#i’m smart sometimes

[atomicradiogirl]

my generation kill book review cause i Finally understand it

★ ★ ★ ★

i like to say “there are no winners in war” and this is such a good example of that. the marines in generation kill are boyish men. they joke and play kill. they hide their trauma with dark humor. they talk pop culture and j-lo and justin timberlake and britney spears. these are 20-30 year olds but they act like teenagers. they’re oppressively masculine and homophobic but they love each other and are feminine despite the irony. they’ll never be the same. and despite this humanity there’s something holding back the average person from connecting to them. while i can connect to the marines of the pacific (eugene sledge and robert leckie) and the men of easy company (dick winters, donald malarkey, david webster), the iraq marines have this divide that i just cannot resonate with. maybe it’s the language, the mental disconnect, the lack of emotional vulnerability that the WWII veterans so harrowingly put in their memoirs. this different kind of warfare forces you to repress it in a different way. something that’s hard to make the average person understand. the iraq marines weren’t fighting nations (germany, japan) they were fighting ideologies and political greed (terrorism, oil, territories). the iraq marines didn’t have a cause to fight for, they didn’t care. it was an aimless war. this is the divide so well placed in generation kill and the show. the show even better since the soldiers and the war itself forces you to create a mental disconnect alongside them. you don’t care because they don’t care.

[ittybitsysword]

Ex Machina isn’t a movie about AI it’s a movie about the treatment of woman, specifically the treatment of wives and daughters by men. In this Ted talk I will-

[mooninsunset]

“you have a point…!”

me: 😁😎🥰

[chocostrwberry]

I’ve gotten a few asks for Marichat in my au, so HERE THEY ARE, THE BEST SHIP OF THE LOVESQUARE- 🩷🐾

[im-still-watching-anime]

trucy: hang on polly you have a hair on you—oh, it’s long and…blonde. again.

apollo, internally: oh my god they’re all going to think i’m STRAIGHT and that i’m sleeping with a WOMAN

trucy, athena, and wright all thinking: oh that’s for sure klavier’s :/

[parkercore-69]

i was a victim of the gravity falls to transgenderism/buzzfeed unsolved (+watcher) pipeline and i made a visual representation for it.

[televisionlassie]

Me watching people pretend Wally west (and sometimes Roy)’s children don’t exist so that they can be Dick/Jason’s boyfriend

[dumb-doll-lips]

Maybe controversial, but on posts about being dumb where girls are like saying ‘but I’m actually smart.’ Like tbh, I don’t really believe them. Like if you’re smart why does feeling dumb feel so good or hot or whatever to you then? I kinda feel like it’s having an excuse to let go of trying as much as you would be when you’re saying your smart. If you’re like really actually smart, I don’t feel like a break from ‘being smart’ would be such a relief or like as appealing.

[femmeninomenon]

femme without a butch support group starts soon (there will be a light refreshment of cookies and juice emojis served afterwards 🍪🧃) (emotional support stuffed animals strongly encouraged)

[fisherrprince]

some of you don’t know what “bad writing” is you just take the thing you like that sometimes makes weird or silly decisions with its plot and call it bad to save face so you won’t be embarrassed when someone notices

[dekusleftsock]

Y’all reading the newest chapter scans is like whiplash

I forgot how unhinged he can be, and tbh how much more unhinged he’s currently being.

Anyway Izuku is my favorite character so, sorry y’all, I know everyone is excited about Katsuki

However. Everyone else can talk about Katsuki. I live on my scraps.

Love how Shigaraki tries to get a dig at Izuku about Katsuki like how Monoma did when he unlocked blackwhip, so his immediate reaction is diverge diverge diverge.

Talk about repressed but this is a whole new level.

And his eye bags, they just make him look so exhausted.

I said this before but the chapter after Katsuki woke up Izuku looked relieved to me yes, but also… very scared. Very afraid of Katsuki’s well being.

Especially since, if we compare what Katsuki is doing now (using the pain as an extension of his quirk), you could EASILY COMPARE to when Izuku unlocked danger sense with shigaraki. How concerned and afraid Katsuki was in those chapters.

The thing is though, Katsuki was honest. He was honest that Izuku shouldn’t be doing this on his own, he’s being honest now—“I’m Kacchan of the Bakugou’s!”

He knows how he’s feeling and he’s letting himself feel it.

Somehow, Izuku still isn’t.

Hell, when afo ignores Katsuki, what he does is laugh about how much pain he’s in, but that it’s the key.

Let’s compare how Katsuki is using pain to how Izuku is using pain with danger sense. Let us not forget, danger sense is a physically taxing quirk, much like the rest of ofa. It causes a migraine when in any immediate danger.

Idk about y’all, but I get migraines so bad sometimes I vomit from the buildup of pressure. I can’t focus on anything. I just cant really imagine Izuku using danger sense that well in a fight… yet he does.

And, what exactly is danger sense for? To get out of danger? Maybe to avoid the danger? Ofa is an extension of Izuku’s inner turmoil, every single quirk exhibits this, and it would make so. Much. Sense. For danger sense to mimic his avoidance of emotions and vulnerability.

Katsuki’s quirk as it is now uses pain in a very odd way to me—he doesn’t try to use it to exit himself from the danger or pain, but actively searches for it. The pain is the key.

Danger sense is also a relatively self serving quirk, only really useable for himself. And for him to reference danger sense of all his quirks rn, it would make sense since…

Izuku has been self serving and avoidant since before even this fight. Hell, before even the war arc. Maybe this has gone on his entire life.

I want to hit him so bad for this y’all don’t GET IT.

And, just so we all know, he did this in 348 too. When confronted with emotional conversations, his first thought will always be “but how’s the fastest way I can win this fight?”

MY PROOF YALL IM SO DONE WITH THIS DUDE

“You see I have never once thought about hurting the people I care about like that!” Okay maybe be less boring

HM I WONDER WHY

THATS SO CRAZY DEKU

YOU TELL ME

WHY IS THE GIRL WHO YOU REJECTED AND THEN SAID THAT HER WAY OF LOVING IS SOMETHING YOU COULD NEVER DO TO OTHER PEOPLE (ALSO IMPLYING JUDGEMENT IN THIS STATEMENT), SAD RIGHT NOW?

LETS USE SOME COMMON SENSE PLEASE

I’m hyped for when Izuku is forced to be honest y’all don’t understand. It’s gonna be an angst fest and it’s gonna be romantic and I literally can’t see it not heading down the “explicitly canonical” path.

[mewnia]

You have nice loose shapes and fresh colors! It makes everything look lively. (If you need future Tales character suggestions, I would like to offer Sync.)

I GOTCHU YOU’RE GREAT I APPRECIATE YOU

[wowevenmoreloveonearth]

“I found I had lost all interest in T’pring”

Outta my way gay boy I’m bouta get some

[itspileofgoodthings]

my romantic self-esteem is just absolutely rock-solid. for whatever reason!

[why-the-heck-not]

computer science was a hoax from the universe to get me to study math in the pretense of ”hehe coding’s cool look at all these things u can do” *some mf vectors looming just around the corner* ”noNO dont look there; look here!! It’s ’hello world’ but in green heheh wOoOoo now it’s blue !! u are a god of this website” *matrices sharpening their knives somewhere*

[miyukisluv]

my hannibal experience