#and shes so angry and bitter

[sunfloralchaos]

Need to hold someone captive for 5 hours (minimum) while I talk about Ayre and why she's so awful but it makes sense because she went though some of the most horrific shit imaginable and did what she could to keep herself going

[xshinina]

*Married life playing in the background

This idea was probably funnier in my head

[mimikyuno]

homura (after a whole movie dedicated to the mechanisms of her inner psyche and set in a world that is literally her subconscious, populated by little dolls that are the manifestation of her emotions and self-hatred, after a whole movie where we get to see that she loves and cares for her friends and above all she deeply loves madoka, after the most heartbreaking scene in the history of anime where she realises madoka never wanted to sacrifice herself, after sacrificing herself to try and keep madoka’s wish alive anyway and keep her safe from the incubators, after being saved by madoka and feeling undeserving of it yet again, after finally giving up on trying to preserve madoka’s wish and creating a universe in which madoka can be happy and her friends too and the incubators eat shit, after showing how much she hates herself for it): i’m evil! i’m a demon! i’m evil incarnate!

people: yeah that checks out, homura is evil.

[yansurnummu]

TES fest day 6: abandoned

In the grief of supposedly losing her brother, Lilanwe certainly made some choices. She joined the Worm Cult, becoming a much more cold and cynical person. Granted, it wasn't entirely Auredil's fault for what happened to him, but I don't know that she'll ever really forgive him for leaving her behind.

[attractthecrows]

yeah yeah trick weekes says whatever about it not making sense that solas couldnt sneak off THEY FAILED TO CONSIDER that maybe he just is ass at it when he gets invested. much like. the whole fucking rest of the romance where he COMPLETELY fails to resist until the breakup.

anyway.

im personally of the opinion that he's more liable to slip up - fail at sneaking, accidentally reveal details, contradict himself - when he actually makes bonds with people. which is why after trespasser he goes and lives alone in the lighthouse for ten years but i digress.

and i think "that", the bonds tripping him up, should be reflected in his exit from the Inquisition. you're enemies or neutral, yeah he just vanishes. there's nothing to keep him there, nothing to interfere with his plans and intentions. you're (ex)lovers? i think he still would pull back purposefully and probably vanish, but there would be definite hesitation. he would have to force himself to do so, because fuck, he wants to stay. he wants to be close to you. but he also, crucially, knows that you have a dangerous sway over him, so he MUST disengage. if you're friends, it takes him some effort. because he does like you, he doesn't want to do what he has to, it's been so long since he had people who were friends to him, and he doesn't have to force himself away because he's in too deep. he knows you would worry about him. he might not be willing to give anyone the truth - but he would owe you a goodbye, at the very least. especially if you weren't the type to try to convince him to stay.

[temilyrights]

happy new year everyone! 8 days until i can see my therapist and tell her my girlfriend broke up with me even though last she heard we were amazing and doing great. crazy what three weeks and a girl with avoidant attachment can do x

[sieglinde-freud]

missing the maribelle/tharja family unit today. i think maribelle would be elated to have a daughter. she meets noire for the first time and she goes “do you play chess? violin? ride? drink tea?” and noire goes “no but im really good at throwing up in a bucket” and maribelles like “oh!!!! okay!!!!” i think she finds noire’s talisman persona charming. chrom is like “um maribelle can you please go get your daughter… she’s terrorizing the camp” and she goes “shes harmless! why do you hate women?” and he never speaks on it again. i think tharja needs a kid that will beef with her and i think brady is 100% the guy to do it. i think she looks at him and goes “what is your problem” and he flips her off. she tries to curse him but he spins his staff ninja style deflecting them back at her. he serves tea to his moms but he spits in tharjas and she knows it. and then she drinks it because it pisses him off. brady could come to love her at some point but it will not be easy and it will not come without a lot of work and a lot of arguing and i think i need some more parent/child conflict in this game. awakening gets one f bomb and its hidden in the random tharja brady PC support where he just goes “FUCK YOU” Tharja and Brady attained support level B.

[myanimesideblog]

Sleep deprived hot take of the night: Maki from jjk is Izuku Midoriya from a quirkless!Izuku au

[toaarcan]

I think Fiona's betrayal makes way more sense and fits into the narrative better if you simply bump it to after the destruction of Knothole.

