#she barely recognizes who SHE is

[bitchapalooza]

This has probably already been done but I feel like a Switched au where Maka takes Crona’s place and vice versa would be really interesting. Not in like the same manner. No Maka isn’t literally taking Crona’s place and all their abilities! She’s still the same Maka, just with added trauma and similar issues as Crona(aka cptsd and anxiety I guess?). And Crona is a little more open and outgoing, they’ve still got Ragnarok and he’s still their weapon. Like all that still happens.

It’s just, the two had gotten separated from their caregivers at some point when they were really young.

Crona was already in Shibusen custody, an investigation into the very clear abuse and neglect going on and most of all the whole existence of Ragnarok and their black blood and everything. So Medusa couldn’t just go take them back without raising suspicion. I mean if she went and claimed Crona, she would have been charged with child abuse. That’s what made it difficult, not the whole her being a witch thing. Because she probably would have been made out regardless. I think eventually they’re put under the school’s permanent care, however they are frequently visited by Spirit, who’s kind of using this help grieve his own loss as well try to help a lost and scared child(that he genuinely feels bad for). Then eventually straight up adopted by Spirit when it seemed like his presence was doing something for Crona’s mental health. Which granted Crona didn’t have prior experience for what care and love was so don’t blame them for seeing Spirit as a sort of safety blanket.

Whereas for Maka, maybe her parents were fighting. Getting into a lot of arguments lately because of Spirit’s unfaithful behavior. And Maka thought it was her fault so she ran away. Until she eventually got lost. She eventually runs into Medusa who is figuring out a strategy to get Crona back because fucking shit her whole plan is going underwater with every second that passed by. But then she finds out Maka is the daughter of a Deathscyth so she uses this to her advantage. She takes Maka and uses her. Manipulates her and even experiments on her with vials of black blood she had taken from Crona.

Eventually, this leads to the series start. Only difference, Soul and Crona and Ragnarok are a trio, just Soul doesn’t really technically have a partner. He couldn’t find anyone he could match wavelengths with. Crona and Ragnarok are incredibly strong thanks to the black blood, to the point where Lord Death is worried Crona may lose control. And so Soul is assigned to supervise them. They’re going on a lot of the same missions as Maka and Soul do in the source material. They fight Blair. Goes the same way, just it’s Soul’s turn to take the soul. Of course Blair isn’t a witch so he failed. And why Ragnarok and Crona failed and lost their souls….. a lot of property damage to the surrounding apartments and businesses.

Maka does act the exact same way as she did on the black blood, but I’d say it’s toned down a little due to being exposed to it for so long. She’s pretty lost on who was. Often asking who she really is. Do they know. It’s a whole identity crisis as compared to Crona’s anxiety and lack of self confidence. Anyway, her first encounter with Soul and Crona is the same as canon. She’s carrying out a mission for Medusa. I’m thinking she doesn’t have a demon weapon partner, rather she has a regular weapon. This is due to Medusa being unable to replicate the same process into making Ragnarok and Crona one and the same. Her weapon, a scythe, is actually boosted with spells, however. The souls she collects are instead supposed to just be bait so Shibusen does notice. This time she does want Shibusen to get a whiff of her plans. She still infiltrates Shibusen tho. The whole reviving the Kishin operation plays out nearly identically as in canon.

I think it wouldn’t immediately click with Soul or Crona in who Maka is, but once described Spirit— who’s still incredibly upset about his only daughter’s disappearance nor can he accept how easily the police declared her dead after three years and closed the case for good— he gets this nagging feeling that this girl seems so familiar to him. He can’t figure out why. Fast forward to when he DOES see Maka, well, he certainly has a breakdown. He’s full of every emotion possible. And he wants to bring his daughter home, he wants to tell her mama she’s alive and he’s going to bring her home and they can be a happy family again(well okay the happy part is a stretch, he’s still a shitty cheater in this au, but the divorce was actually not over this, it was over Maka’s disappearance and presumed death, Maka’s mom, understandably, couldn’t stand not only her husband’s behavior but also, this being a much heavier burden on her shoulders, the grief over her daughter she left and hasn’t been back since). This makes the fight with Medusa a lot more personal, very much full of rage, to the point where it causes he and Stein to be unable to work well enough because their souls are off balance. But they work through it only with minor burns on Stein’s palms.

