#love of and knowledge about the same characters

[supremefloof]

miscellaneous tbhx yap because a couple ppl like to read it apparently, and I will not be able to do my very fast episode review thoughts as usual today <3

this is probably not true ? but I do wonder if X and his civilian form are different people. anyone can be X type thing. like, 2 personalities kind of deal, just from how different they are. i think X's character pv debunks this because we see he kind of has the same movement and personality which is consistent with the og trailers where he opens the soda can and it explodes on him. I love u sm x

other organizations might be less toxic than treeman (or more). i mean, queen and cyan seem like buddies (PLEASE BE GAY!). I wonder if there's any rivalry, like maybe treeman heroes aren't allowed to promote a certain brand or something because other heroes do that. Could be likely these organizations are not all companies - I find it hard to believe whatever group has ghostblade or dragon boy is a corporation like treeman...?

I still can't get around how murder works in this world????? Maybe heroes and villains have different laws around that, like it's an occupational hazard on steroids.

Inspired by the idea talking bad about heroes is a social taboo of some kind (Episode 3, where ppl say you can't touch a heros rep around wolf girl): I wanna know about the extent of the public's knowledge. the debates and discussion! what are the debates going on! what are the political hot takes of the tbhx verse.

If social media is anything similar I bet there's tons of shipping discourse because "shipping real people is wrong!!" (Or because supporting wrice/nicewreck is supporting an irl criminal). Cue unsettling discourse over whether heroes should get to be treated the same as a regular person.

[intermundia]

i just read about the "narcissism of small differences," aka the idea that the more a community has in common, the more likely the people in it are to engage in interpersonal feuds and mutual ridicule because of hypersensitivity to minor differences perceived in each other, and i knew there was a reason my time in academia and fandom felt oddly similar lmao

[juaneloriginal]

silly thingy

@blackkatdraws's sillies

[sieglinde-freud]

i love laslow and nyx’s supports and i love how they go from trauma dump central in the b support

to making fun of their angst in the a

like theyre soooo lame and it makes me emo and every time i watch this support i kick my feet and twirl my hair theyre SOOOOOOO SICKENING. WHO WROTE THIS. WHOOOOOOO

[valzhangism]

i know i said i was happy about how mel's story went, but the more i think about it the less i'm sure about that. this is very much connected to how the themes of classism and wealth disappeared in s2, but mel in the beginning was the epitome of piltover. she wanted to advance piltover to prove herself to her mother. to "put piltover—" and by extension herself, "—on the map."

she wanted wealth just to have it. and i'm not blaming her for anything that happened, especially with hextech! she, just like jayce and viktor, could not have known what it would lead to. i mean yeah heimerdinger said so but who the hell listens to heimerdinger? but anyway i think mel changed throughout s1, much in thanks to jayce. by the end she's become more cognisant of the mistreatment of zaunites. she's the first to vote for their peace. she was a good person all along but now she knows how to act on it. it's also seen more in s2 act 1. when she covers her painting with gold, it's symbolic—she won't act according to what her mother might think. she won't let her desire for approval dictate her anymore.

so somehow i wish those themes were. continued, somehow? like again they were dropped not just with mel but the whole show and it makes her story a off to me. there's no meaningful commentary on war or classism or how her ideology stands opposite to her mother's. like some people have said, it feels like she doesn't have much agency, even if she is really cool. and that to me is a shame because agency felt like her thing. "to shape your own destiny" as she says to jayce in s1. i know her collaborating with the black rose (but not fully joining them) and learning magic is supposed to represent becoming independent from her mother, taking her own path, but some other aspects of her character were thrown away... the more i think about it the more i'm thinking they kind of #girlboss-ed her a little bit. maybe to sell another champion. i can't help but feel like even though i enjoyed seeing her on screen, the payoff didn't feel proportionally satisfying compared to her setup in s1.

[essektheylyss]

re: the fiction/nonfiction kinsey scale poll. just know that I am barely restraining myself from giving nonfiction book recs at all times. there is SO MUCH FUN NONFICTION THAT IS SUPER READABLE AND INTERESTING take my hand we can go pick out some books together

[prismbearer]

Idk why there's disbelief over Mark S/Helly in terms of motivation. Helly is just as capable of cruelty and selfishness as Helena. They are at the core of it, the same person with different memories/experiences. They can be two perspectives worthy of indulging their own dreams and desires and also be the same person. Narratively here especially, this isn't about morality, it's about human nature.

Helly was never cruel, sure, of course. Helly felt like she was the same as the other people in MDR. But Helly has something right now that she never even achieved as Helena. Someone who loves her. Someone who is choosing her. Helly is Winning over Helena here.

Jame Eagen wanders down just to be a freak and reinforces the reality of it. Helly is "More" than Helena, hasn't been worn down by the weight of experience and the world (and their cult and corporate bullshit). She still has, in some way, the innocence of youth and lack of experience with the world. She doesn't have the same fears and burdens or triggers as Helena in her conscious experience. She still has the ability to express her passions and outrage and defend herself. And to love and not feel sorry for it.

