#a kind of control. etc

[divorcemotif]

one of the most interesting facets of martins character imo is that for how much his identity is centred around caring for & about other ppl, he's actually remarkably impatient, quick to frustration, and dismissive when he doesn't understand them. theres definitely a thing where martin believes he knows better than the people around him when he really just wants things to be simpler: he's ready to dig his heels in and dismiss other ppl/ideas as irrational when he's unwilling to actually engage with them or challenge his own worldview. he's sometimes right in a broad sense about jons actions being bad for him--in season 4, like, yeah, impulsively jumping on a boat to norway to antagonize an evil cult is pretty dangerous and maybe jon & basira should have thought it through a bit more beforehand. but hes unable to connect the dots himself abt why jon might do that; he's immediately too exasperated with the situation to really engage with it past insistence on the righteousness of his own perspective. which is kind of a dangerous tendency in combination with how broadly unwilling he is to examine his own motivations either: he doesnt think he's important enough for his actions to really matter, but they do, and his motivations are more complicated than wanting everyone to be ok--more than hes willing to admit to himself. season 4 is so interesting for how ready he is to dismiss challenges to his perception of jon: jon would only have fed on jess tyrell if he was possessed, jon would never really want to escape the institute with him. in 158 when he calls jon his reason it's kind of double-edged: how much is it that he would do anything to protect jon, and how much is protecting jon his justification for continuing to indulge his passive suicidality via self-isolation? if he wants jon at a safe distance where he can sacrifice himself for him without having to actually face him, then certainly knowing better than jon means he never has to engage with what jon like. actually wants or is doing

[sergle]

yall are about to piss me off by not having any PASSING basic knowledge of the way the u.s. military manipulates its recruits into joining by typing up one of your uninformed, unresearched, unempathetic, individualistic, unbelievably annoying posts about how 100% of the people in the military ended up there because they just Love America So Damn Much! they're extremely mature and informed at time of recruitment, they can totally leave anytime they want, they totally had tons of other avenues in life they could've taken, there was no rush at all to get income as fast as possible, and everyone in the military also totally is part of the combat divisions and personally enjoys being IN the military very much, big believers of violence. everyone in the military is shooting guns all day, that's how that works. they LOVE BLOODSHED. also I love the "amewicans haha" twang to this type of shit because you're actually TOTALLY stealing our Thing, which is turning systemic issues into Individual Issues. Instead of talking about the powers that be, it's so Personal Choice up in here. It's, "well you shouldn't have done it then. I totally wouldn't because I know better." you don't wanna talk about the military industrial complex as a whole, and you don't want to talk about recruiters, you just want to pin the blame on Specific Individual People one-by-one, as if they're responsible for the system that they're being ground up in. someone was in the military? bad person, no matter what. it's easier to believe that, I guess, than to acknowledge that Normal People (with high school educations) are manipulated and incentivized into joining a system that is Bad. at like age 18. but yeah no that 18 year old should have just been smarter lol haha anyway here are some screenshots for no particular reason

side note this reply of someone going "umm just get loans and go into a high paying field it's easy XD" as a direct response to someone trying to explain how most americans joining the military are being funneled in that direction out of a need for money.

and another person who Decided that americans join the military just CLENCHING their teeth thinking of other people, and not thinking completely selfishly about their own selves and their own income/housing/healthcare.

[dawnleaf37]

hey yeah i had another bad idea . for eucerin

[cledubs]

i really don’t understand how some fantasy high enjoyers don’t see the very obvious metaphor for aromantic denial within baron from the baronies in sophomore year. baron is a nightmare creature that came into existence because riz lied about having a partner so his friends wouldn’t bother him about it? he made up baron when his friends were all talking about the people they wanted to kiss? how is that not aromantic to some people. maybe it’s more obvious to me because i HAVE been in denial about being aro and made up crushes for myself and tried to pretend i had them. just because i felt it was a thing i needed to do, that it was a thing that EVERYONE had to have a crush and that it was normal. how do you see the confrontation between baron and riz as anything other than accepting aromanticism. this thing, his nightmares personified, says to him “the years will go by, and everyone will find someone that matters more to them than you.” as an aro person yeah that’s gotta be up there with the top ten nightmares.

how do you look at this interaction and NOT see an aromantic boy.

(for further elaboration, yes i am aware that aromantic people CAN want to kiss others and hell yeah power to you, i’m just saying that it’s a common thing to not care about kissing/not want to do it)

and another thing with with the fhigh fandom is that like, some people will go through every loophole they can to try and pair up riz anyways. aromantic people CAN be in relationship, of course, but why would people take this specific boy, who has repeatedly expressed distaste in being in a relationship, and ship him with other people. especially since fabian and riz is a common ship. is it because they’re best friends? is it because people value romance over friendship? oh they’re such close friends they must have a thing! it’s so stupid. why is it, that when a character is asexual (riz, being confirmed asexual), people respect that. they don’t often go “oh yeah i know they’re asexual but asexual people can have sex! or want to have sex! it’s a spectrum!”. (that is true, btw, ace people can have sex and all that. but it’s different when allosexual people do it to try and just make up excuses to not treat asexual characters like they’re asexual.) why do i mostly see it done with aromantic people? one of this boy’s biggest fear is people pairing up and leaving him behind. how do you see that as a boy who WANTS to be in a relationship? do you think he WANTS to pair up as well?

