#murders hundreds of people

[c0smic-coral]

[umblrspectrum]

i hate perspective. happy new years also

[1-800-hellyeah]

An extremely self-indulgent meme I commissioned from @baneart ~

[lloydfrontera]

'lloyd is very weak now and needs to marry so he'll have someone to protect him'- lloyd has the only grandmaster on the world following him around like a puppy. he has the most terrifying motherfucker on the world wrapped around his little finger. he has the one person in the world who can hit an absolute in the head and get away with it swearing in his heart to protect him no matter the cost over and over again.

lloyd made javier watch him die twice right in front of him just to keep him alive. there is no power on existence that could make javier allow anyone or anything to even think about harming lloyd again.

lloyd is fine

[spidersinyourshoes]

Feitan and mischaracterization

warning: lots of yapping ahead. I’m not even sure if this makes sense I wrote this in one go lmaoo feel free to add on to this or ask for clarification on some points <3

As someone who has been rotating this man in my brain for like 5 years now, I have… thoughts about the way some people interpret his character.

Of course everyone is free to see and interpret a character in whatever way they wish, that’s one of the many joys of fiction after all, but i still feel the need to yap about this for a bit.

Feitan is such an amazing and complex character, and seeing him constantly getting reduced to the mean emo/edgy dude annoys me greatly.

Yes, he is pretty mean to outsiders (as are almost all troupe members) and yes, he is a cold blooded killer who is both ruthless and efficient in combat (as are most troupe members) but that is not the extent of his character like some people seem to believe.

He is just a silly dude fr. He’s a nerd. He teases his friends. He makes jokes. He is extremely loyal. I love him.

And yeah, he is not nice. He’s not a kind person, but I also think a big part of his reputation is due to his language barrier? Like, if he spoke like all the other characters i genuinely think a lot of people would suddenly realize there’s more to him as a character, even though what he’s saying wouldn’t change. Just how he says it. But honestly his speech just shouldn’t matter?? He gets his point across, and does so more effectively than most characters ever could. And as someone whose native language isn’t english, it’s also hella relatable. Learning a new language is hard, especially if it’s a language that greatly differs from your native one.

And people always say he’s quiet and barely speaks, but i don’t think that’s true at all? I mean, out of all the troupe members, hes literally one of the characters who has the most lines in the anime. Just because he doesn’t speak in a way that’s conventional to you, doesn’t mean that he doesn’t speak at all, or that his words aren’t worth listening to.

Like is this the mean edgelord who hates everyone and has no sense of humor? Is this him? You sure?

Feitan is a character who values efficiency and the troupe above all. In that sense, his philosophy is quite simple; if it benefits him or the troupe, it’s worth doing. And it’s of no benefit, it’s not worth doing. He’s blunt and doesn’t beat around the bush, but he’s also not the strict and uptight person people think he is.

I have more thoughts but they mostly manifest as screeching in my brain and i don’t have the proper words to share them and this post is getting long anyway. Long story short, Feitan is a silly little dude and I love him and I wish more people saw him for the complex character he is.

[odd-ratz]

Volume 1 Jack meeting Volume 3 Jack

[altocat]

Casually in awe of the fact that Sephiroth has not only achieved Main Protagonist™ Status through First Soldier, but that Square is featuring a main character in their lineup with LITERAL MONSTER-MAN SNAKE EYES.

We joke about Catboy nonsense but it's also weird af that Sephiroth is an actual lizard person with a huge body count and now he's basically their quirky relatable underdog Shonen anime guy.

[supposethismatters]

Was someone going to tell me that all of the crimes Shen Jiu was imprisoned for Bingge was guilty of or was I just supposed to pick it out of the subtext?

[clione16]

"Eat the rich i hate billionaires" leaving people's bodies after United Healthcare CEO get shot

[heireign]

the fact rhaenyra’s an enduring cautionary tale is so genuinely tragic

[danganronpa96]

if you could swap a character from 69 to 96 and vice versa, who would it be? and how do you think dynamics would change? :3

(i know this is an odd ask but shh it's kinda interesting to think abt....)

Y’know this could be a fun idea. I’m not sure if you mean “what if X was put into the other fic making 17 participants” or “what if X and Y were swapped around”, but I’m going to assume the latter.

It took me a few minutes of talking to myself to cut down the options, but I’m going to go for Ashley and Ena.

Why? Well as you know I love giving Ashley more love and attention after what I bestowed upon her in DR69 chapter 2, but I’m also interested in the sorts of character interactions she could have with some of the DR96 cast. And for Ena… Well I just think they’d fit into the absurd cast of DR69 very easily to the point where no one would bat an eye.

