#i don't always post meta but when I do you bet it's stupid!!

[mikecrewsteacup]

The un-addressed hilarity of Gertrude not realizing Eric had quit the Archives before dying. Let's recap how that got mentioned: 

Right. So Gertrude was under the impression that Eric Delano was working on statements, presumably either transcription or researching old leads; maybe she even occasionally let them file things for fun before she'd go disorganize them herself later on. And we can assume she didn't actually keep very close tabs on them, so it's even possible if Eric had quit a week prior to his murder, she would have naturally missed it.

But...months?

I present to you the only possible explanation: that Jonah Magnus (who would have been hiding in Wright's body at the time, not Elias' yet) had to be the one frantically trying to keep Gertrude in the dark about it being possible to quit the Archives. After not interfering for the two years Eric Delano spent trying to quit — presumably he underestimated Eric the way he does Martin later on, and just didn't bother checking in on him until OH SHIT I CANT SEE ERIC WHERE DID HE GO — Jonah suddenly had a huge problem on his hands.

So please, imagine Jonah sneaking back into the Archives after dark (or just never leaving at all) and frantically rifling through Eric's desk to do his paperwork. Knowing just enough information about Eric's intended leads to pretend they'd been interviewed and take fake notes (but not TOO fake as to be suspicious! Eric was always a pretty serious and dedicated employee!). Just generally making it appear that an entire employee had not left for MULTIPLE. MONTHS. 

I know we discuss how to Jonah this show is a workplace comedy for the first like 4 seasons, but it's implied shenanigans like this that really showcase it for me. 

(Also now I can't help but wonder if Jonah is a natural at mimicking handwriting, or if Eric's notes from that period abruptly go from 'neat and tidy but modern cursive' to 'ye olde script, hastily attempting to look modern'.)

[erstwhilesparrow]

🍓 🏜️ ❄️? for the ask game? if you want also 🍬?

🍓 ⇢ how did you get into writing fanfiction? 

hm... taizi, i think! i started reading their writing right around the same time i started high school and i went, "wait. you can just do this?" i'd read fanfic before this but taizi's work was what made it click for me that fanfic is, like, A Type Of Writing, and you can do it really well, and put it in places where people will see it and enjoy it. so i did the thing. wrote lego ninjago fanfic in microsoft word on the days school started late and i had nothing to do in the hour before the bus arrived.

🏜️ ⇢ what's your favourite type of comment to receive on your work?

oh gosh, that's difficult. i think, and maybe this is too vague, maybe the ones that get into the crunch of the thing. i am always on my all fic is meta train, so i think comments that seem to Get That, and expand on or pull into the open my thinking are my favourites? also a big fan of when someone says something i didn't think about while writing, but is nevertheless There In The Fic! new insights! that's very cool to me.

❄️ ⇢ what's your dream theme/plot for a fic, and who would write it best?

oh god oh fuck. i'm gonna take 'dream' here as meaning i cannot personally Make It Happen because a lot of the things i could say i dream about seeing in a fic are also things i could just put in a fic and tada, there, not a dream anymore. so it's gotta be some kind of stupid plot-heavy ensemble cast AU because that's just not the kind of thing i know how to write well enough to be satisfied with if i did it. i know if you asked me this again, like, tomorrow i would probably have a different answer, but right now i am sighing longingly about some kind of empires smp modern au. catrina belovedgamers and i were talking in dms the other day about a circus au in which some of the strays, stowaways, and outcasts of the world discover, with great joy, that they never have to go home again if they don't want to, and the idea of scott and shrub and joey (these three specifically, yes) getting happy endings amid the shenanigans of Circus makes me really tender. but it also has to be sad and difficult. it has to Deal with the corruption and xornoth and the fact that none of this is easy, and scott still has to try to kill himself and joey still has to get tangled up in xornoth and be just as prickly as he always is and shrub still has to lose everyone. and that's Just the three newest runaways this circus has picked up, all of wra is still here too, and so are pix and lizzie and joel and jimmy, so. do you see why this would be really fucking hard to write,

who would write it best? for it to be warming and gentle all the way through like a cup of tea at just the right temperature, probably taizi. but for it to pluck out the sad and difficult bits exactly right, probably alouette_des_champs, who consistently does The Best modern aus for pretty much every fandom they've written for. they are not in mcyt fandom at all, but they did this with drawga (comedy art actual-play web series), and atla, and naddpod (actual-play d&d podcast, also mostly comedy), and if there's anyone who could do this right i bet it's them.

🍬 ⇢ post an unpopular opinion about a popular fandom character

[guy who deliberately surrounds itself with people who have good fandom opinions that it generally agrees with voice] do i have. unpopular opinions. about popular fandom characters.

i think canary jimmy is deeply boring and gets focused in on to the exclusion of almost all the Interesting Things Literally Happening On The Screen? i have total faith that it can be a fun/useful/interesting framework with which to consider [jimmy in the life series] but mostly i think.... jimmy's got a personality in there. it feels weird that he seems so popular but so few people have Things To Say About Him outside of what he represents to other life series members.

i dunno, that feels like a really easy take to have, just disagreeing with The Most Popular fanon. and maybe i haven't Reviewed The Literature enough. but that seems like it meets the requirements. so!

[every-dayiwakeup]

Bestie I too would like to know why they are here. They can block us, they can simply just not interact, they can filter tags...

