#spoiler: none of them is normal

[sernik-krakowski]

[thefirstknife]

Oh, so we're doing that this week. Okay.

*jumps off the cliff*

[kerrev]

"WELL, I DID HAVE SOMEONE TO COME BACK TO."

[alistair-blackwood]

for my money, labru is head and shoulders above other ships involving them simply due to the unmatched yap potential, i imagine them feeding off each other's energy like they're slipstreaming in mario kart until they start going fast enough to break the sound barrier

[fumifooms]

thanks for infecting me with marchil its so so fun to just see them pair themselves up in the background now

especially love how much she picks him up like a cat (and when he has the opportunity to do it to her too he just lugs her around like a sack of oats) gosh i love them they're so funny

YAAAAAA 🎉🎉 I’m so glad to hear it welcome to the sillies corner 🤝

THEY’RE SOOO SO FUNNY

They’re worsties that cannot get enough of each other

[aingeal98]

Also, maybe I'm delusional but I've seen a lot of posts about Lottie and Nat reuniting in hell and honestly whatever afterlife exists, I actually don't think they're in the bad place? Shauna and Misty yes, Tai probably, Van maybe, but tbh the worst thing Nat did (to me anyways) was help Shauna cover up the murder of an innocent man. And the worst thing Lottie did was like. Basic cult stuff. I don't think they're in the same afterlife as Laura Lee and Jackie but idc, until the show explicitly says otherwise they're both at peace.

"But what about the cannibalism!" I don't think they're evil for eating Jackie actually. Or Javi, although Nat would definitely disagree with that. I'm biased but like. There were no good options and I don't think choosing to live when your only other option is death makes you evil. The cannibalism is unironically not what makes them bad people, Misty and Shauna were just fucked up for multiple other reasons.

[disgracedaantt]

massive yellowjackets season 3 episode 6 spoilers!!!

i like how all the music and score stopped when the hikers(?) showed up. like it really showed how detached the girls are. they're faced with reality and immediately the delusion comes crashing down and they are forced to confront what they've just done!!! like yes, y'all have really fucking lost it!

[shiroganejpg]

DUNMESHI MANGA SPOILERS AHEAD!!!

Needless to say, a large part of Mithrun's character is his lack of desire. But what this can actually mean and how that can affect him, that can be a bit more ambiguous I think, so here's me rambling a bit about what I believe and how I write him. It's kind of long and I'm trying to be extra cautious with spoilers for anime-only friends so I'm slapping it under a read more but I think Mithrun is SUCH a wonderful character and a total puzzle to figure out how to write.

The winged lion likes to leave scraps. And although it consumed his desires, one of the scraps he left in Mithrun was the ability to desire.

Mithrun didn't lose his desire for revenge against the demon, although we later find out obviously that that desire was something else: he wanted the demon to finish devouring him. That's a whooole other thing I need to write up about insecurity and desire to be loved etc etc.

Things get a little murky sometimes in regards to 'desire' - for example when we see that despite the Winged Lion getting carried away and consuming all of Thistle's desires, we still see Thistle respond to Yaad. That's probably a topic for a whole other meta but the point is: scraps of some variety still exist.

But without the desire to live, the desire to get up or to eat or to drink, one will die quickly regardless. It's not the consuming of the desire that directly kills you, but what that lack of desire then deprives you of. Left alive, yes, but you will then starve to death if you have no desire to eat. It's the aftermath.

In the 40 years he spent recovering, he was taught things (or people attempted to teach him things) to help him survive with this deficiency: Milsiril suggests he envisions his old self and allow him to tell Mithrun what he needs to do. We know that canonically, he relies on pre-established routines and habits to be able to function independently, but when outside of those routines, he neglects/cannot recognise his own needs.

Mithrun has no desire to live, to eat, to drink, to get out of bed, anything. He does these things (and everything else) with only one motivation: pursuit of the demon. Everything that he does, he does to advance that cause. Then later, when that goal is achieved, we see he’s basically catatonic - because there’s nothing else for him to live for.

