#someone's traumas are not erased like this

[lucky-luffy]

So every now and then I see a variation of a post that essentially boils down to "Law is actually just like Doflamingo", which is to say, a cruel and antagonistic person. But honestly? I’ve never really bought that. Like, I get the appeal of framing Law as this colder, more ruthless character, and I have no doubt that he must have seemed that way for One Piece fans that were around back when he first appeared on Sabaody. But following him from Dressrosa, through Wano, and up to what we’ve last seen of him in Egghead? I just find this take genuinely confusing. It’s true that Law, much like Luffy, isn’t always the most altruistic guy unless it’s in service to those he cares about and, often times, Corazon('s memory) and what he perceived to be Corazon’s will of stopping Doflamingo. But it’s clear that he genuinely loves his crew enough to sacrifice his own life for them. It’s just that he’s also, for lack of a better term, a tsundere. He acts gruff around people, rarely smiles, and talks in a sort of commanding manner, his speech pattern always lacking honorifics (with the only exception being Cora-san). He’s not one for showing emotion, but that doesn't mean he can’t feel things deeply. He tries to bottle up his pain and insecurity, and he usually has a pretty decent poker face that only really slips off when he’s frustrated (typically at Luffy or his own crew’s antics). He won’t talk about his dead family. Telling Luffy about Cora was framed as him opening up about something deep at a vulnerable moment, because he decided Luffy deserved some context (it was also necessary for him to say it out loud because the readers also needed this information).

Does Law have similarities to Doflamingo? Sure, he even admits that they share a willingness to kill, even though Law later says in Wano that he doesn’t like to. He’s a doctor, after all. It’s not so much Doffy’s influence as Law’s own past experiences making him see the world as this cruel, cut-throat place and Doffy seeing this as genuine common ground. And he likely could have molded Law into a truly vile and selfish person, if Cora hadn’t intervened. But Cora did, and that's what makes Law’s backstory so uplifting, despite being so tragic. He got a second chance. Of course, Cora couldn’t erase all of his trauma. Law still bears a pessimistic view of the world, and of people, other than the few he lets in. And he doesn’t let anyone get too close because what if he loses them, too? I see Law as someone who wants to love others but is deathly afraid to, and that couldn’t be more unlike Doflamingo as a person.

[serpentide]

i know that i've already said that my main verse here will be the more general one for the sake of crossovers, but i'm thinking about serpent's canon route and ending in the original game and honestly ? while i do understand the kind of message that it wants to convey ( to serpent, especially ) i think that it does not serve a healthy purpose in the slightest. telling serpent that she can and will be happy one day in spite of everything that she has gone through is indeed valid, but telling her that in order to be happy then she must learn to love others + learn how to be loved by others is not what she needs, in my opinion. even in the canon dialogue during her ending, we see the chief asking others to tell serpent that they like / care about her just so she will stop causing problems to others.

THIS IS ABSOLUTELY NOT WHAT SERPENT NEEDS. as someone who is prone to obsessing over things ( it was her obsession with the abstract concept of happiness that has caused all of this mess in the first place, after all ) , telling her that she can finally be happy if others love her is just going to further twist and distort the way she looks at things + the way she perceives herself + the way she approaches others when it comes to interpersonal relationships. of course, serpent can experience true happiness through another's person love BUT NOT LIKE THIS, not with others just telling her what she wants to hear so she won't cause problems to them.

i believe that in order to be truly happy, serpent must heal first. her obsession with ambrosia and with "forgetting all the bad memories" directly stems from the fact that her life has been nothing more than a long string of horrors, one interwoven with the other, and she wishes she could forget about those too even if she never outwardly says so. this is why she offers the drug to others, not because she wants to just wound them or earn money through it, but because she empathizes in a twisted way with other people's agonies and traumas [ ... ] because even if the ambrosia had no effect on her, then maybe it will have effect on someone else.

serpent does not need second - hand affection to be happy. serpent needs to heal, because only once she's capable of looking at the world through her own eyes and no longer through the grotesque lenses of her traumas, she will finally be able to find not only her little place in the world but also someone to share that place ( and thus her newfound happiness ) with.