Like, in the actual comic it kinda comes out of nowhere, and it's heavily tied into the romance plot tumours and Issue 150. Fiona's actual character is barely important, she just disappears for five issues and comes back with a new personality, her old trauma in high gear again (but girl, if you're mad at Sonic for abandoning you, why the feck are you running off with Second Sonic Who Is Worse?), and an ideology that makes zero sense with her history ("You can't count on anybody" says character who has literally never been independent and will never become independent).

And the fallout is incredibly understated and after literally two issues nobody cares any more except Tails. And he's done caring after 179 closes.

Betrayal is supposed to be impactful.

But if you shuffle the order of the stories around, don't even change the actual content, then the whole thing becomes a buttery-smooth consistent arc and Fiona's character development, while not a good thing in the long run (Scourge literally would've killed her in 196 if his plan had succeeded, she traded the stunningly mediocre partner that was Sonic for a literal monster), actually makes sense and is front and centre in her story, instead of what we got, which is "Fiona ascends from background character to weird love interest to an accessory for Scourge who is defined entirely by Scourge."

Fiona being driven by her trauma to hate Sonic for leaving her behind is a reasonable angle, it's where she started in the Knuckles comic, but it's been so long since that was relevant to her character that dredging it up years after the fact in a different book would only ever be jarring. Unless, say, history repeated itself and all those wounds got opened up again.

Eggman drops out of the sky, razes her home to the ground, and shoves her in a prison to be used as fodder for one of his sick creations, just like Robotnik did all those years ago. Only this time, the prison is so small that she can barely even move, and the machine she's going to be fed into is much worse. It'll kill her, twice over, draining her life-force to power Eggman's machinery and wiping her mind for no reason other than "Eggman's a sadistic asshole."

She gets to see the effects up-close too, via Charmy's brain damage.

And while it's unnecessary, as I think the actual plot of the issues needs no alterations to make sense, you could nonetheless add a small scene during the rescue where Sonic saves Fiona from the Egg Grapes and says he won't make that mistake again. A small hope spot before it all comes crashing down.

Because it does! The arc ends with the Freedom Fighters standing triumphant over a wrecked Egg Beater. They could easily grab Eggman and drag him into the brand-new prison that Nicole put Mogul, Naugus, and the Hooligans in. They have turned their darkest hour into an opportunity to win the war... and they don't take it.

Eggman flies off, clinging to an Egg Flapper and doing the "I'll get you next time, Gadget! Next tiiiiiime!" bit, and the heroes just... stand there.

And that's where the (hypothetical) hope spot gets dashed. Fiona, already uncertain of her place in the team after 160-1, loses faith in them completely. She just lived through the worst experience of her life again and the heroes of this world are doing nothing to prevent another repeat.

It even makes her "You can't count on anybody" line actually have some weight. She genuinely feels like she's been failed by them, that she put her trust in these people and they still turned on her at a moment's notice, and they're not doing enough to actually save the world. It's like Scourge says in 172- she "wishes [Sonic] had a backbone."

And then, after all that, there's the big Fiona Betrayal Issue except now it's actually about Fiona and not just about giving Scourge a girlfriend, and that's followed immediately by the Sonic vs. Tails issues. There's no time to process what just happened, everyone's emotions are still extremely raw, and it boils over into a fight between brothers that's more about venting all those nasty emotions they've been holding in for a while now. Sonic has been through a lot lately, he just lost his home and repeated one of his few failures, and he's not long lost Tommy too. Tails is dealing with emotions that he's not mature enough to process properly and healthily, he grew up too fast, but not evenly. And at the end of the day, they're both still just kids.

I still think 179's ending is an overall horrible way to to resolve that plot thread, and further reduces Fiona to an object to be fought over, but I'm not heavily changing the content of the issues, only the context.

I've never been a fan of villain!Fiona, I've made that clear in the past. I like it as a step on a journey that results in her healing, but I found its start confusing and messy and the rest of the arc lacklustre and far too focused on Scourge, rather than Fiona herself. But I think putting it in this order makes it flow a lot better for me.

If I write Sonic stuff again, I'll probably do it with this as a headcanon of what went down in the 170s.

[sulkybender]

Okay, so: ATLA but Zuko has an animal companion too.

We see him on the ship, thirteen and freshly banished, visiting the komodo rhinos in the brig at night.

“You understand me, girl”

She’s the meanest of all of them but Zuko takes a liking to her. 

