#and i gotta traumatize her too to be fair

[bitchimasnake-sss]

unwinding after a long day ft. luffy!

in which, after a long day, he comes right back to you <3

ft. luffy x fem!reader

set-up: its been a tiring day for him, good thing you're right here to offer your services (wink wink)

warnings: both sfw/nsfw headcanons for this dumbass; nsfw stuff includes penetration, cockwarming, raw!fucking (kids use protection pls 👍)

luffy:

sfw!!

- after a long, long day of eating, running around the deck with ussop, defeating like five sea kings, enduring 53628 kicks and punches from the crew (how is this man a captain is beyond me sometimes), luffy is bound to be tired - you're laying on your bed post-dinner, absent-mindedly chipping away the nail polish - you feel the mattress next to you dip lowly as he jumps next to you, face-first - "ynn-" he's whining, wrapping his hands around you and intertwining his legs between yours, "ynnnnnn" "hmm?" you hum, still busy picking apart the colour on your nails "i'm so, so soooo tired" a laugh escapes you, "really? is it due to all the running?" and now he's pouting, "are you saying it's my own fault?" - you peck his cheek, then flash him a grin, "how can i ever say that?" - most of the nights, you silence him by giving him a massage - you don't even think you're good at it but holy shit this boy is obsessed with getting a quick massage from you. - and this has led to quite the number of misunderstandings. "yn," he had asked you when the crew were eating dinner together, "can we do that thing at night? i really need it." "WHAT THE FUCK-" nami is punching luffy in his guts, his food is being thrown out of his mouth and onto zoro, "WE ARE EATING." - he meant massage. - you knew it, he knew it. the rest of the crew? they assumed you were fucking (they aren't wrong, per se. they just didn't want to believe that all the sounds of bed creaking wasn't from you both jumping around, rip them) - yeah ussop threw up and sanji fell to his knees and cried for like 57 mins because how did luffy manage to bag you??? - zoro hasn't spoken in two days from the shock of it (and the traumatic experience of having food spit on him) and nami has retired to her room for a whole business week, she is now only conversing by using chopper as her message carrier - chopper is confused (poor bby 😭😭, he assumed it was massage or something and he is the only one who's correct) - anyways, other than getting massages, sometimes he starts rambling on about something or the other till he falls asleep mid-conversation - rest assured because he will continue whenever he wakes up "where was i?" he's shaking you awake "luffy" you groan, "it's like two am, go to sleep" "oh right, so ussop told chopper than reindeers are called reigndeers because they used to be actual kings back in the ancient times and so rein means reign and not rain like most people as-" he falls asleep again mid conversation - tf are you supposed to do with this man?? - peak, sheer dumbassery even when he's tired

nsfw!!

- this man refuses to entertain one-sided favours - your soft hands were kneading away the tension on his biceps a few minutes ago, so obviously he should return the favour back by massaging your back - you refuse many times because as much as you love luffy, this man does not understand his own strength - so you have a very valid fear that he would break your spine as he gives you a massage - "this isn't fair, let me do it too ughh" "how about no" "okay then let me fuck you, you'd like that right?" - didn't even blink twice plz 😭😭 - this dude is dead serious. - he gotta make up to you for being such a sweetheart to him one way or the other - that explains how he was pulling your top off, sucking sweetly on your tits, fingers gently rubbing over your clothed pussy - that also explained how he pulled you onto his lap, slipping in his dick inside you, stretching you out with a loud moan "you always take it so well, don'tcha?" he grins at you, tipping your head upwards and kissing you - refuses to move tho. - basically baited you into cockwarming him - what a royal asshole. - "what is it?" he coos when he feels your walls clamp down on him, your fingers desperately toying with your clit to get some sort of relief "pl- pleasefuckme-" there's tears clinging onto your lashline, your lips are red from how long you've been biting and chewing on them "hm?" he grins at your state, "what was that you said?" "please-" your breath hitches as he thrusts into you suddenly "fuck you?" "go- god. fuck, yes" his thrusts are merciless, pounding into you at a speed that has your overstimulated cunt spasming in seconds - doesn't let you go till he feels like he's paid you back enough "that was fun" he nuzzles into your neck, breathing slowly "mhm" you feel yourself dozing off he lays you down before snuggling into you and falling asleep - will end up giving you a massage in the morning anyways - although he can be just a little bit of a dick sometimes, there's no one you would rather unwind with

bonus!!

- ussop (while crying) had to relocate from his cabin to sanji's because the walls are really not that thick and he was next door - "i can hear them-" ussop sniffled, standing at sanji's doorstep, "omg i can hear luffy-" "ussop, you have to learn to face the horrors of the world." sanji spoke firmly, although his expression betrayed the confidence in his voice - actually they both just cried and ate the secret stash of ice-cream sanji had saved up - you and luffy need to pay for their therapy now im afraid 😃

zoro's part <3 sanji's part <3

[rosakuma]

DRDT EP 14 Thoughts(spoilers of course 😋)

I’m about to go insane

Okay for starters…..I’d like to apologize to the Hu nation and the Eden!cultprit truthers. To be fair, she was very sus before we clarified Nico’s murder attempt. To which damn Nico, I was trying to give you the benefit of the doubt only because it was strange how you held that wire, but it makes sense now knowing the reason. Man I feel awful for a lot of people here in this episode. Nico regrets trying to kill Ace even if they dislike him because he reminded them of the people who hurt Nico before(peers, teachers, and their father OOF). And now they gotta live with having “Almost murder” stuck to their name while also losing a potential friendship with Rose(we NicoRose shippers lost dang it). Poor Rose feeling guilty of her memory being out of shape(the poor girl is traumatized by remembering the clear deaths, I don’t blame her) and getting blames for it. But thank goodness my goat/best girl Teruko with some good old character development came in and reassured Rose that she is useful and it’s not her fault(Us TerukoXRoss shippers fricken WON!). David while still being an ass that I hate(albeit now feel more sympathetic towards) I feel bad for witnessing Arei’s body first….god no wonder why he’s so mad at the killer, I’m pissed at them too. And then there’s Ace….this episode turn me into the 1# Ace Markey defender. My poor man has been suffering this chapter and things keep getting worse for him. He pushes everyone away thanks to his paranoia, has a eating disorder no one notices which is hurting him, was ALMOST MURDERED with no one worried about him(hell Hu fricken defended his potential murder rather than reprimanding them!), and worse of all, the one person he thought who cared about him in this terrible place admitted he doesn’t care if he lives or dies….oh and now he’s being accused of killing Arei. F*ck Ace’s life is so tragic. Oh yeah speaking of the killer. EDEN HOW DARE YOU, I BELIEVED IN YOU!! She is 100% the murder and it makes me so sad and sick seeing how well she’s able to make Teruko take her side. She even hugged her like Min did(I am going to be sick). I will say, Arei would respect the hustle and manipulation though. Well done Eden, you impressed your would’ve been bestie. I might make another post about why Ace can’t be the killer unless someone beats me to it, but yeah it’s Eden. No way Ace is the killer and it sucks how David despite revealing his true colors is still able to manipulate everyone(bro gonna out do Kokichi Ouma man).