I'd like to add that it's harder to find Billy content on social media, but for some reason my "fyp" is of characters I don't care about. I have to search for Billy.

My point is... there's no way in hell they haven't done the same. Plus joke's on them! When they clog our tags, more Billy stuff is going to show up on their dash, and I'm betting they didn't block shit.

What you said about the edits!!! It makes no sense. You get clips of a character you say you hate, and you waste time editing him???

A little hater education: if you're making an edit for your least favorite character (one, that's stupid) then why would you use the saddest scenes? That's Hater 101, come ON.

I remember seeing this one edit where an anti used Billy about to sacrifice himself, and Billy about to tell Karen to stay away from him. Then switch to clips of Steve, where he's in his sailor costume. Okay if I didn't watch the show and this was the only "information" about both characters, then I'd be for Billy all the way. Use better clips of Steve, if you're going to pull that shit lmfao.

It's funny when they say they love Eddie, honestly. Because they're just making him into Billy more and more every day. The character they hate. Imagine that.

Every time I see on an antis' bio that they're not kids I lose five years of my life I swear.

This fandom is generally very sheltered. I also sense there's a lot of self projection going on, along with denial. The things they say we are, or whatever trumped up crime they accuse Billy of, they end up doing.

They say Billy's way of dealing with his trauma is unhealthy. Okay?? His environment is not healthy. Plus when they whip out "I was abused, I didn't act like that". Your reaction is perfectly healthy. You go after other abuse victims online and tell them to commit suicide. You even go as far as to mock their trauma. I must've missed that one in therapy.

Speaking from experience, Billy could be so much worse. They think he's the devil reincarnated, but of course they're vecna stans too! Irony at it's finest.

Even if you can't relate to Billy in some way, it really doesn't matter? If a character like Billy makes you uncomfortable, maybe that's a good thing. Exposure in media to "the other side" of a story we don't know about is important. It can help with perspective. New knowledge can make you uncomfortable. The unknown is something that society as a whole has always reacted badly to. Yes, the fear of being exposed to something you know nothing about is truly terrifying 🙄

If you don't understand something, that's good! You don't know everything! No matter how long you live on this earth you will never know everything.

Perfection and "pure" morality do not exist. That is a myth.

Listing why you don't like something isn't a meta, and it's not critical thinking. Refusing to see the other side is why antis' arguments are weak. They repeat the same shit over and over, word from word, and for what?

I don't like the color yellow. But does that mean if I see someone wearing a yellow shirt I'm going to holler "problematic" and make a vent about it on my blog? No. And if by chance I post it, I would just... not tag yellow. It's really not that hard.

Getting exposed to what we are not familiar with is how we learn. Y'all are just anti facts, so I can see why your "movement" is the way it is.

"DNI" *proceeds to interact* 🤡

People (billy antis) in this fucking fandom just HAVE TO BE kids. They just REFUSE to see situations, scenes and all if it's not in the surface, if it's not superficial. They ignore EVERYTHING what dacre said about billy, they ignore everything what he said about Neil, they ignore everything what he said about the kids, they are so used people on internet trying for some reason being perfect and excluding every behavior that shows their humanity bc its way better pretend to be a perfect-robot, that they just forget that people have flaws, that people are built different, that traumas can change someone in a lot different ways, but, no, they PREACH the same fucking discourse.

They even can like really try to prove their arguments, it's just copy and paste the same shitty reasons.

Two facts, that is interesting about them, a lot of them loooove Eddie, I like Eddie too, but they just hc personality traits about billy in Eddie. Like, "oh Eddie loooves fix cars", since when? Why? Because he connected two wires? Fanarts of him dressed as a mechanic...are u fr? And, a lot of them, the same people who are "boohoo Billy's a psychopath abusive 😔😔" are watching and making edits about him. Not edits like sedualizing him, it's like, harringrove edits, showing how his parents fucked up with him, like, WHY ARE U THERE? Idk man, for someone who's saying that this character is that bad, u are too much into him.

@every-dayiwakeup I saw the post of the both antis who are crying about billy existence that for some reason follow u in ur blog and I had to write about. We suffer for no reason bestie

[shuinami]

Got any Encanto unpopular opinions that you’d like to share? 🙈

No, damn it, but since you want to draw me out, here I go 😭😭😭:

(Also, if I get proven wrong on any of these, I'll fully accept the L 😫)

Starting off with my staple, I don't think Isabela and Dolores are true besties. I think they're close, but not besties, at least not at the time the movie was taking place, but maybe when they were younger.

In the same vein, I have the exact same feelings about Mirabel and Camilo, except I think they'd be less close than Isabela and Dolores.

I don't think Mariano was intended to come across as unintelligent as the fandom has made him out to be. I feel like everyone took Mirabel name-calling him a "big dumb hunk" wayyy too literally, but the creators are probably gonna run with the fandom take now.

And I think his poems and songs would be good. This is meta but Maluma (Mariano's VA) started out songwriting because he wrote ghost-wrote love poems for his friends to impress gyaldem and it worked, and then he went on to become a global popstar (purr). Disney has based little details off of the VAs in the past so... 🧐 Like, put some respect on my man's name, he may be stupid in love but he can write a banger for sure

I think Bruno - rightly - grew a bit bitter towards the Encantownies for always blaming him for everything.

