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Ruby: I was born in 2004 and-
Me, able to hear the dice in my head rolling for psychic damage: H u h
#this is a grown adult woman old enough to be the doctor's companion and she was born in the same year as my little sister#and sure my little sister is an adult now but like she's still sixteen in my head#and#like#i'm not afraid of getting older#but i /am/ afraid of the passage of time#which does not seem real to me#doctor who#ruby sunday#should i tag this spoilers?#nah#this is such a minor line#dw
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I love growing up and getting older and figuring out myself and my body and what I like and what I don't like and who I want to be without anyone else telling me how I'm supposed to do it
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My Personal Headcanon On Why Amy's Love For Sonic Died Down Lately (and their dynamic)
When they were younger, Amy's love for Sonic was pretty extreme, and Sonic was, understandable, uncomfortable for the most part. He knows she means well, but that girl needs to calm down.
She can fight, but sometimes her hammer could only stun her enemies for a while. (It took her a long time to get rid of that robot that has been chasing her around Station Square.) She wasn't fully independent yet, even if she fought on her own a couple of times.
She often follows Sonic and his friends around. She is part of the team, but she was not a strong as she is now at the time yet.
She admires Sonic. A LOT. And Sonic knows that. Obviously, he could only run away from something like that, since he is NOT ready for that kind of thing, and whether Amy takes the hint or stop, she still loves him.
...BUT, I think things were slightly starting to change between her and Sonic after Lost World.
Remember this line?
You remember that? Okay, okay. Here's another totally unrelated question:
Before the events of Lost World, when was the last time Amy said "I love you" to Sonic out loud?
...YEP. 😈 (Unless I'm missing something, let me know lmao)
As more games and adventures come out, the characters get slightly older, and Amy is 12 to 13 now, and she is most certainly at that age where her body starts to change, but especially on how she views Sonic.
She knows she loves Sonic, but it was this moment during her change where she actually wanted to admit that she loves him.
I believe that Amy was all about sharing her affection to him not through confessions, but through obvious hints. Sonic totally got it, and there was no need to confess. Sonic knows she loves her.
...But she never said it. And she almost did, but she never did again for a while.
I think this was the moment in her life where, oh, God, she actually loves Sonic. SHE LOVES HIM, WHAT.
And she was looking back at all the times she had with Sonic that she can now see were unpleasant to Sonic (At least that's what she thinks) and that's probably why she isn't so expressive about her love to him than how she used to back then.
She wasn't sure what to do with this realization, and sets aside it for a while, and nearly stayed as her casual, peppy self... until the Eggman War happened.
During the 6 months of being with the Resistance, fighting Eggman's army all day and all night, all she can think of was Sonic.
She dreams that he still with not just her, but with her friends. She just wanted to see Sonic again, she just wants to be with her hero again.
But I'd like to think that she was also thinking about how she used to treat Sonic back when they were younger, how Sonic would almost always run away from her whenever she asks him out, or always look so uncomfortable whenever she gets so close to him.
Cringing at those memories big time, she wanted to change and hopefully when Sonic is okay and comes back, she can be better for him.
...Or will he still find her uncomfortable regardless? Would he even be happy to see her at all if he did survive?
But, hold on! She can't just give up her love for Sonic! He made her who she is today! A peppy, nature-loving, hammer-swinging, confident, brave... loud-mouth... annoying... Sonic obsessed... weak... pathetic... lonely little girl.
If she gives up on Sonic, it'll be like she gave up on the one hedgehog who saved her life. If she didn't she'll still be the same ol' Amy.
I also like to think she had parents a long while before she met Sonic, and was even expecting a little sister, but a robot invasion happened from where she was and attacked her parents and instead of trying to save them, after getting hurt, she ran away, hoping that they'll come back okay. But they never did.
She was all alone, and needed someone, a friend, a new family, someone who will hold her hand, anyone, to be there for her. But she was ignored by lots, and at that point, she's better off by herself, but still longed for company.
Eventually though, her tarot cards told her her future hero, and there might be hope after all. She encountered Sonic, held onto the belief of the cards tight, and the rest is history.
So, with that headcanon in mind, not only did Amy loose her parents that she didn't save because of her cowardliness (she was only so little at the time that happened) and also Sonic, who she thought will be her only hope, but now gone.
