#hot takes that shouldn't be hot takes

[neverenoughmarauders]

Speaking of missing memos...

How has it taken me THIS LONG to get on tumblr - where I can find a corner of the internet where people don't think I am weirdo for my controversial HP opinions, such as:

The Marauders in the book were pretty cool! I am all for some other takes and stuff, but honestly, there's nothing I enjoy more than a story that has canon-compliant characterisations.

Sirius and James were best friends, brothers, inseparable - and everything else my imagination is free to add on top of the canon.

The obvious m/m marauder ship has to be James and Sirius, surely!?!?! Jegulus proves this, doesn't it? That's just Prongsfoot except it misses the beauty of the best friends to lovers storyline I am here for!

Remus is the kindest bundle in the world and I LOVE HIM, but this boy/man DID NOT stand up to his friends because he had too much to lose from a fall out - and that's a really sad story I wish was explored more often.

I LOVE Sirius to bits, but the idea that James and Remus needed Sirius to be friends pisses me off. There's nothing to suggest Remus were closer to Sirius than James when they were young.

As many future posts will suggest, this list is by no means exhaustive and these topics will come up again and again!

[fetusbaconegg]

I think Ceroba in Undertale Yellow lowers the player's LV with her attacks and I wonder if that effect could be made into a medication for monsters or people that have too high of LV to sooth them and get them feeling.

What Undertale AUs do you like? And what pairings do you have for them?

That's so mother fucking interesting 🤔 I actually like the idea of LV being lowered and being able to help monsters afflicted with it

My favorite aus are Mafiafell, Horrortale, Underfell, Underswap and Flowerfell

Sans is hard to ship because

Soriel sucks ass Toriel is older than Sans she's literally an elderly goat and Sans is about 25-30 they don't have absolutely anything in common besides jokes and their relationship is based on lies (Since sans doesn't really fulfill the promise he made to Toriel) and outside of Toriel everyone is either not close enough to ship with Sans or too young or related to him. I guess you could ship him with Alphys? (Fun fact Alphys isn't a lesbian she's bi during the Mettaton quiz he says all options about alphyses crush are valid and one of the options is Asgore)

Swap papyrus would have exactly the same issues and I don't particularly like Farmer x Horror. I guess Dust x Horror? That works.

[epicene-ennui]

Hot take but if your disorder doesn't disorder you then you don't have a disorder.

[fetusbaconegg]

Chara evil Asriel good is canon.

But yes you can't really separate what Flowey does from Asriel he even feels guilty about it and doesn't think he deserves forgiveness for it (much like chara isn't redeemable and does not deserve mercy or forgiveness) but what sets them appart is that Asriel wants to change he actually wants to and can improve he wasn't a sociopath since the start like Chara he didn't try and kill people for the heck of it like them.

Just like how Chara is not really the "greatest person". Asriel is also not really the "greatest person".

[idkwh0y0uare-haha]

hot take: if you ship frerard as a joke, fine whatever tbh, but if you're one of those people who thinks gerard and frank should divorce their wives just to fulfill your weird fujoshi-like fantasies, then you're disrespectful and weird. Gerard and Frank are NOT getting together. Grow up

AUs and jokes are different tho because those are clearly fictional and aren't hurting anyone, plus people make some really cool AU art that I actually really like, but trying to meddle into gerard and frank's personal lives is fucked. They're both in happy relationships with their wives. It was one thing in the 2000s, but it's just weird now. Please stop shipping real people who are already in relationships with other people. It's just disrespectful.

(i'm only saying this bcoz ever since i started listening to mcr, i've seen way too many people say that gerard and lyn-z should break up. That's not up to you. Gerard and Lyn-Z are grown adults. Stop making decisions for them as if they asked you to)

[lokiinmediasideblog]

The thing about MCU!Thor is that to me he is an A+ student whose favorite subject is mass murder. I bet he got plenty of rewards and praise for it, and it has both inflated his ego for the past millennia and become tied to his self-worth as a result.

