#Some thoughts

[chiqitadave]

week of christmas and my ex from 5 years ago reaches out and a married man at my job starts flirting with me and my dad tells me he is in love with a woman from another country that hes never met that is so so much younger than him and i survived a decade after 17, despite the world not wanting me to. i refuse to crumble at the hands of men.

im two days away from a decade after 18. there's so much i've learned since. how do i tell her that was only the beginning.

i know there is no actual significance in the passage of a decade other than the fact that we count in base 10 and that passage has it's own fancy name but i cant help myself from putting meaning where it doesnt matter. every year for the next 9 years i will think of where i was 10 years before. i will compare and contrast my life like one of those "find the difference" puzzles. i will keep shaking my head no no no when i find there is little difference. the list of names that i avoid grows longer and more holes show up in my ears but the core of it is all the same. i sit there, the nights before the birthday and hope that it will mean something this time. i hope that the last digit of the year changing might cosmically change my outlook on life. that this will be the year i get it. this is the year i learn to be okay with everything that keeps happening. maybe this is the year things finally slow down?

i dreaded 27. i dreaded the reminder that it was a decade from the rotten 17. i know its not very grown of me to still be bitter about 17 and maybe it just further proves that i'm no different than 17. she had hopes of what 18 would be and im just hoping that 28 is kind to me. at the end of the day let it be kind. let me be happy to usher in 29. let me look back at 28 with fondness. let me not be haunted by the decade. just please let it be kind.

[ceasarslegion]

Ive noticed recently that my generation has... no concept of what the various economic classes actually are anymore. I talk to my friends and they genuinely say things like "at least i can afford a middle class lifestyle with this job because i dont need a roommate for my one bedroom apartment" and its like... oughh

You guys, middle class doesnt mean "a stable enough rented roof over your head," it means "a house you bought, a nice car or two, the ability to support a family, and take days off and vacations every year with income to spare for retirement savings and rainy days." If all you have is a rented apartment without a roommate and a used car, you're lower class. That's lower class.

And i cant help but wonder if this is why you get kids on tumblr lumping in doctors and actors into their "eat the rich" rhetoric: economic amnesia has blinded you to what the class divides actually are. The real middle class lifestyle has become so unattainable within a system that relies upon its existence that theyve convinced you that those who can still reach it are the elites while your extreme couponing to afford your groceries is the new normal.

[nathen-s]

I was thinking about something…

Spoilers under the cut!

It’s curious how every other girl who fell for Okarun did after seeing him like Turbokarun or after his “glow up” of confidence.

Like Aira and Vamola fell for him after meeting his yokai form, when he was strong, fast and depressed haha. Although their encounters were in different contexts (Aira thought he was a demon and Vamola was looking for a strong man to marry).

And what to say about Rin, who literally made a self insert fanfic with him as a vampire in her mind. Again as well, after noticing his yokai form.

But with Momo was different. She fell for him when he was still the invisible weird boy, no strength nor social skills at all. Not even balls 😭 He was really self conscious about his true self poor baby and worried about making Momo tired of him. Even when he got curse he didn’t want to disturb her with his problem.

It was in that exact scene, when he handed her his uniform to wear and said his famous line when Momo fell. This kind little and shy gentleman won the baddie’s heart and he didn’t even notice.

And she thought “what a loser, I wanna smooch him so bad” or something like that hahaha

Momo fell first but Ken fell harder.

I love this pannel <3

I’m yapping now. Anyway sleep well and drink water

[ketchuppee]

Something I keep thinking about from TBOSBAS is just how consistently Dr. Gual’s worldview is proven to be wrong. For all her and Snow’s talk of “this is who people are when released from control,” all three of the games we see in the series prove that wrong time and time again.

Lamina mercy kills Marcus to save him from further pain and suffering. Reaper spends his whole time in the arena — to his dying breaths — honoring the dead around him. Katniss sings to Rue as she dies and openly, publicly mourns her death. Thresh saves Katniss’s life, not for his own benefit, because arguably she is one of his biggest threats still in the arena at that point, but out of love for Rue. Mags volunteers for Annie. The Morphlings sacrifice themselves for Peeta and Katniss.

