#mostly just me yelling to the void

[editorofeverything]

Just speaking to the void, but I was fangirling as I rewrote one of my chapter to my Daminette fic and I cannot get over what good parallels there are between Marinette and Damian.

Like, Marinette's this sweet, kind, caring, talented, silly, goofy, clumsy girl who had to grow up too fast. All she wanted to do was survive school, maybe get a boyfriend, have a good time with her friends, and nurture her growing talent and prestige in the fashion world. She loves her parents and family, and she is this exuberant, friendly gal who makes friends with just about everyone. Then, she's given this huge responsibility of being a hero and having to learn how to fight and lead and protect everyone and everything from ultimate destruction, all while keeping her secret identity and constantly feeling like a failure in both her superhero and civilian life. Before being LB, she slept in because she was a heavy sleeper and she stayed up too late being inspired to design, or playing video games with her parents, or doing homework like your average preteen girl. After she became LB, being a superhero took over her regular life. There was no balance. Then came losing Master Fu. Then came Lila, making Marinette's life horrible as a civilian to the point she could become akumatized- which she can't because she's LB. And then her friend- who she became a superhero for- all but abandons her for Lila and makes excuses for her even after learning Marinette's LB. Marinette gains a lot when she became LB- her confidence, a partner, a new love, power, respect, integrity- but I would argue that she lost that much more- Master Fu, her friends (to an extent and bc of Lila), her childhood, her teen years, her normal life, Luka as her boyfriend, a peaceful night's sleep- I could honestly go on. She was an abnormally talented, kind, wonderful girl who would grow up to rule the fashion world if given the chance, and then she had to change when she became LB. She grew up fast and was burdened with a power and responsibility that she never wanted in the first place, and her normal life began to fall apart.

And then there's Damian who grew up with all these expectations to be the next leader of the League of Assassins and was groomed his whole life to rule the world with his immortal (immoral) grandfather at his side. He was taught how to be the perfect assassin since he was born. He was expected to be the perfect offspring of Talia al Ghul and Bruce Wayne/Batman, the world's greatest detective. And he loses everything he's ever known at the young age of ten- his grandfather, his mother as she take over the League, everything he's ever known- and is sent to his father, who he's heard so much about because, despite everything that happened between them, Ra's al Ghul and Talia both have huge respect for Bruce/Batman, and this ten year old assassin is faced with his great father hating who he is and what he was trained to do. Damian starts out with the batfam hating every minute of it. He thinks he's in the right, that they're soft and unwilling to do what it takes to protect the world by taking out the ones who threaten it. He scoffs at his father's rules that all life should be protected and to never kill another, no matter how much you think they deserve it. It goes against everything the League taught him, everything he's ever known, and he spends his childhood learning and failing and learning again how precious life is and how the League and everything he grew up learning is as evil as some of the villains they put behind bars. He becomes a vegetarian and adopts a cow, a dog, a cat. He plays video games and learns that he likes to draw. He goes to school and suffers a mundane life every kid his age goes through. He finds a family and friends and a team falls in love. He spends the second half of his childhood learning how to become a hero instead of a dictator, and it changes him for the better.

And when you put them together, the parallels in their stories and personalities really play off each other well. She had the world at her feet and became restricted as she became a hero. He was restricted to be exactly who his grandfather and mother expected him to be and the world opened up to him when he left them behind. They both suffered and grew up despite everything standing in their way, and I think that creates a strong bond between them when they get to know each other.

(It's also hilarious thinking about how they would handle the other's situation. Like Marinette would absolutely become the favorite child in the Wayne household if that's how she became a hero. And then Damian would take over the League and run the world if that's how he became a hero, which wouldn't be good exactly, but he would likely learn over time (I think))

[faerieomenart]

ARCANE FINALE SPOILERS AHEAD

OKAY I KNOW IM INSANE BUT HEAR ME OUT:

During the final battle with Vander/Warwick, Jinx, and Vi... Jinx told Vi that even if they were worlds apart, she'd always be by her side.

And "what could have been" Powder saw our ("what has been" if you will) Ekko when he left. Then we were left on a cliffhanger in that scene where Powder lies the pendant down next to the hexcores... and during the last scenes of the show we get a flash of Jinx' drawings/graffiti... I do not have the scenes to support all this but WHAT IF?

I know I'm def just reaching here, since the ending, despite being open, still seemed pretty solid. Who knows though?

