#groomed adult

[liberalsarecool]

Can someone ask for an example of USAID propogating totalitarianism?

How is USAID sinister?

How does USAID spread or promote war?

Idiots like RFK Jr. just make shit up, the press repeats the lies, and no journalism holds RFK accountable. Speak truth to power, jeez.

[t4tails]

have you guys seen the mod of r/samandmax losing his shit over ppl drawing gay fanart and deciding to ban all sam and max shipping from the subreddit

[hadesoftheladies]

grooming doesn't stop when you turn older than 18 btw

[bull-shit-suji]

with the hiatus ending in less than a month i'm casting the dice for kuro finale predictions. a lot of this is based on the manga's narrative style, as well as season one's ending (which, though yana didn't write it, she DID give the production team input). place your bets now!

the manor burns down again. partial credit for Something burning down because yana loves a full circle moment

elizabeth lives and is instrumental for some part of the climax, i.e. crashing out at o!ciel (it's what he deserves).

elizabeth inherits the title of guard dog and maybe funtom. girlboss!

sebastian gets badly injured or nearly dies. i think he needs to suffer a little more (endearing)

the phantomhives' killer is someone we've already met. that's murder mystery ground rule number one baby

bonus points if queen victoria did it! she's the only known character who i can piece together a viable motive for

madam red makes a harrowing return as a bizarre doll

undertaker is a red herring villain BUT knows who orchestrated the phantomhives' murders and/or tried to prevent it from happening. isn't telling o!ciel because that would mean satisfying the contract.

said contract is concluded

r!ciel is definitely dying again. let the kid rest man

tentatively theorizing that rachel phantomhive will be important to the murder reveal in some way. we've seen a lot of vincent thus far and it's suspicious that rachel, who parallels elizabeth in visuals, emotional intelligence, AND moral uprightness hasn't had her moment yet

[brainworms-all-night-long]

Anyway the difference between Bal and Nimona is like yes they're both outcasts and Balister has a noticable case of impostor syndrome reinforced by his social circle and pressure from the very head of the goverment, yet he still had pieces of privilige over Nimona, who he automatically, in a trained motion, tried to pull a sword on the second he figured she was Too Different even for his taste.

Then ofc we had Nimona putting up with it cuz she really needed this guy. Doing something good is better then never doing anything wrong, not to mention she's been dealing with this for over a milenium so who care. He assasinated the queen!! Or even if he didn't, it meant someone set him up to drag him back into the shadows from whence he came, so surely that will make him want to do something abt the system, right!!

I was going somewhere with this I forgot

I am also trying to write thoughts abt Nim/Gloreth and Bal/Amb parallels but I am struggling!!!!

[pale-c0rpse]

brainwashing ship 🤤

mind controling ship 🤤

grooming ship 🤤

torturous ship 🤤

abusive ship 🤤

age gap ship 🤤

[quixot1sm]

ghetsis back when he tried to become the modern day hero of truth but the light stone thought his aura was rancid and flashbanged him instead

[yeonbam]

have been meaning to cry about THIS Thame so much. like the irony of being asked to "feel it" when at the same time he is demanded to stop feeling and live like an immobile object. there is something so cruel in being [directed] to think about someone who makes you bring out those feelings just whenever it's asked of you and to suppress it when it's unwanted...

Because he's in so much pain but he had to repress it all. If he lets himself feel it, he can't work but if he doesn't let himself feel it he can't work either because you cannot seperate art from feelings. But that's what capitalism demands. It demands you seperate yourself from the world and exist as a solitary self-centred creature while also demanding you perform the same way you would if you had it all. basically a level of unrealistic emotional masterpiece that one can only achieve through community.

Thame who had repressed so hard, being forced, for the sake of the same career that took away his love, to think about his love for it. not to mention that he also loves his job. but human beings are multifaceted. he can't Only love his job. he loves his friends his (ex) boyfriend and he as a human needs to be allowed all of this.

and williams acting!!! you can see the pain, the visible effort in trying to be stabbed in the same wound he has been trying so hard to forget. he has been isolated from everyone so he probably lives without any way of outlet at all. because he's like that, because he knows best how to adapt, how to keep his expression to himself unless it's being brought out of him. the company forced him into a shell once and they are doing it a second time.

[green-square-anon]

@lemon-russ @ms--lobotomy @beckyninja

Since Konrad is bat like does he carry his offspring around like one too? They're little curzelings after the guy who scales buildings and whatnot, they know how to hold on!

Obsessed with the idea of Konrad Curze scooting about buildings or whatever with his offspring attached to his chest or back like a monkey.

(Yes in both monkeys and bats case it's the mother not the father who carries the kid, but Konrad is themore gremlin animal like parent so I'm just going to assume it's him).

