#boring //yawn

[airanke]

Why do all Shonen have to end with a big slug fest between the main protag and the main villain 🤣🤣🤣

[donnatroyyyy]

I’m BEGGING y’all to stop erasing the fact that Bruce didn’t adopt Dick for the LONGEST TIME EVER. That’s what gives their relationship that kick. That’s also one of the main sources of their misunderstandings which is an inherent constant in their story.

[littlefankingdom]

Bruce is the kind of parents teachers hate, because he always takes his child's side. Dick started a fight? His boy would never, the other kid probably started it and deserved it. Jason felt asleep in class? Well, maybe stop being boring. His kids are angels who can do no wrong.

The administration of Gotham Academy was so relieved when Dick graduated because they wouldn't have to deal with Bruce again, only for him to get another one. And once Jason passed away, they felt guilty to be happy to not have to see Bruce again, only for him to show up a year later for Tim. (I know, canonically, Tim went to another school, but this is funny to imagine) He isn't even the kid's guardian, but he justifies it with the absence of Tim's parents at the moment, how he is his neighbour and his son is very close to him, they see each others as brothers!

It's a bit different with Damian because he was raised differently than his siblings and could be quite arrogant at the start, but Bruce still does take his defense when he doesn't have his son's side.

Of course, once he is alone with his boys, he does ask what happens and lecture them if necessary, but in public, he gets protective. It comes from how he remembers feeling as a teen, angry and hurt but nobody listened or understood, just scolded him. He wants his kids to feel understood, to know they can express themselves to him. (It's canon that Bruce saw Jason's aggressivity as Robin as Jason being in pain. In older comics at least). It's also comes from how protective he is in general.

This also happens with the Justice League and other heroes. They have no right to criticize his kids, and he can lecture them himself if they really did something dangerous. Robin punched you? You probably deserved it.

His kids are perfect angels, ok?!

[enden-k]

yeahhh bbg yeah

[autistic-bashir]

don’t know if this is a hot take but i can’t stand the mirror universe every episode with it is literally this

[fromtheseventhhell]

it's wild to see people say stuff like "sansa is a politician, arya is a warrior" while not being able to point out a single political act sansa has achieved, and not being able point out any of arya's "warrior skills" that isn't the handful of fencing lessons with syrio she received for like five months max lol

Politician!Sansa and Warrior!Arya are two fascinating ends of a fanon ouroboros; Neither concept exists outside of the other and neither concepts are based on the books. This fandom is just so attached to the idea of Sansa being this incredible politician, with intelligence above every other character, that her having nothing in her own chapters to support that idea doesn't stop them. That's why Arya's intelligence, skills, and entire character arc get reduced to her being nothing but a walking, talking weapon. Like you said, her "warrior" capabilities are essentially the handful of lessons she had with Syrio where her most important + relevant lesson was how to observe her surroundings. Her only "combat" training with the FM was her defending herself with a staff when she lost her eyesight. There's nothing to suggest that she's going to be a warrior, in fact we get the exact opposite. We get constant reminders of Arya's small stature and lack of strength that prevent her from fighting/defending herself in certain situations. All her kills rely on sneak attacks/stealth and she's never been in an outright swordfight with anyone. George even refrains from calling her a warrior like Robb and Jon. Brienne and Asha are examples of female characters who are actual fighters and if you compare their chapters, you can see the difference.

But then Arya's entire existence is antithetical to fanon!Sansa's. Her Harrenhal arc is what people pretend Sansa was doing in KL, her relevance to the North gets transferred to Sansa, and her intelligence and political activeness are erased so that Sansa can shine. They'll write essays on how Sansa is the most intelligent, politically savvy character and how Dany/Jon/Tyrion's arcs only exist to highlight her own ruling arc but the second someone asks them for evidence from the books, it's crickets. I don't understand why their enjoyment of her character hinges on her being the most important/intelligent one. No Arya stan is under the illusion that she's going to be the political character or outclass Dany, Jon, or Tyrion. It's just part of her story so we acknowledge it. Arya is going to have her political arc in Braavos and Sansa is going to have her political arc in the Vale, they aren't mutually exclusive. The only issue is that some people want Sansa to be the only one with a political arc and that's not the story that George is telling.

