#does that make sense? idk

[tenderjock]

hmm. even better than "obi-wan was cody's whole life before o66" is "cody had a tentatively blooming life outside the gar, had non-clone and even non-jedi friends, had hope and plans for the future, and the combination of the trauma of being mind-controlled to do endless battle by a person who saw him and his command as fleshdroids and also being forced to attempt to murder the man he loved and respected and swore to protect caused him to mentally and emotionally regress by fucking years"

[mysterycitrus]

What do you think of people saying Tim should be Nightwing after Dick

controversial take — i think the only person who should be nightwing after dick is chris kent. robin is a mantle that was never supposed to be a mantle, and was transformed from dick’s family legacy to something else beyond his control. i don’t think his different aliases should be a testing ground for successive heroes. it’s boring. come up with some new ideas

tim has like….. terminal copycat syndrome. the only two original ideas he’s come up with are mr sarcastic and drake (derogatory). narratively, he desperately needs a win. leaving robin behind was an important part of his character arc, and now we’re stuck in the limbo of dc being too afraid to turn him eighteen, and too pussy shit to do anything remotely interesting. let him be rook! or cardinal! let him go to college and kiss boys! the yj generation growing up to create their own identities would be good storytelling and distinguish them from the titans

damian shouldn’t be nightwing either for the same reason as he shouldn’t be batman— an important part of his character is a rejection of fate and destiny, and the forging of one’s own path. he should become his own thing, his own person! we must shed the need to make every batman character step into the boots of another. he also shouldn’t be flamebird btw.

[foxstens]

'he wasn't sorry but he didn't know how to live without kevin'

that's so fucking interesting you don't understand. kevin did not have a good time in his first few months at psu, or throughout the entire year actually, but he latched onto andrew and then neil so hard, even if the foxes weren't particularly nice to him they still probably helped keep him afloat mentally.

jean became riko's official partner after but he had a longer leash than kevin and he still slept in his own room. riko left kevin's side of the room untouched. riko slept alone the entire year. when was the last time he slept alone, woke up alone, did anything at all without kevin by his side. a decade ago?

but he wasn't sorry, because in that moment he saw kevin as a threat and this is what happens when you defy a moriyama. and the ravens turned on kevin instead, because of course they did. so he wasn't sorry but he still wanted kevin to come back, he wanted kevin to watch from the sidelines as riko lived out their dreams because he still couldn't imagine a future without kevin there in some capacity. he very nearly destroyed kevin to keep his status as 'number 1' (because who is he when he's not number 1) but at the same time he couldn't give up on kevin. and that ended up being his downfall, because between his obsession with riko and his need to be the best, kevin chose the latter, somehow.

[moongothic]

If being weak is a "sin" in Crocodile's mind, then isn't a painful defeat and maybe even death rightful punishment for it? A punishment you deserve for your crime of "being weak"? That's an intriguing mindset from him because it makes me wonder how Crocodile might view his own past and the things he has gone through? I might not go as far as to say Crocodile "blames himself" for the things he's gone through, as he doesn't seem like the kind of guy who dwells on the past like that. But I do feel like Crocodile has accepted in his mind that things like losing his hand happened because he was weak, and it was his own fault. That he can not blame anyone else for what has happened to him. He fucked around and he found out.

It's just interesting because to some degree, One Piece thematically does agree with this sentiment, this is a world where the strong eat the weak. (One example at the top of my head; Luffy refusing Katakuri's apology when his sister intervened with their battle, saying he should've dodged the attack properly if he didn't want to get hit.) Chaka falling in this scene and being unable to stop Crocodile may lead to the deaths of so many more, including his loved ones, and if that comes to pass, it's is Chaka's own fault. For being too weak. But also Crocodile has twisted that idea; Crocodile is using his worldview here to justify himself and essentially saying he can do this (take over Alabasta and kill a million innocents doing so) and get away with it because he's powerful. When in reality "weakness is a sin" isn't about the survival of the fittest, but how this is a world where the strong are meant to protect the weak. (See: Luffy) (Also how Pell told Baby Vivi in that flashback about how he trains so he can protect the Royal Family; again, he he craves power not to oppress the weak but to protect them)

But, just to get back to Crocodile again, I feel like this worldview might also give us more insight as to how he acts in certain situations post-Alabasta. Like when we see Crocodile towards the end of Miss Goldenweek's cover story, both when he declines to escape from jail and in his Impel Down mugshot, Crocodile has a smile on his face. That really is the face of a man who has accepted his fate, is it not?

