#just... c'mon guys

[nerdypagan1]

this should not need to be said. my faith in humanity wildly fluctuates.

remember that palestinians are humans: they are mohammed and amal and khaled and fatima and ahmed and sana.

remember that jews are humans: they are david and tamar and eitan and yael and ariel and noa.

we are not sides. we are not pawns. we are people. we have passions and hobbies and dreams. so stop treating this conflict like a game.

[boimann]

heavy is the biggest gossip

he pretends to be unintrested and quiet but he is actually secretly listening to everybody else's business, and since his grasp on english is not that strong some members on the team aren't as worried of him overhearing things,

than at the end of the day he goes to the med bay and reports all his findings to medic and the two of them just gossip together while medic performs surgery on heavy until the sun goes down

[thatonekimgirl]

Simone Biles reassuring Jade Carey before they vault.

[egophiliac]

have you been keeping up with gavv? because holy hell, i think the beginning arc has been one of the strongest beginnings we've had. so many goddamn emotional moments and crazy good fights

oh Gavv has been excellent so far, I've been enjoying it a lot! :> Shoma's an absolutely delightful protagonist, and the balance between "cute silly candy shenanigans" and "urban fantasy crime noir" is...working surprisingly well, actually?

although it does lead to the show basically having two modes:

[the-purjolokhaj]

i just got the best idea.

platonic appreciation day. because we all need to appreciate each other platonically more often! hug your friends tell them you love them platonically!!!

and the day? february 28th! a whole 2 weeks after valentines day!

live laugh love. throw romance and sex out the window for once, god damn it! be just friends with people for a bit :)

(reblog if you think this is a good idea ig)

[myiliterallyhavenolifegoals]

i'm unwell!!! because in stede's eyes, ned low was right!! ned says "he [ed] only likes you because of your bumbling amateur status" and calls stede blackbeard's "pet" just like izzy did in series 1

so stede steps up as a captain, kills the man who harmed his crew, and suddenly, for once in stede's life, he isn't a joke! the gentleman pirate is taken seriously and welcomed into the pirate community!

and what happens less than 24 hours later? ed calls their night together a mistake, AND LEAVES.

yes, obviously the situation is more nuanced, and these old men are once again struggling to communicate, but i 100% understand why stede went a bit of the rails at the end of episode 7. stede's been so focused on trying to help ed, that he's completely ignored his own ongoing identity crisis and trauma, and after the incident at the academy in series 1, this meltdown was long overdue.

[cubbyhole-for-flea-bee]

give it up for Mr. I-don't-really-talk-about-my-feelings-maybe-I-should, everyone, any donations made to the theatre are going straight to a therapist fund!

[zu-is-here]

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[karawerewolf]

I know they met, they became friends and found comfort in each other just like their comic versions, I KNOW THEY DID

[dersandmannkommt]

trying to explain to people that they don't owe me anything, and that I don't owe them anything, but not in the sense that everyone has to look out for themselves, or in the selfish way, or even in a favor for favor or IOU way.

I mean it in the way that I'll drive you to the airport, no, don't pay me any gas money, I know you'll be there when I need a ride. And I'll pick up your groceries, also can I borrow your sugar? You just had a baby? Let me know when I can come over to cook and clean while you recover. Ah, I broke my leg the other day, can you pick up my medication for me?

I'm not helping you in an exchange for you to help me. I simply have hope you will be there for me as I am for you.

As a society, many of us have lost a sense of community in favor of hard work and independence, and while there is nothing wrong with those things, we cannot lose community! We can't lose looking out for each other!!! We can't lose helping for the sake of helping!!!

[holi-moon]

[sualne]

(copy pasting this from twitter) been thinking a lot about demisexual luffy and how ppl don't really do anything with that. i mostly see that tag under smut oneshots, it kind of sound like "i acknowledge he's often hc as ace and i like the hc but i need him to fuck and Want here" and the most we get about that is a single "i've never felt like this, not for anyone, Only You." and that's it!!

do y'all not know what you could do with that hc? do you not realize the potential? i don't think you fully thought out the "never felt like this" part, imagine him spending his entire life hearing about feelings he's told he should have but don't, about experiences he's cut out from, the alienation. it's luffy though so he'd shrug it off, this isn't anything he gives a shit about but then the feelings find him.

and it's /luffy/ so of course the feelings finds him like a truck does a roadkill. he has no frame or reference, no experience, no clue on how to cope with those. he'd be a Mess. you could have him a starved man feeling hunger for the first time, have fun with it damnit!!

i know this is coming from the I Love Fear Exploration Guy but pls consider writing attraction like it's a scary thing, have him freak out about how overwhelming and alien it all is to him!! let him be consumed by it, i don't know!! he wouldn't feel bad about it but it /is/ new!

but this isn't just about attraction, you can literally chose whether or not he'd even ever experienced having a libido before that and idem if it's all new to him. you could even have him Not have a libido but an attraction that is much more vague yet still so so much!!

like i don't care about sex as an act, i want to know how the characters feels about the everything about & around it! there's so much potential with demi luffy (and just asexual sex in general also) do more with it! if you're allo it could be a fun opportunity to look back on your own first few experiences with attraction and go crazy with it, luffy's a go big or go home guy, c'mon!!

