#but the irony of it all is insane

[ickypuppi3]

“billy tried to hit the kids with his car”

that’s boring why don’t we talk about fred benson fully leaving another kid to die during that car crash

[dustykneed]

i just think spock has great mom friend potential tbh. strong contender for the cutest thing i've ever drawn

[shanksxbuggy]

So Shanks gave up his arm and hat for Luffy’s dream, and he left Uta so she could pursue her dream of being a singer. Now it’s revealed he even rejected Buggy’s dream. It’s starting to sound more and more like Shanks is a jaded character who gave up on dreams of his own, and only exists to uplift other people’s dreams.

But while Shanks cares about other people’s dreams, Buggy cares about Shanks’ dreams. Shanks may look at Luffy and see Roger, but Buggy doesn’t think of Roger when he looks at Luffy, he sees Shanks.

And then you ever think about how Buggy felt disappointed about not being able to match Shanks, but Shanks probably felt proud of his own strength - probably not because he wanted praise - but because he could protect Buggy better.

Shanks gave up seeing Raftel to take care of Buggy, after Roger’s execution he decided not to go after One Piece but he still wanted Buggy to sail with him.

Shanks treasures Buggy more than any dream, and Buggy hates him for that.

[hella1975]

i cannot stand the aot fandom this is not a new take at all they are universally intolerable but oh my dayssss u are FORBIDDEN from making ANY take about the show it's actually insane to watch. 'aot is perfect' no show is perfect. 'tell me you didnt get the show 😂🫵' people have different opinions/interpretations about things. 'eren is a good guy they could never make me hate him' i think there's actually 4 seasons and two movies explicitely using him as a tool to show that no one is 'good' or 'evil' they are only trying to survive. hello. the fandom r all so far up aot's ass that they actually discredit its writing in the process and it would be laughable if it wasn't so frustrating

[scourgebff]

absolutely love mothwing but the concept of mothstar is so utterly bleak to me.

she’s a cat who has already walked the path of a warrior to the point of being awarded her full name, and yet still yearned to be a healer in her heart. she was denied the post solely due to her heritage, not to be permitted unless starclan blessed her with a sign. it was not starclan who provided this holy signal but her brother, and despite the stress, guilt, and trickery which stemmed from the false omen she still finally got to be a healer as she had always dreamed. fully committed to her post, she was giving the practice her all despite everything and it shows. you could tell this was her true passion. when it got out she was not appointed by starclan, she was stripped of her title in an instant. it didn’t matter how loyal and dedicated and skilled she was, she’s just a faithless half-clan loner to them. always reduced back to being a warrior like a goddamn punishment. when she finally regained her post due to a genuine sign, it only lasted a few seasons before the kin and then the imposter took turns tearing riverclan apart. she was exiled, apparently not even fit to be a warrior this time although shadowclan thankfully took her in and let her work as their healer. still, all mothwing wanted to be was *riverclan’s healer.* that is literally all she wanted her entire life and she has had to fight every pawstep of the way to cling onto a role most cats overlook entirely in the first place.

and now she’s forced to leave it all behind once again with not even a moment to fully settle. temporarily sure, but if she returns and is made to become mothstar? once more giving up her passion for the good of riverclan, but this time it’s permanent. she’s already over eleven years old, and now with nine more lives she’ll be spending each and every one as a warrior. all the current cats in her clan will likely die before she does, and the ones which come in their place will only *ever* know mothstar, the warrior, the leader of riverclan. not mothwing, the healer, the thing she committed to through thick and thin when her dedication to the clan was called into near constant question over things out of her control. and when mothwing finally, FINALLY dies, it will be as mothstar. she will give the leader which succeeds her a life, that too will be as mothstar, a life bestowed for leadership and not for healing. but it never was about what she truly desires, only what others thought best.

this is just my opinion of course formed over all we know about her and the several arcs she’s featured in but dude. Dude.

[unionizedwizard]

poisoned book investigation update: i reached the part of queen margot that deals with the poisoned book and this only made me more convinced that this is indeed. what happened. back in 2010. because 1) i know my mother well and therefore know she would kin catherine de' medici (yes yes i know. i know. what can i say. she's insane. it's a family tradition) 2) in the novel, the book was poisoned by catherine herself (she conceived and carried out both the scheme and the execution herself), and meant to kill her political enemy and son-in-law (but ended up poisoning (and killing) her own son). the exact method of course would be unsuitable for my own mother to imitate as it is the exact same method used in the name of the rose (possibly where umberto eco got the inspiration from, actually?), therefore as i mentioned earlier impossible to recreate with the kind of paper my copy of the three musketeers was printed on. but. yeah. not that i had many doubts at this point anymore but this is really. convincing evidence. psychologically speaking.

