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[azaleastobloom]

The way they handled Yaz in Chaos Theory is so unserious. Why is she literally out of character flaws. I’m not against her having a healing arc between shows, it’s really awesome that she managed to recover from her disorder and I thought the conflict of her pulling away from Sammy because she was being treated as something fragile was really interesting

However comma having PTSD was not the only thing she had going on and now it feels like they’re out of ideas with her ☝️☝️ I mean even in her focus episode of the second season it was just like, things happening To her because of other people and also dinosaurs, and then other characters getting to act in a flawed way to the things happening To her. All Yaz actually got to do herself though was like, being a therapist and surviving 💪💪, which is really cool! I just wish she got to make mistakes sometimes too!

[daenystheedreamer]

Is rhaenicent subtext real

yes

[sassyfishesandscorpios]

In Yu-gi-Oh! we don't say I love you, in Yu-gi-Oh! we... No, wait. He literally said it.

[getvalentined]

sometimes I think about that one VN that featured

a character whose parents were murdered in front of him in a racially-motivated hate crime when he was in kindergarten

a character who had given up on her dreams for the future in order to leave her home country and earn money for her dying father's medical treatment and whose father dies in the course of the narrative

a character whose mother was so devoted to her work that she literally spent more time with the children she tutored than her own daughter, leading to this character attempting to re-parent herself by dedicating her entire life to working with children so nobody else has to feel like there are no adults that love them

a character whose mother may have been poisoned to death by his estranged rich father who later tried to force this character to murder his wife

a character whose father only treated her like a person after she got married to the previous character in spite of her running his company behind the scenes since she was like fifteen

a character whose father was a violent alcoholic who drove her into the same addiction from a very early age prior to drinking himself to death

and a character whose parents divorced when he was like seven

and how the narrative was set up in such a way to indicate that we were all supposed to feel that the character who had it worst out of all of them was the one with divorced parents

How Not To Write a Visual Novel: The Visual Novel

[eleftherian]

if peter jackson was making the lotr movies today i feel like there would be a lot more gay sex

[lover-of-mine]

some people want buddie in season 7 but i want buddie in season 8….. season 7 should be a whole season of buck dating natalia but confiding in people (except eddie, for reasons he can’t explain) that he’s feeling more and more weird about her 😈 an entire season of buck having oh moments but he doesn’t realise or deliberately ignores 😈 a season of people telling him what he wants is right in front of him and to open his eyes etc etc 😈 the season finale being the madney wedding and buck having his final big oh moment 😈 buck dumping natalia and going to eddie 😈 they don’t kiss or make any overt love confessions but they do slow dance and maybe flirt a bit and do that smiley gazing thing they do 😈 the season ending with the promise of something new between them (still vague enough so that non-buddies are happy) (but also not vague at all lmao) 😈

I don't want buddie in s7 with the way they are, unless the show lets them have some serious conversations and some personal growth so they can be the couple we know they can be and also be the love story to go down in tv history as the love story to end all love stories, but I also don't want Buck to stay with Natalia while being vocally unsure about her, because that would be Taylor all over again and, personally I am tired ™️ of this man going around in circles. I don't think they plan on keeping Natalia around for the whole season, but I would like to offer an alternative to your vision, where Buck is with Natalia and there's nothing clearly wrong with the relationship, but Buck is just settled, he's content but he's not happy, there's something missing even if tho he can't quite put his finger on what, then he has a nice oh moment about love (or Eddie, preferably about Eddie) and breaks up with her. I would sell the firstborn I don't intend on having to see them slow dancing on madneys wedding tho. Give us a bit of a taste of what could happen, the promise of something and then work up to them taking the plunge.

[gotyouanyway]

and just to keep score btw, scherzo, the twilight kingdom, faith stealer, and the last all have environments that emotionally manipulate the characters

[hissterical-nyaan]

No but how come most of the male profs here are so fucking self obsessed and borderline misogynist

Bestie no one gives a fuck about which ministry you helped with your god-like knowledge when you can't even be a decent person to your students

[official-megumin]

Aqua is literally aroace and Darkness sexually assaulted me, I am good thank you

the philosophers of our time are on tumblr dot com

[cubbyhole-for-flea-bee]

Macaque spent the whole season Big-Damn-Hero-ing and was NOT happy about it xD

[dont-worry-about--it]

Never thought watching a man in glasses be a good father figure would turn me into a dog in heat but here we are

[daigah]

We lose everytime a girl in fiction who is on the masc side and happy with it becomes very feminine as a supposed sign of maturity

[just-existing-as-you-do-blog]

Said in relentlessly cheerful voice "Number 3; when Ven's grave was discovered and he decided to leave Fable! When Ven and Icarus dug up Ven's rotting corpse, ven was upset to discover that not only was Fable capable of killing him, but he already had and ven was already dead! After grabbing his things he began to escape with the help of Icarus. Icarus however declined to come with him, so Ven turned around on his way out and said "I wish we could've been something." Before making his final escape! The horrific imagery along with the brewing tragedy of Icarus and Ven's love that could never be definitely meant it had to make our list for top 10 Fable moments!"

Like that?

