#havent even lived that long

[ellearts]

400 race starts for the old man

[scorpiusmalfoylovesoscarwilde]

albus "I hope I die first, because I can't live without you" potter

and

scorpius "I hope I die second, so I can save you from that grief" malfoy

[tumblweeds-omegaverse]

random omegaverse thought:

There must be people who experience specific instinct things with indifference or boredom.

Procreative cycle coming up? "Crap, I've got plans this weekend...stupid skip weeks."

Caught an intriguing scent while walking? "But I need to get to work! Shut up brain."

Had a snap response to a distressed sound? "Who was it?! ...right, it's my day off, I can go back to sleep."

Somebody growled at them? "Kid, I'm not a rival, that's my sibling."

Super cozy cuddle session happening nearby? "I'm gonna pass tonight guys, no social battery left, maybe next time."

Group of friends heading out to flirt and check out other singles? "I'm coming with you but only to make sure you all get home safe."

Setting where fated mates or soul bonds or permanent marks are a thing? "Meh. I don't really want one or care if I ever get one."

People in the actual omegaverse would get as bored of their stuff, as we do of ours, you know? It could be interesting to see that kind of vibe in fics. Biological demands faced with all the excitement of paying bills or doing laundry or tying your shoes.

Even if that kind of energy might not drive a plot, it could be interesting to have as a contrast to the people who do have big feelings about them - good or bad.

There's the friends who can't wait til they have a pack of their own, and the one friend who isn't against it but couldn't care less. There's the group in the office who are all about scent compatibility tests and figuring out one's best match and what sprays most highlight it, and the coworker who has no intentions on putting that much effort in. There are parents who hover and protect their offspring by scenting them multiple times a day, and others who don't see what the fuss is as long as it's done in the morning.

...also: packs with introverts who show care by giving each other space. So often, closeness is depicted through physical touch and tactile affection, but comfortable silence is meaningful too. Knowing people are near, but not having to interact until you're ready. Sitting in the same room doing different things, knowing that all it takes is a "hey, look at this" to share what you're up to. People understanding and accepting each other's differing or fluctuating needs for how and when to recharge. Seeing somebody reaching out or sharing space, beyond what's their norm, as a signal of the fact that they care.

[forbiddentaako]

more monochrome practice I suppose

[vongulli]

HELLO ONE PIECE WATCHER are u obsessed yet

YAYA ITS SO AWESOME GAHH IM SO INVESTED 😭!!!! i actually just caught up in the manga to where i am in the anime!! (on ep 81, and on chapter 134!!!) i've shed lots of tears, laughed, and had my heart touched many times since starting it- i'm totally in love!!! I even cried at the same places i did while watching it when reading manga, ahaha!!!

the characters, the world, the designs, the dreams and ambitions everyone has is SOOOSOSO fun and like, inspiring.. just so good-feeling, i'll even wake up and be like "man, can't wait to watch/read one piece today"

the friendships/bonds created between everyone feels like, so strong- its really beautiful! I love how much fun the fights are, and i really adore the small moments between everyone (like when sanji brings out foods/drinks and everyone kinda just, chills and eats?? the food component of things feels so important too, I love seeing what they eat, idk why haha!!!)

i feel like other shows i love don't have enough time to just see everyone hanging out... it makes me so happy, im really thankful for those moments

also i would take a bullet for any of the strawhats in miliseconds!!! an instant!!!! anything for them!!

[ludinusdaleth]

not a new statement from me by any means but traveling through my home the south and seeing country folk tend to the earth & their animals, and city folk blast music as they dance with joy of heritage or identity, all of us just trying to get by.... it makes those statements folk make about how we "deserve what we vote" hurt worse. people who say that have no idea the life & love down here even when we know our government will ensure we arent forever.

[josephslittledeputy]

shame on me for taking so long to find out about Sunny😔 would you please indulge my curiosity and tell me more about her? is she the captain of security or is she the captain of the highwaymen? I love how unhinged she is 😂 what is her relationship with the scavengers and the new edeners?

