#they’re just trying their best

[mythmerth]

Merlin is just such a compelling show (and character) despite being so silly and full of physical comedy. like what do you mean it’s about human error, about loving so hard you lose yourself, about betrayal, about looking back on your life and thinking about everything that could’ve been changed to prevent tragedy but realizing it couldn’t have been any other way. because you are human. because you loved, and you feared, and you gave in to those fears, because you tried your best to protect but became warped by a love so great that it doomed you. it’s so compelling because it’s both inevitable and so preventable. it makes you look back on it like you look back on the regrets in your own life and the things that haunt you but couldn’t have happened any other way because of your humanity. it keeps you up at night, it makes you look for its cracks, and it makes you think over and over again about the what ifs. it’s so compelling, its so silly, it’s so tragic, it’s so beautiful, its larger than life, and it’s so human.

….this is why we will never escape, just like Merlin can’t escape his memories of his king at the end.

[deeplyobsessed]

unpopular opinion maybe but i actually think christopher going to live in texas for a while was a good move for both chris and eddie, and i don’t dislike ramon and helena for it

in eddie’s case, i think he needs some time by himself to figure out who he is. he’s lived most of his life for someone else - whether it be for his parents/family in childhood, shannon as a teen, and eventually chris as an adult. i don’t think he’s ever had the chance to explore himself as a person without all these other people to define him and that’s why i think it’s good for him to have some time alone, as a man in the world, to figure out who he is by himself and what he wants to do FOR HIMSELF instead of for others. he also needs to recover from what happened to shannon - come to terms with it - and i don’t think it would be possible to do that with chris still with him, bcos in the end chris is also shannon’s child which means he lives with a reminder of her everyday. and he can’t heal without taking some time off from it

in christopher’s case, he’s a preteen now who’s been through a lot - there’s his fear of people leaving, like his mom, the trauma that was definitely caused by the tsunami, the fear of losing his father on the job (thanks shooting arc) and i think a lot of his fears centre around eddie. i’m not saying it’s eddie’s fault, but it’s just the circumstance of how chris was brought up. so some time away from his father would be good for him to basically reset himself a little, and to have some time off to think and reflect about himself too

in ramon and helena’s case, i think unlike the buckley parents, they really are just trying their best to help. sure they’re still more traditional and conservative than most people would like but i think what ramon said, about “ur son is trying to tell u what he wants, so listen to him before it’s too late”, i actually think that was a good line. bcos ramon doesn’t want eddie and chris to end up how he and eddie did. bcos ramon knows it won’t end well for both sides and he doesn’t want that kind of relationship between eddie and chris. and in the end it was CHRIS who decided to leave LA with his grandparents, and they respected that decision.

i don’t think chris will leave forever. bcos he still has stuff in LA he wants to come back to (in my opinion at least, school and friends etc). and in the end chris still loves eddie, he just needs some time to process.

tldr i actually like that chris leaves for texas for a while

[calamari-minecraft-corner]

I just love that in my TMA AU we have:

Schlatt, the avatar of the Web “mentoring” Cala

DreamXD, an avatar of the Eye and literal “god”, actually mentoring and teaching Dream before he went missing.

Philza, avatar of The End but helping and assisting Techno with The Hunt.

And Wilbur, avatar of the Spiral and forcing Fundy to become like him, but ultimately resulting in Fundy becoming an avatar of the Lonely.

[icaruspendragon]

he did. my husband tried. he tried to warn them. he did. he said to them, “i’m not as into this as my wife is. i just like looking at cars, but she’s got all the facts and specs and everything. she’s practically a walking encyclopedia.”

and they didn’t believe him. they laughed. they shrugged it off. they shrugged me off. they were warned. and yet they still decided to try and put me to the test. they were warned. they were warned of what would happen to them. and yet they didn’t listen.

their ambition made them icarian. their folly turned my warmth from brilliant to sweltering.

their hubris led to their humiliation.

they were warned. but ambition makes men bold.

this is all just a very dramatic way of saying that grown men decided to play a game of, “oh you’re a fan? prove it” only to have their asses handed to them by their opponent.

this was the opponent btw:

[betterthanbatman1]

Lmaoo get wrecked idiot

Reminded me of this

[hasello]

Leosagi dynamic in short (at the start):

bonus for this

[cable-salamder]

Sora “You are a great teacher and I couldn’t have gotten this far without your leadership” @ Lloyd vs Arin “You failed me not only by making promises you couldn’t keep, but also by your teachings not helping me whatsoever” @ Lloyd

