#thats a dude and his enemy

[starlooove]

My biggest superhero flaw is that I do dehumanize them a bit like that’s not a 15 year old that’s spider man that’s not a child that’s Robin and not in the sense they can’t have normal human reactions or feelings but like. No idc if a grown man is beating up a teenager when they’re both dressed in spandex on the opposite sides of a world ending debacle that just doesn’t matter to me

[imavikingo]

I said this in tags on another post, but it’s relevant and deserves its own post (I should be reading my usual pre- sleeping fic selection, BUT! I had this revelation -being sleepy is useful once again! -)

They NEEDED Steve to disappear, to be gone. To never care about Bucky anymore. That way they could treat Bucky as they see fit, and that means treating him like shit.

Steve would NEVER accept or allow Bucky to make amends, he would NEVER let the government take care of Bucky or be part of his “rehabilitation” in any way shape or form. That’s why he became Nomad, that’s why Bucky stayed in Wakanda. He would had fight with teeth and nails for Bucky.

“He died already more than once! He was a victim! A prisoner of war. He saved the fucking universe. What the fuck do you mean with amends!”

He became a wanted criminal for that same reason, to not let them have Bucky (nor other people in a fucking watchlist)

They needed Steves relationship with Bucky to become bitter, to be nothing more than a memory.

Steve being in retirement wouldn’t have cut it and…

Bucky was always going to follow Steve, no matter what.

So they needed him to stay alone (or with a companion that didn’t really care as much as Steve, enter Sam)

This way they killed two birds with one stone in Endgame: Reinforcing Steves “love” for Peggy, because “he’s NOT gay, you guys!”, and the partial isolation of Bucky.

[carpetbug]

guys. I kinda wish adrien had been akumatized in season 5 in the short periods he wore an alliance (or ephemeral type shit where Gabriel fuckin breaks him solely to akumatize him) and had been given the essence of the miraculous of the dragon. THE MIRACULOUS OF THE DRAGON. THE MIRACULOUS OF PERFECTION. AKUMATIZED ADRIEN WITH THE MIRACULOUS OF PERFECTION. and it’s not from Maribug! if it had been the ACTUAL miraculous from the actual guardian, it ties back to her, it almost functions as a connection between them two. but when it’s only the essence it leads back to Gabriel! It’s another way his father is holding him under his thumb, pulling all the strings of his life and just having complete control over Adrien. so yeah i need dragon!akumadrien content and i need it now

[stewykablooey]

dont ask me what this is

[cervideity]

cervi liek book 2!! CERVI HATE BOOK 2!!!!!!

i cannot top the original exchange. but i couldnt get it outta my head i needed to draw it. BONUS PAUL BC FUCK IT!

[nihiltism]

ok so while my ds is getting sand poured into it at alarming rates I'm thinking about how jrpgs in specific have a really weird desync with How Important Death Is. like some address it better than others but it very frequently happens where if you take a step back youll go "am I wild or is everybody just like, Really down with murder in this game". and consequences for said murder, especially in a characterization sense but even just actual physical consequences, don't really happen? unless it's a vehicle for conflict but like. when it is a vehicle for conflict it feels weird because why are These Guys actually taking the fact we killed somebody in broad daylight seriously and coming after us for it while all the other npcs and even the main party took it like it was another saturday evening

see I Think where the issue lies is in the fact that everything is in its own little world when you're in a battle? like. when you fight an enemy and you get leather out of it it's seen as something the enemy Drops and not. their hide. when you defeat a character in a battle it does just feel like you Defeated them. unless there's dialogue afterwards that says otherwise you don't even mentally assume you killed em you just wounded them enough to make them flee or dissolve or whatever. and it's Weird to just. have that assumption there because for a lot of games it really isn't clear if you're killing them or defeating them !!

that last point is extra important when you have the specific brand of Skittish Hero / Noble Hero Who Doesn't Kill People / Rational Hero In Way Over Their Head or whatever where you really don't think they Would kill a guy just to get them out of the way. in that case it's REALLY weird because it's hardly brought up. even if it Is brought up that that guy Sure Did Die the mc doesn't tend to actually have a reaction ??? and I don't know why this is ???? like Any written reaction would be more interesting than nothing even if the guy doesn't have a full on crisis about taking another life having them go "oh shit, The Consequences" would be nice. really anything except (oh cool we can advance the plot now).

