#not mad at them obviously just. around them

[artist-issues]

@magicmumu2 thank you for actually taking something from the original movie as evidence for the actual conversation we’re having, genuinely. That’s what I’m asking people to do, and so far, you’re the only one who’s done it (not the second person responding to me.)

To your point:

The manager who made the decision to fire Nani is just as Hawaiian as Nani is, and he fired her because her dog attacked a guest. Nani calls it a “stupid, fakey luau” because she’s mad that she’s getting fired, with no indication that she dislikes the job because it’s an insult to her culture anywhere in the rest of the scene.

They had an opportunity to show “the kid at Table 3” who was throwing poi, and show him to be a little gremlin of a tourist, and imply that white colonists or tourists are part of what makes Nani’s life hard. But they didn’t show that. Because it’s not the focus of any of the scenes.

The only shot that reveals any of the rest of the patrons of this Luau is one while David is fire dancing (which, by the way, there’s an entire shot devoted to him smiling around a mouthful of incendiary liquid, enjoying the show he’s about to wow them with. Not insulted that they paid to watch a display of a traditional fire dance, probably Siva Afi or something like it from the way the artists drew the type of knife/torch he’s holding.) and the tourists were not drawn carefully—you can see that the large bald white guy is duplicated and flipped with a different shirt pattern, and so is the woman seated behind him, on either side of the shot. If the artists wanted to make a statement about the kind of awful patrons that come to a “fakey luau,” they would’ve taken more care drawing them. They wouldn’t have slightly blurred out the only shot where the design of the luau is seen in full, and the kind of people who make such a luau possible, the touristy-patrons, were visible. Right?

Whereas when Disney wants to draw a crowd that is awful, and exploits others because they’re different, they do it with establishing shots like this:

This is from Hunchback of Notre Dame. In the first screenshot you can see the character’s faces close enough to read expressions, which are laughing and cruel. In Lilo & Stitch, no time is taken to create an environment of offense or hostility in the luau.

In the second screenshot, you can’t tell because it’s a screenshot, but it’s a Dutch Angle, where the camera is tilting to convey that something is terribly wrong like they do in horror films, and again, you can actually read the faces of the cruel crowd in an environment that is hostile to Quasimodo. And then obviously in the second screenshot the two guys tormenting Quasimodo have enough camera-focus on them to show their evil expressions, but I also thought it was a nice touch that they gave them hats and backlit them so that their eyes were in dark shadow, making them look more ominous.

None of that time and care was put into creating an environment or backdrop of racism, hostility, or fakeness in the luau scene. Nothing looks cheaply made. David doesn’t look unhappy performing. Nani doesn’t look like she hates the job (just a regular dislike of a rowdy customer who’s throwing a traditional Hawaiian dish, by the way) until she’s fired, and then she responds that way to communicate she’s an 18 year-old who just lost her job in an already-tense situation, and that’s how any young distraught woman would try to save-face in that situation.

Also, the two guys sitting in the front row to the left of David are an Easter egg of the directors, Dean Deblois and Chris Sanders.

If the directors of the movie wanted to portray the luau as fake, exploitative, and despised by the main characters, why would they draw themselves in the front row happily applauding David’s performance?

Thank you gain for making n actual point. I appreciate it. Just because it didn’t convince me doesn’t mean I don’t appreciate it or it wasn’t a good point to bring up; when I mull the idea of “is Lilo & Stitch about racism” over, it is true that that was the only line in the movie that presented itself to my brain (outside of the deleted scenes) as a possibility.

That’s It.

I’m tired of seeing everyone repeat the same four points: “1) Nani gives Lilo to the state! 2) Hawaii has a better marine biology program than San Fransisco! 3) Jumba doesn’t get redeemed! 4) Pleakley’s not wearing a dress!”

Those are not the only things that were bad about this remake. You could easily tell it was going to be all that and more beforehand, but most people’s reaction to the trailer was “it’s surprisingly good!” and now they’re acting all surprised. If you didn’t see this coming, enough to purchase a ticket, you’re part of the problem and you don’t get the original movie any more than the people who made this remake did.

So I’m done being quiet, this is the Lilo & Stitch 2025 Takedown Post.

And as usual the only good thing about an attempted-remake is that it gives people a reason to think about what made the original so good.

Let’s go in order. But just scroll down to the Heading you Care About if you don’t want to read all this.

1. Cobra Bubbles

In this movie, Cobra Bubbles is a secret agent hunting for aliens and they have a new character take his place as the state social worker.

The Problem They Were Trying to Solve With this Change: “We shouldn’t have a black man or a government worker feel like an insensitive antagonist to Lilo’s family.”

That’s a stupid surface-level one-dimensional misread of the character from the original…and it wouldn’t have been hard, at all, for a child to explain to the 2025 filmmakers that Cobra is not an insensitive antagonist in the original.

Cobra Bubbles is not insensitive and he is not in any way portrayed as a bad guy in the original. Nani sees him that way, Nani sees him as antagonistic, because he’s the representation of Lilo being taken away.

But Nani is wrong about him and learns that she is wrong about him by the end of the movie.

Can we please make a list?

Cobra’s first interaction with the caretaker of the child he was being sent to protect was that she ran out into the road, yelled at a complete stranger, and dented his car.

Then he found her locked out of the home and threatening the child inside with a hammer in her hand.

Then he found out the stove was on while she was out, and she’d left a 7 year-old alone.

The 7 year-old made comments about being disciplined with bricks and a pillow case.

The 7 year-old looks like she might be more than a little emotionally unbalanced because she’s figuring out how to put voodoo spells on her friends to punish them.

He still gave that pair of sisters three days to straighten the ship. When in actuality, in 2002, under HRS §587-73, (don’t play with me) the social worker would’ve been well within his rights to remove the child from the home right then. But instead he gives her three days to fix it. THEN

The 18 year-old loses her job.

The family gets a “dog” who he is implied to know is an alien, right off the bat.

The alien is violent and wreaks havoc across town.

The 7 year-old almost drowns while they surf instead of find a job.

He lets the child and caretaker have one more night together to say goodbye, but when he’s on the way to get her he gets a call that she’s being attacked by aliens, hears a chainsaw, and finds the house on fire.

Do you understand what I’m saying.

Cobra Bubbles had NO BUSINESS being as BIG A SOFTIE AS HE WAS for all of the original movie. He was not only well within his legal rights to take Lilo away from Nani immediately, but he was actually required by law, it was his DUTY, to remove her immediately. But he didn’t do that. Why?

Now listen to me very carefully.

Lilo and Stitch is a movie about how “Family chooses to love and commit to one another selflessly, no matter what the other person can do for them or how hard they make it.” The fancy way they say it is just “Ohana means family: family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten.”

Did you catch that? “No matter how hard they make it.”

Cobra Bubbles was a CIA agent before this. A CIA agent who saved the planet, by doing what? Convincing an alien race to leave them alone. Oh, he didn’t fight them off? No. How? He “convinced” them? He talked it out? Sounds like a pretty compassionate guy, for all his tough exterior. How did he do that?

He could’ve picked any animal that’s actually endangered. The filmmakers chose to make him the guy who convinced aliens to value mosquitos.

MOSQUITOS. Creatures that give nothing, only take. Ugly little bloodsucking monsters. That’s the creature he convinced them to care about enough to save the planet.

NOW do you have any trouble understanding why this is the specific social worker who would give an alien-infested dumpster fire of a dangerous home a chance when two sisters are about to be torn apart?

Do you see that Cobra is just another example of the grace that the movie is always talking about? The love that transforms someone from bad to good simply because it refuses to give up even when it gets nothing out of it? I’m repeating myself because I want you to see why he was a well-done character who NEEDED NO CHANGE.

Cobra Bubbles’ character is not an insensitive monster who doesn’t care who his actions hurt as long as he gets the job done. But you know who that does sound like?

2. Gantu

Gantu is not in the remake at all.

The Problem They Were Trying to Solve With This Change: “It’s going to cost us upwards of 1.5 millions of dollars to design, sculpt, rig, animate, and render a character this big in addition to finding a suitable voice actor to play the part.”

This is a really dumb choice for several reasons. A. Without Gantu, there is no “stakes-raiser” to Lilo and Nani’s story. The movie has no climax without him. For the first and second acts of the movie, it’s about a grieving pair of girls trying to prove themselves to a social worker while the story-equivalent of Beethoven the Destructive St. Bernard wacky Jumba & Pleakley antics get in their way. But when a 40-foot tall alien stomps into their lives and abducts Lilo & Stitch in a spaceship that careens around the island during an explosive sky-chase scene, now you have a high-octane, somebody-could-die climax.

B. Without Gantu, Stitch looks weaker. The climax gave Stitch a reason to come out of the wackadoo puppy he’s been posing as and suddenly remind everybody that he’s a lethal weapon who can survive thousand-foot drops, lava, and astronomic explosions—and a giant alien’s Thanos-dwarfing fist. Take him out and who do we have as a match for Stitch to go up against, even for a moment, and prove how much he’s changed to be willing to risk his freedom and fight?

C. Without Gantu you have no villain to reflect that STITCH is no longer a villain. (So they substituted Jumba.)

But the reason this character is really worth millions is, again, the theme.

I told you Cobra Bubbles was a character who did not put “duty” or even “convenience” or “position” over the real lives of Lilo and Nani. He saw that there was love there, and in his own way, he gave it a chance. And even when he chose to take Lilo away, he did it carefully; he gave them time to say goodbye.

GANTU IS THE OPPOSITE OF COBRA BUBBLES.

Gantu is the insensitive, uncaring, unyielding Captain whose commitment to duty turns into rage and cruelty. Not Cobra.

Nani thinks Cobra is walking in a threatening to tear apart their family in a display of government judgement. But that’s what Gantu literally does.

