#blame it on bad luck

[thebohemianloner]

Pound my knuckles hard against the floor, my head against the wall, but I did this to myself. Assume it's just not worth getting back up, I'll blame it on bad luck. I'll shake responsibility, and say a hard life did this to me

[poprocklyrics]

It seems that when I ran away from my past all my dignity, my faith, my pride got left back

Blame It on Bad Luck, Bayside

[deadmemories323]

Self pity’s meaningless

[saturnrin]

Consider:

Tikki and her miraculous giving Marinette freakishly good luck and Marinette absolutely hating it.

Plagg and his miraculous giving Adrien absolute shit luck and Adrien loving it.

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Everything always works out for Marinette. It's honestly ridiculous. And while it was nice at first, she sorta hates it now. (See examples here)

And Adrien, oh, everything goes wrong for him in the best ways possible.

Adrien has a photoshoot with Lila? He's stuck in traffic and can't make it in time, or it starts raining on them, and they have to pack up early.

Unwanted Stuffy Gala that Gabriel insists Adrien must go to? He has to leave early because someone spills wine over his bland all-white outfit his father picked out.

Gabriel wants Adrien home early? What a shame, his phone got thrown off the Couffaines House-Boat, not even 30 minutes ago.

Adrien favorite part of his bad luck, though, is when it spreads to the people he doesn't like. He'll never forget the look on Lilas face when she tried to dump an entire platter of food on Marinette, only to slip and dump it over herself instead.

[syrusinthedust]

Crack Au in which Sadnesses stay after the King’s Defeat, and one attacks the Mailman delivering the letters from the Party to Pétronille, causing all but one to be destroyed, and the surviving one to get damaged and become mostly unreadable.

So after the Mailman is saved, Pétronille gets a damaged letter from someone named “Madame” who has her sibling and is coming by in about 3 weeks.

Pétronille, not having any other context, assumes that this is a ransom note and spends the next three weeks trying her best to figure out what Madame wants and get as much money as she can to try to appease the person (mob boss? Mafia? Criminal Mastermind?) that kidnapped her sibling.

Edit: Pronoun Check. Thank you guys!

[kill-vonkarma-again]

for the ask meme…tell me about franziska 👀

SIR YES SIR

(op)

first impressions: i feel yet again that it's now been so long (good god we're going 4 years strong on this special interest) that atp i can't remember what i was thinking of her at first 😔 im sure i was probably enfuriated at her for being mean to maya though lawl

impression now:

as you would expect of a certified mvk hater. she makes me soooo fucking sad. to me she feels like the fulfillment of if azula from atla was allowed to have more growth and more sympathy from the narrative. she's just a fucking kid and she deserves to have had a real childhood without feeling like she has to prove herself to Sir Evil Overlord. i would say all this to her but she would start biting and kicking and scratching me like an angry cat and that's okay

favorite moment: OKAY.... i think if ppl keep sending these you're all going to find that my favorite moments are almost always the heart wrenching character defining ones. very predictably my favorite moment of franziska's is the offscreen gunshot wound. the drama.... the fucked up schadenfreude....... the pinnacle of sudden and forced vulnerability in a public place. the metaphorical parallels between her and her father (did you know that the shoulder is one of the only parts of the body considered necessary to remove a bullet from? it's because there are so many tiny ligaments and fragile bones in there that if it stays put, the bullet will continue to rip your body apart from the inside. the wound will keep getting worse and worse. it's a good thing franziska had someone nearby who loved her enough to talk her into getting it taken out. especially one who knows a thing or two about the damage a bullet can do to someone's shoulder. who knows what could have happened?)

ultimately i agree that it sucks how it effectively railroads her out of the plot and railroads edgeworth back in (which is Not Great from a writing standpoint) but it's just the right amount of dramatic to get to me. she has become her own self fulfilled prophecy

(also it doesn't help that i have the entirety of 2-3 locked away in a vault from the rest of my memories so in my mind there's genuinely only two cases in that game where she exists. it's sad. aai: fvk when)

idea for a story: this only just popped into my mind but i want one where she's somehow (through fighting her tooth and nail) convinced to take an extended vacation from work, only to realize she doesn't have any hobbies outside of law (or work-adjacent tasks.) i wanna see her expanding her horizons and start feeling like a person and not just a figurehead for the first time in her life. i wanna see her rediscovering hobbies from when she was a little girl that she either was forced to abandon or decided of her own volition wasn't important enough to pursue. i want her. to play a team sport

unpopular opinion: "ackshewally she really really likes being a lawyer so her father didn't ever force her to do anything she didn't want to do. therefore she was never abused or neglected and you are blowing things out of proportion ☝️🤓" im going to chew my own arms off

favorite relationship: the one that immediately stands out to me is her relationship with pearl. these two are in the most uncannily similar situation in the entire universe.

their respective parents heaped the entirety of their dreams onto their backs and it's only by the grace of god and their loving friends and family that they weren't swept away by it.

they're so intelligent in their prodigal fields because they spent so long honing them they were forced to neglect their other skills (reading, emotional maturity, etc.)

in one way or another, they were overshadowed by the only person in their family who truly cared about them the most. they were more entitled, more intelligent, more worthy. and they were expected to cheer if/when they were suddenly taken out of the picture. "look at this person. they're only here because i'm so gracious to them. but no matter, they're only a mild obstacle in the way of our glorious dream. you'll understand, right? if i dispose of them? why are you looking at me that way? get back in line and quiet down."

they're both still neck deep in their conditioning and probably won't be able to understand or process the extent of what their parents did to them for years and years down the line.

but. here's the kicker. pearl fucking hates franziska and she will throw hands with her at the first possible opportunity. i think she would even start biting. which is the world's funniest dynamic to have with a literal child and i am so obsessed with it

favorite headcanon: hmmm i don't have many headcanons for franziska.... i do really enjoy seeing redesigns of her as she gets older though! my favorites ive seen are the ones where she gets a pixie cut or she pushes her hair back like her father. it's sooo good i love character designs that age with the character

ok wow i wasn't expecting to get this emo about her for some reason. anyway THANKIIEEEESSS ILY

[wikitpowers]

ummm dru blackthorn in fits like these pretty please with sugar on top??????

