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5pm and Ocean eyes
#Diana and Luke have become really good friends#first impression: super funny#current impression: still super funny#he's really easy to talk to#Diana told Luke about the dinner next week with Aiden and Vee and how she decided not to go#Luke asked if she wanted to come to his house instead as hes having bbq with friends#ts4#sims 4#sims#thesims4#thesims#sims 4 screenshots#simblr#daa#sims 4 cc#the sims 4 screenies#the sims 4 gameplay#ts4 gameplay#ts4 screenies#ts4 stories#the sims 4 stories
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binding vow
#my art#jujutsu kaisen#jjk#megumi fushiguro#fushiguro megumi#megumi#fanart#jjk fanart#done....collapses#up until 3am last night n sitting fr another 8 hours today to finish....#g o d#the things i do fr him.....#let it no longer b said that i only do elaborate paintings rife with symbolism tht feature gojo. megu my one true muse#as is Correct and Just#real talk tho i was just sketching th things i wanted to include without giving much thought to the Themes#w the exception being the spider lilies lmao I Know What Those Mean#but i ended up with a REALLY good life/death/marriage/loyalty thing going on????#w the lotus/spider lily being purity+rebirth/death#((not 2 mention 'far from the one he loves' like HELLO?????))#also w the temari balls being associated w femininity but having him dressed in groom's attire#like???? 90% unplanned but i ended up both cooking And eating#also happy 2 report that betta fish were kinder 2 me than the koi were :) no trouble from these lil guys#in fact everything abt this piece kind of came easily beyond the initial colour swatch??#thank u fr being an easy subject megu ilysm im sorry abt all the death imagery i dont mean it pls focus instead on th Life imagery :((((#i put a ring on it so u gotta wake up.....cant leave yuuji @ th altar ....#SPEAKING OF THE RING IK ITS ON THE RIGHT HAND we've been over this and its Okay#if i read a single comment .........#sorry 2 that one person who was like 'the next binding vow better be at itfs' wedding' ik this probably wasnt what u meant#but it did inspire me smile :)#anyway i need 2 stop looking at this its been over 24 hours
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people need to start talking about Julian Blackthorn more because he’s awesome, he raised a family at 12 while running an institute with no experience, no help and no one knew for 5 years, he killed his father to protect his siblings, he went into faerie to get Mark back, he united downworlders and nephilim in order to fight the cohort, he’s very clever and his plans always work, he turned into a true nephilim and SURVIVED he’s one of my favorite characters and we NEED to talk bout him more. that’s all😁
#talk about him mooooreee#he needs to recognition and a hug#he went through SO much at such a young age and he derseves all the happiness he got#it’s not really talked about how he runs the institute and raised his siblings#but that doesn’t mean it was easy cuz it wasn’t#he sacrifices his childhood for his siblings#julian blackthorn#the dark artifices#the shadowhunter chronicles
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I feel ill. All the fools and villains who ever fell for my ploys, they're — they're here!
#gamingnetwork#vgedit#videogameedit#gamingedit#dailygaming#gameplaydaily#bg3edit#bg3#bgedit#bg3 astarion#astarion#astarion ancunin#:(#i think this scene is so interesting and speaks to why i get so annoyed by the 'any portrayal of astarion#as having an degree of a conscience or goodness in him is stupid and woobifying. hes chaotic evil and thats IT' thing#the grief and guilt. the way he tries to talk himself into it. the way he removes HIS OWN autonomy to do it. pretends theres no other choic#esp in the context of other moments where he preens when hes called good. he LIKES being smth other than what cazador made him#but hes so SCARED. he spends this dialogue talking himself into killing them and he HAS to talk himself into it BECAUSE this kind of evil#isnt easy to him despite it all. theres still scraps of a conscience there yknow? and he hides it from himself by pretending hes less free#astarion is fun BECAUSE hes weird and contradictory and a bad person with the capacity 4 good. BECAUSE he doesnt know what he actually want#also i love the idea of him in this moment rly thinking abt the player....like whether theyre friends or romances#a player whos been really kind and loving to him...kept him safe....trusted him....#thinking about how they let their guard down for him and how in his old life THIS would have been the life#hed been damning them to....years and centuries in a tiny cage somehow even worse than his
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Do you think Saix' emotional co-dependence started as a Nobody or did it start as human Isa and just grew to an unhealthy degree?