[lakesbian]

“Fair. Here… Let me pick the clothes, and if anything goes wrong, you blame me, deal?” She dug through the clothes in my closet, “Jeans and… let’s see… a crop top to show off that belly of yours.”

see, shit like this entire scene is why briantaylor lisataylor and racheltaylor are all real to me simultaneously. it's literally classic weird codependent yuri that taylor's Girlbestie (who she met a week or two ago tops):

goes around ruffling her hair

calls her hyper-familiar pet names

casually and without permission snoops through her texts to the boy she has a crush on

invites herself into taylor's room while she's nakey to change

makes invasive yet fully accurate declarative statements about taylor's emotions

inserts herself into things by micromanaging taylor's outfit selection and saying "blame me if anything goes wrong"

and, of course, is doing all this shit while lying to taylor to obscure from her that 1. she is trying to manipulate-fix her into having better mental health so she doesn't kill herself and 2. has been hiding from everyone that their boss has coercively enslaved her and she can do nothing but decide that this is her life now and, if she wears the mask perfectly enough, she'll be able to keep everyone living the comforting lie she keeps telling the team. that's all well and unhinged of her and one reason among many lisataylor is real and true, although not in the simple "they're dating" sense.

the thing is that if all that were true and then taylor did just go to brian's house this arc and confess and he was like Teehee...I like you too :) and then they started dating normalstyle, that would be fucking nothing. we would have to throw brian out a window forever in favor of the shit taylor has going on with rachel and lisa. BUT. here's the critical part. taylor's relationship with brian is also weird and dysfunctional and mutually neurotic.

he rejects her at first because his ability to understand his own emotions and also not view women through a deeply paternalistic misogynist lens is so low he at first mistakes romantic attraction as meaning he wants this girl he just met to "be like a little sister to him someday." like, he psychologically does not know how to have women in his life who are in categories other than "coworkers i bicker with" or "little sister i love and want to care for (which i express dysfunctionally because i am 17 and traumatized)," and because taylor is closer to someone he cares deeply about than to a coworker he bickers with, he tries to sort her into the second category instead of acknowledging that she's a secret third thing (girl he wants to be friends with and date).

and taylor is so socially inadequate she's about to kiss him at random without consent and then tell him to go with it As A Favor so she can piss off one of her bullies who happens to be on the same bus as them. Taylor you can't just do that to people. and a bit past that she's going to refuse to mercy kill him after he gets hung on the meat freezer cross. no one here knows how to have a normal teenage relationship. they're all weird and dysfunctional and codependent. Even the straight couple. Could've been milquetoast but dodged it by a mile via everyone involved being fucking weird and bad at understanding themselves. it's fantastic. youve gotta hand it to wildbow re briantaylor. only thing that can improve it is deciding to read it as if racheltaylor and lisataylor are also true.

[spookyscaryskidnpump]

my thoughts on spooky month 6

copy pasted from a page and a half of google doc. crying. spoilers inbound.putting it under the cut cuz its super long. also swear warning.

Ok to start off LILA. LILA MY GAL NO UR DOING UR BEST AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. Im crying im actually fucginf crying. She's trying. So hard. Skid is trying so hard. THEY'RE DOING THEIR BEST PLEASEEEEE. Father Gregor can go EAT SHIT. THEY'RE TRYING AND THAT'S WHAT COUNTS GODDAMNIT.

Susie… Susie no… please… she deserves better istgggggg. What happened to their parents? Are they actually just busy? Are they DEAD? Holy shit what if they're dead. Poor Pump, poor Susie, god please just let these kiddos be ok. PLEASE. ABUELO WONDER IS TYING SO HARD BUT SUSIE KNOWS IT ISN'T REALLY FROM HER PARENTS IM CRYING. SUSIE NOOOOOO

FATHER GREGOR I HATE YOU. ok well he obvs did some good but STILL. GREGOR. STFU GREGOR. I get that hes trying but U CANT JUST SAY ALL THAT SHIT ABOUT JUDGEMENT AND THEN JUDGE HER HER FUCKING HOUSE GOT BROKEN INTO!! YOU DONT HAVE THE FUCKING CONTEXT!!!! ARGHFDGHJSGHJKAGHSD. Also DAMN IS HE A CULTIST NOW?? IS HE DEAD?? WHAT?!?!?!

ROYYYYYY ROY MY BOI NOOOOOO poor guy :( i understand why he hates the kids they DID kinda ruin him so. At least he knows theyre trying now :( and ross n rob just ASSUME he did something bad isnt helping here!!!! I get that theyre also trying to help him and its nice to see him opening up to them about stuff (even if we dont get to know what specifically PELO WHY) but PLEASE get this kid an anger management class or smthn PLEASE. He needs SO MUCH THERAPY. I dont think hes gonna get therapy because im pretty sure his parents are Part Of The Problem but STILL.  Also FUCKER LITERALLY GOT POSSESED BY A DEMON?????? THATS GOTTA BE TRAUMATIC TF

Side note i love ross and robert dearly and i appreciate them doing their best to help on both sides i love them smmmmmm AUGH

KEVIN AND RADFORD FRIENDSHIP REALLLLLLLLLL i am SO fucking happy about that!!!! Also Kevin having conflicted feelings on the kids FAIR. Similar thing to Roy except hes an adult with a semi-functional support network and is able to understand that theyre just dumb kids and they dont actually mean any harm. He’s harsher on the hatzgang cuz theyre teens and old enough to know stealing is wrong but Skid n Pump are little kiddos they dont know better. Also him disapproving of father gregor REAL THO. also HE GOT POSSESSED TOO?? TRAUMA CENTRAL HOLY SHIT

PATTY DESERVES TO HAVE A GUN ACTUALLY. Also JOHN ANGST JOHN ANGST JOHN ANGST! IS HIS KID DEAD? IS HIS DAUGHTER OK HOLY SHIT. ALSO THEM HELPING THE KIDS PROPERLY IM CRYIG AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!

WHAT WAS EVERMORE DOING WITH THE HOBOMEN???? HELLO??????

I SAW THAT CULT NECKLACE UNDER IGNACIOS SHIRT. I FUCKING SAW IT. CALLED IT BITCH!!!!!!

Rick just has the WORST luck lmao

STREBER IS ALIVE LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOO

DEXTER NO PLEASE AUGH…… HIS MOM TOO……

JAUNE AND ROSS’S DAD… HE'S REAL HE EXISTS!! I get ur trying jaune but that is NOT the best way to comfort poor lila… AT LEAST SHES TRYING THO I APPRECIATE HER

THE ENTIRE NEWGROUNDS ENDING?? THE THIEVES AND THE CANDY DEALER IN CAHOOTS WITH THE CULT???? HELLO??????

