#for organizational sake

[sporkberries]

Msf as a whole but also kaz specifically are the first victims of the cult leader big boss eventually becomes. The monster he is in mg2.

The majority of the soldiers kaz included are people he kidnapped. People who now hinge on his every word and would die for him. Just because kaz is also his accountant wife doesnt make him any less of a victim or follower of BB. Kaz can call it a partnership all he wants that doesn’t make it the truth, their relationship is not and never has been equal.

Kaz doesnt go against BB because he snaps out of his trance and realized how wrong everything is, how crazy his plans are. He does it because he felt personally betrayed. And that pride is the very reason BB betrayed him in TPP. There is no room for autonomy in his heaven. Its ironic, given the whole point of the bosses dream in the first place.

[rosemaryyuri]

roachstuck

[nebuladreamz]

Saw the trend on twitter about doing this with irl vs persona. And I do like my Perfect Blue sooooo <33

Bloodless ver and reference under the cut!

[hulloitsdani]

A lovely set of suggestions thank you very much

[fortanuvasyama]

#THEY DID WHAT TO JASON?????#ALSO IF ROSE HAD TO RESUCITATE HIM IT MEANS HE DIED BC OF WHAT BRUCE DID????#omg

@crepus i spotted your tags and had to say something lol

the answer is... maybe??? idk what Jason would have done if he was brought into the fight under different circumstances, but he did choose to work with Joker B of his own free will (and agreed pretty quickly, though that might be more because the [supposed] plan was to kill Joker A) (and also bc Joker B has decided he's not the Joker after all and that he needs to kill Joker A after which I guess Joker B would... die? kill himself? i think? idk man) and he actually set up a distraction with Rose to prevent Bruce from interfering (bc I'd imagine Bruce wouldn't want him to kill Joker A 😒)

(side note: lost my shit laughing here at the entourage of actual bats following the batmobile)

(btw that kid with Rose up there ^ was part of Joker B's group and Jason had the condition that the kid be uninvolved if Joker B wanted Jason's help)

(that's why Rose has the kid with her, so Batman can help the kid)

ANYWAYS so Jason is at the fight because he wants to be/he has a chance to kill a Joker/Joker B gassed him into not being paralyzed by fear, so depending on which motivation you think is right then one could argue that it's Bruce's fault he's involved.

BUT ANWAYS.... the set-up here is: Joker B is driving a train that will (unbeknownst to Jason) crash into Gotham and cause a big boom. It's a trap to lure in Joker A - who wants to kill Joker B because there must only be one Joker, blah blah - and Joker A comes swooping in on a dirigible/blimp (filled with bombs) to blow up the train.

A big fight between them and the henchmen ensues, Jason gets Joker A at gunpoint, and then Joker B reveals the true plan, and Jason gets booted out of the conductor's car.

(btw i'm omitting panels that are unnecessary to my narration, there's more in-between chatter that makes the story flow better)

so Jason decides to go for the blimp and steals Killer Moth's suit-wings-jetpack-thing (no idea what it really is) to get there, and hijacks the blimp. He tries to call for Batgirl (Stephanie atm) and gets Batman instead, and outright tells Bruce that he chose to do this, and also that they need to stop the gas in the train and the bombs in the blimp somehow. But there's no way to do either in a way where the gas won't blow into the city anyway...

And so Jason's solution is...

a big explosion that eats up the gas with the bombs in the blimp.

(genuinely a miracle he's not dead just from that lmao)

And there's an argument to be made that, uh, Jason... drowned. And was dead. For a pretty solid amount of time.

and Rose resuscitates him!

Rose is a miracle-worker apparently lol

A N Y W A Y S the point is, yeah Bruce could be held responsible for part of this if you look at it a certain way. I definitely think Jason's plan of blowing up the ship he was on by crashing into something in order to save people is very reminiscent of a certain other time.....

.....yep.

[bagea]

needless to say. i am in love with him,

[beesgav]

Drew a bunch of characters @ecruteakfreak likes from memory

[supercantaloupe]

there was this trend in 2010s musicals (especially those popular with/aimed at teens) to have a character be haunted by the ghost of another deceased character, wherein that ghost walks around and talks and interacts with the protagonist as if they were a normal person but they are (relatively) explicitly Not Real within the larger diegesis and cannot be perceived by other characters or interact directly with the world themselves. think connor in dear evan hansen, heather chandler in (the latter two thirds of) heathers, gabe in next to normal. (by a stretch of the imagination i think you could consider the squip in be more chill as fulfilling a similar role).

anyway not to 2017 broadway fandomize a 200 year old opera, but that with the don and leporello. like obviously an abuser like the don would have a lasting impact on an abuse victim like leporello psychologically and socially for a long time (perhaps ever). but now i'm imagining the don literally following leporello around for years, possibly for the rest of his life, haunting him. both fully aware the don's dead and not real and can't control anything anymore of course but still present in leporello's life and mind, walking about and talking but audible and visible to no one else, inseparable and inescapable

[fiery-is-in-pain]

just so everyone knows the reason I have done 0 art and suddenly stopped w the ask blog after saying I'd start it up again is because I somehow fucked up my jaw and now I have a jaw disorder and i haven't been able to eat properly for over a week and even talking hurts like a bitch which means every moment of my life is misery because I am CURSED. anyway once it goes away we will be back on track🙏🙏🙏💯💯💯🗣🗣🗣💪💪💪🔥🔥🔥

[asthe-crow-flies]

naturalness/unnaturalness in Lolina: Origins by R L Hughes

i could write a whole essay about this, but its almost finals, so this is what you're getting

[violentlydefending]

i'm just gonna say it. i do not care about the possibility for an aa7 especially if it keeps going in the direction established by 5 & 6. give me another shu takumi spinoff (a la the great ace attorney) or give me a professor layton vs phoenix wright sequel or give me nothing at all.

