#the kicker is they don't even care they're just like well it happens

[passionpeachy]

I feel so sorry for anyone who has to share a bed with me while I'm having nightmares because I shake and fidget A LOT in my sleep. This morning I literally bit my boyfriend's head

[strange-anni]

This is the first time Mike and El almost kiss and it happens in a small confined bathroom after Mike has established that he's happy she's home which El agrees with.

At first I thought this was about being home in Mikes basement which would make sense given that El has stayed in his basement for quite a bit now. I thought they're happy she's home now because she's finally safe again. So they're feeling at ease which then leads to an almost kiss.

But then I thought, why does this have to happen in a bathroom of all places?

Warning for heavy themes of CSA under the cut. Don't read this if you like Mlvn! This is an extra warning for you specifically! Even if you like b*ler please be careful should you decide to read this.

They are not at "home" in the basement, they are at home in the bathroom inside the basement and that's the kicker here. On a surface level this doesn't really make sense at all.

We've seen before how confined spaces make El incredibly uncomfortable and yet here we are with Mike and El in a confined space and they're both happy she's finally home. Admittedly it's well lit this time and they are both not alone which probably takes away some of the anxiety but I don't think that's enough to explain why they both would suddenly be so at ease to lean in to kiss each other.

They're not even really at ease either. There is tension between them and it doesn't seem like it's the good kind. While El does crack a tiny smile after Mike says she's home, it fades just as quickly as it came to her lips while Mike doesn't smile at all.

Yet they lean in and are ready to kiss each other and I think the reason is the same as to why Will is also afraid of bathtubs and confined bathroom spaces.

Mike and El are in a bathroom, they establish that El is home in there and then something clicks with El (and Mike too.) She knows what is expected of her and so she leans in ready to kiss. It's not romance and it doesn't have anything to do with Mike either. It's something she is used to and which most likely happened to her in the past quite often.

I think El was se*ually a*used in a bathroom and in that moment with Mike she is reliving her trauma which is why she does what she does. In the past kissing in bathrooms was something which was expected of her.

As for Mike, I don't think he meant to put El in that position. When he said he's happy she is home he probably meant it as happy that she's safe now.

But then something clicks for Mike as well and so he also leans in and is ready to kiss El. At first I thought that Mike was remembering Will as he's home now with El like he was home in the basement with Will. Remember when Mike brought Will home to his house and his basement after Will was attacked by the MF on Halloween in S2? They must have been at home (relaxed and at ease) in this basement together quite often. So in Mikes mind he's actually kissing Will or rather his replacement as he's about to kiss El.

While I do think this explanation could still hold I also think there is more to it. Mike leans in just as much as El. He feels the tension she feels. It's like he is an exact mirror of her and just as much on autopilot as she is. Just like El Mike is ready to do things which at one point in time were also expected of him. It's probably been years for Mike since this last happened and yet he or his body still remember enough that he knows what he's supposed to do.

I think Mike just like El and Will was once se*ually ab*sed in a bathroom and it must have happened before 1976 when Will swapped places with him like I've theorized here.

[aquillis-main]

This "do Sonic games have good writing" discourse has reminded me of something I've been thinking about on and off recently. Namely, what does it mean for a Sonic game to be good?

We can argue about the merits of writing, characterization, and gameplay all day, but specifically, I've been thinking about the yardstick people often seem to apply to the series. Based on the way they talk about Sonic, you'd think the series needs to have an intensive, watertight lore and a story written by Kojima.

I don't think a Sonic story needs to be deep or dark in order to be good. I don't even think the writing needs to be complex or dynamic, necessarily; sometimes a message is handled best when it's delivered simply.

Although it's true that the games do feature darker elements, those elements have always been handled with tact and sensitivity out of a genuine care for the subject matter. Which brings me to what I think is the real crux of the issue: emotional honesty. Is the work trying to be something it's not?

I came to this realization after contemplating why games like SA2 and Forces (put down your torches and pitchforks) made me mist up where other works might not.

There are a number of reasons, but overall, I think most of it has to do with those games being thematically cohesive, if not always narratively cohesive, and remaining genuine to the messages they try to impart. Both are games that stick the landing despite being uneven in places.

IDW and the movies are not emotionally honest, in the sense that they don't employ any narrative or characterization decisions in service of greater themes. They just make shit happen to get a reaction from the audience, logic and theme be damned. And the kicker is that people gas both IDW and the films up as superior to the games when they're actually inferior, just in terms of sheer technical construction.

SA2 may suffer the occasional bit of wonky writing, but it is thematically coherent enough for me to be able to overlook that. And I'd deign to argue that most things people call plot holes aren't really plot holes, if you just thought about the information the game gives you. The game doesn't spoonfeed it to you, is all.

Battle? Has excellent characterization, as well as employs a foil between Eggman's and Gerald's treatment of Emerl as a commentary on mankind's responsibility wrt WMDs. It can be a bit heavy-handed as far as anti-war tracts go, but "This is the final voice of the last war machine" is still Shadow's rawest line, and no one can take that away from me lol.

I'd argue that SatSR is the best-written Sonic game. Its characterization is nuanced, the execution of its themes was tastefully done - subtly, even - and it features symbolism in a way that doesn't quite shove it in your face the way SatBK does.

It's definitely not on par with something like Silent Hill 2, but it's worth remembering that a Sonic game doesn't need to be Silent Hill 2: Sonic Edition to be good. As long as it tells its story honestly, a lot of flaws can be forgiven.

What do the spinoffs have? Vibes. That's about it. You can't really enjoy them on their own merits because they don't maintain any internal consistency, which is ironic considering how much people claim the games are inconsistent.

IDW? Can anyone tell me what its core message is? "Sonic offers anyone freedom out of his staunch belief in freedom as a general idea, regardless of if it hurts people or if it backfires on him, because it gives him Depth(tm) and Texture(tm) as a character"? "Sonic vs. Eggman is a dumb and harmful cycle we must stop because reasons"?

That's... kind of cynical, don't you think?

SA2 had things to say on anti-authoritarianism, grief, revenge, hope, atonement, and keeping true to yourself even in the face of doubt and hardship (ex. Shadow asserting he's still him even if his memories were false; Sonic seeking to clear his image and asserting "what you see is what you get": the two are foils and mirror reflections).

What was Sonic 3 trying to say? "I knew Maria wouldn't want me to destroy the world, but screw it, I'm doing it anyway because my pain is what matters most"? Shut up and clap for Live and Learn, you nostalgia-blind pleb.

Like, you can tell the difference. One is trying to say something. The other plays at saying something while saying nothing.

Honestly, this is how I feel with the anon trying to take my well-earned 'Sonic the Hedgehog Fan' sticker, despite showcasing that unlike them, I have more proof of myself understanding the games and how they operate.

Not every story is agreeable to people, and they don't have to be. For Sonic, the games are cartoons that you can play.

[thecircularsystem]

You said you didn't experience stress or the other word with your diagnosis

Are you genuinely saying you don't experience stress with derealization or depersonalisation or dissociation?? I guess not everyone experiences it like me but you don't get distressed when your brain tries to convince you that you're not real? Do you experience denial? Doesn't that stress you out?

I'm sure that it's possible to live without stress but like, really?

Genuinely asking just shocked at the idea

Transcribed continuation of ask: To be clear I’m saying the cons of the dissociation and the other stuff don’t outweigh the pros of being a system? Like get there eventually sure I’d much prefer to get there eventually but idk from the offset? /End ID

Hey, thanks for the asks. I like discussing this a lot, as someone who experiences very little distress anymore over my system symptoms (lol). Fair warning, this post gets into a lot of trauma stuff. TW for descriptions of abuse and a bit of ideation discussion!

