#absolute danger to himself

[alistair-blackwood]

I'd like to take a moment to point out to detractors of ships involving Laios who feel that "Laios wouldn't take any interest in people!" that he'd hyperfixated on Shuro so badly it was ruining the man's life lmao

[gummi-ships]

Kingdom Hearts 3 - Rage Form

[theghostinabadbook]

I can't believe Asagiri confirmed that sskk invented romance

[introspectivememories]

please put your reasonings in the tags!!!! esp if you pick the last one

[tagarilaghost]

I like to animate & I like PMD. Have this :)

[sayakxmi]

Saiouma Puella Magi AU, but Kokichi takes Madoka's role and Shuichi takes Homura's.

For one, Kokichi's too naturally distrustful to just hear "I can grant you any wish :)" and not think ok where's the hook. So he just does what no one ever has & essentially interrogates Kyubey, so he knows it all even before he gets to make a contract. So, some of his classmstes are MGs & he won't become one himself BUT he still ends up tagging along to just protect them in his Kokichi ways. (Though I'm entertaining Kokichi lying about being a magical girl, because, well, it's Kokichi).

(I also got a small idea of Gonta being a magical girls and Kokichi originally tagging along him into labyrinths, Gonta also makes him a magic gun from the toy one he had, and at some point witches out & Kokichi manages to kill him with that gun. So he always has that spare Grief Seed on himself, bc it's still his best friend & he can't handle the idea of just giving it away or using it himself (he does anyway in the end).)

Shuichi prolly ends up being a new kid & it isn't like MadoHomu, the ppl who reach him first are Kaede & Kaito, classic. Kokichi's there, too, but he's his usual sus self. He's actually discouraging ppl from making a contract when they find out magic and miracles are real, which absolutely includes Shuichi. He's very vocal abt it, but he won't explain stutf, bc 1) he's a liar, so who'd believe him? and 2) he doesn't want them to witch out upon finding out the truth or, idk, murder everybody Mami-style.

Anyway, fast forward, bad things happen bingo & by the end of the run most charas are dead, there's Walpurgis nachting, and he makes his wish to bring back the ppl who died notably not as magical girls. Contract signed, he fights & fails, rip. I also thought it was similar to how he thought he could end the killing game by himself - he though he could finish Walpurgisnacht by himself, too. And he failed in both times. Whatevs.

Shuichi doesn't actually make his time travel wish for Ouma specifically, he wants to save all his friends. Timelines are messy esp at first bc he either tells then or it backfires or just makes himself look very sus bc he's trying not to tell them. He also realizes why Kokichi hadn't told anybody aby witches at some point, bc, yeah, it messes them a lot, assuming they believe it.

Still, Kokichi ends up one of the few people who are nearly always giving him a chance, not necessarily out of belief, but out of pragmatism - bro can stop time & knows the truth, that's just too useful. So they often work together & Shuichi grows closer to him but still we ain't there yet. But the thing is, Shuichi's time travel still makes Kokichi more & more powerful with each timeline, bc Shuichi usually goes back after Kokichi dies, so the universe figured out this guy's life's important. Anyway, another notable thing is the iconic Homura kills Madoka scene, but it's Saiouma with guest stars of Kaito & Maki. It's Walpy, it's not defeated yet, but the training trio are spent & just kinda accept their fate of turning into witches together. And then, boom, Kokichi appears & steals their Soul Gems for a sec & he's like did u know you can cleanse your Soul Gem with a darkened one? But it's a lie & he quickly tells them so, he just had a spare Grief Seed after cleansing his Soul Gem & he needs them to do some stuff. Shuichi can travel back in time & fix things, and Maki & Kaito are needed to fight Walpy here. He actually questions what happens to the timelines Shuichi leaves behin, and ofc he doesn't know. There's a chance they remain, so Kokichi needs Maki & Kaito to fight Walpy here.

Kaimaki leave, and Shuichi finally looks at Kokichi & realizes sth is Wrong. Kokichi struggles to hide how he's trembling & grimacing, and it's Kokichi, so obviously it must be extremely bad. Shuichi dreadfully realizes something worse, and he weakly asks Kokichi why aren't his wounds healing. And Kokichi just falls, laughing weakly, and Shuichi catches him & searches for his Soul Gem and, God, he knew it. It's nearly completely black. Kokichi laughs & admits he lied abt having two Grief Seeds, he only had one he never wanted to use. But they'll have the second one soon, so no need to worry. He asks Shuichi to maybe destroy his witch form as it's hatching, so he'll have the Grief Seed without any fighting… and he admits that he hates fighting, he hates this magical world and all its violence. He says that Kaito was right in calling him a coward, even here he just can't handle the idea of fighting any longer, he's so sorry. And Shuichi tells him he ISN'T a coward. He was scared, but he always followed everybody, trying to help, and when push came to shove he would always make a contract for the benefit of others rather than himself. He's a lot of things, but a coward isn't one. Kokichi actually tears up hearing that, and Shuichi promises he won't let him fight ever again, and especially he won't let him turn into a witch and hurt anybody, because he knows it's the last thing he's ever wanted. Even now he only accepts turning into a witch to help them fight to keep others safe. So Shuichi won't let him. Kokichi probably apologizes and thanks him and then he dies.

