#all of this is meant to entertain

[limbcom]

me when i accept my nemesis' offer of friendship as a guise to steal his source of power but then got way too attached in the process

[mochi-kitty]

Re-reading Barts first issues in the flash hits different when you remind yourself that despite everything going on, Barts is experiencing EVERYTHING for the first time in his life.

[sidecast-text]

it is 8pm. my gangly, freshly in highschool, fifteen-year-old brother knocks on my door. what is it, i say?

do you have a cross?

like-- like a christian one?

... maybe...

now. we are pretty good buddies. i want to aid him in whatever this strange mission might be. well, what do you need it for, i ask?

... i want to dress as jesus for halloween...

and you might be thinking about right now that jesus isn't a very scary costume idea. it's not. here's the deal:

i live in eastern europe where halloween isn't really a huge shebang.

but my brother and i go to an english-heavy school that makes an effort to let kids have fun on the last day before autumn break.

our halloween is on the 27th of October

effectively, it's halloween without the scares or the candy, and teachers get to give lessons while staring down snow-white, patrick bateman, and jesus (appearently).

we laugh at the idea of jesus in the classroom. and i say to him: you... do know that jesus didn't walk around with a hand-held crucifix, right? for obvious reasons?

i guess... man, they would never recognise me without it though...

we sit in silence and contemplate the loss of plan-jesus-christ. we do that for about two seconds, while i come up with a slightly morbid idea to save the day.

we don't need a hand-held cross. we need a bigger one.

one big enough to carry on his back.

we immediately run to our mother with this hilarious idea, who proceeds to tell us that christ means a lot to certain people and that dressing as him at all would be insensitive and rude. my brother and i insist that the humor of the costume would be the "punching up" kind, and that there is nothing else more perfect for him to be, since he looks like if sleazy j crawled out of a renaissance painting and got a clean shave.

whatever, our mother says, it's your school. do whatever you want, i don't care.

now, i'm sure most of you know that no word in that sentence is loyal to its dictionary meaning. basically, my mother just told my brother:

if you do that i will not call you my son again <3

so it seems that plan-jesus-christ is a no-go, afterall.

I propose that he could be moses--who was at least as cool as christ, except he didn't die--i mean he did, but at the respectable age of 120, and in a way that didn't upset so many people for so long.

however, my brother is INSISTENT on wearing a white sheet. our father and I take turns brainstorming, and one after the other he vetoes:

classic ghost costume

rákóczi ferenc

obi van kenobi

anakin

and many more

it all seems lost. he is debating not even going in on the day of halloween-lite. this grade of high-schoolers are a hair's width away from never witnessing the comedical genius of my brother. that is until he says:

do we have a white cloth with red stripes on it?

...why? we ask.

oh, i'll just dress up as An Arab.

now.

i'm sure the exact same line of thought ran through my head, my mother's head, and my father's head. it went so.

we are all white.

oh my god, there has never been a geopolitically worse time to dress as "an arab".

how do we explain this to him.

should we explain it to him? in depth?

he is fifteen. his brain development is being stunted by his gang of likewise fifteen year old boys who share a single braincell the moment they get in a discord call.

peer review is the only kind of research that matters to him, because he is suffering from the notorious curse of being fifteen.

if he experiences heavy pushback on this, there is nothing that can stop him from dressing up as his idea of "an arab", going to school in that, and probably making awful jokes.

ALL WHILE SHARING A NAME WITH US

no, um, i don't think that would be good, all three of us say.

okay, i guess...

suddenly, our mother is a lot more accepting towards the idea of her youngest son dressing as the big j man, son of god, now that she knows the fight is between him, and the idea of "an arab" conjured in a fifteen year old's mind. in fact, she is suddenly rather supportive of plan-jesus-christ, something she has never been in her fifty years of life.

my brother wraps a white sheet around himself, ties a sash with a red scarf, grabs a loaf of bread and a wine glass, and suddenly JC is standing in my doorway.

to sum it up, tonight is the story of how, through many tribulations,

somehow,

miraculously,

almost unbelievably so,

a mildly problematic and inaccurate costume of oily josh is the shield that protects the family name from the shitstorm that would be my brother roaming the school halls dressed in sandals, a white sheet, and a red-striped kitchen-rug over his head.

such a funny thing just happened but plain text isnt worthy of conveying it. i need to Format this

[too-many-rooks]

if you'll be my model?