Eventually when Maka is saved with the help of both Crona and Soul, she’s taken in by Shibusen as, of course, a trial student. And Soul is actually assigned as her partner because their souls match. Crona is still there, though. They’re a team now. But because Maka doesn’t know how to resonate souls yet, much less soul perception, they don’t start team soul resonance until the Arachne arc. Maka adjusting to everything is slow but there is progress.

This is really all I’ve got right now lol

[fusionsprunt]

me when my meteor-powered robot gf attempts to murder me 😳😳

[bestcadaverinthejujutsumorgue]

the thing about jujutsu kaisen is that it’s a story with a big, hulking, heaving child exploitation machine in the center of it. all of the grownups are well aware it’s there, they matriculated from the damn thing, and even the children are fairly certain something is grinding up their bones for porridge, but no one can stop it so they all just adapt. “how do you react to the child exploitation machine” is in fact one of the defining character questions on the human side. some people, like nanami, take the high road and refuse to enable the machine and always treat the children inside it as if the machine is nonexistent—this is very noble but does nothing to ultimately slow the machine down. lots of adults go “well, i will be a firm but fair authority figure to the children in the child exploitation machine and get them ice cream.” yuki and gojo are very sure they have the juice to ultimately stop the child exploitation machine… but it turns out that bitch is hard to dismantle so they’re left going “hang in there, children! you’re doing great! mommy’s proud of you! i will definitely save, if not you, then one of the next generations of children!”

meanwhile the beast just keeps on chugging.

[shidoukanae]

Hello to the Buddyfight fandom it's been a hot minute but god do i miss this show and have been making fanart for it in the background so i thought i'd post to tumblr too ^^

I swear every year I end up coming back to this show and wishing that it kept going, that it got rebooted, that i could just erase my memories of this show and just watch it all over again from the beginning to enjoy everything once again from Tasuku's own sense of justice twisting against him to Gao's suffering of PTSD and how heartfelt it was handled.

There's something very special about this show that I haven't been able to find replicated elsewhere. It has the most perfect world to exist (so much so that i'd love to be isekai'd into it if i could!!!) and while i have my own gripes with it (hi S3+) i honestly sometimes wish i could go back to my high school years of watching this show just to relive it all again :'D

Anyways!!! I hope there's still people out there who enjoy this show even ten years later who'll like seeing new funny artwork for it!

I wanna add too that i'm hoping to create a rewrite of FCBF (ft. seasons 1-3 + Ace) or at least create more artwork for my interpretation of it and its world!

Because, sincerely, this show is one of the few that, for all its flaws, hasn't disappointed me in the years that've followed unlike many other things i've seen and i wanna try to keep the spirit of it alive while I can thanks to that. And if there are any fans still in existence who love it, i wanna provide some food while its once again in my orbit because damn do i adore this show <3 <3 <#

[anotherhumaninthisworld]

Do you know the primary source (if there is one) for the Brissotin all going to their death singing the Marseillaise?

The best description of the execution I’ve got so far is the one published in number 64 of Bulletin du Tribunal Criminel. According to it, the girondins did sing ”the first four verses of the anthem of the Marseillaise” as they were being brought from the Revolutionary Tribunal to the Conciergerie prison right after the death sentences had been passed on October 30. When they on the next day were shipped off to their fate, the bulletin does however report that, once arrived at the Place de la Révolution, the girondins sang not the Marseillaise but rather the refrain of the one year older Veillons au salut de l'Empire, another revolutionary song.*

In number 213 of his Révolutions de Paris (October 28 1793) Louis Marie Prudhomme him too writes that it was Veillons au salut de l'Empire the condemned sang at the foot of the scaffold:

…Never, despite the bad weather, did an execution attract more spectators and appear so necessary for the maintenance of the republic. Despite what some of the condemned said on the road and on the scaffold, who shouted: long live the republic! but you will not have it, one was very convinced that their death contributed not just a little to consolidating it. Several also at the foot of the guillotine, embracing each other, sang this well-known refrain: Plutôt la mort que l’esclavage; C’est la devise des français.

