#they are not on equal footing there

[johnconn]

Sigzai vs skk discourse is insane for number of reasons actually. listen i think sigzai is really cute and shit and i dont mind it at all but you have to have something wrong with you to think both of these actually compete in any way. Skk is literally ingrained as part of bsd lore whereas sigzai started as a borderline crack ship. Thats just my opinion tho. Peace and love

[demigods-posts]

percy doing better than annabeth in college is one my favorite developments in the rrverse. if we reflect on percy and annabeth's academic upbringing. annabeth living at camp allowed her to receive accommodations for her adhd and dyslexia and surround herself with like-minded campers who had the same limitations. whereas percy was ridiculed, belittled, and routinely humiliated because of his adhd and dyslexia. even more so, percy's friends and family leave him out of the loop on so many important issue (no chb orientation film, no information about the great prophecy) which perpetuates his subpar confidence and self-esteem in his skills as a student and a demigod. but going to college at NRU changes his mindset because he receives the accommodations he should have gotten years ago and fucking thrives to the point of getting higher grades than annabeth — a person he deems way smarter and more prepared than him in every way. the most important thing percy is learning now is that a supportive environment makes all the difference, and he is more capable than he initially thought.

[mumblesplash]

i know it’s like years old at this point but i love that one collab mumbo and grian did with tommyinnit bc it’s like the single most concentrated example i’ve seen of mumbo’s Chaos Nullification Powers

you get to see a bit of it on hermitcraft, mostly via his interactions with grian, but until seeing that collab it didn’t really hit me just how completely mumbo can no-sell other people’s attempts to control a situation. tommyinnit is possibly the single shoutiest, most chaotic minecraft youtuber out there, and in most videos i’ve seen he pretty much overwhelms everyone else and sets the tone for interactions because of this. but mumbo just. doesn’t let him. no matter how much tommy escalates in intensity, mumbo reacts with *exactly* the same energy he always does. grian largely comes across in the whole video as annoyed and reluctant to engage with the whole thing, but mumbo’s not even affected. he just rolls with anything he finds funny and basically ignores anything he disapproves of, only seeming more and more unflappable the harder anyone tries to get a rise out of him.

AND imo, this is the key to my favorite interpretation of him as a character

see, when the people around him are being more reasonable/calm, i think mumbo often comes across as anxious and a bit easily overwhelmed. the thing is, his nervous wet cat vibes do not scale. he has one setting. his responses to the last life ‘ah-ha!’ jokes and to hermitcraft 8 starting to crumble to pieces under a falling moon are almost identical.

mumbo jumbo is inexorably and eternally Just Some Guy, but that gets stranger and stranger the weirder his surroundings become. the giggly incredulousness that makes him an easy target for goofy puns looks Very different when it’s also his reaction to the impending end of the world.

[turtleblogatlast]

Every day I’m haunted by the fact the boys happily swim in sewer water

Even if it’s filtered somehow there’s no way it’s not still nasty 😭 Bet they can defeat any of their villains just by accidentally giving them diseases I swear

[gummi-ships]

Kingdom Hearts 3 - San Fransokyo

[elkian]

Okay it's been several months and idk if I'm just not following the right blogs but I have not seen anyone talking about Chilchuck and Mickbell's one meeting so far in the anime.

Mickbell spends all that time beforehand trash talking Chilchuck, and the second things go to shit?

Chilchuck grabs that little scab, gets the most durable object in the entire area (Senshi's pot), and fucking high-tails it to cover.

The half-foots are the some of the few characters who don't need to be healed nor rezzed after that fight, and Mickbell doesn't even believe in the union and Chilchuck still does this!

Mickbell: I don't pay my union dues and I cross all the picket lines! Chilchuck nonetheless: Kid have I got a comprehensive healthcare plan for you and it's called: don't get flattened by the giant monster!

[pomarrillo]

you’re special to me, you know?

[originalaccountname]

in Storm Bringer, Iceman mentions Chuuya punching a guy through (several) ceilings for having asked him about his past. That guy was a wholeseller Chuuya was supposed to be making a deal with for the jewel trade he was in charge of. That incident happened July 18th, and it took the guy 3 months to heal.

Now, we know both halves of skk were 15 in, well, Fifteen, and that at this time in SB, they should both be 16. Chuuya's birthday is in April, and Dazai's, June.