[floralpowders]

has anyone written any natasha x readers out there?? the search is so crap that i just wind up getting mar//vel and x - x no...

but i would love to see maybe an imagine about natasha surprising the reader with a handmade doll for them

[pumaskulls]

*Borderlands!AUs my own OCs instead of actually finishing up their refs*

[dazzlerazz]

My idea was that Ashe and Shez had met as 10 year olds when Shez's then mercenary band came trutting into Gaspard territory looking for work

Shez had been sort of alienated from the rest of his village after his adoptive mom passed (this is because Shez doesn't seem to ever mention that any other villagers of that mountain village seemed to adopt or help him in any way after her death) so he stowed away with some merchants or mercenaries who passed through town

Berling does say that she "plucked Shez from a mountain village" which could mean that Shez in canon was actually sorta jointly-raised by all the adults in the village but was mostly on his own and when he was about 16-17 ish he was picked up by Berling's mercenaries who managed to become one of the best bands in Leicester over the next few years

In the ashez childhood au Shez ran away from that village and traveled Fodlan through various groups for a few years before landing with the Ironbloods after they found him living just outside Remire village and they took him along with them, and then a few months later the Ironbloods went into Gaspard territory and that's where they met

Ashe and Shez would be almost inseparable for the time that it took the Ironbloods to finish the job they were given and move along, and while it was sad to see Shez go life had to go on. Eventually Ashe's memory of the mercenary boy would fade until the two met again by chance at the start of 3Hopes

[yesandpeeps]

Chinese take out

It is such a dumb little fact but I have seen nobody point it out: Copia’s favorite dinner is chinese take out!!!

Chapter 10: Sister greets him back home from the recent tour and says “and I’ve ordered your favorite dinner.” (1:19 time stamp)

Chapter 11: Sister, Saltarian, Nihil, and Copia sit down for dinner together. You can see the white styrofoam boxes, Copia’s picking apart his chopsticks. Nihil literally asks him to pass the “Beijing beef,” an americanized chinese dish with beef, peppers, and onions.

This is literally such an unimportant thing to have noticed, and maybe nobody’s pointed it out because we all collectively just went “ah yes, a fact, anyways moving on-“ but when I love a character I dig deep into their bones!!! And I want everyone to witness the delicious marrow!!!

[gallierhouse]

“is armand a coward?” “is he insane?” “is he smart or stupid?” “is he honest?” IS HE BORING THO? the only question is he boring?????

I know you’re being silly, but I have actually written about this before. Multiple times, actually. But my organizational system is so bad I have no idea where any of those posts are. It’ll be in the tag somewhere if you want to look. I’ll sum it up here, though.

Armand both is and isn’t boring. In a vacuum, he’s an interesting person. He’s 500 years old and he’s got no hobbies to speak of besides gardening and torture. He’s got a penchant for v-necks. He led a cult and burnt people alive and then he led another cult and had them murder people on stage every night for a hundred years. He used to wander museums at night. He has a large collection of sunglasses. He’s been following a painting of him paid for with his body for 500 years but he never took it home or destroyed it. He’s surprisingly adept at real estate for someone who lived an ascetic lifestyle for 200 years. He’s got neat handwriting. He doesn’t have a real accent. He’s numbered his memories chronologically. So all that’s interesting. Even if he were actually a soft, beige pillow, he’d still be interesting by virtue of having lived five centuries. But Louis finds him boring because Armand’s always trying to please him. Armand has an idea of what Louis wants (“not Lestat”), so everything he does is designed to not be Lestat, and to fulfill the submissive role in their D/S relationship. By being who he thinks Louis wants him to be, he makes himself boring. He’s not actually boring, but Louis only ever gets to see the boring version of him, because it’s all he’ll ever show Louis. He’s always modulating his behavior to meet the expectations of the people he wants approval from, which makes him boring to that person. It’s boring if someone only ever does what you want and what you say. “You can pick what we have for dinner, I don’t mind” every night for 77 years. It’s boring!

Armand’s not boring. He’s just backed himself into a corner that makes everyone he wants approval or attention from see him as boring. It’s a silly problem to have. Louis would probably be more attracted to him if he showed the side of himself he shows to Lestat. But Armand’s so devoted to pretending to be a civilized, well-adjusted person who isn’t violent and isn’t unstable and isn’t selfish and isn’t anything like Lestat, and isn’t anything besides stable and safe and patient and kind and loving, that he’s filed off his own edge. You can see him compartmentalize it. He hunts alone. He leaves the penthouse. That’s something he does for himself. The only time he allows himself to be whoever he really is without the expectation of someone else, and it’s out of sight for both the viewer and Louis. He declaws himself for the sake of others, and he’s naturally hurt when people say things like, “Where are your claws? Why don’t you have claws? You’re boring!” It’s a mean thing to say to someone who spends all their time and energy attempting to be interesting to you, even if their method is self-defeating and stupid. I think Armand might think of himself as boring, though. But his metric for what’s normal and abnormal is so far removed from any conceivable standard of normalcy it’s not really a valid opinion to hold. He’s silly, okay?