#highly confusing to me

[me-sploh-rada-imas]

why the fuck did sea star pick this quote to advertise joker out???

[koobiie]

like and reblog if you would give her a turrón ‼️

[so-very-small]

give your giantess OC a sword. or perhaps a tasteful dagger. she needs it so so bad she told me herself

[princyvish]

I've been. Unsurprisingly obsessed with this fic and the most recent chapter at the time of posting gave me a very distinct image of a drawing. Where Sanji is reacting to Koby after he beat up Nezumi and those other Marines.

Koby's Awful No-Good Very Confusing Day written by @okiedoketm!

[makorragal-312]

Gotta admit, after last night's episode, I was completely lost as to what the conflict was gonna be between Buck and Tommy that was gonna lead to them eventually breaking up.

But now that I think about it, I think Tommy is going to finally make his feelings known (most likely without meaning to) that he's envious of the family dynamic within the current 118 and that he wants to experience it.

This will lead to Buck questioning how he never experienced it or made any strong connections with anyone if he was in the 118 through both Gerrard AND Bobby. And that's gonna lead to Buck finding out about Tommy's past behavior under Gerrard and how he treated Chim and Hen and then it's gonna make Buck confront Tommy about longing for that connection when he could've had it had he not been a bigot.

The two are gonna fight and then BOOM, breakup.

[gothsuguru]

i’m having so much trouble w just the Start of this fic because i don’t know where/how to start 😭 i’m posting this when the dash is dead but if you see this plz lmk if i could get your opinion on a few things 😪

^ me this morning w my fic on my mind </3 here’s a loserboy suguru for your troubles…………… <333

[hadesknockedupintheunderworld]

Agshsbsbsj thinking again about my mom being like "Is Tails a girl??" after that scene from Sonic movie 2 where Sonic and Tails have a heart to heart and then sleep beside each other

Like

Woman played Sonic 2

She saw how that scene was directed and asked the rest of the family if Tails was supposed to be a girl because she was confused

Meanwhile I was sitting there with second hand embarrassment (pre being a sonic fan) like "No no I have to be misreading this like they did not actually direct this to make it seem like one of those usual romance heart to heart scenes between the male and female leads. They didn't literally subtextually code them as gay did they??"

[ego-sandwich]

OKAY SO, with the new Soulsucker lyrics "out" (from what can be figured out from videos and things people have posted), I think the idea I had of Soulsucker was kind of wrong. But now I have more theories for St*rfucker!!! So I'll share some of them here, but feel free to contribute because sometimes this gets hella confusing!!

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THE PROPERTY is the safe space Awsten built to protect himself from his fears or insecurities, as known as the demons.

THE SOULSUCKER comes from the part of Awsten that doesn’t want to leave his safe space. In order to protect the Property, he will destroy everything that tries to enter it (like in self sabotage when he ends a relationship before it can hurt him). However, that overprotection is also harmful, because that means Awsten won’t try to step out of his comfort zone and confront his demons. Because of that, the Soulsucker is also a demon, something Awsten needs to get rid off in order to leave the Property.

It's been a pleasure (So destroy my world, I'll tape the cracks) – you can try to ruin the property, but he'll protect it

It's nice to meet you ('Cause what you give out's what you get back) – he will destroy whatever tries to harm the property

THE ST*RFUCKER, as mentioned in the song of same title, is the only way out of the Property. If leaving a comfort zone means facing what you’re hiding yourself from, then the St*rfucker is Awsten’s alter that has learned how to face the demons, or is trying to (ex: the lusty lyrics that reject religious guilt).

To be honest, I'm still trying to figure him out, but that's what makes sense in my head for now. We mostly got Soulsucker content, such as Intellectual Property, but the next album/thing will be St*r's perspective supposedly so there's that. Just have to wait a little!

The St*rfucker and Soulsucker hate each other, but it hasn’t always been that way. They were once one, Awsten, but grew apart due to inner his conflicts. Now while Soulsucker wants Awsten safe inside the property, St*r believes he’s better off out of it.

