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[martialartslover7]

Unpopular opinion incoming: ...Why do NaruHina fans even like The Last?

Unironically, I really want to know why, because, I am a huge NaruHina shipper myself, and even still, this movie never fails to aggrevate me in the worst way possible, even now, not even getting angry or anything, but... I just feel empty. I feel nothing. Not even the kiss made it worth, and I am HUGE sucker for sappy romances from time to time. Hell, I am a romance author, as a hobby. But this movie, it legit felt like, I just wasted my freaking time. That's a far worse sensation than getting mad, because, I just got nothing smart to say about it.

So, let me get this straight, and I am pretty sure, I am speaking of behalf of anyone that even remotely supports these two as one: The series NEVER making Naruto acknowledge Hinata's confession, was just damned moronic, even from a writing standpoint, because, yeah, in Japanese, it can mean two different things when you say "I love you", I know that, it might just mean "I love you as a teammate", but honestly, considering that NaruHina, by this point, was always meant, even according to Kishimoto, in hindsight, not acknowledging this moment for years to come, until the movie had to speak up about it: You lost the plot. If it was always meant to happen, why did you write it in a way as if Naruto straight up ignored everything she said?

And listen, I know, Naruto is a really delayed mofo, but the movie tried to paint it as if, "Naruto is a dense idiot, who isn't in touch with his own feelings, so you have to put him in a Genjutsu to """see the depths of her feelings for him"""", but honestly, to me, this just felt like a really convenient excuse to just regress Naruto as a person, just so the ship can happen, essentially, "guilt-tripping" him into going, "Ohhh, Hinata always had feelings for me, I didn't notice, even though she risked her life". Again, again, again, none of the events would even bother me so much, if it weren't for the undeniable fact: Somehow, during Shippuden, they tried to make it seem "ambigious", by not addressing her confession, EVER. Like, almost as if, Sakura was meant to be "the final option, because of Kushina", but it was clearly bullshit, and the movie wasn't subtle on that front either. But then, WHY WASN'T IT BROUGHT UP? WHY DID NARUTO NOT SAY ANYTHING?

And before any of you stupid motherfuckers are going to accuse me of being a "closeted NaruSaku shipper", I am not. These two simply wouldn't have ever worked out in the long run, for one thing, because I am not a fan of this trope, of the girl always needing to use violence, on an already traumatized individual (not to mention, that being played for laughs, which also rubs me the wrong way, especially in regards to comic relief characters), and him just going with it, which, by the way, isn't very realistic at all, as to why Naruto never got cross with Sakura at one point or another (one can of worms, I want to talk about some other time), and secondly, c'mon now, look at these two. They are more siblings than anything. As if, two different halves and shades of Kushina live inside the two of them, individually.

Not to mention, why are you NaruHina fans so comfortable with pardoning bad writing, brushing it off as if it's "deeper than you think"? Because, I just can't see it any other way, both Naruto and Hinata were frankly OOC in this movie, considering, this is all supposed to take place after the war. I can forgive Naruto being an idiot, who is slow on the draw, but straight up going "he is just dense", is frankly retarded, considering, we are talking about the equivalent to ninja Jesus Christ with him here, who basically loves everyone like family (safe for the villains), but then comes Hinata, he confesses first, but somehow "he is dense"? Why do we even need a fucking Genjutsu for all this? Doesn't he remember a person he truly loved like her, of ALL people? So we are left with having to rely on made-up flashbacks, which never even happened in the original series (only in Shippuden, late-game), and a contrived plot device, that comes in the name of "Otsutsuki"?

On that note, I really do not like what this movie did with Hinata. Look, "Toneri was messing with her chakra", even if that were true, it doesn't change anything, because it's still an excuse to make her another damsel in distress for Naruto to save. I get it, Hinata is not like Naruto in that, she bears his battle attributes, but sheesh, man, are you really fine with regressing her back to the Genin, who can't even run down walls to save her life? This is a mess, I really cannot approve of this, Hinata is way stronger than that, and we all know it, this just isn't acceptable to me. I want my couple dynamic to be evenly distributed to feel absolutely comfortable.

