#none of this shit is even remotely important

[ifwdominicfike]

dilf!chris has to stay quiet during an important business call while brat!reader gives him head

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you had seen him pace around the living room for about 20 minutes now, giving the person on the other end of the phone short and simples responses.

as time passed he seemed to grow more and more frustrated, the rough sound in his voice while he gave orders made your thighs rub against another.

he had been on and off the phone with multiple people all day and you could only handle so much time without his attention. he had spoiled you endlessly and even a second without his hands on you, you’re growing needy.

he had run off to his office to grab “important papers” you were guessing and he was writing down whatever, you didn’t really care. gradually you scooted closer and closer to him while watching him scribble down whatever the person was saying.

you’re now snuggled into his side with your head resting on his shoulder, letting out dramatic sighs here and there. he would soothe your waist or thigh to let you know he wasn’t ignoring you but he still needed to get this work call done.

you were getting bored, so what do you do? tease him a little bit, because.. why not?

your hand “accidentally” slips past his crotch when reaching for the tv remote on the other side of his lap. he doesn’t pay attention to it, honest mistake.

until that same hand finds its way to his thigh, pretending to smooth down a wrinkle in the denim of his jeans. your touch coming way too close to be counted as innocent. he glares over at you and you give him an unfazed smile, acting like nothing’s going on.

you yourself were getting impatient, you groan while throwing your head back, getting frustrated with the growing heat between your legs — you needed him bad.

without even thinking, you slip down onto your knees in front of him. you look up at him as he looks down at you confused, you rest your cheek against his knee silently begging for him. he smiles at you while brushing away a stray hair behind your ear.

while he looks over at his watch you took the chance to start working at his belt — catching his attention quickly he quickly goes to grab both of your hands, stopping your actions.

“please..?” you whisper, a slight pout on your lips. he grumbles a small curse before letting you go, he pulls the phone away from his ear and asks, “y’better not be loud sweetheart, got it?” you roll your eyes, “shouldn’t i be saying that to you, sweetheart?” he chuckles before going back to the phone, motioning for you to go ahead.

your teeth dig into your bottom lip while you start to slip down his pants along with his boxers, your quick to take him into your mouth. he feels heavy and warm inside, your hand goes to hold the base while you go to suck on the tip.

from above you hear a shaky breath leave chris, his lips pursed together while trying to contain himself. your mouth continues to work on him, teasing him every so often leaving small kisses from the tip all the way down to his insides of his thighs.

you decide he had enough teasing and begin to fully take him into your mouth, barely fitting half of him inside. you look up at him through your lashes to see him gripping onto the couch cushion, his cheeks slightly flushed while trying to form a coherent sentence through the phone.

the sight of seeing him so wrecked over barely anything had you grinning ear to ear, you let up from him and start to jerk him off. your hand moving at a teasingly slow pace, your thoughts are interrupted by his voice.

“fuck baby- keep going, none of th-that teasing shit.”

his free hand goes to rest atop your head, insinuating to continue sucking him off. you giggle while nodding, “well then y’better keep quiet sir, really wouldn’t those employees of yours to know how much of a needy boy you are hm?” he lets out the smallest whine and his hips lift up.

“don’t fuck- don’t say shit like that, just.. just hurry up ma. please?” his glassy blue eyes glare down at yours while begging.

as soon as he’s finished your lips wrap around him once more, taking him as deep as you can now. slightly gagging as he hits that certain spot in the back of your throat, you feel him slowly rocking into your mouth — setting his own pace.

your head starts to bob up and down even faster, trying to go along with his thrusts. you feel his hand tug at your hair while pulling you further down his length, until you feel one last thrust as he paints the insides of mouth.

he sits there for a second until he lets go, watching you swallow every bit of him. you look up to see the phone hung up and long forgotten about right next to him.

- avery’s note ˚ 𝜗𝜚˚⋆｡-

this seems too long to be a blurb tbh, but i wrote this in one sitting!! EVERYONE CHEER FOR ME >o<

anyway this is for @mattsstarlet, she basically YELLED at me to write for my beloved dilf!chris again, i hope you enjoy!!

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[maxwell-grant]

The Penguin Episode 4: Cent'anni Breakdown

She goes through all these different levels of all these different personas: excellent daughter, overachiever, and this horrific feral state in Arkham. And it's not until the yellow dress that she finds the one that fits.

Kind of like sharks can't stop moving or they sink. It's that relentless pursuit of justice.

This changes her forever. She never comes back. Something so much bigger than her takes over in order to survive - Cristin Milioti

This was pointed out to me by my friend and, show of hands everyone, who else thinks it's unbelievably fucking sick that it is Sofia who gets to show up at the Falcone dinner table, wearing a thematically appropriate embodiment of her childhood trauma, and do a "None of you are safe" speech?

(Episode 1) (Episode 2) (Episode 3) (Episode 5) (Episode 6) (Episode 7) (Episode 8)

It probably felt odd to spend time with Sofia when we’re in a show called The Penguin. But I think it’s just as important so you can understand Oz psychologically. Even though I don’t view Oz as a hero or a villain, he is a greater villain in the show than anyone else. And for you to feel that way, I think you have to understand his primary antagonist more. And that’s Sofia.” - Lauren LeFranc

I gotta say I'm generally not enthusiastic about Penguin being depicted as overtly disgusting, like drooling and eating raw fish and all that Burton stuff (actually I do think the black bile is cool, but only so far as as that version goes), but for that opening scene, that was a spectacularly well-placed bit of grossness. Like this sheer craven animalistic ugliness of DeVito's Penguin descending for a second to show us how Sofia sees Oz, and even how right she is to do so at the moment because holy shit hahahahahaha

From what we can see of Sofia's pre-Arkham life, she was basically the Meadow Soprano of the family: The smart, overachieving golden child, whose social standing and eligitibility for leadership wouldn't even be up for debate if she was born a man like her loser brother (love AJ, relate uncomfortably to AJ, he's not at all morally comparable to Alberto, but he is very much a loser). Socially conscious and sticking up for victims but only if you don't poke too closely at her victim-generating family business, aware of some things but willfully blind to her own hypocrisy and insistent that daddy is still in average a good man who isn't as bad as people around her may say he is. I'd even say that the Sofia we see here is a more moral person than Meadow, although obviously being the daughter of Carmine Falcone is a much scarier, more isolating and horrific prospect than growing up the daughter of Tony Soprano (the ways in which the two Sopranos kids diverged and majorly prefigured American socio-political developments that kicked off after the show is a topic for another post).

(Also, I don't really want to bring up Sopranos comparisons because the shows are similar, they're really not, but I finished The Sopranos yesterday so they're gonna come up still)

I think Mark Strong does a really good job here filling in for John Turturro's role, even if he's not quite as good in it as Turturro. I think he plays the character differently in a way that works really well for this being a past version of Carmine, filtered through Sofia's vision. He is imposing and quiet and mighty, a lone titan of unquestionable power over the entire world, not even remotely someone to be defied or displeased. Turturro's Falcone was charismatic and affable and oozing with unspeakable yet casual cruelty, and I would have liked that here, but I like the idea that we're seeing a Carmine from before he was invincible, when he still needed Sofia to help him get Congressman Hill on the phone and still worried about the future of the family at Alberto's hands, a Carmine from when the Maronis were still around and he wasn't the sole ruling power in Gotham, who could still possibly lose even without vigilante intervention.

He is larger, more imposing, a stern and stoic father who had little use for pleasantries, and with no mirth to be had at the expense of the little people who think they can do anything against him that matters, even if he is getting there. I think the difference here adds a nice little arc to Carmine: there was a time where he needed to keep up appearences, there was a time where he raised his voice above a whisper to get things done, and there was a time where he wasn't the real mayor of Gotham. There was a time where he was a "proper" Don, when he acted like his comics counterpart, and none of that really became necessary over the following decade, when he grew more and more invincible and isolated and comfortable in this nightmare he made the city into.

They also confirm here that apparently the Iceberg Lounge/44 Below existed way back when Oz was just Sofia's driver, and it was already Carmine's prostitute slaughterhouse even then and Alberto knew about it. Possibly explains why Oz was handed the club in the first place, because the Falcones already called him Sofia's penguin and putting The Penguin in charge of the Iceberg Lounge would fit their idea of a laugh (and given how much Oz hates being called Penguin, he would hardly come up with the name himself)

Lmao, those dog comparisons I keep making really don't stop justifying themselves.

Credit again to Mike Marino and the prosthetics team for this younger Oz make-up, he strikes a very nice middleground between current Oz and the one we see as a kid.

Really like what we see of Sofia and Oz's dynamic here, again reinforcing that for all intents and purposes he was the sidekick in her HBO protagonist life. We see how Sofia likes his company and how she even kinda defends him from the family, but she really cannot bring herself to respect him very much and disdains him from the same very upper-class perspective the rest of the family does, she's just nicer about it. And in turn we see parts of where Oz's resentment to her comes from, and also the extent to which Oz was always lying in wait for an opportunity to get ahead regardless of her, his justified grievances as well as him being a conniving fuck. The really thin line this treads though, is that it establishes that neither of them were lying about how they meant something to each other, even if it doesn't help.

