#and a host of other issues

[vonclosen]

vent. sorry i’m honesty hangry and upset

actually i’m still annoyed. has anyone in this damn fandom heard of filtering tags. for shit. they don’t like

also like not to be ‘what about’ but seriously if your biggest problems are fucking shipping wars on tumblr dot com i envy you. truly.

[eclecticjaceart]

i decided to expand on the ace attorney balatro deck @okartichoke made!

full texture can be found here!

[Image description: Pixel-art playing cards featuring Ace Attorney characters and items. Iris is Jack of hearts, Pearl is queen of hearts, Dahlia is queen of clubs, and the magatama is ace of hearts.

Engarde is jack of clubs, Godot is jack of spades, Manfred is king of clubs, and the Blue Badger is ace of clubs.

Diego is jack of diamonds, Mia is queen of diamonds, Franziska is queen of spades, and the ace of spades is the prosecutor's badge. End description.]

thank you @quailfence for the id!

[croquettish]

I'd love your thoughts on it but I feel like Hans and Henry are overachievers in different fonts.

Hans' is more in a "top of my school/gifted kid" way. Fearing no one would care or love him if he didn't excel at everything. I think it's more true in KCD1, but in some aspect that fears still exist in KCD2, especially in the beginning. When their initial mission fail miserably, his first fear is what people will think of them when they learn.

Henry's is driven by the guilt that he wasn't enough to save his family. So, after that he tries to shoulder everything to help the most people with little regard to the pressure it's putting on him

Anon, how does it feel to be so correct?

That gifted kid thing is especially visible for Hans in KCD1, I think. The constant striving for perfection leading to, in his case, the decision to just not try at all (if I just slack off and people expect nothing from me, I can't disappoint anyone!) is a huge part of this. But the reason I mentioned the visibility of this specifically is because this still exists in KCD2 (as you yourself mentioned!), but to a slightly lesser extent. Like, there's the part of it that of course goes back to how badly he wants to prove himself to his uncle, but I think it's his time spent as a pauper with Henry that led to it being less pronounced in KCD2 bc it removed him from the institution of nobility, as it were. He still worries tremendously, but in a lot of ways, especially before they reach Trosky, I think he must have felt tremendously free. You can really feel the weight of his obligations weighing on him again the second that they talk to von Bergow.

Henry is 100% driven by guilt and the need to keep moving at all times in order to avoid feeling things. If he's always doing something he can maybe avoid letting someone else down the way he let down not only his parents, but everyone.

"You've never let me down" my beloved!!!!!!

With Henry I think we just need to look to his nightmares (and that includes the whole fever dream he has on the way to Bozhena's house). First he's forced to rewatch Skalitz. Makes sense. His myriad regrets and perceived failures. But then after he kills Istvan, it changes because he's reached his primary goal and is left scrambling. We've essentially got Istvan telling him that he's not done so long as the people that have wronged him are still alive and he's got his dad telling him that he's better than that. But I think this bit is the most important:

He's fine with breaking himself for the sake of others. But the thing that he's most afraid of, that even Istvan warns him of in his nightmare, is the possibility of his vengeance causing harm to those he cares about most, Hans and Sam.

Tl;dr Henry is way too hard on himself 😔

[whaliiwatching]

a taste of hannibal, a touch of megamind, a shot of venom (pours the whole damn bottle)

i love venom (2018) a lot, it’s my go-to movie when i’m bored or sad, i have seen it many many times. i saw it again a week or so ago with a bud and finally had the opportunity to pen down this lovely au i’ve been thinkin bout

i’ve got a much more fleshed out sketch of how this au plays out. not sure if i’ll write it yet

anyway some bullet points

noir (called, ofc, noir) arrives on earth-138 in the 1920s. his first host is robbie and they basically go through the venom movie, where noir slowly learns to love earth and humanity and all that jazz. up until the 50s or so they’re an investigative reporter and occasionally a scary vigilante superhero!

when robbie is killed (not ewaf style. i forbid it), it fucking devastates noir and he host-hops for a bit, doing fun anarchy things to keep up robbie’s legacy but also losing a few morals here and there. he can do a little murder and eat nazis as a treat

the symbiotes arrive en masse and osborn infects humans with them to turn into his fascist riot police army

through vampire-hunting-esque shenanigans, hobie and noir meet, and strike up a tenuous truce to fight the government. hobie does not like him at first, but noir very much does ;)

cue a slow burn gothic romance between a freedom fighter and a devoted monster <3

[everykittykillua]

she is a scottish fold...

