#because that doesn't solve anything in the end

[mottysith]

Hi! I was wondering if you could make a part 2 of the Itrapped x GN!Reader x Chance, I'd really like to know how they'd react to seeing each other in the forsakened realm

Pairing: Chance x Reader x Itrapped Love triangle

Warnings: Angst, violence.

I hope you liked this! I wrote this with love... maybe.

When Chance at first noticed your presence they couldn't believe their eyes, out of everyone in this world you had to be forsakened? He would be very, very tense around you, making everyone notice that something happened between you two.

Your relationship with Chance would be awkwards at first, with Chance most of the time avoiding you like a champ. Maybe they will try to help you by stunning the killer, but thats it.

But don't get me wrong, Chance doesn't want you dying or suffering. Yet for his own sake just avoid Chance just as they avoid you. After all is better and way easier that way instead of trying to solve all the unresolved tension between you two.

The slight glances he gives you everytime they encounter you around the cabin, not hate or anything like that but a nostalgic fondness of your friendship. Or how you gulp everytime Chance strays too close to you.

The other survivors would really try to get you two together, not in a romantic way, but for you two to finally bond considering the unnecesary tension you and Chance cause around the cabin everytime you two cross paths.

If you ask for forgiveness Chance would actually forgive you and move on from that, since they know you weren't exactly on your right state of mind but drugged by Itrapped. Yet they won't tell you that, is better to just ignore that little fact and fault you more than blaming Itrapped for his actions, because deep down even if the gambler doesn't want to admit it, they still miss and love Itrapped deeply.

It is possible for you two to become friends again, but sadly it wouldn't end very well, because it would ignite feelings once more on your heart once more, faling over heels for the gambler once more. Even if you don't want it this time.

· · ─ ·✶· ─ · ·

When Itrapped first saw you as a little suvivor in one of his rounds, he couldn't believe his eyes, he was even more than excited, he was fascinated. How smart of the spectre, Itrapped mentally thanked him.

Your relationship with Itrapped is totally horrible, a constant game of cat and mouse, except the mouse is given in an almost silver plate to the cat.

The spectre really seemed to have Itrapped's back, by giving you habilities that are useful with everyone else except him. Making you useless everytime you are against him.

Itrapped toys with you a lot, mostly killing your oh so lovely Chance right in front of you in rounds, festing on your horrified face when your silly crush was totally murdered by him. It feels like he is in power.

Itrapped mostly leaves you for LMS just to have some more few seconds around you, yet don't think he will let you alive for much. Itrapped loves to take his time murdering you, hearing your skin tear as blood slowly start to coat both your clothing, or the sound of your bones breaking being louder than your cries.

It is just so whismisical to him to do that to you, finally having you finally in his grasp like he do desired before. His love was never totally pure or truth, in fact it was only obsession. Of Itrapped truly loved he would never do that to you, and he fully knows that. Itrapped is aware that his love for you is obsession.

Though don't let him kill you easily, or he might get bored of you and stop putting you as a priority on his kill list. a win for you I suppose.

Don't try to plead with him, is useless. Itrapped knows way to well what he is doing. Your best strategy is to just run away from him, just like you did outside of this forsakened realm.

Itrapped accidentally forces you to team up with Chance for survival, due to Itrapped mostly leaving you two for last, to have the thrill of the chase.

· · ─ ·✶· ─ · ·

Everytime you three encounter each other during rounds is traumatically horrible, with there being a lot of untold history between you three, history that ends being better being untold.

The unresolved feeling revolve in the air, making it real uncomfortable and awkward between you and Chance, and a feast for the betrayer.

The other survivors outside the love triangle know that something is up, yet they are unwilling to do something about Itrapped, only concentrating on you and Chance.

And considering how tense you or Chance get when asked about it, the other survivors prefer to not indulge too much into it.

Yeah... it's better if you just go no contact with both of them and go to therapy. Though in this realm that is sadly not possible.

Notes: I did this at my school break so I hope you liked this!

[mixelation]

reborn au concept i've been rotating. i want, during her time in oto, tori to low-key fixated on hiraishin

orochimaru kind of just gathers up all the sound ninja jutsu scrolls and interesting items and dumps them into his collection. tori is like "don't worry, i know EXACTLY how this game works" and gains implicit approval to go poke at his hoarded research materials just being being nosey and asking the right questions. orochimaru has SOME stuff squirreled away that she's NOT allowed to touch, but she can freely access some of tobirama's more boring scrolls* and also that kunai her clan stuck in a box

*orochimaru stole a decent number of tobirama's jutsu scrolls, including edo tensei.... but not all of them

tori: but is this box ACTUALLY going to do anything? how the fuck does hiraishin work

and i don't think plasticity!tori has ever thought about hiraishin very hard? there's no living users of it in the plasticity timeline and nothing has happened to her that made her go "i sure could have solved with some sort of insane time-space justu--"

however. in THIS timeline. she has to hear about the fucking hiraishin all the fucking time. everyone is soooo freaked out by it. yellow flash THIS, yellow flash THAT. blah blah the most perfect combat fuinjutsu--

so tori is like: okay but we HAVE ONE. if it's fuinjutsu i can just learn it and then figure out how to block it and then everyone can shut up about it

orochimaru: lol. lmao. why don't you try and tell me what happens

so tori goes and pokes at the kunai and is like. oh i see. it's not even fuinjutsu :|

like it's TECHNICALLY a seal. it's a seal custom-fit to minato's chakra such that he can mark things. but the actual teleportation part isn't a part of the seal.

