#he deserves better than this

[unhingedsquidtm]

Solas deserves a warm embrace and a safe space, somewhere where he doesn't feel alone anymore, someone to tell him he will be okay, someone to reassure him that it is okay to let go, to grieve. The man has been so traumatized that he's stuck in the denial phase, he's being eaten up by his regret, he is losing his himself and casting himself off into solitude because he thinks that is how he will fix everything. He needs help and I sincerely hope we get to give him that.

His story won't end with his downfall.

[candy-heart-brew]

This poor lad...he was looking forward to delivering Homewarming gifts.

He has nothing else to do on the holiday. No family coming over, no big holiday plans or preparations, the only people he has to spend time with are his neighbors and even then it's only when they have a job for him to do. The only way he gets to celebrating Homewarming is if he has a job to do and without that, he just doesn't get to celebrate it at all.

"I'm looking forward to delivering the gifts that my friends have all gotten for each other!"

I wonder if he still considers them his friends after all this.

[im-no-jedi]

HE LOOKS SO SAD POOR BBY OMG 🥺😭💔

[confused-alot]

rex & ahsoka’s shitty post-order 66 target run/beach trip?

(from the @rupalpspodrace podcast love you guys💕)

[twstinginthewind]

Twistober day 20 - Culinary Crucible

He is sautéing the HELL out of that pepper slice

[the-writing-artist]

I Noticed a Disturbing Pattern

Here are all the times the group has turned on Jeremie when he does not deserve it (because sometimes he does need a reality check). I'm including the circumstances behind each time, as well as if the others apologize or not.

~Season 1~

"Image Problem": Clone!Yumi tries seducing Jeremie to convince him to arrange a mission to Lyoko so the clone can destroy the scanners. Odd and Ulrich stumble upon the scene and Ulrich takes it the wrong way, refusing the listen to Jeremie when he tries to explain. During class, it's evident that Odd has taken Ulrich's side, given how he sticks out his tongue and blows a raspberry at Jeremie. // Do the others apologize?: No, but Ulrich does hear Jeremie out when he tries to explain. Jeremie's the one who has to apologize, even though it was clone!Yumi who incited the incident, and Ulrich reacts because his jealousy.

~Season 2~

"X.A.N.A.'s Kiss": XANA uses a polymorphic clone to sow discord within the group, and he begins by taking Jeremie's form and kissing Heidi. Ulrich and Odd stumble upon this. Despite his insistence that such an event happened, the only one of his friends that stays by Jeremie's side is Yumi, who is ostracized by the group the exact same way for the exact same reason. // Do the others apologize?: No. Not that we see, at least. The group does come to understand that it was a XANA attack the whole time, but apologies needed to be said here, on all sides. All XANA did was use their images to kiss other people; the fault rests on the group for turning on each other so quickly.

"Franz Hopper": XANA uses the image of Franz Hopper to target Jeremie, blaming him for the scanners causing cell degeneration and the destruction of his diary on Jeremie. Only Aelita stands up for him, but he receives no interference from the others when walking away from the so-called "final mission". The others remember they have brains, however, once the fake Hopper double-crosses them and they find the activated tower in Sector 5. // To the others apologize?: Off-screen, but yes. It needed to be on-screen, though, and you can pry that belief from my cold, dead hands.

~Season 3~

"Aelita": Despite not intending to hurt her (and the fact that he's already searched every inch of Lyoko for her father), Aelita is so mad at Jeremie that she and Odd go to Sector 5 behind his back. // Do Aelita and Odd apologize?: No. Not that we know of. Hate me all you want, but Aelita needed to apologize for this.

~Season 4~

"Maiden Voyage": While the others are stuck in the Skid, Jeremie must scale the roof of the dormitory building to get the CD to fix the program that bugged up the Skid. Jeremie doesn't tell the others, figuring they would never believe him, but when Odd managed to correctly guess what Jeremie did, clearly joking, none of the others believe him, due to the absurdity of it. // Do the others apologize?: No, not that we know of. (I know this one's mild compared to the other examples, but I'm still counting it, because I believe he doesn't deserve it.)

"Replika": Aelita and Odd plan to fake kiss to get Nicolas and Herve out of the factory, and it works (despite the two throwing childish insults at each other all episode). At the end, they've made up, but their fake kiss doesn't sit well with Jeremie, and they know this. However, the two only tease him with "Well, Einstein has learned what it means to have an open mind!" // Do Aelita and Odd apologize?: No, not that we know of. (Again, this one's mild, but I'm still counting it, because Jeremie does not deserve it.)

