—he can be super sweet and earnest, cold and withdrawn, fiery and competitive, lots of juxtaposed traits etc etc—but all these facets of his personality simply stem from the traumas and experiences he’s been through 1) before the start of chihayafuru and 2) during the story. 

in his first appearance, arata is already established as shy and guarded around new people, which is only reinforced by being bullied by his classmates at his new school. not only has he internalized that karuta is the one thing he is good at in life, and it’s the only thing where his dream (and NEED) is to be the best—but besides the obvious connection to his grandfather’s expectations, a subset of this is that his grandfather tells him that he can make friends playing karuta. unfortunately, as soon as arata moves he’s bullied for literally everything, and excelling at karuta only further alienates him from his peers.

this pattern continues throughout his adolescence, even after he’s made a life long connection with chihaya and taichi: karuta alienating him from others when it was supposed to bring him friendship and connection. along with the trauma of watching his grandpa die (+ arguably blaming himself for his death) and the following grief, it’s honestly not surprising that arata becomes isolated, emotionally closed-off, and at times cold or insensitive. those experiences would harden anyone, especially a sixteen-year-old. he was treated like an outcast as a child, lost touch with his friends due to distance, and struggled to find community within his passion that’s often incredibly lonely. all of these factors make arata emotionally guarded. he’s quick and impulsive to lash out because he doesn’t feel safe and comfortable until he trusts people. 

even though arata is so kind at heart and really earnest with people he knows well (i.e. chihaya and taichi), just like many characters his experiences and subsequent insecurities/fears haven’t left him unaffected—and i love that we see that thread of his development come up so early on.

[kitkatt0430]

do you ever discuss of you ranking list of the flash seasons yet?? from best to worst?? bc i don't think i've seen any, so i'm curious, hehe.

You know, I don't think I have really ranked the seasons before. It's definitely something that likely changes based on my mood, but some things will stay consistent, like which seasons are my favorites.

So, Flash season's best to worst:

Season 1 - Without a doubt the best season. Everything was really well plotted, there weren't a whole lot of dropped threads. Eobard was at his best as the season's main villain; Barry establishing his friendships with Cisco and Caitlin was so much fun, they all grew to love each other so fast; and Iris discovering herself as a reporter was interesting to see happen. It could have done without Barry's entitlement issues towards Iris (or keeping her unnecessarily in the dark) and the pipeline prison (oh look at all the human rights violations and where are the bathrooms in those cells???) but over all it was a solid first season and set the bar high for the rest of the show.

Season 2 - Second best season. Zoom was derivative of Eobard, but we got Harry who started off seeming shady but quickly turned out to be a traumatized dad who just wanted to save his daughter and the new found family (Team Flash) that he absolutely doesn't want to admit he now loves way too much. It tried new things that didn't always work out and had more dropped plot threads than S1 (and wasted a few perfectly good characters) but there were a lot of really good ideas in there. It could have done with a few of the plots being more firmly tied back into S1 events - Harry's speed theft tech building on Eobard's research into Farooq's powers, Cisco's fears about his powers corrupting him to be more like Reverb tying into his actions with regards to Hartley (when he tortured Hartley, let's not mince words there) - but still a pretty solid season overall and finally brought us Wally West, teasing the possibility of Kid Flash.

The first half of Season 6 - I'm just chopping this season in half here. The first half of this season was superbly plotted. Barry and Iris' grief over Nora's death, everyone's fear and grief knowing Barry would soon be joining her, Cisco wanting to be able to save his bestie when he's lost so many loved ones already, the whole theme about fear of death destroying what makes life living with Ramsey and his blood zombies. The fight over Barry's soul by the Speed Force and Ramsey while Barry breaks down over fake-baby-Nora's crib... and all the parallels between Barry's romantic love with Iris and his platonic love with Cisco.