tori: this is incredibly obvious to anyone with in-depth fuinjutsu training and experience who isn't an idiot

also tori: (has no friends. I WONDER WHY)

so anyway reverse engineering it is going to take some time. but also she's SO sure she could just pull it off of things if someone would just let her try. the protocol for even seeing minato on the field has escalated to "ban them from re-entering the village" because what if they have a hiraishin marker they didn't notice??? you're expected to kill yourself by doing something that will destroy your body.

tori: OR you let me see what happens if i cut off your skin!!!

no one will let her cut off skin :C not even when she's like "well we could just move the marker into a death trap?"

she doesn't want to kill minato. she doesn't even have very many deep thoughts on him. she's not under the impression he takes murder any more personally than most shinobi, and there's no records of him doing exceptionally cruel things the way SOME famous shinobi do. however she IS annoyed his stupid jutsu is being branded as fuinjutsu WHEN IT IS NOT???? also she just wants to run some experiments which may or may not end with him being grievously injured to see if she can block or tamper with the hiraishin.

anyway i don't think she gets very far in oto because even orochimaru is like "weeeeell yes but if you fuck up you might summon him, and that would be Very Bad"

but flash forward like ten years and i think she's like "hey naruto, do you know what would be a REALLY funny prank--"

[naw-naw-honeyimgood]

sometimes i go back to reread my posts and i just have to stop and laugh at my kaitlyn not wanting to be a council member post lololol

like i had my main point of "kaitlyn not wanting to be on the council in the first place so if she did give up 'her seat' then it wasn't out of the goodness of her heart'. but it absolutely devolved into a rant over kaitlyn thinking she'd made a better difference as a cop than as a politician being the peak Stupidest thing she could think lmao

if you read my tags on that post this makes more sense bcuz once I wrote that i've been back in an fmab mood and everytime The Flame Alchemist pops up I just feel more vindicated.

It honestly just kinda pisses me off a little tbh. She's handed all of this political and social power on a golden platter. She's the Kiramman Heir. Her mom's one of 6/7 counselors that make decisions regarding the entire city.

Someone made the point that the seat Sevika ended up taking wasn't hers to give, and that this was proven by the line in S2E1 "This is a closed council meeting! Who let you in here?" implying that she wasn't a council member. Again, I don't particularly know for a fact one way or the other whether it was, but I do want to point out that one of her rebuttals for Salo at that moment was that she was Leader of House Kiramman. Maybe that just meant that her family had enough power to be respected even without being a council member, or maybe that implied that the seat was hers to claim and she just hadn't yet? Honestly my biggest sore point in that convo was the "decorated officer" bit because that line infuriates me, but not the point. We're continuing here on the assumption that it was Kaitlyn's seat to claim/refuse.

So the reason her entire ideal set irritates me: she's set up as the Innocent archetype. She's a naive, sheltered young miss who believes in the possibility of an ideal world. With her family's position and money she has the ability to make a world of difference. And she squanders it! She turns her nose up at all the advantages Piltover has to offer her! Imagine how much good she could do if she put all her weight into where her mouth was and did something! But no. For some reason she attached so strongly to Grayson's words in that backstory of hers that she thought being a cop would give her more ability to take action????

It's funny- I actually admittedly never really like Kaitlyn as a character, even before her season 2 fiasco. I've never really liked her category of "rich naive privileged princess who's sheltered but doesn't like being sheltered but doesn't really do anything about being sheltered". It's way too sugary-sweet of a type that makes a character boring to dislikable for me. It's not like I hated her (back then), I just... didn't like her. Definitely wasn't a fan of her and Vi becoming a thing, since Vi's my 2nd fav and their relationship just seemed so sudden and out of nowhere and honestly incomprehensible considering the circumstances (might make a separate post about That later).

But the worst part about especially season 1 Kaitlyn was that she was the Poster Child of contradicting herself and spouting hypocrisy. She wanted to Do Something, but the only possible way she tried was through the "honest channels" of being a cop grunt? Until she gets forcibly ejected from her job, in which she keeps her uniform and badge on her, forges Jayce's signature, to free a high-security prisoner just to help her solve her case? ntm she went down to meet Vi knowing there was nothing on her record, and still nearly left her there anyway TWICE!

Her entire conversation with Ekko was honestly gross too. Everything he says about his experience living as a citizen of the Undercity is immediately refuted and/or denied by Princess Kiramman, little miss self-proclaimed "she'd do anything to keep me from learning about the real world". "It's a misunderstanding" she tells the boy who grew up in these circumstances. "That's not possible" and, my favorite, "You're wrong." And then she proceeds to say the lines "If the enforcers have been more... aggressive, that's why." Note "more aggressive." So you know that enforcers have a baseline of aggression in regards to those from the Undercity, hmm? Kaitlyn? The crown jewel of that conversation that follows her in the ultimate irony is her cycle of violence line. (completely setting aside for a moment that when one side is actively oppressing the other, the phrase already falls apart)

It's the height of hypocrisy to drop the line "if you perpetuate violence, the cycle will never stop", and then when you're the one that's hurt you just go exactly against what you preached. It's giving... "If we hurt you then you have to let it go or you're just perpetuating the cycle. *gasp*! You hurt me??? You'll pay for that!!!"