[wenevergotusedtoegypt]

I got into an argument at the seuda today with our host/my husband’s friend/2yo’s BFF’s father that I’m still fuming about. Another guest was talking about getting into a particular industry and the host mentioned that someone who was in yeshiva with him, that guest, and my husband is in that industry. I don’t remember now exactly how the transition occurred or exactly what he said, but apropos of nothing he made a dig at the way this guy’s ex-wife had handled their divorce.

Now, my blood was already boiling the moment this guy’s name came up because I know that he abused his ex-wife and withheld her get for a year and a half. But I wasn’t going to say anything about it until that last bit, at which point I couldn’t hold myself back from saying something like, “well he really couldn’t ask for much better than that considering he withheld the get.”

The rest of the meal I got to hear over and over about how I totally have the situation wrong, he’s such a nice guy, he didn’t ACTUALLY withhold the get he just used it as leverage(??), he ended up giving her more money than she even asked for (if so then why did he need 18 months of “leverage”?), I’m not being fair to him, it’s halachically forbidden to judge a situation without hearing both sides, but HE wasn’t judging the situation without hearing both sides even though he only heard the man’s side, not at all! Of course not! And of course we believe women who say they’ve been abused, but also, most women getting divorced who claim abuse are just making it up as a strategy to get sympathy and get more in the divorce at the suggestion of their lawyers, but of COURSE we believe REAL abuse victims, it’s just that men are always unfairly villainized in the divorce. And of COURSE the get isn’t a bargaining chip, except that it’s the only leverage a man has, so he has to use it to get better terms in a system that always favors the woman, but that’s totally NOT the same thing as using it as a bargaining chip. Don’t forget, he is not judging the particular woman whose totally irrelevant mention started the argument, it’s only that he is very certain that everything she did in the course of leaving the marriage was done to manipulate the divorce proceedings. But no judgment. It’s so important to hear out both sides and want the best outcome for everyone, not to just automatically stick to one side. Which is totally not what he’s doing. It’s just that that scheming b**** (not his word but might as well have been imho) [details of marriage ending redacted for privacy] because her lawyer told her it would get her more money, there is absolutely no way she was genuinely fearful for her safety. He’s such a nice guy. And how you know he’s telling the truth is that he tells people nice things about his ex-wife and never says anything bad about her (which is how, of course, this guy got to this version of the story, without hearing anything negative said about her??), while meanwhile SHE is going around telling people he was abusive and withheld her get. Which again, he sort of kind of did, but not like OFFICIALLY, because he really needed it for leverage, which is not the same thing as a bargaining chip. And why did she need a get so fast anyway since she didn’t have any immediate plans to marry anyone else? What’s the big deal? So not fair how I have no sympathy for the men. We have to have sympathy for the men.

I would have happily abandoned the topic at any time, but he kept going and I wasn’t going to back down as long as he didn’t shut up. The guest whose professional life had kicked off the conversation, who is in fact a divorced man who has had a very unpleasant and bitter time of it and yet still magically managed to give his ex her get the day after she requested it, was siding with me while also trying a couple times to redirect the conversation to no avail (incidentally he is a divorced man for whom I have sympathy despite knowing his contributions to the end of his marriage, but remember, if you call an abusive get refuser an abusive get refuser, you have no sympathy for men!).

Anyway when the host walked us out after the meal he mentioned that we should. 🙃🙃🙃Come back sometime. 🙃🙃🙃

Thank G-d 2yo is still young enough that this current BFFship is unlikely to last once they’re at separate schools next year. The host’s wife is fine but I really don’t want to have to keep up a facade of being friendly long term after this.

