#argue with the characters

[apollos-boyfriend]

the thing is people often talk about how minecraft steve is the most whitewashed character since jesus christ but never does anyone discuss how they’re perhaps the most misgendered character ever

steve (alongside all the other default skins, for that matter) are referred to with they/them and with gender-neutral language by the developers!

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

main take aways from Halloween (1978) rewatch:

michael myers is canonically 21??? this bitch should be at the club

*sees tiddies* ***MURDEROUS RAMPAGE NOISES***

that's it that's the movie

outside of the fact that everyone who has sex is murdered by the narrative, this is a surprisingly chill portrayal of female sexuality? these teen girls are horny and actively enjoying Getting It On with their boytoys. no pushy boyfriends sneaking in through their bedroom windows--these ladies are taking the initiative to sneak out and GET SOME. one of them gets laid and then immediately orders her boyfriend to get her a beer. (yes she gets Slashered soon afterward, but so does the boyfriend so honestly, gender equality.) yes the Final Girl is the only one not having sex, but she's not bullied for that, nor are her friends slut shamed except possibly by being murdered by the narrative

actually the only character who is shown being morally condemned on-screen is michael myers. specifically FOR his violent overreaction to other people's sex lives. (people he is spying on). metaphorically, the villain is American Puritanism sticking its judgy nose into other people's business.

aka Michael Myers Is A Republican

but actually the real villain is the doctor. guy's a judgemental, shaming, pathologizing asshole. and he's been in charge of michael's care since he was SIX YEARS OLD? kid never had a chance. i'd go on a killing spree too

also the parents. where are the parents? it's halloween night and all the teenage girls are home babysitting their younger siblings? come to think of it, michael's first victim was his own older sister, whom he killed while she was babysitting him. teen girls are really shouldering a labour burden here. maybe parentification is the true villain

side note: mike commits his first murder wearing a clown costume...which is never referenced again? his 'iconic' costume is a generic mask and wig and jumpsuit, when we coulda had a Killer Clown Michael Myers??? travesty

i like how the Final Girl and her friend casually smoke weed in her car. yeah she's an honor student and her friend is the sheriff's daughter. yeah they smoke weed. so what it's 1978

(to reiterate, mike is 21 and should be at the club. im not saying he shouldn't be rampaging, im saying it's sad that he broke out, tasted freedom for the first time in his life, and immediately snuck back into his childhood home to go rampaging. let's have a remake where he goes to a nightclub and has a few beers. maybe some slutty dancing. then rampage)

oh no he's hot

[paynewriting]

Now, we went back and forth a bit on if we would be posting this, as it was confrontational, and isn't covered well in the text, or at all. But we will for posterity and will cover some of our thoughts as an addendum. Heads up, there is a content warning for misandry, discussion of forced gendering of children, and the mutilation of their genitals to enforce it. So, lets start with what was said:

Charlie (Asker):

This question is for Passantra: how was life like as a queen?

Passantra:

Good. I finally had the family I had always, I got to see them prosper all around me. It was delightful. The latter years we coloured by the increased efforts I had to go to to protect them. But I wouldn't have changed that at all, because they were still my family and brought me so much joy, even if their existence was not as carefree as I would that it was.

Charlie (Asker):

I’m happy to hear that but this leads me to my next question for you. Why continue to allow the castration of dragon blood males? I’d figured you being unable to have children of your own wouldn’t allow to have others share the same fate as you?

Passantra:

That practice primarily faded along with the births of males after a few centuries of the Krinaale on Dentre. When Karthil was cast out and Astrorus left the 'male' birthrate plummeted and took the practice with it. Though I cannot bear children, I would dare you to say aloud the unspoken part of that where you imply I am somehow less of a parent for it. There are many in this nation who have raised children, who have been incredible parents, but did not bear, nor sire the children they raised. The practice of castration is not about denying those individuals a family, it is about giving them their rightful place in our family and our culture. Without it we would not have the Kas En, we would not be as strong a nation as we are, and we would lose sight of the covenant on which this nation was founded.

Charlie (Asker):

Giving them their rightful place? So the only way for them to be apart of your “family” is to be unable to produce one of their own. Gods do you even hear yourselves or are all you Old Bloods so desperately trying not to see your pathetic existence as nothing more than a blight on this world?