That is Gual’s “humanity unmasked.” Even when their own lives are at stake, even when they are pitted against each other in a literal fight to the death, these children’s love and compassion and humanity still finds ways to come through. Because Lucy Gray is right, there is an inherent goodness in us all.

[yuki2sksksk]

Head empty, just thinking of that yes, Mitsuri is the first woman Obanai learns to love, but consider this; Shinobu being the first woman he respects.

Imagine Obanai still not a Hashira yet, going on a group mission with Shinobu leading and he's like "God how come she became a Hashira when she can't even behead a demon most girls in the corps are weak and they don't take this whole things seriously smh"

Then the demon comes and Shinobu only stabs him once and the effect is tremendous, leaving what was once a strong demon to be a writhing, agonizing creature choking for air as his skin turns dull and the scent of wisteria poison lingers in the air, almost like some kind of warning to other nearby demons.

And the unbothered look on her face? The absolute no hesitation??

Good leadership + able to remain composed + smart and strategic + doesn't let her weakness define her capabilities = worthy of respect.

Mitsuri is Obanai's first love, and Shinobu is his first lady friend that he actually genuinely respects and likes.

(bonus that Obanai would trash talk about Giyuu with Shinobu and she constantly shuts him up cause she wants to befriend Giyuu and Obanai has no freaking clue why and what she sees in him. Judging friend but with concern intent).

[girllookingoutwindow]

Posting the scene again but with some thoughts:

This is a presentation of both characters and it's a good comparison.

Colin, in the background, he can read the real intentions of Cressida like we do. Maybe, because he knows both well enough. But, it's his reaction what's really important here:

He finds an elegant way to make Cressida feel uncomfortable. He has an heroic gesture (speaks of his character) but more than anything he makes Pen feel better, because Penelope feeling sad is something that Colin can't deal very well.

So, this scene is presented to us to make us understand the dinamic between them. It's easy like Colin after that. He's being kind when she was bullied, and in the end they danced together.

Pen is happy. We're happy. Cressida lost.

Cressida does the same thing here.

But Deblin can't see what's really happening here. He's kind. And in the surface does everything right, but Pen still doesn't look happy.

And he leaves, giving us to us the impression that Cressida won this time.

And in the end is a description of his character: he's okay, but he's not the right one for Penelope. He doesn't stay. He would never be, specially because we saw the right thing to do first. The situation is familiar to us, and is easy to feel that something was missing.

It was Colin.

[angelofpearls]

i don’t have crushes i have victims of the enormity of my desire and yearning

[chimneyz]

do you think if buck said i love you to tommy that night things would be different? do you think he knew he loved tommy when josh asked him but he wanted to say it first to tommy? or do you thing he didn't realize he loved tommy until it was too late? do you think buck stays up at night wishing he realized sooner? do you think he stays up all night wondering if he said i love you to tommy things would be different?

[nemesyaaa]

some obx writers here are too good, let them be the real screenwriters please 🫠🫠🫠

[writerofstuff]

Thinking about how Edwin says I was traded to another demon, how he runs through hell trying to escape the spider, how the doll house is where he returns to because that is probably the last place he was trapped in and how, if he was traded multiple times among multiple demons, it was not where he was supposed to be in the first place.

He was dragged to hell on a technicality. When his demon got bored, he was dragged through worse.

Thinking about a sixteen-year-old boy running from punishments that were not his to bear, nor deserve, nor fear, nor escape. Thinking about him at the end of everything, crashing into Charles, confessing so quiet and stunned, I do not have the words.

Thinking of his awe at finally escaping what should have never haunted him in the first place.

[rioagatha]

anyone else here just getting tired of the hate that The Marvels is getting? I’ve seen so many haters just nitpicking this movie so much. It doesn’t deserve the hate it gets.

I will defend The Marvels forever.