His first reaction to Stitch is to call for his destruction. Without even waiting to see if “it can be reasoned with” like the Grand Councilwoman suggests. He’s merciless. He mocks Stitch when Stitch is captive. And he knows that he caught Lilo, a human, along with him. He doesn’t care. He even suggests that Stitch eat her as a snack.

There are only two other characters who laugh at others’ misfortune in the movie. One is Stitch, the original villain. Then love changes him. The other is Jumba, who made Stitch. Then love changes him. But Gantu never gets changed. He’s only concerned with his job, and with personally annihilating the flaws he sees in Stitch.

Gantu is unyielding, ungracious, and cruel. And he’s big and powerful enough to be a test for Stitch to prove he’s changed. For the benefits he brings to the story, he’s worth 1.5 million and more. But they cut him anyway.

3. Jumba

In the new movie, Jumba is a villain through-and-through with designs on overthrowing the Galactic Council using Stitch, and instead of being redeemed, he’s sentenced to prison.

The Problem They Were Trying to Solve With This Change: “We can’t spend money on our real villain so we’ll just keep Jumba evil.”

The reason this is dumb is obvious. They created their own problem, and the ‘fix’ makes the movie weaker, not stronger. But here’s how.

In the original, Jumba is introduced as trying to self-protect. He’s on trial, and he lies. But when Stitch is revealed, he’s genuinely passionate about the thing he’s created. And he cares about image. He prefers to be called “evil genius,” and he hates the headlines labelling him “idiot scientist.”

You have to remember he’s part of “Galaxy Defense Industries.” They had him making weapons of destruction anyway. He just got too into it with his genetic Experiments, went a little insane.

I’m not downplaying the fact that Jumba is evil at the start of the movie. He is. It is evil to be outcasted from society and then respond to that with, “well, if they’re going to treat me like an idiot, I’LL SHOW THEM, I won’t care about anything except my passion for mad science!” That’s evil.

But it also explains a lot.

I said it in another post. Jumba’s whole utility as a character is that he knows who and what Stitch really is, better than anyone. He made him to be a monster who can’t belong and wreaks havoc on everybody else’s ‘place of belonging.’ Jumba is the audience’s insider’s perspective on what is going on in Stitch’s head, at first.

But when he’s redeemed, it happens fast. And why? Because that’s how plain and simple Stitch is, as a character. Jumba knows Stitch is a disgusting little monster with nothing inherently loveable about him, and no “greater purpose.” So when his disgusting monster is loved by someone? When his disgusting monster is willing to ask him, Jumba, for help? Something totally outside his programming, totally not what Jumba thought he’d ever be capable of?

That proves to Jumba, in an instant, that there’s love out there that transforms. And creates a place of belonging.

There were already germs of that, a desire to belong, a compassion, in Jumba after he reached earth.

He doesn’t try to get Nani fired, he offers an explanation for Pleakley’s swollen head.

He claims he won’t hit Lilo (why would he care about collateral damage?)

He sounds sorry for Nani when she’s upset about losing Lilo, and tries to keep Stitch from bothering her.

My point is, Jumba’s redemption isn’t important because it’s cute or because we need to set up the big happy found-family trope everybody loves.

Jumba’s redemption is important because it is just one more PROOF that what’s happened to Stitch is so incredible. The love Jumba finds transforming his monster is enough to transform Jumba, too.

But sure, fine, whatever, make him a soulless one-dimensional talking head. Whatever.

4. Stitch’s Design

In this movie, Stitch is cuter than he is ugly, and he’s half Lilo’s size.

The Problem They Were Trying to Solve With This Change: “Ugly-cute doesn’t come across as well in ‘live action’ animation. And all the Wal-Mart moms remember Stitch as ‘cute.’ Plus we’ll save about 15% in rendering the animation.”

This is crippling to the characterization of Stitch.

Stitch is supposed to be an echo of who Lilo could become now that she’s lost her parents and may be losing Nani. This scene:

Where Jumba points out that Stitch has nothing, and destruction is his only purpose, is the evidence for that. But Chris Sanders, who made this whole story, also point-blank said it. Stitch is a future Lilo, if she loses her family.

So that’s reason number 1 that he should be her same height. But also, practically, no iconic pair of best friends, yin and yang, have visuals where one is smaller than the other. Especially not if one of them is supposed to be disguised as a pet.

The point is, Stitch is not LILO’s pet. He is her best friend, her other half. But between the muzzle-muscles they worked into his upper lip and the darkened dog nose and the butt-scooting across the floor, the remake is trying to make him more pet-like in relation to Lilo.

That’s not what he is.

I said this in another post. But Stitch is supposed to throw food to the back of his head like a gator—his lips are not designed for forming words. His gums and teeth are supposed to look like a shark’s. His nose is supposed to be too big, stamped into his face. His ears are supposed to be like bat ears, not bunny ears. He hunches forward, instead of bending at the waist like a toddler. His eyes can narrow to lizard slits.

He has to look like he can believably be a disgusting monster. Yes, he can also be cute. But he has to first look like a monster. Because that’s what he really is, in the story. If he isn’t, then LILO’s love for him doesn’t look as powerful.

It is easy to love a cat even if it scratches you, because it’s cute. It’s harder to love a life-sized spider that keeps knocking you down and eating your prized possessions and laughing when you get hurt. Stitch is supposed to be closer to the second one, so that Lilo’s love shines brighter.

But also, practically:

She can’t look him in the eye for emotional shots when he’s that short. He’ll always have to awkwardly be standing on a box or a chair or a bed.

How is he going to scoop her up, hero-style, and leap off of an exploding spaceship with her in his arms, when he’s half her size? He could do it: it’ll look stupid, though. So they just don’t have that part in the movie.

She can pick him up. That alone is demeaning and again, the visuals are silly. Not what we’re going for.

5. Lilo’s Personality

In this movie, Lilo doesn’t like weird stuff, and she screams when she first meets Stitch. There’s no problem that this solves. It’s just laziness and a lack of care about the characters.

I would like to remind you that the original Lilo:

Made her own doll that looks like a shrunken head and pretended a bug laid eggs in her ears.

Makes up stories about a fish that controls the weather and actively deep-sea dives to bring it peanut butter sandwiches.

Has a knee-jerk reaction of using practical voodoo spells on friends who wrong her.

Listens exclusively to Elvis Presley.

Fills baby bottles with coffee.

Believes Nani’s manager is a vampire.

Has fishing nets and seashells in her room for decoration.

takes safari pictures of overweight bleached tourists.

meets a social worker and her first impulse is to ask if he’s killed someone.

Nails the door shut when she’s mad at her big sister.

She’s not friends with pound dogs in that original movie; when they first get there she acts like she’s never been in the kennel before, and originally wants a pet lobster.

I know that we all love that little girl they got to play Lilo, but if you were really being objective, you’d acknowledge that she’s a little girl. She’s not Lilo. She’s a cute little girl.

They did not write Lilo into the 2025 movie. They wrote any old little girl.

You should have known, from the moment she first sees Stitch and her reaction is to scream in the trailer, that THAT IS NOT LILO.

Lilo had a very specific set of characterizations. She was a character with a personality that exploded out of the screen. Every other character in the movie meets Stitch and reacts with disgust.

But not. LILO. She’s the only one to react to him like THIS:

She is literally not like anyone else. She’s doesn’t care that he’s ugly. Or weird. Or blue. Or even bat an eye when he can talk with all those shark teeth.

From Moment One, Lilo chooses Stitch. She chooses to love him. Regardless of what he can do for her. Regardless of how many times he pushes her over or rips up her house or makes her relationship with Nani harder. That is the number one thing about Lilo.

She is desperate for people to stay, but she chooses to love Stitch even though he’s a monster. And she tries to make him better. And her love succeeds in transforming him when nothing else could.

Lilo’s personality traits all mean something in the story. (I.e. she likes Elvis because she’s clinging to the past, she snaps pictures of tourists like they’re safari animals because they’re inherently people who LEAVE and she has issues with LEAVING, etc.) But the thing I think that was so obvious that the moviemakers missed for 2025 is she has to be weird. If she’s not weird, there’s no reason for her not to have friends. And if she has friends, what does she need Stitch for?

But also, Lilo’s personality in the new movie is just boring. Cute. But boring. Cute’s not that great of an accomplishment; any 7 year-old is cute.

6. Nani

I don’t think you guys need to know this. It’s not just that Nani leaves. It’s that “take care of yourself” is the exact opposite of the selfless message of the movie.

In the beginning, Lilo literally argues with Nani after being told she’s “such a pain,” and goes, “why don’t you SELL ME and buy a RABBIT INSTEAD?”

And then breaks down and cries at the thought of Nani wishing she had a rabbit instead of Lilo, later.

Because Lilo is afraid of people leaving. But Nani won’t leave her. Nani loses her job, her own life, because of Lilo. But she’s desperate to keep Lilo anyway, because she loves her. Don’t you understand? The message of the movie was about self-sacrificial love. A love that doesn't care what I get out of the relationship.

Nani starts it. But you know what, David loves her like that, too. And then Lilo transfers it to Stitch, who shows it off to Jumba. It’s a chain reaction, but Nani is spearheading it.

You realize that when their parents died, Nani already would’ve been in high school? With a whole life of her own? Her own friends, her own potential boyfriend, a job she went to, surf competitions (the trophies are in her room.) Lilo would’ve been well aware that that was the status-quo: Nani has her own life. And even a seven year-old can see that that life is being put on hold, but maybe the big sister wants to go back to it, at every turn.

The fact that Nani never does that, never expresses a desire for that, only ever expresses a desire to keep Lilo with her, is huge. It’s the core of the movie.

I don’t think that needs any more explaining.

We could talk more. Like about how Lilo needs to see that Stitch is an alien, because that’s the ultimate test: he’s one of the monsters who destroyed her house, he’s been lying to her and using her as a human shield, he’s a criminal—but she still winds up giving everything up to protect him.