Other contemporary journals mentioning the execution that I could lay my hands on only announce that the 21 girondins have been sentenced to death and the execution has taken place (Le Moniteur, number 42, November 1), Le Créole Patriote, number 99, October 31) and Journal de la Montagne, number 152, November 1).

In a letter written November 6 1793, a week after the execution, the former duchess of Elbeuf Innocente-Catherine de Rougé reported that the girondins had gone to their demise ”singing about the nation’s glory,” but without specifying which songs:

The bishop of Calvados and the count de Sillery were in the same cart along with the confessors they had asked for; the others did not request one. Brissot and one other, following in the next cart, were clearly distressed. The rest, all young people aged twenty-seven, twenty-nine, thirty, thirty-two, followed on behind laughing, singing about the nation’s glory, and shouting out to the people ‘Long live the Republic’. And it is in this manner that these 21 individuals entered into the great light of eternity.

Finally, in his Memoires d'un détenu: pour servir à l'histoire de la tyrannie de Robespierre (1795) Honoré Jean Riouffe, a fellow prisoner of the Conciergerie, claims the girondins sang a modified version of the Marseillaise the night before their execution:

It was patriotic songs which burst out simultaneously, and all their voices mingled to address the last hymns to liberty; they parodied the song of the Marseillais in this way: Contre nous de la tyrannie; Le couteau sanglant est levé. etc. All this terrible night resounded with their songs, and if they interrupted them, it was to talk about their homeland, and sometimes also, for a meeting of Ducos.

*The book Brissot de Warville; a study in the history of the French revolution (1915) interestingly enough cites Bulletin du Tribunal Criminel as the source for the girondins singing the Marseillais on their way to the scaffold and not the Conciergerie…

[sunmoontruth-stiles]

I need a completely rewritten teen wolf series with Derek Hale as the main character. I think it would heal me.

[passerinesoncaffeine]

tonight on thinking about homura and madoka.

[dandelion-wings]

consider

rosaria and barbara roleswap

in which rosaria is basically natasha and barbara is the one kidnapped by treasure hoarders when she was a child

Okay, I don't know who Natasha is (I assumed an NPC, but when I googled got nothing but Star Rail, and if that's who you meant I don't play that), but that would be a fascinating roleswap! Though Rosaria in particular seems like she would be so different, as so much of her personality was shaped by her bandit experiences, that I'm not sure I can really get a grasp on what she might be like without them. XD;; Presumably she grew up in her village here, and... who knows where she might have gone from there, without knowing more about her family and parents. Though I suppose there's the possibility that the roleswap is that they were all killed as in canon but she was rescued instead of kidnapped, which would mean she grew up in the Church but with that trauma of watching them die, which... okay, I can see where Rosaria might go from there, and I feel like she'd be a less hardened person in the way she treats others, but probably have this core, given her strength of conviction in canon, of wanting to grow up to make sure that never happens to another child. Which is to say, Knight!Rosaria, probably.

Barbara does seem more emotionally fragile overall than Rosaria, and while some of that was probably her family situation, we know from her character stories that she struggled more even as a child, so honestly, being kidnapped by bandits would probably make her even more timid. TBH I have an easier time imagining her dying in the rough-survival situation Rosaria's lore implies, especially if she struggled with the 'training' Rosaria went through the way she struggled with her mother's, but we're assuming she survives here, so. Maybe the false-father bandit Rosaria killed in canon develops a soft spot for Barbara, too, and protects her, and she eventually ends up the group's mascot. Possibly she starts learning rough wilderness healing skills, which would help--the person who can keep you alive if a fight went bad is worth feeding and protecting--but I still can't imagine her ever becoming the kind of killer Rosaria is. Just much more calculating, aware of the skills she lacks without being ashamed of them as in canon, but rather equally aware of the skills she possesses and determined not to devalue them in any trade for those skills she doesn't have.