Passantra:

This is no small part of why the tradition was born. When the Mothers Unburnt gathered and the Pact of Kith and Kin was sworn we created a nation born of dragons, and this was how we ensured that. We also created a nation safe from the violence of the men who viewed every dragonblood and every dragon as a slight upon their world. When the Mothers Unburnt came to us for protection it wasn't from people who had philosophical objections to the Old Blood and the existence of dragonbloods, it was from men whose visceral fear at no longer being at the top of the pecking order had festered and become violence. I saw no place for them in my nation. That was our culture. And if you didn't want your place in that nation, with those practices you were more than welcome to leave and bear male children elsewhere.

Charlie (Asker):

Figured much. Honestly doesn’t surprise me one bit of your view on men. Do you even love your male children? Apparently you don’t because you are fine with your women to go off and have a family but your men can’t because of your barbaric tradition.

Passantra:

Men, as you would think of them simply do not exist within Krinaale society. We do have some visitors from the mainland, but that's it. As for our children, we love all of them, and raise them with support and care regardless of their birth. For those who were castrated some chose to take Inktooth and develop as women, and some chose to let their bodies develop more neutrally. Likewise there are female born children who chose that third path. But regardless of their choice they are children of this nation, they can earn their Ink, form families, train as warriors, create art, or do anything else that a child of Dentre can. Though the Green Palace princesses, the closest there is to my immediate family, are presumed by most to be all women by their name their have been a number of princers among them, they are named simply for their majority.

Charlie (Asker):

If you love them then why castrate them?

Voidsung (Moderator):

I'm going to ask that this be the last question on this vein, as this is a topic that hasn't been covered much in the written text thus far and it should be handled there rather than through this means.

Passantra:

When the Mothers Unburnt came to me to protect them, when a pact was sworn to make them our family, to strike out and forge a new nation, that was not done lightly. I had very few terms, but if we were to create a nation born of dragons, without the violence that they had asked for protection from, this was one of them.

So that's all that was said at the time. And we most confess to feeling stressed over it all, and mixed. The Old Blood are not 'good', they are problematic, and morally grey and for every good thing that they do they are terrible ones you can point to. They are not simple characters. This practice is not one we expect anyone to be comfortable with, it is born from a misandric place and maintained by 'tradition' and a lack of self-reflection in the leaders. But it is also meant to point to the fact that we have similar practices occurring in the world where children are circumcised for all sorts of reasons, from cultural to prophylactic healthcare, where intersex children risk everything from stigma and pushing into one of the more accepted genders, to infanticide with a whole host of medical interventions aimed at normalising the children in the middle. In effect, we have forms of these same practices that the nation of Dentre has, we simply target a minority of marginalised individuals and not men in general. In whole, this is barbaric, and we agree that you shouldn't be comfortable with this or approve of it. But if you feel that way, there are real world practices that should bother you too, this is hardly a unique evil that has been created for Passantra. It also likely informs where we are coming from that neither of us has a simple relationship with gender, and Alexis, being trans in particular has a perspective on having your gender assigned and your body develop in ways out of your control that isn't the majority one. But we will leave that there, we are definitely thinking about how we approach and frame the difficult topic that we want to write about, but we wanted to give some context here for something that was mostly presented without.

[havenshereagain]

DPxDC Idea

Danny working at Wayne Enterprises as some sort of engineer, uses the in-house app for all his blueprints and stuff

He starts getting notes from a coworker in-app, and assumes its this annoying older guy in his department who constantly undermines him because of his age, despite his education and past achievements (i feel like in this AU the Fentons react well to the reveal and they work together on a number of non-lethal ecto inventions that have Danny's name attached to them)

Except one day his coworker mentions never using the app, and Danny suddenly realizes there's only one other TD he could've been arguing with in the notes of the app

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Vibes based grading system.

(for @epistemologys, who wanted some post-canon, teacher WWX)

[whos-the-seme]

okay but I kinda need read a fic where Shen Yuan is wife plotted (AGAIN) by some random papapa plant (dammit Airplane--) and he basically falls into a floating coma or something. on a hunt for some rare herbs with liu qingge, he's lured by the sound of his Binghe's (his lost little lamb) voice and ends up ensnared.

okay, imagine that he's being held high in the air by these vines, just asleep, and nothing can wake him, even after liu qingge cuts the monster plant down to get him. he's just sleeping, rosy-cheeked, unwakeable.

peak lords panic, and start trying to figure it out what this rare plant is. sqh wracks his brain somewhat and somewhat remembers this plot line.