Anyway. My neck hurts and I don’t want to type anymore. But we could talk about the music, the social worker, the grand councilwoman—it just doesn’t matter.

Ya’ll had more than enough details in the trailer to be able to not go see this movie because it was obviously going to ruin everything. But instead you chose to make this twisted corpse “the highest-grossing movie of any Memorial Day.” You bought tickets because they ruined a perfect movie and slapped together an uglier package for you.

Whatever. It was my favorite movie today, it’ll be your Treasure Planet or Tangled tomorrow. Keep riiiight on giving them your money, and keep letting influencers regurgitate the same four obvious facts to you over and over, because they paid Disney to make a talking-point for their content benefit. Whatever.

[twilightofthesandwiches]

I'm thinking more about... how Deltarune Chapters 1 + 2 seemed to have set up certain... Patterns for the game, which a lot of the fandom kinda took for granted that they would apply for all of the following chapters as well.

Y'know, one Dark World for each Chapter, it's going to be based on a location we haven't explored before, each Dark World has it's own Ruler and it's own Super Secret Shadow Crystal Boss and we're gonna finish the game by sealing the Dark Fountain and then walk around Hometown a whole bunch.... Even stuff like the Darkners being motivated by some form of resentment or anxiety about being abandoned by the Lightners and the Super Secret Shadow Crystal Boss being 'fallen from grace' and driven mad by the influence of Someone...

And then Chapter 3 and 4 are both kinda set around slowly dissolving down this seemingly-established formula.

Chapter 3 doesn't have a real Light World Exploration segment at all, it ends before we properly seal the Fountain, and it's Super Secret Shadow Crystal Boss is actually the main route's Supposed-To-Lose-Fight with the Actual Main Villain the Roaring Knight. (Who... we simply don't know enough about to know if they have any narrative parallels with Jevil or Spamton.)

And then Chapter 4 has TONS of Light World content, including gameplay segments against SOUL-less Kris, we get to explore the Church just before the Dark Fountain opens, the Darkners don't seem to feel abandoned or neglected and we also have, like, MULTIPLE Dark Worlds, albeit ones based on the same Light World location. Gerson/the Hammer of Justice fills in both the 'leader' role like King, Queen and Tenna but also the Super Secret Shadow Crystal Boss Role (while also being clearly VERY narratively different than Jevil and Spamton).

And I think... I think that outside of Lore speculations, I think from a narrative perspective it relates to Susie's musing at the end of Chapter 4

of how she wishes things will stay the same forever, cause that'll mean she can keep being friends with Kris and Ralsei.

Like, the patterns, the formulas, they make things feel safe, because you know on some level that the next day (the next chapter) will be familiar on some level, because some things (like having a Weird Little Freak to fight, or the friendship between our main trio) will have to remain the same.

And when they start breaking apart, it's distressing. We know the changes are gonna herald more changes. And, since we are past the halfway point, we know things will end eventually.

Obviously Susie is probably not distraught about the lack of a proper Deranged Freak Shadow Crystal Holder. But these two Chapters have been a massive shift in the way she sees the Dark World and her adventures. She's starting to notice the darker undertones beneath the surface and the Actual Real Stakes involved, rather than this just being a fun magic adventure.

Since most of the audience has actually noticed these darker moments before and has been speculating about them for years, the departure from the formula is the thing that helps to put us in the mindset that Susie is in right now, that things are different than how they were in the first two chapters (days), and those times will probably never truly return.

[hanquokkasjeekies]

[how they react to you being angry/horny] - hyunjin

stray kids scenarios/headcanons

bf!hyunjin x f!reader

word count: 0.7k

genre: smut (i think), established relationship

warnings: licking/sucking (this sounds weird- it's supposed to be hot) ⋆ implied sex ⋆ groping ⋆ slight dom/sub dynamics ⋆ sub(ish)!hyunjin

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card game

“uno” hyunjin says moments before placing his final card down, laughing at your annoyed expression. and you have every right to be annoyed since you just lost for the fourth time in a row.

hyunjin collects your cards before shuffling them all together. “i guess this means you’re paying for bubble tea next time ♡”

you give him a glare before letting out a sigh of defeat. you had really wanted to win– more than anything; and at this point you'll do anything to win.

it’s beyond unfair how you’ve been defeated over and over again by hyunjin who’s just been sitting there all relaxed and… looking so fuckable…. way too fuckable to just be playing cards with.

“just one more time?” now all you want is to win once.

“fine~ you know you’ll just lose again though” hyunjin quirks an eyebrow at you, leaning forward to rest his arm on the table between you.

“what should we make the prize this round? better make it worth my time, baby” his eyes meet yours before he sucks in his lower lip, bringing his fingers up to play with it (an unnecessarily hot habit).

you look over at him in thought before taking hold of his hand and tracing the veins with your nails. “hmm– handcuffs.’

“you or me?” he asks, his eyes shining

“me, obviously, you’d wear them any day”

hyunjin doesn’t say anything, just sits up straight and starts splitting the cards. he’s buzzing with excitement and getting all serious like this card game is the most important thing in his lifetime.

~ a while later ~

hyunjin’s sitting up beside you and waving around his last card in your face. if he’s trying to make you mad– it’s definitely working.

“i told you i’d win-”

“i know.” you cut him off quickly, your irritation showing.

but then you have a thought, the kind of one that should come with a levitating light bulb, and you place your hand on his chest sweetly, “you’re just too good, hyunnie~ my smart, pretty boy, aren’t you?”

his face flushes from the sudden praise. you push him back and he lets you, easily falling to the floor as you hover over his large frame.

you trace your fingers down his shirt before leaning down to whisper right beside his head. “so you’ll let me win, won’t you? since you’re so smart– i'm sure you know what’s best for you.

“we’ll see about that, sweetheart.” he tries to sound stern but it comes out a bit breathy and how his eyes are sweetly gazing up at you doesn’t help.

you smile and lift his hand up to your mouth before kissing his palm and knuckles.

“no, wait, stop– this is-”, he pauses as you take the tip of one of his fingers between your lips, your hot tongue swirling around it as you suck, “...cheating.”

with hyunjin under you, slowly unravelling, the frustration from your losing streak has long gone and been replaced by a smug feeling– knowing you’re the only one who can make him like this.

you pick up the long forgotten card hyunjin dropped next to him. “so it was green” you say before reaching over to place your ‘pick up four’ card on the pile.

with hyunjin pinned below you like this between your thighs, he can’t do anything and he doesn’t even complain when he sees you discard all your cards onto the pile and a satisfied “uno” leaves your lips.

“congrats”, he says wryly, “so, um… will you take care of the little problem you created?”

you look down at the bulge pressing against your thigh. “no way… i only sucked on your fingers, hyunnie, how are you hard already?”

“fuck– i don’t care, just help me out, yeah?”

you place your hand lightly over his dick, watching him shiver. “hmm, okay… but only since you lost, and you probably need help getting over that pathetic defeat ♡”

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[housemdork]

house md rewatch: 1x15, "mob rules"

gay mafia! and not much else to report!

i've remembered this one not because i find it super, super compelling, but because house's exchange with the patient's brother is so funny: "what can cause high estrogen levels?" "estrogen." also, i will be complaining about cameron and house in this one, so if that's not for you, that's just a heads-up!

the mapping of the mafia onto vogler and how he's blackmailing house into conforming is...fine. but it's more interesting - and more insane lol - if we speculate about what house's big secret, equivalent to the mobster being gay, could be. vicodin never comes up this episode, but i'd wager, if this is a subliminal parallel, then that would be it. that's kind of hilarious. queering vicodin (grad school brain activated).

we've also begun the domino-line of who will fall victim to house vs. vogler. foreman is up first as house tries to bump him off the case to give the impression that he's dealing with the supposed dissent in his department. this obviously doesn't go anywhere, but he notably takes it for granted that foreman would stand for such a thing.

cuddy, meanwhile, has her job repeatedly threatened by vogler if she continues to cover for house, which she does. very nobly. and she also makes the first of a very long line of damning statements about house: "he can change." for first-time viewers, house has given no inkling that he can or even wants to; long-time viewers know that this will persist as an endemic problem (cue me getting dragged off stage because i could bring up the series finale here if i tried hard enough).

much later, once the case of the week has been solved (and after wilson has tipped off house to how poorly cuddy is being treated on his behalf), he pays her a visit, where he is certain that "you fought for me, right?"

"to a point" is her response, before giving house 2 conditions (off screen, for added drama, ofc): add some extra clinic hours and fire one of the ducklings. cuddy's "point" has met vogler's profit-first mentality by force; it's nothing short of miraculous that she's talked vogler down from shutting down diagnostics entirely.

that "point" is an exciting thread, however, that will be tugged at till the season finale - i say facetiously because i know what wilson's end point is and it's Such A Good Part Of The Season.

and, guys, house/cameron is bringing me down. during my first watch, i was busy taking everything in, but now that i have some space in my head to digest more thoroughly, it's really distracting. cameron was so hung up last episode on making sure people respected her medical opinion in spite of them not liking her and/or just finding her pretty...only to indulge that exactly in this episode.

i don't care if that reversal/devolution is intentional! if that's the irony, then ick! house pokes fun at her, challenges her because that's becoming their thing, but it just falls flat for me. and i like foreman's teasing (ofc they are friends, contrary to what he claims in later season); "how's your tummy?" made me laugh. but overall, it's just disappointing. chase, please get in there.

but nope! chase is too busy prodigal son-ing it up! absolute dog water attempts at lying abound. and he was definitely giving kid who's trying to talk down their dad from being mad at them. i love this picture.

honestly, i think the only non A-plot moment that was exciting to me was when house and wilson actually permeated the hospital walls! the scenes were brief, but i'm very attached to their bonding via road trips and how vehicles become symbolic of freedom for them both, in different ways. plus, wilson looks absolutely and infuriatingly gorgeous:

and, finally, apart from the fact that the episode's medical plot revolves around a mobster entering the witness protection program so he can be his real self aware from his known life, and his brother coming to terms with that at the final hour, the only gay thing i could squeeze out of this one was about the estrogen diagnosis. house refers to it as the "male flare." flare makes me think of red.

if vogler is the hospital mafia, and the real mafia is gay, then i get to be crazy on tumblr dot com.