[pinazee]

I followed ryan and shane over to watcher and had never heard of worth it, but the more i listen to the podcast, the more i realize i actually relate more to steven. With all the respect in the world, that man struggles with his words sometimes and its like looking in a goddamn mirror 😗

[mishy-mashy]

Bruce is actually really attractive, and I have enough reasoning to make a list

He's:

Tall (. Tall enough to hit his head on the vault doorframe)

Long-legged

Has a straight nose bridge

Has high cheekbones (more noticeable in 2nd pic below)

Has a strong jawline

Sharp eyes, but they aren't small (plus eyebags if you're into that)

Overall, he has strong, attractive facial features

Has broad, refined shoulders. You can tell he works out (or he did, when he was alive)

Even has a thick, muscly neck

He has MUSCLE. Is SCULPTED. NOICE. VERY NOICE. (nice arms. Nice shoulders. Nice neck. Nice legs. Nice butt-)

(There are actually panels where you can see some of his muscles. Other than those already shown here, he's got bricky thighs-

-and in the panels where we first get his name dropped, he's got those shoulder blades too-)

The one time we see him smile, and he actually has a scary one

Has small, kinda sharp pupils, and his eyes remind me of a cat. We only ever saw him tense or defensive, so his resting/listening face is really cute

Other than the physical appearance stuff, he also:

Takes shit without batting an eye (patience, knowing it's just how Kudo is, etc)

Kudo being all "Cut the crap Bruce and give it to me straight", after Bruce tests his blood and is rightfully Concerned because they just faced AFO

Put up with Kudo's experimenting and testing over Yoichi's transferable Factor

Did ya'll see the look on Kudo's face when he realized he had Yoichi's Factor/will? Kudo was going to start in nonsense and Bruce just dealt with that.

Also something I noticed when looking back at the images here; Bruce has bandages on his arms in the void. But not when he faced AFO in the sewers.

Were he and Kudo cutting their arms open in their experimenting over Yoichi's theory? Is this why Kudo has two gauntlets instead of his one? Why we never see his bare arms in the void? That he always keeps his arms down so there's no slip?

Is smart enough to run blood tests, plus has enough common sense to pick Shinomori as his successor

He picked a guy who avoids society, has an Ability to detect danger so he can always stay away from AFO, is also a coward so he's never going to go throw himself into danger, even without knowing instinctively he stands no chance, etc.

Meanwhile, Kudo chose Bruce, who he played Hot Potato Yoichi with; but he did also trust Bruce, and put the only pure combative Ability in OFA through Bruce.

These two made their choices based on what they valued and saw the Factor needed.

Is logical, analytical, and calm.

He tried advising Midoriya on their Abilities in One For All, especially his own.

Midoriya then tried ignoring him about using Fa Jin for the first time, but found he was right, thinking: "Dammit!! I had [Lady Nagant] right where I wanted her, but... ugh! The Third was right. My parallel Quirk processes are all screwed up!" (ch. 314).

Plus, when Midoriya fixed his processing mistakes, Bruce was analyzing the way he reached his new conclusion. Pure facts, no bias, very calm, just saying it as it was.

We never see him panic. When he's caught by surprise in the sewers by AFO, Kudo, and Yoichi's little bubble event, he immediately reacts. He doesn't falter, he just knows he has to do something right now.

Was more willing to listen than Kudo to Yoichi's beckon, and probably was just following Kudo's rejection of Midoriya

While we don't see Kudo's face, we see Bruce's eyes when Yoichi calls on his heroes. Bruce was more open and receptive, or at least more impacted.