I don't think Dolores knew for sure that Bruno was still in Casita, just had a suspicion (because, as well, who tf would guess they have secret corridors and rooms in the walls of their house?)

This one is a bet, but I'm a gambling gyal: I don't think Isabela will be able to grow fruit and veg post-rebuild 😬 (not that I know of some scientific difference, I just don't think that's the metaphor)

I think Camilo's VA might get recast if they do a series instead of a sequel 💀 Love Rhenzy but I get the vibe that it was just a bag and a cool opportunity to him but not something he's invested in

I don't think Antonio would go vegetarian or vegan or anything like that, I think he becomes really mature to the madness within the animal kingdom so a lot of stuff wouldn't bother him as much as it would other people.

I don't think Dolores' power is as bad or overwhelming for her as the fandom makes it out to be. She looked fine with the fireworks, all she did was cover her ears, but was still smiling and enjoying herself. Fireworks are LOUD, I even cover my sub-par ears for fireworks, christmas crackers, party poppers, etc. Ole girl is fine, especially considering her gift.

I don't think the family were that tight before the house crumbled. I think they were mostly wrapped up with their own shit cause when I think of 'dysfunctional family that lives in the same house', I think of the drama series, Greenleaf. If you've never watched, it's basically pure unadulterated mess, secrets, lies and drama. Sure the family have their moments, their bonds, but in general everyone's got their own bs to deal with. So, whilst, of course they do a lot together, (and it's a Disney family so it won't be as intense) I feel like they don't really pour their hearts out and support each other in a very genuine way until they start working on changing the family dynamics when they rebuild Casita.

Okay, that's all the hot takes that I could think of for now...

[missingn000]

what are your thoughts on mahito?

...oh boy.

i'm sorry, but i love him. it took me about a year and a half to reach this conclusion -- i once hated his guts too, and i don't at all blame anyone who loathes him. y'all are totally valid. he's so, so hateable.

defending myself below cut. i have good reasons, i promise.

so why did i change my mind? okay. he's just so interesting. he's one of the most well-written villains i've ever encountered in media. it's hard to write an "evil just for fun" villain and make them compelling, but with mahito, gege absolutely succeeded. there are layers to it, in a way i've never seen written before.

he truly united almost the entire fandom against him. he fucked up so much in the story: junpei, mechamaru, nanami, nobara. his impact was insane. even beyond named characters, no body count even scratches his. towards the end, he was so brokenly powerful. i don't think kenjaku could've hoped to take him in if he weren't basically on the brink of death. even his final words are lashing out at his own ally, saying he always knew the end. yet he still did everything anyway.

honestly, as always, i'll keep most of my negative opinions to myself, but i really think every other jjk villain since shibuya looks like a joke next to him. he's my favorite jjk villain by so much it's almost funny. even sukuna and kenjaku don't reach his level for me. 

sure, their impact on the story has obviously been pivotal. i've definitely had some strong emotional reactions to things they've done, but i want to see more emotions from them. what have we seen from sukuna? pretty much just rage, annoyance, and cruelty? uh, okay. and kenjaku has never shown anything more than vaguely amused indifference. he just can't incite an emotional reaction from me with that. what are their motives? what are their ideals?

yeah, i'm sure i'm missing a lot of themes or whatever with them, but i really don't flip over sukuna (hopefully that'll change...) and i never want to think about kenjaku more than i absolutely have to.

in contrast, mahito's emotions are so human, so complex. he has the widest range of emotion of any jjk villain. mahito's ideals are concise and an incredible foil for yuuji's. take this speech of his in shibuya:

"I bet you thought you were gonna do some pest control! Or ghost exterminations like in some make-believe story! You came to Shibuya with half-assed determination didn‘t ya?! How naive, you stupid brat! This is war! Not a battle to fix what‘s wrong! But a clash of truths! You and your fragile justice! You are me, Yuuji Itadori! I kill without a second thought, just like you save people without a second thought! The instincts of a curse against the so-called dignity obtained by human reason! It‘s a battle to determine who will be left standing in a hundred years! How the hell did you think you were gonna beat me when you don‘t even realize that? Tell me, Yuuji Itadori, have you ever stopped to count how many curses you‘ve killed? No, right? Me neither, me neither!"

this is insane. are you kidding me? are you kidding me. this is so fucking metal. he studies humans because they fascinate him: he reads books, watches movies, familiarizes himself with folklore and religions. yet despite that, he still sees humans as having no worth. their lives mean nothing to him. but his fixation on yuuji, his cognizance of their nature as character foils, proves how much grasp he has on human emotional depth.

i wish there was a better word for it, but he cared about yuuji: obviously not in the traditional positive, warm, affectionate sense, but in that he viewed yuuji as important to himself, his own ideals, and his own growth. if given more time, i think his emotional range towards humans could have become even wider.

conversely, as it stands at the end, curses do have worth to him. he helps a wounded hanami back to the base. this incredible post talks about how jogo is almost a father figure to him (and it's great mahito meta, too). i wish what that meta writer talked about came true. he left the story far, far too soon. i miss him so goddamn much. there's a gaping hole in the cast now that no other character can hope to fill.

i honestly can't wait to write more of him. tpg mahito's arc is literally insane, and honestly one of my favorites in the entire story. i seriously can't wait. i'd never try to make anyone like or root for him -- he's a villain, and always will be. but i want people to feel compelled in the same way i do. i'm missing so much in this analysis; i feel like i've barely scratched the surface.

mahito. his name means true human, by the way. if you think i'm not going to explore every aspect of that, you're in for a wild ride.

