#and put her in every situation

[grimrevolution]

[egophiliac]

like mother, like son, but less wholesome this time?

(I couldn't decide whether or not to put them together, so have them in all the different ways!)

[persona-brainrot-real]

Sae Niijima is such a good character it drives me insane a little. She's not a mother nor a maternal or doting older sister but instead a twenty four year old who was thrown into a position of responsibility that she never asked for. She loves Makoto just as much as she resents her and its so apparent every time they talk up until November. "Are you studying?" (I want you to do well) (I need you to get a job and stop making my life harder) "I'll use any method necessary to get this promotion" (Life will be easier for us) (So stop distracting me with your problems) "Focus on your future" (I know that you're capable) (I can't afford to waste my time on you, so stop wasting time on others)

Makoto is not only the sole reason she pushes as hard as she does for a promotion, for success, and the reason that she loses herself in her animosity over her fathers death, but also someone she can't stand for so long. Makoto was 14-15 when their father died. Sae was 21. As soon as she got the career she wanted and things started to look up, her stability was robbed from her and she was disillusioned with the system that her father had taught her to rely on and completely adhere to. How do you manage, the daughter of a cop, following his footsteps towards law enforcement, when you're suddenly reminded of how unfair it is? You can't quit, your little sister relies on you and she's so young and struggling just as badly with this grief. So you pick yourself up and you get moving again. You push harder, press further. You abandon your morals and your ethics because punishing criminals (guilty or not) is almost like punishing the man who killed your father.

And the whole time she's fighting for promotions, going for drinks with the SIU Director to make herself more favourable for promotions, trying to navigate being a woman in a competitive, suffocating, male-dominated field, falling behind despite doing so much where others are promoted for doing so little - all the while your little sister comes back from school and her biggest issues are so small compared to yours.

Persona 5 revolves so heavily around grief and loss and change and Sae embodies all of that so well, all of the sharp and unpleasant and jagged parts of grief.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

It's all fun and games until...

[Commission for @dontheckinswear]

[pjs-everyday]

they know everything about everyone all the time 🤞🤞🤞lol

nooossyyyyyyyyyyyy 👂👁👃👁👂

[nemaliwrites]

channeling tumblr user asukiess today and thinking about emilie....but adrien's mom emilie. came back wrong, because surprise, surprise, the wish doesn't work the way gabriel thought it would. not everything can be under his control - and as usual, it falls to adrien to live with his mistakes.

sometimes, people catch glimpses of a woman through the windows of the agreste mansion. perhaps she would be beautiful, in another life - but in this one, there are dark rings around her eyes. her movements are sluggish, ashen skin and pale lips. illness, most likely, something that runs in the family. but then, why does the son look perfectly fine?

speaking of the son, he's been spotted out and about more often than ever lately. the butcher, in particular, is very familiar with him. nice kid. always polite. insists on tipping, even when he purchases what are objectively the worst cuts of meat.

sure you don't want something better? the butcher asks. flanchet? bavette? filet?

no, the kid says with a smile. that's okay. my mother isn't picky.

devoted boy, to be out shopping for his mother like this.

the woman who works at the hardware store, too, knows the agreste boy quite well. he stops in almost every week, stepping up to the counter with arms full of heavy ropes and chains.

are these...the strongest you have? he asks as she's ringing him up.

should be, she replies. whaddya need 'em for?

...they're for my mother, the kid says after a moment.

weird, but she works in a place like this, and she's seen far stranger things before. she's not one to judge.

so then the boy goes, raw meat in one hand and chains in another. all for his mother.

what a good son, they think, to be taking care of her like this. to be bringing her whatever she needs, whatever she asks for. how devoted. if only their own children were more like that.

if only they were more like emilie agreste, to have a son like that.

[daisywords]

thinking about this post but also it's more than that. do you ever think about how stories starring men are allowed to be about humanity but stories starring women have to be about Womanhood

[chaika-jpeg-shitpost]

Joseph, just like Chika, had someone weak and helpless in his care. However, when the threat of death from starvation drove him into a corner, he refused to abandon the one he promised to protect. Unlike Chika

[miniagula]

movie sonadow would be so l umity-coded…and i say this bc their dynamic is similar to the games but with a different and tender perspective: they both empathize deeply with each other now, and this shadow is not as reticent or closed off bc of that. that being said: movie!sonic would ABSOLUTELY 'YOU'RE the sweet potato!' the hell out of shadow

[mikimeiko]

Nobody Wants This | Season 1 (2024), Erin Foster

[campbyler]

heads up that i will be using chapter 10.2 to promote my mike and mitchell best friends forever agenda thanks

[dirtytransmasc]

concept, cause the dynamics at play would be super interesting:

when Tuk and Neytiri are sucked into the hold of the Seadragon, what if Spider, unwilling to watch another one of this baby siblings, nor his siblings mother (despite everything cause he's a good kid), die without doing anything, jumps in after them?

they're now stuck in a flooding ship, spider knows his way around to a decent extent, they're all tired, they're all scared, they're all hurting. they have to depend on each other for survival.

