#love and respect to them for saying yes we will do what nobody else has done before

[sunskate]

Mia Sugino/Olivia Marr skating their Chicago FD 🥺❤️ st BC/YT Super Series

omg the voiceover from the show about Roxie and Velma -- "a first - the first time anywhere there's been an act of this nature - not only one little lady, but two"

i got teary watching them do their lifts and their dance spin - there are all these other stories you can tell - on Broadway, you see two women dancing numbers all the time, but on ice, this is so new -

blaze that trail bbs 😭❤️❤️

[hexhomos]

little random but i really appreciate your dissections and analysis of Mel mainly bc the fandom either adore her and won't admit she is a flawed character and get over defensive when you call her out, or straight up hate her and make her out to be completely evil.

Mel is written as morally grey for a reason and when ppl try to act like she was morally correct in everything she did, it goes against the whole plot. yes, she regrets most of her actions by the end of the series and is left to deal with her family's leagacy and the weight of her actions, but that doesn't undo anything she did. and her eventually starting to care about Jayce doesn't just cancel out that she manipulated him (you'd think this would be obvious)

what bothers me the most i think is meljay shippers who say Jayce mistreated her and that Mel only ever helped and care about him and aided him in rising to power politically, and how she was so understanding of Jayce's and Viktor's friendship. yes, encouraging methods of political corruption in order to gain more power is so caring and kind of her! ❤️

Mel might've told Jayce to go spend time with Viktor after finding out he was ill, but the one time in the show she interacted with Viktor was... prejudiced to say the least. she never directly spoke to or answered Viktor, and the expression on her face any time she looked over at Viktor was so clearly full of dislike. it shocks me ppl still believe Mel and Viktor could get along and respect one another, especially romantically. no way.

anyways, sorry for the rant. just tired of how many bad takes there are in this fandom and very fond of your account lol

you are right and you SHOULD say it re: that oft repeated argument about her "only wanting what's best for him" bothers me so much. Its just... weirdly patronizing and spousing pro-piltover nationalism every time i see it being brought up. "She's doing what anyone would do/what is best for the city!" IDK MAN I AM NOT ROCKING WITH THAT. Im not an ubercapitalist. I don't think any of that was the good option actually lol. Probably I hate piltover too much to humor these arguments but from day 1 we are shown this is a city of immense class inequality in which the elite few holds all the power and all the profit gains at the cost of everyone else's submission and humanity. (Not for nothing: these are also the classic old guard Noxian tenets of supremacy. That's how they do colonization.)

The interactions Mel has with Jayce for majority of the series, before she watches that bomb come in and has her rapid onset change of heart, are her talking about how investors want his work and how she can use his discovery to advance this city (which is already built on exploitation!) or instigating his rise to power as a new ringleader for the council's rigged mercantile operations, and this is just not good or heroic in any way to me. This isn't love either, it's industrial convenience. The fact that she's conflicted by the end doesn't cancel these actions out! Jayce realizes that he's been used in ways he strongly disagrees with and any the affection in that dynamic vanishes instantly. The time he spends in isolation replaying his mistakes in that cave has an emphasis on mel/heimerdinger's voice on the council too, all of his regrets with blindly following someone else's vision or disappointing an idol he held in high regards.

And Jayce DOES care about the state of the cities, or he did before the writers forgot: He's the one who pleads for Zaun's independence at the end of season 1! He's the one who spent all his life trying to work towards improving the lives of common people, giving them the miracles they've been denied!

Viktor is a fucking nobody. He is extremely worthless in the eyes of the piltovan upper crust, only kept around on the merits working with Jayce have afforded him; and they still don't care. They're probably hoping he dies quicker. We *SEE* him being singled out and alienated during that weapons discussion where Mel is pleading for Jayce to think about "protecting his people" (only piltovans, never, ever zaunites- protecting piltovans against the zaunite menace.) and Viktor is set off at that whole exchange because it doesn't matter how loud he screams, these people can just tune him off and pretend he doesn't exist anyway. It's what they're used to doing. It drives me insane!!!!! His indignation is extremely under-explored and very inline with his act1 speech of feeling like an undesirable presence in piltover and having to push through with the grit of his teeth. It's open faced classism and I still see people pretending it didn't happen. Fandom makes all of these characters FAR less interesting by defanging them. The heart is in the friction and in the ugliness of them fucking up because they have very, very different conceptions of "utopia" - and some of those utopias require the death of the other characters present.

A lot of the Arcane character arcs have to do with realizing the above, and weighing if the sacrifice is worth the risk. Sometimes it turns out their utopias were shit.

[nuttersincorporated]

Mickey Mouse does not need your protection

Since Mickey Mouse became public domain, I’ve seen some really wild takes and misinformation going around. Yes, Mickey Mouse is public domain. No, you do not need to protect him. It’s fine if people other than Disney make Mickey Mouse stuff, even if you don’t like the things that are made.

You are not protecting Mickey Mouse. Mickey Mouse is not real. Even if he was, you STILL wouldn’t be protecting him. You’re just sticking up for a megacorporation. Disney has more money and resources than you will ever have and they horde them. You shouldn’t be trying to help them do it.

Disney is a company that loves using public domain properties to make things. They have just tried their absolute hardest to make sure that nobody else could do the same thing. If you think Mickey Mouse should only be used by Disney, you should be upset that Disney made money off public domain stories like Snow White and Rapunzel.

What about things like Winnie the Pooh? Disney didn’t come up with him but they were happy to make money off him. They bought the rights to him and then didn’t share.

‘Ah!’ I hear you say. ‘But Winnie the Pooh actually helps prove our point! When Disney – that poor poor super rich company that should be protected – lost the exclusive rights, a Winnie the Pooh horror movie was made! That’s not in the spirit of the original character!’

Firstly, you can just ignore that movie if you want. I did. Nobody is making you watch it. You are responsible for your own media consumption.

Secondly, there are nice Winnie the Pooh stories out there that aren’t by Disney or the original author. The Pooh books by Jane Riordan are lovely. Her stories are much more in the spirit of the original character than a lot of the Disney comics were.

This is an official Disney comic with Winnie the Pooh

This is a picture from one of Jane Riordan’s Winnie the Pooh books

One of them is sweet, kind and in the spirit of the original character. The other is Disney owned and approved.

What would the original author A.A. Milne think of the different adaptions and new works? Well, we don’t know because, at the end of the month, he’ll have been dead for 68 years. However, I can quote one of the original Pooh books about sharing,

And really, it wasn’t much good having anything exciting like floods, if you couldn’t share them with somebody.

Thirdly, Disney does not respect authorial intent.

PL Travers, the author of the Mary Poppins books, did not want Disney to make a movie based on her work. She got coerced into letting them make one. She hated the movie and refused to let them make any more.

What happened after she’d died, the ban on them making more Mary Poppies movies ran out and they got their hands on the rights? They made a sequel.

I think you should be more upset that Disney went against the direct wishes of an author than the fact regular people can now use a character that megacorporation uses. PL Travers was a person. Disney is a company. There is a difference.

