#poster child for hate

[eretzyisrael]

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[rewritingcanon]

my sister and i just yapped for almost three hours and we were just talking about how genuinely weird people in fandom are surrounding characters who have explicit mental illness. like they can never ever be normal. there are characters who are romanticised and glamourised for their mental illness (eren. wanda. joker. kaneki. nico. almost any danganronpa/ddlc character). characters who are consistently ridiculed for their mental illness either because it simply isn’t getting taken seriously (reiner) or because no one takes the character seriously (armin). and there are the characters that get blatantly outright DESPISED for it (basil, harry potter, korra, gale, also eren etc etc). like yes im seeing a correlation but its still so astounding how selective people are about where they draw the line with mental illness and what traits they can accept.

[ludinusdaleth]

i think the critique of c3 not having enough free time beyond the main plot is at times valid but also interesting because i think near nothing kneecapped the campaigns pacing & development more than the middle act where they went to the shattered teeth of all places and avoided devexian and didnt expand on any character development beyond 20 eps of slow-plodding dread as they refused to talk out anything in that time, just did their own small things awaiting a moon mission. the bells do not conflate their whimsy with development but with putting off their personal issues. the actual ending here is probably the most well plotted out of any of the campaigns, i think people are confusing an annoying middle that didnt add much that would have been useful, with an end that actually is doing what it needs to just fine. isolated from the refusal to create much of note in the middle, the first ruidis arc onwards is fucking genius. hate shardgate all you want, it at least changed things.

[kingworm]

there is a duality that claudia was a forty year old woman, who essentially joined a cult - louis warned her, but what else are you to do? she is not a child, though trapped in the body of one, that is to say that although it would come from a place of pride and claudia being an extension of himself as her maker: lestat would have never allowed her to be so ridiculed and humiliated

[the-dragon-hearted]

We, as a community, do not talk enough about how Juvia and Bora are exes.

Like HELLO

Mr. Number 1 Opp of episode 1 who actively participated in human trafficking dating the one and only done-dirty-by-Mashima water woman.

Also Bora broke up with HER? Sir?? There is so much to explore there that, like many things, IS NEVER BROUGHT UP AGAIN -

Okay - so were they childhood friends or was he using her for her looks/powerful magic? Did it start off transactionally or was there some spark there? How long did they date? Did she stay with him because she felt that no one would ever love her, so at least she could be valuable in a different way? Did he make her laugh? Or just put up a facade in front of other people? Was she his backup for a while, a bodyguard adjacent fella for when his schemes went sideways? Is that how they started? What about the end? Sure we see him breaking up with her in canon - but why? You can't tell me he suddenly didn't like the rain of The Rain Woman. I mean he can, he's a prick, but consider the alternative: Did she catch on to his beginnings? Expose one of his scams? Grow critical of whatever shit he was getting into? Did she say something? Did she try to stop him?

The first time we see her she is completely covered head to toe in several layers and the rain does not stop. She says it's never stopped. But damn, doesn't it feel like turned from a drizzle to a downpour after him? I think it's purposeful. The layers are purposeful. The hints are there. She fully expects to be discarded after her fight with Gray. AND seeing how she comes out of her shell in the later arcs - watching her change her hair and her clothes, experimenting with new styles with an almost fervent joy - it just makes me wonder.

Could she not do that before? Was there an expectation there? A controlling factor? How much of her identity was she willing to sacrifice to quiet the fear of being unloved? How hard did the rain fall as it progressed, did it ever waver, or did it only get stronger and stronger.

And Bora? Fucking Bora?

Was it REALLY about the rain, or did she just speak up? Did she intervene and he had enough sense to refrain from trying to harm her. Because if the relationship was built off of him using her for magic and granting her some sense of companionship in return, then he damn well knew that there was no way he, a lil fire mage, could stand up to the actual force of nature that is Juvia. No, that meant he knew EXACTLY how to hurt her without inviting her vengeful side.

So he tells her she's too depressing. He reinforces how unlovable she is. How it's HER fault. How it's always been HER, how he's leaving her because of who she is - how he couldn't change her. He probably throws everything she's quietly confessed to him and leaves - safe from retribution and free to continue his fucking diabolical business. Because he knows he's hurt her worse than anyone else could. He knows that she'll either come running back, or she'll run and run and just keep running.