"Cousins Once Removed": Jeremie's cousin Patrick comes to visit, and Jeremie's not happy about it, due to feeling jealous because he believes Patrick is so much cooler than him. Not only do the others immediately flock to Patrick, calling him "a better looking Einstein", but when Jeremie explains his story to Aelita, not once does she show sympathy for his feelings. // Do the others apologize?: No. The narrative just paints Jeremie as the bad guy when they already had the snooping Sissi and hacker Herve. (Before anybody points it out, yes, I do admit that Jeremie needed a reality check; he shouldn't have treated his cousin like that. But Jeremie's feelings are one-hundred percent ignored here, by his friends no less, and he does not deserve that.)

~Evolution~

N/A

No, I don't have a point with all of this, nor a theory. I just wanted to point out this concerning pattern that Evolution thankfully gets rid of. I can't help but wonder, though, why this pattern exists.

Feel free to add to the list if I missed anything.

[bandzboy]

btw i would understand if chan wanted to stop doing lives on his own accord like skz are so busy and he always busy so i would get if he decided this on his own but him basically saying he can’t do it anymore because the company doesn’t let him just changes everything because why are you punishing him this way when he did nothing wrong?? like it’s not his fault people are constantly twisting his words like??? i’m so appalled tbh

[satoriberry]

looking at recent chapter leaks is so insane because what the fuck did snuffy go trhough bro 😭

[chloesimaginationthings]

FNAF Into the pit? More like into the daddy issues

[inkskinned]

"don't make it political!" .... what proportion of death and suffering must occur before politics are involved. if this isn't political, what is even the point of any politics, ever. of democracy. the words are "by the people for the people." if i am going to be left alone by my elected representatives to "figure it out" - to undergo damage, hardship, fear. what the fuck did i elect them for. what was their job. the entire point is that they handle this shit. this is why we were supposed to be electing leaders.

poverty is political. misogyny is political. gun control is political. climate change is political. how much aid a community gets is political. what the fuck are you talking about. it's been political this whole fucking time.

[amenti-aardwolf]

He's still cute. He's just more to love. If anybody just told him this and took care of him regardless without trying to force him to be something he's not, then maybe he would have been friendlier. Just sayin'.

(It's not like I'm projecting my feelings onto him or anything... noooo, not at all 🙃✨️)

[mikakuna]

i see this jason todd who actually looks his very young age (instead of the 30yr old man that comics like to portray)

and feel my heart breaking just imagining bruce beating him up, almost killing him, mind-breaking him, and just overall being a total piece of shit father towards him.

a huge chunk of the reason why people don't view bruce's actions towards jason as abusive or wrong is because jason doesn't look his age. he's drawn to be this 35yr old father of three who looks even older than dick (and way too on par with bruce) that people see their fights as one between batman and any of his regular rogues. when they fight, it just looks like batman is fighting a man his age and not an actual young person. it doesn't look like batman is fighting his son who's barely even drinking age (and who def wasn't drinking age in utrh). their fights are portrayed in a way that eliminates the very real power struggle between them.

this applies to jason's entire character as well. a lot of people don't sympathize with how he died or his actions as robin or his fights with the other bats because he doesn't look his age. he always looks older and scarier than everyone else. tim has many sympathizers from the titans tower incident because jason just looked like a grown man fighting a 12yr old (even tho i disagree, tim was built and like 17 lmfao).

anyways, i just wish comics would actually draw jason to look his age, which literally ranges from 19 to early twenties. he's young- so young, and it's so annoying to see him drawn and written as someone older than even bruce.

[aftgphoenix]

I need Kevin to make friends who don’t care about exy/ think it’s cool but aren’t sports fans. I need Kevin to be told that his knowledge of history is so cool and really fascinating and “Kevin, can you tell me more about that one ancient civilization you mentioned earlier?” I need Kevin to be told that he’s worth so much more than his exy skill. I need Kevin to know that he is enough and worth something even without exy.