She doesn't even care if he did come back, he'd probably hate her now after everything she did to him, always talking about their "future wedding" or forcing him to go to Twinkle Park.
For the last few months of the war, it was nothing but Amy mentally beating herself up for either refusing to change or moving on, and they are both not fine choices.
She loves Sonic, but he does not love her, and she finally, finally realized it. And it's probably for the best if no body loved her at all.
But of course Sonic did survive and all of her worries wash away in an instant, she's just not expressive about her love for Sonic AT ALL now, since she's still worried about it but rather not mention it to Sonic because it doesn't matter.
If Sonic doesn't love her, then her feelings don't matter to him, and according to Amy herself, that is okay.
But also, I'd like to think that Sonic was thinking about his friends a lot up in the Death Egg for the past months, sometimes it's Tails (worried for his safety), sometimes it's Shadow (because he's wondering why he would join Eggman.) At some point, for a few days, Amy was in his mind the longest, and he felt bad about how he thought he was rude and pushy to her.
He wondered if she's not thinking about it too much, and if she is, will she give up on him? Yeah, he doesn't feel the same and still not looking for a relationship, but it's so strange but interesting how anyone could ever like someone like Sonic the Hedgehog. Amy was never afraid to show that, and she probably might be now.
He couldn't help but feel guilty. They were kids when she was like this, but he was so... arrogant at the time too. Not a lot happened at the time yet. He'd always have trouble expressing how much he value his friends, until he shattered the Paradox Prism. (I'd like to think Prime took place before Forces. It makes sense.)
She is such a sweet girl, and he probably made her believe that he didn't care for her. Just because he doesn't feel the same, that doesn't mean he hates her at all.
He wished he never ran away from Amy... Worrying for his little bro and wishing to be a good person for Amy was when Sonic cried in the Death Egg for the first and only time.
Frontiers, in my opinion, is kind of confirming their dynamic now. Sonic is a lot more sincere and kinder to Amy and she is not all hyperactive and lovey to Sonic. There is probably a real reason for this now.
They are both hiding their feelings from them, and they are both unaware of this. Amy, hiding her mental issues from Sonic, and Sonic, hiding his guilt away from Amy.
None of those things are important now. Sonic is with Amy and Amy is with Sonic. They are here with each other. They can be finally be better for each other now.
They don't care if they'll ever be something more when they get older. None of that matters anymore. They are here with each other. They can be finally be better for each other now.
Maybe someday they'll both talk about it, but for now, the present is important. They care about each other too much to think about it right now.
It's the kind of love that is unbreakable. It doesn't even have to be romantic. It's just love. Love is important for everyone, in any form. It's something Sonic and his friends need. And especially Sonic and Amy.
Amy Rose is the living embodiment of love, and without her, a lot would go downhill for Sonic and co. Heck, if it weren't for her, Shadow wouldn't have never remembered Maria's promise, which lead him to save the world with Sonic, before he temporarily disappeared from their lives for a while.
She is always there to lend a helping hand for anybody, even bad guys like Metal Sonic, and despite what she had been through, both in Forces and headcanon wise, she still fights back, even without her hammer.
She will pick you back up on your feet, reminding you that you are important and that you are loved, and that you should never give up. It's pretty much the words of encouragement she herself needed also...
She is still the happy, hyper, butt-kicking hedgehog we all know and love, but she still need someone to pick her back up on her feet after so long. Thankfully, she has her friends and her blue hero. The hero who made her who she is today.
I think Amy has no idea how important she thought she is, but Sonic does. Sonic knows fully well how important she is to a lot of people. It's about time he returns the favor to her. It's his turn to remind her how much a lot of people love her.
How much he loves her.
And I feel like The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog was the moment where their dynamic really shined, but also the starting point of their relationship not only healing, but also the next chapter of what's to come for them.
Everyone, friends old and new, gathered around for a special birthday. A birthday for the confident, unshakable, and radiant Amy Rose.
It was such a special moment in Amy's life. After years of chasing and following the people she look up to, she is part of the team, but most importantly, she is part of the family.
She is fully realized as someone more than just a fangirl, but someone strong, courageous, creative, kind and a big inspiration for others.
I feel like this moment here...
-is where Amy is eternally grateful to call her friends her family. A family she thought she'll never have again. She's not alone anymore, and as long as they're by her side, she'll never will be again.