[free-luigi-mangione]

so now after everything people are back again at dissing him for being funny and making jokes 😭 why what's wrong with it he's a young man why do people not want him to joke also like he literally can't say anything bad like he just can't inmates are put in solitary or in active suicide watch if they say they're not doing well he literally can't say that so he always keeps assuring people he's doing fine and i sincerely hope he's actually doing as okay as he can but like why are people bothered when he jokes please let him be 😭 if he's coping with his terribly shitty situation with humour let him it's at least better than coping in other ways in fact crying there is also out of the question because he'd get bullied for being a pansy the only way dude gets to do anything even seemingly normal there is literally joking here and there why can't people just let him be 😭

[vonkarma2]

I dislike mettatenna

[nightmare-foundation]

There's something about superheroes and legacies that drive me absolutely NUTS, specifically with the imagery of looking at a suit behind glass

The imagery of a face juxtaposed over a suit. The weight of the world on your shoulders, whether it's new or if you're stepping into shoes previously filled, now empty. The weight of the world, the weight of that legacy. Bonus points if you didn't even want it. Maybe you did and you grew up and now you're not sure. Now you don't want it. But everyone's expecting it. Something something expectation of a legacy to strive toward and hollowness of a legacy unwanted

Anyways. I'm going to go throw up now

[purrpickle]

It's not that I think she can do no wrong, but I get Pin, and I support her.

[dykeredhood]

Highlights from today (so far)

We submitted a new loan application replace the one that expired, pick up the pace! We don’t even have the go-ahead from titles noted in the old application or the new application, be patient

This loan application is about to expire, and the member is getting antsy. The application submitted 05.30 is good until 06.28, we have more than a week to finish things up

[thrill-kill-kult]

I’ve mostly been thinking about this in the context of an AU I created, but I’ve been thinking a lot about Toki’s transition out of his parents’ home and into the real world.

I imagine he left before he was 18 and had to support himself entirely from before that in order to get himself out. And like idk I’m just thinking about the moment when he finally moves out and he’s sitting on a bed that he bought that’s in a room he can call his own, and like he thinks he’s going to be instantly happy and that everything will be perfect, but then he has to reckon with the fact that it isn’t, and now he has to deal with grieving his old life and trying to fit in to a new life he doesn’t really understand and keep himself afloat.

[kitsnicket]

you might already know this but if you are suicidal every period, that is PMDD and there are options for medication if you can afford it. my life changed completely when i stopped having periods so i am passionate abt this lol

Oh ya it’s def pmdd

[gmos]

how come no one on here can form a nuanced opinion on smoking weed. like i cant be the only person who both has asthma and uses cannabis. you can advocate for clean air without immediately turning on those lazy inconsiderate stoners and you can advocate for drug liberation without ripping on people who cant tolerate airborne intoxicants. and both of these coincide with the fact that if you live in a community sometimes you are going to be exposed to people with radically different lifestyles to yours and its your responsibility to understand when and where its appropriate to exert your own values or respect how other people are already living

[nightmare-foundation]

First. I must say, thank you for being an ozpin apologist.

What makes you dislike the Academies so much? Other than maybe the age. Actually how does the system even work? I never cared much for the rwby side stuff (only recently watched the vid on the great war & a reading of The Infinite Man), so if it's mentioned there I wouldnt know. Is it just Combat School-> Huntsman Academy, or is there more to it?

I don't actually dislike the Academies, but a lot of people do. I see them as a neutral/morally gray sort of thing.

In general, how the Huntsman system works seems to be you start training from a young age and then you get into one of the four Academies. A lot of stuff on how it works isn't very clear? But Combat School isn't a requirement to get into the Academies (Jaune and Blake got into Beacon without going into Combat Schools), though it seems to be the most normal, possibly the safest way to train and get into the Academies.

I think an issue is how young people typically start training, which seems to be... 10-13 years old if I had to hazard a guess? Though this doesn't seem to be required either (Jaune got in with no training, and learned quickly, but this doesn't seem to be normal) I don't think, just the norm. It's also unclear if 17 years old is the required age to get into a Huntsman Academy, or if 17 is just the minimum required age with the occasional outlier (i.e. Ruby getting in at 15). I'd say it's more likely 17 is just the minimum required age, since it'd be kinda stupid to not allow people to join based on age lol.