Bruce was also the one to start talking, while Kudo just kept quiet.

He actually communicates a lot

When Yoichi called them to support Midoriya, Bruce started talking to paint a picture of why they thought the way they did, so Yoichi understood where they were coming from.

(Though he seems to beat about the bush sometimes, since Kudo spoke up to be direct on how they couldn't just put their trust in some starry-eyed teenager. Plus, when Kudo tells him to just tell him what's wrong [double Factors])

When Midoriya first used Fa Jin against Nagant, Bruce came out just to tell him he knew what he was trying, but that Midoriya wasn't ready; and Midoriya found he was right. Midoriya just didn't want to listen to him then.

He asks Kudo for clarification after finding Kudo had two Factors in him after the sewer incident ("Just to be sure, All For One didn't touch you, right?") Kudo knew him well enough to go "stop beating around the bush and tell me", so Bruce was probably gonna start with questions, theories, and trying to understand everything in general, before saying "yeah you have two Factors. Don't know why".

Is strong-willed and loyal.

He followed Kudo, even to death, carrying on the cause he started until it ended with him.

Plus, when talking about how AFO needs a strong will to override OFA's own, we first see Bruce, Kudo, and Yoichi.

AFO couldn't steal OFA because the will was too strong for him, and that was back during Banjo's time. Since Shinomori never actually tried opposing AFO and just hid, we can assume the first Three (Yoichi, Kudo, Bruce) already had an accumulation of strong willpower that made OFA un-stealable. Those three are a strong enough foundation, and the main wills, that the other users just become bonuses.

Kudo, also saying that Midoriya needs allies with the same will and drive as him... hey Kudo, you're talking about yourself and your old allies, aren't you? That's why you look at Yoichi and Bruce when you say this.

Not only is Bruce attractive, but he's got good character. THE END.

[poomphuripan]

Poster of My Stand-In EP.11 - Love is Merely Madness

Producer Yuan tweeted that the English tagline took inspiration from Shakespeare's As You Like It

Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers are in love too.

The Chinese tagline is "有美人兮，见之不忘" which can be translated as "There is a beautiful person, I will never forget them after seeing them"

Producer Yuan explained that this Chinese tagline comes from an ancient Chinese poem and she feels that it describes the visible yearning and longing Ming has for Joe in EP.11

[polin-erospsyche]

I just love it when Luke and Nic reacts to the show. They are so invested it’s like they’ve never seen it and they’re not the actors playing in it 😂

But also this clip of their reaction has me laughing when they mentioned they had to reshoot the scene

And thank god they did. Otherwise the fandom wouldn’t only be on fire right now. There would be a freakin riot and a takedown of Netflix headquarters

[torantuga]

aghhhh artblock's (is it artblock??) driving me crazy but i physically cldnt stop myself from drawing him....

[brw]

Small compilation of Charles looking kind of cunty in X-Men: Children of the Atom

[wanderingmind867]

Beware the Batman is actually pretty dark and creepy. Don't ask me why Humpty Dumpty became a horror movie villian, but he is. That guy is disturbing and freaky. For that matter, I think a lot of characters died over the course of that show's run. The one thing I give the show extreme props for though (and this is something I like): it's serialised. Pretty much every episode leads into the next in some way or another. I find that really cool. I don't really love how dark things get sometimes, but I like the serialization. That makes it feel like one long continuous storyline, which is neat.

And I also find it pretty cool they chose to use weird minor crooks like Magpie and Professor Pyg instead of Joker or Penguin. That feels pretty cool. And it does give me an appreciation for characters like Pyg and Magpie. They deserve more appearances, because they have potential. Professor Pyg is nowhere near as schizophrenic and bizarre as he is in the core comics, but he's still a cool antagonist on the show. I like the idea of him being a weird eco-terrorist. It works for me, and he's somehow less creepy than Poison Ivy. Yes, a weird british sounding man with his german toad-man sidekick make for more compelling crooks than a lady who seduces and poisons.

