#had committed suicide

[iavanr]

im so frustrated every time I talk to my dad and it somehow devolves into him spouting transphobic sentiment (usually in a huge reach leap of logic that immediately devolves our conversation). This is a new development. I'm so tired. Transphobia is what it is but I hate how it's genuinely rotting people's brains and stopping them from having more nuanced conversations bc they think whipping out their transphobia card is this huge gotcha. U fucking dumbass you've gotten stupider. Love how he was using it to argue for eastern culture being superior bc we're more controlling and disciplined etc etc "look what happens when westerners give their children too much freedom"

[undercovercannibal]

SEVERANCE (2022—)

[tackykachowch]

How it feels to not like timebomb after s2

[realbeefman]

the fact that chameron canonically fucked DURING A PATIENT PROCEDURE and when chase said “hey maybe we should. go out together in a normal way and stop having wild unrestrained sex all over the hospital” cameron essentially said “sorry i cant negotiate on that. its wild hospital sex or nothing. also it’s kind of cringe that u want to go out with me. not my fault we had awesome sex and u got emotionally attached. skill issue tbh.”

[fictionadventurer]

My sister just mentioned the story our bishop told, about a woman who went to St. John Vianney after her husband committed suicide by jumping from a bridge, and she was beside herself because she knew he had to be in hell, and John Vianney told her, "Between the bridge and the water is the mercy of God."

[nenoname]

i know people love their aus but man. folks writing mabel as someone who would forgive bill still really does rub me the wrong way urgh

[remcadll]

Hey what was up with that one panel

[yellowocaballero]

So fucking glad to see someone talk about SSS Class revival hunter 😭 I lived it so much and I feel like no one ever mentions it against more popular titles like ORV or even The Lout of the counts family, so I'm so glad to come here and see your amazing takes :>

Thank you for the ask which lets me talk about SSSCRH (the version I read was titled 'Suicide Hunter', which tbh I like more - no beating around the bush).

It's hard to draw an accurate comparison since I'm going off just the webtoon for SSSCRH, while I'm going off both the webtoon and the webnovel for ORV. And I love ORV, ORV is my media blorbo right now, it hydraulic presses my brain, I am writing ORV fanfic - it's, like, funner to enjoy. But SSSRH is just better. In the vast majority of ways it is is better. It's better than the holy trinity by a wide margin. TW talk of suicide obviously.

I can't believe I'm saying this but you need a basic understanding of Buddhism in order to understand SSSCRH. It's not about Gongja's suicides - he doesn't suicide from depression or lack of self-esteem. SSSCRH is about suffering in the Buddhist sense - dukkha. I don't want to make this an essay, so I might reblog this with more information, but extremely shortly:

The Four Noble Truths of Buddhism is the truth of suffering, the truth of the cause of suffering, the truth of the end of suffering, and the truth of the path that leads to the end of suffering. You've heard that Buddhists say 'life is suffering'. To put it one way that doesn't require defining a lot of words: the cause of suffering is experiencing the world as we percieve it instead of how it truly is. Suffering isn't just being miserable and in pain, and life isn't suffering because life sucks and global warming exists and people voted for Trump. Life is suffering because we can experience beautiful and joyful moments in this world, but we do not exist in the moment of that happiness or place our ego/'self' between us and that happiness. Living in that moment, accepting the moment as it is unconditionally, is freedom from suffering. The Buddha tries to free people from suffering through teaching Buddhism.

"What does this have to do with the webnovel and manwha about a guy murdering himself thousands of times" it has everything to do with it. Because SSSCRH is about suffering, and it is about using suffering as a tool in order to experience a world unfiltered by ego and break down the artificial boundaries between human beings. Suffering in SSSCRH is not a bad thing. Gongja has the unique capability to (reincarnate.) experience a person's suffering in unity with them, which dissolves the delusion of separation between people and puts us in touch with the reality of oneness.

The Murim arc was fucking insane because Gongja pulls a Big Bodhisattva Move and walks through the suffering of the world in order to achieve full understanding of the human experience. He takes all of the suffering of the world into himself and is liberated. You can tell it's Buddhist because death was not presented as a bad thing - death was an aspect of a happy ending for the Heavenly Demon lady, because she was finishing her life according to her own joy, and because her teachings were passed on she did not truly die.

But the purpose of embracing suffering is to discover the ability to fully embrace life, and that's where Heavenly Demon's teachings were incomplete - as the ghost dude said, Gongja hasn't even experienced his own full life and the infinite capability for his own happiness. You can only feel the depths of sadness when you've felt the depths of happiness. Sadness deserves its place in the world and it can strengthen you, but so does happiness.

