#only to intervene

[inspectorspacetimerevisited]

It’s a bit difficult to explain how in ‘Brooke Rhapsody Gets Hitched’ that

the Inspector tried to cause his own death, only to intervene to attempt to prevent it, only to apparently cause it. (Yeah, a bit hard to keep that all straight.)

[booknerdmusician]

the Lang brothers, making the most convoluted twists, every time the rest of starkid gave fair and well thought out reasons on why a character would win a Hatchetfield match

[fairandfatalasfair]

I do think there's value in Charles' ability to let insults and verbal antagonism roll off him - I think it makes him happier than he'd be otherwise, and I think it's a big part of why he does so well at adopting prickly hostile people who try to drive away potential friends by reflex because they've been burned so many times before. I think he likes being the only person allowed to hug Edwin without complaints or the one Crystal can talk to when she's feeling insecure about her powers disappearing on her or missing her family.

But I also suspect it's a survival skill he learned by growing up in a home where nothing good was ever said about him and the other place he spent most of his time was a school where yes, he had friends, but their support came with the caveat that they were likely to be casually racist and possibly classist towards him, and if he had too much to say about it he'd be out.

Like I don't think it's a bad thing for him most of the time, but I do think it comes from a place that hurts my heart to think about.

[ot3]

When she's like 17 Larry starts selling trucy weed and phoenix's stance on the matter is he won't comment on it as long as he has plausible deniability but then Larry has to ask him to intervene because trucys haggling him down so low thats hes taking a loss on it

[fairsweetlonging]

the thing that sets apart hua cheng from most other devotee/worshipper-type relationships in other media is that hua cheng would actually throw himself on his knees and crawl across the floor if xie lian wanted to, he would demean himself without shame because shame comes from the perception that you have done something wrong or foolish in another's eyes, and hua cheng would never see his god's will as either, nor care for anyone's else's opinion

[marnorourastar]

two fools on the hill!!!!

She is taller than him, but then he grows a liiiiiittle taller than her. (There's not much difference)

[dragzo]

oh Red Son no-

[justaz]

merlin being forced to confront the fact that he’s failing his people bc he’s sitting idly by while uther slaughters them all and coming to the decision that he has to act to save them but that’ll make him camelot enemy no. 1 but technically he already was they just didn’t know it. merlin spending a week all morose but unwilling to talk about it and spending as much time with his friends as possible. on his last night in camelot, he goes to arthur’s chambers and the prince is confused on why he’s there. merlin drops a sealed letter on his desk before pulling arthur into a gentle and emotional kiss. they barely separate, their lips hardly a breath apart, and merlin asks for forgiveness. arthur, thinking he’s apologizing for the kiss, tells him there’s nothing to forgive and goes in for a second kiss but merlin pulls away, knowing that that one brief kiss was all he could handle. if he lets arthur kiss him the way he’s dreamt of being kissed, he won’t be able to do what he needs to do, he won’t be able to leave. merlin tells him good night and leaves before arthur can react. he’s gone by dawn.

[caligvlasaqvarivm]

Okay challenge mode. You are a therapist and Eridan Ampora from Homestuck has just walked right out of his intro page into your office. How do you fix him?

put him and karkat in a room with a pile of stuff and tell them they can't leave until they've jumped into it and talked about their feelings

[cc-tens]

Ok but here's something I think about.

So Echo's mind was forcefully hacked and the utilization of his mind resulted in countless vod deaths. But he is not to be blamed because he was forced to be used, a cog in the machine that turned whether he wanted it to or not.

