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what pet names the boys would call you 🙏🙏
I literally have no explanation for any of these you just gotta trust my gut on this LMAO
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percy jackson has varied pet names. I like to think he’d be alllll for “sweet girl” or “angel” like just trust me on this, I know it for a fact. n it’s literally making me weak in the knees to think of him calling me either like ughmhmmhmh does annabeth realize how lucky she is it’s literally not fair :(
connor stoll would call you something you for sure hate. but though eventually you get used to it over time so you don’t really hate it technically. if the books were in this gen he’d for sure call you one of those cringe ass gen alpha slang�� he’d def call you “the rizzler” don’t fight me on this. or his “partner in crime” like pls that’s so cute I need him.
jason grace is literally like an old man, I’m sorry, but this dude pulls out the “my dear” and “my love” like crazyyyy… but it’s cute in a way though like he’s just a silly nerd hello??? I would literally kill for this idc he’s so fucking attractive.
leo valdez is all for the spanish pet names… im like 99% sure this is canon… n I don’t speak spanish so I used translate 4 this but he’s def big on the “querida” + “mi amor” + “mi vida” like… it’s so mhmmmfkjd like imagine he whispers it in your ear I’m fucking deceased n dead!!!!!
luke castellan is for the basic pet names like “baby” or smth, like he’s lwk boring as fuck but it’s also sexy as shit?? like it’s probably just because it’s him but idk what I’m talking about here.
#xoxochb#percy jackson x reader#percy jackson#percy jackson x y/n#percy jackson x you#connor stoll x reader#connor stoll#connor stoll x you#connor stoll x y/n#jason grace imagines#jason grace pjo#jason grace#jason grace x reader#jason grace x y/n#jason grace x you#leo valdez pjo#leo valdez x you#leo valdez x reader#leo valdez x y/n#leo valdez#luke castellan x reader#luke castellan#luke castellan x you#percy jackon and the olympians#pjo series#pjo fandom#pjo#percy series#pjo hoo toa
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red flag and green flags of Jude based on his mannerisms and vibes : green flags: romantic, touchy, would give you countless hugs, loves to cuddle, love amusement parks, loves chilling at home, has only like 2 real best friends so he will dedicate a lot of time to you, will dedicate goals to you, is the type to take care of the bill ( I mostly think this because I don’t think he would make Toby split when he goes to eat with him since he obviously has more money and can handle it) , will let you borrow his clothes ( I also think this cause he lets Toby use his clothes🤣), will want you to talk to him A LOT, he looks like the type to hold your purse or give you a piggy back ride dkw), he will constantly send you tiktoks( I think this because his alleged reposts are sometimes the same as toby’s so I’m guessing they send each other TikTok’s), will always take pictures of you together ( he takes a lot of selfies so ..), THATS ALL I CAN THINK OF RN🚩 RED FLAGS 🚩 will be very clingy( he’s always hugging up on someone ) , will be very possessive, ( he’s very protective of his family and calls them his three hearts so just imagine what your heart will be to him), has a bit of history of alleged flings,( at the end of day this could be false cause I saw somewhere that Gabriela was a school friend of Toby or they met in college can’t remember but someone showed a facebook pic of her very young and Toby so idk, but I can’t explain other flings like hotel girl and the Mayweather ex girl so who knows what true or not ), will be sassy ( needs no explanation) , he will never say it’s his fault ( he literally never doesn’t argue with referees), he would be very territorial ( he’s litterly backs vini all the time ), you would prolly be his second mom 😭, he loves to be pampered, would need someone to cook his favorite meals, you would have to be the man in the relationship, prolly doesn’t know how to even wash the dishes, he would FaceTime you all the time to know where you at, looks like the type to not want pets, would manipulate you make him do what he says, would prolly mess up your plans because he wants more attention from you, he would prolly move fast in the relationship once you both are committed to each other, would not give you space sometimes when you need it and act like the victim, will prolly make you drive until he gets his license 😭 THATS IT for now . if you couldn’t tell i was bored 🥱
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Zhanna: you talk too much. I will pick you up and throw you across room if you do not stop talking
Miss Pauling: are you making a move on me
Zhanna:
Miss Pauling: it’s fine I just didn’t see it coming
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i saw this tweet and found it interesting for two reasons. one is that some people base how good cartoon network would be to toh by how it treated su, and despite the fact that su’s treatment by the network was considered poor at the time, now its thought to be exceptionally good in comparison to modern shows.
