#but he's just as much of a pushover

[couriers-mile]

I enjoy the implication in Origins that Zevran isn't a very good fighter when we meet him and then after Origins he was utterly terrorizing the Crows. All the levels he gained in the Warden's party actually made him a canonically, significantly more dangerous fighter than he was when the Warden met him.

[shootingstarrfish]

guy tells u a dead beetle reminds him of u wyd

[ad-astra-per-aspera-1389]

Having seen the clip from season 6 (*edited: I used to think it was 7 or 8) where House says about Wilson buying the organ for him, "I like what this says about you" bc he bought something for House when he was told to buy a piece of furniture that says something about himself, and he chose something that would make House happy, versus in season 4 when Wilson bought the mattress amber wanted bc he wanted to make her happy, and she got mad at him for it...

Just... despite House and Amber being so similar, with both of them wanting Wilson to choose something for himself, but House being happy about Wilson's choice being his love for him, and Amber being happy that Wilson chose something he didn't even know he himself liked. Wilson not even knowing himself very well, let alone amber, and a few seasons later, he knows House better than he knows himself. Wilson's choices are dependent on the people he loves and how he loves them, but amber only saw that he was giving her what she wanted, while House saw it for the reflection of Wilson's love that it was

[nottogetpoliticalbutwtfisoatmeal]

It's Jim!

Everyone's favorite accountant, assistant, manager, treasurer, coffee runner, physical therapist, mailman, janitor, vendor, cashier.....

y'know what? let's just stick with 'everyone's favorite guy'

[makotonaegiunderstander]

something I’ve been thinking abt is how many people think Makoto is immune to despair. I don’t think he is. I think becoming the ultimate Hope was BECAUSE he felt despair. He wouldn’t have fully reached that point without Junko. Makoto becoming such a beacon was his last attempt to avoid completely falling and it wasn’t because he didn’t feel despair, it was because he was too damn stubborn to allow everything to go to waste and he refused to sacrifice his beliefs for someone else’s. His inner monologue tells me he DID experience the same new low the other suvivors did in the final trial, but at the point where he had the choice to give up and die, he looked at the others and he looked at Junko and he couldn’t allow it to happen, not out of self preservation, but because the idea that Junko would have control over their lives made him FURIOUS. and that utter refusal to die kicked in, wether luck or otherwise, and he made the concious effort for one last push while something in him was breaking. He had to be broken in order for the Ultimate Hope to come through so aggressively, bc it could only exist in the face of the Ultimate Despair. He snapped the same way she did, but in the other direction. In what could have been his final moments he chose to embody everything Junko wasn’t, and every single optimistic and luck fueled ideal in him suddenly charged forward and pushed him. It was a combination of the final straw and a choice. Makoto isn’t immune to feeling despair, he’s just too stubborn to fall into it of his own volition. I think that’s why I like that scene in DR3 so much. People were SO SHOCKED Makoto actually fell for the tape, that he actually became despair for a moment. I saw people getting mad or disappointed, saying it was pathetic and Makoto seemed to fall from some sort of pedestal for them. Honestly part of me wonders if that sort of mentality, which clearly people had in universe, affected Makoto a bit. Like he started to see himself as less of a person, subconsciously. Prompting him to take more risks, less self preservation, act way more bold. It seems he has to be reminded a lot not to put himself in danger by his friends, to not do something too reckless. All over the place I would see in regards to that scene either this frivolous ‘oh this was just angst drama with no meaning behind it’ or ‘he can do better than that. he’s so weak’ or ‘come on, there’s no way he’d fall into despair, he’s the Ultimate Hope!’ This kind of mentality, which was kind of ironic considering Ryota was there the entire time saying the same thing and treating Makoto the same way. Like Makoto was superhuman. Like Makoto didn’t feel despair the same way ‘normal people’ did. In a way that was also how Munakata saw Makoto. Makoto stopped being a PERSON to the world when he became Ultimate Hope, he became a concept, a belief system, much the same way Junko ascended beyond herself. But the difference is that treating Makoto that way is the opposite of the reason Makoto became such a representative for hope. He wasn’t doing something no one else could. He was doing something everyone had the chance to, he just… was a little more optimistic, a little more stubborn, a little more ‘gung-ho’ about things. He just took the lead where no one else did, where no one else knew they even COULD in the face of Junko’s unstoppable force. She had overcome the biggest threats and obstacles in the world, what could one person do? And the answer Makoto found was, anything. Everything. It doesn’t all rest on Makoto, he’s just the one that was inspired to try to do what seemed like the impossible. But as evidenced by the change in his friends after that trial, it’s clearly not something only Makoto is capable of. The others pulled out of despair thanks to Makoto, but it was their choice to do so.

