#a stopped clock is right twice a day

[justatalkingface]

Honestly, I’m mostly rooting for IzuChako to happen because I doubt the series will end with Izuku without a partner and if that isn’t Uraraka I could actually see Horikoshi completing his descent into the pits of Tartarus and giving the BakuDekus what they want

Even if there's no Izucahko, I doubt Bakudeku is ever going to be a thing, and for one simple reason: the way he turned on the originally impressive development of the various female characters, among other things, means he's going to be defaulting to a lot of more typical shonen tropes. One of which is, well, in a typical shonen story the main character isn't gay. It just.... never happens, up there with woman having real roles of importance. The Main Character almost always hooks up with a girl, or is implied to, and on very rare occasions just doesn't hook up with anyone.

*shrug*

It's weird to phrase it this way, but Hori is so locked onto the typical way this kind of story progresses, to MHA's overall detriment, that he's not going to deviate from that formulaic approach in any way at this point, and for this one specific thing it actually works out for the better, because fuck. There is so much unhealthy bullshit with Bakugou and Izuku that Bakudeku just sounds like the start of an abusive relationship... you know, since Izuku and Bakugou started with an abusive relationship, and still haven't resolved that in any healthy way. That's not even talking about if you can ever have a truly healthy romantic relationship with a background of such an unhealthy power balance, resolved or not, or if that would taint the relationship forever, which is kind of in the air in it's own right.

I'd honestly rather it be no relationship, though, rather than a empty shell of a relationship made just to pair up The Hero with The Girl, but... I don't think we're that lucky.

[squidsquadlove]

Biz has just suggested that Nate should wear a leash on the ice 👀

[darklight-owl]

I'm gonna be posting ALL my NWOS predictions on here no matter how insane they are so then when the game comes out I can go "I called it"

[treehuggeranonymous]

Sometimes the government will spend money in ways you don’t like. That doesn’t mean there shouldn’t be government spending.

Sometimes the government will regulate things in ways you don’t like. That doesn’t mean there shouldn’t be government regulation.

[recurring-polynya]

One of my fanfic pet peeves is when people try to write Orihime as a bad cook, which is to say, the food she makes is disgusting or makes people sick. I could pull out receipts from canon about how in truth she is just adventurous and enjoys off-beat combinations of things, but I really just want to talk about this absolutely genius creation from Bleach 330:

oh. my. god. I would eat the hell out of that.

You may be thinking, hmm, it's kind of like a dessert pizza, eh? Well. Maybe. Kind of. I feel obligated to point out that there is spicy mayonnaise mixed into the chocolate. But on the other hand, mayonnaise is a legit cake ingredient (it's just an egg/oil emulsion, right?) and chocolate tastes great with a bit of heat.

Chad and Ichigo are skeptical, but they are teenage boys and also WRONG.

Here's the real verdict:

Nozomi knows what's up, and so do Ichigo's sisters.

[greencheekconure27]

Everyday someone unironically puts people like brendanicus an txttletale on my dash and I would greatly appreciate it if they stopped doing that already.

[thechloris]

Huh

The republicans (maybe) just spiked KOSA and aren't going to bring it to the floor. It's now DOA

As is their usual MO they didn't want the the Democrats to 'win' anything if they could help it.

Now is a great time to call/text/email your Democrat reps and senators to let them know it was a bad bill before it comes back around.

I read this in the Punchbowl Newsletter. Hasn't been announced elsewhere yet.

[countess-of-edessa]

the thing about taking advice from anyone on tiktok or instagram including catholic and christian type influencers, parenting advice, relationship advice, etc, or internalizing any stories of horrible relationships and betrayal people tell on those platforms, or reading about all the ways interpersonal relationships can end horribly and be cycled through extremely quickly on those platforms is that you are necessarily then consuming the thoughts and experiences of someone who is willing to put their face and name on a public social media platform to talk at you. and like 1% of those people have a good reason for doing so and the other 99% are completely unhinged. so everything you’re consuming has first gone through the filter of "is this person weird and insane enough to make Instagram reels of themselves crying?" and if the answer is yes maybe their advice doesn’t apply to your life because you’re a normal person who would not do that.

[stoat-party]

I’ve always wondered what kind of evidence Piper had for McDonough being a synth, because there certainly wasn’t any in her article, and I finally found it — in some random Deacon dialogue, of all places. Arturo tells Deacon the mayor “keeps late hours, with strange visitors.” Deacon replies, “That’s not proof.” The informant says, “Hey, not even Piper’s dug up anything more yet.”

SO WHERE EXACTLY IS THIS WHOLE STORY COMING FROM, PIPER?

[corporationsarepeople]

Wasn’t expecting to see Jordan Peterson arguing that gay sex is a natural male desire but here we are.

[wittyno]

Someone just criticized Midnight for being open-ended…

Stupid takes are part of the experience of a fandom as large as DW, but holy crap.

Midnight is not about the alien. It’s about how easily ordinary people can fall prey to tribal tactics. The emphasis is on ordinary. None of the people on board are special. How quickly othering can turn to exclusion, and to dehumanization. How their undoing is not the monster itself, but the fear the monster inspires. By the end of the episode we aren’t even sure if the monster is just trying to communicate or actively hostile.

If the othering metaphor wasn’t strong enough. Sky is canonically queer:

SKY: Oh, the usual. She needed her own space, as they say. A different galaxy, in fact. I reckon that's enough space, don't you?

It talks about how dangerous adventure tourism can be. How a healthy respect of the other is important. That even if you spent many years studying the danger, pretending it isn’t dangerous can be catastrophic.

That’s not even talking about the phenomenal acting. The lady who plays Sky is so good. She does the repeating bit so well. And the whole episode hinges on it being that good. Because the episode needs you to empathize with those who are scared of her. To show you how far they’ll go and in turn ask you how far you would go? Obviously, DT does a phenomenal job. You can see him fighting and loosing it.

The other fantastic thing is that the doctor doesn’t save the day. It’s another ordinary person. The train‘s stewardess. Delivering the perfect ending, when everyone realizes that she saved their lives and they never even asked her name.

When recommending Doctor Who. I recommend this episode, Dinosaurs on a Spaceship, and Smile because I think it does a good job encapsulating the range this show can have.

[heystephen]

it’s kind of funny to me that you guys keep dogging on the tiktok swifties for calling the surprise songs “secret songs” when that is actually what they were called during the red tour, back when she first started the tradition. who’s the real swifties now

[past-the-blood-and-bruise]

we were clowning and we were RIGHT

[incubabe]

"Surely this cruel but beautiful woman will be the one to fix me."

[kingofattolia]

me when I realize I can draw: oh 😳

me when I realize I can't draw after all: oh lol that's more like it

[redhoodscorvid]

Eventually a new supervillain rises. A scientist lost their entire family to what was supposed to be a genuinely harmless April Fools prank the previous year (but things are known to spiral out of control like an oversized Rube Goldberg device / Final Destination scene in Gotham, depending on the tone of the story).

The scientist was trying to use time dilation technology to skip April 1st entirely. Instead they created a time bubble that trapped Gotham within the morning of April 1st for an entire year.

It was said that to escape the time bubble, someone needed to endure 1000 years of feeling trapped in their own body as they ran across the dividing line beyond Bristol and back into real time. The people who did it won't talk about it.