[snazzybadger]

I agree with everything said up here, but wanted to add my own thoughts to the mix.

[continued spoilers for Deltarune chapter 3 and 4]

Carol is an interesting Villian to be sure, and it’s because of all the things said above, but there are also other layers to it that I think make her even more of a good bad guy.

I think an interesting first step to talk about her is through comparing her to the Roaring Knight. Now obviously the knight is our main antagonist, they’re the ones creating dark fountains, potentially driving certain darkners mad, and they both tried to kidnap Toriel and succeeded in kidnapping Undyne.

However, we don’t really hate the knight, at least, not in the way we usually hate a character. Deltarune is smart because it doesn’t make the chaotic super powerful apocalypse seeking bad guy a character you can understand, because you can’t really relate to such a character on their own. Instead, the story puts focus on the knight being something other than human, monster, or Darkner. The white light on it’s face moves and warps in strange alien ways, it carries itself with a detached yet intimidating aura, and it does not ever communicate, either only screaming in inhuman ways or laughing with an artificial sounding tone. The knight is more an entity or force than a character, and because of this, we don’t hate the knight, we fear it, because we don’t understand it.

With Carol, however, we easily hate her, and the first reason why is because from what little info we have, we get her deal instantly. Plenty of us know people like Carol, people who are distant, cold, yet incredibly strict and controlling. But she’s also a good Villian because we see how she affects the characters we do care for. Before she shows up, we see how well Noelle and Susie get along. We see them bond over scary stuff, goof off with each other, and simply enjoy being close to the other in the scenes they’re in. Plus, we’ve seen the issues of both characters, and in this case especially, it’s nice to see Noelle let go of her insecurities for a moment and just be happy.

But then Carol comes in, and her hostility and effect on the other characters immediately make her hostile to us. We see the mortified way Noelle acts around her, the way Carol talks down to Susie who did nothing wrong, and the condescending and controlling manner she treats the whole situation with rubs the player the wrong way.

The final nail in the coffin is the last moment we have of her talking to Kris before we leave, the uncomfortable way she grabs Kris’ shoulder, the words she gives to them specifically about always being welcome after kicking Susie out forever, all of it feels like she’s forcing complicity onto Kris after just treating their best friend like dirt. The entire time she’s on screen is used masterfully to make her the most unlikable person in the room, and all in all, I’d say the writing accomplished that goal in spades.

Why [DELTARUNE CHAPTER 4 SPOILERS] is an effective villain: a premature analysis

Y’all I’m literally posting this and then disappearing from the Internet for however long to avoid the spoiler brigade. I haven’t even finished Chapter 4 yet, there could be more I don’t even know. I just cannot sleep and am so wracked with autistic mania that I HAVE to get my thoughts in order or I will explode

Character creation and analysis have always been some of my greatest passions. I still have my Ceroba Ketsukane analysis sitting on the backburner, 24 pages and counting, that exists purely for my own enjoyment. Storytelling fundamentals are things I keep in mind for everything I consume, especially in the context of characters. That being said, known character development strategies can be attributed to Carol Holiday, and why she works SO WELL as a villain imo

Back when J.K. Rowling wasn’t a piece of shit, I watched an interesting video commenting on how Voldemort could have been made more effective as a villain. Which essentially compared him to Umbridge who usually provokes more vitriol within the community and pitched the idea of him casting some sort of life-altering spell on Hermione. I can’t remember the exact details, but it was something to the effect of memory alteration or brain function suppression, to take away the one thing that mattered most to her in life, which was her academic success and pursuit of knowledge, which we see her strive so passionately for throughout the whole series. And then the reader would have to watch her slog through life with no sense of purpose, a husk of her former self, and allow that rage to fester. He then tied this back to why Umbridge is remembered (ironically, less) fondly, because the slights she commits are targeted specifically on known flaws and vulnerabilities of the main characters

It’s something that I’ve carried with me since because it really does make sense if you stop and think about it. Being like 13 at the time I initially clicked on that video with more curiosity than anything because I thought he worked pretty effectively. But by the end I was like holy shit yeah that would’ve worked SO much better. And the more I think about it, the more it’s really on full display here

The reveal that Carol is a central antagonist made me feel things, sure, but the thing that REALLY got me was seeing her for the first time, even before we knew just how connected she was. When Susie commented on the temperature seeming to fall when she entered, I FELT that. Because the previous chapters made SUCH a big deal about NEVER letting us see her. She was always cooped up in her office with hordes of cronies blocking any entrances commenting on how busy she is, even when confronted with our teenaged protagonist wishing to report a serious danger that not even the police is taking seriously. Within our centralized view, that paints a cold, scheming picture right off the bat

We were given ample time to create a caricature in our minds, shaping itself to whatever bounds it would allow itself to stretch. This is a common practice seen in comic book theory, with the idea that a scene that takes place in a gutter (the space between panels, or in other words, not shown) is infinitely more shocking, gruesome, terrifying, whatever you want it to be than anything that could be shown. Because it allows the viewer to fill in the blanks for themselves, and the human mind has the tendency to jump to the very worst. So seeing her pale fur, sunken eyes, stony glare, frigid colour palette, just HIT because it reinforced EVERYTHING that had been festering in our minds for the past however long. For me, it’s barely even been a year. I can’t even begin to imagine those who have been holding it for upwards of six

We’re already starting off with a bang, but the fact she’s so mysterious is then just used to make the small things we DO learn about her even MORE effective. Noelle is scared to tell her she’s locked out of the house. She doesn’t keep keys of important documents anywhere but home. Rudy is spending what could be his last moments terrified of what will happen to Noelle after he isn’t there to “balance Carol out”, in his words. Noelle explains the feeling of seeking out things that scare her just so she can feel comforted. Speaking as someone else with a poor emotional relationship with her parents, the portrayal of Carol as such is not only harrowing, but very REAL. It’s severe enough to push all the right buttons, but not SO much so that she becomes harder to take seriously because a sense of immersion is lost. THAT is just as important, and it’s what really sells the effectiveness

The fact she wants to bring calamity upon the world is awful, sure. But that’s not why I hate her. I hate her because she’s a shitty mother. I hate her because Noelle has gone through so much because of her. And most of all, I hate her because of the implication that she’s using Dess to get her way, if I’m not going batshit crazy and Dess is the Roaring Knight like is seeming to be implied. Hell, she may have even staged her disappearance to be rid of her, as we know Dess wanted to leave home as soon as possible and take Noelle with her, and also that she was a contrarian to her mother’s strict beliefs and did things she never would have approved of. The reveal that, in her words, “I am always welcome in her home” would only have ever intrigued me if I didn’t know what I do about her. Perhaps she has more sympathetic motives than are being shown to me presently! But because these careful steps were taken to establish her not only as an antagonist, but as a VILLAIN, I felt pure unadulterated disgust. And the desire to be anywhere else and do anything else and listen to anyone else and never do what she wants me to do ever

What truly makes a good villain is the combination between narrative stakes and personal investment. And, more importantly than that, the effort to make it believably, groundely REAL, as opposed to overly blunt or performative. I’ve hated Carol from literally Chapter 1, assuming that she was gonna be an invisible driving force for Noelle’s character development and not much more, and now I just have a vessel to fuel all that rage into because the careful work behind the curtain is being unveiled masterfully. The fact there’s even more to know upcoming has my head spinning because I’m already reeling from just how much I HATE Carol, and just how GOOD that is for the story

If you’ve somehow survived my word salad the size of Mars, please please please leave tour thoughts or whatever else. I’ll see it when I eventually finish everything

[sillydeimos]

Have you any headcanons or neat thoughts on 2Bjeb? It's such an uncommon ship but I personally adore two smart old men and their many parallels. Like how Jebediah worships a god who does not recognize him but practically whispers in 2Bdamned's ear.

it might be an uncommon ship, but i ADORE it. though i'll be honest i've never heard of the idea that jeb worships the maker? i do like that idea tho.

anyways it goes without saying, i love 2bjeb and i have many many thoughts. i love many jeb ships, obviously jebhank being my favorite and sometimes polyamory between all three of them but i love 2bjeb just as dearly.

^WTF HOW DO THESE THINGS KEEP GETTING IN MY HOUSE???

-despite both being emotionally repressed in their own right, the one thing doc isn't afraid to do is be affectionate with someone he loves. he doesn't find the act to be degrading and humiliating the way christoff does. he likes slipping his fingers inbetween jebs, leaning against him, resting his head on his shoulder, running his fingers in his hair, etc.

-doc stitching up jebs corpse was an important part of their relationship!! doc wants jeb to know that it genuinely wasn't an attempt to get anything out of it, he wanted to help. i mean it is still doc, so i think there is still a layer of 'i helped you, now we're on the same team', but i don't think he wouldn't not want to help christoff. christoff can't help but stare into the mirror, tracing the stitch line, knowing that this was doc's work. knowing that doc's hands threaded it all together, and it feels....really important to him.

-doc trims and cuts out the dead ends of christoffs hair, and in general does his "haircuts" for him. (haircuts in quotation because jeb prefers his hair long so its purely for getting rid of dead hair at the ends.)