[saippuakone]

SANCELER DIVORCE

(Sans the skeleton x The Onceler fanfic)

It was a very rainy evening when Sans the skeleton was feeling extremely disappointed and had to admit one thing to his husband The Onceler.

“Onceler… I am done with our marriage. I thought you were going to be my sugar daddy but apparently you are too selfish and greedy to care about poor monsters like me. I now see who is the true monster now heh… It’s you. The Onceler. We are getting a divorce.”

The Onceler's jaw dropped and he stood up from his expensive armchair.

“Sans no!!” The Onceler yawned. “What about our beautiful daughter Hatsune Miku?? She will be traumatized forever if you leave me! Please give me one more chance Sans.. Maybe… maybe I'll get more people to buy thneed so that I will become even more wealthy and you will stay with me Sans!!” The Onceler sobbed.

“No. No more thneed, no more money, I am sick of all this! Miku is old enough to live on her own now and you will buy a house for her. Goodbye Onceler. I am going to sign some divorce papers.”

Sans headed downstairs and outside there was a taxi that picked up Sans somewhere else. Onceler knocked on Miku's door that lead to her room.

“Miku.. I have some very sad news for you. Your father Sans doesn't want to live with us anymore so you are moving now Miku.”

“Sekai!! ^_^” Hatsune Miku said.

“I'll see you tomorrow Hatsune Miku.”

The Onceler headed to the local twink bar because he was feeling depressed and wanted to get drunk.

He ordered a couple of shots and he drank them immediately. The place started spinning a little bit in his head. It felt like the floor was moving.

The place was filled with young handsome twinks like him and everyone there was gay obviously duh.. Then The Onceler caught his eyes on something. Across the room there stood this quite magical looking guy who seemed to be wearing purple. He had black hair just like The Onceler and yellow glasses. The guy seemed very happy and gay.

‘Who is that hot twink?!?!!?” The Onceler thought.

‘I am so used to seeing these lazy ugly skeleton men like Sans so I must have forgotten handsome guys like that twink across the room exist!!!😨 I must get his number right now..’

The Onceler fell on his face because he was so drunk.

“Are you okay?” He heard. The Onceler turned his head to see who spoke to him. It was the man wearing purple!!!

“You don't seem to be feeling very well huh?? I'm The Warden! Do you want to come to superjail with me??”

“YES I DO!!” The Onceler said. Then The Warden created this magical portal that teleported both of them into superjail. The Warden’s office had this strange bookshelf.

“Are you some sort of a nerdy bookworm???” The Onceler asked.

“Haha yes! Don't mind my huge stash of yaoi manga and BL manhwa.. You're The Onceler right?? I think I must have heard of you.”

The Onceler blushed. Then The Warden pulled Onceler's hips closer to him and they both started passionately TONGUE KISSING in front of the prisoners. 15 prisoners were so homophobic that they EXPLODED and DIED when they witnessed men kissing.

“I am so gay and I love capitalism.” The Onceler told The Warden.

Meanwhile Sans was sitting in a court room trying to get an official divorce.

“I've tried to call The Onceler to get over here but it seems like he’s not answering. What do I do? Damn I could be at grillby’s rather than waste my time here in a court room.” Sans told to Bill Cipher who was the court jury.

“Well, you can come back tomorrow with him. I have to solve this case with William Afton, Not like I'm against him or anything but that's just my job yknow.” Bill Cipher told Sans.

“Alright… Thank you Mr. Cipher, I'll see you tomorrow.”

End chapter.

[little-pup-pip]

Hey! I just wanted to let you know, while I think the moodboards you make are super cute and I do love them a lot, they're super disheartening to see.

All of them, are pretty much just stolen content? You don't bother crediting or sourcing anything on them, so they're basically all just photos/art that doesn't belong to you :(

The small artists who create the deco pacis, the plushies, the photography, deserve to be credited and not have their stuff stolen. Especially when they are products the artist is selling (deco pacis, crochet, handmade collars, etc.) they deserve that attention and credit.

/nm but I've just seen SO many people not caring to source their posts. I really encourage you to credit the posts you create.

Hello hello!! First off, I want to tell you that, for the most part, you're right! This is actually something I think about a lot, and I get where you're coming from. Most of the things I post are uncredited pictures, and I'm going to explain why in the best way I can. But ultimately, it's up to you whether this explanation satisfies you or not (if you have suggestions on how to fix it after reading this whole thing, let me know)!

For context, most of the stuff I post are pictures directly from Pinterest, a site that is notorious for being awful at crediting creators and making it difficult to find the original creators of things. I wish Pinterest was better at allowing people to trace the origins of images, and I would love it if I could find the original creators of every picture I use. Unfortunately, it is genuinely impossible to find the people who take most of the pictures on Pinterest a lot of the time (because Pinterest will show you the most recent saver of a picture rather than the poster, and if you do manage to find the poster, you never know if someone reposted a picture, so the person who you think is the creator actually is not). It's really not a matter of "I don't bother to"; it's that often I can't (this is why I try to avoid using art not made by companies because I'd drive myself crazy trying to find the artist)!

I also want to point out that none of the stuff I use is "stolen"! If you look at Pinterest's terms of service, every picture posted there is entirely free to use, sort of like a stock image, and I have to assume that the posters know that. (Legal talk and a simpler version pictured below)

Additionally, I do show products, but often not by small stores or creators. Most of them are literally product advertisements from large companies that will not take any financial hit from this at all. If you go onto Pinterest and look up something like "blanket," you'll find that it's almost completely large corporations! And that is almost entirely the selection of product pictures I use, especially for my petre boards, as I don't think I have any handmade collars in any of my boards, just commercially made ones!