He doesn't know that Juvia only loved the idea of being loved. Not him. Bora can't imagine anyone not loving him (he can, but he's the one who's running, headfirst into greed with an enchanted ring on his finger - someplace Juvia never would've followed). Juvia doesn't run back to him. She doesn't run at all, the rain pours and she decides: "Fine, if I can't be loved. Let me be feared."

Maybe Phantom Lord orchestrated it, the master seems sort of cartoonishly conniving, and Juvia's magic is insanely powerful - but if that is the case, that doesn't change how easily Bora was bought. It doesn't change how Bora knew just what to say to push her to that point. It honestly doesn't change much of anything.

Bora? Pathetic.

Juvia? We all know she's always been lovesick and maybe if she was allowed a bit more characterization we'd be able to explore why. Maybe we'd talk about why she wore so many layers or kept her hair long. Why she kept a "frilly" pink umbrella but wore all blue. Indulging in a childish side while wearing a face of complete apathy. Why she adores the idea of being loved but can't seem to make it work. Why she's desperate for romance but finds more joy in the friends she makes - it doesn't stop her from chasing "true love" but she finds she doesn't need a lover's touch to chase the rain away anymore.

Because the rain was never about Gray, it was about Juvia. It was about how she was loved - not by others - but by herself.

I could spend eons critiquing how she was written... But for now I'm just gonna sit here and think about the consequences of Juvia dating Bora.

And I'm gonna laugh when Natsu and Lucy own his ass in episode 1. Because they don't even know it yet, but they're avenging a soon-to-be-friend. And honestly, I hope Juvia read about it in a newspaper, the pages soggy under her touch. I hope she sat in a park, the sound of pouring rain drowning out all else, read the headline.

And I hope, that even in that dark moment of her life, when she was the cruelest she would ever be, she read about Bora getting his ass handed to him. And I hope it made her smile.

[transgendermilesprower]

i keep thinking about how they use sonic advance 3 in particular in the one flashback in sonic prime, it's because that's where 'unbreakable bond' originates from!

Sonic and Tails' unbreakable bond is so important to sonic (the character and the series)

[failure-girl-fuyu]

at this point i think overdosing on something is my only permanent solution....

[motof1bfs]

heyy.. can you pls pls plssss make a poster with enea bastianini? love your work endlessly!!!!!!!! <3

Enea Bastianini #23

hey... i got the fucking plague sorry for the wait.. -🏁

[swallowtail-ageha]

Yeah bro. I am sure people who post images of hello kitty with the caption [me doing something sexual] are sexualizing hello kitty bro. They aren't using the common trope of cute stuff + adult stuff bro. They do believe that hello kitty sucks dick self harms and does drugs bro. They sure do sexualize the chibi cartoon cat bro.

[teknikolor-walters]

I have never seen a cockroach IRL but I think they look friendshaped

They ARE freindshaped but you're telling me you've NEVER seen a cockroach????? Those guys are like roommates to me they live in every single house I've ever lived in

[trans-fushiguro]

good morning everyone today i will think about the robin and ace parallels and the sanji and sabo parallels

[kasumies]

(fears the heavy weight of being someone else's burden but cannot stop being part of people's lives) (fears the heavy weight of death but will let herself die in order to save others) (fears the other weight of being an obedient sorcerer but will never go against what she is told to do without explicit permission)

[talentforlying]

assigning john constantine covers of creep by radiohead while he tries to kill me in my mind for assigning him creep by radiohead in the first place!

swamp thing constantine - richard cheese cover. hellblazer constantine - vincint cover. nbc/arrowverse constantine - actual song by radiohead. city of demons constantine - kelly clarkson cover. constantine: the hellblazer - jinkx monsoon cover. john constantine: hellblazer - tom ellis cover. 2005 constantine - scott bradlee's postmodern jukebox cover. justice league dark constantine - pentatonix cover.

[whipits]

has anybody else connected bokuto’s swings moodiness to his ADHD yet??? bc that’s textbook heightened rejection dysphoria

[rosasappho]

explaining any pronouns to my brother who already hates women would be like pulling teeth

[sporkberries]

quiet gets a lot of shit due to her appearance and use as eye candy(which is fair) but even without speaking she is an incredibly written character