#i will not falter

[thesongofthesiren]

What he says: I feel like I just have to walk on eggshells when talking to you now, I can no longer talk confidently.

What he means: The idea that I can’t say whatever I want whenever I want without you calling me out for using misogynistic rhetoric makes me feel like I can’t talk to you at all.

If you can’t be confident in talking to me otherwise, that’s not my problem. Sounds like a skill issue.

[minakatana]

I am immune to One Piece Propaganda

Being a Naruto kid prepared me for this kind of brain washing

I am Stronger

[viilpstick]

So 😊

About you not being an Azul kisser😊

Uhm… I mean he is average guy. Nothing… Special ig.

[methoughtsphantom]

silly headcannon #2 that Bruce never got the reference that Jason always made of himself being short round (he always thought it was Jason saying he was short) until after he died and Tim, avid Indiana Jones fan made Bruce watch the movies with him, only the man breaks out crying., sobbing, full on breaking down over the two second scene that is Indy ruffling Short Round’s hair as he explains they first met when he caught the kid stealing from him, and then took him under his wing.

[vibinsane]

LMAOOOOOOO oh,, wait until they see my lv 40-50 3* rafayel solar cards 🫠🫠

"i don't recommend leveling 4 stars beyond level 30" i read while having my xavier 3 star cards on level 40

[theresa-draws]

🌿healing, hurt, healing🫧

it's not that simple, it's that simple.

[teranobriss]

I just tipped because...

♥️ you're super nice and I think you're kinda cute and I love going out of my way to see you every day and you deserve a good tip for it ♥️

... People should tip.

[wired-heartbeats]

For the record I think Vox is being effected and possibly swayed by Val’s poison just like Angel is, the pink signifying it on Angel shows up on Voxs screen during and after interacting and being influenced by Val directly, when Vox is operating independently it isn’t an actual normal feature of his

This paired with an earlier moment from episode 2 when Val first mentioned something had happened with Angel Dust, Vox seemed happy about the idea of Angel quitting

“He quit? :D”

It’s interesting for sure, makes me wonder what Vox actually thinks about Angel, and more importantly, actually thinks about Valentino. He’s a business man, and clearly the Vees all teamed up (at least initially) because it helps elevate their status and power spread, they may be friendly with each other but we as an audience don’t actually know if there’s more to it as of now. But still, interesting

[darkwood-sleddog]

i cannot stress enough that even if you intend to do sports with your dog, even if you intend to work your dog you should get a type of dog you can enjoy living with WITHOUT sports and/or work. Dogs cannot do sports/work forever. Sometimes they need a break from sports/work due to injury. That is just a reality and you are going to have to live with that sportless/workless dog (even if temporary).

[whaliiwatching]

haunts the punk rocker with gay thoughts

prompt: dream

[sbeana]

fencing au doodles . I lowkey don't like this one but I think gids shirt is funny

[windcarvedlyre]

I've been following @druidposting's DR2 playthrough on discord and we just had a really good discussion about DR's Closing Arguments. Specifically the way the murderer is depicted as grey and featureless, which until now I found a bit annoying.

In Danganronpa it's repeatedly the case that we don't have the full picture until the talking actually stops- which always goes beyond the end of the trial. We generally vote first and come to understand what the murderer's actual motive was, sometimes filling in important pieces of the timeline in the process, afterwards.

But none of that matters for the killing game because characters' emotions aren't directly relevant to who was the 'blackened'- the only thing that matters to Monokuma- so it comes out afterwards and does nothing to change their execution. It doesn't matter how sympathetic they are (basically everyone) or whether other people share responsibility for the situation (eg. Hanamura, Pekoyama, Momota) or whether they intended to murder at all (Nanami). They objectively pulled the trigger and nothing else matters. Nothing about them as a person matters.

The Closing Argument mechanic might illustrate that problem- literally. They're a dramatic, conclusive summary of the entire case... constructed before the vote even happens, before we know if we're actually right, and they're missing something really important:

The actual perpetrator.