He also has extremely poor interoception - the ability to understand what his body is telling him. I believe Mithrun does get hungry, does get tired, does feel cold — it's not that he doesn't physically feel these things. He does, albeit weaker than most people which is one reason why things can progress as far as they tend to (like in the panels where we see his body ‘just stopped working’, and he can't explain why — exhaustion, lack of food, mana depletion, he was unable to identify the problems.) I HC at least that Mithrun experiences these feelings, but struggles to identify these sensations as being hunger, thirst, etc — and even if he does recognise them, he has no desire to resolve them.

But, obviously, Kabru brings him back around - You constantly want new things. Desires can be cultivated, and they are an innate aspect of existence. His story ends on the note that he can develop new desires even if his old desires are gone forever - and I believe that healing will not recover those desires. He is never going to have the desire to feed himself, or rest, or even to get out of bed. In my mind the demon ate his desires, and also a large part of his ability to desire - but, just as we see the demon leaves scraps of someone's desire when consuming them... he also left scraps of the ability to desire in Mithrun. Most of it is gone, but some remains. And I don't think Mithrun realised that until the end of the series: that he can try to want things. He can try to desire things. He might not always succeed, but he has the ability to try.

A way I think this shows up is that, post-canon, Mithrun might ask questions or try to be curious (which we see to a limited degree in canon, outside of gathering information pertaining to his goal) as it is a desire that should be easy to cultivate - even though he doesn't really care about the answer. That sounds bad, but understand that Mithrun does care about people; his manner of showing it is simply different, and both he and others have to learn to recognise it. I have to do a write up on this aspect as well because Mithrun does care, but I think he struggles to identify that fact in himself -- and he may come off as uncaring, if you don't know how to recognise it in him.

I love Mithrun getting a happy ending, but I don’t think the damage that’s already done will be undone. Those desires are gone, they aren’t ever coming back. But he can try to replace them.

And I think another big aspect of Mithrun's story is that he's living regardless of if he has the desire to live or not. I don’t believe that he suddenly has the desire to live, or that he is suddenly regaining the desire to live (maybe that may come with healing, I'd say that is down to personal interpretation); regardless, I don't think the damages that the demon did can be undone.

Instead, he is making the choice to live regardless. And while he will never feel the desires that the demon consumed again, maybe he'll eventually be able to desire other things. He can't right now, and maybe he never will, but he has the ability to try. And whatever he is trying to desire will help him continue to live, even in the absence of the desire to live.

He may lack the desire to live, to rest when he's tired or feed himself when he's hungry -- but maybe if he can learn to want other things, resting or eating won't feel so pointless. So he's trying.

[jeanmoreausautismstickers]

some of you need to realise that trauma should not be all that there is to a character. it is not boring, it's unrealistic to have every single character have immense amounts of trauma and that being their only personality trait

some trauma is fine, realistic even. every single person on a 29(?) person team should not be insanely traumatised like the Foxes

[anabetel35]

I love love loveeee the reading of jayvik as a queerplatonic relationship instead of a romantic one. There's just so much more to it and honestly it feels a lot more alligned with the show to me. Like it carries a message that gets lost if you read the two of them as romantic partners.

It's so easy to say that their relationship is purely romantic. So easy to point to the scene where Jayce hallucinates both Mel and Viktor and say that he loves both of them in the same way. And yet --

Jayce and Viktor call themselves partners -- not brothers, not lovers, not friends but partners. Jayce doesn't call Mel his partner, though she is his romantic one. It's a title reserved only for Viktor. The way that they choose to expresss their love for each other in their final moments is not via kiss, a typically romantic gesture, but just by being as close to each other as possible.