The pictures that are from smaller creators, such as products, as you stated, can easily be traced back to the creators by downloading the picture and using the Pinterest or even google image search; sometimes, there's even a watermark to make things easier. And, if you ask me, I'll find the creator for you if it's possible!

As a small side note, I never take credit for pictures that aren't my own, and I don't make any money from this. I'm not receiving anything that the creators aren't, except maybe views. And, if people asked me to remove pictures they didn't want on other people's accounts shown on one of my moodboards, I would. I have never had that happen, however, and when people do recognize pictures that they made in one of my moodboards, they have only ever been happy to see them. Here are two examples (check the reblogs)!! Example 1 Example 2

Ultimately, this is a grey area for content, and Pinterest has no better alternative. This debate is also nothing new! People have been making moodboards long before my time and will continue to do so after I stop. And I'm not saying I'm perfect or that other moodboard creators take the same precautions as me, but I am doing my best to make moodboards in a conscionable manner! If you can't get behind it, that's okay!! I would also be happy to discuss this more with you if you want!

[cementcornfield]

A Series 💚

[regina-del-cielo]

Maybe it's a 'study finds water is wet' type of thought, but

considering it's an action movie whose overall plot is "immortal warriors Fuck Shit Up™️", I think it's significant that in The Old Guard the thing that makes Copley pull red strings through his Murder Conspiracy Board and say "[Merrick] doesn't care what [Andy]'s done with [her immortality]" is the people they save, not the ones they kill

Most of the Conspiracy Board is him circling random newspaper headlines and faces on old photographs to (more or less realistically) follow the immortals' treck through the world and big historical events. Which is, in-canon, not much different than putting portraits from different centuries next to a picture of Keanu Reeves and saying "they look the same, clearly Reeves is an immortal!"

But then there are the connections. A little girl holding Joe's hand in WW1 becoming the youngest (and first) woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize for Medicine (suck it, Kozak). Or the grandchild of a family that Andy saved from [something] helping people escape from the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia.

They are warriors. They have fought and been in the midst of countless wars, major or minor, throughout history. They must have killed as many people as they saved... and yet.

It's not them taking out a random warlord or dictator or rabidly hateful politician that has tangible repercussions in history. It's the children and families they get out of war zones, save from accidents, protect from natural disasters. People to whom they give a second chance at life, and grow to change the world (or even just their own world), like a mysterious stranger once changed theirs just by holding out a hand or patching a wound.

I don't know I just think it's particularly neat

[mad-hunts]

barton employing his ' dad voice ' whenever someone comes in because that seems to be, by far, the best way to calm someone down whenever they come into his clinic in AGONIZING pain + with an injury that needs dire attention is... idk. i have many feelings about it okok but whenever i say ' dad voice, ' i mean this very specific tone that barton used to use and sometimes still uses whenever his kids are just completely inconsolable that sounds like the gentlest thing ever while he's telling them that ' everything's going to be alright. i'm not going to let anything happen to you. ' 😭

and yes, this would apply to other rogues as well, especially if they have something that requires them to be put under anesthesia. because if you go under anesthesia whenever you're frightened... it's likely that you're going to wake up that way, too, which is something that he doesn't want. but yeah just thinking about this makes my heart kind of sad but happy at the same time bc barton actually is a GOOD doctor (with his bedside manner being surprisingly positive whenever it comes down to it and stuff ) ,, if only he were good all around

[notalicorn]

Building up on this post, I love how Tatarigoroshi doesn't give you satisfaction of the murder.

You see Teppei abusing Satoko. You hate him. Like Keiichi, you might think that the only solution is to kill him. And murder in fiction can be enjoyable to read, I guess some readers hyped up for the murder.

Ryukishi gives you the murder you asked for but doesn't give you the satisfaction you wanted. The murder scene is long and painful to read. The whole plan of "killing him with a single hit, burrying him and disposing of the motorcycle" becomes an endless ordeal and almost misses at a couple of times.

And in the aftermath, everything goes out of hand. Satoko as all but saved.

An overarching lesson is: "Don't go to murder, it an act of desperation that won't solve your problems." Meakashi and Tsuhimihoroboshi explore this theme, but I think Tatarigoroshi is the chapter it works the best.

[princeof-flowers]

Emmrich in my Lust Demon Abomination AU: No matter how much sex I have, no matter with how many people, it never seems enough. 😞

Hyun-woo, my OC for this AU: It's because the Qi and Jing aren't balanced right.

Emmrich, Nevarran (white) man: The what now

Hyun-woo: 😮‍💨

[cloudbends]

new pokemon episode!!!

