#it isnt fair. but

[sillycoolguy32]

i redrew my first swordvan

[chadepitanga]

there's something so raw and soul crushing about spending your late childhood+teen years suicidal then growing up and actually wanting to live, after an ungodly effort, only to see your health deteriorate because of chronic illness.

[starridge]

yeah

[polaris-likethestar]

rio couldve just taken nicholas when he was supposed to die. it probably would have been easier for agatha, actually, given that she never actually knew the kid that way. it would have still been difficult, but a much easier goodbye.

but rio, instead of taking the easy route, took the chance to show agatha she could be good.

she let agatha get a chance to be a better mom than her mom was to her. she gave agatha a chance to see that she was more than just a witch killer. she gave agatha someone who didn't see evil in her, but only good.

she would lose agatha either way, but instead of giving herself the possibility to eventually come back, to possibly be with the love of her life again, she chose to - even for a short time - let agatha see in herself what rio saw in her.

she was willing to play the villain if it meant giving agatha a chance.

and if that isnt tragic, i dont know what is

[marisashinx]

"Why hasn't Silver woken up yet...?"

[thewomancallednova]

wait wait wait wait wait im watching the omega glory and spock does a vulcan neck pinch on someone and kirk is like pity you can't teach me that and spock is like i did try captain and like huh? the implications??? Did they like sit together in the gym, spock gently placing his fingers on jims neck, trying to show him where the right muscles are and squeezing just a little bit, not enough to actually incapacitate jim but like show him where to go and then jim tries it on spock gently??? and like obviously it didnt work but like did jim just squeeze spocks shoulder a bunch, did spock put his hand on jims, trying to correct jim's hand's stance? and like we know that humans can learn it bc of data and michael so its either a skill issue on kirks part or he just like... did it wrong on purpose so he could hold/touch hands with spock more??? has anyone written fan fiction about this??? why have i never seen anyone talk about this???

[choccy-milky]

modern AU seb and clora's first interaction 📘📗 (and by modern AU i actually mean super trope-filled high school romance set in the 80's/90's LOL)

[beansnpeets]

Thinking about human behaviour compared to animal behaviour again.

It's funny to hear people (the older gens) complaining that "kids these days are lazy, they don't wanna work, etc." What do we get for busting our asses? There is no reward. Many will never own homes. Many are unemployed, trying to find work, and nobody will hire them because they don't have a million years experience and a masters degree OR they want people to work for minimum wage??? People are giving up because there is no reward. Why would we do all this for nothing?

Same as a dog that won't recall when you haven't reinforced it with a reward. Your dog isn't going to do what you tell it to if there is no incentive. No, your dog SHOULDN'T listen just because you're boss and it should respect you. That isn't how it works. They don't think that way. And honestly neither do people.

When we went hiking Sprocket wasn't always taking treats gently from me when I recalled her or she checked in and I rewarded and my one friend told me to stop giving her treats. I told him I won't work for free so why should she. And he said "I do things for free all the time because I want to do them," and I didn't say it then, but I wish I had, but if you like doing it, that's the incentive. It's a self-rewarding behaviour. Just like anything else a dog does, like chasing a squirrel or sniffing things or getting into the trash. Heeling instead of going off to sniff stuff or recalling off of something they want to chase is something you have to reinforce. You have to give them something better so they make the choice you want them to make. They won't make it just because they *respect* you. They won't willingly recall off of exciting prey out of RESPECT. You need to give them a tangible reward for that. You cannot possibly expect your dog to listen just because and then punish them for disobeying you.

Yeah, Sprocket bit my fingers a couple times. The one time pretty hard. But she was excited. She knows how to take gently and I reminded her and she tried very hard to be gentle most of the time. I wasn't going to stop rewarding her for checking in with me and recalling while we were off leash hiking in the woods. I want her to know that coming back to me is good and in the event of an emergency I would like her to not blow me off.

[secretsecretbunny]

Photos of Chan that were detrimental to my sanity 🥵

[buggachat]

Sometimes I think about how Adrien, throughout the series, constantly grapples with his fear of abandonment. Gabriel conditioned him to believe that any love he receives is purely transactional, and that to earn affection he has to prove his utility. Adrien is constantly trying to prove his worth to his father for scraps of affection, and Chat Noir infamously crumbles on-screen any time he feels as though he is replaceable to Ladybug. It's a constant insecurity of his, like everyone will just dump him like a sack of potatoes the moment they find out how useless he is.

Meanwhile, all Marinette wants to is ensure that Adrien is happy. Because she loves him. She doesn't give two shits about how """useful""" he is. She holds him and tells him that she will never abandon him (both as Ladynoir and as Adrienette), and her fantasies are about saving him, not about him being "useful" to her. Throughout their relationship, Adrien is forced to disappoint Marinette constantly for reasons outside of his control (amok commands), and yet Marinette is still there for him.

At Adrien's lowest point, when he is forcibly torn away from everyone who had ever showed him genuine care, locked away in an all-white room and at his most "useless", right after disappointing Marinette and unable to even join the final battle or contribute in any way, she still saves him. She still loves him. Because he doesn't have to prove anything to her. Because he is loved and cherished for who he is, not for what he does, and that love is not conditional. Adrien's "happy ending" at the end of the first arc wasn't about him finally proving how useful he can be, because he never actually cared about being useful — he just saw it as the only means to feel loved and needed. Instead, in the end, he found out that he was loved and needed no matter what.

[loving-delusions]

i cant reach the room he's in im going to exlode

[osarquivosmagnus]

One of my favorites but also one of the most underrated spiderbit moments for me was when cellbit was leaving and he said "te amo" to richas and "te quiero" to roier (believing that was the spanish translation of te amo. Except te amo is a very strong type of love in spanish and would've been the correct thing to say here!!) and roier gets a little mad about how "oh to richas you say te amo, to me te quiero? I see" and cellbit, still really fucking confused, cuz he thinks that's the same thing but in different lamguages, starts questioning but immediatly goes "te amo, te amo te amo". No questions asked, he can understand later. At the moment his husband wanted to hear he loved him. And god fucing damn it he loves roier! Dude couldn't even be fake mad anymore, his husband was too quick and too in love

I fucking miss them

[pawbeanies]

the masculine urge to be a little dog at someone's feet... the masculine urge to let someone run their fingers through your hair and dote on you and call you their sweet good boy... the masculine urge to be PUPPY...

[thegoldenavenger]

when your pet immortal cultivator doesn't understand the difference between a demonic lion and a righteous spiritual tiger

[ocegion]

I think it's really funny how, in s2, Jack and Anne are always talking about how 'Max is PLOTTING and CONSPIRING against us we have to be CAREFUL and watch EACH OTHER'S BACK because she's SCHEMING and USING US'

meanwhile Max is mostly like 'ah yes, my wife and my wife's husband :) I think I'll get them a ship and a crew today :) '

[bueckersstrap]

SOMEBODY SEDATE ME