Her chasing days are over. She's finally caught up to them. She's finally home.
And it's all thanks to Sonic.
If it weren't for him, she'd probably be alone forever. Her past moments with Sonic might be embarrassing to look back on for a while, but they are good memories regardless, because they involve him.
Sonic saved her life in more ways than one, and despite everything, he's grateful to have her too.
He cares about her. He really does... And in her eyes, that all she needed to know. As long as Sonic loves her in his own way, she'll be happy.
Amy hasn't given up on Sonic. As long as Amy always supports him, he'll be happy.
Maybe sometime in the future, they can talk about their problems, but that's a story for another time. At this point, they need to. Right now, they are happy. They are okay.
They are here for each other. They are finally better for each other now.
"You guys won't ever leave me, right?"
"Wouldn't dream of it."
#piko rambles#sonic the hedgehog#amy rose#Meant to be platonic but I don't care if you tag as ship lol#I've been meaning to post something like this for the longest time now but never really got into posting it-#-because you guys REALLY hate seeing these two together for some reason.#Well not for SOME reason. There are valid reasons why you don't ship them. Everyone has valid reason why they don't ship this or that.#But sometimes those reasons can just sound so petty to me. Like the reason why is because Amy is a stalker or Sonic hates her which is FALS#Also those age gap arguments are understandable but so goddamn annoying sometimes. Maybe when they hit their late teens or early twenties-#then they can be together if they want to. Besides a good percentage of Sonic ships are better off if they waited til they're old enough im#I love them regardless of whether they're just friends or an awkward older cringe fail couple lmao#But them being just friends and hiding away all their emotions towards each other just to keep them safe and happy with them- 😭😭😭#Son/adow is my favorite ship of all time and sonamy is my favorite childhood ship/platonic ship because they both have one thing in common.#ANGST 😀#I've been thinking about Sonic and Amy's dynamic as of late and MAN-#Mixed with some personal headcanons of mine and their dynamic as of late just makes me so emotional.#Sonic and Amy have gotten so close now and it's so sweet but so heartbreaking at the same time when you think about it.#I'm so happy they are getting along better and being there for each other but there is so much to dissect here. So much to think about.#I might be a little silly but Amy losing her parents and being alone for so long and being the reason why she's always hanging onto Sonic-#-explains SOOOOOOOOO much about her. At least that's my headcanon for WHY that is.#Amy with abandonment issues speaks to me on a personal level. I'm always afraid of being forgotten or left behind by my family.#I sometimes feel like I'm not good enough no matter how hard I try. I do not blame Amy. I relate to her a lot. It's one of the many reasons#-why Amy is my favorite character besides Sonic and Shadow.#She fights hard to prove she's a valuable member of the team and hates getting left behind but despite all that she wasn't afraid to-#-express herself and her love for people. But after the Eggman War there was some changes that made her less expressive about her love.#Yeah she still loves Sonic but she doesn't admit it because none of that matters anymore and she thought that not being loved by Sonic#-is better than being loved since she nearly wasted her life loving someone who she thought has constantly bothered. 🥲#But I think after TMoStH I think she'll be less afraid of being expressive about it. She and Sonic are just so caring for each other 😭#I love these two way too much that when I think about them for too long I'll start SOBBING 😭😭 I'M EVEN SOBBING RIGHT NOW LMAO
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Save Giuk 4/� … from uninvited guests on the 'end of spring' mv set (tr. cr.)
#loveonewe#foronewe#nugudom#onewe#giuk#cya#kanghyun#kang hyungu#yonghoon#harin#dongmyeong#oorieri#tuseral#wings.gifs#wings.original#save giuk#chord telepathy duo <3#moving captions my nemesis but i tried to at least disguise some of them#not pictured: my other nemesis the demise of vlive >:(#i wanted to intersperse this with some clips from one of their older streams but the vid is broken on vlive archive alas#anyway the gist was (recording here for my own sake)#all minus harin are talking about different animals/bugs they're afraid of & yonghoon says i'm not afraid of bugs!#& giuk says i'm afraid of bees :<#& later: you can die if you're stung by a bee#hyungu: i'm not afraid of bees at all#g: hyung 🥺 you'll die if you get stung by a hornet#h: ............. i'm confident i'll win#(ok hyungu aksdjsdkjs)#(anyway!!! i swear there a bunch of music-related things i want to gif for them but i keep. watching comp vids for serotonin &#my brain inevitably yells save giuk he must be protected (& giffed) at all costs!!! so here we are again)
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Bailey, Leighton, both weak spots for me. If you wanted to share any thoughts, any lewd disgusting thoughts or random ideas you'd had about those two I'm more than willing to listen
Oho-ho, you came to the right place.