Absolutely no worries! Honestly I'm not as active on here anymore and when I am, I tend to rarely talk about an oc that isn't Willa, Sidra, or (recently) Sarina. Also, thank you so much for asking about my little chaotic gremlin, Sunny <3

A few bullet points so I don't make this ask too long lmao

Sunny's full name is Sultana Garcia, but that's a mouthful, so just Sunny will do!

She has complete heterochromia, her left eye is blue and her right eye is green

Has a gap tooth that gives her a slight lisp

She was 8 when the apocalypse hit, 15 when she left the bunker, and 25 when she travels to Hope County with Rush (who she's in a relationship with)

Knows a few spanish words that her papá taught her but she forgets lot of it after he passes away

Starts off as the Captain of Security and later on becomes the Captain of the Highwaymen! Or, at least over the faction that's in Hope County. So, she's technically both :)

Her relationship with the New Edeners: At first, she's weirded out by them. They're like modern day neanderthals lmao. But then she meets and (somehow) befriends Willa (much to Willa's annoyance) and basically becomes like a sister to Willa and an aunt to Willa's kids.

As for her relationship with Carmina and the others (Nick, Kim, Sharky, etc), it's on relatively good terms. Her and Sharky are definitely besties because they share the same brain cell pretty much

Here's a few images of my beloved chaos bean and also the link to her tag on my oc blog

[orcelito]

Peeked into ITNL's bookmarks bc it's been a while since I last did that and I found This

Which is one of the sweetest things anyone's said about my writing 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

So Black_as_White, if ur out there.... 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺 thank U

[verved]

I have hope it will get better and I'm still clinging to that but I had hope for the past decade and this past year has been particularly trying.

[syntiment]

One of my horse ref study sketches turned out surprisingly well so I decided to clean it up a bit and turn it into my OC War Path

I gave his design a bit of an update / added some extras to him to separate him a bit from the standard SSO paso fino model he was popped out of

[avoiltaire]

wanshi/pgr - super old lightning/colours practice i did a month ago 😭

[goldfish-fhr]

Specifically for you 💕 @hypnostanatos achoo

[victorborkowski]

do u know how fucked up it is to tell a trans guy asking for dating app/site recommendations bc he mentions how meeting people irl in his hometown is wildly unsafe bc it is wildly unsafe to even be OUT in his hometown he's currently living in and how all the gay/bi men in his hometown tend to be conservative-leaning themselves and therefore very fucking transphobic. that "if you're not out and you're also not passing enough as a man (when said trans guy literally said he had to stop transitioning for his own safety) then pretty much no man cis or trans is going to want to date you" is? like do you?? do you know how absolutely wildly fucked up that is?????

[queerbeverage]

It's crazy how apparently on lower difficulties you can just find the flare gun randomly; when on Interloper you can only get it on Timberwolf Mountain. Like, why does this dude keep a flare gun in his barn?? Is that like, a thing in rural Canada? I get the one i found in a car, especially when you're travelling the snowy & treacherous roads, but. In a barn?? Idk.

[neolxzr]

okay here we go.

why i think mha’s ending, specifically for izuku, kind of sucks mega ass. an analysis

i’ve sat with the ending of the manga for long enough now that the more i think about it the more i get further away from “it was kind of an alright ending despite its flaws” and closer to “that fucking sucked.” so heres why i think it soured on me so much

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so to start off i don’t hate the idea of izuku becoming a teacher and not the “number one hero” at the top of the rankings at all. i think that’s a great way to end this story if it had earned that kind of ending. but unfortunately horikoshi doesn’t know how to write a society that changes despite writing a what-if story about what would happen if society was changed in a very major way.

hero society sucks. hero society is bad and it breeds villains and is misogynistic and has a terrible dark side. we know this because the story points it out on many different occasions. its quite an interesting part of this story and something that deserved much more payoff. unfortunately horikoshi doesn’t know how to write an ending that actually has to grapple with the idea of former villains being redeemed so he just kills off the entire league save for spinner, who is in prison. there’s so much talk with namely izuku and ochako about wanting to save tenko and toga respectively and yet both of them just die and thats that. izuku wanted to save that kid, and he didn’t. it reads like if the ending of avatar the last airbender was aang being forced to kill ozai instead of sparing him like he wanted to. there’s so much want there from izuku to save him and yet he just doesn’t. it’s unsatisfying.