Zuko: “Her name is Kudzu, because she grows on you” 

*crew exchanging looks*

Zuko, glaring: “She grows on you!” 

She’s also the chubbiest rhino because Zuko dotes on her and keeps sneaking her little snacks.


When he goes back to the Fire Nation in Book 3, he goes down to the stables at night to hang out with the komodo rhinos.

But none of them are Kudzu, and he misses her. 


Azula: “You smell like a barnyard”

Zuko, sadly: “It’s not the same”


He’s reunited with Kudzu when his old crew attends his inauguration. 


Jee: “we’ve brought you something”

Zuko: “KUDZU!!”

*hugging her, tearing up*

Jee: “she’s literally the worst animal I’ve ever met”

Zuko, sobbing: “I know, isn’t she wonderful?”



*bonus: Kudzu’s Lost Days segment, but she’s just eating hay and being bitchy*

[hsslilly-blog]

people with blue eyes staring at you meme but it's actually everyone to me. man stop looking at me. there literally no need for that. that's why i always side sit

[nobodysdaydreams]

I hope wicked act ii also does more oz geopolitics. john chu expand on the implication of fiyero and glinda's sham engagement being to tie the last ruler of the vinkus to the wizard's power, or the effects of public enemy number 1 being technically the governor of munchkinland or the relationship nessarose had to the emerald city

That would be interesting, especially because the Wizard’s goals of getting the nobility and leaders of different lands/countries on his side involves manipulating/playing nice with his enemy’s sister (Nessarose), his enemy’s best-friend (Galinda), and his enemy’s secret boyfriend (Fiyero), who all happen to be either from well-to-do families or in positions of high political power, and the Wizard would likely be willing to threaten them into compliance if necessary.

Nessarose especially is someone I feel for in that situation. I get that’s a very unpopular opinion, and I understand she makes some pretty terrible choices, especially in part 2, but imagine you lose your mother as a baby and everyone treats you different because you’re disabled and your sister is green and has unexplained powers. Then you go to school expecting things to finally be better for you and think a guy actually likes you, only to find out he actually likes someone else was lying to you the whole time about his feelings, your sister is now public enemy #1 and the whole country wants her dead, and also your father is dead now too. Now you’re made governess of an entire land as a college freshman, and your options are to declare loyalty to the dictator who wants your sister dead or put the lives of your small land at risk by declaring war against him, knowing full well you can’t protect your citizens on your own. The way Nessarose clung to Boq for emotional support and wouldn’t let him go was extremely problematic and abusive, I’m not saying it wasn’t, but I unfortunately do see how Nessarose became as messed up as she was. People labeled her as “wicked” by association with her sister, and while she was cruel, she was also forced to give away what was supposed to be her one chance at enjoying her youth to take on a political office during a time of turmoil after losing most of her family and being pressured to publicly come out against her one and only remaining family member. Admittedly, I don’t remember all the details of how that shakes out (it’s been a while since I read the book/saw the musical), but either way, you can see why it’s not a fun or easy situation.

[macinthecaac]

5 times. As of today, I've read Project Hail Mary 5 times, and each time, I've happy-cried at the ending.

It's one of those endings that really makes me feel emotional. After a lifetime of fear, fear of being rejected and fear of dying, Ryland Grace makes the decision to sacrifice his life to save his best friend. He had the option to turn around and go back to Earth; nobody would have known. He could have lied about everything, and lived his life as a hero back home. But it was his love for Rocky, his best friend, that made him face the fears that always controlled him and turn the ship around.

Then, he lives quite a number of years on Erid. The high gravity deteriorates his bones, and likely shortens his lifespan by a lot, but he stays. He had the option to leave safely years prior, but he chooses to stay. Even after finding out that humanity survived and Sol has returned to full luminance, he still isn't sure about leaving. Maybe he will one day, but not right now. Because he has people he cares about, and Erid may not be where he's from, but he sure as hell made it his home.

I'm going to sob again. If they change this ending in the movie, I'm going to STORM out of the theatre and never look back.

[kisaraslover]

something something as evil as he is about owning and subjugating her for eternity shes twice as insane about being the only one for him

[itspileofgoodthings]

Taylor returning over and over to the falling through the ice accident in the Bolter—everything to me

[seaslimes]

Conversations with another, smaller, weaker self.