So here's the thing:
Bailey and Leighton are both absolutely repugnant, reprehensible characters. Most people in this game are abhorrent, yes, but these ones strike a special note with me for a few reasons, namely authority-- and the abuse of it.
Bailey's label is 'Caretaker.' He's the closest thing to a father that you have, presumably raising you since before you can remember. He's a dark mirror into what a parent should be. Where there should be unconditional love, affection, and trust, he provides exploitation, cruelty, and despair. He has absolutely zero qualms with quite literally selling you and your fellows to the debauched denizens of the town and subjecting you to one of the worst experiences that a human can physically go through, and he does it on a dime. Even other terrifying people in town seem petrified by him, and that should give a clue to how awful he really is.
Leighton is the 'Headmaster.' He is charged with your education and safety during the mandatory hours you attend his institution. He is arguably responsible for the success and the happy-ever-after of every student under his charge. Instead, he uses this power to sexually exploit the defenseless people under his care. There are multiple people over town with lingering trauma from his actions, including Daryll, and even Mickey, who has become a paranoid recluse largely in part to these actions, and has you get rid of the evidence of this abuse.
It makes these two particularly disturbing. Remy, Briar, all of the rest of them are disgusting, but they aren't beholden to you in any manner. I suppose it could be argued that Harper, as your GP, is also doing this, but it doesn't quite feel to the same degree to me.
Now, in reality, I can be counted on to be a thorn in the side of any authority figure. I have a real issue with it, and I do not like being controlled or told what to do.
In a sexual sense though?
Listen, something in my brain must've gotten twisted up along the way to adulthood because nothing gets my engine going quite like someone abusing authority. Fucked up to say, perhaps, but it is what it is. Maybe it's part of being the world's biggest brat, but who knows.
There is something enticing and utterly terrifying about it.
Bailey has access to you at your most vulnerable. It is only through him that you have a roof over your head, food to eat, and a bed to sleep in. He's a stern man who brooks no argument. You could say he's mostly the main antagonist; the one keeping you from any semblance of peace or happiness in this town by seeking you out and keeping you on a leash that he's got firmly wrapped around his hand. He isn't openly lustful-- quite the opposite, in fact. He probably has a 'I will not fuck my ward, I will not fuck my ward' mantra he repeats in his head.
Your presence is required at school, and Leighton will use any and all opportunities to exploit that, and he isn't shy about telling you. While not as much of an active antagonist as Bailey, he certainly is as evil. He seems to revel in using his position to meet his own.. uh.. "ends" and you aren't his only target in doing so.
Bailey is more difficult to provoke than Leighton. It requires a high ass seduction check to even get into the position of seducing him, and even higher skills to get him off. He wants to see you first and foremost as a cheque to be cashed, and he makes a point not to muddy his hands in the goods if he can help it. However, if you squint, all the signs are there that he isn't immune to your siren's call.
When you call, he comes running. Scream in the bathroom? Oh, he's fuckin' there. Disappear for a little bit too long? He seeks you out. You're a grown ass adult and his method of punishment is... bending you over his desk to spank you? If you do manage to seduce him, I think he lets a bit more slip than he actually intends to, saying things like "You've always belonged to me" and other possessive sentiments (most especially if you lose your virginity to him) that sort of give away that he's clearly thought about this more than once and is seriously going to indulge now that he finally has you.
Leighton on the other hand? Leighton wears his lust on his sleeve.
If you step foot in the brothel (whether to work there or just to get yourself a shiny fake ID,) Leighton is fuckin' quick on the draw to grab you, which tells me he's had his eye on you for a while. If you proceed to work at the brothel, he hires you the moment he sees you. Annoy him for even a second at school? It's spanking time. Be a little bit of a rascal at school? Get your tits out and lather 'em up! You're washing his car while he watches and twitches because he can't openly attack you here. Try to defend Sydney and say you'll take a part of the punishment? My man practically crawls out of his skin right then and there.