#i like to think it started as a human partially bc that would make the most sense to me#(as xemnas/org xiii likes to use its members established weaknesses against them and saix/isas attatchment to axel/lea would be very easy to#manipulate him)#but also it furthers the parallels between saix' jealousy and rikus arc in kh1#which i think is fun#obviously it wouldnt have been nearly as big a problem back then as it ended up being later on#partially bc isa wouldnt have been manipulated and gaslit so much but also#bc he wouldnt really have any fuel for it like saix got#no super-important super-secret mission they have to do#no forced emotional distance#and the idea of being 'replaced' would have been much more fueled purely by anxiety than any actual possibility of happening#oh and he also would have at least one other friend (subject x)#even if its one he wouldnt be able to talk to all the time#anyway im rambling. saix/isa got fucked up bad and i hope he gets loads of therapy bc god does he need it#isa#saix#lea#axel#leaisa#akusai#it feels kinda wrong to tag their noboy names when its them as a kids#kingdom hearts#kingdom hearts birth by sleep#kh#kh bbs#art#my art#xanders art#digital art#fan art
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Every so often I remember Lirin was a doctor while Dalinar was Blackthorn, and his entire worldview makes a shit ton of sense. I can go on and acknowledge that he was a subject of Sadeas but really... nah. That man absolutely witnessed first-hand the casualties of that war.
#lirin did nothing wrong#yes even after the scene during the siege of urithiru. kaladin did not need to kill that singer#teft wasn't in any immediate danger at that point when they were being gathered. kaladin was the person who escalated everything#i don't (wholly) condemn kaladin beyond it being the first foot soldier he killed since oathbringer iirc.#i don't need him to act perfectly logically he wasn't in a good headspace#but lirin wasn't entirely unreasonable either.#cosmere#cfsbf#stormlight#stormlight archive#the way of kings#words of radiance#oathbringer#rhythm of war#lirin stormblessed#dalinar kholin#it's also understandable why he's fucking weird throughout the rest of RoW#talking to someone close to you after a heated argument is fucking uncomfortable as shit#and sometimes it's really tempting to refuse to acknowledge it instead because what the fuck do you do when that shit happens?#if communication was easy we wouldn't need diplomats.#we also see first hand how much lirin is lying to himself when it comes to resistance#both in hearthstone and in urithiru he keeps sticking his hands into the conflict and covering up resistance#despite the fact that he claims he doesn't believe in it. he is naturally a defiant person he just decided to not be super obvious about it#i think a lot of people don't like them because their own relationship with their parents is frustrating#and project their issues onto kaladin when they see them collide#lirin and kaladin are the same person.#a friend of mine who projects super hard on kaladin told me that if he ever met his clone even if they were identical in personality#he'd hate him because he's super bullheaded and stubborn#but also deeply fervent in his beliefs.#anyways i'm probably running out of tags
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Ride 794: The culmination race
Pag 1
1: “There are people who you don't meet often, but when you do meet them you get along really well”
2: I heard that from a classmate a long time ago
And I thought “there's no way that there are people like that”
4: There's some strange people
5: It's funny, if they asked me now
Pag 2
1: I'd answer “of course there are”!!
Pag 3
1: “One of them lives in Chiba”, I'd say!!
2: One day, that guy was collapsed on Hakone and I helped him
3: Unexpectedly, he also rode a bike
4: We met again at CSP
5: Like me
6: he's a climber
Pag 4
1: We rarely meet
but when we do meet
2: We laugh
Pag 5
1: at the same silly things
2: Sakamichi-kun!! It's you!!
Pag 6
1: They passed the 1km left point!!