I love the original Mary Poppins movie. I don’t care about or like the sequel. However, PL Travers died in 1996. People should be able to use the character now, no matter how you or I feel about those newer stories. Again, you can just ignore them if you want.

The original stories are still there.

Royalties are different to public domain. The profits from PL Travers original books go to her descendants and the Cherry Tree Foundation. They will continue to go there for 80 years after her death and then the royalties will be shared out among any decedents who are alive at that time. The money from those books will continue to go there, no matter what new stories with Mary Poppins get made.

You all seem okay with Disney making money off public domain stories and buying the rights to other stories. Why can't you extend that right to other people?

No one has stolen Mickey from Disney. Disney can and will continue to make money off him. All that’s change is that other people can now do that too.

[naavispider]

I often see people describe Spider as a neglected child. Do you think that is totally accurate? Would Norm and the other scientists have set rules and boundaries? If Lo’ak and Spider did something stupid together would Jake punish both of them? What would a scene like this look like?

This is a very big question, in my opinion, and seems to have divided a lot of people depending in their answer. I think I can see it both ways. Spider is clearly a child that has grown up without a stable parental figure, and has lived his life trying to fit in where there seems to be no natural slot for him to do so. I do think he is relatively well adjusted, he's formed strong relationships with those his own age and he clearly has strong morals, all of which are accomplishments in themselves given the circumstances. Anyone else in his position would obviously struggle to deal with so much (being displaced by war, not having a stable family, and generally being an outcast by the tribe). If you add the daddy issues on top, which have provided him with a fluctuating sense of identity ever since he was old enough to understand who is father was, it's no doubt that Spider is definitely a special kid and extremely strong to have been through what he has, and come out the other side remarkably 'unharmed'.

We also can't ignore the fact that he was outrightly mistreated throughout his childhood as well. This is more obvious in the comics from the comments made by Neytiri, but there is also all the subtle ways in which he was excluded from the People and made to feel like an outcast. The kind of social isolation he suffered from clearly had an effect on him and is obvious in the way he has a complex about trying to impress, and not let anyone down, ever.

Your question asked about whether it's valid to say that Spider was neglected. In short, I think the answer is yes, but it's harder to pin point by exactly who and for how long. Individually, most of the adults in his life treated him with kindness and respect, and often fondness. I'm sure that Norm and loves Spider, too (and probably Max). But what makes him neglected is that by itself, that kind of treatment isn't enough for an extremely young child. What everyone seemed to miss while he was growing up is the lack of a parental figure. The McCoskers clearly weren't actually interested in raising Spider like their own, so that fell short; as a result, nobody else stepped up and Spider went without paternal or maternal love.

In my mind, the McCoskers are definitely guilty of neglect. The question of the other adults is murkier, because they are not directly at fault and Spider was really not their responsibility. However, in my opinion they did not do all they could to emotionally support Spider through his identity crisis and feelings of belonging. As such, I would say they emotionally neglected him.

That was a long and winding answer and I know that others have hashed this topic over at length before, but those are my two cents! 🥰

Would Norm and the other scientists have set rules and boundaries? Yes, I reckon so. When Spider was very young it would primarily be around safety and where abouts in the compound he should be, when. The McCoskers were probably responsible for bedtime routines and ensuring his basic needs were met, and I can see them being pretty harsh with that (for example shutting Spider in his room). As he got older and the McCoskers' attention turned to their own sons, they started to care less and less about Spider and creating firm boundaries. As a result he became a much wilder spirit and then the scientists would have had to put their own boundaries in place. By this point though, Spider was a young teen and probably all they could do was tell him off (which would work for a while). I can see the other scientists begging Norm to talk to Spider when he accidentally broke a piece of lab equipment.

If Lo’ak and Spider did something stupid together would Jake punish both of them? Jake would clearly be much harsher towards Lo'ak. I can see him just sending Spider back to the shacks, aware that Spider is not his son and nit his responsibility. In fairness to Jake, he personally struggles a lot with how to be a good father and isn't confident with the two sons he already has, so mentally I think he's distancing himself from Spider on purpose, because he's afraid and doesn't want to take on even more parental responsibility than he is already having to contend with. Lo'ak and Spider would meet up after and Spider would ask Lo'ak how bad it was. Lo'ak would probably moan that Spider is lucky he doesn't have to brunt Jake's anger, and Spider would outwardly agree.

Sorry it took me literal months to respond to this ask! I'm working my way through them 💞💙💞💙

[lennadanvers]

Pride Month just started, and I wanted to take this opportunity to say something I think is implicit but that everyone should be aware of:

You are a person and that's what matters.

There shouldn't be a discussion on whether or not it's okay for people to be happy, live, have rights or have those rights be respected. Every human being (and every being, for that matter) deserves respect. Unless they are harming someone (harming meaning abuse; not just existing), they can and should do whatever makes them happy. No one needs permision to exist.

The only people who can give their opinion about your relationship are you and your partner. The only person who decides what you can and can't wear is you. The only one who knows your gender is also you. How or who you have sex, kiss, marry, live with or love is nobody else's business.

The LGBTQIA+ community is for people who aren't allo-hetero-cis. That means that if you aren't all three, allo, hetero and cis, you belong here. This is a great time to show support, because the attention is on this topic. Take this chance to educate (yourself and others) about sexual and gender identities. Do your research, talk to people in the community. Always be respectful. Ask if it's okay to ask questions, always making sure what you're asking about is something you wouldn't be uncomfortable answering to yourself. Go for general questions ("what does it mean to be [insert identity here]?", "why is [insert topic/person/action here] problematic?", "what can I do to show support?") instead of personal ones, unless the other person says they're okay with it. Remember that everyone (LGBTQIA+ or not) dresses, has relationships, talks, looks, feels and lives differently: we're all just people. If it is not your business when talking to an allo-hetero-cis, then it's not your business when talking to LGBTQIA+ people either.

It is okay to not know. As long as you're willing to learn and educate yourself, to be respectful, and to acknowledge past mistakes, it's okay. I don't know everything, but if you have any questions, I can try to answer them. Send me an ask and I'll do my best.

To any LGBTQIA+ person reading this, I know this month can be complicated. Keep in mind you don't owe anyhting to anyone. The most important thing is for you to be safe. The next most important thing is for you to be comfortable. You deserve to have both and so much more. Yes, the Industry takes advantage of Pride Month to sell stuff and look good. We can use it for visibility anyway. This is your chance to speak up if you're in the right place to do it. If you can't, or you don't feel comfortable doing it by yourself, you can send me an anonymous ask and I'll post it. If there's something you want to talk about, you can send an ask too. This is a safe space (as long as you're being respectful).

Also, this is Pride Month. It is very important to use it for activism, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't enjoy it. Have fun. Make art, memes and jokes about it. Wear rainbows and pride flags. Have a good time. Feel pride, happiness, excitement and whatever else you feel. You can be angry, hurt or sad too. You can be all at once, or none.

This blog is a safe space for everyone. If you can't find it in you to be respectful, you don't belong here. Otherwise, you're always welcome.