they come to the conclusion that its the everlasting dreams flower or some shit. basically traps the victim in their dreams while it sucks out their qi until the person dies of dehydration/starvation or qi loss, whichever kills them first (sometimes, its not the latter, and if the person is a cultivator, they can last a while before their qi is fully drained enough that they can no longer practice inedia but also haven't died yet). meanwhile, the person won't even care because their dreams are so sweet, that they don't want to leave.

the only way to cure it? true love's song. someone who truly knows and loves the sleeper needs to sing something from the heart, and if it's pure enough or something, it can pierce through the pleasant dreams of the person and wake them up. yqy and lqg instantly become flustered, but both of them can't help but secretly wonder how it would feel to have Xiao jiu/shen-shixiong wake up at their song.

they confer with the rest of the peak lords a little outside of shen yuan's resting rooms on the Qian Cao peak, and yqy decides to sing a little lullaby he used to sing to Xiao jiu when they were still on the streets. he goes in, his voice is a steady but a bit nervous, but he croons that shit out. airplane can't believe his fucking ears. yqy could honestly be an idol its not fair wtf-- only, sqh knows he can't dance to save his fucking life, so.

when yqy finishes, he waits, but his heart sinks when Xiao jiu doesn't so much as stir. he hurries out of the room but sqh notices how the tips of his ears are red in embarrassment. of course, even when he still had his memory, Xiao jiu wanted nothing to do with him, why did he think it would change now, he just--

lqj goes in next. he murmurs a song that he constantly hears sqq sometimes strumming on his guqin, thinking that means sqq must love the song. he's not sure what else he can do, he doesn't know how to sing from the heart, but the feelings he has for his shixiong... he has to at least try to wake him.

he doesn't wake. lqj walks out in defeat.

airplane who has been wracking his brain all this time because he was trying to think of requirements for awakening so he wasn't paying attention suddenly jumps up. he doesn't mind the startled glances that the other peak lords give him.

he just remembered!

the song didn't have to be a romantic song or anything. the love for the sleeper didn't have to be romantic love, at all! he remembered this plot line that he added about binghe trying to wake one of his wives, but it was one of the wives' sisters that woke her, because she truly loved her sister deeply. causing binghe to realize that his love was becoming shallow, in that it wasn't enough anymore or blah blah blah. he scrapped that plot line and that plant after he got a ton of bad reviews for even suggestion that lbh's love (pillar) wasn't big enough and so he had lbh fix it with papapa, but whatever!

he shivered.

anyway, the story has been so warped over time that its only told that it has to be a romantic lover. but it didn't have to be.

he had an idea. he loved Shen Yuan! despite the rocky start, their shared transmigration and experiences led them to form a closer relationship, and Shen Yuan was his best friend. he knew him wholly, both in his bitchiness of Cucumber-bro of their old lives, and in the snarky-masquerading-as-pretentious SQQ he was in their new lives. He knew him as a whole of Shen Yuan, not as Xiao Jiu, or as the original goods.

and also, both he and Shen Yuan had discovered they both liked some similar songs during one of their weekly private meetings a few weeks ago, while Shen Yuan was there under the guise of planning their eventual escapes, but was actually just drinking up all his wine and ransacking his snacks.

he's got this! (he hopes.) (he would quite not like his bro to die from an unwakeable coma.)

confidently, with incredulous stares following him, he walks into the room and sits at shen yuan's bedside. and proceeded to sing, as smoothly as he could, a vocaloid love song. if nothing else, it might shock Shen Yuan awake to hear a random ass vocaloid song in his dreams. the lyrics are actually pretty sweet and soft, but he can't stop imagining the music behind it, making it funnier than it should be to sing it.

[Shen Yuan, whose dreamscape has become completely synchronized to his current living conditions and so he dreams of the serene bamboo hut: *sitting at his table with binghe pouring him more tea* *sudden hatsune fucking miku disturbing the atmosphere*

Shen Yuan: 👁️👄👁️]

while he tries not to giggle as the song comes to an end, the stares of the other peak lords boring into his back from the doorway (he can just hear them thinking, "yqy and lqg couldn't wake him up but you think you can?" but maybe that's just his imagination. or maybe they think the song is shitty, what does he know--), shen yuan's eyes flutter open.

airplane, who didn't think this would actually actually work (though he hoped), gapes at him. Shen Yuan, eyes half lidded from sleep, gazes back.

"uh..."

"The everlasting dreams flower, really? That was a really good plot line, can't believe you, ah," Shen Yuan yawns, "dropped it in favor of more papapa as always, you shitty author." He can't catch a break. Why did he wake this guy up again?