Manami and Mountain King!
Just a few minutes until they reach the mountain line!!
Soon!
Goo Hakogaku!!
Take it, Chiba!!
Pag 7
1: They're still neck and neck!!
Amazing, neither of them is yielding!!
It's a race of willpower!!
2: Until the mountain line
3: 800m left!!
4: My hands
5: are becoming numb
6: But I'll keep doing my best!!
Pag 8
2: Wh-wh-what do I do
My heart is pounding in my chest....
3: They're arriving!!
Huh!? They're arriving!? Wait, my heart isn't ready
Not yet
Not yet!? Not yet!!
4: Why am I so nervous....
Even though I'm not the one running
Pag 9
1: Even though the one who's running and having a hard time is Sangaku...
2: I'll drink this lemon tea the old lady at the ryokan gave me, and I'll calm down
3: Ohh, you're going to cheer at the Inter High?
Oh, and you come from Kanagawa!?
Yes, well
That's amazing
4: It's delicious
5: But
6: I'm stuck on one thing
7: Was it really a good thing that I came here to cheer?
Pag 10
1: One month ago
2: Kanagawa Prefecture, Hakone Academy
3: Ah
4: Class rep
5: Huh? From above!?
Huh, where is this voice coming from!?
The boys' toilets
Ah!?
Pag 11
1: Wait a moment, there's something I wanna ask you
Toi... ah!?
2: Huh!? Wait!? What!? Directly!?
Use the inside stairs... be caref....
2: Hop
Okay I get it, I get it, I'll come there
4: You know the other day... while I was running... a butterfly was flying,. And then I thought “oh, it's gone?”
And then when I went home and took off my jersey, it came out of it fluttering
What- you just came down the second floor so smoothly and started making conversation!!
Pag 12
1: Am I not amazing like a magician!?
Boys are strong...
Ah, yes yes, that's true
2: Is that all you wanted to tell me? I've been asked to go to the audiovisual room to bring these documents
3: Are you coming to the Inter High?
5: Huh
6: “Something he wanted to ask”
This year
Ah
7: “Inter High”
Pag 13
1: You came to the Inter High every year
I didn't know you liked road racing so much, Class rep
I...
2: I always thought
You even passed me a drink on the mountain last year
I thought
3: After last year's Inter High ended
4: I kept thinking about it even on the train home
5: that it was because I went to see him that Sangaku...
6: lost
Pag 14
1: I know it's unrelated... but, at the same place, screaming the same words
This year it'll be in Kyushu thought, so it's far...
2: It's small, it's a small thing, but if it gets in Sangaku's way
Hakogaku is going by plane, so it's easy
3: If he was even just a little distracted because of me and that made a small difference
(Win, Sangaku!!
Win, Sangaku!!)
4: Then I think it's better if I don't go this year
6: Because I want him to win
Pag 15
1: Ah, as expected Kyushu is too over-budget
That's not... ah... uhm
2: …. yeah, sorry
3: Well, I'll tell you the highlights
There'll be a camera, so you can watch videos
4: Watch it
The first day's mountain
“The first day's... mountain”
5: I think Sakamichi-kun will probably there too
“Sakamichi-kun”... the guy with the round glasses
6: We'll probably fight there
I think
Pag 16
1: It will be the culmination race of these three years
2: “Culmination”!!
3: “Of these three years”...!!
4: Such heavy words... this is Sangaku being serious
Culmination....!?
Pag 17
1: We have to fulfill our promise, so I'm sure Sakamichi-kun will come
2: “Sakamichi-kun”... they must be... close friends....
3: I think it'll probably end up being our best race
4: A... are you close friends!? You.. you and that Sakamichi-kun!?
5: Hahaha
Well, I guess
6: Even though we only contact each other two or three times a year
And that's being close friends!?
7: I lost against him during our first year... Hakogaku ended up losing, so I resented him
But I was blaming the wrong thing, because after all it was because of my lack of ability, wasn't it?