...and then Sir Rosaria is with Varka's party when they clear out the bandit camp, desperate for revenge because these were the bandits who killed her family. But she's injured in the fight, and Barbara, cornered by Rosaria as the surviving bandits are being chased down and slaughtered, offers those exact skills to help her in exchange for her own life. Yeah, okay, I'm into that. XD

[subsequentibis]

i think ocelot and quiet should be friends. i think he genuinely respects & admires her - hands her the gun at the helicopter, gives her the chance to show her stuff with full trust she's not going to attack them, has the line about how they're both in love with the legend - i think that's nice.

[voidcharms]

i kno i shouldnt hold my breath but i hope the average lib voter is at least beginning to realize that the dems and kamala harris' campaign Especially are ratcheting towards fascism + continuously conceding to right-wing framing on Multiple issues at this point

engage in lesser evil voting all you want but if the extent of your political participation is just showing up to the polls once every four years vote blue no matter whoing thru the primaries w no concern for differences in policy between two dem candidates bc "theyre both blue they cant be That different" then like. brother u got no place to be wokescolding leftists for just tryna ring the alarm bells idk

the prospect of another trump presidency Is terrifying thats not smth i'd ever deny, but the closer to nov 5th we get the more terrified i am of the long term, slowburn dmg kamala's presidency may bring. we're unfortunately pretty fucked either way at this point

[mashmouths]

anyone want to pull an edna pontellier with me

[cowboyhorsegirl]

Steve is most likely to end up in a lavender marriage and Tony's most likely to end up in a “married for tax/immigration/inheritance fraud” reasons.

They meet as married men and pine for each other hardcore and are also trying not to read too much into how their interest seems reciprocated and oh nooooo both Immigration/the IRS and the the Church/in-laws/DADT era army dudes or whatever are snooping around at the same time at each of their marriages and they have to be so good at being married at the people they are married to oh noooooo and they other guy doesn’t know why they are suddenly being iced out and maybe they were just imagining things? maybe it’s for the best with all these eyes around on them…

[bittersweetbangers]

my first ever song is soooo close to 100K streams <3

[tautozhone]

idk how to start this so this post is ab individual action, trying to motivate positive change in the world, etc etc

a lot of growing up in the US for me makes things feel more scary than they are. like it’s actually not that difficult to go out of your way to get a bottle of water or iced cup of water from some random drive through if you think you should do it. either fast food conglomerate or local actually, it’ll usually be cheaper than 5 dollars to get drinkable water. i try to have 5-10 dollars i can justify spending on water, and asking for change, because sometimes when i’m out driving i need to go grab water.

i do not do this for me as much as i try to do it specifically when i see someone who’s most likely homeless on a street corner. i’m sure one day i might do this and they might not be there when i come back, but what have i lost really? a bit of time and a bit of money that would’ve meant more to them, that i can hold onto until i see them next.

the pressure that a lot of people feel when they think “what can i do” comes from this grand narrative that the average citizen can singlehandedly fix the housing crisis. rich people? maybe. nonprofits? not in a day, not all one person still. what can i do is a question i ask a lot. what can i do, not just because it feels bad to move along like nothings wrong with the world, but what can i do that will do anything. what can i do that makes even the smallest change.

i feel like it took me too long to figure out a personal method to what i consider individual action. it’s taking time to get to my own financial stability to be able to do more. but for now it’s as simple as water and cash. not water and food, but water and cash.

individual action means a lot in small steps, go get a bottle of water bare minimum and the price of a meal if you can and then just give it to them. if it wasn’t such a miserably hot place where i live i would keep a pack of water in my car, which i still want to do for the sake of having immediate access to water to give someone who might need it- hot or cold sometimes won’t matter. but when it’s hot out, get cold water, if it’s cold out, a warm tea will hydrate more than coffee will as long as it’s not super caffeinated.

[hawkeyebj]

ask me about movies and i get so scared. every moment i live in fear of my bizarre lack of film knowledge being exposed. “have you seen—“ i wish, but the answer is probably no. i like movies !! but i’ve got this terrible gap in knowledge that i have yet to rectify substantially. the people who do find out the depths of this are always bewildered by it and like yeah, i am too. it’s like. no i’ve never seen that really popular classic movie you’re talking about. yes i’ve seen the 2009 version of star trek more than any other movie ever. i don’t know what to tell you

[denkisauce]

i’ve been drawing bunny themed ppl at work lately and it’s been VERY FUN