Keeping Kokichi from fighting starts off as a side quest that gains importance with time, bc it's something Shuichi won't compromise on (ah, trauma), which leads him to occassionally neglect others a bit, which makes them more likely to get hurt & ironically Kokichi more likely to make a contract, especially since he gets more powerful & Kyubey is more interested in him with each timeline. And that also makes him witch out super quick. Shuichi's paying more attention to him & over time grows resentful of others for how they're treating him. To Shuichi it's no question that Kokichi cares & is just doing his best to help, but nobody realizes that.

But the biggest obstacle in keeping Kokichi from fighting is actually Kokichi himself, bc he's too smart and nosy, lmao. Even if he knows nothing, he will find out quickly. Doesn't help that Kyubey wants him to make a contract.

Also, obviously Kaito is Sayaka-coded and Maki could be Kyouko-coded, so that's a thing, BUT it's usually Maki that witches out. Kaito is usually pretty close, but Kokichi intervenes & he survives, but Maki later cracks on her own (and since in the new timeline Kokichi isn't there, Kaito's the one to die, so he's still the secretary). So it's Kaito who gets the dramatic sacrifice. I imagine he genuinely hoped you could bring somebody back if you tried Very Hard & Kokichi called him a moron bc obviously it's not possible. If it was there'd be far less witches that there are. But it's Kaito, he doesn't listen to reason. So, Kokichi follows him to the labyrinth. At first Kaito's mad cuz what if Kokichi being there ruins the plan? Maki hates his guts! But eventually he gets hit pretty hard, and Kokichi is near immediately by his side, trying to help him get up, which kinda makes Kaito short circuit a little bc wait Kokichi's trying to help? But witch!Maki attacks them & Kokichi pushes Kaito away & gets caught himself (and choked until unconsciousness, naturally). Anyway, Kaito gets him away, Shuichi catches Kokichi & Kaito makes up his mind about going down with Maki & asks Shuichi to tell Kokichi that he's sorry. He doesn't get him, but he got hurt trying to protect him, so he'll believe in that if nothing else. F.

As for The WishTM, in the last timeline Shuichi lashes out at Kokichi for his willingness to just become part of the system. In no timeline has his wish actually helped, it did NOTHINHG, which OUCH but it also makes Kokichi think out of the box more & he becomes the Law of Cycles. And Shuichi realizes what is happening & freaks out bc Kokichi's doing it bc of what he told him & like Homura they end up having a momentTM in space & Shuichi remembers. He feels a lot of guilt even tho he also questions whether anything was real, but if it was, he pushed somebody he far too realized he loved into erasing himself from existence.

[twcfaces]

One thing that kills me about Harv is that he'll always think of Batman as someone who punishes him.

If he's going to get hit, he might as well do something worth getting hit for, right?

That's the thought process. He had the same thoughts as a kid regarding his dad. If he's going to hurt me no matter what, I can at least give him a reason.

Two-Face seeing Batman as an extension of his father while Batman - while Bruce desperately tries to help him is just. Ouch.

[bylertruther]

yk. the resistance ppl have to so much as considering the idea that mike might not jump to immediately and enthusiastically engaging in obvious n indisputably gay shit with will publicly is kinda funny in a puzzling way when season three and season four, where he does exactly that the entire way through, are literally right there for us all to watch on netflix.com. like. Okay ❤️

[kossithmercar]

You are telling me SOLAS called his base house the Lighthouse?

[lloydfrontera]

love how realistic lloyd's survival instinct is, he doesn't even try to hide how much he really, really wants to live and how very against dying he is, like he really hates the idea of self-sacrifice and he's not shy about it lol. partially because it makes it all the more heartwarming when he goes against that instinct in order to protect the people he loves cause he cares more about them than he cares about his own safety. but also because it gives us lloyd deciding to risk his life to give javier a chance to live bc he just realized javier is his friend and he cares a lot about him,,,, only to come face to face with the bone dragon and then he starts asking himself if having friends is really worth it actually like does he really need them after all?? like he's so real for that lmao

[tobebrutal]

you ever peruse zevran's wiki and just...