8: Now we often talk after races
Is... that so
9: But why don't you send more texts to each other? Is- is he really a close friend!?
Of course!!
Pag 18
1: After all we both “like hills”
Pag 19
2: Come see me if you can save money
Ye... yeah
3: Sangaku's smiling face that day was incredibly persuasive
I really wanted to see you race
4: So I came
to Kyushu!!
5: But
7: I really don't want to move forward, after all
It's enough if I can just see him a little... from behind here
Pag 20
1: What are you doing
2: Hyaa I'm sorry!!
I'm sorry for not paying attention to who was behind me! I'll just lean down a little!
Why don't you move forward?
3: Huh
4: Isn't he
5: a close friend of yours, and you used to always listen to his nonsense?
To... Toudou-san!!
#yowamushi pedal#yowapeda#yowamushi pedal translations#yowapeda manga#yowamushi pedal manga#yowamushi pedal spoilers#ride 794#please manami if youre so in love with onoda then just contact him more than a couple of times a year????#he looks so fond and happy when talking about him ;A; theyre so freaking cute#also class rep is so adorable :')#baby girl why would you think that!!! she really loves sangaku so much i love theeeem#really she deserves an award for having been able to stay his friend for so long#its really not easy dealing with him especially when there arent bikes involved lol#but she did that!! they're besties!! And they love each other so much!!#Oh i loved this chapteeeer
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astarion origin playthrough worth it just for all the extra moments where he does the "sad wet cat" face
#bg3#bg3 spoilers#thoughts about media#astarion#*kisses his forehead* my awful little bastard man... i love you and your big sad watery eyes.#IT'S SO FUCKING QUIET THOUGH IF YOU YOURSELF ARE PLAYING HIM GOOD LORD#I'M SO USE TO HIM COMPLAINING TO MY TAV!!!!#OR BANTERING WITH HIM OR KARLACH OR WYLL!!!#I MISS HIS THEATRICS!!!!!!!#not that it's ENTIRELY quiet. until i found karlach i was travelling with shadowheart lae'zel and gale.#and let me tell you. gale and lae'zel do NOT shut the fuck up if they are together.#they were literally having an entire tinder date while we were trecking through the woods to go get karlach.#i NEVER knew they talk so much because while i've travelled with them individually in past saves...#...i've NEVER had them in my party at the same time!#gale is actually pretty nice to lae'zel! he asks a lot of questions but doesn't condescend her as he does others sometimes.#that's probably because he's afraid of her though. I would be too were I nothing more than a wizard with 8 strength.#I do like how you can look at pretty much any two companions and get a well written and generally enjoyable dynamic!#It feels like they considered that a lot of people would want to maybe pair off the companions they didn't romance with each other!#and wanted it to be easy for really any pairing to work... if a person just paid attention to their shared interactions.
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For the Swanatello fam: what does everyone miss most about Donnie during his lake-induced absences?
for donnie, leo will gladly give every scrap of patience and grace and gentleness he has. he doesn't mind explaining things. he doesn't mind telling his brother the same things over and over. he doesn't mind it when donnie forgets or doesn't understand or needs his help to remember or process things.
but he misses the banter. the back-and-forth. the stupid fights and pranks and 'you said's' and 'i told you so's.' and, perhaps a bit selfishly, he misses when he didn't always feel like he had to be the bigger person for him. he misses when he still had the space to be childish and immature and petty towards his twin, and it wouldn't hurt either of them the way it tends to now.
