#but also unexpected as hell

[om0000]

There's no way roundabout was the first fic u read for woy, it was my first fic for woy too!!! Still one of the best I've read, in and out of the fandom :)

WE'RE SO TWINNING!!! i remember sorting by kudos or hits or smth n it was somewhere at the top n i read it first cuz i thought "this looks like the weirdest most batshit insane piece of text to ever curse this ao3 page. this better be funny" but then i started reading it n turns out its actually an absolute fire fic

[checkereddreamsandicecreams]

*Falls in and drops off a drawing that took way longer than I ever anticipated it to*

Vash! Because I love him.

[performing-personhood]

Dropout content has always been solid even when you go all the way back to the CollegeHumor days (which I'm doing at the moment as I suffer through the actual physical pain of watching Total Forgiveness) and that's extremely rare

Usually the hardest part about watching someone's early content is how rough it still is, but since Dropout has been solid since pre-conception, the hardest part about watching the early stuff is that everyone keeps misgendering Ally. It makes me feel bad for them.

[shiroselia]

Play 13 Sentinels I am no longer asking

[unproduciblesmackdown]

from victoria / t_ori0

Down on skid row 🪴🏙️

[naamahdarling]

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[that-green-haired-swordsman]

Fuck my life I'm sitting here and try not to cry bc Zoro's duel with Mihawk hit me so hard. And I don't even know why. It's not as if I've seen it for the first time but damn. Holy damn. Mackenyu gave such a great and convincing performance. Zoro had his time to shine, albeit a tragic one. And he made it clear that no one is allowed to get in his way to fulfil his dream, his promise, even if it means to be an asshole towards his friends. This episode hits so hard ashdjakdlal. Everyone put so much love and dedication into making this show and the actors are utterly fantastic. The accuracy of this scene. I'm so glad they kept it, it's such a crucial and important scene of Zoro, adds so much to his character, his motivation, that he's not afraid to sacrifice his life to achieve his goal, that he's stubborn, courageous, but also Kuina's death still hurts him, it always will, and he'll always be tied to that promise, one that both drives him further and weighs him down, and while Luffy's dream is connected to an epic future, the stuff of myths and legends, Zoro's is connected to death, because not only will he never be able to meet that person again he made that promise with, unlike luffy who at least has the possibility to meet Shanks, but if Zoro will lose that one last duel, should a rematch against Mihawk be in the picture, Zoro WILL die. Zoro will demand that last, fatal cut, and Mihawk will deliver it to him. Mihawk will acknowledge him as a true, proper swordsman by then, one who's worthy of dying by the way of the sword.

And his crew, his friends, have seen how serious he is about his goal and how serious Zoro takes bushido. That he not only uses swords as his weapons of choice, but that he lives by that code. And that Zoro's dream is difficult and life-threatening to achieve. They've been introduced to the possibility of Zoro dying in front of their eyes, because yes, he's good, but he's not the greatest just yet. And what they've also been introduced to is Zoro's sheer lust and thrill for battle, that battle is what Zoro lives for, that he's not afraid of dying, that it changes him into a completely different person once he's found a worthy opponent he can improve his skills with, that snarky, reserved, quiet Zoro will smile and lick his lips once he's enjoying a fight, it's a personality that doesn't make it easy to befriend him, although he's really an okay guy, but being friends with that bloodthirsty maniac simply isn't easy. His friends have to endure quite much with him and he rewards them with his loyalty and protection, but Zoro's always been a lone wolf for a reason, not only for above mentioned reasons, but also because he doesn't want to have friends, he can't take to lose another one, like he lost Kuina. And he's happy to go wherever his found family is, but there is ALWAYS the possibility that he'll leave them, should he get an opportunity to achieve his dream.

This episode just awakened so many thoughts and feels about Zoro within me, although I've been in love with One Piece and Zoro for so many years now (20, to be precisely) and this episode still managed to hit me right in the feels - that's how good this live action adaptation is. And holy shit Zoro's and Nami's relationship? I simply love it. Two outsiders talking and they get an understanding from each other no one else in the crew is able to understand.

Sorry for rambling but like I said. It stirred up so much stuff.

[the-everqueen]

was talking to the other postdoc (same fellowship, different field) and it's wild how outright rude our host departments have been. with the exception of one or two people, we've had multiple microaggressions and dismissal of our research (while both depts are literally searching for someone to fill a position that would theoretically encompass what we do). again, i get we're temporary, and there's no obligation to really connect with us, but. i've gone to other dept lectures out of curiosity/overlapping research interest and the faculty have been SO nice, made a point of remembering my name if they saw me again, asked about my research, etc.

[mayybirds]

I will say whatever y'all think the Joe Baker TtVtL inner voice is gonna sound like. it is. not what you're expecting.

[thesaintofnevergettingitright]

Underrated moment of joy in this season: The bleating ravens.

I swear my heart grew three sizes in that moment. Cuz I knew, I KNEW, that there was obviously no way Crowley was ever going to hurt a kid. I wasn’t sure how he was going to get out of it but I was positive he’d figure something out.

But the thing is (and I’m almost ashamed to say it) I completely bought the destruction of the goats. I didn’t love it, but I figured it fell into the same ~morally gray~ category Crowley so often does.

