#and idk. this is just my personal opinion of him

[staying-elive]

How I would've set up Sam and The Avengers in Phase 4 and 5.

An incredibly long, and self-indulgent collection of my headcanons. 😅🤣😂

After reading @likeol 's post here, here's how I would've gone about setting up Sam and the new Avengers. This is just my opinion. Long post ahead.

In my ideal but still trying to be realistic, alternative world, I would've done this:

Falcon and the Winter Soldier needed to be a movie. Having it be a show fractured the general audience, many of whom still don't bother to watch the shows. Hiding the first chapter of Sam's arc as Cap on show damages the potential new Cap trilogy macro arc.

This movie should've released end of 2019 like Spiderman Far From Home (TFATWS is set 6 months post blip, FFH is set 8 months). Release it Sept/Oct. (Unlikely they'd release this the same year as Endgame, but I'm saying this with the full knowledge that COVID shut down theatres in March 2020 soooo... go with it lol)

Easily could've filmed this the same time as Infinty War/Endgame/reshoots, since Anthony and Sebastian were blipped and only in the final battle.

Working title is TFATWS. Then post Endgame comic con, big reveal, boom we tricked you CAP 4 BABYYYY!

Call it something like Captain America: Legacy or False Flag something idk. Something that either ties to the passing mantle theme or government manipulation/covert operations i.e. Walker

Since this is pre covid, we can now keep the original Flagsmasher plot lol! or strip it down a little and make Walker more overtly the villain. (I just hate him)

*Side note: did you know Far From Home is considered Phase 3 and not 4? I guess this hypothetical makes my Cap 4 movie end of Phase 3.

On to Phase 4! References!

After cinemas reopen, Shang Chi releases Sep 2021. Could maybe have included Sam in the post credit? Have him at that hologram meeting. Beaming in or in person, dont care.

Eternals released Nov 2021. Don't let them ignore Sam. Remember that bs 'Who's going to lead them?' and Ikarus going maybe me? Nah!

Hawkeye ended Dec 2021. Include Sam (and Bucky in the post credit at that terrible musical. It's funny! It would've made sitting through it bearable.

Ms Marvel started June 2022. Sam Wilson as Cap should've been represented at that AvengersCon. He wasn't even visible as Falcon. But easily could've just in passing shown the costume competition. Get creative. Maybe one fan is half-Falcon half-Cap suit, split down the middle. (Bonus: Have a SamCap cosplayer dragging a friend along who's just wrapped his arm in foil like those french guys off tiktok 😆)

I wouldn't care so much about What if episodes if we had these other references. But come on! Sam definitely should've been in these at least as Falcon.

Speaking of 2022, looks like we're due for Sam's 2nd Cap film! (It's been 2.5 years. Totally doable.)

This would make 4 MCU films in 2022 but idk it's post COVID. Roll them out.

Move Doctor Strange 2 to earlier in the year Feb/March idk, I didn't like that film 😅

May 6 is now free for Captain America: New World Order (you could still have Brave New World, but i always thought NWO was a better title. And it's from the comics)

Instead of the Hulk sequel plot (I don't really like the Leader I'm sorry BNW 😔), this should be following our Cap4. Still make it political espionage, still begin the 'restart the Avengers' request from the president, follow up on Sharon as Powerbroker. Personally, I'd tie in Rhodey's Armor War ideas too, because I want a bigger supporting cast of familiar faces.

Joaquin still gets injured here, because it's his first big fight and I love their conversation after

Maybe include an Ant Man cameo. Show Scott and Sam are still connected. Maybe even have Scott ask Sam about writing the foreword to his book! Which we'll then see the following year in Quantamania. 🤯

The post credit for this Cap5 is a first baby Avengers assemble moment. (From the above changes, he's met Shang Chi, Wong, knows Bruce, Scott and Hope. Already has Joaquin and Bucky (?) and Rhodey. It's a start!!

On to Phase 5!

