#she is So Good

[dadrielle]

I can't stop thinking about just how emblematic everything in those conversations of Ashton being "a child" are of how, even at her most beaten down, triggered and traumatized, Laudna is not and will not be what Delilah wants her to be.

For Delilah, "they're still a child" is dismissive, a bit derisive, but doesn't even merit being truly hateful. She doesn't find Ashton worth the attention Laudna is giving them, not when there are such more interesting, important things to pull the attention of an adult. Children are only important when they are useful. She will indulge Laudna on the subject, because Laudna is useful, is her vehicle for action in the world, but she only cares about it in the context of getting Laudna to do what she wants. Calling someone a child is calling them unimportant. (Laudna is a child to her)

But for Laudna, who loves children and who understands intimately what it's like to have the helplessness of child, to be trapped under the authority of someone who will never treat you as a full person, even when they are being ostensibly kind, to be so confused and lost and powerless...a child deserves attention more than anyone else. Of course children lash out. Being a child IS in many ways quite awful because the world is so big around you and you don't know yet how to react to any of it, how to soothe yourself - and if you aren't given the attention, you never learn how. Ashton never learned how. Her instincts - instincts trained into her by manipulation and abuse from inside and the world around her - may say kill him, but she fights them the whole way because her heart is stronger and her heart says that the angriest, most volatile child needs care as much as any other. More, even.

Laudna hears Delilah call Ashton a child and agrees on the word, but they have diametrically opposed understandings of what that means, and diametrically opposed instincts on how to treat a child. Laudna doesn't want to hurt anyone, especially children. She loves children. She loves so much and so selflessly. And Delilah is so very very good at manipulating her but she has tried for 30 years to change the bedrock of Laudna's psyche, the truer thing that drives her beyond the base animal instincts of survival, and it hasn't worked.

[fuck-off-im-ace]

I think Ashley Johnson should personally send a 20$ bill in the mail to everyone who has played Stray Gods for the emotional damage she dealt by singing Adrift in this way. She was so cute and soft. And for what.

[thevulturesquadron]

The breeze is gone...

[x22817]

Four hours at the dentist wooooooooooo

[thelesbianluthor]

Angela Giarratana as Lex Foster in Yellow Jacket you will never be forgotten.

[pupstim]

Okay but really I just... Dapper's Admin <3333333 its probably just me but I just feel like it's not a coincidence that Dapper's really cooking up something and leaving all sorts of clues for Bad to pick up on and investigate.

Its just rly nice for Bad to get some lore and from how Dapper is acting they REALLy want Bad to investigate this. I know the admins are not to blame and they're just really overwhelmed with work with adding new players and everything but its just... its just really nice for Dapper to be cooking like this and try and leave trail for Bad to investigate

[randomname3]

My first impression of hades 2: its fucking awsome

My second impression of hades 2: its fucking ADORABLE

[barksbog]

female hercules beetle!!! large baby!!

[duplexity]

jin's survival/war/and post-canon verse. which doubles as a rehabbed verse. when hawks offers the chance for jin to go with him and start over, she takes it. they help keigo escape the villa with tokoyami, and eventually turns herself in when police arrive on scene.

she's not thrown into a prison, however, given her mental state. instead, she's put in a mental hospital meant for criminals. there she stays for a little while, but with the state of the world, jin's power is so incredibly needed by the heroes. in talking with best jeanist, hawks, all might, and endeavor, she's offered a partial pardon (with the condition that she still seeks mental help after this is over) for her assistance in drawing out afo/tomura and helping the heroes in the fight. she bargains for a place to live after the war, and then for proper training to become a hero should she want it. they settle on terms, and jin fakes "breaking out" of the mental hospital, so to the plf, it would appear that she's on the run and laying low.

she's under the watch of the four top heroes, and wears a quirk inhibitor. only the four heroes have access to green light the inhibitor to allow her to use her quirk. after meeting midoriya, she's able to make doubles of him to help draw the league's attention away from the real thing, should the kid need some rest - since ofa can't be stolen from a double. she's also great for scouting during this time.

during the war, she's spread out across the battlefield, mainly to counter toga's version of sad man's parade - assuming dabi was able to get some of jin's blood spilled at the villa. before toga's death, jin pleads with her to let her help the kid save ochako, and then vows to save her, too.

after the war, she does as she was conditioned to do, and seeks mental treatment. she stays at a mental institution for criminals for about five months until she's deemed free to walk among the public again. the heroes live up to their word and provide her an apartment, a job, and all might himself pays for her hero training.

it feels good to help others, and that's ultimately what she wants to do/what she's always wanted to do from the start. however, she is not blind to the way the society around them treats people like her (and her friends). especially in getting close to hawks and his betrayal, she understands how incredibly flawed hero society is. she wants to change it for the better.

and so, she creates "second chance". it's a non-profit to help rehabbing villains. the foundation offers substance abuse rehab, mental health counseling, gender affirming procedures, job/resume help, living help, legal help, and so on - all to villains just trying to be better. second chance works with hero agencies, sending out advocates to crime scenes to talk to captured villains, and becomes well-known in jails and mental health facilities for rehabilitation processes.

jin, herself, is so much more mentally stable and happy, though the wounds of the past take time to heal. she and hawks work on their relationship. she visits toga, who is a part of her rehabbing process, and visits the other members of the league. she visits as their friend, and as their advocate in the trials and sentences.

[cicidraws]

if u like chappell roan give some love to hemlocke springs

[brickcollector]

dilly bean + her love for my space heater

[some-overlyrandom-stuff]

It is fortunate that Xueyi's body is mechanical, otherwise her back would surely hurt after carrying me through the entirety of Swarm Disaster

[fuck-off-im-ace]

If you like Reneé Rapp but you havent watched this performance please do yourself a favor and do it now. You will enjoy it. It's impossible not to.

Renee Rapp — Don't Leave Me Lonely (Mark Ronson Ft. Yebba & James Francis Cover) [Live @ SiriusXM]

[myrnadalgleish]

oh siobhan......

[elibean]

weekly reminder that i fucking love maomao

[p-21-dancefan]

Tatum self for mini best dancer 2024