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I bring a sort of "Damian is the only Robin who could technically be called a child soldier" vibe that nobody really likes
#forever shaking this concept like a fucking grogger#like#1. robin is about agency and choosing to make a difference#2. you cannot choose something with full informed consent if you have never experienced the other side#3. Damian has lived his entire life as a soldier. he was raised as one. he was taught as one. he does not know how not to be one.#4. he does not think he has value to his father as anything else#5. Damian cannot consent to not having a normal childhood because*he has never had a normal childhood*#like. this is TEXT. THIS IS TEXTUAL.#everyone loves talking about Damian not wanting to be Batman anymore once he's experienced vigilantism or not wanting to commit violence#once he realizes he DOESNT HAVE TO#and how he's gentle and loving and creates art and and and#no one is taking it to the logical conclusion?????#anyways Bruce was right to deny him Robin when he came to Gotham and Alfred (and dick....) should get so much shit from Bruce when he gets#back#mostly Alfred. because it was Alfred and the butler should know better
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Learn from who? Learn from you?
Chen Bowen as CHEN YI & Chiang Tien as AI DI KISEKI: DEAR TO ME (2023)
#kiseki: dear to me#kisekiedit#kdtm#kiseki dear to me#ai di x chen yi#chen yi x ai di#nat chen#chen bowen#louis chiang#chiang tien#jiang dian#userspring#uservid#pdribs#userspicy#userjjessi#*cajedit#*gif#uh huh. mmhm. parallels and shit#OK LIKE. in nice words ai di essentially tells chen yi to go for it BUT bc hes a Lil Shit he says it like 'use force to PROVE how you feel.#followed by '.....OH WAIT YOU CANT BEAT HIM'. the way he rubs that in chen yi's face too like it isnt even 'youre weaker than him.'#it's you're LOWER than him. & thats why ai di calls him a coward bc therell always be a divide between chen yi & cdy that chen yi wont cros#and the point of this is - okay i know chen yi is literally picking ai di up and throwing him around here but also you have to remember#ai di LETS HIM. ai di doesnt fight back as hard as he could and that puts them on EVEN. EQUAL. GROUND. every time.#& yeah theres some comedy to it but you cant Ever forget that ai di wants chen yi to want him. needs it. he's faking sleep in the 1st scene#and once chen yi realizes what he wants he puts everything he has into keeping it - inadvertently taking ai di's advice by doing so -#& expresses it in every kind of way too. whatever it takes. bc between the two of them its not just 'bring him back' it's 'bring him HOME'#in a way thats based on the constantly being witness to the worst of each other & choosing it AND. years and layers of trust & love.#..ok only I would take a gifset of chen yi picking ai di up & make it abt how their relationship is perfectly balanced. but im right so idc#the last one ties it all together in my onion. chen yi got him home. and ai di's deliberately allowing himself to be loved. they won
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I hate the insistence in pushing Jason into the batfamily.
If he doesn't wanna go to dinner, he doesn't have to. If he doesn't wanna hang out with them, he doesn't have to. If he doesn't want to see them, he doesn't have to. If he doesn't even want to contact them, he doesn't have to.
It's so annoying to read fic and always see it presented as his Family Knows Better. Jason is just being silly by not realizing how much they love him and he just needs to let them break into his home and comms and life because they want him there.