Honestly, there's not much to do here. Mention Sam in Ant-man 3. During Scott's book signing

Thunderbolts, which I now decide is set first in 2025. That's the film that's dumped in February. Because it's not a summer worthy movie. 🤷‍♀️

Can stay the same but for adding a Sam cameo and tweaking the end credit scene where we replace it with this idea here (or similar idc) but since we the audience already know the REAL Avengers are operating since Cap5, this makes sense.

Don't know how to fix Bucky's bs choice. You could always just entirely replace him in Thunderbolts with Everett Ross like we just did here 😆 But at the VERY least don't stab Sam in the back by staying quiet when people insult him 🙄

OF COURSE, this whole rewrite is based on respecting Sam and ergo the New Avengers reveal likely wouldn't happen anyway. BUT if it did, at least Sam's Cap and team are coming in to defend.

Now Captain America 6! (It's been 3 years, but Sam is established on the big screen, and i'm being realistic in accounting for the actors and writers strike 🤣😂)

This becomes our May summer release. Essentially, this would be Avengers 4.5 in the same way that Cap3 was Avengers 2.5 given all the supporting characters. BUT that's just cos we need a team up movie before Doomsday and we also need to squash the Thunderbolts nonsense. Resolve that here, or at least develop it somehow.

Still have some big Avengers style action. Show the team dynamic under Sam's leadership. Add in Shuri!

This a new film so I have zero plot ideas 😆 but whatever happens, the post credit scene for THIS is now the Fantastic Four ship coming into orbit.

Annnnnd.... yeah. That's how I would've weaved Sam in through Phases 4 and 5, setting up Phase 6 Avengers.

If you've read to the end of this... thank you ...and im sorry 🤣 😂 💞 🎖🏅

Would you have done anything differently? Have I forgotten anything?

[stardustdiiving]

[5.6 genshin spoilers]

I HAVE some degree of mixed feelings about the quest but ultimately I’m chilling. I am mainly satisfied with the fact it feels the writers cared about the quest and these characters and had fun with it. Thats rlly what I wanted most after feeling their heart just wasn’t into like anything about the Natlan cast much at all.

I have some minor nitpicks with how they seem to be handling Durin but I’m really putting a pin in those for now until we actually get a feel for what the final state of his character is going to be…My main grievance is I’m not a fan of og!Durin being presented as super evil and malicious in this quest when I feel alot of stuff they’ve done about him is centered on implying otherwise. It makes Mini Durin “taking his place” feel kind of…eehhh because I really think “replacing this tragic neglected angry dragon child who was just irreparably evil with a more palatable version of him” really undercuts any thematic message you want to send through Durin’s character :(

Again though I’m withholding a strong opinion on this until I see where they go from here with it…I think my ideal scenario is human Durin has a personality that feels like a merging of Mini Durin and Original Durin, and we get a concrete sense of Original Durin’s character that isn’t some embodiment of undesirable innate evil we need to Get Rid Of and is more “confused monster that didn’t really grasp the damage it was causing due to how it was freaking out” which again I feel is, repeatedly showcased to be who Durin is as a character in both Simulanka and Teyvat! Ideally I think I’d want to see the Original Durin part of Human Durin calming down and finding peace in fully merging into this new identity….

idk! I just want anything that doesn’t have the undertone of “yeah this version of Durin (a character established to be tragic who lived an existence that was entirely confused suffering and alienation that is compared to a child lashing out) was just irreparably evil so we killed it and replaced it with this new better version” 😞 which just feels like a weird sort of retcon if that’s what genshin’s intention was. I don’t feel entirely confident this was the message the quest was trying to send, I could see them writing the “yeah Durin is evil and jealous and wants to kill Albedo” as something you’re not supposed to take at 100% face value and they intend to lean into the “angry/hurt child acting out” aspect of it or have this be a depiction of the fact Durin is often mistaken to be acting out of malice when he’s actually not and it’s just kind of hard for him to exist non destructively in the world .

But hmmm. That was just my reading of the quest, I may have missed something…and either way am waiting for what Human Durin’s characterization’s is like to really gauge my full stance on it!