MOLOCH IS GONE. he deserved it but also THE KIDS ARE SO SAD ABOUT IT? Like they don't really get it but they just watched someone they thought was their friend DIE. HOLY SHIT.

finally. SKID AND PUMP. KIDDOS NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Ok for real tho theyre so much more self aware than the fandom and bulk of the show give them credit for?? Like Skid is VERY aware of his dad being dead/possibly missing and legit just doesn’t wanna talk about it. He knows what death is and he finds fun in it to cope. My poor sweet boyo… and PUMP. PUMP ANSWERING THE CALL AUGHHHHHH HE WANTS HIS PARENTS BACK IM CRYING. SUSIE AND ABUELO ARE DOING THEIR BEST AND HE'S TRYING SO HARD AND AAAAAAAAAAUGH. Also him getting possessed by Moloch while having Star-Eyes basically debunks the theory of the Star-Eyes being a form of possession which is FASCINATING. Anyway that scene with Susie and Pump got me misty eyed and then during the ending with Skid and Lila i actually genuinely started crying. I just want them to be happy. Please let them be happy. Please. PLEASE.

[emilybahu]

My Thoughts While Watching 8x01 of 9-1-1:

(Literally no one asked for this and it’s so late, but whatever… I had fun spending an hour and a half watching a 43 minute tv show episode to share my thoughts 🤷‍♀️)

1. Oh this poor man just bought his new plane then he gets caught in a beenado… what did he do to deserve that?

2. Oh crap oh crap! He about to crash!!

3. God damn Gerrard… I hate him with every fiber of my being😠

4. EDDIE I love you, I love you, I love you! But now that Gerrard said he likes the mustache it’s gotta go…

5. BUCK’S CRULS ARE FREE!!! Omg I just love him so much he’s so pretty!

6. Also, Gerrard 🙄🙄🙄

7. 3 MONTHS AGO! Not much of a time jump my ass! LIARS!

8. Who are you Gerrard? Donald Trump? Building a fence (wall)…

9. ATHENA! Hey queen! Oh wait, they making you transport the man who killed your fiancé… yikes 😬

10. He requested her!?

11. Buck… BUCK! What are you doing!? Get away from the ledge!

12. “Don’t jump!” “Why not?” 😀 Buck you know perfectly well why we don’t want you to jump, and it has nothing to do with the quote below.

13. “Gerrard would just make us clean you up off the sidewalk.” This line is hilarious and so not hilarious at the same time!

14. My poor baby boy! Buck come here let me give you a hug!

15. Chimney making fun of Eddie’s mustache 😂

16. Bobby the technical advisor 🤭

17. It’s so funny that there’s a show within the show!

18. Poor Bobby, like it is partially his fault that he’s not at the 118 right now, but you can tell he misses his team 🥺

19. Oh this kid, I love her already! And fair question Mom, what exactly does she mean by “hooking up”?

20. OH NO THE BEEEESSSS!!!

21. Yesss Buck and his fun facts! I love it!

22. Ugh 😑 Gerrard, that’s rude, our favs at the 118 are beautiful! You’re just salty because you’re old and ugly and no one likes you.

23. I’m sorry like half of this is gonna be me complaining about Gerrard… he’s so rude though! How dare he yell at Josh like that, for something he can’t control.

24. No, no, no! The bees got in!

25. No, no, nope! ABSOLUTELY NOT! The bees fucking went down the second driver’s throat!? I’d be outta there in a second!

26. Why did you smack the bee!? Aahhhhhh no!

27. Thank god the girl is okay! Oh damn, of course the mom gets stung too!

28. “Why do I taste honey?” SIR?!

29. Oh god no!

30. This poor kid, this has got to be so incredibly traumatic, she had to give her own mother an EpiPen.

31. God I’m sorry, I just love Buck so much! That little smile when the bee landed on his finger! ☺️

32. Good lord here I go again… what the hell Gerrard! Buck saved the patients and you’re reprimanding him!

33. “It’s a beenado” 🐝🌪️

34. Bobby and Athena house hunting! I love them!

35. Here goes Athena breaking my heart…💔

36. Eeeeeee! Family dinner! I love this so much!

37. Mara calls them Mom and Momma! It’s too cute! And Jee omg I can’t even with her! She’s precious!

38. Awwww Chimney bonding with Mara over Harry Potter! I love that for them!

39. Yes Denny, their boss is a jerk, you are very correct!

40. Eeeeeeee! Tommy! I didn’t think we’d see you in episode one!! Yay!!!

41. Literally I got so excited when I saw the cupcakes and the sign, I thought Chris might be coming back… oh how I was wrong.

42. Oh my boys! I love them so much! I NEED to see more of Buck, Eddie, and Tommy together!

43. I may or may not have actually screamed… Buck and Tommy flirting! They are so adorable together I can’t handle this!

44. Oh Eddie, bless his heart! So excited to talk to Chris and wish him a happy birthday. Meanwhile his son still can’t look at him, even though a computer screen. 😢

45. He made such an effort, just for the screen to freeze and for Chris to leave him hanging. You can see the man’s heart breaking behind his eyes. My heart broke too, but I understand the kid needing time.

46. But seriously seeing Eddie’s lip quiver like that when his mom mentions putting in a pool… PLEASE CHRIS COME BACK TO US! We can’t handle seeing your dad this heartbroken! 💔

47. This woman be here having a midlife crisis, making her own fragrance, only for the bees to crash her party.

48. “Tomorrow is going to be flawless” cue the giant swarm of killer bees just hanging out on top of the tent.

49. Oop her party is ruined…

50. Oh not Buck volunteering Eddie ass the bee bait! 😂

51. “But why me?” “Because you’re the fastest runner!” Stop it now I’m cackling! 🤣

52. The close up of Eddie’s face has me wheezing! 🤣🤣 Oooo he runnin’!!

53. Oh that close up bee cgi is sooo bad it’s hilarious! 🤣

54. Yeah sure, duct tape fixes everything, but why is it in the medical bag!?

55. “I’ve been shot before, I’m pretty sure I can handle this.” It’s funny because the beekeeper was talking to the bees not Eddie! 🤣 (sorry for the excessive use of the laughing emojis I can’t help it)

56. Come on man, Buck is like a little puppy, you gotta give him some praise!

57. And we have Buck with the episode title drop!

58. Noooo Athena! 😢 Come on let me give you a hug! 🫂 So much ✨Trauma✨

59. Ooo this is a fishy situation…but Athena knows what’s up.

60. NO ONE and I mean no one messes with Athena Grant! She knows her shit!

61. She straight up locked this man in a trunk of a car in the middle of the desert! My dude, what!?

62. “Get yourself back to LA in one piece.” Little did she know what was going to happen next…

63. Not the actor being star struck by Bobby, I love that!

64. “I’m gonna study you tip to tail” 🤣

65. Good god Gerrard you got everyone watching Buck like a hawk to make sure he doesn’t deck you.

66. Eddie walking behind Gerrard signing to Buck to cut it out… he tried to help

67. “Broody little pout” 🤣✨

68. Do WE need to remind YOU Gerrard who’s the TRUE captain of this firehouse… news flash it’s NOT YOU!

69. Eddie in the background, we all know he’s got Buck’s back

70. Eeww I just paused on the close up of Gerrard’s mouth… gross. Also, have I mentioned that I HATE this man.

71. Oh my good god! Buck’s eyes are fucking beautiful!

72. Woah, oh wow, that was crazy dude! I seriously can’t tell if Buck snapped and tackled him to the ground, or if he did it to save him.