Gongja is attention-seeking, envious, and unbelievably petty. When he drills down into his own desires and why he wants the things he wants, you see that he has a very strong sense of justice and right and wrong - he realizes he doesn't want to be famous, he wants to be acknowledged, but on an even deeper level he is desperate for love and to be loved. Everything he does is to experience love, and as such he learns to love others. His love for the Flamey Asshole was purely parasocial and ego-filled, with no concern for who he was as a human. Throughout the manwha, he grows to care for people as they truly are and pierce through any delusions or misleading outward appearances. He has released all attachment to life and death, and as such does not fear death, and as such has taken a step on the road towards becoming a Boddhisatva who frees others from the cycle of samsara, and as a result has learned sick sword techniques and is sooo good at beating people up.

I think the only other thing I want to mention here because otherwise this is an essay: in almost every time loop/regression story, only the final regression matters. In stories with dungeon monsters and NPCs, only the humans matter. The regressor exists in a space where there are no consequences for their actions, so they act terribly and do whatever because none of it matters. In Groundhog Day Bill Murray acts like an asshole because he can. That's not the case here. Everything Gongja does matters. The NPCs are fake, but Gongja never treats them as anything less than real people who deserve life. Once he understands a person's life he never treats them as unimportant. No loop is thrown away and no person or life is disregarded. His choices matter, the way he treats others matters, and Gongja never treats anybody as if they don't matter except for himself.

That was not short. There is a lot more. The female characters are so good and so rich. From a craft perspective it is excellently paced and has a wonderful sense of set-up/payoff and balances tone and maintains a lot of momentum, which is really hard in a time loop story. You have to do a few very specific things to write OP characters well and SSSCRH does it very well. There's more to say from a craft perspective and it's hard to judge accurately from a webtoon but it's good. I was so strangely struck the entire time about how sincere and genuine it was, how it said what it said with no trace of irony of confusion, and I think that's what stuck with me the most.

TL;DR: SSS Class Revival Hunter is good for a lot of very normal reasons, such as excellent pacing and set-up/pay off and characters, but it's also so sincerely and genuinely Buddhist that it blew my tits clean off.

[fighting-naturalist]

Daniel with Shyla pre- vs. post-sarcophagus addiction

[awakefor48hours]

"Belos really thought he was in Steven Universe lmao 🤪"

Steven Universe and The Owl House are different shows. Steven Universe was a story about being a queer child in an unaccepting household and The Owl House was a story about white washing and colonizing.

Saying Steven should've killed the Diamonds is almost as unhinged as saying that Miguel should've killed his grandma at the end of Coco.

[luanna801]

I love all of the jokes about how MDZS/The Untamed is just a story about Jin Ling's zillions of uncles. Reminds me of the good ol days when we used to joke that everyone on Once Upon a Time was some kind of parent or grandparent to Henry Mills.

They should be a crossover ship. Their first date can just be drawing out their incredibly complicated family trees.

[dephoraowo]

I saw some reddit posts saying that Wei Wuxian committing suicide is actually in character of him. 😅

Not only is it out of character for him (Wei Wuxian is always looking for ways to survive, he's a natural survivor! He never gives up!), but committing suicide would also diminish Jiang Yanli, Wen Qing, and Wen Ning's sacrifice for him!!! Which is the last thing Wei Wuxian would want to do!

Please don't lump up the Untamed Wei Wuxian with novel Wei Wuxian. They are both very different characters. 🙃

[mooncalf87]

Slomo clip of me stopping, dropping and rolling because I am destroyed from the inside out

My favorite screenshots under the cut your honor

[andthebubbles]

hmm. i am probably gonna make one more fiyero gifset and then i'm gonna change my url back to andthebubbles (because i miss it and lbr i like anthony way more than fiyero (fiyero and feldspur still interests me though... maybe my interest will be rekindled when part 2 comes out. i think f&f have so much fic potential with missing scenes and stuff)

miiiight change my pfp to angry!anthony in 1x07, and put a flower crown on him because he's adorable. i might do daisies this time

(okay so this reminds me of an abandoned fic i have where i put anthony in the madhouse and when his siblings come to visit him (well he doesn't let any of them see him except benedict) daphne gives him dandelions)

(waaaait a second, what if skjnfgkjfng WHAT IF I PUT SIMON IN THE MADHOUSE INSTEAD OHJFJGFJG WHAT THE FUCK JSFGKJFGGF WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF THIS EARLIER (eta on reading this back i realised it's not very clear: i mean both anthony and simon in the madhouse) like his dad puts him there because he's 'stupid' and he wants to disown him)

(wait i can't remember the plot of this..... skfjgnfkg anyway i'd have to adjust it for simon................ HMMMMMMM more potentially un-abandoned WIPs to distract me)

[namira]

One really fun aspect of Riverdale which I think is underdiscussed is the convent of evil nuns who were bootleggers during Prohibition and were eventually disbanded by the Church after Vatican II but continued after that doing their thing

[specialagentartemis]

Sarah Sisko’s whole deal is so horrifying and messed up and DS9 just kinda. Glosses over it