[redfacedpalindrome]

hi I’m the anon who asked about lando. thanks for your honest answer. and you’re totally good, you didn’t need to add an anti tag at all, in fact that’s the reason I felt comfortable enough to initiate a discussion with you because I didn’t see an anti tag in your tags.

so many times I think to myself that it should be the charles fans that should understand us lando fans the most because there’s so many parallels; both practically raise by their respective teams, both dedicating their entire (very lucrative) careers to their teams and being loyal and dedicated as fuck. yet somehow unfortunately it’s the charles fans (not you of course but majority of them) that are the most antagonistic towards lando as if he stole the wdc chances from charles and doesn’t deserve to fight for it despite the trials and tribulations that he himself has been through. I’ve gradually had to unfollow all Charles blogs I followed because there’s insane levels of negativity towards lando, to the extent of wishing death upon him. and I think it’s so sad cuz I actually used to enjoy charles as a driver, he’s really good and deserves so much better than the hand he’s been dealt. I just don’t understand the concept of making all of charles woes lando’s fault.

once again thanks for your decent and genuine response, wish you and your driver all the luck! x

okay anon who asked about lando 10000 years ago, it's possible you may never see this! and i am so sorry about that, this is so late.

but this is something i absolutely wanted to talk about and do it justice. because me personally (THIS IS MY PERSONAL OPINION) i think some of the enmity between cl16 and ln4 fans is crazy given how similar they are in my eyes.

charles and lando are different for a lot of reasons, yes, i'll acknowledge that right out of the gate. but i think both of them are accused of being really negative about their performances when, more than a lot of the drivers, they bring a profound optimism and positivity to their pursuits. both of them are very creative, pursue design and musical hobbies, but bring extreme determination to the track. and that loyalty they both have to their teams, that's such a central part of who they are.

i confess that i always hoped that the driver who would unseat max from consecutive wdc's would be charles. i wanted it badly, and i think in a lot of people's eyes it seemed 'right', since 2022 was kind of a battle between the two of them (before clown binotto ruined our lives). i think that contributes to that feeling that lando 'took' an opportunity from charles, but it's honestly kind of ridiculous and i can acknowledge that. (the true enemy is ferrari for never having their shit together it's fine idc this isn't a real problem in my life).

lando didn't take anything from charles because he put up with similar shit as charles basically for years. mclaren was also a team that was producing cars that didn't match the potential of their drivers, that struggled with the development and the infrastructure, etc. (okay i must admit idk anything about the past mclaren strategy team so maybe they were nowhere near as bad as ferrari in which i would say charles's 'asylum where they raised him' is measurably worse but maybe they were shit too). lando still honed his skills, did everything he could to contribute positively to the team (even as he had a rotating tableau of teammates), and maintained that loyalty to mclaren the tifosi appreciate from charles.

i'm not a huge fan of the rhetoric of 'oh max would do better in the new mcl car' 'oh charles would do better in the new mcl car' because if charles finally got a good fucking ferrari car and had a bad race or two and people started suggesting someone else could do better in the second good car ferrari produced in 100 years i'd go fucking feral. lando put up with like 6 years of mclaren being so mid and now they're back on top. he, as their longtime driver, deserves to have a good car and a good team backing him.

i'm a charles fan first and foremost – and thus i am of the personal opinion that charles is better than most at wheel-to-wheel and extracting the absolute maximum from a car. i think the way he loves an extreme setup is clinically insane and so fucking admirable. i love that he's never taken a fan for granted. if charles was in contention for the wdc i'd be fucking insufferable. and that's exactly why i maintain hope that lando continues to make a genuine play for the wdc this year. because in the same way that i feel charles deserves it for his loyalty and his effort, i cannot deny that lando deserves it as well.

anyway this is my application for some ln4-cl16 solidarity and also petition for them to have wdc battle (aka charles gets good car).