73. OH CRAP! OF FUCKING COURSE ATHENA WAS ON THE PLANE FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE EPISODE!

[pika-ace]

So, I saw your Halloween Oogie Boogie kidnapping the boys and all, and I just want to say. If this is Disney knowledge Yuu, they are going in that fight with insecticide, that’s all I am saying.

They just surprise attack twst Oogie with THAT. And shows over, lmao.

Al tho we could always go for the more traumatizing aspect of Oogie almost killing Yuu and, as Oogie is choking them, saying how he’s going to give them the biggest fear of all living beings, death. And Yuu, in despair, manages to pull the stitches in his face, revealing the bugs under it.

Yuu kicks him away and starts to rip his stitches apart, bugs crawling on them, some biting or stinging, some just running away. Until there is nothing but a suit, skin (real stitched skin) and a bunch of bugs crawling away. But, NO TIME TO PROCESS THE “MURDER” JUST COMMITTED!! Yuu takes the keys, frees their friends and when everyone is back, Yuu just crumbles over their actions.

Also I say “murder” because I think Oogie Boogie is just 1 bug controlling a bunch of other bugs, and Yuu didn’t squash him. But you can’t deny that is still a gruesome sight.

LOL I love ALL of this! And yeah, the second Disney Yuu realizes this is TWST Oogie Boogie, they have ONE strategy: Find a loose thread and PULL.

Also, now that it's brought up, I FINALLY figured out names for these guys!

TWST Oogie Boogie: Ivory Roach, soon to be former Headmage of Hallow University

TWST Lock, Shock, and Barrel: Latch, Fright, and Keg, average performing students and personal lackies of Headmage Roach

TWST Jack Skellington: Jack Kingsley, Alchemy teacher at Hallow University and future Headmage

TWST Sally: Sally Rags, Potionology teacher at Hallow University, very close with Jack

But yeah, SO MUCH DRAMA could potentially happen. TWST Boys gotta watch Yuu almost die and/or succumb to their worst fear, which could be different depending on how you make Yuu (I know MINE would squish the bug because Roach was THIS close to murdering her boys, it's only fair)

Plus Jack and Sally could jump in and help too at the last second, maybe neutralize Latch, Fright, and Keg and leave Roach to Yuu

And LOTS of comfort at the end. Yuu has to put their own trauma aside for a while cause the boys need it more and once they recover they can help Yuu out.

[cairavende]

Worm Arc 19 thoughts:

Hopefully this is the only time I have more than a month wait between arc recaps. I was distracted.

Not a long arc really, but god damn did a lot happen.

My daughter is no longer eaten . . . ate . . . aten . . .

My daughter is no longer inside of a creature. That's good. Even though I was obviously 100% fine at the end of arc 18. I'm just more fine now.

Big props to Weld for just going swimming in a giant flesh pool and pulling people (and dogs!) out. He's an ok guy.

Based on the weird "dreams" Skitter was having while inside Echidna I am running on the assumption that the clones are pulled from alternate reality versions of the consumed person where said person had died. Well, not the clones themselves really, but the powers of the clones (and possibly their personalities/memories). Not sure it will end up mattering, with Echidna being dead.

But basically I think the dreams were partially visions of alternate realities.

I've been on the "alternate realities are gonna play a big role and are tied to powers and everything" boat for awhile now, but this arc finally brought that all to the forefront of everything. Just with Scapegoat and Scrub's power, clone Eidolon's powers, the door, and such. So that's cool!

Speaking of Scapegoat, I love his ridiculous little power. I saw it coming the second I saw the name and I was enjoying every second of it.

"She’s fucking blind!?" has gotta be one of the best moments in Worm so far.

Skitter finally realizes that Tattletale has been very clearly taking actions to portray her as the leader to everyone else. Cause bad ass lesbian super villain trio is everything.

Skitter hard carried the second Echidna fight. Everyone would probably be fucked if she wasn't there.

Starting off with taking out the teleporter Grue clone. My girl knows rule number 1. First, GEEK THE MAGE!

And of course she was using her bugs to monitor the entire battlefield, but then she starts giving information and direction to everyone. Kept track of clones, preventing any (hopefully) from escaping). And taking out a fair share of them herself!

Fucking just full on use swarm speech to speak to everyone across the battlefield at once! FUCK YES SHE IS BADASS!

I'm sure Shatterbird won't show up again and isn't going to be an issue at all!

And she's the one that sets up the trap to cut Echidna in half and contain clone Eidolon so Miss Militia can take him out! Clockblocker gets partial credit for helping I guess. But still, Skitter saved all their asses 10 times over.

Also Clockblocker is obsessed with my daughter. Kid has it baaaaaaaad.

I love that in the first few chapters there is some teasing of Cauldron's secrets being spilled a little bit, then Legend completely reveals that Cauldron exists but lies about details, and then suddenly clone Eidolon just dumps everything out there!

Faultline and crew - "We…worked on finding info on Cauldron for a year…and…he just…he shouted it out."

And through all of this Tattletale just out here like "I'm gonna tear a hole in reality!" God I love this reckless chaos child.

Gully deserves to punch a few Cauldron people. As a treat.

Lisa "I took one look at you and instantly knew I would take over the fucking city just to see you smile" Wilbourn over here! GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!

SERIOUSLY IT'S SO GAY!

"OH NO LOOK AT THAT POOR TRAUMATIZED CUTE GIRL, I CAN FIX HER!" IS THE MOST LESBIAN THING

Real quote: "Maybe- maybe when the interuniversal trade takes off. Can you imagine? With me and you as the top dogs? The whole world will pay attention to us." HOW CAN SHE BE THIS LESBIAN?

CHATTERBUG CHATTERBUG CHATTERBUG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (SMUGBUG SMUGBUG SMUGBUG if you prefer)

THEY CAN RULE THE WORLD TOGETHER AND I WILL FORGIVE ALL WRONGS DONE TO REACH THAT POINT CAUSE GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!! (Also obviously Rachel will be there too.)

(I'm sure Taylor crumpling the papers from Dinah in her fists at the end of the arc isn't ominous at all.)

Blasto Interlude thoughts:

Sucks to be Blasto I guess

Accord is terrible as always, glad to see more of him. Love his minions.

Colin can't do anything right. Seriously dude you cut Bonesaw in half and still lost! You have magic cut through anything and turn it to dust tech and you couldn't kill her! God.

Dragon is hard carrying this SH9 hunting team.

She got Manton! That's crazy! Good job robot daughter!

I 100% do not expect Siberian to stay gone. I mean outright Bonesaw is gonna be cloning people and she can probably get some of his DNA. But even without that, it was just too convenient, happening off screen like that. I dunno. It's not safe.

Also Blasto, I'm really sorry about what happened to you but also you tried to make a half Simmy clone! God damn that was the dumbest thing you could ever have done. You are so lucky it didn't work (probably), cause if it did it would have been because she planned it. God damn.