two is how exactly su got impacted by a limited budget. a common criticism is how characters like connie, peridot, and lapis are left out of missions. but balancing a lot of characters is not only hard but also costly (extra animation, extra voices—it’s been revealed that the show is limited to a set number of characters per episode otherwise they’re over budget). animation mistakes are not uncommon since retakes cost extra. the entire reason the original show got cut short was due to loss of funding!
#i don’t know if pay rates differ per networks#but a.ivi and s.urrashu have said that they needed to work outside of su in order to make sufficient funds#it only makes me wonder what other ways su suffered from a lower budget#that we as the audience never got to see#in the vein of the too-little characters complaint#another part of that is that low-stakes episodes should’ve been abt the main cast instead of the townies#like last one out of beach city and too short to ride vs restaurant wars and kiki’s pizza delivery service#i definitely see that especially since that isn’t budget related#nor would it seem to be network related (even if cn had an ‘episodic episodes’ quota it could still be abt the gems#(another side note: /would/ cn even have a requirement that the show make episodes that can be watched standalone?#this is a question for the people who were around when su was airing#what episodes often got rerun?#was it the townie eps or the lore eps?#for example i heard that su once did a ‘peridot event’ where they just reran peridot episodes#which had eps that skip around in the show#did they even care about airing the story so that it made sense anyways?#id get it if the low stakes townie episodes were the ones getting rerun))#but i have such a boring view on that which is i think it’s simply because the creators like townie eps#like in interviews r.ebecca s.ugar has said she’s the type to be really invested in background characters#answers in interviews have been crafted in ways to hide what’s really going on though tbf#prime example of this is rebecca and ian saying the wedding being interrupted was meant to follow the common trope#when later in the art book they said that it was bc cn rejected the ep bc it ‘wasn’t interesting enough’#both could simultaneously be true! it’s a psychology thing though where people make up nice-sounding explanations behind what they create#in retrospect because they want it to be thought out in such a nice way they believe in it#the bigger problem is that not matter how many episodes there are of them#it can be hard for ppl to be invested in the townies the same way they are invested in the main cast#i’m sure that a million writers have made surefire advice on how to get an audience to care about characters#but off the top of my head i think it’s because 1. most don’t have strong motivations to get truly invested in#(exception is ronaldo but people find him too annoying to care about him)#okay i had more points and explanations but i hit the tag limit and idk if anyone is actually reading this so bye
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I think that deep down Mobius couldn’t prune the two kids because he subconsciously knew— he felt like it would be like pruning his own children. He was a father and will always have that instinct, no matter how many times he was brainwashed.
#people saying it was Loki or a Loki variant but like I don’t think so#I think that Loki would’ve figured it out if it was him#I think that Mobius would’ve told him it was a Loki#we have seen time and time again that Mobius has a soft spot for kids#and Mobius didn’t suddenly become a Loki researcher.#he was assigned to learn all about Lokis since a Loki escaped because he’s an analyst#because way back in the TVA past mobius knew nothing of loki#idk I guess we can agree to disagree#I just wanted to offer up another explanation#lokius#loki show#loki x mobius#mobius#mcu loki#loki season 2#loki laufeyson#loki spoilers#loki#loki series#wowki#loki season two#mobius mcu
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I’m rewatching Labyrinth and I already know I’m going to make this about Tim Drake.
Bruce gets Damian as a baby, and makes Tim watch him while he goes out on the more dangerous missions.