Here’s the kicker: I really don’t experience many symptoms anymore.

By the time I got diagnosed, I didn’t experience those nearly as much. I used to go into what I called dissociative fugue — stare at a wall time — for hours, and that was distressing. But that is far, far in my past now. I can distinctly remember the last time it happened, which was over 2 years ago at this point. I can’t tell you the last time I lost track of the fact that I’m a real, living, breathing person. That was when I had just started therapy, and since then, I don’t… feel it anymore. It’s not part of my experience.

When I first realized, “something weird is happening in my head,” I was definitely distressed… for about 5 minutes. Then my friend (abusive) told me she experienced the same exact thing, and so I was normal. I found… a lot of joy from my system after that. I convinced myself that my “characters” in my head were made up to take care of different stressful parts of my life, and I assumed everyone was sort of like this. Like, Wade did home life and Sierra did school life. Isn’t that what my Mom described, “being a different person at work than at home”?

So I didn’t experience distress over my symptoms. And, well, at the same time, I did. I lost time constantly, but I didn’t realize it was my system. I thought I was just an idiot. I was significantly depressed, but I figured that was… yknow. Depression. Not Trauma(tm) whispering in my brain. But that was it, and the thing is, I usually... forgot I had felt bad in the first place. After all, I was only depressed when Wade was out; Sierra was at school and she felt fine. So really, I was only depressed when I was at home, and even then, it only happened now and then, and was I really depressed? Naaaah.

It was like that for a long time. And then, we split our persecutor, and the Two Years of Blackout Memory happened, and then boy howdy were we distressed and dysfunctional. But again, I don't remember most of college -- I don't remember that distress and dysfunction. I remember it happened, and my fiance could definitely tell some stories (maybe @circulars-singlet has stuff they could say on this matter), but for the most part, I don't feel it anymore.

When I got my diagnosis, it was after moving out from my parents house. I'd been gone for about a half a year and living with my partner, who really helped me overcome a lot of my problems. They're the one who helped me the most, forcing me to get a therapist. Three weeks later, I'm diagnosed and getting weekly therapy.

And now, with three years under my belt... I don't know, like...

When I start to doubt I'm real, I roll my eyes and hug myself. I flick my nose. "If I'm not real, take that, asshole." When I start to dissociate, I have my partner there to help me come back relatively quickly, or I can ground myself fairly readily. It doesn't distress me because it's so normal now. Genuinely, my autism distresses me far more, I get so in my head about it.

The cons of my systemhood absolutely do not outweigh the pros. I am alive today because of these chucklefucks in my head. I am alive today because I have the ability to forget it all. I am alive today because I did not feel like it was happening to me.

And now I can recognize it was me, and I can breathe and acknowledge I'm safe. I can recognize I'm real, and that's okay. I can communicate readily with all my parts, and we function together as well as we can. When I do get distressed, we can handle it, and it happens so rarely due to DID things that I don't really find my DID to be distressing.

Instead, I get 14 other people helping me each day, which nobody else gets the benefit of in my life. Score! And hey, the amnesia means I get to relive some of my favorite things that I never knew were favorites. The dissociation means I can just... ignore bad stuff.

There's definitely worry. I won't pretend that EVERY OUNCE of distress is gone, and lord knows I am dysfunctional as hell. But...

It's still an incredibly good life, and I owe that life to my DID. It's not a disorder, dragging me down. It's a disorder built from necessity and survival. And I couldn't be more thrilled that I was strong enough to survive that.

Does that make sense?

[atomicdarc]

You know..sometimes, when meimei and snowcat met, they would get into a gun fights. Lovely saw them and thought that they're getting along well :3 but for demonslihor, he knew they're enemies...

Meimei is always annoyed of his yodelling, too but she get along with him for lovely.

Also kumu is water-proof so he just float on water lol 😂 :333

Anyway here's some scenarios of meimei and lovely (and ofc the two siblings figures, demonlishor and lovely :3)

"this's worse..worse then death!" -Meimei

"mhm..no, mei. i can see it through now, all this times..all this memories timelines you were trying to save me so many times..that you suffered many..." -lovely

"lovely.." -meimei

"you always save me so much...that you don't know who you are. I'm so sorry, i was so stupid.." -lovely

"no.. don't say that...!" -meimei

"but, it's okay now..i am now a god and nothing can kill me anymore...and i will put you in a peaceful world..." -lovely

"but..Where are you going to go! you have no home now! this's where you are going to be ruling! is this what you want, lovely!" -meimei

"if i said the truth..what difference would that be?" -lovely

"even, if you are alone or helpless, don't forget that I'm always here with you, I'm always be on your side.." -lovely

"But, how am i going to know you are with me, if you are going to be like this!" -meimei

"nu uh, it's too soon to be giving up hope! we're magical girls, remember? we make nightmares and raiders go away.. that was our job now...and you are going to be in peace while I'll handle everything..." -lovely

"even though, you can't see me or heard me, I'm still by your side!" -lovely as she took off her green ribbon off her hair and give it to meimei.

"even though we're going to be separated, forever..and not remembering eachother, i do hope that we're going to meet together...i promise I'll remember you forever and ever.." -lovely

"no...are you saying that you are going to erase my memories of you?! how am i going to remember you even though i don't remember you!" -meimei

"i did it because i don't want you to be suffering for me anymore.. I don't want you to cry or feel despair...and l'll handle all the raiders, in the past and the future even when they're even made." -lovely

"even though we're not going to see eachother again..pls promise that you'll take care of kicker, even he's not going to remember me after this. he's a really good boy, really..." -lovely

"no..NO! LOVELY PLS DON'T GO!" -meimei

"I'm sorry..but i have to go take care of others, now! meimei..pls take care of yourself, and pls...i love you dearly as my best friend." -lovely

"LOVELY..!!!!!!!!" -meimei

"why does your friend always pick up a gun fights with snowcat?" -demonlishor

"i really don't know why...but I'm gald they're getting along :D" -lovely

Oh and here's about kumu after he kill his friend, nana after he became a magical boy/girl: he wanted to puke and kill himself, he couldn't believe what he has done. He still goes to the Autobot's base..no one knows where nana went, they thought she went missing. Only, kumu knows.

Oh and here's some angst of starscream and alexis :3 (brother and sister figures) and a little bit tiny of demonlihor x starscream

"arugh...wait, where am i?" -starscream

"starscream!" -???

"Huh? Who's there!" -starscream

"don't you remember, who i am?" -???

"it's me, Alexis! Your friend!" -alexis

"a..a-alexis? What... I don't understand." -starscream

"do you really not remember me?" -alexis

"..i...am not sure if i remember-" -starscream as he suddenly got a bit of his memories back of alexis.

"alexis..." -starscream as he slowly fade away to go back to the reality.

"wait, no! Alexis! ALEXIS!!!" -starscream as he shouted.

"w-what.." -starscream

"what happened!" -starscream

"oh nothing! You just suddenly passed out, heeheh!" -Snowcat

"yeah, we don't know but we thought that you are just tired so we bought you to your berth!" -demonlishor

"hm..thanks you demonlishor..i appreciate it." -starscream smiled a bit as he complimented him and demonlishor got flustered

"hey! Don't forget about me! What about me?" -snowcat yabbing about it

"..." -lovely

"What is she doing here?" -starscream

"oh! She just want to check on you after our last battle of fighting those autobots." -demonlishor

"and I'm confused why is she checking on me if we're enemies, is she even choosing sides or what?" -starscream

"oh! Don't be like that!" -snowcat as he laughed.