[kideternity]

[Image ID: A black and white inked digital drawing of Digimon character Lilithmon. She is wearing a simple kimono holding an umbrella over her right shoulder looking to the right side. Lilithmon herself is a humanoid digimon with four bat like wings, two at the top of her back near her shoulders and two around her abdomen- the two at top have a spike respectively and the two below are longer and bigger and more tattered, with various piercings or jewellery dangling off of them. Her right forearm is metallic and covered in swirly embellishments ending in long claws. Lilithmon has two short curved horns coming out of her head, a fairly extravagant hairstyle with two long bangs coming from her middle part framing her face, the rest of her hair straight falling at the shoulders with a large bun on top, adorned with a hair comb, and other accessories like hair sticks that have a pendent at the end of them which each have their own pair of small wings. Long tendrils come from her hair as well ending in arrowhead tips. She has a relaxed expression on her face, and a bat emblem on her forehead. /End Image ID]

I like Lilithmon a lot

[sleepy-doobles]

I have reasoning for this I promise

[lesbianusahana]

Usually whenever I impulsively make sideblogs it comes from a place of obsessive-compulsion and a lack of impulse control however I feel making a priv blog is doing you all a huge solid because if you saw the things I yapped about over there I’d probably get 5150’d in a heartbeat

[lady-stormbraver]

okay but the thing about Jamie telling Keeley he loves her is this:

even while I was cringing and telling my tv screen, “No, honey, no, Jamie what are you doing”, I was struck by how earnest he was in that scene.

It wasn’t an ego thing, it wasn’t a power trip, it wasn’t Jamie being a little shit-- no, it was quiet and it was sincere and it was given without any expectation of Keeley doing or saying anything in return.

should he have said it? no, but he holds himself accountable for that later with both Keeley and Roy! he apologizes and reaffirms his respect for their relationship and acknowledges how wrong it was for him to say that! we stan a character who grows and seeks forgiveness!

and I got to thinking, and of course Jamie was confused. of course he thought, very sincerely, that he loved her.

because given his circumstances, wouldn’t anyone confuse sincere friendship for romantic love?

regardless of his romantic and sexual history with Keeley, she is the first person in his life who cares about him as a person. definitely the first girl he’s dated who’s seen him as more than just a sex object. and, more than that, she cares enough about him to not leave him where he is-- but to challenge him to be better. he later finds friends and brothers in the team, but really, she’s his first true friend.

Ted sees his potential too, yes, but Ted is very dad-shaped, especially to Jamie (and I have a whole other essay of thoughts regarding that). and Ted handles Jamie’s immaturity differently than Keeley does-- he largely gives Jamie space to figure things out, while Keeley maintains her boundaries but is far, far more patient with Jamie than most other girls would be with their ex who’s acting like a douche canoe. Jamie flounders when left to his own devices (it's me! hi!) and finds himself seeking her advice time and time again-- because Keeley is friend-shaped, and she gives good advice that he takes to heart:

“Being accountable matters, Jamie.”

“Stop battling the people that just want to help you.”

“Not everyone in your life is out to get you.”

and he learns! and he grows! and she was so impactful to him that he’s filled with so much gratitude and emotion and yeah, of course it’s confusing, because the feeling was friendship, but he had never experienced it!

and just!!! everyone needs friends who will hold them accountable and challenge them to do better because they see who they are, and have always been, capable of becoming-- those friends are life-changing. and Jamie is finally getting to experience being changed for the better from having known and learned from another person, from seeking advice and then following it (which is a lovely character trait), for the first time in his life. it’s overwhelming.

so yes, Jamie dude, you do love her-- you’re just not in love with her. but it’s okay. you’ll keep learning the difference. just look at all the friends and all the love you have surrounding you now!

[tea-brigade]

a fun little life update is that i hadn't seen my therapist since like april (bc i needed to save money and also we decided i didn't need to see her regularly anymore) but i needed to make an appointment recently as a lil check in as a certain situation at work has been Testing Me

and it was very very fun to quite literally be that one meme that's like. me rolling in wearing shades holding coffee and going "mallory you're not gonna fuckin BELIEVE this"

[yourclownpal]

sometimes im sad and then i look at the muppets and i am no longer sad

feat. my sillys : -3

[genspiel]

a big big big thank you to all the fan artists ever bc i can barely "see" anything inside my own mind while reading books, so y'all are like 95% of the reason i know what anything looks like ever

[cats-of-eden-valley]

like man i don't even know if Petra and Lotus are blood related, or if Petra just picked them up at some point? does it affect the story if they're not blood related. why would she adopt them. why specifically adopt them as a sibling relationship. the questions are endless!!!!

[pterodactylterrace]

Christmas came early in the Bullion fandom.

[phoenixdaneko]

AHHHHHHHHHHH

[kideternity]

Really really funny that Justimon is like now one of my all time favourite digimon everrrr but I had a really lukewarm initial reaction to them that had to slowly change and evolve to the love I have now and even then despite all that I still think all of Justimon's major media appearances/the writing for them specifically so far are is like Mid/Mediocre LMFAOOOOOO

[gregorygerwitz]

my hottest take is that Jay leaving had nothing to do with Hailey and boiling it all down to how it affects Hailey isn’t great, actually

like Jay made the decision to leave for himself, and communicated that much to Hailey, told her how much he loves her, explained that he couldn’t be in contact while in Bolivia, and laid it all out for her. it was rushed, but I don’t know how to explain spontaneous, barely rational decisions to the half of the fandom who insists on calling him a bad husband or saying his exit was OOC.

[basiltonpitch]

not to be like. emo or whatever but. how am i supposed to live with this feeling for the rest of my life

[genspiel]

now that i'm like. actually paying more attention to stuff. it really is incredible how one of the choirs at my parents' church is literally just. white people with brown hair