They're partners. In all the timelines, in all possibilities, they choose to love each other, choose to save themselves, choose to keep loving each other even if it brings about so much destructuion and pain. Every version of their relationship is so full of love.

they're definetly life partners. But are they really romatic ones? wouldn't it be a lot more interesting and powerful if they weren't? if their love was neither romantic, sexual, platonic nor familial? If their love was something in between all of those options and yet neither one of them? If it simply was? If the only way to describe it was with the most flexible of labels?

If they were queerplatonic partners?

Also, when you see them as such, Jayce's decision to be with Viktor over being with Mel, even if it was a choice he made in that one moment, has even more of a meaning than it would otherwise.

In S1 Jayce chooses Mel. He doesn't want to, clearly, he wants to live his life with both Viktor and Mel. But it's too hard to do both. The council doesn't want him to do both. Piltover doesn't want him to do both. Everyone around him just wants him to choose.

And so he does -- he chooses Mel, because he loves her. He chooses Mel and in doing so he chooses a seat in the Council and the politics of his city over a chair in the lab and the science that he's given his whole life to up until now. Over Viktor.

He chooses the conventional option. The woman whom he loves romantically. It's what everyone expects him to choose because people still believe that romantic relationships have more value than any other ones. He loves both Mel and Viktor, in different ways. And though he loves them equally, in the same measure, Piltover would decide that one of his lovers is more important to him. That his romantic partner has to be the one person with who he shares his whole life with.

So Jayce chooses Mel. And Viktor dies. And then he's not dead but he's so, so far away and the one thing holding them together is a promise that Jayce is yet to keep.

At the end of S2 Jayce has to choose again. Either he lets Viktor do what needs to be done alone and walks away, is free to spend his days with Mel or he joins his partner in whatever it is that comes next, never to return to the life that he lived before. This time there is no way to do both. He could try as hard as possible and yet there is no third option. He has to make a choice.

And he chooses Viktor.

He chooses his non-romantic love, the more unconventional one, over the world itself.

And that is, I think, an even better story than the one where Jayce loves Viktor just romantically.

[a-gaime]

Chainsaw man oc who's just Denjis therapist and is a responsible and trustworthy adult who doesn't take advantage of him or his issues and trauma

[andi-o-geyser]

“oh the gods are bad the gods are bad” i actually realized i dont give a fuck. crazy concept i actually realized i do not give a fuck lmaooo. people have lived not liking or worshipping the gods for so many fucking years its actually CRAZY like people honestly just go about their day to day lives. they believe or they don't! big whoop! they just care about the price of milk and if the world isn't ending!!

[raddest-laddest]

you just g-got.. feldsparred… *sobs*

[girlatrocity]

MAN.

[timeislikemusic]

[ ✖ ] So. Haha. About that episode. (VERY long rambles incoming.)

Regarding the male manipulator ⋯

I’ve been mentally glaring daggers at my LX muse since late last night. You would think, knowing the moral atrocities he’s committed, I would stop wanting to write him. But this freak has built himself a mind palace in the corner over there. He’s not leaving anytime soon and he knows it. Hate him sm /aff

Regarding the golden retriever ⋯

At the very least, it looks like XF’s PV occurs after the events of the Bridon arc — which is why Vein is watching XF from a distance. It also explains the ‘influencer’ description of that news broadcast when he goes missing: he’s seemingly taken that on by vlogging.

It suggests LX is the one to bring XF back into the fray, too, with his lil card, since he’s still openly in XF’s peripheral. I wonder if that’s why XF goes ‘missing’ so many years later. LX reunited him with his formerly-assumed-dead lǎobǎn and he’s therefore willing to toss his life to the side just so they can be together again… maybe?

Speaking of our dear lǎobǎn ⋯

I really adore his character. I know many folks were on the fence with him because, well, he does shoot CXS. But, he’s so silly! He says the strangest phrases and uses the most bizarre vocabulary and I love him? He’s very cute? Evil, sure, but cute. They knew what they were doing to make him likable despite the murder and his cannibalistic imagery.

