#everybody else can be anything

[yesiamprocrastinating]

nothing more horrifying than that one character you thought everyone agreed was a lesbian being shipped with a man.

[aroaceleovaldez]

i have suddenly become obsessed with a theme that HoO established but never proceeded to extrapolate on, which is:

You are Percy Jackson, and you have been swapped with a boy who was allegedly everyone's favorite person, but they have decided to replace him with you. They just met you. You stand next to his best friend and the people he's known his entire life. In his home. In his cloak. In his place. They stopped looking for him.

You are Jason Grace, and you have just found out you have a long lost sister who completely replaced you in her life with this girl you just met. Your lives and personalities are mirrors. She is you, living the life you were robbed of.

You are Annabeth Chase, and you have just become starkly aware that you have been inhabiting the void left behind by your best friend's long lost brother. You and Luke were just replacements for him. Now you have to look him in the eyes when he has nothing and know you took that life from him.

You are Piper McLean, and you have just found out your relationship is fake and built entirely on the memories of Annabeth Chase. You have been given a boyfriend when hers has been taken away. You have no idea how much of it is real or not but regardless you feel like if your relationship isn't exactly in their image that you have failed.

You are Leo Valdez, and you have just learned that you are the echo of your great-grandfather. You are not your own person. You just exist to be a mirror of him. A doppelganger. An actor and stunt double facing all the danger he never had to but wearing his face. To be there for his best friend decades later simply because he couldn't. You are playing a role. A seventh wheel and a pawn for a goddess who carefully sculpted your entire life for her own purposes.

You are Hazel Levesque, and the only reason you are alive is because your brother couldn't save your his sister. You are a consolation prize. An apology. Your existence here is misplaced in every way but you inhabit it anyways.

You are Frank Zhang, and you are a shapeshifter. Inhabiting your own body feels strange and clumsy when you could be literally anything at any time. You are anything and everything and live your life with the simple certainty of knowing exactly how you will die.

[sassypantsjaxon]

Thinking about how Luffy didn't want to be alone and so he went and made himself into a younger brother. How he went and formed these bonds with these two boys who really had no obligation to him, but they all loved each other so much anyway. How losing Sabo as a child shaped him and how he just refused to lose anyone else because of it. How he and Ace had no choice but to love each other more in Sabo's absence. How Luffy probably doesn't even know how many people Ace told about his kid brother, how many people knew he was coming because Ace told them first. How hard Luffy and Ace tried to hold onto each other. How much Luffy's love meant to a boy who felt unwanted. How when Sabo finally comes back to him he's afraid that his little brother will be angry with him but all Luffy can do is cry because it means he still has a brother.

Thinking about how being a brother is just something Franky is. Something he'll always be. Just like a shipwright. Just like Tom's disciple. How he can try to give those things up, but they'll always come back to him. How he became the big brother to the backstreets of Water 7 himself. How he wouldn't have fully understood how Iceberg felt believing he was dead for four years until CP9 told him they had killed his brother. How relieved he was to learn he was still alive. How he must have worried about Iceberg's reaction when he destroyed the blueprints but saved the woman they had been warned about. How freeing it must have been to finally hear his brother say he's forgiven.

Thinking about how Sanji is the only one who was born as a brother but he's the one it means the least to. How for him there was no safety in being a younger brother. How fighting with his brothers didn't come with the security of knowing his father would still love him anyway. How he would avoid thinking about Reiju because he knew she loved him but also that she only loved him as much as was safe. How he would see Luffy and Ace or Franky and Iceberg, and even knowing that his family is the abnormal one, he still can't help but wonder if it's really as simple as they make it seem. How even with his brothers never giving him anything but pain, he still can't do anything but save them.