[thelonelysoulhome]

Doumeki is the first person ever to reach out his hand to Yashiro:

(Part 3)

When Doumeki first meet Yashiro he is a 36 years old man with strong anchored beliefs, that diged all his traumas deep deep inside of him, traumas that he nourished everyday for 26 years at this point. He suffers, but in silence,

he suffers, but nobody sees, cause he's really good at hiding, at faking, after all, people are actors.

Like I said before Doumeki is the first person ever to ask Y if he's okay and that on their first encounter.

For the first time in Yashiro's life someone try to help him.

And ask a question: are you okay ? Are you okay with what happening ? Do you need help ?

At this point it's not like Y could Say:

"Oh yes I'm deeply traumatised from all the abuse I lived as a kid and that never ended till now, I had to face everything alone and to endure everything, I had to hide the true me real real deep and live as a cold lustful maso cat seeking violent sex as a coping mechanism to protect myself from more external harm"

He's more like;

"Of course I'm okay dumbass... I like violent sex, I can't feel anything if it's not painfull, I always lived like this and it's fine, I don't need anyone, I'm alright as long as everyone treats me like they always did : badly, without care, like an old rag.

For Yashiro, the familiar feel safe, and the change feel overwhelming, frightning.

That how his distorted brain function .

It's in this state of mind that he come into the presence of Doumeki.

We know D always though that Y was beautyfull, (he confess that to Y in chapter 1), and that the yakuza world could not be that bad if someone like Y was part of it.

But everything takes a big shift when Y help D to reconnect with his sister Aoi :

At this moment D understand that Y is more than what he just pretends to be.

Y is neither cold or cruel, he's the opposite of that, he's gentle, he's kind, he's sensible, he don't judge, he's strong, cause suffering is never a reason to pity someone, it's a reason to respect them, respect for their strenght to endure it.

Y never shows those sides of him, he try hard to burie them cause for him, they are weaknesses, and he can't take the risk to be weak again.

But it's too late, D already saw little fragmants of the real Y.

And now, he's resilied to stay by his side no matter what :

"I'll do anything, as long as I can stay beside you"

He'll do anything, but it's only a matter of time for him to no longer being able to bear the way people treat Y, and the way Y treat's himself.

D don't understand how kage dosen't notice Y like he does,

He is angry that nobody sees Y the way his eyes do it.

Haaa look at how he stare at his smile... He just want to see him happy.

(The world D use in japanese for 'beautiful' is "きれい" (kirei) that kinda mean beautiful but also clean or pure, meaning that he think Y is beautiful on the outside but also and mainly from the inside)

For him Yashiro is kind, strong and beautiful.

He keeps on by saying that he respect Yashiro.

He's attracted to Y in a way he never been before with anyone, and he sincerely care for Y.

He don't want to use him like a toy like misumi.

He don't pity him like kage.

He don't want him to be something else (a woman) like ryuzaki

(that a deeply dislike btw... And Y is so kind that he take risk to save his ass..)

He love's Y for who he trully is, and he want to protect him.

In this moment D is mad and frustrated, not because Y is having sex with another guy, but because he is being harmed by someone, again. He want's to deffend him but he feel powerless, and that hurt him a lot.

I see some people saying that D is possesive and jealous, and that he has no words to say about what Y is doing with his body, (and normaly I agree whit that) but we know Y's case is far from being normal. Y uses violent sex as a form of self harm to cope with his trauma.

All the men Y encountered always treated and abused him really really badly,

And Y let it all happen not by choice, but because he never lived something else, he been used his whole life, he never chosed anything that happened to him, he undergoes everything . everyone always treated him badly everyone neglected him; his stepdad, his mom, shcool, all the men he encountered, ryuzaki, misumi, they all abused him, and he is so deep in selfloathing that he dosen't care anymore. He's resilieted, he so damaged that his numb.

But D is not okay with that. Is that something this bad ? Is that this bad to want to protect someone you love and care for, from further harm and abuse ?

D is not just being possesive and jealous, he can't bear seeing Y being treated this way. Who could ?

If you saw someone you love and care deeply for, harming themself daily in front of you, you won't do anything ? You won't try to stop them ? You won't try to protect them from this harm ? You can't just say "oh I'm not interfering, their life their choices" when someone is consuming themself little by little in front of your eyes.

Yashiro did not chose this, he suffered, and then he made himself suffer, cause it's the only thing he knows.

No one ever tend he's hand to him, and told him that he doesn't need to treat himself this way anymore...💔

See you part 4.

(How many part I'm gonna write, bear with me lol)

[mjrtaurus]

I like to think Shanks is a very divisive topic amongst the Monkey D Family. It’s very you love him or you hate him with them. Luffy (obviously) loves him! Shanks is the guy that inspired his pirate dreams to begin with and gave him his signature hat! Urpi is also quite fond of Shanks from the time they’ve spent on Elbaf together, always full of swapping stories and him just being an absolute gentleman towards her.

Dragon….its not entirely hate admittedly. It’s mostly jealousy due to how highly Luffy regards like he was his father or something! Add to that the fact that he’s won over his Mamay without even trying and Dragon definitely feels some type of way about him! Garp is right there with him unsurprisingly! That red haired scoundrel is the reason his precious grandson turned to a life of crime! He simply can’t forgive that!

Kuzan and Dadan are where the waters get a little muddled. Kuzan actually doesn’t care for Shanks and claims that the emperor is “weird and not in a good way.” He has no real reasoning beyond the few times they’ve met in battle but there’s something very odd about that guy to him. Dadan surprises absolutely everyone by..actually liking Shanks! And by ‘actually liking Shanks’ I mean she says he’s alright when asked (which in Dadan-speak in a glowing 5 star review!)

Rapid firing everyone else I can think of!

Sabo/Robin - neutral by veering on like considering how much Luffy hypes him up. Needs to meet to make final judgements.

Crocodile - Pretty much the same reasoning as Dragon.

Mihawk - Likes him but you'll never be able to tell

Buggy - President, Vice-President and Founder of the Fuck Shanks club (yes both ways).

Kong - Unadulterated Loathing towards all pirates and other assorted criminals what are we expecting here?!

Luffy absolutely adores him. There is no getting out of it, and Dragon and Crocodile are both green with jealousy over it. And plenty guilt-ridden, too.

They also don’t really appreciate Shanks coming into and out of Luffy’s life like that, but Garp wasn’t much better… and they were absent entirely for the longest time. It was hard choices all around, and projection their issues onto the man would do nobody any good.

They tolerate him, but they closely guard their jealousy around them. He knows they do, because it’s not hard to notice. He doesn’t poke or prod at them over it.

Urpi adores the man. Any one of Roger’s group is a friend in her eyes. Especially after the inspiration he’s sparked in Luffy.

Garp wants to be 100% on the issue, but when Roger is involved, it never is.

Kuzan feels awkward about him, given the whole Blackbeard thing he had going… Dadan is happy to know Luffy has someone out there on the seas who would have his back if things got really bad. She hopes…

Sabo has respect for him, because Luffy wouldn’t be Luffy without him. Robin is the same.

Kong…

Kong is Kong.

[lxmelle]

Re-reading some satosugu moments after chapter 261 dropped.