[cheecats]

Okay, I hate Slash, but for some reason I want you to design him, what do you think?

Me: Can we have One Eye back? Erins: We have One Eye at home. The One Eye at home:

[aanglican]

i will forever wish that the atla writers either (1) wrote iroh as an inarguably repentant ex-imperialist whose behavior and actions in the story aligned with this fact, OR (2) embraced the fact that iroh was not wholly repentant about his past actions at all.

bonus points if they have zuko - who is on his own journey to redemption - realize this about his beloved uncle, thus forcing him to think for himself on the matter of his place in the fire nation. the story could do with a more pertinent message about fire nation royal family members rejecting imperialist ideals for the sake of rejecting imperialist ideals instead of relying on family dynamics as the sole/main source for interpersonal conflict (and stand-in for morals.)

[celestialprincesse]

writing essays about actual, well written, culturally important texts: 😭😡😤🫥

writing smut about fictional men: 💖🥰🤭🎀💞🫶

[aropride]

im always so worried people think me taking deep breaths is "sighing" Bc thats happened before Like no i just genuinely dont feel like im getting enough air in my lungs 90% of the time

[kakyogay]

bullying

also more mini beast thigs

Artblock? No, tiny five pebbles.

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price as Waldo Trumbull

The Comedy of Terrors (1964) dir. Jacques Tourneur

[earlgodwin]

idk maybe it’s just my occasional haterism for characters and ships with zero nuance but i was just thinking about how incredibly boring paolo’s character is! i wish his death wasn’t the reason for lucrezia and juan’s drift considering how they had a loving and trusting relationship and how ferally overprotective juan was of her before #that incident, like i can't say i didn't feast on the antagonism between lucrezia and juan, especially how she toyed with his fear of her wrath while he threw something witty back at her, but i would've preferred it to stem from something more flavorful and remarkable!! something that makes better sense for her to shun him away forever and never look back no matter how many times he tried to reconcile with her. but instead, their disconnection revolves around the peasant she kept shading because he was illiterate while projecting cesare onto him and wanting him to be something he actually wasn’t?? (similar to how cesare wanted ursula to be lucrezia and then fumed when she took a will of her own lol)

i feel like they chickened out from juan admitting that he acted out because of his incestuous feelings for lucrezia, (which provoke him to be aggressive toward her when she looks at him in disdain while not recognizing that, according to him, he does everything because he genuinely wanted to protect her) since the show was only being subtle about the sibling incest, and neil jordan refused to go with it at first. that being said, still nothing changes that lucrezia and juan's relationship is profoundly tragic and compelling, and little did they know that people will always yearn for the incestuous siblings' trio, and it took françois, holly (and even david who was shipping cesare x lucrezia + the cesare/lucrezia/juan throuple online) to knock some sense into the showrunner and finally convincing them to explore the incest route for lucrezia and cesare in s3 since it was too late for juan.

[beeduoo]

originnssssss who remembers origins i Loved origins

[catsi]

my PI and i are almost done my research paper and we're probably gonna submit it in the next couple of weeks so now i finally gotta give the paper A TITLE.... AAAAAAAAAAAAA

[fromtheseventhhell]

"Sansa = Ned 2.0 and Arya = Catelyn 2.0" is one of those takes where you can just tell people are more attached to the aesthetic than anything. "The Stark girls are most like the parent they look least like" sounds good on paper and people run with the idea, regardless of how it actually fits into the story. A majority of the justification relies on misinterpreting all of their characters + a healthy dose of fanon. What gets me is that this is the same fandom that insists that Lyanna, only compared to Arya in the text, is equal parts Arya and Sansa but Ned and Catelyn, two fully fleshed-out and complex characters, have to be more like one girl or the other? There's just nothing in the story to justify being so adamant about these comparisons. Arya and Sansa have parallels with both of their parents but at the end of the day, they are unique characters with their own stories. I'll never understand why people want to flatten these complex characters down to their most basic tropes and fit them into restrictive boxes just for a "poetical~" comparison.