-i've said it before but i really, really do enjoy the concept behind doc helping jeb bathe, it especially means a lot to me as someone who needs assistance in that kind of thing. and christoff, oh christoff, being a guy who doesn't take care of himself, wearing tattered clothing, messy frizzy hair with split ends... definitely needs the help. though the leadup to it is hard for both of them. jeb doesn't want to feel like he's being coddled or pitied, so that's how he is for a while. but the feeling of grime gets uncomfortable and itchy, and in a moment of desperation, he asks doc for the help. it's a moment where he genuinely feels weak asking for it, grabbing onto doc's jacket from behind and tugging it. "...i need help." for him, those three words are the hardest thing to say.

-honestly the funniest thing about their dynamic is jeb having to learn to get over or deal with the fact that doc is smarter then him. that's what is deeply bothering him most of all lmao. which is funny because i don't think doc really care if he is 'smarter' or not.

-jeb's seen some shit so i don't think he'd be shocked or disturbed by doc's scars. considering the kind of people he was around at nexus, it's like, almost mundane to see them. doc is really grateful for it, he'd like them to be treated with casualness. and jeb doesn't even realize how nice it feels for doc to have someone that doesn't flinch at the sight.

-i like the thought of doc doing some prissy hand gesture beckoning jeb to come over like hey c'mere....got something to tell you. and jeb leans in thinking that it's gotta be valuable info. and doc just looks at him and goes "i just wanted to see if you would listen to me. glad to know i have that effect on you." and jeb is SO mad he's so mad he's blushing so furiously like OMG!!!

thank u for listening. old man yaoi. aaaaahhhhhhh (dats me yelling)

[pigeonstab]

(talking about the sans and toriel scene) i agree with you cause at first it was funny but looking at it again, it is not only awkward but also insensitive from both adults???? i too would hate whatever happened if i just had the worst day of my life

also kris should punch him, as a treat

I mean, obviously they can't *know* what Kris, Susie (and us) went through. They're having fun when it seems a lot of her relationship with Kris is lacking in? Toriel is jovial but It's definitely not easy without Asriel around and with Kris being generally closed off now.

To her Kris is wearing the same expression as always. On our side of things It's a bit harder to swallow lol. Like I'm mad bc I know what happened but how could Toriel? If Kris told DR Toriel what they went through don't think she'd be indifferent.

DR Toriel definitely has less idk, gentle parenting? than UT Toriel, she scolds Kris/us for stuff that worries her. She has good intention but it just ends up making her not very viable to go to for comfort? Ig?

Thing is. Kris isn't talkative, we see that they're weird, they don't mention stuff like that, and with no option for us to talk to Toriel there's no communication happening. Obviously it's gonna make it seem selfish for them to be partying while we were in the trenches not five minutes ago

[acartonofnothing]

In defense of Lenore Dove

I think Lenore Dove's writing is very similar to Gale.

In the sense that her relationship to the narrative voice is always told to us not shown. Katniss tells us all the fun times she had with Gale in the forest and we only get a very small snippet at the start of the hunger games exploring their relationship, and absolutely nothing indicates Katniss has romantic feeling for Gale or vice versa.

Meanwhile we get a lot of Peeta. It is abundantly clear he like her, and it's entertaining and sweet seeing Katniss slowly explore her feelings for him.

With Gale we only explore Katniss and him together after she has come back from the games. Obviously changing everything.

Lenore Dove is Gale with a twist. We only get like two scenes where we're shown her relationship with Haymitch, however unlike Gale his romantic feelings for her are interwoven into the narrative, kind of like katniss knowledge in the forest, it is just something we are intrinsically aware is part of Haymitch. Most notably with her namesake ballad, circling around in his head. Lenore Dove is connected with Haymitch but it is switched from her love to her haunting him.

I think this representation of Haymitchs grief is very good as the poem helps illustrate how the undying love he had for lenore is now reflected in his head through horrifying grief.

However this strategy used by Collins results in Haymitchs care for Lenore Dove not fully being illustrated until the very end. Which is why I can see some ppl not fully buying haymitchs love for her or thinking it wasn't portrayed well. However the story is supposed to be a camp tragedy and I do believe that although with the help of Edgar Allen Po Suzzane achieved this.

I need to do more research in the dead wife trope, but I dont think Lenore Dove falls into this, I think the way the tragedy of her death effects haymitch and whole heartedly stays with him, isn't supposed to be romantic. They were supposed to have a much deeper, well-rounded love, but it was cut off too soon. Haymitch is frozen in time canonically like Miss Everdeen. This doesn't represent Lenore Dove, rather how this wasn't supposed to be the end of their story. It's not good that both the love intrest and the lover are trapped in time holding on to a long gone love, neither of them moving on. That's imo a good repsentation of trauma and it poisons.

The dead wife is usually a motivator, but It's an alive Lenore Dove that motivates Haymitch, it's her death that gets rid of his "fire" so to speak. To grow Haymitch has to face his grief and look to memories of his loved ones whilst they were alive.

And then there are ppl who just don't like Lenore Dove cause she gets in the way of Hayeffie. Which is a shit ship anyway 😬 (imo obvi before yall get mad)

There are many things wrong with sotr that I think outway this large critic I've seen alot of ppl have, what can I say I like camp tragedy which again I genuienly believe Suzanne was going for.

[fourquartertoast]

Sirius: Why are you home? Didn't you plan to go out with some of your friends today?

Regulus: I can't go out with anybody. I'm not speaking to them.

Sirius: You're not speaking to your friends? Why?

Regulus: Half of them are mad at me and I'm horrible at talking about conflict, so I'm avoiding interaction until somebody starts a conversation which I have no choice but to engage in. Or forgets about it. I know they won't forget about it, but I really want them to, so I'm pretending it's an option even though it's obviously not. I also know that this situation is entirely my fault and that the morally correct thing to do is to apologise and explain my side of the story, but I don't want to because I'm afraid of making everything worse. Therefore, the most likely scenario is that I put off the discussion until they're even more upset and end up cornering me just to yell at me for it, which will send me into a three-day emotional spiral that will end in some of the worst self-hatred I've ever experienced – not that I'll tell anyone about it, because I'll still be terrified of interacting with the people I'd normally rely on for assistance. After that, we'll half-heartedly apologise to each other and never speak about this again.

Sirius:

Sirius:

Sirius: Why are they mad at– nope, scratch that. Don't want to know. What about the other half?

Regulus: Oh, my other friend group. I realised that most of the interactions I have those friends are started by me and not anybody else in the group, and that made me feel as though I'm putting in more effort than anybody else. I usually navigate social intercourse by copying the people around me, so it makes me uncomfortable to notice that I'm behaving differently than my peers, and I'm now anxious that they think I'm weird or annoying. Therefore, instead of talking about what's making me uncomfortable and dealing with it as a group, I've dropped all communication with those friends and am waiting for them to notice that something's wrong. They will not notice, because they have important things to think about at the moment and I am not exhibiting any outward signals of distress. This will only strengthen my belief that they don't care about me, and our friendship will inevitably deteriorate into nothing.

Sirius: Okay, that makes no sense. Have you tried talking to anybody about these issues?

Regulus: I have not. Normally, when something's wrong with one of my friend groups, I go to the other for help. Unfortunately, I'm not speaking to either group, so I have nobody to talk to about these things. That's why I'm wallowing at home instead of dealing with my issues like a normal person.

Sirius:

Sirius:

Sirius: Please get a psychologist.

[fedrifan78]

Hi ! I have a request

I have this thought of whenever Ferran buys Pedri gifts he always buys him some expensive stuff, and it's always something you would normally gift a woman like a fur coat or pretty jewelry, and he never sees it as something weird or unusual but Pedri obviously does.

Idk I never gotten further into it but i had the thought from that sopranos scene when tony buys carm the gorgeous fur coat, and i was like damn she looked hot LMAOO. And i couldn't stop thinking that Ferran just spoils pedri when ever he gets the chance to (especially when it comes to clothes/fashion bro knows how to dress) Btw Love your fics and writing ugh ur so good

spoiled.

masterlist requested by: anon! summary: ferran doesn't listen when pedri tells him to stop buying him things. word count: 669 (hehe) genre: fluff

a/n: lowk no idea about the second half of this request so sorry if this isn't what you were meaning 😭

Pedri really thought he had made himself clear the last time.

He had stood in the middle of their shared bedroom with his arms crossed, trying to look serious while Ferran held up a tiny box that very obviously contained a new bottle of cologne. His voice had been firm. Direct. “You have to stop buying me things,” he’d said.

Ferran’s response had been a lazy shrug and a kiss to his cheek that completely derailed the conversation. “No, I don’t.”

And apparently, he meant it.

Because today, when Pedri opened his locker at training, a neatly folded baby blue hoodie was waiting inside. Brand new. Soft as clouds. His size. There was no card, no receipt, no note. But Pedri didn’t need one. He knew exactly who was responsible.

He didn’t touch it for a good five minutes. Just stared at it like it might disappear if he ignored it long enough. Gavi passed behind him at some point and whistled low. “You’re the only person alive who looks mad about getting free stuff.”

Pedri scoffed. “It’s not free if it comes with Ferran’s smug little smile.”

“You know you love that smug little smile,” Gavi said, grabbing his boots from the shelf beside Pedri’s and smirking. “What is that, the third hoodie this week?”

Pedri sighed. “Fourth.”

That night, when they got home and Ferran was sprawled on the couch watching Netflix like he didn’t have an agenda, Pedri tossed the hoodie into his lap.

Ferran looked down, mildly amused. “You didn’t like the color?”

“You’re ridiculous.”

“I prefer the term generous,” Ferran said, rubbing a hand along the soft cotton. “That blue brings out your eyes.”

Pedri stood there with his hands on his hips, jaw clenched. Ferran didn’t even flinch.

“You told me to stop,” Pedri reminded him.

“I did hear that. I just chose to ignore it.”

