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[midnightduel]

Should I be working on yesterday? Yes. Am I writing (more) domestic Raph & Cassandra anyway? Also yes.

[hinamie]

I'm always pushing you away from me / but you come back with gravity / and when I call, you come home

[marshmallowgoop]

no thoughts just Heiji Hattori (HD)

[kimdokjas]

We are alive. And we will continue living. So long as you remain by my side.

[arthursfuckinghat]

God I love it so much when artists and authors and creators give Arthur a wife or a husband, a son, daughter, lover or even a friend. Whether it's self insert or not, I love it when people decide to give Arthur happiness like that.

[louthestarspeaker]

it's almost 1am here's my essay about Dal and captainhood <333

I hath promised a Dal essay and I hath delivered… 

I've had this in the drafts for so long, but I just rewatched season two and it really allowed me to solidify a lot of my thoughts.

One of things that really strikes me about Dal's character and his relationship to command is that being in charge is a place of safety for him. He's had to be self-reliant and self-sufficient pretty much his whole life until the Protostar. It's something that was engraved into him since he was small, that the only person Dal could really depend on was himself.

And because he was never around anyone who actually cared about him until the Protostar, that was the right thing to do. This need to be in charge, to be in control really, is a learned survival skill. "I can tell you from experience, people in authority lie."

But in season two, his circumstances have changed (for the better!), and that's not the right thing to do anymore. Ultimately, to me, Dal's season two character arc is about vulnerability and trust. He's been in survival mode for so, so long, and now we watch him learn to heal.

You start with this boy who's spent the grand majority of his life alone or with people who are exploiting him, and the story takes him by the hand and tells him "now that you're safe, now that you have people who care about you, you can't live like that anymore."

All throughout season one he learns trust. Trust in his crew, in Hologram Janeway, in the Federation and in Starfleet as institutions that can and will help him and his newfound family. But as a captain,when he was guiding his crew through active crisis after crisis, trust looked like open doors. It looked like laying out all the variables and problems on a table so they could figure a way out together. 

Trust looks very different on the Voyager-A. It asks him to have faith in what he's not seeing, what he's not being told. He has to believe that they have his best interests at heart, that he's not trusting his family to something that will try to hurt them. 

Captainhood isn't just bossing people around for Dal. It's the responsibility of holding the lives of the people he loves in his hands. He trusts his own hands. He has the best interest of his crew at heart. 

To ask Dal to relinquish control, is to ask him to place the lives of himself and his family into someone else's hands. Which, historically, has not gone great for them. It prods directly at his trauma, asks him to take undo and ignore the survival instincts that kept them alive for so long. Is it any wonder he has trouble with that?

Dal's not going around crawling through Jeffries Tubes because he's a brat or because he thinks he's entitled to know everything. He's a traumatized kid whose self-sufficiency, independence, and ability to make his own decisions were once, for a very long time, the literal line between life and death for him and his crew.

And even if he trusts Starfleet and Janeway in his head on a logical level (which I absolutely believe he does), there's still this instinct that's written into him. It's a process to learn how and when to turn that off, and that's what we see especially throughout the first half of season two. 

This really culminates in the cafeteria scene after they return with the Protostar and Chakotay, when Dal advocates for the Starfleet temporal management guys to figure out a way to get the Protostar back to Tars Lamora. Dal was able to see that his hands weren't the best ones for the job, and trust Gwyn's life to someone else. That's huge for him. He trusts not just a person, but a branch of an institution he's never interacted with before, with one of the people that mean the very most to him. And Dal's able to give up that control, to place himself and his crew in that position of potential vulnerability, because he's finally started to feel it in his bones that he's safe here.

[volivolition]

A little voice from Harry's head comes knocking at your door:

OH LITTLE VOLITION HELLO SWEETHEART SORRY IM SO LATE HKJG <333 echem's got the door, i hope you got lots of treats on your halloween rounds!! :3

[dressycobra7]

ok another adventures of me watching one piece update: I just finished episode 32 now and I have a few thoughts

Zoro is so fucking hot

2. Sanji looked way too attractive while doing all this:

he’s so hot I sweeeeaaaaarrrrr

[sicwiki]

get a load of this smug guy

[bubblesxo]

Sometimes I’m reading BSD x MHA crossover fics (which I love btw!!) and I see the take “your world (MHA) is black and white, ours (BSD) is gray” and this can be a GREAT way to differentiate places and cultures in a story when done well!! But sometimes the take itself can become black and white when it’s not acknowledged that any “black and white thinking” in the MHA world is solely undertaken by the reigning hero class and those who subscribe to its notions, ignoring the large subset of vigilantes and darker hero figures (as well as the rampant corruption and blatant prejudice propagated by the society), as well as the fact that BSD already solely focuses on those grey areas a la the Tripartite System, but that this nuanced view on legality and morality is only tackled within the general range of characters shown in the show, whereas there are countless civilians who live perfectly normal lives (within the more affluent or well-off areas of Yokohama) which are not shown, who often are completely clueless about any such darkness in their world and thus most likely often take on the same clueless, “black and white” mentality that some civilians of the MHA world do (a fact which relates to the prevalent headcanon, especially in MHA x BSD crossover media, that abilities are extensions of the soul or such which are a defense mechanism to protect someone from severe trauma/the like, which I can talk on and on about, but I’ll spare you all).

Okay, sorry for the random long paragraph about crossover fics in two of my favorite fandoms. Despite my occasional gripes with some takes within this sub-fandom, the different ways that people can tackle similarities and differences between the two are always so interesting to me, and I love to read them!

[neosatsuma]

Do you guys also compare Hannibal to Santa Clarita Diet or is this just a pirate show thing

[regicidal-defenestration]

Most annoying advertising trend is "the new [existing media]!!!" because maybe 7 times out of 10 it's doing a disservice to both the new and old thing

[spaceshipkat]

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[arthursfuckinghat]

I'm a different anon but hello?? Sword fighting?? This sounds so cool I would be so interested in hearing more about it like do you use a real real sword like not the thingie they use for 🤺?? Also how do you know when does the fight end and who wins because I doubt it's legal to kill your opponent in the 21st century??

Oh no no we definitely don't kill eachother haha!! It's different to fencing if that's what you mean, tournaments are usually judged like any other sport! Your moves and strikes are judged, then you're given points, and they put you up against people in your skillset as a sort of stress test. The match ends as soon as you or your opponent gets a certain amount of points!

You aren't allowed to injure your opponent, there's strict rules on that, but the odd scrape and cut is to be expected! It's got risks like any other sport, it's all fun! Here's some sword pics

[twinvictim]

Merry Christmas!!! My gift for the Silent Hill Secret Santa! this was a gift for @bluegrowlmon based on their prompts. I thought Heather and Harry in the hospital post-game would be fun and cute <3 this was really fun and I hope you like it. thank you @heather-garland for putting it together <3

[joshhutchersonseggsalad]

its so cool logging on tumblr seeing notifications + posts from thee clapton davis

god i love this pookie shmook 🩵🛹