#i get where you're coming from

[ftl-faster-than-life]

...do the people who complain about fic writers 'killing off' Iris know that Iris died in canon or are they just. Completely in the dark about that really important facet to the character's history?

[candlecoo-sideb-art]

Hullo mate, i don't mean to be rude but aren't those more akin to impulsive thoughts?

i have intrusive thoughts myself and know you didn't mean any ill will! but i got kind of alarmed when you mentioned intrusive thoughts since those are extremely unpleasant to experience with more light ones being; thinking your partner is ugly, you should put your hand in that dangerous place, etc, to more extreme ones being; you should walk into danger, burn out all your hair, inflict violence on or kill people you care about like your parent or pet while they're vulnerable, cut off your hand with that sharp object

intrusive thoughts don't reflect what the person actually wants at all and it's stressing to experience that all in your mind

i think a helpful thing to distinguish the two is,

intrusive thoughts = something you don't want and stress about

and impulsive thoughts = something you do want (like getting a haircut, buying that cool thing online, cuddling someone you love) and some people do stress about those like jon

Nothing rude about it! I get intrusive thoughts too but let me explain my reasoning just a little bit.

Intrusive thoughts are not always negative or bad, they are just thoughts or ideas that pop up without someone consciously trying to think about them. Want has only a small part to do with what makes an intrusive thought. Intrusive thoughts are ones that make the person having them uncomfortable or uneasy in one way or another.

Intrusive thoughts can be romantic/sexual, violent, negative, bizarre or paranoid.

And they appear in different ways depending on the person.

Jon's thoughts would be intrusive thoughts rather than impulsive thoughts due to it being season one and him not being in love with Martin yet. It's more of him being a superiority figure walking in on their assistant changing and thinking about it against his wishes. Also being ace throws in a couple more complications into why they are intrusive thoughts vs impulsive thoughts ((at least for season one Jon) and in my own personal experience) if he was having these thoughts late season two onward then yeah they would be impulsive thoughts because he has accepted having genuine romantic feelings for Martin, but he's not there yet.

[rcris123]

I’m biting, chewing, growling about a tweet I saw and it happened to coincide with my reawakening of Naruto brainworms.

boy opinions die hard with this thing.

The tweet in question:

[count100]

Unfortunately, I don't know enough about Canada to comment on your politics. It sounds horrible from what I've heard, and maybe violent activism is nessisary there.

I can, however, comment on you observations of the US and history. For one, the outsized influence conservatives have in the US isn't so much because of their willingness to be violent as it is a consequence of a system fundamental designed to give them an edge. Reforms have been proposed, and are being enacted in some places, to take that advantage away and it really has had an impact.

As for the violent revolutions you cited, half of them ended in unmitigated disaster. A 50% chance of your revolution killing an enormous portion of the country's population and leading directly into a brutal autocracy is not a great sign, and the circumstances in the US, at least, remind me a lot more of the conditions for failed revolutions than successful ones.

However, you do have the evidence of Nelson Mandella backing you up. He tried a peaceful revolution in South Africa and it just did not work, but once he started blowing up factories it drew more attention and scared major players in the economy, eventually leading to real change.

If you want productive violence, look to his example, but even then he didn't upend everything and start all over. As the op said, any ideology that says the only solution to the world's problems is destroying everything is wrong and probably a cult.

A little advice from someone studying extremist groups: if you’re in a social media environment where the daily ubiquitous message is that you have no hope of any kind of future and you can’t possibly achieve anything without a violent overthrow of society, you’re being radicalized, and not in the good way.

[greenofrain]

I don't know why I'm so surprised that the fucking that old man website wants to fuck that old man. I should have known better than to not expect it.