“Ferran.”

“Pedri.”

He patted the spot next to him on the couch, and Pedri sank into it with a resigned sigh. Ferran instantly slung an arm around his shoulders, tugging him in. “Let me spoil you.”

“I don’t want to be spoiled,” Pedri muttered.

“But I want to spoil you,” Ferran said softly, pressing a kiss to the side of his head. “Let me. It makes me happy.”

Pedri didn’t respond right away. He let the silence stretch for a few beats, trying to stay annoyed. He couldn’t. Not really. Not when Ferran always looked at him like that, with stars in his eyes and that gentle little smile that only ever belonged to Pedri.

“You’re annoying.”

“You’re beautiful.”

“You’re not going to stop, are you?”

“Nope.”

A week later, Pedri opened his drawer and blinked down at three new pairs of underwear he did not remember buying. There was a soft grey one, one that had tiny embroideries on the waistband, and a silky black pair that he was not even going to try and justify Ferran buying.

He held them up one by one, shaking his head.

“Ferran!”

There was no response from the hallway.

“Ferran Torres!”

The clatter of footsteps came seconds later, and Ferran appeared in the doorway looking all too innocent. “Yes, amor?”

Pedri tossed the embroidered ones at his chest.

“Adorable, aren’t they?” Ferran said, catching them easily.

“You’re out of control.”

“I just thought they’d look cute on you. And I was right.”

Pedri rolled his eyes and turned back to the drawer, but Ferran came up behind him and wrapped both arms around his waist.

“Come on,” he said softly. “You don’t even have to wear them if you don’t want to. I just like thinking about you wearing nice things.”

Pedri leaned back against him with a quiet exhale. “I already have nice things. I have too many things. You’re literally wasting money.”

“I have money to waste,” Ferran said, lips brushing behind his ear. “You’re worth all of it.”

Pedri’s face went red immediately.

“You’re disgusting,” he mumbled.

“And you love it.”

Pedri didn’t deny it.

- sofía ✎ᝰ.

and @facesblurry wanted to be tagged

[a-griffin-in-the-sky]

Do you view all trans-women as inheretly fetishists? Because there are still those who do have dysphoria not born out of sexual reasons

Hmmm yes and no, it's not a black and white issue. I'm not out here saying every trans woman is some cartoon villain with a panty fetish obviously not. Dysphoria is real, some folks are deeply suffering, and I’m not here to mock that.

My issue isn’t really if it’s a fetish or not. My concern is when that fetish crosses boundaries. When it's used as a cover to infiltrate, dominate, or override actual women’s needs and safety. That’s where I draw the line.

Because yeah, there is a disturbing pattern men with autogynephilia who fixate on womanhood in a way that’s all about domination and entitlement, and who then use that to cross lines, commit crimes, or guilt-trip women into silence. And those men are defended more fiercely than the women they hurt.

So no, I don’t think every trans woman is a monster. But I do think there’s a refusal to examine how fetish and identity get blurred when it comes to male socialization. And how that blurring is too often weaponized against women.

And honestly? In my day-to-day life I’m just 4b. I’ve tapped out. I don’t hang around AMABs anymore, I don’t really do friendships with them, don’t trust them, don’t feel safe around them. It doesn’t matter to me what label they pick. Girl, guy, deerkin, whatever if you were born male, I’m not handing over my energy.

It’s not personal, it’s not even political half the time it’s self-preservation. I don’t care what they’re going through. I’m not their therapist, and I’m not their rehab center for womanhood.

Like, I’m sure I’ve talked to AMABs on here. They slip through sometimes. But usually it’s just me picking them apart, watching the same pattern loop entitlement, manipulation, rage when you won’t play nice.

And let’s be real: no trans woman has ever come to my aid in sisterhood. Not when I’m getting threatened, not when the dogs get let loose on me for saying “hey maybe women deserve boundaries.”

Not one of them has stepped in and said, “Hey. That’s wrong. Don’t threaten to rape her for having an opinion.”

That silence? That’s louder than any tweet.

So forgive me if I don’t buy the sisterhood sticker just because you say “girl.” Sisterhood is action. It’s solidarity. It’s risking something. And I’ve only ever seen women-born women take those hits for each other.

They can’t even laugh at Terf-chan. Like girl… how do you get mad at a deliberately cringey 2000s anime girl with jagged little cat teeth and no eyebrows going “nyaa~”?

It’s literally designed to be over-the-top, satire-core, weaponized cringe and if your identity is so fragile that a fake anime girl saying “baka” makes you spiral into threats and meltdowns, then maybe the call is coming from inside the house.

I call her Terf-chan on purpose because that’s the word you throw at any woman who says “hey, maybe I don’t want male people in my changing room.” That’s the slur you reach for when a woman sets a boundary.

So fine. Here she is Terf-chan. A parody stitched together from every insult, every anime joke, every fake argument you’ve ever made to discredit actual concern. She’s sparkly and she’s got no eyebrows.

And she doesn’t care if you cry (　・３・)

Terf-chan is also just… a pressure valve. A vent. A joke because the real conversations aren’t allowed to happen. I already know TRA types won’t listen to me seriously. They’ll twist my words, ignore my boundaries, call me a monster for daring to care about girls and women.

So why should I be serious with them?

Why waste well-crafted essays on people who call you a Nazi for saying “biological sex exists”? Why offer good faith to people who respond to trauma with “cope harder”?

Nahhhhhh I’ll send in Terf-chan instead, you should to, she is for the radfem community to use.

Use her with Twelve kamojis, glitter fonts, and a saccharine “uwu” voice that still tears there argument to shreds.

Because if you’re gonna mock me anyway, I might as well do it better :3c

That being said I have had trans men come to me, say sorry, own up when they were rude or out of line. I don’t forget that I do see that, so thank you to thoose who have had the ovaries to face me and say "my bad,im sorry"

Like, all my callout posts? They’re because someone threw the first punch. I got a saying if you throw a rock at me, don’t be surprised when I toss it through your apartment window.

I’m not the one starting fights. I’m just the one finishing them.

And I get it anger in the moment, it happens, we all snap sometimes. But the difference is… it’s always an AFAB apologizing when they do it. The ones raised like me.

I mean, I’m not some evil spiteful harpy. I mess up everyone does but I can say, “Yeah, I messed up. I want to do better going forward.” And I respect anyone who can do the same It takes guts.

Still, It’s never an AMAB. Never once had of them who steps back, reflects, says “Hey, I went too far sorry."

So long story short, I don’t care if it’s a fetish or not, I just don’t want them in my single-sex spaces.

We can meet up for coffee, chat about whatever, be cool. But I don’t want to share a bathroom with people born male, That’s just how it is.

I really do hope folks with body dysphoria get the help they need. No one should have to suffer in silence or feel trapped in their own skin.

But honestly? I don’t think just doing whatever the dysphoria demands is the right path and that’s just my opinion.

Sometimes healing looks like hard work, therapy, boundaries, and not rushing into things that change your body or identity without deep reflection.

Everyone’s journey is different and I’m just here saying let’s slow down and make sure we’re not trading one kind of pain for another.

Hope this all makes sence I need my coffee and my allergy meds to kick in.

[artist-issues]

I just rewatched all the Lilo & Stitch movies today and have a new appreciation of Jumba ngl. Especially after Stitch Has A Glitch(best Disney sequel ever. Easy).

If possible could you do an analysis on Animated Jumba? I was looking for a good analysis on him in the animation but Youtube is full of Lilo and Stitch 2025 reviews rn.

I just Like Him a lot

Of course I will! I love Jumba too! (An Uncle to one and all of us)

Okay so basically the main point of the original movie is “Family love chooses you and transforms you, whether you make it easy or not.” Right? I mean, it says “Ohana means family, family means, etc.” but that is just the simple charming one-liner. If you dissect that phrase, based on what happens in the movie, it’s “Family love chooses you and then transforms you, whether you make it easy or not.”

And Jumba is a really good opposite of that theme when we first meet him. Not even Stitch is the exact opposite of the theme like Jumba is, because Stitch is learning where he fits in the world. When we meet Jumba, he thinks he’s already figured that out. Think about it:

When you meet him, he’s on trial for a crime he did commit—and he’s actually working for the same government that’s accusing him (Galaxy Defense Industries.) So it should tell you something that even though he works for a Galaxy that’s United (under a federation) he’s not unified with them. He’s out here making monsters to tear them down. Jumba thinks he has no place in the Galaxy. And for a guy who works for Galaxy Defense Industries, he’s certainly not interested in defending it.

…you know what he is interested in defending? Himself. He’s lying to save his skin at first, but then when they reveal the evidence, he gets overwhelmed with passion about describing Stitch’s abilities and function.

That’s still Jumba defending himself. As long as Stitch is associated with him, (that’s important, remember that for later) he’ll defend his idea, which Stitch represents. He’ll describe his powers, chuckle with glee when he breaks stuff, laugh at the fact that he designed Stitch to be unstoppable and it’s working. Because that’s the only thing Jumba really cares about: himself, and how he thinks he fits in the universe, which is: “I’m a genius, I don’t fit, so I might as well own it.”

He wants to be called “evil genius.” Emphasis on the genius.

Not that we don’t see that much evil, at first. He did create Stitch. He’s definitely insensitive. He’s throwing Pleakley around and insulting him and aiming guns carelessly at children. And he is there to capture Stitch, his own creation, just to save his own skin. But! That’s the thing. Is he in a big rush to do it?

No. Obviously he can’t do much, that’s the point of Lilo being Stitch’s human shield. But even right before that, when he has a shot, he doesn’t immediately take it. Because he’s fascinated with his own creation.

And then for the rest of the chase, he’s just hanging out, enjoying Hawaii, watching his creation. This is Jumba’s idea of a good time—he’s not in a rush to catch Stitch as long as he can watch his creation doing what he made it to do.