" He is the only companion whose default initial tactics is set to assist or "rescue" the Warden during combat by engaging any enemy attacking the main character. "

[arentwelost]

woke up the other day thinking about the nightmare sequence in ep 11 and its ambiguity.

yes, it is a representation of how far shima and ibuki are willing to go for each other – the way that they would betray all that they have stood for, to abandon whatever future and salvation they could have had for the other person.

shima, despite being one of the guiding voices of this story about respecting each and every life and being careful not to abuse the authority vested in the police, ends up pulling his gun on kuzumi. even though one of the first lessons he had taught ibuki was that "90% of [the japanese police] in reality don't pull out their guns until retirement. not that they don't shoot. it's that they don't even pull it out." ibuki is merely threatened for shima to direct his gun at kuzumi. he not only betrays himself, but also ibuki and kousaka, both of whom he had scolded for their inability to work within the rules.

ibuki, too – his story arc, which aligns with the overarching message of the series – is focused on being able to make it in time. to stop things before it gets to the point of no return. yet despite being told by a dying shima not to kill kuzumi, he nevertheless does. becomes the kind of police that his mentor had become, as though all of the pain he'd gone through, all of the regrets about not having stopped gama-san in time, meant nothing to him in this moment.

in this reading, the nightmare sequence presents to us shima and ibuki's fear that their sense of selves and morals are not strong enough to withstand kuzumi. that they'd give in to the void when it comes to the worst.

but i think there's enough ambiguity in this drug haze dream for us to read the nightmare sequence the other way around too. we could also interpret the first part of the nightmare as belonging to ibuki, and the second half as shima's.

after all, both shima and ibuki have proven over and over again that they fear for each other more so than they do for themselves.

ibuki is afraid that shima would lean into his self-destructive tendencies to the point of sacrifice, just as he has done so many, many times in the short amount of time they've known each other. shima is a man who would drive them into another car with no hesitation, who would guide a gun to his own head to provoke a clearly distressed yakuza member: "then, why don't you shoot? i'm fine either way." who, while having no intentions on actually dying, still plays hard and loose with his own life, as though that would allow him to repent for the mistakes he made with kousaka.

beyond that, ibuki fears that shima would go somewhere where he can't follow, whether that is towards death or due to some kind of misplaced need for punishment. he's chased shima down about the latter before, demanding assurance that "shima wouldn't quit being a policeman, right?" but he doesn't get a satisfactory answer, just as he only got a smile and an "understood" in response to ibuki saying he won't let shima put himself in danger again.

and so we could read the first part of the nightmare as a manifestation of ibuki's fears too – the way that shima is willing to give up on his future as a cop as well as his life to ensure that ibuki could go on.

and this echoes well with shima's fear of ibuki going off course, which is what the second part of the nightmare is about. earlier in the episode he tells itomaki that he wants ibuki to "remain on the right path." shima has been prepared to betray himself even before he had arrived at the docks; he knows that with his current investigative methods he may no longer be able to walk alongside ibuki anymore, and he does not want ibuki to follow him into the dark, especially when ibuki had just experienced the loss of his mentor, especially when he is a good person.

ibuki has lived much of his life being kicked around, given up on – yet has remained loving and kind to the world around him. in his own words, he's "glad that [he] didn't resent the world" in the ten years he's been benched. shima knows that ibuki's worth and strengths would eventually be appreciated by others, and he doesn't want to become the reason why ibuki has to give up his future as a cop. he, too, is afraid that ibuki would become another gama-san. not only that, he fears that he would be the cataylst again, just as he was with kousaka. this fear drives him to strike first; shima not only reverts back to his bad habits, but this time he's further accompanied with a strong sense of guilt and self-sacrifice that weren't there prior to kousaka's death.

considering how the narative has unfolded and the relationship that they've developed with themselves and with each other, it's definitely fitting, then, to see the nightmare sequence as a shared nightmare, as a manifestation of their combined fears. not only of themselves and who they might become, but for each other.

[arvoze]

you don;t get to learn about this one either (you will). if i tell you this thing is about death and murder you would have to trust me

[philiponmycracker]

The many faces of Sam in one single movie // A totally mesmerizing and intense performance by Sam Rockwell as Chuck Barris, in the criminally underrated movie Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (Dir. George Clooney, 2002). Could not take my eyes off the screen for a second.

[nobodyexpectsthe]

Eventually I’m going to beat Veilguard & make a blog for Ilnarel and he will be the stupidest, sweetest Rook who is even less suited to being in charge than his brother and by god he is getting everybody killed.

He’ll ask Solas all these important questions so earnestly and then cut him off while he’s answering like that is So Many Words, Good Sir. Can I get the abridged version? And remain infuriatingly calm and smiling and you have no idea if he’s Actually That Dumb or if he’s just fucking with Solas. It’s probably both, honestly, he is not a deep thinker and he is not magic and he’d prefer just to know where these guys need to be stabbed.

No tact, no decorum, no fucking clue like this is penance for Solas’ less than stellar life choices.

[thatgirlonstage]

Thinks about arms outstretched and has to lie facedown on the ground for nine hours again