He has a high level of self-control, but it is easily possible to drive that man up a wall with the right actions, and it's pretty apparent from the get-go that he has his sights set on you in less than appropriate ways. Thing is, he really won't act outright similar to Bailey. He's more a voyeur than anything, preferring to watch and document rather than actually take part. It seems like a control thing for me, and also probably so he has dirt on everyone else while keeping his own hands relatively clean, but like with most things, I bend parts of the character in my mind to suit my tastes.
They're both difficult to outright seduce. They're both controlling, hideous fiends that abuse their vulnerable charges. They're monsters. Powerful monsters capable of foul, dastardly things.
Can you imagine being the weak point of that monster?
#Morgana and friends#Degrees of Lewdity#bailey the caretaker#leighton the headmaster#If you've got anything for me send it my way#any ideas or thoughts on it#here's the bit#I KNOW I am fucked in the head when it comes to what I'm attracted to#Like worryingly so#But it HAUNTS me#Imagine pushing Bailey to the limit#oh I bet he's utterly violent#And Leighton is just depraved#I know it#Powerful older men get me going#Especially nasty ones#You just know they're insanely possessive when you break them#and not afraid to hurt you to get what they want#see how that sounds?#That sounds mad
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my family's a mix of "went grey in their 30s" and "simply does not go grey until their 90s or something" and I'm kinda hoping I got the "go grey earlier" genes bc then I might look "older" and maybe I'll stop getting hit on by random customers
#the guy today was at least polite enough to back off a bit and admit that I was too young for him which like thank god#but also why would you hit on a service working they are in customer service mode that is not their core personality#I like my hair color a lot actually but I'm not afraid of going grey and it might help offset some of the...weird interactions I have#or it might make them weirder I dunno#allegedly older women are less attractive than younger women and I don't want to be attractive so#then again there's rumors amongst the coworkers that our company might be going under sooner rather than later so#maybe I'll be able to get a a better job w/ less customer service requirements#oracle of lore
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my sister makes fun of my glacier phobia* but i just ran her out of the room by talking about how old sharks are so
#*it's an abstract phobia like i'm not afraid of irl glaciers which are very cool (rimshot)#but i am terrified of their literal transformative power to flatten mountains and transport sediment hundreds of miles#and the fact that east coast earthquakes are primarily caused by the earth still trying to get back to where it was pre-glacier#it's so much power and everywhere you go in the midwest is flat because of one or hilly because it didn't have one OR the glacier melted#even the glacier-melt hills are mostly sediment and rock moraines deposited by the glacier!!!! you can't escape!!!#anyway sharks are 450 million years old which is what 449.98 million years older than homo sapiens 🙃 (that's why she fled)#usually older people are less smooth but i guess sharks aren't really people#i don't think my math is right on the homo sapiens thing. 499.8? someone help me my family is dying#i'm not even high rn
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You know, just pass...
#not to complain but#idk about you but I've been thinking#I'm afraid of getting older#day by day#and having to act like an adult and mature#without experiencing any 'crazy' thing#i mean doing any childish thing and being excused due ti my age#i mean I can't afford that anymore#and it's frustrating#and upsetting#and sad#and draining#eleminim#ik it may not be worth it but#again
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Confession time: I have not written at all this week because I've been too busy catastrophizing that my cat was dying lol. She had some kind of virus or infection that just took her down, I've never seen a cat that lethargic and weak that wasn't also dying. But after two days of antibiotics, she seems to be back to normal, yay.
But anyway, for anyone familiar with cognitive-behavioral therapy or my therapy fic Ghost on the Couch, I knew I was catastrophizing and yet I couldn't calm myself. I have such terrible, debilitating anxiety. Like the reason I know exactly how to describe Danny hyperventilating is because I do it a LOT. And I can't write when I'm feeling anxious or scared. I can write when I'm busy, tired, mildly sick, or even stressed, but anxiety is the one thing that prevents me from focusing.
And of all the thinking errors, catastrophizing is the only one that I can't talk through and combat effectively. Like yeah, I can tell myself "yes I know this is unlikely, she is only two years old, she is most likely just sick and not dying and she will be back to normal in a few days" but there's a part of my brain that is just so irrational and unreachable, like I just can't talk to it or calm it down.