I only gave him one kid in my verse but I love the mental picture of this large, terrifying, filthy man coming into view climbing onto a balcony or whatever. Then two tiny little 🥺 faces poking out from under his feather cape like chicks under a hen. I've talked about how Konrad isn't like how people draw black cats as little orbs with eyes, but any little baby haunter he sires however?...

Further tragedy in how Konrad was (not) raised. Curzelings tm are meant to hang onto their mama/papa and Konrad was left alll alone. Now he gets to carry around HIS baby/babies.

Konrad Curze scaling a building and people nearby wondering why tf he's moving so slowly and why he's clutching one arm to his chest? Is he hurt? And he's clucthing his kid and/or his partner. He already gave the mother free rides carrying her around to protect her from the nightlords anyways....

[toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account]

no bc looking back on the show as an adult makes rufus a way worse fucking villain than he already seemed when I watched this show at the crisp ages of 10-12 years old

Like when I first watched it he of course seems like this Really Bad Guy because he kidnapped one of the main characters (which was absolutely shocking for me as someone who wasn't even allowed to watch spongebob. but could somehow watch this)

but then I look back on it as an adult and like. first of all. I know how young these characters are. when I watched it as a kid they seemed like Cool Mature Teenagers but as an adult it's like. these are babies.

and it hits me that he saw a very vulnerable teenage girl being dismissed and dissuaded by every single adult that she turned to in order to find her missing best friend and poised himself to look like the only adult who took her seriously and wanted to help her. patricia didn't feel like she could trust any of the adults around her because she couldn't. because every adult she turned to at her school prioritized their search for immortality over their responsibilities to keep their students safe (and even the police didn't help her because why would they). because she was surrounded by adults that she realized were "in on" something and she didn't know what it was - she just knew she couldn't trust them to help her. she was angry and desperate and confused and vulnerable and she was a teenage girl being failed by every adult around her.

and the way she was failed by every adult responsible for looking after her made it incredibly easy for a man with the worst intentions possible to. first of all. appear to stalk her. and then make himself seem like someone she can trust by claiming to be a private investigator who is. at this point. the only adult who seems willing to listen and help her try to find her missing best friend. and then when she finally felt like she had someone she could trust and that she was getting close to the answers about her friend. he kidnapped her and held her in an old warehouse for days. and even after her rescue she continued to have nightmares about it

and like. idk. I've said before that if it were rebooted/made with a higher audience then rufus would have been explicitly a groomer a way worse villain but like. as an adult now i'm kind of smacked with the realization of how awful he was to begin with

[smalltowngunshow]

Superboy ‘94 is crazy why is every other panel Kon getting diddled😭😭😭

[mamawasatesttube]

adventures of superman #503

rereading rots is kind of an exercise in reminding myself just how much kesels writing makes me want to pull my hair out. what do you MEAN this woman is 23 with a job and her "best friend" is a teenager who is also 3 weeks old that she's known for like 15 days. what the fuck. even if they never actually started dating this would be insane. like you know that whole thing about how adults Should have friends their own age and if they don't, it's a red flag? how did karl kesel stumble into that on accident. lmao

[sampilled]

Righteous Man vs boy with the demon blood

[madgirlmuahaha]

“Lucy, you’re gonna be a CHAMPION!!”

Oh. Oh no. Why does this hurt so much 😭

If nothing else, I think this shows just how deep Kipperlilly’s been sucked into this delusion. She’s not thinking about the consequences, she’s not thinking about how maybe the adults in her life are using her and her team as pawns, she’s excited that finally they’re SPECIAL and they’re going to reshape the whole world with a brand new god.

I wonder at what point Lucy stopped being excited and supportive of it. Kipperlilly’s best friend, the only one who liked her enough to stick up for her within their adventuring party, being excited at first but then changing her mind because maybe, just maybe, she realizes how bad things might turn out. How Kipperlilly tried to keep coaxing her down this path to becoming a Divine Champion of a fallen rage god, and how a final test of faith ended in tragedy because Lucy didn’t wake up.

And after her best friend died and didn’t wake up, life loses its value to Kipperlilly. They’ve come too far to go back to how it used to be. Lucy is gone, and she’s not coming back, because she didn’t have faith in the right god. People are only as valuable as long they are useful to you, that’s how a Mastermind Rogue sees the world, and Lucy can be replaced with someone more useful. It doesn’t matter anymore that she was Kipperlilly’s best friend, all she is now is a failed Champion.

[nyctocollective]

friendly reminder that plurality is caused by trauma. trauma is defined as an event that has a severe negative impact on oneself. there are going to be dark parts of plurality that no one wants to talk about. the brain created you to cope with what it went through. it's okay to have parts (or wholes) that have “twisted” desires, attractions, innerworld or external relationships, sexual or emotional needs, etc. other people might call you disgusting, evil, immoral, but it's just part of being traumatized. it's going to be unpleasant or unsightly.

read the tags.

[pinkhysteria]

bbtwitter be normal about rubina challenge: failed over and over and over and over again