Spoilers under cut

“If you were there to pat me on the back, I might’ve been satisfied.” I know Geto was shown to have a little tear in reaction to this, and after knowing what he did and was willing to do with his body in ch261… phew, I feel like he recognised that Gojo really valued Geto’s presence and acceptance* of what he was doing, and that he had nothing to be envious over. (*more on this later)

Yes, he wasn’t lonely and yes he had fun with someone with unparalleled strength, but it seems like, as it was shown in his thoughts over the impossibility not becoming a monster alone - hinting that nobody else would do - because he single-mindedly has been chasing one person. (Just like Geto was who adorned himself with a Gojokesa, no less. Geto who couldn’t smile in a world despite having a family for the past 10 years but felt like he could cope with things when Gojo was by his side. Smiling warmly at his words at the very end). I think Geto recognised that. Hence the tear after seeing Gojo’s end and hearing what his friend had to say about it.

When they both heard how Nanami also spent a lot of time reflecting on the past, and yet ironically bet on things in the future at his death... Gojo also seemed appeased by this, deciding he didn’t have any regrets in the afterlife and yelled out to Yaga.

He seemed satisfied with his decision over events in 261 too.

Geto’s tears in both panels (I actually didn’t notice the second for some time) seemed to depict a sense of bittersweet realisation that he was truly missed / needed by Gojo. Or that their sacrifices had meaning. Who knows... but it does really hit different after the recent chapter. It’s just so like Geto to express himself in this way. The Japanese aren’t really blunt, so it makes a lot of sense that he is a little vague.

Just like at the end of jjk 0, he says that he didn’t think Gojo had forgiven him and still had trust for him. He thought they’d fought. His statement of “you should curse (me out) at the end” is as much of an admission of his apology as he could give in that moment.

Although it makes a lot of sense of Gojo’s last words to be “I love you.” (As I wrote about in another blog), it makes equal sense to me if he said “welcome home; you did your best.”

Because then Geto’s blushing smile could’ve been how he realised he always had a place with Gojo. Nobody else could do. He didn’t realise until then that he was actually loved by the person he loved too. The person he tried to save by dirtying his hands and try to preserve. He loved by trying to sacrifice himself not knowing that the other person actually needed him and would have been monsters together if Geto said “Yes, kill them.” at the hideout. A few people on X were tweeting about how it was ironic how Geto’s CT of intaking curses and his way of loving was to let them go; Gojo’s CT was to repel energy and his way of loving was to hold on forever. Sigh.

Nevertheless, we see how Gojo respected what Geto needed to do and didn’t chase after him. He allowed himself to be left behind. If you think about it, Gojo has done every. single. thing. Geto has requested from him, from giving Riko a good time, not killing the followers, ensuring there is a point to killing anyone, letting him walk away because it would be respecting his decision to live his life doing his best to create a world of sorcerers, let him go get crepes with his girls, and finally… to be the one to end his life. (He probably also gave his body to his cult family because Geto asked about whether they escaped, showing his consideration for his friend.) This was the warmth of his loving acceptance. Gojo was accepting of Geto’s need to do things on his own and never forced his will upon him.

Some others on X were discussing how Geto was within Gojo’s inner circle ⭕️ and that he wasn’t considered a “flower” to him. Thus, he drew a line between him and others and never could let anyone in. It makes sense when we think of them as the “strongest duo” that came to an end, and the Yin & Yang nature of their dynamic. Geto felt left behind by Gojo and Gojo felt left behind by Geto. Sigh.

Yuta: Don’t be a monster on your own.

Gojo thinks: It’s impossible; I was left behind back then, so I need to catch up (in other words: because nobody else will do beside me, besides Suguru).

Again, it hits harder to read ch236:

“at some point, a line was drawn between me and others as a living creature.” (People became flowers whom he believed could never understand him.)

“I couldn’t reach him. I had fun.” (I tried to be a monster and fight a monster to see if the answer was to reach someone else, it it didn’t work but I had fun going all out for once in my life; dying in battle than of old age.)

And “If you were there, I’d probably have been satisfied.” (There was something missing and it was you.)

And it all makes sense what he said in jjk0 that in his personal opinion: “love was the most twisted curse of all.” And “my one and only best friend.”

Ah... tragic love. Sigh.

[thedaythatwas]

I need to know what goes on inside akechi’s head on the evening of october 24th.

like. look at it from his perspective. he comes to leblanc early. he has his priorities straight: he’s going to play some mind games, really get under joker’s skin.

(bear with me while I get serious about a profoundly unserious conversation)

he’s staking his claim on enemy territory. he’s sitting patiently, waiting for akiren to walk through the door. surely, it will intimidate his rival to know that he’s made himself at home in his living space. look how close he managed to slip without akiren noticing! he even went so far as to strike up a conversation with his odd barista caretaker. akechi would drop some quick political jargon here, reference some continental philosopher’s name there— all in the name of making akiren look totally incompetent.

really, joker should be terrified. he should feel violated, even. akechi would! hence:

look— he’s so self satisfied! yes, he totally won this round!

🚨 BUZZER NOISE! 🚨

see, akechi is playing 4D chess. so is akiren! but they’re using drastically different playbooks. we know this because goro akechi procedes to get hit with the following:

I know you as the player don’t need to select that dialogue option (I could go on about the implications of that, but other posts have already said it better). but you can! and I, for one, do.

not to get too deep on what is obviously a joke post, but I think this offers some insight into those little rants that akechi goes on sometimes. you know what I’m talking about— “oh, you’re so special, so interesting, it’s like we were fated to meet each other!”

yes— they were basically fated to meet each other, but that’s not the point.

as silly as it sounds, the fact that dialogue options like this exist proves the oft-stated fact that akiren is the antithesis to akechi’s thesis.

akechi plans his interactions with akiren down to a tee, and still, akiren manages to throw akechi off his rhythm! every. single. time. nobody else does this.

part of this is because akiren sees his interactions with akechi for what they’re worth. it’s all a gamble, a chess match. akechi appreciates that akiren is an equal player in their game. he respects that. it takes intelligence to see a bluff for what it is, and to call it. flirtatiously, too!

that respect is what makes their relationship so compelling. it holds true whether you read what they have as love, hate, obsession, or, hell, even all of the above! you know it isn’t indifference, because that doesn’t make any sense coming from either of them.

call me crazy (I certainly deserve it) but if akiren responds “honey, I’m home” to akechi, he hears another message loud and clear: I see what you tried to do here, I’m calling you on it, and you don’t scare me. you’ve made your move, and I’m going to undo it with flair, because I’m joker, and you love it.

and when you look at it like that, it makes sense why little things might set off akechi’s thoroughly-stated appreciation of akiren. they aren’t “little” to him at all. I’m sure he doesn’t wax poetic just to fuel akiren’s ego, anyway. that isn’t quite his style.

and hey! even if akiren didn’t mean to communicate all of that (he totally did though), it doesn’t make the sentiment any less real to akechi! I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. the guy has issues. let him plot the downfall of his enemies (real and perceived) in peace <3

[perfectserendipity]

It makes sense

Delusion and shipping logic aside. Ianthony being romantically involved with each other and dating would make lot of sense.