"he's awake!?" multiple voices cry out.

THUMP. yqy has fainted.

they both have forgotten their audience. liu qingge has goes outside to punch a tree. the other peak lords are in various states of disarray, disbelief, and discomfort. liu minyan has appeared out of nowhere to take notes. mu qingfāng rolls his eyes and comes in to check shen-shenanigans's meridians.

"Can't believed that shit worked, honestly," Shen Yuan says, eyeing one of the older disciples try to drag YQY to a cot. he is starting to rouse. "hatsune miku, really?"

"aw! well now you know how deeply and purely I love you, shixiong!"

THUMP. YQY has fainted again.

more sounds of breaking trees from outside. mu qingfāng warily calls out a warning to avoid his good medicinal trees, thanks.

after a while of conversation, with eyes closing a bit once more, from exhaustion, rather than the plant poison, Shen Yuan gives Shang Qinghua a small smile. As his eyes flutter shut again, he says, "I love you too, bro."

[chloesimaginationthings]

FNAF Pizza sim’s plot is just the Afton’s fighting

[kenobers]

what would a bat do | jason todd blurb

or jason finds you crying and decides to shoot first and ask questions later. gn!reader a/n: could be read as romantic or platonic

Jason is a lot like Bruce. He does not see this as a positive.

To be fair, "You're acting like Bruce" is the verbal equivalent of hitting below the belt for him and his siblings. Being compared to your parent is a devastating below in any sibling argument, but with their...respectively unique relationships with Bruce, it's downright lethal. Especially for Jason, who still hasn't found complete security with their father.

So, Jason only compares himself to Bruce with blinders on. He does it every time he snaps at someone just to get them off his case. He cringes every time he decides to go off the grid and shut everyone out instead of confronting his feelings. "You're acting like Bruce" echoes in his head as he draws a mental Venn diagram and desperately fills the opposing sides.

The worst is when he catches his reflection glowering back at him; if he had a nickel for every time he mistook it for Bruce sneaking up on him…

He only sees his father in himself when he's angry. When he's so blinded by the nauseating need for vengeance that the line between Hood and Bat start to blur. When all he can see is the mission. When he realizes just how much he’s chosen to isolate himself.

One of the reasons he hides as much of his face as possible is because then no one can tell him he looks just like a bat when he bares his teeth. He wears his emotions on his sleeve instead of leaving it to anyone's guess. He makes absolutely sure that there's no mistaking him for Batman.

All of this to mixed results, of course.

Because despite all of his valid issues with Bruce, deep down Jason knows that Bruce Wayne is still a good man.

And although he doesn’t quite realize it, it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world to admit that Bruce Wayne raised Jason Todd to be a good man.

Bruce is why Jason always holds the door open for the person behind him. Every time Jason buys a coffee, he pays for the next handful of customers, something he consistently watched Bruce do. Whenever a child talks to him, Jason always crouches to their eye level…that’s Bruce too.

That’s not to give Mr. Wayne too much credit. Jason Todd has had a good heart from the moment he was born. He never needed anyone to tell him to leave the world a better place than he found it. Just because he has an anomalous method of doing so doesn’t make that any less true.

But there are certain things, instincts, that Bruce cemented in his mind. Like knowing when to ask questions first and when to ask them later.

Like when he finds you crying just now.

He���d sent you a text earlier in the day. Something completely unrelated to your well being, something incredibly unimportant actually. Still, your lack of response made him anxious, so he went to check on you. Just to make sure you weren't, like, dead or something.

There's a split second of awkward silence as you both stare at one another. But you hardly have time to wipe your tears and blubber out, "Oh, hey, what's up," before Jason's engulfing you in a bear hug.

That's when you know you don't need to hold it together. That's when you know it's safe to completely fall apart.

Jason doesn't need to ask questions just yet. You don't need him asking questions. You both know he'll get answers, whether from you or his own investigation. For now he'll stay quiet, sans a few whispered comforts. He could try being a man of many words. He’s more than capable of waxing poetics. It’s just that he knows he can come across as mean and abrasive, even when he’s trying to be kind and soft.

Another way he’s like Bruce.

Nevertheless, he’s got two big strong arms that can speak for him. They’ve got you. They’ll protect you from whatever’s got you feeling like this.

One large hand anchors you to him. It holds you steady as your body shakes with sobs. The other cradles your head, every so often moving to pat your back whenever you hiccup.