But turns out that demon is too kind-hearted to even harm a herd of goats! And that fact makes me MELT! Crowley is so soft and good on the inside, and he has such a strong sense of right and wrong, it kills me.

I want to wrap him in a blanket and give him a little kiss on the forehead. It’s what he deserves!

[yeonban]

Today is such a Tobias day... I've been thinking about him & his parents the ENTIRE day! Mainly about how he's nearly identical to them, both in looks and in personality. He has his father's laugh, touchy-feely behavior, discomforting stare and the manner in which his mood can do an 180 in 2s flat if someone pisses him off. He has his mother's cold gaze, the way he's learned to wait and serve revenge cold when the person least expects it rather than act on his impulses in the heat of the moment, and the smoothness with which he can get into his enemies' psyches and drive them to spiral without using a single physical weapon to do so. Physically, he has the same smile & eye color as his father, and the same hair & eye shape as his mother, which really drives home the family resemblance, but it also acts as a haunting reminder whenever he's looking into a mirror. That's him, sure, but it's also his parents! Generally he prefers not to look at himself if he can help it since it leaves a bitter taste on his tongue every time exactly because of this resemblance.

His parents were already terrifying individuals on their own; his father for his hot-headed brutality and his mother for her cold-blooded deviousness - both of which deeply enjoyed causing and watching other people's torment (<-Tobias does too, but more selectively); and Tobias has inherited the best and worst traits of both of his parents while doubling down on them by having been born a genius and capable of taking their "talents" up a few notches in ways they'd never have imagined. Tobias is (technically) on the good side of the world in his canon, and he still led to the deaths of 2 million people by the time he turns 21. The vast majority are horrendous people from the underground, that's for sure, but that's a whole 2 million nonetheless. That's more than what a good chunk of his enemies have kiIIed! If Wammy's House hadn't found him when it did and managed to change his mindset into only targeting fellow criminals instead of targeting everyone he feels like targeting, he would have been one of THE worst criminals in history and put all of his enemies to shame ages before even turning 30.

[childactress]

a list of media inspired by, about, or loosely adapted from the life of mara banks:

a number of mid-quality songs by mid-quality bands and the mid-quality ex-boyfriends/lovers of mara's. that subgenre of rock/alt/indie/knockoff fall out boy that tells one-sided stories about attractive but damaged^tm girls with daddy issues who outright ruined the guy's life. accuracy and scathingness vary from song to song. you've heard one or two on the radio before their shelf life was up.

a comedy stand-up routine from one of mara's Big Exes. he never identifies her by name, she's this actress i was with for a while. they're less insulting and more utterly damning by their truthful (sometimes exaggerated for the sake of a laugh) reports of her unstable, mara-typical behavior during their time together, and she becomes a recurring joke throughout. she snuck into a show once, sat and sipped at the far-off bar with a far-off look, and stayed for about ten minutes. when he later landed a deal with netflix to film and release a stand-up special, he didn't include the routine in the material; mara doesn't know if that makes her feel better or worse.

starstuck: the banks story. a lifetime movie released a handful of years after arthur and donna's deaths, capitalizing on the tragedy in the hasty way that lifetime movies do. cheap, gently exploitative, the bad type of campy. it made mara (and her sister) pretty angry at the time, but now on a good day she can watch it with a bottle of wine and laugh at the sheer inaccurate nerve. the character of mara isn't around very much and is laughably depicted as a docile sweetheart rather than the spitfire that even pre-end times mara was.

mr. and mrs. banks. a 2020s biopic that also features young mara only briefly, instead covering her parents' marriage and careers with a thematic focus on their tragic love story in tinseltown. it's not a bad piece of work at all, written by a highly-regarded husband and wife duo. a turning point in mara's life: she possessively pursues and wins the role of her own mother, blonde wigs and all. it's a deeply emotionally invasive experience, obviously. and weird as hell falling in fake love with her own dad('s on-camera imitator). she turns in a hell of a performance and comes out the other end with a better reputation and a renewed if slightly cautious interest in hiring her, having reminded hollywood that hey, this girl can act. her world turns inside out, a psychological reckoning. she shakes off some bad habits, picks up a couple others; she dyes her hair blonde during the press tour - a suggestion from a studio suit to emphasize her natural close resemblance to her mother and thus promote public interest in the film (the americans who still remember the complete banks family unit: that's her now? wow, she looks just like her mom.) sadly, fatefully, she lives a long time seeing her mother in every mirror she passes, which has exactly the effect on her psyche that you think. an actress who came back from the dead even deader. tragedy come full circle. meet the new mara banks. a much, much slower kind of car crash.

[blueish-bird]

sorry if I don’t remember your name or conversations/experiences or basic things about myself, every few weeks my brain gets factory reset and I have to relearn how to be alive

[gxtzeizm]

okay that's a lot of plot twists and surprises for this gose episode tho i'm still can't even brain it rn 🤯🤯

[wellenklavier]

(you hear keys in the door jangling desperately and i stumble in sputtering and covered in blood & viscera of unclear origin) what tfucking. where am i. oh god

[thormanick]

the post below contains some possible minor spoilers related to the look of guizhong

Accidentally saw someone mention that Guizhong looks like Sandrone and well the more I look into it the more I go "hm. the coincidences are indeed too peculiar"