[nyracel]

jace is not ‘pushing for war’ in the same way aegon and aemond are, and to insinuate so is ridiculous 😭

aemond specifically started a war because of his butthurt ego and inability to control his dragon, aegon celebrates this fact with a party. jace just doesn’t want his brothers death to be in vain and knows that his and his families lives are forfeit if they don’t fight back. he’s one of the only male characters in fire and blood that has to deal with the repercussions of misogynistic attacks; his mother is usurped (on account of her gender), loyalists at court (that he surely knew) were put to death for supporting his mother, she loses his baby sister in a traumatic stillbirth because of the usurpation, his brother is murdered in cold blood (he most likely blames himself for the plan that sent him to storm’s end), he’s going to die thinking he failed to save yet another brother. why would he not push for war? and why are violent misogynist one and two (who STARTED the war in the first place) allowed to react, to want revenge, to want to hurt others in response to their losses, but jace isn’t?

we can complain about the way the show frames women as the pacifist pushovers to the men being violent warmongers all day long but jace of all the male characters on screen is *not* included in that, come ON people 😒

[kendyroy]

i’ve always wondered what worst logan thinks of main logan. is he jealous at all of how revered he was? i mean what do you even think of the guy that’s considered the “best version” of you when you’re seen as the worst.

[chaoswarfare]

do x dc prompt #66

the anti-ecto acts were passed right when the justice league was first forming, and flew right under the meta-human rights activist’s noses.

The GIW start to get more aggressive, tracking down ghosts more efficiently, much to the dismay of the infinite realms. Phantom and his rogue gallery are forced to work together against the GIW and JL.

Frequent attacks in an attempt to draw attention to the laws declaring ghosts non sentient only backfires, and they’re declared official enemies of the US and rogues of the justice league.

It’s a constant struggle between the two sides for nearly a decade, until in a moment of weakness, Phantom let down his guard and vented his internal struggle while a young superboy still trying to find his place in the young justice listened in.

Now Kon has to try and convince the founders of the league that Phantom isn’t a threat, and the injustice the anti-ecto acts promote should be stopped, even though he’s still not completely trusted himself.

[stealingyourbones]

Short DPXDC Prompts #592

Harvey is mid bank heist when he hears “Harv? Is that you? It’s been so long!” From one of his hostages. Oh that voice was so incredibly familiar there’s no way-

Well he’ll be damned. Jack and Maddie Fenton, the couple he had a momentary fling with in college were pushing through the crowds and fully ignoring his goons pointing half a dozen guns at them as they made their way towards him.

———

Harvey couldn’t believe it. Jack and Maddie were still deeply in love and as crazy as ever, but they kept reaching out to him. They didn’t seem to mind him as the broken man that he is unlike another college friend. They treated him like a person. They didn’t expect his therapy and treatment to magically change him back to how he was, they just were happy that he was happy.

They mentioned once before that they messed up with how they treated their son but they realized their mistake and did their absolute damndest to make it up to their kids. They weren’t going to villainize their college ex. They were going to support him and be for him every step of the way.

[stuckinapril]

Think I’m making communication a non-negotiable for 2024. If you don’t know how to properly communicate like an adult we quite literally can’t be friends

[kacievvbbbb]

Look I like Roger enough, I understand what he represents and I generally don’t think he was a bad dude. I do however think he was shit at interpersonal relationships because, what the fuck. Whitebeards crew is infinitely more well adjusted and I’d say he arguably had the more traumatic death.

Like what even, what kind of planning leads a 53 year old man to sire a child knowing he is dying of an incurable illness and is about to turn himself in to be excuted by the marines where he will cause so much chaos it is literally still turning the world on its head 22 years later. He knew he was going to cause so much of a stir that he literally disbanded his crew and told them to spread far and wide to keep them safe. Because he knew the marines would hunt them far and wide But yet he still brought a baby into the world. Babe. What the fuck? What even is that? What was the thought process. I sincerely hope it was an accident and not a deliberate attempt to bring about a new era.

Because if so babe I need to see the recipe or I’m afraid we can never let you cook again

[puppyeared]

Was nobody gonna warn me that I would fall a little bit in love with every character in Stardew

[egg-celsior]

i am disliking the amount of negative comments i’m seeing about tsats. can we all remember that’s it’s been a long time since we got any content and that the characters you remember in your head are probably a product of your time in this fandom rather than the actual characters. also — this book isn’t about the gays it’s about supporting traumatised gay bitches let’s all remember that before i see more comments out here attacking my boys 👹👹

[cod-fishing]

Drift compatible GhostSoap. Pacific Rim jaeger pilots GhostSoap. That’s it that’s the post.