Tim throws a fit and says the whole ‘Ugh, I wish someone would just take you far away from me!’ bit and then League assassins kidnap Damian.
Tim tracks down Ra’s and threatens him and Ra’s tells him, “Ah, but Detective… I’m doing you a favor. I heard you, you know. Just think how much better life will be when you don’t have to worry about taking care of my grandson.”
“…I appreciate what you’re trying to do, but I really need my brother back.”
Ra’s stares at him for a few moments. “How disappointing. I suppose you’ll just have to find him, then.”
And that’s the last thing Tim remembers before waking up in the labyrinth. He walks forward for a few moments before he sees a figure training with a sword in a courtyard.
The figure turns and Tim spots bright green eyes and a streak of white in a head of black.
“Oh, Replacement. It’s you.”
#I don’t want to make Jason the coward but it’s really funny like that:(#I suppose you could probably change his motive from cowardice to revenge but w/e#The Bog of Eternal Stench=The Pit and it’s the only thing Jay is scared of#and instead of ‘we’re friends’ it’s ’we’re family’ and I cry#it could also be Dick as Sarah and Jason as Toby#idk who would take Jason but I guess it could still just be jareth with no explanation#oh yea the joker exists#then you could have the fun rogues be all the little miscellaneous characters#I think Penguin would make a good Worm#Croc is Ludo#and the Riddler could be Sir Didymus !#although if it’s dick and Jason Didymus is really giving dami vibes#dcu#batfam#batman#fanfiction#tim drake#damian wayne#ra’s al ghul#bruce wayne#red robin#dc robin#dick grayson#jason todd#red hood#shut up grandpa#I always write way too much in the tags but they don’t fit in the post:(
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DRDT SPOILERS
WAIT. WHAT IF EDEN GRABBED THE TAPE FOR A NON MURDER REASON N GAVE IT TO SOMEONE ELSE BC THEY ASKED HER FOR HELP? and now she’s realizing she might have helped Arei’s killer unwillingly, maybe why she kept repeating that line about friends helping each other?
#ok I don’t actually think this is very plausible#but I need an explanation for what that was it felt significant#drdt#danganronpa despair time#also idk it just still feels like it couldn’tve been either of them???#like narratively it really feels like it’s not Eden (and i don’t want it to be her)#but it would be unsatisfying I think for Ace’s character arc to end here#and also why the hell would he grab the roll of tape??#if I’m remembering correctly he woke up and pretty quickly ran out of the room#and it doesn’t seem like he even paid any attention to the murder method??? idk#i think we might still have an accomplice or something but idk#i just really can’t tell who it’s supposed to be at all??????#i still don’t want to suspect hu but she WAS super sus this ep and she never answered how Nico got her wire…. idfk man#ignore all my rambling sorry
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back to our regularly scheduled rhea brainrot!
some explanations under the cut ^^
top 5 saddest rhea moments 😹🙀
1. Eating her devil fruit
One night, Rhea finally had enough of being forgotten and ignored by her family and ran away to the forest, planning to never come back. She thought that if she was “gone for good,” it would make them realize their mistake.
Over the course of a week, she sustained herself off of the diverse plant life, and learned survival skills by following the patterns of a family of wildcats.
However, only while watching the mother cat gently care for her cubs did Rhea realize that no one had come looking for her. She had purposefully stayed near the edges of the forest, hoping that maybe someone would find her. There among only the trees, she cried until her chest hurt; unheard, unseen, & forgotten.
She spends one more night out in the woods, running low on accessible food sources in the forest shallows. She spots a new fruit that she’s never seen before, and in a moment of naivety, cuts a piece and pops it into her mouth. So shocked from the bitterness, she instinctively swallows the fruit. Effectively traumatized, she leaves the rest of the fruit for the animals and heads home.
There was no one to greet her when she arrived home, no greeting in the following days, no greeting from even the townspeople. No one had noticed she had even left, and somehow, she felt more unheard than before.