Sofia did have her life ruined partially because of Oz, she did endure horrific things while he got a promotion because he ratted her out to Carmine, and he very much did in part because he wanted to get ahead and saw an opportunity to do so. But also, Oz genuinely had no idea that this is what Carmine would do, and I think in large part this was also about keeping himself safe. It's not even that unbelievable that he was genuinely looking out for her, because holy shit you do not talk to the press about Carmine Falcone, daughter or not, and he tried warning her in the car before she rebuffed him and insulted him pretty deep for good measure. If Sofia talked to the press and would not stop talking (since he didn't know in the car that she rebuffed Gleeson) and shit started happening because of her snooping around, he would have absolutely gotten punished/murdered for it, it is not at all a stretch to assume that Carmine would have done something to Oz as punishment to Sofia.

Oz didn't plan any kind of misfortune, at no point did he mastermind her admission into Arkham (or even help keep her there with the letters, like the rest of the family), he just told Carmine something he shouldn't have, and neither of them expected anything too terrible was gonna come out of it. They both wildly underestimated what a complete scumbag Carmine is, but with Carmine (and the others) gone, there's nobody else to turn those grievances to.

Even if Oz could claim deniability for the Arkham thing, which he kinda can't but Sofia even tried to grant him anyway, he sure as shit can't for everything else he does in the opening minutes.

Oh hey it's Mr Mustache With The Broken Nose.

A thing that came to mind when I was watching the episode was the story of Rosemary Kennedy, JFK's sister whose father arranged for her to be institutionalized and lobotomized at age 23 as a reponse to "difficult" behavior. I'm not recounting it in more detail here because the rest of it is just too horrific, look it up yourself if you're curious. I remembered it because reading about Rosemary Kennedy ruined my fucking day and it still pumps up the breaks in my train of thought every now and then, so it came to mind watching this story about a young woman horrifically institutionalized and butchered for the sake of her wealthy family's image. Later I heard the podcast, and turns out that actually was exactly what Lauren LeFranc based Sofia's story on, which was nice. I'm glad it also fucks Lauren LeFranc up and that we both agree she should have gotten to wreak revenge on the entire family over it, thank you Penguin Show that continues to be made for me, this was nice.

Oh hey, Magpie. Just the name, yeah, but that was another nice surprise. I used to have a bit of a soft spot for Magpie, occasionally I thought there was something to get out of her and Penguin together, so a part of me likes that they put Magpie in The Penguin show even if just in name. Yes, she only exists to be annoying and die, but that's what she already tends to do anyway. And y'know, much as I may like her, she is still a John Byrne character, so she doesn't really deserve much more than that

Jesus Christ this episode gets uncomfortable.

I like that this establishes that Julian Rush kinda did make an effort to help her and kinda felt bad about it, but not nearly enough, and that he is very much a complicit contemptible creep who has it coming as much as any of the people who put Sofia in there.

Cannot state enough how much I appreciate that they didn't put any actual named Batman villains in the Arkham Asylum episode, guarantee a lot of creators would not resist the temptation. I mean okay I guess there is a Ventris already in Batman but, come on, you know who I mean. This did not need any references to like, Jeremiah Arkham or Jonathan Crane or Hugo Strange or any of that, and that's not a diss on any of those guys, it's just that unlike pretty much every other Batman story, this episode does not undercut it's point about the horrific institutional horrors dehumanizing and destroying Sofia by pinning it on a chief boogeyman supervillain that Batman is going to fight later. Dr. Ventris is not responsible for the systemic rot that got her there nor is he the sole orchestrator/perpetrator of the abuse it's inmates suffer, he simply answers to those, and thus perpetuates them, by doing his job in a mental institution.

I am still haunted by the inmate committing suicide with a fork. It is so fucked up that Sofia was tortured and goaded by the doctors into murdering another inmate, and when that failed, they tortured her again and again and again until she snapped. The whole point was to push Sofia beyond the breaking point to justify further incarceration. The doctors just standing there letting her kill Magpie.

I want Dr.Rush to die.

I have more thoughts on Arkham, but I'd call this the most horrific take on Arkham so far, because it is the most honest take on Arkham so far. Even at it's most run-down and monstrous, it is usually never at all into question that Arkham Asylum is necessary, because if it wasn't there, all the crazies would run rampant in Gotham. Over the years, it's monstrousness has always been tied directly and specifically to it's inmates, and whenever people have pointed out the shoddy conditions and inhospitable environment of Arkham as a factor for repeat offenders, it's pretty much always as a fandom joke outside of Batman stories proper, and if there is anything wrong with the way the Asylum works, it is always the fault of particularly evil villains attached. A Lock-Up, a Jeremiah Arkham, a Hugo Strange, etc. Arkham Asylum is in general a Batman concept that's raised a lot of discussions and calls for revision over the years, and a lot of the issues with it tie into larger issues around superhero depictions of the carceral system, that @artbyblastweave went into here.

Here, in large part because this is a realistic world and a Gotham without a rampaging supervillain contingent of repeat offenders who can magically break out constantly, it is never into question that the patients are the victims of this system, and if they are being turned into potential supervillains, it is because of Arkham inflicting this on them. This is an Arkham Asylum that remains a nightmarish, horrific force in this world, but not because it's Castle Dracula where all the crazy villains hang out, not even just because the rest of Gotham is hopelessly rotten and corrupt, but because it's a mental institution and depicted accordingly. It gets to dig into the real life horrors mental institutions inflict on it's patients without having to justify those measures as benign or necessary to keep crazy crimes from happening. Frankly, this take on Arkham Asylum has been long overdue.

In every form of Batman media, just about the worst thing that can happen at any given moment is Arkham Asylum falling and it's inmates escaping into the streets, that's generally what happens when Batman needs to deal with apocalyptic stakes (which is why of course it happens all the fucking time now). Here, that scenario would be regarded with cheer, because the worst thing that can happen in this universe is being sent to Arkham Asylum. It isn't just Batman's unofficial personal prison / punching gallery, if anything it massively raises the stakes on this Batman's next adventures, because now we know this is what's waiting for him if he gets caught and unmasked.

I like that Sofia and Oz are both trying to save/protect those they see as younger versions of themselves, while inflicting on them the kinds of tragedies that ultimately created them

Oz reached out to this poor disabled kid from the streets and is showing him the ropes, while also belittling him as a nobody and distorting his worldview and dragging him into life or death cornered scrapdog situations chipping away at his morals. Sofia saves her little niece who laughs at bad table manners and doesn't quite do what her family says, gently lulling her to sleep so she can kill her mom and her entire family.

Extremely important that Sofia Falcone makes her formal arrival as a villain by showing up dressed in a sexy yet fitting extension of her trauma / cultural reference (The Yellow Wallpaper / the walls in her mother's bedroom), before putting on a mask and enacting Gotham's first Mass Casualty Gas Attack, we love to see it.

I was frankly already calling Sofia one of my favorite Bat-villains even before this episode, I'm just glad everyone seems to be on the same page with me now. I'm seeing a lot of posts on Twitter and Instagram talking about how they're rooting for Sofia instead of Oz, that she deserves to win this war, and good, fucking amazing that they're doing this, again, this show is hitting home runs I could not have foreseen.

It is incredible what a character they've made out of Sofia, and the fact that we now see Oz as her antagonist as much as we see Sofia as his, and the fact that if Penguin wins, he will win this as a villain. He will steal a victory he does not deserve and rub it in your face and he will make the children of the world cry for it as any villain worth his name should be doing, and it frankly wouldn't be much of a fight if Sofia wasn't every bit the complicated, engaging protagonist he is. Lauren LeFranc claimed that she sees Sofia is the closest the show has to a hero even if she is not, and this is the episode that sold everyone on it.

Halfway through the show and it's only gotten better and better, can't wait for what's coming next.

[elsecrytt]

Kinktober - Day 1

Nipple Clamps | Cum Play | Virginity

Pairing: Satoru Gojo/Reader

“You can’t possibly be – ” You pause for a moment to actually think about it. “No… no, I see it.”

Gojo is unbelievably annoying even to his own friends. It wouldn’t be surprising that if he really, truly, couldn’t get anyone to hang around long enough for him to stick his dick in them and get off.

To be fair, that second part would probably only take a moment.

“I said don’t make fun of me for it,” Gojo whines, like a whiner, “I thought this was a safe space for me to open up about something personal, and you’re throwing it in my face.”

He’s great at using words to craft a compelling argument that he doesn’t remotely believe in. “Really? It’s just sex, it’s not a big deal that you haven’t done it yet.”

“If it’s not that important, why were you so surprised?” His lips twist into an unfortunately cute pout. “It’s uncool, isn’t it? You don’t think I’m cool anymore.”

“I didn’t think you were cool to begin with.”

“Wrong!” He lets those stupid ugly sunglasses slide down his awful, handsome visage, “You think I’m way cool! I’m literally the strongest sorcerer of this generation. Maybe all generations.”