In fact, the only moments we see Jumba get mad at Stitch are moments when Stitch mocks him. Because remember, Jumba’s always defending himself.

Even that whole rampage scene, where Jumba’s determined to start doing things his own way and he still wants to take Stitch apart, is so interesting! Because 1) he wants to take Stitch apart only after Stitch has insulted his creator and thrown him across the ocean. And 2) Jumba is excited about being fired, because it means he can do things his own way. And remember, he thinks he’s an evil genius, and the most recent offender in treating him like he’s not a genius is his own creation. So he’s going to get payback.

That’s why he says to Stitch in the woods, “You don’t have (a family.)” And then he lingers on, “I made you.”

Do you see what I’m saying?

For the whole movie Jumba is fine with Stitch as long as Stitch represents him: an unstoppable variable who doesn’t belong in the rest of the universe.

But as soon as Stitch starts insulting him and making his life harder, Jumba turns on Stitch. He wants vengeance. He chooses to get active when he notices that Stitch has developed beyond what Jumba programmed him for: going into the water that could destroy him, and for what? Not to destroy anything, like Jumba intended. But because Stitch is searching for belonging? That’s not fascinating in the way Jumba likes Stitch to be fascinating. It’s not devious. So it’s like in that moment Jumba remembers why he’s there: to catch this little monster that’s mocked him and landed him in prison.

And when he does catch Stitch, he’s beating him up. Because Jumba’s been insulted. And that’s all he cares about: defense of Jumba, Jumba the Genius Who Doesn’t Belong.

But then…he sees Stitch cares about the Earthling family. Even though he knows that Stitch knows that he “can never belong.” He sees Stitch, in one scene, stop being the monster he created, and turn around and ask Jumba to help him save a family that isn’t his.

DO YOU GET IT

Jumba thought this whole time that he was alone in the infinite universe, a genius, and so he owned it. Nobody’s ever going to make a place for him to belong, nobody’s on his level, so he’s going to make whatever he wants to burn it all down. Stitch was just an extension of himself, in his mind.

And then it’s Stitch (an extension of himself) who transforms, so that he can fit into a place of belonging. Instead of being the creature Jumba created him to be, a creature that can NEVER BELONG, Stitch is transformed and teaches Jumba to belong.

In like one funny, quirky scene. And from that scene you can tell that Jumba always would have belonged somewhere, if he thought it were possible. He doesn’t hurt Lilo even when he could’ve, for example, and he does turn around and decide to become a hero really quickly. But the point is, before Lilo’s love transformed the monster Jumba made, Jumba didn’t think it was possible to belong.

He was defending himself. He was even willing to take everything out on the creature he created as SOON as that creature made his life harder. But that’s the thing: Nani doesn’t leave Lilo even though she makes his life harder. Lilo doesn’t leave Stitch even though he makes her life harder. And Jumba is witness to the result of that: Stitch won’t abandon Lilo, even though rescuing her and asking for help to do it technically makes Stitch’s life harder.

Jumba goes from selfish to selfless because he sees Stitch do it, and he knows on like a molecular level that that shouldn’t be possible. But if his monster can be changed by a love that powerful, Jumba learns that he can be, too.

And he like. Jumps at the chance.

That’s what makes him so great. He goes from “I’m special and I’m going to be me, and if anyone has a problem with it or makes my life harder I’ll drop them” to “Love isn’t about me” in like two minutes. It’s amazing.

[juliettejwnewinesa]

Hey I love ur writing sm! ♥️

Could you do dominant baku x jealous female reader smut? Basically baku was volunteering at the youth club with reader, Gotak, sieun, and junate because of the underpass thing with hyo-man, some girls came up to him and started talking to him. You didn’t get to hear what they were talking about but baku was smiling and laughing. you walked up to baku when you guys finished volunteering and tapped his shoulder. You then got mad. He didn’t argue with you and stared at you, after you finished, he said you done? You looked at his lips and gulped. He noticed and smirked. You dragged him to the restroom and shoved him in a stall, he locked the stall and (it leads to nsfw!) (sorry if it’s a long request, it’s my first time requesting lol)

Title: Locked In Pairing: Humin (Bakugo) x Female Reader Setting: Post-Underpass Volunteer Event (WHC Timeline) Tags: Jealousy, Dominant!Baku, Rough Sex, Semi-Public, Restroom Stall, Dirty Talk, Possessive Behavior, Reader-Initiated But He Takes Control

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The community center buzzed with the kind of controlled chaos that followed a cleanup shift. Folding chairs scraped the floor, plastic tables clacked as they were put away, and the scent of cheap cleaning spray hung in the air. You had been working alongside Humin, Gotak, Si-eun, and Junate all day—doing damage control after that whole underpass mess with Hyo-man.

You were tired. Sweaty. Hungry. And now, pissed off.

From across the room, laughter cut through the haze. You looked up—and there he was. Humin. Leaning one shoulder against the vending machine, hoodie half-zipped, sleeves rolled up, that cocky jaw of his tight as he laughed low at something one of the girls in front of him said.

Three of them. All a little too close. College girls by the looks of it, pretty in that practiced, glossy way.

You watched as one flicked her hair behind her ear and said something. Humin smirked.

Your stomach turned.

You didn’t hear what she said. Didn’t want to. Your ears were already ringing with white-hot jealousy.

You dropped the rag you were using to clean and stormed across the room.

"Baku," you snapped, tapping his shoulder hard enough that his smile dropped instantly.

He turned slowly, lazily, eyes dragging from your face to your heaving chest. "What."

"What the fuck were you laughing at?"

He blinked. "You're mad?"

"Obviously. You looked like you were about to give them your number."

"I wasn’t."

"Well, it looked like it."

He just stared. No apology. No defense. He didn’t even bother glancing back at the girls.

"Are you done?" he asked, voice quiet, rough.

You opened your mouth to keep yelling, but your gaze dropped.

His lips. Slightly parted. Still curved. Wet from where he'd just licked them.

You swallowed hard.

He saw it.

Saw the shift. The way your thighs tensed, jaw locked.

And he smirked.

You grabbed his wrist and yanked him away without another word.

The bathroom was cold. Fluorescent lights buzzing overhead. You kicked open the last stall and pulled him in, heart hammering.

He stepped inside. Calm. Silent.

Click.

He locked the door.

Then he turned.

"So that’s what this is about?"

You shoved his chest. "Don’t pretend you didn’t know."

"I wasn’t flirting."

"Didn’t look like it."

He grabbed your wrist. "You jealous?"

"Fuck you."

"Yeah?"

He shoved you against the stall wall, mouth grazing your ear.

"You pull me in here just to curse at me, or you gonna do somethin' about it?"

You yanked him closer by the hoodie, lips crashing into his. It was messy. Angry. Wet.

And he groaned into it.

His hands grabbed under your thighs and lifted you effortlessly, pressing your back to the metal wall as you wrapped your legs around him.

You could feel him—hard, thick, grinding into you through your jeans.

"So fuckin' cute when you’re mad," he muttered. "Bet your cunt's soaked just from watchin'."

You slapped his shoulder. He caught your wrist mid-air.

"Keep that up. I’ll tie your hands to the fuckin' rail."

You whimpered.

He smirked.

Your pants came off fast. So did your panties. He shoved them into his pocket with a grin.

"Gonna keep these."

He dropped to his knees and buried his face between your legs, tongue hot and relentless, licking up everything you gave him. You bit down on your fist to stay quiet.

"Taste fuckin' perfect," he muttered.

When you were shaking, he stood and undid his belt.

You reached for him.

He caught your hand. "Nah, baby. You wanted this? You take it. Not gonna let you pretend this was all me."

You nodded frantically.

He lined up, thick tip pressing into you, and slammed in.

You choked on your moan.

"That’s it," he grunted. "You like bein' jealous? Then you take it."

His thrusts were brutal. Deep. Every snap of his hips made the stall shake.

You wrapped your arms around his neck, biting into his hoodie to stay quiet.

"Mine," he whispered against your throat. "You think I'd look at anyone else when I got a pussy this fuckin' good?"

You clenched around him.

He groaned. "Do that again. I fuckin' dare you."

You did.

And he lost it.

Fucked you so hard your back scraped the metal. His hand slid between your legs and rubbed you fast, desperate.

"Come," he growled.

You shattered around him.

And when you did, he buried himself to the hilt and came with a broken growl, biting your shoulder hard.

After.

You clung to him, trembling.

He pulled out slowly, sticky and sensitive, and kissed your jaw.

"Next time you get jealous," he whispered, tucking your panties back into his hoodie pocket, "just tell me. Or drag me somewhere darker."

You hit his chest weakly.

He smirked.

You kissed him again.

And this time, there was no anger. Just want.

[no-144444]

꩜summary: you're not in love... obviously... seriously!

꩜pairing: sebastián montoya x fem! reader

“It’s convenient!” you argued. “It’s not like I’m in love with him, he’s just helping me out.” 

Alex stared back at you, completely and utterly unconvinced. “Sure, and I didn’t cause an 11 car pile up in Monaco,” he nodded. “You clearly have this under control.” 

Irish sarcasm, isn’t it great. You rolled your eyes. “Alex, come on, he’s just-”

“The love of your life,” he finished for you, and you swore you would have rung his neck out. 

“I’m not in love-!”

“Oh! So the sky’s never been blue?! I’m shocked,” he deadpanned. “He’s in love with you-”

“Who’s he?” Sebastian rested an arm around your waist, smiling as he looked between the two of you. “Is it Verstappen wannabe here?” he asked, pointing at Alex, who chuckled mockingly. The nickname had spread like a wildfire throughout the F2 paddock, and it was kind of funny. The 11 car pile up was no joke and it was great that they all walked away with no injuries. 