[rustystars]

s1 of true detective has its own share of misogyny but at the very least, there’s a thread throughout it that not treating the women in your life with respect leads to those women not wanting to be around you. marty consistently views women & girls as either in need of protection or in want of sex rather than as complex people, & the story punishes him for this. maggie leaves him & his daughters barely talk to him & his girlfriends are few & far between. & this doesn’t make him a bad person! he’s the hero of the story & he cares incredibly deeply about them, but until he sees them as people, it’s hard for them to want to be around him. it’s a baseline understanding that misogyny, both systematically & on personal levels, leads to women being miserable.

compare that with s2, which somewhat builds itself around conversations of sexual agency & exploitation, but cannot define a single woman outside of her relationship to men. women are abused by men & must be saved by them; when women help themselves they do so ineffectively; they scream & cry & fuck & even then men know how to do it better. even ani, the main character & the Strong Badass Woman detective, is punished for having sex. she cannot protect herself or process her own sexual trauma (only men can help her do that), & she cannot make good decisions in terms of partners (& it's only fair that men degrade & shame her in response.) the only way she, & any other woman in s2, can be happy is through marriage or motherhood. she expresses nowhere in the show that she wants to be a mother, but the viewer is meant to accept her ending as happy, because she has a baby, so she MUST be. the only women who matter, or who can find any sort of contentment, are the mothers of sons. every child in s2 is a boy because women exist only to raise or fuck them, & have no experience of girlhood at all. you can be happy only if you find a good man, & if you can't, only if you commit yourself to being a good mother to your sons. women can only be happy with men to guide them. & also the mystery is boring to watch because fuck you

[janitorpostman]

some implying that Betty's desire to please Simon automatically make her a victim and Simon an abuser make me go 😑

[tyrantisterror]

Fuck it, I didn't want to make a post on this but it's bugging the hell out of me so let's exorcize the thought.

Lilo and Stitch is an extremely good children's movie. I've been working at a daycare for over five years now, and out of all the children's movies I've shown to an auidence of twenty or so school-age kids (i.e. between the ages of 5 and 12), the only movie that's held their attention as well as Lilo and Stitch is The Emperor's New Groove, and the only one that's held it better is An American Tail. Of those three, Lilo and Stitch has won the vote of "what movie we will watch" the most. It not only entertains kids, but emotionally captivates them from start to finish, because it very thoroughly understands how to engage children on their level. It's a smart, tightly written children's movie.

The feat of story-telling genius it pulls of lies in its ability to reach both where children's imaginations want to go and where their lived real-world experiences lie - most children's movies focus on one or the other, but Lilo and Stitch dives deep into both. On the imagination side, there's Stitch's whole plotline of being a little alien monster being chased by other weirdo aliens onto earth because they want to stop him from running amok and causing havoc (which, of course, happens anyway in fun cartoony comedy/action spectacle). On the real-world side, you have Lilo's plotline of being a troubled little girl who has an abundance of very real problems that, like an actual child, she struggles to comprehend and deal with, as well as the many adults in her life that care about her to some degree but all struggle to fully understand her. Kids want to be Stitch and run amok and cause cartoony havoc. Kids, even the least-troubled kids, relate to Lilo, because all of them have been in a similar situation as her at least once in their lives.

Balancing these two very different stories, with very different tones and scopes to their respective conflicts, is a hard writing task, but Lilo and Stitch manages to do it in a way that seems effortless with one very powerful trick. The two plots are direct mirrors to each other, complete with the characters involved in each having foils in the respective plot. To break it down:

Stitch, the wild and destructive alien gremlin who everyone has labeled as a crime against existence, is Lilo, the troubled young girl who's viewed as a "problem child" by all the adults in her life. In both plotlines, Stitch and Lilo are facing the threat of being "taken away" from the life they know because they act out, and in both plotlines, we see that this is an unfathomably cruel thing to do to them and will not actually solve the problems they have.

Dr. Jumbaa, the mad scientist who made Stitch because making monsters is what mad scientists do, and who had no intentions of ever being nurturing or parental to anything or anyone in his life, is Nani, Lilo's older sister whose parents died when she was young and now is forced to act as a parental substitute despite not being mentally or emotionally prepared for that responsibility yet. Both Dr. Jumbaa and Nani are trying to get their respective wild children in line with what society wants them to be, and both are struggling hard with it because they in turn have a lot of growing to do before they can actually accomplish that.

Pleakley, the nebbish alien bureaucrat who ends up being assigned to help Dr. Jumbaa despite being mostly uninvolved in creating the whole Stitch situation, is David, the nice but mostly ineffectual guy who's crushing on Nani and wants to help her but doesn't really have much he can provide except emotional support. Ultimately Pleakley and David prove that said emotional support is a lot more helpful than it seems on the surface, as they give Jumbaa and Nani respectively a lot of the pushes they need to become better in their parental roles.

The Grand Councilwoman, who runs the society of aliens that is trying to banish Stitch forever for his crime of existing, is Cobra Bubbles, the Child Protective Services agent who is in charge of deciding whether or not Lilo needs to be taken away from her home forever for, ostensibly, her own good. Both are well-intentioned and stern, with a desire to follow the rules of society and do what procedure says is the most humane thing to do in this situation, but both lack the understanding of Stitch/Lilo's situation to actually help until the end of the movie.

Finally, we have Captain Gantu, the enforcer of the Galactic Council who is a mean, aggressive, sadistic brute but is viewed as a "good guy" by society because he plays by its rules (well, when he knows can't get away with breaking them, anyway), who is the counterpart of Myrtle, the mean, aggressive, sadistic schoolyard bully who is viewed as a "good kid" by other adults because she plays by the rules they established (well, when she knows she can't get away with breaking them, anyway). Both Gantu and Myrtle are, in truth, much nastier in temperament than Stitch and Lilo, but are better at hiding it in front of others and so get away with it, and often make Stitch and Lilo look worse in the eyes of others by provoking them to violence and then playing the victim about it - in fact, both even have the same line, "Does this look infected to you?", which they say after goading their respective wild-child victims into biting them.