I know that a lot of fans feel like they have to ''defend'' them from shippers. I get it, I really do. I can understand why a lot of people react defensively, in an effort to protect them, and push the ''they are just friends and that's great'' narrative, (exactly like we have seen them do with Shourtney before the marriage announcement).

But even though that is a valid sentiment, I also feel that trying to stop fans from hoping there might be something more (especially when there definitely are a lot of things pointing in that direction) and dismisisng everything as ''delusion'', is not the way to go.

Most operate under the assumption that the shippers are seeing things that aren't there, ... but what if that is not entirely the case?

I think that both sides should keep an open mind and just see what happens.

I love Ianthony, yes, but even putting the shipping goggles aside, I still think that it makes a lot of sense for many reasons.

If you don't see it (or think you have to pretend that you don't because of your fear of being parasocial and invasive) it's ok. But as long as they are respectful bout it, there is nothing wrong with some seeing something there and hoping for the best.

Even because, to be completely honest, I don't think shippers are the only ones believing there could be something going on.

Even when they read ''childhood friends turned lovers'' Reddit story, it seemed pretty clear to me that both Shayne and Courtney were trying trying to encourage Anthony (and Ian) in some way. Those two know exactly what it's like to be in love with a friend and coworker and can probably read the signs better than anyone else, and they definitely seemed to have be wanting to say something to Anthony.

Of course, you can say that it's just reading too much into things and that Shourtney's comments, the reason the story was picked in the first place and Anthony's emotional reaction to it, can all be explained away in a different manner, but it's just yet another thing to add to the list that has been growing for quite a while.

In the end all I am saying is that none of us know, but especially after the Shourtney thing, I think that shippers (the respectful ones of course) should be given a bit more leniency.

Nobody knows what will happen. I think it would be amazing if they started dating, and I'm really hoping for it, but in the end I just want them happy, we all do. So fingers crossed and let's wait and see, there's no hurry.

[acourtofthought]

Do you really think sjm will give every single FMC in every single one of her books the same HEA with a mate?

In almost every case, yes.

If SJM is writing a full length novel in the ACOTAR world that features a fae FMC / MMC (I'm not sure I see her writing a full length MM or FF novel, maybe a novella where the characters may or may not have a bond) than I do think they'll receive a HEA together as mates because we have been told there is no bond greater than a mating bond. That no matter how special marriage is, a mating bond trumps it. That the mating bond is a bridge between souls which means any other love is not.

In the old days of gymnastics the best score you could receive was a perfect 10. Though a gymnast could be extremely happy with a 9.8, you still can't turn around and tell them that 9.8 is just as good as a perfect 10. It's a great score of course but it's still not the best score.

That's a mating bond in this world, the perfect 10 and there's no going back once we know what the peak is. Elain loved Graysen, maybe she could have learned to love Az, but she'll only ever be mates with Lucien. Lucien will only ever be the one with a bridge to her soul. People can rant and rage all they want, they can downplay it to their hearts content but it doesn't change the fact that Sarah J Maas (as well as many other authors) have decreed this as their truth. I have never known a fated mates author to write a true rejected mates story, one where they don't have a HEA by the end, regardless of how many fated mates book they've written. Ella Fields has multiple Fated Mates books at this point. J.R. Ward has at least over 20 (an author Sarah loves). If Fated Mates are presented as an option within a world then nothing else is going to be as good especially when it involves two important side turned main characters. Many in the fandom love Elain and many LOVE Lucien. He's just as much a favorite in this world as she is and Sarah has not written him to be anything but respectful to Elain, hot, and set up to become a future HL. This is not a throw away character where his feelings don't matter, his longing for Elain matters just as much as her current avoidance of the bond. The arguments of feminism are so ridiculous because in books you are allowed to root for all characters equally, I don't have to put Elain's "wants" (though we don't truly know whether what she currently claims is what she actually wants) over his simply because I'm a woman. I am allowed to be just as invested in his HEA as hers because the author wrote it that way, because she has set him up to be the good guy in Elain's story - the one who has never hurt her and only wants the best for her.

An author can throw all the angst, tension, hatred, etc. that they want at the two characters but it has never changed where they end up (which is together).

The only scenario where a rejected Fated Mates story would make sense to me is a setup like we might be getting with Mor / Eris. While Sarah is now writing Eris to be sort of a good guy, many readers were not quite as invested in him until SF. Yes, I realize there are some who have always loved Eris (I like him too) and after reading that Beron tortured him we hope for a better outcome for him but I think it's safe to say that if he and Mor turn out to be mates, nobody would be all that heartbroken for him to not end up with her. We know her romantic preference but we don't know his. We saw that he caused her trauma that has lingered over the years and we've never seen him longing for her. Sarah has written them to share in a connection of sorts, where they're always aware of the other but not in a way where anyone really wants them together. Eris letting go of Mor and his bond with her so she might find happiness with a women makes him heroic without the reader feeling heartbroken that he doesn't get to be with her because we don't get the vibes he has any interest in being with her. This is a scenario where it might make sense for mates to not end up together because we know Mor will never want a male in that way and we're not invested in Eris ending up with anyone (outside of Az for some).

In contrast, Elain does like males and Lucien finds Elain to be the most beautiful female he's ever seen, even more than the one female who had control over his heart for centuries. We know he's already struggling with the effects of the bond therefore we know the disappointment he feels at her indifference would continue to hurt him. They are set up as a romantic possibility despite Elain's behavior around him right now because authors don't write that sort of setup for it to go nowhere.

Could SJM write a non mates story without ever introducing a mating bond (even a rejected one)? Sure! Vassa and Jurian come to mind. But I don't think it's happening within the current cast of fae characters most likely to get a spin off.

She might also decide to write an entirely new series where mates aren't a thing but in the current worlds, unless the character is human, it's kind of difficult not to want that perfect 10.

[wildflowerwoodsworld]

A guide on writing YamiChar (or, how I do it, at least)

I've tried to write this meta over and over and over, trying to put all my thoughts in order, (below is my best attempt at it) but the more I try to explain how I do them, the more I realise that writing YamiChar well really just comes down to making sure that they're their own separate characters, with their own motivations and conflicts and lives outside each other. Yami needs to give a damn and Charlotte needs to not be obsessed with him. That's it.

Anyway. The meta.

First things first, the most important part of writing them (and why it so often falls short in canon) is that they both have to care about each other. Exactly how this looks can vary depending on the plot of your fic, but you cannot have Yami not caring about Charlotte in some way. The biggest reason this ship calls short in canon is because Yami doesn't really seem to give a damn about her, when he is all Charlotte's internal monologue can really focus on. She gets possessed and he doesn't seem to give a damn. After the initial fight, he doesn't even think about her, even while he's running around with Charla. Comparatively, when Yami gets kidnapped, she can't think about anything else.

Personally, I tone down Charlotte's crush. Or at least how she expresses it outwardly. Her running away from Yami screaming isn't funny, it isn't cute and it isn't helping her in any way. It's just embarrassing for her and makes her look incompetent. This woman is a Magic Knight Captain. She has a reputation to think about, people her being incompetent will reflect badly on. She is the face of the Blue Rose Knights, if people lose respect for her, then they're likely to start losing respect for her squad and that just makes their job harder than it needs to be. Especially considering the fact that, the world of Black Clover, just like our own, seems to elevate men's accomplishments above women's. So, yes. Charlotte's panicked screaming needs to go.