[ swanatello ]
#swanatello#its no fun to pick a fight if you cant apologize and make up later#getting in that perfect GOTTEM line doesnt feel v good if the only reason is bc the other guy is confused/cant remember what ur talking abt#sure leo is still his typical brand of obnoxious and extra most of the time. esp when donnie is having a good day.#but the rules are just so different now.#hes so frustrated and tense all the time he has to step carefully because if he doesnt#he loses himself and crosses the line and says things that he doesnt mean and will regret#things that used to roll right off donnies back now sometimes really hurt him because he doesnt remember the context#or just because his emotional state is so volatile right now. hes scared and confused almost all the time now.#its stressful. its exhausting. so the threshold is different#leo will be gentle and careful and thoughtful with donnie for as long as he needs to be. even if he has to be for the rest of his life.#but he still misses when he felt like he knew all the rules. when it was easy. when he didnt have to be.#rottmnt#save rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles#save rise of the tmnt#rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles#rise of the tmnt#donniesona#tmnt#tmnt 2018#tmnt 2k18#rottmnt disaster twins#asks
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#Nightmare is SoooooOOOooo easy to make Friendshaped#I love Nightmare#But also like-I think about the familiars since they are part of vergil also being#in a way#Nero's collective dads#Nero can have so many dads#But real talk September was pretty rough#So Bon Apetite#have a goofy drawing and I hope everyone is doing well#nero dmc#devil may cry fanart#dmc fanart#devil may cry#dmc v#dmc nightmare#dmc nero#nightmare dmc#But also I think Nightmare is really fascinating as a entity#I love how little we get of Nightmare but I also wish we got more#I just think he's neat#my artwork#my art
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rediscovered this vine and couldn't resist
#this was a lesson in why thumbnailing is important!#bc instead of an actual angle change i drew the exact same angle just slightly to the left#i literally almost thumbnailed this but i went 'nah this is simple i dont need to' .... mf you needed to#i normally have no interest in making little animatic type things but these guys are just to easy and fun to draw#might make more vine based ones#anyway posting this at 1 am bc im a coward <3#welcome home#welcome home puppet show#welcome home fanart#scribble salad#i really hope im remembering correctly that frank is a little aware? not to wally's extent but hes got some awareness?#anyway this vine is what i imagine being on the show was like for him#wally kept just staring off and talking at an invisible point#frank must've thought he was completely bonkers huh
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ppl who are talking shit about the manga just because Endeavor is not in jail and the others still talk to him -what are you even talking about?
Some people already talked about how relatable this is for Asian families and the society that punishes in any case victims more than abusers -but also, this is really common in other contexts too. Idk who is able to just get a whole family to agree on punishing the father, of all of the members (usually the one that holds the most power, emotionally and economically), and start the whole process to get him to go jail. Who thinks this is so easy?
Dabi expected to change the way people saw his father by exposing him, but as we saw, people still consider him a hero and admire him, and in any case people were criticizing his inability to control his kid. Are we not reading the same manga? Their society is literally trying to be the same as it was, because thats what the status quo does. You think a war or two change what is considered good in a system? You think the cycle could just stop so easily? That society doesnt support abusers, especially when the one who exposes it is "the villain" accusing "the greatest hero"? Or you even think, in a micro level, that its easy to cut ties with your abusers, especially when they tell you they want to change for the better?
Family is extremely important in many, many cultures, to the point that is a relevant point to bring up in political discussions -the familial structure just changing a little bit is considered reason enough to vote the far right. Women are still shamed collectively for getting divorced, labelled as bad mothers, bad women, inhuman. Kids not talking to their parents says worse things about the victims than the abusers. Why wouldn't you talk to them, after everything they have done for you? Why wouldnt you, when you owe them your whole existence?
And you are here, expecting a divorce, everyone going no contact, Endeavor in jail and everyone all of the sudden thinking they should get into other people's privacy -because getting abused, hurt, etc, at large, is considered a personal problem, that you should resolve on your own without involving others.
Because thats what its normalized, not acting when people need help. That's the whole point.
Everything will be the same. Except it just can't.
And its worthy to show the how to start getting there, than pretending things would change just like that..
We are living with the rising of the new far right trying to get votes, multiple genocides while the military tries to recruit using tiktok, AI and cute girls, multiple countries maintaining slavery systems and models, accelerated exploitation of nature, people and life in general, climate change and covid deniers getting in power... And you think a war and the exposure of abuse would change a society and social system in that way?