The symmetry of these two plotlines allows them to actually feed into each other and build each other up instead of fighting each other for screentime. The fantastical nature of Stitch's plot adds whimsy to the far more realistic problems that Lilo faces so they don't get too heavy for the children in the audience, while the very real struggles of Lilo in her plotline bleed over into Stitch's plot and make both very emotionally poignant. When both plotlines hit their shared climax, they reach children on a emotional level few other movies can match - the terror of Lilo being taken away from her family, and the emotional complexity of that problem (Cobra Bubbles pointing to Lilo's ruined house and shouting at Nani, "IS THIS WHAT LILO NEEDS?" is so starkly real and heart-breaking), is matched and echoed in the visual splendor and mania of the spectacular no-way-this-is-going-to-work chase scene where Stitch, Nani, Jumbaa, and Pleakley all team up to rescue Lilo from Gantu.

The arcs of the characters all more or less line up. Nani confronts her own failures to be a guardian and parent to Lilo and resolves to do better and learn from her mistakes. Jumbaa, who through most of the movie protests to be evil and uncaring, nonetheless comes to not only care for Pleakley, but more importantly for Stitch too, and ends up assuming the role he never wanted but nonetheless forced himself into from the start: he is Stitch's family. Hell, the moment that reveals this is really clever - Stitch goes out into the wilderness to try and re-enact a scene from a storybook of The Ugly Duckling, hoping, in a very childish way, that his family will show up and love him. Jumbaa arrives and, coldly but not particularly cruelly, tells Stitch that he has no family - that Stitch wasn't born, but created in a lab by Jumbaa himself. But in that moment Jumbaa is proving himself wrong - because Stitch's creator, his parent, DID show up, and did exactly what happens in the story by telling Stitch the truth of what he is. It can't be a surprise, then, that later in the movie Jumbaa ends up deciding to side with Stitch, to help him save Lilo, and to stay on Earth with his child.

David and Pleakley go from being pushed away by Nani and Jumbaa respectively to essentially becoming their partners in the family. The Grand Councilwoman and Cobra Bubbles finally see how cruel their initial solution of isolating Stitch and Lilo from their family would be, and bend the rules they are supposed to enforce to protect and support this weird found family instead of breaking it apart. Gantu and Myrtle are recognized for the assholes they are and face comeuppance in the form of comedic slapstick pratfalls. And most importantly, Stitch and Lilo both get the emotional support and understanding they need to thrive and live happy lives as children should be allowed to do. It's like poetry, it rhymes.

It's a very precise, smartly written movie. It's a delicate balancing act of tone and emotions, with a very strong theme about the need for family and understanding that hits children in their hearts and imaginations. It's extremely well structured.

...

So it'd be kind of colossally fucking stupid to remake it and start fucking around with the core structure of it, chopping out pieces and completely altering others, with no real purpose beyond "Well, the executives thought it might be better if we did this."

[kaijutegu]

Alligator Body Language and You, or: How To Know When An Alligator On Social Media is Being Stressed for Views

Alligators are wild animals. Despite the idiotic claims of animal abusers like Jay Brewer, they cannot be domesticated, which means they are always going to react on the same natural instincts they've had for millions of years. Habituated, yes. Tamed, yes. Trained, definitely. Crocodilians can form bonds with people- they're social and quite intelligent. They can solve problems, use tools, and they're actually quite playful. Alligators are also really good at communicating how they're feeling, but to somebody who doesn't spend much time around them, their body language can be a bit mystifying. And it doesn't help when social media influencers are saying shit like this:

That is not what a happy gator looks like.

That's a terrified, furious gator who isn't attacking because the ogre handling her has her in a chokehold. She's doing everything she can to express her displeasure, and he's lying about it because he knows his audience doesn't even know how to think critically about what he's doing. He knows that because his audience doesn't know anything about these animals, he can get away with it. This I think is why I hate him so much- he deliberately miseducates his audience. He knows what he's doing is factually inaccurate, he just doesn't care because attention means more to him than anything else in the world.

Let's change that! Here are two really important lessons for understanding alligator body language on social media.

Lesson 1: Alligators Don't Smile (in fact, most animals don't)

So what's going on in this video? Jay Brewer is aggressively choking his white alligator Coconut while scrubbing algae off of her with a toothbrush. And make no mistake, he is digging into the creature's throat while she is visibly distressed. He claims she's happy- but she's not. He is willfully misrepresenting what this animal is feeling. That's a problem, because people... well, we actually kind of suck at reading other species' body language. The reason for this is that we tend to overlay our own responses on their physical cues, and that's a problem. For example, let's look at an animal with a really similar face to ours, the chimpanzee. Check out Ama's toothy grin!

Wait, no. That's not a happy smile. That's a threat display. When a chimpanzee "smiles," it's either terrified and doing a fear grimace, or it's showing you its teeth because it intends on using them in your face.

How about a dog? Look at my smiling, happy puppy!

Oh wait no, this is a picture of Ryder when he was super overwhelmed by noise and people during a holiday party. He'd hopped up in my sister's lap to get away from stuff that was happening on the floor and was panting quite heavily. See the tension in the corners of his mouth and his eyes? A lot of the time when a dog "smiles," the smile isn't happy. It's stress! Why Animals Do The Thing has a nice writeup about that, but the point is, our body language is not the same as other species. And for reptiles, body language is wildly different.