Starscream stared at snowcat and then lovely who's watching him behind the wall, honestly, sometimes he is confused why lovely chose to spend times with them even though she's on the good side. But, he started to get suspicious of her after he was waken up.

🔥 MORE ANGST CONTENT 🔥

and awwww, they look like a happy family!

[hawks-flat-ass]

Giving Credit Where Credit Is Do

This seems to be somewhat controversial or maybe not even something considered. But, let me speak my truth.

I'm not gonna pretend I'm perfect about it. But it's important to shout-out the people that help you. It doesn't matter if they're writers or not, friends or not, fans or not. Even if they say they don't need it, it's important you do it.

Because you don't want people that you value enough to collaborate with to become resentful.

See, here's a story.

I found myself in a situation over most of 2024 where I lent experience, trauma, knowledge, creativity, and my own writing to help another author.

I never asked for credit. They were a friend, why would I?

Well, not really, it turns out.

See, that person then decided to tell me I'm pushing them out of my own server with my OC, Nox. Because I made a joke. They apologized but it kept happening. This is why no updates or additions to Amarenox have been made.

They'd get big sad every time I or other creatives - not just writers - got attention in my server. They'd try to delete their channel, leave frequently, and I'd have to pull them back in. I'd spend so much energy trying to convince them they would write. To not give up. That people do read.

I'd lay the ground work for them to help it be better for everyone just to have them forget it the second they felt better. They'd forget about everything we talked about, all the plans that we discussed. And it started to boil. I started to get frustrated. I started to resent, and that was an easy thing to fixate the complex aggravation and emotional burnout on.

And here's the kicker, I don't actually care about credit in general. It's not like I get paid for this.

So much animosity in this situation could have been avoided if they just gave credit. I'm not saying the rest wouldn't have led to a downfall anyway, my relationship with this person was unhealthy, but at least a petty thing like a shout out wouldn't have contributed as much as it had.

Shout out your collaborators. Always.

And of course my block was circumvented. Of course. That's their MO.

[imagine-darksiders]

Oh my god I'm just sitting here going crazy thinking about how wonderful of a contrast you provide with every Darksiders fic to the canon?? Like, in every game everyone from the Council to the other Kingsoms assumed that balance = war, that all the Third Kingdom will do is fight everyone to a standstill and THAT is "balance", and so many characters think humans are weak, violent, stupid, and yet it's nothing but projection. The only time of the few humans we see were violent it was from malicious outside influence.

Every time you've portrayed a human, it's a slap in the face to the other species at how WRONG they were. Humans are kind, friendly, caring even to strangers. The others are so hopped up on war they fail to see change even when it's right in front of their faces and it's just AAAAAAAAAA

Just imagine, Humans eventually reach their full potential and the rest of the Universe takes a nervous step back, holding its breath, watching and waiting for Humanity to turn their vengeful sights on a universe that abandoned them.

But here's the kicker... Humans remember the end of their world. They can recall, in terrible, inescapable detail, the devastation, the heartbreak and suffering and terror. Are they really prepared to do that to another world? All in the name of revenge? Some humans are, certainly. But not enough.

The voices that call for war against the other realms are utterly overwhelmed by those who only cry out for peace and cooperation between species.

The consensus stands: Humanity has been given a second chance after the Resurrection. They saw their world end once before. It couldn't be allowed to happen again, not least because almost everything they once considered history was lost and could never be regained.

The decision to lay down their arms is unanimous. They're bridge-builders now, friend-makers. They know as well as anyone that they don't have to fear other species if those species are on their side.

The Charred Council has much to answer for, for the hatred they cultivated in other species who learned to look down on the Third Kingdom.

There is no End War. Humans bring balance to Creation through trust.

Humanity isn't alone in the Universe. And it isn't nearly as terrifying as we thought it would be.

[ladyknightellen]

You're Not Getting Diversity Points For This One Sweetie

I'm supposed to be studying, but instead I'm back with another rant because I watched that movie 'We Can Be Heroes' last night and I have THINGS TO SAY!

So the basic premise of this movie if you haven't seen it is that it's a spin-off of Sharkboy and Lavagirl and it's about the children of superheroes. The team is called The Heroics and all of their kids have various iterations and combinations of their parents powers. The parents all get kidnapped by aliens and the kids have to work together to rescue them Pedro Pascal is in there somewhere, yada yada yada you get the point.

One of these kids is the child of a very Superman-esque type character called Miracle Guy, and his kid is only ever referred to as 'Wheels'. Care to guess why? Yeah, and that's basically how he introduces himself in the movie and I know this was made for kids, but still. I assume he has an actual name, because he says 'everyone calls me Wheels' but we never learn what his name might be. This is also true for the other kids too. They are referred to by names relating to their powers and it's implied that those are not their real names but they don't say what those names might be. Honestly, idk.

Anyways, Wheels is the only one who's nickname doesn't correspond to his powers, and something about that don't sit right with my spirit, but I'll save that for another day because that's not even the part that's pissing me off the most about the way this kid's storyline is handled. For starters, the actor isn't disabled, but even THAT isn't the kicker for me though it's definitely part of it.

When Wheels introduces himself to the main character, Missy, he tells her than his power is that he has super strength and that he uses the wheelchair because the muscles in his legs are so strong that his bones can't support their weight. For some inexplicable reason this baffling phenomenon that defies all logic of how the human body works doesn't seem to affect his upper body at all. He also says that his brain is like his body and it's 'supercharged' which isn't related to your muscles at all, so I'm not sure how that's supposed to be part of his powers, but whatever I guess.

Throughout the entire movie, we never actually see Wheels use his super strength at all, and he primarily acts as the tech genius of the group. It's giving Oracle, but not in a good way because THAT'S NOT WHAT HIS POWER IS SUPPOSED TO BE! The only time we see him actually perform a feat strength is when he lifts himself out of his wheelchair so that he can direct it into a bunch of aliens like a bowling ball, which isn't much of a feat of strength because there isn't anything particularly 'super' about it. Couple that with the fact that his wheelchair has inexplicably large tires and he visibly struggles to push himself pretty much anytime you see him moving his chair. Remember, THIS KID IS SUPPOSED TO HAVE SUPER STRENGTH!!!

And even all of that isn't the biggest issue I have with this movie and how it handles a disability storyline. No, the biggest issue for me is the number of times Wheels is left at the top or bottom of a flight of stairs only for the scene to cut straight ahead to him somehow having traversed these steps to join the others with no explanation for how it happened. It's not the first time I've seen a movie just finger waving away glaring accessibility issues with a little movie making magic, but it's got to be the most egregious simply due to the number of times it happens.

There's the steps when they're running out of the headquarters place to the tram, the step down out of the crashed tram car, the steps into Abuelita's house, the steps that go down to the training course in her backyard, as well as the ENTIRE training course with nothing even remotely accessible for a kid in a wheelchair. Though I guess that doesn't matter because HE DOESN'T PARTICIPATE IN THE TRAINING AT ALL!! He fully just watches the others train and doesn't ever do anything. Again, I repeat THIS CHILD IS SUPPOSED TO HAVE SUPER STRENGTH!!!

I've got to stop because I'm just making myself mad again, but I genuinely just don't get it and the more I think about it, the more annoyed and confused I get. Why would you create a character like this and not actually think ANYTHING through at all? What were they trying to accomplish with this storyline? Because if they were looking to tick a diversity checkbox, I'd rather they just left it alone. If they wanted a disabled character, they could have written a disabled character that actually makes sense instead of whatever this was.

What pisses me off the most is that there are so many ways this could have been handled that could have explored some interesting dynamics. If you want a kid in a wheelchair with super strength, those two things don't have to be connected in some way; in fact, I think it would work better if they didn't. Just have a kid with super strength, who also happens to be disabled and uses a wheelchair and think about what that would look like. There's a version of Wheels that could be such a genuinely interesting character if they just thought it through for two seconds.

