#and it's not a moral or universal good

[lazynoodlepuff]

Also as another childhood reader who just read anything they got theirbhands on, without parents breathing down my nevk what I shoukd and shouldn't read. I did read a lot of adukt books as a young teen, and I think with all the different readung experiences I developed enough self awerness to be able to assess if I'm too young to read a book (might want to come back later) or I just dont want to read it at all

There's a book thats quite controversial in Polish fantasy literature cjrcles called Ahaia that features a lot of secualising and weird sexual stuff and rapey stuff that I oicked up when I was in middle school and I just bounced off it. I knew I didn't want to read it - no one took the books away from me. I was able to assess thatvits bot for me either right bow bc im too young or bc I want dont want to read it, and I never cane back to those books.

Around the same time I was reading Solaris by Stanislaw Lem which is a high concept sci fi novella for a competition and it was such a nightnate to get through. I probably would have left it alone if it wasnt for a competition but I was aware it wasnt for me at that point. Hell, I haven't watched some horror hory anime mybbest friend was watching bc I was able to assess it's not something I want to see. Have I been traumatised by half a season of higurashi I've seen? No, but I was able to tell that I have nk desire to watch anything like that again

The point is, the children who are allowed to read everything are likely to be able to develop the sense of what is and isn't right for them, they will get some stuff and miss other context. I was aware that Flowers in The Attick was kinda trashy and dark fir showing stuff being fucked up sake, back when I was reading it at 14. I didn't get traumatised but knew it wasn't for me even though my classmate enjoyed the whoke series

Children and teens need to learn how to assess whats good for them and how to deal with uncomfortable feelings. That fiction is just that - fiction. It can make us upset l, dishusted or disturbed but it will not harm us

I may joke that im forever traumatismed by teen drug addict memorials I read at 14 bc of how graohic and memorable they were, but it did forever changed how I look at drugs and addiction. It was sad and heartbreaking to read but it didn't damage me as a person. At that point I could develop enough emotional awerness to be able to deal with uncomfortable feelings but talking to my mom sure helped

Let's just let kids explore literature and be open to helping dealung them with uncomfy feelings if they need us. We can't protect children from every thing that could possibly upset them

And if you stop them from readubgs Flowers in the Attic, they wil look at murdery creepypastas or something online. They will find morbid stuff either way, let's just help them to learn hownto filter what they want to watch or read and how to deal with being upset

There is genuinely no such thing as an inappropriate book for a child.

[sparring-spirals]

imogen fumbling shit is just eternally good fodder for memes, alright. and its at least partly BECAUSE of how powerful she is. someone tripping while using a nerf gun? funny. someone dramatically hoisting up an outfit matchin heavy death laser gun and then immediately tripping and landing on their face? phenom. sometimes she goes "GROVEL" and the enemies grovel and we all go "oooooh" and "aaaahhh" and sometimes she just gets fully ignored and gets so huffy and petulant and ineffectually burns a cantrip just to be petty about it. sometimes she smites her enemies into dust with one move and renders a tree in half after threatening and other times she fucking. falls down a flight of stairs and accidentally sets everything on fire. fires a gun at her own team. loses all her hair. turns blue. etc.

Imogen lifts a humongous sand squid into the sky with her mind powers. Imogen is also falling out of a sky ship and landing on the desert sand far below and just. lying there. while her friend plays the flute in the background. epic hot failgirls NEED the HEIGHT to FAIL FROM. u gotta swing and miss sometimes!!! AND you gotta be REAL petty about it when u miss!!!! fucking fantastic.

[myimaginationplain]

I've come to the conclusion that being assigned the fandom-mandated "sunshine character" is the worst possible fate a character could face

[bayleafpaprika]

thinking about how Oda chosing Luffy, a pirate, to be the protagonist of One Piece may be one of the most brilliant story moves by any shonen mangaka ever. by virtue of its main character being an in-world criminal, OP naturally lends itself to becoming a story about the exposure of a society festering with corruption for what it really is, and the dismantling of a dystopia and its propagandist facade. you simply do not get a story like that with a shonen protagonist who conforms to or tolerates the shitty system they're born into

[uncharted-constellations]

Miles 🩷

Anyways it’s really cool that marvel had a character who was suddenly introduced into a new timeline where they didnt previously exist and has to deal with the ramifications of that alongside the loss of their previous mentor figure and friends.

