#she is the true ally

[mistimedmanagement]

I was in a line in this shop to get a smoothie, and this young blonde gal was watching the line. Some customers were getting impatient and messing up the line, and it was REALLY getting to this girl, like it VISIBLY irked her

And she shouts: "Gals, bros, nonbinary hoes! Please stay in an orderly line!"

The person next to her (who I'm guessing was her manager) looked horrified and immediately pulled her back out of sight (probably to scold her) but--

I have never felt so validated and impressed by a stranger working a barista job in my life. She has some SERIOUS guts, WHO EVEN THINKS OF THAT IN THE MOMENT?? That's the kind of story you read on line snd are like "lmao no, didn't happen" AM I IN A MOVIE?? IS SHE THE MAIN CHARACTER??

Anyways, I love her now. She's my hero, I wish I knew her in person. She seems like the kind of person who would push me to ask for a different food when the waiter of a restaurant gets my order wrong "He asked for no pickles" but embodied in a single human being

I'm worried she's going to get fired and I'll never see her againnn, blonde girl at Playa Bowls come backkkkk

[lotus-pear]

rewatched madoka magica again today bc i fucking hate myself and to absolutely no one’s surprise i went through all five stages of grief in a single evening

[xxplastic-cubexx]

As I told my mum: Charles Xavier is a SLUT, regardless of disability! And she, who is not a fellow queer, implies that Charles is pansexual and I am HERE FOR IT

on the highest of keys i forgot i had this in the inbox so imagine my shock at reading the headline Charles Xavier Is A Slut

[vanessakimballs]

restoration is good (TO ME) because after 12 years we finally get to see carolina gather the clarity to understanding tex. just as carolina was beaten down, when we don't have sarge or wash to guide us, it happens.

tex saves us. the woman who failed defies fate and saves the day.

[worstloki]

Sigyn avoiding the allegations by only referring to masc Loki as her ‘husband’ and calling fem Loki her ‘bestie’ in the most allegation-inducing tones possible while insisting she’s unmarried for the time being

[wingsofhcpe]

*my mum showing me a clip of Eve Best at the London premiere of hotd s2*

Me, sighing deeply: I'm gay

My mom: you? Even I'm gay for her!

[storytellerofuntoldlegends]

Augh. Scott and Pearl really ARE soulmates. Both of them are willing to give up everything, even their own lives, if it means their friends have a better chance of winning.

[ovrarches]

ykw the whole plot of hamilton makes more sense when u realize people could not stay away from that siren of a man

[assassin-artist]

ok lore dump time for Valerie now :3c

Real name Valerie Hart, mutant code-name name "Mercy".

My saddest and my most OP character... Originally I made her to be super powerful cuz I just wanted to have fun exploring what it'd be like to have basically a god-on-earth kind of character running around doing whatever she pleased, but then I decided I wanted to explore how her powers could actually damage her in the long run, and how tragic it could be.

So, my idea is that her mutant ability was basically to "wish something into reality" aka to believe something into existence. Do you know how hypnotism works? It's both real and not real - a hypnotist simply makes a "suggestion" for your brain to follow, and if you genuinely believe it's real, then it works! Sort of similar to the placebo affect. This is basically what I wanted her powers to be like - if she genuinely believed something to be true, then it would become reality. Crazy OP, right?

But then I thought, well, everyone goes through periods of self doubt and losing confidence, you know? Teenagers who are unsure about themselves, adults who lost at something and begin doubting their abilities, etc.

When Valerie's powers first manifested at around 10 years old, her father, a scientist, became afraid of his own daughter. He loved her dearly, but thought that no human being should ever wield a power like hers. There, he first planted the seeds of self-doubt in her mind... the idea that there was something wrong with her. Her father was the one who made the call to Xavier's to come collect his daughter, where she was tearfully taken away to her new home.

Though she became an X-Man member at around 20 years old, an unfortunate string of mistakes led to her losing more and more confidence in herself. Eventually, all of it piled up onto her beginning to believe what her own father had told her all those years ago: there is something wrong with her. And as her power works, if she believes it to be true, then... it becomes reality.

