#no matter how affordable

[littlebigmouse]

"Reigen was extorting free labor from Mob", "Mob working at spirits and such is child labor"

I mean yes kinda but also that is so not the point.

Reigen and Mob first met when Mob was ten. Mob asked if he could come back. Mob needed companionship and life advice and a safe space to hang out, all of which Reigen provided. Mob gets paid in pocket change and food and snacks at the office. In return, Reigen gets to not die a horrible and gruesome death once a week.

It's a mentoring relationship. They're friends.

Mob doesn't need money. Mob isn't at the office to get money. If Mob genuinely needed and wanted a part time job, then yeah, 300 yen an hour is bullshit and he should book it out of there. But the two just needed an excuse for Mob to hang out and Mob meeting spirits and going to excorcisms was probably helping a lot with feeling in control of his powers in the first place.

Is it always the healthiest friendship? Absolutely not. It's explicitly adressed that Reigen has come to rely on Mob a little too much sometimes and increasingly doesn't respect his boundaries. That's also what made Mob bail in five seconds flat and he only came back when Reigen apologized. Not because Mob wanted the 300 yen give or take a bowl of ramen and some plant seeds back. But because these were friends having a conflict and they talked it out and wanted to hang out again.

Do you think Mob has a work contract? Set work hours? Do you think either of them care?

They are friends, your honour, who cares about the pocket change.

[vintagerobin]

Actually if I were to describe the differences in the characterization of Bruce and Dick's relationship between Titans comics and Batman comics very generally I would say in Titans comics their relationship is "there's something wrong with these guys (negative)" versus how in Batman comics it's "there's something wrong with these guys (positive)".

[jonesandashes]

day 11: rewired my brain | #ffrmc2024

"Gentlemen," I said, "I've studied the maps" by lagardère (laurore)

Little/Jopson, Little/Tozer | 23k | m

Edward Little has a history of bad break-ups set against dramatic Arctic backdrops. The best way to avoid this happening with Jopson is, perhaps, to go to the Arctic without him - even if it means that he'll have to spend the next six months alone.

Academia AU. There's a whole series and it's fantastic, but this is my favourite entry and it can stand alone. This is the fic that made me buy Little/Jopson and Little/Tozer, but that doesn't matter. What matters is you make decisions and you try and you fail and life is long and it's short and there's no going back but also, sometimes, there is.

We go back and forth in time between Little as a 30-something Artic researcher and 14ish years ago when the cold boys were in university together, and slowly fill in what happened in between: how everyone changed or didn't change. Or maybe wanted to change but couldn't do it. Features possibly my favourite ever take on the character of Edward Little. (And though his appearances here are very brief: I think my favourite take on Irving, too.)

[a-stars-art-blog]

I feel like a fool for finalizing realizing this but,

I was never quite satisfied with the explanation given in DGS 2-3 on why Barok took on the prosecution of his close friend.

I don’t think it was ever EXPLICITLY stated and the most we really got is it upheld Albert’s reputation. That Barok did it bc any other prosecutor would paint Albert as a sham right away. Which is a fate worse than death for Albert.

But that never stood right with me bc Barok values finding the truth and justice above all else. He would not do something for the sake of “prolonging” cause he knows it’s pointless. The truth MUST be found so there’s no need to tiptoe around it.

It makes no sense to do it for the sake of Albert’s reputation if finding the absolute truth inevitably leads to Albert’s reputation being ruined. The machine, experiment, and theory, it HAD to all be proven faulty if Albert was to be free. There’s no way it could not. Barok knows this.

What he did in 2-3 seemed like tiptoeing but he was working harder than ever to get to the truth.

The reason why he pushed so hard, the way he continued to give point after point, bring up every inconsistency, bring up even the smallest of possibilities that Albert was guilty, (which honestly sounds like his usual thing. But this time there’s an personal motivation to it)

was entirely so that Ryunosuke could disprove him.

We already knew that Barok trusted Ryuno to handle the defense. That Ryuno also strives for absolute truth. So he threw every little thing at him so that there would be NOTHING left that’d indicate Albert as involved in the murder.

That’s why he took the case. That’s why he was adamant on painting Albert as a murderer.

The way Barok trusted the life of his closest friend to Ryunosuke HE TRUSTED HIM THAT MUCH GOD I LOVE HIS CHARACTER GROWTH SO MUCH-

[s0fter-sin]

last thing i’ll say; people aren’t owed free content but creatives aren’t owed financial compensation either

[proudfreakmetarusonikku]

Friendly reminder that Dream repeatedly made sexual jokes about actual teenagers, including a thirteen year old, sometimes after being asked to stop (keep in mind he was 21/22, five years older than Tommy and eight years older than Lani) up to and including coercing Tommy into saying he loved him in private DMs or he’d destroy Tubbo's villagers (then getting shocked that Tommy could find it weird) there’s been evidence of him pushing extremely important boundaries on safeguarding as some sort of fucked up joke for YEARS. Even in the most charitable possible interpretation he thought acting like a creep in private to a teenager was something extremely funny to tell an audience that skews very young (if you’ve been to any events for these guys, they’re primarily children too young to use social media, I’m not talking about teenagers I'm talking single digit age children) and that’s something I think makes me extremely fucking skeptical he was some angel when he WASN'T in front of the cameras. If he thought that was an acceptable boundary to push while being watched, I have zero doubts he'd act like people owed him their success in private.

[shinobicyrus]

My God they really hate everyone who isn't a straight cis white guy so fucking much.

(Source: Politico)

[landoseswins]

it's ironic to me how the same people who call lando a crybaby for complaining about the car (which he barely does) in the same breath will turn around and praise max for complaining about his car (he complains about it every second lap)

[wiremotherofficial]

uuugghhh i cannot decide what to do about my vision/upper jaw situation. if i had a bajillion dollars there would be no question but alas

[techno-rat]

techno and his relationship to dehumanization is SOOO important to me .

[the-casbah-way]

Wanted to let u know that Down then Left is now #13 in the Jedtavius tag and #20 in the entire NATM tag!

i’ll be so for real i still don’t fully understand what this means or how people find this shit out but i still find it nice when people message me about that fic :’) it’s definitely my most commented-on work which is encouraging because my personality disorder for some reason decided to agonise over it to the point of borderline clinical insanity for the best part of a year 🥰😃

[pom-seedss]

Look. All I'm saying is that a $20 bill may have the same innate value no matter how you stomp on it...

But you try shitting on a $20 bill and then directly trying to give it to a cashier and see if they take it, you know?

Sometimes it doesn't matter what you know the innate value you have is, at some point other people's perception and treatment of you...kind of matters a lot too.

[teethbomb]

Are there any storyboarding apps that are good and not super expensive or subscription based

[drygrasses]

Car repairs……….ASS

[cozymochi]

how much can i lie before somebody accidentally hires me and cant take it back

[freaky-flawless]

If you reblog, put in the notes what color you would call it.