[seventeenlovesthree]

Taishiro for 002 and Koushiro Izumi for 003

Alriiiiiight, I know I'm super predictable here, huh? 002 | Taishirou

When I started shipping them: I actually don't remember when exactly it started, but they haven't been my first Digimon ship, that's for sure. I think I maaaay have started shipping them in my later teens, upon watching the OG 01 in Japanese for the first time and couldn't unsee it anymore, though I obviously hadn't been as invested in them at the time.

My thoughts: Oooof, where do I even begin, I mean, I have probably written at least twenty meta posts about them so far, since I simply cannot shut up about how much I adore this dynamic.They go so much further than the tropes they're initially based on make you believe - it's not just brawns/brains, introverted extrovert/extroverted introvert, best friends to lovers and so on... It's also the unconditional trust and support, the way they complement and (potentially) get the best out of each other, thinking so incredibly highly of each other (without being fully able to convey that properly, which leads to a lot of frustration on my behalf, but more on that later down the line). Heck, there might even be some kind of starcrossed theme going on between them even without taking reincarnation theory into account. You just... Have the one who probably would never have gotten out of his shell as easily as he eventually did without the other, supporting him in every way he can... And the other one who actually manages to let his guard down towards him once trauma hits. They just make me go soft and I wouldn't want it any other way.

What makes me happy about them: Lots of things, actually, but mainly the complementing aspect I mentioned above, turning them into partners in crime. Plus, all the times they invade each other's personal space without even noticing or caring. The way they can affect each other in ways others can't do - even if it sometimes takes a loooot of fanfiction to elaborate on that.

What makes me sad about them: Apart from the fact that they're both nuts? That they actually don't realize how good they are for each other. And that opening up towards each other more would do both of them good. It's an ongoing theme, Koushirou basically begs Taichi to be honest with and rely on him - and you can bet, the boy would get a lot of weight off his shoulders if he finally opened up towards Taichi himself. It's frustrating. Especially when you take the subtext of them growing somewhat apart in certain parts of the series, when there are other parts that basically make them look married... Like, you know Koushirou would go to hell and back for Taichi and Taichi, on the flipside, would always sacrifice himself in order not to let the people most precious to him get hurt. So... Please talk to each other for once.

Things done in fanfic that annoys me: The cheating AND the toxic/misogynist seme/uke portrayal. Yes, Koushirou is shorter and more slender than Taichi, yes, I have written entire meta posts about him having a lot of traits that may make him more effeminate at times and I enjoy seeing him turn into a blushing, stuttering mess as much as everyone else, but he's not a helpless, passive wallflower.

Things I look for in fanfic: All the cheese. All the pining. Give me a hundred chapters of them being too stupid to realize their feelings - or actually knowing about them but being too stupid to act on them. I need my happy ends though. Give me all the mutual healing. Them actually TALKING to each other. All the softness, please. Show me how they’d die for each other in all the different timelines.

My wishlist: 1.) An Our War Game sequel with them as adults, actually portraying them as still being friends/becoming close friends again (bonus points for Koushirou talking about his adoption to Taichi) 2.) Similarly to 1, a sequel post epilogue that shows them working together, because, dude their careers are 100% compatible, come on. I don't need confirmation on them being together/married/whatever, I just want to see them maintaining their bond. 3.) A reboot sequel in which they continue being partners in crime like they're supposed to be.

Who I’d be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other: Oh, that's easy, my favourite second choice for Taichi will always be Sora, and my second favourite choice for Koushirou will always be Hikari. Team Light until the very end. I'll also always root for a poly Taikoura relationship, but shhh.

My happily ever after for them: If I was able to spin the wishlist further, I'd love to see them working together to ensure a symbiosis between the real and the Digital World, while also living and raising their two kids together. Domestic bliss after they've managed to talk to each other and work on their traumas together. Domestic bliss, man.

003 | Koushirou Izumi

How I feel about this character: Again, where do I even begin without writing the 7362728th novel about why I love and adore this boy so much? He has been my first favourite Digimon character ever when I was 9 years old - and now, more than twenty years later, I find myself coming back to him becoming my current comfort character. I love and adore how layered he is; people are quick to just call him a "nerd" and "infodump boy", but he is so much more than that, being a hands-on problem and riddle solver that would go to hell and back for the people he cares about, despite getting lost in the things he researches about to the point of neglecting his own needs while trying not to think about the trauma that has haunted him for years, not having known who he is, where he comes from, unsure how to approach and understand others and himself... But eventually, he is a very kind, very emotional kid who loves his family, partner and friends, who enjoys to teach and ramble, supporting wherever, however and whenever he can, a mentor and connecter. He has his issues and problems, but he's always trying his best. Yes, I may project onto him a lot at times, but that also shows me what a great job the writers did in making him human.

Any/all the people I ship romantically with this character: As mentioned above, Taichi will always be the one for him in my eyes, the absolute Digimon OTP. Second choice, as implied, is Hikari, hands down. (Honorary mention goes to Sora - I have grown very fond of platonic!Koura, but romantic!Koura has become quite exciting to me as well - and, drum roll, Menoa. I could definitely see this becoming a thing and I'm weirdly intrigued by it, even if I rather enjoy than actually ship it.)