You could have this kid using a wheelchair that's made of adamantium or some shit because he kept breaking every other material they tried. He could have a collection of destroyed wheelchair parts with hand shaped dents in them made out of every metal, alloy, and any other substance known to science until they finally found something the make his chair out of that wouldn't just shatter under his hands whenever he tries to push himself.

Tell me THAT story! Show me the disabled super hero kid that's an active participant in the classic road of trials training montage instead of just sitting there and watching. Show me a disabled super hero kid that beats the shit out of the bad guys right along side the other super hero kids, and not just by remote controlling his empty wheelchair at them. LET HIM USE HIS FUCKING FISTS JUST LIKE THE OTHER KIDS! Show me the disabled super hero kid being more than just another tired Oracle trope, JUST SHOW ME SOMETHING!!!!

[flurty]

PLEASE BE AWARE!!!

I've been sitting on this information for too long, I just need to get it out there and have it be done for my own conscious.

If you're part of literary-squagon's circle, please be aware that there is an alleged pedophile, or at the very least groomer, in her circle. What's worse is that squagon's asked me to keep quiet about this alleged groomer.

I learned that one of her close friends was dating in a post she put on her tumblr on Feb 7th, 2023. Here are the important details from the post.

BEFORE YOU READ: She is not the groomer, she is the one who brought it to my attention. She is the one who asked this not be shared.

I took out names to avoid dragging people into this. In the first picture, literary-squagon made a post complaining about one of her friends being in a polyamorous relationship. In the tags of her addition, she mentioned one of the partners in the relationship was 14 years old.

In the second picture are various additions with numerous people who interacted with her post. In these interactions, she mentions that she feels iffy about the age difference. That the 19-year-old is "genuinely emotionally attached to these people" with one of those people being the 14-year-old. That she knows him well enough to know that he isn't "intentionally grooming or anything." He is just "depressed and emotionally dependent." And, the kicker, "he's very horny so… uh yeah," literary-squagon said.

She also said that the 19-year-old is "overlooking" the age because "trauma makes people appear older," and that the 19-year-old is emotionally dependent on the 14-year-old.

She claimed she can't do anything about it. She said, "I'm pretty sure they aren't thinking about [the age difference] because the kid has trauma which makes him seem older." She also said that her friend, the 19-year-old, has suicidal thoughts.

When I asked her about it, she had this to say.

It's not any of my business.

And after pressing her for more information, she finished off explaining the relationship with me by asking:

"And I don't want this spread around"

"It's not affecting anyone but me and them."

I just have one question to ask, is this not my/your business?

WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT?

In numerous texts that I sent to her, I explained that she has a following of minors and kids. People who look up to her for guidance and support, people who trust her judgment.

She claimed to have confronted the 19-year-old, but I'm not too sure about it.

And even more so, I really can't sit on my hands and assume that things will get taken care of. Whether or not this person is a groomer or a pedophile or just a "horny" "suicidal" person, I can't excuse the fact that there's a 14-year-old involved.

And I fear what's happening in private dms, in disappearing chats like snapchat, and fleeting voice calls.

I implore you to be careful with who you talk to, especially as a minor. Love is love, but there's a reason why there are laws that prevent a 19 year old from dating a 14 year old. There's a power difference, and you might not realize that you're being taken advantage of.

I'm still not sure if I should release the name of the 19-year-old, I hope that this is a kick in their ass to realize how unhealthy this is and change for the better. And I also hope that this serves as a warning to others in literary-squagon's circle.

Like she's claimed, this person is depressed, they're suicidal. I'm not sure if I would be fine with myself by blasting this person's name out.

However, if things don't change -- if this relationship still continues, I'll take steps to make sure that changes. No matter how good of a friend a person is, it should not excuse potential grooming or pedophile behavior.

[just-a-whumping-racoon-with-wifi]

For the OC meet and greet, I'm going to give you one hell of a challenge >:)

TW | cancer mention, abusive parent mention, past child abuse, brief mention of self harm and suicidal ideation, noncon body modification

I want to know how your characters would handle Luca. They're very small (all of 5'0" and 95lbs on a good day) and are one of the most terrifying whumpers in my cast. White-blond hair, chillingly pale blue eyes. Even though they're pushing 30, they constantly get mistaken as a child by strangers. Their pretty, doll-like features don't help.

They come from my Liliholm and Page universe (superhero whump to anyone unfamiliar), and have the ability to heal almost any wound they themself inflict on another person. Those same powers will heal their own wounds whether they want them to or not. The kicker? All the pain they would go through for their body to heal that wound themself—all those months of aching and misery—still have to be felt in the matter of seconds it takes them to heal. They themself are nigh indestructible. Their employer uses them as a torturer. Not for information, but as punishment for political and social adversaries that step too far out of line. They are very, very good at their job, and very well feared by the people in their circle.

They're abrasive, bitter, and aggressive in just about every sense of the word. They currently only have three people in the world they care about: their partner in crime, Garcia; their "handler", Leon Molinaro, who is responsible for making sure they don't maim anyone their employer wouldn't approve of; and their horribly abusive mother who they're trying to keep alive through her chemo treatments. They can't stand to be touched by anyone, and are VIOLENTLY sex-repulsed. Even the people in their life that they give a shit about are kept at arm's length and then some.

Beneath that surface, you've got someone who has been abused their entire life, is being manipulated by their father-figure employer into believing he actually cares about them, and who has been unsuccessfully suicidal for decades. There's also a particularly nasty little rumor about them—that Luca is actually a eunuch. How that might have happened is anyone's guess, but if it's true, it certainly wasn't voluntary.

In their home universe, the only one brave enough to truly adopt them is Leon. Would anyone in your universe take them on?

Hmmmmm look. Am I on a Hilton kick? Yes I am but ironically enough it’s Hilton’s world that has my healing character (Parker is floating around somewhere). Griffin, Hilton’s Carewhumper, could most likely keep them in line. He’s an undercover agent.

Griffin can read people’s body language and expressions so well it’s practically impossible to lie to him. He also had a shit family so it’s not a world unknown to him.

There’s also Trevor, who is Griffin’s boss (the one griffin is trying to take down). The thing with Trevor is that his touch is addictive. Makes anyone he interacts literally crave his presence and attention. I’m super curious how they would work out if Luca is touch adverse and heals. Would it work? It would not be fun for anyone involved the first time.

Yeah Griffin is Luca’s best bet. He’d likely the be the one with enough personal experience to be able to ignore the agression and get pushed away. He’d have to keep Luca and Hilton COMPLETELY SEPARATED though because holy shit that would be bad. They would hate each other to the bone. Even when they’re older, Hilton “adopts” Parker, my healing OC, and would do everything in his power to keep them away from Luca from fear Parker would end up even more traumatized then they already are. Idk if Luca would even want to interact with them, but Hilton would literally attack if they tried and now there’s a whole new mess lol.

Other than that? I have a weird gut feeling Luca and Tool would get along okay. Can’t put my finger on it but I just feel like they’d find common ground and weirdly get along.

Luca would tear Brody to fucking shreds lmao.

[seldomscilence16]

Whumptober day 6:

"Do or die, you'll never make me, because the world will never take my heart."

Recording | made to watch | "it should have been me"

Fandom: Voltron (Canon Divergence? Altered Universe? AU?)

Prompts used: All

This is not the continuation! I didn't know I was gonna do a cont. When I made my list, and I just think the prompts are better on the other day I chose so apologies. Anywho, these are like, classic tropes so lets hope I can do it justice! Its longer I think, I went a little wild, and as always apparently, the timeline is wibbly wobbly… so yeah. 

