#makes me very unhappy

[ravenpureforever]

The opinion Clark is Superboys dad should hsve been aborted before it ever became a twinkle in someone's eye

Yeah you see personally I’m not ready for parenthood in anyway if I found out that someone made a 16 year old with half my dna while I was dead and that 16 year old didn’t even have a name and was living in a government lab I’d at least make the effort to be involved in his helping him set up a non-superhero related personal life and not be involved with the ethically dubious lab that created him, you know?

I’m not saying he has to be full on dad and I’m not saying he was this terrible monster to Superboy, I’m just saying he could stepped a lot more in a lot of ways and he didn’t and because he’s Superman, paragon of goodness and doing the right thing and helping others, and Superboy was actively exploited by other adults in his life rather publicly and homeless at one point is shall we say a bad look

He doesn’t have to be full on “I’m your dad let’s go out for ice cream son” but the fact he had a kid related to him at the very least very publicly dating a much older woman and didn’t have an actual name until like a year into his existence is a very much you could have stepped up at the very least as a mentor a lot more, Clark

Also being a dad isn’t the only way you can be there for someone

Peace and love, anon

[solardrake]

Delivering mail to the furthest corners of the server ✉✈

[christakisbang]

[turtleblogatlast]

[ cw: death mention / strangulation mention / stabbing mention / blood mention / self-sacrifice / codependency mention in tags / ]

I think a lot about how common it is for Raph to be the one to have direct focus put on him when Leo gets into all his near death experiences.

Like, when Leo is thrown off a building, it’s Raph who’s right there jumping after him, not even thinking about the consequences to himself when he does. When Leo almost gets skewered by the Krang, Raph’s right there to take the blow and send Leo to safety without a second thought. When Leo’s being strangled to near death, it’s a Krangified Raph doing the job, doing exactly what Raph would never, ever want to do. When Leo is telling Casey Jr to close the portal, it’s Raph who tries desperately to convince Leo otherwise.

Likewise, Leo is consistently very single minded when Raph gets forcibly separated from them. Both when in the sewers and by the Krang, Leo is dead set on finding Raph first and foremost.

I also think it’s interesting that during each of Leo’s near death experiences, the lightheartedness of his words during them goes directly hand in hand with both how close Raph is to him physically and how much danger Raph is also in in that moment. From a literal “I told you so” as Leo’s falling away from Raph to a soft joke about how “hero moves” are Raph’s style - both of these are on the more morbidly carefree side and both of these notably take Leo farther away from Raph and, in turn, have Raph not in immediate danger.

On the other side of things is the apology from Leo, heedless of the danger he himself is in as he seriously and genuinely speaks to a Krangified Raph face to face. Then there’s Leo’s freezing and desperation as Raph takes a hit meant for him and sends just Leo to safety, leaving Raph himself behind. Both of these involve much closer proximity and Raph being directly harmed - these together make Leo much more vulnerable in his words and actions, something not even the threat of death can make him.

These two care about each other so much, and they’re way too much alike for their own good.

[ahaura]

im sure its been said already but as the election draws near more and more liberals will come out of the woodwork to shame people with a conscience to give away their vote to the democrats for free. i'm already seeing posts saying "why aren't people more concerned about a trump presidency?" you want to know why? it's because people already know he's bad. everyone already knows what he is and what he's done and what he'll do. there's nothing to discuss. he's a racist despotic worm of a man. there's nothing else to say.

biden is currently president. the genocide is happening under his watch. he's the one funding isra*l and arming them; he's sidestepped congress more than once to give them weapons. by oct. 27, the biden administration already knew that "Israel was regularly bombing buildings without solid intelligence that they were legitimate military targets." the state department/biden have engaged in atrocity propaganda, cast doubt on the legitimacy of the death toll recorded by the gaza health ministry, and so on. the united states is currently in the process of trying to pin the "war in gaza" on netanyahu (see sen. schumer's speech) after months of backing blatant genocide as a means to act as if they're "doing something" about the genocide (Instead of, say, threatening to cut off all aid to israel with the condition that all hostilities in gaza, the west bank, and occupied jerusalem are halted immediately and permanently, allowing palestinians freedom to travel, allowing aid into gaza, etc etc etc.)

the long and short of it is that liberals view their own lives as being worth more than palestinians'. that's it. they'll vote for another 4 years of the guy ushering in genocide and supporting apartheid + settler colonialism because he isn't outright attacking them (despite various laws and rulings happening both at the supreme court level and at the local level all over the country that will endanger people). they'll settle for the illusion of safety and security and shame anyone with a conscience and accuse them of "supporting the republicans" when in an actual democracy you would be able to use your vote as leverage to extract concessions from those who want to be elected. that's how it's supposed to fucking work.

democrats are not owed people's vote. if biden loses, it will be biden's fault; it will be his campaign's fault; it will be the democrats' fault. trump is bad; the republicans are bad. we already know this. this is not an endorsement of either. but if democrats are too cowardly and feckless and servile to the motivations of the american empire and never do anything for their constituents then why the fuck should anyone vote for them. you want to get mad at someone, why don't you do something useful and stop worrying about team-sports with a purely selfish basis and start hounding the people in power who are supposed to serve you, the voter.