#my dc posting#jason todd#red hood#batfamily#like genuinely how do yall write this shit n not realize how fucked it is#i hear jason say he doesnt wanna do something w his family and im like HELL YEAH ASSERT UR BOUNDARIES#him being strongarmed into dinner despite knowing its gonna be a shitshow n judged heavily if he doesnt show is like. a fucking staple#of fic and im SOOO done w it#do none of you think? really do you even think??#ig its the difference in perspective between viewing the batfamily as the Ultimate Good thing. the place they all should strive to be#instead of the mess of toxicity and stalking n abusiveness it is#and even in content where the batfamily is actually as healthy as they can be jason still doesnt have to do anything w em!!!#hes completely justified to not contact them. thats his fucking choice and boundary n writing his family prancing right past all that#does Not endear me to them sorryy!!#i once saw someone explain jason as low-contact and i was like. yeah. i love that. let me have that please#its not that i hate seeing him in the batfam. i just think it should be HIS choice
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even though shen yuan disdains wife plots, i feel it's because they're often so contrived and the wives are always damsels in distress, and when the system puts him in one it's against his will and he has no control over it, BUT, i think if he makes the choice to put himself in one on purpose and with a plan, he would excel at it, he would play into it so hard to get what he wants, he'd see it as his opportunity to cheat the system (pun intended!) and farm easy points
#''im not an actual damsel in distress if im just acting'' -shen yuan | damsel in distress#hed get the other peak lords to fuss over him so quickly#all wrapped around his finger#i think the biggest issue is really the control and agency of it#shen yuan doesnt like not having control over his own actions and choices#so when he makes the choice himself to play a certain role for his own gains he wouldnt care at all#(also i headcanon he likes getting fussed over once in a while)#(and being carried like a princess by big strong men)#''all the princes come to save the princess!'' <- shen yuan not realizing that princes fall in love with princesses#white lotus binghe would get sooo jealous too when liu qingge carries sqq home after a flare up#he cant wait to grow up so HE will be carrying shizun around#anyway just a random thought#svsss#shen yuan#shen qingqiu#scum villian’s self saving system#scum villian self saving system#scum villain#luo binghe#damsel in distress trope
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Its folly to think Alfred's favorite is anyone other than Bruce. That's his son, and he would throw any of the Robins under the bus (even a recently dead one) for Bruce's well-being
#dc comics#i feel like alfred and robin is so so interesting#he starts out wanting to protect them in a lot of continuites#but (imo) once he realizes the impact they have on bruce he stops complaining#he enables a lot of Bruce's behaviour + priotises him in narratives like with Dick and Zucco when Zucco gets out#even the whole thing with we are robin - he creates a league of children to be robin when bruce has anminsai#speaking og when bruce has amnesia he makes sure no one gives him his memroeis back for Bruces happiness#even tho Damian literally now has no parent figure and cant go back to the manor#and when this happends to Dick he doesnt stop them from giving Dicks memories back#even stuff like saying reponding to Dick's “Bruce didn't have a light” “he had you"#like thats so sweet in theroy but its also like... it puts the pressure on Dick to get better#we need you Bruce needs you so get better as oposed to hey let someone else carry that now#idk maybe that was mostly bc thenarrative was carrting that#OOOH DONT EVEN GET ME START ON ALFREDS RETURN#okay this might actually be another post now ngl
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"I need to remember you." "Well does it work?" "...Once"
Bonus +
#werewolf by night#jack russell#elsa bloodstone#lissa russell#marvel#marvel comics#comic#werewolf#mcu#wwbn#wbn#mcuedit#marveledit#gifedit#tw: flashing gif#you CANT convince me that he was talking about ANYONE else but his sister in that moment#all of his other friends that have faced the werewolf either had mind powers or got attacked in some way#you CANT change my mind#and while we're at it#lissa is being INSANELY brave in this scene like no one else has ever told this guy to not be afraid#like once she realized its jack- she had no fear left in her body at all like he doesnt scare her and that is just insane to me#god i love it here
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utterly random late night panic thoughts but
if you read my zelda comic and like it i love and appreciate you but i really do need to be upfront about it being very much a self indulgent enemies to lovers story with a villain at the center that has done bad but isnt bad at his core and is struggeling to come to terms with the fact that he doesnt actually want to be the evil beast he and almost everyone else believes he should be
yes im one of those people ... fake villain fans or something ... i think .. i dont know the rules to that ... q-q