Its also unclear to me if getting into the Huntsman Academies is the ONLY way to become a Hunter. Overall I'd say the Academies are comparable to college, with it being the norm to train from a young age and then get into one of the 4 Academies at 17 at the youngest.

The Academies, to me, also seem to be pretty safe for what they do. No required waivers to get in (waivers, iirc, being legal documents to keep an organization or person from being sued), lots of safety measurements (the cameras in the Emerald Forest and the likelihood of the teachers intervening during initiation and training missions), plus legal processes (Ozpin interviewing teams CVFY and RWBY individually for example, and iirc says that certain things have to happen and if things go wrong he and Glynda are held responsible, etc). It's definitely not foolproof, given the plotline of Hazel's sister, Gretchen, dying during a training mission, but these moments of things going wrong are treated as unusual.

In my opinion, the Academies are definitely necessary on paper. The actual system itself is flawed, and each Academy has their own separate issues given they work independently, but overall the Huntsman Academies aren't as evil as people make them out to be. People are going to have to learn to fight Grimm, considering they're an existential threat, and it was already common to learn how to fight them before; the Academies just centralize the learning and makes it safer to do so, and also offers the necessary resources to learn and make weapons. It's safe to assume that before it was learn to fight Grimm or die, for the most part.

The Academies also help to make non-huntsmen feel safer, since Hunters can also be hired help, and there's lots of Hunters being pumped out every year. People can be protected, or they can learn to fight, where that might not've been an option before.

The Academies DO have flaws, don't get me wrong, but I believe those flaws tend to be intrinsic to the kingdoms themselves rather than always being a flaw of the entire system itself. The episode that reveals Cinders backstory is criticizing Atlas itself, since Rhodes is, presumably, an Atlesian Huntsman and pressures her not to fight her literal slave owners (and this episode is in the Atlas arc, which basically repeats "Atlas fucking sucks" to you a billion different times). Not only that, but Atlas Academy is also pretty tied to the Atlas military, and also doesn't typically let faunus in. These are pretty uniquely Atlas issues, given the other kingdoms don't have militaries and the other kingdoms also let in faunus, including the very anti-faunus kingdom of Mistral.

So the Academies don't all share the same issues, which is pretty clear since Beacon is seemingly the most progressive of the Academies (though still deals with anti-faunus bullying, but Cardin and his team are the only examples and were only seen in v1, so we don't know how common that is either). The criticisms of the Academies are all very region-based so far, and that's the legitimate criticisms (I'm still not sure where people got the impression that students regularly die in the Academies, since there's nothing even implying that).

Basically my opinions of the Academies are that they're more or less necessary, though they do have problems that vary from Academy to Academy (forgot to mention- Shade seems very ableist and strength-based, which is a very Vacuo-unique issue that the other Academies don't deal with). I'd argue the biggest issues lie with the Combat Schools, given how young students start training, though the Combat Schools aren't required.

Otherwise, the Academies lie in a gray area. The people on Remnant don't live like we do; they're in a perpetually post-apocalyptic world with monsters as an existential and very real threat. Even if you don't have any Huntsman relatives, it's still very likely you've either lost someone to the Grimm, or know someone who did. They're a constant threat unless you live a very privileged life, and even then, they can still be a threat. Fighting is a very normal and necessary thing in the world of Remnant, and is pretty much baked into the world's cultures. Civilization being destroyed is a very real threat, and a constant one, and the population on Remnant is much lower than here, IRL. So something like the Academies are genuinely necessary there, whereas it wouldn't be here.

Its a very complicated and nuanced thing lol. People have a hard time really believing that the Academies lie in a gray area, rather than being completely 100% evil and unnecessary. They're very necessary, and have flaws. The only way you can believe they aren't necessary is if you think the Grimm are somehow secretly Not That Bad. Dunno, it's complicated lol.

[symbiotic-slime]

would you guys be interested in venom/the magnus archives crossover fan art