Season 4 - Harry's obsession with being the smartest and being able to protect the people he loves leading him to endanger himself in the very way he'd find unacceptable if his loved ones did it? So heart wrenching in all the best ways. Seeing how close he and Cisco are, how much Harry's grown to respect and admire Cisco... And while Ralph was at first suuuuuuper annoying, his character growth over the season was really wonderful. He goes from pushing others away (and weaponizing misogyny) to protect himself to being willing to do anything to protect his friends even if it meant destroying himself. He becomes Frost's biggest cheerleader in finding herself as a person (which continues into the next season) and grows to really respect and admire everyone on Team Flash. Cecile really comes into her own as a character here, her transformation from background character to main cast complete. It sucks that the season starts off with Wally leaving - this should have been the season where he earned his place as the Flash and not just Kid Flash. There was so much ableism going on with DeVoe. And the Cisco/Cynthia romance, while cute, was brought down a lot back the fact that the organization she worked for was majorly hypocritical and, well... fascist. There were a lot of pieces that didn't gel well, but it was a major improvement over S3.

Season 5 - I actually really like Nora, even though I get why a lot of people didn't. It was weird having her basically be Barry and Iris' age, though. Would have worked a lot better if she was more like 19~21 somewhere not really a teen anymore, but still very, very young adult. This was also the season where Barry and Iris started acting like an old married couple, emphasis on old. They were acting as if being married meant they stopped doing fun stuff. Frustrating since we never really got a proper dating arc. It was a speed run from dating to moving in together to engaged to not engaged to engaged again to married despite the best efforts of the nazi versions of Oliver and Kara. Honestly, it's been hard to see their relationship as fun at times, but they do get some silly moments here. Also cemented Barry as being oblivious to other people's romantic interests, which has given me so many oblivious arospec headcanons about him over the years. I hated the Iris as a bad mother characterization for future Iris, especially when Iris is actually trying so hard to be a good mom to her adult daughter in the present. Like... no way Iris changed that much. The cavalcade of main villains was bad, even though I saw Eobard coming out on top as main bad guy from a mile away. But the bad guy is Cicada! No Cicada II. No Eobard doing a prison break (though it was a cool prison break, gotta give him props) was just... annoying. The cure was terrible, though and I hate, hate, hated Cisco taking it.

Season 3 - This actually ties for me with S5, but my current mood is that I like it slightly less thought sometimes that's reversed. Flashpoint was a token effort, but it gave us our first glimpse of Wally as Kid Flash. HR was a sweetheart and my fav Wells after Harry. I don't think they ever figured out what they were doing with Julian, but gosh did Barry need a CSI coworker at the CCPD and I was annoyed that it took until S5 for Barry to get another one (his daughter) and she also only lasted one season. *sigh* The OG Killer Frost arc was interesting because it wasn't split personality AGAIN so I was frustrated in S4 when Caitlin's 'not Caitlin but not Frost' S3 ending was retconned into Bruce Banner and the Hulk lite. Savitar had so much promise and so little follow through. Emo Barry's hair in the future was... um... something alright. Possibly the true villain of the season was that hair. Anyway. More ableism with the main villain, but that's basically every season by the end of the show. The plot is almost incoherent at times, but there's a lot of really good character moments.

The back half of Season 6 - Did you think I forgot this half a season I'd chopped off the front half? Well here it is!!! Oh gosh, it was so slowly plotted. Everything dragged out way more than it needed to. They could have fit a whole extra plot arc in there before diving into the mirror arc/speed force issue and it would have been so much better paced. Like, say, Barry actually dealing with the fallout of rebooting the multi-verse? Just a thought? Allegra not wanting Nash to use her as a replacement goldfish for Maya and Nash trying not to do exactly that even as his dad-instincts were screaming 'that's my kid' deserved a lot better nuance than it actually got. Iris' promised storyline isolating her from everyone else while they failed to recognize the fake was a fake was really awful. I realize it suffered technical difficulties due to covid, but it was just. such a let down after that first half of the season.