For instance, look at these two alligators. Pretty cute, right? Look at 'em, they're posing for a Christmas card or something! How do you think they're feeling?

Well, I'll tell you how the normal one is feeling. He's annoyed! Why is he annoyed? Because the albino just rolled up, pushed another gator off the platform, and is trying to push this guy, too. I know this because I actually saw it happen. It was pretty funny, not gonna lie. He's not gaping all the way, but he was hissing- you can actually see him getting annoyed in the sequence I took right before this shot. Look at him in this first shot here- he's just relaxing, and you can see he isn't gaping even a little bit.

By the end, he's expressing displeasure, but not enough to actually do anything about it. He's annoyed, but he's comfy and that's where one of the best basking areas is, so he'll put up with it.

Reptiles open their mouths wide for a lot of reasons, but never because they are actively enjoying a sensation. Unless they're eating. No reptile smiles- they can't. They don't even have moveable lips. If a reptile is gaping, it's doing so because:

It is doing a threat display.

It is making certain vocalizations, all of which are threats. Alligators are one of the rare reptiles that do regularly vocalize, but most of their calls aren't made with a wide open mouth.

It is about to bite something delicious or somebody stupid. Check out this video- virtually all of the gaping here is anticipatory because these trained gators know darn well that the bowl is full of delicious snacks. (I have some issues with Florida's Wildest, but the man knows how to train a gator AND he is honest about explaining what they're doing and why, and all of his animals are healthy and well-cared for, and he doesn't put the public or his staff at risk- just himself.)

It's too hot and it has opened its mouth to vent some of that heat and thermoregulate. This is the main reason why alligators will often have their mouths part of the way open, but sometimes they'll open all the way for thermoregulation. This is what a thermoregulatory gape looks like- usually it's not all the way open, kinda more like < rather than V, but you can't say that 100% of the time. Additionally, a thermoregulatory gape... typically happens when it's hot out. If they're inside, maybe they've been under their basking light for too long. Heat's the dominant factor, is what I'm getting at.

There is another reason that a captive crocodilian might be gaping, and that's because it's doing so on command. Some places have their gators trained to gape on cue, like St. Augustine Alligator Farm and other good zoos. They have the animals do this in presentations that are genuinely educational. They ask the animals to open their mouths so that they can show off their teeth and demonstrate how their tongues seal off the back of their mouth. They'll also do it as part of routine healthcare, because looking at their teeth is important.

In this case, the animals aren't gaping because they're stressed, they're gaping because they know they're gonna get a piece of chicken or fish if they do it. And what's more, they're doing it on cue. They have a specific command or signal that tells them to open wide. It's not an instinctive response to a situation. It's trained. If the animal provides the behavior after a cue, the situation is much less likely to be negatively impactful.

It's also important to remember that there's a difference between a partially open mouth and a gape! As discussed above, alligators will often have their mouths a little bit open just to maintain temperature homeostasis. It helps them stay comfy, temperature-wise. These guys are all doing thermoregulatory open-mouthed behavior- that slight open and relaxed body posture is a dead giveaway. (That and it's the hottest spot in the enclosure.)

Lesson 2: A Happy Gator Is A Chill Gator

So if alligators don't smile or have facial expressions other than the :V that typically signifies distress, how else can you tell how they're feeling? One way is stillness. See, alligators subscribe to the philosophy of if it sucks... hit da bricks.

Basically, if they hate it, they'll leave. Unless, y'know, somebody has their meaty claws digging into their throat or is otherwise restraining them. (Restraint isn't always bad, btw. Sometimes the animal is going through a medical thing or needs to be restrained for their safety- which a responsible educator will explain.)

Let's look at a very similar scenario, in which a captive alligator is getting his back scrubbed.

As you can see, it's quite different. First, he's not being restrained at all. Second, look at how relaxed he is! He's just chilling there vibing! He could simply get up and leave if he wanted to, because he's not being held. Towards the end of the video, as he lifts his head, you can see that his respiratory rate is very even as his throat flutters a bit. I'm not sure what this facility is, so I can't comment on care/general ethics, but like. In this specific case, this is an alligator enjoying being scrubbed! And you can tell because he's not doing anything. A happy gator is content to be doing what they're doing.

Why Should I Listen To You?

Now, you should ask yourself, why should you listen to me? Why should you trust me, who does not own an alligator, versus Jay Brewer, who owns several?

Well, first off, there's no profit for me in telling you that what you're seeing on social media is in fact not what you're being told you're seeing. I'm not getting paid to do this. That's the thing with people who make social media content. The big names aren't doing it just for fun. They're doing it for money. Whether that's profit through partnerships or sponsorships, or getting more people to visit their facilities, or ad revenue, you can't ignore the factor of money. And this is NOT a bad thing, because it allows educators to do what they're passionate about! People deserve to be paid for the work that they do!

But the problem starts when you chase the algorithm instead of actually educating. A "smiling" alligator gets the views, and if people don't know enough to know better, it keeps getting the views. People love unconventional animal stories and they want those animals to be happy- but the inability to even know where to start with critically evaluating these posts really hinders the ability to spread real information. Like, this post will probably get a couple hundred notes, but that video of Coconut being scrubbed had almost 400,000 likes when I took that screenshot. Think about how many eyeballs that's reached by now. What I'm saying here is that it's just... really important to think critically about who you're getting your information from. What do dissenters say in the comments? What do other professionals say? You won't find a single herpetologist that has anything good to say about Prehistoric Pets, I can tell you that right now.