My favorite non-romantic relationship for this character: All of Team Light is absolutely delightful on a platonic level, so Taichi (best friends for life, work partners in crime), Sora (fashion buddy) and Hikari (research/photography buddy) being his closest friends will always be wonderful to me - even if canon makes it hard to maintain that sometimes. And while it really feels like he will become more of a background supporter, mainly talking to the majority of the cast through electronic devices, I actually enjoy all (potential) bonds he has with the other characters; Platonic!Koumi for example is absolutely amazing in my eyes (internet buddies), him and Yamato have actually been implied to have grown rather close in Kizuna (and the PSP game also hints at them being very compatible). Jyou and Takeru tried very hard to get through to him in Tri, so that makes me believe that they're having quite the connection as well. Him and Miyako hacking the entire world is always a fun concept, Iori will still see him as a great mentor and I reeeeally wish we would have seen more of him and Ken being amazing geniuses together.

My unpopular opinion about this character: I don't like the extreme nerd/geek stereotype people assign to him - he obviously can be one, but people writing him to be absolutely incapable of social interaction while being a horny idiot might be something I have to blame Tri for. And I absolutely dislike the tendency in fandom to give him the shortest end of the stick in friend/ship groups. Not sure if that's an unpopular opinion though?

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: I wanted to see him talk to anybody about his adoption that wasn't Tentomon. Tri absolutely tried to make the others get through to him, but he literally didn't let them. It was his goal to get closer to others, become less formal at the end of 01 - and 02 did a great job at portraying him as mentor and teacher to others. But in the end, Tentomon has always been the only one who sees him breaking down. So in case the Kizuna scenario will happen to him as well one day - who's gonna catch him then? I absolutely don't want that for him, but heck, let him cry in front of his friends once, please.

Favorite friendship for this character: Still Taichi, but all of what I've written above about the other Chosen Children applies!

My crossover ship: I actually can't think of one right now, even though I'm pretty sure once you mention one or another character from another fandom, I might go "Ooooh, that could be interesting!"

[ravysu]

Sannin headcanons and thoughts

The last thing I would like to post for the sannin week. It is still 24.04 here! :D @sannin-central

This is long. Spoiler alert. Mostly Orochimaru, some Tsunade, a little of Jiraiya (because his story is pretty clear and spoken and idk what I can add). Also I recommend to read this meta about Orochimaru, it has influenced me a lot and has some good points. Sorry for any posible grammar mistakes. Also I really should put here a lot of references to the manga or anime but it was something that was piling up for a year and I'm soooooooo lazy. After all, those are just headcanons. Also: Im not excusing Oro's bad stuff here, Im trying to understand the reasons.

Ive already posted some hcs, here, here and here.

1. First if all, the chronology pic of sannin lifetime based on the info i found on naruto wiki and also some statements about wars from this post. It was tough considering what a mess naruto’s chronology is.

2. Sannin story shows what it cost to be a legend. They're like Team 7 but more realistic. Tsunade literally carried the war but left with nothing and developed a ptsd and have problems to just live on. Also anger control issues. I think she can be pretty bossy and stubborn which is not always nice. Jiraiya is the hero of the day but also very idealistic and can ignore some important details in the real word whether its the fight (he always injured during flashbacks maybe because each time he took too much to handle and on the one hand it's heroistic but on the other is a mistake that can lead your team to situations like in that Iwa cave) or your friends issues (I bet he saw what's going on but thought it's fine until Oro actually got red handed and left). He lives in his world and may have problems to get out to see it through someone else's shoes. As for Orochimaru, it seems like he was a normal guy for 20+ years (I mean, he didn't do crazy criminal shit and had something good in him and it was stated somewhere that it was his teammates influence. It is obvious they considered him as a friend, I don't thinks it was for nothing) but we mostly know his darkest side. Despite being a moster he is a human that have empathy and some ordinary human traits (man just decorates every bit of an environment he is in lol).

3. Tsunade was the leader of team Hiruzen.

4. Tsunade sometimes hit Jiraiya for some stupid things he did or said but never touches Orochimaru even if he did something same. Jiraiya complained about it once and almost got another hit.

5. Jiraiya had problematic parents that didn't care about him much and a lot of time he was wandering in the streets.

6. Judging by the look of Oro bangs and hair, he sometimes cut it off. A stress relief huh? And the fact that he doesn't do it now in Boruto..

7. It was shown that Tsunade and Orochimaru was acknowledged before they become a team. Maybe they did just before, or maybe some longer time before. I prefer the second option and hc that they met because both had no real friends - Orochimaru seemed weird and scary for everyone and Tsunade was Senju so everyone wanted to hang out with her but didn't really care. They weren't seen as what they were - people put the labels on them. But they didn't care about each other's labels and actually saw each other in true lights.

8. Tsunade knew it was an accident and it's not right but still she blamed Orochimaru for Nawaki's death for some time. It was something that seriously damaged their friendship and the team. Orochimaru was mad but also guilty, after all, he was responsible at least as a shinobi since Nawaki was under his watch. So he started to act cold and emotionless and was trying to distance himself from his teammates.