2. Learning to be selfish
The Whitebeards notice the way Rhea doesn’t ask for things the way kids normally would. Over the smallest requests, she would avert her eyes and bow her head. When shown the barest act of patience or compassion, her eyes would gloss over a little bit.
Marco, being the one she trusts the most, decided to address this. Through various conversations, Marco attempts to piece together the life Rhea lived before setting sail. She would talk about God and punishment, the sea and vengeance, earning and losing love through action. While much of her worries were padded in metaphor, wether from fear of admission or simply the phrases she was fed, Marco could gather that her sense of self worth was too damaged for a girl of 10 years old.
On a day where Rhea was feeling particularly vulnerable, she finally tells Marco about her family. How she was forgotten in place of the new “first son” of the household; how she made herself small so that, maybe, she’d be good enough of a daughter to be remembered. She laughs emptily about it, claiming she understands the pressures of having a second child.
“Well, It’s their first life after all,” She gives her parents too much grace for Marco to accept. “But isn’t it yours too?” That short sentence is enough for Rhea’s world to break.
She’s overwhelmed with all the things she wants but never asks for. “Tell us what you want, and you’ll have it. You can be selfish, you’re a pirate!” Marco encourages. “I want to have my hair brushed,” she starts at a whisper. Her voice grows louder as she states her greedy desires. “I want to be hugged,” “I want to be noticed,” “I want to be loved!”
She’s sobbing into the fabric of her too-big sleeves by the end, and Marco holds her close in comfort.
3. Father
Her struggle to feel worthy is a difficult unlearning process. No matter the words of support that her brothers gave her, it didn’t make the feeling of weakness go away. When you’re surrounded by men as strong as monsters, it’s difficult to not compare your own abilities.
Her feelings of inferiority are especially supported when she needs to be comforted from whispers of battle on the wind. Too many times has Rhea watched images of her brothers’ blood from the backs of her own eyes. Her observation haki forces her to listen to their panicked heartbeats from where she tucks herself away in the smallest corner of the ship.
“She’s just soft,” she overhears Thatch say, after another dizzying afternoon of trying to press the remnants of wounds not her own out of her head. “I know, and that’s why I’m worried.” Marco responds quietly.
She tries to swallow her pain, make herself tougher in order to earn her place in the crew. She fails relatively quickly, lashing out due to the suppression of her hurt.
Whitebeard confronts her when she’s sulking while walking along the railing late at night. He calls her over to his throne, reprimanding her for her dangerous habit. She’s quiet when crawling into his lap, and still while wrapped into his cape.
“Rhea, did you know, I wanted to say yes. The very moment you first asked to fly under my flag.” Rhea was confused, Pops was rarely this sentimental unless he was drunk. “Why didn’t you?” she asks. “On these seas, there’s no guarantees. I could tell you were a child who deserved a long and happy life, there was no guaranteeing that if I had immediately said yes.”
“I don’t understand…” her confusion and hurt grows, “You don’t have to. What matters is now; and now, I see I made the right choice. I want you here, and I’m glad that you’re my daughter.”
The words from Pops felt concrete, they held the truth that Rhea was seeking. It extinguished her tangled feelings of jealousy and insecurity; The words she needed from a father.
“Even if I’m useless?” “You don’t need to prove your value to be loved! Who do you think I am, Big Mom!?” Whitebeard jokes, and Rhea laughs easy.
4. & 5.? Permanence
Rhea holds onto familiarity with desperation. She refuses to let go of things that are long gone, deluding herself that somehow she’ll get it back.
She had blissfully ignored death, convincing herself that her family was untouchable by those things. Ignoring the signs of age and wear on her crewmates. When Thatch dies, and the Paramount war happens, and she can no longer cling onto childish fantasies.
Rhea’s birthday is shortly after the Grudge war. Her brothers ask her over the snail what she wants, promising they’ll get her anything to cheer her up from their bleak loss streak. All she wants is to go home.