Whenever I see Loki's manipulation discussed, it's along the lines of "Thor is stupid/gullible and shouldn't be king because of that" when it should be "Thor WANTED a war. Thor LOVES battle. He's not ready because of this." Loki knew Thor wanted to fight (and hot take: Loki's nudge would not have worked on some pacifist). Look at the murderous glee he has in anticipation during the Jotunheim incident. He's like: (\(^_^)/)

Another instance I can think of is how confident he is at first about getting Mjolnir back, and getting through all those SHIELD agents. He knows he can do it because it's what he is good at and what he ties his self-worth towards. He thinks he knows the rules to get Mjolnir back, but then he learns it didn't work, and he begins to show fear and despair. Tell me it doesn't have vibes of someone that doesn't know how to deal with failure.

I saw something in a fic where his reaction to being called "princess" was because "he thought it was aimed at Loki", and it really ruins the context and misses the point. Thor was EAGER to fight, and took the opportunity with the insult. And I hate this tendency to make pre-T1 Thor a perfect brother to Loki and ray of sunshine. The point is that he undergoes redemption in T1. To say that he didn't need it and Loki just tricked him misses the point. He also gets dumbed down because he's not allowed to be morally gray, so any bad things he did were due to gullibility(e.g. "trusting too much/loving Loki too much"<- that's a kind of flaw that annoys me in characters that are portrayed otherwise good; it's such a cop out) instead of flawed morality.

I think that by making Thor 100% good, he ends up getting very dumbed down. In my experience, unless the fic was written by some Loki stan that projects too much and ships Frostiron (or someone who has a brutish Thor kink in some AU where they're not brothers and it may be tagged with "Dark Thor"), Thor is made out to be too nice. He is basically the perfect brother to Loki and his moral flaws are basically that "he's just a gullible himbo." And I just don't think that was the case, and it also simplifies Thor as a character when his war-like tendencies are ignored.

TLDR: Thor is neither himbo nor brute. But he's not nearly as kind as he's often flattened to be. He should have a dark side.

[emotsper]

Hi!!!!!!!!

You’re like the szai person on tumblr, and even tho I’ve been playing proseka for like two years, I still don’t read a lot of the stories………

So as the certified szai tumblr person, since you kinda own the tag, would you like to explain to me why szai is such a popular ship? I really didn’t read much of anything…

Have fun!!

let me be brief (1/350) (no bc its actually gonna be a long ramble. apolocheese.) (also sorry if formatting is awful im a mobile user and I literally just type whatever)

FOR REAL THOUGH. PLEASE JUST DO ME A FAVOR AND READ MMJ MAINSTORY...... not only its a good source of szai cocaina you get to experience the entire mmj mainstory. i was normal before mmj mainstory and i was less normaler after mmj mainstory.

it simply went even more downhill when i read tenshi no clover. genuinely the one event story that first made me cry (second one was ice drop event but thats a bit biased)

okay now lets get to the main meat of it. szai.

admittedly i was kind of normaler early on but one of my tipping point was Chasing the radiance event especially chapter 7. please read/watch it. please. this specific chapter sent me into my trip of insanity when it comes to szai. it also opened my eye to specific scenes in their side stories/mmj mainsto that i skimmed early on especially bc im a jp only player so fan tls may not be super accurate back then 💔

to start off, airi was a girl that was often made fun of for being tomboyish, and seeing idols for the first time made her feel a glimmer of hope that maybe she can also bring hope to other people. she finally manages to reach her goal and became an idol after several of failed auditions (very deserved especially after her hard work) while shizuku became an idol purely out of luck from the idol grand prix context her friends convinced her to join 😭😭 From the start their relationship feels a little bit doomed with how jealousy is kind of unavoidable from airis side. but against all odds, you get to see airi go to shizuku and cheering her up by giving shizuku her towel and telling her to wipe those tears especially with such a pretty face like hers (MACHINE CLANG CLANG RACK SFX) they are so crazy for this. especially when you realize that shizuku kept the towel until now. (the towel is her area upgrade item)

from this point, airi thought nothing much of shizuku yet other than her being her new rival (and that shes rly pretty) but shizuku sees airi as her main reason to keep going in this idol stuff at that time, and that was enough.