Does this mean I’m going to also give them both their companions (aka Red and Moony)? Yes, yes I will 👍

So for Ena in DR69, I’m not sure if they’d be more or less confused being inside a school. I know their outfit is similar to a Peruvian school uniform but do we really think Ena ever went to school? Does Ena even have a school in their world?

I feel like they’d befriend a lot of the sweet characters such as Fluttershy, Miku (facade) and Parappa. However it would be interesting to see everyone react to them having an emotional outburst and switching to their depressed or drunk state. The Conductor could have probably tried casting them for his stage play, but I don’t think Ena would’ve been a very reliable actor.

As for Ashley in DR96, cue the obvious “hehe witch meets witch hunter”. Poor Brian (P.) is scratching his head at why this small girl keeps avoiding him constantly. It would either lead to some sort of one-sided rivalry on Ashley’s part, or the two have a sweet dynamic where they end up looking out for each other (oh no my heart be melting…)

Other than Brian, I could see Ashley being approached by Latte (teacher mode activated) and possibly Natsuki and Yuri (they see a part of themselves in her and her standoffish nature and want to try and befriend her).

[eilarae]

expect this will be met with a chorus of "it's not that serious" but uh. something about calling a kid who died alone and terrified in a hostile, unfamiliar environment a bitch doesn't really sit right with me.

[thedreadvampy]

legitimately insane how to some people, "we should wipe out this ethnic group that we've violently constrained to a ghetto because they're just genetically more violent and dangerous" is a reasonable and justifiable statement but it's Nazi Rhetoric to say something like, "it's bad that Israeli civilians are being killed but acknowledging that as tragic includes acknowledging that the almost daily state-sanctioned murder of civilians by the Israeli government is also tragic and unacceptable"

btw guys speaking of Nazi shit - can we check in, alongside what's been done to Palestinians in the last 75 years, what's the Israeli government's take on the Azerbaijani government's newest round of ethnic cleansing of Armenians? oh are the Israeli government's actions maybe not determined by Jewish identity, but by a commitment to colonial supremacy which puts them on the same page as other violently genocidal states like Azerbaijan, the US, and the UK? god can you Even Imagine?

(framing speaking against Israeli war crimes as inherently antisemitic requires understanding the Israeli state as representing all Jewish people, when it doesn't even represent all Israelis.

framing Israeli war crimes as synonymous with Jewish identity is pretty fucked up if we're being honest. I don't think that controlling water and power and movement for a captive population and shooting children dead for throwing stones is an inherent value of Judaism, any more than I think the torture carried out at Guantanamo Bay is an inherent value of Christianity - in both cases they're atrocities carried out by a far right genocidal government using religious identity as a shield.

Calling statements like "Israel is committing genocide against the people it's displaced" inherently antisemitic is doing more to further the idea that all Jewish people are associated with Israel than saying "the Israeli government is doing war crimes," which is a statement of fact about a country that exists and does war crimes. Is criticism of Israel as a nation often used as cover for antisemitism? Absolutely. Does that mean the Israeli government isn't doing literal war crimes repeatedly, on record, while talking publicly about scrubbing an ethnic group off the map? Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh well in the last 48 hours they've definitely cut off water and power to almost 600,000 civilians and allegedly used white phosphorus against civilians so in an extremely factual and unambiguous way yeah man those are Literal War Crimes whoever does them.)

[dabeth-is-dead]

Oh God, Reyes is telling everyone about numerology and its giving me the exact same cringe feeling as Mulder's opening testimony in Tooms

[the-voice-of-night-vale]

[ID: tumblr tags reading #if your sense of morality is more important to you then [sic] the wellbeing of your vulnerable neighbors #your morality has the worth of used tissue. End ID]

Don't know who originally posted these tags bc this was screencapped and added onto another post echoing the sentiment. but this is. incredibly wild to me. the head is so far up the ass it's coming back out of the esophogus.

'your morality' you mean not wanting to vote for someone who is gleefully abetting genocide?????????? 'your vulnerable neighbors' and what about the palestinians who have been murdered in the hundred of thousands? to the point where we don't even know how many?

there is this projection of biden's / the dems' critics as "i just don't like him >:((" and of all the posts i've seen reblogged onto my dash, the overhwelming majority have literally been 'i just want an option that doesn't gleefully aid genocide'. like i'm sorry if there's a reason not to want to vote for someone. i think gleefully aiding genocide is It.

likeee comparing someone being against literal genocide to ~fragile morality~ that should be ~more lenient~ is fucking ghoulish behavior.

[disasterhimbo]

I wish people would temper their hatred for bugs with an understanding that they’re an important part of our ecosystem and you should try to avoid killing them :/