But all the other thinking errors? Yeah, I can more or less reason through those.
Anyway, now that my cat seems to be okay and not dying after all, I should be able to write again! :D
#anxiety#catastrophizing#it just gets worse the older I get#I just find more and more things to be afraid of#I think I'm particularly on edge because I've already had three cats die this year
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ooh mirror in the sky. what is love. can the child within my heart rise above. can i sail through the changing. ocean tides. can i handle the seasons. of my liiiiiiiife
#well i've been afraid of changing 'cause i built my life around you. but time makes you bolder even children get older. and i'm#getting older too btw. if you even care#.txt
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I hate being an aroallo autistic person whose sexually matured before I'm allowed to have sexual liberation
#sorry i know this probably sounds weird or fucked or something but like.#it's annoying#it's like everything goes in a circle of GOD FUCKING DAMN IT WHY IS IT TAKING SO LONG TO GET TO 18.#i get why. i get why things are laws are in place.#i get why people under 18 shouldn't be in kink spaces.#because there are horrible people out there.#but i don't suddenly become mature enough to have sex at 18#that doesn't mean they should move the age up#it's just. why did 18 become the magic fucking number that I'm allowed to express myself in the fullest form#AND I WANT TO BE CLEAR. THIS IS NOT ME TRYING TO GET ATTENTION FROM OLDER PEOPLE WHO WILL HURT ME.#I DON'T WANT TO DO ANYTHING OF THAT SORT WITH ANYONE OVER 18#THAT FREAKS ME OUT#i just feel like so much of my identity is locked behind a barrier of I'm 16 and not 18#and when i feel like i can handle myself and my parents trust me to be responsible i still can't. do shit.#i can't tell people things that i want to#especially on the internet but also in real life#because I'm under 18#WHICH IS STUPID LIKE I'M SO CLOSE MAN#I'M NOT A 12 YEAR OLD#anyways I'm sorry about this rant I'm just frustrated with things right now#tw vent#I'll just put that just in case#and I'm not afraid to block some people if they come my way after this#like i said i ain't about getting down with 18+ people#i just want to express myself
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i'm so brave, just called to ask my GP (nbd, I have a family doc for the first time in 15 years~~~) for an appointment and when it turned out she's away until mid-Sept i only self-destructed the conversation a little bit!!! turns out that phobia's still kinda going I guess
#maybe i'm afraid of dr office receptionists as well as doctors#fun discoveries to make as i get older#but genuinely: am proud of myself for actually calling lol#gratuitous textpost about yourself#now to read another chapter of tuesday murder club before i get back to the mountain of emails i've gotten since aug 10th
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Honestly? Did I want more from DTAMHD? Yes, I did. I wanted something signifying actual progression for Dennis' character (even just a crumb of genuine growth) , and I sincerely don't think we got that. However... we did get a fascinating insight into the process of his mind. Dennis' level of self-denial is so ironic and profound. He can't acknowledge the inevitability that he's middle-aged.
(I swear this episode honestly has given me an alt hc, that the show is based in his mind; because logistically, a man of his lifestyle and malnourishment could not commit the feats he is constantly sailing through. TGGB & DTAMHD... back-to-back? What happened to his hand? Did he even sprain it? Or is he just the most dramatic brat in the gang - clearly the latter.)
It is important to note that he didn’t fix the actual problem. He momentarily masked the symptoms, but ignore long-term help with blood pressure medicine is not going to fix the issue, nor is it going to protect him from fucking keeling over in a stressful situation (when he's not in a contained and quiet Doctor's exam room) and his blood pressure spikes.
I'm honestly a little jaded at this point (16 Fucking Seasons of crumbs, y'all), but if one were to continue 'trusting the structure' this episode conveyed a lot.
The B Plot: The pressure cooker. The metaphor parallels the building pressure Dennis quick-tempered bouts of rage. So, to toss out a little 'cat-in-the-wall' conjecture here: The pressure cooker is Dennis, but we all saw him eat that bloody diamond in the end and we all heard Mac's speech about coal turning into diamonds under massive pressure. Dennis' experience is a theory of pressure, he daydreams it all in the span of a minute or so. He's roleplaying with hypothetical obstacles. There's no risk. Maybe Dennis, isn't the pressure cooker, but the coal.
