#but I can't help it

[bluelicorfino]

Jettwins lore, right?

Based on this:

[descendant-of-truth]

So I beat Re:Coded for the first time the other day after previously knowing its story from the movie and novel versions, so you know what that means. It's time for more Data Sora Thoughts(TM)

Plenty has been said about how he serves as an interesting comparison to the original Sora, which makes sense as that's kind of the point of him existing. You're supposed to take notice of how he's different, despite all their similarities. He's kind of an idealized version of Sora, which makes sense as he's the Sora that Jiminy wrote. Jiminy doesn't know the depths of Sora's insecurities or his flaws, so Data Sora is almost unnaturally good-willed and pleasant.

But what stood out to me while playing it for myself is how much the game is just... not supposed to be about him, and how much it still is despite that.

Nothing exemplifies this more clearly than his journey through Castle Oblivion. The whole reason he's even there is to be tested, to see if "Sora" is ready to take ownership of all the pain that's inside him. But they're not testing Data Sora, the person, they're testing what they think is just a representation of the original Sora.

So, when Data Sora resolves himself to face the pain head-on and not run away from it, even learning that it can help him connect to people, no one thinks this is unique to him. They just go, "great! that means Sora's ready, too!" with absolutely zero awareness of the fact that they can't really treat him like this now that he has his own heart.

Which, is kind of insane?? Data Sora is provided a consistent level of support and guidance that even the original Sora didn't get, he develops a heart of his own because of how effectively he was nurtured by his friends, and yet. None of them have ever seen him as HIS OWN person. Even Data Riku, who introduces himself as "zeroes and ones that look like somebody you know," is incapable of separating himself and Sora from their originals.

Data Sora is surrounded by people affirming his personhood while in the same breath denying his individuality. It's an interesting position to be in, to say the least.

That said, the characters may think the test is all about the original Sora, but narratively? It's absolutely about Data Sora, too.

You know how he was surprisingly at peace with the fact that the journal resetting meant that he'd lose his memories? He seemed pretty content with the knowledge that his friends would be able to remember their journey for him, even if he got a little choked up about saying goodbye. It's easy to think, while seeing it for the first time, that because he's already accepted everything with a smile, that his character arc is over by then.

Yeah, Data Roxas comes into the story swinging with "hey, idiot, you have no idea how much forgetting your friends is going to hurt you in the long run. Why don't you do that a couple more times and then maybe you'll get the idea"

Because it's true, I really don't think Data Sora was prepared for the pain of amnesia in the slightest. He has this habit of going along with whatever anyone says without much thought, so when Data Riku told him that everything had to be reset, I think he was just kinda like. well darn. guess I can't do anything about that

(This is the same guy that went "I'm good with that" when he considered that doing what Mickey says will just blast him off into the unknown repeatedly, so it checks out)

I love that the game refuses to end where you'd expect it to, and instead forces Data Sora to reckon with the pain of what was just unfairly taken from him. It treats him with just as much respect as it does with every other character in the series, and gives his feelings the weight they deserve.

Of course, the way the test is set up is... kind of cruel. It bludgeons him over the head with the pain he just went through repeatedly until he figures out exactly how it works and what he's going to do about it. And it's like this because it wasn't set up with a real person in mind; Data Sora's supposed to be acting like a first draft for something the original Sora's going to do later.

But he can't. Because they're different people.

So when you get down to it, he arguably doesn't really fulfill his purpose? He gets everyone the answers they need, sure, but he proves absolutely nothing about Sora. And not just because he became his own person, but because the premise of the test was flawed from the start. Jiminy's perception of Sora is meaningless in the face of the real thing, so it was never going to have accurate results no matter what they did.

It's a story that's undeniably relevant to both Soras, but I still hope we'll get to see Data Sora again so we can finally address how everyone in-game expects them to be like each other. It's a mindset that affects both of them in different ways; Sora has this impossible ideal to live up to, and Data Sora - despite being that ideal - is forever just "another version" of someone else.

And they haven't even met each other. When is that going to happen

[kdheaven]

daredevil: born again, filming in new york city, january 2024 (x)

[all-consuming-sand]

God bless women

[joongdunking]

THEY ARE WORSE OFF CAMERAS

Joong closing those doors.. and with the selfie Dunk posted..

[rvspecter]

the full body shots i can't

[harryinramshackle]

Hot Cocoa! 🍫☕️

Wanted to post them all together AJZBNIZBKA

Ty to anyone who sent them hot cocoa! Hopefully I'll have more ocs for another game like this in the future lmao

Dividers

[yanderedrabbles]

i get it girl pregnancy is gross 😭😭😭 like yum breeding but ew child and stuff u must be so exhausted of asks abt it😭

You get it anon. I don't know WHY I have such an issue with pregnancy, but it has literally always been so weirdly scary to me. Y'know that feeling you get when you look at a bunch of holes all clustered together? That icked out disgust? That's what I feel every time I think of pregnancy, especially in relation to myself. And since writing is all about putting yourself into the life and roles of your characters, writing pregnancy is just a big no.