She misses the rock of the waves when she sleeps; The old doors that she needed to close with a little more force; The faces of her family and the easy conversations. Now, her heart twists at the thought of the Moby Dick. The ship sits in pieces under its enemy’s water.
She feels nothing but sickness when she turns 21. The thought that she had out-aged Ace haunted her all day. She couldn’t stand it.
#OK YAP SESH OVER#i am not a good writer whatsoever but i don’t have the time/energy to make these into full comics#so please bear with my crude explanations 😭 i’m cringing at myself#also oc x canon with the WBs is kinda scary bc idk if anything is ooc#aaa whateverrrr#also tweaking her design a TEEENY bit#like barely noticeable change lol#one piece oc#one piece original character#oc x canon#silent swordsman rhea#my art
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#I don’t have an explanation for this one. just. needed to be drawn#sabrina claw fusion. I guess??? idk he just deserves to be slutty#my art#miraculous ladybug#ml paris special#claw noir#adrien agreste
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Hello OUAT fandom, I bring you Emma’s emotional cheating in s4
#more specifically#this is inspired by the total whiplash of that scene where Emma says Regina is the only person who understands her followed up almost#immediately by a cute captain swan moment#your fatherless pirate boyfriend has never felt Regected Emma really??#so the only Watsonian explanation I could come up with is#comphet#like you don’t get it my main ship ARE Hook and Emma but here?? comphet#for Emma#hook loves her a lot and that makes it sadder#hook is actually my fave can you tell?#idk who this is for except for me and my friend but have it#ouat#captain swan#fanart#I guess??#swan queen#swanqueen#once upon a time#killian jones#Emma swan#Regina mills#ouat fanart#comic
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Dropping the reveal of my main operatives through doodles because why not 🗣️🗣️‼️‼️
Here’s their appearances in game as well :>
Close-ups:
#watch dogs#watch dogs legion#WDL#art#traditional art#doodle#do operatives technically count as watch dogs legion OCS?#if that’s the case then#wdl oc#Their names are Harold (right) and Jim (left) and they’re my favourite operatives out of the 10 I have#I have a total of 14 hours played into them collectively idk what that says#anyway legion actually slaps idk what everyone else is on about how it’s bad and ruined the franchise#if anything it characterises how ctos works in different parts of the world considering it went global#same with Tokyo in the watchdogs Tokyo manga#also I find the whole ‘anyone can be a hacker’ concept kind of interesting#how you can play as anyone#there’s also literally no excuse if you say ‘they don’t know how’ bc dedsec has a software that they use to get into the stuff#said software has literally been utilised in the first in second game#anyway#how tf does ctos 3.0 exist?? considering the stunt Marcus pulled in San Francisco#shouldnt blume be facing some form of scandal over this?? how are they still going after everything has technically been brought to light??#while we’re talking about Blume and for those who read the hashtags#CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN TO ME HOW BELLWETHER WORKS ASIDE FROM RIGGING ALGORITHMS???#BECAUSE HOW CAN SOMEONE GO INSANE FROM IT??#it’s literally confused me ever since watch dogs 1 and I haven’t found an explanation for it#anyway yap session over
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2024 reads / storygraph
Lord of the Empty Isles
sci-fi/fantasy
set on a supposedly utopian planet recovering from a climate crisis, where bonds between people are able to be seen and manipulated (by some people)
follows a young man whose brother was cursed and killed by an infamous outlaw 5 years ago, and he’s finally able to curse him back - but it rebounds, as he’s somehow fatebound to the outlaw
to find a cure and save them both they have to team up, and he quickly finds out that the resources the outlaw is stealing go to the thousands of people neglected on prison planets, and he has to go against what he thought was right to help them
no romance, aroace MC, focus on platonic relationships
arc from netgalley, out june 6