If I were to try and take anything hopeful out of this episode, it would be the way the narrative is showing us that this episode acknowledged that Dennis isn't ready yet. It's not his turn to break. It's going to take real, substantial pressure to get that diamond.
It was a hell of a misdirect (and honestly a little bit of a slap in the face), but if these characters live in the real world, where people are bound by the laws of mortality, then Dennis should have his time.
Genuinely, who fucking knows?
I'm not hating on the episode. We all know this is the trashy dick joke sitcom. I just thought that if Mac & Charlie could have moments of genuine heartbreak, culminating in deep catharsis, that maybe Dennis could have that too.... but no.
Can't wait to see the sunny dudebros miss the point & proclaim Dennis Reynolds - SA victim, traumatized individual with an emotionally tumultuous personality disorder - the new Andrew Tate.
I'm sorry, but yeah. I'm a little miffed. It was all a dream, and everything goes Dennis' way. Y'all I'm fucking tired. This was a great episode for Glenn, but a fucking frustrating episode for Dennis. I may have wanted a little macden, but all I cared about was seeing Dennis face the limitations of his mortality, to see that he's failing his body and his brain. He didn't have to actually take the medicine (I wouldn't expect him to), but Goddammit, everything seems to work out in his delusional favor. So, of course he's going to continue being delusional, and probably only change for the worse.
I'll say it: I wanted a broken Dennis, and we did not get that. He didn't even crack, the unbearble and apparently now canonical Golden God. That episode's title was intended to tease sunnyblr.
Excuse the plethora of tags. I just kept getting more irritated.
#what i take from the episode is further insight to the lengths of Dennis' repression which adds to my fic#iasip s16#i will say this: i can't dislike this episode solely because of how phenomenal glennjamin's performance was.#I'd say I'm retracting the title of macden 'truther'. I'm still a stan. but this ep made me realize dennis is too coddled by the narrative#with TGGB he's constantly winning. even the game he doesn't stay to watch the end of. his body performing near miracles. wtf#the real reason I'm seriously bothered is the sunny dudebros. they already idolize dennis#this ep has only made it worse because the obvious point of Dennis' actual delusions will go right over their heads.#anybody with a grounded sense of reality can tell you that dennis did not solve a problem#he dreamt up a scenario in some kind of toxic meditation session. he's getting older. and his denial is metastasizing#Dennis' denial isn't sustainable. I'm kind of cutting off my investment in that regard. he's a fucking mess & he's currently being idolized#dennis reynolds#definitely not my favorite episode. not bc of lack of macden. a little bc Den needs limitations. mainly bc 'it was all a dream' is cheap#ranting.excuse me for wanting 1 of my fave characts actually have his poor health.self-destructive coping mechanism/trauma acknowledged#can't believe i was actually afraid i wouldn't be able to write because too much might happen in DTAMHD...! 🤣#it should've all happened. but instead ended w/him getting charges pressed when he tried to break into ceo's home#ngl. this one hurt. I'm ready for Mac to give up on Dennis. i just wish this fucking show would let him.#excuse me while i go bawl like a baby watching MFHP. because I'm heartbroken that Dennis' BPD makes him push Mac away.#let's just say that realization has been bogging me down in my personal life the last couple of days. & this bummed me out.#Robert McElhenney. I'm outside the studio screaming at you to just let Mac move on & actually meet someone!#I'm not saying he deserves a relationship. but fuck... after 40 yrs of repression can he at least have a fling & fall out of love w/Den?#Dennis won't ever let him meet someone. & he'll never treat Mac like he actually cares about him.bc his own vulnerability terrifies him.😭
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柄本 佑 || 「光る君へ」 (2024) · 第十七回 「うつろい」