No, the change doesnt come from magic, just like that, but thru action and organization. Im hoping the next chapters can show us how Izuku feels about most people pretending everything is fine when he cant agree.
#grrr talking#slightly bnha spoilers#I guess?#if you have abusive family members and could easily do that good for you#really#but its not the case for so many people#things are so much more complicated#im tired of people thinking this has an easy solution#and also#not all victims feel the same way about their abusers#or some they hate them#others are neutral#others prefer to ignore them#others love them#I appreciate how dabi has still more complicated feelings about it too than just “I hate him and im over it”#he wishes it was that simple#but its not
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kids when they hear that their dad is back in town VS. kids when theyre hanging out with a conman that accidentally stole their wallet once
im not even joking btw
bonus heres me being crazy about them in dms ^^^
#mob psycho 100#mp100#shou suzuki#sho suzuki#reigen arataka#i know sho doesnt actually BELIEVE his dad is back but even just that split second reaction is a weird one to have over your dad coming bac#he was like 'say sike rn... wait that aint right.'#shou watching them on the bottom floor while being isolated up in the corner at the end of the third stage play. and saying#'it's nice that they're so easygoing.' all wistfully???? im killing somebody#reigen calling him a poor thing and worrying about him DESPITE knowing his mischievous ways. ugh#gonna quote my reaction to clip rq#'bro [shou] heard him [reigen] talking about guardianship over children and making sure theyre safe over anything else and was like-#'this is getting too real for me i gotta make fun of him immediately.''#idc WHAT yall think to ME that was such a thick layer of defense mechanism that even though reigen's guardianship speech wasnt directed#at Sho he still felt the intrinsic urge to shoot back because of what hes experienced with people who are SUPPOSED to be protecting him.#would yall believe me if i told you i am totally insane#there are SO MANY THINGS. woven into their interactions that really enhance it#its totally silly! yes! but also! it is a legitimate ARC of GROWTH within their relationship! we watch as Sho starts off#with no trust in the man at all (although for a pretty good reason)#and over time he realizes hes NOT total shitbag#of course this doesnt mean hes completely vulnerable with him. its easy to infer that his distrust in certain people is formed from#a lifetime of being let down and incapability of dependency on certain trusted adults. his defense must be so heavily built up#even after gaining some sort of trust from Shou Reigen will NOT be exempt from his impish defense mechanisms.#sho will not make himself emotionally available as he would then be open to being hurt by someone else he thought could trust#his 'carefree and prankish' behavior is the wall between himself and such an intense feeling of disappointment and hurt and loneliness#but i like to think hes also just silly. hehe#man that stage play huh. shoots every fatal drug directly into my bloodstream#shou's trust and father issues VS stupid conman who has the common sense to not let children be beat up by grown ass adults. who will win.#i mightve forgotten something but. i think this is pretty packed full already so i am pleased. thank you for reading <3#meowmeow art
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Is that guy your type? Huh? You let him hold you. He was drunk. And he has a lover. Didn't you see? I'm not that easy, okay? ...What about me? [...] It was only a one-night thing.
KISEKI: DEAR TO ME Ep. 10
#kiseki: dear to me#kisekiedit#kdtm#kiseki dear to me#ai di x chen yi#chen yi x ai di#nat chen#chen bowen#louis chiang#chiang tien#jiang dian#userspring#uservid#userspicy#userrain#pdribs#userjjessi#*cajedit#*gif#this is purely a study in microexpressions WHEEEE#contrary to the tags on my ep13 gifset chen yi IS PAYING ATTENTION#his ass is LISTENING ATTENTIVELY he is catching where ai di is slipping.#and everything about ai di. every flicker in his face every hesitation every word. is speaking volumes & giving something away#i just wanna point out. real quick. that in the second to last gif ai di's eyes flit to chen yi's lips Before chen yi says 'what about me?'#& i cant even talk about the last gif without wanting to jump into the ocean#also thinking about chen yi asking about ai di's type bc my reaction was also 'huh?' the first time i heard that#but then you think about it like......the fact that chen yi probably *hasnt* thought about it before.#like just with the gang theyre in i mean. where everyone is gay. so outside of noticing preferences idk if he really.....noticed much more#& now he's trying to figure out what he's missed but he still KNOWS ai di. and ai di saying he's not that easy is just. EXACTLY.#the answer chen yi was looking for. that solidifies Everything ai di is trying so desperately to hide. that? and his eyes.