And this is acceptable to you all? I call it, for what it is: Terrible writing. Stitched together with convenient excuses, just to have the ship happen somehow, in an artificial way, despite having criminal lack of shared screentime together, non-canon content excluded, by the way (I am sorry, I have to be consistent here).

With all this knowledge, the movie comes off as a truly cringeworthy attempt to try appeasing to us, who love these two together. The sappy music, the "larger-than-life" presentation, the overt reliance on spectacle, rather than substance, is just making this experience even worse for me.

Peace.

P.S.: This is just my silly, personal opinion, if you love this movie, more power to you. But to me, this is one of those pieces of media that genuinely make me feel miserable.

[jasondeansgothwife]

heathers headcanons

veronica sawyer — not diagnosed because it’s 1989 and her parents aren’t supportive, but has adhd. favorite flavor is mixed berry. if she wasn’t so pressured into being an honorary heather, she’d be goth. really wants to have kids someday. after movie events, she never gets over jd completely. cishet 18 year old girl. after movie’s events, she distances herself from heathers d and m and is pretty invisible until graduation.

jason “j.d.” dean — originally from texas. his bad boy persona is all an act to impress veronica, and he feels proud when she defeats him. total mama’s boy, and his mom was really the only loving, not abusive, adult in his life. his growth was stunted by malnutrition. very deeply traumatized. cishet 18 year old boy.

heather chandler — only 17 at the time of her death. not a natural blonde. her parents are loaded; her dad owns some kind of a business, and neither of her parents are very emotionally there for her. only child.

heather duke — this is canon but i think it’s forgotten a lot because of lighting and stuff but. redhead! cishet girl, 17 years old. youngest in her family, with two older brothers and one older sister. grows up to be either a lawyer or a dental hygienist.

heather mcnamara — 18 years old. heather is actually her middle name, but she goes by it to fit in with chandler and duke. grows up to be a nurse and wears scrubs with like tweety bird and tinkerbell and other characters on them to make children feel comfortable. makes a lot of dirty jokes.

martha dunnstock — 18 years old. trans woman, which, in combination with being fat gets her bullied by a lot of her classmates, but especially heather c. enjoys bowling. straight. loves movies, especially romances, and has big crushes on a lot of heartthrob pretty boy type actors.

betty finn — 18 years old. cis girl. deeply closeted bisexual. her favorite color is light pink. had a little crush on veronica when they were in elementary school together. bunnies are her favorite animal.

i also have headcanons for jd's mama, but i might make another post for that.

[linasketchess]

I can't stop drawing my new Warden 🥺 I don't usually play something else than elves & a mages but I wanted to try out something different and I'm so invested!! I'm still working on her backstory but in general she's a simple gal that loves her dog and family, likes to sparr with her brother and is very traumatized after the events of human noble origin :') ♥️

[herefortheships]

Somewhat darkish headcanon that ties the Toonverse with the Movieverse, if we didn't have the context of the first Beetlejuice movie. Below the cut, because, as I said, "darkish". (I mean, I don't think it's dark, but 🤷🏻‍♀️ Just in case). Basically, this is how I think people who only had the context of the cartoon interpreted BJBJ:

My mom's best friend watching Beetlejuice Beetlejuice without having ever watched the first movie is what sparked this thought.

There must be people out there who watched the cartoon growing up, but for whatever reason (mainly being casual viewers) didn't ever get around to watch the first movie. And surely there's got to be a few people out there who didn't even know the cartoon was based off a movie (please, there has to be, especially people who had really strict parents. I had a friend who had never held a ken doll in her hands, for example, because her strict mom didn't want her to see Ken naked lol Extremely controlling parents like that exist, is what I mean), and yet, these people went to the theater to watch the sequel.

For some of them, BJBJ would appear to be either a continuation of the cartoon or an adaptation. Of course, as casual viewers, they may not think too deeply about these things as the fans do, but with this idea in mind, here is how I think they interpreted the movie:

With only the context of cartoon to give them an understanding of the Beetlejuice story, it would look like Lydia and Betelgeuse were best friends while Lydia was a kid, but when she got older, at some point, Betelgeuse started having feelings for her and became obsessed with her. At some point it stopped being fun and games, and maybe Lydia even started feeling a little scared of him. Suddenly having a ghost friend wasn't so much fun anymore, when she started feeling that tension between them (here's where she started thinking of him as a demon vs a ghost, in this headcanon).