"Welp, this is what I get for losing to a child in flipflops"

Or when we see him come collect his debt from Buggy; Crocodile seemed quite relaxed and fully admitted he had assumed Buggy would've ran away before he even got there to collect his money. Of course, considdering his trust issues Crocodile would've been mentally prepared for Buggy skedaddling anyways, but the fact that he loaned the clown money to begin with while assuming he'd probably never get that money back-- like Crocodile knew that was going to happen and he just accepted it. And just rolled with it.

Of course, when things take an Unpleasant, Unexpected Turn, he will blow a fuse. Multiple, even.

Him angy

IDK man this is all just interesting to me

[adoringsentiment]

idk if any of you know/remember the band The Veronicas but I just made up a version of the song Untouched and called it Unbooped

[draklorn]

hit the slay button

[heedra]

sometimes the human experience for me feels like im a bottle of something from concentrate and when i spend too long sealed up inside myself it gets cloying and hard to bear but when i spend time with other ppl and we dilute ourselves among each other im drinking more deeply of both them and myself

[dashiellqvverty]

so evil that i can't find a single gifset of them in this episode at least not from searching the episode number like i usually do

[milfzatannaz]

If anyone wants to know how I get that subtle luminous skin in my artwork: I start with a cool toned base skin, with low opacity and preferably with lavender or bluish undertones. Then I build up the dimension with progressively warmer layers. I never use the blend tool, it looks too smooth. I instead take a low opacity marker brush and color in section by section till I have a cohesive look. The trick to make warm and lit from within skin is to let that cool base layer still peel through and to add lots of semi opaque layers on top.

[myfriendfaust]

Told someone that I draw in uni twelve hours a day five days a week and they were so in shock about it. :| Then I told them that I draw to relax when I get home and I think they were thinking of strangling me lmaoo

[b-rainlet]

helaegon anon back,

imagine burned aegon bursting into helaena’s chambers and trying to have sex with her but she is just mumbling about jahaerys and he cannot get a hard on bc his PP is burned to crisp it would be so funny but tragic at the same time

on the serious note, when the book mentioned how after jahaerys’ death helagon slept separately, in my little delusional mind I imagine he actively tried to reconcile their marriage and did not blame helaena at all. he probably showed the more affection and understanding he had ever shown her but it was too late because she was no longer receptive to his comforting touch and gentle words

this further enraged aegon and made his resolve to burn rhaenyra into a KFC bacon even stronger.

the end.

Probably cringe but everytime I think about Helaegon after b&c all I can think of is 'It's Quiet Uptown' by Hamilton.

Look at where we are Look at where we started I know I don't deserve you, Eliza But hear me out, that would be enough

If I could spare his life If I could trade his life for mine He'd be standing here right now And you would smile And that would be enough

I don't pretend to know the challenges we're facing I know there's no replacing what we've lost And you need time

But I'm not afraid I know who I married Just let me stay here by your side That would be enough

You're right, Aegon probably tried to be as comforting as possible, even if he doesn't really know how and it's rather awkward but he tries.

He probably even takes Alicent by surprise because even though Helaena is 'useless' now as a wife (unwilling to have sex with him, unresponsive, strictly against even thinking about having another child, unable to attend banquets and what not and put on a strong front) he still visits her or asks Alicent how she's doing and seems genuinely upset at the state Helaena is in because even if he lost her as his wife that's still his sister. And they will never stop being siblings.

[mysterycitrus]

kon + clark and dick + bruce fathersonisms are so much more interesting when u remove them from a static nuclear family angle — like this child appears who is experiencing so much grief for the first time in his life and u see urself in him and it’s confronting and painful and u learn to love them dearly but maybe that still isn’t enough. he’s not ur son and ur not his father. but also u are. but also u aren’t.

[doll-days]

I feel like if I say I’m not a fan of Purly or I say I ship Sodapop/Marcia (in a lesbian way), people are going to look at me like that one meme where white girls holding red solo cups are looking at the camera disgusted.

Yet, I’m still admitting it in this post, so clearly something is wrong with me. /lhj

[olivers-cocoapuffs]

idk I think it’s more the fact that the NT voted no even though pretty much everywhere except Darwin voted yes bc our population is that disproportionate

[pamesjatterson]

i have a habit of saying I "wasn't really a fan" of things because I never actually played the games. like yeah I watched two people play undertale and was obsessed with undertale the musical, but since I never actually played the game I don't call myself a fan. same with fnaf, I bought all the little guidebooks and read all the books and loved the fan-songs, but since I never actually played any fnaf game, I don't count myself as a fan of it

[daz4i]

going insane today over how doa dazai seems so make so much sense on a surface level but not when you dig just a little deeper