#Lord of the Empty Isles#aroaessidhe 2024 reads#I enjoyed this quite a bit! But I think it could have gone a bit further in places.#It has some interesting concepts and a great cast of characters and yay no romance#I do have a lot of thoughts and little critiques...#it's p obvious where the plot is going and what's going to happen#There’s clearly a lot gone into developing this bond system but to be honest I still don’t entirely get it?#It seems to emphasise that the bonds just reflect connections between people rather than predetermine anything; but also the plot kind of#hinges on Remy and Idrian having a predetermined bond? There are a lot of explanations of intricacies but a lot of it didn’t sink in idk#It’s promoted as QP but to me it reads as a general platonic relationship. I generally expect a depiction of a QPR to have like..#some form of acknowledgement/depiction of the form of their relationship being a particular (undefinable?) kind#with some specific level of commitment? I’m being picky maybe they mean queerplatonic themes/vibes rather than saying it’s a qpr#specifically. the centred platonic relationship is good! it doesn't seem like a qpr to me; at most what could one day be that#also things are solved quite quickly and easily in the end - both the curse and the downfall of the bad guy.#I feared it would go down the route of blaming things on the person in charge rather than emphasising systemic issues which it kinda does….#It’s impossible to ignore right now just how deeply people are willing to believe dehumanising propaganda - and how 'telling the truth'#and exposing the person in power as bad doesn’t actually do anything so that happening here made me go…… oh okay. well.#there is room for a sequel that maybe will explore this tho. idk#complaints aside - I do recommend this! It was fun and pretty unique.#aroace books#no romance
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regarding my prev tag about a merc employee sending the email and my overall thoughts about lewis at mercedes and possible sabotage:
i think it’s very clear at this point that things behind the scenes at mercedes are messy, and that the relationship with lewis and mercedes has been fractured for a couple years now. it’s hard to believe that it has gotten this bad. if we were to go back to 2020 or even 2021 it would’ve been unthinkable that it would get to this point: that lewis would leave mercedes in the first place and go to another team rather than retire, that the possibility of the team sabotaging him is even being considered.
and i think we should consider it a possibility that there is sabotage happening at the team. and by that i don’t necessarily mean that the entirety of merc is actively plotting against lewis because there are thousands of people working there, some of whom have been there since the beginning of lewis’ tenure with them, and have a strong working relationship and even friendship with him. i don’t doubt that there are people at mercedes who still want the best for lewis in terms of results and life in general. however, the opposite can be true as well— there very well could be people in the team who do not like or care for lewis, and all it takes is one, two or a few people here and there to cause trouble.
it might sound illogical to sabotage lewis, but. just because it seems "illogical" doesn’t mean it’s impossible. people are not robot-computers that act rationally all the time, there are plenty of situations where people at mercedes have not acted logically in the past couple of years. it is illogical that merc wouldn't give lewis, their most successful driver, the most successful driver of all time, a 2+1 contract and an ambassadorship. it is illogical to replace lewis with an almost 18 year old who skipped an entire feeder series and can’t drive a road car yet. it is illogical for the marketing team to actively ignore lewis, their most popular driver, in their social media posts, for the admin to beef with lewis fans publicly on the official account. there have been many instances of illogical behaviour, and unthinkable things have happened in the past couple of years. why not one more illogical or unthinkable thing? there have been many instances where lewis has been treated unfairly by the team, and it could be a coincidence or incidental of course, but how many coincidences or incidents have to take place before it is not that anymore?
which brings me to the email. we do not know who sent it and what the intentions are with the email— it could be sent by someone who genuinely cares about lewis and his well-being, it could also be someone who wants to cause trouble for mercedes, and doesn’t care one bit about the consequences it will have on lewis. it might be a mercedes employee and it might not be. however, the fact that it has been sent out— by someone who knows something about the inner workings of f1 media— and is being investigated means that we cannot any longer ignore the murmurings of what is happening behind the scenes at mercedes.
for the record, im not saying for sure that there is sabotage happening. like i said, i believe there are still people at merc who still like and care for lewis. it could be just some people being bad at their jobs, and not anything more deliberate and sinister than that. we, as outsiders, don’t know and won’t ever know the full details of what’s happening and will happen at mercedes. sabotage is only one possibility out of many, but it is not as improbable as some people think.