TW for torture! 

…

Lance is almost positive his life is a cosmic joke or something. 

There is absolutely no way, his luck is this bad, by accident. There's no way. There has to be some being out there with his voodoo doll, just going fricken ham. In space must just have gotten him closer and put the being in some angry mode, because these life and death situations are driving him insane. 

But this time there's a kicker, it's not just his life in danger, but they've taken the whole team, with the Castle- and the Alteans- nowhere in sight. Lance- if he has to, he's been dealing with it long enough he supposed- can handle anything towards him, but bring in the people he cares about and well, you've signed your death wish. 

He couldn't even tell you exactly what happened, one minute they're exploring a planet, and the next he's waking up strapped to a table, a screen of sorts showing the unconscious faces of his four teammates, trapped somewhere else. He knew this was a Quiznaking stupidly dangerous situation, and that whatever was to come was gonna suck. 

As he shuffles against his bindings and takes in what he can see of the room, the door opens as the faces on the screen begin to stir and Lance tenses up, face going carefully blank. 

"It's as I thought, your stamina is higher than the others." It's a strange opening line, but Lance can roll with it, just don't let the team know this is affecting him and maybe they'll get out of this. The alien- not a Galra- is tall and lanky, with five arms- though three of them are resting behind his back in a casual stance- and goggle covering where Lance assumes his eyes are, his mouth splits his face. 

"Thanks for noticing! Yeah I run-"

"Hmm, specimen appears to be too confident still despite his many failures." It's said like Lance isn't intelligent enough to converse, and yet with enough disgust to state his disdain for him. Which, rude. 

"Rude, if you think so little of me why the quiznack did you kidnap us?" Out of the corner of his eye he watches the lips of his team move, obviously trying to get their captors attention- or telling Lance to shut up, which is usually the case. 

"Specimen Blue's memory seems to be lacking as well, further tests required." He comes to stand beside Lance's table, the screen just to the right of his shoulder, the team can probably see most of the room, but at the least all of Lance and whatever this guy plans to do. "Test number one." 

He holds up a hand, 3 of eight finger like appendages held up, before the arm disappears behind his back again. Lance wonders how dumb this guy thinks he is, but before he can open his mouth, another of his hands swings so quickly it's a blur even to Lance's eyes, and brings a tool down hard on Lance's hand. He bites his tongue, metallic taste filling his mouth, his back arches and only a cut off groan escapes. He can barely make out the faces of his team, but he can't focus on that when the Alien brings the tool down again. Lance's vision spots with how hard he works to keep quiet, but he refuses to show any more weakness, dangit.

"Well Specimen Blue?" 

It takes Lance a moment to recall what he wants, another to wonder why he should humor him, and another still to work around his bleeding buzzing tongue. 

"Three, you mierda cabeza." He gives a bloody grin, just holding himself back from spitting on the guy. He refuses to look at his hand. 

"Hm. So the Specimen simply refuses to admit to its wrongdoing. It seems to think me unintelligent, or forgetful of its failures. I will have to remind Specimen Blue, to ensure he knows his place." He turns from the table, and Lance is able to idly wonder if he's actually recording notes or not. 

His eyes find the screen again, his team is staring intently and he thinks he actually sees worry. He offers his best reassuring smile before he has to return his attention to the alien. His back is turned to Lance as he fiddles with whatever's on the floating table he's dragged closer. He's really giving off (mad) scientist vibes, and Lance realizes that this is ironically what most humans think of aliens and their interactions with humans and of course what goes on in area 51 and such. Let's just hope there's no vivisections.

"So Specimen Blue, am I to assume you don't recall the life you took? Is it of too little value for your puny brain?" Lance's eyebrows furrow at this accusation, for he remembers every life he's had to take. And every life he couldn't save. "Perhaps this will remind it." 

He turns around and bile rises in Lance's throat. On the table is a severed arm curved around the burned crisp of the remains of what looks to be a child. Lance's eyes burn, stomach churns, heart aches, but he has never seen this race of aliens before. They had not been to a planet with them, he's almost positive, and he would have remembered the death of a child. They are the hardest for him to bear. 

"Do you recall now Specimen Blue?" He caresses the charred remains and Lance swallows thickly.

"I'm sorry for your loss, but I did not take their life." His voice is steadier than he feels, though his tongue is still thick. The alien sighs, shaking his head in disappointment.

"It seems the Specimen is duller than I'd observed. Its heart will need to be examined after further tests of its brain functionality." 

"I don't know who you think I am, but I'm telling you, I did not kill that child! I'd be more than happy to track down who did dude, but this is gonna get you nowhere!" 

"I will make you remember, I will make you regret, I will make you pay, I will make you tell me who your accomplice was, and I will make you suffer as you watch them die before giving you the slowest death I can manage. Because vermin like you don't deserve to live." It's the most emotion he's heard from the scientist, but the only thing Lance takes from it is the threat to his friends. This guy is crazy, they'd need time and luck to get out of this, and Lance would do his best to give them that. His face hardens as he levels a hard stare at the alien,

"You're crazy. Give it your best shot." 

Do or Die. That's how Lance grew up. Every moment was a fight. Space had only solidified that, as it tried to wear Lance down, to force him to give up, but Lance was stubborn to his core. So many had tried, but no one could ever make him do something he didn't want to do, his heart led him, and it could not be taken. This guy could do whatever he wanted, but so long as he could keep the team safe? This guy would get nothing from him.

"Specimen persists. Test 2 commencing." 

Shiro flinches as Lance's back arches again, though his eyes never stray from the screen, if Lance had to endure then the least Shiro could do was watch and be there as best he could. The others were in similar states, eyes glued to the screen despite the twisting it caused their guts. They were great multitaskers however, each of them doing their own thing to try and escape their restraints. Shiro was honestly a little impressed that this guy had not only captured them, but managed to keep them bound this long. 

A cut off yell reaches their ears and Shiro winces as Lance bites a hole in his lip to keep the noise down. Shiro hates it, he knows what Lance is doing, how every moment he should be resting is spent sending reassuring looks towards the team, like he isn't being tortured before their eyes. Lance's hand is a mangled mess of broken bones, his bare chest is now a myriad of bruises and pinpricks from the electric rod. Blood is bubbling down from his shoulder and collar bone from precise cuts. And yet that cut off yell is the closest he's gotten to a scream.

Shiro doesn't know what he'd prefer, the sound of Lances screams forever haunting him, or these images of bloody lips and smiles as he holds it all in. He hates both options. 

Keith growls beside him, straining against his binding hard enough the raw skin beneath has begun to bleed, not that he seems to care- none of them do, it is nothing compared to Lance's injuries.

"That," he growls the next word so roughly Shiro can't even tell which expletive he used, "better pray I don't get my hands on him!" 

"You'd have to reach him before me." Pidge and Hunk speak in unison, Pidges glower never leaves the screen, and despite Hunks pallor, his eyes focus on Lance. The only time the two pairs stray, is to glance at a possible tool for their escape. Though Hunks straining muscles seem close to bursting through the restraints already. 

"Do any of you recognize this guy? There's gotta be a reason he took us." Shiro's galra arm is hot, but the restraints are holding up far too well, still he doesn't stop. 

"No. He's not a race we've come across yet." Pidge answers immediately.

"Five arms, Eight fingers on each hand, tall, large mouthed, small head, does not match any I remember." Hunk confirms, flinching as another cut is added to Lance's chest. 

"Six arms, ones on that table." Keith corrects through gritted teeth. 