//She may have started having feelings for him as well around this time, which added to her fears of what could happen between them. After all, he was dead and an all-powerful ghost; there's a chance she feared what could happen, if they went there, if you know what I mean. But I'm kind of diverting from my point. lol//

Anyway, Lydia started growing a little distant, which frustrated Betelgeuse. Eventually he resorted to terrorizing Lydia's family to try to force her to marry him. That would have marked the end of their friendship in the cartoon, with Lydia banishing him and never summoning him back from the Neitherworld again.

Think about this: in BJBJ, Lydia explains that when she was a teenager, a trickster demon terrorized her family and tried to force her to marry him. She never mentioned that for Betelgeuse to be able to have free access to the world of the living he'd have to get married (Betelgeuse didn't either, when Lydia summoned him in BJBJ, now that I think about it, so the casual audience with zero context of the first film don't know that the reason Betelgeuse needs to get married is to be free, they just know he wants to marry Lydia). Edit: Before I posted this one, last night I posted a separate little post about this, even though I wrote this post first. lol

For a person who only watched the cartoon and had no context whatsoever of the first movie, what does this all sound like? Like everything was peachy keen between Lydia and her ghostly friend until she grew up into a teen and Betelgeuse fell for her, which led to the events which she appears to still be traumatized over in BJBJ. Then in BJBJ they reconnected (Lydia does look exasperated with him a few times instead of scared of him, the way she acted with him like she had known him a long time before; we can see this with the way she talks to him in the couples counseling scene and the quid pro quo scene), and by the end it even seemed like they were on their way to being friends again, when he saved her daughter and lent her his power to knock out Rory.

Even though she banished him again, with him sticking around her at the end of BJBJ, if they never make part three, at least we all can assume that eventually they might become friends again at some point in the future, and maybe even end up together down the line. After all, they used to be best friends once upon a time; they can get over all the water under the bridge between them.

As I said above, this is just a speculative kind of post, looking at the way someone with only the context of the cartoon might have interpreted BJBJ.

Now, how would I marry the Toonverse and the Movieverse with the context of the first film in mind? Completely ignoring the fact that the Toonverse is supposed to be non-canon lol. I'm going to leave that for another speculative little post, to avoid making this one into a long ramble. But I'll conclude with saying that I actually really like this headcanon (I hope you don't think I'm weird for that 😂).

[fivewantscoffee]

Thinking about Monica, Elena, Victoria, Rachel, Efa, Ben's mum, and Tatiana. They all gave up their children in the end, but how many of them did it willingly? How many of them were pressured into signing their babies away, or did it because they couldn't raise them, or didn't know how to keep them safe from their own powers?

And on the flipside, how many of them were relieved when Reginald showed up and gave them an out? How many of them would have given theirs up for adoption anyway? I mean, they've just gone through what has got to be one of the most traumatic events of their entire lives. Maybe they didn't even want children.

But who were they? What was it like for them?

Because Reginald adopts seven babies, and after years of no news, six of them start appearing on TV because their "father" decided to turn them into child superheroes. Eventually, one goes missing, another dies. One is constantly in and out of rehab. The Academy falls apart, and for the most part, it's radio silence again.

One of the former child superheroes becomes an actress, determined to leave the past behind. Eventually, Reginald announces that the last remaining member of the team has been sent out on a space mission. The missing child is still missing. The dead one is still dead.

Years later, Extra-Ordinary: My Life As Number Seven comes out.

Did any of them come across Viktor's book? Did they read it? At this point, it's been over twenty years. What are their thoughts? Their feelings? Did any of them ever regret it? We never find out, but I wish we did...