Time for the Slaughterhouse 99 or whatever. Gonna really suck for people.

Parahumans Online Interlude thoughts:

Timeskip!!! Shortish timeskip but still! It's been so day to day for so long so suddenly jumping ahead was surprising.

Greg from act 1 is back! And also kinda a dick. And probably has a Thinker 1 power. Tattletale light basically. Fits with what Taylor said about him in act 1 too.

GstringGirl is probably Sveta, that feels right.

Glad to see the Case 53s making their own team, that's a good start.

WagTheDog wanting to work for Bitch is super cute! I'm glad it seems like that is going to work out.

Loved seeing some of the stuff of people talking about Skitter. I've been wanting to see what the general public has been saying about her cause from an outside perspective the stuff she has done seems 10 times crazier than it is, and it is already crazy.

Emma Interlude thoughts:

Fuck this bitch

Sure she went through a really hard situation and she has terrible parents and it is easy to see how she got to where she is, but that doesn't excuse her actions. I still don't like her at all.

I don't know how much more I need to say, except that Alan shouldn't have left his traumatized daughter home alone with the instructions "If you feel like doing something bad please call the therapist who's number I put on the fridge" christ dude. You are worse every time you show up.

Like learning that Alan knows everything about Sophia as well? Just makes him even worse! Probably upgraded from a 3 fire asshole to a 4 fire asshole by now.

[mooifyourecows]

Love how u just give them family trauma

Summer rain- Daichi’s dead mom

Just another- Daichi’s (absent) mom

And the emi goes to- Suga’s (absent) dad AND passed mom, AND Daichi and Riichi had trouble- u didn’t hold back on, the family trauma huh

Hard times- I don’t even know if Suga has a dad or not but he’s not mentioned so I’m just gonna put him as absent

Let it ride- Sugas grandma but yk money

But in open tab everyone is SO happy- absolutely no angst ammiright

Honorable mention to hunt and gather, just cus it’s a good fic, and Fire it up- you won’t be forgotten🙇🏻‍♀️ abandoned but never forgotten🥲🙇🏻‍♀️

Anyway my ask- was meant to be smth I’ve already forgotten

Mmmm family trauma yummy delicious yum yum

honestly i love writing family trauma. its such an easy/believable way to give your characters Issues™️ ya know?

oh, also i think its hilarious that you mention Suga's grandma in Let it Ride but not the rest of his evil mustache twirling family literally scheming to steal his inheritance from him hahaha like Granny Kiku is the only family member he DIDN'T get trauma from in that story. (other than her being dead now but damn she was old, let her rest)

Hard Times!Suga does not have a dad. he was also a deadbeat who abandoned his family, rip, men ain't shit ammiright. he went out for milk and never returned, good riddance, he's probably in jail. Suga had to inherit his criminal tendencies from somewhere ya feel. Suga's only daddy growing up was Father Andrew, hoo-wee, awooga

ATEGT is all about family so OF COURSE i gotta lay the family trauma and healing on thick as daichi

Open Tab family is nice except the Sawamuras' bullying of Daichi and Mama Sugawara being a manic monster who passed her mania onto her unhinged son

i imagine the one who has family trauma in Hunt and Gather is Oikawa. just because. I mean... look at him. there's gotta be SOMETHING wrong there.

Fire it Up might get finished someday, you never know. maybe i'll sit down and just spit out the rest of it and drop it on a random Monday afternoon 🤷‍♂️

you didn't mention GMB for unknown reasons (maybe you didn't read it, which is fair, it doesn't main DaiSuga, which is a crime, even though they sometimes get way more attention than Bokuaka... hehe) but i can assure you that Suga, Daichi, Akaashi, and Bokuto ALL have various levels of family trauma too 😏

but yeah anyway, i love it and will continue to use it in my future stories because i can do whatever i want and there are SO many ways for a family to traumatize their kids

[princess-of-the-corner]

And Yet More Random Fanfic Quotes!

: )

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IcyThotPainRelief: Remember Zuku murder is illegal

Izuwu: Ur one to talk!

IcyThotPainRelief: Look if im not allowed to ruin my reputation neither are u! we either go down together or not at all bitch!

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Mom-o: Hagakura! That is highly inappropriate! Even if he does sound like an unsavory individual, we still don’t know how Midoriya feels about the whole situation! So, it’s best not to assume his feelings on the subject.

Izuwu: Well he’s dead to me so technically u guys arnt wrong the bastered can rot in hell for all the heart ach he gave my mom!

Mom-o: Oh okay, carry on you guys.

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SharkBoi: Am i gunna need to bail my boyfriend out of jail?

WeepingDarkness669: Thats only if he gets caught

Pikachu: Bold of u to assume our dear Kacchan knows anything about keeping things lowkey when it comes to acts of violence

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Tired™: Dont be dragging me into u guys is shit! I was a happy little introvert chilling on my own until u guys showed up!

IcyThotPainRelief: U should of thought of that before spilling ur entire traumatic backstory within a 5 mile radius of Izuku “I will save people with the power of friendship” Midoriya

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Izuwu: So as auntie Mitsuki is beating my dead-beat dad with her shoe and guess who decided to show up out ow fuckin nowhere?

Pikachu: The pizza delivery guy?

WeepingDarkness: Death itself?

DisneyPrincess: The cops?

AlienQween: *gestured with feeling* Aliens?

SugarDaddy: The League of Villains?

Hentai: Jesus fucking chist guys…

Izuwu: ALL MIGHT!!!

Izuwu: With like?? a bouquet of flowers?? and in a blazer?? Cuz like apparently hes going out with my mom??

IcyThotPainRelief: I FUSKING KNWE IT!!!

Izuwu: Still not his secret love child Sho!

Izuwu: So anyways All Might is there and is all like “what’s going on” and Kacchan goes “we’re beating up Deku’s shitty dad” then All Might said “wait he’s alive??”

DefyingGravity: Deku’s useless Y chromosome user: quit telling everyone im dead!

DefyingGravity: Us: sometimes i can still hear his voice

Izuwu: SO ANYWAYS

Izuwu: Auntie finally stops beating up my father because she too is really surprised to see All Might at our door step which now allows my sperm doner to finally be aware of his surroundings and he looks up at All Might and goes “who the hell are u and what do u want?” and then All Might looks this man dead in the eye and fuking goes “Im here to pick up ur wife we have dinner reservations!”

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Izuwu: I THOUGHT WE WERW FRIENDS IIDA!!

Saaanic: We are and it is my job to tell you that your entire existence is being held together by sticky tape, a lot of prayer, and spite.

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WAKEMEUPwakemeupinside: you ever think about how we define sandwichs by the inside of them not the outside

WAKEMEUPwakemeupinside: like you never say “oh i gotta wheat bread sandwich”

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“You’re worth a hundred of them,” Todoroki said shortly.

“I disagree,” Iida said dryly. “A hundred of any of them would make poor company.”

