#lmao rational thought

[technically-human]

Part two of the reverse verse is here! The reverse boys meet the original boys. They're not really getting along as well as I had hoped...

Again, this was a commission for @i-am-as-normal-as-you-are and they asked for angst/funny vibes... I think it's mostly just angst though. Oh, well...

Part one

[take-care-of-it]

I think taking Jimmy at face value with his “attracted to cartoon horses” thing is a mistake. I think in hindsight, the subtext is pretty clear that he said that to make Anya uncomfortable. Taking him at face value is the mistake that curly makes (albeit curly thinks he’s joking).

I also don’t think depicting a Jimmy with morally taboo paraphilias is necessarily missing the point, but I do think there’s this impulse to make him ~sexually deviant~ in a way that serves to distance him from “normal society.” As if he isn’t supposed to be emblematic of it.

Like, I think if you’re genuinely trying to explore that, you have to grapple with the idea that Jimmy himself thinks he’s normal. He isn’t “deviant and loving it” or whatever. He isn’t a sadist knowing and loving the harm he’s doing.* He’s genuinely convinced himself he’s a normal guy. He does not want to grapple with the harm he’s done. Jimmy’s way of getting around guilt is refusing to admit he’s done anything he needs to feel guilty about.

Jimmy wouldn’t be secretly guilty and self-flagellating about it. (Actively. He DOES feel guilt, but subconsciously.) He also wouldn’t be openly “admitting” this to Anya if he were being serious. It’s a joke, Curly’s right to take it as such. But it’s subtextually a joke at Anya’s expense. Something to make her uncomfortable.

Thinking that Jimmy associating Polle with both Anya and the unborn baby is something that came first, as a serious thing before the joke, is a mistake imo. I think it’s something that comes back to bite him when the subconscious guilt starts getting a little less subconscious. A joke association twisted into a more serious one by Jimmy’s unrelenting refusal to see Anya as a person.

* The exception here is people Jimmy thinks “deserve” the harm being done to them. “Morally justifiable harm,” if you will. I think Jimmy does take some satisfaction from hurting a post-crash curly, for example, but he justifies that to himself with the idea that Curly “looked down on him in the same way” pre-crash. He always has to view the harm he does acknowledge doing as punching up harm. He always has to be the righteous one.

[astranauticus]

link click yingdu ep 1 is truly the gift that keeps on giving the more you think about it the more layers you unlock. at first i thought the 'video call with phone in shirt pocket' trick is a pretty effective way of replicating their dives with like.. normal human technology without their powers and then i realised that's probably because lu guang specifically thought 'this is a situation that would call for a dive except cheng xiaoshi doesn't know about the whole time travel powers thing yet, what would be a good and reasonable approximation of that that i can spring on him rn'. also, we know this is not the first time he's experiencing this day because he was checking the clock before he proposed the whole video call phone camera thing, implying that he had the 'script' for this day just like he did with the anime convention, but even then he could only warn cheng xiaoshi about the guy behind him with the bat right before he was about to get hit - probably because cheng xiaoshi kept 'doing unnecessary actions' and messing up the timeline/lu guang's 'script' and forcing him to improvise. once again, lu guang's trying to protect cheng xiaoshi while also hiding information from him and cheng xiaoshi's failing to follow lu guang's instructions and putting himself in danger because of his own kindness and impulsivity - their entire dynamic moving forwards, captured in their first (arguably more like.. the 0th) 'job' together.

[archersartcorner]

Back in Far Harbor gang… I get they probably didn’t want to extend a cutscene where the player had no control out too long, but I do wish in the Acadia meeting that you can eavesdrop on they brought up Nick 😭 but they do Not so here’s me making up scenarios. The Usual. 😏

[humblefryingpan]

No "see results" bc I want an answer lol, if you don't know them just go with the vibes.

I know these aren't all of them but these are the ones I want to watch (at least for now).

When I was little I watched XY, XYZ and Sun & Moon. I watched a little bit of indigo league but I started when I was leaving my pokemon phase so I didn't get through much.

I want to watch indigo league because it's the original, I want to watch xy because I loved it as a kid, I want to watch sun & moon because (from what I remember) I loved the plot and overall setting, I basically only want to watch black & white because I want to know more about N (he seems interesting)

[jackkal]

when ppl talk abt how u can never be redeemed for like. posting something stupid online in 2015. i remember the time i was scrolling through my own feed, read something so stupid i saw red and wrote an angry reply, and realized it was my own post from years before

[morningmask27]

Tonight, right now, not even ten minutes ago, might have been the closest I got to an outright hatecrime

[junkosblunt]

Junko: "The most despair I have ever felt in my life was killing my sister."