It’s worthy of an eye roll. You’d thought he’d grown out of his dumb power trip phase, like how Geto went through the cult thing for a bit back in high school. Then again, Geto got therapy.

“And you still couldn’t get anyone to sleep with you.” You meet his eyes as he stares at you over his glasses. “Or… are you saving it for someone special?”

That has his cheeks flushing. “Hmph. Wouldn’t you like to know?”

“Well, I’m sure you’ve had some willing parties before. Or is your personality that repulsive?” You would never tell him, but with a face like his, there had to be someone who’d put up with his shitty attitude.

“Heh,” His deflated ego seems to puff up a bit, “I have had offers, come to think of it. Loads of them, actually.”

“Well, I’m glad they all got out all right.” You stretch, holding your arms high above your head, in a way that definitely doesn’t make your boobs more prominent, “So what, none of them were hot enough for you? Or was Mei Mei too expensive?”

Gojo snorts, “Mei Mei would’ve milked me for a baby. Way worse than just paying.”

“Oh, you’re right.” She totally would have. But it doesn’t escape you that he didn’t answer your other question. Still hasn’t, actually. “You still haven’t told me why you’re still a virgin.”

You give him a shit-eating grin. “Are you afraid you won’t be able to perform?”

His lips press together in a tight line, “Wouldn’t you like to know.”

“I would, actually.” He’s too cute like this, deflecting left and right like he doesn’t have infinity on already. Like he’s afraid he’s gonna get hit. “If you’re not answering, I’ll have to assume that’s the reason. You’re just shy… how cute.”

It’s very cute, actually. Satoru Gojo, pure as undriven snow. A proud and haughty beauty just waiting to be plundered.

“If I was shy, I wouldn’t have told you I was a virgin,” Gojo huffs.

He still doesn’t want to answer… “So how virgin are you, then? Ever gotten a blow job?” You step closer to him, “Maybe a handy?” Closer, still, “A kiss?”

Look at him and his pretty pink cheeks. His face is so youthful underneath the glasses. If he weren’t so tall you really would think he was a teenager.

Gojo licks his lips, seemingly nervously. Shifts, like he’s unsteady on his feet. But he’s a sorcerer, one of the most powerful ones ever. He can literally teleport. He can put infinity between him and anything that he doesn’t want to touch him.

So when you lean in to steal his lips, it’s because he lets you –

Wants you to.

(You smile into the kiss. His lips are soft and sweet like strawberry lip gloss.)

You’re pretty sure now that he really is a virgin, even if he’s been trying to seduce you.

At least, that’s what he looks like. A proper virgin just about to be ravished – spread out on your bed, naked and blushing, pretty cock bobbing against his sculpted abs. Crystal blue eyes staring up at you from pure white lashes. His unfalteringly beautiful face full of pleading and pouting in equal measure.

From the way he moans – a quaking sound, like his lungs don’t know how to release this breath – when you wrap your hands around the length of him. It’s all pink and dusky purples, even more flushed than his lovely cheeks, hard and twitching in your hand.

You’d never seen a dick that you’d call good-looking before. God really did have favorites, huh?

“Come onnnn,” He whines, even as he throws his head back and bucks into your grip, “Stop fooling around already.”

Heh. “How like a virgin. You really want to skip all the good stuff and go straight to the climax? Honestly, I’m not sure you’ll last once it’s in.”

Gojo sniffs, and the gesture is unreasonably cute for an adult man with muscles on his abdomen that ripple when you squeeze him, “So what if I don’t? You think I’d have problems getting it back up with you on top of me?”

Oh. Oh, hell. What a line from a virgin… You feel your face heating up.

Even worse, you can feel him noticing. That awful, terrible, dimpled smile lifted high at one end as his eyes glitter at you. “Come ooooon, just – hngh, just a little more~ I promise you can play with it again right away~”

God, he must be watching the good porn, to be saying shit like this.

“You’re so easy,” You bite back, swallowing as you pump your hand along his length. Running your thumb over his weeping tip. Gojo groans as you trace it, quivering underneath you.

It’s so bright and rounded, smooth to the touch. It looks… juicy.

“Nah,” Gojo pants out, lashes fluttering, “I’m hard. Super hard. All your fault, actually.”

He’s shuddering, you know he must be close, but he’s talking this big a game. You don’t know why you’re surprised. He’s a natural at being a nuisance.

“You sound like you’re right at home,” You accuse, leaning in closer to his face as you pump him faster, closer, a little more, just like he asked, “Jerk off much?”

A strangled, wounded noise makes its way out of his throat. “Just to you, babe, please, please, fuck, I’m close – ”

It doesn’t take more than a longer, harsher pump with you squeezing at the end for him to spurt out into your hand. You get the pleasure of watching him come undone – eyes flickering, rolling upwards, pretty mouth dropping wide open, Gojo would be a proper whore if he weren’t a complete virgin.

You can’t stop yourself from diving in, littering kisses over his frustratingly beautiful face, down his throat, his heaving chest. Carefully pulling away as he starts to whimper in overstimulation.

“So… you jerk off to me, huh?”

A half-indignant, half-whining groan is your well-earned victory.

“Come on now, Gojo, you can’t be embarrassed now. We’ve got so much left to do…” Your eyelids lower as you smirk at him, licking your lips. Staring at his reddened face with unabashed delight.

The way he shivers at your grin – cock twitching, rising already. God really had favorites.

“You did promise I could play with it again right away~”

[princess-glassred]

Hot take: The losers killing Henry Bowers was a bad thing for them to do, and if you think it wasn't you fell for clown propoganda.

In the book when Mike and Henry meet in the library Mike is able to recognize the roles they have played in each other's life stories, and he knows, because Mike is a smart enough and kind enough, that the situation wouldn't be any different if he had got the idea to kill henry before he got the idea to kill him. And it's not some bullshit "oh if i hurt you im no better" excuse that king just pulled out of his ass, because honestly none of what mike or henry are feeling right now even matters. It doesn't matter that henry tortured mike growing up, it doesn't matter that one person is good and the other bad, it doesn't even matter that henry is racist and mike is black, what matters is that whoever kills who in this situation- IT gets a win. It does not care about anything, it has no loyalty, and although it would probably prefer killing Mike over henry cause he's an actual threat to it, at the end of the day all IT wants is for everyone who knows about IT to die. If mike kills henry, it is just that much closer to erasing all of them and mike knows that deep down, on some level, henry isn't entirely in control of himself. He's being puppeted by a powerful force that's using his very real resentment of mike and his friends to finish a job IT doesn't care enough to do itself until it has to. The thing that would hurt more than anything would be to cut henry's puppet strings and get him to safety. He needs to be in a hospital where the losers can't hurt him and he can't hurt the losers so IT doesn't get another small victory. I think Henry on some level even understands this somwhat, because he gets scared at the notion of being in the hospital again because he believes IT will get him no matter what.

Ultimately, Mike's ability to look past all the pain Henry caused him and recognize he's not right in the head and that he needs to save Henry if he wants to go against IT's desire is not only important in showing his nice his personality is, but it's also emblematic of how he feels about Derry in general. He could probably kill henry with glee and he might deserve it, just like he could have told Derry to fuck off and leave all it's racist towns people to choke. Mike did neither of those because he knows those would he rather temporary moments of joy in exchange for IT getting what it wanted. None of the shit from the past matters, because at the end of the day KIDS ARE GOING TO DIE, they have no time to waste. He says it himself "i've been too busy to be bitter" he understands he can be bitter about Henry later but theres a much bigger problem right now. Just like he has to be the lighthouse keeper, he has to be the one to make sure Henry doesn't die. It's not remotely fair, but that's how the cards have fallen into place for him. It truly doesn't matter how justified it would be to bury an axe in his skull, what matters is that Henry is vulnerable and Henry remembers. Henry remembers his friends who died one by one. Henry remembers belch huggins jumpinh in front of him to save his life. Henry remembers Patrick being there one moment and gone the next. Henry remembers the deadlights. Henry remembers Stanley. He remembers because he never got to forget just like mike, and mike knows that IT doesn't like that.

And killing Henry would be awfully easy. Mike could probably do it no problem. All he has is his little knife and a mushy brain that barely functions anymore. Mike used to play football and was really good at it, while Henry has been sitting in an asylum getting fatter and weaker as the years ticked by. If Mike wanted to he could beat the shit out of him. But he doesn't, nor does he go on a big tirade about how awful henry is. Because anything that harms henry is just a distraction from the monster actually hurting people. There's a reason everytime they kill Henry it's an accident or in pure self defense, it's because nobody wants to do it until they're forced to. When henry gets shanked with the perrier bottle or stabs himself or gets an axe in the skull it's not meant to be super victorious or even funny really. It's just kind of pathetic and sad.