[to-hell-with-us]

I'm so glad u liked yaay (sorry I have a serious case of sleepy rn so bear a sad amount of grammatical errors eith me)

Long ahh yapping btw

Grey hair Jane supremacy, that's a meemaw guys trust, but seriously now she would throw hands with the killers very easily like look at her man, U aint winning against evil meemaw with a SHOTGUN that's idk prob laced with somekind of corruption.

Also yep, bullet scars, I did this as a small """"place holder"""" nope, they're not accurate, I actually imagine them on very specific places like not vitals body parts to prolong John suffering (I keep in mind that to her, his appearence is very distorted).

In my opinion I can clearly see AN other Jane being specially violent during her hunts, SHE'S HUNTING LIKE AN APEX HUNTER IDC, she usually likes to tire John while also eating his fear meter (Like an actual pro killer player, John ahh is bad at junking) so yeah, instead of just making it a fast death, Jane just wound him onto less vital places and bleed him out.

And I'm so happy to be the second person to draw them, slightly disappointed bcuz the design are so cool to me iaksjejjdjwjsu but still, I'm happy u enjoyed the sketches ^^

AND ABOUT THE SNUGGLING ART, I HAVE MANY THING TO TALK ABOUT THE SNUGGLY JANEJOHN. It was supposed to be a "fullbody" but I though John ahh was silly big (OMG CENSORSHIP‼️⁉️‼️⁉️‼️⁉️⁉️) so I had to cut it a lil ,and second... I looooovee when soft husband and crazy wife although Istg I didnt knew AN other Jane was actually taller (and larger) than John bcuz I thought she didn't had the evil killer pyshical boost (Boo tomato tomato tomato🍅🍅🍅).

Now that I'm a schooled young gurlie pop, I shall probably make Jane snuggle John as the big BIG spoon (She's cluthing that sleepy love idc)

The OG idea btw -> "How many nightmares have I been responsible for?" As Jane looks up to see her husband sleeping peacefully, his body even if soft against her more muscular body, still tensed a little to her touch

The fact that whenever Jane kills him he comes back trembling and crying rivers is aaoorghh... aarggh... OOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRGHHHh, so yeah guys I think John would flinch in response to Jane's touch (AND VICE VERSA BTW I ALSO WOULD MAUL THE MONSTER THAT "KILLED MY HUSBAND AND TOOK MY EYE)

HOWEVER, I also think they do be willingly to fix their relationship with the info they got, it would take time but I feel like John would remember a lot of their tender moments(and forgotten past) together with her touch after some time AND Jane would be more confident about lying with her actual husband, not a monster, husband! bcuz it MUST be him?? His voice, his soft body and warm touches and his big ahh brown eyes are 100% John Doe (and bcuz she gets to see old John there, his old habits etc lmao)

*flip pages* Also soft John is super cool.

like look at bro he's a buff jelly bear with paranoia and mental illness and sharp Jane is mawh mawh, she would feel like a table agaisnt him but he would be super happy regardless, John felt something missing whenever he went to sleep alone according to the voices in my head and now that gap have a very belonging rough body of a angry woman in it(pre-forsaken John was the tiny spoon fight me)

Anyways that's kinda it, Love u design and I wish we can be oomfs somehow goodbye *Vanishes into thin air*

hii, Big fan of ur AN Other AU and your designs in general (The butch Jane in me compliments the butch Jane in you) so hmm, I may or may not have made some sketchs with ur designs while I was studying anatomy, they look silly I'm afraid.

I wanted to make a silly contrast between them, John suppose to give a more softer prey (omg references) look while Jane is a more of an apex hunter. Jane has more muscle mass than John and overall a sharper demeanor and a shady look, ik she's pratically a sniper but at somepoint she has to throw hands with someone (and she's good at it.) she's pretty much battle scarred bcuz hmm fights hmm

John still extremely strong, however, that fact get overshadowed because he looks crazy soft (that's also servers as contrast between OG John and AU John, too. prey animal and apex predator and all 🫡) he's slightly paler than Jane bcuz hmm eye injury me thinks (and bcuz he's a nerd)

I also tried to make a small cute art of them snuggling (would never happen ❤️... mean like probably)

pretty much inspired by that ask u said he likes to appear small near Jane, yes he's idk 6'3 or smt on AN Other but do we care???? no. anyways, I am allowed to be delulu and make a whole ahh scenario where Jane breaks free from that whole stinky illusion or I'm supposed to suffer? (bonus doodles bcuz hihi)

sorry if the ask looks invasive, didn't meant to do it aaaoorghh my brain is like... melting rn, again sorry 😔

OH MY GOD.