#ganondoodles talks#i thinks its in part the time thats making me suddendly panic about that#like i often see posts from people that are like fake villain enjoyers make the guy into a good guy#and real villain enjoyers are those that like him bc he kills people#or making fun of or generally seeming very agressive towards people that redeem villains#and i have no idea if id be counted among them bc im kinda doing it#yes he killed people but no he doesnt like it and doesnt want to#im one of those cringy softies that are like .. but what if villain ... good#of course im trying to make it make sense and with alot of extra written lore#like i made an entire world up just for demises backstory#but im undenialbly afraid that some people will tear my comic apart once they realize i made him not all that evil#again i have pretty much read no fanfiction and am unfamiliar with alot of common fanfic tropes and stuff so#i got no idea what is commonly understood as the wrong kind of villain fan or soemthing#I DONT KNOW THE CRINGE RULES I JUST HAVE LOTS OF BLORBO THOUGHTS#i need to go to bed
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I love ggy so much how did they accidentally make the most intriguing hypothetical gay romance ever
#also the book is just so fucking good#and tony becker is literally the best fnaf book protaganist ever once you understand his character#and how crazy the book writes him#like oh my god hes so tunnel visioned doomed by the narritave#any scenario where tony survives the attack is the best idea ever like fr#its just so fun and awesome to make stuff up with that very loose premise#like u can do anything#and the characters are likeable too because they have FLAWS#tony isnt a bad person hes just in a bad place and is an asshole without realizing#and also twelve#like how am i not supposed to become obsessed with beckory when tony spent the whole book#accidentally obsessing over gregorys evil side and then being so tunnel visioned by his own emotional baggage that it kills him#exactly how his father warned him#and his father is the reason hes even so deep into solving mysteries like#and u can put that onto gregory if tony ever survived the attack#like he wouldnt want to believe it the same way he didndt want to believe his dad did it and repeat history#by delving deep into ggy#like damn every relationship ever with gregory is so fucking interesting#ggy never stop being awesome#pandas.txt#obviously beckory isnt the only reason i like ggy but damn its a big reason#tony and Gregory are both so flawed and have so much going on in their head theyd be fucking crazy together#also expanding on the tony stuff i said earlier gregorys side has so much potential too like#even if tony died if gregory ever remembered hed mourn tony and have to deal with that#even if they werent even that close at the time and Gregory doesnt even like. actually have any memories of being friends with him#and if tony survived its like gregorys remembering this faceless nameless boy as the only connection to his past#like what if they both searched for eachother after surviving what then
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I need to watch Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure to reach my final conclusion on if she's even attracted to men
#girl help i keep thinking about sharpay and ryan being each others only friend growing up#theyre not very good at interpersonal relationships#romance is foreign to them. they dont care about playing romantic interests because they only view romance through the lens of theatre#fake. not real. an act to entertain an audience. so they dont understand why it would be weird#neither of them have ever kissed anyone#sharpay likes things that make her look better#because her whole life is a performance#so she wants troy because hes a shiny accessory to her#thinking about hsm 2 where once again when she tries to perform a romantic song (with troy this time and not her brother)#she still barely fucking looks at him#all of her attention is on the (nonexistent) audience#and ryan. ryan hm#ryan usually performs alongside sharpay#its usually an in universe performance. theyre on a stage. theres an audience#and all of his attention is on pleasing that audience#an exception to this is during the gay baseball song#where theres a different kind of audience BUT#ryan barely looks at them#most of his attention is directed solely to chad#talking flirting teasing being cocky and annoying but clearly addressing him directly through most of the song#first time this has happened with ryan. take that as you will#ANYWAY i can see sharpay as completely uninterested in romance but she hasnt realized that about herself#and she THINKS she wants it. because she sees it as glamorous#or maybe shes a lesbian i dont know#she might be a lesbian#the deciding factor is sharpays fabulous adventure#if she has chemistry with the guy in that movie then shes just repressed and clueless#if she doesnt shes aro#or possibly lesbian
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something that is like the baseline of amys entire character to me is that shes lonely. shes clingy and physically affectionate in a way none of her friends really are, shes always getting pushed aside and left behind. yeah, she helps out people she doesnt know because shes a nice person, but also, she sees part of herself in them. she wont leave someone else behind because she knows the feeling —and more importantly, hates the feeling. if she doesnt have somebody to stand by her and be there for her, then shes going to be that person for everybody else. something something her obsession with sonic is really just like a manifestation of that desire for closeness with someone, and she thinks that romance is the only way to get that. idk... this hedgehog can have so many abandonment issues.
