#it’s true they are my fathers

[fonmythenmetz]

The most powerful force user to ever live (smol)

[erikkarlsson]

joe thornton's #19 retirement night || 11.23.2024

[osteochondraldefect]

remember to take out your warmachine to its daily walk!

[meangreennunseen]

You know how Leman Russ was at the start raised by female Great wolf right? So I was thinking maybe Fenrisian people had always assumed Leman Russ was born from that Great Wolf and after witnessing Emperor come and claim he is Father of Leman Russ...

You just know someone on Fenris had to assume Emperor had fucked that Great Wolf, thus Leman Russ was born. And that assumption had to become a legend.

[wheretheresawyll]

Character parallels: Wyll Ravengard (Baldur's Gate 3) | Anora Mac Tir (Dragon Age: Origins)

[orbch]

logan sanders my baby daddy

[whumpypepsigal]

The Witcher s03e03: “[Your mother] loved you the best she could. To save you, she had to let you go.”—“This can’t have been the only choice.”

[klonoadreams]

the entire one piece fandom losing their collective shit over the recent vivre cards is making me lose my shit like

WHAT DO YOU MEAN QUEEN IS POSSIBLY FRANKY'S DAD???

WHAT DO YOU MEAN QUEEN HAD A FUCKING SON THAT SHOULD BE AS OLD AS FRANKY

WHAT DO YOU MEAN THEY HAVE THE SAME XF BLOOD TYPE

WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT MAKES A SCARY AMOUNT OF FUCKING SENSE??!?!?!

i'm losing my absolute MIND over this

[skeletoninthemelonland]

[ouaw-facts-i-just-made-up]

Gricko plays lullabies for Hootsie when she can't fall asleep. He realized this worked rather quickly. The first night after they escaped together, she was fearful of everything, unable to sleep because any noise would put her in full alert mode. Gricko played his ocarina then mostly just to drown out the other noises, but now its just a good way to make sure she falls asleep.

And don't think he hasn't noticed it puts some of the other Krew to sleep too. But he hasn't mentioned it. He just so happens to start playing a really soft and nice tune while some of the others are overworking themselves or having nightmares, and they just so happen to fall asleep. Mere coincidence, can't blame a guy for practicing his craft.

[mollysunder]

The synopsis of Chosen of the Wolf has me really thinking about how Noxian and Zaunite children don't have childhoods, they're almost automatically put to work. Obviously Mel is afforded far greater material comfort and luxury than someone like Jinx ever had, but that doesn't cancel out that long before we could ever consider Mel an adult she's been using her skills to advance her mother's plans.

The one time we see Mel as a child, she's with Ambessa in Ionia, a war zone, acting like she's in a training phase for a role as Ambessa's advisor, because that's what she's doing, advising her mother on the aftermath of Noxus' campaign of conquest. Now in the prequel novel, we see that Mel has been put to task to shore up support for Ambessa in the family's current war of succession to be the head of the Medarda Clan.

Mel seems to have only been in her twenties when we meet her in Arcane, and her exile has lasted for well over a decade, so she couldn't have been more than a teenager during the succession crisis. And here Mel is employed as a diplomat for her mother's war.

It's really the same position Silco had Jinx in but for different reasons, their thing was consolidating power through violence and politics to make Zaun independent, while Ambessa and Mel's dynamic (warmonger mother and intrigue daughter) suited the expansionist agenda of the Medarda Clan and Noxus in general. The important part is that the role of parent and child is blurred as both duos become working "partners" that only exist because they're set in systems that necessitates violence and dehumanization at early ages.

The problem of course for people like Mel and Jinx is that neither stopped being children, and so they get the worst of both worlds. Both just had to work for their parents, and the skill and quality they put into it became entangled with how they were rewarded with approval and affection from their parent. And I can not stress this enough, they're never equals to their parent.