I will also mention that Some deaths do matter plot wise but very frequently what makes them matter is how much of it is linked to an in game battle I think. if your mc just finishes a fight and comes back to the overworld and the guy's Disappeared or Dissolved or whatever it means they don't matter. if the guy's still around after the fight it means it's more significant, especially if they're still alive but wounded or Really Shaken Up. because this clears up the indistinguishable line between if a battle is lethal or not and if a character decides to deal a finishing blow now it's Way more telling of their character. even though this is basically the same thing that happened in the (killed In A Battle) scenario. just with more dialogue. I will also mention that the person who deals the finishing blow is Rarely Ever that good hearted protagonist and often they'll even go :0 at somebody else committing a murder despite them instigating and helping murder quite a few people. just. In Battle. so it's less bad. I guess.

this is leaving out the fact that in party deaths are often a Major Major Blow because like. ok that's fair. that's A Guy You Knew that's understandable. anyway I don't really know where I'm going with this I just think it's interesting how in these types of games death can swap from not mattering at all to mattering a Lot and if u don't think about it too hard u don't even question it. I'll probably be putting some examples in the tags idk

[asyipyip]

jesus christ episode 5 of arcane was so fucking good

[moonsuke]

I've always been annoyed when people are stuck writing female characters in feminine tropes, but when it's a male character they tend to be my fav... The opposite is true too of course. I usually dislike the male characters playing stereotypically masculine roles and love the female ones who do.

And that's why I continue loving Shun :D

He's the 'dead lover" that still exerts a passive influence in the show by being a motivational force and object of yearning for our main characters. And despite Maria's name popping up more, the way they remember her is entirely different from how they remember Shun. Her death brings about anger, regret and guilt. She plays a more "active" role too in the sense that when we remember her, its her feelings (especially towards Saki) at the fore front. She loves Saki, she wants to protect her, yet she has to stay with Mamoru to protect him because he needs her more.

It could be because their physical memories of Shun were wiped out and only their emotional ones remain, but when he's brought up its always about the main characters' feelings for him instead, like how they missed, loved and yearned for him. Actually even before his death, he was subjected to the whims of both Saki and Satoru a lot. Like in the eps touching on him and Satoru being together, he was mostly going along with what Satoru wants. Even Satoru revealed he had to persuade Shun into being in a relationship with him. And with Saki, he always had a powerful influence on her subconscious before and after his death, almost always in the form of revelations and a source of strength and motivation. His storyline and death deals with themes of self-sacrifice and loneliness too so he's definitely a more "passive" character in this sense. The smart, gentle one everyone loved who had to die too young.

Shun is like a drug to them I swear with how addicted to him these 2 are. There's the simpler part of me that just likes that the 2 leads are so in love with him lmao. We actually rarely get to see Satoru being sentimental and open with his feelings even for his friends, but when it comes to Shun, he opens up like in these screenshots. It seems he truly loved him, couldn't get over him even after a decade ;-; Same with Saki ;-;

It's sad too though because this complicated love polygon ends up with some being less loved than others. Mamoru > Maria > Saki > Shun < Satoru with Saki's feelings for Maria being there yet overshadowed by her feelings for Shun. Shun too likes Satoru but probably loves Saki more. And eventually I was spoiled to know Saki and Satoru ends up together and in love :)

Also that Shun would make a final appearance as Saki finally remembers his face :) I hope we get to see some Satoru and Shun too though :))

[trainingdummyrabbit]

Got any thoughts on pluto?