PS: I think there's a happy blend between Professor Pyg from Beware the Batman and Professor Pyg from mainstream DC. Keep the eco-terrorism and the schizophrenic craziness, but ditch the lobotomies. Have him be obsessed with creating perfection via mutants like his best friend, Mister Toad. Maybe show a human side to him. Keep his schizophrenic delusions, though. Those make him sad and creepy and yet also really funny. Blend the Brian George and Dwight Schultz performances, I guess I'm saying.

[timetravelstudies]

also if im allowed to complain about the speck of dust in my eye even while otjer people are getting beaten up with blades and knives etc. annoying asf to me that not only do i have to share spaces irl with this sort of people but also and especially that its basically a foregone conclusion when you say the word transmasc that youre one of them. i mean ‘identity’ wise not as in they make the rest of us look bad (understandable)

[the-far-bright-center]

It's baffling to me that a certain subset of the SW fandom is willing to accept some of TCW’s most ridiculous story arcs and blatantly OOC characterisations as literal canon, but then pretend that they 'can't believe' that Padme could possibly fall for Anakin in the actual Prequels films.

Really? You can believe that space-godzilla goes on a rampage and destroys a sector of Coruscant, that several of the main characters are kept as slaves by an evil cat-queen, that Obi-Wan fakes his own death (complete with a pretend funeral) and callously traumatises everyone who cares about him in the process, and that Maul somehow survives TPM and is at one point a ROBOTIC SPIDER ...

... but you can't believe that two child prodigies who formed a bond while mutually aiding one another can meet again years later under intensely emotional circumstances during the outbreak of a galactic war and legitimately fall in love with each other and get married?

Really???

[deewithani]

I recently finished reading "The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire". It was very good for a pseudo-academic dive into the history of the Empire of GFFA, and I recommend it not only for that reason, but because of current events.

Yes, we all know Star Wars is political. Yes, we know there are people who will claim to their graves with George Lucas himself smaking them in the face that it isn't. If you're having a hard time seeing what's happening in the world (and has happened in the past), or if you don't believe that Star Wars is political, read this book.

Read it.

It is obvious a lot of references were taken from the real world, and we can learn a lot about what we can expect in the future.

And if you're thinking "Well, what's going to happen is obvious. People shouldn't need a book or a movie or a television show to tell them or to teach them how to care about themselves and others" then you haven't been paying attention to anything in your life because people do need that. They do need help. They do need to see why. Yes, they should know. Yes, they should be kind because it's the right thing to do. But a lot of people don't know that. They only know what has been placed in front of them, and for a lot of people that is suffering and anger and hate, and how can they break free of that if they don't know that there is any other way?

[panchulien]

Walked in front of Makarov for too long during that mission, ig? I can't remember what it's called... but I DIDN'T KNOW HE FUCKING ATTACKS YOU IF YOU KEEP YOUR BACK TO HIM FOR TO LONG??? LIKE HELLO????? SIR??? How did you get out of those cuffs??

The message on the screen after death was like, "Don't turn your back on Makarov for too long"??... He couldn't, idk... have skiddadled, instead of beInG FERAL and STOMPING holy fawk

Anyway, I got your message loud and clear, Sir 🫡. And one hell of a headache!... I'm not normal abt this

It's a really cool detail in my opinion, if you ignore what Price is doing when he stomps on Soap's face, and apparently he's strong/quick enough to get out of those zip ties. 😭 One thing about Vladimir Makarov is that he WILL step on his enemies (this and final mission) ahahdsjdh

Still very cool though, I didn't get it in the game myself as I was too busy roughly pushing him around (he just goes along with it it's cute and bit sad at the same time??? LMAO) and I was very surprised to find that out when reading the transcript. "Don't turn your back on Makarov." would have me shitting my pants tbh. 😭

AND YEAH. He just HAD to do it instead of taking him out quietly or some shit JDJDMSLDJFN he's a feral little guy I love him <33