[uraniumbones]

oh God oh fuck oh God

I didn't know he was wearing his father's clothes. omfg he loves his family so much. Just like that post about all the changes he made to be a good guardian for the twins and then they almost decided to run away. This is just another example of that. He wears his dad's clothes and when his brother sent him that post card saying "please come" he went, and when he fucked up and lost his brother he spent the next thirty years trying to get him back dealing in machinery and mystical forces he does not understand. He loves his family so much even when they don't love him. He loves his family so much and he wants someone to love him too :((( HE'S BEEN ALONE FOR SO LONG why didn't anyone go to Mr mystery's mystery aged birthday party? I'm fucking shrieking at the top of my lungs. In one of the episode's commentary tracks (land before swine?) there's a story Stan tells about how Ford made a kissing robot to learn how to kiss correctly and the only way to turn it off was to kiss it good. And it went off in class and Ford had to kiss the disembodied head in front of everyone to get the siren to stop and then he says "HAHAHAHAHAH hahahaha HAAAHAHAHA..... he was still more popular than me". And is that hilarious? Yes. Is it also heartbreaking? Yes. for fucks sake someone just care about him. This isn't the story of an unpopular nerd brother and a popular street smart brother. This is the story of a golden boy and a black sheep. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

[loganswdc]

every day i learn something new about logan sargeant and his racing career, not just about his performance in f1 but in f2 and previous series, too. and every day i end up so sad because he genuinely has so so much potential and can do so much but he keeps being give a poor hand of cards. this guy out qualified his teammate in f2 TEN TO FOUR. and who was his teammate?? liam lawson. liam joined redbull’s driver academy in february of 2019 while logan only got to join an f1 team’s driver academy in october of 2021. that team was williams. which, as we know, hasn't exactly been the best performing team in recent years. oscar piastri got to join an f1 team’s driver academy in january of 2020 (the renault sport academy, later rebranded as the alpine academy). liam and oscar both got the opportunity to do f1 tests for YEARS prior to their f1 debuts in 2023. liam had 4 and a half years of experience in f1 cars before 2023. oscar had 3 years of experience in f1 cars before 2023. even if it was just testing and practice sessions, it's still something.

what did logan get? one measly fp2 session, post-season testing, and then jumped right in to pre-season testing in 2023. he already had a seat in williams then, so with the experience from before the pre-season testing in 2023 he got to do maybe 800km of testing in an f1 car. the others — in this case i mean oscar, liam, and heck even nyck de vris — had opportunities to drive f1 cars and gain experience for YEARS before logan. if you look at nyck de vris: he got signed to the mclaren young driver programme in 2010. he joined the audi sport racing academy in 2016.  granted, he left the mclaren programme in before the 2019 season and left audi after the 2019 season, too. but he then went to mercedes as a reserve driver and tester for 2020 and afterwards. this means he got just about a DECADE AND A HALF of teams putting their time and energy into training him to join f1.

logan got a year. one. single. fucking year. that is entirely incomparable to the other rookies from 2023, who had so much more experience before hand. and yet logan was jumped into f1 and the expectations were so high for a guy who hasn't had the chance to train and learn and gain experience.

and yet when we look at the 2022 f2 season, logan sargeant, a rookie, was 1 point off from his teammate —the one and only liam lawson — scoring p4 in the championship. he outqualified his teammate 10 to 4. he was the first american to win an f2 race (that is, of course, following the rebrand from gp2 to f2, but regardless, that’s still an important thing to note and an achievement of his that should be celebrated).

logan sargeant has so much potential and if only williams would show him a little more faith unlike what they’ve been doing, if only they’d give him the same upgrades as alex, if only they wouldn’t force him to drive a car 15kg overweight from that of his teammate’s car, if only they wouldn’t force him to use outdated rear and front wings from the season prior. then perhaps he would have a chance to show what he can do. perhaps if he wasn’t stuck in a team with a crap car who have shown zero faith (which has been vehemently obvious since the circus in australia) in him and made him absolutely miserable, a shell of himself — which you can clearly see in recent interviews and photos of him — then maybe he’d be able to show how good he really is. and maybe if williams hadn’t been so adamant about taking him out of f2 so quickly and let him develop for one more year, we’d be seeing headlines that say “logan sargeant, first american f1 driver on the podium since michael andretti in 1993.” and perhaps we could even see him winning races.

no matter what someone says about his current f1 performances — though most base that solely off of where he ends up on the grid rather than looking at his actual driving and seeing how good he is as a driver considering the crap circumstances he’s in — logan sargeant is a better driver than what everyone says. he is trying so insanely hard to get a car that is miles off from the rest of the field to place as high as humanly possible. no one can say that if you put another driver in that car that logan is driving they'd be doing better than he is now. the fact is, they wouldn't be. he's been given an absolute tractor and is expected to score points when that car isn't built for getting in the points. and yet logan managed to get p10 in the miami sprint race — which should be recognized and commended. because he was in an awful car and he absolutely shined that day. that was just the start of showing what he could do. but he hasn't been given the same resources as alex, those being the upgrades, so what more can he do compared to what he's doing now?