#all im saying is that we need to consider every possibility now including sabotage#idk I don’t think anyone genuinely wants that to be the explanation bc it’s quite frankly fucked up#like it sounds insane on the surface but so many things in the past couple years have been said to be impossible or insane only to turn out#to be true lol so why not one more thing? im not saying it is true but it’s not as unlikely to be false as ppl think#I think every possibility should be considered#and it’s good that there is an investigation going forward. some possibilities will be put to rest hopefully and we might get some answers#anyways if you read all of this pls have a snack of your liking as a treat bc it’s deserved lol#roscoehamiltons.txt
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I knew you’d come back, sir.
#idk i just wanted to make these gifs i don’t have an explanation why really#agent stone#dr robotnik#sonic movie#sonic movies#sonic the hedgehog#sonic the hedgehog 2#sonic movie 2#gif#stobotnik#they are not high quality at all im no professional gif maker sorry
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what if we mixed among us with narootoe. I think it would look banging
#I don’t have an explanation#raditz bardock Potara fusion#the worms have ate my brain but like imagine. earth raditz nose scar + bardock cheek scar it’s like one big connecting line#IDK LEVAE ME ALONE#art#dbz#fusions#big hair :)#broski suggested he uses Bardock’s bandana as a hair tie and I was like mmmmmmm immediately yes#raditz#technically#bardock#also technically#can’t hear you over his cool legging boot warmer combo#????? send tweet
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one thing I’ve seen a lot of portwells/ej stans mention is that the wildcats were “bad friends” for not helping ej with his stress/pinning more specific blame on gina for not helping her boyfriend when he was stressed. for one, this is kinda blatantly not true. besides the fact that ej refused to ask them for help (and understandably so) by not revealing that he was director at the beginning of 302 or inviting miss jenn to outsource help, for example, most of them helped him/offered to help in one way or another. gina constantly shared her faith in his abilities and even offered to step back on their relationship while at camp to allow him more free time. val appeared to fulfill a lot of the directing role with casting and helping to organize the readthrough. maddox helped with organizing auditions. carlos (along with val) organized rcosl to help get more drama. I could share more examples but they serve to highlight that when ej was drowning, he was not left at sea. a lot of his stress was intrinsic, and even all the help in the world was going to prevent it because of pressure he imposed on himself. to blame his friends, who were there to have fun, with the only responsibility on their plate being to learn their lines, is a misunderstanding of why he was stressed and how he could be helped. the best thing they could do for him was learn their roles for opening night. in fact, miss jenn literally tells him “if they know their lines, they’ll be fine.” i also wanna mention that ej didn’t really seem to be failing at directing. it was more of a combination of personal doubt and the introduction of the production being filmed. the latter likely placed stress on all of them and there was nothing that they could really do to change that for themselves, let alone ej. anyways, all this is leading up to my main question: what did you guys want the wildcats to do for ej? take on directing parts of the show while also learning their lines in under two weeks? magically find him a way to please his father? the stress that ej was under sucked. but it wasn’t the fault of his friends, nor could it disappear in the presence of sweet words. I just wanted to pose this inquiry to his stans and open it up for respectful debate!
#hsmtmts#ej caswell#ej hsmtmts#idk how to tag I never talk about him lol#I have mixed feelings about ej because he was one of my favorite characters in s1 and 2#but he kinda fell flat in s3 for me idk#but I feel like I understand him on a deep psychological level#this post is also looking to push back on the babying done by ej stans#they refuse to let him be held accountable and place the onus of ALLLLLL his problems on the shoulders of others#sometimes it is other people’s fault#most of the time it’s not#I just wanna understand the reasoning a bit#bc I truly feel there was not much his friends could do but make the musical good in their own ways#and this is not blaming ej#but it’s hard to help someone when they don’t tell you anything#and he’s notorious for bottling his feelings up#and no one can read your mind if you don’t want them to#but anyways#pls share your explanations!!!
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