#but i understand the need to shock

[just-an-enby-lemon]

"No pet is perfect. It becames perfect when you learn to accept it for what it is."

It's such a great line until you discover that his cat is a cursed misoginistic art thief and Cecil has no idea (and therefore isn't even accepting it for what it is) than it stops being a great cute line and becames hilarious.

[l3irdl3rain]

save me senior cat on petfinder, save me

[divineandmajesticinone]

4 MINUTES (2024) I 1.03

[scholarhect]

lowkey i think people overpathologize cam’s whole thing, i think generally she’s reacting rationally, or at least about as well as you can ask from a person, to some really difficult stuff. like excuse her for acting weird when she was processing the very young death of the person she thought she was going to spend her life with, in an unfamiliar and unstable environment far from home, where her entire support system was a hypocritical dying woman she’d never meshed very well with and coronabeth tridentarius

[orviposition]

"yjh is crazy about kdj" i say into the mic.

the crowd boos, calling me a yaoibrained fujoshi with no reading comprehension skills.

"she's right," someone yells from behind the crowd. we all look in the direction of the voice in unison. it's singshong themselves

[hadesknockedupintheunderworld]

The fans: Ugh Sonic was just so preachy. I mean obviously he's supposed to be the good guy, so any uncomfortableness I feel here and any way I feel like Sonic's choices are framed as being why some other people have shitty lives is just bad writing because he is obviously supposed to be right always, but this characterization makes no sense. Isn't he right for the things he did?

Ian Flynn, using Kitsunami to say the (barely even at this point) quiet part even louder: Hey it's almost like ever since the Mr. Tinker event we've been purposely running with the critique of Sonic as being more selfish than he appears. Sonic is upholding a system of Eggman v Sonic that currently benefits him and shuts down talk of how to improve the current system because he likes his own personal enjoyment and he's attached enough to Eggman that he'd rather Eggman pretend to be a good person than be stuck in prison for life. He doesn't even quite practice what he preaches. We are trying to show that the current hero v villain system and Sonic's recklessness currently affects some people poorly and that Sonic isn't a perfect hero.

[kb-jank]

so I've been rewatching Static Shock because of @bearsspace 's Duke and Virgil art, and I'm not even a season in and its already so clear how good they'd get along.

Like Virgil's story focuses on not only actual racism and systemic issues, but the allegory of race within the bang babies/metahumans. Duke's story also does this with We Are Robin and Robin War; the robins are a group of mostly disenfranchised kids who rise up to protect themselves and their communities while being targeted by cops. WAR also makes direct comparisons to racism/systemic issues.

Besides their stories having some similar themes, they're also similar in the way they interact with their communities directly. (Let me mention here that Duke's mom and Virgil's dad are both social workers). Both Duke and Virgil are able to talk and connect with the people they're saving, and this includes the "villains" they encounter who really just need help (ohoho! another part of their stories connected to systemic issues).

Of course a lot of heroes do this but it's special for Virgil and Duke. Virgil's able to connect and help his foes not only because he's a bang baby, but because the standing he already has in his community. Like he spends a lot of time at the community centre and it means a lot to him. One of the things I really love about Virgil is that if he wants to get info on someone he starts knocking on doors and talking to people. It's special for Duke because not only does a big part of his story centre around bringing a community together to protect itself, but in contrast to the rest of the bats, his whole thing is LITERALLY being in the daylight. Like the whole premise of his character is being a beacon, Duke will always have a connection with the public the rest of the bats can't.

I also think it's really funny how both of them almost immediately become superheroes the first chance they got. Like Virgil's bestfriend is like, "You could be a superhero!" and he agrees instantaneously and does it. Duke's kinda just like, "Ugh, I GUESS I'll join this group of vigilantes if you REALLY want me to!" and "What? You want ME to lead this vigilante group? Aw shucks well SOMEONES gotta do it!" and "Not like being a vigilante is important to me or anything but I will literally let nothing including Batman's trained sidekicks stop me." then he jumps out of a moving cop car off a bridge.