Mukuro, in the afterlife: "JUNKO LOVES ME MORE! SUCK IT, YASUKE!"

no because i know mukuro’s weird ass was lowkey thrilled when junko murdered yasuke because it was one less person to steal junko’s attention away from her 💀

[sodacowboy]

so. the dolls of my original characters. for now I’m only planning for Sol and Lazul and I’ve run into the problem of wanting them to have outfits that fit with their respective home planet’s fashions and also wanting them to match.

[thousand-winters]

Not me coming across a video about people laughing at you if you use "ranch words" and then looking at the comments and uh, oh. I mean, I knew I had the accent but I didn't know it was so like that lmao

[reisakumaproducer]

He looks like a sopping wet napkin to me. He looks like he just got kicked out of Rodrick Heffley’s emo band. This card just does not feel real why does he look two years younger than he actually is

[intcritus]

kissing the tears from their cheeks. // Fushimi @ Itachi

morning sickness was a nightmare and itachi is grateful that it only last the second hegets up and nothing more. rehydrating with two cups of tea and a light meal of miso soup and rice, he ambles around his home, following the scent of his mate. he's draped in one of fushimi's yukata, comfortably and when he finds the yokai in question, he sees that he's on a call. something normal honestly, but his irrational and emotional mind cannot take anyone taking up his husband's time, especially if it's not him.

it merely starts off as a pout as he moves into room but tears sting his eyes, lip wobbling as presses his features into fushimi's shoulder. pay attention to me. hand against distended tummy only makes more tears spill down his cheeks. it's the worst, this stupid loss of emotional control, but he should be used to it by now.

soft words of care are whispered against his hair, hand gently rubbing at his tummy and itachi calms immediately as he's paid attentiont to the one person who owned his very soul. face is taken between hands, lips kissing at his tears, eyelids then his forehead, holding him securely. ❝ ━ pay attention to only me, ❞ he grumbles tearfully, nuzzling into palms. he sniffles, sinking his teeth into fushimi's palm, just beneath his thumb, ❝ ━ you're mine. so don't give anyone else your attention. ❞ pouting, he lays his cheek against his husband's shoulder, ❝ ━ tummy rubs, please? ❞ was he a mess ? yes but it was warranted.

[starslung]

i wish sonic forces had gone into more detail about what GUN was doing the entire time during eggman's takeover like... were they just rolling over and letting eggman have the run of the world? did they WANT him to take over for their own means ?? were they hunkering down to fight back on their own separate from the resistance? were they working WITH the resistance to help provide resources (like wispons) ?? what was their deal

[buck-yyyy]

by far my weirdest era was that one summer where i spent hours and hours messaging conservative christians on pinterest to gain an understand of why they believed what they did, how religion tied into that, etc etc

i’ll never forget, one girl messaged me back a few months later and asked me to fill out a google form on abortion for her school project because she wanted a diverse data set 😭

[tenrose]

I took five minutes to listen to watch DC's new MV and idk what I was expecting but I love it. The melody is brighter than usual but yet it is more rock that they've been in years which ofc I absolutely love! It's giving Déjà Vu x Fly High. Jiu pre chorus is heaven, like tbh if you heard her voice first without knowing DC's genre you'd be like "ain't no way she's suiting the rock genre" but the producers always know what to do with her voice. Sua???? Hello???? The MV is very beautiful. My favourite of the Apocalypse trilogy. Now I don't think the three stories are really that cohesive (storytelling and sound wise) compared to dystopia & nightmare series but honestly I'm just here to enjoy the music. It's interesting and fun to see them with different styles. Also Yoohyeon horse riding!!!! And let's not talk about Siyeon... She's always trying to murder me with her gaze...

Anyway no time to listen to the whole album for now but I'll do tonight it seems promising!

As I'm a french currently starting a trip abroad I'm very happy to have them sing Bon Voyage to me ❤️

[tempests-bards-and-birds]

honestly the only thing that could make me come back to star rail at this point would be them adding wendy AND making her playable and honestly i doubt that's gonna happen lol