And its really on brand that they barely explored any of that with miles and made up a new white boy with some extra fanfiction style sad ritz to have that storyline instead 🤡

[pianokantzart]

Do you accept the headcannon that Luigi is loaded? And even deeper, it's partially because he gets the money from his ghosts hunts, but he mostly gets it from poker?

I do accept the headcanon that Luigi is absolutely rolling in more money than he knows what to do with post Luigi's Mansion, ESPECIALLY after Luigi's Mansion 2 & 3.

I also headcanon that– though Luigi likes to splurge every once in a while– he is a big fan of his simple, humble lifestyle, and is not eager to upgrade beyond, like, going from instant coffee to ground coffee.

As for the poker? Well... now I'm going into slightly more complicated and far-reaching headcanons... but hear me out:

Let's say, after suddenly becoming ultra-wealthy overnight, Luigi uses the money to open up a casino! But little do people know this casino isn't a business venture so much as it is a way to subtly give away his excess funds (and an excuse to brush up on poker any time he wants.) Eventually the word gets out: you low on on grocery money? Short on rent? Just go to Luigi's casino and gamble for a bit, and after a few ups and downs you'll eventually leave with more than what you need. Luigi will happily pull whatever strings necessary to see to it that you're taken care of.

Of course if you try to take advantage of the system, or are a massive jerk to the people around you, Luigi is not afraid to challenge you to a game of poker and take you for every coin you've got. It seems like if there's one realm where he's uncharacteristically confident, it's at a card table....

[lord-squiggletits]

Y'know I kind of feel like when Megatron killed Tarn and said 'I want you to spend your final moments thinking of this: that everything you've done has been for nothing' he was kind of self-projecting onto Tarn? Mainly because at Megatron's statue, M and T had a conversation where Tarn explicitly asked if all the Decepticons in service to Megatron died for nothing, if HE did everything he did for nothing. (And I think M even gave an answer along the lines of 'idk I think we basically did'). And then after Megatron killed the DJD and Rodimus teleported in to rescue him, there was that silent moment where Megatron just stared at Rodimus not moving at all before he finally took his hand at the last moment.

It honestly feels to me like for a while, Megatron fully intended to murder-suicide himself. Murder the DJD, his monsters and his creation, and then take himself out alongside them, because he is also a monster. Because he also feels that everything he's ever done has been for nothing.

Goddamn it's no wonder I liked that scene so much LMAO, as someone who thinks villain Megatron > Autobot Megatron, literally one of his key traits is that Megatron basically took his pain/trauma/worldview and used it to lash out at the universe and try to subjugate it to his vision. So the fact that he took his own pain and brutally murdered the DJD while telling them the very same thing that puts him through so much agony is so very deliciously ironic. And a return, however brief, to the Megatron characterization that I know and love.

[phoenixcatch7]

Bit of a shame I left hp before I entered svsss because one of my favourite tropes at the time was 'dumbledore calls in External Support from different fandom during ootp and they show up to grimmauld to help (and utterly upstage everyone in the process)'.

And needless to say Sqq, at any point, would have been perfect.

Like. He's a teacher too. A scholar. Secretly from the modern world so he'd have no trouble with its intricate and mysterious workings, incidentally making himself look very cool and competent in the process. He'd have So Many Opinions. He'd incite bloody war with umbridge. He'd project his feelings for sj onto Snape with a side of commiseration for his role and fate. He'd mostly pretend to know so much less about hp than he actually does (which, hilariously, he canonically name drops in svsss, AND his system is pretty heavily implied to have previously worked in, like wow). He'd be constantly comparing Harry with lbh. He'd have a running internal dialogue bemoaning the world building, the characters, Harry's fate, the general decision making process, maybe some death of the author. Geeking out about magic. Raiding the library whenever he's free.

He might bring his students as part of an exchange, he might bring a fellow peak lord if it was a serious mission (liushen anyone?) he could bring adult lbh. Maybe sqh? Or sqh could be the messenger with the system and/or mbj.

A self aware character who couldn't live with himself if he didn't at least try to change Harry's fate whether or not he actually likes the kid? He could canon that divergence before you could say horcrux. That kind, oblivious, smoking hot exotic teacher who had people ruining their lives for him in a world that was used to people that pretty and also hated him specifically?? The hogwarts students wouldn't stand a CHANCE.

