#and the Richest

[jontycrane]

Best of 2024 - Hiking & Cycling

My annual look back at the best books I’ve read / listened to this year. I only read about 80 books, the lowest number since 2016, and well down from my peak of 308 in 2020. I spent almost the whole year living in Timor-Leste, one of the poorest countries in the world, where printed books are a rarity and there are no lending libraries. I borrowed eBooks on my iPad through my New Zealand library…

[mielplante]

dilucs intervention in the alchemy event made me laugh dhdh boy came with one goal in mind !!

[roseburning]

I feel like this fandom often forget how insanely WEALTHY this man:

Actually is. He's kinda rich, right? Wrong.

This cherry pie:

Is a MULTI-BILLIONAIRE. This would let him comfortably sit at Forbes 985th, ladies and gentlemen, that's the same net worth as Michael Jordan.

I know that he doesn't like to show off his money because his mother only cared about it and neglected him, and I know he's the one founding all the high tech gadgets for the X-Men + to the mansion and the planes.

However.

WHERE ARE ALL THE FICS ABOUT HIM SPOILING ROTTEN HIS BOYFRIEND?! not like Erik would accept it straight away, but I need them to talk about and Charles making sure Erik knows he's worthy it and that it's okay to accept love and gifts.

WHERE ARE THE FICS ABOUT HIM NOT HAVING A CLUE THAT MOST PEOPLE CONSIDER NORMAL ABOUT MONEY?! I'm sorry, as neglected you may be, there's no way you inherit 3,5 BILLIONS and has a realistic view on how most people handle money, let alone poor people. This man is the 1%, he's the rich that the liberals want to eat (erik, not like that-). He's self aware and he tries to police himself, but I need to see the reality checks every now and then. Besides, a lot of his students came from really shitty places and the class difference would be screaming sometimes.

ACTUALLY, NOT JUST ERIK, I NEED TO SEE HIM GIVING PEOPLE STUPIDLY EXPENSIVE GIFTS IN GENERAL. Sometimes just because he can and there's no reason why not, sometimes he doesn't realize it's that expensive, and then I digress to my previous point.

WHERE ARE THE SUGAR DADDY FANFICTIONS?!

There's also this website I found that claims he has 125 BILLION DOLLARS but I highly doubt that:

Ladies and gentlemen, that website was ranking characters from DC and Marvel, and they put him above Tony Stark (80 billion) and Bruce Wayne (100 billion). I have no idea where they took that information from, but that would make our adorable lab rat the 10TH MOST WEALTHY MAN on the planet as of 2024.

Omg, the subtitle got Erik's name wrong-

This was a Charles' bank account appreciation post, thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

UPTADE: Guys, I found the perfect fanfic for it and I cannot recommend this enough. Downtown (everything's waiting for you) by so_shhy

Synopsis: “Charles is a rich CEO, Erik is a hooker with a heart of gold...

(In other words, Pretty Woman AU)”

Fun fact: I found that marvelous fanfiction while looking for “Charles Xavier being an asshole” tag.

[moonsoaked-tickles]

hi guys

I probably forgot some shit but oh well . i'm tired

[bethanydelleman]

Fanny Price 🤝 Emma Woodhouse

Cannot leave the house unless there is a babysitter for her parental figure

Has attended one impromptu ball and one real one in her entire life

There is something worth seeing 10 miles from her house. She hasn't seen it.

Most intelligent person in the house at (almost) all times

Falls for the most constant person in her life

[enanansbbg]

Honestly, it’s no wonder the Beast cookies went completely insane when you look at it…

Like, they were created as adults with 0 life experience, then given an insane amount of power and told ‘go crazy with it’. Yeah they’re eventually gonna go insane, but even more so, it runs so much deeper than ‘they fell under the weight of their own power’. They literally didn’t know how to cope with the loss, the grief, and all the other negative emotions thrown their way. They never got to learn how to cope with those feelings, so they turned to extremely self destructive methods instead.

Them not being allow to live or grow up also explains why they seem so childish now. If someone never got a child, they’ll eventually grow into an adult child. In a way, they’re basically regressed in their own way.

Their coping mechanisms, even just the way they act, it’s all so childish. Hiding away in a world of lies and make-believe because you can’t face reality, taking all your pain out on those around you and destroying everything in your path, projecting your feelings onto others and trying to make them feel and see the same as you do, all of it is rooted in the fact they never matured. This pain is basically all they know.

The Ancient’s are able to recover from their failures, not fall into the Beast trap because they’ve matured, they got the chance to experience life and grow from it— The Beast didn’t.

It’s a good thing the witches saw where they went wrong with the Beast and corrected it big time with the ancients, otherwise that would have been a HUGE mess

[applestruda]

Hermittober Day 3 - Fortune

[meerkatp]

Happy Transgender Day of Visibility!

I know he's technically not canonically Trans (though, he's not canonically cis either, just saying) Drake (especially the DT17 version) is a character that has resonated with Trans Duckverse fans (myself included, I'm Genderfluid) and it is a hc I've seen so widely accepted in the fandom I'd go as far as to call it just outright fanon.