The metaphor of the whole thing is so flippin obvious to anyone who can see it: "the real powers you should be afraid of want to keep everyone divided because if you kill each other there's less people to kill them. You're stronger if you refuse to play their game and recognize the system you're both trapped in.". But ya'll are so busy drinking the clown kool aid you don't see the whole picture. THIS IS WHY ITS A BAD IDEA TO ADAPT THE LIBRARY SCENE INTO JUST A RANDOM TEN SECOND ACTION SCENE WHERE HENRY JUMP SCARES MIKE AND GETS THROWN INTO A TABLE. IT MISSES THE POINT OF THE SCENE, THE STORY, AND BOTH MIKE AND HENRYS CHARACTERS. Mike's not being patient with Henry because he's weak, it's not that he couldn't throw his ass into a table, it's that it was a stupid idea that meant it would have an advantage.

Lord i hate it chapter 2.

[carolinahope]

8x11 Holy Mother of God

I love that Bobby has issues with Eddie being gone as well. Not once, not twice, but thrice. Poor Ravi. Always the bridesmaid, never the bride.

And I fucking hated Athena's push for 'mending fences'. And the fact they actually reconciled and Bobby being the one taking the blame? With no accountability from Ann? That is the one thing this show keeps pushing that really rubs me the wrong way every single time. Just because you share DNA with someone, doesn't make you a family. Especially since none of the parental units on the show did anything to even remotely start to make up or even apologize for, for all the trauma they caused to their children.

Bobby forgot to mention the kid he brought into the marriage. And Buck's reaction to meeting Ann and Charlie was short but so, so good.

Buck took almost a whole shift to warm up to Eddie. Said out loud. I loved that talk with Ravi. Poor kid. Always getting caught in the aftermath of Eddie's leaving triggering Buck's abandonment issues.

I fast forwarded through that man. I'm more than OK to find out what shit Tim came up with, second hand. Or not at all. And also, it was so not cool from Ravi to drag that man back into the story. If this is not the last time we see him, I will be really pissed. It's not that he is important or relevant. I just can't stand his face or the character. He way overstayed his welcome.

Buck's talk with Maddie was interesting for sure. Because neither one of them is well. And Maddie is maybe using Buck's pain to avoid her own fears. But this being the second time someone mentioned Eddie's sexuality and yet again in a very defensive way? I'm not sure I like the ingredients you are using, Tim, but I feel I'm gonna enjoy what you're cooking. This is a Chekhov's gun if I've ever seen one.

The writing was a little shady but Aisha did such a wonderful job directing. Not my favourite episode by far but it had some really wonderful moments.

[intheshadowsbehindyou]

The Mercs reacting to Y/N asking them about their past

Warnings: None

Scout:

- Uhhhhh

- It was… moderate? He got bullied by his brothers a lot but they eventually stopped as they matured. It was moreso the people at school that gave him trouble. Causing him to become aggressive and “misbehaved”

- His mother loves him to bits. She still spoils and frets about him to this day. Occasionally you’ll see candy sent to him in boxes on his nightstand with sickly sweet notes like “I love you my little baby bear : )” it’s borderline embarrassing sometimes. She never scolds him too roughly and always seems to know what advice to give.

- He doesn’t seem too thrilled telling you about his past. He tries to recall positive memories, like during the summer him and his family would frequent the beach. He seems to have had more positive times with his school friends as well. Mostly playing cruel pranks on adults.

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Soldier:

- He hesitates. It wasn’t great. That’s for sure. He was fed pretty strong propaganda as a child which led to him to become radical. This gradually died out over time and he became less and less bigoted. “I KILL EVERYBODY EQUALLY NOW!” He announces proudly, woohoo! character development.

- He vividly recalls beginning to question his sexuality around his teen years and being in a military training program for kids who wanted to serve their country. Which of course led to him having frequent gay sex in his young adulthood. Bruh.

- He always sorta had… really weird trigger-happy tendencies. He taught himself to shoot guns from a young age even know everybody opted against it. He then blew up an entire village, mistaking it for “FILTHY SOUTHERN TRAITORS CONSPIRING A SECRET BASE!”

- Nonsensical war stories that never happened and the only reason they exist is to make himself look good. They make you laugh. He’s full of himself, trying to impress you.

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Demoman:

- Yikes.

- “I.. Really don’t wanna talk about it.”

- He tells you bits and pieces from time to time about how terrible being an orphan was. Let alone having parents who didn’t care about him.

- He hates wizards because of Merasmus now. So there’s that. Straight up will beat the shit out of anybody that even remotely looks like a wizard. He’s more rational when sober but still has a deep passionate hatred for magicians.

- Manages to recall a more lighter story where he blew up his chemistry teacher’s entire farm as revenge for giving him bad grades. That was fun. He tells you this while fiddling with the inside of one of his bombs. Evidentially trying to get it working properly. “Yah, well I’d like to see that lot see me now. He’d bust a bloody vein in his wee little noggin tryin to comprehend how his ‘worst student’ managed to get this successful at demolition!”

- If you ask him more he’ll just shake his head. Stating it wasn’t that important and the past is the past.

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Engineer:

- It was actually really good. His mother and father loved him. They were quite wealthy though and it caused him to be bit of a little prick. He always got pampered and spoiled to incredible degrees and was always a bit mischievous. He mellowed out and became his humble modern self over time though.

- He used to snicker over the fence while watching his neighbor’s lawnmower spontaneously catch on fire. That may or may not have been the result of his genius.

- Went to a prestigious school for incredibly smart kids and visited his grandfather on certain weekends. His grandfather was a bit preoccupied with work though so he’d take him to RED/BLU and pass on his building knowledge by showing him how to do stuff.

- Was always a very creative and well liked individual. Girls felt out of league with him in high school and they’d always shyly giggle as he passed by. They were always too timid to ask him out.

- One would often forget that Engineer is a deathly mercenary like the others. He showed blood thirsty tendencies from day one. His family encouraged it of course. Because why wouldn’t they! His father was so proud of him when he killed his first victim.. aaahh those little mercs grow up so damn fast. Engineer would laugh as he told you this. Great.

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Heavy:

- He becomes very grumpy. Crossing his arms and looking away. He can’t bring himself to stay mad at you, though. He knows full well that people only assume the best when asked a question such as this. He doesn’t blame you at all.

- He’s rather straight forward with it, and doesn’t hold back. “Heavy’s entire family was sent to ice prison and had little money. Not a single coin to hold us up. So, naturally work had to be done.” He goes on about how he was the breadwinner of the family and had the burden of carrying his entire family on his back. “Oh! and my father is dead.” He adds.

- JESUS.

- This man seemingly could never catch a break in his childhood. He did nothing but provide, work, and take it upon himself to be an adult at an early age. Not having many friends. Even having struggled in college. Mother of god. An absolute trainwreck.

- He assures you he’s fine, and he takes comfort in knowing he managed to come this far in the first place. Let alone to such an older age. “Stupid little baby will become big and strong like Heavy, and he will show you.” He tells you lovingly. Stroking your hair.

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Pyro:

- Looks confused and slightly concerned of why you’d ask such a thing. As if it didn’t really matter. All that mattered was here and now.

- They’re clearly avoiding this conversation, and brushing it off. Instead they want to show you this horrific forest fire they made! They think it’s so cool. Watching innocent fishing dads burn alive is cool.

- Redirects you and insists you tell them about your childhood first. Is very polite despite not enjoying the question and by the looks of things it’s better off to just leave the question be for a bit. They really don’t want to talk about it. To very high degrees. (pun intended.)

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Sniper:

- He was a rather lonesome child. Preferring to sit by himself and never really participate in activities. His parents pushed him to socialize but he never really got that great at it. He also sort of tormented the other kids whenever he deemed them too noisy or annoying. Throwing rocks at their heads. He got rather good at this due to doing it so many times.

- He’d play pretend by himself in the backyard behind his house. Occasionally his father would join in, but after school he headed straight to his treehouse whilst his parents were busy and shot at poor birds with a pop gun. Scaring them half to death. He’s play his little hunting game until sunset, to when his mother would call him in for dinner.

- His father found his games quite cute and taught him how to shoot an actual gun eventually for the purpose of hunting. Aaaand he’d live to regret that.

- He was always an outdoorsy kid. Going on camping trips and petting zoos. He had a soft spot for certain animals and got caught hugging and kissing the top of a sheep’s head. Awww. He was affectionate in his young age. (Dont bring this story up to him ever again.)

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Medic:

- “Ohhohoh! What a silly question! It was awful.”

- Nobody really liked how much of a nerd he was in school. Despite growing up in a village with a rather long lineage of medical “professionals” (I use that term loosely) he went to a school outside his village. He got bullied on a regular basis and people dumped paint in his hair while he was outside reading.

- This of course made a pretty sensitive child out of Medic. He was prone to being a “Cry-baby” and “too sensitive” in his classmates’ own words. He was also a mama’s boy which didn’t seem to help the teasing.

- Medic took rightly by his mother. She was batshit insane. The most stereotypical mad scientist you’d ever lay your eyes on. She’d read him bedtime stories which were very complex university textbooks for some reason.

- He took a liking to all his mother taught him. Books of the cosmos, math, and other stuff. Especially the medical science that was strung about the village. He developed an incredibly strong morbid curiosity for anything that seemed off or strange. Wishing to understand the world around him as much as possible.