[cometblaster2070]

i'm making myself laugh thinking about this but I wholeheartedly believe madame morrible absolutely HATES the thought of glinda and elphaba being together like the mere mention of gelphie would probably send her into immediate cardiac arrest and it's not even because she's homophobic or anything I just fully believe she dislikes glinda so so much she's just like this is absolutely NOT happening in my house.

glinda and elphaba are having their gay ass moment and she's like "I sense a disturbance in the force; the wind is telling me those fucking lesbians are at it again."

like IK this woman hates to see glinda's fruity ass coming for several reasons but first and foremost I believe it's because she's so fucking ANNOYED by how much elphaba loves and cares for her, like this pink bitch is throwing a wrench in her plans just by EXISTING and being herself.

and she can't even really do anything to glinda because it'll make elphaba upset and she really can't have that so she just has to sit there and be like

[floccinaucinihilipilificationa]

[robot-roadtrip-rants]

I can tell you with 100% certainty that Sephiroth did, in fact, need to Calm Down

This meme came to me in a dream and I had to recreate it

[zarla-s]

It's in the eye of the beholder~

[patreon]

[atouchofsass]

if I were 5% more belligerent I would be appending this image to every wicked movie post gushing about how timely and politically important it is

[theabigailthorn]

British producers be like: THEM: "We love this! Let us put our heads together and get back to you early next week!" SIX MONTHS LATER UNPAID INTERN FOR THAT COMPANY: "Everyone you spoke to has been sacked, we hate you fuck off."

American producers be like:

THE MOST IMPORTANT PERSON YOU'VE EVER MET: Hey kiddo do you wanna meet The Rock? Do you wanna meet Margot Robbie? Do you want to fuck my wife? I can't give you a job but gosh darn it you've got moxxy, let me put you in touch with Doug Bigcheese, the biggest producer in Hollywood! DOUG BIGCHEESE, EMAILING YOU BACK WITHIN 20 MINUTES: Hey kiddo, that guy said you're awesome! Lemme ask round town and in the meantime you can live in my house borrow my car and by the way have you met my wife?!

[muirmarie]

jim being canonically the shortest one of the triumvirate is genuinely so important to me lmao, like yesssssss, let that beefy babe be shorter than both his boyfriends!!!!

[bitegore]

Zionists want you to conflate Judaism and Zionism. Zionists want you to believe that Judaism cannot exist without Zionism and that all Jews are Zionists. Zionism would have Jews believe that a Jewish state is the only way that they can be safe from antisemitism and will point to any instance of antisemitism as proof that Zionism is the solution- so Zionism wants gentiles to be antisemitic in their support of Palestine. They want you to conflate all Jews with Zionism and the state of Israel, and they want you to treat all Jews regardless of political affiliation as the face of Israel. Antizionist Jews exist, and incidences of antisemitism ostensibly acting against Zionism will not help dismantle the forces propping Zionism up.

Don't do their work for them.

[crowleyholmes]

I don't think he did that on purpose to manipulate Crowley though? It's just that he DOES love him and of course he jumps at this opportunity to very sneakily tell him.

I love aziraphale to death and i don’t think he’s evil or toxic just a little disclaimer but. Top one aziraphale manipulate moment to me is when they had their gabriel fight and aziraphale said “i would love you to help me” and crowley took the deepest breath in demon history like those words slapped him in the snake cheek and he needed to run outside to pikachu all over soho

[knockknockitsnickels]

I think this is one of my favorite lines from the Wraith route because of (imo) how much the meaning changes depending on if you got there via Spectre or Nightmare. For Spectre, it honestly strikes me as a genuine question. Why are you doing this to her? If you're on the Spectre route, you presumably already know the Narrator can't really be trusted, since you had to reject his reward to get here. What are you hoping to gain from continuing to hurt her? For Nightmare, it honestly just makes me sad. As the Shifting Mound describes her, "She desires only companionship, but the only thing she knows is how to hurt." This line feels like a plea from someone who genuinely doesn't understand why you keep rejecting her. She wants to be with you, but she just can't understand how to do that in a way which doesn't hurt you.

[starry-bi-sky]

i have been unmedicated for the entirety of spring break and thus have had little interest in writing this down, but i have been thinking about this for the entire week (as well as a dpdc clone danny au that resulted in it becoming its entirely separate batman au that includes a teenage vigilante bruce wayne, an ocarina, and me entirely incapable of making a batman au without making bruce dirt poor but we're not talking about that) and so i've finally went 'fuck it' and forcibly grabbed my laptop. I will get this done in one sitting even if it kills me.

BUT. This is about neither clone^2 danny nor about who i am calling Ocarina Batman. This is about my Danyal Al Ghul Au and more SPECIFICALLY it's me thinking about his relationship with Sam and Tucker specifically.