9. Jiraiya was in Ame while Dan died.

10. The whole his orphans mission was a bit irresponsible tbh. They already fought Hanzo and as he stated the conflict between Konoha and Ame is going to an end with Konoha's win. It's weird to stay here for three years in the middle of the war while there were other lands to fight. He left his teammates for some idea. Maybe that caused another crack in their team friendship.

11. If Tsunade would have find a way to live on with her trauma and follow the will of fire and stuff it would affect Orochimaru as well just as her grief affected him. It's like he would get an example that you can live on with this pain. So death isn't above human capability and we are not just the slaves of mortality (sounds stupid but i dont know how else to describe sorry). But as we know what he actually saw is that it broke her crucially to the point she couldnt be herself again. And so the death is above everything.

12. Oro wasn’t just acting as a cold pragmatic bitch in that cave but also tried to save Tsunade. Jiraiya knew it and that’s why he showed this sign to him like "I see what youre doing here" and that stunned Oro because he would prefer to look rather like a cold pragmatic bitch hehe

13. Just a thought. People in the village probably treated Oro as a foreigner or just wouldnt accept him because he looked so differently and had a weird attitude. That's why he sometimes didn't feel that Konoha is his home. After the wars where people were treated as means and tools, even the children, he himself developed this view on people - he dehumanized them and used as the means to his goals, just as his village did. Funny thing some people were straightly dehumanizing him too like Ibiki thought that he was a demon (tho he was a child). And he probably weren't the only one. Anyways the point is that it's logical that Orochimaru don't care about anybody but some few people, he's the product of his era. He's like Naruto that would chose the hatred way. But naruto had some good and understanding people around him and.. Orochimaru had them too, but match how Iruka treated Naruto and this Hiruzen's "I sAw tHe mAliCe in This cHiLd fRoM tHe BegGinNinG". And oro didn't even have a big ass evil fox in him. sry i hate hiruzen

ANYWAYS the moral of the story is not "go criminal if they hurt you" but always treat people like people. Waving my hand to Kant.

14. The reason why Orochimaru didn't pick some good morals to stick with through the hard times no matter what (like, idk, Jiraiya or Naruto) is because 1) I think he is/was pretty depending on people around him 2) the war fucked him and his friends up too much (Nawaki incident + Tsunade) 3) twisted addictions (though I don't think he's that sadistic, we never saw him torturing randoms just for fun, it was always some science experimental shit. He tends to get fun out of cruelty only when it's personal) that maybe developed as a way to sublimate anger and sadness caused by his parents loss (that's what they share with sasuke - unlicke naruto, they knew their parents and it's other kind of pain. Sasuke developed a revenge issue and Orochimaru - cruelty pleasure which... is kinda the same but less epic and more occasional lol).

15. Speaking of that, Orochimaru cared for Sasuke because he saw himself in him.

16. Oro hold grudges against Hiruzen for not choosing him to be Hokage not only because he was ambitious and/or egoistic, but also because Hiruzen was some kind of a father figure for him and his approval was important tho i doubt he was aware of that. He also probably could tell that Hiruzen was suspicios about him when he was a child and that led to many conflicts and was hurting as well.

17. Tsunade knew things weren't pretty with Orochimaru after the wars but she never expected them to be this bad. During the week that she was given in her arc she thought not only about how much she wants to see Nawaki and Dan again despite how wrong would it be but also was trying to bury all the good memories she had left of Orochimaru so it would be easier to kill him.

18. She poisoned Jiraiya exactly because she knew he would not let her do it. Jiraiya was always hesitant to kill and inclined to forgiveness, while Tsunade, as mentioned by Orochimaru, could be merciless (so much so that he was not surprised when Kabuto suggested that she wanted to use Jira for Edo Tensei).

19. That was one of her traits that scared Jiraiya and fascinated Orochimaru.

20. Remember how Oro grabbed Jiraiya's neck when the latter was trying to cover with hair jutsu? On the snake, in Tsnade's arc. Orochimaru could have easily kill Jiraiya by pulling the sword out of the mouth (arteries are right there) but he didn't. As well as he could kill Tsunade when she was still shaking - just aim for the neck or the heart. Instead, he just injured her lung and kicked her which is not a big deal for the kind of shinoby like her at all.. Also he helped Anko not accidentally kill herself but it would be way much profitable to let her do it. "Orochimaru has no feelings".

21. The reason he suddenly wanted to kill Tsunade instead of forcing her to heal his arms as it was planned (which is weird since it will not going to get him heals and he kinda said that he wouldn't want to kill her just minutes ago) is that not only she refused to help him (he thought he could work it out) but she also prefered the village over him (from his point of view). Out if everyone she was the closest to being able to understand him since the village caused her painful losses too but nevertheless she agreed to be on it's side.

22. He wasn't fighting her back in the end partly because he thought he deserved that. Somewhere deep inside hahah.

23. Tsunade got a fear to develop deep bonds so they probably weren't very close with Shizune (also the way she knocked her down in this hotel.. oh).

24. Orochimaru will be here when she'll die.

25. Orochimaru's eng dub to Tsunade: "I often wondered what it would be like to ring that pretty neck yours". No comments.

26. Orochimaru is either bi/pan or ace. Anything or nothing lmao

27. Hiruzen knew about at least some of the Oro’s illegal experiments and was okay just as he was okay with the Foundation all the time. Because it’s useful. Then he has discovered he went too far OR he knew everything and oro just became too inconvenient because of his methods. The way Orochimaru tells Sasuke about reasons they are well treated as the criminals is based on in his experience with Hiruzen.