- He took a magnifying glass into the garden and studied bees when he was five. Theorizing their stingers could create a miracle cure (It couldn’t. His allergic cousin fucking died and Ludwig thought that was hilarious.)

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Spy:

- “Hey Spy, can you tell me a bit about your childhood?”

- Immediately cloaks away.

- Goes missing for like several days.

[schoolhater]

it is election day. i wrote a little essay to share with my IRLs who can't fathom why i might want to abstain from participating in the bloodshed by putting holocaust harris in power, or giving the transpbobic and anti-abortion green party federal campaign money. i've reposted the entire thing under the cut for anyone who wants to read.

but before i begin: donate to mohammed al-habil. he is recovering from surgery, his little sister is chronically ill. the genocide ruined his senior year of high school. it’s his birthday today. he should be celebrating and instead he’s begging on an internet full of people trying to justify the continued destruction of his entire people.

learn more + donate

i keep hearing from people defending their choice to vote for the genocider that even though the democrats are bad, the republicans are worse. or that this election is the most important one. i often see trolley problems that declare that the *only* people who would suffer under the democrats would be palestine, and, because *americans* would suffer under the republicans, we have to put aside our grievances about the potentially-three-hundred-thousand-and-thiry-five people who have been murdered in the past thirteen months and offer our full support to the person who did it.

nearly every time settler colonialism has occurred in history, the first wave of settlers is some vulnerable yet radicalized population who believes they will achieve prosperity in the new world. the uae-backed rsf is establishing settlements using refugees from other african countries in southeast sudan right now. the first wave of israeli settlers were poor. even herzl planned this in the 1890s, in 'the jewish state' he writes that the first wave of settlers should be poor farm workers. and now, the modern settlers in the illegally occupied west bank live in and they are the most radicalized most. despite facing extreme racism within israel, arab israeli settlers are among the most radical zionists. the first settlers in america were poor and tired religious extremists from britain. when they came here they didn't have shit except the military backing of the empire and the carte blanche to commit massacres of indigenous people.

imperialism needs these vulnerable people. it needs to funnel the oppressed populations it creates back into the machine to enact further violence. these people are effective cannon fodder against the indigenous population. they are vulnerable enough that they cannot resist, but their lives are comfortable enough thanks to subsidized housing and special treatment that they begin to identify wholly with the imperialist entity, so they don't even want to. if you're stuck thinking 'well, of course kamala and trump are the same to palestine, but trump will be worse for us!' you've taken the bait. that's exactly the kind of attitude that is allowing this genocide to happen right now. do you know why the usa gives subsidized healthcare to israelis? why we give so many benefits to veterans? why do thousands of people risk their entire lives to come here after we destroy their countries? the usa wants to recruit you into participating in the genocide of gaza so you never oppose it, because it would mean opposing yourself.

even kamala harris knows this. multiple times she's repeated some version of "sure people care about the genocide, but they also care about the price of eggs" as if these things are remotely comparable. because to her supporters, they are. to americans, the rest of the world does not even exist.

i said this on my instagram story and i'll say it again - we understand that the israeli elections are just a performance of democracy to pacify criticism of a violent genocidal apartheid system. none of us would really care if netanyahu stepped down tomorrow because we would see the bombings continue. well, america is the world's "israel"! to the rest of the world, america is that attack dog that only ever brings death and suffering. and regardless of which party is in charge, that doesn't change. and the democrats arent even hiding it anymore.

what the discourse around this election and seeing so many people i once respected voting for the genocide has taught me is that there is no red line for the majority of americans. we are the most self centered, narrow minded, backstabbing group of settlers on this earth. we have seen the terrorist organization that occupies the land we live on fund 70% of the most vile horrific crimes against humanity - the most nightmare inducing rapes, tortures, kidnappings, incarcerations, concentration camps, people being burned alive, people being ripped apart, rendered unrecognizable as human bodies, literally vaporized, killing over three hundred thousand people over thirteen months - and we still want the entities that did all this to exist tomorrow. we want to invest into a future in which all of this still exists.

and when asked to stop, we will threaten to do worse. a greater evil is imagined.

what does this make us?

....

i refuse to participate in this bullshit even to support a third party candidate. i refuse to be bought. i refuse to invest my time and energy into an institution that kills children. i don’t care who runs it.

i wanted to push back against this idea before the polls close as a sort of last ditch effort to be heard. i am not being heard right now. i have gotten into way too many arguments with people i once respected over why voting in favor of a genocide might not be the best idea. and every time i am met with utter disrespect - i am not treated as a person with a political perspective based on my experiences and learning, i am treated like an idiot. and the people voting for genocide are pragmatists, somehow. in lieu of a reason to disagree with me they resort to belittlement. i feel betrayed. i hope this rant changes some minds; if not, let it explain why i treat you differently now.

[fabled-lady-twilla]

Which of the following ShigaDeku fic ideas sound the most interesting to you?

I have a handful of ShigaDeku fics I've been consistently working on over the past couple of months. I keep switching back and forth and writing out small scenes for each story in order to get a sense of the direction I want to take them in. They're all different flavors of dark romance and hurt/comfort and have great potential. I just can't decide which one I want to write first. Help meeeeeee! 😭😭😭

I need your opinions, ShigaDeku fans! Could you tell me which one of the following story ideas sounds the most interesting or even rate them out of four like 1/4, 2/4, etc. based on your interest? 🥺👉👈

Canon Divergence Soulmate AU

Dark romance, action, hurt/comfort, and psychological drama.

Long-lost childhood friends to mortal enemies to soulmates.

Heroes vs. villains dilemma (fixing systemic issues in hero society together with Hawks + Aizawa + the League of Villains).

Izu and Shiga discovering they're not only childhood friends but also soulmates whose souls are tied to each other for eternity.

Set in canon universe and loosely follows the MHA storyline EXCEPT it actually has a genuinely hopeful ending, gives the League a redemption arc, and achieves lasting changes for society!

Yakuza Stepbrother AU

Dark romance, suspense, hurt/comfort, and crime drama.

Izu and Shiga are stepbrothers through Inko's secret marriage to All For One fifteen years prior to the beginning of the story.

Shigaraki inheritance dilemma (Izu signs away his rights to the fortune away because Inko (on her deathbed) told him to do so in order to protect him from getting involved with mafia drama. Too bad she didn't consider Shiga becoming obsessed with Izu upon meeting him and dragging him into the mafia world anyway). 😅

Yakuza territory war dilemma (because Izu is technically Shiga's stepbrother by marriage, he's threatened strongly encouraged to stay with the Shigaraki family until its safe for him to move out.

Tartarus Rehabilitation AU

Dark romance, thriller, hurt/comfort, and psychological drama.

Izu is a therapist-in-training who believes in rehabilitation for criminals. Shiga is a serial killer incarcerated in Tartarus for going on killing sprees targeting people who are cruel to animals.

Due to one of Izu's co-workers being sick, he's called in to cover for an interview with none other than Shiga himself. By the end of the interview, Shiga becomes infatuated with Izu and refuses to speak to anyone else or release important details about his murders unless Izu is the one questioning him.

Shiga's obsession eventually becomes worse and worse until he breaks out of Tartarus with the help of All For One (because of course he does) and Izu is like, well shit, time to go into hiding!

Paranormal Fantasy AU

Dark romance, paranormal fantasy, hurt/comfort, and horror.

Izu is a mystic who specializes in healing medicine for immortal beings like vampires, lycans, shapeshifters, mages, certain kinds of demons, undead, cursed beings, and of course, all of the supernatural hunters who get hurt keeping these beings in line.

Shiga is a hybrid of unknown origin (haven't decided if he's going to be a half-demon or half-vampire yet) who gets grievously injured one day defending his territory from an opposing coven leader.

Dabi drags Shiga to Izu's remote cottage and demands that the mystics heal his coven leader or he'll slaughter him right then and there. Izu, never being able to deny someone in need of healing, decides that he'll heal Shiga as long as his coven provides protection while he stays in their territory, and Dabi agrees.

Over the course of a week, Shiga stays in Izu's cottage with him as Izu slowly uses his magic to heal Shiga's wounds. Shiga spends the entire time obsessively taking in every detail of Izu's life, trying to figure out why he's on the run and how Shiga can make Izu join his coven and make him stay with Shiga forever.

Pretty please let me know which one of these story ideas you liked the most! My ADHD brain is really struggling with which one to go for, so I would really appreciate your opinion on these. 💚💚💚

[our-favourite-orcs]

BONUS ROUND!

Propaganda under the cut!

Propaganda for Thonk from World of Warcraft:

thonk has become an enigma in one of my friend groups. he's not just a silly named guy with a side quest anymore. his pronouns are he/they. he has high defense. he has homoerotic tension with a crossdressing sailor. he says "Hey." all the time. he might be just one of a species of thonks. he was in a band in college and danced. thonk wave motion burst. he's a universal constant. none of this is even remotely canon to his original appearance in WoW. but he is important to me all the same. so i guess i'm submitting the bastardized version of thonk my friends have turned him into and not the actual original Thonk. dunno where that puts him in terms of tournament viability but you can at least laugh about the absurdity of it all.