[sejarcus-archive]

I love you tbosas movie haters

[pynkhues]

That walking down the aisle outfit for Lestat, Louis is going to swoon and Florence is going to have a conniption. Maybe Lestat would insist on not him and Louis not seeing each other before the ceremony because it's bad luck.

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That church would have the most simultaneously rancid and intoxicating cocktail of vibes, and honestly, I love that for all of them, haha.

And I feel like Lestat would insist on sleeping separately / not seeing each other before the ceremony only to sneak into Louis' bed in the middle of the night anyway, haha. He does not have the impulse control to resist!

[crackedegotheories]

Dark has officially entered his last year of bad luck, after breaking that mirror six years (and a day) ago. Just one year left, and he, at least, will be free.

Assuming trapping an innocent district attorney in said mirror does not add or reduce the traditional seven year run, of course.

[manofthepipis]

Tiny question! When Clicks said “I don't understand…! It didn't have that reaction with the rest of us.” When referring to the side effects Spamton got when drinking his own tea, then does this mean that the other addisons tried Spamton tea to get an opinion? If yes, what where the HP benefits and descriptions each Addison would have when drinking Spamton Tea? I’m curious!

ofcourse! So it had happened off screen, and a scene i won't be writing (but definitely pictured thus it being referenced with a one-off comment), but while spamton was still in snoozetown post-neo attack, clicks made it to try and gauge if they were rlly cut out for this whole helping-spamton-out shtick, but for their own sakes. so i'm glad you're curious about it so i get to elaborate! :D

spamton's tea doesn't heal any one of them all that much, due to the complicated relationship, being that Clicks' conditional healing teas aren't pure healing magic like Spamton's F1 spell, but in order, it would be Sponsor the most, Banner and Clicks about the same, and then Survey in last.

Sponsor definitely will be elaborated on later, as they've still been rather silent about their perspective on spamton, despite being the one that's more accepting of Neo. It's not a lot of healing by any chance, but it's healing nonetheless. A familiar taste that they tried a long time ago but they'd like to have again, properly this time. Maybe with a 40 Hp boost

Banner and Clicks are healed about the same, and while clicks finds the tea bitter with a bad processed flavor, both are healed the same cuz they're at that same stage of still being wary around spamton, with clicks less so after Ch15. Banner finds the flavor unfamiliar, but not all bad, still not one he'd go to for a first pick. 30 Hp boost

Survey is barely healed, and doesn't like the flavor, but wants to, like it's a flavor of something they used to like a lot but has fallen off in recent years. It gives off the same vibe of a recipe that they've known very well that's changed, and it's distinctly wrong now. Maybe changing the recipe manually would fix it? Or would it ruin the entire thing? Who knows. 5-10 Hp

None of the addisons really hate spamton, so the hp-draining effects of Spamton tea is unique to himself, but the Hp can fluctuate with strengthening friendships :)! like post Ch15, the tea would taste better to Clicks, not significantly, but enough to make a difference from first impressions.

[selfinflictedgunshotwound]

ppl ask for complex female characters but their bar for complexity is just someone that sucks a lot and has no redeeming qualities and not a character that's actually interesting in any way

[famousblueraincoatmp3]

have i listened to this 12 times the past week. perhaps

[min0uet]

what people do not understand about nagito komaeda is that his obsession with hope is not romantic or sexual in nature [i do Not care what the dr3 anime had to say hope this helps] but rather comes from a sort of religious devotion as an extreme coping mechanism send tweet

[pantsaretherealheroes]

just saw a take that both art and partrick are responsible for tashi's injury?? I didn't realise they tore her ACL or whatever personally hand in hand, wow

[cerunilea]

The one good thing about the eggs being absent from the server rn is that there's time for the traps that Vegetta and Willy have been putting everywhere to be triggered by the players who can actually afford to be killed by them...

I appreciate chaos but not if it runs the risk of killing the eggs (not that I as a viewer have any control over what the cubitos do, but that doesn't mean I can't be uncomfortable about how their characters are acting...)

Especially when they're being hypocritical about trying to leave the island. They say “no one is trying to leave the island so we need to make them feel less welcome/content to give them motivation”. Well bro I don't see YOU doing anything to try and escape the island, you're just making everyone's lives more difficult when they have already been doing as much as they can and exhausted all current options that they know of ((which has actually been a fair number of things, but they don't stay in the loop enough to really know that I suppose)). If you really wanted to get everyone to try to work to get off the island (rather than just cause chaos for the sake of chaos), maybe don't purposely cause issues in a way to drive them apart and sow distrust so they won't work together to actually achieve that goal??? As far as I'm concerned, they're mostly just using "getting off the island" as an excuse to justify their actions.