#WATCHIN IT HAPPEN

[thechaotichorselord]

it’s canon Nar is attracted to losers /silly

there will be more serious content soon probably gonna make a trailer for the AU because why not i like this au and i’m gonna post about it AND IF YOU LIKE IT YOURE GONNA BE MY BEST FRIEND FOREVER

[xxamorxexmortexx]

Bronson Reed!?

SETH IS GONNA BE THEIR FIFTH MAN!!!!!

[pcktknife]

I'm really almost done with adventure time man this is fucked up

[nonbinarycollector]

"instinctive reaction to strong emotions being to smile/laugh so when you do that for literally anything but happiness it makes it seem like youre deranged" gang rise up

[yakool-foolio]

(Stranger Things season 4 and Rain Code spoilers ahead, if that matters to anyone)

Okay, this is a very 'me being me with my silly lil interests' moment, but I feel like Yakou and Eddie from Stranger Things and how their deaths affect the larger scale of their respective arcs are a prime example of how to and how not to do a 'heroic sacrifice.' The main comparison in these two characters' deaths is how their acts of defiance helped protect the city they love, despite the city directly opposing them.

Let's start off with the heroic sacrifice that truly means something by talking about Yakou! Long story short: Yakou loves Kanai Ward, living there for all his life, but once Amaterasu's peacekeepers rose to power, the city turned against him for his detective work. Everyone in the city, including his own former colleagues, deemed his job useless since the peacekeepers could simply handle everything instead of relying on detectives. Yakou even lost his wife because they were motivated to expose Amaterasu's cruelty and leaks, which would ultimately lead to her death. He spent years trying to bring her killer(s) to justice but never could because the peacekeepers did everything in their power to keep him out of it. He's misrepresented across the city as a pest that needs to be eliminated. But most importantly, in terms of how his character is written, he's never shunned by the narrative for his need to stay far away from Amaterasu in fear of what they'll do to him if he sticks his nose in their business as a detective. Him being cowardly was never something that was 'corrected' as a part of his arc.

Yakou continues to care for the city despite everything he's been through. And he shows how he cares by knocking out several birds with one stone by murdering the vile Huesca and dying to the gas in order to reach him. And his sacrifice doesn't go ignored by the public. With the death of Huesca and the reveal of Yomi leaking homunculus info to the outside, changes are made. Yomi is arrested and a new sense of order is brought to the peacekeepers, becoming a much safer place for the NDA detectives and any future detectives in Kanai Ward. Yakou's sacrifice made the city that hated him change all for the better. And with the prototype pill in his possession, he has the ability to make even more change and help save so many lives and not just his own! The characters and the story itself openly acknowledges his selfless deeds and repay him in kind.

Now let's talk about Eddie. He struggles similarly to Yakou in that the town he loves hates him due to something entirely out of his control. He's outcasted by society for leading a group of other outsiders or 'freaks,' and the citizens rally against him when he's believed to be the murderer of a girl he was friendly with. Eddie then goes into hiding to escape the police hunting for him, and teams up with the main group to bring an end to the real cause of the deaths around Hawkins. He clearly wants to prove the citizens wrong about himself and show that he cares about the town by working to help take down Vecna. And in order to do so, he makes himself a distraction and lures the hostile demobats to him, giving the group enough time to defeat Vecna and saving his friend Dustin from the swarm's attacks. In doing so, he's killed by the bats, sacrificing himself for the greater good of his friends and Hawkins as a whole.

But this is where Eddie's sacrifice really starts to fall apart. Only Dustin is there to see Eddie die and console Eddie's uncle about it. Besides Dustin, no one else seems to be impacted by it, not the other outcasts he took under his wing or the citizens who continue to demonize him. His death is an afterthought to everybody but two people, one friend and one family member. He took part in saving the town he loved in hopes it could redeem himself in their eyes to show he wasn't the horrible person everyone else thought he was. But nobody was there to see it, so his sacrifice ultimately meant nothing to the scope of his arc and the future of the town, as Vecna is still out there. The story tries to act like his sacrifice meant more than the characters act like it does. His sacrifice was far from pointless, but the ignorance of the other characters after it was all said and done sure did make it feel like it was. And once again, Stranger Things falls into their own trope of killing off their new fan-favorite character each season, but this time it feels like an even bigger stab in the gut. Eddie's heroism is but a footnote in the epilogue of the season that promised him greatness. I feel like Eddie's sacrifice could've meant a whole lot more if the other characters worked to disprove the citizens' perspective on Eddie, pushing toward giving him the respect he deserved and made his story be heard. It's unsure whether anything like that will happen in season 5, but with how season 4 decided to leave itself on, it's not looking promising. Eddie will continue to be not just be disrespected by the characters, but by the writers as well.

