#WHAT DID YOU THINK WAS GOING TO HAPPEN

[makerofrunevests]

Brad: *Makes Mobius sad, brings up Frigga’s death*

Brad when he gets tortured:

[kacchanbiased]

Every time I see people complain that MHA’s “biggest problems” are the “Endeavor-Todoroki” storyline and the “Bakugou-Midoriya” storyline it makes me feel really smart because what did these people think was going to happen in the story about reconciliation and atonement. Why are you reading the reconciliation and atonement story and being shocked when major plot lines surround reconciliation and atonement.

[tweedfrog]

Very funny seeing the dem advisors freak out and go "WE NEED TO BUILD PODCAST BROS IN A LAB" as a response to right wing streamers and influencers and Joe Rogan as though they didn't just spend the past year sending cops to universities to beat, arrest, and tear gas left-wing kids on college campuses who idk. May have been useful with this whole "new media ecosystem" thing.

[sharkboywrites]

God I hate when people literally start an argument and then start crying at the fact that people are responding to it like you literally fucking started it what did you think was gonna happen *cough* that one transfem that was blatantly wrong about transmasc experiences and started crying harassment and zionism when transmascs told her she was wrong and were justly upset with her *cough cough*

[solacesupreme]

i was fighting someone on a head 2 head 3s cab and in the middle of the first round of the 2nd game the girl walked over to my side and said something like “you’re too good i don’t want to play anymore”. the funniest part is she was the one who asked me for a rematch after losing the first game.

[vox-off]

half the people on my dash: don't give tumblr money 🙄 they're a corporation 😤 everyone who gives tumblr money is an idiot 😒

tumblr: we don't have enough money to continue operating as normal and we have to downsize

same people:

[mathemon]

well well well, if it isn't the consequences of their actions

[tweedfrog]

My mum: wow why does my child love violence idk what's up with her

Also my mother: names me after a historical figure who killed a guy

[fantasticgothicpeachsludge]

Bernard: i lied. i don’t like sex. put your clothes back on babe and watch my power point presentation about What The Fuck Is Going On Between Batman And Twoface

Tim: …

[humofnight]

me: maybe I will text the people I went on a date with. That’s how this works right

me, a minute later: oh god they all responded now I have to TALK to them

[fenris-returns]

Shut up, kike

These carne asada tacos from Germany....

[prismaticutie]

My parents are so fucking stupid they're so "pro gun rights" or whatever the fuck but as of today Flordia doesn't require like anything to carry a gun you can just open carry for the fuck of it and they're like "oh be careful! People can carry guns freely now so be more careful!" How fucking dense can you be

[iwcfyaiicwicty]

Knocking out and locking the person that just found out has insane powers tied to their emotions when highly emotional in a box during highly emotional situations is probably not a Wise Decision Luther

[technically-human]

Part two of the reverse verse is here! The reverse boys meet the original boys. They're not really getting along as well as I had hoped...

Again, this was a commission for @i-am-as-normal-as-you-are and they asked for angst/funny vibes... I think it's mostly just angst though. Oh, well...

Part one

[valtsv]

Underused psychological/body horror concept: Character who knows their body was changed without their knowledge or permission, but also realizes their mind was affected because the change itself doesnt bother them at all. They're in a form unrecognizable to how they've been the whole rest of their life, and the most upsetting part is the realization that they're unable to be upset about it.

oh fuck yeah. i'm definitely projecting here, but there is something so satisfyingly horrifying about being able to rationally recognise that you should feel a certain way, but being physically and psychologically incapable of it, because the part of you that would enable you to access those emotions has been cut away, torn up by the roots and cauterised shut before you could feel the pain of the wound it left behind. the added insult to injury of not only having something stolen from you, but taking all of the rage and pain you might have felt at its loss with it. the body-mind entanglement; phantom limbs and phantom grief.

[vaguely-concerned]

thinking about not only the specific people lucanis pulls in to represent the 'locks' in his psyche, but the storytelling that happens in the structure/order of them. the underlying ideas are presented something like:

the lucanis who went into the ossuary never came back out again; he died down there (the boy caterina raised is gone forever) -> you're putting yourself in danger doing this (by being close to me), you should leave because I can't bear it if you get hurt because of me -> it doesn't matter even if we do try this, it won't work anyway (again because of me) ('you know what he's like, you can open the door but he won't walk through it' :'( oofie doofie) -> what if the real secret is that there was never anything but the monster in here from the beginning. you should leave, there was never anything here worth saving in the first place. (implicitly: what if I deserved what happened, all along.)

it runs pretty cleanly from outward-oriented attachment anxiety ('caterina won't even want me back like this, she won't recognize me (the same way I no longer recognize myself)) and gradually deeper inwards until we reach self-image and self worth. or you know, the harrowing basic lack of it lol.

"careful -- they'll know we're not right," spite says in one of their first scenes... but clearly, some very deep part of lucanis has feared or suspected for much longer than that that there's something inherently not right at the core of him, way before any demon entered the picture. and the voice he gives those lines to is the person who should know him better than anyone in the world, who he has loved more than anyone in the world -- and who deliberately chose to hurt him so horrifically anyway. 'It's better if I'm just a monster and deserved what happened than it is to allow for the idea that the brother I love doesn't really exist and maybe never did'. it's better if he's fundamentally flawed in some way that needed fixing to help him survive, and that's why caterina chose to hurt him again and again -- out of love. (this one I think he might have a very sad wakeup call on one day if he ever ends up with the responsibility and care of a child of his own in some way and realizes just how alien the idea of ever intentionally hurting them for any reason is to him. oh buddy. also interesting that he keeps caterina as the outermost lock -- there IS a distance he keeps there that he hasn't with illario. he doesn't resent her 'anymore' he says, but he also keeps her carefully further away from his deepest self.)

as far as I could tell the only note in the mind prison that's fully hidden and needs to be uncovered is the sad painful helpless stupid little truth that even after all this, even knowing what happened... he still loves his brother. is there anything illario could ever do that would make lucanis completely stop loving him, do you think? sometimes the trouble with unconditional love is that it is, well. unconditional, even when some terms and conditions probably would have been in order haha.

that's the pattern you see there again and again; he would rather destroy and abandon and imprison himself at every turn than let go of love, even when it's just scraps, even when there's only ever enough of it to hurt him. it's only when rook shows up and as it were takes his hand and walks along with him that he can entertain the idea of changing the story of what walking out the door might mean in the end.