#daily defense

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[dragon-hoard]

idk I find quite often with people interacting with wild animals you do kinda have to be the 'fun police' as an advocate on behalf of the wild animal

[bocchidaily]

Bocchi Balloon

Day 257: (*ducktales moon theme plays*)

[quinceys-levis]

[milkibana]

Earth Defense Pal Ney-Kun

[grumpyghostdoodles]

Poor Peepaw Starlo. They grow up so quickly.

[spitinsideme]

hello this is obama can they play monopoly

i do not know how monopoly works .. confusong ass gamd BUT !!! they can absolutely play uno ❤️❤️ the demmon girls are obviously cheating demo ragayba keeps on feedi g ber cards to demon pomni !(they have zero idea how to play, the nuns do nor knlw thwyre managing to win)

[loveisinthebat]

Defense Position

[briebysabs]

Lu Guang is a hypocrite and that’s okay (great even)

I must stand ten toes for this man because I’m noticing the slander that went on in September and I cannot allow it. I know I’m six months late but just bear with me. We are introduced to Lu Guang as a rational, stoic, sort of wise protagonist. The brains of the operation if you will (although Cheng is clever in his own right but that’s a whole other discussion). Qiao Ling and Captain Xiao describe him as more mature. Shiguang’s relationship is strong but it’s structured, especially for their work, to where Cheng has to depend on Lu Guang. Should only do as he says and not do anything impulsive.

And it gets to a point where Cheng doesn’t know what to do without him and when LG isn’t there he relies on his past words to guide him. The thing is, we’ve seen that CXS can come up with great plans and make good decisions without Lu Guang’s voice in his head. Like how he caught Min Liu or planning how save Lu Guang from Li Tianchen. But the story has built LG up so much to be a reliable character so it can’t be untrue. But then the s2 finale happens, Cheng gets shot and Lu Guang loses his mind.

And then the ending basically tells you that he’s been winging it and gambling this whole time. Experimenting with god knows how many timelines, simply using his knowledge from the previous one to see if he’ll get lucky this time. Lu Guang has been playing a crane game. So in a story that is all about mistakes, guilt and regrets. Of showing the imperfections of people. Of showing the struggles of moving forward, of being satisfied with the present. Of sacrificing your sanity, your voice, your desires, and happiness for the people you love. How is this bad writing?

Link click has been tricking the audience to believe Lu Guang is an infallible character.

But Link Click was never about perfect people.

What he’s trying to do is no different from Li Tianchen, one of our antagonists. And I love CXS to fucking pieces but this show raises the question of a life’s value. LG is trying to save Cheng and so refuses to change the past for anyone else. Bc it may alter things and doom CXS in the process and ruin all he’s worked towards. But then you ask yourself, is CXS’s life worth more than the twins' mother? Is it worth more than Chen’s mother? Is it worth more than Emma?

It doesn’t matter because it is to Lu Guang. It’s like the question if your sibling and a mailman are trapped in a burning building but you can only try to save one. Unless they’re the absolute scum of the earth, chances are and possibly even despite that, you’re going to pick your sibling. That don’t mean it’s objectively more valuable than the mailman or you didn’t have sympathy for that person, they have loved ones, hopes and joys too. “Lu Guang is a hypocrite, selfish, unreliable, and a liar” yes he is. Because there is something called ‘flawed characters’. It’s okay for your protagonist to not be the best person. It’s okay to write a protagonist whose trauma has defined some of their actions.

If you’ve been forced to have someone you love die in your arms over and over, why is it surprising that you would lie to them? How is it surprising that you’d try to keep secrets? That you’d set things up to be in a position to control the situation? That’ll force you to plan better so maybe, just maybe things will be different? You think Lu Guang lacks self awareness and doesn’t know what this makes him? Of all things you can call LG, he’s not delusional. He knows the weight of his actions.

Link Click has and always will be a story about people. Where our emotions and choices take us. Lu Guang isn’t a robot so why would he be an exception?

Plus everyone should’ve been knew Lu Guang was sus anyway. Idk how that’s mischaracterization, there’s proof of him lying and keeping secrets from CXS in s1. It doesn’t ruin anything it recontextualizes what we were shown back then.

[nitewrighter]

Because all the drama with Lois, Clark ends up developing a much stricter but more flexible practice with concealing his secret identity from the rest of the Daily Planet. This mostly boils down to "Don't gaslight people" and "Just maintain that Superman doesn't have a secret identity and 99% of the time you can just gently nudge people to their own conclusions with regards to you." But he has like, one vice with regards to secret identity shenanigans and that's fucking with Steve Lombard whenever he gets asked what his workout routine is. Steve has been asking for years and Clark has never given him the same answer.

"Just the expert-recommended 150 minutes of mild aerobic activity and/or 70 minutes of intense aerobic activity a week!"

"You know that group of seniors who do Tai Chi in the park?"

"Tractor tires. Mine actually came off of our old tractor back in Smallville! I don't like the ones at the gym. Not enough.. um... dirt. How many squat reps? Uhhh.... 12?"

"BugFit? On the KordTech BugStation? You have these wands that you wave around but there's also this little platform that you step on and--? Oh I don't have the console, myself. I use Jimmy's."

"Pole dancing. Lois's idea."

And Steve is always that weird brand of macho-affable about it, like "Ahh you got me again, Kent! But I'll figure it out one of these days! I didn't spend 4 weeks painstakingly comparing the training regimens of the entire Metropolis Meteors team not to figure yours out!"

And in private this is fucking haunting Steve because he knows guys that wake up at 4 am 5 days a week to gun for the kind of lats Clark 'Ope' Kent has. He also knows it's not steroids because he's tracked down enough stories of that nature and knows Clark well enough to know that's really not in the realm of what's going on here. And here's Clark adjusting his stupid fucking glasses and saying with a perfectly straight face that he has that body from fucking pilates.

[saltiestgempearl]

I do wonder how many of the "Jonathan is so dumb" people would genuinely call their employer and say "Sorry, I need to leave the country immediately because I think our client is some kind of supernatural monster. No seriously the Catholics seemed really worried." Like, would any of you actually do that in real life?

No, you wouldn't. You'd go do your job anyway because you and your fiancé need the money, and you'd cope by making "if I don't make it out alive..." half-jokes on your blog.

The only difference is that Jonathan has a journal.

[ariastarke]

You want SJM to write another book about training to fight because you can’t comprehend a female character being badass and having agency unless she holds a sword.

I want SJM to write a book about Elain training to be a spy because it plays on themes of everyone underestimating her, her powers as a seer, claiming agency in the NC, becoming a hidden weapon, and still maintaining the roots of her character.

We are not the same.

[pinkysberg]

"abigail expects too much of john. he didn't have a good example of parents, of course he struggles."

remind me when exactly abigail was given a shining example of how to be a mother? did i miss something? last i checked she, just like john, was an orphan with no example or experience. she certainly managed, so why is it that she owes john endless amounts of patience while he deliberately chooses not to?

[firethekitty]

post-canon vashwood that can’t keep their hands off each other. post-canon vashwood that follow each other around like shadows, to the point where people will ask where the other is if they’re alone. post-canon vashwood who are constantly hugging and prefer each other’s laps to a chair because they are not going to lose each other again. do you get what i’m saying

[karizipan]

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[dailydegurechaff]

Today's Daily Degurechaff is… reallllly losing track of time