I highly suggest reading the article "This Stranger Things 4 Death Isn't Noble Nor Necessary" because it goes even deeper into why Eddie being viewed as cowardly by the writing is a huge disservice to what his character represents. It's a good read, and it made me think a lot about Yakou's own cowardice and how it's not treated as an inherently bad thing that needed to be 'fixed' by the writers.

[lumiereandcogsworth]

i’ve always headcanoned that belle loves to bring flowers in from the garden and put them in vases all over but this is of course the first time i actually notice that there IS a little vase of flowers in her workshop!!! it’s not a headcanon it’s literally canon!!

[thatpurpledudetrey]

acotar modern au but feysand and nessian relationship got ruined ever since rhysand and cassian started to binge watching skibidi toilet and scrolling through yt shorts

[anachronistic-falsehood]

rewatching the harry potter movies (on dvd bought like ten years ago dw im not givin jkr money) is like. i love the nostalgia and the entire universe is so awesome but every time im like "oh i remember this! this is so cool!! :3" i suddenly remember "oh yeah jkr wants me dead" very mixed experience goin on here im havin fun but then im like the person who made this thing i used to love as a kid actively thinks im horrible and should not exist. man

[ladyshinga]

[to the tune of Love Shack] MUUUG shot, baby, muuug SHOT! 🎵

[jeezilikesports]

props to icehockey players for seeing the puck cause i could never

[anartisticdreamer0]

qsmp wedding today,

slime is 100% going to do a stream,

less than 50% chance wilbur will stream but that’s not 0,

how is everyone feeling? :D

[mildmayfoxe]

finally watching wrestling again btw. can’t believe it’s all in again already. i forgot there was a ppv today until i saw zero hour happening on youtube when i did my yoga video

[xxamorxexmortexx]

Hi, Papi!!

you just sit right there at ringside and get yourself a great view

[gaylittleguys]

trying to keep an open mind bc the concept of this movie is very interesting but the characters are so annoying it’s pissing me off

[no1maddoxfan]

We got the dream team over here:

Best humans, best Velgearians, best Darkman, better of the two AIs!! WE WINNIN!!! YALL BETTER LOOK OUT CAUSE WE COMMIN!!!

Girl I love Kuaidul with my whole heart!!! He got NO reason to be that dramatic and I love him for it. We probably won't be getting many duels from him, at least for a while, so I'm glad he got the whole episode to shine. Also Fukamura!!?? No one was gonna tell me he was the best one?? Ugh this whole episode made my day I love these guys! Also, I don't think Kuaidul got an ulterior motive, or if he does it must not be time sensitive, cause it looks like he can take over whenever he wants and just chooses not to?? And just comes in when Yudias is having a moment?? All power to him ig lol!!

You know I feel so bad for my boi!!! This ep really did Yuamu no favors bro I'm starting to get some feelings about her!! I wanna see these groups clash so bad!! But we gotta see Asaka get smacked upside the head first which is so disrespectful. By THE BLUE ONE(I got no respect for simps)??? BE SO FR!!!!!! Does the production team hate Asana or smtg??

I wanna know:

What's in the mini fridge?? At first I was gonna make a joke about how there ain't no way this man drinks water, but honestly, I think it's Raid™. I think that fridge is full of Raid™ and he drinks that shit straight!!!

Also someone please check on Damamu!! Please??? Theyre having a real bad time!!

[catstieeel]

i’ve seen a bunch of these and thought it looked fun so let’s do it! tagging @countesst @mangomybeloved @stonedpiece @garlicmybeloved @reinedeselfes @kaichouchou @concerto-roblox @themoonsmywife @mothpdf @kindgf @imadeyouapancake @four-am-fanfiction @letsboldlygomotherfuckers @mubbyfarm @blodgram (no pressure for anyone to do this!) and also anyone please feel free to make your own and tag me so i can vote on it <3