#me posts#amy rose#sth#sonic the hedgehog#and this is not to say at all that romance is the only way to have 'real' love or anything#just that yknow part of her breaking free of that would also be realizing that she just wants closeness with someone and it doesnt-#-have to be romantic#aroace amy could fit this i suppose and she just doesnt know it yknow. thats not my hc but i support their beliefs if that makes sense#she wants to be loved and she wants to love and she doesnt really get a big outlet for that so she shares it with everyone she sees#also i didnt wanna jam up the post but GAMMA!! this is partially abt gamma she helps him find out how to love and how to find joy in it-#-bc its what she wants for herself. she sees him and sees how completely alone he is and she wants to help him. idk idk something something#-when she was locked in the cell she saw part of herself staring back at her#gamma parallels to amy is SLEPT ON i stg i could make a whole other post about it#idk.. whenever im writing amy or just thinking abt how shed interact with others its always from the lens that she craves closeness with-#-others. she wants people to just stay for once.#does this make any sense. idk man im rambling here#my worst nightmare is characterizing her wrong its such a fine line and sometimes the words do not come out of my brain right#btw this is NOT me dissing amy i love amy. she is like top three favorite character.#important context: im typing this with amy firefox theme rn ok. ok im an amy fan.#she points at the minimize button like shes telling me to log off#jesus christ i just scrolled back up i love to put a whole other post in the notes dont i
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*cries* olly, they could never make me hate you
#you people are forgetting he's FOURTEEN#HE IS JUST A KID#HE DOESN'T KNOW ANYTHING#HE'S A BABY#HE JUST WANTS TO BE SEEN#YES HE SHOULD PAUSE HIS EXCITEMENT AND ENERGY AND ASK PAISLEY WHAT SHE WANTS#BUT THATS THE OTHER PART!!!#ITS NOT JUST OLLY!!! PAISLEY DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO COMMUNICATE HER PROBLEM WITH HIM BECAUSE SHE DOESNT WANT TO LOSE HIM!#ITS LIKE HALF THE PLOT GUYS#OLLY THINKS HE'S HELPING PAISLEY DO WHAT SHE LOVES#BUT THEN HE GETS CAUGHT UP WITH THE IDEA OF FAME AND *BOTH* OF THEM BEING SEEN#AND PAISLEY DOESNT WANT THIS#ITS FUN EVERY NOW AND THEN BUT SHE DOESNT WANT IT ALL THE TIME#BUT SHE HAS A HARD TIME SAYING THIS TO OLLY BECAUSE HE'S SO EXCITED AND HAPPY AND SHE DOESNT WANT TO LOSS HER BEST FRIEND#cmon guys its A KIDS SHOW#both olly and paisley are just kids#they dont know nothing much#i swear the second paisley confesses to olly she doesnt want to do all this ley-la stuff he'll stop it right away once he realizes he hasnt#asked for her thoughts on it.#you guys are forgetting that they're best friends!! and they have been since they were LITERALLY BABIES!#they're just kids#lego friends#lego friends the next chapter#lego friends olly#lego friends paisley#dont attack me please
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shanks, four years younger than mihawk, is usually granted the "starry-eyed crush on the cool older boy" trope (with good reason!), so i was thinking it'd be cute to grant that dubious pleasure to mihawk in an age swap au instead.
mihawk, scrappy nine year old, gets picked up by roger for a trip on the oro jackson to the next island (roger just wants to feed the kid lol), and gets sweet talked into it by dangling a duel with rayleigh, the current world's greatest swordsman, as bait. when mihawk gets there, rayleigh says mihawk has to be able to beat his apprentices first, and gets his ass summarily handed to him by a thirteen year old shanks, who both impresses and embarrasses mihawk, as shanks beats him without even trying but he's so cool when he does it.
and so mihawk declares himself shanks's rival, and when he wins, shanks will have to listen to a request. and years and years later, when mihawk finally does win, that request--which he's never changed his mind about--is permission to start formally courting shanks. charmed, and absolutely having seen this coming after years of observing an obvious crush and slowly warming up to it as mihawk grew and changed between their meetings, laughs and just kisses mihawk straight-up.