Valerie's mental health began rapidly deteriorating afterwards. At around 26 years old, the other X-Men showed concern for her health and wellbeing, citing that she was losing control over herself and her powers. She lashed out in fear and anger, and was forcefully put on an indefinite medical leave.

"Just until you get better," they'd say with a sad smile. She knows she won't.

Though they made this decision trying to help her, it only added fuel to the fire burning inside her. If everyone else believed she was losing herself, then she would believe it too. She believes she's getting worse, her powers manifest so she really does get worse, she sees that she's getting worse, and she continues to believe it. An unfortunate downward spiral that she can't see an end to. She was bitter about it in the beginning, but eventually just accepted it.

Every day, she's worse than before. Sometimes the days bleed together and she confuses her memories for current conversations, and seems unable to tell the difference between dream and reality. Now she's afraid to use her powers for fear of doing something she hadn't meant to do, or of hurting people she doesn't want to hurt.

The others, her old team members and new students alike, try their best to cheer her up with companionship, hoping that making new, happy memories will help her get out of this spiral. It doesn't seem to be working, but she appreciates it all the same. She hangs around Xavier's school, sad and afraid, slowly slipping away out of reality altogether.

Her personality is very mellow, largely keeping to herself. She works as a healer now in Xavier's school, still wanting to help people however she can. She doesn't talk much, but she doesn't like being alone either, so she always seeks out someone's company at all times. She spends a lot of time around Hank McCoy - in the beginning, it was because he was trying to cure her 'affliction', but these days it's largely just because she enjoys his company (neither of them will mention that he seems to have stopped trying to fix her - they both know how this will end). When the X-Club is formed after M-Day, I like to imagine she spends most of her time in the lab with the scientists. She's not a genius like them, but sometimes she can still use her powers to help in small ways. She's one of the few people with the patience to deal with Dr. Nemesis's arrogant personality, so they grew close. He won't say it aloud because he's too prideful to admit he cares about anyone, but he's desperate to find a way to fix her as well.

[mylambandmartyr]

Thinking about how much more satisfying and believable Micro’s character would be if they had let him aggressively hate the government. Like why wouldn’t he despise the people that killed him, tried to destroy his life’s work, reputation, and tore his family apart in one fell swoop?

I feel like despite working for the NSA, David would still have been ingrained with an innate distrust of institutions, it’s the tragedy of imagining him starting out with hope, thinking maybe he could make a change. A little bit of his hubris, he probably thought he could outsmart them, but he quickly realized that you can’t outsmart a hydrogen bomb.

He tries anyway, to fix what’s unjust from the inside and he fails.

He is David, facing a Goliath.

He deserved more than homeland security hush money, he deserved blood, a head on a pike.

[lae-zels]

mr house never being able to replicate his courier six because they never let him scan them, so all he has are a few shoddy recordings he took to recreate the courier from. his replicas of courier six are flawed: none are as perceptive, resourceful and proactive. they aren't good at out-of-the-box thinking or improvising. their problemsolving, diplomacy skills and technological innovation ideas fall short of the original and are just another disappointment every time. they end up hollow shells like jane, marilyn and victor. letting new vegas go, ruin itself in pursuit of recreating his perfect right hand again, hope for another fruitful partnership and bright future of the mojave like they did before is so delicious it makes me sick actually send tweet ✌

[moregraceful]

it was once observed by a dear friend that the hours in which i am most alert are like 7pm to 2am which probably explains a lot about how my posts get worse throughout the evening. but also sometimes i look at today where i was just sort of gnawing the couch all day until about 5pm when i wrote an entire fic in two hours and then another entire post about kaapo which to be clear took another two hours bc i had to chase links and explain my passions in a kind way and this was in addition to a church meeting. i would excel as the person who lights and then extinguishes lamps in the night

[mechieonu]

the trope is: utterly devoted secretary

[transingthoseformers]

I've been thinking about if Primus was a Quintesson or a Quintesson made entity

[discoidal]

my grandma is officially No Longer Transphobic bc she met a rlly hot trans guy at my uncle's workplace and was struck by his handsomeness. all it takes man

[suga-kookiemonster]

me taking diversity training

white actor: *casually says a clear microaggression*

black actor: ☹️😔

white bystander coworker, horrified and silently staring at the black actor: 😧

me: …can y’all stop staring at each other and just jump her