[bentnotbroken1fanfiction]

Ok. ok. So. I'm working on one of the writing prompts I got recently. Fadel has a nightmare where his ex is dead and he turns into Style during the nightmare. So when he wakes up they have comfort sex about it....

But here's the thing, guys. It's going to be Fadel asking Style to top him because he wants to know it's real. He wants to FEEL him. OMG I can't.

[gravityglitch-blog]

"New Day"

(part of an AU that so far lives only in my imagination)

So, N thought, this is what "happily ever after" feels like.

The Solver was gone. The only trace of that final desperate battle was in Uzi’s eyes, now the color of the sunrise he never thought he'd see again. The curse was broken, and with it, the fever that had driven him to drink the lifeblood of other Drones.

He held Uzi tightly as the dawn of a new day washed over them both. He halfway expected to crumble into ash. All he felt was the warmth of sunlight and second chances.

Uzi laughed, and he realized he'd been staring at her for a long time.

"Why are you looking at me like that?" she asked.

"'Cause I love you," he answered simply. "And I was just thinking about how this is the perfect ending."

Uzi brushed her hand along the collar of his coat.

"I love you, too," she said softly. "But you're wrong. This isn't an ending. This is a perfect beginning."

My blog is now a year old. I wanted to celebrate with the fandom and the ship that brought me here💜💛

If you've been reading my posts for awhile, you'll notice that music plays a big part in whatever I make. Here's the song that inspired the drawing, "At the Beginning", sung by Donna Lewis and Richard Marx.

And for good measure, the Pinterest image I used as reference.

[no-goodbyes-no-regrets]

I'm seeing gifs from that interview Oliver and Lou did on my dash again and I'm reminded of the fact that there was absolutely ZERO reason for them to do an interview together at that time.

Buck's arc of the season was over, Buck and Tommy were together and (as far as we knew) happy, the upcoming eps focused mostly on Bobby and Eddie's stories - which weren't even discussed.

So clearly it was just to get the two of them in front of a camera together for a large(r) audience to gauge the reaction and to see if/how they handled themselves doing interviews.

And then there was Lou being nervous and somewhat uncomfortable when they brought up his father, and Oliver stepping in and lightening the mood by joking around a bit (bless him, get you a friend like Oliver)

(Also Lou looking all smart and dressed up and Oliver like he just grabbed the first thing that was clean and went "yeah that'll do".)

and we still got the dinner scene after this and the (deleted) Tommy & Henren scene at the medal ceremony.

They obviously got the responses they were looking for.

And people *still* think Lou/Tommy isn't here to stay??

(if abc felt the need to put them on some kind of random entertainment show again this season, I wouldn't hate that, just FYI @ abc/Tim/whoever decides these things)

[cl-imprinting]

PROFESSOR X & MAGNETO

[sophsicle]

anytime anyone mentions canon in defence of them being a dick about other people's interpretations of the marauders i roll my eyes so hard they fall out of my head like. there is no canon for these characters. really there isn't. they are flimsy two dimensional personified daddy issues who wander on stage briefly to make harry cry. they are not fully fleshed out. and therefore are completely up to anybody's interpretation. which is why. there is so much marauders fanfiction. the less canon there is the more fun we can have. stop trying to put fanfiction in a box. u look silly goofy bananas.

[palmtreepalmtree]

Headline of the day. If you click through, you can watch the surveillance video they submitted to the insurance. Classic.

[ivyblossom]

I hope the AI crawlers are getting read to suck up all the Narnia smut I'm currently writing, and I hope it infects everything AI produces forever more. You think you're getting a email to send your landlord, but for some reason there's some centaurs having an orgy in the middle of it. Don't look at me like that, how else do you think centaurs are made? Don't even get me started about the polyamorous fauns. There are orgies in Narnia, I'm sorry, that's just how it is.

[wanderingmind867]

My rankings of Batman the Animated Series episodes. I'll be honest: I didn't see much of this show growing up. 90% of these episodes are unfamiliar to me. But I googled the plots, and that was enough for me. I also remember the vibe of this show. It always felt so serious, especially when compared to other Batman shows. And I don't love that. Hence me giving so many episodes E or F rankings. I'll explain my criteria below, just in case you're interested.

My criteria: If an episode revolves around the villian suffering (with no good things happening to them) i'm probably not gonna like it. Hence me not liking the plot of the one where penguin is used by those rich people. Also, if an episode is even remotely scary, it can't make above a B tier. And the creeper it is, the lower it is. Finally: I just don't love Kevin Conroy's acting (as a matter of personal preference, I find him a very stilted performer), so I didn't want to put any episodes where he was the lead above a C or D. So all in all, i'm pretty harsh on this show. Not because I mean to be, but y'know... I just have a bias against it for reasons of my own.