28. As you may know the lyrics in Orochimaru’s music theme goes “don’t talk with the silence of the heart”. It was taken from one Indian song that also had lines like “don’t question life too much”, ”pain arose somewhere in the chest”, “don’t speak to the wounds of the heart”. Though I’m not sure 100% because I was translating it with some hindi dictionary with like zero knowledge of hindi

29. I like to think that this “silence of the heart” theme and the fact that he called his village a hidden sound village are somehow connected. The hidden sound is the possible explanation of all things waiting to be listened to but the truth is silent and you know it deep in your heart and it bothers you. The world is silent just like the life is meaningless but people can only hear. *Sigh* anyways

30. Orochimaru’s journey is the one about accepting death. When he saw Karin released her chains while was trying to get to Sasuke he understood that the death is a part of human’s strength.

Can’t wait to feel that everything I wrote is wrong or not enough or stupid and obvious lol. Anyways, it’s something that I wanted to share until I move to some other fandom.

[orionsangel86]

Regarding this whole drama or whatever the hell is going on, I'm finding it very strange that from "their" point of view and what they're posting about, they're making it seem like you're the one who's bringing all this drama back and attacking them and constantly tagging you to stop it...which honestly leaves me very confused by their behavior because I've seen barely a peep from you about this (at least on tumblr, I'm not very active on twitter). They're tagging you, telling everyone that you're the one instigating it but yet I havent seen anything at all from you trying to defend yourself on this, and this seems like something that if you had supposedly started then you would probably want to defend yourself on. So it doesn't really add up when they're making claims that they're the ones being bullied here. And I'm also less inclined to believe what this person says when I've seen them routinely mock and insult their anons and calling them stupid. At least with you, I can always trust you to be respectful and classy when dealing with things you don't agree with.

I havent always agreed with you on things but you were the first SPN blog I ever followed when I joined the fandom a few years back (the first post I ever saw from you was a meta on the Scoobynatural episode and I thought it was really interesting but I was much too shy to tell you that at the time, so I decided to follow you instead). Despite not always agreeing with you, Ive always still kind of stuck with you because I can handle differing opinions and I appreciate different points of views and you seemed like a very passionate but also still down to earth individual. And I'm not really here to pick a side, just more here to say that I respect you.

And even though I'm not really a Destiel shipper anymore, I lean more towards Sastiel these days, but I do still consider myself a multi shipper so here's my destiel head canon. The oh so famous destiel mixtape, obviously we can bet that Dean has his usual classic rock types on that tape, but I also like to think Cas's tastes in music kind of stem towards more modern style so my head canon is that while Dean was making this mix tape, he was just kind of racking his brain trying to come up with music he thought Cas might like as well. So he just turned on a top 40s radio station and listened and just pulled a few songs he heard on there. But he actually picked music Cas doesn't really like but Cas cares about the gesture too much to tell him so, plus Cas also thinks the songs are on there because Dean genuinely likes them and because these two are so bad at communicating they're now having to pretend to eachother that they like these songs that they both hate.

First of all thank you so much for this ask. I really appreciate you taking the time to give me the benefit of the doubt. Though I will say I did respond to the hate in a post further down my blog in my #fandomwank tag and put it under a cut. I responded once they started making accusations that I was racist and ableist. That is the last post I will ever make about those people. I am trusting regular people like you to consider and make your own judgements on the matter (those that are actually interested that is as I know many people just wanna stay as far away from drama as they can!)

I appreciate you taking the time to reach out. Thank you for that. Just be careful now since you didn't send this on anon.

As for the headcanon ahhhh thank you! I love the idea of Dean sitting down and wondering what other kinds of music Cas likes! He'd be grimacing while listening to some very modern popular number (though he totes nods along to Taylor Swift :P)

LOL they really would do something like that! Both so desperate to please the other they keep up an activity they don't enjoy just to please the other one. Utter dumbasses :P

Headcanon accepted my friend. Thank you so much for that and your kind words. <3

[justanearth-boundmisfit]

I bet metas are gonna justify Dean's word as him being hurt. Bitch, even if you're hurt you can't say such things to someone you care about. And especially because of someone you tried to kill but suddenly don't and now you act like a concerned daddy.

Hi darling! Under the cut it goes because LONG AF RANT. Sorry that I didn’t reply sooner, I was in a bad headspace almost all day and I have to put some thoughts in order first…

The metas right now are all over the place. Throughout the year they were babbling about characterization and the progression of the characters’ story lines and how they were growing up, and how mature the arcs were and bla bla bla. NOW they are comparing that scene with season 6 like it’s a good thing to have 1.a repeated and hurtful story line and 2. Dean regressing to be an abusive idiot. Btw not sure now if he ever stopped being one, more so when I read in an interview that ackles was portraying Dean as John all these years, big yikes! it even makes more sense how much hatred he puts into this kind of interactions with Cas, after all he IS an alcoholic with tons of issues that the show is always glossing over or laughing about like: “haha! Dean is on a bender again!” I used to love Dean, don’t get me wrong, and in an alternative universe or with better writers he could’ve been a fantastic character. What we had today is a man that has violence/verbal abuse/alcohol as a coping mechanism and is really hurtful to see that, because yeah John 2.0. Of course I blame the writers, not Dean, he’s a construct, a fictional character that had so.much.potential. oh well…

