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Femslash February 2025 - Day 1 - Remnants of Despair @danggirlronpa

It's Femslash February! I've always been on the outside for these since I never had the time, energy, or inspiration. But this year is different! This year I have Junkan! Based on my current pace it looks like I wasn't able to get EVERY prompt ready in advance, but my goal is to fill out this entire event with Junkan Art (Whether I succeed is yet to be seen). This'll of course be along side my Junkan Week contributions, so February is going to be a flood of even more Soft Junkan from me! It's like the 100 Days never even ended!

This may or may not include long rambles, oops! Sorry about that!

Anyway, today's prompt-

So like. This was gonna be a lot sillier originally, I was gonna make it into a halloween pic with Mikan questioning if the costume was overboard and Junko reassuring her. I couldn't get that to work so I went with option B where it's just angst.

I've talked in the past that I have a lot of mixed feelings on DR3, especially in how they portrayed the dynamic between Junko and Mikan. Even as I try to understand the more toxic angles people like to take this ship, I feel like it didn't even really play into those dynamics well either. I could however just be a bitch of course :P

Point is, the way Mikan was handled in the series did give me some ideas. My first time writing a Junkan Fic kind of covered it, but I find the idea of Junko not being attracted to the Remnant version of Mikan to be a pretty interesting angle. With her preferring Mikan back when she was still like, on her side and despairing, but before she dipped to do the first Killing Game and left her to go off the deep end.

So we got a visual metaphor that I don't know how to explain but should hopefully be easy to grasp on its own.

[undead-knick-knack]

Bells Hells: *does anything*

A large portion of the fandom:

The word metaphor has lost all meaning for me

[etz-ashashiyot]

A man is on trial for battery against his half brother.

His stepfather is called as a witness, and testifies to things he saw, things he thinks he saw, and things that did not happen.

The defense then asks the witness:

"Sir, isn't it true that you were only present for some of these incidents?"

"Isn't it true that you only saw parts of the incidents?"

"And isn't it true that you did not intervene or seek assistance in intervening in the incidents you were present for?"

"Isn't it true that you yourself instigated the argument between the brothers?"

"Isn't it true that you used to physically abuse the defendant?"

The prosecutor objects to the relevance of this last question.

The defense responds: "Your Honor, the history of abuse in this family is relevant because it goes to the intent, causality, and most importantly at the moment: the credibility of the witness. He has every reason to lie about his own part in this family conflict."

Judge: I'll give you some leeway.

Witness: I never abused him.

Defense: You never abused him? That's really your testimony?

Witness: Yes.

Defense: So your prior seventeen-count convictions of domestic abuse and attempted murder of your stepson aren't proof enough?

Witness: Well sure, that's evidence, but that was so long ago.

Defense: So you did abuse your stepson?

Witness: It's more complicated than that. It wasn't what it looked like.

Defense: So to this day, you still can't take responsibility for abusing your stepson?

Witness:

Defense: And isn't it true that you never paid restitution to him?

Witness: No.

Defense: You never apologized to him sincerely?

Witness: No.

Defense: You never even served more than a few days in jail?

Witness: No.

Defense: And yet you're here, today, asking this court to seek the maximum fines, punitive damages, legal fees, and a life sentence?

Witness: Yes.

Defense: All while having never faced any such consequences for your own behavior and denying your own role in creating this conflict?

Witness: He deserved it then and he deserves it now.

Witness: Besides - if it was really that bad, he should know better himself. It should've been a lesson to him.

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This is what every single goy from a country that participated in the Shoah and/or Farhud sounds like when they engage in Holocaust inversion.

[youaremylittlesparrow]

Dead eyes and dos'll do it

[frost-mothit]

Sometimes we must dance with the homicidal version of ourselves that haunts us in the mirror (Atropos is, as always, having A Time) (As is Customary)

[ghostofnuggetspast]

Zombie

A blanket of grey fills his head Staticky thoughts bound with dread John's face is a lie He can't understand, why? It's not the first friend he's seen dead

Check it out on ao3!

@calaisreno @totallysilvergirl @weeesi @friday411 @helloliriels

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

“If the biblical god is perfect and makes no mistakes, then why do people say, ‘The Bible isn’t meant to be taken literally’?”

[racecarart]

For anyone wondering what I've been doing the past few weeks:

[whatididtomakeitbetter]

watch it burn

dancing flames licking the sky and locking the eyes

woodsmoke and promises

gone in an instant, immutable and forever changed.

[readychilledwine]

You like Bring me the horizon? You know they are anti religion?

I forgot I even posted about them. I do like BMTH and I do know they are anti religion, and with lyrics like, "And when you die the only kingdom you will see if 2 feet wide and 6 feet deep," and, "don't try and tell me that you still believe. Don't preach to me," I am surprised so many people are just figuring that out. To be fully transparent, I respect people's religious freedoms and as long as you are not harming someone or animals, I'm not going to think your someone I could not be friends with due to religious reasons.

I do think this kind of goes to show how people will consume content without actually understanding it. Oliver has made his stance very clear. As have several other bands who are also now being called out for being anti-religion.

Also, this post is not permission to debate religion here. Respect other people and their believes.

[softgothbabe]

I am purring at you. I am weaving between your legs and tripping you. I am jumping on your desk and laying across your keyboard. I am knocking your cup off the counter with my little paws. I am sprinting around and waking you up in the middle of the night. But I am purring at you and meowing so sweetly. You can't help but love me

[reisaval]

I have many bees.

The bees are all around me, stinging those I care for, buzzing in my ears and even stinging me at times. I never asked for the bees. The bees were given to me by people I once knew, or people I still know. People who I trusted or who I grew to resent. But they have bees of their own as well, even as they were passing some of them onto me. Even then, those bees are mine now, and even though I'm not a beekeeper, I must try to manage them and attempt to teach them they don't always have to sting, even if it's all they know or all they were taught. I must also remember that my bees are not to be controlled and I must not shame them. They are their own creatures, and I have to show them the beauty of the flowers, instead of being so wary of the thorns that could be lurking underneath. The bees will learn, in time, as will I.

[mynarco]

placed on a pedestal with a fear of heights

[indicamoon]

Little king trash mouth

[i-wear-the-cheese]

the thing about ADHD medication is that when I'm on it I feel like I have super powers, like, omg I can identify the things on the kitchen table which don't belong there AND work out where they go AND move them. next I will be turning water into wine, just you wait. but like... turns out everyone else turns water into wine every day and doesn't get why its a miracle