"No, there's no signs suggesting another arm. And those… remains… have to be semi-recent, so there would be something. Plus, how does one arm get scorched but nothing else harmed?" Pidge has obviously been dissecting- bad choice of word- what she can of the scene before them, gathering as much info as she can. 

"But he said 'Life you took', why wouldn't he include whoever the arm belonged to?" Keith is only a third invested in the conversation, eyes watching the Aliens every move, and body continuing its struggle. 

"Cause he's a demented Quiznacker that enjoys torturing people? I don't know Keith, I'll ask him when my bayards down his throat! Aha!!" She wriggles a free wrist triumphantly, though keeps it low in case the Alien happens to glance over, though he hadn't yet.

It is short lived however, as a scream fills the space. Their eyes fly back to the screen, where Lance is trembling and straining against his bindings, a needle being pulled from his neck as he continues to scream himself hoarse. 

"Just tell me who your accomplice was, and we can hurry along to your deaths." The alien placates, looking far too pleased with Lance's pain. Whatever had been injected must be agony, they can see it in every fiber of Lance's being, how he tries to close his mouth, to bite back the scream, but can't. Tears are leaking down his face, but he manages to shake his head and even choke out a 'never' in his next yell. 

The scientist 'tsks', like Lance is a disobedient child, and Shiro's Galra arm seems to burn hotter as it finally breaks through the material holding it down. He didn't know where Lance was, but he'd find him dammit, he shouldn't be in there in the first place. Shiro was their leader, their former teacher, and most of all, this was his family, and he would not let this slide. 

"It seems Specimen Blue is a failure in all ways. I will have to move on, but first to make an example of it. It must have a heart as black as its soul after all, and I will have it in a jar, and avenge the life it took." 

"You… won't… touch… them." Shiro looks up from his task, Lance's scream has died out now, as he forces the words from a shredded throat. His pain is still obvious, but his eyes shine with something Shiro can't place. "I will… not let you… hurt them…" 

"And what will you do? Specimen Blue is nothing. It is a murderer. A failure. It will never amount to anything. It can do nothing. It can't even keep its friends from getting captured. It will die here, and so will its friends, like the life it took." 

"You won't…do quiznak…puta." Shiros eyes widen as Lance's mangled hand flings the scalpel-like tool at the Alien. His thumb is obviously broken, wrist bleeding from how tight the restraints had been during his struggles, the motion itself looked incredibly painful, but even with such obstacles, Lance threw the thing with deadly aim. The tool imbeds itself in the Aliens chest, he releases a shout as he stumbles and falls backwards, but he does not keel over like Shiro had hoped. 

His grin is bloody, and Shiro is quick to get back to work on his bindings, because of course the kill shot didn't kill the guy, when do they ever have that good of luck? He needed to get to Lance, now! 

Between the four of them they have 8/16 limbs free, but it won't be enough if they don't hurry the heck up. Shiro will not watch one of these kids die, please universe, he couldn't handle it. 

Another yell comes from the screen, Lance's free arm has been pinned with a two pronged tool, two fresh lines of blood on his upper forearm from where they'd cut him. The alien is hovering over him now, and even with his goggled covered eyes, Shiro can tell he's got a crazed air about him. Lance continues his struggle, gritted teeth and a fire in his eyes. Shiro can't see a lick of fear for the death this guy has out for him, and that alone has him breaking his final limb free. He doesn't wait, he can't, he sprints towards the only way out he sees, and he runs. Lets some instinct take him, barely registering the footsteps behind him, only thinking about-

Their heart.

They would never be the same without Lance. Shiro can see it now, snippets of a what if future. They flash across his vision bullet fast, but he gets the gist. 

They will fall apart. 

Feet hit with solid thumps, hearts beat out of chests, minds race,

'It should have been me.' 

Lance couldn't die here.

'It should have been me.' 

Not for something like this.

'It should have been me.'

Always protecting them, watching their backs, they'd be dead without him, they wouldn't be here without him, there was not a hopeful future without him.

'It should have been me!'

They burst through the first door they find, hardly registering anything, it's a dogpile, the Alien cracks beneath them but they persist. 

It's only later, as the recording plays before them, that they find the reason for their bruised knuckles and various minor injuries. It's only later, as Lance rests in a healing pod, that they are told about how the Alteans had been watching the whole time as they tried to track their location. It's only later that the beasts they unleashed on that monster are recognized as themselves. It's only later that they comprehend how far Lance will go to save them time and time again. 

Do or die, you'll never make us, because the universe will never take our heart.

[moki-dokie]

Congrats on proving you've drank the koolaid and have done like 0 basic research on any of this, both of you! truly impressive work there.

You can, in fact, talk about both things on there. There are Uygurhs on xhs, plenty of them have said less than appealing things about their government, there are videos all over the place that don't even sugarcoat the restrictions they face like??? the fuck are you actually on about lmao

what you CAN'T do on THIS SPECIFIC PLATFORM is get overly political, because this is not the app for that. there are other apps where people can and do discuss these issues in depth without the risk of being banned. Just like posting specific content on youtube will get you banned or demonetized or hidden. Same shit.

I'm like, convinced at this point every single person repeating this rhetoric and pulling this fiction that we somehow don't know the atrocities of the ccp out of their ass are fucking psyops or bot farms or some shit.

like. one of the MAIN driving points of anti-china propaganda is highlighting every single awful and shitty thing their government does. we're annoyingly aware of it. nooooobody is suddenly like 'uwu ccp so perfect and good and totally innocent'. no. what we ARE waking up to is that even though their government is vile in its own ways that is really not all too dissimilar from ours, they still take care of the people better. we're finding out that holy shit, you mean you can have a fucked up broken system but the overwhelming majority can live a pretty content if maybe mediocre life???? and you would not believe the amount of chinese folk that are having a similar experience of whiplash now that they have first-hand accounts of the shitshow that america is - suddenly grateful that even though they might have it hard in their own way, at least it isn't as bad as we have it.

Both of our governments have gone to some extreme measures to try and make us hate our fellow man. both sides are realizing this in a stark and radicalizing way. We aren't running into the arms of another propaganda machine on xhs, we're all, collectively, taking turns smashing the shit out of all of the machines.

but like, here's the big kicker for those of you who still seem to believe they're in some north korea style hell: most of them want and like this form of government. while they can't blatantly and outright say they don't like the ccp, there is enough disgruntled rumbling and hints and carefully worded cheeky comments that you can pretty clearly see they don't particularly like who is running the government. there's been lots of discussions happening, asking how they got to where they are and achieved a lot of this peace and cleaned up so many of the issues that plagued them. and they all have been saying that this system is the one that works. it's the one they want. it's the one they like. they went through a LOT of different systems of governments in a very short span of time compared to most other developed nations. this is what works for them. people keep forgetting that the concept and structure of a government can be fantastic (american democracy/chinese socialist republic) and well received but the people running it can be awful (the republican party/the ccp). so while we're getting angry and depressed over how fucking heinously awful our government is to us, they're more of the notion of wanting to figure out a way to bring down the great firewall.

and it seems that we have a lot more work to be done to stop equating a whole entire people to the select handful of shitbags that make their government.

i'm like actually legitimately loving that the result of the tiktok ban is decimating decades of propaganda against china in record time. everyone is flocking to the actual chinese-owned version of tiktok called rednote where they are being welcomed so warmly with the silliest jokes like "i'm your assigned chinese spy! i've been waiting for you! welcome!" alskdjgsld. folks are already making attempts to learn some mandarin to better interact with the chinese users. everyone realizing what our own government collects on us is twice as harmful as anything ccp could do with it. everyone waking up to the fact that every fucking facet of the american internet is designed to harvest and sell personal data off of you so what the fuck does it actually matter anyway if one more entity does it. us government managed to speedrun undoing their own fucking brainwashing it's so goddamn funny.