Season 9 - This actually ties with S7, but I kinda like it more right now so it's rating higher. But sometimes I like it less. S8 is the worst. S9 had some real gems in there. The Rogues team up was delightful, though I wish they'd taken the chance to give Hartley more of his comics character development. But at least he finally got to kiss his boyfriend on screen without the focus moving to Barry's face getting in the way. Red Death arc had a lot of plot holes in it. Iris finally tackling the issue of whether her destiny being Barry's wife ever meant she'd actually chosen anything for herself or just done what she thought she was supposed to. Poorly handled, but I'm still glad it finally got addressed. The four part finale was really representative of the show where the first quarter was the best and the rest was varying levels of suck. Caitlin reached the pinnacle of being side-lined, written out entirely until the final episode to make way for the goddess Khione who came out of the left field, had story lines that would have been 10x better with Caitlin, and then ascended to a higher plane of existence with no real impact left behind at all. What was the point??? Every time Mark Blaine was almost sympathetic, I would remember him throwing a temper tantrum over not being allowed to kill Khione to resurrect Frost. But I actually liked the return of Ramsey, though that absolutely should have been a multi-episode plot. And there were too many cameos going on at once with Dig, Wally, and Oliver - they were well balanced for the time allotted them, but Wally especially deserved more focus time. They had this final chance to officially make Wally the Flash and they wasted it. Oh well, at least I got more Barry/Iris/Eddie headcanon fuel.

Season 7 - The final fate of the Wells characters was insulting. Cisco's send off was insulting, though at least the episode itself had some fun and whimsical moments. The Speed Force being made less of a blue and orange morality type and more humanized made her less interesting. The plot with the forces dragged on. They'd been teasing Godspeed since S5 and he was kinda a let down. Bringing back Eobard to help fight Godspeed made no sense; what would have made sense? Bringing back Nora 1.0 who had actually beaten Godspeed. On her own. After he killed her bestie (and girlfriend???) Lia. Like, they tried to recreate Nora 1.0's grudge match with Godspeed using Bart's trauma over seeing Jay's death but we barely get any interaction with Bart so it just doesn't hit the same. And also, adorable though Bart is... that is supposed to be Barry and Iris' grandson and I cannot ever completely forget that. Dawn and Don are the Tornado Twins and we deserved to get them and we never do.

Season 8 - It had the Armageddon Arc and there was no coming back from that clusterfuck. The plot holes were the size of double decker busses. Eobard was enacting three evil plans simultaneously despite them contradicting each other. The introduction of the Negative Forces and the retconning of the Negative Speed Force as no longer being something artificial that Eobard created. Establishing Frost/Blaine as an official couple. And the season itself had Frost dying for Caitlin who then ends the season by accidentally killing herself too. The Bart and Nora episode in the past was cute, though. And getting an actual good-guy version of Eobard was interesting, but the less said about NSF Avatar!Eobard ripping Matt-obard's face off, the better. *shudders* creepy; I skipped out on most of this season, though. So I'm missing a lot of the smaller arcs. I know it had a *lot* of dropped plot threads all over the place though. The thing with Mia being the most egregious.

Anyway, this is generally the order but it can change up more than this and sometimes I also chop up S7 into halves because the two halves suck but for very different reasons. And sometimes I like S4 more than the first half of S6, sometimes I don't. Tonight I didn't. Nothing beats S1, though.

[marigoldbaker]

no but season one jenny around giles is so fucking funny because she does not for a SECOND care that he is a human being with feelings. giles is literally just trying to defend himself most of the time. she instigates absolutely every single thing in i robot you jane like at NO point does he EVER start an argument with her. she is just so mean for no reason <3

[lemonhemlock]

The only super strong reason for Rhaenyra to have so much support among a patriarchal feudal society is if these houses take honor and their sworn oaths suuuuuuper seriously, which is why it made sense to me for the North to support her (I think this is also the primary reason cited in the show to support her). If they really don't want to be known as oathbreakers, then I guess it makes sense for them to back Rhaenyra instead in the name of honor. And as to why they supported her even when passing bastards as trueborn... Maybe they didn't know, or weren't strongly updated on it? A possible upside to Rhaenyra isolating herself and her family on Dragonstone is that it kept her Strong boys out of the public eye, so there was no new fuel for rumors. But maybe the houses were willing to let Rhaenyra take the throne therefore fulfilling their oaths, then criticize her for the issue of bastardy up until she names Aegon III her heir or gets overthrown anyways.