(Not the planet but that's also welcome)

honestly .. literally none whatsoever sdkjgndkfj orz;;

due to the Angela Hyperfixation he Litcherally did not exist to me for like the entire game, and i Still havent retained anything about him. Due To The Angela Hyperfixation. i in fact retained so little i completely mixed him up with another, completely different guy. oops. um. anyway. he seems funny, the tail is a Very good look; idk if hes necessarily my type of character but i Would like to study him. bows.

oh pluto the planet though is my best friend who could forget dear pluto my best friend pluto i love you pluto miss you pluto

[skeletalheartattack]

ignoring realistic necessities like food, care, space, and medical attention, what video game enemy would you want to have as a pet ?

if i had to choose. it'd be one of these three.

[smol-tired-binch-blog]

He is like an angel to me <3

[bmpmp3]

plus i always find it pretty disappointing in my beloved media marketed towards women and girls when a leading man has like. no relationships outside the main character. like cmon, not even a complex but intense homoerotic house-wilson style frenemyship with some buddy of his? thats like the bare minimum

[yeetskeetiwandelete]

We're politics posting again lads

By that I mean I almost went completely right-wing in, like, ninth grade. I can't find that "escaped from the right wing failpost" right now but I saw like 4/5s of the tags on a post about it were along the lines of "I want to kill OP" and. man. that sounds exactly what radicalized me. I don't know what to make of that.

I don't really know where to go from there. I got nothing, I just remembered reading the snippet everyone was looking at, and just going, "Huh, that sounds exactly like what happened to me." Still happens sometimes! and then I see the tags on everyone else's posts and it's like yeah no wonder I fucking hated you back then, you keep telling me you want me dead. My base instinct is to hit all aggressive comments with the "right back atcha' pal" which isn't a great tool, but I felt it rear up again when I was reading and it was just aaaaugh you guyyys I don't want harm on you but my goodness everybody here is the worst.

(yes including OP. Fuckin hell that was a rough take once I saw it in full. But still, seeing the fallout is just reminding me how I got radicalized and it's really sad.)

[annwayne]

For the unpopular opinion ask game: 🖤💚

Thanks for the ask :D Ooo I had to think a bit for this.

🖤: Which character is not as morally good as everyone else seems to think?

We've already talked about this, but I gotta say Fox.. Look, I saw the comic, we've all seen the comic. A grouchy Fox who needs caf and saves Chuchi from an awkward situation is adorable. But... he worked directly under Palpatine, probably was hand picked by the guy, and didn't hesitate to kill Fives when ordered to. There's no way he's anything more than morally grey, and that's positive thinking. I think he was a hardass to the clones in his command and took orders without any question. I want this bastard to suffer, to learn just how atrocious his actions were, to feel guilt and shame and to know there's no changing the past, and then, finally, I want Fox to get a happy (and adorable) ending with Chuchi. Slight tangent-It's kinda a weird situation in the show, because we're told the clones follow orders more easily than other people, but then all the clones we really get to see in action don't? They seem to think more creatively, they point out when a standard tactic wouldn't work, hell they think critically. So I get the instinct to make every cool clone just like Rex and all the other clones who get spotlights in tcw, but honestly, they were the exception.

💚: What does everyone get wrong about your favorite character?

How long do you have? Lol. At least after Season 3 a ton of the worst takes aren't as common anymore, but oh boy there were some bad ones. Recently, mmm.. I don't think Crosshair losing his hand was a sign of healing, and I don't think he needed to lose his hand in order to "be more than a sniper." Idk I think that take is just. Wild. He was always more than a sniper, but after his family left him behind he thought that being a sniper, being a solider, was all that mattered. He lost those other parts of him, his competitive streak, his playful nature, the man who'd comfort a brother on the battle field, all of what made him unique-there was no room for that in the empire and I think he felt like he lost that when CF 99 left without him. So season 3 wasn't really the first time he learned he was more than a solider. It was a reminder. And I'd argue that being with the batch again and being with Omega was the most important part of remembering that. Not losing his fucking dominate hand.