[the-firebird69]

Space Marine Cosplay April 15 2014

It's nice of you to act like a little child and her friend here hasn't gotten to do anything fun like that it's taking over your job cuz you have him doing it and you think you're doing stuff like you're Paul Dodos he acts like you're mad at him and his people know it just going on and we sort of do too and you're just a loser who just wants to kidnap him and take him to what you call your people which might be true and everybody is figuring it out and you'll sit there and do this childish s*** and you puke all over the place lose all your stuff and say you're great and you may not even have the fleet and you can't verify it and you can't get there and they won't even talk to you I got to tell you something you're a f****** huge loser cuz you keep doing it cuz you think you can kidnap him now he's in Jeopardy for whatever reason it's the max took it or the clans or his people anyway which way you look at it you're a huge piece of s*** and if the maximum purpose they're dead meat I can't believe they would there's the dumbest thing I've ever heard they're having a problem with people like you acting like middlemen for the clan or his people and I got to tell you something you are a big piece of s*** too I've never seen someone do so many dumb things obviously you think you have it and you're a nutcase and we need to grab you and I'm sick of you you could be delivering him to evil or from evil we wouldn't even know it that would be the dumbest s*** I've ever seen they come out looking like Max I mean this is so freaking awful you might have a chance to escape and now you're excited and this is going to suck even if you do so many times you have no idea so people are exterminating you

Mac daddy

Yeah we're going through their number pretty good and we're hitting them constantly and they're going to be out and he says that they're down to a few percent and bja is attacking him and everybody can gang up on them and really the money thing is going to work. We had the pseudo empire do it and we had other people do it as well including the bozo and BG is thinking of cutting a check. So far three letters were written and they did write that investments are also there and looking at them and discussing and trying to figure out what to do and also it says in the letter if you're not him and your falsified your identity recharged with fraud and all this other stuff but it is him and if they bring up the court they would be in a lot of trouble and it's true too we know it's him and of course he says it's him that's not really the question that's not so there's other things too they're requiring a license and so forth and they're right here so he doesn't really care and they're leaving it is kind of odd for a letter to come out of nowhere and his requested stuff but doesn't know about the money and it's odd that they would send the money because we're not really forcing it and we don't think they'll send it if we forced it and he's right that they might cut a check and get a letter going and they're just using it to grab Trump stuff so smart thing to do is go to weak ones and take the letter and the check and grab their stuff I sort of get this and it's going on all over the place what do you recommends to Walter Lewis is to follow through with it or he becomes a ghost that really doesn't have to be there and he started acknowledge something people will be faking as him so he's pretty much aware of it now these people are cooked and that's the way it's going to go

Macs

What we know is the maximination too and the max are diminishing and what's coming up is pretty huge and foreigners are helping it happen and minority morlock and a son gets along with them and they've been doing a lot of ideas and he says hard not kicker 5150 it's one of those companies that did very well it was actually a Norwegian who started with himself and he wanted to include him to a degree and he knew about the max and he said to him if you got me two things oh my God and so he said put a tracer on him and he said if something happens when you go and they did and he is not in westborough and he thinks he knows where he is says thank you actually knows you come out he says oh but you're after me but that's on me yeah you will screwy now you're chasing Jason. So it's not out yet but he's going to be. But this is the whole thing it was his company and if this happens now you know why he gets released he doesn't have any people and he's going to be running around the trumps just going to stay there him and they're trying to take it over like they did last time and they took it from him and he figures it out and he says this I give you a spokesperson and sell them and he doesn't have any people and they said yeah and then they identified Julius and they said this we know who you are and stuff and where's the original and they get mad and then it was on so that happens too but it doesn't get them anything so he's saying to China that they were robbed by Trump and trumpsters and in a way it was also the doing of Randall text cob he really didn't cut them in on anything the prophets were made by he and later it was actually Donald Trump and his crew and the business got shut down because his son was fighting over it and that's why he kicked him out of Orange county choppers and he did not take over his chopper business but he ruined it and he did surreptitiously and Dan wants back in and put besides that it's a great idea so we're going to post it

Thor Freya

Olympus

The changes are intense and you can make a bolt up frame that stays together and works we actually have a lot of them in China and what you say is you could suggest the glue when we tried that and it works pretty good actually it holds so I'm going to go ahead and do this and not include the glue because of the bolts were good enough and without the frame you don't have to assemble it and it's cheaper and now we need it because prices are going up a little bit you're not going up as much as you see but these people are jerks but boy I can make it really cheap and I need to do it now

Chao phat

Olympus

[cumuluscrow]

thoughts on the doctor who special i guess??

i don't think anyone who follows me really gives a toss about this but?? what is tumblr if not a place to garble nonsense about the things that you like

i thought it was good! not great, but definitely good, i enjoyed watching it - i mean, i was extremely fucking excited for this, my entire personality was doctor who when i was a kid during tennants (first) era (i probably would have been more excited for this but had something shitty happen recently which kind of put a damper on things)

i love david and catherine so much :') seeing them back together and as the doctor and donna is just so fantastic, the entire episode could have been complete horseshit and i'd still enjoy it because of them

love the meep, love how campy everything is, love all the practical effects and you can really tell the plot was based of the comics, it really has that vibe and it's just -chef's kiss-

i think rose has potential. i kind of want to watch all three of the specials before i really come to any solid conclusions about her character but i like her and i think she has potential

hhgh the main thing i love was just the energy, you can really tell that people care about this, despite it's flaws there's just such a feeling of everyone being there because they're enthusiastic about it and you can feel that in the episode itself, lovely lovely lovely

okay oh boy now the negatives! a lot of it... didn't really make sense, i mean, it made more sense than most of moffats time on the show (and i imagine chibnalls as well)

first thing i'll talk about is the metacrisis thing

so donna recieves her memories back, gets timelord stuff back, saves the day, dies. that all sort of makes sense. but then she comes back to life

donna had a child, and half of this metacrisis energy was transferred to her, meaning that the amount donna had in her wasn't deadly anymore! that sort of raises a few more questions, but it generally makes sense

then why... does donna appear to die at all in the first place? you know, aside from drama. when donna's timelord stuff was reawakened so was roses which meant they both became fully realised doctor-donna esque dna hybrids, but that energy already left donna when rose was born..? so why did she appear to die? that doesn't make sense to me

and the uh, binary non-binary stuff...? help? i have no fucking clue what that's supposed to mean - the stuff that rose was talking about at the end. maybe i'm thick, but i really couldn't tell what she was trying to say. i thought they were going with, you know, the literal meaning of binaries at first, but then gender was playing a role in it so it sort of came across as rose saying she was non-binary? but i thought she was meant to be a trans girl? not that you can't be both at the same time if you wish but it didn't really come across that way to me. and even if that is what they were doing what the hell has rose being a non-binary person got to do with the metacrisis and timelord stuff?? she stands there and says that she understands herself now and i'm like bitch i dont?? stuff about the doctor always presenting as male or female and she doesn't have to or something it just. it just didn't make sense to me. almost started to sound like they were saying that trans females are both male and female which is uh what?

and then the real kicker was when her and donna said we're going to do something that as a male-presenting person you'd never understand, let it go

and then they just fucking released the energy and all the timelord-ness from themselves

HUH?