[galaxy-fleur]

Replaying RE4R, and I am once again thinking of how Leon just straight up murders a guy the moment he attacks. Like yeah, sure, he lunged at him with a weapon, there is a bloody badge of an officer, things are sketchy to say the least, but still. It all happens so fast, I doubt he actually had the time to fully put two and two together quite yet.

And you can't tell me that Leon, a trained agent, just overestimated the power of his kick on accident. That ↓

Was a pretty much deliberate kick. What's interesting is that in the OG RE4, he at least tells the ganado to freeze a good couple of times (or maybe once, I don't remember the specifics, but my point still stands) before actually proceeding to harm him. Remake Leon, meanwhile... just breaks his neck without a second thought.

And his reaction right after makes it... pretty obvious, honestly.

There is no strong reaction there to offing an old man in his home. Now, granted, he hears a scream right after, so it's not like he has much time to stand and ponder over what happened! But the only thing he says right after is: 'This is not good.' And, yeah, true, but we do know Leon is capable of expressing some level of distress over something he finds disturbing, and he proceeds to do that literally a few minutes later once you start exploring the village. So really, it's an interesting scene and a very intriguing way of introducing this hardened version of Leon we'll be playing as.

I wouldn't be thinking about this as much if not for the circumstances surrounding it. Not like Leon is aware that this man is infected with anything. Up until the moment he gets back up, he could be just some disturbed, paranoid old man or something. And he did just walk into someone's house. He's an intruder here, really. But the moment danger presents itself, he eliminates the threat without a second thought.

I think it speaks volumes of the past 6 years that passed for him, and how they shaped him. We don't know much of Leon's job: what it entails exactly, what kind of work he does on the daily, how the entire structure operates. And before the events of RE4, it's not like he was a well-known agent, if I remember correctly. It's his successful rescue of Ashley that got him high in the ranks. His status as a Racoon City survivor didn't do that. Throughout RE4R, we see him regain his humanity through the connections with other characters, going from the cold, robotic way he caries himself at the start of the game, to the determined, emotionally-invested man we later see carrying Ashley to Luis' laboratory.

It's very neat to think about! And while we all love Leon for his kind heart and his drive to save innocent lives, he is more than capable of violence, and that's an aspect of him I wish was talked about more. That neck break was definitely not the first one for him, just saying.

[egophiliac]

CROWLEY SSR THOUGHTS

there is zero basis for this, but I can't get this thought of my head

I don't know why I decided to draw it this way

[lady-raziel]

Recently I've seen a lot of people in many different fandoms go after those who express interest in shipping characters who aren't together in canon, which is just...wild to me. Like these people cite a lot of different reasons why the ONLY right relationship people can ship is the canon one, and some of the takes are even valid, but the core argument is just nuts to me as a person who's been around in fandom for a long time. Idk. I have no solid theory or anything but it feels like this weird shift somehow corresponds with the end of Supernatural or events around that time. It was like Destiel became "canon" and the show ended and now fandom people today have forgotten how shippers were literally ready to burn down the CW to claw the most lukewarm canon acknowledgement of a non-canon ship out of the writers' hands.

Like buddy, do you know what shipping IS? Do you know the history of that term?? The literal definition (you can go google it right now if you don't believe me) is created from people's desire to put two characters together in a non-canonical relationship. The act of shipping has been NON-CANON by nature from the start. So for some (many young, some not) fandom people to say nowadays that you can ONLY ship things from canon?? It's...absolutely revealing a flaw in how we share and perpetuate fan history. Absolutely baffling that the very term created to refer to something could be weaponized against that very same thing. We need to do a better job educating people on how all the fandom staples like AO3 and ship culture came about lest we lose them to the very things they were created to combat.

[camellcat]

I love how selfish spike is. his love isn't "unselfish" it's SO selfish

when he tries to be good it is always for an ulterior purpose. even if that purpose may not be evil, it's certainly not unselfish. you think he'd give a shit about dawn if she wasn't buffy's entire world? do you lot remember how quickly he dropped her when buffy started fucking him? even if we want to talk about the beginning of s6 that was out of guilt and obligation. and I'm not saying he didn't care about anyone else there because he definitely did, but he wouldn't have been there if not FOR buffy

he enjoys buffy happy because he does love her, yes, and her joy is a beautiful to him. but he likes her upset just as well too. he revels in buffy's suffering. he likes her hurt and he likes that she hurts him and he likes to hurt her. it's a language he understands, that he enjoys. he just likes her in whatever way will make her pay attention to him longer

I'll freely admit that he's emotionally supportive for her, which is something she needs desperately. but a lot of the times that's just when he himself isn't being someone who's actively deciding to tear her down. either way, as long as he's affecting her on some tangible level that makes him feel like he matters to her, he doesn't particularly care if it's for the better or the worse

I've just seen a lot of people call him unselfish and I don't agree. at all. probably ever. I don't know if this is a common fandom idea or if I've done that thing again where I've stumbled across a minority that I can't escape, but. just putting my opinion on it out there I suppose