[qprpbj]

it makes me physically ill to think about months after Johnny and Dally’s deaths, the boys are sitting at the dinner table and Ponyboy makes some offhand comment about Darry hitting him and Daryl just breaks down. all the walls crumble and he’s a mess, because he keeps pushing down the fact that he believes he is a bad person. and then Pony is at a loss for what to do because he’s never seen Darry like this, but Sodapop is getting flashbacks to Throwing In The Towel and seems to know exactly what’s happening. I am so invested in Ponyboy and Darry fix-it fics because I think Darry feels soooo much guilt for hitting him and he keeps bottling it up. like oh my god. just- so sad

i am so invested in THIS can you please write a fic abt it fr. i think he def carries a lot of heavy guilt for a longggg long time like years after canon and never really gets over it even once pony starts coming to peace. therapy isn’t really a thing for them tbf but goddd do these boys need it. BUT also at the same time i think it’s sort of a situation of like. darry’s not perfect either and he’s still darry, he still gets needlessly angry sometimes and takes it out on people even if they don’t deserve it, even if he doesn’t really know why he’s doing this to himself and to others. idk grief and healing and abuse cycles and (intergenerational) trauma. allllll the things play a role it’s not as easy as ppl think it is!!!! he doesn’t want to hurt pony or fight but sometimes he yells and he can’t help it!! its who he is and there’s generations of abuse and trauma working against him and since its the 60s he doesn’t have the verbiage or knowledge of how to break trauma/abuse/etc cycles like we do. like it’s absolutely not as easy as one traumatic event occurring and suddenly they’re perfect siblings again. darry i love you 🙁

[aryesdanger24]

I will say it since no one else will, anyone notice how Millie hands Blitzo his skull fastener back to him after her recollection of their backstop and his eyes get big and wet like he wants to cry again....

The shape of it....reminds me of his mom's skull from the episode and it's shaped like the eyes....

Me after rewatching just how crisp the disintegration of his mother was.... do you think Blitzo watched it happen or do you think his mind supplied it all from what he saw in the tent.

Subconsciously, we can tell Blitzo doesnt believe he deserves connections (which is why he both values them more and is fearful of them) Because of this, it is clear that he perhaps has added to the story in his mind to make himself a bigger villain, to give him someone to blame for the pain of losing her.

It's easier to hurt ourselves, especially when hurting others doesn't come naturally, because we know just how inadequate we are on a first hand level.

Comparison might be the thief of joy, but self loathing is the bread and butter that nourishes the thief.

Lots of testimony has led many to believe that those who witness traumatic events often dont recount them accurately and either embellish or block importabt parts seen.

I just wonder a few things like, Was she already dead when he went in? In the flashback movie thing I saw how the eye wasn't perfectly like It was in the nightmare hallucination. I am going back to watch it again because I am pretty sure that I saw his dad blocking him from a hospital room and I want to see what else is hiding in those scenes.....still though.

I wonder if his skull fastner is related to that moment in time. It seems important and frankly it might be related to someone else but it looks a lot like his mom's skull and I can't get it out of my mind man....

[captainkirkk]

I want to see characters being taken care of in an explicit and worshipful way. Home-cooked meals. Hair brushed and braided by gentle hands. Little gifts just because.

I want to read about characters who are not used to kindness being bombarded by acts of service. This trope works romantically and platonically. Give me found family and acts of service - all the ways a character is wrapped up in wordless, explicit care after years of cruelty and having no idea how to handle. I need it.

[introspectivememories]

sorry but do you ever think about the fact that the bernard we have today is a direct amalgamation of everything that happened in his past and i know that sound like such an obvious statement to say but it actually kills me to know that you can draw a direct line from who he is today all the way back to that sixteen year old boy who watched his best friend bleed out. like it is the defining moment in his life. it fundamentally shaped who he is and the person he's become. he is the bernard we know and love not despite the grieves shooting but because of it. because the gangs all got together and shot up his school. because tim walked out of that room with nothing but a baseball bat. because his darla got shot. because he watched her gasp and cry as she died. because he watched the blood coagulate around the wound. because he sat there and held her hand as her life drained out of her. because he walked into school that day with a joke he knew would make her laugh and her nose would scrunch up and she'd snort a little and tim would roll his eyes at him and call him ridiculous and instead he walked out with a bloody white shirt, blood under his fingernails, and two friends less. because, even now, almost half a decade out from the shooting, he thinks that if he closes his eyes, he will always be that stupid, scared little sixteen year old, holding the cooling body of dead best friend.