This isn't to say that she can't get embarrassed or flustered or that she can't panic, Charlotte is still a dramatic person at the end of the day, but those sorts of emotions are far more likely to be expressed in private, or only around people she can trust. She is not going to run screaming into a room full of strangers making a fool of herself.

On Yami's side of things, I tend to go with him not quite realising exactly what he's feeling. he has no real reason to believe what he's reading in her ki, or what people are telling him she feels. He's a foreigner. People like Nozel have made it quite clear that he isn't really welcome. Why would he think that the woman who could have literally anyone she wanted would want him?

Yami acts like a big, confident guy, but there's a lot of childhood trauma buried under all the bravado. He jokes about being a soft sensitive princess, but there's truth to it. His love interest has to be willing to look under the big macho man facade and not many people do.

So. We've got two people with a whole host of childhood trauma hiding their real selves from the world. How do we turn that into a relationship? You give them something to connect over. For these two, they're in a very unique position to understand each other in a way nobody else really can. They've both been shunned for things they can't control. They've both had people terrified of their magic. They've both had countless doors slammed in their faces. They've both dealt with people judging them on appearance alone. They've both been placed on a pedestal with a kingdom that criticises their every move. There's a lot of common ground for them to bond over.

Importantly, they aren't fixing each other. Sure, they learn from each other, but Yami doesn't suddenly become a perfect gentleman, Charlotte doesn't lose her sharp tongue or general attitude towards men. They do not suddenly become a lovey-dovey mess. They are both people who would rather ignore their feelings and leave it to deal with another time, preferably never. "That's Future Yami's problem" ring any bells? Which, I suppose, is better than Charlotte just diving straight into denial. Anyway. My point is, their romance looks like friendly teasing and unspoken trust, "I've got your back" and meaning it, the calm confidence that comes with knowing you're stronger together and capable of utterly wrecking anyone that tries to fight you.

Also, if anyone is going to retire to raise the kids, it's Yami.

TL;DR write them the same way you would if they were best friends but with more flirting.

[specialagentlokitty]

Giles x reader - my immortal love

Giles + Vampire pt 2 please! 😅🙏🏻 - Anon 💜

Part two:

Giles tried to keep his distance from you after that revelation, he would stay on the other side of the room and found any excuse he could to stay out all day.

You noticed what he was doing, though you didn’t understand why you let him take his distance from you, after all, you were a vampire and it made sense.

Wanting to respect the fact he wanted distance you would stay in your little corner, even when they came over to discuss what to do with your brother.

Of course you didn’t want to hurt him, but you couldn’t let him keep doing what he was doing, it wasn’t right, and he was sending himself on a death mission and you knew that.

Sitting in the library next to Angel, you sighed, pushing yourself up as you walked away, listening to how they would kill him.

“(Y/N)?” Willow asked.

Angel raised his hand, gesturing for her to stay there.

“I’ll go, if she’ll talk to anybody it’ll be me.”

Angel jogged out of the room, following you to the front of the school where you sat down, a hand on your head.

“I.. I can’t listen to it Angel. That’s my brother.”

“I know, but he’s done horrible things (Y/N), you really don’t think they’ll just let him go alive.”

You looked at him.

“We’ve all done horrible things!” You hissed.

You clenched your jaw.

“I spent all this time cleaning up after his messes just so slayers wouldn’t come after him. Just to keep him safe!”

“And how far did that get you? How many times have you been hurt or nearly killed, and for what? You know Spike would never do the same for you, he doesn’t care.”

You sighed, nodding your head.

“I know… but he’s family Angel… I can’t listen to them threaten to kill my family…”

He sighed.

“It’s either them or him, and it’s about time somebody puts him down.”

With that, Angel got up and walked away, not saying another word to you and you just sat there.

You knew he was right, if nobody stopped Spike then none of this would get any better, he would keep on killing until he managed to achieve what he wanted.

You couldn’t bare the thought of him winning, destroying everything.

Most of the time when vampires went on about destroying the world it was just big talk to scare people, but with him it seemed like he was going to do it.

Like he wanted to do it.

You heard someone else come over and you looked up, smiling a little as you saw who it was.

“Well hey there Rupert Giles, what brings you out on this cold night?”

He chuckled a little bit, sitting down next to you.

“Angel came back inside without you, I.. I thought perhaps it would be best for someone else to come talk with you.”

You shook your head slightly.

“No, no it’s alright. I understand, trust me I do. You must do what you have to in order to protect everybody.”

“We’re talking about.. about killing your brother… right in front of you.”

“Yes, well, there hasn’t been a time I haven’t thought about killing my brother either, he has that affect on people.”

Giles chuckled again.

“Yes, he does. We should know better than to discuss these matters right in front of you however.”

You glanced at him.

“You needn’t worry about me stopping you from killing him if that’s what you must do.”

“You wouldn’t?” He asked.

“No, you must protect not only what you care about Rupert, but protect the whole of humanity. You have a good heart, that much I can see, you all do, I may survive on human blood, but that does not mean I wish to see humanity wiped out, or see my brother go any further down the rabbit hole than he has.”

Giles watched as you turned away, and you ran a hand over your head.

You were stressed out, upset, he could see that clear as day.

Reaching out, he hesitated.

“I never thought I’d help kill my own flesh and blood…”

Giles didn’t hesitate this time, he took your hand and you whipped your head around to look at him in shock.

You moved your gaze down to his hand holding yours, it felt nice. How warm his skin was compared to yours, how small your hand was compared to his, and how gently he held your hand.

“You don’t need to help, we won’t make you help kill your own brother…”

“Thank you…”

He gave a nod.

“Take all the time you need, we’ll be inside when you’re ready to return.”

“If you’d allow, I’d like to take a small walk, just a few minutes then I’ll return you have my word.”

“Yes of course.”

You smiled, bringing his hand to your lips and you kissed his knuckles before letting go.

“Thank you. Take this, as insurance I’ll come back.”

You took your necklace off and set it down next to him before you wondered away.

You smiled a little to yourself, you heard how his heart had sped up.

Somebody could argue maybe he was scared of a vampire bringing his hand so close to their mouth, but you had been around long enough to tell the difference between fear and anything else.

Only his heart sped up, nothing else, his breathing stayed the same and he didn’t immediately pull back.

Truth be told you did like being around the man, human or not there just something about him that you enjoyed being around.

Maybe it was the fact he was so calm, he had a calming presence.

Maybe it was because he actually treated you like you were a human, not just another demon or monster who was to be hunted or killed.

He looked at you and he still saw a person, maybe not all that human anymore, but still humanity inside of you.

That’s all you wanted.

All you’ve been wanting this entire time, just somebody to see that you were more than a vampire.

You wondered in thought before you stopped, a sound making your turn around.

It sounded like glass breaking and you turned back to the school.

“No…”

Breaking out into a sprint, you ran as fast as you could back to the school, sliding through the hallways, straight to the library.

Glass covered the floor, and there was signs of a struggle.