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LabSafety101: she’s surprisingly subdued rn, I actually convinced her to take a nap

Dadzawa: that’s because she worked for 72 hours straight with minimal caffeine

LabSafety101: hey chiyo

GrannyChiyo: if she’s already asleep I can’t do anything

LabSafety101: yeah but can you make sure she’s not about to die in her sleep

Yamadad: the boys made sure she ate, dw

LabSafety101: was it healthy?

Yamadad: idk but it was food!

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UncleGun: I know for a fact that basically every kid in school at least knows half the common swear words

UncleGun: but it’s also really fun to say “dagnabbit”

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“Alright. I didn’t ask you to get your hero costumes because today you will all be fighting Shinsou.”

The whole class raised their eyebrows. Shinsou tried his hardest not to scream inside though.

Because, what the fuck?

“Uh, sir. That doesn’t seem very fair,” Momo spoke up.

“Yes I know.” Aizawa nodded, “Also, none of you are allowed to use your quirks. Except him, obviously.”

“Why!” Bakugou shouted, “I wanna beat him nice and fair!”

Aizawa was not fazed. “You all know how Shinsou’s quirk works. Once you respond to him, he can make you do anything. That is all. Is that too hard for you?”

The class frowned. Was that a trick question?

Aizawa nodded, and made to sit down. Shinsou stopped him, speaking quietly, “I… I think you’re overestimating my power, here.”

Aizawa just scoffed, “I think you’re underestimating their stupidity.”

[…]

After five minutes, there were only three students in front of him. Kouda, because he didn’t talk anyway, Ojirou, because he had actually learned his lesson at the sports festival, and Sero, who had literally taped his mouth shut.

Aizawa walked towards them and stood next to Shinsou. The ones at the wall, looked at him in varying degrees, of shame and disbelief.

The teacher sighed, “All you had to do was not talk.” He shook his head at them, “That’s all you had to do.”

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Pro Hero Hawks: So you’ll get to meet all kinds of heroes! Maybe even All Might!

Pro Hero Hawks: Yes, this is naked bribery.

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“Young Midoriya is quite the hero fan, isn’t he?”

“He’s not just a fan, Yagi-san, he’s not just an air conditioner either: Midoriya-kun is an entire HVAC system.”

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“Gentlemen, I am here, with some brand new handcuffs! Who would like to try them on first?”

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Izuku, despite his professionalism as an analyst, despite his commitment to be a hero, still found that teenage urge to throw his head back and groan at the prospect of something that could be seen as a boring, pointless task. He fought the feeling down, self-control pinning it to the ground and discipline clubbing it with a half-brick in a sock before dragging it back into the depths of his mind, and then assumed a low stance.

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Mirko’s kicks were well known for breaking bones.

Coincidentally, high schoolers tended to have bones.

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I AM CACKLING I LOVE THIS

[theobsidianempress]

JJK thoughts

So I did some looking on Twitter, and I found a couple of analysis from people who have been closely following the manga. One thing that was said in the very beginning is that the life of a sorcerer is never fair. And I feel like that’s why a lot of us are so upset is because a lot of what has happened is unfair. We we want a story where our favorites come out on top and live lives that they have always wanted to, but that was never going to happen from the beginning. I’ll link the analyses I found and yall can read them if you want.

Link one

Link two

But that still doesn’t take away how we feel that still doesn’t take away how the story is being perceived but in my mind it also doesn’t add anything either. Some stories characters need to die. I understand that in some stories the good guy always winning isn’t necessarily a thing. But I can also acknowledge that those stories are written in that way when someone dies, it feels justified when someone loses a fight it’s justified.

(Demon Slayer, AOT and One Piece Spoiler ahead)

I would like to bring up Rengoku. I know people cried for him when he died fighting Asuka (I think that’s his name) but it was justified! It felt right. Yeah it sucked but it made sense!

Same with Ace he died protecting Luffy. We all knew if that hit connected at that time, Luffy’s journey was over but ace Sacrificed himself to save his brother.

AOT just ended and we all saw the same thing. It wasn’t fair that Eren had to become the villain but at least his character arch and death made sense.

It’s ok to hurt your readers. It’s okay to traumatize them but you gotta make it make sense. Yea we know life ain’t fair. We know that the good die young and all that BUT AT LEAST WHEN ITS WRITTEN IT MAKES FUCKIN SENSE! The math ant mathing here. I don’t feel like any of what happened since the Shibuya Arc (other than Maki killing her entire clan) made no damn sense.

I don’t know. I’m going through a lot right now and this is just something that is on my mind. Feel free to reblog and add your thoughts too or leave a comment.

Remember you are loved, worthy and valid. Be safe and take care of yourselves.

[trashcatsnark]

Spamming first time playing dragon age origins thoughts again

I went to Redcliffe first because that seemed to be where the narrative was pushing as the most immediate concern- got to the Connor mission and Jowan ended up offering to do the blood magic ritual that would kill Isolde, I ended up deciding to do the ritual because it felt like the safest quickest solution in the moment.

And I then got the camp moment with Alistair and I gotta say- genuinely was really surprised and taken aback to be yelled at by him. Not that I don't get it, but it's the first time I think I've heard him raise his voice at all since I started playing.

While it took down some of my approval though, I really like it as a character moment. Like, because Alistair is very much like being shown repeatedly as someone who doesn't want to be in any position of leadership, is fine to defer to others, and doesn't assert himself too much. He's let the Warden, my Tabris, take the helm and really make the calls. But here, it killed the wife of someone who for a period of time was the closest thing Alistair had to a father. And while that wife was cruel and awful to him, he knows what she meant to the Arl- and he's mad, he's mad at this choice, he's mad someone is dead again,he's mad that he knows how hurt the Arl will be when he recovers, and he's only now in the aftermath bringing up alternative solutions like the circle. Which, for me, at least- he didn't bring up in the moment. He let the choice pass without asserting or stopping it and only now that it's over that it can't be undone is he voicing these other choices. And my Tabris, who's also a traumatized 19-20 year old who's been thrusted into this mess, forced to take the leadership position just because... her trauma response is different than his, is grappling with the choice she made and now she's being yelled at by the closest friend she's had since she left the alienage. And it fucking sucks and she has to level with him and explain to him, that she is also a scared barely adult who's just really fucking trying and doesn't know if she made the right call and maybe she was too impulsive, maybe she should have taken a step back, maybe she could've saved everyone, which is all she ever wants to do- but fuck if she has any idea how to do it.

Then Alistair calms down, calls himself an ass, and admits that he's just sick of people dying. Sick of loss, of pain, of all the fucking shit they're having to deal with. Because everything about this situation just fucking sucks.

I just idk, I like the idea of Alistair having to almost be reminded that the Warden isn't like infallible and just as much a fucked up barely adult as he is. And maybe it's not incredibly fair to put it all on them. And maybe Tabris needs to learn that hey, maybe she does need to just stop and think and breathe rather than just making knee jerk decisions based on the immediate issue because not every problem can be solved the second it occurs.

[acceleracers-baby]

Acceleracers HC’s! Horror Movie Reactions! Metal Maniac Edition!