(i wonder if the doctor was thinking to himself for fucks sake donna could you have done that this whole time??)

so there was no explanation as to why they could just do that, as far as i can tell?

and. the male-presenting bit oh god i guess i have to talk about this too

as far as i can gather that was some kind of weird sexist joke? which is a completely bizarre contrast when you then use a term like male-presenting person which i'm not sure anyone knows what that even means (has tumblr female-presenting nipples energy)

it's just so unnecessary. donna could have said 'something that YOU could never do doctor, let it go' and that would have a. made more sense b. not have been sexist and c. been far more in character

weird

i think what this episode started to lack was the 'audience eyes' character. that's a big part of doctor who. that's the entire purpose of the companion. but this episode didn't really have that in anyone at all and it started to feel really overwhelming and disjointed eventually

i could talk a bit more, especially about the slightly excessive performative virtue-signalling. i'm alright with a bit of it to scare away bigots but definitely started to make me wince sometimes

oh and some of the characters rose and i think lydia (the scientific advisor in the wheelchair) felt really wooden and bland and yeah no

i'm not going to though, rambled enough already and i dont want this entire post to become me criticising performative '''''''''wokeness''''''' because that's not what it should be about

okay well i really enjoyed it despite the flaws and i'm really excited for the rest! i think these problems will be ironed out in the rest of the specials and i'm also really looking forward to the new series with ncuti and millie, i LOVED millie in corrie and i've got a really good feeling about them both

cheers see ya later

[twcfaces]

Harvey has his own notes, written in shank-proof pen and inspected for any obvious signs of subversion. Nothing about breaking out, anyway - no little maps scribbled in the corner or passcodes to shift around. Plain and professional.

"I was trying to help someone out with a question they had about their case, and because these things change all the time, I figured I'd look it up, save the kid a little guesswork."

It's hard for anyone here to feel taken seriously, in an environment where people are treated like the animals they're expected to be. Even the most sedate, mild-mannered inmate faces the same consequences as the worst of Arkham's killers and madmen.

Harvey doesn't expect Dick's full trust nor his full understanding. There are people here - Gotham's people. People who Bruce Wayne would have wanted to be protected. That's all he has to bank on.

"There are zero legal resources here. I looked, I inquired, I sent a letter --- I've never had to use those services before, but I really shouldn't have been surprised that they only existed on paper."

Typical. He's aware this doesn't exactly sound urgent or even all that interesting. That's precisely how Arkham started to slip deeper into the mess - apathy. Nobody cares about the lunatics at the asylum - budget cuts hit them routinely while the upper class in Gotham brags about dodging their taxes.

"It's more than just not having a few books in stock. There is no way anyone here can learn about their own case- no Internet, no legal department, no resources at all."

He shuffles through his papers a moment, looking for a statute he noted earlier.

"It's also illegal to deny any inmate in any of Gotham's institutions their right to comprehensive legal aid."

That's the kicker, isn't it? That's what really gets Harvey Dent's blood boiling. This is how it used to be.

It's not just cruel, but illegal as well, and there's no 'wiggle room' for it like there are with so many other abuses that take place here. Excessive force can be 'relative'. 'Accidents' can happen. People can be medicated until they don't know whether the abuse they lived through was real or not.

This was concrete. He could point to the law that said that this was wrong - and it was.

"I want to close this wound, and I need you to put pressure on it. Do some asking around - do anything but forget about it."

They had rights. That's what mattered. He was giving Dick a whole lot of information all at once - which he felt somewhat bad about, but they didn't have long. Fifteen minutes, tops.

@twcfaces

It's Harvey today, and just Harvey, for the most part, even though Arkham insists on weighing him down with the usual amount of restraints. It's better that way for everyone, after all. Safer. "Hey." No dumb nicknames, no derisive roll of his eyes. Just Harvey, and Dick, two inches of glass, and the memory of Bruce Wayne. "I know you're serious about reforming this place - so, I'd like to bring something to your attention."

It's rare - exceedingly rare - for Dick to be called to Arkham personally. Rarer still for it to be by an inmate. For it to be Harvey is all but unheard of. Dick has personal reason to hate the man, though he's been trying to let that go at least for the sake of Bruce's memory; it hasn't been working too well.

Still. It's why he's here now.

It's Harvey he's talking to today, he can tell. The rasp to the voice isn't as pronounced, there's less feral sharpness to the eyes, and - most tellingly - there's no hint of derision or any of the stupid nicknames the other one tends to use.

Doesn't make Dick any happier about this meeting, but it does make it far easier to be civil from the get-go.

"All right." He pulls out a small notepad and pencil from one pocket, meeting Harvey's eyes through the glass. "I'm listening.

[technofantasia]

One of my absolute favorite parts of golden wind is the singularly horrible outfits that the main characters wear, but not just the fact that they're terrible, no no. Sure, they all look like they got dressed with their eyes closed in a boutique for clowns, but the REAL kicker is that they did not always dress in this way??

We see the characters' backstories. We see how they used to look. And almost ALL of them USED TO WEAR NORMAL PEOPLE CLOTHES!!! Why? Why the sudden shift to kitchen sink fashion?? And, of course, there are layers to this, too.

Like. Giorno is his own whole can of worms, concerning exactly what happened between middle and high school. Sure, there's the whole hair color change thing which I refuse to acknowledge the canonical reason behind, but whatever, I can ignore that. Why suddenly decide on that hairstyle? That wardrobe? Especially considering that in every other way he's not exactly the flamboyant, attention-grabbing type... The only explanation I can think of would be, I don't know, he just happens to have a surprisingly eclectic fashion sense and high school was the first time he was able to be on his own away from home to indulge it. First opportunity to show off his individuality and he went whole hog with it, I could see that. Yeah sure you go giogio!! have as many heart shaped boob windows and ladybug brooches as you like

Abbacchio, too. It looks like he mostly dressed normal for his job, but the second he left, he transitioned to his current look? Either that’s just his usual taste or his emotional crisis led him to an emo makeover. Or both. In either case, I suppose that’s valid and I support him. His weird eggshell hat is the only part of his outfit that’s really that out there anyway

But the others??

Narancia. Mista. Fucking Fugo. They all dressed at least mostly normally right up until they joined Passione, at which point they switched on a dime to looking Like That. Sure, some aesthetic preferences seemed to carry over, like Narancia’s boyish style, Fugo’s suit pattern, and Mista’s navel window + crisscross pattern + hat. But they still used to wear, yknow. People clothes. So... Why??? What on EARTH happened???

Well...

Strangely enough, Bucciarati looks like he’s ALWAYS dressed Like That. Same hair style, same colors, same patterns... Given how much everyone else’s backstory outfits clashed with their eventual outfit choices, it’s almost weirder to see that Bucciarati clearly has clothing and style preferences that match up from past to present.

So. I can’t help but wonder.

Did... did the others just assume that, since Bucciarati (and maybe also Abbacchio) dressed Like That, that was just The Mafia Style??? The Style Of Clothing That Mafia People Wear???? So, in order to integrate themselves into Passione, they’d have to start dressing Like That too??????

Actually. Given that all the members of La Squadra and Polpo and the boss’s personal guard and the boss himself ALSO dress Like That... fuck, i don’t know, maybe they were right and that IS just The Mafia Style!! The fact it also happens to align with Bucciarati’s/Abbacchio’s/Giorno’s personal fashion sense might just be a coincidence!!! Who knows!!! Who cares!!!

Where do you even go to BUY clothing like that??? Are there special, under-the-counter sections of clothing stores that specially cater to Badcore fashion for mafia members??? Do the designers earn a special commission for designing clothes no sane person would wear that fit as uncomfortably as humanly possible??? Didn't they say at some point that mafia members try to dress inconspicuously to blend in???? RISOTTO IS LITERALLY JUST WEARING A JESTER HAT WHAT KIND OF CIRCUS IS THIS

But yeah so the logistics of part 5′s character designs drive me insane and I love it