Neytiri has to not only trust Spider, but has to follow his lead, has to trust him to guide her around a demon ship, has to untrust not only her own life, but the life of her youngest child to this boy.

Maybe they're separated, they have to find one another (my personal favorite scenario is that Tuk and Spider are together and he has to try and find her/guide Neytiri to him)

Spider taking Neytiri and Tuk's arms so they aren't separated by stray currents and raging waters (a parallel to "Sully's stick together"). Spider talking them through the breath holds he learned as a kid in case his mask malfunctioned before bringing them through the depths of the submerged ship (parallel to Jake and Lo'ak)

anyway. I just can't stop thinking about it. think about it.

Neytiri is faced with the fact that Spider jumped in after her and Tuk. he came for them, he put himself in danger to save them, to save her daughter. even after what she did to him. even after she held a knife to him, after she cut him, after she intended to kill him even after Kiri was released. he still jumped to her aid, even if he could have stayed with Kiri above deck where he was safe, he could have just aided Tuk and left her behind, but he didn't.

and there's so many ways to play with it and the aftermath. like.

Spider dragging both Tuk and Neytiri up the surface, trying his best to keep the trio afloat (namely Neytiri who was much less adjusted to the water and is exhausted by the night they've had) as they hope and pray to be reunited with the rest of their family.

maybe the stress gets to them and Spider just starts apologizing. I should have fought them harder. I shouldn't have let Lo'ak and Neteyam try and leave with me, I would have been fine. I should have seen it coming, should have taken it myself. it should have been me. my baby brother shouldn't be dead.

maybe he becomes partly delirious as he too gives into exhaustion, the big brother in him being the only part of him left coherent, so he takes Tuk close, whispering prrnen tsmuke [baby sister] over and over into her braids, assuring himself that she's safe and unharmed. he keeps praying to the Great Mother for his siblings to return to him unharmed. maybe he keeps asking where they are, if they're safe as his awareness fades and his memory weakens. all of his siblings. asking if Neteyam is ok, only to remember he's gone the second the words leave his tongue.

Jake and Lo'ak finding them when they come up with Payakan, both worse for wear, exhausted, clinging to one another, the only thing keeping their heads above water being spiders life vest, Tuk cradled between them. what a sight.

Neytiri watching as Spider looks over each of his siblings, taking them close, holding onto them as if they will be ripped away from him. the realization that he would die before he let that happen again hitting her like a ton of bricks the second she sees the look in his eyes.

a peace being made between the two in the wake of this event. spider silently claiming the role of big brother (he always was, but he had to pretend he wasn't. with Neteyam gone, he can't pretend he's not anymore), Neytiri silently agreeing.

idk man. it would be interesting.

[funnuraba]

Everyone else's storylines in the Sopranos:

Janice's storylines:

[aingeal98]

The thing about Cass and her inflexible moral code is that it was created from death related trauma and cemented as an essential part of her own self worth after years of battling her own suicidal desires. Bruce implied once that if he ever crossed his own moral lines regarding killing he would find it hard to stop, but with Cass it's like... If she ever came up against an opponent so stubborn and correct that she had no choice to miserably concede that "Fine you can kill this person you want to kill. It's the right thing to do. They deserve death at your hands."

Then there's a non zero chance she's just killing herself immediately afterwards.

[agalychnisspranneusroseus]

Sasha being convinced all parents secretly hate their kids and being shocked that the Boonchuys genuinely love each other as a family. She interprets any normal strict parenting from their part (like grounding Anne when she's being a little shit) as proof that they're just sick of Anne and can't wait 'til she's out of their hair.

[followfire]

Just had something happen to me which was very close to a situation I often have nightmares about, and I thought those nightmares were a bit over the top, like, you know, the way dreams tend to be...

Well turns out the dreams weren't exaggerating at all. In fact it's worse in real life. The nightmares were the game turned on easy mode. :)