We're never going to know exactly if the lords were genuinely supportive of the Strong boys as heirs to the iron throne because of how things shook out, or what Rhaenyra could have done anyways. Maybe the show could expand and clarify it?

I mean, even so, it's shady as an explanation. The oaths were taken when Rhaenyra had no living brothers - they swore she was the heir in those specific conditions. When circumstances changed dramatically, the oaths could be called into question. Even current-day contracts have clauses that allow you to renege on your obligations and can be challenged (force majeure).

I'd also like to point out that in real-life Henry I also had his nobles swear oaths to Matilda twice, the second time not long before his own death, as it happens. Stephen himself had sworn, but that didn't stop him from declaring himself king and gaining support from the same oath-swearing nobles. So, I would say that, as much of a boner Starks have for vows, the legal obligation imposed by these oaths may be a little (a lot) exaggerated.

As for not knowing of her bastards, even Daemon knew in Pentos and he had never met them. Royal gossip of this nature can't not travel.

[jafndaegur]

Out Fox

Thunderbolt Fantasy - Lin Xue Ya

a/n: so this is actually a suuuuuuper late birthday present for @ghoul--chan who wanted a Lin fic;;; My whole drive for this was "What if Shang put Lin in timeout for being sketchy and Lin ran into someone sketchier than he"...and then this happened 🤣 Happy Birthday!

Lin Xue Ya wandered the streets, eyes appreciatively taking note of the wares on display. It would be so easy to just pluck the odd bobble off their shelf. But two reasons prevented him from even trying to pinch any artisan items—one, these were simple craftsmen who were just doing their best for a living. Not fun and not fair to steal from them. Reason number two, if he so much as glanced the wrong way at these goods, he was most certainly sure that Shang Bu Huan would tear him a new one.

Not that he feared Shang.

The man was a gentle giant at worse. All bark and no bite unless it truly actually mattered, and defending a normal person's livelihood seemed like the perfect excuse to try and take a stab at Lin. Because even though said-swordsman wasn't there at the moment with him, somehow he would know. Ever since the problem with Mie Tian Hai, Shang seemed to consider him a very one-trick pony. And while Lin would love to disagree, his friend always seemed to know when he had ruffled the feathers of a target or tried some unsavory slight of hand.

So he passed through the town without much event.

Or so he thought.

Building camp underneath a tree, Lin settled down for the evening, his hand going to the shelter of his robe for his pipe. Much to his alarm he realized said item was missing. This was utterly unacceptable.

Rushing back along the path where he came from he realized that the town from earlier was missing. His brow quirked and he slowed his pace. Had he been imagining things? Surely not. He analyzed his surroundings carefully, taking note of his path and the trees that lined the road. His crimson gaze narrowed and he sauntered along the side. The dirt was really. The leaves were real. All of this was real. And after all was he not a master of deception? If Lin knew anything it was the distinct and luring trace of an illusion.

A woman's laughter drew his attention and he lifted a brow to meet her bemused gaze. She hid behind a fox mask, her hair dark black, the faintest shimmers of blue when the light caught it just right. Many robes adorned her,  their unique shape unfamiliar to Dong Li style, but perhaps maybe remnant of Xi You. But that was not something Lin particularly cared about, since she twirled his pipe carelessly in her grasp.

"Ma'am," his voice was even and cool, hardly any note if interest to it. "It seems you may have pilfered something, unaware of who the owner maybe. I'd ask you return my pipe."

If Shang ever complained about Lin being a weasel, Lin would like to point to this instance and say he is but a gentleman first above all else.

The woman laughed, the tinkling sound muffled by the mask. "Well Enigmatic Gale, it certainly was easy to borrow from you. At least moreso than I expected."

"Oho, so you stole that knowing who I was?" His fine brow twitched, and as much as he'd like to strangle her—he had to begrudgingly admit she'd been daring (and successfully so) to try something like this in broad daylight.

"All fun things must come to an end though," and she gracefully flicked the pipe in her hand and offered it to him. "Just a test to see how things panned out."