THIS IS THE MOST ABSOLUTE FUCKING THING TO WAKE UP TO OH MY FUCKING GOD? JANE DOE IM. JANE DOE IM GAY AS HELL. JANE. JANEEEEEE 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

OHFHVHRHCHRHC OHHHH MY GOD THANK YOU FOR ENJOY MY AN OTHER AU AWAWAWAAAAAAA DJDJDJDJDJ 💖💖💖💖💖 I LOVE HOW YOU DREW JANE AND JOHN HGNVHFHCHFH are those bullet wound scars on the prey animalll GWAAA YOURE RIGHT FOR THAT GEHDGDGDGRVD

Jane with facial and bodily scars and with grey streaks in her hair yes yes YES THATS HER THATS MI AMOR CBFGXGRGGDRVRGHRG 💖💖💖

You’re like the second person I’ve received fanart of my own designs/interpretations from and it already just. It already makes me so, so, so fucking happy seeing my own John design be drawn every time because I know it’s meant to be specifically my take on him when the dotted patterns and scales in his corruption are included and especially when his gills are drawn and especially since AN Other!John exclusively has the eye patterns in his corruption and and and HNFHXHRGRGRGRGGRRHFHCRGR

THE ART OF THEM SNUGGLING OHHHH MY GODDDDDD I LOVE YOUR RENDERING AND THE DOODLES ARE SO CUTE EHHXHDHXHRBD every time someone draws Jane with a gun I feel so much absolute rabid joy. Poor John is not getting his survivor wins with her around and she’s gonna fucking make sure of it when she breaks into one

Don’t worry you guys are allowed to be delulu. I’ll probably join you guys in being delulu eventually as well when I get that AN Other!Jane design actually going. Brain keeps juggling between regular John and Jane, AN Other AU John and Jane, and Gasharpoon John but currently Gasharpoon John fixation is strongest but again my brain likes to juggle things HDHSJEHDH

[allthepandasintheworld]

tonight's mood is listening to disease by lady gaga on repeat (i probably wont finish this sketch but like. guys)

[gnomewithalaptop]

Rereading the Our Worlds at War tie-in again and God I miss their friendship every day

[sanasanakun]

People try too hard to make Curly an active participant in Jimmy's abuse. Isn't the whole point that he's passive in everything Jimmy does? Abuse occurs because he actively doesn't do anything? Not to call someone out or be mean, but I saw a post saying Anya's ID being in Curly's locker at the beginning shows that he intended to prevent Anya from filing an HR report and I disagree. I get where that interpretation is coming from, but I think it's a little uncharitable. I don't like being too kind to Curly because he's like...a morally mid dude at best lol But if we're going by the HR report interpretation, I would say it's more likely he requested Anya's ID in order to file an HR report on her behalf. After all, the only way to contact Pony (that we see) is in the cockpit, he's the Captain, and Pony Express sucks bad so I wouldn't put it past them to only allow the Captain to use the communication device thing. As we see before, Curly is the only one able to use tools around the ship that you would think other employees could use (ex. Swansea should be able to use the axe if he's the repair guy. Idk why they'd need an ax but that falls under manual labor which Swansea is designated for as the mechanic/fixer dude. But it has to go through Curly). I never got the vibe that Curly moved to actively protect Jimmy. He just lets things happen without say a word; Jimmy walks all over him, and by extension, the whole crew. I get why people would think that because he gives the whole "Hey Jimmy, we can get through this together, bud" spiel right before the crash. This part interests me a lot because there's so many ways to interpret Curly's intentions there. My interpretation is that Curly is on autopilot mode. The responses seem so stilted in comparison to Jimmy's. Like it's the kind of thing Curly's said before again and again and again when Jimmy's gotten in trouble. However, as others previously pointed out, I don't think Curly ever dealt with Jimmy doing something this irredeemable. He doesn't know how to respond, so he just goes for the default "You've gotten through tough situations before. Work through it one step at a time." Like the response is lame af lol I think he was in shock; he was scared (and just so I can say it one more time: he's super lame).