World of Warcraft

This guy’s been a gag in my friend group for years to the point where I was tricked into playing as a serious version of him in a dnd game

World of Warcraft!

Propaganda for Gyorik Rogdul, aka York from Drawtectives:

Gyorik Rogdul, aka York, represents the northern tribe of orcs in this series. And it’s brilliant. He casually reveals the craziest shit about the Orc Lore, like “wild trains” being a Creature in ye northern orc tribes that no one has tamed, not even him. It’s probably true, but no one can know for sure. He’s a detective. He’s a model. He killed his half brother and became a prince. He doesn’t know what syllables are. He can read One english word, “sneppy.” He’s 7 feet tall. He’s ace and on the aro spectrum. He has never thought about gender or sexuality. He wants to fight real bad. He helped trans his friend’s gender. One of his nicknames is Piss Boy. He adopted a grown man as his son with his besties What us there to say…fearless (other than wild trains, which fair), so much love and dumb fits into that body G'yorik (York) Rogdul is one of the characters ever. He's illiterate. He loves his friends. He has an honorary son. He's in a mostly-canon polycule. He puts people in arm jail. He's a model and a prince. Literally I love him so much (please watch Drawtectives).

[jazeswhbhaven]

The Encounter of Two Flames | React | Final!

I'm ngl I forgot I didn't do the last day lmaooo but let's do this nowwww.

Even though it's pretty much everyone has seen it already and there's no point in marking it as a spoiler I'm going to go ahead and dive in on this. Now if this is the first post you're seeing of my previous reacts: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

If you don't need any of dat, then let's get on with itttt *btw I was wrong and there were only 9 days for the story instead of 10*

But quick recap is that we were left off with Luci showing up to aid Satan after he helped Sitri get over his depressive self-harm moment that nearly burned the entire town down.

Because yah Satan did the thing and ripped his heart out so Sitri could drink his blood from the source like how they first met and junk.

So Luci gave Satan over to Paimon and now Rin is standing up too, the cutie.

Wait...who are you talking to??? <_<

FORASSSSSS???@?@?@?@>

He was spying on them the entire time, it's like I almost forgot Foras could do that lmao I just didn't think this would be remotely relevant...and this is the first time Foras got to meet Lucifer and he was very nice about it.

Wait, Bimet and Eligos now too????? AHHHH>>W>W>????

So Eligos and Bimet were there watching because they share borders and found this important. Eli does admit they should have helped but he's glad it worked out.

ngl Eli the shit was happening for quite a while ya'll sure waited quite a long ass time....

ANYWAYS

Apparently Beel was there well in fly form anyway too. Like did everybody pretty much just show up in Gehenna and just stood around waiting for what Satan would do, I'm kinda being salty about that but when you think about it Satan would of being like "nah"

Mammon ofc was like "Sitri belongs to me so I had to check" and I'm crying because even back then....oh Mammon the man that you are...

Rei is adorable he grabbed onto Luci's sleeve and was trying to say something and I'm like THE BABYYYYYY

He's like a stern older brother lmao

But yeah apparently Jjok can't speak with he is Rei so that answers some speculations. That literally means we won't be hearing that little ridiculous cute squeak toy voice come out of this hot man lol he's literally just silent.

Jjok is so mad lmao he's wondering why he can't speak in his high rank form. So even though we know he can't speak even he doesn't know why he can't.

Luci ofc is like "then don't transform" doing his blunt answer thing and Jjok is like "awh man but I look so coooooolllll" which is on point for his character.

Awh well Jjok has gotta love his fond family more for sure than just someone he admires. I think it's cute of him.

Luci just says to himself that Satan will always have people watching him no matter how small he is. (not everyone still dunking on him for his size goodness)

So we're back in Gehenna after this little scene and Sitri was on probation and all that stuff but Paimon and Leraye are encouraging him to rest up

What's this?

Nah Sitri who you fuckin'?

Tell the class...we won't jump you....cause ya know Solomon ain't there nor is MC so...

who you fuckinnnnnnnnnn

Oh a text? That's who you fuckin' probs I'm callin' it... lmao

So Satan is telling Sitri he's being too mean because the person everyone is wondering who is texting Sitri rn is none other than-

Yup Amy

And Sitri explains that he just wanted to know how he was feeling and that there was other stuff in the text message after that but he said "I ain't readin' all dat" and blocked him lmao

The energy from this devil is real.

Ppyong wonders though why it is that Sitri hates Amy so much when he's normally nice to everyone.

So, how I'm going to interpret this...

I think that Sitri sees himself in Amy, like the brute and feral part of himself that was uneducated and doing just whatever. That raw power and sense of being able to do whatever the fuck he wanted carelessly. He relates to Amy in so many ways it bothers him and he doesn't like being reminded of it, it's like looking at a constant mirror over and over of the behaviors you never want to see that you have of yourself deep down.

But at the same time he can't really blame Amy for that, but unfortunately that's his gripe and his grudge and he won't let go of it no matter what.

And also, it seems that Satan knows truly what it is but because his mischievous and entertained by their banter he doesn't want them to make up like ever.

ugh why won't bae answer my texts like????? LMAO i'm just messin' around.

But at the same time this shit is cute of him. Like he's honestly waiting on a response or like a huge paragraph of Sitri cussin' him out or something

he has a crush on Sitri so bad it's c r a z y.

But anyways he actually cares about him? That's super sweet. I told ya'll in the beginning it seemed like Sitri is way more harsh about their banter than Amy is. On his side it's more like boyish pranks whereas Sitri keeps doing shit to literally inconvenience or damn near kill him lmao

And then it says at the end of this event that the day of Sitri and Amy chilling out on their stuff has yet to come but Gehenna was at peace and their devils are strong and had their own bonds with one another.

And there we have it lovelies. The Satan and Sitri event which kinda felt more like a Sitri event again. I'm slightly disappointed as we didn't really get that much Satan lore and tons more about Sitri instead. I'm actually really starving on some Satan lore because already have so much of the other Kings and barely anything with him...

I'm wondering what the deal is about that. Do the devs just not like Satan as much so therefore put priority into his backstory and other things like his c a r d s on the back burner?

Justice for my OC's man like frfr he out here gettin' crumbs.

But anyways the reason I'd like more insight on him too is that I'm getting into Tokyo Revengers and since this is literally Satan and Belphie's territory in terms of their design and personality type, I'm really just like Y E S ? ? ? MORE??? WHEN ON THE BOIS DAMN.

At any rate I guess we'll all just have wait or just keep griping that we never get anything on Satan and maybe the devs will peep that and listennnn

But thank you all as always for sitting in and reading my stuffs <3 ya'll are cool. Stay simpin' for your faves. -your lovely adminnnnn

[not-pollux]

ℌ𝖆𝖎𝖗 ℌ𝖊𝖆𝖉𝖈𝖆𝖓𝖔𝖓𝖘 ⋆

╭ ・── ・ ꒰ ☆ ꒱ ・ ── ・ ִ ۫ ּ ֗ ִ ִ ֗ ִ ۫ ˑ ࣪  ⊹

  ˚   ₊˚ˑ  💙💜❤️🧡 ‧ ₊ ༄ ROTTMNT

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Warnings: None!

Leo

He's such a blonde.

Like is this even a question? Its basically canon atp 

He would either bleach his hair, or it would be naturally blonde (albinism)

Whether he's albino or not, he's going to be chronically light skinned regardless.

His brothers stole all his melanin 

I like the albinism headcanon because it makes him stand out even more (we love a boy who loves to be the center of attention)

Also plays into the fact that he is intuitive, and therefore wouldn't need great vision to perform exceptionally in battle

Also explains why he likes sunglasses, he's got sensitive eyes

Speaking of eyes, they're blueish if he's albino. Otherwise they're dark brown.

Waist length dreads/locs

His hair needs to be as extravagant as him

100% puts charms in his hair

I'm the least picky regarding Leo’s hair style, anything over the top works. I'm just being indulgent here. I love long hair Leo.

Afrolatino Blasian

4a hair

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Donnie

I'm kind of torn on his hair colour

I know he loves purple and would logically dye his hair purple…

But this boy is also a smart fashion mf. He knows that too much of one color drowns you and contrast is important

But then again… he’s the type to know this shit and just fucking ignore it anyways.

It's either purple or he's leaving it black.

THIS👏🏿BOY👏🏿IS👏🏿DARK👏🏿SKINNED👏🏿

I take no criticism on this. He is.

He has a twin brother who is pale as shit. The melanin had to go somewhere

Compulsory dark brown eyes with his melanin and all

Unpopular opinion but... Donnie would totally have his hair in cornrows

He prioritizes comfort over style, and cornrows are low maintenance for this busy boy and good looking too

Fun fact, he’s actually the only one of his brothers who never wears a wig or obtains hair somehow at any point in the show. 

He’s extra bald.