#柄本佑#tasuku emoto#光る君へ#hikaru kimi e#1x17#made by me#fujiwara no michinaga#藤原道長#the soft smile & shaking head when michikane said to him 'I owe you one'#I was all 🥹🥹🥹🥹#I'm not okay#especially after knowing whats gonna happen to michikane next#poor michinaga#just when he finally started to truly LOVE his brother :'(#and is it the last time he gets to say the word 'aniue'?#oh my goodness😩😩😩😩😩😩😩#also irrelevant cuteness:#the way he asked Tomoko for money!!!!!!!! so fucking cute#Tomoko's older than him/a principal wife so I always feel like he's a bit afraid of her#it's good to see them finally sitting together and talking something that's not about their kids or fathers#(even if it's about politics & infidelity😅)#it's SO HARD to be with michinaga ain't it???#one day he accidentally ran into mahiro and he just STOPPED GOING TO AKIKO-SAMA'S PLACE ALTOGETHER#and LIED about his whereabouts to Tomoko#man you're like. the worst hubby#tbh I feel bad for liking her because of Kaneie but I truly TRULY love seeing scenes where michinaga and akiko-sama are together#idk I just see them as a normal couple. michianaga seemed to care abt her more in the way of a man caring abt his wife#and Kumi-chan's just so smollllll around Tasuku-san#I love their weird chemistry. her bewitching vibe#& they're not even a major thing in this show. I need you to go to akiko-sama's place more michinaga
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I'm convinced ONLY a Powerful Demon could love Phoebe because she's such a runner! Cole's only real choice to be with her came down to loving her harder
#charmed#phoebe halliwell#cole turner#phoebe x cole#cole halliwell#it me#ok I'm on season 5 of Charmed and their about to really wrap up the cole/phoebe plot fr so we can get to Piper#and I'm excited for Piper character growth I'm excited for pregnancy to turn her into a more confident older sister#cuz the dynamic between the 3 of them needs to improve they can't keep steam rolling Piper when she's right#they deadass gaslit her so hard episode 1 they gave her a panic attack#so I'm really ready to see her become more head strong like Prue because just watching how they talk to their older sister is some bull#cuz they dont treat her like a big sis and then they dont treat her like a middle sis#they treat piper like she's just there WELL LET HER BE THERE THEN 🤣🤣 FUCK atp I'm like ok Phoebe ok Paige#watch ya mouf#and this pacisfist leo need to step up as a big brother everybody actually need to back up and let#mom and dad show you how ITS DONE#Cole knows it too#he knows he's an immortal creature he knows how hard they love#the persistency is REALLY KEY IT REALLY IS#Phoebe been afraid of being a wife the whole time but girl you knew he was a demon and everybody warned you?#so just because you were proven wrong by something only you believed was true... now you give up?#now that you know things are things and got the answers you wanted?? NOW you want to be a mermaid 🤣🤣GIRL#phoebe gotta get over herself a little bit sorry
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Watched the little IGN announcement teaser for the new Mighty Nein animated series. It was really good and I’m really excited for it, but if I had to nitpick it a little bit, it does kind of irk me that every character got to have a line that encapsulates their character (Yasha’s “and I don’t believe in luck” line, Fjord’s “you need me more than I need you” line), except for Nott, who’s line is about her relationship to the man in her life.
Idk maybe I’m just jaded from seeing Nott/Veth be reduced to Caleb’s emotional support mother figure so many times, and I know that her relationship with Caleb is important to her character... I just still think it’s a bit disappointing.
“Case closed” (episode 29), “A sign that there could be, for all of us, another chapter” (episode 36), “No, there’s no comma, I’m just Nott the Brave.” (episode 4), “And they made me everything that I thought I was: not pretty, not good, just not(t)” (episode 49), “Chemistry’s good, baby, but killing is better!” (episode 57), “Molly said not to steal from happy people” (episode 27), “But the reason I want to find these people and rescue them is not to use them, and it’s not because we’ve invested time into them, it’s because I love them” (also episode 27), “Every one of us has left without saying goodbye to someone in our lives” (episode 107)
Some of those are a bit too spoilery to use, but you get my idea. I just think there are a lot of better quotes they could’ve used that would’ve encapsulated Veth/Nott’s character better.
#i love nott so much she's my favourite character. and i will never get over how much she's reduced down to her relationship to caleb#they don't even have a mother/son thing going on. and if they do its about as one sided as their older brother/younger sister dynamic#the one people like to forget that caleb mentioned (earlier than the line about caleb being 'nott's boy' in episode 13)#i'm so afraid that they're going to try and play up that aspect of their relationship in the animated series. i'm so afraid#also I'm not asking for any discourse this is just me complaining about something i feel strongly about#critical role#mighty nein animated#nott the brave#veth brenatto
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