Misc. Contemplations ⋯

In other news, I saw a few theories on Twitter discussing the interview, which specifically mentioned LX having multiple powers and Vein having none during the Bridon arc… The more I scroll, the more my ideas for what happened change. These are VERY scattered thoughts, so fair warning that they might not make sense:

Does Wang Qing know Vein personally? Maybe. But he seemed surprised to hear his name from her… So that doesn’t line up, unless she’s been gathering info on him in secret. I thought for a while it was whoever blue-eyed her who spoke, but the timing of the color change was too late- Unless, the animators were waiting to show the possession like they did with Chen Bin, because the color is only really there to help the audience.

So, was LX the one who blue-eyed WQ at the end? It couldn’t have been LG, because Vein doubles over before WQ’s eyes turn blue and after LG makes that weird hand gesture. Whatever LG was doing there, it probably had nothing to do with WQ. But if the animators were holding off on showing the eye change, and LX was in possession of her, he could have been using her power in the process… It may be activated by saying someone’s name, and he just seems more likely to know it than WQ (or LG, if he was in control instead). They’re on closer terms.

Alternatively, was it WQ using her own power, and not a possession issue at all? If so, what was she doing? I can’t imagine her trying to save Vein’s life. He just flung her around like a doll, and she was working with Mama Cheng + withholding the location of the envelope in her office. They’re likely on opposite sides. But, we still have that ‘fake-death ability user’ lurking around, whether it’s her or someone else at the school (or someone who took it from someone at the school. Staring at LX, who is the one to get Vein outta the bodybag lol)

Then again, LX’s first ability might not just be hearing heartbeats. If he can manipulate them too, that could come into play with themes of necromancy, revival, etc… hm. I guess that’s one way to rewrite a death node? To bring someone back in the present?

Smaller note here: If not in the Bridon arc, then does Vein eventually receive a power? Does he kill for it or later awaken it? I want to know because… If you off someone who has obtained multiple abilities, do you get them all? Do you only get the one they wish to pass to you (re: CXS passing LG the ball)? Does a ‘fake death’ count for the sake of a transfer? Is that person completely powerless afterward? (Can LX get Vein to kill him to loan him a power and then reverse his death? Basically offer him a knife with the blade aimed at his chest, hold his hand, and grin when he coughs up blood?) I have so many questions.

ALL THIS TO SAY. Those are my immediate reactions. I’m learning more with every passing hour, so ofc my perception of what went down will change. I plan to do a rewatch at some point as well! Replies will be slow until I’m done; I’ll be moving very carefully with my portrayals.

[lunarrolls]

this is so random but i was doing a genasi/titan wiki research session (for obvious reasons) and i saw that they had two sections on the genasi page that stood out to me. one was for the kryn dynasty, and one was for the cerberus assembly. i didn’t watch cr2 nor calamity, and i also don’t own egtw, which seems to be where most of this comes from, so if anyone knows more details about this pplleeeeaaase let me know i need to go insane about it, but. anyways. both are wild to me for different reasons,

basically the kryn have almost no genasi if any and so kryn scouts are under orders to bring any genasi they find home so that the dynasty can gain information about them. the cerberus assembly are noted to be obsessed with genasi and pressure any genasi they find in the empire to join the ranks of the assembly under pain of exile or even death (all of this is according to the wiki)

so. first off. can you imagine being the fucking kryn scout that carts in Ashton Fucking Greymoore. not only a genasi but. known beacon brain. constantly noted by pretty much everyone with magic to be weird as fuck and full of endless potential. maybe infused with a fragment of your god’s essence. That Fucking Guy

second off. can you imagine being the fucking cerberus assembly soldier or whatever that carts in Ashton Fucking Greymoore, especially now, when the fucking assembly is staring at ludinus’ moon laser and going what the shit is that. you bring in this fucking punk who’s very dead set on murdering that blond elf. and somehow that bitch didn’t notice what he had on his tail. so i guess it’s your turn to figure it the fuck out! good luck bitch!