#a justified brat

[boyish-angel]

Bede is one of my favorite rivals

they're just a sassy, sarcastic child that i take great pleasure in sweeping the floor with, but feel bad when something negative happens to them

i agree bede best rival i love him sm😭

little orphan boy all mad and bitter towards the world, dw bede we love you

[valtsv]

Parents: put off happiness until rich

Parents: *aren't rich OR happy*

unfortunately my parents are rich (like. middle class rich not millionaires but still Rich.) 😔 but yeah they spent their whole lives working to pull themselves up out of poverty and now they're not happy AT ALL so i have no intention of following in their footsteps lmao

[im-not-thinking-confetti-cannons]

Raylan and Tim looking at each other, a compilation.

[holbrookism]

my emotionally repressed boys <3

[heart-wit-strength]

lowkey think we sleep on the fact that the one time she displays behavior of a 13 year old in Newtopia resulted in very casual attitude towards discipline through physical violence

[altocat]

"Sephiroth and Genesis clearly hated each other even before Crisis Core! They were always rivals and Sephiroth always disliked him!"

Sephiroth: *Waits broodingly outside injured friend's hospital room for hours*

Sephiroth: *Unquestioningly and instantly offers to donate blood to keep his friend alive and pouts like a kicked puppy when denied*

Sephiroth: *Friends gone? Hunger strike lmao*

Sephiroth: *Company orders? Lol Treason time*

Sephiroth: *Two seconds away from quitting lifelong career that literally began with him exiting the womb because he might accidentally get Genesis' outfit dirty 🥺*

Also in all seriousness Square literally went out of its way to change the flashback scene storyboard from Sephiroth intentionally hurting Genesis to it being a stupid accident due to Gen's own arrogance there was a clear intention that Sephiroth never felt genuine malice for Genesis

Also they're in love

[magentagalaxies]

1 & 2 :-p

thank you!!

"1. Song of the year" and "2. Album of the Year" are such a tossup for me bc there are so many songs i've listened to that have defined specific moments this year and also 2024 has been such a good year for new music??? like idk how so many of my favorite artists' album cycles somehow happened to sync but i'm genuinely considering making a post ranking every new release i listened to in 2024 bc i have a lot of thoughts. anyway all this to say in my attempt to choose one album and one song i accidentally chose 3 albums lmao enjoy

Song(s) of the year: "Midwest Indigo" and "Oldies Station" by twenty one pilots

i have a complicated relationship to the band twenty one pilots. they were THAT band for my angsty 13-year-old self and while i still feel a lot of nostalgia for their early work, i haven't considered anything they've done a "favorite of the year" since middle school. that is until their 2024 album "clancy"

the trouble with the angsty bands you attach to in middle school is sometimes as you grow up, the music doesn't grow along with you. but jfc if "blurryface" was the perfect album for me leaving behind my childhood and becoming a teenager, "clancy" feels tailor-made for all those complex emotions of a final semester of college.

"midwest indigo" is a song about anxiety and seasonal depression, sure, but it's told in such a mundane and relatable way (it's literally just that feeling of "FUCK it's so cold out here. FUCK why isn't my friend texting me back it's been 2 minutes. FUCK my therapist just rescheduled again." but none of these things are the end of the world, you just keep going.) also the instrumental is so tight and it's very fun to loudly sing along to in the car

"oldies station" on the other hand is the only time twenty one pilots has made me cry since i was a preteen. (or should i say "times" bc i swear i teared up the first like 20 times i heard this song). it's such a hopeful song about mental health but never in a way that feels like it's bullshitting you. it's not "everything is going to be fine and perfect forever", it's "yeah your mental illness might never go away but you learn to manage it even if your progress isn't always liner. and someday you'll be at a red light and your favorite song will be considered oldies and you'll have one of those moments like i'm so glad i stayed alive to see this" fuck i'm tearing up just writing about it lmao.

it just felt really special to see this band i kind of "outgrew" suddenly meet me exactly where i'm at, bc i've made a lot of progress on my mental health in the past 2 years and had plenty of "oldies station" moments, while also dealing with trying not to fall apart over "midwest indigo" type stress. i don't expect everyone to have the same emotional connection i do to these songs but they are some of my favorites of 2024

