#read a book ffs

[ladyofwasps]

The idea these dumbasses (and every other moron who advocates this idiocy) have that all literature has the most simple meaning and if it doesn’t then it must be stoner thoughts is exactly why things are as bad as they are. If you never challenge your understandings, learn to see the world through someone else’s interpretation or read anything over a 4th grade level you start to believe anything because your worldview is so shallow. It’s genuinely frustrating knowing people who cannot develop their own ideas or conclusions and refuse to learn to will go on to make life harder for teachers, students, and everyone else.

[red-moon-at-night]

okay the whole vase is great but something about Helen sitting on Aphrodite's lap as she wraps one arm around her shoulder and brushes her leg with her hand, staring into her eyes like that... as she is persuading Helen to go with Paris (while Peitho aka persuasion stands behind them) is so incredibly iconic.

and gay. toxic yuri, if you will.

[berenshand]

one of my favourite little things about the murderbot diaries is how present all secunit's friends are even if they're not actually physically present. it doesn't do the annoying thing where it jumps through hoops to bring back characters that aren't really relevant to the narrative but it also doesn't do the other annoying thing where it pretends they never existed either. like secunit talks about art and mensah all the time even when art or mensah aren't in the book. it's clear how bharadwaj has impacted its personal growth even when she's literally on another planet. it complains about gurathin and pin-lee when they're not there. it's still sad about miki and don abene and it mentions tapan and maro and rami even though it only knew them for a few days (because when you're new at being a person every interaction with other people is important even if it's short). iris reminds it of mensah. iris also reminds it of ratthi. its hair is fluffy bc it let amena play hairdresser off-screen and it messages her so she knows it's okay. it doesn't have to worry about protecting volescu anymore because volescu retired thank goodness. it's still using thiago's language module. etc etc etc

it's such good writing because it's such a little thing that gives the characterization and relationships greater depth and also reinforces the running theme of friendship in the series and then also subtly gives this sense of 'the people you love are a part of you/your story' and also reinforces secunit's role as a storyteller because it's constantly telling little stories about all its friends.

[liesmultixxx]

“Why did you leave me?”

can you hear me crying?

the way annabeth thought percy had abandoned her like everyone else

… girl he fell into tartarus for you, he would never leave you

NEVER

rick was evil for that

[by-izzmizz]

[haine-kleine]

anyway. the ending was like That because it was Izuku's hero academia. it was his story told from his point of view and it concluded all the plot points he was concerned with, like his relationship with Bakugou, Allmight, the public's opinion on the heroes, what the new generation of heroes is going to be like, how Shouto is perceived by the public, Izuku's general relationship with his former classmates and Aizawa.

he never really cared about Shigaraki outside of their brief confrontation. he didn't really know Shigaraki as a person, and nor was he interested in getting to know him, even when he got the chance to peek into his past, Nana and Allmight had more reason to be interested in who Shigaraki the person was. to Izuku, Shigaraki started as a terrifying villain and ended as a crying boy he was unable to save. this is why, as he joins the rest of his classmates and becomes a pro hero, he imagines the ghost of Shigaraki looking over him, haunting him, reminding him of his failure but also inspiring him to try harder and 'keep reaching out'.

The villains were the ones concerned with their stories. Spinner wrote that book by himself, as Izuku's notes are being written at the point the book has already been published. Izuku never mentions any contents of that book nor Spinner or Mister Compress. Because they do not belong in his story, not really.

They belong with each other, in the League of Villains, as they have proven time and time again how important they are to each other and how far they are willing to go to protect their own. Shigaraki's thoughts before Izuku had killed him were all about the League. Kurogiri's last act was trying to save Shigaraki from AFO and the heroes. What kept Spinner's spirit from crumbling after losing everyone he had cared about was his burning desire to tell their story to others, to let their stories be heard. Touya finds no solace despite getting everything he had ever wanted from his family and being reunited with them - because his place was in the League of villains, the place where he was accepted just as he was, unconditionally.

the conflict of heroes versus the villains led to nothing but devastation and destruction for the villains. even those who were heard out and validated by the other party ended up becoming victims, or martyrs.

after that experience, after having a whole crowd of pro heroes, the people who made it their lives career to save others witness his destruction by the man who stole his body from him and by the boy who swore to save him, why would Shigaraki be interested in keeping in contact with these people, had he survived? why would Kurogiri go out of his way to let Shirakumo's friends know he had survived their students attempt to take his life and the life of the boy he wanted to save, all because they couldn't accept his affection for that boy outweighing their long gone friendship? why would Toga, when the reporters and the heroes saw her body after starting to transfuse all of her blood to Ochako and not even bothered to pick it up, to save her life or even to bury her?

here is how it went: Kurogiri did end up successfully saving Shigaraki, the fact going unnoticed by the heroes because both of their bodies were crumbling. he had also taken Toga, which is why her body wasn't picked up together with Ochako (and why Ochako doesn't have any memories of Toga's dead body, only of her final words to her). and then Kurogiri teleported them far away, where they healed and started planning how to get the remaining three LOV members back, while they are still alive.

they broke Spinner and Compress out of the prisons. In memory of Twice, Hawks had covered it up, as long as they don't resurface as villains.