[dykedvonte]

No but like imagine all female crew minus like Jimbalaya lol

I like this thought but like I imagine you mean Jimmy is also the only guy vs like everyone being girls with Anya.

Cause then it becomes how different women react to when something like this happens. Like I think Curly’s reaction would be different if Curly was a girl on a fully female crew. I think those behaviors and comments towards Anya Jimmy would make wouldn’t fly so much. Not just because Curly can tell they aren’t his usually “harmless” teasing but because there’s other women that are reacting. She’s seeing how bad those reactions are and is second guessing how much she let slide.

Daisuke would be a young woman, likely more conscious and aware of guys like Jimmy since she would be considered a party-girl. He’s like the guy you have to watch your drink around, gets to close and “accidentally” grabs or touches something, factors she would mentions to Curly. Swansea is an old gal, knows men that think they are owed something when a lady is nice to them or just because. She still has the same past and can see that selfishness in Jimmy, likely tells Curly to get some sense about her friend, not just for their sake but for herself.

Again, when I talk about Curly being marginalized gender wise and having that experience I don’t see it as her not getting it, but simply wanting to believe Jimmy is one of the nice guys… well nicer guys… well okay guys. And then she still has to think about that. Having all the other women point out all the signs makes her tip her rose colored glasses a bit, sees those red flags for what they are. I don’t think it’s easier for her but she’s more willing to act out of her feelings.

It would bring up a part of rape culture that doesn’t get depicted a lot of how woman can accidentally or even purposely enable it against other woman. Internalized misogyny, slut shaming and just the assumption of trust. Curly wouldn’t think it was Anya’s fault but she wants some type of hope to exist Jimmy isn’t that sort of man, it’s an internalized denial that slows her movements because this was a man she trusted, a man she had put her safety in, gave so many chances to to… she wouldn’t like thinking about it, but she has to as the Captain, as a woman and as Anya’s friend.

It’s a very harrowing situations especially because they are all women with one guy but it feel like it is resolved quicker and the horror aspects and context surrounding it centers on the crew slowly coming to see Jimmy as a figurative monster and the literal monster he is.

[god-tier-bastard]

anybody else absolutely baffled every time ame has to do her job as witch of the world's heart? like when she was talking to Mirara and instead of addressing the "bring humanity to heel" comment she just brought up her cat mug? or the lying to the coven? or the way she handled that last vote? idk i love ame so much, but i simply do not understand how she handles most things, even though it tends to work out for her aside from this vote.

[chitinleg]

"Mister Bashir, what a pleasure it is to finally meet you."

Julian, why in god's name would you invite him to play the villain?

[snakes-and-fluff]

I feel like people forget that there are different outcomes for voting Innocent too, that there're more ways to bring about a change than a Guilty vote. Because all I've been seeing is "Amane should've been Guilty!" and not pointing out that without the trigger pulls of voting Mahiru and Amane Guilty in T1, neither of them would be in this situation. Muu's Guilty was what caused Haruka's death but all I'm seeing is people saying they assumed his Guilty would save him. Innocent can change things as well!

...though I guess now it's too late.

[iheartjameshetfield]

he’s so fine i don’t know what to do with myself anymore

[666silco]

So I only JUST caught that Silco said “Her name is Jinx” muffled with the mask on as well in s1e9. I always thought it was not actually able to be heard, but listening to the episode with my headphones on I caught it. It was quick, not as aggressive, more matter of fact and bossy. Idk. It doesn’t really change much, but an interesting thing nonetheless

[lesbiancosmicowl]

there are So Many small lisa swain mannerisms and like. ways in which she moves around and interacts with the space and people around her that make me sooo curious abt how much of it is direction and how much of it is just. vicky myers being brilliant.

[sun-undone]

hey what the fuck i thought the poppy war was a super popular series where is all the fan content

i’m so spoiled with jjk and obx aren’t i

[pinayelf]

u guys know davrin is a character outside that damn bird right