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STORYLINE

We can't really pin point where exactly the story starts, but it was surely presented for us in Greatest Hits. Throughout the dreamy section of the album, we see Awsten talking about the demons and how they haunt him, as well as the presence of another character and the need of being somewhere safe.

I see his fucking face but he's not me - MAGNETIC (hinting Soulsucker)

Driving where no one can catch me Need a place to breathe and the sun is setting - Ice Bath (hinting the property)

Enough time to right my wrongs because I've wronged a lot - Ice Bath, hinting the religious guilt, another reason why he'll be hiding himself in the Property.

I won't quote the whole album, but every song show one of his fears or insecurities if you get deep into the lyrics.

What I think that happened: by the end of Greatest Hits, Awsten builds the Property (and I suppose he built it because all of the worker outfits he's been wearing to shows). The need to keep himself safe originates the Soulsucker, the protector of his safe space. Intellectual Property shows his ways of protecting the Property with destructive behaviours, such as self sabotaging (take a wild guess) or distancing himself from things that could possible hurt him (Closer). His strong prensence, especially on stage, means that he has taken over while Awsten is still inside the property, unable to leave.

St*rfucker originates from the needs of confrontation, facing what it takes to get the things he craves for. Overcoming the demons, facing his religious guilt in order to be able to love, to be loved and enjoy things that his demons wouldn't allow him to. He is the only one who can get Awsten out of the Property, and I believe the next releases from the band will show him trying to do so.

[boyfridged]

i’ve been thinking a lot about what is so unique and appealing about 80s robin jay’s moral standing that got completely lost in plot later on. and i think a huge part of it is that in a genre so focused on crime-fighting, his motivations and approach don’t focus on the category of crime at all. in fact, he doesn’t seem to believe in any moral dogma; and it’s not motivated by nihilism, but rather his open-heartedness and relational ethical outlook.

we first meet (post-crisis) jay when he is stealing. when confronted about his actions by bruce he’s confident that he didn’t do anything wrong – he’s not apologetic, he doesn’t seem to think that he has morally failed on any account. later on, when confronted by batman again, jay says that he’s no “crook.” at this point, the reader might assume that jay has no concept of wrong-doing, or that stealing is just not one of the deeds that he considers wrong-doing. yet, later on we see jay so intent on stopping ma gunn and her students, refusing to be implicit in their actions. there are, of course, lots of reasons for which we can assume he was against stealing in this specific instance (an authority figure being involved, the target, the motivations, the school itself being an abusive environment etc.), but what we gather is that jay has an extremely strong sense of justice and is committed to moral duty. that's all typical for characters in superhero comics, isn't it? however, what remains distinctive is that this moral duty is not dictated by any dogma – he trusts his moral instincts. this attitude – his distrust toward power structures, confidence in his moral compass, and situational approach, is something that is maintained throughout his robin run. it is also evident in how he evaluates other people – we never see him condemning his parents, for example, and that includes willis, who was a petty criminal. i think from there arises the potential for a rift between bruce and jay that could be, have jay lived, far more utilised in batman comics than it was within his short robin run.

after all, while bruce’s approach is often called a ‘philosophy of love and care,’ he doesn’t ascribe to the ethics of care [eoc] (as defined in modern scholarship btw) in the same way that jay does. ethics of care ‘deny that morality consists in obedience to a universal law’ and focus on the ideals of caring for other people and non-institutionalized justice. bruce, while obviously caring, is still bound by his belief in the legal system and deontological norms. he is benevolent, but he is also ultimately morally committed to the idea of a legal system and thus frames criminals as failing to meet these moral (legal-adjacent) standards (even when he recognizes it is a result of their circumstances). in other words, he might think that a criminal is a good person despite leading a life of crime. meanwhile, for jay there is no despite; jay doesn't think that engaging in crime says anything about a person's moral personality at all. morality, for him, is more of an emotional practice, grounded in empathy and the question of what he can do for people ‘here and now.’ he doesn’t ascribe to maxims nor utilitarian calculations. for jay, in morality, there’s no place for impartiality that bruce believes in; moral decisions are embedded within a net of interpersonal relationships and social structures that cannot be generalised like the law or even a “moral code” does it. it’s all about responsiveness. 