Man the scenes are coming to me so strongly I almost want to write it just as a like. Satire piece or something. Just Sqq ripping everything to shreds, accidentally or not. Diatribes on the author biases. Unintentional themes. Iffy world building choices. Nothing new, but through the lens of svsss' Sqq it'd be something for sure XD.

[patolemus]

Stiles sits in the front row at the funeral.

He’s next to Mellisa, who hasn’t been able to stop crying since she got the news. Stiles’ dad had organized the whole thing, talking with the funerary home and picking up the coffin and the arrangements. He’d only asked Melissa what she wanted on the headstone.

Raphael had showed up the day after. For the first time in his life, he’d looked a mess, hair everywhere and clothes wrinkled as he stormed into the house asking what had happened to his son, tears already gathering in his eyes before he even got a look at Melissa’s face. Stiles hadn’t made fun of him. Stiles hadn’t said anything at all. Raphael sits on Melissa’s other side now, and she grips his hand tight enough it turns white. He hasn’t been back for five years.

God, Scott hadn’t seen his had for five years, and now he’s dead. Scott’s dead.

Stiles thinks it still hasn’t sunk in. He’s in the middle of his best friend’s funeral - it’s closed casket because his body was so mangled up that the EMPs could barely recognize him. Stiles had heard his dad on the phone with one of his deputies talking about it, before he’d realized just whose body they were talking about - and it still hasn’t clicked that Scott won’t be coming out of his casket, that this isn’t some kind of sick practical joke for getting him out of bed the night before school started.

Stiles is not crying. He hasn’t cried once since hearing the news. His dad is crying, sitting on his other side. Scott’s like a second son to him.

Was. Scott was like a second son to him. Was because he’s gone now. Because he’s dead.

Scott’s dead.

His best friend since preschool is dead. His brother is dead. The kindest, most caring person in the world is dead. Stiles goaded him into going to the preserve to look for half a dead body - and God, he’s such an asshole. A dead body? What was he even thinking? - and now Scott doesn’t even get to show his face at his own funeral because whatever killed him barely left any of him to bury.

If only he’d stayed. If only he’d told his dad Scott was with him that night instead of leaving him there. But no, Stiles hadn’t wanted Scott to get grounded because he dragged him out of bed, so he’d kept quiet. Even when he’d seen the pair of red eyes and that— that thing in the corner of his eye. Stiles hadn’t said anything. He thought they’d laugh about it at lunch the next day.

Now Scott’s dead.

Scott is dead.

And Stiles knows exactly what did it.

(He’s going to fucking kill it.)

[concrete-3ater]

if I had a nickel for every time I was in a fandom and a child character had a breakdown and did something that accidentally hurt another character, and then the fandom all turned on the character and vilified them because they [the fandom] can’t understand that sometimes 14 year olds make mistakes when they’re going through something traumatic, I would have 2 nickels

not a lot but it really is weird it happened twice

[lovesodeepandwideandwell]

I have no business enjoying The Golden Enclaves with all of its flaws as much as I do

[ohno-the-sun]

Woot woot more mad scientist au doodles! 

Credit to @oobbbear​ 

Another doodle under the cut (its my favorite but its gory so be warned)

[allulily]

the fucking,, the reoccurring use of miles sticking to things or breaking stuff when he's feeling nervous and that it's used as an indicator of how he's feeling,,, i'm so normal about this movie i promise

[dartalias]

not exactly a theory (yet), im just wondering

Maybe the reason Yun was so determined to bring Kyoshi in the iceberg mission wasnt just a crush thing or wanting a friends suport, but to ensure himself as an avatar

I think he may had considered her as an ancor to his "avatarhood" somehow (how ironic)

Like him saing he would fell lost surrounded by all those especialized people that are making him the avatar (i found interesting how he include Rangi in those) and that he needed her to be there so he could "make this avatar thing right"

While never thinking she could ever actually be an avatar, or not acepting she could change or be anything else

I think this may be even one of the reasons he had and holded it for so long a (distorted)crush on Kyoshi in the first place

[barbieaiden]

rememberwhen he. remember. when. when.when. he

[heart-0f-a-rebel16]

Y’know I think that some of yall need to internalize the fact that not every children’s show made in the 2010s is going to perfectly align with a leftist praxis and that (and this is the only time I will ever say this) sometimes things are not that deep