(okay purely for this next part im forgetting a bit so do remember it may not be fully accurate 🙏)

after training minori for awhile, szai went thru a mini divorce arc where airi was telling minori that being an idol isnt all fun and games and that minori should consider quitting, continuing on with how she flopped in the industry bc she was more popular as a reality show figure. but shizuku disagreed and kept saying how airi was an idol through and through and that she shouldn't have quit, but that just tipped airi off and she shouted at shizuku, unloading all her pent up jealousy that she had for awhile now. iconic as hell scene in the most angsty way possible.

u can easily tell this wasn't received well by shizuku. at all. airi you done fucked up. shizuku left her idol group the next day.

(addendum i forgot to add. shizuku truly believed that airi was the first and if not, the only person who sees shizuku as shizuku hinomori herself, without all the idol filter that people plastered on her. so when airi admitted that she was jealous w shizuku getting everything good in the industry, that basically broke shizuku. (color of myself is a nice one to read when it comes to this 🙏 also the i am we are event is a crazy good conclusion to shizukus current arc))

at this point airi realizes just how much shizuku was influenced by her past actions without her fully knowing about it. girl you done fucked up.

this scene is still one of the biggest and strongest kryptonite for szai fans. especially with what happens after.

after confronting shizuku about her choice knowing full well its airis fault, airi, angry at herself, goes immediately to cheerful*days training place (she knows the place since theyve kinda shared the spot iirc) while the rest of mmj follows. she started threatening arisa and almost threw punches but she held back and told the rest of cheerful*days that shizuku is more of an idol than everyone in the room (i may be hallucinating this one. do lmk)

they finally leave the place, and both apologies to each other. at the same time, they both admitted that they were each others idol

and then shizuku goes to tackle hug airi. what the queer

that only concludes the mainstory section btw. upon realizing it may be too much of a recap instead of actual explanation ill be brief w the rest of it (keep in mind i dont read EVERY szai story, just ones i was made aware of bc im playing on jp and story content is a bit harder to see/consume)

Main szai crazies for szai fans

1. chasing the radiance ch7. airi yet talks again about how shizukus hands are slender and elegant while hers are short and chubby (she compared her hands to a manju) and shizuku was mad at her about this and went on a long tangent about how airis gentle hands were the ones who pushes minori and shizuku forward when they think they couldn't.

this is probably the fifth time ive read this story and it still gets me. i hate these fruitsssss. please read the full chapter ive linked it near the start this chapter is so special to me.

2. my ideal idol (airi 5, jp only event for now)

Bro i Dont Even Know What Else To Say. Just Look At This Card

but if we're being serious . lets talk about this one specific card and the story shall we.

this card was a blast to the past; pre-mmj szai again.

we start off with present mmj getting ready for their turn in the joint performance with a new junior idol group that they were paired with. airi was a bit nervous and shizuku noticed it. so she offered to do something that would hopefully lessen the nervousness for both of them. shizuku softly puts her head on airis back and whispered several word of encouragements. shizuku reminisces to the past.

pre-mmj szai. shizuku was very nervous as she was waiting for her first performance ever as an idol. airi was also there, and it was going to be her first too. airi shows up to say hi to shizuku but she noticed that shizuku was really nervous and at the verge of crying. airi knew she had to do something and told shizuku to turn around, shizuku did. shizuku lets out a little surprised yelp as she feels airis hands and head pressing against her back. she could hear airi muttering some encouragement but we never get to hear what the words were, only that shizuku thought about how warm airis hands were. (i need to be euthanized)

back to the present, shizuku says that she hopes that this gesture can somehow "repay" for what airi did to her back then. i think im losing it. sorry

OKAY IM DONE IM DONE ITS ALMOST 1 AM MY BRAIN IS NOT GOING TO WORK ANYMORE IF I KEEP TYPING..... my brain can handle so little. anyways i hope this wall of text ramble can convince u to read mmj mainsto and consume more mmj stories........ i admit its not perfect or whatsoever bc i haven't read the mmj mainstory for awhile and i have a wee memory issue thats paired with my deafness so. yeah. enjoy. haha.