to sum up, jay's moral compass is relative and passionate in a way that doesn't fit batman's philosophy. this is mostly because bruce wants to avoid the sort of arbitrariness that seems to guide eoc. also, both for vigilantism, and jay, eoc poses a challenge in the sense that it doesn't create a certain 'intellectualised' distance from both the victims and the perpetrators; there's no proximity in the judgment; it's emotional.

all of this is of course hardly relevant post-2004. there might be minimal space for accommodating some of it within the canon progression (for example, the fact that eoc typically emphasises the responsibility that comes with pre-existing familial relationships and allows for prioritizing them, as well as the flexibility regarding moral deliberations), but the utilitarian framework and the question of stopping the crime vs controlling the underworld is not something that can be easily reconciled with jay’s previous lack of interest in labeling crime. 

[popponn]

i'm this close to opening discussion whether (is it possible that) kaiser is a playboy or not

[interactivefictionramblings]

[Vague spoilers for Heaven’s Secret: Requiem.]

As I was playing on M-LIs-only, so that I could be Anna’s friend without worry, I just assumed she wasn’t in That Scene on my PT because of that (which was actually a relief, it was deeply uncomfortable enough as it was, and I’ve come to headcanon Anna as like a sister to my MC).

This scene was all kinds of weird tbh. Why was it like that? Why arrange things this way???? It could have been done better so easily, esp. in Anna’s case. I mean maybe some players did want something like that, but it shouldn’t have been the default; debatable dream reasoning or not. I don’t like how it tricked 💎 out of so many because of the phrasing/implications.

[sonknuxadow]

warning for shadow manga spoilers i guess . for something that was already shown in the first chapter so not too major but putting it there just in case. but idk why some people are so upset over black doom influencing the gun soldiers in the manga and treating this as a serious lore reveal that black doom killed maria. because it feels way more likely that its black doom messing with shadows head forcing him to relive marias death again (which is a thing hes already established to be able to do) and not a direct flashback portraying the events exactly how they happened. hello can anyone hear me

[nogitsunbae]

Highly tempted to write a Star Wars AU where Billy lives with both his mom and Neil on tatooine but Neil isn’t his actual dad (do you see where this is going) and he hates it there and is saving up from podracing to get him and his mom away when two Jedi suddenly show up, one is old and grumpy and the other is young and a bit of a bitch but billy likes them anyway Hopper is like “damn the force is strong with this one Steve run a count” and Steve is like “yeah sure this scrappy dude from an outer rim planet is strong with the force” but then BAM Billy is the chosen one and hopper somehow convinces the council to let him take him and Steve as his padawans and I’m getting away from myself but billy and steve both becoming knighted and falling for each other during the war but oh no attachment is forbidden and oh no billy is having visions of his mom AND steve dying and what’s he going to do?!?

[red-moon-at-night]

Paris and Helen leave for Troy with the aid of Aphrodite — The Fall of Troy/La caduta di Troia (1911)

[trashcanwithsprinkles]

Do you have any Zhongli/Zhongchi fic recs? I haven’t found any that are nearly as good as yours 😔😔

funnily enough someone already asked this, but it was quite a while ago and tumblr is a mess to search old shit thru so here, this is the post this was asked during the ao3 crisis of- .......last year? i can't remember. either way, the post starts w me saying i don't have all the names and links but dw, after ao3 came back up i edited the post so you should see all authors and links in the recs.

i have to admit that for reasons unrelated to the fandom i haven't been reading many zhongchi fics as of late? so like- bear in mind i don't have an updated mental picture of any of the recs after the post was made. so if one went off the rails or if one of the WIPs finished, i'm not aware;; i also mention in the post that i'd add more recs if i had access to ao3 (which i didn't at the time bc it was down), and while that is true, it's been so long since i read any of them that i wouldn't be able to confidently reccomend them outside of 'i somewhat remember the plot and i remember liking it'. also i don't remember half of their names. so uh- yeah that's the list i think

[honeyvenommusic]

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