#What even is this clusterfuck

[padfootastic]

every time i read a fic where lily evans is upheld as a paragon of justice and the underdogs and the vulnerable, i die a little inside

bc,,,,are we talking ab the same gal who kept defending snape for atleast five years of hogwarts and however many before that? who overlooked his bigoted actions, even when others called it/her out on it?

ugh

(now james, on the other hand? we have such clear evidence that he fits this archetype but ofc that’s overlooked isn’t it. gonna shut up here but will take the rant into the tags)

[superbat-lmao]

Jason Todd gets blown up, resurrected, and after regaining his skills and control from Talia, goes back to Gotham and goes back to school. He leaves vigilantism entirely.

He’s taking literature and philosophy classes and just about anything to do with writing.

He makes friends, he’s on his way to normalcy.

And then he sees an opening for an opinion writer for the school newspaper.

Clark Kent gets sent the same newspaper article to read in both his civilian and superhero personas. If that’s not concerning, he doesn’t know what it.

It’s an opinion article on the state of vigilantism and hero work by a student in the next town over. And it’s a problem.

Because it’s good, too good. It feels like someone had sat in the watchtower during those first few months where everyone had been trying to work out how to function with so many different stances on morality and ethics. Should any of them really be doing this? What were the lines they couldn’t cross? If we’re working outside the law, what moral credibility do we have otherwise to justify our actions?

And sure, Clark’s written more than a few pieces criticizing Superman, but there’s a point to that. He has his own reasons. This kid, well, Clark isn’t sure of their reasons exactly. Because his gut reaction is thinking this kid is just making heroes and vigilantes look bad.

And there’s a reason that all of his and Bruce’s debates on ethics happen behind closed doors. Because to be self critical is to try and prevent hubris, but to allow public criticism at this level is to lose the faith of the public.

So Clark is torn. Because if he responds, he gives credibility to what could remain a largely unknown article. And if he doesn’t, he can’t control the reaction of other people start responding to it.

He’ll have to talk to Bruce.

[discordiansamba]

"he hears the beads of his bracelet hit the ground, and realizes yukio has ripped it off in front of everyone." PAUSE. i love this so much. reveals like this are so fun (not so much for rin ;;). and ryuji being the one to extend an olive branch despite having been majorly affected by the blue night? this is so compelling.

it's soooo good, I live for the dramatic reveals.

like sure, he knows that izumo knows that he and rinka are the same person, so at least he doesn't have to be worried about her. and shima. well. he doesn't know when shima figured it out, since he won't say, but it doesn't even matter since he left with yukio. but everyone else?

he doesn't think shiemi will react badly, at least.

(she will, though, have a very belated realization that she basically confessed her love of rinka... to rinka. she just didn't know it at the time. izumo watches her put her hands over her face and scream into them in an embarrassed fashion and is just like. lol. lmao.)

but ryuuji and konekomaru? he can basically kiss his friendship with them goodbye. sure, he's not the one who took their family away and ruined their temple, but he can't say he's unrelated. he's the son of satan. he's a demon. he knows for a fact konekomaru is terrified of rinka. and he's had the audacity to pretend be human for months in front of them anyways.

but what rin doesn't understand is that despite his attempts to deflect their suspicions, they've been piecing it together all along. it's why when ryuuji went to return rin's missing bracelet, only to find that rin was wearing it, he just kind of... kept the one rinka dropped. he's not sure why. it just seemed like it might be important to hold on to.

and konekomaru? he's been watching rinka for a long time, mostly because he was so afraid of him at first. but the thing is... if you watch someone for long enough, you kind of start to understand them. i think it's konekomaru who really realizes first that rinka... isn't really that different from them. he's the son of satan, possessor of blue flames, the literal anti-christ but- he smiles and laughs the same as anyone else. oh, right. he's half-human too.

is it any real surprise that he might want to try living as one?

rinka braces himself for the worst, but instead he gets... kindness and understanding. and it's something he desperately needs, considering his brother has basically disowned him, shot him, and fled to the Illuminati- on top of whatever the hell is going on with his eye. he shakily takes the bracelet from ryuuji and slips it on. he feels the familiar itch of his human guise slipping into place, and slowly exhales.

if he's going to tell them everything, it's a little easier like this.

[acaptainbyanyothername]

I have to credit @asamis-jodhpurs for this incredible meme they made about Spahr only discovering his feelings for Phineas when he thought Phineas was DEAD, because I think about that all the goddamn time. Like, the implications of him figuring out what Phineas meant to him and falling in love with a ghost is CRAZY.