Metal Maniacs

(Taro Kitano, Tork Maddox, Monkey McClurg, Porkchop Riggs & Markie Wylde)

+Bonus Round

(Doctor Tezla & Lani Tam)

Metal Maniacs

Taro Kitano - Taro is a HUGE horror movie buff. He’s a mainly a big fan of the classics! Halloween, The Thing, The Exorcist- stuff like that! He’s 100% the one to suggest a horror movie when the group gets together for movie nights. He has also definitely showed up to horror conventions in costume. His favorite cosplays have gotta be Ghostface from Scream & Micheal Myers from Halloween cause they both have masks. Definitely has horror movie memorabilia all around his house.

Tork Maddox - Tork doesn’t mind horror movies. He doesn’t hate them or anything, but he’d honestly rather watch something with more substance. Usually when he gets dragged into watching one with the gang it’s something like Saw or Final Destination and he’s not really a big fan of how torture porny they are. He likes stuff with a good plot so movies like Nope and Midsommar are probably his favorites. That being said, when he does watch horror flicks, he gets scared but refuses to show it. If you’re watching him real hard you can sometimes catch him flinch or tighten his grip on the blankets, but if thinks get to be too much for him, he’ll call the movie stupid and make an excuse to leave.

Monkey McClurg - Monkey HATES horror movies! He’s terrified of everything. The only reason he watches them is because usually there’s attractive actors/actresses that he can distract himself with. Other than that, he will spend 95% of the movie hiding under the blankets or yelling at the screen about how the characters would have survived if they had just done something differently! He is also the prime candidate to scare if anyone’s trying to get a laugh. Wylde’s usually pretty mean about it until someone tells him to back off.

Porkchop Riggs - Is totally down to watch a horror movie UNLESS there is water in it. That scene from Friday the 13th where someone gets snatched into the water literally had him traumatized for like a week after he saw it for the first time. Now, someone has to vet every horror movie he watches before he ends up scaring himself to death again. Any other horror movie, he usually enjoys. Especially slasher flicks. He’s also a big fan of the Evil Dead series- he just thinks Ash is a badass. I mean… who doesn’t. Dude has a chainsaw hand!!

Markie Wylde - Mark tells everyone he loves horror movies but he rarely ever watches them alone. Usually he’s too busy fucking with people to get scared but when he actually pays attention he starts shitting bricks. Seriously- he’s like Tork where he tries not to seem scared but unlike Tork, he sucks at it. He’ll call the movie lame only to be screaming and pulling his blanket up to his chin like 5 minutes later. He doesn’t mind horror comedy though! He’s a big fan of Ready or Not! But if somebody puts on IT or The Conjuring he’s terrified. Clowns and ghosts man!

Bonus Round!

Doctor Tezla - You think this guy has time for horror movies?! Hell no! Although, he has caught a few in passing, and by passing I mean he does the dad thing where he’ll walk by someone watching a horror movie and then proceed to stand silently in the corner and watch the whole thing. You can try offering him a seat but he will claim he’s just passing through. It’s a total lie though. The last one he really sat down and watched was The Terminator - which is more action - but it only amplified his fear of the drones.

Lani Tam - She has definitely seen her fair share of horror movies thanks to Taro, but the ones that really resonated with her were the ones that followed the classic “Final Girl” trope. Ready or Not? Loved it. The Descent? Claustrophobic but amazing! Midsommar? Fabulous. Alien? Badass and one of her favorites! When she and Taro were still dating, they watched the original Scream and The Shining at least once a month. She loves them.

——— Thanks for Reading ———

[nerves-nebula]

How safe does Groe feel around Maureno?

what a question! it really depends, doesn't it? Maureno is the source of a lot of trauma for Groe, but their shared history is so long and intimate that they can keep interacting with each other pretty easily? like, getting all up in each others personal space and not having it feel weird? but also they've got some fucked new dynamics too!

so, like, sometimes Groe will be fully confident. snarky and sarcastic, angry, bitter, it's typical post-death self. other times it will be more reserved, not shy exactly but kinda wary. sometimes it'll be upset/scared, which can result in him lashing out (which looks pretty similar to his default snarky, bitter mood, which means sometimes Maureno doesn't realize she's scaring him)

and sometimes groe actually gets on maureno's nerves enough for maureno to threaten it, in which case it'll lash out again, OR it'll get scared and immediately fold into a whimpering sobbing mess.

it's somewhat sure that maureno wont kill it again (a conclusion he came to after years of watching maureno interact with Etik), but that doesn't really undo everything that's happened, and "probably wont kill me" doesn't really negate the fear, unease, and panic that comes with being around your abusive ex. even if they have changed, more or less.

Maureno, for her part, isn't really helping! she's trying but by god, she is not good at it! part of it is that she's still prone to aggression and violence because she's a honey badger, and there's no changing that.

another part of it is that she. uh. kind of "jokingly" sexually harasses groe. which, to be fair, isn't particularly traumatic for Groe. they know each other well enough for her to know (or at least be pretty sure) that he's not really bothered by it, if that makes sense? and if he is he has ways of letting her know. usually. idk they've gotten worse at communication in the past few centuries lol.

they're used to totally understanding each other which actually makes them WORSE at communication these days. cuz they keep assuming shit about each other.

point is: maureno uses comedy, violence, and absurdity to cope. so her making passes at groe that she thinks are inappropriate and could never be accepted (except when they are but that's um. its own mess) is kind of her way of expressing her desire to reconnect with him. but her knowing it's very unlikely.

but also like, she's gotta put it out there, just in case one day groe DOES except. not that she's AWARE that's what she's doing. her train of thought is way less emotionally competent. in her mind she's like "I'm horny i miss groe" and she goes and bothers him.

groe will, in its more confident moments, take advantage of maurenos clearly expressed desire to reconnect and be a bit of a cunt to her (hence the homoerotic glass eating).

also sometimes while raising Etik they do actually do some sneaking around and fucking, and Groe almost always regrets it.

uhhh oops i ended up ranting.

the answer is: it's complicated, but generally Groe feels more or less "safe" around Maureno. that has a lot caveats and doesn't count his PTSD and paranoia attacks, but like, yeah.

[omg-hellgirl]

hey there its the same anon and i gotta say your take on anita is very well worded, fair and elloquent.

i agree she's far from innocent and i'm aware or all her wrongdoings that make her unpalatable. however, i can't agree with anita deffending herself and hitting brian back should be considered abuse.

anita being considered a feminist yet being known for talking trash about other women and being petty bitchy about them is something i always questioned too. the relationship of her with keith was very volatile and toxic, mutual cheating sucks but the weight always goes stronger on who starts, this is regardless if its a man or a woman for sure.

everyone is entitled to like or dislike her, there's no doubt on that. however, my problem starts when people want to degrade and dehumanize her for her mistakes, bad choices and addictions meanwhile the male musicians who have done the same things or either much worse and ill evil spirited stuff get a pass. they are the "tortured traumatized souls" but women in rock like anita are "the evil junkie witch whores who destroy men". i see this hipocrisy towards marianne as well, whom while i know how she was problematic and erratic, she does not deserve that disdain either.

there is always a deep scrutiny when it comes to women fucking up but when its men, they're most likely to be babied.