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We started rewatching Young Justice recently and all of the "sidekicks" were upset at being treated like children and being kept in the dark and not having access to information and i just?? I don't think Batman would believe in withholding information from Robin
Dick gets into everything everywhere all of the time there is no peace or privacy from him. And Bruce has never dealt with children before how is he supposed to know whats 'appropriate' for a child to know or have access to.
Speedy: it's such bs that they don't trust us with information Robin: haha what? Green Arrow: It's hard keeping information from my partner/subordinate but it's for his own good. He's a child and he can't be trusted with that sort of power yet. Do you struggle with Robin wanting access to information he doesn't have the clearance for? Batman, who's never kept a single secret from Dick and couldn't if he tried: um. yeah. absolutely.
#young justice#ted talks#batman#dc robin#dc#dick grayson#you're telling me dick 'whelmed' grayson doesn't walk in on bruce pissing just to complain that they're out of poptarts#If he thought Bruce was hiding files from him that just ENSURES he's going to read them#his bestie/gf/ex-gf is batgirl/oracle she can get whatever information he needs#Bruce has to pretend to be SO normal about files he doesn't really want Dick looking at#has to pretend they're 'boring' and 'easy' and 'not worth your time robin'#but can't be TOO casual about them otherwise Dick thinks something's up
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do you know why vale seems to have a soft spot for pedrosa?
there's not any single one reason, I don't think, but here's are a few contributing factors that come to mind:
history! in large part because of the honda link, dani's the alien he's known the longest... valentino was the number one honda rider at a time at which dani was honda's rising star. photo on the right is from the 2001 honda celebrations at the last race of the season (when dani was sixteen); from oxley's valentino rossi: all his races: "that night vale celebrated in style at a raucous honda victory party, where he taught honda youngsters daijiro kato and dani pedrosa how to drink". they've known each other forever! valentino was getting teenage dani drunk! quite natural to be fond of someone you've seen grow up like that, even if they are being moulded to be your next big rival
circumstance! the way it basically works with valentino is that if you want to have a feud with him, you generally need to have a title fight with him when you’re already ‘established’ rivals (ignore marc, that’s its own thing, 2015 is a freaky season). biaggi and valentino were enemies headed into 2001 and then were worse enemies, he was cool with sete in year one but not year two, mostly *wiggles hand* the same with casey and jorge… feuds aren't build overnight. valentino and dani weren’t ever really direct title rivals - closest they got was 2006 and 2008, but in both cases valentino probably didn’t see dani as his main problem that year. there wasn't really any competitive necessity for valentino to get nasty... also with one or two notable exceptions, valentino did kinda have dani handled in their actual wheel-to-wheel fights, which let’s face it probably didn’t hurt
yapping! so this is just a theory but it’s one I believe strongly in. you know how valentino loves to talk, right? the thing about pressers and podiums is that you're always going to have a few regular attendees, if you will, corresponding to the front runners in any given year. now, unfortunately for valentino, there were periods of time where almost every other regular attendee was someone he had pretty active beef with. that doesn’t mean he always avoided yapping at them, but relatively speaking you want a guy you can build up some good repartee with to pass the time. dani was his guy… less complicated than casey and jorge, plus dani is polite enough to go along with it and maybe even enjoy chatting to valentino (it’s been known to happen). pressers can be boring and at podiums you're still full of adrenaline, valentino wants to share a joke with someone! my completely unscientific sense is that valentino does this a lot with dani around 2008-ish to 2012, then for two years marc is the number one yap victim, then for a while it’s a bit…? oddly valentino does seem to chat quite a lot with jorge in 2015... he likes to throw in a quirky behavioural pattern sometimes to keep you guessing. anyway then in 2016 he is Actively Ignoring two of these men so vale goes!! hi there dani!! and takes it from there (though the field is more mixed up post-2015 so he becomes more of an opportunistic yapper). in general, valentino will chat to pretty much anyone with A Few Exceptions, but he does usually have a bit of an order of preference
