#admit vulnerable

[solarstranger]

being told by bakugou (albeit through gritted teeth) that it's good to see you as a form of greeting and you take it in stride when in actuality the poor guy debated all the way over to mina's house party if saying that to you reveals the fact that he daydreams about being your boyfriend a little over 24 hours a day 😭

[actuallyjustabiscuit]

Ok so

I personally didn’t see this scene as Ragatha realizing she’s alone

I actually think this is her making the choice to give up on getting closer with Pomni

See, It’s important that we got these moments in between Ragatha realizing Pomni and Jax have grown close enough to act like friends

Between her getting to know about someone she’s supposedly been stuck with for years and still being on good terms with someone she’s felt guilty for treating poorly

Ragatha is actually shown to be growing closer with the others

This is her feeling the warmth and validation she’s been seeking out

She doesn’t need more friends, she’s had some pretty good ones already, and in her obsession to be liked by yet another person has made her forget that a bit

Her brief moment of explosive anger with Pomni (very justified anger I might add) and then witnessing how Pomni was choosing to keep talking with Jax (the one who made her angry in the first place) made her feel betrayed

She’s watching Pomni bond with someone who likes to hurt others

She’s been wanting to get closer with a person who who wants to spend their time with someone who hurts her

So at the end, I think she’s realizing that this is not the kind of person she wants to get close with anymore

[theloveinc]

OlderDad!Bakugou who gets a haircut and his baby doesn't recognize him and he doesn't want his dad to pick him up 😭😭😭😭😭😭

Bakugou has a cry in the bathroom and you have to spend the rest of the night consoling him.

Also Hiiiiiii, miss u, hope youre gooooood

head in my hands bc of this, just thought abt bakugo growing out his hair a little bit right after baby's birth...takes him months to go and get a real haircut cuz he doesn't wanna burden you more than he already has and by the time he's okay with the thought (but only for "AN HOUR MAX," is what he says), he has a mullet thing going on and all this scruff on his chin🥺🥺🥺

so he gets home with his regular ol' haircut, maybe a little shorter just to account for ... not wanting to go again so soon, and baby's HOLLERING bloody murder as soon as they see him and refusing to be taken out of your arms, doing that thing where they're flipping their face back and forth to dodge a kiss...

it's so tragic bc not even a little cheek nuzzling helps to calm them bc bakugo's CLEAN SHAVEN and smells like aftershave instead of like dad when he tries!!!!!!

and after, you watch him kinda sulk into the bathroom, thinking like aw yeah thats a bummer but also pretty funny, too (esp bc the haircut does look good🫣🤓), AND HE DOESN'T COME OUT FOR LIKE an hour???

....until you finally have to ask him if he's okay in there and you're opening the door to him sitting on the toilet seat, arms crossed and red cheeks a little streaky with tears...

LJFKASDJFADSJK it's the cutest, most sad sight you ever did see!! ofc Bakugo tries to deny it, but the way he tears up again (after you're done assuring him he did nothing wrong) when his baby finally realizes it's him and smiles (and then how he refuses to give them up again until bedtime) has his ass. EXPOSED.

(i love and miss u more than air, earth, water, dirt + HOPE YOU'RE GOOD TOO BESTIE ILY)

[casualavocados]

You've never done that when I got close to you before. Why? None of your business. Tell me, or you can't leave.

KISEKI: DEAR TO ME Ep. 10

[communistfries]

Thinking about astarion learning to love again and despite how vulnerable you have to become in order for that to happen he still takes that leap even though any kind of intimacy had been a performance to the point where he doesn't even know what a real relationship looks like but he TRIES and the performance falls away and god i'm emotional

[carefulzombie]

i’ll be going about my day minding my own business up until this specific shot of jamie flashes into my brain like a grenade

boy cover em up

[beronicalongcon]

it's so heartbreaking how in the first season shiv is pretending so hard that she's uninterested in being a part of the company and that she has her OWN Good Liberal Agenda and her OWN desires and beliefs and her OWN ways to get power and success and no tom don't worry I don't even want it!!! ofc she wants it more than anything in the world but she knows that to express desire is to be vulnerable to humiliation. but then that OLD CUNT coaxes her out of her shell and makes her believe she has a chance only to humiliate her over and over again and make her entire life about him because he can't stand for any of his kids not to be obsessed with him. "I've managed to get myself into this situation where what does my dad think is my entire fucking universe." sarah snook emmy logan roy kys 1000 times

[rimatsu]

tommy doesn't know buck was compulsively baking to cope with the breakup 😭😭

[bom-bombon]

There's something so haunting about Futurama's The Sting episode. Idk why, but it has stuck with me for literal years.

Perhaps it's because we see Leela's perception of reality crumble from Fry's death, even if she was the one dreaming. The way the voice actor delivered her lines at the end when Leela was crying that she couldn't stand living anymore had me near tears first time watching.

"I CANT!"

She screams, ready to give up. Leela is perhaps the most stubborn person in the show, and yet, here she was, ready to accept her death, wanting it.

I remember being so memorized by it. Such a strong character feeling so weak.

[awkwardrocker]

I need everyone upset about Liam's promotion to understand that it had nothing to do with him being better/worse than Yuki. Yuki outperformed him. Yuki deserved the chance. BUT Yuki is not a Redbull driver. He is a Honda driver. He has no loyalty to Redbull and that is why he did not get a chance next to Max. It's not that he didn't deserve it. It's pure business.

Redbull are ending their relationship with Honda. They are creating their own engines. It's likely seen as a big liability to Redbull to have Yuki actively involved in any tests or even near anything involving the 2026 engine.