But I digress. Going back to metaland, they really don’t know how to justify things: “Dean is hurt! so he’s lashing out, and this IS SO GOOD GUYS! so good to destiel! Because imagine the level of ANGST! and how THAT is going to pay off later! o.m.g. I’m living!!!” Which I really find disgusting af because I’m sure if they translated this kind of interaction into a real life relationship or even into other show’s ships, they will be making posts about how toxic being with a person like that is, and shouting to the skies HOW WRONG it is to fetishize something like that. They like to complain about how the codependency between the bros is toxic, but when it comes to Dean and Cas: “IT’S SO GOOD THAT DEAN IS TREATING CAS LIKE THAT! OMG!”…And they act like that because it’s THEIR show and they have to justify horrible writing and repetitive stories, they accept how Dean is lashing out AGAIN towards Cas and what’s even worse, embracing it and celebrating it. It’s just a disgusting way of writing meta, because they really are not seeing the issues here, they are blind by the power that the justification of a ship that is, at this point, one of the biggests things that the show has to keep on going, brings them.They know they have to keep the wheel rolling, because as tptb stans that they are, they feel like it’s a must, to defend every little, or in this case big, fuck ups the writers do. Also because bobo! wrote the next episode and bobo can do no wrong! 

There’s also the matter of being powerful in fandom, which they absolute love.  Because lbh there are tons of people hurting right now that take the metaland as the last resource of hope, trying to find at least some light at the end of the tunnel when, sadly, there’s nothing…. It’s a gross form of manipulation and they know it. But they don’t care. 

Also the dismissal of Cas’ pain and mistreatment over and over again in Dabb`s era show us how little they care for him or how much THEY DO NOT WANT a story that really elevates Cas as the independent being that at this point he should be. It’s easier to write and write about an, at this point, almost non existent ship, to maintain the status quo of how great spn is and how amazing their showrunners/writers are with the subtext. Which is a complete lie as we already know. Now on its 14th season spn doesn’t really need that kind of angst, they have it in spades, this is nothing new and nothing good can come out of it. So to say that people “don’t understand drama” like I read some meta saying, it’s really just dismissing how pointless the whole issue is, to only preserve, first themselves, second their lies and third a show that should be so much more on the end of its 14th year. They write about spn like it’s show that is on its 4th or 5th season, when in fact we already have seen this trope so many times before throughout the years that we are either bored or angry or both. So the “people are stupid and don’t understand drama tropes like we do because we are smarter!” is totally invalid. Even if some people are not into analyzing shows/movie tropes, that doesn’t mean that they are not smart to recognize a move that is only bringing angst for the sake of angst and doesn’t bring anything new to the table. It’s horrible that they are treating people that are angry about that promo and what could potentially mean, as having a lesser intelligence just because they don’t agree with them. At this point these metas are turning into bullies and what’s worse treating everybody like they are beneath them, only shows how biased, opportunistic and dismissive they are. They are just willing to say ANYTHING to fit their writings and opinions, when they have been proven wrong over and over again. 

Remember how they were all for the angst! after Cas’ death on season 12? They were just repeating over and over again how good of a thing it was for Cas to be dead and not to even be on screen later when he came back, “because that gave Dean an opportunity to grow and appreciate Cas more, and it gave Cas and also the opportunity to be reborn and be “cured” of his depression!”. And? Did anything of that came to pass? Here we are with a Dean that is even more aggressive and toxic than before, and a Cas that still hasn’t found his place, is depressed af, calls himself a “thing” and doesn’t care if he dies for Jack or for the bros because he doesn’t value himself enough. And still takes shit from the bros, especially Dean, over and over again, instead of confronting him and saying some truths like it should have happened years ago. He’s been called a dog, a pet, he is powerless when the story calls for it which is almost all the time, he gets shouted at for things the bros have done in the past too or for even doing nothing at all, and the story line is back to season 6. Look how great the angst helped things progressed characterization wise! But sure, let the metas call people stupid because they don’t understand the drama! tropes…. Give me a break. 

And yes, we can say that MAYBE the promo was misleading, but really was it? the more I look at it the more it looks like Cas is taking Dean’s shit again, without deserving it, “you’re dead to me” or not, this kind of drama adds NOTHING to the story, much less for Cas, it’s only, a. a bait for the people that like when Dean and Cas are punching each other and find that romantic or b. it could also be the last nail in the coffin for destiel. Because there’s no doubt that they have been burying it since season 13 at least. How convenient when spn is going into his last season this is… Not that I care much about destiel at this point, for me it has been dead in canon for a long long time, Dabb just made the bait bigger to keep audiences coming back. That promo showed us how much they like to play with bs like that. 

TL:DR In the end what this kind of metas show to this fandom is how little consideration they have for other people that don’t read the situation as they do. And how they are willing to even call people stupid or idiots because they have another point of view. I don’t see anything smart about their writings and justifications, I just see desperation, arrogance and a great deal of denial, that sadly other people are copying from them and going through fandom policing everybody who dares to say: Cas deserves better. 

And ffs he does deserves SO MUCH BETTER.

Sorry it got long as usual, but as you can imagine, I’m pretty mad. 

I send you a hug.