#rei rambles#mishanks#one piece#dracule mihawk#akagami no shanks#red haired shanks#akataka#shanks#there's more but that's the gist lol#actually in the half-drabble half-outline i have going rn rayleigh makes mihawk fight buggy first (also four years older)#and after mi loses it leads into a haki lesson that shanks teaches and *that* ends in a tiny duel where mihawk falls in love#there's also prob a part later where shanks says mihawk is just blinded by his childhood hero worship#and mihawk says it was never hero worship and explains that he's never once put shanks on a pedestal.#he never expects shanks to be great and he doesnt make excuses when he isnt. shanks is just the only man who's always exceeded expectations#always challenged him and made him feel like he was basking in the sun.#he's been traveling for years now and has never met anyone else like shanks.#also i was thinking of keeping roger's death at mihawk's age of nineteen making shanks 23 when roger gets executed.#and mb having a scene inspired by james blunt's 'monsters'#i digress#the other optiom is keeping roger's death at when shanks is fifteen and mi having to cope w the realization that love is hard#and that u cant always be what someone needs no matter how much u want to be. and he'll learn it at the tender ag of eleven.#and then he'll find buggy and bully him into taking care of shanks in only the way an annoyingly arrogant fifth grader can.
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I'm just gonna say it. Ulysses is a far better written ex-Legion character than Joshua Graham is
#i really think hes more interesting#the way he hates caesar for what he does but is sympathetic towards other legion members bc he knows the brutal ways they get pulled into it#and his moment of realization of how all hes doing is continuing the cycle#whereas joshua feels like there is absolutely no point in his legion past. hes just there#he turned to religion and all but like. thats it lmao#he doesnt really give any good insight into that stuff like ulysses does and acts like it doesnt bother him despite. everything#idk. i feel like he probably went through a lot of revisions and it sort of dulled him a lot#whereas ulysses feels more like they built him up more with every new look at his character#ill actually talk abt this in depth later once i drag myself through honest hearts so i have more recent insight on it#vinny rambles#fallout new vegas#ulysses
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the fact that eddie and maddie have never interacted outside a group setting is so funny actually. you cannot tell me those two wouldnt get on like a house on fire. i fear the day we get a solo maddie and eddie scene is the day we get buddie canon
#like. those two have had such similar experiences#being forced to grow up at a young age#complicated feelings about their dead spouses (ik d**g was VERY different from shannon but im just going off what maddie canonically said)#struggles with how good of parents they are#running away from their families as a way of doing what is “best” for the family#like. they have so many shared experiences#their lives have been running parallel and theyve never really intersected and realized just how similar they are#but if maddie han was alone in a room with eddie shed get him to confess his feelings for buck in like 15 minutes flat#hed ask about jee and maddie would be like. shes great. shes having a wonderful day with her dad and uncle buck.#and eddie would be all yeah. chris is probably having the time of his life with buck and uncle chim. and jee ofc chris adores that kid.#uncle chim? shed saying stirring her coffee#and eddie would be like yeah??? hes bucks brother in law? doesnt that make him chris's uncle?#oh. i didnt realize. so buck is like a parent to chris?#well yeah bucks been there since. since we met him. you know how he is. bucks great. always shows up. he shows up the way a parent should s#hmmmmm. yeah. i thought so too eddie. he really has a soft spot for chris. ive never seen him like that for any other kid.#hes like that for jee. eddie says#its different. buck is a great uncle and loves jee but hes her uncle. hes not attending pta meetings for her or signing her up for camps#though. maddie laughs. he probably would if we asked him to.#yeah. eddie would agree with a fond smile. and maddie would narrow her eyes at the dreamy little look on eddies face as he stirs in creamer#so. if buck is like a parent to chris. what does that make him to you?#and eddie would blink and be like. well. hes. hes buck. you know. hes my best friend.#yeah. but the person i want to attend pta meetings with and to look through summer camp posting with is howie. my husband. my best friend#and eddie would just. well thats. thats different. you guys are married. ofc you do that stuff together#we were doing this stuff together before we got married. we had a life together. a family together before we were married#shed take one look at eddies wide eyes and be like. someone once told howie that if he loved me he should tell me and it was the best piece#of advice anyone couldve given us when we were dancing around each other. so im passing your advice back to you. if you love him tell him#and then yayyyyyy we get eddie choosing buck and buck being chosen and yay everyone is happy and everyone wins#(especially maddie since she doesnt have to deal with these oblivious idiots anymore)#me thinks