Album of the year: Stick Season by Noah Kahan

ok this section is gonna be shorter bc i'm being more general but basically even tho it didn't come out in 2024 i listened to stick season (specifically the "we'll all be here forever" version with the bonus tracks) in full for the first time on january 9th 2024 and i have been obsessed ever since. literally 21 of the top 22 songs on my wrapped are every track from this album. i went as "noah kahan" for my halloween costume. i went through a phase where i would sing along to the entire album at least once a day

stick season is actually pretty different than my usual music taste (i don't tend to like more acoustic production and there's a huge country influence in a lot of the songs) but its songs are each so well written, both with poetic lyrics and strong hooks, and even tho it's not a "concept album" with a specific story the whole album has such a cohesive theme and sense of place that by the end of the "we'll all be here forever" version it feels like you just watched a movie. highly recommend

also i find it very sweet that of my top 2 albums, "clancy" is an album i can bond over with my dad (he's honestly a bigger twenty one pilots fan than i am, he got into them when i was in middle school and he keeps up with their music much more than i do) and "stick season" is an album i bond over with my mom (she got into noah kahan a few months before i did and there were times when i'd call her while at college and we'd just go off on a tangent about how good the album is)

anyway honorable mention to MOUTH CONGRESS's "Valley of Song" i honestly wouldn't say it defined 2024 for me quite as much as 2023 bc so far most of my associations with it are seeing it come together before the release, but it's definitely among my top albums that released this year, give it a listen if you haven't already

anyway thank you for the ask!!

End of year ask prompt

[arolesbianism]

Quick concept doodle for my worstie To the horizon

[fromtheseventhhell]

Honestly, If we're talking about female characters who receive misogynistic hate then Lyanna needs to be high up on the list. She gets so much hate for a) her proximity to a male character (Rhaegar) b) the pure fanon that people have invented surrounding her and c) resentment that she's such an important part of the story. And the thing is, for as relevant as she is, we simply do not know enough about her character to justify the hate that she receives. A lot of it is just people inventing reasons to dislike her. I also find it funny that a lot of people who dislike her are Rhaegar antis who characterize their relationship as forced and non-consensual, but then they'll still find reasons to hate her for it. She's supposedly bratty and immature, but also somehow intentionally seductive and evil for "stealing" Rhaegar and hurting Elia 🙄. I wish people would learn to separate canon from fanon when it came to discussing these characters.

[mifithemuffin]

omg I haven't noticed it before but in manga Zack uses "Ray" waaay before "what was your name again" interaction at the end of B4

as translators for some reason like to use names/nicknames when there's none in the original I went to double check

and would you look at that, it's still "Ray!" in jp ver

Kudan-sensei????? why would you so casually throw her nickname in there like it's nothing??? do you imply Zack's been calling her "Ray" in his head all this time?? then why does he need a confirmation of her name like 50 pages later????

[baconcolacan]

Okay but how would small RTord react if he woke up in older RTords body. How would he react, to his army, to his soldiers, to his friends (that he doesnt see no longer) Tom imprisoned, strapped down and all that. He seemed a bit more..decent back then

Aaaahhh, you want to know how he was like before he escalated.

Mmm, well, since we’re talking about a kid who thinks what he’s doing is all harmless fun, and hasnt been desensitized to more harmful things yet (that he actively justified as he pushed the boundaries even more), I would say….horrified, maybe.

This kind of thing doesn’t seem all that fun, and Tom is clearly really hurt, sure he used to get into little scraps with him, but it was nothing a quick bandage couldn’t fix.

This….isnt fun anymore.

[punmster]

having an existential crisis because I finally cracked and searched up a summary for Manacled and found out one of the DMSMG alternate endings (which I've changed before this) is like. kinda similar to it??

[blarrghe]

immediately understanding why you all fell in love with zagreus hadesgame

[earnshawww]

mathilde de la mole is a freakish goth girl wannabe with a superiority complex and i love her for it 💖

[tyrannuspitch]

okay we've had a fun four years or so of basing all online discussion of siblinghood on one article about eldest daughter syndrome but i think it's time for something new! anyone want to look up the statistics on sibling-on-sibling abuse? i'm sure it won't disrupt anyone's ego in the slightest

[an-aura-about-you]

so I know I can cook and have even gone to school for it and worked in that capacity professionally, but sometimes even with that going on you just wanna eat some junk. (especially if you've got a Big Cooking Task Ahead.)

and lemme tell ya the betrayal I felt when I went into a gas station wanting a cheddar brat only to find the hot rollers completely empty and shut down.