like for the. catherine de' medici kin part:

my mother always loved her as a historical figure. we did visit a lot of historical castles and museums and all when i was a kid and she always had a marked preference for 1) the renaissance era and history 2) the medici family 3) catherine de' medici specifically. she admired her cunning and force of spirit and ambition and influence. #1 girlboss supporter (she did not support the. you know. religious massacres tho. she didn't think catherine was a great figure to emulate or whatever. but she admired her nonetheless)

as i've mentioned before, my mother has always been a wannabe italian. she's especially fond of the italian renaissance and in particular florence and its history. in the novel the fact catherine de' medici is florentine is a key part of her characterization

physically there seems to be a similarity? dumas doesn't actually describe his characters' appearance much, but from the few elements we get, it seems to fit (= pale, grey(?) eyes with a cold and cunning look, short and stout but pretty, white hands (that she takes great care of), short and stout (fat?) stature in general, blonde hair, small lips, imposing presence that makes other people immediately fall in line & scares them (she was very proud of that)). it's not much but knowing her she would jump to conclusions and want to really. Be Like Her

sorry i know how this sounds i KNOW you don't have to believe me but i swear this is all true. inherited insanity and all that. the true Drow Ass Family

[moonfruito]

there's some nightmare meta-commentary to be made about how genloss is about the unending carnival of performance that is the world of content creation and the horror of never being able to set yourself free of the scrutiny and control of an audience and company that trap and force you to create and perform for them unceasingly until you completely break, milking your very soul for entertainment, and ranboo still has not left the mall and every streamer is doing react streams to genloss and viewers are picking apart every detail of the show to speculate about the intricate psychology of the characters and their lives beyond the performance, and about how the incredible and likely completely unintentional irony of the show is that the specific online culture that it was brought into feeds directly into the relentless hunger for content that dominates both the specific climate of streamer audiences and the wider conditioning we suffer from on social media to constantly consume creativity and churn out our own reactions to it in hopes of garnering attention in an exact and disturbing recreation of the conditions dissected in the show itself but i will never sleep peacefully again if i spare another moment's thought to it.

[lemurblog]

The irony being Crimson would have left in the morning if Julien HAD married her. girl does not give a single fuk about being queen either. sure she enjoyed the perks, but in a "is it that sweet? i guess so" way

[henrysglock]

My big generalized no-thinking-needed litmus test for ships is this:

If you swapped the younger one to be a girl instead of a boy, would people call it predatory? If yes: then the younger one is too young.

For example:

Karen and Billy? Pushing 40, and barely 18. Make Karen a man and Billy a girl. Boom. Predatory. Karen being a "MILF" and Billy being a player doesn't make it not predatory, especially since they started flirting when Billy was 17. That would be seen as predatory were their genders swapped.

Karen is canonically an ephebophile. Their hookup plans being immediately followed by the intro to Billy's rape scene in Brimborn Steelworks is no accident. It's a commentary. Karen, had she chosen to go ahead with the hookup (which she only aborted because she remembered "oh yeah, this would destroy my family", mind you), would have been 3 months outside the range for catching a statutory rape charge. Billy's birthday is March 30th, all that happened around July 3rd or so. 3 months outside the range for statutory rape.

Ephebophile:

An adult with sexual interest in teenagers, ages 15-19

[Murray voice] That, my friends, is predatory behavior. It's only seen as "cool" because Billy is a boy instead of a girl, and statutory rape of boys is glorified in society as some kind of rite of passage/"bagging a MILF". Thus, having their hookup prep lead directly into a rape scene is a message that Hey, this isn't actually as okay as you've been conditioned to believe it is.

So lets extend this to, say...Hopper and Steve. 40 something, and 18 going on 19. That's a Karen-Billy situation right there. Remember what I just said about Karen and Billy? Being gay does not exempt it from that classification. And of course, swapping it to be an adult man pursuing a fresh-out-of-school 19 year old girl? Bam. Predatory without batting an eyelash over its classification as such.

So on and so forth with other ships.

[chansoooo1-blog]

Carmy reassuring Sydney that he won't let her "melt" and then ending up getting stuck in a fucking freezer??

[hollypies]

THE GRAMMAR GUEST SITUATION THING?? IM GOING INSANE

They. They said nothing of value WHAT. Way of making someone who has dyslexia anxious and worried about something they made for their own enjoyment I guess???

Yeah ???? I mean, if they're having fun??? Yippee???

Fr though, what 😭😭😭s??? I'm just tryna have fun leave me alone ... I cannot be the only one they've done this too as well

Like notice how they ask me not to tell the to 'stfu' and after I thanked them they got kinda surprised?? Who.. who else are you doing this too.

For anyone who doesn't know what I'm talking about !

Please note that while I was trying to be polite I was actively screaming into my pillow from discomfort. Also wow (Me) Guest really tore into them. I do agree with them tho, I did want to jump into a pool of acid

[pochapal]

I am also enjoying seeing you think something and going "this is going to pay off big time in like five years"

it's all about the long term gains over here on this umineko liveblog (read: i do not know what will/won't be relevant so i pay obsessive attention to every detail and hope at least some of what i am rotating in my mind sticks)

[fluentisonus]

I can't stop thinking about the way that all those descriptions of eponine & javert using the exact same phrases gives this last scene where he sees her body & says "it strikes me that I know that girl" the quality of someone looking at their own corpse

[wosol0ver]

I can’t believe arsenal is playing in the city where I live against my home team and I’m in London…

[beautifel]

i. hate that i cant ignore any longer how fucked up i am

[livvyofthelake]

sister’s boyfriend was in our high school’s. republican club. 😐 just btw…. about to humiliate this man to shreds in front of my cool democrat aunt next time i see him at her graduation party….