and i am actually sitting here crying as i type this because this is a driver who is giving it his all even when the entire world is against him, even when his entire TEAM is against him, and he is persevering to the best of his abilities. and i know exactly what it’s like to sit here, wanting to reach for your dreams and show everyone how good you are, but to have only your closest friends and family on your side, rooting for you. what it’s like to look everywhere around you and see everyone calling you crap and saying you should quit and that you aren’t and never will be good enough. to look around and see your closest friends and family cheering for you, yet feeling like crap because you aren't doing as well as you would want, feeling inferior to everyone around you.

news flash: logan sargeant is and will always be good enough. he just needs the opportunity to show it, and williams is ruining that for him.

and yes, i will defend him with my life. people who try to say otherwise can try to do the same hours — the WEEKS — worth of research that i’ve done about logan and his career because he IS a good driver and HE DESERVES BETTER.

any hate comments towards logan will be deleted, because i have neither the time nor the energy to deal with that and argue with logan haters. i've said all of what i know and can remember about him and his career above, and will add what i can as time goes on and i remember something else or learn something new. if you have the time to hate on logan, you have the time to do your research and examine the fact that he has the potential to do well, but is not in a position for that because of the abhorrent circumstances he is currently in.

thank you for coming to my ted talk. edit: i'd also really recommend reading this twitter thread!! it goes into some more depth on logan and his f2 / f1 career, and even a little bit about his f3 career. it's very informative and articulates much of logan's career and why he is a better driver than many believe very well. https://x.com/herrocult/status/1795747913588761027

[bumblebeem]

Transformers One (mostly Bumblebee) things I can't stop thinking about.

During the film's opening when Orion Pax falls into a room and onto a table full of energon, he bundles a load of it into his arms and is eating as much as he can until he drops it all and has to keep fleeing.

He's starving. The miners are being underfed as well as overworked.

Additionally, we see Bumblebee has three rations on his person when he offers one up to wake Alpha Trion. This might suggest he's keeping these rations for when he'll need them rather than being able to comfortably feed himself. For the miners it's a scarce resource they have to be careful with, and yet the transformers on the higher levels are enjoying it in abundance.

Bumblebee urging D-16 to "stay down" during Sentinel's attack.

This is an interesting line - if it was a nothing line meant to reflect compassion/empathy, he could have urged Sentinel to stop, or implored the 'bots next to him to take notice and do something. There were other ways to demonstrate "Bumblebee is kind and doesn't want his friend to get hurt."

But he doesn't look to authority or anyone else around him for help on D-16's behalf.

He instead instructs D-16 on how to behave to get the abuse to stop.

Which suggests to me this is learned behaviour, and he's giving advice based on previous experience. He's learned that taking the punishment and letting it happen gets the perpetrator to eventually stop, but resisting and fighting against them keeps it going.

That he was reassigned continually right down into sub-level 50 would tell me he's had more than his fair share of annoying a bigger 'bot enough to get himself knocked around once or twice. And very likely, nobody witnessing the abuse helped him, and/or the authority in the room was the one perpetrating the abuse anyway, so of course they weren't going to step in and help.

The only way out for him has always been to just take it :( So he assumes this will be the quickest/least painful way out for D-16, too.

Bumblebee is as much of a nerd as Orion is.

He knows about the High Guard (and is very excited to recite what he knows about them), he recognises the Primes as soon as they come across them in the cave, he watches the broadcast Orion locates inside Steve's head with interest... It's very subtly done, but I think this is the main shared trait between Orion and Bee. I wish we had seen more of Bumblebee trying to talk to Orion about this shared interest, but I get the main relationship they wanted to portray was that between Orion and D-16 (and really enjoyed that regardless!)

Bumblebee knows how to leave sub-level 50, yet he still goes back to his post, and doesn't appear to be using this escape-time to socialise with anyone else on the other floors he can access since he is so very clearly starved of social contact.

I'm not crying, okay, I'm just imagining this poor little guy sitting out of view watching the other cogless 'bots come and go, knowing he could get into more trouble and be even more isolated if he announces his presence and gets himself caught.

Also his "limited access" to the waste management area, and that thing he says about the main one in charge there preferring that he stays on task and really not liking any distractions... Ugh.

Bumblebee is purposely isolated in that room and there's apparently enough of a deterrent to keep him in it that he is forced to make imaginary friends out of trash to talk to instead.

I'm gonna go insane with grief and rage.