Tucker and Sam? Adore this asshole (affectionate) with every fiber of their being. And it is very much a reciprocated feeling, but Danny's thoughts will not be delved into much other than he would kill for them.

Tucker? The only person currently capable of getting a deep, loud, belly laugh out of Danny. Sam can get him to smile and to laugh, but it's the kind that's a chuckle-under-the-breath. The quiet, looks-down-while-huffing laughter. Snorts once with laughter and then grins stupidly.

But Tucker? Tucker can crack a slew of stupid jokes and Danny will be incapacitated for the next five minutes because he's laughing so hard that he can't breath. He lands one well-timed pun or quip and Danny will be close to tears. His laughter is their favorite sound in the whole world.

Sam is lowkey jealous of this ability, and she's gotten a belly laugh out of Danny a few times. But alas, it is Tucker who wields this power and has gotten it the most times out of the two of them.

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They're also both physically affectionate with Danny as much as possible. It started roughly around when they were 12-ish, a year since they befriended Danny, and they noticed that he sought after touch but never seemed to initiate (and was in some ways repulsed by it). They started slowly being more touchy with him. Hooking a finger around his to lead him somewhere, tapping his wrist, looping arms. Little touches, grabs, etc, to get him used to it, and once he started doing it back they started increasing it.

It's gotten to a point where he will now just. Lay on them. Like a lizard sunbathing on a rock. Leaning on their backs when they're sitting in class before the bell rings, his chin on their heads. He'll talk about anything with his arms looped around their shoulders.

If they're sitting on a couch at either of their houses, he'll lay his legs on theirs. Him and Tucker will press their feet against the other's and try and push against them (newsflash: Danny always wins, Tucker claims its the ghost strength but Danny's been winning since before his accident)

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Naturally, both Sam and Tucker know where Danny keeps his weapons on his person, and are allowed to grab them off of him if they need it. His only requirement is that they don't lose his weapons if they take it and forget to return it immediately.

They both understand how big of a thing this is from Danny, and so they do their best to treat his weapons with a lot of respect and care because they know its his way of saying he trusts them.

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Sam and Tucker are so fond of Danny it's insane. Like fr. That's their goddamn best friend, and they are so protective of him. Emotionally, physically, you name it. They will tear the head off a grown man if they need to, Danny's had scars since he arrived in Amity Park and Sam and Tucker both are going to find the person who put them there and make them pay for it.

One time, Tucker overheard a bunch of upperclass girls speaking nastily about Danny and about the rumors surrounding him, calling him names like 'freak', 'monster', etc. Danny was with him and heard it, and seemingly appeared unbothered by it, even telling Tucker that he was used to such rumors.

Tucker was so furious that hacked into the school system later that night and tanked those girls grades. They were kicked out of their clubs and had to go to mandatory tutoring for the rest of the year. He made sure to leave some way of letting them know it was him who did it.

And Sam doesn't like using her money for things, doesn't like abusing that wealth. So instead, whenever her parents talk bad about Danny, she causes a media incident that has her parents scrambling to deal with. She does something wild, outrageous by her parents' standards.

She heard some boys on the basketball team making fun of Danny once, similar to those girls had. She kicks up a fuss about something eco-unfriendly at school and forcibly holds a protest on the same day of the big home basketball game, forcing them to cancel the event and reschedule to a visiting school.

She anonymously donates money so that there's new uniforms for the team but oops! Looks like she "forgot" to donate enough money for them to get uniforms for all the team members, and strangely enough those boys in particular didn't get them! Looks like they'll have to wait until more money gets donated for the basketball team to get their new, nice uniforms. The old ones look so ratty in comparison, right?

And since the football team gets most of the sport money, that might just take awhile. And if (and when) they kick up a fuss? oops! Off the basketball team you go, :) such unsportsman-like behavior is unfit for the team.

(The only good thing about how corrupt the school system is is that she can use it to her advantage too.)

The both of them know that Danny suspects them for the sudden misfortune falling on these people, but he doesn't call them out on it. He's kinder than he used to be, but not kind enough to vouch for people who speak badly of him. Sometimes, he might just congratulate them on not getting caught.

Because Danny is their wonderful, hurt friend with a "slightly" Blue and Orange Moral code, and enough scars that people have been calling him a criminal (and worse) since he arrived in Amity Park when he was ten. And they'll be damned if he gets hurt anymore.