#but i understand the need to shock

[l3irdl3rain]

save me senior cat on petfinder, save me

[thedeathdeelers]

Love Game in Eastern Fantasy 1.20 (2024)

[divineandmajesticinone]

4 MINUTES (2024) I 1.03

[lupamoe]

It's always "haha ruby loves her brother thats incest"

but never "ruby lacks any emotional love and support in her entire life as a bed-ridden kid and skipped the emotional developmental stages of her childhood so she dosen't know whats normal or disgusting, likewise, this makes her like gorou. it's a sign that she will cling desperately to anyone who cares for her the slightest because ruby's 'love for her doctor' is a coping mechanism formed to forget and shield everything she's been through and because she has no options. this makes her genuinely not know the difference between platonic and romantic love as she has never experienced either in her miserable life."

[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

[nyxi-pixie]

actually incredibly funny to me that ranpos entire thing centres on how his intelligence is not because of an ability or any other great thing, its just him. hes entirely, completely, inarguably human. and Yet, when it comes to dazai, so many people are Desperate that there just Has to be another explanation. his intelligence cant just be that hes unusual, no it must be a marker of separation, of difference so great it disallows the reality of his humanity.

[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.

[leifyposting]

it’s 1am and i’m supposed to be asleep but instead i am here on tumblr to tell you that this:

IS A CRIME

this is a CRIME i say!!

what do you MEAN there is no established “kaeya is protective of jean” tag?? that’s their whole dynamic!

who was it who took over her duties when she was sick? who was it who stepped up as acting acting grand master when she was on vacation? who was it who told the traveler to give her their full support? he looks out for her in every way he can!

like i understand kaeya is a little baby boy. i get it. he is my baby boy as well and i love to make people protective of him. but c’mon team at some point we need to let jean get woobified as well

thank you for coming to my ted talk now i’m off to write kaeya being protective of jean

[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.

[littleluscinia]

aitsf spoilers

when Manaka was revealed to be Iris's biological mother my immediate thought was that Hitomi was transgender. Not that Iris was adopted. I thought "no, Hitomi Sagan is a transgender woman and Manaka carried the child." I eviscerated So Sejima in my mind. His DNA ceased to exist. Completely and utterly gone in favor of doomed yuri.

[themosscycle]

I don’t like very much to involve myself in shipping discourse but… The negative discourse about Suselle by some Krusie shippers is driving me SO insane.

Why can’t Susie have both?

I don’t think that Noelle matters the situationship between Susie and Kris if that doesn’t get in between the two of them, and I feel Kris feel the same… like I can’t tell yet and I haven’t seen the final part of chapter 4 but like… my vibe is that Kris and Susie are like a queerplatonic thing and they wouldn’t mind Noelle being there is Susie is happy.

I feel Toby is making them as two kind of relationships that wouldn’t hurt the other, and the conflict that is being surfacing about Krusie is Susie not being able to discern which part of Kris is them and which part is the soul.

[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.

[moeblob]

Hima and Wari (kitsune twins) and their very shy tanuki friend and coworker.

[butchreyes]

posting this on my lone star sideblog because i have to complain about og in secret…. i am seeing a degree of insanity the likes of which i have never seen. peter krause is the executive producer of this show and literally said that he wanted his character to die last year. this did not happen because tim hates you and is a horrible writer and is ruining the show that he created. i promise you peter krause wanted to leave.

[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.

[twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat]

cult leader geto and his hissy cat u will soon be real