Lin smiled coyly and took the tool back. "It's best not to toy with things that have unpredictable reactions."

"It all worked out well in the end," she purred, taking a slow step back. "After all, you couldn't even tell where the dream began and where it ended."

"Dream?" He demanded.

And then someone was snapping in his face.

He stared in disbelief at the offending hand. It was one of the merchants from earlier, the one whose tickets he'd briefly considered stealing from before remembering Shang would gut him if he did anything shady. But he had already left the village, and he'd already settled for the night. But as he turned on his heels and took in his surroundings it seemed he had never left the marketplace. In fact it seemed as though it was still late afternoon, and peak merchant hours at that.

It seemed the dream, or whatever the strange woman in the fox mask called it, was truly over.

Lin stared at the merchant, who was asking if he were okay, and waved at them before walking away. He smiled to himself and figured he would take a minor detour on his return to his companions.

Lin Xue Ya had a fox to out-fox.

[palis-delon]

What have I done to myself??!! I just wanted Sidney to rip that gold dress off with his teeth and for them to bang like drums all night long. But NOOOOO!!!! I had to be all, “they’re both to honorable for that  and some how they have to be married”. So now I’m stuck with them in a carriage to London and there was no flirting at the cricket, instead Charlotte is actually super pissed and I SOMEHOW have to cram in all of episode 6′s highlights plus the extras that were brought up by this story into this single ride.

Also, I hope there isn’t anyone (besides Georgiana) who is super in love with Otis, because the story falls out in such a way that were able to skip over his part all together, but it makes him look suuuuuuper shady.

[espressonist]

Well. Besides my untimely death and life as a suuuuuuper shady person.... tonight was fun.:) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpdqVQule1S/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=jnxuheq043lc

[codenamespartaness]

My sister, the comedian!

So today, my family is driving and my mom stops for gas, at a suuuuuuper shady gas station. The parentals go in to buy snacks and what not and someone gets medicated lip balm. We rolled down the window and could immediately smell weed. So when my mother gets in the car and announces she bought medicated lip balm my sister says “Mom you should know better than to buy anything that says medicated from shady ass lane, it probably means it has weed in it”my 13 year old sister is gonna be a comedian y’all.

[bhadpodcast]

He said he’d only do it if he ran out of things to write for Dylan. Guess he didn’t count on running out of Dylan.// He literally said that making Stiles' bisexuality canon would be a last resort thing? Are you serious?

Yup, and it mystifies me that people seemed to kind of gloss over it?  I think at that point he was still in stan’s good graces, but he literally says it in the most messed up way.  Like, we’ll only do it if there’s nothing else interesting about his character.  Like it’s suuuuuuper shady, but I think peeps gave him a bit of a pass because they thought he was going to do it. 

[jelloandclaws]

11, 14, 15, 33? *whispers* dangit i cant anon

11: Is there any OC of yours you could describe as a “sunshine”?

Jess definitely! She is always the happy go lucky/optimistic one of the group (which often gets on Jacks’ s nerves =)

14. Introduce an OC with a tragic backstory:

Jack is the one with the most tragic backstory tbh. His father owed a debt to The Organisation (a suuuuuuper shady company that runs pretty much everything but is really just a façade for capturing and experimenting on the “demons“ that inhabit the world after night fall) but he died before it could be for filled. Now Jack works as a hunter for them to protect his family and finish for fill his fathers debt.

15. Do you like to talk about your OCs with other people?

hELL yEaH!

33. Your shyest OC?

Probably Scara, Seb’s older brother. He has had a rough life, living as a demon in a world where they are hunted, killed and experimented on. He is VERY protective of his bro and is nervous around other people.

Here is a link to my CharaHub profile if you want to check out my OC’s!!!

https://charahub.com/user/jayfeather2812

[radgeorgie]

ok so the sites lowkey kinda shady but I'm sharing what I so........I got these (+ a (g)i-dle case that i can't find now whoops) and I'm lowkey suuuuuuper excited to get them lmao

me buying three phone cases at four am: self care