“Willow! Xander!”

Rushing over to the pair, you placed your ear to their chests to make sure they were still breathing.

You placed your hands on the bookcase, pushing it up and throwing it aside.

Picking up Willow, you rushed down the stairs, setting her next to her friend.

“Buffy?! Angel?! Rupert?!”

Hearing a groan, you turned around to see Angel standing up.

He rubbed his head, walking across to a part of the room you hadn’t looked and helped Buffy up.

“Is everybody here?” Angel asked.

“No, I don’t know where Rupert is, have you seen him?”

“Giles…?” Buffy asked.

You got up, walking over to help Angel set her down in a chair.

“Buffy… where is he..?” You whispered.

“There was an attack, vampires, a lot.” Angel said.

You nodded, placing a hand on the slayers face to get her attention.

“I.. I think they took him..” she mumbled.

You clenched your jaw, slowly standing up.

“Angel watch them.”

“What are you doing?”

“Watch them Angel!”

You marched back towards the door.

You knew exactly what had happened, who had caused this, and where you had to go in order to find him.

You wasted no time, there wasn’t long left until daybreak, and you couldn’t risk being caught out in the sun, so you ran to the old factory.

Throwing the door open, you grabbed the nearest vampire, putting him in a headlock.

“Did they bring him here…?” You whispered.

“W..who…?”

“The human? Did they bring him here? The slayers watcher?”

The vampire quickly nodded, and you snapped his neck, throwing him aside.

You carried on walking, following the noise to where you needed to be, and you threw the doors open.

“Spike!”

He spun around.

“Ah, my dearest sister returns!” He grinned.

You looked around, finding Giles hanging by his wrists above the table.

“Let him go.”

“Excuse me?” He scoffed.

You marched forward, killing another vampire who attempted to stop you and everybody froze.

“I said let him go, now, or I swear to god I’ll make you wish the slayer was the least of your problems.”

He laughed, shaking his head.

“Have you gone insane?!”

“No! But you most certainly have! What the hell do you think you’re playing at?!”

“Me?! You’re the only paling around the damn slayer!”

Spike stormed over, attempting to hit you but you caught his hand, throwing him aside.

You ran over to Giles, jumping on the table you placed your hand on Giles’ neck, feeling for a pulse and you felt one.

“You’re insane if you think they’re going to accept you! You’re a vampire, act like one damnit!”

You scoffed, spinning around and you kicked spike back, killing another vampire who tried to attack you.

You hadn’t felt that kind of rage in so many years, that it was blinding, you didn’t even think as you attacked your kind, killing them all in seconds aside from you brother.

You kept kicking him back every time he tried to get closer, to the point where he was bleeding but you didn’t have a single cut on you.

Spike spat some blood on the floor.

“You can’t seriously be doing all of this for him?! The same man who tried to kill you!”

“He had a reason! They all did!”

“So you’d turn your back on your brother?!”

You watched Spike as you wrapped your arms around Giles, slowly lifting him up before slowing lowering him down on the table, and you crouched behind him, an arm wrapped tightly around him for security.

Spike scoffed.

“You’re really going to pick him?”

“I care about him Spike. You have Drusilla as much as I hate the insane bitch, I have Rupert, he’s mine, do you understand? Mine.”

“He’s got you whipped, the moment you aren’t needed that slayer is going to put a stake through your heart.”

You broke the chains holding the watched and rushed your brother, this time he put up more of a fight.

He grabbed a stray metal pipe and threw it at Giles, and you barely managed to block the attack, the pipe lodging in your shoulder and you pulled it out.

Spike walked over and you hit him with it, knocking him to the ground, and you knelt down, grabbing a wooden beam, holding it over his heart.

“Go on and kill me then!” He yelled.

You looked at him, watching as blood trickled from the wound you made in his chest, and he groaned in pain.

“I’m not going to kill you you idiot.”

You tossed the wood aside, and you stood up, holding your hand out to him and he took it, letting you pull him up and you shoved him aside.

Walking over to Giles, you wrapped his arm around his shoulder and stood him up.

“Despite your behaviour you’re still my brother Spike, I never agreed with your motives. Your choices, but you are my family, my blood. One day you’ll remember what that means, but you need to stop this nonsense about killing the slayer, trying to destroy everything because of some insane bitch.”

“Don’t you dare talk about her that way! She made you!”

“You made me! And I wished you had just killed me instead!”

Spike watched as you slowly walked out with a half conscious Giles.

Spike knew better than to chase you, he knew better than to face the wrath of your anger because you would always be more dangerous.

You had anger that had been building for years, and even as a human you were protective of what you loved, now it was worse.

So, he let you go.

You took Giles back to his apartment, and you cleaned his face, putting bandaids on his wounds.

He was awake of course, he knew what you were doing, and you knew he was awake, but you didn’t say anything to him.

He just watched you quietly.

“I know you’re mad that I never killed him.”

“I’m not, I understand. He’s your brother, nobody could ask you to kill your own brother.”

Giles went to sit up, but you placed your hand on his shoulder, urging him back down.

“Your friends are alright, they’re at the hospital.”

He nodded, looking to the bloodstained part of your shirt on your shoulder.

“Are you alright?”

“It will heal, you know that. In fact, it already has for the most part.”

Giles nodded his head, watching as you stood up.

You leant over, pressing your lips to his forehead.

“Angel is going to come after sunset.”

“You can’t go out there, you’ll burn.”

You held up a thick blanket and grinned a little bit.

“I’m covered don’t you worry that pretty little head of yours Rupert.”

He chuckled a little, sitting up, putting his glasses on so he was able to see you better.

“(Y/N)?”

You turned around and he walked over, placing his hand on the side of your face, thumb running along your cheek.

You leant into his touch slightly.

He smiled, leaning down he kissed your cheek carefully, gently.

“Thank you…”

“Anytime…”

You placed your cold hand over his.

He sighed, putting his forehead against yours and you closed your eyes, brushing your nose against his which made him chuckle.

“Stay here, I know you’ll be safe here.”

“Rupert…”

“Stay…”

He’d grown used to your company and he didn’t want to see you go, he wanted you to stay with him, but his side where he knew you were safe, and he would be safe

[soullessjack]

Full disclosure I am not the previous anon but building off of their message: I'm saying this with all due respect. Not accusing you of abuse apologia for your opinions on a fictional character, but I honestly feel like you have a strange bar for what constitutes an abuser. I strongly disagree that abusers don't regret their actions. An abuser can 100% show regret or remorse for what they did, they can show genuine love and affection to the people they victimize and still be an abuser. Dean is obviously not a black and white villainous caricature, but very rarely in real cases are abusers black and white villainous caricatures. We tend to single out Dean when dissecting the family dynamics because his abuse was the most extreme but all of them, Sam, Dean, and Castiel, are a murder cult who groom Jack into their line of business. So I don't really see the point in the semantics game.

1. that’s a fair point! I just think there’s some distinction between being abusive and being a straight-up abuser, if not distinctive connotations for those terms. I’m also not trying to be apologetic about Dean’s behavior more so than I’m just trying to explain it and make it more understandable than a surface level viewing of him.