A video going over Fable SMPs Top 10 moments, but in a "Welcome to Watch Mojo" tone/vibe

[madohomurat]

trans women are everywhere and are so eager to be seen and heard but only if they feel safe around you. if you hardly ever have trans women interacting with you, especially online, then consider there might be a reason for that and you should address it

[shadowtraveled]

"mithrun is the only real monsterfucker in dungeon meshi" is objectively the funniest bit you can get out of his everything, but in all seriousness i think his attraction to his love interest is deliberately overstated—and that makes sense, because romantic jealousy is a classic and digestible motive, which is explicitly what kabru was aiming for in condensing mithrun's backstory, and also because until chapter 94, mithrun wasn't willing to admit to the true nature of his desires.

but because romantic envy is both classic and digestible, it probably isn’t a unique enough or complicated enough desire to tempt a demon’s appetite. mithrun’s wish, as far as we can figure from kabru’s reduced retelling, was to have a life in which he had never become one of the canaries, and that carries like 3857 implications and desires within it. that’s delicious. his love interest acts as sort of a red herring to his motivation for making it, though. (side note: i'm saying "love interest" here because, keeping in mind that i barely speak japanese on a good day anymore, "想い人" is something i'd usually take as just kind of an old-fashioned and romantic way to refer to a lover, but in context i wonder if both the connotation of yearning and the vagueness are intentional, and i think this phrasing gets those aspects of it more effectively. anyway.)

mithrun considered his love interest to be untrustworthy. there was a minute where i thought that comment might be about a similar-looking elf (yugin, one of his squad members), but comparing the two…

the "sketchy" arrow is definitely referring to the elf we know as his love interest—the bangs go toward her right, she only has the one forehead ornament, and, most notably, her ears aren't notched.

every time she’s given a full-body depiction in his dungeon, she’s drawn as a chimera, with the body of a snake from the waist down. (side note: the “what if a dungeon has chimeras before reaching level 4?”/“then the dungeon lord is unstable” exchange just being mithrun grilling his past self alive is so funny. he’s so. but anyway) there are a couple things about this.

first, the snake part of the chimera appears to be modeled after some species of coral snake mimic

which, in the biology-for-fun manga, i… doubt is a coincidence, especially with the added context of the “untrustworthy” comment. the dungeon’s conjured illusion of mithrun’s love interest was a harmless copycat of a venomous original. for whatever reason, he felt this person was a threat and made up a "safe" version of her to be in a relationship with, and while it’s definitely possible to be attracted to or even love someone you find to be toxic and/or intimidating, when you take that into consideration alongside the configuration of her body, you get some interesting implications.

which brings us to our second point: if we assume that mithrun was not in fact fucking a snake, then sexual attraction, at least, was so far removed from his idea of a relationship with this person that he did not even bother to keep her dungeon copy human enough to maintain the illusion of the option of a sexual relationship. this is somewhat echoed in the depictions of their interactions, which also imply a frankly unexpected romantic distance. she kisses his cheek and he doesn't seem to react; she's at the edge of a narrow bed with only one set of pillows, on top of his blankets while he's underneath them.

the kiss is particularly interesting because it seems to contrast the text. kabru's narration tells us this was everything mithrun could have asked for, but mithrun is there looking unreadable to pensive, likely because this is right before the panel that makes it clear things in the dungeon are beginning to go wrong.

walking through this backwards for a minute, we have the physical barrier of his bedding and the spatial separation inherent in a bed made for one person, the emotional barrier of his mounting anxiety getting in the way of his ability to enjoy the affection he sought, and... the snake, which historically carries the connotation of temptation, yes, but also mistrust, barring physical intimacy. okay. ok. if a dungeon reflects the mentality of its lord, all of this might suggest that mithrun was not able to have any real desire for a relationship with this person. his unwillingness to be vulnerable or let another person in was insurmountable. but in that case, why was she such a focal point that she remained to the end, after his dungeon had stopped creating iterations of his friends to come and visit him? why would he get so upset over her meeting with his brother that he became lord of a dungeon about it?

well. mithrun's brother was also interested in her, probably genuinely. and mithrun had to win.

you have an older brother who your parents completely ignore, probably in part because he is chronically ill/disabled and almost definitely in part because he received a ton of recessive traits that resulted in rumors that he was an illegitimate child. you are aware, most likely because those same parents fucking told you, that you actually are an illegitimate child. but they keep you around because you had the good fortune of looking just like your mother. what can that possibly teach you but that you, like your brother, are disposable?

it's utterly unsurprising that mithrun, under these circumstances, developed a pathological need to be better than everyone around him. people don't keep you otherwise. i'd argue this is also why he says he looked down on everyone he knew while milsiril claims his dungeon reeked of feelings of inferiority—he sought out people's worst traits and prioritized them in his mind to protect his already extremely fragile sense of self-worth, and all the while he tried to be as likable and high-performing as he possibly could be. his parents disposed of him anyway, but even then he tried to keep up the performance. he was kind to everyone. he never once lost to a dungeon.

when he saw his "love interest" meeting up with his brother, what he saw was himself being replaced by a person his parents had always treated as worthless, and if that was what they thought of the child they'd kept, what value could anyone possibly see in the bastard they'd given away to die? mithrun and kabru tell the story like he wanted to win this unnamed elf's heart, but it was never about being with her. it was about cementing his worth, proving that he didn't deserve to be thrown away.

and so it's particularly cruel that his demon discarded him, too. but maybe it's also particularly gentle that, in the end, there was someone who refused to even consider giving up on him.

kui laid it out in three panels better than i could hope to.

yeah. it's love. you wanted to be loved, even when the only way you were able to understand it was through the desire to be wanted, and you wanted that so badly that the idea of being consumed felt like the promise of finally mattering to someone.

[socvincjpeg]

No bc if i fumbled ford as badly as bill did i'd be on the news

Edit for clarity: The text says ‘I Grow Maddened’!!

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