We quite literally don't even begin to see the real person behind the crime, any real exploration of their mental state, anything besides the cold, hard facts of the murder that are necessary to convict them, until the comic finishes and the protagonist makes their final accusation- replacing the grey figure with their real appearance in a shot that's often intensely emotional.

And these comics lack crucial parts of the case's timeline and sometimes important parts of the very scenes they depict that we only find out about afterwards. And those are what we know; characters may die with some pieces of the truth and prevent us from ever learning them. These aren't objective depictions of the murder, they're the protagonist's subjective attempt to connect the facts they have. A join-the-dots portrait of someone with missing dots and no colour.

Even characters' expressions may not match how they truly feel, with the grey placeholder potentially looking way more confident and sinister than they were in reality. Pasting Falter's commentary here since they put it well.

For obvious reasons this could especially be a problem for characters that die before the trial- the ones we never get a post-vote testimony from. DR1 chapter 4 really highlighted that in the way Asahina's huge misinterpretation of Oogami's feelings took up a lot of the post-trial discussion, only for Monokuma to reveal Oogami's real suicide note and recontextualise everything.

It might really be a problem for how Komaeda's depicted in DR2 chapter 5. While he isn't greyed out, we get panel after panel where he's either level-headed or maniacally evil, and even the depictions of his self-torture and death don't humanise him:

But we know that his real feelings were more complicated than that. We have his actual corpse to compare the last page to.

He died afraid.

If we approach the comic as Hinata's mental image of him instead of reality, he died without anyone truly understanding him. He was alarming, very hard to relate to, actively fought against people doing so, ensured even the killer didn't watch him die, and the survivors couldn't begin to understand his motive until a chapter later. The Closing Argument reflects that.

Early in DR1 Togami calls out the rest of his class for judging others by their own standards. However, he, too, is doing this, maybe more so than many other characters; his inability to view other people through anything but the cold, brutal logic of the killing game bites him in the ass in chapter 4. In DR2 chapter 2 voting without a good understanding of Pekoyama's motive or Kuzuryuu's involvement nearly got everyone killed. Komaeda's a walking embodiment of the problems with flattening people into caricatures and not empathising with them, suffered from people doing that back to him, and his case- the Closing Argument for which turned everyone else into grey placeholders- was impossible to solve with objective facts. It was only survivable because the survivors cooperated and one person tried to analyse things the way he would.

The games have always been a critique of the justice system and Japanese society and push us to care about others as individuals, not reduce them to- and judge their right to exist by- something they've done or their net impact on society. There are always consequences when someone neglects to do that, and the above might be yet another way the games explore that theme.

[prosperiitas]

daisuke's such a cutie pie fr. if you were the type of person who had a clear direction and knew for sure what you wanted to do in life he would genuinely think you're the coolest person he knows. 100% telling everyone how fucking cool you are and looks up to you so much, and would be so worried if you expressed a loss of that sense of direction or a loss of that passion overall. he wholeheartedly believes you'll figure it out again though and is happy to be in the same boat as you for that period of time, since he knows very much what it feels like to feel useless and at a loss of what to do with your life AHHHH 🥺

⚠️ this post is platonic, do not tag as romantic/romantic leaning!

[rosetherat]

While u all missed my amazing presence I gained a terrible addiction to this creature I need to bounce him around like a ball jt calls to me

[blanc-ci]

Thinking about when McCoy and Spock walk in on Kirk in that crazy make-out scene in ‘Elaan of Troyius’ and how after McCoy explains the tears love potion thing Spock says

“It is true then, Captain?”

In such a particular soft tone that my brain wants to interpret it either as concern for Jim essentially being assaulted OR (if you funny spirk lens it) as Spock almost being hurt/in disbelief at Jim being with another woman

Realistically, it may be more along the lines of Spock knowing just how much Kirk hates it when he’s not in control of himself (the most recent one before this being ‘And the Children Shall Lead’ I think?) and immediately going into “I must aid the captain so that he doesn’t do something he will regret” confidant/support mode

[xvs9000]

painter is such a good boy and that run was not shit

thought itd be funny to redraw this picture with painter and sebastian

was originally supposed to be a shitpost but turned into a bit more than that as per usual LOL