following this—namely the deaths of shigaraki and toga, there’s a want from both izuku and ochako to change hero society for the better. we get a little bit of talk about shoji’s advocacy for heteromorphs and ochako’s quirk counseling in the timeskip but overall hero society has remained largely stagnant. heroes still compete for rankings, they still sell merch of them, and they are still treated largely like celebrities. nothing about this speaks to me that society has been largely changed for the better. nothing about this says to me that another shigaraki cannot happen.

and then this brings me back to izuku. because society has remained so stagnant and the definition of what it means to be the “number one hero” still has largely not changed, i don’t think an ending where he loses his quirk and becomes a teacher instead of a pro-hero is not at all satisfying. so, what? he has to sit back for eight years and watch all of his classmates live out his dream of becoming a hero without him? while they, canonically, kind of ignore and don’t keep in touch with him? what????

see, if hero society had changed in the way that heroes came to be seen more as civil servants rather than celebrities, and the hero ranking system was completely dismantled, then i might believe this is a satisfying conclusion. because the idea is that anyone can be a hero. izuku is both the legendary hero who saved the world and an everyday hero—a schoolteacher leading the next generation. but i don’t think it earned that sort of ending at all. because it doesn't end like that for anyone except izuku.

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now, i wanna pivot a little and talk more about izuku losing his quirk. specifically, how i don’t like his reaction to losing it. while it was, of course, completely his choice to give it away, and i think it is possible for izuku to both lose one for all and for the ending to be good, i don’t think they did it very well at all.

izuku’s character, for most of the series, has a strange sort of repeated motif about suppression. he has to lie to keep the secret of one for all, he has to figuratively and literally lock away his emotions in order to keep his quirks from going haywire, and when he becomes a vigilante he completely shuts down and becomes a shell of himself. control your heart and all that. he wants to become a hero that nobody has to worry about, he says. he doesn’t want to be a burden. he wants his shit to be his shit and for it not to bother anyone else.

i love izuku as a shonen protagonist because it’s really nice to see a character who is so emotional but is never once treated like he is weak because of that. he’s a crybaby and never stops being a crybaby, but he’s also an all-powerful badass. these things can coexist. so at the end of his story, when his quirk is gone, and he failed in his last mission of saving shigaraki, he’s just… fine with that?

i just don’t believe him for a second. his dream is over. one for all will leave him, and he’s not even past age 16. this is like, the worst outcome for izuku. he’s not a pro hero, the one person he wanted to save died horribly, and society is still kind of a piece of shit. and you expect me to believe that he’s just… accepted that? immediately after waking up in the hospital? he says that it was a borrowed dream anyway and that just like… breaks my heart. i need to shake him by the shoulders and yell in his face that it’s okay to be upset. i don’t believe for a second that he’s made his peace with this so soon. with all the repeated instances of him suppressing his feelings about everything i don’t believe for a second that he’s fine. he hasn’t been fine since, like, season one.

and then that’s that. it’s over. until it’s not, because class A gave him a hero suit eight years later. hooray. that bit just feels so tacked on at the end because shonen jump wouldn’t let it end with izuku not being a pro hero. but it doesn’t magically fix all of the issues i have with the ending.

the ending is just so bleak. which sucks, because i have continually praised mha for how un-bleak it is. it doesn’t kill off characters for no reason almost all of the time, unlike a lot of other shonen, cough cough, and it’s continually a very uplifting series. even when it moves towards the war arc i felt that the shift in tone felt very natural and not at all jarring, but even then i don’t feel like it earned such a bleak ending (that it tried to fix by tacking on izuku’s hero suit at the end, but whatever).

like what exactly am i supposed to take away from that ending? some people just have to die because they’re too hard to save? sometimes your dreams get crushed and you just have to deal with it and move on? what kind of moral of the story is that???

and that doesn’t even begin to talk about 431, which i will not talk about here because as far as i am concerned that dumpster fire never happened.

anyway, the end. tl;dr, fuck you horikoshi for what you did to my boy, also toga and tenko should have lived. im currently standing outside your window