dani’s personality! now, obviously dani is very much capable of feuds, but he’s not that naturally combative a character. valentino generally needs a competitive justification for beef, though some personal animosity can help too… but he never really hated any of that trio of young riders to come through. valentino's known dani forever, he’s been around dani a fair bit because of their respective statuses in the sport, dani isn’t going out of his way to pick fights with valentino, so no reason not to get on! he does clearly quite like chatting to dani and seems pretty fond of him even towards the start of the alien era, at a time in which it was broadly expected that dani not casey would emerge as vale's primary challenger... god knows if the relationship would have soured if dani had assumed that mantle (probably at least a little lol) but failing that, valentino does just seem to quite like him. y’know, sometimes it’s like that
They Have Also Had Their Disagreements, But There Hasn’t Been Much Cause For It To Escalate Further. these disagreements have tended to be over racing standards, where dani is generally in the ‘you people are all insane’ camp and valentino is generally in the ‘ah it’s fine’ camp (though, obviously, there is nuance here… cf vale also criticising sic over the le mans 2011 incident that left dani with the broken collarbone). generally, they don't get into direct conflict over it, more of an underlying difference in positions (hey, aragon 2013 is an example)... but there’s been dani’s suggestion that valentino’s sepang 2015 stance is inconsistent with his generally laissez faire approach, and also some other isolated little scuffles over the years like say 2017 aragon (see below). pretty small scale stuff in the grand scheme of things and if you've been on-track rivals for that long it's kinda inevitable you'll eventually disagree about some stuff, but perhaps worth bringing up
went through all of the alien combos in my head and these two slot in just behind dani/casey as probably the two most consistently beef-free inter-alien relationships? dani/casey gets extra credit for surviving The Teammate Test. but, y'know, the thing about valentino is that he's a sociable, outgoing guy... he likes talking to people... he's actually interested in them... he's a decent conversationalist, easy to get on with, all that stuff. so if you expose valentino to this nice fella who at most was like... perhaps a bit more reserved towards the start of his time in the premier class (partly due to his mentor's approach), but really was generally pretty chill... well, if valentino isn't given any reason to hate dani, then default state is that he won't. good on them etc
#valentino took the team dani or team jorge thing too seriously and had already decided he hated jorge based on vibes#so he was like oh i guess i’ll be a dani fan. he just pretended not to notice the reconciliation... in his head they're both still beefing#valentino paid dani off for estoril 2006 and he’s been nice to him ever since to keep him quiet#not because he's worried everyone will know he tried to rig the title but because he's embarrassed it didn't work#valentino had a long con planned to use dani to psychologically torment jorge but their reconciliation scuppered his schemes#valentino felt so guilty about not offering dani the chair he brought to the sepang 2006 podium#DESPITE dani’s knee being fucked that he’s been trying to repent ever since#valentino got really excited at jerez 2008 to stand on a podium where the other two were the ones involved in an active feud....#a feud rekindled by dani's refusal to shake jorge's hand at qatar. so vale's always been grateful to dani for this special experience#valentino has such poor posture that the natural incline of his back makes it easy for him to talk right into dani's ears#valentino said in his autobiography he finds short people funny when they're angry. dani’s short and was weird around jorge#valentino had a feud arc planned with dani for 2010 (he wanted a different one every year) but broke his leg and never got round to it#brr brr#//#batsplat responds#alien tag#in all seriousness if there is a silver bullet reason they get on that i've never come across please feel free to write in#need to just make sure everyone has noticed sete in the background of that 2006 photo. has everyone seen him
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