Anyway, this is way longer than I intended and I've said things a billion people have already stated. But uhhh tldr the whole point of Curly's character is he's passive; he never acts. He just watches. Making him an active participant in the abuse by taking actions to cover for Jimmy (like preventing Anya from filing an HR report) defeats the purpose of his character. He's a bystander.

[roscoehamiltons]

having some insomniac thoughts about how the public perception of the george vs max fight is affected by their PR personas, how much people value authenticity (or the appearance of being authentic) now in celeb culture, and how max uses that to his advantage….

[dreadfuldevotee]

I'd like to discuss the elephant in the room. Why did we get zero Loumand sex scenes? We got hints and implications, but season 1 was pretty explicit. Do we think that that's a creative choice or something else is happening?

I'm glad I ended up ruminating on this for about a week because episode 7 & 8 really solidified my opinion on it.

I do wanna start by saying that it's very clear to me that there was supposed to be more explicit scenes between them. There has been some thoughts tossed around that censorship happened with the 9 pm timeslot (as opposed to the 10 pm timeslot of S1). I believed this hearing Assad and Jacob talk about the BDSM dynamic between Louis and Armand, but what really sold me on this was Production Designer Mara LePere-Schloop talking about the bedroom set and more specifically about their beautifully carved custom headboard. (If you're a production nerd like me or just want to know more about the design philosophy of IWTV I recommend giving the entire thing a listen!).

I think there are several reasons I think as to why they decided to leave any more explicit scenes on the cutting room floor but above them all is: you cannot separate Armand's sexuality from his abuse. I am really against pulling a "well if you read the books" card but reading just the first couple chapters of "The Vampire Armand" makes me understand so much about not only Armand as a character, but the care being taken to his adaptation. It's clear to me that alongside Rolin & Co.'s commitment to not watering him down to a one-dimensional villain they are also trying to not fall into Anne Rice's tendency to romanticize his trauma.

Sex and sexuality is not the same pillar of Louis and Armand's relationship it was in Louis and Lestat's and so I don't believe their story suffers from the lack of on-screen sex. But I also firmly believe that maybe we don't need to be slutting out the character who we literally just watched talk about how he doesn't remember his life before being sex trafficked. And even when he was "freed" he was still being repeatedly assaulted at the hands of, and under the eye Marius de Romanus. Like it is extremely important to remember that Armand's craving for dominion in his relationships is a manifestation of trauma that deserves the same level of care and depth given to every other trauma portrayed in this show.

I think people have gotten too comfortable calling IWTV a romance when it has always been Gothic Horror. Romance and sex are pivotal to the story but I have found the demands for sex scenes this season a bit absurd and also? unfounded? Loustat share more kisses on screen but there are two sex scenes and both are very plot relevant. I truly figured we were all in agreement that the eroticism of this show is found in the various displays of power, and the dynamics it creates and not the actual clapping of ass-cheeks...which also wasn't happening in S1 either. S2 does not suffer because of the lack of sex-scenes, but the likelihood if it suffering trying to make one work is

[qoldenskies]

Are there any rottmnt headcanons you hate?

anon do you want me dead? 😭

idk hate's a strong word but ive never vibed with making leo super smart or "on par" with donnie in academic intelligence. i think he's very cunning and street-smart, but to me he has adhd and dyslexia which heavily influences my perception of him. like look at how bad his handwriting is in origami tsunami. that's dyslexia handwriting