[murk888]

Aro 👉👈

I DIDN'T HAVE MY TWILIGHT STAGE IN TIME, OKAY?!? Now I watch the films while dying from laughter most of the time, their faces I can't-

MICHAEL SHEEN >>>>> 🛐🛐🛐🛐🛐

[lgbtlunaverse]

So I've said multipe times now (here and here) that thinking nmj is just so blinded by privilege he doesn't undertand that acting out of line gets people killed is, in my opinion, a misunderstanding of his character that ignores the part where he's, you know, actively dying the whole time and thinks that's a good thing. But that doesn't mean I don't think privilege plays no role at all in how he views the world.

Specifically, his view that death (at least premature or violent death) means something.

Death isn't always a tragedy to NMJ, but it is always meaningful. If you kill an evil dangerous person for your righteous cause, that death had meaning. There was evil in the world and now there is less of it. Similarly, if you die in the pursuit of your righteous cause, that death has meaning, because the sheer dedication you gave to it that you were willing to die for it will further that cause, and your bretheren will be invigorated by your sacrifice to fight even harder.

If a death isn't meaningful, that's an injustice and it is up to the living to give it meaning. That's what cuts so deep about his father's murder. There were no consequences, no changes, no meaning. Wen Ruohan was just going to get away with it! He fights and wins an entire war to make it mean something, to make it so that the unjust murder of Nie Mingjue's father is part of Wen Ruohan's downfall.

But this is a view he can only hold because he's the kind of person who's death will be meaningful. Most ordinary people's deaths are meaningless. Not ontologically, not inherently, but they are made meaningless because no one cares. For death to be meaningful you either have to be so powerful that anything you risk your life for will be impacted in some way. (Like, say, if you sacrifice a long life for immense martial power in a faustian bargain with a blade) Or if people with that kind of power care enough about you to do so for you. For most people, this isn't true. A starving street kid has no power to change the unfair world that put them there, even if they risk their life trying, and no one will do it for them once they die.

Nie Mingjue knows this in abstract, and of course rightfully believes it's wrong. But all that does is make it yet another righteous cause people should be willing to die for. Everyone's deaths should mean something, we'll make it so or die trying!

This is what the conflict between nieyao is about at its core. Because Jin Guangyao, fundamentally, cannot conceive of his own death as meaningful. Nie Mingjue grew up around powerful men who could change the world but refuse to do so because god forbid they risk a single hair on their perfect heads. Meng Yao, on the other hand, grew up in an environment where no one of importance would blink twice if you died. He was surrounded by meaningless death. Indeed his entire early life is defined by that lack of care.

Meng Shi dies and no one cares. Meng Yao gets thrown off a flight off stairs and no one cares. He has to be the one to do the caring, and once he's gone no one else will do it for him.

So he has to live.

Jin Guangyao eventually gets far enough that he actually does aquire the power to change some things... as long as he's alive. If he changes too much, holds on too tightly to his ideals, he'll die and it'll all be for nothing. He can't sacrifice himself for his goals because doing so would immediately render those goals unobtainable. No one will care about what he tried to do. He won't be a heroic sacrifice, he'll just be trash that finally cleaned itself up.

And well... Nie Mingjue dies, and someone makes it mean something. Makes it mean so much that the entire story of mdzs would not exist without it. Jin Guangyao dies and it doesn't mean anything. Most people are glad to be rid of him, and the few that are not don't do anything to change that.

[not-so-superheroine]

Jesus is my older brother, not my dad.

other christians don't seem to feel the same?

am i missing something where he insists on such a thing except perhaps with actual little children?

[moodyvoid]

hypothetically, if Dabi's fire hurt him

imagine: reader and him in an argument and everything and it gets handsy (in a about to fight way not the other)

THEN the reader pours gasoline on him, now if he uses his quirk he's definitely gonna end up in a coma again so he just pauses at the absurdity of the situation

what now?

(IF his fire hurt him????)

Does reader casually carry emergency gasoline on them? Like pocket sand?

This sounds like an article you’d read from Florida.

“Florida resident douses man in gasoline mid fight. Threatens coma.”

[littlefankingdom]

Me to myself: Don't send murder threats to DC comics writers, don't send murder threats to DC comics writers, don't send murder threats to DC comics writers...