African Blasian

4c hair (coily coily)

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Raph

The only one that for sure won't dye his hair

I just don't think he has a reason to tbh

He's not quite light skinned but he's definitely lighter than Donnie and Mikey.

He has tons of birthmarks, large ones too. Big ol' one on his neck and smaller ones down onto his shoulders.

Again, compulsory dark brown eyes

My boy has a buzz.

I honestly considered giving him waves but they're a bit too high maintenance to make sense with his personality and habits.

He prefers low maintenance and easy to manage, unlike Leo's hair

He HATES how Leo's hair gets in the way of training and fights, and has concluded he just doesn't want that problem

Durag Raph.

African Blasian

4b hair

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Mikey

Dyes his hair too often to be considered even remotely healthy

orange tips are a frequent choice, but he also loves doing all his siblings' colors (Red for Raph, Green for April, etc)

The other sibling with melanin

Him and Donnie are the Darkskin Duo

He's not as dark as Donnie, but pretty close. He's darker than Raph.

I like to headcanon him with vitiligo, to replicate his spots and on his hands/fingertips as well.

Im being indulgent here lmao

Again, compulsory dark brown eyes

Mikey sports his natural curls.

I don't have a concrete reason for this, other than the fact that I headcanon Mikey with severe hair damage which results in him losing his curls in the bad future. (I took that little swoop in his hair and RAN WITH IT.) Because of this, i also headcanon him with loose curls to make this make more sense lmao

His baby curls wouldn't do too well in most protective styles so he just doesn't wear them.

Afrolatino Blasian

3a hair

My first little drabble :)

[ravemetrotron]

Please tell me more about Zombie Optimus! :D

How long does it take the Team (Ratchet) to figure out what exactly is going?

How much does Miko freak out once she realises that Optimus is a Zombie now? I think her reaction would be similar to her reaction to Optiratch fighting Megatron‘s undead Cybertronians in one of the first episodes but even more intense.

How does the rest of the Team react? Is there someone who struggles to accept Optimus‘ new zombieness more than the others?

I personally think that Ultra Magnus would probably have a hard time with it. Although he only comes in later. Maybe June and/or Fowler?

Ratchet and Bee on the other hand, would probably accept it the fastest (after Miko) because they are already very devoted to Optimus.

When do Optiratch officially become an item? Does the rest of the team have to set them up or do they get there themselves?

Does it majorly affect any of the later events - i.e. Optimus sacrificing himself at the end of season 2: is that or more less dangerous for Zombie Optimus?

And literally anything else that comes to your mind. I find this idea super fascinating!

Sry, I hope this is not too much. ^^“

Hi!! And no this isn’t too much I LOVE yapping!

1st Q: as soon as Optimus sits up off the operation table and seems to have miraculously recovered, even as all his monitors flatlined, it was immediately obvious that something was wrong. Ratchet shunned everyone and did a full examination, discovering quite a lot. Not knowing how to how to handle this, he insists Optimus stay in quarantine, but part of the virus is increased energy and sense of ‘euphoria’ so he doesn’t stay put for long. All of them are quick to catch on that there’s something wrong. Though exactly WHAT takes until their next battle to figure out, as everything clicks when he cannibalizes a con-soldier.

2. Miko thinks it’s the COOLEST SHIT EVER. She’s disappointed she can’t witness some of the carnage herself though, Bulkhead is determined not to let her see something horrific.

3. Most of them are deeply unsettled and think that because his spark went out, he’s somehow not the same person any more. (Bee never doubted him for a second, it was more the others) It takes a full two episodes to completely reassure everybody that none of this means he’s gone, he’s still himself despite drastic personality/physical changes.

4. Ultra Magnus and Smokescreen have it harder. Ultra Magnus knew Optimus from before the war, so Prime feels pressured to try and feel recognizable to him. It fails miserably as he feels like he’s acting out a horrible parody of the person he once was. Smokescreen on the other hand is unfortunate to almost immediately witness his hero and idol tearing into the troops that came to retrieve his escape pod. He’s not even remotely as much a ‘compassionate wise and noble’ leader as he was told.

5. Ratchet is having problems with Prime’s condition for a multitude of reasons. He’s quicker to make decisions and resort to violence, he’s expressive, he’s more open about how he’s feeling and that unfortunately was something he was’nt ready for. They have a steady thing that never needed too many words, especially since it wasn’t important and even got in the way of war. Now he’s seemingly thrown caution to the wind and there’s emotional turmoil. Bulkhead is sort of pushing ratchet to try and do a little more reflection on his own feelings.

6. Yes this majorly effects the plot. One of the biggest characters effected is actually vehicons, now feeling more disposable than ever. Dying in battle is one thing, being eaten alive is another.

Dark energon can create its own class of zombies, but that’s all yesterday news to Megatron now, bearing witness to a FULLY SENTIENT zombie. Can you imagine what he’d do to get his hands on that kind of power?

Of cons to be infected, a single clone may have been the first but he’s not a big problem. When Soundwave is bitten in the fray of battle, he’s desperate to keep the problem to himself as not to affect their already panicked forces. However it is proving to be a problematic virus to keep a secret.

There’s quite a few side plots, it later derails some of the storylines. SoundWave undergoes devastating angst, the autobots have a way less depressing time, and have way more familial bonding WITHOUT a good portion of the souls crushing trauma.

[conkreetmonkey]

I keep almost writing a whole-ass essay on how western film and TV's usage of the sitar as shorthand for "the current ambient temperature is very hot" regardless of whether or not anything has anything to do with India has bled into video game OSTs like a weird game of cultural telephone. I keep not writing it because I want to go all-out, with sample mp3 citations and everything, and it's intimidating lol. This is solely because I watched a playthrough of Antonblast and Satan's boss theme (not really a spoiler that he's a boss since he's the main antagonist from the first cutscene and Anton's quest is very explicitly, from very early on in the game, to find the devil and kick his ass)... sitars. The main melody is a sitar. Clearly a lot of thought and care went into the song, because every other instrument makes total sense for a song that plays when fighting the devil: electric guitar (because of rock and roll's longtime association with hell and the devil), fast loud drums (rock and roll adjacent, emphasize the strength and speed of the devil), a distorted church choir (duh), a long descending note in the intro (because Anton has travelled down to hell and is currently really, really deep in it), some very "celestial" and "hopeful" sounding instrument I've heard in a lot of RPGs (because it's a David and Goliath-ass fight, and it's the devil)... ...but none of these things have the honor of being the main melody, of being in front, of being the main instrument of the song. The fucking sitar does. Because you're in hell, and hell is hot. Antonblast's depiction of the devil has absolutely no relation to India, Indian culture, or anything even remotely Indian. I don't think anything even tangentially India-flavored shows up in the game at any point. But the sitar is used as the main melody of Satan's boss theme, the soundtrack of the big climactic final battle, one of the most important songs in the game, because in western pop culture, random sitar twangs are shorthand for "it is hot," and you're in hell, so we're gonna play you a little song on a fuckin' sitar, bitch. Something about how deeply... DUMB that is, how simple and nuanceless the use of the sitar has become in media, has just stuck to my brain like gum to the underside of a public bench. And like, I'm not shitting on Antonblast, it's a great-sounding song used for a great-looking fight, it's more what its use of the sitar represents, about the absolute sanding down of it as a symbol until it just means "it's hot, because India is hot, and this instrument is from there." Audio equivalent of the Breaking Bad "Mexico filter."

[miveus]

Hey so why does law girl still defend strade if he does all that violence basement shit to her? Also does she like take the collar off every once in awhile when they go to the court house

hi!! sorry for taking too long to answer </3

law girl genuinely believes that defending strade is beneficial for her. not only because volunteering to be his lawyer saved her from getting killed, but also because a case as gruesome as his attracts the public's attention and she needs that. at the end of the day, lg is an independent lawyer in her mid 20's who doesn't come from a family full of lawyers, which means that before meeting strade, she struggled a lot finding clients (and none of them were very important, their cases were all about minor crimes)

one of her biggest flaws is that she's too ambitious for her own good. the other one is that she underestimates people way too much. which includes strade.

so, even if strade hurts her a lot, in multiple ways, and she hates it, she sees this as a small price to be payed in exchange for getting a lot of recognition. if she can manage to defend successfully a case as horrible and as seemingly impossible to defend as strade's, surely more people will seek her services!

of course, after she's done defending him, she can always simply just escape, or better yet, convince strade to let her go! (no)

(law girl is very smart but ar the same time, she's very naïve, believing her situation is better than it really is)

as for her shock collar, she wears a special one when they go to court, that of course allows her to be outside of the house, but that would shock her if she strays too far from the remote control (which is always on strade) lg thinks this is very stupid because everyone would notice something is up if she suddenly got electroshocked in court, but it keeps strade thinking he is in absolute control, and he's easier to manage like that.

[sillygoofyqueer]

Not to be a Debbie downer during these amusing, light hearted times, but I recently left a group chat where some of the people in it had the wildest fucking takes and now I really just need to rant about it before I go insane. So, uh, rant about society and women below (crude language, I guess?)