Severance gave Helena a chance to exist without the learned perspectives and burdens of the Eagens and she is able to be free with herself and her passions and desires-- whereas Helena was likely drained of any dreams for potential beyond a strictly guided future decades ago.

Of course Helly is feeling a rush of joy and satisfaction over Mark loving her. Mark choosing her. She tried to do the "right thing" by being logical with Mark. "I'm her." Even outside of Lumon, if they bring it all down, there's no hope for an Eagen and an ex-severed employee in reality. In the Real World they will never be together. Mark couldn't love Helena, how could anyone love an Eagen? (Poor Helly really with like, the enemy is within etc, but that's kinda the situation framed by Lumon for everyone by setting the stage with your Innie isn't human kinda rhetoric.) (This was also reinforced by Helena trying to get close to Mark to see if he still had feelings or chemistry with her and finding out they were not going to work outside Lumon.)

What if the equator is a building that could be a continent? Can be their whole world? They're choosing to live Now. Together in the present despite knowing that with their half lives, they could be brought to an end at any moment. It's very willful young love of them. And why wouldn't it be? This is their First Love. They haven't even been "alive" that long or have any memory of romance beyond their current infatuation. They don't know the world or it's places, and maybe that's okay, maybe they can exist in this space so long as they have love and the others.

It's completely human for Helly to accept Mark choosing her. To run to him just to see him for maybe the last time. It's human for Mark S to run to Helly. It's human for poor Gemma, who doesn't even know her fucking husband is severed, to be pounding on the door.

But this is their Final Day to Mark and Helly. Maybe the very end of their world. It's Judgement Day. Of course they'd have them holding hands and running back to the unknown to face the end together. To die together.

There is also zero fucking chance Mark Scout would risk his life and brain continuing reintegration once his wife is back. Mark Scout is going to choose his wife. Mark is choosing Love on both sides here.

All of it is reasonable.

[lixenn]

begging on my knees...what kind of dress did Marina make Dan wear...please, in the name of science...

LMAO 🤣🤣🤣 I'm actually surprised that I haven't yapped about this properly yet, I think I did in dms once?

Anyways Dan has strict standards when it comes to a dress because he might not be able to avoid Marina using him as dress up doll (she has too much dirt on him and could make his life very unpleasant if he refuses her too often), he can at least pick a dress that's not horrible to wear for him. Therefore, Dan is choosing his battles and came up with these guide lines for dresses.

Needs to be warm

Needs to be practical

Needs to be easy to move in

Needs to have pockets! (one of the most important criteria)

Should preferably be green but he's willing to negotiate on that one

Come near him with a pair of heels and he will hiss at you like a demonic cat

Follow these rules and you can convince him to wear a dress BUT unless you are Rina, you will need to fucking pay so much money to get him to wear it cause making him dress up ain't cheap. Also, you either deliver him a dress that fits these criteria or you get jackshit because he refuses to go shopping for this.

Now.

As for what dress Marina picked for him, @rahxe-things actually send some in the server (unrelated to this) that i thought were super chiefcore so let me grab an example:

It's something like this, longsleeved and with turtleneck for warmth. I imagine that the material with this is fairly stretchy so it's comfortable. Just imagine the pockets though I doubt this one has them lmaooo. (also it was green because Rina can accomendate for her brother's preferences lol)

Basically think Ada Wong RE4 Remake kinda dress and then you have it🫡

I think it's acutally hilarious that Dan is so picky when it comes to dresses, like he won't care about colour with his normal clothes as long as it's not bright but with dresses he's like: Ummm actually 🤓☝️ I think he just wanted to make Marina's life as difficult as possible (it wasn't difficult for her at all, she had a blast finding one that fit all the criteria).

The thing about Dan and fashion is that he actually knows quite a lot about it, purely due to osmosis from listen to his sister ramble on (and later on from Dave's babbling). So technically, he could dress up in a fancy way, he has the knowledge and the money but he just has no fucks left to give. Which is why when he cleans up (for example if he needs to attend an offical Vongola Family function) he actually looks pretty damn good because in this scenario he's forced to wear something proper and his professionalism doesn't let him halfass it. But he won't do it purely out of his own violition which is why he just sticks to the uniform and the same type of outfits in his free time.

[medilies]

Do you ever watch s3 and s4 and realise you're not enjoying it that much

[mymarifae]

also veritas and i are on a first name basis now partially because his last name is fucking stupid and i hate calling him "ratio" but mostly because after poking at his character a bunch i've decided i like him quite a lot LMFAO

[spicyicymeloncat]

Twilight sparkle and Jonathan sims would get along great I don’t make the rules

[krowscrawl]

sorry‼️ but i AM still thinking about an au where batman died in the helicopter crash along with the joker

[quirktwerp]

i come crawling out of my little hole, scroll for ten minutes, then hide away again for months until the cycle repeats itself.

[garlic-sauc3]

I love when family members reflect another on media, when they'll say the same thing without realizing, have the same mannerisms, act the same, etc; it is so good

[bittersweetresilience]

aspec characters on my character list: 73/96 arospec characters on my character list: 46/96 aroaspec characters on my character list if i wasn't repressed about it: 96/96

[merriclo]

went to see the barbie movie a few days ago and hm. weird