[torchickentacos]

i will always shout praises of bi4bi but given recent discourse I feel the need to say that I love bi4het too! I just love bisexuality in general in its many forms, and anyone who only likes it when it's 'queer enough' for them is biphobic. Bisexuals should be able to bring their LaMe CiShEt BoYfRiEnD to pride without being made to feel like spectators and outsiders to their own event.

[approximate-ritual]

I'm just gonna say that eating pickles is in no way equivalent to a ritual bath for purification.

[blu-raes]

my arcana headcanon pet peeve is when people exaggerate how much Julian drinks. He's not shown to be an alcoholic, as far as I know in-game he's mostly shown to drink socially or when he's absolutely in the depths of despair.

The scene in his route where he's day-drinking in the rowdy raven is literally right after he tries to break up with the apprentice. Of course he's gonna be drowning his sorrows. But it happens exactly once in the entire route. (not to mention Barth would probably stop him from drinking more anyways)

He's never really shitfaced after that and I just find it weird that a handful of hc writers and arcana fans just take that moment and crank it up to 11 :'T

[essektheylyss]

The Critical Role team dunamantic diviners have spoken!

It is HOT BOI SUMMER 🌂

In honor of the occasion, have a poll, because why not really.

There are no direct quotes from the end of 97 and no 140/141 moments because we'd be here all goddamn day. Also, you can take this old uquiz I made like three years ago if you'd like. :3 And I do in fact want to hear other great Essek moments in the tags!

[fetusbaconegg]

Ur take on kris is rlly interesting honestly. I get ur take on chara because it makes sense but kris hasn’t really done anything that makes them a bad person in the way chara has so i just wanna know how come you see kris as a bad kid cause i usually see them portrayed as just some kid being possessed by an otherworldly being

Kris is selfish since they slash Toriels tires to scare em into having Susie stay over, trap the both of them + possibly Undyne on a dark fountain for no good reason and open a dark fountain despite Ralsei telling them it's bad because it could cause the roaring. They haven't done Chara levels of evil but they are still very very fishy. Also this is a personal thing but I'm done with them nagging us all the time for playing the game. Guess what buddy I didn't fucking want to play as you either what kind of weirdo forgives their abusive bully when they didn't even apologize?

Also the stans defending them as if they were a real person instead of a videogame character? This is what I mean by people needing to be taught better reading and media comprehension skills. Realistic writing ≠ good writting

[morninkim]

As a show of good faith toward the remaining Decepticons at the beginning of a new, united Cybertron, newly appointed Senators Bumblebee and Soundwave allowed Shatter and Dropkick to enlist into Autobot City's Defense Team.

These two turned out to be... not the best choices.

The city may have fallen to Insurgent Decepticon occupation had it not been for young recruits Hot Rod and Arcee's accidental interception of Shatter's communication with the fugitive Starscream.

To replace the errant Defense Team members, Springer and Blurr were reassigned from Iacon to Autobot City in their stead.

[batsplat]

following on from this. not to always bring marc into everything (sorry marc) but if assen 2015 had happened against jorge, valentino would have very likely pulled something similar again imo. rather than what he actually did, which is approach marc almost immediately for a nice normal friendly handshake and backing off during the podium celebrations. should be noted that during laguna seca '08, valentino was very much committed to yapping at casey on the podium with the world's biggest smuggest grin on his face

partly that disparity is because jorge not marc was the direct title rival, partly it's because valentino was treating marc with kid gloves right until the second that he wasn't, which marc was seemingly entirely oblivious to. if anyone other than marc had said what he said in that presser, had then continued on with similar rhetoric during sachsenring, valentino would quite likely have gone nuclear. he's done it over less than that. his fondness for marc made him continue to exhibit uncharacteristic restraint... except that fondness unfortunately is what left valentino feeling so very betrayed when (to his eyes) marc could not leave well enough alone

[destielmemenews]

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[drawfee-quot3s]

if you're a bird and you fall into a tar pit, you have. made such a dumbass mistake. 'cause you didn't even have to be down there

- jacob