[theactualsunshinechild]

I think Aventio and Screwtio shippers shouldn't fight. After all, Ratio has two hands!

That's right. Two hands.

One for his chalk.

One for his codex.

Both of which he's holding in an embarrassed death grip as they chat away with each other about him.

[oneluckydragon]

"Suddenly the world was gray and dull and my heart was so heavy I felt like I couldn’t move, let alone make it back to Treasure Town. But because of Echo’s last wish… I was able to keep living.”

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SORA : (Partner)

Abilities: Justified / Inner Focus

Nature: Gentle / Hardy

Moveset: Aura Sphere / Metal Claw / Poison Jab / Dragon Pulse

[mayoiayasep]

top 5 things i want from the next paralive arc

5. rtl groups interact with more than one other group...

4. baby rokuta and itsuki meeting + more itsuki lore. please

3. kei leaving visty direct aftermath, like if kei was the leader beforehand i want to know how the power ended up shifting to shogo, especially bc touma is older than him

2. more general details on the phantommetal and how they work + mechanics details for trap reactions. like what determines what the phantom illusion looks like and how trap reactions work(?)

ROAD TO LEGEND GROUP TRAP REACTION DETAILS

[zombie-art-n-doodles]

New oc idea inspired by the multi dimensional nature of the tourney:

An oc that has the ability to travel from au to au and has a big journal of all the laws and rules of all the universes they visit. This is not weird to them, they’ve gotten very good at going with the flow and rolling with the punches and accepting some universes are weird as hell. A mild conspiracy theorist they’ve started noticing some characters are ‘canon’ to every timeline.

So I created this funny orb. I thought it would be cool to make xem a NZ, because NZ canonically has the ability to walk through walls. So this one? This one can walk through dimensional walls, if xey can find the spots where the walls are thinnest.

For attacks xey are a defensive attacker, using the soles of xeir shoes xey can shuffle and dance around to charge up magical attacks that can form barriers and manipulate time. These barriers can be launched like frisbees as projectiles or used to deflect attacks back at opponents or block attacks. Xe can also catch attacks with xeir feet and slow them down with the time magic, before speeding them up to launch them back at opponents.

Going by one of three names, this funky traveler of the multiverse often acts clueless and stupid around others and seems to only want to have a good time.

[hood-ex]

wait idk anything about the tevis’— why would tommy tevis call dick his son? would you be willing to give a quick rundown

After Dick failed to get himself incarcerated, he became an enforcer for a mob boss named Tommy Tevis. Tommy took Dick in and made him part of his family. Tommy considered him an honorary son and thought very highly of him.

Nightwing (Vol. 2) #107

He even told Dick that everything he had (his home, his reputation, his family, etc.) was Dick's as well. Lynette, Tommy's wife, told Dick that Tommy would let Dick do anything. The whole family loved Dick, including Tommy's 15 year old daughter, Sophia. Sophia actually had a crush on Dick, but Dick acted like an older brother to her, helping her with her homework and such.

While Dick was away from the family for a few days, the cops busted into the Tevis's home. Lynette got killed in the gunfire, Tommy got taken to jail, and Sophia got taken in by the state.

Dick, while mentoring Rose, broke Sophia out of the state home. He got Sophia to help him with the mob. Then, when Chemo fell on Bludhaven, Dick saved Sophia and left her with Amy. When they reunited at the hospital, Dick asked Sophia to leave the mob behind and join a boarding school.

So, yeah, that's Dick's relationship with the Tevis family.

[pwurrz]

who’s ready for more yakumo trauma talk-! *i am forcibly removed from the stage before i can begin speaking*

[deadmegumi]

God it's so fucking funny when sakura is trying to convince sasuke not to join orochimaru and she's bringing up all these happy memories of them and shit and he's like. Okay. I don't remember that shit. girl he is a faggot what were we trying to accomplish here...