#disappointing but understandable

[kangaracha]

wips list which is now my monthly ritual

nevermore (140/300k)

queenmaker (16 chapters plotted)

lyre lyre

FNF (8/10k)

what the water brought (20/50k)

boxer!minho? dlc? something

sick fic

the gone and the gathered ch 3&4

valleys (66/100k)

tgbyb ch 4

tgbyb ch 5

tsotl end part 1

darling don't wake up x4

goldmine goldmine (landmine) (5/40k)

soul is yours to keep/zelda fic

draculas

heart rewrite (2/50k)

where the river bends

rabbithole/angel/the stars in your eyes

all that is good/holy

[angelofdumpsterfires]

how i feel about all the changes in s3

[forzafinally]

No because, Art is a mediocre tennis player with 6 grand slams who knows that at some level he has only got them because Tashi has pushed him and coached him to that level of excellence. At the same time he feels responsible for living a career for both of them while knowing that if Patrick hadn't fucked things up he wouldn't have ever achieved what he did.Patrick has oodles of talent but has to deal with the fact that despite winning Tashi fairly he lost her due to his pride. You know he's thinking that 'if she was my coach I would have double the number of grand slams that Art does'. But if Tashi hadn't had that injury that day would either of them even have had the chance to have her as their coach? No. Both he and Art would have faded into mediocrity but probably remained friends despite it all. And don't get me started on Tashi. She knows that if it wasn't for her injury she would have probably won 15 grand slams by now and would never have considered stopping but she's reduced to just being the wife! Just being the coach! Just being content with being a hot girl who will be won by the guy who plays the best tennis!! And she has to somehow make herself feel okay with that. So no. She can't genuinely be okay with Art stopping but at the end of the day it's not her decision to make because he's the professional tennis player not her. It's not just about one of them winning or the sacrifice it takes. It's about disappointment, bitterness, the underlying inferiority complex, being manipulative enough to achieve your goals through different means and the inherent homoeroticism of having a best friend from the age of 12 who is the only one worth beating for you after playing 13 years of tennis. Anyway I'm chewing on glass rn. Challengers you'll always be famous

[spitedemon]

i really don’t think it’s “typical dragon age fandom nonsense” for people to be genuinely upset about the world state choices. combat, level design, art direction, gameplay gimmicks, those have all varied across each dragon age game. the one thing that’s remained constant are nods to our previous choices.

i wasn’t expecting my HoF to come riding in on a griffon, but i can’t find a monument dedicated to warden tabris somewhere around the anderfels? lucanis couldn’t have some lines about the time that one arainai boy was stirring up trouble in antiva city? you’re gonna tell me that making a mage the new divine wouldn’t have some impact on nevarra and antiva? on the anderfels, the supposed most devout militant andrastian nation in thedas? you’re saying nobody in the north is paying attention to who rules orlais or ferelden? come on.

[tvuniverse]

the eddie kissing buck first propaganda needs to be stopped at all cost ✋I know i know, i'm probably going to be taken out back and shot several times BUT hear me out:

buck needs to get off that squeaky spinning wheel and for that he needs to be the one initiating Something -either love confession or kiss or both i'm not picky- because as my good friend Bobby (#rip) said he's always been the one going with the flow and not knowing how he even got into a relationship in the first place so him breaking that pattern is essential to his own personal growth. he hasn't initiated a first kiss on screen a single time. he's always been either caught by surprise (taylor and tommy), or been asked out on a date without necessarily expecting it (ali and natalia), and even his first date with abby mostly happened because of external pressure (hen and athena cornering them), and she ended up being the one to kiss him first later on.

and for eddie it's the opposite, he's always been the one initating pretty much everything with his love interests: calling shannon in the first place and then kissing her first, asking ana and marisol out on a date. He's always had to make that choice for himself, and buck pretty much jumped any time someone showed interest in him and only started considering his own feelings when things started to get rocky in his relationships. So them actually switching that because buck is that sure of his feelings for the first time, oh that would be so juicy, so good, so delicious.

anyway this is not me starting discourse ❌ because i hate that but just me officially campaigning (at the very last minute) for buck initiating the love confession and/or their first kiss. thank you for your consideration 🙏

[xvxblahhhxvx]

Is it just me, but I feel like the fandom sort of romanticizes Dazai and Oda's relationship.