You can hide your face in his chest. Ride along with the subtle rise and fall of it. Let the gentle sound of his heart beat drown out the sound of your stressors. He doesn’t care about the damp spot you’re leaving on his shirt. He just cares about you.

Jason is a rock, an absolute pillar of a human being. He can stand there for as long as you need. He can support your weight and hold you up if you’re too exhausted to do it yourself.

When you decide that you want to talk about it, then he tries to be all ears. He sits you on the couch and wraps an arm around you as you rest your head on his shoulder. Occasionally, his thumb drifts up to wipe your stray tears away.

He listens as best he can. He definitely would've dealt with your issue differently if he were you. In a different era, he would've let you know exactly what he would do - more likely, he would've just gone and done it for you. But he can recognize that this is probably a healthier way to deal with whatever upset you. And you know what, he can respect that too.

After you've vented until there's nothing left to say, Jason stays with you. It's that nagging voice that tells him that he has to make sure you're really okay, that you're not about to do something stupid as soon as he takes his eyes off you. After all, that's what he would do.

So he puts something on the tv. A show, a movie, a YouTube compilation, video essay - something he knows you like. He doesn't look away from you the entire time. He sits at the ready to catch any stray tears or soothe any sudden bursts of rage.

Until you fall asleep on his shoulder. He sits like that for another few minutes before he finally transfers you to your bed, tucking you in with so much care. The only sound he makes is a sharp gasp when he catches his reflection in your window.

Then he sits some more, still watching you closely. He watches until he's certain you're sound asleep, ignorant to the things that hurt you.

Then he slips out the window without a peep, off to get your justice.

That's exactly what Bruce would do.

[openachannel]

Desperately want a garashir fic that is the inverse of the Our Man Bashir episode. Julian sneaks into Garak's holosuite program thats basically just a medical drama

[vinegar-rights]

I love u coomy

unfortunately i dont know the artist but i used this as a reference/inspo (i used pinterest)

[sp2geon]

// nsfw comic but also it’s kinda sweet

minors dni please!

they’re a natural

[drenched-in-sunlight]

i will raise hell to the bitter end.

I don’t think Messmer visits the jar clinic in his Keep often… they remind him too much of his Mother.

Btw, he wears a golden ring on the middle finger of his left hand…

in Palmistry, that indicates responsibility, balance, justice. usually it’s sth the head of the family wear, but no other characters wear sth like that. he’s truly the sole heir to all of Marika’s happiness & all of her pain.

[chibibytes-anime]

Normal vs Arguing momokarun 💢 (art by me)(u/Then-Run-5526)

[keferon]

I’m so fucking insane about them you have no idea.

Listen. L i s t e n. My headcanon is. If only Optimus was there when Prowl got mind controlled by the Decepticons. If he was there he would be able to tell the difference. Every other bot just looked at Prowl and went …oh well I guess this asshole is evil I’m not surprised and never liked him anyway. But Optimus would see it. He fucking would

The comics I took these screenshots from are “Optimus Prime” and “Combiner wars”

[justafewberries]

highlights of violent peeta moments/kills since y'all seem to think being physically violent makes you worthy of being a victor:

He kills the girl from District 8

He's allied with the careers and took a beating at the cornucopia, leading me to believe some of those 11 kills at the cornucopia were his too.

The career alliance was developed DURING the game according to Haymitch, meaning he likely had to prove himself at the cornucopia or die, ergo he likely did kill quite a few people.

He's handy with a knife- even by career standards

He was going to kill again to defend Katniss and only lowered his spear when he saw it was her after the tracker jacker scene

He fends off Cato after getting stung FOUR times by tracker jackers (more than katniss was), takes a sword to the thigh, right next to a major artery, and STILL manages to outrun Cato, camouflage himself and hide.

He kills Foxface (which wasn't violent per se, but this adds to his list. It’s the same way Lucy Gray kills: poison. Rat poison, snakes, berries. It all goes down the same.)

Peeta wrestles Cato on top of the cornucopia with a freshly slashed leg and still manages to end up in only a headlock

It's Peeta's idea to shoot Cato's hand, which he marks with a "X" in his own blood

He volunteers, you know, like a career in the 75th games

He helps to fend off the horde of monkeys with the knife he's skilled with, close range combat vs. long range of katniss's arrows

Peeta kills Brutus, one of the favorites to win the 75th games, likely while trying to defend Chaff (Wonder if this was for Haymitch's sake?)

He launches a man trying to pin him to the ground down the block with just his legs, including the prosthetic at this point.