[starry-bi-sky]

my martha knight au in a nutshell:

Danny/Martha: see up here?

Danny/Martha: *taps skull*

Danny/Martha: intense psychological damage

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Danny/Martha: *upon finding out she's pregnant*

Danny/Martha: oh my god i cant be a mom, I'm fifteen and homeless--

Danny/Martha: im going to be a terrible mother--

Danny/Martha: i live in a cAR--

Danny/Martha: what if the baby inherits my powers? Oh no--

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Danny/Martha post giving birth: i've only had Bruce for a minute and a half but if anything were to happen to him i won't even need to fuse with Vlad, I'm razing this goddamn planet to the ground myself

Danny, to Baby Bruce: you are the last remaining thread of my sanity. I'm going to give you the world :)

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Danny/Martha prior to getting pregnant: Fuck it, if everything in my life has led to this moment, i'm allowed to make one stupid decision. I'm getting drunk and getting laid

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Danny/Martha while Bruce was a toddler: i swear to fucking god i am going to kill the next person who talks to me--

Bruce: hi mommy!! i brought you something!!!

Danny/Martha, immediately flipping on a dime: hi baby!! what do you have?

Bruce, a weird child like his mother: a spider :)

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Danny/Martha, talking to Falcone after he made an unsavory comment at her and Bruce: If you ever come near me or my son again, I will dig up your shithead father's corpse and make you eat his skin.

Danny/Martha: do you understand me

Falcone:... crystal, ma'am

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Danny/Martha new in Gotham: *getting mugged*

Danny/Martha: *grabs man's arm*

Danny/Martha: I AM GOING TO BREAK YOU IN HALF LIKE A TWIG, FUCK BOY, DO YOU HEAR THE WORDS COMING OUT OF MY MOUTH--

(she then proceeds to terrorize Gotham's night life for the next extended period of time, mostly unintentionally)

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Danny/Martha: Danny Fenton?? No. you must be mistaken, my name is Martha Knight.

Danny/Martha: this here is my littlest knight, Bruce.

Danny/Martha: I made him all by myself :]

[ohrackham]

what was the point of lila thinking home was a feeling she didn't deserve and could never earn until she found diego. what was the point of them finding deep, meaningful love in each other. what was the point of lila opening her heart and confessing that all she really wanted was a family with him.

what was the point of developing diego and lila over two seasons, creating such a beautiful, chaotic bond, just to destroy it for no reason.

[yunmeng-jiang]

that man does NOT think of wei wuxian as his gege

[calpalsworld]

Give him an AAC device and an electric wheelchair NOW!!!

[anarchne]

i wish i could remove the word “adopt” from kept peoples’ vernacular lol

[bumblingbabooshka]

Ok. Get closer why don’t you.

[beautifel]

seems like my heart does nothing but break lately

[mydr3aminvi0let]

i wear a lot of skirts and pink and whatnot as my style has developed with me & my personality but when one of those age regression girlies latch onto me....i do not like that

[pixieacoco]

@voidedgear asked: ❛  And just who might you belong to ? a pretty little thing like you ?  ❜ The Last Unicorn Starters

"A pretty little thing like me?" Coco giggles ever so cutely, a charmed smile spreads across her face and hand going up to her cheek, giving her the look of just the sweetest little angel one could come across. Her smile did well to hide the sharpness of her teeth, the glint in her eye that lingered behind blue starry contacts, her fingers turned down to cover perfectly manicured talons. It was a practiced look, a perfected look. A shield and a weapon all at once.

"Why-" There's a tilt to her voice making it sound almost melodic. Like a bell in the wind, signifying the winds of an approaching storm. "I don't belong to anyone." She moves her hand down to hook her fingers together forming her hands into a small bridge in front of her. The toe of her shoe draws small circles on the concrete ground, she looks up at him with a bashful look. The kind of look a smitten high schooler might possess.

"Cause like no one's ever tried and if they thought they could handle owning a pretty. Little. Thing. Like me." The starry blue of her eyes now darkening to something more akin to an island's sky with a storm on the horizon. Her smile grows wider no longer attempting to mask the point to her teeth, pink rhinestone covered claws splayed out before her and the melody to her voice turning to a sound more like strings on a violin snapping.