Another reason you can trust me is that my sources are not "just trust me bro," or "years of experience pretending my pet shop where animals come to die is a real zoo." Instead, here are my primary sources for my information on alligator behavior:

Dragon Songs: Love and Adventure among Crocodiles, Alligators, and Other Dinosaur Relations- Vladimir Dinets

The Secret Social Lives of Reptiles- J. Sean Doody, Vladimir Dinets, Gordon M. Burghardt

Social Behavior Deficiencies in Captive American Alligators (Alligator mississippiensis)- Z Walsh, H Olson, M Clendening, A Rycyk

Social Displays of the American Alligator (Alligator mississippiensis)- Kent Vliet

Social Signals and Behaviors of Adult Alligators and Crocodiles- Leslie Garrick, Jeffery Lang

Never smile at a crocodile: Gaping behaviour in the Nile crocodile at Ndumo Game Reserve, South Africa- Cormac Price, Mohamed Ezat, Céline Hanzen, Colleen Downs (this one's Nile crocs, not American alligators, but it's really useful for modeling an understanding of gape behaviors and proximity)

Thermoregulatory Behavior of Captive American Alligators (Alligator mississippiensis)- Cheryl S. Asa, Gary D. London, Ronald R. Goellner, Norman Haskell, Glenn Roberts, Crispen Wilson

Unprovoked Mouth Gaping Behavior in Extant Crocodylia- Noah J. Carl, Heather A. Stewart, Jenny S. Paul

Thank you for reading! Here's a very happy wild alligator from Sanibel for your trouble.

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࣪ . ִֶָ๋ CAPITANO: husband headcanons ♡

pairing: capitano x afab!reader/you warnings: reader is addressed as 'wife', canon and modern!au cho's note: the kinich one did rlly good, so now lets try it with our big boi hehe. happy reads everyone! lmk if u guys want an nsfw ver. of either/both characters ;3

this man is the definition of YEARNING.

he wasnt comfortable with the label of him being your boyfriend. with all his eternal affection and love for you? to just be a mere boyfriend? absolutely not. he just HAD to be your husband. proposed the moment he realized he loved you.

definitely proposed with a big stone :p

wears his ring 24/7 and kisses it whenever your not around and he misses you dearly.

he abuses the power of his mask and never misses the chance to stare and just admire your beauty. underneath his mask his eyes are full of love and admiration for you.

discreetly clingy. if your going out somewhere he wants to go with you 'to keep you safe' or he 'needed to pass by that area later anyway'.

hates taking off his helmet, but never stops you from sliding it off of his head to shower him with praise.

his nicknames for you are my love, dear, darling, prince/princess

his love language for you is physical touch, and words of affirmation

his favorite spots to kiss you on is your forehead, lips, the palm of your hands and your knuckles.

engraved your initials into his sword, and because of that he makes sure he takes good care of it always.

his kisses are always slow and intimate.

he is a quick-kisses or pecks HATER. he has to kiss you for atleast 10 seconds. he doesn't care if hes late, if theres someone right infront of you— he kisses you like its the last time, everytime.

more of a listener than a speaker

he likes to go on dates or do activities with you where you both have to talk to eachother a lot. like fine dining dates, late night walks or driving!

very touchy in private. he likes to snake his arm around your waist, pull your hair to the side and kiss the back of your neck.. hes just addicted to praising and carressing your body.

ever since he married you, he absolutely despises overtime. he gets bossier and meaner to his subordinates when he realizes he might have to stay a little later to supervise them. sometimes he even leaves his job or his expeditions early just to get home to you.

frequently brings you gifts. a bouquet of rare flowers, a jewelry set with special ore customized just for you, lavish wine.. you name it.

never wants to argue with you. the second you tell him he's wrong, he just immediately agrees with you, spewing "yes ma'am." "your absolutely right. i didn't think of it properly.. apologies my love."

ever since he married you, he likes to subtly flex he has you as his wife.

"Sorry, i must end this conversation early. My wife is waiting on my presence." and you can just HEAR how cocky he is to say that.

writes you longgggg letters when he has to get away from business for awhile.

regarding his letters, he made you scribble/draw a design which he got custom made to become his wax seal for said letters :) a very keen man

got you a coat matching his own!

when your crying, he likes to hug you in silence, just letting you soak him in your tears. when you've calmed down, he tells you hes there to listen if you want to talk about your feelings, and theres no problem of yours hes not willing to help you solve. in his mind, your pain is his own, and he'll always be there to support you through any troubles.

very possessive. he wants people to know your his, and hes yours.

princess treatment on TOP. carries you easily when your tired of walking, idly massages your hands or feet when your both lounging together, regularly brings you flowers

during misunderstandings, he likes to take a minute of silence to compose himself and his thoughts to make sure he doesnt say anything he doesnt mean

likes to properly sit down with you to talk out problems between the both of you, and keeps an open mind. he doesnt rush you or cut you off when your talking about your feelings, and lets you know hes present and he cares about how you feel

takes extra time and effort after an argument to remind you he loves you.

overall, capitano is a very romantic lover despite his cold resolve, and honors your wishes with his life.