#i understand that grief is hard

[stormsandskies]

idk if i’m ever going to get over the fact that Maddie never got a chance to really grieve Daniel.

Like he died and her parents grabbed all their stuff and moved away, to a new town where Daniel didn’t exist and then they checked out. They disappeared into their grief leaving a young (i think 9-10 year old) Maddie to raise her younger brother, to press bandages and kisses to skinned knees, to hug and hold after a scary dream, to teach to ride a bike.

Maddie was too busy raising her brother for her parents she never got a chance to grieve properly, her grief buried just below the surface, and Buck knew she was sad, but not why. Then she married Doug, and she still didn’t get to grieve. She was too busy walking on eggshells and worrying for her baby brother who was wandering the world aimlessly.

Then she ran, and she still didn’t get to grieve the pain from Daniel being shoved down low so she could get through. I don’t think Maddie truly grieved Daniel until after she told Buck, I think that grief was just sat in the bottom off her heart locked away fighting to come out, but Maddie was too busy trying to stay afloat to release it.

[heartorbit]

make a wish! 🍃

happy 1st anniversary, in stars and time 🤍

[rustedhills]

Disney, releasing Wish: "so it's all about legacy--the new generation surpassing the old, overcoming the evils perpetuated by them, relinquishing singular power... and there's an old man in a tower, uh... animal sidekick, i guess..., ah... magic...?

Miyazaki, just out of frame, sledgehammer raised:

[spinnysocks]

hey *throws toxic tragic kiburi x ushari au at you*

kiburi wants to become the leader of his float. a snake has some bigger ideas for him. ushari says that kiburi can become leader of the pridelands too, then crocodiles will finally be respected to his standards. ushari wants respect for all reptiles. kiburi doesn't mind that. he believes him.

the plan fails, and he has nothing but his friends now. kiburi finds ushari, who offers him something in return for keeping his life. kiburi should kill him, but he doesn't.

kiburi meets scar, who ushari has complete trust in. if he follows scar, he could rule someday. with ushari by his side, reptiles could finally be respected. trusting him is working in his favour.

the army never wins. kiburi can feel every bruise, cut and scrape that doesn't have a chance to heal. he can see the weariness in his float from fighting every day. the pressure is destroying them all. ushari never gains a single tear in his perfect scales. scar rants and rages about how the army isn't good enough. ushari never has to face scar's wrath. maybe he was wrong to trust him, but there's no turning back now, there is nothing else. and traitors are no better than dead.

janja turns against them. he survives their attempt to kill him and finds happiness somehow. there is no peace for the army, so they're sure he was never really one of them. kiburi doesn't feel any guilt. scar promises this is the last battle to win the pridelands. ushari is sure of it, so kiburi is too.

and he was right. the army wins the very moment that ushari's venom infects kion's mind. there is nothing that the pridelanders can do. for once, there is victory for the army. for once, there is peace.

fire quickly takes over every patch of land in sight. all of it is theirs. kiburi's float will never have to get another wound again. they will never have to go hungry again. they will never have to share again. they will never be unhappy again. kiburi is glad he trusted ushari.

until all the lands had nothing left. there isn't enough water. his float are gone. kiburi barely manages to get by. this is all ushari's fault. such a smart snake should have known better.

ushari tricked him. those comforting words of ruling the lands were all false promises. everything was a lie, it must have been. scar's reign meant nothing could survive. such a smart snake should have known that.

ushari betrayed him, so kiburi makes sure he brings justice.

[jiangwanyinscatmom]

I'm of the mind that Shi Qingxuan would have the will to ascend a second time as a god especially one for the people even more so as he thrived with other beggars and was still able to gather them to help Xie Lian. I think there is just something very strong in him as a person even without Shi Wudu manipulating their fates. He is still able to persevere just fine and able to come back stronger despite his own sadness. And I think that's pretty great despite it all he wasn't broken down.

[thwispsings]

the idea came to me in a migraine induced dream but now im obsessed with the concept of a mu qingfang who knew the abuse bunhe was going through at the hands of og!shen qingqiu/shen jiu and did his best to treat the kid whenever he could (and bring his concerns to zhangmen shixiong, which were obviously very much ignored) and his constant worry over the situation means that when the qi deviation happens he is suspicious of shen qingqiu’s changes for all different reasons and very much protective of luo binghe -who is a sweet child and an earnest disciple who seems to always find the most incredible medicinal herbs to bring to his mu shishu as thanks for the care bestowed upon him- which means that when the whole shen qingqiu dying thing happens instead of bad mouthing luo binghe or fighting him at every chance he does his best to come over and keep an eye on things to try and help him and make sure luo binghe won’t kill himself trying to bring shen qingqiu back because he remembers that earnest kid and he’s witnessed luo binghe’s devotion to this shen qingqiu first hand and knows there is no way that the kid who cried when ning yingying found a bird with a broken wing and begged mu qingfang to fix it and the kid that would always borrow medical texts and try to find new herb combinations as if it was a game between him and qian cao disciples is actually doing anything nefarious to shen qingqiu’s corpse.

anyways in this essay i will-

[solasfenheral]

veilguard really feels like its missing a guy thats weird about faith. faith (or the absence of) as a central talking point between the companions in general tbh

[kkoct-ik]

rewatching a dr2 lp and i honestly never noticed how much hajime dissociates. i almost wanna make a masterpost

[boyharder]