Reblog or like to get a sword to help defend The Marvels: ()xxxxx[[{:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::>

[ceasarslegion]

The tumblr experience is having politics that make the most left leaning progressive you know irl blush and then logging on here and getting called a bootlicker fascist because you said that you dont think we should make the reign of terror happen again

[restlesskeychains]

The ideal astyanax lives au is where Andromache actually listens to Cassandra and starts to believes her after she prophecies the death of her husband and it actually comes true. She would then go and ask her what will come of the rest of them and she sings the fates of the rest of Troy. Griped by fear, she collects her son and things for the road and escapes Troy (somehow) and IDEALLY she ends up on Ithaca and like, Penelope sees her and takes pity on her, and then Telemachus and Astyanax become brothers and it’s really cute

[earthtokhal]

My take on these journalists rewriting what happened and changing up on what they've previously said is that since DR hasn't spoken to anyone and no one was able to capitalize on his side of the story, they're trying to force him out of his happy little post Singapore bubble he has created for himself.

They spent the entire year gaining from his name, whether linked to the rbr seat or whether being replaced. (They spent most of the careers gaining from his name but that's a conversation for another day.)

I bet a lot of them assumed that once this was done, he'd speak, and therefore, they'd have more material, and he just isn't. I bet they also learned that Lawson to rbr is a big story but certainly nowhere as big as Daniel to rbr and so everytime they've mentioned Lawson or Perez or even Yuki, they'd sneak in a Daniel mention.

It gets clicks and responses, whether from us, his fans or haters.

They want him to speak. They want him to come out and say "but that's not true, this is what happened..."

They're NOT happy that he hasn't said a word and that he hasn't given anyone ANYTHING since then, we saw how everyone was foaming at their mouths to write about his little padel date with Max.

Red Bull + Lawson's PR is another topic all together.

But the bitterness that some of these journalists have towards Daniel really isn't normal. He has taken the narrative back and they're trying to force his hand.

[ghost-bxrd]

Hi!

Kinda on a 'Jason's Red Hood Return Goes Hilariously Off The Rails' phase.

Read practically everything on AO3 with the trope, now writing my own.

Got two ideas.

Dick gets de-aged to 8 year old feral Robin and is in the Tower instead of Tim, Jason's Titans Tower attack goes waaaaay off what he planned.

Jason commenting on Tim's Batman fanfic, and the resulting comment war (with other Gothamites chiming in) leads to Jason hashing out most of his issues, derailing the whole Red Hood Revenge Run.

What do you think would be other hilarious/cracky/awesome ways for Jason's Red Hood return to go off the rails and have him come back home?

P.S. I'm going with Fanon Good(ish) Dad Bruce, not the Canon version.

First of all I love the second idea! I’ve never read anything like it before ✨

Honestly there are so many ways you can have Jason’s plans go off track somewhere along the way. Personally I’m a fan of having him run into one of the family while he’s grocery shopping or something in civilian gear, and obviously they recognize him. So now Jason has the option of either running and letting them assume stuff on their own, or he can come up with a harebrained excuse (amnesia, clone, etc). ((I also love the trope of Bruce not even checking if it’s really Jason. If this is a clone, he doesn’t want to know. Nobody’s taking Jason from him ever again)).

Another fun way would be for him to have that really hardcore “I want my dad” moment. Could be he’s sick, or concussed, or just otherwise really out of it. And he calls either Dick or Bruce on autopilot because— “I want to go home. Please. I just want to go home.” And whoever is on the other side of the call has several heart attacks while also trying to keep Jason talking, trying to track the location. Because— it could be a hallucination, a trick, anything, but— but what if it isn’t—…

Or, good old “one of the Bats is held hostage by a rogue” but it’s totally a planned thing. And obviously Jason doesn’t know about it so he drops in, pissed as all hell but not willing to let any of them die, and freeing them. Which is… very much not what that Bat had planned, but for whatever reason the murderous crime lord is now fussing over them? Better play along and keep pretending to be drugged…

Those are some things that came to mind :)