Thinking about how after they were all back together in Sabaody, Iceberg is probably the first person Franky wants to know he's still alive versus Sanji's brothers being the last people he wants knowing anything about him versus Luffy not having a brother to tell anymore and I just-

[mysticalcats]

ok fellas this post is really different from my other stuff so i'm putting it under the cut for people who don't care and also because i'm slightly embarrassed

ok so. is it unusual for a girl to want to have a deep voice and a flat chest and a more square face and also feel slightly jealous of men and want to sound like them and look like them

and also is it unusual to want to be all that, but also simultaneously not be very bothered very much by how you look right now or by being referred to with she/her except for sometimes when you think about it too much. because i usually don't think about it except for sometimes where i suddenly just get really sad about being a girl or i'll always have this faint feeling that i am just unhappy about it

and also is it unusual to try to ignore it and go about your life being unbothered by it even though deep down it does kinda bother you but you can't really. like. say anything to anyone because your family won't react well and neither will your friends because they'll think it's weird and uncomfortable. i feel afraid to ever feel this way because i know the people in my life won't react well to it

so like. genuine question please lmk wtf is goin on because i'm unsure if it's normal and i've felt like this for a long time and it's confusing me and i don't even know what i'm going to do with the information once i know i'm just sort of lost LMAO

[jrueships]

r u the grew up poor never being able to buy the little things in life u always wanted as a kid so now u buy whatever little thing u want as an adult and struggle with saving for the big mandatory thing,

or the grew up poor never being able to buy the little things in life u always wanted as a kid so now u just never buy anything small bcs u had to learn to live without it and constantly try to save for the next big thing in 500 yrs

[scintillatingshortgirl19]

sjsksjkjs how am i just now noticing the fucking dead woman in a casket behind wilson. who is she

[alfhildr-the-word-weaver]

Today on "tumblr ads that I wish were rebloggable":

I'm not wildly fond of tumblr ads promoting weight loss all willy-nilly, but the theming of this one combined with the fact that I saw it on a blog that I first followed for Dracula Daily posting has me losing it. Lose weight how, pray tell, dear tumblr ad? Lose blood weight? Because someone's drinking it? Am I going to be running through Transylvania because there's a vampire chasing me?

[king-magppi]

The brainworms are so strong rn. Twin... Twin what happened...

[ssaalexblake]

dw is a mid kid's sci-fi tv show and it's quality level has been mostly entirely consistent (mid, basically, with the occasional very good episode to balance out with crimes against humanity it sometimes produces) the whole reboot, and anybody acting like the Only thing going into peoples opinions of the characters are writing preferences are either Deeply naive or are trying to hide something they know people will not take kindly to.

[xcziel]

has anybody else thought about how jk could easily manage sofia's parts of slow dance or is it just me?

[lordelmelloi2]

🥲

[ripgray-moved]

it's the way i just want people to love and be invested in peter after all the hard work i've put in him tbh.

[rawliverandgoronspice]

regarding common tropes about ganon's writing in fics, I am kind of always taken aback a little anytime ganondorf uses degrading sexist terms in fics and such. Because to me, even his most evil interpretations would probably have no reason to have negative associations with women who have sex a lot, unless he picked it up from elsewhere (like there's some room for it to be interesting psychologically speaking if that's directly addressed, but it never is). I'm not sure why the gerudos would ever cultivate these kind of misogynistic ideas in their own culture, or why Ganondorf would spontaneously decide to form any essentialist ideas he may potentially develop on the basis of promiscuity, of all things. And, if he would pick that up from Hyrule... why would he, why this, and how does that map out with him remaining proudly gerudo in most iterations if he sees any non-married woman getting funky in a negative way?

it's kind of a very small thing, but it does kind of beckons a lot of questions regarding worldbuilding and psychology and it tends to take me out of fics a little, because it's always kind of assumed and never investigated

[fromtheseventhhell]

I've noticed that Stansas take criticisms towards themselves as "hate" towards Sansa, they're really never beating the self-insert allegations 😭

[lab-gr0wn-lambs]

Arcane peaked at episode 3 I can't lie

[heartbeetz]

Also while going through Anton's voice files I realized there was like. Well. Why does that part of that one sound. Like that.