☕️ katniss’s parents

katniss was horrible towards her mother until she was put into a situation where she'd be forced to empathize with her. it is absolutely unforgivable to me for her to have swore at her incessantly when she was treating gale (in which katniss did nothing to help wih if not predominantly making it about herself/which i understand because she was also injured,) but she held no understanding of her mother's grief until it again, hit her, and just about a decent amount of understanding of her job and what she'd go through as the town apothecary. katniss did admire her mother's skills and her ability to be hands on, but a lot of the time she would undermine her instead of appreciate the parts of her she did have left.

when it came to katniss’ father, i believe she saw him through rose-colored glasses. a hunter, a good singer, a miner — the first man in her life. but i feel like she gave more credit to him than her mother who had a wider and more impactful job in terms of district care. her father is the dead one, and despite her mother living (and being in a state of deep widowing,) it's almost like they've both died in a way. only she chooses to favor one.

but when mrs. everdeen is doing her job as a healer and a mother, katniss is still indifferent. nothing will bring back her years of childhood lost from becoming the family breadwinner, but nothing will change the fact that her father died. and nothing could change the fact that her mother grieved. nothing will change the fact that things went the way they did, but no one was at fault for what happened. which includes mrs. everdeen, even if she didn't cope in a way that was healthy for her children.

[grimmweepers]

life comes at you so fast

[bonefall]

Voted for Bumble bc of course but also if you think Alex would not pspsps Bumble you are wrong. If they could communicate they would go to therapy together /s

If then could communicate they would go to therapy together

/GEN

Kyle/Green Lantern resurrects her but then he becomes convinced that she's not the same person she was before the incident, OR SOMETHING SOMETHING Black Lanterns aren't ACTUALLY bad they're just misunderstood Grim Reaper types, in either case Alex ends up breaking it off with Kyle because they've become very different people.

And then Bumble's there

And then they go to therapy or Alex adopts Bumble, and then uhhh Bumble's like one of the superpets. Like Krypto the Superdog. Free premise go forth and play with it if ur a DC fan

[theotherrichardpapen]

...because any moment may be our last. everything is more beautiful because we're doomed.

[vaguely-concerned]

first of all rye 'hello fellow kids' ingellvar there is nothing in this world or any other I wouldn't do for you. second of all, considering where this story ends... I'm going to die. this conversation -- and how much he genuinely believes what he's saying at this point -- held up against the fact that in a couple of months max he's going to get her killed (well. that's how he feels anyway) and then go against everything she believed in and stood for as a person in the end and have to live forever with knowing that's how he honoured her sacrifice. (and live with how easy it is to live with, the way he doesn't regret what he did at all. she'll haunt him from time to time, that's fine, he's a watcher he's loved many a ghost before and will again. but that won't.) 'no one is beyond help? oh lace I'm so so sorry, wherever you are now please forgive me for who I am, but after what he pulled and by the time I'm done with him on my watcher's oath he will be beyond help. I'll hold every hand in this world that reaches back but his'. and she'll still be gone.

'or none of this matters'. im so fucking sad I feel sick *through tears* this is great I love fiction I love this game (embarrassingly genuine as is my wont)

[angelsdean]

ruthlessly deleting old 2021/2022 posts (not by me) from my dean studies tag like *click* un-incorporating that from my beliefs system! also the way SO many posts have me like ok uh-huh good aaand then say one completely wrong thing that loses me. it's so many posts.

[jacksmusesdrv3]

So I'm taking from one of my old theory posts - roughly: 'the Ultimate Hunt may be a group formed of the DRV3 cast after the world became increasingly hostile towards Ultimates' - and setting aside specifics of that for now, expanding on hostility to Ultimates, specifically.

Because this is... unnerving.

The 'kill the very concept of Ultimates' part reminds me, that during the Tragedy itself-

-you would get comments like this, in some rando's notebook, about the survivors of DR1's killing game and their affiliation with Future Foundation.

Although the general public (in this state) would typically not care to trade their convenient scapegoat for the nuances of who's to blame for what - like for starters, HPA and the Steering Committee for orchestrating human experiments and covering up murders - there are also-

-conspiracy theories in print, about the Future Foundation and its 'protection of the Despair', who were Ultimate students that Makoto wanted to save from the brainwashing. While Future Foundation has its share of... issues, this book is clearly propaganda, and in this case it's especially fucked up because Towa Group was very directly responsible for accelerating the Tragedy themselves.

This could be a very bad omen for the future of Ultimates, especially since Towa Group were highly influential and boasted their ability to reach the people. To say nothing of 99 other organisations noted in the Alexander Magazine as 'the most influential worldwide', at least one of which may want to fill the 'void' Towa Group left behind, and could gain just as much, if not more cultish fervour left unchecked.

All the while distorting events to the populace in their own favour.

Lastly...

One of the books suggested that it would be imperative to learn from the Tragedy. And sure enough, in the time of DRV3, there is a book with the Complete History of Hope's Peak Academy- the most thorough and comprehensive collection of details on the events, including organisations like Future Foundation. No doubt one of the things covered would be the first case, where one Leon Kuwata used his baseball talent to shuck a ball through a tight space.

Under these circumstances, it's reasonable to be a wee bit leery of there being 52 files in a lab, a large amount with bloody photos and documented notation of 'tricks that culprits used', then being prompted to ignore this detail - and HPA's existence itself - as 'fiction' on some uh, decidedly arbitrary evidence. Just saying.

[angy-grrr]

I try to not be hater, but then I see the stupid takes and get madddddd

This is just what I feel every single time I see those shitty opinions