2. agree again! nobody is completely black and white and that’s always been a consistent theme (alongside free will and family) within the show, as well as the choice to be a better person, so it’s very confusing to me when fandom discourse is all semantical about who’s worse or who’s better. your favs are wanted by the FBI and violated the Geneva Conventions numerous times, but they still try to do the right thing where it counts.

3. actually I think dumbing down TFW’s dynamic with jack as a “murder cult who groomed him into their line of business” is playing right into the semantics game and the villainous caricature.

for one, hunting just is not a cult. please can we not turn cult into the next internet buzzword. it’s a lifestyle that almost nobody involved actively enjoys living (Gordon and the other dude from Black Rock are outliers) because it’s nothing but trauma and loss and violence constantly, but for one reason or another it’s incredibly difficult to leave, or even compromise with a somewhat normal life. even Dean views it as a death sentence, and the violence he regularly commits within it only ever added to his low self worth as he considers himself a designated “grunt.” even in the later seasons when it’s framed more casually or comedically, the violence and murder of hunting is still ultimately a bleak and begrudging necessity; grunt work for the grunts. to say it’s a “murder cult” is just wrong and, well, a little cartoonish if I’m being fr.

second, jack wasn’t ‘groomed’ into being a hunter/murderer. I swear takes like these make me question what show everyone else is watching ,I’m sorry. he’s literally a born-adult supernatural creature with a heritage and birth circumstance that’s been intertwined with the lives of all three of his chosen fathers since before they all existed and cosmically dangerous powers. there is no way he could ever be normal or have a life outside of hunting (or one that lasts, at least). and considering what we know from his first death now, he probably would’ve just died as a normal baby if Cas had removed his grace. Yes, TFW has some major dysfunctions in their parenting with Jack and it’s absolutely worth talking about, but they still make an effort to be good father figures for him, even with fathers that frankly set them up for failure in that regard. to say they’re all groomers is, to put it mildly, insane and ridiculous

[pumpkinsy0]

Can we get more hc's of curly helping pony with his seasonal depression? I love these two so much and your headcanons give me LIFE

WOOOOO HURT/COMFORT YEAAAAA RAHHHHHH

•ponys seasonal depression is like, whatever time was where his parents died, and i say that time and not where johnny and dally died bc generally speaking, ponys healing from their deaths, however id say when it comes to his parents deaths, he never rlly talks about it that much and kinda sweeps it under these other things???idk how to explain it

•BUT id say that pony never actually took the time to heal from his parents dying bc sm happened and at some point it kinda just hit him hard

NOW ONTO CURLY HELPING WOOO

•he did notice some differences in pony around the time but he thought that it would pass, and it did, but it always came back, he noticed that pattern

•as much as curly would love to go outside and fuck around to make pony happy, idk i think he’d respect that he just doesnt wanna go outside constantly, sometimes pony just wants to lay down and who is he to hate on that

•even when they go outside its nothing too crazy, its to just take a walk or sit in the porch or somethin, gotta get pony some air, cant stay in that stuffy room forever

•curly WILL be taking pony to visit his parents grave, its the least he can do for the grieving guy

•took pony to get some flowers and whatever else he wanted to get to decorate their grave, no jokes or nothin, he really didnt even know what to say to pony to cheer him up

•curly didnt go to the curtis parents’ funeral and therefore didnt rlly get to say his final words to em, so to like to imagine that to help pony in whatever way it does that he talks to em and get what he has to say out, maybe it was to encourage pony to do the same

•he brings pony lil gifts like a cool postcard he stole or a lil trinket

•he lets pony talk about the small things his parents used to do w him, he wasnt that close to them like darry and soda was, but he did have his moments

•ponys mom had a recipe book on top of the cupboard and curly would try to make some of the foods, key word try, he somehow burnt em a lil but its the thought that counts

•pony would mention to curly how he was kind of starting to forget small things about his parents, like how they laughed, how they smelled, that sorta thing, and so curly would VENTURE out to find small things that could remind pony about his parents

•he also got pony to draw his parents for the first time in a while, so he wouldnt forget more what they looked like and he can look back on it

•ALSO YES, he is making sure pony eats something, but its not rlly like a full dinner, maybe something like mac and cheese, something small and simple

UNRELATED, but hc that darrys room is actually just his parents room, darrys barely redecorated it himself bc hes actually so distraught over them still and that room is like a time capsule, thats kinda why nobody ever rlly goes into darrys room, especially pony, they dont wanna be reminded of who used to be there

[liviavanrouge]

Plan pt 2 of Biggest Fear

Livia: *Fiddles with her hair, their bracelet in her lap*

Vil: Potato Cub, how did all even start...

Livia: *Looks up dully* Where...did all this trauma start? Ah...I remember now..It started when I was six and they managed to grab me...taking me from my home one day

Livia: I woke up in the Golden Leaf Carriage...everyone cheering, happy to see that there was a new Saintess they could love and believe in...

Livia: "Saintess, we'll never let you go," they said...and everything suddenly went dark..

Livia: I remember...the looks of disgust, the disappointment, the way they tried to force me to dye my hair a brighter color to make me more believable..they threaten my family to keep me obedient...

Livia: Every month for the three day celebration of the Saintess, they force me into that god awful carriage..the windows would have invisible bars and there'd be priests making me wave...

Livia: *Looks down* After the end of everything, I'd always whisper to myself, "Happy Saintess Appreciation Livia" and I'd give myself a soft smile and a tight hug..

Livia: *Looks up* Since...nobody has ever decided to say it to me before...or show me genuine affection for being their savior..

Riddle: *Stares in shock* Livia...

Floyd: *Hugs Livia tight, their cheeks squished together* Catfish!!

Cater: Liv....

Jade: *Looks down, his arms at his sides*

Livia: *Smiles at them* But it's okay now, all I have to do is just go home with them and get through the three days! It'll be alright...

Rook: You can't possibly be thinking of going with them!

Ace: Liv, you moron! There's no way we're letting them take you for three whole days!

Livia; People come to the Valley of Thorns to see me...if not there, where else would they go to celebrate the three days?

Livia: Everyone is depending on the Saintess to appear, the residents of Twisted Wonderland are my people, I'd feel bad disappointing them and it's not their fault they don't know what's happening behind the scene's

Livia: Saintess Appreciation must go through..no matter what..

Sebek: Lady Livia...you're too kind for this world...

Livia: *Smiles softly* Not kind, Sebek...just dedicated to everyone's happiness, it's what helps me get through those awful days..

Jamil: Livia....

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Lilia: Is she asleep...?

Silver: Yes, knocked out as soon as their head hit the pillow

Kalim: We have a plan for Livia!!

Vil: *Smiles and nods* Indeed, I've asked a few people in high places to spread the word!

Lilia: Hm?

Jamil: We'll hosts this months Saintess Appreciation days on the island, so Livia doesn't have to go home..

Riddle: Indeed, there's no way they'll show her proper respect, so we'll host their special days here!

Malleus: *Smiles* That sounds fantastic and I shall send a letter to grandmother regarding the Valley's Temple..

Leona: *Grins* What are we waiting for, we gotta get preparing!

Trey: *Chuckles* Indeed!

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