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been thinking abt. linebeck with cat-like mannerisms
#this isnt a joke post hear me out down here#like unconscious or not hes got some mannerisms similar to cats#which line up a bit with him bring paranoid; like around someone he doesnt trust he tends to keep his eyes on them#and avoids them slightly but once he trusts + feels safe and whatnot he watches them less and hangs around#like i imagine midway through ph he starts just like. chilling on the ship around link more#as opposed to specifically either staying in his room or only being in the same room if necessary#the watching thing isnt 1:1 cat behavior ofc but it is also with him just. avoiding eye contact a lot and eye contact putting him on edge#which is also just. autism. i figure he likes cats and grew up around them and that mixed with an uh. abnormal. childhood led to like.#mirroring cat behavior a bit#he does hang out in a box canonically#salty talks#linebeck#he probably does the slow blink thing without realizing. i actually did that for a bit without noticing#ive said it before ill say it again. as a kid he was probably the type to roleplay warrior cats at recess#i just like him having like. subtly strange mannerisms and mannerisms that like. Mean Something if you pay attention yknow
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for others who disliked adams greywaren ending, what do you think about the part of his ending with transferring schools?
Personally, i can see arguments for transferring (in terms of adam not having his fantasized perfectly linear path to success), but i want to see him stay and deal with his lies and mistakes. ik that sounds mean, but i intend it in the kindest way possible. like it could be helpful for him to distance himself from the person he invented at harvard and try again, but i want him to contend with that and reconcile his invention with the person he really is; i don’t think they are mutually exclusive!
maybe this comes down to your opinion of his crying club- whether you think theyre really his friends or not- but to me, i don’t think this effort to build community was wrong, even though it was unhealthy that he had to lie about his background to do it. i think adam needs to think about why he had this drive to create a friend group and why he felt like he couldn’t be the same person he was in henrietta. i want him to feel like he can be honest with the crying club, or at least that he can his genuine self with people outside the gangsey. he doesnt have to suddenly dump the whole truth on them, but i wish he could slowly let himself trust them, as they have trusted him with their troubles.
Obviously it was important for him and his character arc to leave henrietta and for him to want to leave behind the person he was there (and the fact that everyone there knew he was poor and a victim of abuse), but i’d like to see adam stay in place somewhere and work through who he is there. I feel like if he leaves and starts somewhere new, he’ll still have that instinct to leave behind this old version of adam and reinvent himself.
what do you all think? i know we all hate the adam becomes a fed thing, but wasnt sure what opinion is on this part
#i think people see a lot of themselves in adam#ive seen people HATE that he goes to harvard and advocate for him to fully drop out#which at least in one case has related to poster not following traditional academic success#me on the other hand- i also really dreamed of going far far away for college and experiencing academic and personal success there#so i resonanted with adams dream of leaving henrietta for prestigious school#anyway. the scene that lives in my head goes like this#adam gathers the crying club to tell them hes tranferring#he says ‘i have to tell you all something.’#he opens his mouth to explain hes transferring and for some reason instead what he says is#‘im a psychic’ . theyre all like??#and suddenly he has to explain this statement. and kinda explain that he lied about breaking up w ronan#he doesnt tell them about abuse right away. but slowly truths start to come out and the lies slow down#and slowly realizes that once again he has friends that love him for being adam. not some phony perfect version of himself.
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