#parallels in the main cast

[dongslinger--420]

You were born to two people who never wanted to have you, who never should've had you. You grew up around alcohol, and your only role model was on television. People tried to make friends with you, but you just pushed them away. You made your first friend at 21. You love your friend more than anything, but you cannot escape the fact that he was indirectly responsible for your downfall. You try so hard to go back to the era where you thought you were happy that you end up making two of the biggest mistakes of your life. You surround yourself with people who remind you either of him, of yourself, or both. Your lack of true, authentic experience means that you believe yourself to be both unworthy and incapable of love. You have 4 best friends and you take them all for granted until it's too late. Millions love you, and you feel so alone.

You were born into a family of 7. Everyone in that family hates you. You were bullied in school, and your only role model was on television. You survive your 20s on sheer unbridled optimism and a barista's salary. You meet two people who are just like you, who are passionate and cynical and bright minded. One day, you fall in love with an older man who is nothing like you, but he's kind and extraverted, and it's something you have no frame of reference for. You meet your idol. He's not who you thought he'd be. He's the furthest from it that you could possibly imagine. But you love him. Because he's you. He reminds you of the girl you were growing up. Sometimes he's compassionate towards you. Sometimes your now husband is compassionate towards you. You don't know how to respond in either situation. You try to look for reasons to push them away. Your closest friends love you, and you feel so alone.

You were born the youngest of 12. Your mother loves you, but she needs you a little too much. You grow up obsessed with a film about a girl who flies away, a girl who (for better or for worse) comes of age. So then you decide to fly away. You get a job as a strongly independent intern. But then you meet a man. He's deeply flawed, and the way you take care of him reminds you too much of the girl you were growing up. But you see so much good in him, and you spend your time telling yourself that the good outweighs the bad. He has single handedly got you out of the worst situations you have ever found yourself in. And for all your independence, you crave companionship, in any form. The love that anyone feels for you is forever fleeting. You feel so alone.

You were born into a loving family. You meet a beautiful wife in your 20s, and get the best job ever solely by accident. There is no reality other than this. And why would anyone want one? This is perfect. You try so hard to go back to that first era where you were happy, by surrounding yourself with people who agree with you. Your first wife starts to disagree. You don't understand her decision to go into politics, because there is no reality other than this, and why would anyone want one? You break up with her. You have to keep the illusion going, fill that space asap. Your second wife disagrees with you. You meet your third wife on the day your second wife leaves you. Your third wife cares more about the world outside the bubble you've cultivated than your first wife did. But status quo is god. It worked in your dream job, and it's going to work now. Your third wife leaves you. You feel so alone.

You were born of a man you don't even remember. You were forcibly given the name of the man your mother married. He's extremely hard on you and you don't understand why. You love music and games and new experiences, and he loves anger and being boring and getting a job. You get kicked out at 18. You find someone new, and you feel almost as reliant on them. You don't know when your new situation will end, but it's easy. This is what you wanted, right? But all your new friends have proper lives. They have some sense of knowledge for what they were doing. And maybe your stepfather was right. Maybe BoJack was right. Maybe you need to get your act together before you amount to anything. Because for all your independence, you still crave approval and acknowledgement, in any form. You have no idea if anyone loves you, and you feel so alone.

[phoenixtakaramono]

There are only two episodes left in The Boys S4, but having seen the leaks and with what we got, I have some opinions.

My conspiracy theory is that they got too many cooks in the kitchen (writers in the writer’s room)—plus the writer’s strike and pandemic happening during this time—and it’s starting to make sense how they dropped the ball with this season.

[relicsongmel]

Over 2 years later and I still can't believe Gamefreak forced bisexuals all over the world to do the impossible and make a choice between THESE TWO

[ratgrinders]

the rat grinders in fhjy felt like the sparrow academy in the umbrella academy season 3

[chirpsythismorning]

[gilded-gheists]

Jay still wearing the Ferin crest in her hair because her family are still always in her thoughts, they still subtly control all her actions and drive and her navy teachings are still root in her mind even now, even after she faced her father as a stronger woman. The Navy still hold a tight grip on her mind and you can't always change your upbringing's control over you.

She still mourns and wants to respect fallen navy soldiers. Still wishes to be able to rekindle with Kira, to be able to maybe even rekindle with some of her family. Her grandma still looms a heavy threat over her and unknowingly her Aunt does too with her talks with Edyn.