She steps close enough so that the watching noise ruffle up, preparing their own attack before she could try any of her own. She's noticed the gathering noise this entire time, noticed the way they follow this stranger. She also noted the feeling of this stranger. A feeling like sitting in the dark with some unknown creature lurking the room just out of sight. He was far from normal, nor was he someone to take lightly. Frankly though Coco didn't care in the slightest. Noise be damned, shadows be damned, nothing would scare her. He was just another weirdo in a city FULL of weirdos and he needed to learn how one spoke to their local Fairy Princess. "I'd break their spine, gauge out their eyes and tongue for dinner, and save the rest for my meals for the rest of the week. If they're lucky they'd be dead by my third meal. If I'm lucky they'd stay alive for days afterward. Does that answer your question?"

[bitchthefuck1]

How long does a show have to be bad before y'all stop saying we "just need to give it time" and accept that it sucks? Serious question

[thelunastusco]

The truth is, everybody is unique and not like you. And you have to learn at some time-- number one, to embrace and enjoy the fact that it’s different than you. But something that’s so different from you has so many elements that are exactly the same as you, that you can share.

And that’s what I’m fascinated-- and I’m always trying to grasp and trying to find out “how are you like me”? Or “what do we have in common”? You know, “have you ever been to this restaurant?” “Yeah, it’s the best restaurant! We’ve been there!”

If you could find something in common with somebody that has nothing in common, there is-- there is some sort of attachment, that’s the buoy of life. That’s the lifesaver. That’s the thing, we’re all drowning in our own little world.

- Howie Mandel, Anthony Padilla show, 2023

[icharchivist]

i mean i get why it sucks but i've been having an existential crisis that keeps me up at night for most of my life too and i'm not producing people expressly to abuse them and use them as tools about it. Astrals are just on something else i guess

i'd say it's a question of scale in general, as in an existential crisis coming so deeply from a whole different life in your head would fuck someone up much more. but anyway i keep saying Lucilius' way to treat other is bad, in those same posts in fact, just that his issues with depersonalization/derealization are also extremely compelling and actually make me feel bad for him. Those two feelings can coexist, and i don't mean that you have to be nicer to him or anything. i'm just saying he's still an interesting character.

[brawlqueen]

it was inevitable i think, not me musing her, but just....the fc and my p.sd for mizu.ki just fits really well and i'm using the same icon p.sd for f.go jeanne that lynnie thinks fits me so i'll use her too . i just. i love...man, everyone's designs in o.shi no ko. it's wild. but if you know me well, are one of my friends, you know how much i love purple. i'll try to work on the meme today i reblogged and at some point i want to get into the ma.nga tho hoo it's way ahead and i'm behind whoop.

also just a side-note, since i feel i've been kinda tame about this? miz.uki has 0 tolerance for disrespect and this isn't like about anything just....if your muse doesn't respect her, she will eviscerate you verbally be at 12 or 18. she has the godlike battle (frankly is she a d.bz chara now damn ) ability / physical strength to back it up, and also the high IQ / wit far above her classmates reading thesis works at 12. to me, i really haven't seen a muse more traumatized, or in so much pain, and in the same breath so strong. we all have that one character we go, 'well damn'.

i have no intentions of woobifying that but being respectful because the queen deserves it and it's just...not appropriate like....they're still people. people who are traumatized are still people with agency and dreams and personalities and choices. so no woobifying the queen. just a head's up i won't hold her back if your muse gets mouthy. this is a girl who with a slight tighter grip, could make a cup smash into ceramic powder or accidentally shatter bone. after things no one can ever understand / go through, she has zero patience. if you know ait.sf, than you know this very well, but not all my mutuals do so just a head's up that there are consequences so i don't want anyone like...surprised rip. she isn't gonna break your character's bones but she will turn into a wildfire.

[bigcryptiddies]

You can find a message in everything you read and watch yeah but some of y’all need to welcome the allure of writing something fucked up just to write something fucked up