[kaiserouo]

them making magnets

[justanotherjaydrawing]

I am so normal about these guys

[kasterarts]

over and over and over and over and over and over and

[throwawayasoiafaccount]

some people in this fandom are going to be really disappointed when winds of winter comes out.

you guys. you cannot treat the POV characters as stepping stones for other characters/other POV characters.

the POV characters must have a fitting end according to their character arcs, themes, foreshadowing, etc.

to clarify, the POV characters chapters are about THEM. their storylines are about THEIR journey. you cannot use their hundreds of pages of character development as a brick to build the castle your fav will live in.

this is especially true for the key 5 and for the other younger POV characters. their endings have everything to do with them, they do not revolve around your fav.

us readers out-of-universe reasons for wanting x or y characters deaths does not matter. what actually matters is if you can support your theories with textual evidence from the chapters of the POV character that you want dead.

[sentientcave]

Aw man

[jimmyspades]

"I love you. I couldn't possibly love you more, you know that as a fact." CURTAIN CALL (1998)

[vimbry]

"likes don't do anything" they do

"there's no algorithm" there is

"well nobody uses the for you tab" I do

"reblog all art and fics you see" there's no thought put into that. if this does work on people, then it's just pity engagement borne out of guilt rather than genuine interest, which is arguably worse than having none, because it's totally hollow.

[chiropteracupola]

big awoo, little awoo...

(sharpe, antonia ...and hagman for scale)

[storywestistrash]

i am actually so tired of the way westerners treat eastern europeans

[waitineedaname]

Yo, friendo What's the best way to consume these funny doomed men I keep seeing?

( Didn't mean it literality, but I can't help but think that the answer is with spice )

depends on which ones!! there are two series I've been posting about a lot, both by the same author: SVSSS and MDZS!

Scum Villain's Self-Saving System/SVSSS is a book series, and you can read it physically (which I did through my local library for the first two books) or online on the Internet Archive or Anna's Archive (which I did for the last two books when I got too impatient to wait on my holds). It also has a ten episode long donghua called Scumbag System that covers most of the first book and it's terrible (affectionate). You can find that one on youtube or most anime pirating sites. In short summary, SVSSS is about a terminally online dude getting isekai'd into the villain of a webnovel he absolutely hates, and in his attempt to avoid the villain's horrible death he sends the story completely off the rails. It's unhinged, hilarious, and everyone in the series is a complete freak <3 It's only four books long (three of which are the main plot and the fourth is extras)

MDZS/Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation is also a book series by the same author! Similarly, you can check your public library or the Internet Archive and Anna's Archive. It also has a donghua (which I haven't watched) and a wildly successful live action drama called The Untamed (which is how I initially got into the series!). The Untamed is available on Netflix and Youtube and probably other places. It does make some significant changes due to censorship reasons and it is extremely cheesy, but I enjoy it. If you want more classical tragedy, I'd say start with The Untamed, and if you want more gay necromancy shenanigans, I'd say start with the books! In short summary, it's about the life and death and second life of Wei Wuxian as he goes from war hero to widely reviled necromancer, and it's quite fun. The book series is five books long, and The Untamed is 50 episodes long. I have a character guide for that one if you need it because the names do get confusing!

[delucadarling]

Extremely self-indulgent Barbie/Felix rambling ahead

It took me a while to really get through the F route, because they're written so young, and Barbie would certainly consider herself too old for him, along with the fact that I found them...almost a little too opposite in personlity. I did find a way for their dynamic to work though, particularly after Holiday Magic (Barbie and Felix bond deeply over their shared enthusiasm for Christmas).

But also, one of the last asks Mishka answered had me realizing there is a bit of drama to be had in the F romance, at least where Barbie is concerned. She's a bit gun shy of starting a relationship (I like envisioning her as a divorcee who far prefers single life to being married to her ex-husband) but very much enjoys casual dating and casual sexual relationships. Meanwhile, Felix is very gun shy of having sex too early in a relationship, only to be discarded afterward. Which...is exactly what Barbie wants! Not that she intends to discard Felix, but she doesn't have any intentions of pursuing a relationship with him. He's too young and has a lot of growing up to do in her eyes.

I kind of like the conflict that could happen between them in that way. Felix pursues Barbie because he likes her, he wants to date her, but Barbie (gently) rebuffs his attempts. She's got a job to do, he's young, he's flighty, given enough time he'll find another pretty person to chase after. His charm does work though, and Barbie's walls crack a bit. She's willing to give him a chance.

Then, once she does decide to date him, he's not nearly as physically open as she hoped/expected. She wants to sleep together right away, but he sort of recoils whenever she makes steps in that direction. It puts her on her back foot a bit, because what the heck? Doesn't he want her? Wasn't he wooing her for weeks/months?

He explains that he only wants to have sex in a deep, long term relationship. Barbie pulls back at that point, because she just ended a deep, long term relationship that sucked the soul of her and wasn't at all fulfilling. She's just not willing to do that again, especially when she still isn't really taking Felix as seriously as he deserves.

So it's a lot of on again off again, because as much as they both see the relationships they want from one another aren't compatible, they also can't really stay away from one another. The feelings are there, which Felix KNOWS and finds so frustrating, while Barbie's just deny deny deny.

[puts them in the washer on heavy duty]