[maespri]

oh my i never really saw myself making a post like this, but i really wanna talk about morgana! more specifically… why i don’t really understand the hate he receives.

for starters, i know a lot of people dislike mona because he gets on ryuji’s case often. his squabbling with ryuji can get hurtful at times too, i know, but i feel like so many people conveniently leave out the fact that… ryuji returns fire? it’s not as though mona is constantly attacking poor ryuji who can’t defend himself; it’s a two-sided fight throughout most of the game. both of them are constantly fueling the fire. not to mention, it’s a fight that eventually ends. both individuals have great character development (i could talk about it for /ages/, but i digress) that ends with their fighting essentially ceasing entirely. they’re both dumb teenage boys, they both said dumb stuff to each other, and they both hurt each other, and all of that is recognized and left in the past.

the hatred toward mona in general is something i struggle to understand entirely. you hate this cat because he tells you to go to bed? the game would have told you to do that one way or another, because it’s a game. there have to be constraints, or you’d get terribly overpowered incredibly fast. i wholeheartedly agree that mona’s lacking in comparison to the other characters in many ways- but i’ve never hated him, and was surprised to see a lot of people did.

maybe i’m just weirdly empathetic toward fictional characters, but i really liked his storyline. mona’s been with the protagonist since day one, helping him out, staying with him, encouraging and supporting him in everything he does, navigating them through mementos and palaces and battles… and he’s never really appreciated for any of it. obviously, the other phantom thieves do the same and don’t require any extra praise, but morgana already has a complex stemming from the fact that he’s not human. inherently, he believes he’s not nearly as good as any of the others, and subsequently, that he isn’t good enough in general- and he’s so ashamed of that that he can’t even voice the concern to the protagonist pre-okumura’s palace. it made sense to me when he snapped and ran away; if you were constantly the black sheep of a group, unable to engage with anyone unless the guy you live with is always there as well, wouldn’t you yearn for autonomy too? (don’t even get me started on the haru parallels there; there’s a reason morgana snapped during the okumura arc.) if you felt expendable and there wasn’t ever an effort made to prove otherwise, purposeful or not, wouldn’t you also want to leave? to spare both yourself, and the people you’re leaving? i really liked his arc because it led to two realizations- that he was pivotal to the group, and it was fine if he ended up not being a human. (and honestly, he was pivotal to my group… who else would i use to heal everyone outside of battle…!)

anyway, his objectification of women was weird. didn’t like that. but this is a JRPG, and he’s not the only one who does strange things like that at times (why was ryuji looking at ann’s chest in the mona bus outside futaba’s palace man…). honestly, his flirting was also weird at times, but as long as it never got strangely sexual, i didn’t really mind? it’s not like it ever genuinely bothers ann either as far as i remember. it’s more just a stupid thing he does.

anyway… i dunno. i like the kitty. he’s silly, he kept me company, and he made my playthrough fun. life is so much more beautiful when you carry love in your heart rather than resentment

[thelilylav]

I’ve gotta admit as much as I know Darabella is a flawed ship (and some of the ppl who are anti for it have legit criticisms I love y’all for pointing it out cause it frustrates the hell out of me too trust) they’ll always just kind of be it for me.

Because as much as it was an “I can fix him” trope, as much as Rosabella could be selfish and Daring’s flaws got cranked up to 1000, she was also the first person to look at him after his destiny, the thing he dedicated his life to, failed, when people were questioning him as a prince and putting pressure on his and Apple’s relationship and tell him that, like, maybe it would be alright? Maybe this wasn’t his destiny, and maybe that was okay.

And the part that really gets me? She’s the first person after this happens to tell him that it doesn’t matter what’s on the outside, which as much as you can like other Daring ships or him whatever he desperately needed to hear. Not even cause he was selfish, that’s not what I’m saying, but bc he placed his whole identity on this image that people concocted for him based on him appearing the perfect prince. He was handsome, he was talented, and he was handsome! So who cares about him as a person?