And I don't mean make it appear romantic, I mean that, while I absolutely adore their relationship as well, it often feels like they turn it into something it's not, where Oda is sorta just the dead friend, and Dazai's always trying to do good "for Odasaku," and that Odasaku would tell Dazai off for being mean, for not doing a good job, and even that he would mildly judge Dazai for certain things, like his treatment of Akutagawa, and ask for him to be better.

But it's just...not?

Like, Odasaku is probably the least judgemental person on this planet, he thinks Dazai's knows what he's doing, as stated in that conversation they had about Akutagawa, and he wouldn't judge him or tell him he's doing a bad job. He would just do it differently himself. Dazai didn't join the good side "for" Odasaku, one of the biggest misconceptions in the fandom. He left the Mafia for himself, taking the advice that Oda gave him, so that he could lesson his suffering just a little, and live just a little more beautifully. It's stated that this is selfish with Odasaku's last words "man lives to save himself." Dazai wants a better life for himself, and obviously he's grateful to Odasaku for that and cherishes him and misses him and all that stuff, but he isn't doing it for him, he's doing it because of him.

tl;dr: Odasaku wouldn't judge Dazai for anything, he doesn't want him to be a good person for morality's sake, but for his own sake, and Dazai left the mafia for that purpose as well. It was selfish. And that's ok.

[booksandpaperss]

tbh i think that scene is less about atsushi “learning the truth abt dazai” and much more about him finally being able to acknowledge how much of himself he sees in akutagawa without the mental block of his warped perception of dazai. and even then i don’t see this seriously impacting atsushi’s relationship with dazai like this is about his relationship with aku

[itsclydebitches]

In the serials I watch, when somebody comes and saves the day people cheer and clap hands and hug. But these clients didn't seem to be relieved, or grateful.

Something something Murderbot's trauma response/confusion over emotions means it struggles to find satisfaction in any outcome. You already DID save the day against the hostile fauna and the whole group DID cheer for you and they CLAPPED for you (twice!) and Ratthi wanted to HUG you and they verbally expressed their RELIEF at their safety and their GRATITUDE for you saving them... and you hated that response too :(

[idolomantises]

Anyways, I know its my account and I can do what I want, but I do apologize if this is is upsetting to anyone and I do swear this is the last of me discussing this deranged fandom (at least over here).

I really wasn't planning on saying anything about that whole discourse, but as a survivor myself who has dealt with fans invalidating my own trauma because i said Hazbin having a rape joke was both in poor taste and hurts the themes of the show, I really couldn't help but feel genuine anger.

It's just not acceptable. Behaving like this is not acceptable. But it's also not worth my energy.

[lesbians4armand]

my worst trait is that softblocking does not work on me because i literally do not notice. and if i notice im not following someone i thought i was i literally just follow them again because i thought i forgot so PLEASE if i have done something to upset you or you don’t want me following you anymore pls pls just block me. its okayyyy

[myrmica]

so it was possible...

[dirty-bosmer]

Sonny's flames part II: Ew(sorry)

help XD

[vaguely-concerned]

whenever lucanis' reaction to The Horrors TM going down is just to sound incongruously, wonderfully, hilariously mildly peeved. you understand

[lesiasmadness]

They needed a cat's info on some mystery

[drmelking]

In today’s media landscape where everything is always about big shocking reveals with little to no narrative set up or follow through, going with the most obvious route and actually making Langdon have an addiction problem was the most subversive choice they could make imo. And to me the fact that there is so much outrage is evidence of that. It was the obvious answer all along and was right in front of us the entire time, and yet most of us still didn’t see it coming. Because Langdon is a kind, charming guy and he’s likable and put together and highly competent and we didn’t want it to be him. From the get-go this show has been asking the characters and the audience to examine their internal biases, and now we are all being forced to whether we like it or not. And as disappointing as it all is character wise, in hindsight I think any other resolution to this storyline would have felt like a cop out.

[lightgamble]

DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN | 1.01

I refuse to believe that a tragedy had to destroy everything. But it did.