[facets-and-rainbows]

Blue Exorcist Character Guidebook 2: Mephisto

Info on Mephisto from the new guidebook! Each character has a profile followed by relevant questions from fans, and then there's an interview section later where Kazue Katoh gives commentary on each major character and each manga arc. I have more guidebook than time, so I'm skipping the parts that are just like...summarizing who he is and stuff. So this will mostly be fan questions and Katoh's commentary

Biographical info

Gender: Male Age: (°w°) Rank/Titles: Director of True Cross Academy and head of the exorcism cram school, Honorary Knight for the Knights of the True Cross, King of Time Anniversary [T/N Katoh gives demons these in lieu of a birthday]: August 28 Blood type: ( ʹ - ʼ ) Height: 195 cm (184 cm without the "horn") Weight: 74 kg Skills and interests: movies, manga, anime, games, music, toys, miscellaneous subcultures

Fan Q&A

How do members of the Knights of the True Cross usually find out that Mephisto is a demon king?

I think some people might find out from books, the internet, etc even before they become exorcists. They do publish demon field guides that you can find at regular libraries, and Mephisto seems like the type to mention it in online interviews. Rin was the only one who didn't know.

How long has he had his current body?

About 200 years.

Which media from Assiah has had the greatest impact on him?

I imagine he would have been shocked the first time he saw a cinematograph.

Mephisto really likes all sorts of entertainment; has he ever tried making something himself?

Demons in general (not just Mephisto) tend to be bad at creative pursuits, though there are exceptions. Mephisto has a certain respect for human creativity.

Why is he so fond of Beelzebub?

Beelzebub just kind of struck a chord with him. Meanwhile, Beelzebub also likes being spoiled by Mephisto.

Which other demon kings get along with Mephisto the best?

In order: 1. Beelzebub 2. Amaimon 3. Egyn 4. Astaroth 5. Iblis 6. Lucifer [T/N it took me like an entire minute to work out that Azazel is the one missing from this list. Presumably because he's a rock]

Has Mephisto ever altered the past?

He sure does say a lot of things that imply that! [T/N: Katoh. Katoh. Katoh.]

How rich is Mephisto exactly?

He's actually one of the world's top businessmen and investors. His total assets are probably over one trillion yen [T/N: Jesus f*ck][T/N: that's about US$6.7 billion]

Author interview

Mephisto is a character who can solve just about anything; does that make him hard to write? Honestly, he's super easy to deploy. Mephisto has the plot in the palm of his hand and can fix stuff behind the scenes; he's the one pulling the strings. For adaptations and spinoffs, I just say "if you need to fill in a plot hole, make it Mephisto's fault" (laughs). But I do think it's dangerous to overdo it.

He even took on a sort of narrator role in chapter 44, didn't he? Around Volume 10, I was trying to treat each chapter like its own self-contained oneshot. Mephisto didn't even feel out of place as an omniscient narrator for one chapter, and for me that really drove home what a convenient character he is. Though I'm always wondering when and how to show Mephisto's own serious motives and inner thoughts, since he does fall into that eternal comic narrator role.

He can suddenly turn terrifying just when you were thinking he was comical. Hidden depths. Fundamentally he's on the humans' side, and he's often in charge of comic relief, but I do want to show his demonic side too. Same with the familiars; I want to portray the demons as something humans are afraid of.

[oitao]

[borgialucrezia]

RODRIGO BORGIA & JUAN BORGIA ↴ abraham and isaac parallels

"If you take my honour, you must take my life. Mine to give, yours to take." — THE BORGIAS (2011-2013) by neil jordan

"Bind me as a sacrifice with cords to the horns of the altar." — ABRAHAM AND ISAAC (the lotus magazine. vol. 2, no. 6)

The Paintings: — Carvaggio, The Sacrifice of Isaac (1602) — Otto Adolph Stemler, Abraham embraces his son Isaac after receiving him back from God (1927)

[fyi-iyanni]

[justaz]

the knights go to bed with peasant merlin and wake up to noble merlin and are like "??? wtf??" and merlin's answer is just "i came into some wealth" and refuses to elaborate further

leon and elyan believe this to be in regard to his father who was nobility, a dragonlord. gwaine believes this to be a reference to merlin sleeping with arthur. lancelot and percival think it's a mix of both.

(it's a mix of both)

[gingerswagfreckles]

Please tell me why braindead "leftists" are now spamming my posts about Ukraine saying that Ukraine is the reason we don't have free healthcare. Yeah lol if only we weren't wasting all our healthcare money on Ukraine. If only. We'd totally have free healthcare then. Just like we did before Russia invaded in 2022, right?

[leafie-draws]

not to sound dramatic or anything but if I had billions of dollars to spend on nothing i would just give it to people tbh if i were a billionaire I'd achieve feats like fixing the housing crisis, preventing earth's termination and feeding every person on earth forever and I would be so so silly about it