“At least I’m not being shown up by my teammate,” he bit back as you just watched between the two of them. “Bye Y/n, see you on track Sebastian.”  

“What did he want?” he questioned, turning his attention to you, dropping his hand from your waist. He was all too aware of how strong he came on there, and how silent you got. He hoped he hadn’t ruined anything. He really hoped the ‘he’ Alex was talking about was him, because it meant you were talking about him, which settled a small colony of butterflies in his stomach.

“Just a chat,” you shrugged, turning to him. “How are you?” 

“Better now that you’re back in the paddock,” he smirked. “Where were you?”

“Busy,” you teased, walking on, ahead of him. He raised a curious eyebrow and followed. “Had some family stuff. Hope it wasn’t too terrible without me.” 

“Well I survived, but just barely,” he teased. “Best if you don’t go away again.” 

You just laughed. What the fuck does one say to that? How does one respond to blatant flirting? How does one keep their cool? “I’ll try to stay in the paddock,” you smirked. “No promises.”

He could’ve sworn he’d died and gone to heaven when you looked at him like that. 

Travelling with Sebastian was good in some ways, and shit in others. You got free flights because of his sponsors (or something like that), simple boarding and disembarking experiences, luxury lounges, etc. It was shit, because well… Sebastian was there. That was the shit part, not really. It was this weird tension you two had going on between you. This will-they-won’t-they bullshit, and there seemed to be no end in sight. Yeah, you guys kissed sometimes, and you hooked up. He was sweet. He was nice. You had no idea if he was your boyfriend, or even actually interested in you.

“Is this the girlfriend?” his dad teased as you walked up behind Sebastian, who went bright red. This could not be happening right now. He stared at the two of you with an expecting smile, and your jaw just dropped, unsure of what to say. What does one say to that? Had Sebastian told his dad you were his girlfriend to let you on the flight? Would he be mad to know Sebastian was just letting anyone on? Were you about to have to find another way to Barcelona?

“Dad,” he groaned, covering his face. You continued to stand there, shocked. He nudged his son and laughed. 

“Come on son, it’s a joke! We both know you’re too pretty for him,” he winked at you and smiled, and you pretended that you weren’t actively losing your shit.  You let out a small laugh, trying to regulate your nervous system as the adrenaline in your blood slowly dissipated. “Let’s go, shall we?” 

He set out in front of you as Seb stood back, waiting for you. He nudged into you as you walked from security, an apologetic smile on his face. “I’m so sorry, he makes super ill-timed jokes sometimes,” he admitted, embarrassment clear in his features. “You alright?”

“Yeah, of course,” you nodded, letting out a nervous laugh. “Just… caught me off guard.” 

He stared at you for a second. “Why would that catch you off guard?” 

“Because I'm not your girlfriend?” you chuckled. “Are you sure you weren’t hurt during the race? I know you didn’t crash but-”

“What?!” he squeaked. People stared. He cleared his throat. “But all the…” he trailed off, knowing his dad was within ear shot. “So that didn’t mean anything or…?”

“Oh no!” you took his hand. His face dropped. “I mean yes! Yes, it meant something!” you corrected yourself. “It meant something to me, I just didn’t know if it meant anything to you.”

“Of course it meant something to me,” he said, like it was obvious. “You mean something to me.”

You softened. “You mean something to me too,” you admitted. “So… we’re dating?” 

“I thought we had been this whole time,” he scratched the back of his head. 

So maybe you were in love. And maybe Alex was right.

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[alongtidesoflight]

i swear my stepdad is so illogical AND stubborn it hurts

[wazzappp]

IM SO SORRY IM LATE BUT I BROUGHT SNACKS (art).

Ohhhhghgh good golly ms molly these ideas fucking AAAAAGHGHHGHH

Okay okay I do not know as much detailed information about star wars but may I propose a BAREBONES outline for what COULD happen that involves most of this + Robbies fall to the dark side:

Robbie has been stuck with Eli while running from the Jedi with Gabe for about maybe a month and hes starting to understand that Eli is kind of a shithead. But by then Eli has sort of bound himself to Robbie through the force. Robbie is not a fan of this.

So Robbie goes to a planet with a long history with the dark side in the hopes to learn enough about it to get rid of Eli, Dathomir (sure, Eli gives lots of information about the dark side, but only what he wants Robbie to know).

He leaves Gabe in the ship (durable walls, good defenses, should be the safest place for him. Plus the fucky wucky jungles are not so great on his mobility aids) while he visits some old ruins hoping to gather information.

While he's there he runs into a nightsister, Lisa, and shes not the most welcoming of some stranger fucking around in her covens ruins. They fight.

While this is happening, the jedi are finally able to find out where Gabe is and basically kidnap him. Robbie can hear Gabe calling out for help in the force but he's a little preoccupied with Lisa. Once he's finally able to get away from her, he books it out of the ruins and tries to stop the ship from leaving with the force, but fails.

Lisa eventually catches up to find Robbie cursing the fuck out of the jedi and that one meme audio plays in her head (now look at me and this opportunityyyyyyy standin right in front of me). And she's like 'oh shit I didnt realize you hate the jedi. you wanna like. go track them down and rip them to shreds?? Cause I am so down to help with that' (fuckin amazing dialogue from me I know just top tier) And thats how Robbie ends up working with another dark side user. (also can have a moment of dispair for Robbie when Lisa basically goes 'oh you reject the light I didn't know you were cool like that' hes still TRYING to hold on okay)

MEANWHILE Gabe is onboard a ship with the clones to be taken back to Coruscant and hes mad as hell at first, tries to escape a few times, but as about 2 weeks go by he starts to realize the clones are pretty chill and kinda befriends them.

THIS IS WHEN ROBBIE SHOWS UP. Dude is pissed. MEGA pissed. The clones try to stop him from taking Gabe back and obviously that wont stand.

Robbie and Lisa kill all of them.

From Gabes perspective, his brother just showed up with a sith adjacent stranger, fully using the dark side, crystal bled with hate, killing indescriminantly, it's like every single thing the Jedi council were ever worried about has come true.

For Robbie, he's finally gotten through the last of the fucking assholes stopping him from getting his brother back, only to discover that Gabe is HORRIFIED and desperatly trying to convince him not to kill any more members of the crew. But they've seen the two of them they know the ship they're flying they have to DIE. Its the only way to make sure he and Gabe can stay together.

Gabe's refusal only makes Robbie frustrated. He grabs Gabe's arm and tries to pull him to their escape route but Gabe uses the force to break free and run away, sealing one of the large hanger doors behind him to seal them apart.

Robbie can only conclude that the Jedi have turned Gabe against him, the way they spent so much time showing Robbie how to turn against himself. Now that he has a nightsister on his side, he's able to finally do whats necessary to get his brother back.

If theres a way to fuckin. Make this work with Ventress being Lisa's teacher I am like. SO down. I love that. please SW loremasters help me make it work 🙏🙏🙏🙏

I've been deep in my Star Wars thoughts for the past few weeks, and while I've been leaning more into the Clone stuff, the Force users have definitely been on my mind too.

So, naturally, my mind is also returning to ideas for Ghost Rider/ANGR Star Wars AU

I just can't get over the tragedy of @wazzappp's version, because the likelihood of that ending well is so slim (Part of me is rooting for the boys, but another part of me… >:D)

Like, Robbie gets to the point where he’s using the Force to break people’s jaws, and we all know what happens when a Force user starts to utilize the dark side more and more…

Gabe having to watch the dark side consume his brother? Robbie starting to seclude himself with the holocron but getting continuously more aggressive and defensive over Gabe?

The way it would almost certainly lead to Robbie hurting or even killing Gabe? Because that’s what happens when you let the dark side run your life.

Anakin was obsessed with his love for Padmé, and when he was all coked out on the dark side (because it’s like a drug, a high that consumes you), he strangled his PREGNANT WIFE. Dark side users killing their loved ones happens so often that it’s almost a guarantee. (I mean, hello, Arcann and Thexan??)

Dudeeeee I’m unwell… There has to be that breaking point. The turning point. Robbie hurting Gabe so badly that he has to choose right then: find balance through the light side of the Force or let the darkness consume him. Can you imagine how much more fucked up he’d be if he straight up killed Gabe? It would be the perfect opportunity for Eli to nestle right up to Robbie’s soul.

But if Robbie didn’t kill Gabe—if he just hurt him real bad and went off on his own to stew, to make sure Gabe would never be in danger from him again—then we could see Robbie fall and Gabe pull him back.

Can you imagine it? Years passing? The confrontation between them?

Gabe would inevitably pull Robbie back to the light (Eli kicking and screaming through him), but the sheer ANGST of the whole process.

But can you imagine how Robbie feels seeing Gabe take his crystal—the crystal he’d bled after he’d nearly killed his little brother—and purify it? Bro’s gonna be breaking down HARD for a MINUTE

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OKAY! Enough angst! Time for some fun thoughts:

First of all, NIGHTSISTER LISA!!! NOWWWWW!!! Goth RE!Lisa isn’t enough for me; she needs to be Goth in Star Wars too! Give Robbie and Lisa a Cal/Merrin thing during the reign of the Empire (No, I’m not nice enough to craft a Palpatine eats shit AU just yet; maybe someday, but not today)

Second of all! Johnny needs to slut it up! Him and Quinlan definitely have some overlapping undercover experience, knock boots, and get extra toxic with it! Ventress is hitting that too! (and of course, Obi-Wan would NEVER dally about, but what happens outside of the temple stays outside of the temple 😉)

Third of all! Danny and Alejandra as Cuy'val Dar! IDC if I have to slightly tweak ages, I’ll make it work! They’d eat the Mandalorian look UP. I’d kill to see them beefing with Priest and Issy, not to mention them training their own group of lads.

All right! I’m cutting things off there for now since I don’t want to get too deep into it when I have impending work to take care of