I think about him being a narrative foil or some sort of parallel to Fox. And I know the argument is that the manipulations used on Echo were not consensual, but Fox followed orders and therefore acted upon his will; and yes I do agree he did do as he was told and his obedience resulted in Fives' death which leads down a rabbit hole of preventable trouble. But also in my mind whether it was through the use of the inhibitor chip, emotional/mental/physical/etc manipulations and abuse acted against the Corries, or it being Fox's indoctrination I still think he was a similar cog in the ever spinning war machine. Even if it wasn't the first two options and it was him acting on what he believed were justifiable orders, I still feel equally as bad for him. Because he was raised to be that way, programmed even to be that way. The Kaminoans and the war machine demanded an attack dog and he became it. Yes I get it, he could have chosen to act differently, but you're telling me the indoctrination and ever present enforcement of propaganda and dogmatic thinking isn't still abusive and corrupt? That in a world where troopers could be reconditioned for being disobedient and you were trained since you were the equivalent of a toddler that if you were told the world is laid out in black and white that you wouldn't believe it? Rex and Cody and Wolffe and Bly and Ponds all have generals who help enforce personhood and individuality in clones, they encourage the building of self identity and acknowledge individual uniqueness. You think the Corries get that? On a planet where it's all about politics and paperwork? If the GAR has to deal with indoctrination ideals - as shown by Dogma and his stringent obedience - then you don't think that shit is drip fed into Corrie blood streams?

I'm saying that while Fox killed vod, in what mind does he have to do contrary? Echo's mind was highjacked, and to me in a way the Corrie's were highjacked as well. Not the same, not with physical wires and screws and pods but through slow and methodical programs and placements. Echo's forced servitude can be seen physically on his person, but the same manipulations that had Fox pull the trigger on his gun which killed Fives is all internal. Even if it isn't a chip, even if it isn't out of fear, he never had a chance to go against when his entire life was built to serve and do this. The Chancelor says jump, Fox will always ask, how high?

[freyadragonlord]

Lee Hakhyun claims he wants to make a story where no Kim Dokja dies.

And yet I - a Kim Dokja fragment - am in fact currently being killed by this arc.

False advertisement, I say!!!

[jacksprostate]

Things I won't forgive the fight club movie for regarding the character of Marla Singer, entry C:

The manic pixie dreamgirlification of her own struggle with life and death. The narrator gets to have a serious issue driving his alienation but Marla gets her cancer removed so her pithy statement about the tragedy of death being that she doesn't fall over dead randomly is just a bit Offbeat And Interesting And Edgy haha! She's a real tourist, really, nothing ever stated to be wrong about her. Sure she overdoses. Sure you can see she's got a shit life. But she doesn't get backstory. She doesn't get a life beyond fun little statements that, when her own reason for saying and thinking them is removed, mostly just reflect the narrator. In the book, it is very, very clear. Marla does what she does because she has cancer and is afraid of The Slow Death. The Wasting. The Struggle. By taking that away you even reduce her suicide attempt. It puts it all in this context of nothingness. Sure, you can assume a depth, but I don't think we should be uncritical about the fact that they chose to remove it. Marla Singer is more than an object that bothers the narrator out of the support groups and gets fucked by Tyler Durden. Marla Singer is a person in her own right in the book, and in the movie she's just... not.

[dailyperkele]

DAY 3 - A bloody invite

You want me to believe no contestant ever just decked him in the face the moment they were teleported atop the tower during the dream? No one got a "fight" response to all that madness?

Just let him have an appetizer to the final duel- just one lil' kill as a treat.

[ditadaydreams]

"Amour de Soi"

Me (ink on paper) 2018

[my-name-is-apollo]

Which one is your favourite in Lucian's dialogue of the gods?

It's gotta be the one between Hera and Leto. Like it's so catty and petty and cracks me up every time the way Hera picked a losing fight because Hera starts it with "Oh aren't your kids are so lovely! /s" and Leto ends it with "I can't wait to see you cry when your husband has his next affair." (and yes I imagine them having the whole convo with a smile on their faces)

[mrsoharaa]

being blindfolded, wrists tied behind your arched back and being mindlessly fucked on Satoru's lap while Suguru stands behind you, gently caressing your extended throat with gentle touches and watches you intently get ruthlessly slutted out by his former best friend.