It’s like… okay, you are Jonas Spahr. You had so many chances and you failed each one, but now you realize there were more chances you didn’t even realize you wanted until now, when it’s useless and too late. You think he’s met a horrifying end on an islet you abandoned him on. And the GUILT OF IT, to feel like you PERSONALLY FAILED this guy and all along he meant THIS MUCH to you. It was beyond mentor/mentee, beyond romance, this guy was literally your person and you just had your head too far up your own ass while he was fucking ALIVE to even realize it. You only realize how much he meant to you once he’s no longer there to know, and isn’t that so fucked up of you? One of the reasons he died was for your favor, something neither of you knew how much of it he had all along. And now he’s dead, no coming back from that, and it’s your fault, and you’re left with all this love and affection you can do jack shit with and probably wouldn’t have saved him anyways. You personally accelerated him to his death when you brought him into this society, and you had the audacity to believe you were saving him. You were the one who doomed him from the start, motherfucker, and your arrogance said that was doing him a favor. Everyone around you is telling you to get over him, when you just finally figured out what he meant to you.

But even with these intense feelings, even feeling the regret of opportunities missed, you know you couldn’t have done anything anyways. Even if you had been aware of these feelings when he was alive— you were Prime Consector, he was Adsecla. You were Valorous, he was Caenemous. While you did fail every chance you had, your failure was inevitable due to your respective places in society. It would never have worked, but regardless those problems seem so distant now that he’s dead and everything’s changed. It was doomed before it began, but the “what if” still haunts you— most of all, you just wish you could have saved him. You’re haunted by his ghost and on some level you want to be because the grief means you truly cared about this guy, and you’re no longer sure how many things you’ve actually truly cared about in your entire life.

And… maybe, just maybe, if somehow he’s actually alive, maybe you don’t actually want to be Consector or Valorous all that much anymore. Why choose to be torn from him a second time? Why not finally make the choice to do anything you can to save and protect him, in the way you failed to last time?

Well, sure is a shame he’s dead, and you’ll never get that second chance, oh wait who’s that in the Arca—

[ace-and-ranty]

...Lord Jesus, I just realized.

In Book 1, when El says "I should have blown the bloody doors off in my freshman year, and shown everyone back then"... if she'd done that, she would be flat out dead.

If El had earnestly wanted to be in an Enclave, if she'd shown off her powers her first year at school, Ophelia would have found her. She'd have found out about El several years younger, less powerful, locked up in the school. Before the big Enclave war started kicking off in the outside world to distract everyone. And Gwen would have been alone at the commune with no idea they were in danger.

Can you imagine what that woman would have done?

El would have been toast. She'd have been a sitting duck. If she had ever tried to pursue power and fame, it would have killed her.

[sunrizef1]

Sick guys, thank you

[colinfeatherington]

just saw that “cressida is sophie” theory and my life flashed before my eyes. the fallout of that… it would be insane

[fortune-maiden]

CXS’s mother’s comments about someone else causing instability in the timeline is reminding me again of this post about a completely unrelated time travel series and its explanation on superpositions and observers

idk if that’s how the rules in link click work but it’s fun to think about

[ghosthoodie]

fun fact about me, when i drew a lot of homestuck fanart, one of my rosemary drawings was stolen, edited and eventually retweeted to the official homestuck twitter without credit. :’)

original art / edit

but uhh the original account that posted it got suspended, and the official homestuck twitter hasn’t posted since 2020. and i’m still here posting gay splatoon art. so… I WIN IN THE END AHAHA *dabs on the haters*

[imflyingfish]

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[pussymasterdooku]

my dad is considering paying his beloved 25 year old employee/emotional affair partner’s income taxes to make a problem go away. this is obviously not going over well with my mother. in fact it may get us the rest of the way to her leaving! so that’s a father’s day for the books

[pmakuma]

01 / 07 / 24

it is VERY fucking hard to take this game seriously sometimes

[thenotoriousscuttlecliff]

Diana and Donna have one of my favourite relationships in comics, but it is constantly getting screwed over by DC's compulsive need to reboot its entire universe, erasing Donna's entire history and forcing the two characters to start completely over from scratch.

[makeitpoppy]

about the last thing i reblogged, the stress one

YOU GUYS

i've always been a sensitive human bean in terms of allergies and having sensitive skin, AND i already knew im basically a little walking bundle of stressed out angry nerves

but my body literally decided to rebel against me and let me tell you, one more problem and im going to wrap myself in bubble wrap or become the modern real life bubble boy

[miraculousbohemian]

me quietly accepting my fate, realizing that i have only this episode between me and AFIN1&2:

Annie, randomly appearing:

[multishipper-baby]

I've been thinking about Deltarune all day and because of that, thinking a lot about my DR OCs.

Right now I'm watching the Snowgrave route again... wonder if I could make an AU where Dysnomia and Evangelina both exist?