Idk man. You spend four seasons (I watch the specials on Netflix so that’s why four idk if it’s three to some ppl or whatever tho) watching him be praised for his looks, watching girls fawn over him, and of course he enjoys it so nobody really questions how much he enjoys it. And then you get this girl, this girl who owes him nothing, this girl who (contrary to popular belief apparently) has a life of her own and people she cares about outside of him, and she’s nice to him. And she’s the first person after everything happens to just be nice to him, for the sake of being nice. Something about that will always hit different for me

[twinstxrs]

the gorgug-porter conversation is interesting to me because like. yea for the overwhelming majority of the conversation porter’s being shitty & trying to fit gorgug into a box that gorgug just does not fit into by trying to make gorgug’s relationship with his rage more focused on the aggression aspect of it. but then there’s also this specific thing that brennan brought up again in the ap, which is that gorgug’s relationship with his rage is wholly “this is a tool i use to protect my friends.” which isn’t a bad thing! but that’s his Whole relationship with it, & gorgug seems to place next to no value on his rage in relationship to himself. which is problematic, because it’s first & foremost his rage.

being raised in a household with a sort of toxic positivity largely meant that, whether or not it was his parents’ intention, gorgug internalized the message that more traditionally “negative” emotions such as anger are the wrong response to something. part of the reason he prioritizes his artificing is probably because it’s “fixing” things. in comparison to being a barbarian, which gorgug associates with “breaking” things. good vs. bad behavior, in his eyes.

it’s a totally unacceptable bar to measure a 16 y/o by, but i do think part of porter’s reasoning for not letting gorgug multiclass is him recognizing that gorgug generally does not value anger as a valid emotional response to something, at the very least for himself. & that directly conflicts with what being a barbarian is, because whether you like it or not, that rage is what fuels you. but again, barring a kid from pursuing something they deeply care about in part (not entirely, porter has a lot of more bullshit reasons) because of their fundamental values & world outlook is crazy.

so yes, 98% of porter’s reasoning is pretty shitty, immature, rife with a toxic view that there’s only one proper way to access rage, & generally not a good thing to do as a teacher, but also within that reasoning is the 2% of ‘there is a fundamental part of yourself that you only value if you can use it to take care of other people & you need to accept that as something that can take care of you, too.’ but that’s something to discuss with a therapist or a guidance counselor, not something that should hugely impact gorgug’s academic future.

[minsu-the-cowardly-human]

Me: Ugh Bakugo x Deku? Didn't Bakugo tell Deku to kill himself? Doesn't Bakugo bully Deku all the damn time and we can see how it effects Deku? I don't care if he changed as a person, I still don't like it!(I respect those who ship it tho)

Also me: hehe Ribbun...

[quatregats]

Something I've been thinking about is how Patrick O'Brian manages so skillfully to write characters whose actions contradict their beliefs, which I think is honestly a big part of why his characters feel so real. Mostly with Stephen and Jack—e.g., and perhaps most notably, Stephen has notably leftist sympathies (honestly I have no idea how to characterize his politics in period terms) who nonetheless becomes very comfortable with his rise to the landed gentry, while Jack is a card-carrying Tory who much of the time sympathizes far more with working class sailors and farmers than with the upper classes—but I'm sure he does it to a lesser degree with some of his minor characters (James Dillon, while perhaps not precisely minor, comes to mind), and I love that he's able to do that, especially the way in which he embeds it in the narrative. We see how they're all unreliable narrators of themselves; we understand how they want to be seen and how that does and doesn't coincide with the reality, but most importantly, this isn't presented as something reprehensible, just as a part of their own humanity. They are not their expectations for themselves, but they don't need to be those expectations to be beloved.

[feelingthedisaster]

okay, being 100% honest, dont pull a josten and lie to me

if exy and all the aftg stuff was real, would you actually like exy? if someone mentioned kevin day/neil josten/etc, would you recognize their names?

and if the answer is yes, would you be a hater, a stan, indiffent?

remember, you cant lie