Since there was a time skip of a month at the end of Fifteen, the punching incident can't have been from then, as we need at least that amount of time for Dazai's birthday to have already passed. So this was after the boys' 16th birthdays, July 18th +3 months, placing SB's events at somewhere at least mid-October, even November.

The events of SB take place over like, at most, 2 weeks, between the Flags' deaths and the final fight. Then, there's another one-month skip in the epilogue, +1.5 month, so we're now at minimum in December-January range.

The Dragon's Head Conflict is said to have happened "shortly after the King of Assassins incident". Skk should still be 16 during the conflict, so we have until the end of April to get there. The conflict lasted for 88 days, nearly 3 months, bringing us to a bare minimum of it starting at the tail end of January.

What I'm saying is there was barely 6 months, most likely even less, between SB and the end of the Dragon's Head Conflict. The PM might have mostly avoided taking part in it (canon reason why they managed to take over the underworld in its wake), but they still suffered from it all the same, especially since they had just spent and lost a lot of resources during their fight against Verlaine.

Also Chuuya must have had like 3 months to make those friends before losing them too.

[goyurim]

after seok ryu being such a constant bulldozer in seung hyo's life it was so refreshing to see seung hyo be the bulldozer in seok ryu's life for once

[thethespacecoyote]

contemplating what exactly it was about ford that made bill feel important now

[pigeon-butch]

SPOILERS FOR MOUTHWASHING THE VIDEO GAME and also cw for sexual assault

for whatever reason I scrolled through the comments section on a couple youtube videos of people playing the game (bad idea do not do this) and it's so weird to me how people are writing like. full essays arguing that jimmy couldn't possibly have raped anya or that it was obviously consensual or someone else did it or if not then its not important to the story anyway. and most of these arguments seem to stem from the fact that in anya's interactions with him she's nice to him? which i pretty clearly read as appeasing behavior seeing as how everything she says is sandwiched between him being incredibly cruel to her and her trying to protect herself (eg. taking the gun so that even though curly won't let her use it to defend herself jimmy won't be able to hurt her with it). I think the reaction to anya is also kind of a mess since the character pov you have after the crash is jimmy, a person who anya might as well not exist to but is nevertheless the lens that the player is introduced to her through. like I think it's very telling that what haunts jimmy during the final nightmare sequence isn't anya herself but instead the horrible horse baby centipede thing and also the fact that, unique to her death over any other crewmate, the view of her is completely blocked off, like he fully refuses to even consider her as a person which tracks with his need to see himself as the hero! there's no justifying what he's done to her so to him her life can't be worth anything. personally (and tying into the argument of oh why even include it when it doesn't even matter) i think jimmy's treatment of anya is a really good representation of how misogyny and a mindset like jimmy's overlap, how that desire to hold power over other people and to be respected and to get everything he wants without taking anyone else into account gets directed at what he perceives to be the most vulnerable member of the crew even before he crashes the ship and kills them all. it's an attitude that reflects the real life conditions that often lead to sexual assault and it's part of what makes anya's story feel so real :(

[mayhemspreadingguy]

Adelphopoiesis AU

[divorceblogger]

louis strengthening his access to and reasserting his masculinity by multiplying his financial assets + claudia gaining access to womanhood by attaining financial independence so that she’s able to move through the world without being dependant on her male companion

[ineedtherapydesperately]

love the whole idea of vaggie and charlie only kissing on screen AFTER vaggie's true nature has been revealed bc that makes the whole reveal more impactful like charlie still loves and cares for vaggie despite knowing she's an angel and they finally no longer have any secrets between them so they can kiss while being wholly genuine to themselves yk

[jmslov4srs]

i (maybe unreasonably) have an issue w anyone (esp as a partner to either james or lily) in fics being portrayed as a parental figure to harry even a little as closely as james / lily except sirius bcs they all had a chance and they all blew it and never even tried and sirius escaped azkaban and survived on a diet of rats and literally died for him canonically sooo

[forlouren]

I find it incredibly funny how Leslye will state something concerning Osha and Qimir so matter-of-factly, without any leg room for much interpretation and people will still go "no, it's actually y and z", as if they somehow understand the text greater than the writer herself.