Unpopular Opinion Ask Game

[jonny-b-meowborn]

Christ just remembering my dream today, I went to school for one of my speaking exams, and in the building there was a lot of cameramen and news reporters, so I got super stressed out like, are they gonna document the exams or something? Did something happen in the area? I went to one room that's full of pillows n shit (it's an actual room we have at school irl it's fun) to like, wait and prepare for my exam, but one of the reporters approached me as soon as she saw me, asking me a shit ton of questions about an event that I've never heard of, but apparently was heavily involved in. But it was weirdly Trial by Kafka-like, where I never learned what the actual crime was. Apparently instead of my exam I was supposed to give a big speech defending myself live on TV and no one would tell me what was even happening. My classmates were absent, or if I saw one of them they'd leave before I could speak to them, and if they realized that I noticed them they'd quickly walk away to avoid me. The teachers were at best super disappointed in me, at worst genuinely disgusted with me for what I've done, and of course wouldn't tell me what it was. I wasn't allowed to leave the building, I couldn't even leave the relax room without being swarmed by reporters asking me stuff I didn't understand. At some point I couldn't take the pressure and stress and started panicking, yelling at everyone to please let me out or explain what's going on, that I was innocent and confused and scared, I felt like an animal surrounded by hunters. During this fit I saw my class's head teacher, who's a great and lovely and supporting man irl, but I couldn't get to him through the reporters around me, so I yelled at him for help, I screamed that he knows me, he knows I haven't done anything, but he just looked at me with this soul crushing disappointment in his eyes and for a moment I believed maybe I did something truly horrible. And my entire meltdown was framed as if I was being aggressive and attacking the reporters, even though aside from the screaming and trying to push them away to escape I didn't do anything. Eventually the show I was supposed to be on started, and I was dragged out of the relax room to the lecture hall, in front of a bunch of cameras and a microphone. I just stood there, silently sobbing, still having no idea what's happening. Some people in the audience around me, reporters or just teachers I couldn't recognize, were speaking softly to me that I should calm down and confess and it'll all be okay as long as I do what's right. I couldn't say anything and the cameras kept rolling, waiting for me to do something, and then the dream ended. What in the holiest of fucks

[allegras-sunflower]

Are you telling me no one did the flower shop owner/tattoo artist au with Louis and Lestat??

The many occupations of fic Louis de Point du Lac

I’ve been reading a lot of fic to get me through the long wait to season 2, and I’ve been delighted by the sheer diversity of professional occupations writers have imagined for Louis. Here’s a list off the top of my head of ones I’ve read and enjoyed, though please do tell me in the comments if I’ve missed any!

Spa owner and massage therapist in "You're the one, designed for me"

Fashion photographer in "Let the flesh instruct the mind"

Coffee shop owner in “It’s like a sucker punch straight to my heart” by @thefairylights

Chef in "Saveur de la Maison" by @suikamelon6

Ballet dancer in "Meet me at the barre" by @dancermk

Club promoter in "Grenadine"

Nanny in "Cord of Communion" by @brightfelon

Sugar baby in "Music when the sun goes down" by @mythicaltzu

Cabin crew in "The Mile High Club"

Publishing editor in "Brooklyn Baby"

Bar owner in "Under the Blood Mood" by @revolution-starter

University lecturer in "Practical Ethics" by @prouvaireafterdark

Teacher in "Your mouth and madness" by @brightfelon

Art gallerist in "The Saint" by @revolution-starter

Crown prince in "Part of Your World" by @weather-mood

Bartender in "My companion heart" by @mythicaltzu

Whereas Lestat is nearly always musician/rockstar/music producer (which makes sense since that's canon). Though I must give a special mention to his porn star career in "Pretty Boy" 👀

Apologies if I’ve mis-tagged or forgotten to tag any authors here, I’ve tried to match them up from AO3 references where possible!