Hey anon, I didn't mean to say that Anita defending herself against Brian should be considered abuse. I said, "If her defending herself from Brian's attacks means abusing him, then you can say she abused him."

I recognized that she was defending herself and implied that "abusing him" meant defending herself. English is not my first language, but it seems understandable enough. I'm sorry for the confusion.

I agree with all your points about people criticizing and demonizing Anita and the wives of other singers like Yoko Ono and Angie Bowie while they can forgive paternal neglect, domestic assault, hard drugs, fucking underage girls, and the parental alienation of several rock stars. I am definitely aware of and recognize the sexism and, dare I say, misogyny of some fandoms. I don't cover up or sugarcoat anyone on my blog. I criticize men and women, and I have several posts criticizing David Bowie and Mick Jagger, although I'm very fond of them.

Thanks for sharing your opinion, xoxo.

[alovelyburn]

372

Da da dddddduuun

When this came out I was at the office reading on the downlow. Not responsible but inevitable.

I didn’t exactly see Casca’s dream state coming, but it also didn’t surprise me. It really brings me back to the question that torments me: what’s with Griffith’s charismatic aura? Is he doing that on purpose or what?  Initially I wasn’t even sure if she was being sedated/drugged or what (this was when I looked at the raws on my phone screen mind you), but the cover text seems to clarify that what’s happening is that Griffith’s existence “dyes” everything - IOW she’s been eaten by his supernaturally charismatic aura.

The question is why is it affecting her so badly vs everyone else; mule and even the apostles act perfectly normal aside from that initial push. So like is he dialing it up on her or is it the interaction of his aura and her fragile mental state or what? It doesn’t seem to be something he’s actively doing, come to think of it, since he had to hear from Locus and Irvine that she’d been stopped.

Okay so for me the primary questions this chapter raises are:

1. Why is she so much more out of it than everyone else? Is that her or is it him or is it someone else or something else?

It’s tough to judge because we already know she has a tendency to block memories and dissociate when she’s traumatized. It could literally be that her mind shuts down and reboots when she gets too close to remembering the past, like she did when she looked at Guts or when she saw Griffith again for the first time. Which makes it kind of stand out to me that she never saw Guts in the flashbacks that led to her memory returning, and as soon as she thought about him she blacked out again. This would even make sense with one of Miura’s old quotes about how she would have a hard time recovering. As it stands now her primarily mode of ego protection is just turning the lights off, which isn’t great.

2. Why does Griffith even want her there? It’s odd because he doesn’t seem to be meeting with her or anything. The biggest theory I’ve seen is that he brought her there so that the moonkid wouldnt drag him all over the world, and that is I think the strongest theory given what information we currently have. Especially since hes got her hanging out with children and stuff. But there are other things it could be, too.

3. “If I don’t make it back, Guts will--” WHAT. GUTS WILL WHAT. I mean fair chance its just generic “I gotta get back to  Him” stuff, but I do kind of wonder if it’ll be something like, “if i dont make it back guts will come here and get himself killed or brainwashed into being a stepford wife.”

And finally... I mean the thing is, I do kind of wonder whether all of Falconia is under the influence of Griffith’s 'dying’ of the world. I assume they are to some extent - Foss even comments that everyone is basically drunk on his dreams. And I do think Neogriffith gives off something like the feeling of someone playing with a doll house - not necessarily like in a destructive way but in a way where he’s not inside the house he’s on the outside moving the dolls around and deciding what they do, you know what I mean?

I also wonder whether he is pursuing his Kingdom goals because he still has that passion or because it’s what “Griffith” would do. Is he hollowly trying to capture or recapture things that he once had passion for but no longer feels the drive to hold? That kind of echoes back to MIura’s final chapter - the loneliness that he feels only when he’s between forms and his heart hasnt frozen again yet. It also would kind of fit with that old old theory about the new Band of the Hawk echoing the traits of the original.

And this is all kind of raised by this chapter mostly because reading through the chapter and seeing the way Casca interacts with Falconia when she’s not in sleeping beauty mode, it did feel a bit like a dreamworld to me, but I legit can’t tell whether it’s the writing or if it’s intentional. Because I never felt like the Falconians were stepford wives before, but it’s not like there’s never been any hint that he has that impact on people - Mule gets brainwashed from looking at him.

IDK, NeoGriffith is a bit of an enigma and i end up revising my thoughts on him every time he shows up.

...oh I lied that wasn’t the final thought.

-The art is looking less like Miura’s, and I’m not sure how I feel about that.

-I am worried that Griffith will lose his nuance but not that he’s intended to be a 2D monster villain. I just don’t believe that’s what they’re aiming for or what Miura was ever aiming for. My main concern is more that he’ll lose his nuance as a side effect of losing his creator. Because hes a bit of a delicate balance of a character. It’s all too easy to tip the scale on him because he was so purposefully ambiguous, which relied so much on Miura’s writing and mastery of expressions.

-I miss Miura. I’ve never mourned this hard for someone I’ve never met. The thing is, I’m neither as enthusiastic about the new chapters as some people nor as negative about them as other people - mostly I just think they’re suffering from the inevitable - that Miura isnt here. I don’t enjoy the chapters the way I used to, but I do still enjoy them and look forward to them, just not as much. And most of all, I’m just glad to see where the story was going. That said, I don’t think I’ll ever be able to read a new chapter and not feel the loss of what he would have done with those scenes.

Thats all, I think.

[jw-horror-stories]

hey i’ve been reading your blog over the last few days. i’m living in a jw family that’s seen as like an elite group because they’ve had a part in a lot of major things since it was founded. i’ve been questioning for months now about the faith and as much as i feel valid in my own feelings im now really scared my whole life up until this point has been wasted(17yrs)

to note, i personally identify as non-binary and somewhere between asexual and bi- which is awesome because a lot of jws in my life are transphobic or homophobic and those who might be catching on with me have a tendency to be very passive aggressive

im also autistic- so ive had do deal with my fair share of ableism

also i gotta mention- ever since i learned about evolution in school, i’ve firmly believed the evidence to it. i’ve frequently asked about this topic and others to other jws because there must be a rational explanation for why the belief in creationism etc etc. but ive only ever gotten “because god said so”, “you are denying the word of god! do you still even believe?” and to just pray and meditate (?!) it’s so fucking annoying

(TW FOR ABUSE)

my father used to be verbally and physically abusive to my mom and i. because of the rules they weren’t allowed to leave each other and he fucking traumatized her. apparently my extended family knew of this and did NOTHING because they didn’t want to respect the family arrangement- so they let me just get abused and suffer years worth of mental health issues

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for the last year or two now i’ve felt like this wasn’t for me, especially because a lot of the rules we have meant i couldn’t get therapy and i couldn’t have friends and i had to stick in a small worldview. but i am so scared of losing the love of my family which i know will happen- my uncle got disfellowshipped and they speak like hes a blot on the family.

there’s a lot more but i’ve been rambling for too long. my only question is what does PIMO/I mean? i see it getting mentioned a lot but i have no clue what it means

thanks again for the blog!

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