But they're her family. They're her upbringing. And Jay doesn't want to let go of her love for them regardless of what she's doing in life.

[edelgarfield]

dude with the stink i saw everyone in the comments throwing about cyrus's death i thought the ruling on chromatic orb was what killed him. but it wasn't, it was getting attacked by the giant fucking spider afterwards. and like you can make the argument that "well if the chromatic orb hadn't hit he wouldn't have gone down" like y'all. the party was up against a literal god. "it was unfair blah blah blah" yeah that's the point. when mortals tangle with the gods they lose. the DM had so many tools at her disposal to get the outcome she wanted, one stray hit did not make a difference.

[hotshitno2]

The new onk anime is so detailed in the little things like eyes, hands movement expressions and stuff that it REAALLLYY makes me want to shove Aqua under a microscope to study, especially with his interactions with Kana. Istg if I could actually write analysis I would, there’s just so much to unpack with all the characters, but especially him and Ruby.

[okapiandpaste]

everything about rhea fire emblem is so awesome yes even the borderline oedipus complex, which is cool in a mythological and gothic horror sort of way. but then you remember the game genuinely encourages you to ship her with her grandchild and that most of her fans reduce her to "hot pope mommy". sorry but she has a degenerative brain disease and none of you could ever match her freak <3

[arolesbianism]

I wanna take a crack at making some fake screenshot graphics for my Sif Odile duo loopers au but I do not feel confident enough in my ability to mimic isat's art style and I also have a crippling fear of drawing backgrounds

[raayllum]

Reaching for hope

[eternal-moss]

They really decided to make the last part of the event so interesting to cancel out the excessive amount of trite fanservice in the previous 3 chapters 😭

[ichorblossoms]

having ttw Thoughts while reading house of leaves but it's nothing that's lead to a breakthrough yet so i'm just like soaking in the vibes

[ohsweetflips]

for all intents and purposes as a 3zun main i should be leaping to make an ohshc AU with them as the mains bc meng yao deserves to have his “these damn rich people” moment but like. something abt wei wuxian convincing lan wangji to join his silly little club that in turn changes his life. is so delicious to me. and then 3zun is there too.

[name-that-isnt]

I hope we go back to lorule one day. Ik I never talk about them but I miss yuga hilda and ravio so much. We need a lorule spinoff series, the tale of hilda or something like that. I think about this concept more than I'd like to admit,, 😔

[specterthief]

not sure if you’ve played it, but Walter SMTIV for the ask game? if not, how about Yosuke?

i haven't played smtiv yet!

Sexuality Headcanon: well he was very nearly canonically bi so who am i to deny that Gender Headcanon: cis dude A ship I have with said character: i... don't really have any?? there's not really anything apparent other than him and yu and that ship does absolutely nothing for me romantically beyond "yosuke has a crush and doesn't know how to deal with it" A BROTP I have with said character: shout out to him and yu actually feeling like genuinely good friends who care about each other a lot, they're some of the only characters i can really say that about in p4. i also feel like there's potential for something very funny in the yosuke + teddie dynamic but it's buried deep beneath teddie's general characterization A NOTP I have with said character: i think people ship him with chie??? i don't really care for that, they don't really hit that "friends who fuck with each other but in an affectionate way" mark that a pair like ryuji and ann or futaba and yusuke do imo A random headcanon: yu and yosuke are roommates in a tiny shitty bachelor apartment straight out of r/malelivingspaces all through university, to nanako's absolute dismay when she comes to visit her bro General Opinion over said character: the p4 cast really didn't grab me in general aside from yu and the dojimas (and adachi in some way, he's definitely one of the best written characters even if he's also absolutely horrible) and the crumbs of what might have been good stories in naoto and kanji if they had been in a different game. even though the yu/yosuke friendship is one of the stronger character dynamics itself, yosuke himself really suffered for them cutting out whatever internalized homophobia plot they were planning to do with him, and i honestly don't have a lot of hope from what scraps of unused content have been found that it would have been handled with much depth if they kept it anyway. so in the end he just spends a lot of the game being plain homophobic and you never even have an option to tell him to shut up and leave kanji alone and that's really unfortunate and did not improve my impression of him