Shigaraki and Toga had considered letting Touya stay together with his family, up until the news of Endeavor's disgraced villain son being on his deathbed got out. On the very next day, Shigaraki broke the tank Touya was residing in to pieces. Enji and his sidekicks had covered his eldest going missing by holding a funeral ceremony for him (the second one, this time knowing full well it's a fake funeral). Shouto was enraged with his father's decision and Enji used Shouto's just starting pro hero career as an excuse, don't you want to have a clean start, without the weight of mine and Touya's crimes weighting you down? It's not like Shouto has a choice in the matter, just as when he was a kid. The family wonders about the missing one's fate. Sometimes, Shouto gets messages from unknown numbers. He doesn't share them with anyone, except for Natsuo, who is still devastated about not using his one last chance to reconcile with the brother he had been so sorely missing for 8 years.

The ghosts of Toga, Shigaraki and Dabi live on, haunting the heroes who failed to save them. Himiko, Tenko and Touya also live on. They are very different from these ghosts.

[thejudeduarte]

WHEN HE LIKES TO READ ESPECIALLY CLASSIC LITRATURE>>>

CARDAN AND AARON I'M LOOKING AT YOU

[instantpansies]

life is hard for us oz fans who are only meh about wicked. have half a meme.

[foldingfittedsheets]

Wait, seeing about the character in your book (YOUR BOOK!!!!!) named Astrid is like the 3rd instance of the name I've come across in like the last two weeks after choosing another name. Only found like one other Astrid over 6 years of it being my primary name. This is crazy and making me more and more certain I can never totally get rid of it.

Seeing “your book” in all caps made me shrink up like a little turtle in embarrassment. I’ve always liked the name Astrid. If it feels like you it’s worth keeping around, if not it can drift away with your appreciation of it.

[glamrockmike]

holy fuck how am i somehow always so late to finding out about new lore and projects and stuff… TALESGAMES IS CANON?? fr?? fuuuuuuckkkk matpat must be glad he retired. like i love TFTP and all the stories but i can’t deny the two canons being the same is bonkers, but i understand it was also the only way to connect Mimic, Tiger Rock, and the Storyteller short stories to the games when they introduced the mimic in ruin. also it means GGY is canon which is admittedly fucking awesome. but also it means the weird fucking cancer babies and the climbing tubes and monty literally possessing some guy and the completely different layout of the pizzaplex (the rollercoaster?? the theatre??) exist too, right? or did someone confirm only certain things are one continuity? i’m dumb as fuck but this is crazy for the timeline if i understand it right (don’t even talk to me about dittophobia im still trying to wrap my head around dittophobia)

[ganondoodle]

kind of expected that the ability breakdown wouldnt get that much traction (especially on twitter bc if it doesnt do well in the first few hours it might as well be dead) but what i didnt need to wake up to was looking at my twitter notifications and thinking there was a long comment on it at first but then i read it and it turned out to be some guy having dug up one of my old totk tweets where i talked about how zelda was treated-

and if a quote retweet with a thread attached already starts with "this entitled brat didnt understand that zelda was being a history nerd by being in the past and getting to experience it herself" with two screenshots attached of the end of totk with zelda staring at the cam all uwu (which has ??? to do with their point??) i dont even want to know what else was in that thread

if thats how the majority of the fandom is then im even less surprised that nintendy doesnt even have to try to write anything good :I

ah yes, i am a game nerd, and by putting me in a game where i stand around doing puppy dog eyes while being shoved around by NPCs is me being a game nerd OBVIOSULY

[child-of-hurin]

wish there was a way to read mirror dance without reading mirror dance

[marauderswolf22]

i started downloading fanfiction a few weeks ago, and i actually get to see how much i read? it looks like A LOT when you see it in pages. you're telling me that i read the equivalent of about 4 avarage length books every month? and i actually don't read that much?

[museenkuss]

Boris is such a fascinating character. Imagine your best friend kills a man for you and then proceeds to GHOST YOU for WEEKS while you’re injured and hiding. You don’t know where he is and whether he ratted you out, whether he’s still alive even. And when you finally find him, he’s chilling in a hotel room having a big breakfast. And he doesn’t even tell you what he was up to while you were busy not only saving both of your lives and clearing your names, but also making a LOT of money for the two of you to share. And you don’t even ask. You just eat his food. Fairy tale character quite frankly. The Grey Wolf.

[celestie0]

when ppl get too caught up in the accuracy of situations in fanfiction or if things are super realistic or as they should/would be in real life etc etc im like. my tumblr user in christ. it's fanfiction.

[archergrid]

BE GAY DO CRIME

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