“But… this world is so huge, and we’re so small. What can we do…? No, we can probably do anything. Yeah! We can do anything!”

[spineless-lobster]

I finally watched the return and uh… well unfortunately it was worse than I was expecting

[conanssummerchild]

the other day my dad was showing me how to do this thing for an account and because hes incapable of not being a huge bag of dicks all the time he was all like oh im doing this for you because you cant and ur useless and stuff (it was incredibly simple, i wouldve figured it out in like two minutes. i didnt even ask him to do it, he just told me "im doing this" and when i said i would just do it myself he said no) and i was mad at him for being a bitch but i cant say im mad or do anything or he gets mad, but you will not believe the satisfaction i felt today after being able to do an IT thing for my mum that he couldnt, at least i get this, fuck you and eat shit old man, whos useless now?

[todayisafridaynight]

i miss ps2 daigo's gangly ass

[oblivious-aro]

Do you think Jax knows the npcs are sentient?

I can see it going either way. Maybe he doesn't know, so he doesn't see any reason to not act out every sadistic whim on them. Or maybe he does, and he doesn't care. Considering how he treats the other characters (throwing Pomni of the truck, petting centipedes in Rahatha's room), knowing the npcs have feelings likely wouldn't change his behaviour.

Pomni, on the other hand, has seen the sentience of the npcs first hand. She formed a brief yet powerful emotional with one. She saw him hurt, love, give up, get up, and even die. Pomni's seen an npc be just as human as she is.

And she hasn't seen just how shittily Jax is prone to treating them.

At least, not yet.

[butters-flower-mom]

if you had to ground butters for something, what would it be?

Do I have to ground him specifically or could I use some kind of alternative? Because with all the trauma he no doubt has surrounding grounding I'd much rather make him sit in a time-out chair or take away his video games for a weekend or something.

But if I had to discipline him for something it'd be starting a gender war. He'd get no dessert for quite awhile for that.

[monty-glasses-roxy]

Was thinking again about Montceratops earlier and how fucking Normal it would be for Roxy to have found another fucking missing animatronic by that point. Like okay cool. Another one. This one is how old??? Aight... okay then. That's a new record I think...

Roxy and Cassie's dad asking for help for Montceratops at this point is like "let me guess. Roxy found a new friend." and it's not even a question. They don't have any idea what the fuck she's found this time but they see Cassie's dad walk in like "hey so uh. You wanna maybe prep the cylinder?" for the very first time asking the other techs for help and they just fucking know Roxy's found some old fucked up lil guy in the god knows where lmao

They learned from the dinosaurs, the chicken, the duck, the Eclipse and the fucking herd of horses that Roxy wasn't gonna get in real trouble for any of this shit. At this point? Yeah they might as well-WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT'S A FUCKING DINOMONTY?! WHAT THE FUCK????

[eddis-not-eeddis]

Dealing with newcomer's embarrassment gets easier if you are surrounded by people you have no respect for.

[5hrignold]

i could be like entirely wrong but i like that gerbo is only super agreeable to the things bugbo says and suggests him to do because he likes him and they’re best friends. i feel like the way he acts around bugbo could be mistaken as gerbo being a gullible person who has no backbone but based off his interactions with other characters i feel like its safe to say thats wrong! both cases were already tense situations but when seen talking with characters like quentin and thomas gerbo clearly can tell that whatever they’re doing is wrong and further he doesn’t even remotely need bugbo’s voice to tell him that. like he just flat out calls thomas evil after talking to him for like 2 minutes he’s not a 100% pushover lol. my main point apart from gerbo is smarter than most probably think is he’s so easily swayed by bugbo because he trusts him so much and he KNOWS him he knows bugbo only has everyone’s best interest in mind and nothing he tells him would be to harm him

[lovetogether]

Sadly we do not use shipping as a full frontal outlet for the nuclear family esk idea of love in our mind and instead opt to use it as further exploration of a character and TBH we don’t think Harry brings much to the Table compared to Dale. We think Harry’s relation to Dale is pretty much in line with most other “straight faced” characters who meet Dale.

[firstroseofspring]

thinking pondering to me john torres is like. what if u met a woman. with confidence and dignity and a strong moral backbone. you meet and she makes a distinct impression with her honesty and her frankness and she seems like she's always sure of what she wants and what she needs and she's so different from anyone else you know and thats exciting and she's exciting and she likes you specifically you. and you don't think much of you but it feels good to be liked by someone like that. you love her of course. you marry her. of course!

[taus-inc]

i love all bobs characters in general however comma i think after so long there's always going to be things you dont like