This is not an attack on Yuki or his character or anything like that, so please do not take it that way. But, Yuki's loyalty to a different engine manufacturer is a major risk to any new manufacturer like the Ford/Redbull powertrain. You just never know. I'm not saying he doesn't deserve a good drive, but Yuki's loyalty will forever be to Honda (as it should) and that poses a lot of risks for Redbull.

Once again, I am not commenting on Yuki's character or making assumptions about him when I say this, but there are a lot of big concerns if he gets promoted. He could ditch them for Aston immediately because Honda asks, he could share information about the new engine to Honda, or he could give questionable feedback that negatively impacts the new powertrain. Maybe he wouldn't do these things. But if there's even the most miniscule potential that he could, it would make any team hesitant. F1 is rampant with cheating allegations and questionable tactics to win. The teams will want to protect themselves in any eventuality. And that is what's working against Yuki so greatly.

Yuki has proven to be a very competent driver over the past year, but let's not forget that he nearly lost his seat in 2023 and the rumored reason he stayed is due to Honda. He owes his career to Honda, not Redbull. And at the end of the day, that's his main flaw within this team. It's not his driving. It's not his temper. It's not anything else. It's purely who he is aligned to poltically in the racing world. Is that fair? No. Is that how racing works? Unfortunately, yes.

[justaz]

merlin being so overwhelmed by everything he’s been put under, crumbling under the weight of destiny and being pulled in so many different directions he’s being torn apart, going to the one person who can offer him the most comfort out of everyone, his best friend, his other half. arthur who doesn’t realize whats happening until he turns and sees merlin’s desolate expression and tear filled eyes. merlin going “i know you are king (or prince) and you refuse to call me your friend, but you are mine and i really, really need my friend right now.” and before arthur can manage a word, merlin is stumbling forward into arthur’s arms and pulling him into a desperate hug, muffling his sobs as best he can but arthur can still feel the tears soaking his shoulder. arthur not asking any questions and just wrapping his arms around merlin while he breaks down.

[starliteonearth]

My girl Eve getting hit with nerfed allegations, and while I would absolutely love to see more creative use of her powers, let's not forget she's fighting Viltrumites. Viltrumites who we've seen level cities like nothing. Omni-Man once razed an entire planet to the ground simply by flying through it at superspeed. For all her powers, Eve is still only human. She simply cannot react as fast as they move. Once Omni-Mark, who was gunning for her in particular because he hated her, got ahold of her leg, it was over. That was it. There was nothing lame or dumb about how she went out. He damn near cracked her skull open on the concrete with how hard he smacked her into the ground.

[bugwolfsstuff]

I sometimes wanna just shove all my AU Nicos together and make them travel a long distance together just to see what would happen:

Cause my Nicos are:

A depressed former lighthouse keeper who knows mermaids exist but doesn't care and left before any of the actual mermaid drama (Mermaid AU)

A angry traumatized kid who hasnt touched grass or seen the sun in 2 years and has relationship and father issues*✨✨ (Dark gods AU)

A newly ascended god who also hasn't touched grass or seen the sun in 6 years but doesn't have father or relationship issues**, turned his grief into the grind✨✨ and is waiting for his boyfriend to die (Post-Pomegranate Prince AU)

An undiagnosed autistic 8 year old kid from a small town in 1980s America (Pre TTC Mortal AU)

A reincarnated god with PTSD that isn't technically his and some form of a divine seizure disorder caused BY ✨godly memories✨ that swears like a sailor in ancient Greek*** (Zagreus incarnation AU)

Literally canon Nico but add on technical suicide attempt of the soul via the Lethe (Main AU)

Also just canon Nico but make her happier because she's slowly starting to see her sisters in the mirror and her boyfriend is great (Trans fem Nico AU)

I give them 10 minutes before they're at each others throats or crying. They are all trying to protect Mortal Nico's innocence the best they can as his sister's not dead (yet) and nothing bad has happened to him (yet). Somehow the healthiest and sanest one here other than him is Pomegranate Prince! Nico and that's wild, bro has his life together even if he's trapped in the underworld😭

*Hades' fault

**Also Hades' fault

***Hades' fault too, turns out the swears you accidentally taught your infant godly son transcend lifetimes

[grasshopperdoingdogpaddle]

[wormonastringtime]

goodnight 😴

[mockiery]

Once Upon A Time 3x05 "Good Form" my beloved, I know the text and shots and scene transitions directly parallel Hook saving David's life to Killian's loss of his brother, and Killian's pained expressions of seeing David succumb more and more to the same poison Liam did. Killian's insistence David tell his family, give them the chance to say goodbye that Killian didnt have with his brother. Of Killian himself sayinf David reminded him of Liam, his canonical hero. I know the ep's dialogue speaks of Killian's want to be seen as a man of honor, to be that man of honor.

And I know Killian would absolutely have been a deflective ass with the "I didn't do it for you" to David about saving his life, bantering teasingly that he did it for Emma like David has accused all of his actions to get to and be at Neverland as - just a selfish attempt to have Emma.

And I know Killian's half-joking flirtation with Emma later with "Is that all your father's life is worth to you?" is in character bc for his entire presence on the show previously he has used compliments of himself and flirtatious remarks as deflection, jokes, and to be actively antagonistic/inflammatory/annoying/playful.

I know all of this. I know this is all perfectly in character and the nonspoken motives informed by the flashbacks to his past and his performance are deeply in character. But christ alive I wish that a tiny little line would've been added in somewhere that made it clear that his motivations in this ep and the Neverland arc as a whole weren't just about Emma bc it feels like the writers partially forgot this in 3a, despite the strength of this episode and all its parallels. They say characters' feelings out loud or allude to them more directly in dialogue all the time like pleeeeeeease, you could've made it a lil more obvious it's not solely bc of Emma like. i just wish it wasn't easily misread if u didn't read into it deeper with Killian's characterization, beyond his contradicting words