just because it’s not been outwardly confirmed and directly said “riz gukgak is aromantic” doesn’t mean that it’s not true, y’know? there’s subtext, there’s symbolism, there’s metaphors, there’s DIRECT REFERENCES TO RIZ NOT LIKING ROMANCE! i don’t really know how people can see him as alloromantic

anyways thank you for coming to my ted talk, this is sam (confirmed aroace) signing off or something

(also some of my non-aro, romance enjoying friends have confirmed that the aro implications are very obvious so clearly it’s not just an aro brain thing to understand)

[the-muffin-master]

"Since the Netherbrain fell, you and Astarion have seen more of Faerûn than you ever thought possible. One night, he tells you that these last six months of happy memories are the counterweight to two hundred years of misery."

idk what's up with my obsession with drawing astarion being happy and cared for but I'm sure it's not gonna come up in therapy. AFFECTION BEAM!!!!

[velvetjune]

occasionally get hit by how much I love saga and casey’s relationship. casey being a part of the family, saga investigating on her own to find casey, them supporting each other even in the questionable reality around them, telling each other jokes the entire time, being in sync with their little coffee drinks. love them

[aiura-stan]

like. we see everything through Saiki’s viewpoint, but never stop to consider that he is in fact a very unreliable narrator. and while he mostly has good intentions, the degree to which he is alienated from society, from other people at large, by virtue of the magnitude of his abilities, means that he doesn’t (can’t) follow the same morality code everyone else does. I mean… he invades others’ privacy by default. Every second of every day he is observing and analyzing people. I don’t think it’s possible that there are no bystanders harmed in his attempts to remain hidden and perceived as “normal” at all expenses.

Like… just returning to thinking about the island incident, and the cop, and Kusuo overall being on a completely different playing field than other people, to the point where he thinks of himself as almost a separate species.

I’m just saying. He isn’t necessarily excusably innocent.

All of this isn’t to say that he doesn’t deserve a normal life and friends and all of that. He does. But I think the akechi bullying incident is the point at which he really realized what it meant to have those kind of powers. And that there is no way for him to truly be a normal person. there’s probably no way for him to be “good” because being good (not having excessive negative effects on others) would have to mean being fully normal/average. So that’s the standard he has to aspire to.

in most ways, he really is doing the best he can. But the best that he can will never be enough sheerly by virtue of his differences. But it’s better than the alternative; it’s better than Saiki allowing himself the full expression of his abilities that would be completely natural for him to use.

[cloudysarts]

imagine if the federation tried to make a phoenix with birdperson's daughter wouldn't that be fucked up hahaha < insane

like father like daughter.

(pr0/c0mship dni)

[ef-1]

[starrysharks]

chapter 1 of reassassination's nearly done script-wise! hopefully the next chapters won't take like 6 months of on-and-off work to complete lol

[ai-the-broccoli]

it's something I've thought about for a short while, but...

transmasc and/or nonbinary Hotori Yuzuki . is this anything

(I say into the mic, to an audience of like barely anyone really though, there are so few posts in hotori's character tags)

[giantisms]

everybody and their mother is doing these so it's my turn. feel free to reblog chain. or not 👍

[sprolden]

truly did not expect to come out of my tmi reread a hardcore jimon but i should have known that the second i started ironically shipping them it was over for me

[stuck-in-the-ghost-zone]

HEY MAC i'm still in the middle of commenting on ur fic & ill certainly be in ur inbox more BUT before i forget. holds the microphone up. eyes emoji. do u have thoughts on like, Why u chose the animals u did for overlord's experiments??? why those ones!!! i had such a delightful interlude looking at photos of north atlantic right whales & honduran white bats and carpenter bees and pit vipers.......... ofcourse i want 2 know ur Entire Fucking Thought process for mark as always but also like!!! everyone else!!!! tell me abt em!!!!!!!!! what the hell was overlord aiming for!!!

OVERLORD DIDNT HAVE A GOAL HE JUST LIKES TO FUCK AROUND AND FIND OUT. the real answer tho was that these were my fun little easter eggs for myself <3 all of the ones I listed and described are based on ocs of mine so they were just fun little treats For Me :] SO THERES NOT LIKE. a plot reason or anything other than me taking my barbie dolls and ripping their arms off to replace them with like. tmnt action figure parts. is this anything. I might bring back Marlon for funsies bc hes a cape oc I haven't done anything with yet but Oliver is one of my tfobh guys and Marie is based on an oc I had when I was a weird little girl. hehehehe

ALSO EXTREMELY GLAD U LOOKED UP PICTURES I loved putting in the scientific names bc I was like. this is like a fun little puzzle. people who dont care all that much will be like "huh okay weird" and won't know the deal until I describe the animal traits later and people who DO care will get to look at pictures of animals :] will graham voice this is my design. etc etc

[isekyaaa]

The closest character to Kokomi in terms of similarities is Alhaitham. They both want to essentially do what interests them the most (read) and be left alone. Both are quite intuitive about understanding and predicting situations and people. The difference is that Kokomi feels a higher level of responsibility over her environment then Alhaitham. She feels more obligated to do what she doesn’t want to do while Alhaitham just cannot be bothered.

[casiavium]

Zelda and Link redesigns for the sword spirit au :) just messy doodles that didn't quite turn out how I imagine them, someday I'll actually sit down and work out how I want sword spirit!Link to look