I'm sick of people sexualising breasts. The whole point of breasts is to feed babies and make sure they have the necessary sustenance to survive. That's it. They aren't there for sexual pleasure or men's entertainment or any other bat shit ideas for it. Get it out of your fucking head that they are something scandalous and wild - and yes, people don't want to show their breasts or anything because society has framed them to be linked to modesty and sex rather than anything else. The fact that we can't picture a life where that is normal is because we have never lived that life - people have never been given the chance because god forbid people with breasts don't cover them up!! Scandalous!! They must be a whore trying to tempt me!!!! Fuck that shit. AND, AFTER I EXPLAINED THAT BREASTS WERE SEXUALISED, ONE OF THESE GUYS tried to be like "hm, I disagree" and I said "all due respect, I don't think you have thr necessary experience to disagree" and he said "what experiences would I need?" And I was like "???? HAVING TITS???"

Linked to this is a comment one of the people in my group chat made being like "oh, what are your guys' opinions on the new Halloween trend" and, although I don't know what it's about, it was described using the phrase of women wearing "nipple covers and body paint", implying they are shirtless. And what do I say to that?? We don't get a fucking opinion!!! It doesn't fucking affect you in any way that is actually fucking remotely important so shut the fuck up! You wouldn't be saying shit like this if a cis guy was doing the same "trend" so why make a big fucking deal about it now?? Awh, are your sensibilities being offended? 🥺 Is baby too pathetic to see that he is the problem 🥺🥺?? Shut the fuck up. Keep your nose out of other people's business and stop commenting on shit like somebody else showing off their body. It doesn't fucking concern you and your stupid beliefs don't fucking matter here. "B-But they're just doing it for a reaction"- once again SO WHAT?? It's not your body, and you don't own these people. Get a grip on yourself, you fucking dumbass.

Finally, let's talk about how the same guy said that he wouldn't date a woman with a high body count because "it shows that she's not loyal" and like...hello??? What the fuck do you think a body count is? Unless someone has cheated whilst in a relationship with someone, body count doesn't even remotely come into play when deciding a relationship. Body count is about sex, and who someone sleeps with outside of a relationship is none of your fucking business. If they want to tell you then great, woohoo, whatever, but it actually does not fucking matter. "Oh, what if someone has a body count of fifty by 22" was this from someone who was cheating? No?? Then who fucking cares. A person's body count does not fucking define them - come on, this is the BASICS of a healthy relationship. Are you implying that someone who has a high body count cannot possibly want to settle down with someone eventually? (Because that's what he did) Would you tell someone who didn't want to have kids but now does that they aren't allowed to be a parent because, at one point in their life, they didn't want kids? Bro was saying "oh, if they can prove that they want to settle down then I'd date them" and I said "how would someone prove that??" and this motherfucker said "by not sleeping with other people like they have for the past five years" LIKE THAT ISN'T THE DEFINITION OF A RELATIONSHIP. LIKE, LIKE HE WAS MAKING SOME SORT OF GRAND STATEMENT. Motherfuckers are so dumb I swear to god.

And god forbid you point out how much of an INCEL they sound like, because nooo, they could never be an incel, they're soooo respectful of women, as if I haven't been having to deconstruct their views on women for the longest fucking time. I give up with that shit. Fuck. Them. "Oooh, I want my woman to have never slept with anyone else and to only ever sleep with me" this isn't the fucking nineteenth century. People don't give a shit about that anymore. Get your head out of your ass and learn to be better or fucking suffer.

GOD. I'm so sorry but I had to get this off my chest, it has been plaguing all of my thoughts since it happened and I'm just really glad I left that groupchat (even if I didn't explain to them how fucking stupid they were for the trend comment)

[haveyouseenthisskeleton]

Hi! How do you think the skeletons would react to the Olympics?

Undertale Sans - He's clearly not a sportive guy but that's all there is on TV right now and since moving his butt to fetch the TV remote is near impossible right now, he's watching. He doesn't think much of it and kinda lost interest after a while. But it for sure helps to develop his sportive puns to annoy his S/O when they'll get home.

Undertale Papyrus - He actually traveled to Paris to watch some games with Undyne! It's very new to them, but it's the first time there's a small team of monster athletes and they want to support them! It turns out maybe Monster sports are a bit different and he was definitely outraged after the Soccer team got eliminated because you can't put the ball on fire or throw bullets at the enemies. Clearly the humans don't understand anything. And that fencing, you call that sparing? Papyrus had to hold back Undyne who was SCREAMING to "THROW SPEARS AT THE ENEMY STOP POKING IT WITH YOUR STUPID METAL STICK".

Underswap Sans - He got sent to help with the security and yeah, maybe he kinda forgot once or twice that he was working to watch the games. Blue is sure he can beat all of these guys in a race but the organizer won't let him try. He's just frustrated. What is the point of watching all these people run and jump if you can't do the same? Please someone rob the stadium so he can chase them, he's desperate for exercise.

Underswap Papyrus - He went to Paris with his brother but he really doesn't care about the games. All he cares about is Céline Dion and he swears he's going to see her before going back home. He actually managed to find her, but when she smiled at him, his brain crashed and he kinda passed out in her arms lol. At least he got a selfie. He woke up and discovered she signed his head because he didn't have a paper. He's never washing his skull ever again.

Underfell Sans - He's judging the athletes from his couch. He thinks none of this is really impressive and that he can definitely do better. His brother hears him, looks at him slouched on the couch from head to toe, smirks, and then leaves. Red gasps, offended. What the hell is that supposed to mean?! He throws bones behind his brother as revenge. Edge suddenly bounces on the couch with an enormous bone in hand as a "To be continued..." flashes on the screen.

Underfell Papyrus - Since it's a sportive competition, he assumed everyone could participate so he traveled to Paris with Undyne, had to bear her for 8 hours in a plane, and when he arrived, he got met with confused eyes from the organizers said they actually can't compete? What the hell? He even put his sports clothes under his regular clothes! That's bullshit! Undyne and Edge decide that they don't need their opinion to compete anyway and go to participate in that basketball game, confusing everyone because now there are three teams on the pitch??? Security actually tried to drag them off, but, uh... One death stare of Undyne actually convinced them it was best to not do that. They actually won the game because the other two teams gave up for some reason. Clearly that "the match is canceled" excuse is shit, they were just scared to lose against them. Shortly after that, both of them got arrested and thrown in the first plane going back to Ebott City lmao. At least they're very famous around the world now as they ended on every news broadcast around the planet.

Horrortale Sans - He doesn't understand half of what's going on and he's just going with the mood. They're all at Toriel's place to watch the games and he is kinda cheering when they're cheering so he doesn't feel left out. He has honestly no idea what's going on and why it's suddenly so important to see people enjoying a swimming pool. He's pretty sure he already asked for an explanation so he doesn't ask and stays completely confused.

Horrortale Papyrus - It's more entertaining than he thought! He was not too enthusiastic at first, but Toriel and Grillby managed to hype him a little because of the three monsters that were participating. Turns out Willow is way more competitive than he thought as well, and he keeps screaming at the refereeing because they're as skilled in analyzing as an oyster! He can't believe how bad they are! He's this close to smashing the TV!

Swapfell Sans - He was invited along with the Queen to see the Opening Ceremony. Let's say it was quite memorable. Beheaded people, child kidnapping, a weird naked man cosplaying Undyne. He didn't know France was that cool! He even decided to stay a few more days to rest and have fun for once, asking every Parisian he knows where he can go to see a public decapitation. He's confused why everyone is looking weirdly at him. Should he say it in French for these stupid people to understand? "Je voudrais voir personne faire couic couic the head s'il te plaît" Somehow it's still not working. Those Parisians, always so snob for no reason.

Swapfell Papyrus - He's mad. They canceled his favorite TV Shows just so random humans he has never seen in his life can run like weird ducks for hours??? When does this even end? Ok, maybe it was funny when one of them suddenly facepalmed into the cold hard concrete, but it was four hours ago. If only he had enough strength to grab the TV remote on the table in front of him to switch the channel. But that means he has to leave the fan and no way in hell he's doing that.

Fellswap Gold Sans - He got places to watch some games in Paris and he's judging all of the athletes so hard, to the point he got noticed by all the TV reporters around the planet who keeps interviewing him to ask what he thought of the game. Wine keeps saying they are running like babies and that even those brainless dogs he trained Underground are running faster than that. He added that if it's the best they can do, surely they won't get mad at him if he takes over the crown of this pathetic country to show them how things are done. Many many heads of state didn't like that and now he's kinda watched by all of their secret services because he's considered as dangerous. Wine later added on his social media that if they got offended by that, he has clearly nothing to fear about them. Maybe it's best to make Wine shut up now.

Fellswap Gold Papyrus - He couldn't care less about those games, but he found a funny thing. He's pausing athletes while they're in the middle of jumping into the water and he's creating memes based of that. They're actually quite popular after a day or two, to the point he gets overwhelmed and pressured to do more. So now he's sleeping in front of the TV, trying to get as many good pictures he can.